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  • Give me Wokeness or Give me Death!

    03/17/2024 10:23:16 AM PDT · by pboyington · 17 replies
    73 Easting ^ | March 17, 2024 | Ray Starmann
    During the mid and late 1990’s, my mentor and boss at Defense Watch, the late Colonel David Hackworth frequently reported on the military’s descent into the PC maelstrom. What had merely been the rantings of the feminist fringe in Washington in the 1970’s and 80’s, had materialized into policy the moment the great draft dodger swore to protect and defend the constitution in 1993. The self-immolation of a phenomenal fighting force had begun. Highly decorated and a veteran of three wars, Hack knew more than anyone that the Pentagon’s perfumed princes didn’t have the intestinal fortitude nor the foresight to...
  • Our Fake, Fake, Fake World

    03/14/2024 6:25:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | J.B. Shurk
    Will our historical era be remembered as the “Age of Fakes”? We have fake news, fake meat, fake elections, fake genders, fake vaccines, fake budgets, fake democracy, fake truths, fake hate, fake Russian collusion, fake insurrections, fake climate emergencies, fake freedoms, fake outrage, fake speech crimes, fake money, fake justice, fake intellects, fake women, fake borders, fake wars, and even a fake president. In some ways, it is a very silly time to be alive. So much of our fake world has been built on two monstrously fake foundations: fake progress and fake liberalism. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson...
  • LGBTQ teen Nex Benedict died by suicide, medical examiner says

    03/13/2024 2:35:54 PM PDT · by CFW · 51 replies
    CBS news ^ | 3/13/24 | Kiara Alfonseca
    Oklahoma 16-year-old Nex Benedict died by suicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Benedict, a member of the 2SLGBTQ community, died one day after getting into a physical fight with several other students at Owasso High School. Benedict was nonbinary and went by they/them pronouns, according to Benedict's family. 2SLGBTQ includes Two Spirit, an umbrella term used to describe a third gender in Native and Indigenous communities. Sue Benedict, their mother, is a registered member of the Choctaw Nation. [snip] The Department of Education has opened an investigation into Owasso...
  • This pretty much explains today's society

    03/10/2024 9:40:45 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 19 replies
    TwiX ^ | March 8, 2024 | Unknown (Amit Shah?)
    This is hilarious. It's a short vid (1 min, 27 sec) but packed full of hilarity about modern woke society. And there is no doubt that it does indeed "pretty much explains today's society." (you can click post link above or click pic below)
  • There's Only One Terrifying Reason for a Woke Indoctrinated Military and This Is It

    03/05/2024 9:40:48 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 03/05/2024 | Stephen Green
    "America was founded on racism" and "parents need to stay out of their kids' education and shouldn't have a say in what they learn," are the kinds of things you'd expect to read on the pages of Pravda, back during the bad old days of the Cold War when the Communists were running Russia. I have some news for you. Pravda is now part of the U.S. military's training manuals and the Communists are running Washington. This exposé is courtesy of the invaluable Chaya Raichik, aka Libs of TikTok. SCOOP: Mandatory training for military members teaches that America was founded...
  • The Left-Right Divide Is Not Bridgeable

    03/05/2024 11:05:01 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 59 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/05/2024 | Dennis Prager
    Millions of Americans, depressed by the ideological divide in America, harbor a wish that something or someone can bridge this divide. This wish is understandable. But it is fantasy. The divide is unbridgeable. One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will lead to weight loss. To cite a few samples: How are we to bridge the gap between those who believe men can become women and women can become men and those who don't believe this? Between those who believe men menstruate and those who believe only women menstruate? How are we to bridge...
  • Rule, Britannia is 'alienating' to others, Labour's culture spokeswoman claims after musician says the anthem could be replaced with British folk music

    03/05/2024 1:29:01 AM PST · by C19fan · 8 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 4, 2024 | Harriet Line
    To many, it is a stirring patriotic anthem conjuring up images of Britain's long and proud history. But Rule, Britannia! can feel 'alienating' to others, according to Labour culture spokesman Thangam Debbonaire.
  • What happened?

    03/04/2024 5:31:18 PM PST · by verum ago · 80 replies
    FR ^ | 3/4/2024 | self
    So I'm sitting at SeaTac airport. By my count there are no less than 8 people within earshot loudly playing videos, video chats, or in 1 case having a conversation over speakerphone. It's obnoxious. A bunch of noise I don't want. The interesting thing to me, and this holds with observations I've made over the last couple years, is this: every single person doing this is over 50 years of age. There are plenty of younger people playing videos, music, making phone calls, etc, but they're all using headphones. So what happened? I'm in my thirties, and I'm pretty sure...
  • PROMOTING A CULTURE WAR: HOW PUTIN USED TRUMP TO SEIZE ALMOST TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

    03/01/2024 9:26:44 AM PST · by packagingguy · 68 replies
    Milwaukee Independent ^ | Mar 1, 2024 | Thom Hartmann
    Meanwhile, under Trump’s and Putin’s direction, Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can to damage the people of the United States. They believe it will help them in the 2024 election if they can ruin the U.S. economy while convincing American voters that our system of government is so corrupt (“deep state”) that we should consider replacing democracy with an autocratic strongman form of government like Putin’s Russia. Tucker Carlson is even suggesting that Russia is a better place to live than the US. They revel in pitting racial, religious, and gender groups against each other while embracing a...
  • Child sex offender who impersonated doctor to access children’s hospital wing gets 3-year sentence

    02/18/2024 5:43:35 AM PST · by CFW · 14 replies
    CWBChicago ^ | 2/17/24 | staff
    CHICAGO — A convicted child sex offender who allegedly impersonated a doctor to access the children’s wing of a Chicago hospital has been handed a three-year prison sentence. Christopher Chothen, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of being a child sex offender present in a children’s facility, according to court records. Judge Domenica Stephenson meted out the sentence. Chothen has been required to register as a sex offender since being convicted of abducting, restraining, and sexually abusing a 15-year-old in 2002, state records show. He was 17 at the time of that crime. Last July, prosecutors accused him of using...
  • Yes, We Are (Still) Going to Win

    02/17/2024 7:29:39 PM PST · by T Ruth · 24 replies
    The American Mind ^ | 01.10.2024 | Peachy Keenan
    Don't lose hope! The only problem with subtitling your book “A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War” is that people like to ask you if we really are going to win. “Peachy, things look pretty bleak right now. You said we’re going to win. Are we?” It’s true, things do look mighty bleak at the moment. Nasty people who hate us are in charge of everything, from our elite universities to our comically bumbling military. We’re also on track to welcome another ten million or so foreign invaders Our Greatest Strength, who are swarming the cities and rural hinterlands...
  • This Is Why America Is Coming Apart At Its Seams

    02/17/2024 9:25:00 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 02/17/2024 | Mark Tapscott
    Interesting analysis this morning from Axios in a “Deep Dive: Inside the Mind of Gen Z.” The piece pulls together a bunch of data points and quotes from experts to provide a snapshot of a generation that, at least in my humble opinion, is in deep trouble.Here’s the key data from the Axios analysis: “By the numbers: Gen Z (defined as people roughly ages 12 to 27) reports the poorest mental health of any generation, according to a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation report.“Just 44% of Gen Zers say they feel prepared for the future. “The big picture: They dodged...
  • ‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford

    02/11/2024 7:14:08 PM PST · by Uncle Miltie · 24 replies
    The Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | 2/10/24 | Rob Henderson
    In the same way that you don’t notice the specifics of your own culture until you travel elsewhere, you don’t really notice your social class until you enter another one. As an undergraduate at Yale a decade ago, I came to see that my peers had experienced a totally different social reality than me. I had grown up poor, a biracial product of family dysfunction, foster care and military service. Suddenly ensconced in affluence at an elite university—more Yale students come from families in the top 1% of income than from the bottom 60%—I found myself thinking a lot about...
  • Our Christian Nation

    02/01/2024 9:42:59 AM PST · by Heartlander · 1 replies
    First Things ^ | February 2024 | Josh Hawley
    Our Christian NationChristopher Dawson was an English historian in the middle of the last century, one of those intellectuals prominent in his own day—T. S. Eliot called him “the most powerful intellectual influence in England”—but mostly overlooked in ours. Which is the usual treatment posterity gives to intellectuals, and usually for the best. But as to Dawson, it’s a shame. At this troubled juncture in American history, he is worth recalling. His lifelong subject was the study of religion and culture. And his lifelong thesis was this: Every great culture in the history of mankind has depended on “a common...
  • Are Intact Airplanes Too Much For The Shrinking Middle Class To Ask For?

    01/25/2024 8:25:52 PM PST · by bitt · 30 replies
    thefederalist.com ^ | 1/12/2024 | PEACHY KEENAN
    Things we once enjoyed have suddenly gotten so much worse. Not just a little worse, but way worse. You pay more, you get less, and it sucks. Social media was on fire this week in the wake of the Claudine Gay incompetence scandal at Harvard, the 737 IKEA MAX airplane scandal at Boeing, and the ongoing scandal of fanatic, destructive DEI hiring rules at airlines, air traffic control towers, colleges, corporate America, and everywhere else that matters. Things got so wild that Elon Musk replied positively to one of my anti-DEI screeds, and Matt Walsh credited me for some of...
  • White Americans are Quiet Quitting our Leading Institutions

    01/22/2024 6:05:54 PM PST · by chickenlips · 57 replies
    American Greatness ^ | January 22, 2024 | Jeremy Carl
    As the work-from-home trend took off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “quiet quitting” entered the contemporary lexicon. According to the Harvard Business Review, “Quiet quitters continue to fulfill their primary responsibilities, but they’re less willing to engage in activities known as citizenship behaviors: no more staying late, showing up early, or attending non-mandatory meetings.” Simply put, having perceived their jobs to not have value and meaning, they do no more than absolutely necessary. There is debate among scholars as to the extent of the quiet quitting phenomenon, but there is increasing evidence that white Americans are increasingly quiet quitting...
  • Virtue Signaling Isn't Virtuous—and Actually Makes Political Tribalism Worse

    01/22/2024 12:06:04 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 3 replies
    Fee Stories ^ | 9/04/22 | FEE STORIES
    In a speech on July 23, 2022, before the Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced himself to the audience with the words, “My name is Ted Cruz and my pronoun is kiss my *ss.” In 2019, the Vermont College of Fine Arts appealed to a different group. They replaced the term alumni – which is derived from the Latin masculine plural but traditionally used to refer to all graduates of the school – with alumnx. In its statement, the college said that dropping the traditional term “alumni” was “a clear step toward exercising more intentional...
  • The Zoomers Are Revolting

    01/19/2024 9:55:39 PM PST · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    American Mind ^ | 01.18.2024 | Peachy Keenan
    A generation that wanted for nothing grows up to hate everything. It’s not news that children have always enjoyed rebelling against their parents. It’s hardwired in kids, maybe as an evolutionary defense mechanism so that even helicopter parents are inspired to help baby pack and get the hell out at 18. Each of the last few generations has developed its own quirky spin on the perennial teenage impulse to rebel. Millennials rebelled by delaying “adulting” as long as they could—dressing like four-year-olds as they approached 40 in cargo shorts and superhero t-shirts, chomping edibles, and channeling repressed biological instincts into...
  • Sports Illustrated Went Woke, Now They've Gone Broke

    01/19/2024 11:50:58 AM PST · by DeplorablePaul · 75 replies
    Red State ^ | January 19, 2024 | Bonchie
    Much of the staff of Sports Illustrated, and possibly all remaining writers and editors, received layoff notices Friday, which essentially could spell the end of a publication that for decades was the gold standard of sports journalism.
  • Is it crazy to notice our institutions are falling apart?

    01/18/2024 6:31:57 AM PST · by Heartlander · 15 replies
    The Blaze ^ | January 17, 2024 | Glenn Beck
    Is it crazy to notice our institutions are falling apart?I came across this thread recently about Boeing from financial analyst Porter Stansberry. Here’s what he had to say: A year ago @Porter_and_Co published a dire warning about a mega-cap American stock. This was the only mega-cap stock we told investors to avoid. And it is no ordinary business. It is America’s most strategically important company. We said it would soon collapse. Our January 27th 2023 headline? COMING SOON: THE BOEING COLLAPSE. How did we know? For the last 20 years, there hasn’t been a company in America that’s embraced more...