Just weighing in on the mask thing - I wore a mask through the pandemic and was not sick with anything. When I took off the mask and went to a crowded function, I got Covid (yes I was vaccinated and boosted and weathered Covid just fine). My point being, I was my own scientific study….masks work when you wear them!
I am a Biden fan, thrilled with all he has accomplished, but horrified that the Willow project - drilling in Alaska - may proceed. This is against all that environmentalists are working for.
Please, let's all write the White House expressing our deep concern. Or go to change.org
Great to see you promoting Simon Rosenberg, Robert! I too was infected by RWF -- Red Wave Fatalism. It was only a few days before the 2022 election, but Simon, in a Meidas Touch Network interview, cured me of RWF.
Since then I have seen many of his presentations and highly recommend his work!
trump and DeSantass were in IA. DeSantass, Fri. Not sure when trump was there. Even though trump endorsed Kimmie, she was with DeSantass, not trump...hahaa trumps ratings have really fallen in IA. We don't live in IA, but we're close enough to the QC area that we get our local news from them. They didn't carry trump being there, at all. With DeSantass, it wasn't much. He's pretty proud that he, and his state, aren't "woke". I guess he walks through life asleep. Huh. I have a lot of other words to describe him, but I'll be a lady and be nice.
Thanks for the heads up on the Hopium Chronicles. I signed up before I finished even reading the rest of your article, because I'm tired of how 🤔 the radical insurrectionists are poisoning America 🇺🇸 .
Hopefully Herr DeSantis will sabotage his campaign with his 1000 year plans for the Sunshine 🌞 Reich states of America; no way no how ever!! Just hope he is able to drag the orange 🍊 behemoth out of contention too, that is if ol Teflon Don hasn't already done himself in. Go Stormy!!
Good 👍 to see President Biden being feisty and firmly on top of what needs to be done for the benefit of all Americans. Can hear him already telling his 2024 opponents "Better luck your senior year! " If you mess with the best, you'll go down like all of the rest! "
Did you see that No Labels has registered as a new political party in Oregon. One family member from Portland OR summed this up correctly: This so-called middle of the road party with Manchin and Sinema in its ranks (they have been associated with no labels as a movement, not a party, for a while as was Murkowski.).. will ensure that the Republicans win in 2024 because moderate Democrats may be persuaded into their fold. Fool's paradise?
Two comments this morning. First, building on Robert's mention of Simon Rosenberg's Substack, here is the latest Lincoln Project podcast with Simon as a guest. He talks about how we can be even more effective than the Democratic party, mentions all of us who have banded together on Zoom and many other things. Definitely worth a listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hopium-chronicles-with-simon-rosenberg/id1551582052?i=1000603614542
Seems important to emphasize that the MAGA crew, when thinking, are working very thoughtfully to destroy the central government. It seems clear that they intend to so tarnish the Federal Government that it will be so rejected by the voters that they can dismantle it without much resistance. Of course, the reason to do that gets us back to the Civil War. Then they can bypass or ignore any law or community activity from the Feds and set up their own systems in the states that they wish to control. This will be the end of religious, economic, and political freedom in what had been the United States.
Of course, this is done by destroying anything that looks like honor and refusing to experience shame. In doing so, they bypass two (I think this came from Status Quo last week) powerful social forces that have held together the social networks from which Democracy emerges. Without both, socialization becomes
a horror and the only deterrent we have is law, which is purposely slow and cumbersome.
I suggest that we watch them taking pride in their total lack of honor (lying, cheating, and stealing wherever they can get away with it and asking for high fives when done.) or shame. In fact, it appears that they revel in being what is essentially a criminal enterprise and have encouraged the thugs to join them.
They have already begun a terror process (yes, they are terrorists--like Timothy McVeigh) and will eventually kill indiscriminately with pride and malice just as he did. These are not nice people and we will be fools to attempt to treat them as such. They are prideful and arrogant, with a willingness and desire to destroy all that Federalism has built in the last 200 years so they no longer have to "endure" Bobby Kennedy sending in the troupes to Little Rock.
Extremely dangerous, because we will constantly fail to treat them with the severity required in hopes that by being "nice" the world and maybe even they, will like us.
There have been many articles about the cruelty some of their leaders exhibit and it's hard to accept the cruelty as real. But it is. And they revel in it--the idea that there is a single Christian bone among them is self deception. There is absolutely nothing of Christ in any of it.
These are ordinary criminals becoming hardened criminals and jail time for them will be nothing worse than a higher education.
Not really any different from organized crime and must be treated that way.
They will use our weakness born of our desire to forgive and offer care. True love in this instance is tough love borne of compassion. These humans are possessed, more along the lines of serial killers, than the norm amongst us. This is not the time to "turn the other cheek." It will get ripped off.
Thank you for sharing the 'good news', I signed up for Simons newsletter. Yes! We must not only find the good to celebrate, but become the celebration that might open the eyes, ears, hearts of those who are so shut down and willing to be slaves to the mob on the right. Today on twitter, it was one, falsehood after another from the magas - from President Biden´s budget - calling it 'woke', to McCarthy, Cruz, DeSantis, et al. They don't work. They tweet daily and have photo ops.
I had written that today I would post regarding the creating of a video(s) celebrating WOKE.
First, it's important to know that this is a truly special word for the African American community. Many were not happy when liberals began to use it. Then, the magas took it over, as they did the word 'socialism,' to politically create fear and anger in their followers.
WOKE is now defined as: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
The video - it may be more if many submit - will be comprised of videos and high resolution photos (300dpi) you send me.
Videos can be taken with your phone or with a video camera.
No one has to speak, as there will be title cards with each video or photo with the name of the group or club or organization or family or individual who is involved in creating racial or social justice and the city and state - I hope to have every state represented if possible, so if you have family or friends in other states, please share with them.
If video, and you would like to be creative and have the group or family interacting and laughing or playing or rehearsing (theatre, music, art class) then seeing the camera before waving or inviting the camera to join, that would be great.
Possibly a blended family playing together then seeing the camera then waving and inviting the camera to join.
Everyone in the video or photo will be smiling and waving. If possible, inviting the camera to join them in videos.
The act does not have to be big. It can be anything that shows inclusion - race, lgbtq+, friendships between members of different religions, mixed families, teaching children in mixed neighbor hoods, lgbtq families, church groups with mixed races, working in food banks or soup kitchens, helping people to vote, helping people with down syndrome or disabilities. Celebrating with police. Working with those incarcerated. Teaching art, music, math, science in under privileged communities.
Acts of kindness. Acts of patience. Growing inclusion in communities. Small acts with the vision of creating a true America for all.
It is a celebration of inclusion and all are welcome.
The vision at this moment is that the video will open with a BLACK TITLE CARD with the word WOKE and its definition.
CROSS FADE TO VIDEO
Under the video, 'America the Beautiful' will play. I would like to use this version if possible. https://youtu.be/TRUjr8EVgBg
The final moment with the words, ¨America Is Awakening¨.
If you have a video, email me at gaileegailee@gmail.com with AWAKENING VIDEO READY in the subject line and I will email you a link to upload to my Google Drive.
In the photo or video everyone is waving - in the video the camera can be invited to join. In photos some can be using the heart sign made with hands and fingers. If you don't know what I mean by this, I will send a photo.
Feel free to share with anyone who is AWAKE and has the vision of the American we can become.
So you know what ~ since the world opened up after the pandemic surge there is a body of people still wearing masks and requiring masks at least in my area and that is Doctors offices and hospitals! That tells me all I need to know ! The clowns that have made a pandemic a political pon have a million + deaths on their hands ! Karmas a B*^%#
Please let’s not continue to celebrate that the Red wave did not materialize. McCarthy is speaker, Jordan, and Greene are in positions of power. Despite no platform and being contrary to what people want on almost every issue, the Red team still won. Yes it could have been worse, but it should have been a rout for the Blue.
Here is a small piece of Mr. Rosenberg's plan. A huge thanks to Mr. Hubbell for letting us know about Mr. Rosenberg's new Substack. Mr. Hubbell shows a spirit of cooperation instead of competition which is exactly what we need in our fight for Democracy.
From Mr. Rosenberg: " I want this to be a journey guided by hope and optimism, of belief in ourselves, in love of country and a clear understanding of the nature of the conflict we are in. I have become convinced that part of Greater MAGA’s strategy is to intentionally poison our discourse with negative sentiment every day. "
Echoing Mr. Rosenberg's thoughts about negative discourse here. The made-up names, name calling and hating the Republicans and MAGAs are negative discourse. Not only does it sour a comments section, but it pollutes the national discourse. We reduce ourselves to their level. It also reduces our effectiveness. Sometimes comments are so full of made-up angry words I don't understand their point. My personal rule has become I won't read an angry, negative comment full of name calling. It bums me out and serves no purpose for any political work I am doing.
Mr. Rosenberg has picked up a bunch of subscribers based on your recommendation and the quality of his welcome piece. As we grow the number and reach of publications devoted to honesty, openness, and an optimistic approach to the challenges that we face, our chances of having a strong positive impact on those problems increases dramatically.
The best argument I can think of for the effectiveness of wearing masks is the stunning decrease in flu infections during the pandemic. Oddly enough, this statistic doesn't come up in conversation, perhaps because it doesn't serve the narrative of either the vaccination group or the anti-maskers.
One hopes that the troubles afflicting Mr. DeathSantis and his campaign are indicative of an entropic spiral involving the whole Republican party and that, provided the Democrats and other reasonable people find, encourage, and promote positive, electable candidates, we can have an end to the anti-humanity, anti-liberty nonsense being promoted by the GOP sooner rather than later.
Just weighing in on the mask thing - I wore a mask through the pandemic and was not sick with anything. When I took off the mask and went to a crowded function, I got Covid (yes I was vaccinated and boosted and weathered Covid just fine). My point being, I was my own scientific study….masks work when you wear them!
We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know that they are lying.
We know that they know that we know that they know they are lying.
And still . .. they continue to lie.
-ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
This should be at the beginning of every article about Fox News I think.
I am a Biden fan, thrilled with all he has accomplished, but horrified that the Willow project - drilling in Alaska - may proceed. This is against all that environmentalists are working for.
Please, let's all write the White House expressing our deep concern. Or go to change.org
Great to see you promoting Simon Rosenberg, Robert! I too was infected by RWF -- Red Wave Fatalism. It was only a few days before the 2022 election, but Simon, in a Meidas Touch Network interview, cured me of RWF.
Since then I have seen many of his presentations and highly recommend his work!
trump and DeSantass were in IA. DeSantass, Fri. Not sure when trump was there. Even though trump endorsed Kimmie, she was with DeSantass, not trump...hahaa trumps ratings have really fallen in IA. We don't live in IA, but we're close enough to the QC area that we get our local news from them. They didn't carry trump being there, at all. With DeSantass, it wasn't much. He's pretty proud that he, and his state, aren't "woke". I guess he walks through life asleep. Huh. I have a lot of other words to describe him, but I'll be a lady and be nice.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Thanks for the heads up on the Hopium Chronicles. I signed up before I finished even reading the rest of your article, because I'm tired of how 🤔 the radical insurrectionists are poisoning America 🇺🇸 .
Hopefully Herr DeSantis will sabotage his campaign with his 1000 year plans for the Sunshine 🌞 Reich states of America; no way no how ever!! Just hope he is able to drag the orange 🍊 behemoth out of contention too, that is if ol Teflon Don hasn't already done himself in. Go Stormy!!
Good 👍 to see President Biden being feisty and firmly on top of what needs to be done for the benefit of all Americans. Can hear him already telling his 2024 opponents "Better luck your senior year! " If you mess with the best, you'll go down like all of the rest! "
Did you see that No Labels has registered as a new political party in Oregon. One family member from Portland OR summed this up correctly: This so-called middle of the road party with Manchin and Sinema in its ranks (they have been associated with no labels as a movement, not a party, for a while as was Murkowski.).. will ensure that the Republicans win in 2024 because moderate Democrats may be persuaded into their fold. Fool's paradise?
Two comments this morning. First, building on Robert's mention of Simon Rosenberg's Substack, here is the latest Lincoln Project podcast with Simon as a guest. He talks about how we can be even more effective than the Democratic party, mentions all of us who have banded together on Zoom and many other things. Definitely worth a listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hopium-chronicles-with-simon-rosenberg/id1551582052?i=1000603614542
Second, is this lovely trolling of Ron DeSantis on his book tour in Iowa. He doesn't even realize the message in the snowflake!!!https://twitter.com/SteveGoffman/status/1634358622774861824
Seems important to emphasize that the MAGA crew, when thinking, are working very thoughtfully to destroy the central government. It seems clear that they intend to so tarnish the Federal Government that it will be so rejected by the voters that they can dismantle it without much resistance. Of course, the reason to do that gets us back to the Civil War. Then they can bypass or ignore any law or community activity from the Feds and set up their own systems in the states that they wish to control. This will be the end of religious, economic, and political freedom in what had been the United States.
Of course, this is done by destroying anything that looks like honor and refusing to experience shame. In doing so, they bypass two (I think this came from Status Quo last week) powerful social forces that have held together the social networks from which Democracy emerges. Without both, socialization becomes
a horror and the only deterrent we have is law, which is purposely slow and cumbersome.
I suggest that we watch them taking pride in their total lack of honor (lying, cheating, and stealing wherever they can get away with it and asking for high fives when done.) or shame. In fact, it appears that they revel in being what is essentially a criminal enterprise and have encouraged the thugs to join them.
They have already begun a terror process (yes, they are terrorists--like Timothy McVeigh) and will eventually kill indiscriminately with pride and malice just as he did. These are not nice people and we will be fools to attempt to treat them as such. They are prideful and arrogant, with a willingness and desire to destroy all that Federalism has built in the last 200 years so they no longer have to "endure" Bobby Kennedy sending in the troupes to Little Rock.
Extremely dangerous, because we will constantly fail to treat them with the severity required in hopes that by being "nice" the world and maybe even they, will like us.
There have been many articles about the cruelty some of their leaders exhibit and it's hard to accept the cruelty as real. But it is. And they revel in it--the idea that there is a single Christian bone among them is self deception. There is absolutely nothing of Christ in any of it.
These are ordinary criminals becoming hardened criminals and jail time for them will be nothing worse than a higher education.
Not really any different from organized crime and must be treated that way.
They will use our weakness born of our desire to forgive and offer care. True love in this instance is tough love borne of compassion. These humans are possessed, more along the lines of serial killers, than the norm amongst us. This is not the time to "turn the other cheek." It will get ripped off.
Thank you for sharing the 'good news', I signed up for Simons newsletter. Yes! We must not only find the good to celebrate, but become the celebration that might open the eyes, ears, hearts of those who are so shut down and willing to be slaves to the mob on the right. Today on twitter, it was one, falsehood after another from the magas - from President Biden´s budget - calling it 'woke', to McCarthy, Cruz, DeSantis, et al. They don't work. They tweet daily and have photo ops.
I had written that today I would post regarding the creating of a video(s) celebrating WOKE.
First, it's important to know that this is a truly special word for the African American community. Many were not happy when liberals began to use it. Then, the magas took it over, as they did the word 'socialism,' to politically create fear and anger in their followers.
WOKE is now defined as: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
The video - it may be more if many submit - will be comprised of videos and high resolution photos (300dpi) you send me.
Videos can be taken with your phone or with a video camera.
No one has to speak, as there will be title cards with each video or photo with the name of the group or club or organization or family or individual who is involved in creating racial or social justice and the city and state - I hope to have every state represented if possible, so if you have family or friends in other states, please share with them.
If video, and you would like to be creative and have the group or family interacting and laughing or playing or rehearsing (theatre, music, art class) then seeing the camera before waving or inviting the camera to join, that would be great.
Possibly a blended family playing together then seeing the camera then waving and inviting the camera to join.
Everyone in the video or photo will be smiling and waving. If possible, inviting the camera to join them in videos.
The act does not have to be big. It can be anything that shows inclusion - race, lgbtq+, friendships between members of different religions, mixed families, teaching children in mixed neighbor hoods, lgbtq families, church groups with mixed races, working in food banks or soup kitchens, helping people to vote, helping people with down syndrome or disabilities. Celebrating with police. Working with those incarcerated. Teaching art, music, math, science in under privileged communities.
Acts of kindness. Acts of patience. Growing inclusion in communities. Small acts with the vision of creating a true America for all.
It is a celebration of inclusion and all are welcome.
The vision at this moment is that the video will open with a BLACK TITLE CARD with the word WOKE and its definition.
CROSS FADE TO VIDEO
Under the video, 'America the Beautiful' will play. I would like to use this version if possible. https://youtu.be/TRUjr8EVgBg
The final moment with the words, ¨America Is Awakening¨.
If you have questions, feel free to email me at gaileegailee@gmail.com.
Photos will be sent to gaileegailee@gmail.com with ¨AWAKENING¨ in the subject line.
If you have a video, email me at gaileegailee@gmail.com with AWAKENING VIDEO READY in the subject line and I will email you a link to upload to my Google Drive.
In the photo or video everyone is waving - in the video the camera can be invited to join. In photos some can be using the heart sign made with hands and fingers. If you don't know what I mean by this, I will send a photo.
Feel free to share with anyone who is AWAKE and has the vision of the American we can become.
Thank you. Yes. We. Can.
Gailee
"Efforts to protect children from guns rather than books," is a great line that we should all be using whenever possible.
So you know what ~ since the world opened up after the pandemic surge there is a body of people still wearing masks and requiring masks at least in my area and that is Doctors offices and hospitals! That tells me all I need to know ! The clowns that have made a pandemic a political pon have a million + deaths on their hands ! Karmas a B*^%#
Please let’s not continue to celebrate that the Red wave did not materialize. McCarthy is speaker, Jordan, and Greene are in positions of power. Despite no platform and being contrary to what people want on almost every issue, the Red team still won. Yes it could have been worse, but it should have been a rout for the Blue.
Here is a small piece of Mr. Rosenberg's plan. A huge thanks to Mr. Hubbell for letting us know about Mr. Rosenberg's new Substack. Mr. Hubbell shows a spirit of cooperation instead of competition which is exactly what we need in our fight for Democracy.
From Mr. Rosenberg: " I want this to be a journey guided by hope and optimism, of belief in ourselves, in love of country and a clear understanding of the nature of the conflict we are in. I have become convinced that part of Greater MAGA’s strategy is to intentionally poison our discourse with negative sentiment every day. "
Echoing Mr. Rosenberg's thoughts about negative discourse here. The made-up names, name calling and hating the Republicans and MAGAs are negative discourse. Not only does it sour a comments section, but it pollutes the national discourse. We reduce ourselves to their level. It also reduces our effectiveness. Sometimes comments are so full of made-up angry words I don't understand their point. My personal rule has become I won't read an angry, negative comment full of name calling. It bums me out and serves no purpose for any political work I am doing.
Shanti
Signed up for Hopium Chronicles immediately. Thanks for the tip!! I'm so excited!!
Mr. Rosenberg has picked up a bunch of subscribers based on your recommendation and the quality of his welcome piece. As we grow the number and reach of publications devoted to honesty, openness, and an optimistic approach to the challenges that we face, our chances of having a strong positive impact on those problems increases dramatically.
The best argument I can think of for the effectiveness of wearing masks is the stunning decrease in flu infections during the pandemic. Oddly enough, this statistic doesn't come up in conversation, perhaps because it doesn't serve the narrative of either the vaccination group or the anti-maskers.
One hopes that the troubles afflicting Mr. DeathSantis and his campaign are indicative of an entropic spiral involving the whole Republican party and that, provided the Democrats and other reasonable people find, encourage, and promote positive, electable candidates, we can have an end to the anti-humanity, anti-liberty nonsense being promoted by the GOP sooner rather than later.