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Kevan Hudson's avatar

The online left is literally a textbook example of catastrophizing. I am an old school leftist, most likely a Nazi to many modern leftists, and whether long time friends on Facebook or Substackers I follow I am continually amazed at how Trump lives rent free in all their minds. You would think we were dinosaurs facing an asteroid level extinction. Anyways, time for me to go back to making my fascist pamphlets about protecting local rivers.

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Chris Bray's avatar

YOU KNOW WHO ELSE PROTECTED RIVERS

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Kevan Hudson's avatar

Unlike Governor Gavin my hairstyle is crap.

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c Anderson's avatar

Aunt Nancy told him where to go for his plugs.

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Aaron Ferguson's avatar

🤣🤣🤣perfect

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LoveIsCourage's avatar

Although I thought Chris MEANT KENNEDY

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Kevan Hudson's avatar

Oh yes! RFK really did save rivers.

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

The EPA protected Colorado’s Animus river from the mines leaching toxins into the river…oh wait…scratch that.

Well, they protected East Palestine, Ohio rivers and streams from being contaminated with vinyl chloride and butyl acetate by purposefully setting fire to them. Do they at least get partial credit for that?

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edhuff's avatar

Yeah the Obama EPA run by some clueless female (?) anthropologist managed to pollute the Rio Grande from SW Colorado way down into Navajo country in NM along the continental divide.

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Sharon R. Fiore's avatar

Not surprising they better stop it with that DEI crap it’s finished now

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LoveIsCourage's avatar

It’s a severe infection (permeation/ long march) and has been building up for decades even when 90’s identity politics and then crafted into the post modern adjacent critical theories …legal, race, gender, queer. Available for export and vs. the homeland 🇺🇸 and USAID funded for color revolutions. But, it’s red turtles all the way down. So it really was Trump OR Communism, that exactly diabolical always elitist idealistic grift, promising utopia, but seeking the ultimate source of permanent wealth generation: TAXATION, now via Technocratic Occultocracy and enslavement

Joseph McCarthy didn’t finish the job. Here’s an exhilarating (and legitimate POV) essay on where we may be now:

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Mitch's avatar

the similarities are uncanny!

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Ashe's avatar

Everywhere that has recently had a natural or man made disaster has a river that is badly polluted, but can only be cleaned by a licensed company (per FEMA). Please, come help protect the rivers!!!

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c Anderson's avatar

What makes you think Newsom can save a river, he couldn’t even save Pacific Palisades? 🤷‍♀️

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jjinUK64's avatar

The latest iteration of the 'it isn't happening' > 'ok it's happening, but not much' > 'ok it's happening, and that's a good thing!' cycle:

> The deep state is not real, you paranoid dummy!

> Ok it is real, but it's good people, doing good work!

> Ok they suck and do terrible stuff, but don't try to reform or reduce it, that would be fascism!

We see this all over the centre and soft left (inc outlets like Free Press) with DEI too. The latest thing is "Well, yes DEI sucks and is pernicious and quite harmful... but don't try to remove it, that would be disruptive and bad!".

I don't know how you make progress with a large contingent of people who hold this viewpoint. They'll admit everything is broken, but scream and gnash their teeth over any attempts to fix it too. I'm starting to think we'll just have to ignore them and move civilisation forward without them, hope they catch up.

I've come to think of it like the toddler who refuses to eat the dinner and sits at the table with their arms crossed, kicking their feet under the table in a little tantrum. They're still part of the family so we love them, but the behaviour is not reasonable. Yet often we find it's better to leave them there and simply ignore them — keep talking and eating and laughing, and act like the tantrum at the end of the table is not happening. They eventually realise everyone is enjoying a nice dinner without them, and they'll fold and just start eating the dinner with the rest of the family.

And then, for the sake of harmony, we pretend that tantrum didn't happen and we just enjoy dinner. Maybe that's what will have to happen here?

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Sue Kelley's avatar

In my house, we were either removed from the table until we could behave or got our butts spanked. If you refused to eat, you were usually hungry by the next meal. Either way,you didn't starve yourself to death and no special accommodations were made. Quite honestly, we knew my parents meant business and we didn't really behave like that. Just the threat of consequences were enough to keep you in line. Same with my kids and now my kid's kids. It's a rare day that my daughter isn't complimented on how well behaved her boys are.

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John Geis's avatar

Not exactly. They’ll grow up and vote for “all dessert, all the time” and maybe have a kid who will make friends with other children of navel-gazers, who will decide that there must be more to life than shouting at the rain. Humanity slowly moves on.

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Occam's avatar

Great point. People that publicly assert such asininity need to be ignored and lose their place as part of any adult discussion. The fact that these people have a voice needs to be corrected.

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Dick Minnis's avatar

Well put. At least they've gone from denial that anything is wrong, to acceptance, but don't let Trump fix it. It's a small step. Not holding my breath that they'll take the next step. Perhaps the overwhelming volume and pace of change will finally crack the veneer of stupidity inflicted by the propaganda (paid for by big pharma &USAID) media.

Dick Minnis removingthecataract.substack.com

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David Westall's avatar

Paid for by the Department of Education you mean.

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

A modest proposal: Can’t we just make one of the deep blue states (maybe Colorado) into a sanctuary state for libtards suffering from DEFCON 1 TDS? They can live out their days in the woods driving Teslas, drinking soy beverages, living in homes insulated by composted, recycled Lulu Lemon leggings, and gazing in smug condescension at the TV screen while reruns of Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid feed their addiction. We can build concrete statues of Trump that are on hinges, so they can be toppled, only to pop back up into position for the next lunatic to knock over. We can build Potemkin government buildings for them to stage protests. We can drop in a couple million “refugees” from Afghanistan, Venezuela and Syria to give them somebody to improve, help them out with their landscaping, deal drugs and periodically rape and multilate somebody to make it seem realistic, like the dystopian world they foisted on everybody else. There will be free vaccine centers for endless “vaccines” and tranny story hour will run 24/7/365. USAID offices will give out Monopoly money so they can start their own NGOs. Virtue signaling is encouraged at White Guilt drive through therapist locations.

The sanctuary state will be surrounded by a 20 foot high transparent plexiglas enclosure so normal people can bring their kids to watch the American Elite Progressive life in the wild for a modest fee, learning about how dangerous these seemingly harmless twits are without risking being forced to do yoga or join a march for Hamas. Everybody wins, amirite?

Now I know this sounds extreme but it’s tongue in cheek, and remember these are the great humanitarians who wanted you to die if you didn’t get a COVID shot, either from the disease or from starvation because they wanted you to lose your job. They locked up the elderly to die alone. These are the same people who love violent street riots so black supremacist lesbian Marxists can buy expensive real estate in and around Los Angeles. They hoped President Trump would be assassinated before the election. So I think my plan is rather humane on balance.

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Chris Bray's avatar

"There will be free vaccine centers for endless 'vaccines' and tranny story hour will run 24/7/365."

IS THIS HEAVEN!?!?!?

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

😂

It is if you are Cluster B material.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Isn’t this California already?

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Bill Quick's avatar

Probably, but you can't have it. I'm at work on an essay explaining why Trump's best move vis California right now would be to sell it.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

You win the internet today!!! I would like to say you were the first to think of it but wasn't that obamas 15 minute city wet dream? Either way you described it far more eloquently and accurately!!

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Excellent! Except you forgot the part about them throwing their feces at each other…or am I thinking about the primate cage at the zoo? Same thing. Same level of critical thought.

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NoVaCloudDev's avatar

Nooooo please don’t. I’m from Colorful CO and I want to move back there some day. There are other colors there besides blue, I promise! he whined.

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Space Hamster Boo's avatar

SNL of all people had a similar idea - "The Bubble" (props to Jenna McCarthy substack Jenna's Side). Probably the last vaguely funny thing they ever did.

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Francisco d’Anconia's avatar

Total loss of connection to reality. The EOs today clarified that the President is the authority of law for the executive branch 😱 How…….constitutional.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

By “retirement” we mean shot in the head, right?

No?

Gee. Don’t make purges like they used to.

(Hedges, the former WAR REPORTER, should know better.)

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Longstreet's avatar

Expecting people who fell for the Russian collusion hoax, who think it’s OK to groom children to become trannies, who characterize J-6 hooliganism as an insurrection, or who support the systemic suppression of free speech are immune to logic. You will never win them over.

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Chris Bray's avatar

JD Vance is calling for the protection of free speech because he's a NAZI!

Yes.

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the long warred's avatar

Clinton fired 377,000 bureaucrats, every Federal Prosecutor (93) and replaced the Civil Service 3 layers down.

But he’s a Democrat so he’s not Hitler. Actually Clinton was Zelensky but in the 90s it didn’t matter.

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Just An American's avatar

Hedges has been a borderline\full blown Communist for a LONG time. He wrote a book about Christians being Fascists...and he knows better, his dad was a pacifist. All you are hearing right now from these people are the well deserved wailings while their personal stasi and Staatsbank der DDR get dismantled. NPR won't make it through the next four years.

"The witch hunts against communists in the United States were used to silence socialists, anarchists, pacifists and all those who defied the abuses of capitalism. Those “anti-Red” actions were devastating blows to the political health of the country. The communists spoke the language of class war. They understood that Wall Street, along with corporations such as British Petroleum, is the enemy. They offered a broad social vision which allowed even the non-communist left to employ a vocabulary that made sense of the destructive impulses of capitalism.

By Chris Hedges , Truthout

Published June 1, 2010"

“Jesus was a pacifist.”

― Chris Hedges

These two things do not compute, and are not compatible.

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Garrett R.'s avatar

Hedges is a devout anti-communist. His personal hero is Vaclav Havel.

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MM's avatar

Oh lord, Truthout, 'nuff said.

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Sharon R. Fiore's avatar

Jesus was not a pacifist. He was furious and wrecked the temple just because they were selling.

He said if a man wants to bother a boy, he should put a mill stone around his neck and throw himself in the water to die.

It says in the Bible that gay men are reprehensible. Jesus would not have that little boys get hurt from them.

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Just An American's avatar

Wrong reading, as usual. He said those who make my followers stumble. He also didn't overturn tables just because they were selling, they were trading money...basically changing from one countries currency into another and loaning, or profiting off of nothing but money. I'll take this post to be an example of why women shouldn't be interpreting the bible for men. Just like Hedges.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

I'm amused by Hedges' delineation of Christian fascism. It amounts to this: people who are orthodox Christians are fascists. This is man who denies every cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith.

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Lon Guyland's avatar

“Trump is firing those hostile to his agenda.”

Well no kidding. People who are hostile to “his agenda”, you know, the one Americans voted for in a landslide, are hostile to the will of the people. What’s he supposed to do, promote them?

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NoVaCloudDev's avatar

Right?

I thought Stephen Miller’s impromptu civics lesson couldn’t have been delivered to a more deserving audience.

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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

Ah, if Hedges and his ilk didn’t write like hysterical teenage girls whose boyfriends just told them “we should see other people”, they’d have no readers.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

“Totes brill” again! 😁

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MAG's avatar

If you’re driving around Pasadena, “California this week, be aware that I sometimes listen to NPR on the road, which has been very focused lately on describing the fear that all the immigrants feel as they prepare to be sent to the special new racism gulags for everyone who is at all darker than Casper the Friendly Ghost, and I may pass out from acute irritation while I’m driving. Dark green Toyota.” California is the intractable problem their failed policies have foisted upon its citizens. From paradise to purgatory, in my lifetime.

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Truthbird's avatar

Chris Hedges is a CIA asset.

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Just An American's avatar

I honestly believe this. His Wiki reads like an Indeed resume on USAID steroids.

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Wasn’t Chris Hedges a character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

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Fukitol's avatar

So the way this is playing out... Either they're wrong and these ridiculous hysterics will only serve to further undermine whatever little respectability and readership the leftoid media has... Or they're right and any time now Adolf Drumpf will be sending them off to concentration camps.

Either way, I look forward to no longer hearing about them.

Thing are going pretty good.

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Chris Bray's avatar

"Amazing concentration camps -- believe me, they're the best concentration camps you've ever seen, everybody says so, you're gonna love 'em, we're gonna do concentration camps better than they've ever been done before."

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Fukitol's avatar

😂

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Leonard's avatar

Sounds like you’re quoting the newsreel about the Japanese internment camps.

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Rob Becker's avatar

Of all the e-mails I find in the inbox every day, yours is the one I look forward to most and is one of the few I actually read. Aside from the acerbic humor (very enjoyable) you highlight the insanity and hysteria of media that I never read (and thanks for doing it for me) Who reads that crap? And who still listens to yet untouched by DOGE NPR? The “wholesale” purge of the employees of institutions that have fallen into disrepute is, as you so humorously point out, vastly exaggerated. I’m guessing that an effective headcount reduction which will leave government functioning perfectly intact is closer to the post Elon takeover of Twitter that has returned to its overpriced purchase price of 54 billion with 20% of its Twitter employee count. One reasonably sized computer can probably replace the underground mine vault of government employee pensions without an elevator. Keep them coming Chris, your postings are often the highlight of my day.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I’m still waiting for NPR to be defunded. Let them carry on with more of Bill Gates’ funding.

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JW's avatar

And yet in my community I look around me, there is no panic, no fear, no one building bunkers, just people going about their business. Granted I live in middle America, but I cling to the hope that more and more people tune out the hysteria. Cock their heads, “did I just hear something?” and go back to what they were doing. After all, if some idiot barks in the forest, and no one pays attention, does he even make a noise?

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Chris Bray's avatar

BTW, on the topic of hysteria, Trump fired 17 inspectors general. There are 72 federal IGs, so he didn't fire 55 of them. And he didn't dissolve or empty the offices of the 17 he fired, so those IG offices are still performing their functions. More heat than light in the coverage of this topic, as always.

https://www.ignet.gov/sites/default/files/files/IG_Authorities_Paper_-_Final_6-11-14.pdf

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