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Another Democrat Reaches Enlightenment


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2021 Dec 9, 2:03pm   41,559 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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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.
213   Patrick   2024 Apr 15, 10:19am  

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-two-year-stackiversary-lattice


I used to call myself a progressive because I was anti-authoritarian, anti-war, anti-corporation, countercultural, tolerant of diverse viewpoints, pro-truth, pro–freedom of speech, pro–freedom of choice, pro-justice, and pro-equality for all.

I stopped calling myself a progressive because I am anti-authoritarian, anti-war, anti-corporation, countercultural, tolerant of diverse viewpoints, pro-truth, pro–freedom of speech, pro–freedom of choice, pro-justice, and pro-equality for all.
214   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2024 Apr 21, 7:04am  

MAGA Hats Flood Chicago City Council Meeting: Black Community REVOLTS

In a recent city council meeting, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faced severe criticism from black community voters over his proposal to allocate an additional $70 million in taxpayer funds to address the city's illegal immigration crisis.

The critics, many of whom were donning Trump campaign "MAGA hats," argued that the funds should instead be directed towards tax-paying neighborhoods grappling with escalating violent crime and overdose deaths.

P. Rae Easley, a resident of Chicago's west side, was among the vocal critics. "I'm asking y'all to use our tax money for our people," Easley implored, sporting a MAGA hat. She painted a grim picture of her community's struggles, saying, "We need it. We got people leaning. We got people rocking. We got overdosing. We got pass out lines. You live on the west side of Mayor Johnson. You know exactly what I'm talking about. We need the money for us.”

Easley's impassioned plea highlighted the surge in crime and overdose deaths that have besieged Chicago's black communities. She vehemently opposed the notion of allocating funds to non-taxpaying illegal immigrants, funds she believes her community desperately needs. Easley advocated for the money to be channeled into an opioid fund to tackle the crisis.

"We need opioid treatment on the west side of Chicago. We are the headquarters of the cartel, and everybody in here knows it. So, I'm asking y'all to say 'No.' Put these people on the back burner, and put the money back in the opioid fund. We need that money," Easley asserted.

Mayor Johnson, a staunch defender of the city's sanctuary policies, is seeking alderman approval for the additional funding in a vote scheduled for Friday. This is despite the city's recent investment of $300 million in housing, food, and medical care for the recently arrived illegal immigrants, as reported by Fox News.

Another resident, also wearing a MAGA hat, voiced her concerns to city council members about the crime surge in cities across the US, attributing it to illegal immigrants. "They're showing up here in New York and Chicago attacking people in the streets," she claimed, according to Fox News. "The police are fighting with them in the… shelters that you guys are funding.”

Easley, appearing on Fox & Friends, described Mayor Johnson's proposal as "the most disrespectful thing we've ever encountered in our lives." She expressed her resentment, saying, "We've been paying property taxes in the city for generations, and to see them so openly give our money to people who don't deserve it is very insulting.”

https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/1057481-maga-hats-flood-chicago-city-council-meeting-black-community-revolts


215   HeadSet   2024 Apr 21, 11:16am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

"We've been paying property taxes in the city for generations, and to see them so openly give our money to people who don't deserve it is very insulting.”

When will they realize they are being replaced.
216   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2024 Apr 21, 3:17pm  

HeadSet says

When will they realize they are being replaced.


I think they are starting to. Hence the MAGA hats.
218   Patrick   2024 Apr 28, 7:45pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/sopranos-star-drea-de-matteo-slams-bidens-far/


‘The Sopranos’ Star Drea de Matteo Slams Biden’s Far-Left Policies, Illegal Immigration – Actress Was Previously Blacklisted in Hollywood for Refusing the COVID Vaxx ...

She considers herself a liberal, but said she has been against modern far-left trends for a long time.

She decided to speak up about it only recently. She said she wanted to fight but felt she didn’t think she ‘the voice and the balls’.

But for her, everything changed once she ‘got thrown to the wolves’, which may or not be a reference to her refusal to take the untested, unsafe COVID injection.
219   mell   2024 Apr 29, 9:48am  

https://twitter.com/CherieCurrie3/status/1783296721285730783

"
It used to be PUNK, R&R to vote Democrat. I fell for it. But when your party demands you live in fear, squaller, beyond your means by just buying groceries, gasoline, disrespecting our veterans, our police, our elderly, supporting CRIMINALS, chaos, riots, Hamas, FAILING Israel, demeaning us at every turn! HURTING our CHILDREN! Wasting OUR MONEY. Ineptitude with every policy! Lies and more lies.. NO MORE!
The Democrat Party can KISS MY A$$. They don’t give a damn. That’s true.
Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.
"
220   Patrick   2024 Jun 29, 12:53pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/billionaire-ex-democrat-bill-ackman-calls-americans-rally-behind-trump-help-him-succeed/


Former Democrat donor Bill Ackman has called on the American people to come together and throw their support behind President Donald Trump.

Ackman, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, announced in January that he’s “no longer a Democrat.”

At the time, he also admitted that, while registered to vote in the Democrat primary, he was funding the campaigns of Trump’s challengers in the Republican primary in an effort to prevent the 45th president from winning re-election.

Ackman revealed he plowed money into the campaigns of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy.

He had also financed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign.

In recent months, Ackman had hinted that he may be changing his tune about Trump.

However, after Democrat President Joe Biden’s trainwreck debate performance on Thursday evening, Ackman has now gone public with a complete U-turn.

Trump “is going to win in a landslide,” Ackman wrote hours after the debate.

He said that Trump’s looming victory was an “indictment of the Democratic Party.”
221   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2024 Jun 29, 12:57pm  

Patrick says


However, after Democrat President Joe Biden’s trainwreck debate performance on Thursday evening, Ackman has now gone public with a complete U-turn.

Trump “is going to win in a landslide,” Ackman wrote hours after the debate.

He said that Trump’s looming victory was an “indictment of the Democratic Party.”


Yup. The donors are starting to rebel:

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says


Dem party elites led by Obama is trying to put the kibbash on the Biden has to go talk.

To admit he shouldn't be nominated because of the dementia is to admit he isn't fit to finish out his current term too. They don't want to go there. Also, it is an open admission that they have been lying and hiding this from everyone else all this time.

But everyone else doesn't see it that way...including even most of the donors, I bet.





So we shall see.
222   Patrick   2024 Aug 1, 1:23pm  


@davidmarcus

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.

Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.

My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.

In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.

The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.

Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.

This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.

This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.

On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.

On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.

I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.

Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.

It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.

Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.

In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

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