patrick.net

Let's see...if lowering the tariffs on Chinese made stuff lowers inflation ... then having the Federal Government subsidize the Chinese made crap would lower inflation even more ????

... We could even use this reasoning for lowering gasoline prices, food prices and use it as a basis for a "living wage".

----------------- What could go wrong ?????

https://www.tiktok.com/@alex_pearlman/video/7113244831861820714

Lol, this guy figures out that the Democratic Party is just a big grifting scam, responding to every issue with requests for donations.

Would like to grab the video, but haven't figure out how.

Oops, @HunterTits already posted it here: https://patrick.net/post/1346566/2022-07-08-turns-out-those-fund-raisers-are

https://www.westernjournal.com/ny-times-columnists-finally-admit-truth-biden-facebook-trump-voters/?seyid=12965

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.

Not really enlightenment, but a step towards it anyway.

Vaxxed Nurse Commends The Unvaxxed Who Were Right All Along - She Says She Regrets It


original link

She’s come a long long way!
This is the good news.

https://kerismith.medium.com/taking-off-the-old-self-putting-on-the-new-619a1f28c424

https://www.westernjournal.com/just-horrific-lifelong-democrat-powerfully-turns-biden-live-air-dismantles-entire-party/?seyid=15193

'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.

original link

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/leftist-turned-conservative-podcasters-unapologetically-question-pervading-progressive-ideologies_4676156.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink

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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.’”

https://rumble.com/v1kgbbn-when-yoga-people-become-conservative.html


original link

https://slaynews.com/news/nba-legend-turns-on-dems-after-getting-assaulted-in-san-diego-you-have-failed-us-i-can-no-longer-say-that-sd-is-a-safe-healthy-clean-and-beautiful-place-i-can-no-longer-urge-my-family/

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.”

Lady that does my hair says she has had several clients who have told her they are leaving the Democratic Party and registering Republican. Of course, none of that matters, because California will probably be the last state to purge its election fraud.

We agreed that Newsom not being voted out on the referendum was absolute proof of election fraud. There were scraggly hippies in Santa Cruz of all places relentlessly manning tables over there getting signatures for the recall. The California public isn't voting the way the way they think it is, and the fraud will just have to get more aggressive.

https://slaynews.com/news/florida-dem-official-reaches-limit-snubs-party-and-endorses-ron-desantis-for-governor/

“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.

https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/top-london-cardiologist-stop-covid-19-shots-now/

Technically not a Democrat, but same basic process.

He promoted the vaxx until it killed his father.

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."

It's a real issue which is a larger problem on the left. I know plenty on the right that hate the Bushes, religious right, critical about Reagan, wars ect. On the left its crickets when it comes to left wing nuts and ideas.

Dunno if this is real or not, but millions of Democrats should be saying the same thing, publicly.

Guess all the fiat bribe money is drying up. Whores is looking for other clients.

https://slaynews.com/news/52-of-democrats-blame-woke-politicians-for-rising-crime-in-america/

52% of Democrats Voters Blame ‘Woke’ Politicians for Rising Crime in America

Looks like 52% of Democrat voters are reaching enlightenment.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/lifelong-democrat-attorney-ignites-twitter-switch-gop-republicans-pose-far-less-threat

A lifelong Democrat writer and civil liberties attorney said Thursday she will vote Republican for the first time, motivated by what she sees as the left's embrace of "authoritarian" measures during the COVID pandemic and censorship of opposing views.

"Though I was a lifelong Democrat until 2020, I will be voting red this November and in every election for the foreseeable future. I firmly believe that, despite my many disagreements with platforms of the Republican Party, it poses far less of a threat than Democrats," Jenin Younes wrote on Twitter this week. ...

"I would say I initially associated the Democrats with sticking up for the little guy, being anti-corporation, even anti-big government," she said while appearing on "Fox & Friends." ...

"Things have changed since then, and I would say especially with COVID where the Democrats really embraced authoritarian policies in terms of closing businesses and schools," she added.

And the fucking MANDATES, which continue in public service, entry to the US, and now schools.

Murder-by-vaxx is a great reason to dump the Democrats, not to mention crime and inflation.

cisTits says

The overwhelming percentage of them are still libtards. Which means they can't make the mental connection between who they vote for and crappy results.

Lol! The chronic fuck ups who mindlessly wreak disaster on everybody else while brimming with smug confidence.

Patrick says

https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/top-london-cardiologist-stop-covid-19-shots-now/

Technically not a Democrat, but same basic process.

He promoted the vaxx until it killed his father.

And this is exactly what I'm talking about. Jabbers and anti-jabbers (well, me at least) won't get it until they experience pain in their circle.

cisTits says

Sadly, I think this is their goal.

cisTits says

Patrick says

Looks like 52% of Democrat voters are reaching enlightenment.

Ok, @Patrick

The overwhelming percentage of them are still libtards. Which means they can't make the mental connection between who they vote for and crappy results.

A non-libtard is just someone who can do competent pattern recognition.

I wonder if some of it is cowardice.

There's a pivot point where the cog diss kicks in, and they decide to go with normalization as a way to resolve it, in order to preserve their professional/social connections?

https://adambcoleman.substack.com/p/the-mainstream-media-lied-to-me-about

The Mainstream Media Lied to Me About Conservatives
How political media propaganda prevented me from understanding conservatives

Adam B. Coleman
Oct 21
Looking back, when I was a Democrat, I never personally knew any Republicans or conservatives yet my entire perception of what they stood for was based on left-leaning media filtering.

I felt that I was being informed when I was being highly misinformed about what an entire political spectrum generally believes and advocates for. Even more so, as a black man, I bought into the bad-faith political position that "all Republicans & conservatives are racist".

No political party or side has a monopoly on ignorance. We are a nation with over 200 million voting-aged adults and immoral people are going to be found on both sides. However, the wholesale belief that conservatism equals bigotry is undoubtedly false.

I realized that I was living my life in bad faith, seeing people for what I thought they were and never giving them the chance to show me who they really are.

I've lived in 5 states and a variety of types of areas throughout my life. I've noticed when people talk about "America is..." they're often projecting their impression of America based on the geography they're most familiar with. If they live in a run-down city, then America must be run-down. Me, I've lived in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

I've been one of four black kids in the entire middle school and one of many black kids in the school.

I say all of this to point out that I've lived around people of different races and political beliefs but it was incredibly rare that someone ever held racial animus towards me.

When I left the mainstream liberal media bubble & started listening to right-wing media to understand what they want, I became more aware of the world around me than ever before. Without the filter, I got to hear what conservatives actually believe & it's not what I was told.

Thank you for reading Speaking Wrong At The Right Time. This post is public so feel free to share it.

I removed my bad-faith preconceived notions and just listened to what they had to say but even more important, watched their actions based on their rhetoric. I have some disagreements but I understand them far better than I had previously.

Recently, an interviewer asked me about this political hurdle of "conservatives are racist" and my experience with it. I gave him an example of when I was invited to attend Turning Point's "Americafest" last year.

For a couple of days, I was at this conservative conference, everyone I spoke with was courteous and supportive and I felt completely comfortable. I didn't have people stare at me or give me the feeling that I wasn't welcome. Actually, quite the opposite.

The speakers that I saw on stage preached the importance of family, wanting smaller government, holding Republicans in office accountable, and their unwavering love for America despite our political gripes.

However, when I would go on Twitter, they would show clips from the event and reframed this benign conservative conference as being a "KKK rally". If Americafest was a KKK rally, then it was the lamest KKK rally ever.

But this is the power of political propaganda & it works. Someone would actually think that I, a black man, would actually purposely go to a hate-filled rally where my identity would be the main target to go after. They think I would sign up for my own lynching.

As sarcastic as I'm sounding, I also shamefully realized I was one of those people who would consider this illogical prospect. Being on both sides of the political spectrum has allowed me to see the political world for what it is; biased & imperfect.

Overwhelming, most Americans essentially want the same thing, they just have different pathways to reach that objective.

It's the few that want us to believe they're the majority and the media's job is to highlight the few as being the many so the many cower to the few.

And in every story, you need a villain. The mainstream media's storyline must paint conservatives as being perpetrators of racism because once you believe this bad-faith proposition, nothing else matters as to what they're saying.

It's a political brick wall that many have trouble maneuvering past because it's cemented into place with constant repetition of accusatory rhetoric.

But it's exaggeration & manipulation by the political liberal elite who never want their political foes to be seen as otherwise.

The elitist media propaganda made me overlook my real-life experience. The people who I would identify as conservatives today were actually my neighbors in small-town America and were generally kind to me, I just didn't know their politics but I recognize their behavior & ideals.

There is much to be gained by understanding all political ideologies along with reaching out to people with who you don't normally have a dialogue.

A media filter will always remove information that benefits them but leaves you without some nutrients of knowledge.

We're being malnourished.

https://adambcoleman.substack.com/p/democrats-the-party-of-pander

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/democrats-are-losing-because-liberalism-has-become-cruel/

Democrats are losing because liberalism has become cruel
The ‘stop hate’ party embraces vicious identity politics, and voters have noticed

Welp, so much for the blue wave. That towering electoral tsunami, which was to deluge the midterm races in a soggy detritus of worn masks and Planned Parenthood pamphlets, has given way to a stark reality: 2022 is a Republican year. It was always a Republican year, as some of us have been pointing out. Voters simply weren’t about to prioritize third-trimester abortions over rising crime and the price of beef. ...

Join me now in the DeLorean, darling, as we turn back the revolutionary calendar all the way to 2009. Obama has just been elected president, seemingly putting a pin in centuries of American racial strife. He opposes gay marriage and no one seems to care. Wokeness is not yet a thing. Neither is intersectionality. Suggesting children be given puberty blockers on demand can and will get you chucked off of a moving train. Crime is low; unity is high.

Now splinter back to today, when liberalism no longer seems idealistic or even woke so much as cruel. Consider as an example the recent debate between John Fetterman and Dr. Oz. Those who pointed out that Fetterman might be an unfit candidate due to his clear cognitive impairment — a reasonable enough observation a decade ago — were this year derided as ableist. The full shield of identity politics was brought to bear around Fetterman, with any criticism of his acuity ruled out of bounds. And then, when it came time to debate, when that shield had to come down, Fetterman was left pausing and stumbling and flip-flopping while the rest of us sank into our sofas. This wasn’t empowering; it was just…mean.

The same goes for Joe Biden’s recent trip to the mall in a Members Only jacket with trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney. Biden in that interview surrendered completely to trans ideology. He even went so far as to say states shouldn’t pass any laws against children receiving puberty-blocking hormones or sex-change surgeries. The policy is barbaric, of course, but the spectacle itself was also vicious. Here was this self-anointed cipher of the blue-collar Dems, this haunt of Irish-Catholic villages, being shanghaied into thumbs-upping child abuse by a preening man transitioning into — not a woman, mind you — but a girl.

I might even feel sorry for Biden had he not implied that I’m a domestic terrorist last month. And the list of cruelties rolls on: Covid lockdowns stunting children’s educational growth; soft-on-crime urban policies leaving addicts to die in sidewalk tents; feral Twitter hoards lying in wait for anyone who utters wrongthink. Remember: it’s the GOP that’s supposed to be the nasty party. The Democrats are all about equality and empathy and love. Yet this year has made the reality perfectly plain: liberalism doesn’t care about the disenfranchised so much as it fetishizes them in the abstract. And once they fall stray of the ideology, as actual people so often do, well, we’ve finished that story before, haven’t we?

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/tim-robbins-and-the-lost-art-of-finding

Years later, the Oscar-winning actor known for left-liberal advocacy finds his thinking has shifted in significant ways. In part this is because the entertainment business remains mired in high-vigilance mode when it comes to pandemic restrictions, with an omerta still hovering over vaccine-related questions. Robbins himself was with the program early, which he now seems to regret. “I was guilty of everything that I came to understand was not healthy,” he says now. “I demonized people.” ...

That’s something I already knew as a writer. When you’re making a character, you try not to make it all black and white, good and evil. I really understood much more profoundly what happens with the turn, how people turn. You go from someone that is inclusive, altruistic, generous, empathetic, to a monster. Where you want to freeze people’s bank accounts because they disagree with you. That’s a dangerous thing. That’s a dangerous world that we’ve created. And I say ‘we,’ because I was part of that. I bought into that whole idea early on.

https://newspress.com/the-positive-effects-of-switching-parties/

Emily Seidel, head of Americans for Prosperity, said her network is seeing first-hand that suburban voters are distancing themselves from Democrats who represent extreme policy positions. But that doesn’t mean that they’re ready to vote against those lawmakers either. Candidates have to make their case, they have to give these voters something to be for, not just something to be against.

According to the AP, there was not a single “got ya” issue that convinced most of these Democrats to switch parties. Like Ronald Reagan said, they felt that the “Democratic party left them” when it became the party of progressives, socialism, special interests and the party of radical social justice.

James Smith
@jamessmithPT_
Ok, I’m going to say it.

My pro-vaccine stance is fading with the amount of bullshit still in place post vaccination.

“Get vaccinated for your freedoms” - we still don’t even have close to the old normal back.

4th jab, 5th jab, 6th?

Will it ever stop?
10:48 AM ∙ Nov 4, 2021

And:

James Smith
@jamessmithPT_
So it turns out “get vaccinated to save other people” was a farce.

I think I owe a lot of people an apology.

I genuinely thought I could trust the ‘experts’. I’m very disappointed to have been hoodwinked by the propaganda of 2020.
9:19 PM ∙ Oct 11, 2022

https://adambcoleman.substack.com/p/the-mainstream-media-lied-to-me-about

The Mainstream Media Lied to Me About Conservatives
How political media propaganda prevented me from understanding conservatives

Looking back, when I was a Democrat, I never personally knew any Republicans or conservatives yet my entire perception of what they stood for was based on left-leaning media filtering.

I felt that I was being informed when I was being highly misinformed about what an entire political spectrum generally believes and advocates for. Even more so, as a black man, I bought into the bad-faith political position that "all Republicans & conservatives are racist". ...

Recently, an interviewer asked me about this political hurdle of "conservatives are racist" and my experience with it. I gave him an example of when I was invited to attend Turning Point's "Americafest" last year.

For a couple of days, I was at this conservative conference, everyone I spoke with was courteous and supportive and I felt completely comfortable. I didn't have people stare at me or give me the feeling that I wasn't welcome. Actually, quite the opposite.

The speakers that I saw on stage preached the importance of family, wanting smaller government, holding Republicans in office accountable, and their unwavering love for America despite our political gripes.

However, when I would go on Twitter, they would show clips from the event and reframed this benign conservative conference as being a "KKK rally". If Americafest was a KKK rally, then it was the lamest KKK rally ever.

But this is the power of political propaganda & it works. Someone would actually think that I, a black man, would actually purposely go to a hate-filled rally where my identity would be the main target to go after. They think I would sign up for my own lynching.

As sarcastic as I'm sounding, I also shamefully realized I was one of those people who would consider this illogical prospect. Being on both sides of the political spectrum has allowed me to see the political world for what it is; biased & imperfect.

Overwhelming, most Americans essentially want the same thing, they just have different pathways to reach that objective.

It's the few that want us to believe they're the majority and the media's job is to highlight the few as being the many so the many cower to the few.

And in every story, you need a villain. The mainstream media's storyline must paint conservatives as being perpetrators of racism because once you believe this bad-faith proposition, nothing else matters as to what they're saying.

https://adambcoleman.substack.com/p/i-voted-republican-for-the-first

On Sunday, for the first time in my life, I voted Republican and I have a litany of reasons why.

First, let me make clear that I am not a Republican but an Independent. I am a moderate American voter who wants to vote based on his principles instead of a political party's demands.

However, I was a "vote blue no matter who" kind of moderate Democrat years ago. I don't recognize that Democrat party anymore. The party I used to support stood for liberal values like free speech & now pushes harder and harder for censorship. ...

It was with Democrat influence to even call these people Domestic Terrorists. Why? Because they don't want highly sexual books accessible to their children? When did sexualizing children become a political position? Why have Democrats made this the hill to die on?

You even have Democrat State Senator Tiara Mack as the voice advocating for teaching the pleasures of masturbation & sex to children in classrooms. Why? ...

The Democrats were the main perpetrators of lockdown tyranny and COVID propaganda to smear anyone who even asked a question about what was going on around us. Some even laughed at the deaths of their detractors which I find absolutely disgusting. No one should condone this.

The Republicans aren't perfect by any means but this should show you how terrible my old party has become. They've shown themselves to be authoritarian elitists who were willing to use all apparatuses to force you to comply with their nonsense. ...

I will continue to vote Republican until every pro-lockdown Democrat is out of office. I will continue to vote Republican until every pro-perversion Democrat is out of office.

That is the only way the Democrats can get rid of the stench.

The hanging of absolutely everyone who used government, school, or employer power to impose vaxx mandates is another way to get rid of the stench.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1588232936087764993

Maybe she is enticing men to kiss her. You know, like kiss her to turn her back into a princess.

https://unherd.com/2022/11/why-im-voting-republican/

Why I’m voting Republican
Biden has left this Democratic voter with no alternative
BY ANDREW SULLIVAN

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-won-over-a-liberal-canadian-midterms-red-wave-democrats-ideals-vote-election-leftist-violence-free-speech-11668197928

How the GOP Won Over a Liberal Canadian
The new left’s embrace of authoritarianism led me to question old loyalties.

As I watched the U.S. midterms election results come in, it was clear that the red wave wasn’t materializing. It was exactly what a lifelong liberal such as myself should want, right? My brain tried to convince me this was good news, but my heart wasn’t having it.

As the night wore on, the source of my unease became unmistakable: I couldn’t bring myself to sign up for today’s prevailing liberal movement, which has taken over, both in my homeland of Canada and in the U.S., the left-leaning parties I aligned with since my youth. It’s a movement I call the “new left.”

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the new left championed policies that jettisoned our most fundamental civil liberties. Whether the measures “slowed the spread” was beside the point: They threatened the foundational principles of liberal democracy and deserved public scrutiny. The new left was in no mood for scrutiny, though. Anyone who questioned its pandemic policies was branded a sociopath and a troglodyte. ...

I still care about many traditionally leftist ideals, from a livable minimum wage to universal healthcare. But my heart has started to put less weight on these and more on the fundamental freedoms the new left treats as disposable. The movement has exposed its deeply authoritarian stripes, which constitute a graver threat to the free world than anything the right is throwing my way.

The heart doesn’t compete with our rational thoughts, it reveals them. And what my heart told me on Election Day was that the new left had betrayed the values that meant everything to me. By the end of Tuesday evening, I was rooting for the red.