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This one's important I think, Kyle Rittenhouse like important...

Why They're Prosecuting Daniel Penny
Why They're Prosecuting Daniel Penny | ZeroHedge

.....Meanwhile, hardworking taxpayers are treated simply as ATMs for funding the rights revolution. No once advocates for their interests. They are expected to silently tolerate whatever discomfort or danger that the rights revolution spawns.

The desire for urban cleanliness, order and safety — all are now understood as petty hang-ups of the overprivileged. Indeed, progressive residents of vagrant-heavy neighborhoods tout their compassion in stepping around comatose drug addicts without raising a political outcry.

The idea that there is a right to colonize city streets would have been unthinkable for most of the twentieth century. Public space existed to enable commerce and the activities of civil society; government existed to protect those functions. Police officers moved derelicts along, rather than allowing them to use sidewalks and business premises as toilets and shooting galleries. This no-colonization rule served as a deterrent to adopting a street lifestyle. When people did slide into social disaffiliation and dysfunction, Skid rows offered cheap single room occupancy housing, now priced out of existence due to the advocates’ unmeetable demands for improvements like private baths and kitchens.

That world of unapologetically enforced public order is gone. Nevertheless, the first time that an unconfined lunatic pushed a commuter under or into a subway car, the official enablement of untreated mental illness should have ended. Yet nothing changed, so strong is the idea that it is the alleged rights of the “homeless” that should guide public policy, not the rights and interests of normal working people.

When government abdicates its responsibility to maintain public safety, a few citizens, for now at least, will step into the breach. Penny was one of them. He restrained Neely not out of racism or malice but to protect his fellow passengers. He was showing classically male virtues: chivalry, courage and initiative. Male heroism threatens the entitlement state by providing an example of self-reliance apart from the professional helper class. And for that reason, he must be taken down.
 

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Gaslighting: The American People Are Trapped In A Textbook Abusive Relationship
Gaslighting: The American People Are Trapped In A Textbook Abusive Relationship | ZeroHedge

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Have we been gaslit by our own government?
I don’t think it’s farfetched to say that we, the people of the United States of America, have been gaslit.

Does this sound familiar? Lockdowns that keep you away from friends and loved ones? Losing your income and becoming dependent on handouts doled out by the government? Being censored and mocked when you say anything that is not in line with the official narrative? Being treated like a crazy conspiracy theorist who should be punished because of the harm you’re causing to others if you refuse to go along?

When you look at it this way, it feels like the entire US government and media have colluded to abuse the people. Many of the Covid-related “truths” that were promoted by the government and the media that we were not allowed to dispute have now been proven to be false. Stories we couldn’t question about the origins of the pandemic have been proven false. In another incident of broad-scale gaslighting unrelated to the pandemic, a lot of evidence has been produced that shows the Biden family may have received money from influence-peddling, but the media tells us not to believe it.

And like good little victims, it seems like a hefty portion of the country is refusing to believe the evidence, instead believing in the good intentions of their abusers. They’ve been gaslit, brainwashed, and are unable to break free of the manipulation.

And it’s still going on.
Recently Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a scathing opinion of the US government’s handling of the Covid pandemic, saying that we “have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”

“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent,” he said.
At the federal level, he highlighted not only immigration decrees but vaccine mandates, the regulation of landlord-tenant relations and pressure on social media companies to suppress “misinformation.”
The gaslighting blowback was immediate, with breathlessly outraged headlines.

Slate eloquently opined, “Neil Gorsuch’s List of “Civil Liberties Intrusions” Is, Uh, Missing a Few Things.” making sure to throw plenty of insulting talking points into their introductory paragraph in their attempt to liken a Supreme Court Justice who was educated at Harvard Law, Oxford, Georgetown, and Columbia, to an ignorant relative one merely tolerates. And they insinuated he was a racist.

Gorsuch has long railed against such policies, and his opinions have taken on an increasingly shrill tone, like the Fox News–poisoned uncle who hectors you about the plandemic in 3,000-word Facebook comments. The justice’s rant in Arizona v. Mayorkas, however, hits a new low, moving beyond the usual yada-yada grievance parade to issue a thesis statement of sorts…
…As Vox’s Ian Millhiser quickly pointed out, this sweeping claim leaves out two “intrusions on civil liberties” that any person with a basic grasp of history and sanity would surely rank as worse than pandemic policies: slavery and Jim Crow.
An opinion piece published in the NY Times gasped, “Neil Gorsuch Has Given Himself Away,” made it seem as if the Justice was belittling every other civil rights mishap in the history of America while also blithely disregarding the folks who died during the pandemic.

The New Republic condescendingly liberal-splained to the rest of us “What Neil Gorsuch Got Wrong About the Pandemic,” stating that “The justice’s vision of the judiciary’s role in public health may be more dangerous than any Covid-era restriction.”

The site Above The Law literally said Gorsuch was stupid in the piece, “For An Originalist, Gorsuch Is Clearly Slacking On His Definitions And Their Historical Meanings.” The subheading reads, “Is what he said stupid? Yes. But let’s be technical here.”

Law and Crime website also played the race card and did so right in the headline: Neil Gorsuch implies COVID restrictions were worse than slavery and Jim Crow, and the internet noticed.

Let’s look at that definition of political gaslighting again…

For example, the person or political party may downplay things their administration has done, discredit their opponents, imply that critics are mentally unstable, or use controversy to deflect attention away from their mistakes.
Oof. If that textbook case of gaslighting isn’t embarrassing, it should be. Then again, narcissists are rarely embarrassed.

The gaslighting will escalate.
Another thing about narcissists: they just get angry when they’re called out. They will respond by gaslighting you harder or seeking to “ruin” you. (source) They’ll punish you with a loss of “privileges,” money, material goods, and freedom. We’ve watched it happen again and again in our cancel culture media. Some of us have been unfortunate enough to have personal relationships with narcissists and learned this the hard way.

The only way to end narcissistic abuse and gaslighting is to recognize it and remove yourself from the situation as much as you can. Obviously, when it’s our entire government and society, that becomes complicated. You may be stuck with just recognizing it. But that in itself gives you a certain amount of freedom and personal power. It helps you get off the hamster wheel, and you begin to spot the manipulations more easily.

One thing we can be sure of is that this will escalate as more and more people say, “No, that’s not what happened.” This is something we can expect, and in some small way, maybe we can take comfort in the response. Perhaps we can smile to ourselves because we know those who were trying to manipulate us all are on the defensive.
 

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Ron will do an alright job, I think we will be just the peasants we are.
Nothing against Trump but he should have fired Many ppl (Fauci and more) that he did not. Be FIRM BE BOLD BE STRONG. That he did not show 100%.
Two of the biggest for me was not getting the wall fully built, and then the Vaccine (he put too much trust in the Deep State that controls the health system), and even after all the proof that the vaccine should really never have been approved if it had been held to past standards.

Between Trump and DeSantis, I think Trump would clean house more, but not sure what that would do in the long run. If he totally rebooted the FBI, CIA, etc., etc.. Can it really be fixed with the deeply embedded CRT/DEI Human Resources and magnitude of students that are being pumped out of the woke college system? SEE VIDEO A FEW POSTS DOWN.

However, he worked non stop, harder than any past President, and all the while they were attacking him like a president has not been attacked before, wasting his time with 4 years of false accusations. But there is so much he got done besides those two issues.

Will DeSantis work as hard as Trump, will DeSantis lower gas costs like Trump, will he clean house like Trump?
 
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Two of the biggest for me was not getting the wall fully built, and then the Vaccine (he put too much trust in the Deep State that controls the health system), and even after all the proof that the vaccine should really never have been approved if it had been held to past standards.

Between the two of them, I think he'd clean house more, but not sure what that would do in the long run. If he totally rebooted the FBI, CIA, etc., etc.. Can it really be fixed with the deeply embedded CRT/DEI Human Resources and magnitude of students that are being pumped out of the woke college system?

However, he worked non stop and all the while they were attacking him like a president has not been attacked before, wasting his time with 4 years of false accusations. But there is so much he got done besides those two issues.

Will DeSantis work as hard as Trump, will DeSantis lower gas costs like Trump, will he clean house like Trump?
For me Trump did pretty well for public, the only thing he did not do so great was keeping those folks work as heads of department.

Ron has done pretty well for Florida and he has the potential to do better given his age. Trump started cleaning the floor and pretty much ron might get it clean just like he has shown results in Florida.

I guess we will never know. It will be my first time voting for a president given me living in illinois won't change shit.
 

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I suspect many of you are fighting with the same thing I am, expecting what is in these human-looking bodies to be people. They are not. They are defective. They may as well be space aliens or machines. They repeat things proven over and over to be lies. White libs think they're more qualified to speak for blacks than black conservatives. Their lives are dedicated to brainwashing and controlling others, and they've succeeded to a shocking extent. My saying that is part of the problem. We need to quit being shocked at what they do and say. It's normal for them. It's their nature. They're at war with us. We're the enemy. They're out to crush anybody that isn't bowing to them. It exists on both ends of the political spectrum. The far left and far right just use different weapons of deception.
And for the record, I quit some time ago arguing with any libs or any of them that profess to be a Dem. It's a complete waste of time. You're more likely to have an intelligent, meaningful conversation with your dog.

Instead I use that time to plan how to get around them, bypass them and fool them. I will look one straight in the eye and tell them what they want to hear; I either gain their trust or they write me off as no threat and when their back is turned, I make my move. I'll figuratively stab them in the back and sleep like a baby that night.

Screw 'em....every last stinkin' one of 'em. They can kiss my red, white and blue right-aligned ass. We're called "the right" for a damn good reason and they are not.
 
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State Farm will no longer offer Home Insurance, nor will it be accepting new applications for business and personal lines of property and casualty insurance in California

Will the last person to leave the leftist socialist hellhole please turn out the light!

State Farm Cuts New Home Insurance in California, Citing Wildfire Risk (businessinsider.com)
New King James Version
The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth.
And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
 
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