The country is becoming terrifyingly dark. Darkness is rising! Dark messaging is on the march! "This country at times can feel dark these days. There's a lot of darkness."
I forget who said this first, so I can't properly credit whoever it is, but if you want to feel like the country is terrible, watch the news. If you want to feel like the country is awesome, go drive around in it.
Just returned from five weeks (plus three days driving each way) in southern Utah. I witnessed what you said. Too many fellow Canadians (Ontarians) who listen to our state funded media were aghast that I was actually travelling to the U.S.. I love the American west. The country, the geology, people(An actual cowboy stopped and helped me with a flat), the parks, BLM lands, the services (we have nothing like your Rest Stops), and the food were all awesome.
I'm a naturalized Canadian from the US, and watching Canadians get offended when told that Americans are the most friendly nation is hilarious. Imagine a bunch of elbows up Canadians getting pissed that their passive-aggressive selves aren't the friendliest.
I also heard Sasha Stone say something similar, though telling herself she needs to get out of the house and drive across America to see and connect with the real America, or something to that effect.
Yup. Even in the worst of the COVID nuttery, taking road trips from wacky WA to ID and MT were soul-inspiring, and reassured me and my family that there were sane and sensible folks out there. Plus the country is gorgeous.
But, but, but...Samuel L. Jackson endorsed Bass: “These are the times we need someone who understands government, who also understands the needs of the people, someone who will go on the streets and gather the people together..."
That video sure looks like she's gathering people together on the streets. LOL.
Much as I admire Jackson, I can tell that he wasn't serious about Bass because there wasn't a single "motherfucker" or "motherfucking" in that endorsement.
Yes. I think the fear is that Pratt might be effective and his success could be the first step in breaking up one party rule in California. The left would rather the state go down the shitter than have to credit a Republican for turning it around, but I think enough people may be wondering what they could possibly lose by voting for Pratt to provide him an upset win.
"I don't care if you're not hired for a job because you're white and male. I don't care if your kids go to school with a meth head ODing on the sidewalk 10 yards away. I don't care if you're labeled as a nazi by the SPLC for holding perfectly normal beliefs. I don't care if race riots burn your downtown. For that matter, I don't care if your whole city burns because there's no water to fight a fire. I don't care if you got cancer from a med we required you to take, using your own money and government pressure on your employer...
My feelings are super important, and forcing me to confront reality means only one thing: you're the type of person who wants to gas the jews and force women into sexual slavery, like in that Netflix documentary 'A Handmaid's Tale'."
Hate requires energy, which I choose not expend on those useful, Marxist/Socialist idiots that continually vote themselves more shares of other peoples money! I chose to believe that the actual light being shined on all the corruption and grift of our tax dollars is finally being noticed by those Americans held under the Democrat Spell of false virtue as identity.
Slowly, the dawn has been rising and quietly, the regular non Marxists are awakening to the fact that they have been played by the Party and their cronies in the Legacy Media. The very medium that the Democrat overlords used to silence Maga and the other Republican affiliated groups is now, under Musk and Trump, being used to advertise the discovery of corruption and Grift! Not every Democrat drank the kool-Aid, many will never give Trump his due respect, but they are not stupid enough to continue voting for the Marxist Squad who has come for them!
I know hate is a bad emotion. I just can't help it.
What that translates into for me, though, is to mark certain people in my professional life for an attempt at firing (which I have succeeded at on a couple of occasions), and refusing to go to a woke church.
Now my wife and kids go without me, which I would rather not, but I'm not going to listen to some idiot girlboss pastor act like I'm responsible for the plight of black people when she didn't say anything about how people like me were treated by people like her during covid.
I'm not having one more word of that shit. Not one.
I only step into a church building for weddings , funerals and sightseeing (cathedrals). I don't believe we need walls and a roof to believe in a higher power and I certainly don't believe clergy are any less sinner than the rest of us. In fact, coming of age in the 80's, When TV preachers were being caught out (Jim Baker) and having seen the Commune Followers int he 60's and 70's, plus sitting on a hard church pew as a child being scolded for things I didn't understand, I just cannot take the preaching seriously, not could I take to the electric guitars in my siblings church.
My S-I-L has a lovely group of country folks that gather (also gathered during Covid) to study the bible, commune with like minded people and to help in times of need and disaster (Big wildfire). The paster has a day job and a small ranch, so he doesn't have time to sit around worrying about towing the a party line!
As for me and my family, we try to be decent and respectful of others and live a moral life and course correct when needed. A random human in a pointy topped building isn't a necessary portal to speak with nor feel the presence of God, that is a human construct designed to educate and control the uneducated masses, back when only the Clergy were taught to read and write.
Humans are social creatures that are drawn to religious thinking as a means of coalescing into groups, and use certain ideas (having varying levels of absurdity) to do so.
Never been very religious myself, but the last few years have shown us what happens when that impulse goes off the rails. So I have learned to value religion as a means to corral and channel those impulses in a hopefully constructive direction, and barring that, at least a direction that is not actively destructive to society.
I regret not going to church any more, but for reasons I can't elaborate on right now, can't switch to a more sane denomination. So I'm out altogether.
Your and your SIL's approach both sound good and reasonable.
There’s not a word I understand in the English language that can describe the incredible irony I feel when watching a Spencer Pratt video compared to what legacy media interprets from the same video.
I have a photographic negative response to pretty much everything I read and hear from those clowns.
Light, airy, inspiring, uplifting, funny, full hearted, optimistic, authentic.
Those are the words that describe what I see in a Pratt video.
Margaret Brennan knows she’s a monster and a liar. That’s why she’s so unhappy.
That might be a bit hyperbolic, one of my rhetorical weaknesses for sure, but the sneer I’ve seen on her face indicates her inner self—at least that is how I interpret it. I think the ‘stupidity over evil’ is a useful heuristic most of the time. Journos? I think most of them are soulless narcissists.
I cannot remember his name, but some clown from one of the networks, was caught having someone put clothespins on his rain jacket during the Palisades fires—remember that? Soulless.
I think the official term is ‘midwit’. IQ of about 110. Not totally stupid, but would crash and burn taking Organic Chemistry. Their greatest talent is looking good on camera.
I don't understand how these people sleep at night. They spend their entire lives knowingly pushing lies and falsehoods and somehow it never occurs to them that what they are doing is evil. Or maybe they DO realize that it is evil, but evil is OK as long as it is the opposite of BUT TRUMP!!
That isolation is a huge factor. These cowards would dissolve into puddles of urine if they actually had to confront their policy choices in their own front yards.
The old saw about a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged - these people have erected barriers to keep that from happening. Or to riff off the bit about Brits and sex: No reality please, we're progressives!
Yeah, maybe it's like the runup to the market crash in 1929. Everyone knew that the stock price increases were unsustainable, but they all thought there was room for "one more day of wild price increases before the collapse". These folks are certain that they will be able to exit stage-right just before the backlash and live comfortably off their wages of sin. And I think this might explain why our birth rate is nose-diving. If they believe even one tenth of what they spew, bringing children into such a terrible world would be unthinkable.
The low birth rate is due to all the vaccine damaged young adults there are now.
Look back to The Childhood Vaccine Schedule that seriously ramped up when Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) in 1986. It gave Big Pharma protection from Liability of their harmful childhood vaccines.
It became law ( with few allowable exemptions) that all children of preschool and public school age be vaccinated to attend a state run public school.
Those vaccines have messed with the reproductive functions of both men and women. All those people are under 40 years old and are having difficulty having children now.
Why is IVF a flourishing medical business model now?
Back in the 2000's wheen our children began school, they only had to have about 7 vaccines, and that is including MMR as 3 separate, though given as one. By the time our youngest was in Middle School they were pushing the Vaginal Wart vaccine, which I am very suspect of and wonder if this led to all these young women needing IVF to get a viable pregnancy? Stranger things do happen? The thirty somethings are also obese in comparison to the Boomer generation at their age. I've never seen so many fat young people in my 60 plus years as I have in the past decade!
I believe the vaccines are the cause of why over 50% of children/young adults in the USA suffer from some kind of chronic condition or disease. Juvenile diabetes, childhood cancers, obesity, food allergies/sensitivities, autism and or kids being “on the Spectrum,” ADHD, sensory processing disorders, and the newest class of disorder “nuero divergent”. Could also be linked to their reproductive issues as well.
I am genuinely puzzled, & curious, about the upside-downness of people's views these days. (I live in Canada, so you can imagine the nonsense, & worse, I'm seeing here.) I guess it's been coming for a long time - the woke crap has been around for quite a few years. I wonder how much mental deterioration has been caused by the shots - but I fear it's a lot. And? I encounter lots of cheerful, friendly, helpful people as I make my way around my pleasant Toronto neighbourhood. Lots of us are not as cuckoo as one might think!
Torontonian here: I'm just curious which "pleasant Toronto neighbourhood" you're talking about, as in some of them, saying things like "woke crap" will get you dirty stares if not worse.
I find I have to be *very* two-faced in public in downtown Toronto social gatherings: I nod politely at whatever drivel some midwit is parroting that the CBC/Globe/Toronto Star tell them to think, and the opposite, which is more often than not the actual truth.
I suspect she meant “pleasant” as a function of low crime, clean, etc.
I have old friends (from university days) who are gay liberal Albertans. Both are nice, intelligent people (I know this because I knew them “before“), but every opinion they have is straight out of the CBC. It’s impossible to have a discussion with them about any actual issue, because I live in a different reality than they do. They truly believe that they cannot come visit me in the US because, as gay people, they will be “unsafe“ in the US… somehow, because of Trump (?!??). My answer that “the US has more gay people than Canada has total population” didn’t move the needle, because their minds live in CBC-land. I miss having old friends, but it’s hard to maintain a relationship with people who exist in a different reality than I do.
I have heard the same from people here in Calgary, and i point out that Trump has openly gay cabinet secretaries FFS. They sit across from him, the top people in the land.
And they are somehow part of an administration putting gays in concentration camps? Trump is an old school new york Liberal, has interacted with gay people his entire life and could care less.
The narrative is insane.
Here is another.
Last year the Economist showed a big drop in quality of life here in Alberta, when you dig into it they did this because "healthcare" got worse.
The punch line is that its because Dani smith and the UCP put a halt to drugs and surgery for gender confused kids until at least 16 years old. Thats it.
Health care is collapsing in BC, and in reality in all of canada but only Alberta got a downgrade.
Oh definitely, it's probably on a list that includes mostly-white, central and Liberal/NDP ridings like High Park, Deer Park, Forest Hill, Roncesvalles, Beaches, Leslieville, Danforth, Rosedale, Summerhill, Annex and at least ten others I could name.
Same with me. I hardly check in on an old high-school buddies chat group as they post at least ten Trump Evil Hitler gifs/memes/links/AI slop *per day*.
My GF's daughter is in her late 20's, lesbian. She moved to SF to pursue a law degree with some garbage focus like social justice. Her and her mother were going to go to a Billy Joel concert in Texas--(Dallas? Houston? I cannot remember). She was afraid to go because everyone in Texas hates gays and carries guns and being gay made her a target.
This is how bad the disconnect is---she was living in a gated apartment complex with security guards 24/7 and was a prisoner in her own home because it was too dangerous to leave the complex.
A Whole Foods was right there and opened and closed down within a year. It was THAT BAD. She had to take UBER to Costco to buy groceries for the week. She could not go out alone even in the day. Only to school which was on the grounds. But, she was afraid to go to a Billy Joel concert in Texas because she was gay.
What a sad story, really…I’m a rabbit, not a psychologist, but that poor girl has some mental health problems, and needs help. Unfortunately, therapy has been overtaken by Woke ideology, so her therapist would merely “affirm” her paranoid delusions, which would make her sicker than ever. Honestly, the prognosis for our society is not looking good.
That’s a wild story but I can believe it living in San Francisco for many years. The city no longer feels like home to me. I feel like I’m surrounded by a huge cult.
Gay people have far more to fear from trans-activists than from conservatives. The obnoxious behavior and nonsense attitudes of the radicals in that camp have soured the views of live-and-let-live normies and made the entire alternative lifestyle project suspect.
Gays don’t need a firewall between themselves and the US. They need one between themselves and the trans agenda.
So true! My kids have several Gay friends and they were all welcome at our home in California, though my Son and My husband and voted for Trump 3 times!
They must have been disappointed that we had no torture chamber in our basement (only old furniture waiting to be restored), and we did not try any conversion therapy to try to get them to vote MAGA! Lol
My elderly Mother was terribly frightened that I would get Monkey Pox if I traveled to Philly for a family funeral. I had to explain to her that the Pox was spread at a massive Gay Rave party in Belgium and the likelihood that I would get that by flying was quite rare! in hindsight, that is when her dementia was creeping in and should have been a big red-flag, because she had been an RN in her younger days. In fact her falling for the Covid Plandemic should have been our first warning of mental slippage!
Ps, SF was the Gay capital of America before being Gay was fashionable! there are so many Homosexual people in SF now, that we just refer to them as people. Lol
Pleasant, yes - I live near Lake Ontario, & the Boardwalk, & have friendly exchanges with various store owners who now know me by name. Friendly neighbours in my building, as well. I just don’t dive into deep topics with these folks. My closest friends know better than to expect anything but B.S. from the CBC. It’s true that we all live in different realities now. (for the record, I have family in the U.S. When I go down there I just find people are mostly just …. people. You know??) The world has become so very very strange…
The CBC; heaven help us all! What’s even worse, I have a very dear old friend with whom I now disagree about almost 100% of topics - & she still watches CNN, if you can imagine! But she’s kind of like a sister to me. I’m glad we’re still friends - but there are sooo many topics we don’t agree on at all at all at all - so we avoid them. & yet, we still enjoy one another’s company. It’s kind of miraculous, really!
The official US population is nearly 350mln, NOT COUNTING ILLEGALS. You may disagree, but I’d be shocked if the *actual* total population was much lower than 400mln, following decades of illegal immigration.
So, realistically, 10-ish percent of 400mln people is damned close to the total population of Canada. After all, what’s a million or so between friends, anyway?😉
I avoided meeting up with HS friends on a recent visit to Canada because I didn’t want to deal with keeping my mouth shut. (And then I just met up with grad school friends here in my blue state and had to do the same anyway. Like I do at work. Sigh.)
My husband could never talk politics or current events at work, nor post on social Media until he retired 2 years ago. He worked in the Tech sector in the Valley/belly of the Beast. I sometimes think crazy was invented here. if not invented, then put on steroids! lol talk about upside down and inside out.
I live in the Beaches area. The whole Covid thing caused me to lose some old friends - the ones who swallowed all the Kool-Aid. I mostly just don’t hang around with woke folks. I’d just wind up saying something that pissed them off, & almost everything they say drives me up the wall. So. I avoid many former friends & colleagues now.
Unfortunately I can’t forget that many of the cheerful, friendly, helpful people I encounter in my urban neighborhood are the same ones who were shunning and hissing at me when I walked around without a mask, and were glad to see me Jim Crowed into non-personhood for not flashing a vaxx card.
I particularly enjoyed being yelled at for taking my mask off at an outdoor yoga class in our local park, even though I and my fellow students did so only once we were “safely” 6 feet apart on our socially-distanced mats. That was special.
Bingo! same happened in Silicon Valley area. Thankfully, we sold on the high and moved to acreage in late 21! Having a buffer between neighbors is so very pleasant! We did still have to endure a year of crazy screaming and occasional sightings of law enforcement when our new neighbor's daughter moved home. They eventually got priced out of the hood, due to the rising cost of homeowners insurance, and since then, I haven't heard doors closing in the lower levels of my home at night. Some people truly have zero boundaries and drug addled mush for brains. No zombie zones needed!
Let’s face it. I’m sure many of these folks that are doing this ‘darkness’ reporting have taken the Jabs. If you haven’t figured this out, or observed or experienced these people up close and personal, one of the multitude of Side Effects of the Jabs is their affect on the frontal lobe of their brain.
The key functions of the frontal lobe:
The frontal lobe, the largest part of the brain, manages executive functions, voluntary movement, and social behavior.
Located just behind the forehead, it accounts for approximately 41% of the neocortex and continues developing into early adulthood.
Key Functions Include:
Executive Control: Handles complex cognitive tasks such as decision-making, problem-solving, planning, and reasoning. It regulates attention, working memory, and impulse control.
Motor Coordination: Contains the motor cortex (precentral gyrus) which plans and executes voluntary muscle movements, as well as the premotor cortex for coordination.
Speech Production: Houses Broca’s area (in the inferior frontal gyrus), which is essential for forming coherent speech and grammatically correct language.
Emotional and Social Regulation: Modulates emotions, personality, and social interactions. It helps interpret social cues, maintain appropriate behavior, and regulate mood.
Cognitive Flexibility:
Supports working memory and flexible thinking, allowing individuals to shift focus between tasks and adapt to new situations.
Damage to the frontal lobe can result in impaired judgment, personality changes, motor deficits, and speech difficulties (such as Broca’s aphasia).
Motor coordination …Vaxxidents
Emotional and Social Regulation…Nonexistent
Cognitive Flexibility…rigid inflexibility in thinking
I visited Ottawa recently, in a rental car with Texas plates. We were getting a lot of dirty looks and rude hand gestures out on the Queensway and couldn’t figure it out — both my husband and I are good, boring drivers, not the types to provoke road rage — till we came to the conclusion it was probably the assumption we were nasty red-state Americans.
Oh dear. There sure are a lot of morons around. Ottawa is kind of a strange city. All those bureaucrats, you know?? Not to mention all the horrid politicians. Yuck. (though I have some very dear friends who live there. They’re not morons!)
I don't know (thank God) or care to know who is behind the desecration of the murals of Iryna Zarutska, but it's probably the best example of upside down I know of. Her throat was slashed while riding peacefully in a subway car. What could be more vile? And yet she's the bad guy?? Beyond logic, reason, emotion, sympathy, humanity anyway you look at it. Sick. And yes, Dark.
I don't think they're saying Iryna was the bad guy. They're saying anyone who calls attention to her murder are the bad guys.
They (correctly, in my opinion) see the murals as an attempt by the Right to use the same kind of political iconography that they themselves used with the sainted Treyvon Martin and George Floyd, and of course any expression of a Rightist viewpoint evokes their spittle-inflected rage.
Thanks for asking. Met with the surgeon today, six weeks after the surgery. She seems very pleased by the progress and my treatment of it. Should be back to regular blogging in about two weeks.
The Josiah Manifesto by Jonathon Cahn lays out the parallels of the darkness of the current times to the darkness of ancient times. The mission of the righteous and the sane is to stand against the current evil with whatever resources possible. And —pray, the Word of God and the acknowledged presence of God must be used to grow the light and diminish the darkness. There are signs that the light is growing. Hope is a very good thing.!
Your mom turned me on to him. This particular book is the third one of his I have read it also lays out how Trump is similar to another ancient leader needed in dark times. It is absolutely fascinating how ancient events and times almost exactly overlay on similar events of our time.
There is the "dark" world that Ms. Brennan and her ilk persist in presenting. The sad reality they perceive, the urban shitholes, that so many of our cities have become. That they helped to create. The dismal world, without hope, that the media would have us believe is all that there is.
And then there's the real world, the rural world, away from the urban blight. The world where people still do things, and make things, and fix things, and build things. The world where men marry women, and have kids, and grow crops, or cattle. The world where folks know their neighbors, go to church, and say howdy to strangers.
They're satanic, and they are projecting their darkness onto us to fool the masses.
Slight correction, one of those Irina murals is in a city that was (until recently) safely conservative - Pensacola, FL. It's the one they tagged with "End Systemic Oppression".
ETA: Typed racism instead of oppression. Got my buzzwords on muscle memory, apparently.
This is the problem. Progressives are mentally and emotionally unfit. Whether it is due to demonic possession or mental illness doesn't matter. They simply lack a properly calibrated moral compass. This makes them perpetually offended by beauty, truth & light. Why? Maybe it is because demonstrations of goodness show how awful their belief system is.
They are simply young people who trusted their teachers, professors and Doctor's. We all did this at their age, Sadly, the stakes have changed and the rhetoric has been put in warp drive because they could not keep Trump from winning and possibly exposing their Grift and Global ties.
The slow burn of The flower child generation and the growth of Abortion and Divorce under their upside down reality was heavily pushed during the Obama years and they barely hid their tracks. But they gave the game away when they ramped up the lawfare and changed legislative rules to throw even the kitchen sink at Trump!
Is it any wonder that so many of us saw through the unprecedented attacks and knew they were hiding so much more than we could ever imagine! The Audacity and the hubris displayed on a daily basis, was very telling.
Sadly, the youth of our cities and lost boys and girls across the world got swallowed up in the "Era of Experts" and became useful idiots for evil doers! Very much like the Brownshirts and Hitler youth of Germany, programmed in school and propagandized and turned into human hate and destruction machines!
In both video clips you can see her robotic programming coming undone in real time to the point that I'm quite frankly shocked that we didn't see her jump up and flail her arms around shouting "DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE!!"
Well of course there's darkness coming - shutting down real power plants and going all-in on PRC-made asbestos-spewing windmills and Chinesium solar panels will do that.
KEEP WRITING AND TALKING, CHRIS....IT'S YOUR WORDS/VOICE THAT WE NEED TO READ/HEAR, REMINDING US-LEST WE FORGET IN THE DAILY SHUFFLE-HOW UPSIDE DOWN OUR COUNTRY IS WITH SUCH CULTURE....AND PROMPTING US TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP OURSELVES....
Of course, you hit the nail on the head with this installment. How anyone can say “clean streets, less homeless encampments, less poop and needles on the streets, is dark and mean with a straight face is beyond me. Yet, I’ve been saying it for years…’The times in which we find ourselves is upside and backwards when viewed from the MSM, the Dems in Congress, and the loony liberals who show up to protest against anything related to Trump’.
I look forward to the day when the insanity finally stops because it has to reach the critical mass of stupidity at some point and implode…doesn’t it??!
I forget who said this first, so I can't properly credit whoever it is, but if you want to feel like the country is terrible, watch the news. If you want to feel like the country is awesome, go drive around in it.
Just returned from five weeks (plus three days driving each way) in southern Utah. I witnessed what you said. Too many fellow Canadians (Ontarians) who listen to our state funded media were aghast that I was actually travelling to the U.S.. I love the American west. The country, the geology, people(An actual cowboy stopped and helped me with a flat), the parks, BLM lands, the services (we have nothing like your Rest Stops), and the food were all awesome.
No rest stops, but a lot of wildlife overpasses. (Just back from B.C. and Alberta )
100%
I'm a naturalized Canadian from the US, and watching Canadians get offended when told that Americans are the most friendly nation is hilarious. Imagine a bunch of elbows up Canadians getting pissed that their passive-aggressive selves aren't the friendliest.
Are you saying the ONroutes on the 401 just don’t compare?
i thought you said that
If I'm quoting myself, I apologize to myself for not crediting myself.
HILARIOUS
Give yourself a raise.
I also heard Sasha Stone say something similar, though telling herself she needs to get out of the house and drive across America to see and connect with the real America, or something to that effect.
Just watch ya some Spencer Pratt commercials and smile.
"It was you Dude." Bill & Ted
Yup. Even in the worst of the COVID nuttery, taking road trips from wacky WA to ID and MT were soul-inspiring, and reassured me and my family that there were sane and sensible folks out there. Plus the country is gorgeous.
Doing great, Los Angeles! Stay the course!
https://x.com/NathantheCL/status/2059640645585899765
But, but, but...Samuel L. Jackson endorsed Bass: “These are the times we need someone who understands government, who also understands the needs of the people, someone who will go on the streets and gather the people together..."
That video sure looks like she's gathering people together on the streets. LOL.
I only wish my eyes could roll back farther in my head to express my contempt for such a STUPID endorsement.
A black actor endorsed a black politician? The sun also came up in the east this morning.
Much as I admire Jackson, I can tell that he wasn't serious about Bass because there wasn't a single "motherfucker" or "motherfucking" in that endorsement.
“SAY WHAT AGAIN!! I DOUBLE DARE YOU!”
LA is beautiful. What are you talking about. It's all staged. Just like the assassination attempts....
Grassroots. Rising up. Normal people are out here, we just have to keep showing up. I'm quite serious.
They feel the darkness of their power slipping away.
100%
Yes. I think the fear is that Pratt might be effective and his success could be the first step in breaking up one party rule in California. The left would rather the state go down the shitter than have to credit a Republican for turning it around, but I think enough people may be wondering what they could possibly lose by voting for Pratt to provide him an upset win.
Not soon enough David Poe
Alas
"I don't care if you're not hired for a job because you're white and male. I don't care if your kids go to school with a meth head ODing on the sidewalk 10 yards away. I don't care if you're labeled as a nazi by the SPLC for holding perfectly normal beliefs. I don't care if race riots burn your downtown. For that matter, I don't care if your whole city burns because there's no water to fight a fire. I don't care if you got cancer from a med we required you to take, using your own money and government pressure on your employer...
My feelings are super important, and forcing me to confront reality means only one thing: you're the type of person who wants to gas the jews and force women into sexual slavery, like in that Netflix documentary 'A Handmaid's Tale'."
I hate these people so much. So fucking much.
You’ve got a lot of company.
Hate requires energy, which I choose not expend on those useful, Marxist/Socialist idiots that continually vote themselves more shares of other peoples money! I chose to believe that the actual light being shined on all the corruption and grift of our tax dollars is finally being noticed by those Americans held under the Democrat Spell of false virtue as identity.
Slowly, the dawn has been rising and quietly, the regular non Marxists are awakening to the fact that they have been played by the Party and their cronies in the Legacy Media. The very medium that the Democrat overlords used to silence Maga and the other Republican affiliated groups is now, under Musk and Trump, being used to advertise the discovery of corruption and Grift! Not every Democrat drank the kool-Aid, many will never give Trump his due respect, but they are not stupid enough to continue voting for the Marxist Squad who has come for them!
I know hate is a bad emotion. I just can't help it.
What that translates into for me, though, is to mark certain people in my professional life for an attempt at firing (which I have succeeded at on a couple of occasions), and refusing to go to a woke church.
Now my wife and kids go without me, which I would rather not, but I'm not going to listen to some idiot girlboss pastor act like I'm responsible for the plight of black people when she didn't say anything about how people like me were treated by people like her during covid.
I'm not having one more word of that shit. Not one.
I only step into a church building for weddings , funerals and sightseeing (cathedrals). I don't believe we need walls and a roof to believe in a higher power and I certainly don't believe clergy are any less sinner than the rest of us. In fact, coming of age in the 80's, When TV preachers were being caught out (Jim Baker) and having seen the Commune Followers int he 60's and 70's, plus sitting on a hard church pew as a child being scolded for things I didn't understand, I just cannot take the preaching seriously, not could I take to the electric guitars in my siblings church.
My S-I-L has a lovely group of country folks that gather (also gathered during Covid) to study the bible, commune with like minded people and to help in times of need and disaster (Big wildfire). The paster has a day job and a small ranch, so he doesn't have time to sit around worrying about towing the a party line!
As for me and my family, we try to be decent and respectful of others and live a moral life and course correct when needed. A random human in a pointy topped building isn't a necessary portal to speak with nor feel the presence of God, that is a human construct designed to educate and control the uneducated masses, back when only the Clergy were taught to read and write.
Humans are social creatures that are drawn to religious thinking as a means of coalescing into groups, and use certain ideas (having varying levels of absurdity) to do so.
Never been very religious myself, but the last few years have shown us what happens when that impulse goes off the rails. So I have learned to value religion as a means to corral and channel those impulses in a hopefully constructive direction, and barring that, at least a direction that is not actively destructive to society.
I regret not going to church any more, but for reasons I can't elaborate on right now, can't switch to a more sane denomination. So I'm out altogether.
Your and your SIL's approach both sound good and reasonable.
There’s not a word I understand in the English language that can describe the incredible irony I feel when watching a Spencer Pratt video compared to what legacy media interprets from the same video.
I have a photographic negative response to pretty much everything I read and hear from those clowns.
Light, airy, inspiring, uplifting, funny, full hearted, optimistic, authentic.
Those are the words that describe what I see in a Pratt video.
Margaret Brennan knows she’s a monster and a liar. That’s why she’s so unhappy.
bsn
“Margaret Brennan knows she’s a monster and a liar.”
With you on the rest.
It is very difficult to distinguish incompetence from malevolence.
You should never be too sure you know which is which.
Usually (but not always) it is some combination of the two.
That might be a bit hyperbolic, one of my rhetorical weaknesses for sure, but the sneer I’ve seen on her face indicates her inner self—at least that is how I interpret it. I think the ‘stupidity over evil’ is a useful heuristic most of the time. Journos? I think most of them are soulless narcissists.
I cannot remember his name, but some clown from one of the networks, was caught having someone put clothespins on his rain jacket during the Palisades fires—remember that? Soulless.
bsn
“I think most of them are soulless narcissists.”
😏
Ok, but the question still remains: intelligent soulless narcissists, or clueless soulless narcissists?
[I agree with you fully on narcissists, and mostly on soulless, to be clear.]
I think the official term is ‘midwit’. IQ of about 110. Not totally stupid, but would crash and burn taking Organic Chemistry. Their greatest talent is looking good on camera.
bsn
So you are agreeing that it is most likely a combination of incompetence and evil, then.
For the record, “midwit” is one of my 5 favorite words of the last several years.
David Muir of ABC, I recall.
Yes! That guy. Be afraid of pretty men…
I don't understand how these people sleep at night. They spend their entire lives knowingly pushing lies and falsehoods and somehow it never occurs to them that what they are doing is evil. Or maybe they DO realize that it is evil, but evil is OK as long as it is the opposite of BUT TRUMP!!
And I mean hey, Evil at least it pays the bills and keeps them comfortably isolated from the consequences of their terrible policies
That isolation is a huge factor. These cowards would dissolve into puddles of urine if they actually had to confront their policy choices in their own front yards.
The old saw about a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged - these people have erected barriers to keep that from happening. Or to riff off the bit about Brits and sex: No reality please, we're progressives!
Yeah, maybe it's like the runup to the market crash in 1929. Everyone knew that the stock price increases were unsustainable, but they all thought there was room for "one more day of wild price increases before the collapse". These folks are certain that they will be able to exit stage-right just before the backlash and live comfortably off their wages of sin. And I think this might explain why our birth rate is nose-diving. If they believe even one tenth of what they spew, bringing children into such a terrible world would be unthinkable.
The low birth rate is due to all the vaccine damaged young adults there are now.
Look back to The Childhood Vaccine Schedule that seriously ramped up when Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) in 1986. It gave Big Pharma protection from Liability of their harmful childhood vaccines.
It became law ( with few allowable exemptions) that all children of preschool and public school age be vaccinated to attend a state run public school.
Those vaccines have messed with the reproductive functions of both men and women. All those people are under 40 years old and are having difficulty having children now.
Why is IVF a flourishing medical business model now?
Back in the 2000's wheen our children began school, they only had to have about 7 vaccines, and that is including MMR as 3 separate, though given as one. By the time our youngest was in Middle School they were pushing the Vaginal Wart vaccine, which I am very suspect of and wonder if this led to all these young women needing IVF to get a viable pregnancy? Stranger things do happen? The thirty somethings are also obese in comparison to the Boomer generation at their age. I've never seen so many fat young people in my 60 plus years as I have in the past decade!
I believe the vaccines are the cause of why over 50% of children/young adults in the USA suffer from some kind of chronic condition or disease. Juvenile diabetes, childhood cancers, obesity, food allergies/sensitivities, autism and or kids being “on the Spectrum,” ADHD, sensory processing disorders, and the newest class of disorder “nuero divergent”. Could also be linked to their reproductive issues as well.
they get paid to lie, have large student loan debt and all their friends are doing it. Plus, they don't believe in God.
I am genuinely puzzled, & curious, about the upside-downness of people's views these days. (I live in Canada, so you can imagine the nonsense, & worse, I'm seeing here.) I guess it's been coming for a long time - the woke crap has been around for quite a few years. I wonder how much mental deterioration has been caused by the shots - but I fear it's a lot. And? I encounter lots of cheerful, friendly, helpful people as I make my way around my pleasant Toronto neighbourhood. Lots of us are not as cuckoo as one might think!
Torontonian here: I'm just curious which "pleasant Toronto neighbourhood" you're talking about, as in some of them, saying things like "woke crap" will get you dirty stares if not worse.
I find I have to be *very* two-faced in public in downtown Toronto social gatherings: I nod politely at whatever drivel some midwit is parroting that the CBC/Globe/Toronto Star tell them to think, and the opposite, which is more often than not the actual truth.
I suspect she meant “pleasant” as a function of low crime, clean, etc.
I have old friends (from university days) who are gay liberal Albertans. Both are nice, intelligent people (I know this because I knew them “before“), but every opinion they have is straight out of the CBC. It’s impossible to have a discussion with them about any actual issue, because I live in a different reality than they do. They truly believe that they cannot come visit me in the US because, as gay people, they will be “unsafe“ in the US… somehow, because of Trump (?!??). My answer that “the US has more gay people than Canada has total population” didn’t move the needle, because their minds live in CBC-land. I miss having old friends, but it’s hard to maintain a relationship with people who exist in a different reality than I do.
I have heard the same from people here in Calgary, and i point out that Trump has openly gay cabinet secretaries FFS. They sit across from him, the top people in the land.
And they are somehow part of an administration putting gays in concentration camps? Trump is an old school new york Liberal, has interacted with gay people his entire life and could care less.
The narrative is insane.
Here is another.
Last year the Economist showed a big drop in quality of life here in Alberta, when you dig into it they did this because "healthcare" got worse.
The punch line is that its because Dani smith and the UCP put a halt to drugs and surgery for gender confused kids until at least 16 years old. Thats it.
Health care is collapsing in BC, and in reality in all of canada but only Alberta got a downgrade.
One more good call Smith made.
Oh definitely, it's probably on a list that includes mostly-white, central and Liberal/NDP ridings like High Park, Deer Park, Forest Hill, Roncesvalles, Beaches, Leslieville, Danforth, Rosedale, Summerhill, Annex and at least ten others I could name.
Same with me. I hardly check in on an old high-school buddies chat group as they post at least ten Trump Evil Hitler gifs/memes/links/AI slop *per day*.
My GF's daughter is in her late 20's, lesbian. She moved to SF to pursue a law degree with some garbage focus like social justice. Her and her mother were going to go to a Billy Joel concert in Texas--(Dallas? Houston? I cannot remember). She was afraid to go because everyone in Texas hates gays and carries guns and being gay made her a target.
This is how bad the disconnect is---she was living in a gated apartment complex with security guards 24/7 and was a prisoner in her own home because it was too dangerous to leave the complex.
A Whole Foods was right there and opened and closed down within a year. It was THAT BAD. She had to take UBER to Costco to buy groceries for the week. She could not go out alone even in the day. Only to school which was on the grounds. But, she was afraid to go to a Billy Joel concert in Texas because she was gay.
What a sad story, really…I’m a rabbit, not a psychologist, but that poor girl has some mental health problems, and needs help. Unfortunately, therapy has been overtaken by Woke ideology, so her therapist would merely “affirm” her paranoid delusions, which would make her sicker than ever. Honestly, the prognosis for our society is not looking good.
That’s a wild story but I can believe it living in San Francisco for many years. The city no longer feels like home to me. I feel like I’m surrounded by a huge cult.
It’s very sad, Rabbit.
Gay people have far more to fear from trans-activists than from conservatives. The obnoxious behavior and nonsense attitudes of the radicals in that camp have soured the views of live-and-let-live normies and made the entire alternative lifestyle project suspect.
Gays don’t need a firewall between themselves and the US. They need one between themselves and the trans agenda.
So true! My kids have several Gay friends and they were all welcome at our home in California, though my Son and My husband and voted for Trump 3 times!
They must have been disappointed that we had no torture chamber in our basement (only old furniture waiting to be restored), and we did not try any conversion therapy to try to get them to vote MAGA! Lol
My elderly Mother was terribly frightened that I would get Monkey Pox if I traveled to Philly for a family funeral. I had to explain to her that the Pox was spread at a massive Gay Rave party in Belgium and the likelihood that I would get that by flying was quite rare! in hindsight, that is when her dementia was creeping in and should have been a big red-flag, because she had been an RN in her younger days. In fact her falling for the Covid Plandemic should have been our first warning of mental slippage!
Ps, SF was the Gay capital of America before being Gay was fashionable! there are so many Homosexual people in SF now, that we just refer to them as people. Lol
Pleasant, yes - I live near Lake Ontario, & the Boardwalk, & have friendly exchanges with various store owners who now know me by name. Friendly neighbours in my building, as well. I just don’t dive into deep topics with these folks. My closest friends know better than to expect anything but B.S. from the CBC. It’s true that we all live in different realities now. (for the record, I have family in the U.S. When I go down there I just find people are mostly just …. people. You know??) The world has become so very very strange…
The CBC; heaven help us all! What’s even worse, I have a very dear old friend with whom I now disagree about almost 100% of topics - & she still watches CNN, if you can imagine! But she’s kind of like a sister to me. I’m glad we’re still friends - but there are sooo many topics we don’t agree on at all at all at all - so we avoid them. & yet, we still enjoy one another’s company. It’s kind of miraculous, really!
“My answer that ‘the US has more gay people than Canada has total population’ didn’t move the needle…”
Make no mistake, I’m with you on all the rest, but this claim is just not true.
~8M is a lot less than ~41M.
And even if you more broadly defined gay as anyone identifying as LGBTQ+++ it still wouldn’t be true.
I’m using “identify as LGBTQ”, which is 9.3% of the population in the US (I’ve rounded it up to 10%). It skews higher for younger generations.
[https://news.gallup.com/poll/656708/lgbtq-identification-rises.aspx]
The official US population is nearly 350mln, NOT COUNTING ILLEGALS. You may disagree, but I’d be shocked if the *actual* total population was much lower than 400mln, following decades of illegal immigration.
So, realistically, 10-ish percent of 400mln people is damned close to the total population of Canada. After all, what’s a million or so between friends, anyway?😉
I avoided meeting up with HS friends on a recent visit to Canada because I didn’t want to deal with keeping my mouth shut. (And then I just met up with grad school friends here in my blue state and had to do the same anyway. Like I do at work. Sigh.)
My husband could never talk politics or current events at work, nor post on social Media until he retired 2 years ago. He worked in the Tech sector in the Valley/belly of the Beast. I sometimes think crazy was invented here. if not invented, then put on steroids! lol talk about upside down and inside out.
I live in the Beaches area. The whole Covid thing caused me to lose some old friends - the ones who swallowed all the Kool-Aid. I mostly just don’t hang around with woke folks. I’d just wind up saying something that pissed them off, & almost everything they say drives me up the wall. So. I avoid many former friends & colleagues now.
That area is notorious for that. Source: father-in-law lives there.
Unfortunately I can’t forget that many of the cheerful, friendly, helpful people I encounter in my urban neighborhood are the same ones who were shunning and hissing at me when I walked around without a mask, and were glad to see me Jim Crowed into non-personhood for not flashing a vaxx card.
I particularly enjoyed being yelled at for taking my mask off at an outdoor yoga class in our local park, even though I and my fellow students did so only once we were “safely” 6 feet apart on our socially-distanced mats. That was special.
Bingo! same happened in Silicon Valley area. Thankfully, we sold on the high and moved to acreage in late 21! Having a buffer between neighbors is so very pleasant! We did still have to endure a year of crazy screaming and occasional sightings of law enforcement when our new neighbor's daughter moved home. They eventually got priced out of the hood, due to the rising cost of homeowners insurance, and since then, I haven't heard doors closing in the lower levels of my home at night. Some people truly have zero boundaries and drug addled mush for brains. No zombie zones needed!
Let’s face it. I’m sure many of these folks that are doing this ‘darkness’ reporting have taken the Jabs. If you haven’t figured this out, or observed or experienced these people up close and personal, one of the multitude of Side Effects of the Jabs is their affect on the frontal lobe of their brain.
The key functions of the frontal lobe:
The frontal lobe, the largest part of the brain, manages executive functions, voluntary movement, and social behavior.
Located just behind the forehead, it accounts for approximately 41% of the neocortex and continues developing into early adulthood.
Key Functions Include:
Executive Control: Handles complex cognitive tasks such as decision-making, problem-solving, planning, and reasoning. It regulates attention, working memory, and impulse control.
Motor Coordination: Contains the motor cortex (precentral gyrus) which plans and executes voluntary muscle movements, as well as the premotor cortex for coordination.
Speech Production: Houses Broca’s area (in the inferior frontal gyrus), which is essential for forming coherent speech and grammatically correct language.
Emotional and Social Regulation: Modulates emotions, personality, and social interactions. It helps interpret social cues, maintain appropriate behavior, and regulate mood.
Cognitive Flexibility:
Supports working memory and flexible thinking, allowing individuals to shift focus between tasks and adapt to new situations.
Damage to the frontal lobe can result in impaired judgment, personality changes, motor deficits, and speech difficulties (such as Broca’s aphasia).
Motor coordination …Vaxxidents
Emotional and Social Regulation…Nonexistent
Cognitive Flexibility…rigid inflexibility in thinking
Yup. Plenty of brain damage all around us. No question about it.
I visited Ottawa recently, in a rental car with Texas plates. We were getting a lot of dirty looks and rude hand gestures out on the Queensway and couldn’t figure it out — both my husband and I are good, boring drivers, not the types to provoke road rage — till we came to the conclusion it was probably the assumption we were nasty red-state Americans.
Or maybe you just ran over a black transexual indigenous knowledge-keeper midget, and didn´t notice.
Oh dear. There sure are a lot of morons around. Ottawa is kind of a strange city. All those bureaucrats, you know?? Not to mention all the horrid politicians. Yuck. (though I have some very dear friends who live there. They’re not morons!)
The promise of "reach out and touch someone" has become real. And because ANYBODY can now touch ANYBODY else, we are getting somewhat creeped out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO17B-ACRn0
Evil is the inversion of all that is good, true and beautiful.
Exhibit, Democrats...
I don't know (thank God) or care to know who is behind the desecration of the murals of Iryna Zarutska, but it's probably the best example of upside down I know of. Her throat was slashed while riding peacefully in a subway car. What could be more vile? And yet she's the bad guy?? Beyond logic, reason, emotion, sympathy, humanity anyway you look at it. Sick. And yes, Dark.
I don't think they're saying Iryna was the bad guy. They're saying anyone who calls attention to her murder are the bad guys.
They (correctly, in my opinion) see the murals as an attempt by the Right to use the same kind of political iconography that they themselves used with the sainted Treyvon Martin and George Floyd, and of course any expression of a Rightist viewpoint evokes their spittle-inflected rage.
Spittle inflected rage. Gotta love that.
Hola WHD! How’s it going after the surgery? FL
Thanks for asking. Met with the surgeon today, six weeks after the surgery. She seems very pleased by the progress and my treatment of it. Should be back to regular blogging in about two weeks.
Great to hear, that all went well, and you will be back to sharing your thoughts with us again pronto! 💓🙏🏼
The Josiah Manifesto by Jonathon Cahn lays out the parallels of the darkness of the current times to the darkness of ancient times. The mission of the righteous and the sane is to stand against the current evil with whatever resources possible. And —pray, the Word of God and the acknowledged presence of God must be used to grow the light and diminish the darkness. There are signs that the light is growing. Hope is a very good thing.!
Don't know that book, but yes. "The mission of the righteous and the sane is to stand against the current evil with whatever resources possible."
Your mom turned me on to him. This particular book is the third one of his I have read it also lays out how Trump is similar to another ancient leader needed in dark times. It is absolutely fascinating how ancient events and times almost exactly overlay on similar events of our time.
Human Nature repeating.
Nevertheless I found this particular book fascinating and he has promoted national events to help increase the light.
Jonathan Cahn has lost some of his luster for me since well known pastors have discredited him.
We occupy two worlds.
There is the "dark" world that Ms. Brennan and her ilk persist in presenting. The sad reality they perceive, the urban shitholes, that so many of our cities have become. That they helped to create. The dismal world, without hope, that the media would have us believe is all that there is.
And then there's the real world, the rural world, away from the urban blight. The world where people still do things, and make things, and fix things, and build things. The world where men marry women, and have kids, and grow crops, or cattle. The world where folks know their neighbors, go to church, and say howdy to strangers.
My world.
They're satanic, and they are projecting their darkness onto us to fool the masses.
Slight correction, one of those Irina murals is in a city that was (until recently) safely conservative - Pensacola, FL. It's the one they tagged with "End Systemic Oppression".
ETA: Typed racism instead of oppression. Got my buzzwords on muscle memory, apparently.
This is the problem. Progressives are mentally and emotionally unfit. Whether it is due to demonic possession or mental illness doesn't matter. They simply lack a properly calibrated moral compass. This makes them perpetually offended by beauty, truth & light. Why? Maybe it is because demonstrations of goodness show how awful their belief system is.
They are simply young people who trusted their teachers, professors and Doctor's. We all did this at their age, Sadly, the stakes have changed and the rhetoric has been put in warp drive because they could not keep Trump from winning and possibly exposing their Grift and Global ties.
The slow burn of The flower child generation and the growth of Abortion and Divorce under their upside down reality was heavily pushed during the Obama years and they barely hid their tracks. But they gave the game away when they ramped up the lawfare and changed legislative rules to throw even the kitchen sink at Trump!
Is it any wonder that so many of us saw through the unprecedented attacks and knew they were hiding so much more than we could ever imagine! The Audacity and the hubris displayed on a daily basis, was very telling.
Sadly, the youth of our cities and lost boys and girls across the world got swallowed up in the "Era of Experts" and became useful idiots for evil doers! Very much like the Brownshirts and Hitler youth of Germany, programmed in school and propagandized and turned into human hate and destruction machines!
Still have my I don’t really care, Margaret tee shirt.
I need one of those…
Etsy
Poor...Poor Margaret
In both video clips you can see her robotic programming coming undone in real time to the point that I'm quite frankly shocked that we didn't see her jump up and flail her arms around shouting "DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE!!"
Perfect! I could see it in her eyes and her uncomfortable shifting as her body recoiled from the truth!
Well of course there's darkness coming - shutting down real power plants and going all-in on PRC-made asbestos-spewing windmills and Chinesium solar panels will do that.
Or are they referring to changing demographics?
KEEP WRITING AND TALKING, CHRIS....IT'S YOUR WORDS/VOICE THAT WE NEED TO READ/HEAR, REMINDING US-LEST WE FORGET IN THE DAILY SHUFFLE-HOW UPSIDE DOWN OUR COUNTRY IS WITH SUCH CULTURE....AND PROMPTING US TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP OURSELVES....
Of course, you hit the nail on the head with this installment. How anyone can say “clean streets, less homeless encampments, less poop and needles on the streets, is dark and mean with a straight face is beyond me. Yet, I’ve been saying it for years…’The times in which we find ourselves is upside and backwards when viewed from the MSM, the Dems in Congress, and the loony liberals who show up to protest against anything related to Trump’.
I look forward to the day when the insanity finally stops because it has to reach the critical mass of stupidity at some point and implode…doesn’t it??!
Does mental illness just fix itself?