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That's actually astonishing.
Unborn sea turtles are being valued above unborn humans.
Everyone trying to discredit my political cartoon is denying my lived experience.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) April 29, 2022
Comment #30 fits people on both sides of the political aisle as well as those active in religion, race and most anything else.
The strongest teams are families united to nurture their offspring. Parents and to a lesser degree grandparents, aunts and uncles are willing to sacrifice much for the benefit of the next generation.
We moved away from Chicago when I was nine, and only later did I miss having lots of relatives nearby, many within walking distance.
You're viewing it through nostalgia. It seemed like a simple happy life, but was it?
richwicks saysYou're viewing it through nostalgia. It seemed like a simple happy life, but was it?
Sure, as a kid it was pretty good.
It might be a little confining as an adult.
And now that I’m losing my (“liberal”) religion, I get wayyyyy worse DMs from leftists (who used to “love” me) saying… horrrrrrible things. I’m dangerous, I’m harmful, I’m killing people by being anti-mandate… in fact, the mildest label they give me is “problematic.”
I am still socially liberal in most ways, I’ve just developed an allergy to the group-think. And once you’re not allowed to say or think something… we sometimes have to wonder… why.
I am still socially liberal in most ways, I’ve just developed an allergy to the group-think.
Deprogramming From the ‘Woke’ Cult: Former Social Justice Warrior Overcomes Fear to Speak Up
For Keri Smith, deprogramming from what she calls the cult of “wokism” didn’t happen overnight.
But the behavior of her former friends within the social-justice world during the 2016 presidential election, with their support of violence, censorship, and gaslighting, certainly sped up the process, setting off a parade of red flags.
Social-justice warriors (SJW) were advocating for acts of aggression against supporters of former President Donald Trump, contradicting what she said she understood the essential nature of liberalism to be.
“It was the first indication that I might not really understand what was going on in the world,” Smith told The Epoch Times. ...
“It wasn’t a fast process,” she said. “It was just as slow as it was getting into a cult. That’s how slow it is getting out of a cult.”
She found herself going down a rabbit hole on YouTube watching videos of Trump supporters being attacked by people on the left.
“There was one video where this mob surrounded this woman, a Trump supporter, and threw eggs at her,” she said. “There was another where they were chasing these guys down the street and throwing bricks at them. They bloodied this guy’s head. This was jarring to me.” ...
She wrote an essay titled “On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself,” which she publicly shared, leading to what she called The Great Unfriending.
https://kerismith.medium.com/on-leaving-the-sjw-cult-and-finding-myself-1a6769b2f1ff
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has humiliated Joe Biden by mocking the Democrat president’s “deep misunderstanding of market dynamics.”
Bezos was responding to a post on social media about inflation from Biden’s official account.
In response, Bezos said Biden either doesn’t understand inflation or his comments are “straight-ahead misdirection.”
Biden said:
My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product.
And do it now.
Enter Jeff Bezos who said:
Ouch.
Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this.
It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.
This is not the first time Bezos mocked Biden.
He said earlier of Biden and the White House:
Look, a squirrel!
This is the White House’s statement about my recent tweets.
They understandably want to muddy the topic.
They know inflation hurts the neediest the most.
But unions aren’t causing inflation and neither are wealthy people.
Remember the Administration tried their best to add another $3.5 TRILLION to federal spending.
They failed, but if they had succeeded, inflation would be even higher than it is today, and inflation today is at a 40-year high.
In fact, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only Manchin saved them from themselves.
Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent.
Misdirection doesn’t help the country.
Could Bezos be on his way to enlightenment about the true nature of the Democratic Party?
Bret Stephens, in his mea culpa piece, recounted that in the first sentence of the first column he ever wrote about Trump’s presidential candidacy in 2015 he argued, “If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling.”
Stephens stood by his “dozens of columns denouncing Trump as a unique threat to American life, democratic ideals and the world itself. I regret almost nothing of what I said about the man and his close minions. But the broad swipe at his voters caricatured them and blinkered me.”
(Blinkered refers to having a limited understanding or the blinders used on horses to keep them looking straight head; it’s properly an adjective, not a verb as Stephens used it here, which might be why I had to look it up.)
Stephens explained his regret in caricaturing Trump voters, as “It also probably did more to help than hinder Trump’s candidacy.”
“[I]n my dripping condescension toward his supporters, I was also confirming their suspicions about people like me,” Stephens added.
'It's Just Been Horrific': Lifelong Democrat Powerfully Turns on Biden Live On-Air, Dismantles Entire Party
A Pennsylvania woman registered as a Democrat for 34 years is making a party switch, citing many of the objections that are fueling middle-class voters to turn against the party.
Beth Ann Rosica broke down her transformation in a Thursday Fox News interview.
“As a former Democrat for 34 years prior to the pandemic, I too thought that the Democratic Party was really focused on the people that they pretend to support,” the Pennsylvania mother told “Fox & Friends” host Carley Shimkus.
“What I saw through the pandemic was that the Democratic Party basically abandoned all of those people.”
Rosica cited the Democratic Party’s mismanagement of the economy and sky-high inflation. The mother also cited big government’s failure to meet the educational needs of students, closing schools during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think the economy is huge, and I also think a lot of the school issues for parents across the state of Pennsylvania, it’s just been horrific watching what’s happened to our kids academically, socially, emotionally.”
“What I saw through the pandemic was that the Democratic Party basically abandoned all of those people,” Rosica explained.
“And so that was why I left the party, or as I like to say, the party really left me, and I think that a lot more people are really starting to see that.”
The Democratic Party has endured institutional decline in Pennsylvania and other Rust Belt states.
Leftist-Turned-Conservative Podcasters Unapologetically Question Pervading Progressive Ideologies
'I’m just trying to be a voice of reason'
As the religion of “wokism” continues to grow, censor, and demand sacrifices in the form of shame-induced public apologies at its alter, former leftist-turned-conservative podcasters seek to unapologetically question its pervading narratives.
“We are seeing young people grow up with the mindset that they need to reduce themselves down to race, gender, and their sexuality,” Amala Ekpunobi, host of the podcast “Unapologetic,” told The Epoch Times. “Those three very superficial identities have become so pivotal in how people introduce themselves and whether they are viewed as victims or champions. The more we go down the path of this false narrative, the more we are oppressing them and entertaining a culture of victimhood that is sheerly unsustainable.” ...
“I was told that I was simply unaware of how oppressed I was and that it wasn’t their fault that I wasn’t angry, but that I should be because of how I was treated in this country,” Ekpunobi said.
From there, Ekpunobi researched ideas that didn’t reinforce but instead challenged her preconceived notions, she said.
She discovered social theorists and commentators such as Thomas Sowell and PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager, she said, which, for her, “started a new journey,” she said.
“I had always grown up with the idea that white people carry these inherent biases and that they were a part of a structure of oppression that was working against me, whether they knew it or not,” Ekpunobi said. “So, it was really difficult there toward the end to justify having those opinions, then going home to a family who cared for me.”
‘I Was Becoming Increasingly More Conservative’ ...
To provide an alternative message, Ekpunobi made her own videos in which she discussed her journey and how she arrived at her conservative belief system.
... What passes for so many as education and news, Rose said, is in fact propaganda designed as a component of manipulative social experiments with the endgame of dehumanizing and controlling people.
“People are being introduced to ideas that they normally would have no reason to look at, and then there’s this mechanism that’s adopting new terms and changing language,” she said. “It’s very Orwellian, and it’s very unsettling.” ...
“I’m just trying to be a voice of reason to help people continue to question and discuss things so we don’t all feel so crazy and alone,” Rose said. “That’s been the main goal of my platform: to let people know, ‘Hey, it’s not just you. I see it, too.’”
NBA Legend Turns on Democrats after Getting Assaulted an San Diego: ‘You Have Failed Us’
NBA legend and long-time Democrat Bill Walton has had enough of the crime and homelessness in his beloved hometown of San Diego.
Walton reached his limit and called out the California city’s Democrat leaders after getting assaulted, again.
“You have failed, us and yourself, you’ve done, and continue to do, nothing,” Walton said in an email to San Diego’s Democrat Mayor Todd Gloria.
“Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early this Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened, chased, and assaulted by the homeless population, in our park.
“You speak of the rights of the homeless, what about our rights, we follow the rules of a functioning society, why are others allowed to disregard those rules.
“Your lack of action is unacceptable, as is the conduct of the homeless population.”
“It may come as a shock to many of you or at least many of my friends that as a Democratic elected officer in deep blue Palm Beach County, I’m endorsing the Republican governor.
“But I will not remain silent,” Kerner declared.
“There is too much on the line in this election.
“The governor’s Democratic opponent has already started talking about reallocation, which to me, by the way, is a code word for taking resources away from the men and women that protect us.
“It’s a code word for defunding the police.
Michelle Tandler
@michelletandler
95% of my social world defines as Democrat.
Family, friends, colleagues, people I meet socially - virtually all Dems.
Recently I've been wondering - if I believe partisanship is one of our biggest issues, would it be "righteous" to switch sides to play devil's advocate?
In basically every single conversation that turns to politics - there is no dissent.
There is no debate.
There is no other side at the table.
It's just everybody agreeing with one another - talking down the evil Republicans and how they will "ruin America."
52% of Democrats Voters Blame ‘Woke’ Politicians for Rising Crime in America
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