Here’s the biggest current political problem we have. No one excites our base more and has shown more willingness to pushback on their narratives than Trump. However, Orange Man Bad is now a rationale to completely disregard the Constitution, media professionalism, election law…
….this means the Spirit of the Age has set the precedent it can do ANYTHING to defeat him at any level, and disregard chicanery as he’s uniquely unpopular. Trump at times feeds this narrative as well, or far worse doesn’t punish them for it when he has the power to.
…so we are in a political no-man’s land. Trump casts such a huge presence no one could overcome it within our base, but then the system we’re up against is then permitted to do things to us through his presence it hasn’t been before.
…so we need one of two things to happen in the next two years. We either need a more resolved and disciplined version of Trump, who’s both more prepared for the opposition and to follow through. Or we need him to step aside for someone else to show they are.
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Yesterday, a Covid state of emergency was issued in Japan, which means we’ll have a spectator-less Tokyo Olympics. However, weren’t we reliably informed by our incorruptible media that Japan had defeated Covid with masks? Let’s hop in the DeLorean and go back in time, Huey…
Like in this story from last June in the New York Times?
As Governor, Mike Pence nearly lost the religious freedom issue forever with one of the worst punk out betrayals of all time. As VP his coronavirus task force nearly lost the country forever. More than a few smattering of boos and calls of “traitor” is in order here.
A political example needs to be made of Pence — that courage of conviction is every bit the judge of one’s character as piety, if not more so in times like these. He’s no leader in the arena, but the same old Surrender Caucus with more Bible verses. He’s anathema to what we need.
We need Nehemiahs. Pence is the embodiment of the milquetoast and spineless spirit that has gripped the church, and in the process of handing the country over to the Spirit of the Age. Send him on mission trips, don’t make him a general. Unless you want to lose even faster.
From the very beginning of this tyrannical episode, some of us took a lot of risk pushing back on clear data distortions, narrative gaslighting, media agitprop, and Fauci canonization. And now thanks to #FauciEmails confirmation of a scamdemic is cemented.
We should’ve never played it safe. We should’ve never given the benefit of the doubt. We should’ve instead assumed the same Spirit of the Age that lies and mismanages everything else would do the same with this, too. The temptation for tyranny just too great.
And we would’ve confirmed this months ago, if some folks with major conservative media platforms hadn’t kissed Big Tech and Big Pharma’s arse, or peddled the same stupid partisan political porn and focused on this existential crisis instead.
Imagine if they would've told us from the beginning something like this: "This virus from China, we're unsure of its origin and therefore pathology. Which means we need to throw everything we can at it until we have enough real-time data to know for sure."
And they used measured pleas on mitigation efforts that in the past had been ruled out and would explain why we were quarantining the healthy. Because maybe a synthetic respiratory virus was designed for asymptomatic spread, but we just don't know yet?
And therefore when they told us "we're all in this together" they actually meant it. That we would mobilize the home front against either a punitive accident or bio-weapon event. That they were learning about it as we were, in real-time.
Analysis of Kristi Noem's proposed changes and veto of the bill protecting women's sports -- and sanity -- in South Dakota from the Family Policy Alliance:
"Her promised veto removes the enforcement mechanism. It leaves no avenue for a parent or female athlete to take legal action against a liberal school district that decides to ignore the law."
"Second, it removes college sports – a giant omission – because of the threat of an NCAA lawsuit and her fear of losing out on hosting conference championships."
Thread on what's happening here with mental illness as public policy and Kristi Noem. @seanmdav previously described it as "dissembling" and that is perfect term.
Noem, who made clear and definitive statements when pushing back on Covid fascism for the past year, suddenly has a catechesis to offer on why she refused to sign a very simple bill. A 22-tweet thread. You read that right -- 22 tweet thread!
Her thread is over 400 words! Or more than 5 times the total words found in the First and Second Amendments COMBINED. And all to explain away her dissembling on the first fundamental fact stated about every human being ever: "it's a boy/girl."