Sandbox - 19feb23

[Here's an interesting backlash from the more conservative faction of our nation's youth reacting to the nation's woke tsunami. (here) "'Asbury Revival' marathon worship enters 10th day, similar services grow on other college campuse."  And then take a look at what is happening with the recertification kerfuffle of the University of North Caroling, Chapel Hill as the school attempts to augment its curriculum with actual mainline courses that the Left opposes. (here) Light at the end of the tunnel? gjr]

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[Bill Tozer]

Where or where are all the eco-nuts up in arms about this ecological disaster? Crickets is what I hear. One would think they would be taking Biden and Mayor Pete to the woodshed, but then again, one would think wrong. Crickets over the biggest eco-disaster of the new year. 300 miles away:

‘Cincinnati And Northern Kentucky Shut Down Water Intakes After Train Derailment’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cincinnati-and-northern-kentucky-shut-down-water-intakes-after-train-derailment

The guys in haz-mat suits say everything is fine. Call us after burying your dogs and cats and chickens. Water is safe.

[Don T]

“ The Last Of Us” Brought to you by Fox News and the Daily Show

Subject “Woke Mind Virus”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npzc5wEH3i0

Hard hitting expose encapsulating the woke tsunami Fox viewers wake up to on a daily basis.

[Bill Tozer]

Muslim DEI Chief Of Left-Wing Group Accused Of Being White Instead Of ‘Person Of Color’: Report

“Oskar Castro, a human resource professional with a focus on DEI who helped to bring Saraswati to the AFSC, told The Intercept that he felt “deceived” because he believed that she wasn’t white, and checked a variety of diversity boxes.
“In my mind, it was, ‘Great, a person of color, a queer person of color, who happens to be a Muslim, it’s a woman,’ all these things, and someone who seemed to get it. I definitely feel conned,” he said.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-dei-chief-of-left-wing-group-accused-of-being-white-instead-of-person-of-color-report

There just ain’t no privilege in being white.

[Don T]

The woke tsunami has gotten to the point that Fox actually had to declare WAR on it.

“Fox’s War On The Woke Mind Virus”
If you have not yet watched this you don’t know what all is actually woke.

Stay informed and up to date on wokeness.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ejAjLkwJQ

[Gregory]

RIP Richard Belzer, famed star of the comedy "The Groove Tube", and some minor TV series work.

[Don T]

George,
Could you elaborate on how the religious revival marathons you mentioned are a seen as a reaction to woke things, and I’m assuming you mean left ideas?
As far as I can tell the right is not the only party involved in religion. My family is involved with religion, some Baptist some Lutheran. My brothers a minister.

As far as that Chapel Hill story, it sounded like it was religious courses being suggested, but the bigger issue was a creation of a new school or buildings to house those religious studies. Adding some classes is one thing but a building sounds costly.

[scenes]

"The woke tsunami has gotten to the point that Fox actually had to declare WAR on it.

“Fox’s War On The Woke Mind Virus”"

Huh. 'Virus' doesn't seem the right word, I'm more comfortable with 'secular religion', and a particularly expansionist one at that.

You really need the more enthusiastic jihadi instinct that comes with as opposed to the sorts of things a virus does (cause symptoms that help spread a disease). An argument could be made that wokeism is more similar to those sorts of parasites that cause behavior changes, but really religion is a better model since it implies active participation by conscious behavior.

Thing is, this has happened before, with the normal horrendous effects. You do have to wonder what happened in 19th C. Europe that fired up so much craziness...perhaps it's simply a combination of industrial (and farming) revolution increases in wealth and an over-supply of educated urban non-workers. It ain't like the Russian or French revolution was run by 'the workers' lol.

[Gregory]

As far as I can tell, the woke left is consumed with the religion inherent in Hegelian/Marxist dialectics.

Your attempts at gaslighting is transparent... the right and center are not crazy. "Woke" is real.

[Bill Tozer]

Normal people vs The Woke.

Campus Reform Correspondents Slam California University For Urging Students To Report Professors For ‘Racism’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/campus-reform-correspondents-slam-california-university-for-urging-students-to-report-professors-for-racism
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One of those guys who gets aroused looking at themselves dressed as a woman? Me thinks yes. Fetish or exhibitionist?

‘Trans teacher with Z-size prosthetic breasts dresses as man outside of school, neighbor says’

https://nypost.com/2023/02/17/kayla-lemieux-ditches-her-z-size-breasts-outside-the-classroom/

[Bill Tozer]

Why the Attack on the Family Is Doomed

https://intellectualtakeout.org/2023/02/why-attack-family-doomed-minick/

[Bill Tozer]

Chicago Teachers Union:

Public education, too, has faltered. Nearly 90,000 students – roughly 25% of the city’s total – have left Chicago’s Public School (CPS) system since 2010, as families opt for private schools or flee the city entirely. Those still in public districts are struggling: Nearly 80% of Chicago 11th graders could not read or perform math at grade level, according to state data from 2022. Meanwhile, half of CPS students are chronically absent.

Corruption and machine politics have always been part of Chicago’s story, and the CTU is the unquestioned ringleader of the current machine. It is, first and foremost, a political organization – and its politicking never rests, even when employees are supposed to be on the job in schools.

Take John Kugler. In an interview for the new documentary “Local 1: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Teachers Union,” the licensed educator — who formerly served as a CTU field rep — said that he “was assigned to do political campaign calls during the workday. I have the emails.”

And those politics aren’t just focused on education. Often, it means fighting for things like defunding banks, defunding the police, changes to the tax code, and backing candidates who will parrot their left-leaning agenda.

“I think, ultimately, [the Chicago Teachers Union would] like to take over not only Chicago Public Schools but take over running the city government,” Mayor Lightfoot told The New York Times in 2021.

They’re well on their way. CTU has funded the election campaigns of 34 of Chicago’s 50 current aldermen. But that’s parred for the course with teachers’ unions. The American Federation of Teachers, the parent affiliate of both CTU and the United Federation of Teachers, the local representative of teachers within New York City Public Schools, spent over $35.7 million on politics and lobbying in 2022 nationwide, according to a report filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/18/chicagos-mayoral-election-is-a-warning-to-big-cities-everywhere/

[Bill Evans]

And the revelations t

Wokeism histrionics are a waste of time.

Meanwhile Dark Brandon is in Kiev.

[Scott O]

"Wokeism histrionics are a waste of time."

Pointing out the insanity the left is sinking into with their Wokeism is mostly a sadly amusing bit of entertainment. Very close to what the Germans call schadenfreude.
I'm sure some of you lefties are aware of how stupid it makes you look, but don't worry - just like the hula hoop it will have it's day and fade away. There will be wreckage in the meantime, but it seems humans just can't seem to muddle through history without periods of mass insanity.
Thank God we have a half way decent Supreme Court.

[fish]

Posted by: Bill Evans | 20 February 2023 at 08:00 AM

Fat boy says what....

Two decades ago, MIT professor Thomas Kochan estimated that diversity was already an $8 billion-a-year industry. Yet along with the addition of equity, inclusion, and like terms, the industry has surely grown an order of magnitude larger. Six years ago, McKinsey and Company estimated that American companies were spending $8 billion a year on diversity training alone. DEI hiring and training have only accelerated in the years since.
“In the scope and rapidity of institutional embrace,” writes Marti Gurri, a former CIA analyst who studies media and politics,“nothing like it has transpired since the conversion of Constantine.”

[Bill Tozer]

Well, if we can just get K-3 school children to stop being taught about gender identify (which is above their understanding), it would be a start. The extremist Left is consumed with sexual behavior. Baby steps, yet a step nonetheless….with much resistance. The War of Parents continues.

‘Amid bitter culture wars, US educators continue to push critical race theory, neo-segregation’

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/amid-bitter-culture-wars-us-educators-continue-push-critical-race-theory

[Bill Tozer]

For your reading pleasure. VDH on Bidenesque schizophrenia projection.

‘The Toxic Racialist Obsessions of Joe Biden’

Somehow Biden has transferred his own checkered history of racial disparagement onto the white working class.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/19/the-toxic-racialist-obsessions-of-joe-biden/

He will not divide us.

[scenes]

re: fish@10:16AM

That quote led me to this.

https://www.city-journal.org/the-identity-cult-and-the-mass-conversion-of-our-institutions

The funny thing about this kind of soft power is that it acquires hard power by being allowed to.

Smaller groups with a strong focus and high self-interest certainly can get all the gold and wimmen though. Whether it's the Bolsheviks or the Conquistadors, concentration and having a strong nose for the main chance is remarkably effective. The US (and Western) public shows the typical response of the breed. It either directly benefits or has no innate common sense or self respect.

Dunno why I love this sort of image so much:
https://imgur.com/a/y1RoPaI

but it would make a helluva classical painting, maybe hang it next to a 'Sack of Rome' at the museum.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 20 February 2023 at 11:41 AM

If you liked that you'll love this....

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/bidens-power-grab-executive-order-installs-equity-commissars-to-rule-the-bureaucracy-and-centralize-power/

[scenes]

re: fish@12:28PM

from Feb 18:
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re: BillT@9:43AM

The 'Biden' Order (or whoever wrote it, it isn't like the man is even 1/2 there).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/
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I did like some things I saw in the Gurri article link...

arguing that wokeism is more like a personality disorder:

"From the outside, identity feels like thin gruel. Very little is demanded of true believers. They arrive already in a state of grace. Total obedience is demanded of everyone else. We are corrupt beyond redemption and can be detoxified only by our submission.

The platitudes about justice, once questioned, disintegrate into mere slogans. The groups that supposedly define our identity are crude stereotypes. Nobody has ever cried, “Latinx or death!” or “Power to the LGBTQIA!” from atop a barricade. Nobody ever will."

some responses:
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"Why does this article miss the giant elephant in the room: the effect of feminism on society? Feminism started with a rightful quest for equal rights but in the last sixty years it turned into a very successful identity movement that did wonders advancing its own group using the impossibility for men to publicly disagree with women: partly built in chivalry, but nowadays mostly for the brutal public beating one receives.

This success created its followers, which were then aided by a society where the feminine dominant traits like empathy and neuroticism had gained significant power. This is the vicious circle we are currently witnessing imho. Proof in point is the transgender movement that receives blow back from feminists. They can push back because they never lost their victim license"
......
"There is another giant elephant in the room - the Gini Coefficient. Furthermore, the young are financially screwed - and they knew it since the Obama years. Wokeness allows the Elites to channel the anger of the young down a racial identity path instead of old fashioned Communism. That way the Elites get to keep their wealth."
......
"Eventually wokeism will have to fight Islam for supremacy of the west. It won’t be pretty but as angry and unguided wokeism is, it’s never come up against as implacable an enemy, and one with better marketing, than Islam."
......
"But you're right, the digital flattening of information hierarchies which led to the rise of populism, mostly of the right-wing variety, but sometimes left as well, presented a threat to the existing power structures across what could be called, "the West", causing that power structure to turn away from liberal democracy and towards what Yang has aptly called the "Successor Ideology", i.e. wokeism. "
....
"Like all movements emanating from similar demographics, they all assume one fatal flaw: they are utterly powerless against those with actual power who do not care about what anyone thinks of them.....The true danger is that they will erode institutions and dismantle Constitutional safeguards enough that the backlash will enable exactly the kind of Fascist Thug that they want to call anyone now who won't suck up to them."
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Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now... they're everywhere.

(maybe John Milius was a prophet, not a screenwriter)

[Don Bessee]

They like to throw around its all about the children but in actuality its not its about power -

An alarming report revealed dozens of Chicago schools claim no students are proficient in either math or reading, despite the state and federal government funneling billions of dollars into education in the Windy City.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-democrat-sounds-alarm-55-schools-report-no-proficiency-math-reading-serious

;-)

[Don T]

Gregory 6:46pm

Woke has a dictionary definition.

Conservatives choose to obfuscate the meaning to refer to anything they feel is related to perceived progressivism they don’t like

It’s a revolving strawman like CRT.
It involves M &M’s and how James Bond dresses if you haven’t watched the above videos I posted from Fox,
the undeniable fountain of conservative woke complainers.

In the second video I posted from Fox News, which is the better of the two one of the Fox hosts claimed the following:
“the woke left is on a collision course with Christianity”

Found that both fitting and humorous that she was instilling fear about a strawman colliding with a faith based story of a man residing in the clouds.

[Scott O]

Don T - "Conservatives choose to obfuscate the meaning to refer to anything they feel is related to perceived progressivism they don’t like"

Har Dee Har Har Har.

Don T knows the TRUE meaning but won't let us know 'cause it's secret.

"Found that both fitting and humorous that she was instilling fear about a strawman colliding with a faith based story of a man residing in the clouds."

I think that's called "pointing out a fact". If Don is getting all fearful about it, I would suggest he hide under his bed.

[Scott O]

Ya know - since we (tax payers) seem to be picking most of the tab with this latest military fun fest, maybe somebody in the Biden admin can put a muzzle on this kind of talk:
"'Our tanks will be parked on Moscow's Red Square and that will be justice': Kyiv security chief vows to expel all Russian troops from Ukraine's soil and dubs Putin 'Hitler's twin'"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11770455/Kyiv-security-chief-vows-expel-Russian-troops-Ukraines-soil-dubs-Putin-Hitlers-twin.html
This kind of babble is exactly what keeps Putin's crumbling power propped up.
STFU dude.
"Hitler's twin" - oh goody. Throw Godwin's Law into play. What fun! I'm sure the Azov Regiment has been disbanded - right?

[Bill Tozer]

Lovely watching the mentally ill WOKE. Absolutely no fun at any speed.

‘Trans Dyke’ Author Threatens to Slit J.K. Rowling's Throat

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/tierin-rose-mandelburg/2023/02/20/trans-dyke-author-threatens-slit-jk-rowlings-throat

There is no failure to communicate here.
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But, but, but Trump! No, not but Trump. I find it hard to take anyone seriously who fell for the Russian Hoax with Trump as Biden’s pocket pool boy hook, line, and sinker. It’s like, you (they) are a bag of rotten oats and beyond any redemption. Some have even gone far enough to fall for the Russian Collusion disinformation AND ‘the VAX and masks will stop the spread of Chinese Wuhan Flu Communist Chop Fuey’ bullshit. No, vaccinations will not keep you from catching COVID or spreading it.

It’s really hard to take those Ignorant Evil doer Wokersters seriously. Maybe add two tons of salt and a bag of popcorn to bother even listening to what they say. A true mental illness phenomenon to witness. Mass hysteria. Mass ignorance.

STUDY: TV News Shields Biden From Blame Over His Inflation Disaster

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2023/02/13/study-tv-news-shields-biden-blame-over-his-inflation-disaster

Exposed! Soros-Tied Group Is Reportedly Blacklisting Outlets (CensorTrack with Paiten)

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/paiten-iselin/2023/02/20/exposed-soros-tied-group-reportedly-blacklisting-outlets
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American Medical Association’s Racism Course Is Unscientific Propaganda

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/20/american-medical-associations-racism-course-is-unscientific-propaganda/
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And Susan Rice will be the Minister of Misinformation point man for this endeavor.

Biden’s New ‘Equity’ Executive Order Is Systemic Racism In Disguise

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/20/bidens-new-equity-executive-order-is-systemic-racism-in-disguise/

[Bill Tozer]

The score, for now, is abundantly clear. Musk: 1. Media: 0.

EATING CROW: WashPost Columnist Admits Musk ‘Broke Nothing’ by Axing Old Regime at Twitter

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2023/02/20/eating-crow-washpost-columnist-admits-musk-broke-nothing
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Twitter Files: Sen. King and State Dept official allegedly leaned on site to target opponents

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/twitter-files-sen-king-and-state-dept-official-leaned-on-site-to-target-opponents

Who is the threat to our democracy?

[Don Bessee]

Rules for thee and not me number 10854739032088753 -

https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-blasted-posting-photo-masked-child-rage-feel

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Those mutha mullahs are up to no good again, thanks creepy grampa joe and 0 -

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reportedly discovered traces of uranium enriched to 84 percent purity in Iran, a report claimed on Sunday, just below the 90-percent threshold needed to construct an atomic bomb. Iranian officials denied the report and insisted they had “not made any attempt to enrich above 60%.”

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/02/20/report-u-n-nuclear-watchdog-finds-iran-enriched-uranium-near-weapons-grade/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The wokesters feel so empowered to be racists in the name of CRT and DEI -

MSNBC guest ripped for 'overt racism' toward Nikki Haley: 'Disgusting and beneath a news network'
MSNBC guest claims Haley uses 'brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points

https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-guest-ripped-overt-racism-nikki-haley-disgusting-beneath-news-network?dicbo=v2-dgg38k2

;-)

[Scott O]

BT 5:57 - re Musk cutting the fat at Twitter:
Possibly Musk could take over in DC and do the same?
One can dream.

[Scott O]

When you are ignorant of history, you end up looking like a fool.
"The stars had to align perfectly: There were thousands of lawyers’ hours. The crafting of legislation. The political will spurred by racial justice activists energized by the momentum for social justice after the murder of George Floyd."
Ha ha ha ha...
It's really all about the Benjamins.
"Gibs me da money!"
"Then, in January, the heirs to Bruce’s Beach announced that they were selling the land back to Los Angeles County for $20 million."
Laugh a minute - "Anthony’s great-great-grandparents, Charles and Willa Bruce, were Black entrepreneurs who purchased the land and built a thriving business there, until the government seized it."
No.
It was purchased under eminent domain.
Care to guess how many white people have had their land "seized" by the same process? It is a common practice to buy land around future reservoirs with penny on the dollar prices even though the land is above the high water line of the future lake.
After the dam is complete and the lake is formed the land is now worth a lot more and there was never a need to to buy the land for the project, but boy the payoff is swell. It's not racism but govt and corp greed perverting the original idea of eminent domain. Naturally it's the lefties that want to screw over the land owner to help big moneyed interest. One example:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-private-property-taken-economic-n1272976

[Gregory]

Don T 359p

You need a newer and better dictionary.

[Scott O]

Of course:
"Court documents show Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will only be charged with involuntary manslaughter without a firearm enhancement charge."
Timing is everything.
Baldwin shouldn't be in prison - he is needed back in the public to continue to hector us about firearms safety.
After all - he IS an expert.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/02/20/alec-baldwin-no-longer-facing-potential-five-years-in-jail-after-prosecutors-downgrade-charges/

[Misanthrope]

It sure is quiet on the right wing echo chamber sites regarding the fact that Fox News and its hosts knew and believed that all the election fraud, Dominion voting machine propaganda, and stop the steel nonsense was just that- utter nonsense.
Perhaps that is why wokeism is all over the MAGA echo chambers.

Speaker McCarthy on the defense budget talking about wokeism wasting too much of the military budget, as if, what a joke.
McCarthy is just like every other politician, he wants to keep the military dollars flowing into California and especially his district if at all possible.

[fish]

Posted by: Misanthrope | 21 February 2023 at 06:44 AM

If you’ve come to argue about how loved Kevin McCarthy is dare I say that you’re in the wrong place. Besides.....the latest volume of ”Modern Democrat” mag is out. You know.....the one with the Joe Biden centerfold. I thought you’d want a little “me time” on a beach towel with a some Vaseline?

[Scott O]

Missy Skipping Rope 6:44 - "McCarthy is just like every other politician..."

Duh.

Of course he's not as wealthy as the Biden family, so apparently he's just not as good a politician.

[Scott O]

Ah - now I see why Little Missy is in a snit about McCarthy...
"Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to over 40,000 hours of footage of the Capitol riot."
Well - obviously that's just too much evidence.
The Jan 6th Kangaroo Kourt spent a lot of time and effort to pick out just the correct kind of footage for the American public and now McCarthy has ruined all their hard work.
Next McCarthy will maybe start hearing from witnesses that haven't got the correct sort of story to tell.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/21/january-6-committee-howls-as-kevin-mccarthy-gives-footage-to-tucker-carlson/

[fish]

Posted by: Scott O | 21 February 2023 at 09:00 AM

Of course he's not as wealthy as the Biden family, so apparently he's just not as good a politician.

Well that's probably because he's not dabbling in fine art!

[fish]

Well why wouldn't you.....

NY Times Already Busy Repackaging Biden as Working Class and Thoughtful for 2024

You can contort the senile old grifter into any crazy pose that you could ever want!

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2023/02/20/ny-times-already-busy-repackaging-biden-as-working-class-and-thoughtful-for-2024-n1672341

[fish]

No fucking way.......I'm a Porter supporter.

Barbara Lee launches Senate run in California

I predict confidently that she will crush it in East Oaktown and Berkeley. I still hold some hope that the rest of California isn't quite so stupid as the Bay Area.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/barbara-lee-launches-senate-run-in-california-17796416.php

[fish]

Oh noes.....

US local news propaganda outlets need tax breaks to help save democracy, says advocate

Not surprising that this is coming from the "Grauniad"....they've always got their mitts out for alms.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/21/us-local-news-outlets-tax-breaks-rebuild-initiative

[scenes]

re: scotto@9:12AM (Tucker gets footage)

lol, cool. At least he's got the money to really dig into it. You have to feel for Matt Taibbi on the overwork front.

Lotsa fun will erupt.

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1627783256287375361

Checking on reddit, they've already decided that anything released will be a deep fake, Carlson is a traitor, lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit, something something about Trump (aka 'Agent Orange' in the post, I do like that), Russian agents.

See, this is what happens when sane people like Schiff lose power. The mask slips a little.

[Gregory]

I may have to start watching Carlson on a regular basis.

[Bill Tozer]

Lol.

‘Critics of 'George Soros conspiracy theories' keep being linked to George Soros’

https://thepostmillennial.com/critics-of-george-soros-conspiracy-theories-keep-being-linked-to-george-soros?utm_campaign=64487

[Bill Tozer]

Oh yeah. She is the Wa Compost writer who released all the personal info (employer, bank, family members, phone numbers) of the woman who ran Libs of Ticktoc, yet cried bloody murder when she was trolled and her address released. Lol.

‘Hysterical: WashPost Cry-Bully Taylor Lorenz Blames ‘Late Stage' Capitalism for Child Depression’

Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl retorted: “Maybe its just me, but I was depressed at 14 because I wanted a girlfriend, parties, a job, my face to clear up, and a way to unscramble Cinemax. I wasn't worrying obsessively about ‘late-stage capitalism’ and billionaires skewing the wealth distribution in 8th grade.”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2023/02/21/hysterical-washpost-cry-bully-taylor-lorenz-blames-late

[Don Bessee]

No one wants to be creepy grampa joes shill -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/21/report-three-strategists-decline-leading-joe-bidens-2024-campaign/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Lol. Projection much?

‘Adam Schiff Has MASSIVE Twitter Meltdown after McCarthy Gives All J6 Footage to Tucker Carlson’

Adam Schiff
@RepAdamSchiff

“Kevin McCarthy turned over Jan 6 videos to right-wing propagandist Tucker Carlson.

A man who spews Kremlin talking points. Suggests Jan 6 was a false flag. And spreads the Big Lie.

Make no mistake: This isn’t about transparency, it’s about fueling dangerous conspiracy theories.”

https://www.dailyfetched.com/adam-schiff-has-massive-twitter-meltdown-after-mccarthy-gives-all-j6-footage-to-tucker-carlson/

Bill sez: ROFLMAO. Too funny. The master of fueling dangerous conspiracy theories is fueling another dangerous conspiracy theory. Rules for Radicals

[Bill Tozer]

“Shut up and make me a sandwich.”…..also known as Something Don Lemon Would Say.

It’s gotta hurt. All the boxes were checked. Gay? check. Black? check. Male? Off to retraining school for you!

‘Don Lemon to undergo 'formal training' after sexist remarks about Nikki Haley, will be back on CNN Wednesday’

https://thepostmillennial.com/don-lemon-to-undergo-formal-training-after-sexist-remarks-about-nikki-haley-will-be-back-on-cnn-wednesday?

[Don Bessee]

Reality check, they dont contribute to the bottom line -

Diversity, equity, inclusion workers fret companies aren't hiring them anymore: 'Insane,' 'Pathetic'
The high-priced jobs faced massive cuts in tech layoffs last summer

https://www.foxnews.com/media/diversity-equity-inclusion-workers-fret-companies-arent-hiring-them-anymore-insane-pathetic?dicbo=v2-1zv8vx2

;-)

[Don T]

Gregory 7:54pm
Why would the choice of dictionary matter?

Is there a Fox News dictionary you guys on the right rely on, that doesn’t align with the rest of the dictionaries?

Fox is where you guys get all your talking points apparently, which all coincidentally coincide with Russian propaganda on a regular basis.

Try to find anyone harping online about CRT or woke before Fox started yapping about it if you doubt that.

Same clowns that cast repetitive doubt about the 2020 election on air, while privately mocking Trumps election fraud claims.

Have you noticed they aren’t denying their texts filed in the Dominion lawsuit, hiding behind the 1st amendment because they told their viewers
on air what they wanted to hear ( according to them) instead of the truth, because their stock price was falling due to lack of viewership when they told the truth?

That’s the company behind the culture wars you defend and believe in.

[Gregory]

Woke was in the first dictionary I looked up, Delirium Tremens, and I've been "yapping" about Critical Theories for a couple of years.

I get it... you don't like the "woke" label now that the tables have turned. According to cunning linguist John McWhorter, it started in the black community about 80 years ago, and was adopted 10+ years ago by white progressives.

[Scott O]

Don T - "Fox is where you guys get all your talking points apparently..."
No - but facts don't seem to make any difference with people like you.
You have your narrative. Far be it from me to disturb it.

[Gregory]

forgot it...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woke

[Scott O]

Don T is a laugh a minute - "Try to find anyone harping online about CRT or woke before Fox started yapping about it if you doubt that."

And when did FOX start 'yapping' about CRT?

[Don Bessee]

Now G man cambridge is a product of systematic racism so their definitions dont count for the wokesters.
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What the hell is it with white woke rachels pretending to not be white, self-hate or just pulling a fauxcahantus grift?

Muslim activist Raquel Evita Saraswati, who claimed to be a woman of color, was outed by her mother who said she is “white as the driven snow.”

"I call her Rachel," she said. "I don’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing. I’m as white as the driven snow and so is she. I’m German and British, and her father was Calabrese Italian. She’s chosen to live a lie, and I find that very, very sad."

Saraswati, 39, is the chief equity, inclusion and culture officer of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that fights globally for peace and social justice.

According to members of the organization, Saraswati, whose birth name is Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, has been misrepresenting her ethnic background for years. The activist claimed to be of Latino, South Asian and Arab descent.

Oskar Pierre Castro, a human resources official who helped AFSC hire Saraswati, said the activist presented herself as a “queer, Muslim, multiethnic woman.”

"In my mind it was, “Great, a person of color, a queer person of color, who happens to be a Muslim, it’s a woman,” all these things, and someone who seemed to get it. I definitely feel conned. I feel deceived," she told The Intercept

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/diversity-activist-claimed-latino-arab-235719015.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

They must be so proud especially the wokesters! LOL -

Biden hit for boasting of growing up in Polish community during Poland visit: 'I thought he was Puerto Rican'
Biden has previously boasted growing up in a Puerto Rican community and a Black church

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-boasting-growing-polish-community-during-poland-visit-i-thought-he-was-puerto-rican

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Do i hear liberal heads exploding? -

Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian American Republican dubbed by New Yorker magazine as the “CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.,” is reportedly considering running for president of the United States in 2024.

Ramaswamy, who was born to Indian immigrant parents in Cincinnati, received his education at Yale and Harvard and later found success as a biotech entrepreneur. He has also written a book titled, “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” and is now reportedly worth over $500 million

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/meet-anti-woke-indian-american-011651757.html

;-)

[Scott O]

re Raquel Evita Saraswati -

""I call her Rachel," she said. "I don’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing. I’m as white as the driven snow and so is she."

She probably got the idea from FOX, right?

[Bill Tozer]

I get Woke and Wank confused, especially with the Wank Wokersters. I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but when I was in 3rd grade nobody was talking about masturbation or self-arousal nor self pleasure. Boys were squirmy wormies and girls like to hang with themselves. From recall the song went sorta like this:

‘Boys are made of greasy grimy gopher guts, something something something dirty monkey meat….
Girls are made of sugar bowls and tootsie rolls
and that’s what it’s all about.”

My 6 or 7 grade science class taught me about the birds and the bees, but it was a peer a year older that told how he masturbated and I wasn’t that far behind him.

Nowadays, the Lefty Public Education system is obsessed with sexual arousal and sex (not biological) and teach 3rd graders how to wank, wank, wank. It’s quite Woke of them; them groomers of our children.

[Don Bessee]

If we learned nothing from the covid crazy it's that letting the chi coms own your supply chain is national suicide. Especially as the new world order is a hell of lot like the old-world order as vlad wishes. We have to follow the long-term wisdom that we can and should be self-sufficient across the spectrum.

Its going to be hard with creepy grampa joes family being bought and paid for by the chi coms -

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/freeing-the-u-s-economy-from-china-will-create-an-american-industrial-renaissance-and-millions-of-good-paying-jobs/ar-AA17Krnd?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b99831ce1ddd4cd7bb8ae26421244974

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Florida’s Proposed ‘Reverse Woke Act’ Would Require Employers to Pay for Detransition Care

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/floridas-proposed-reverse-woke-act-would-require-employers-to-pay-for-detransition-care/
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Lol

‘DEI Staff Uses ChatGPT, Proves ChatGPT Can Replace DEI Staff’

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dei-staff-uses-chatgpt-proves-chatgpt-can-replace-dei-staff/

[fish]

While I didn't read it I like their conclusions.

Study Finds People With Higher Cognitive Ability Care More About Free Speech Than Political Correctness

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/study-finds-people-higher-cognitive-ability-care-more-about-free-speech-political

[Scott O]

Some one had better clue these folks in that they're upsetting the narrative:
"Family members of Malcolm X announced Tuesday they intend to sue the FBI, the CIA and the New York Police Department for their handling of the civil rights leader's 1965 assassination."

"She accused various government agencies of fraudulently concealing evidence that they "conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate Malcolm X," Reuters reports."

Gasp!
These wacky conspiracy theorists are just getting out of hand!
They probably get their info from FOX news.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/22/malcolm-x-family-lawsuit-cia-fbi-nypd

[BILL Woke]

“Republicans use ‘wokeism’ to attack left — but struggle to define it.” —The Washington Post

[fish]

Posted by: BILL Woke | 22 February 2023 at 08:32 AM

Kinda like progressives with their various “ism’s” and “phobias”.

[Scott O]

re BW 8:32 - I get a kick out of the left's proud raising of one standard after another and their subsequent stampede away.
"Woke" is now just a fabricated FOX talking point.
Hmmm...
Golly - I kinda remember this a bit differently, but I guess this is going to be like CRT. You know:
"CRT is wonderful, but it doesn't exist and if you try to keep it out of the schools, you're an evil racist!"

[Scott O]

And now on the "you will own nothing and be happy" front:
"Governments should re-introduce rationing schemes on goods such as meat, clothing, and fossil feuls in order to mitigate the supposed dangers of climate change, researchers at a top British univiersity have demanded."
Laugh line:
“Rationing is often seen as unattractive, and therefore not a viable option for policy-makers. It is important to highlight the fact that this was not the case for many of those who had experienced rationing."

"...seen as unattractive..."

Well, that's just old reactionist thinking.
We'll have to work on that.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/22/wwii-style-rationing-of-meat-clothing-and-energy-needed-to-fight-climate-change-say-uk-academics/

[Gregory]

BW 832a

A very leftist SCOTUS nominee recently could not give any definition for the word "woman", so you might cut the center and the right some slack over defining "wokeism".

Perhaps it's adequate to note that one knows it when confronted by it.

[Scott O]

re Gregory 8:58 - That particular SCOTUS nominee should have gone with a paraphrase of Justice Stewart's line:
"But I know it(one) when I see it(one),..."

[Bill Tozer]

Scott O

Under the category of ‘Great Minds Think Alike’, I was just doing to post the SCOTUS ruling on pornography. You know it when you see it.

I have seen enough, thank you very much. :)
———————
Rationing. My Mom said as a young adult that she and her girlfriends could not get nylons after Pearl Harbor. Shocking, but true. All the boys were gone and imagine going to the NCO clubs to find dates….without wearing nylons. Talk about rationing being said as unattractive.

The Biden Administration has said the economy is roaring, inflation is lowering, and our best days are ahead. Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive! Funny, VP Joe Biden was the only one in the situation room (War Room) that opposed taking out Osama Bin Lying.

Anyway….when you take out food, shelter, and clothing, things are looking pretty good. Food, shelter, and clothing are only things people care about most and need the most. Opps, take out energy (gasoline and heating and energy needed to run factories) and the economy is breaking out like gangbusters.

And that ain’t no malarkey. I give you my word as a Biden.

Long clip, but Bongino on Fox nails it and drives it home into the ground. Libs love being lied to. It gets their juices flowing.

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=774757654011465

[Bill Tozer]

Opps. Copy and pasted the Bongino clip on another device. Sorry. Try this, if so inclined. Good review with no wasted words.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320809236112

[scenes]

re:Gregory@8:58AM

Maybe get them to define 'the right' first.

What a boring world this is sometimes. Sophistry abounds, most incoming arguments are to chip away at a point, the truly lazy version is simply to quote a MSM media headline. I've yet to see any of the Paulists actually make an argument and defend it. Feh.

These are the folks who lie in a vat sipping on nutrient tubes idly typing with their one finger. Humanity's future is now.

[scenes]

re: scotto@9:27AM "But I know it(one) when I see it(one),..."

The slightly more exotic variety, and not that rare anymore, finds their interactions with children the only way they can procreate. I guess there's a certain evolutionary pressure there if you think of humans as transmitters of philosophy, not just a bearer of genes.

[fish]

He brings me such joy……

WATCH: Biden Stumbles, Barely Makes It Up the Stairs to Air Force One as He Leaves Poland

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/02/22/watch-biden-stumbles-barely-makes-it-up-the-stairs-to-air-force-one-as-he-leaves-poland-n1672839

[Bill Tozer]

Ah, Discovery.

Key Dominion exec admitted company products 'riddled with bugs' days before 2020 vote: Fox lawyers

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/dominion-employee-admits-fox-news-lawsuit-machines-have-bug-causing-incorrect
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Oops! Georgia’s ‘Get-Trump’ Grand Jury Forewoman Accidentally Confirms The Recommended Charges Are Bunk

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/22/oops-georgias-get-trump-grand-jury-forewoman-accidentally-confirms-the-recommended-charges-are-bunk/

It’s a conspiracy therrrie! A Conspiracy Thearie!

[Bill Tozer]

‘Does Someone Have To Grab A Boob For Us To Count?’: Megyn Kelly Bashes CNN Prez For Not Punishing Don Lemon

https://www.dailywire.com/news/does-someone-have-to-grab-a-boob-for-us-to-count-megyn-kelly-bashes-cnn-prez-for-not-punishing-don-lemon

I will kindly put forth the question of the day: Does someone have to grab a boob for us to count?

[Scott O]

scenes - "I've yet to see any of the Paulists actually make an argument and defend it."
Yep.
Don T recently claimed "Try to find anyone harping online about CRT or woke before Fox started yapping about it..."
OK
So I asked him when was it that FOX started "yapping" about CRT and Woke...
Notice we haven't heard from him since?

[Scott O]

re BT 11:37 - "Megyn Kelly Bashes CNN Prez For Not Punishing Don Lemon"
Like how?
Spanking him?
I say just put him back on the air with those same 2 women that were on either side of him when he made that stupid crack about women in their 50s being past their prime. Let them take care of it.

[Bill Tozer]

As heard on my transistor ray-dee-o: “Poppy Harlow has banned her housekeeper from purchasing lemons.”

Yes, I am easily amused when it comes to Don Lemon. Trump was right. Don Lemond is stupid. And THAT fact clear as the nose on one’s face is not racist to say so or like.

Just think what I could post if I watched television with a RCA color TV set! The Encyclopedia of Worthless Information would be full, cover swelling at the steams and ‘Whoa Nelly, the dam is busting.’

[Don Bessee]

Another clinton epstien tie cut, suicide but no gun found, sound like something we heard before -

[T]he sheriff’s report into Mark Middleton’s mysterious death raises more questions than answers as it rules he died by suicide – despite no sign of the weapon that killed him,” The Daily Mail reported.

“I could see that he had a gunshot wound to the chest and that he had a knot tied in an extension cord that was around his neck and it was attached to the limb directly above him,” Lawson recounted in the report.

Middleton, who apparently signed Epstein into the White House numerous times, also flew on his infamous jet, “Lolita Express.”

Multiple individuals with ties to the Clintons have suddenly died by strange causes in recent years, including Vince Foster

Foster’s death was ruled to have been by suicide, while Foster died after being shot twice in the back.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/22/report-bill-clinton-aide-linked-jeffrey-epstein-found-hung-shot-dead/

;-)

[scenes]

"re BT 11:37 - "Megyn Kelly Bashes CNN Prez For Not Punishing Don Lemon"
Like how?
Spanking him?"

That costs extra.

Never seen Don Lemon, no doubt he's on youtube. (looks at youtube). Good Lord, lots fuss and fury about Mr. Don Lemon and something or the other he said. Vince McMahon take note, maybe a grudge match with Hornswoggle is in his future, perfect fodder for teevee.

[Don Bessee]

Peeling the creepy grampa joe financial onion -

Hunter Biden’s top financial lieutenant Eric Schwerin is expected to “soon” provide documents to the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of the Biden family for nine violations, including money laundering and wire fraud, a spokesperson for the committee told Breitbart News.

Schwerin, who shared bank accounts with President Joe Biden and dubbed the family’s “moneyman,” also maintained guest lists for White House functions and negotiated the settlement with Hunter’s first wife, Kathleen. Emails from Hunter’s laptop show Schwerin was deeply embedded in Hunter’s personal life and the Biden family networks for nearly two decades and is even pictured at campaign events with Joe Biden.

Schwerin was also the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, a fund created by Hunter Biden and several​ associates that spawned business deals in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Romania. Many of those deals yielded the Biden family business millions over decades while Joe Biden was an elected official.

Joe Biden and his team have claimed at least seven times the president is not involved in the family’s international business deals, but more than 17 instances show that Joe Biden was involved in the business. In one example, Schwerin visited the White House and other official locations 27 times when Joe Biden was vice president.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/22/biden-family-key-partner-eric-schwerin-flip-house-oversight-probe/

;-)

[Gregory]

scenes 1057a

In my experience, "the right" is anyone to the right of the hard left, on any topic.

Like Alan Dershowitz.

[Don Bessee]

Whats a dictator to do when no one wants to listen to his bullshit? PAY THEM! -

In the centre of the stadium, which holds 75,000, speakers dressed in military uniforms emblazoned with the 'Z' insignia associated with the Russian armed forces addressed the crowds.

Musicians and dancers have also taken to the stage to woo the crowds that have travelled to watch their President's landmark address.

But organisers were forced to pay attendees £5 and promise them hot food in a desperate attempt to fill out the stadium.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1738016/russia-flood-moscow-stadium-putin-war-ukraine

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Too woke and racist & sexist all at once eh, aint making no lemonade out of this byach -

CNN's Jake Tapper blasts race-based attacks on Nikki Haley: 'Very ugly side of the Left'
Haley has been attacked for her immutable characteristics by another prominent CNN host, Don Lemon

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-jake-tapper-blasts-race-based-attacks-nikki-haley-ugly-side-left

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Well, some of us were lucky back in the dayv before all this teacher-student sex stuff became ruint.

https://youtu.be/eM28YFrMdfI

[Παύλος σμυριδόπετρα]

‘NPR to Cut Workforce by 10 Percent, as Advertising Slowdown Hits Public Media’
"This will be a major loss," NPR CEO John Lansing wrote in a memo to staff Wednesday.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/npr-layoffs-10-percent-job-cuts-john-lansing-1235331693/

[Gregory]

Γροθιές γροθιές

[The Estonian Fox]

By the way, whatever happened to Jussie?

Based on the latest ruling for Smollett-
"A state appeals court on Monday (1/30/23) granted a request by Jussie Smollett’s defense lawyers for a fifth extension to file their initial argument, but warned it would be the last time....serve and file appellant’s brief on or before March 1, 2023.
His lawyers have said they needed to file 80 pages instead of the standard maximum of 50.

"In the ruling, the judges allowed Smollett to file an oversized brief but not as large as they had requested. Instead, Defendant-Appellant may file a brief not to exceed 20,000 words, a 33% increase in the number of words,” the court ruled.

So "brief" means at most 80 pages, or 20,000 words. Good to know.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/31/23579788/jussie-smollett-more-time-file-appeal-brief-but-court-warns-no-further-extension-will-be-granted

Babylon Bee calls for debate between Jussie Smollett and Don Lemon supporters - a face-off of 6 angry gay guys and 6 angry 50-year-old women. Place your bets.

[Bill Tozer]

The problem with DEI is that it takes zero consideration for cultural differences among the people. Why do 13% of the population committee 50% of the homicides? Why did unwed births soar from 27% to 70% after the Civil Rights Act among certain cultures? Why is high school drop out rates higher among certain cultures in America than others? DEI absolves the individual of responsibility, accountability, and merit.

‘Joe Biden Turns the American Government Into Wokeness, Inc.’

https://jewishworldreview.com/0223/shapiro022323.php

[Bill Tozer]

Instead Of Getting Nonwhite Students Up To Speed For Honors Classes, ‘Equity’-Obsessed Schools Give Up On Kids Entirely

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/23/instead-of-getting-nonwhite-students-up-to-speed-for-honors-classes-equity-obsessed-schools-give-up-on-kids-entirely/

[scenes]

re: BillT@7:02AM

I keep wondering who is behind this kind of thing at the White House. It isn't like Biden has either a strong philosophy about anything, besides grift, and he's a husk of the half-bright Senator from Mastercard that he used to be.

Looking at the Chiefs of Staff...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Zients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Klain

They just seem to be members of the Mister 10 Percent class that infests meeting rooms, non-profits, corporate boards in DC. It would surprise me if they felt a strong need to deify men-in-dresses and make affirmative action the highest good.

So who is it? Some pressure group in the bureaucracy? Larry Fink or Disney? Doctor Jill Biden?

[fish]

More blecch from The Fat Girl Gazette.....

Joe Biden took a night train to Ukraine to prove he is not cowed by Vladimir Putin | Opinion

How does someone write this and then look at themself in the mirror?

[Misanthrope]

The GOP Deep State is not so deep,

"PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's former attorney general suppressed findings by his investigators who concluded there was no basis for allegations that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud, according to documents released Wednesday by his successor.

Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, who took office last month, said the records show the 2020 election “was conducted fairly and accurately by election officials.”

Previous Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, never released a March 2022 summary of investigative findings, which ruled out most of the fraud claims spread by allies and supporters of former President Donald Trump. Yet a month later, he released an “interim report" that claimed his investigation “revealed serious vulnerabilities that must be addressed and raises questions about the 2020 election in Arizona."

He released his April report despite pushback from his investigators who said some of its claims were refuted by their probe. Brnovich was at the time in the midst of a Republican Party primary for U.S. Senate and facing fierce criticism from Trump, who claimed he wasn't doing enough to prosecute election fraud.

Brnovich, whose primary bid was unsuccessful, also did not release a September memo that systematically refuted a bevy of election conspiracies that have taken root on the right, including allegations of dead or duplicate voters, pre-marked ballots flown in from Asia, election servers connected to the internet and even manipulation by satellites controlled by the Italian military."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-arizona-ag-sat-records-000904481.html

[fish]

Posted by: Miss Anthrope | 23 February 2023 at 07:58 AM

Shorter jeffy: Let’s talk about what I want to talk about…..

0031

[Scott O]

Missy Skipping Rope - "...manipulation by satellites controlled by the Italian military."

Yeah - that one has REALLY "taken hold on the right".
Tucker and Gutfeld talk about that every night!
Here in Idaho you can't even go into the supermarket without hearing talk of the Italian military controlling our satellites!
Poor little Missy.
Do try and get out more.

[scenes]

"Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, who took office last month, said the records show the 2020 election “was conducted fairly and accurately by election officials.”

*Democratic* Attorney General. lol. Well, naturally. Although it's likely not a matter of 'investigation' or law, it's how and when you report a subset of results.

Thing is, I don't doubt that the elections were run about as legally as usual, and close elections can go either way. This time around, the Democrats masterfully worked mail-in voting, The Plague, and a candidate squatting in a basement. It's easier to look brilliant when the MSM and the social media oligopoly is pulling hard on the same end of the rope.

Personally, I think that Biden is the perfect man to represent a country that has evolved from a founding population of yeoman farmers to an increasingly urban, 3rd world nation with an aggressively activist 'thinking' class with devalued (and de-educated) educations. All types of policing and control will increase, slackjawed cell-phone users will increase, Biden will gaze down on the herd as he, like Tiberius, enjoys his 'little fishies'.

It's all good.

[Misanthrope]

ROTFLMAO!

Looks like a few don't want to acknowledge the headline and first paragraph which is what the article is actually about.

Hardly surprising.

"Arizona's former attorney general suppressed findings by his investigators who concluded there was no basis for allegations that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud"

[Misanthrope]

Not surprising also that commenters are buzzing about Don Lemon and phrase he used, and apologized for.

Cancel Culture is alive and well in the GOP

[Scott O]

Missy - "Looks like a few don't want to acknowledge the headline and first paragraph which is what the article is actually about."

Really? Did I deny that a TOTALLY unbiased Dem pol claimed an R pol did something bad?
The headline claim was backed up with a pile of nonsense that we notice Little Missy suddenly is running away from.
If I saw a report from a state govt agency that claimed that stories about Italians controlling our satellites was "taking hold on the right" I'd shit can that report in a NY minute.