HE’S ALREADY IMMUNE, KAREN, HE CAN’T TRANSMIT WUFLU: Rand Paul says he was harassed by gym ‘Karen’ for refusing to wear mask.
It’s time to stop the insanity of the Branch Covidians. If they want to hold onto their masks as a talisman, no one is stopping them. Me? I already have a religion, thanks.
GO AHEAD, NY, CALL THEIR BLUFF: Top finance, tech firms mulling NY exodus over proposed tax hike.
And the gods of the copybook headings limp up to explain it once more….
AND FOR THOSE SHOCKED BY THE RETURN OF RADIO FREE COLORADO: The meat of the matter.
LIKE FORE-SHOCKS ON AN EARTHQUAKE: The latest currency collapse – keep an eye on Lebanon.
THESE IDIOTS FORGET THE OTHER SIDE GETS A SAY: The War On The Right Continues.
AND STOP THE NIGHTMARE: Forget going ‘woke’: it is time to get ‘awake’.
THAT’S FUNNY. I DREAM OF KAMALA HARRIS OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE. FOREVER: Kamala Harris Dreams of National Struggle Sessions.
It’s a beautiful dream, in which I don’t have to ponder if she’s dumb as rocks, or industrial grade evil.
Well, I guess “yes” is also a possibility.
CAN YOU SAY RACISM? Whiteness: The New Pandemic.
Sure I knew you could. Just because it’s against white people, it doesn’t make it less racist, no matter what wokies tell themselves to sleep at night.
SOMETIMES YOU MAKE LIKE A RADIO STATION: The Return of Radio Free Colorado.
It happens when one is down but definitely not out and has had just.about.enough.
LOOK, I KNOW IT’S MESSY. I KNOW IT LOOKS HOPELESS. THIS A STAGE IN: Renovations.
Why, two houses ago, in the middle of the night, when the paper I’d just put up fell, I wanted to burn the house down for the satisfaction of it. But my husband wouldn’t let me. Turns out he was right. Don’t burn the house down.
We have a bad case of termites and some truly bizarre renovations done over the last hundred years. I think the crawl space is full of sewage. It’s going to be a heck of a job. But it needs to be done.
PARENTS WHO GO ALONG WITH THIS AREN’T BLACKLISTED: Today’s blacklisted Americans: Virginia teachers & parents who oppose teaching children that whites are evil and minorities cannot be racist.
They’re stone cold evil.
WHY DO THEY NEED TO BE THREATENED. THEY’VE ALREADY ROLLED OVER: Will Court Packing Threat Keep SCOTUS From 2A Cases?
IT’S THE ONLY OBJECTIONS THEY HAVE: Paper Offers Off-Base Objections To Oklahoma’s Teacher Carry Bill.
WELL, THAT AND BECAUSE HE RUINS THEIR OPPRESSIVE NARRATIVE: This is why they hate DeSantis.
WHO IS SURPRISED BY THIS? And Biden ruins NASA.
ARE YOU SHOCKED? BECAUSE I’M NOT: Rand Paul calls out a slippery, evasive Anthony Fauci.
MORE LIKE THIS: Rand Paul calls out a slippery, evasive Anthony Fauci.
DOING THE JOB ALL OF US AMERICANS MUST DO. NOW: Rand Paul calls out a slippery, evasive Anthony Fauci.
IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA AND YOU SEND YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL, YOU’RE GUILTY OF CHILD ABUSE: Critical Race-Based California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Passes State Board of Education Vote.
OF COURSE THEY ARE. YOU CAN’T HAVE A PROPER INVASION UNLESS IT GOES EVERYWHERE: WaPo: Biden Admin Planning To Fly Migrants From Mexican Border To Northern States.
And I can’t — can’t — underscore the stupidity of people coming in enough. Because you know what? Most of these people come from sh*tholes. They can sniff the air and see the signs when things are about to go very very wrong. If I can do it, they can do it. And they’re here…. because they think they’re tougher than us, I guess? They’re not. They won’t like what comes next.
YOU KNOW THE WAY TO STOP RACE PROBLEMS? STOP TALKING ABOUT RACE: The Weaponization of Race And The Asian Model Minority Myth.
Take it off the forms. Stop demanding people conform to the slot you’ve assigned a race. Stop obsessing about. Stop talking about it. No one talks about injustice against redheads. And yet for years centuries gingers were a despised minority with horrible slanders attached to them. And then we stopped talking about it. We stopped considering them a separate race.
Stop talking about it. Just stop.
THEY ARE ALL LIERS. IF THEIR LIPS ARE MOVING, THEY’RE LYING: Plagiarist Biden Lies Through Update On Vaccinations.
NAH. IT ATE BIDEN’S LUNCH. THAT’S NOT HARD. HE’S A POTTED PLANT: At Alaska Summit, China Eats Our Lunch.
DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Media Firefighters Cover For Biden’s Triple Trip.
A LOT OF CREATIVE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WRESTLING WITH DEPRESSION: In the face of the last year of covidiocy a lot of my friends — not all writers, but most of them in creative professions — have been having trouble working, concentrating. Part of this, of course is hubris. We keep feeling if we had shouted louder, done more, if we could just have explained where this was headed more clearly, none of this would have happened.
This is stupid, of course. As I’ve found in the last year, there is a limit to what you can do, see you things ever so clearly, in the face of irrational mob panic stoked by experienced demagogues.
A couple of days ago a friend pointed me at this post by my friend Robert Bidinotto (link takes you to the first book of his thriller series.) I don’t know why Facebook didn’t show me this post, except the site is the most counterproductive thing ever, and I only stay on it till most of my fans migrate. But I’m glad I was pointed at Robert’s post.
Yes, I know the post is long but he’s right. And we all need to listen to him. And maybe find our heart and our vision again. All we can do is all we can do. But we need to keep doing it.
A BRIEF, OPTIMISTIC THOUGHT ABOUT CULTURAL CHANGE.
I have heard a great deal of despair lately about the state of our culture. Reading self-defined “cultural conservatives” (such as Rod Dreher) wailing that “all is lost,” it is easy to give in to pessimism.Such pessimism seems warranted if you define the cultural battlefield in terms of *existing institutions.* After all, evidence of decadence and decline is pervasive within our political, economic, educational, entertainment, and social institutions. Most have become captives or accomplices of the left-nihilists.But is that really the battlefield?History reveals to me different lessons. Such as: how a Renaissance and Enlightenment can emerge from the tribalism and mysticism of the Dark Ages, in which all institutions were hopelessly corrupt and coercive. Or how America itself could emerge from the historic swamp of universal despotism.We can learn from our enemies, too. The so-called “Frankfurt School” started as a mere school of thought — a bunch of Marxist professors in Germany. Ditto, the Fabian Socialists in the UK. We should study how they accomplished what they did, and take notes.We also should take lessons from what the military calls “asymmetrical warfare”: how a small group of insurgents can fight a much larger, better equipped and supplied force to a stalemate — and even eventually beat them. (Study George Washington and Francis Marion, for examples.) No, I’m not being literal; I’m arguing that the military analogy applies to the cultural battlefield, too: the battle over ideas and values.But creating new ideas, arguments, perspectives, and inspiring *visions* is not a numbers game. The creators of new ideas are always few, and usually solitary. Yet those few can eventually serve as navigators for an entire society. It was that truth that led Percy Shelley to say that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” The same can be said of an influential religious leader, philosopher, or narrative artist: think Jesus, Aristotle, Homer. Throughout history, these visionaries have been the de facto “asymmetrical culture warriors” of the world.Today, would-be asymmetrical culture warriors have access to technology, even at the individual level, that those earlier purveyors of ideas and values couldn’t have dreamed of — technological innovations that the military would call “force multipliers.” So, rather than gnash our teeth at the reach of mainstream- and social-media giants, or the influence of big corporations, schools, and governmental bodies, we “outsiders” can use technology to “hit them where they ain’t” — to spread our ideas and values in new forms, among receptive target audiences
This is way too big a topic for a Facebook post. But those of you with individualist perspectives in our collectivist era — especially, those of you in the storytelling arts — ought to think creatively about this. Above all, remember the unstoppable power of a captivating idea or perspective — and the fact that it takes only a single creative visionary to give it life in the world.
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