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Another Democrat Reaches Enlightenment


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2021 Dec 9, 2:03pm   41,565 views  267 comments

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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-turn-liel-leibovitz?source=patrick.net


The Turn

When I saw the left give up everything I believe in, I changed politically. You can, too.

For many years—most of my politically cognizant life, in fact—I felt secure in my politics. Truth and justice, I believed, leaned leftward. If you were some version of a decent human being, you cared about those less fortunate than you, which meant that you supported a whole host of measures designed to even the playing field a little. Sometimes, these measures had unintended consequences (see under: Stalin, Josef), but that wasn’t reason enough to despair of the long march to equality. Besides, there was hardly an alternative: On the other end of the political transom lurked despicable creeps, right-wing orcs who either cared for nothing but their own petty financial interests or, worse, pined for benighted isms that preached prejudice and hate. We were on the right side of history. We were the people. We were the ones giving peace a chance. And, no matter the present, we were always the future.

This belief carried me through high school, and a brief stint in a socialist youth movement. It accelerated me in college, sending me anywhere from joint marches with Palestinians to a two-week hunger strike in Jerusalem trying (and failing) to lower tuition for underprivileged students. It pulled me to New York, to Columbia University, to more left-wing politics and activism and raging against Republicans whose agenda, especially in the 2000s, seemed like nothing more than greed and war.

And it wasn’t just an ideology, some abstract set of convictions that were accessible only through cracking open dusty old books. It was the animating spirit of life itself: The dinner parties I attended on the Upper West Side required dismissive comments on President Bush just as much as they did a bit of wine to make the evening bright, and there was no faster or surer way to signal to a new acquaintance that you were a kindred spirit than praising the latest Times editorial. It wasn’t performative, exactly. At least, it felt real enough, the reverent rites of a good group of people protecting itself against the bad guys.

I embraced my people, and my people embraced me. They gave me everything I had always imagined I wanted: a Ph.D. from an Ivy League university; a professorship at NYU, complete with a roomy office overlooking Washington Square Park; book deals; columns in smart little publications; invitations to the sort of soirees where you could find yourself seated next to Salman Rushdie or Susan Sontag or any number of the men and women you grew up reading and admiring. The list goes on. Life was good. I was grateful.

And then came The Turn. If you’ve lived through it yourself, you know that The Turn doesn’t happen overnight, that it isn’t easily distilled into one dramatic breakdown moment, that it happens hazily and over time—first a twitch, then a few more, stretching into a gnawing discomfort and then, eventually, a sense of panic.

You may be among the increasing numbers of people going through The Turn right now. Having lived through the turmoil of the last half decade—through the years of MAGA and antifa and rampant identity politics and, most dramatically, the global turmoil caused by COVID-19—more and more of us feel absolutely and irreparably politically homeless. Instinctively, we looked to the Democratic Party, the only home we and our parents and their parents before them had ever known or seriously considered. But what we saw there—and in the newspapers we used to read, and in the schools whose admission letters once made us so proud—was terrifying. However we tried to explain what was happening on “the left,” it was hard to convince ourselves that it was right, or that it was something we still truly believed in. That is what The Turn is about.

You might be living through The Turn if you ever found yourself feeling like free speech should stay free even if it offended some group or individual but now can’t admit it at dinner with friends because you are afraid of being thought a bigot. You are living through The Turn if you have questions about public health policies—including the effects of lockdowns and school closures on the poor and most vulnerable in our society—but can’t ask them out loud because you know you’ll be labeled an anti-vaxxer. You are living through The Turn if you think that burning down towns and looting stores isn’t the best way to promote social justice, but feel you can’t say so because you know you’ll be called a white supremacist. You are living through The Turn if you seethed watching a terrorist organization attack the world’s only Jewish state, but seethed silently because your colleagues were all on Twitter and Facebook sharing celebrity memes about ending Israeli apartheid while having little interest in American kids dying on the streets because of failed policies. If you’ve felt yourself unable to speak your mind, if you have a queasy feeling that your friends might disown you if you shared your most intimately held concerns, if you are feeling a bit breathless and a bit hopeless and entirely unsure what on earth is going on, I am sorry to inform you that The Turn is upon you.

The Turn hit me just a beat before it did you, so I know just how awful it feels. It’s been years now, but I still remember the time a dear friend and mentor took me to lunch and warned me, sternly and without any of the warmth you’d extend to someone you truly loved, to watch what I said about Israel. I still remember how confusing and painful it felt to know that my beliefs—beliefs, mind you, that, until very recently, were so obvious and banal and widely held on the left that they were hardly considered beliefs at all—now labeled me an outcast. The Turn brings with it the sort of pain most of us don’t feel as adults; you’d have to go all the way back to junior high, maybe, to recall a stabbing sensation quite as deep and confounding as watching your friends all turn on you and decide that you’re not worthy of their affection any more. It’s the kind of primal rejection that is devastating precisely because it forces you to rethink everything, not only your convictions about the world but also your idea of yourself, your values, and your priorities. We all want to be embraced. We all want the men and women we consider most swell to approve of us and confirm that we, too, are good and great. We all want the love and the laurels; The Turn takes both away.

But, having been there before, I have one important thing to tell you: If the left is going to make it “right wing” to simply be decent, then it’s OK to be right.

Why? Because, after 225 long and fruitful years of this terminology, “right” and “left” are now empty categories, meaning little more than “the blue team” and “the green team” in your summer camp’s color war. You don’t get to be “against the rich” if the richest people in the country fund your party in order to preserve their government-sponsored monopolies. You are not “a supporter of free speech” if you oppose free speech for people who disagree with you. You are not “for the people” if you pit most of them against each other based on the color of their skin, or force them out of their jobs because of personal choices related to their bodies. You are not “serious about economic inequality” when you happily order from Amazon without caring much for the devastating impact your purchases have on the small businesses that increasingly are either subjugated by Jeff Bezos’ behemoth or crushed by it altogether. You are not “for science” if you refuse to consider hypotheses that don’t conform to your political convictions and then try to ban critical thought and inquiry from the internet. You are not an “anti-racist” if you label—and sort!—people by race. You are not “against conformism” when you scare people out of voicing dissenting opinions.

When “the left” becomes the party of wealthy elites and state security agencies who preach racial division, state censorship, contempt for ordinary citizens and for the U.S. Constitution, and telling people what to do and think at every turn, then that’s the side you are on, if you are “on the left”—those are the policies and beliefs you stand for and have to defend. It doesn’t matter what good people “on the left” believed and did 60 or 70 years ago. Those people are dead now, mostly. They don’t define “the left” anymore than Abraham Lincoln defines the modern-day Republican Party or Jimi Hendrix defines Nickelback.

So look at the list of things supported by the left and ask yourself: Is that me? If the answer is yes, great. You’ve found a home. If the answer is no, don’t let yourself be defined by an empty word. Get out. And once you’re out, don’t let anyone else define you, either. Not being a left-wing racist or police state fan doesn’t make you a white supremacist or a Trump worshipper, either. Only small children, machines, and religious fanatics think in binaries.

Which isn’t to diminish the anger, hurt, and confusion you’re feeling just now. But it’s worth understanding that your story has a happy ending. The freedom you feel on the other side is so real it’s physical, like emerging from a long stretch underwater and taking that first deep breath in the cool afternoon air. None of it makes the lost friends or the lost career opportunities any less painful; but there’s no more potent source of renewable energy than liberty, and your capacity to reinvent—yourself, your group, your life—is greater than you realize.

So welcome to the right side, friend, and join us in laughing at all the idiotic name-calling that is applied, with increasing hysteria, to try and stop more and more normal Americans from joining our ranks. Fascists? Conspiracy theorists? Anti-science racist TERFs? Whatever. We have a better word to describe ourselves: free.


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173   Patrick   2023 Dec 1, 9:37am  

https://www.aussie17.com/p/the-normie-report?publication_id=1242457&post_id=139288713&isFreemail=true&r=6gdz


I couldn’t understand why they would choose to lose their job and career instead of just getting a vaccine that would actually keep them from getting sick and dying from covid. This was how I felt at the time, but my entire perspective changed almost 180 degrees in 2022 when a good friend suddenly dropped dead while riding their pushbike home from work.

Personally, I had no major problems from the covid vaccine, but I sure saw several people at my work getting sick and then when my friend dropped dead, casually riding his bike home, the trauma that caused was just awful. He was married with two kids, super fit and somehow he just had a heart attack. His funeral was hugely traumatic, as his young wife and infant children were just so sad. I will never forget how sad that funeral was. The sounds coming from her body were terrifying and those poor kids had no idea what was going on. A friend at the funeral sort of said to me ‘told you those vaccines were dangerous’ and I have to say, I could have punched him in the face. How dare he say that, there.

The funeral really had an impact on me and I started to read a few things people had emailed me. Things I would have previously just ignored or deleted. An email came through about ‘died suddenly’ and heart attack stuff and that really was a moment I remember reading it and just thinking ‘why isnt this on the news!’. I read more and more of these sorts of things, started listening to podcasts on Joe Rogan I started to think ‘holy shit’ by about Christmas 2022. I guess I started to ‘wake up’ as these people were saying. ...

I feel a bit silly for not having seen it immediately when, in Australia, our government started telling me what I could do, like literally communist-like telling me I couldn’t go here, do this, visit my mum in another part of the country. I actually can’t believe I went along with ‘all that’ and knowing what I know now I am ashamed that I mocked people who wouldn’t wear a mask or get the vaccines, for in my mind (today) they are the real heroes who somehow saw through it all.
174   Patrick   2023 Dec 5, 12:01pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/black-chicagoans-are-mad-we-are-done-with-the-democratic-party


Any Republican candidate in the city of Chicago, now is your time! Because we are done with the Democratic Party. Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker and President Biden have shown us what they think about the black community all over this country...

We don't have to support the Democratic Party...

It's gonna be a great day in the city of Chicago when the Democratic Convention comes here and then they find out in March that a lot of black folks took Republican ballots. Deal with that!
176   Patrick   2023 Dec 11, 11:28am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/chainsawing-monday-december-11-2023


If you still weren’t convinced the conservative counter-revolution is real, prepare to have your mind changed. Yesterday CNN aired a remarkable segment on the weekend’s Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria. Not only did Fareed spend the entire segment making the case against higher education — and he framed the argument as well as Christopher Rufo might have — but Fareed also shattered a whole glass cabinet of precious lefty sacred cow creamers.




In case you somehow missed it, late last week three woke, sexually-atypical Ivy League presidents at Harvard, U. Penn, and M.I.T., all testified before Congress and were unaccountably unable to adequately explain the apparent contradiction that their students can be expelled for calling a bearded male professor “he” — in a private conversation! — but at the same time it's also perfectly fine under the schools’ Orwellian speech codes to call for genocide against Jewish students using a bullhorn.

I’m still analyzing where the three extra-diverse academics went off the rails, and why the left has completely abandoned them in their time of need. The three ladies’ performances were a perfect storm of failure. But part of the explanation must be how smug and arrogant they were as they linguistically wielded messy bowls of word salad like they were medieval maces.

Grinning nearly to the point of shattering their botoxed cheeks, the three presidents seemed to revel in annoyingly refusing to answer sensible questions from attractive House Representative Elise Stefanik, who was in all ways their exact opposite making for a fascinating study in contrasts.




As evidence for how completely Mrs. Stefanik owned the three academics, not only has one of the three — Penn’s Liz Magill — already resigned, but here was Saturday’s New York Sun headline, starkly suggesting that the hearing may in fact lead to much more significant changes in higher education than just replacing a few woke presidents:




I covered this story more fully in yesterday’s post, but the difficult lesson the three academics are now learning is that while politicians may smugly not-answer questions, college presidents are expected to be sincere and give understandable answers, or evidently pay the price.

But, back to Fareed, and to the Sun’s predicted ‘earthquake in higher education.’ At one point early in his segment, soberly reflecting about how white male applicants might as well pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster as apply for an Ivy League professorship, Fareed flatly identified the actual, real-world problem — without even a little virtue-signaling or using any woke buzzwords — proving that after all, they do know how to speak plain English.

Fareed explained to CNN’s viewers that the universities are failing, badly, by pursuing diversity instead of merit:

“American Universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence, in order to pursue a variety of agendas, many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion. It started with good intentions … but those good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology, and turned these universities have turned these institutions into places where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit.” ...

There was nothing revolutionary about Fareed’s observations, of course, since conservatives have been ringing this alarm bell and even filing reverse-discrimination lawsuits over this issue for more than a decade. But what was revolutionary in that the segment was that it appeared on CNN at all, and that it was delivered by a “trusted (leftwing) news source” like Fareed Zakaria.

Think about this: What is happening in the culture to cause CNN — not to mention nearly everyone else — to side with conservatives against woke college culture as though it were common sense? Think about pendulums and how they swing back.


IMHO, there were never any "good intentions" behind woke ideology at all. The whole thing is nothing but resentment against people who have in some way proven themselves objectively better than the woke.

One of my favorite quotes about this:


"Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be
perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that
his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most
unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and
convinces him of his faults." - Pascal
178   AD   2023 Dec 15, 9:36am  

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See below. The Economist article this month (December 2023) about how the NY Times has lost its credibility.

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"The Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist"

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way

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179   RWSGFY   2023 Dec 15, 10:35am  

ad says

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See below. The Economist article this month (December 2023) about how the NY Times has lost its credibility.

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"The Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist"

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way

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As if it ever had any.
180   Ceffer   2023 Dec 15, 10:47am  

Like, The Economist can talk? They are the electrified Globalist cattle prod dildo of the City of London, the Royals, RIIA and MI6. More like an Intel agency brief on who's robbing who successfully in the world.
181   Patrick   2023 Dec 15, 11:19am  

https://notthebee.com/article/its-been-really-fun-to-watch-billionaire-bill-ackman-take-the-red-pill-over-the-past-week


It's been really fun to watch billionaire Bill Ackman take the red pill over the past week

On December 5, Harvard-grad Bill Ackman, a billionaire Jewish hedge fund manager, was absolutely shocked to hear the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn refuse to condemn calls for Jewish genocide on their campuses when asked before Congress. ...




Me to Bill:




It boggles me mind to think there are still rich dudes like this who think America is still the same nation as it was in 1990 - the "everybody is welcome," post-civil-rights movement land of cool action flicks and opportunity.

We've been in the "everyone who disagrees with me is a white supremacist" America for at least a decade now (thanks, Obama!), and we're pretty dang close to the "all dissidents go to the gulags" phase.

But I have hope for guys like Bill. He's not a red-blooded conservative...

This guy's Pershing Square Foundation is a MAJOR donor to Planned Parenthood.

He called for shutdowns in 2020.

He is a long-time donor to Democrats, wanting Michael Bloomberg for president in 2016. He is a supporter of Chuck Schumer, Robert Menendez, Richard Blumenthal, and the Democratic National Committee.

BUT he realized this week that the NYT edited Hunter Biden's quote about his dad being involved with his business:







He realized that Facebook's former DEI executive stole $4 million from the company like a good little comrade:




He realized that DEI programs are scams meant to allow the rich to cheat and the ideologues to gain power:







He's celebrating Oklahoma's decision this week to ban DEI programs from its public universities...

He is understanding that corporate media will destroy anyone who doesn't agree with the fake and gay regime...

He's realizing the hypocrisy in the standards of the Left...







I'm not saying Bill is going to become a domestic extremist like all of you fine people overnight, but he's on a path.

It reminds me of another once-liberal billionaire who took his own red-pill journey not so long ago! (photo of Elon here)
182   Ceffer   2023 Dec 15, 11:31am  

He got to be a billionaire by being retarded? Maybe he has just been turned by the Rockefellers, who recently turned toward Trump as the lesser of their various evils going forward (or for amnesty?), and is doing what he is told like all the coined capo billionaires. Picking a lane isn't necessarily enlightenment, it's logistics.
183   Patrick   2023 Dec 18, 11:03am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/narrative-crossfire-monday-december


Enjoy wrapping up today’s roundup with this recent clip of one Dr. Zajac, who admitted he used to be an arrogant, know-it-all vaccine bully, but has now come all the way around to refusing to vaccinate his own kids. In other words, he became an anti-vaxxer. In the 17-minute interview clip, Dr. Zajac also discusses the relative health of vaccinated and unvaccinated kids in his practice and the practical economics of vaccines. However much you think pediatric vaccines are worth to a general medical practice or pediatrician, it’s more than you think. Way more.

CLIP: General practice doctor discusses his conversion from pro-jab to anti-vaxx (17:30).

https://twitter.com/catsscareme2021/status/1734658874995560714


Dr. Zajac admits that he used to be a “vaccine bully,” because his clinic needed to achieve certain vaccine rates. But his attitude changed as he had to start making decisions about vaccines for his own children, and his own clinical practice had shown that the rates of vaccine injuries were not what the CDC and drug companies were claiming, such as “one in a million,” but more like one out of 100 were being hospitalized from vaccine injuries.


It was a fascinating interview. Maybe most fascinating was learning, from his own words, how a smart doctor completed the dangerous journey from being an unwitting accomplice to becoming a freed, independent thinker. Not to mention how he developed humility and faith along the way. Perhaps not all doctors can be saved, but maybe Dr. Zajac’s example offers a possible formula for doctors who could be saved.






184   Patrick   2023 Dec 19, 11:26am  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/why-i-am-no-longer-a-democrat


Why I am No Longer a Democrat
By Jesse “Hi-Rez” Friedman

My cousin was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting. Up until then, the media had trained me to be fearful of guns and to stereotype proponents of the Second Amendment as Southern, redneck racists. I grew up in a household where most of the world’s ills were blamed on Republicans, and my parents voted Democrat down the ballot.

“They are the empathetic ones who care about the little guy,” my mother would say.

However, my cousin’s death stirred up questions inside of me: Why do schools brandish “gun-free zone” signs when government buildings and Hollywood homes are protected with armed guards or security? Why does the media believe ordinary Americans must remain defenseless against unhinged psychopaths who shoot up schools?

These questions led me to a profound realization: the reason America has not been overtaken by a tyrannical government or foreign adversaries is because of our Second Amendment. In the event that we needed one, this country would have the most robust militia in the entire world. But despite having more guns than people in this country, we have not fought a single war on our soil since the Civil War.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control, and between 1915 and 1917, the government rounded up and exterminated 1.5 million Armenians. In 1929, when the Soviet Union implemented strict gun laws, 20 million were slaughtered over the course of the next 24 years. The same fate awaited 20 million Chinese, 100,00 Mayan Indians, one million Cambodians, six million Jews, and 300,000 Christians, immediately after the regimes of China, Guatemala, Cambodia, Germany, and Uganda enacted gun laws in the 20th century, respectively. The biggest mass genocides in history were always perpetrated by governments against the people.

I am currently banned from performing in venues across Germany, due to my political worldview that, according to one booking agent, is “too pro-gun and pro-Trump.” Imagine the irony of a country once responsible for the murder of one out of every three Jews on earth, not allowing me, an orthodox Jew, inside their borders because of my belief in a policy that could have potentially saved my ancestors in 1940s Europe.

I owe it to my grandparents who died in the Holocaust to protect my family. More importantly, as a law-abiding citizen, I owe it to the Americans who died so that I could be free. I would rather assume the risks that come with freedom than risk potential “peaceful” enslavement as a result of a zero-gun policy.

The first time I attended a gun show, I saw how gun culture in America is more diverse than any progressive political gathering I have witnessed. In the last few years, women, and specifically black women, have become the largest purveyors of legal guns in this country. They see how our institutions have emasculated men to the point of destroying the chivalry that once held our great society together.

The problem with guns is not the Second Amendment. It is the video games, music, and movies that glorify gang violence and the use of illegal firearms in virtually any scenario except that of self-defense. It is the agenda-driven media that cares more about white shooters than minority shooters, and white children occasionally killed in the suburbs than black children regularly killed in Chicago.

But these arguments are cultural and not fundamental. The deeper truth is that America’s founding fathers did not instantiate the right and duty of a citizen to defend oneself from the threat of another citizen. They instantiated this duty based on their clear-eyed, experienced understanding that governments have a monopoly on violence. The contradictory activist-push of simultaneously defunding the police and banning guns renders both citizens and law enforcement helpless in the face of a government flush with weapons. Such conditions are a recipe for disaster, as we have learned from history.

In a perfect world, I would be anti-gun. But I live in the real world. As long as any bad guy, whether a despotic dictator or a psychotic mass shooter can legally or illegally get a gun, I should not be denied the right to obtain my own.
186   Onvacation   2023 Dec 21, 2:46pm  

Patrick says

She didn't smear the blood? She was taking a selfie with a broken leg?

And her nose is a little crooked...

I don't think she faked it.
187   Onvacation   2023 Dec 21, 2:54pm  

Patrick says

Getting mugged, or getting your carburetor sawed off your car.

Get fuel injection then you won't need a carburetor. I think you meant catalytic converter. Not many carbs on cars any more.
188   Onvacation   2023 Dec 21, 3:01pm  

HeadSet says

This makes him unfit. He is no different than Biden changing his mind only when politically forced to do so.

He's a little better than Biden.

Personally I prefer RFK to RDS. But that's only if Trump misses the ticket. DeSantis seems like another puppet of the deep state.
189   Patrick   2023 Dec 29, 1:46pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/democrat-voters-biden-pennsylvania-flipping-republican-droves/


Democrat voters in President Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania are flipping to the Republican Party in droves, new registration data shows.

Pennsylvania, the president’s birthplace, holds crucial importance for Biden’s 2024 reelection bid.

Earlier this year, Biden notably hailed Philadelphia campaign donors as the “backbone” of his presidential campaign.

However, Democrats in Biden’s home state are abandoning his party in numbers that spell doom for the president’s election hopes.

As of December 18, 35,589 Democrats reregistered as Republicans in the state so far this year.

In contrast, 15,622 Pennsylvania Republicans switched to the Democratic Party, data from the State Department shows.

The state trend was first reported Tuesday by Newsweek.
190   HeadSet   2023 Dec 29, 3:13pm  

Patrick says

As of December 18, 35,589 Democrats reregistered as Republicans in the state so far this year.

In contrast, 15,622 Pennsylvania Republicans switched to the Democratic Party, data from the State Department shows.

Is that so they can vote in primaries? A rabid Dem could register as a Repub just so he can vote against Trump in the Repub primary.
191   Patrick   2024 Feb 6, 9:46pm  

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/confessions-of-a-corrupt-liberal


Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal

I voted "Blue no Matter Who" because I thought I was saving the World. I was wrong.

... I had no idea why I was voting for Dukakis. He was a Democrat. Being a Democrat wasn’t something I chose. It was something I was. Some guy I was dating probably handed me the pin and told me to wear it, so I complied. ...

I wish I could say I always had the moral clarity of someone like Matt Taibbi or Glenn Greenwald. But for most of my life, I didn’t. I was a devoted Democrat, a good soldier for the Left. I went along with everything, even when I knew it was wrong, even when I knew I was lying, because I had convinced myself that winning meant more than just putting a president in power.

I have been a willing participant in taking us to this desperate moment we now face, where both political parties seem crippled and bottlenecked, but only one of them has turned to corruption to stay in power. Only one of them has blocked any challengers to their preferred candidate. And unfortunately, it’s the one I chose to support.

I supported a party that became corrupt over time, and in supporting them, I became corrupt too. If you’re wondering how seemingly respectable people like Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand, or Stephen King can go along with such obvious corruption of our trusted institutions, that’s why. They are who I used to be.

They believe they are fighting the good fight, taking down the bad guy. But they’re wrong. They’re caught up in something they don’t fully understand because no one will tell them the truth, least of all the legacy press.

The “duopoly,” as we know it, has infected and destroyed American democracy. This has been true for a long time now. Corruption is the last resort when you can’t get voters to turn out, you can’t beat a charismatic Reality-TV star, and you can’t fix what ails the people. Corruption is easy. Just get everyone to agree, silence dissent and no one will be the wiser.

Who’s going to call them out on it? NPR? PBS? The New York Times? The Washington Post? MSNBC? Not a chance. They’re complicit. PBS’s Frontline just did a lengthy segment about the so-called “threat” to so-called “democracy.” But really, it’s a story as old as civilization itself: the powerful refusing to relinquish power. ...

They’re nothing more than propaganda for the state now because that is what “vote blue no matter who” really means. It means you are part of a tribe, a movement, a religion, and now, corruption.

Corruption can be the cozy relationship between corporations and politicians. It can be taking bribes from foreign leaders. But it can also be weaponizing our justice system to turn it into something that looks more like a Soviet-Union show trial, the Jim Crow juries, the Oyer in Terminer in Salem, or Nazi Germany.

Corruption can be declaring attacks on your political party as attacks on Democracy. It can force all major Big Tech institutions to do your bidding. It can be deciding that the people of the United States don’t have the power unless they choose the candidate they force upon them.

It can be overt censorship by the state via Big Tech and a lying media that refuses to ask the hard questions because they know they’ll get a call from the White House. It’s a president who is failing on the job but with a media that needs polls to tell the people the truth because they can’t do it themselves.

That we’re now watching a political party attempt to take down their chief rival by fast-tracking legal cases in hopes of a conviction, maybe jail time, because that will finally move the needle for Joe Biden, is terrifying.

Do none of them even ask how we got here? No. They wouldn’t dare because then they would have to start confessing. But the question is, how long can they outrun the truth? ...

The party changed after 2000 because we believed we were the chosen people destined to save the planet from global warming. We cast ourselves as the moral and righteous side fighting against the existential crisis that was the Republican Party, the Bush family, and their investments in fossil fuels. ...

Do they really think sticking Americans with a president and a vice president they don’t want for four more years will work out well for them? Yes, because “vote blue no matter who” means you’ll take it and like it.

That Trump is still polling ahead of Biden, after all of their dire warnings, after all of their fake headlines and their phony charges against him, he’s still beating their top guy? And they force a victory for someone who hasn’t earned the people’s vote?

Well, they’re going to have much bigger problems on their hands than losing to Trump. ...

We were never the resistance. We were always the empire. We have prevented anyone from breaking up the monopoly of the two-party system. We have stood by as a weaponized legal system puts on phony show trials to attempt to micromanage so-called “Democracy.”

All of this corruption, exposed to anyone who cares about the truth, has turned me into a Trump supporter. But more than that, I vow to devote what’s left of my life to helping to undo some of the damage I helped cause.

On some level, I knew what I was doing was wrong. But I convinced myself I was serving a higher purpose - climate change, racism. That is the danger here. It isn’t that they see themselves as dirty-dealing cheaters. Would that they were that honest. No, they see themselves as the new Puritans who have a right to claim this country, this internet, this Republic for themselves.

What should make all of us concerned is the desperation they feel in trying to jail Trump BEFORE the election. Why? Because they are afraid he will win. Imagine thinking you had more power than the American people to decide who should and shouldn’t win an election. And then force everyone to go along with it.

In Peter Weir’s film Witness, the corruption runs so deep inside the police department that by the end of it, they’ve sent thugs to kill an Amish family to cover it up. Harrison Ford shames them by asking them when is enough enough?

I thought some of them might start to feel as sick as I did watching the Raid on Mar-a-Lago. I thought when there was a coordinated effort by prosecutors to “indict” Trump that, some honest people out there would say, wait a second - how did we go from being mad about the Access Hollywood tape to this?

But every time I thought the Democrats had gone too far, I watched people like Barbra Streisand and Rob Reiner celebrate. How could they be this willing to go along with what is obvious corruption? Because they vote blue no matter who. They are robots by now, good soldiers for their righteous cause.

I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t matter how you vote. It does matter—especially this year. I am hoping the Democrats are voted out by such a humiliating landslide they never engage in this level of corruption again.

But it would be foolish to shame supporters of RFK, Jr. or Dean Phillips or any other Third Party ticket. If they can win enough votes to humiliate the Democrats? I’m fully on board.

As for me, I live in California. It’s not going to matter how I vote, but I’ve already decided it will be a protest vote, and for that, I must pull the lever for the guy who drives them the most insane. Voting doesn’t have to be noble or virtuous. Sometimes it can just be about revenge.
192   AmericanKulak   2024 Feb 6, 10:02pm  

There's really no call for most childhood vaccines.

Most only grant a short term defense against bacterial infections that were already all-but-vanished in 1st and 2nd world countries except in unusual circumstances, like IJA soldiers crammed in a slapdash barracks with no running water in just-captured Kowloon, Hong Kong or in the immediate aftermath of WW2. And that was in the era when antibiotics were in short supply due to manufacturing difficulties.

Today, Erthyomicin or old fashioned IM Pennicilin knocks Diptheria out cold and the vast majority of diptheria patients are uncontagious and most symptoms gone within a mere 48 hours from first treatment. DAT, an equine serum, kills off C. diptheria even faster than that and they're working on Monocolonal Antibodies that will be easier to store and administer that works just as well.

It also takes days to develop and usually over a week to kill, so there's plenty of time to react.

BTW, check the history of the Diptheria vax, hundreds of deaths in the US from improper manufacturing.
193   AmericanKulak   2024 Feb 6, 10:12pm  

If you need a supply of HCQ, Ivermectin, Azithromycin, and Budesonides, and want to support good old Posobiec:

https://www.twc.health/products/emergency-preparedness-kit?ref=POSO

Though you could probably get this a boatload cheaper from a doctor writing a prescription for these things.
199   Patrick   2024 Mar 29, 12:18pm  

This black lady has great advice for AWFLs:

https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1773314564718752215

Video a bit too long to embed.
200   Patrick   2024 Mar 29, 4:38pm  

https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-michael-rapaport-signals-shift-on-trump-after-years-of-fervent-opposition-my-political-views-have-changed


Actor Michael Rapaport Signals Shift On Trump After Years Of Fervent Opposition: ‘My Political Views Have Changed’

Actor Michael Rapaport said in an interview this week that he is considering voting for former President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.

The remarks from Rapaport come after he fervently opposed the former president during his time in office and routinely launched vile attacks against Trump and the Trump family.

“My political views have changed immensely,” Rapaport said. “I will not vote for Joe Biden. At this point when we’re doing this interview, voting for Trump is on the table.
201   richwicks   2024 Mar 29, 4:52pm  

Ceffer says

Patrick says






Another great moment in the annals of DUHHHHHHH!


I would not consider Carl Benjamin as somebody on "the left" or even having been there.
202   HeadSet   2024 Mar 30, 7:24am  

Patrick says

Actor Michael Rapaport Signals Shift On Trump After Years Of Fervent Opposition: ‘My Political Views Have Changed’

His views changed only because the Dems are bad mouthing Israel. Only as a side issue is Rapaport concerned with illegal immigration and soft on crime Dems.
203   Patrick   2024 Mar 30, 9:14am  

I bet you're right. It's still good news though.
205   Patrick   2024 Apr 4, 6:44pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/democrats-i-dont-think-youre-gonna-like-this


This is Cata Truss.

Cata traveled all the way from Chicago to Green Bay in order to attend a Trump rally. Cata represents Chicago Red, an organization whose mission is to "highlight the urgent need for change by exposing the failures of longstanding liberal policies, advocating for solutions that truly serve the people of Chicago."

Cata's got some things she'd like to say:

"I was a lifelong Democrat until I really started paying attention to the Democratic policies and how they were hurting the city of Chicago and I had decided that I had just had enough and the migrant crisis is what really took me over the edge …

"It is a mess, and that's exactly what it is, but you know, I started paying attention to not just the migrant crisis but the Democratic policies and how those policies have really hurt, not helped, us. And I just decided I have to get off this ride and go for a winner. I want to support someone who cares about America, who cares about the people of America, who cares about the American dream, who cares about whether or not people in America succeed.

"And so therefore I am now a Trump supporter."
207   PeopleUnited   2024 Apr 12, 1:28am  

For every one Rachel Lopez (who looks perfect enough to be an AI bot) there are roughly 5,000 illegal immigrants who will be taxing the social systems in every city and probably voting to make democrats even more powerful.
208   HeadSet   2024 Apr 12, 8:17am  

PeopleUnited says

For every one Rachel Lopez (who looks perfect enough to be an AI bot) there are roughly 5,000 illegal immigrants who will be taxing the social systems in every city and probably voting to make democrats even more powerful.

Yes, enough illegals so that the Dems can cast aside pandering for Black votes.
209   richwicks   2024 Apr 12, 1:40pm  

PeopleUnited says

For every one Rachel Lopez (who looks perfect enough to be an AI bot) there are roughly 5,000 illegal immigrants who will be taxing the social systems in every city and probably voting to make democrats even more powerful.


You barely even notice it, you will do absolutely nothing to stop it.
210   PeopleUnited   2024 Apr 12, 7:58pm  

richwicks says

PeopleUnited says


For every one Rachel Lopez (who looks perfect enough to be an AI bot) there are roughly 5,000 illegal immigrants who will be taxing the social systems in every city and probably voting to make democrats even more powerful.


You barely even notice it, you will do absolutely nothing to stop it.

Just like you
211   PeopleUnited   2024 Apr 12, 8:25pm  

My people have been fighting the globalists since before the Goldwater days. But all some people can do is bitsch on the internet like a baby who’s pacifier fell on the floor. Doesn’t it get old demonizing the people you live with? The only ones that you have any hope of influencing are so repulsed by your arrogance and self righteousness that they will never give you the time of day even if you were to stop spouting all that endless self pity nonsense.
212   PeopleUnited   2024 Apr 12, 8:30pm  

And lest you forget the only way anything is going to change for the better is if people turn to the Creator in repentance and faith. His name is Jesus, His business is salvation, and every one of his clients is a happy customer. But to become a client you don’t make a payment, you stop trying to run your own life, and forget about establishing your own righteousness. You accept that only He can pay your debt and carry your load. There will be no peace in your heart, or on this earth until Jesus comes into it.

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