In the past, I might not put much thought into the flag. I just see it as away to acknowledge the community. In recent years, I am beginning to see it as a symbol that there is a storm coming. The flag is a symbol that is dividing communities.
The flag originally covered only Lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people. As people: with basic human rights, including bodily integrity (no "corrective" rape, no beatings-to-death), and the right to work and rent or buy a home, etc.
This new alphabet plot does two things: it erases women as a sex-caste, as adult human females, and it grooms us all to accept transhumanism. Jennifer Bilek (The Federalist, and more) writes brilliantly on this, especially on the rich white men who enormously fund it. The T, autogynephile heterosexual men, and the spicy straights, Q, and all the children who merely wanted validation, enbies, etc., are political add-ons to divide the populace.
The original Pride folks are not your enemy. Lesbians are a community loosely allowed with gay men, also a community. The add-ons are pure political manipulation to get us to accept the elites taping into our brains, a mechanism of easy enslavement.
As a lesbian, I cringe these days at the lengthening initials, the 'pride' activities and month, basically the whole shebang. My sexual identity is my own business and not in need of rainbow flags for validation. The whole Transgender movement sickens me and I see it as a capitalist move that is all about money--for pharma, the medical industry, the psychologists and psychiatrists and others.
Thank you for expressing your opinion as a lesbian. I have two male gay cousins which I love dearly and as a consequence have had many gay friends. I have always supported their right to be recognized and respected for their choices in life. It has never been a problem for me as a white straight female.
However I am having a real problem with the transgender movement and all that it entails. Never in my wildest imagination did I think a group of people and a small minority at that could have so much power and influence over our current social beliefs and prevailing government policies.
As a woman who recently turned 73 this year I have come to the conclusion if I was gay that I would want to divest myself of all affiliation of the current alphabet coalition currently in vogue.
As a straight woman I am appalled by the systemic erasure of my species by the transgender movement. For the record my gay cousin and his partner totally agree with your viewpoint. They are not on board in any way with the current government policies that are putting transgender to the forefront with the exclusion of others.
As a female today I am now labeled as a terf or transphobic or cis gender. Take your pick.
I have an 18 year old granddaughter and she is being subjected to a culture that denies her womanhood. She now will have to share gender neutral washrooms with everyone in school and on university campus. Should she have a child it will no longer be necessary to identify same child by gender since it's now an elective. If she chooses to " breast" feed her offspring it will be called " chest feeding".
I remember a time when all progressive first world countries were horrified by countries and cultures that believed in the practice of female genital mutilation.
We are way beyond that now. As a result of the transgender movement we are whole heartedly endorsing the practice of lopping off body parts of both young girls and boys to achieve a perceived benefit!
And it's being offered to our youngest generation of kids.
I have no idea where this is going to end but at this point I don't believe that straight people like me are going to be effective to change the prevailing course we are on. They are not interested in our opinion.
It is my sincere hope and belief that if the gay community takes a stand on these issues we may have a chance to stop this insane juggernaut on our society.
I would welcome your further comments should you choose to do so.
Actually, I think it's the parents who will ultimately put a stop to this, not gays and lesbians. There are lots of parents out there, and if their kids ever get confused, they run the risk of mutilation.
BTW, have you seen the interview that Jordan Peterson did with Chloe Cole? She's an 18-year-old detransitioner (she may be 19 by now, I'm not sure). The whole thing sounds like an over the top satire, except that she's stuck with a deep voice and no breasts. And yes, that *could* happen to a young girl you care about. Which is why I think it'll be the parents who put a stop to this.
I really hope you are right Irena about parents putting the brakes on this madness.
I live in Canada and currently our political climate is not one bit interested in what parents think especially concerning our schools.
Our Prime Minister, Trudeau made that clear last week.
He basically implied that any parent who questioned the current transgender dogma was extreme right wing and that he has the kids back. To put it in context. This is his reaction to the premier of New Brunswick suggesting changes to the current prevailing code in schools concerning transgender policies.
So if parents are going to be the solution in Canada I wish them luck. They are going to need it.
I'm not sure they have the stomach for it. It's going to take guts and courage to fight this current insane dogma.
I am watching in horror as John Hopkins just redesigned the definition of "Lesbian" to "non-man". Ireland is holding a referendum in November to remove the word "woman" from the Constitution. Orwell would not be proud. The original Gay Movement was grassroots, but this Transgender movement is fully funded, well organized and appeared out of nowhere a few years ago. Along with BLM, Climate Change and Covid over-reaction. My nieces and nephews are being raised in a dystopian era. How can they ever think critically when the rug has been pulled out from under them. I had to share a Ladies bathroom in corporate America with a man in a dress. We were told to accept it, or we were the problem. You are correct - it is a vogue. A dangerous one.
Interestingly a 48 year old male friend of mine recently told me he had to use a gender neutral washroom recently and in his case he claimed he and other males were urinating in public urinals as women walked behind them on the way to the enclosed toilets. He felt really uncomfortable with it all.
He also is a school carpenter and is on a safety committee for said school district. Apparently school districts are going forward with gender neutral bathrooms. He has tried, unsuccessfully, to dissuade them of this policy.
I couldn't agree with you more. I can't for the life of me find anything positive for humanity in the transgender movement. I find it frightening and yet my adult children and soon to be or already are adult grandchildren are seemingly fine with the whole thing.
Perhaps I'm beating my head against a brick wall. Why should I worry or care given my age of 73. But I do.
After my post on this thread I had the opportunity to watch the documentary by Matt Walsh called " What is a Woman?"
It was wonderful and thankfully Twitter is allowing its presentation. It has had a massive viewership for a documentary. It gave me hope.
I applaud your... disgust at the whole thing, but want to add something else to your observations: along with it being about profit for a vast number of people, it is also about controlling reproduction, which is, I suppose, another way to say depop.
We might be thrilled they are alive. But today’s young people are not happy to be here. They are brainwashed and in a cult and they don’t know it. At least I see this in the US. Can’t speak for other countries.
As a gay man I also cringe at the Pride rituals and the addition of transexuals to the cause. Transexuals have undone decades of progress made by gays and lesbians who just wanted to live their lives as normal functioning members of society. The trans/queer circus and their sexualization and mutilation of children has understandably reversed the trend toward moral acceptability of same sex relationships. https://news.gallup.com/poll/507230/fewer-say-sex-relations-morally-acceptable.aspx Any gay or lesbian who supports the trans/queer circus is unwittingly supporting their own return to the closet.
Well, I think Stonewall has become quite the organization, employing lots and lots of people who are totally invested in keeping their jobs for as long as they can.
And just like anything that gets pushed down peoples throats there’s a point where you just don’t wanna hear it anymore. That the trans community are we characterizing this as a genocide is the same philosophy and approach used by first nations in Canada who have been the recipients of a lot of support, but want to keep that money spigot open and advantageous policies getting written. What has happened in the past to many demographics is regrettable, but we have to move forward with positivity and fairness.
Thank-you for refreshing me on the history. But, I might have not known it all. I do see that there is a generational difference in what the flag represents. The older people have a clearer idea of the rights of all people. I too agree that the manipulation of the elites is the problem.
I do not see rich white men sponsoring the transgenders specifically. I see the feminization of society as a much simpler and testable explanation. Today women run a significant part of the social services, media, academia, and are increasingly present in politics. Women on average have a higher empathy and many women seek something to fill the hole in their heart. Like a duckling adopts the first moving object as mother, so will many young women adopt the clearest victim group as their empathic target. Look at the transgender demonstrations, the far, far, majority is female.
That said, most of the problems are always caused by young men. As far as I can see the biggest problems are caused by trolls that see a way to get access to female privileges and create havoc. The existence that there are female privileges where no similar male privileges exists indicates that the idea of a patriarchy is bollocks.
Read some Bilek. Whatever we might think, there is a definite pattern of wealthy white men funding the genderist cult, not so much for 'kindness' but for societal control (transhumanism is an endgame).
Sex is on a hierarchy, male over female. Just like race is, just like class is. But privilege does tend to be invisible to those who have it.
Of course. Those demonstrations full of women are doing that under instructions of the patriarchy.
Maybe it would help if you would have some face to face discussions with some white males that are willing to do some mainsplaining for you. Your lack of logic reasoning is quite impressive.
I would use sex-class but class has another meaning -- socioeconomic status plus worldview. I am working class, and don't like the class biz muddled.
And, seriously? 'Woman' is now a word with no meaning, except the the extent that men appropriate it as a costume with high heels, makeup, and spinny skirts (plus fake breasts). Mothers? Can't use that term. Birthing parent -- as if there's a selection! Breastfeeding? Nope, it's chestfeeding. It also erases our right -- men in women's prisons rape women, mediocre men competing in women's sports get medals while displacing female athletes -- and they get scholarships designed for women. Female erasure is not too strong a term.
Off topic (perhaps) but I think this shows a terrible storm, which was not as advertised ...
CDC and state health agency data prove that cases of “influenza-like-illness (ILI) were widespread and severe across almost the entire U.S. in the months before “official” Covid. If nothing else, the evidence is overwhelming that more Americans became “sick” and experienced Covid-like symptoms than in the 10 previous flu seasons. Is it possible some large percentage of these sick people actually had Covid? I say yes.
If I’m right and the experts somehow completely missed the copious evidence of “early spread,” the implications are seismic. For example, it seems likely that iatrogenic deaths - and not this virus - explains the vast majority of “Covid deaths” that started happening in April 2020.
Agree. In Santa Clara county everybody was getting sick in late 2019. (Our dentist said, “everybody has been getting pneumonia.”) And everybody was treated for pneumonia like illness. And we lived.
Never would have believed a plandemic, plan to get rid of trump, world reset, etc. Till now.
The docs DID treat the (probable covid) illnesses in 2019 and early 2020. It wasn't until March 2020 and beyond when they STOPPED treating early covid, based on what the CDC and FDA said they should do. Absolutely insane. I still cannot believe that the majority of doctors stayed home, video appts only, no treatment. Unless you're blue and cannot breathe. Then go to the hospital. Fear really does stop human brains from working.
Thanks for sharing. I wish I had a dime for every similar "anecdote" I've read. I've saved hundreds, but at some point quit saving them. I've always thought that if just 15 or 20 percent of the people who think they had early Covid really had early Covid ... that number would be immense.
The same with the number of people who suspect they've experienced a "a vaccine injury."
Symbols are inherently divisive. Symbolism is a display that is expressly to separate. Me. My tribe. Different than you. Your tribe. Flags, mascots, colors, ribbons, hand signs, symbols. Masks are symbols. Zero medical efficacy. Behavioral Science symbols to "show you care." To be afraid/aware of infectious disease. "If you don't wear our tribe's symbol then you're not one of us." A foe. Opposing tribe. Dangerous. Futbol club mascots will provoke fights, sometimes violent between members of the teams/tribes. Symbols.
I agree with what you are saying. Symbols can be a sense of belong, yet today things are pushed to the extreme. I was baffled my the term they/them for one person. I have put a little more thought into it and have figured it is really to disempower the person. By that, I mean you are no longer an individual. Your thoughts and actions are to embody the group. That is where you have a mob like mentality. From what I see, there is a weird social experiment going on. The experiment is at the expense of the people who follow.
I am so old that I remember a time when one referred to themselves as them it was because they had a mental disorder called multiple personality syndrome. Remember the classic " Sybil".
Loved this comment. I have always been an outlier since I was a child. Could never really get on board with prevailing beliefs and culture. I've pretty much marched to the beat of my own drum during my lifetime. No regrets and just recently celebrated my 73rd birthday.
However, it can at times, prove to be a lonely path. I've discovered that it is rare in life to meet other like minded individuals. I wouldn't change a thing.
Problem is that in that picture of the three flags you can burn the two with inly three colors the courts will defend your right to freedom of expression. If you burn the multicolored flag you will be charged with a hate crime as you are not allowed to freedom of expression on that subject.
That flag represents nothing but intolerance and totalitarianism. It is the most revered flag of those in power. And like you say anything other than saluting it will result in the government boot on your neck. Here in Florida a guy is being hunted down and possibly being charged with a hate crime for peeling out on a rainbow mural on the road. It’s being treated like the crime of the century. Fuck these intolerant assholes.
Gold fringe on a US flag first appeared around 1835 for military flags - close to 60 years after the first US flags were prescribed.
In the late 1800's, the US Army began including gold fringe on flags primarily used in ceremonial purposes. Other Services began the same. But never on a flag used in or that might be in battle (you will never see a US warship flying a flag fringed in gold!)
I think something more fundamental is happening. My feeling from that flag now is actually quite a cold feeling. Depressed. Demoralized. Check this out…
We are living in a time when the machinators have machinated. Cunning plans, long in the making, are in their final phase of execution. Hands are being called. Chips are falling where they may. Chaos incoming. Black Adder would be proud. Pinky and the Brain have control of the levers of power. It's all just so dumb. So unbelievably dumb.
The Rainbow flag is the symbol of the decadence of western non culture .In my mind homos are the most disgusting among us ,a Sodoma and Ghomorra culture .Sex between a woman and man can be messy enough in some cases. ,Sex between two men or two women is pure swine .
Homosexuals where around as long as humanity exists ,but it was always hush ,hush done in secrete ,simply they knew it was and is a shameful act .Now it is celebrated as a noble act ,with parades ,flags and even official weddings.
Homosexuality is anti-life, contrary to nature. If everyone were homosexual, the human race would be extinct within one generation. There is no greater evil than extinction of life.
I dont care too much, creepy consenting adults, but i dont want to be forced to celebrate it, and certainly not to allow them to engage in youth indoctrination as they are. From that perspective, nuke from orbit.
And yes, anti-nature. Statistical anomaly. It should not be a growing phenomena, be queer whatever, but allowing them to forcibly recruit children, that’s a big sick problem
It's all very weird and very recent. Not homosexual and lesbian people - been around forever. But all the totally mad stuff like men putting on frocks and saying they're women and people agreeing. Or cutting off bits of a body to make the illusion go further. All very weird and suspicious. The hippy-dippy crowd from the 1960s are now grandparents and they don't even understand what the rainbow flag is for, let alone approve of it. Who actually approves of any of this? The teeny tiny percentage of the population who participate in it all who would mostly have been diagnosed with some sort of mental disorder a few years ago. Plus world governments and transnational corporations. Very weird. Mega-distraction from Real Life Bad Stuff.
It's happened really suddenly, this TransMaoist 'Cultural Revolution'.
Just yesterday I was discussing Obama with someone, and how he was known to be gay but it had to be covered up, and he actually didn't just avoid the issue, he gave clear statements about how "marriage is a sacred union... between a man and a woman"... and all the activists and boosters from Chicago knew he was lying, but it was the 'noble lie'. It had to be done, he could not have been elected President otherwise.
It's crazy that this was all in 2008. It's really not that long ago! In 2008 Obama had to be anti gay marriage and lie about his personal life. Within the course of just *his Presidency* he moved to the pro gay marriage position. In the course of the course of the 6 years following that, they teach school kids about the various types of "queer identity" in state schools, and hang their movement's flag at equal height to Old Glory on the White House (which I'm pretty sure is against the law actually; no flag can must hang equal to or above the US flag, except another national flag).
That's a wild amount of narrative shift in such a short time span.
Yes, a lot of people knew. Certainly within politics, and in liberal areas, it was well known. The 'Bathhouse Barry' nickname started up in 2007, not by rightwingers, but by the lefties who felt he wasn't socialist enough, and they called him that slur because his past in Chicago was well known.
The teamsters and activists all participated in the lie that he was a straight, happily married guy, because I think they really believed that he could win and it was a noble lie. A lot like Covid I suppose, all these people who just straight up lied to us, repeatedly and ever more brazenly, but they really did convince themselves that it was right and necessary (even noble) to do so.
Worth remembering the mood of the nation at that time — Obama's campaign was astonishingly well crafted and executed, and while the 'ground game' of the Chicago political operators was vicious (Alinsky methods) the larger view managed to really win people over with the Hope & Change stuff. A lot of middle America really believed and got swept up in these promises. So you can see how those that facilitated the lie, especially the ones who are identitarian by political nature (the left, the media) felt like propelling this young and handsome black man 'for Change' was the right thing to do — historic. As for his political opponents, I think they shut up for obvious reasons; firstly they knew they also had a number of closeted gay men on their 'team' as well (people in glass houses...), and at that time it was already the era of having to be very careful *how* you go about criticising a black man without having the race card pulled on you, especially making an allegation that middle America would balk at. So, yeah, it was sort of a big, 'noble lie' that was successful enough that many 'flyover' folks I think are still unaware.
Actually, side note re the rules & protocols of flag hanging, I do believe that it would be acceptable to display the QWERTY+ flag this way if it acknowledged by the state to be a *religious* symbol.
Perhaps this is their low-key admission that this is the new State religion? 🤔
In the United States, no other flag should be placed above the American flag or, if they are to be placed on the same level, to the right of the American flag e.g. no flag to the 'left' of the American flag.
I heard this rumor back then and dismissed it. None of my business, anyway. Now I’ve heard this twice in 2 days. If true, it appears that PRIDE began back in 2008 (and I still ignore it).
Are you in third grade? Your moronic comments here take the cake. “Immature” hardly comes close to describing your behavior. When I attempt to present the arguments put forth in this essay to folks on the Left, they point to cretinous behavior like yours to reject the argument as coming from stupid racist assholes. You aren’t helping. STFU.
Commander-in-Chief Poopy Pants should probably keep his Pampers on. There isn't enough plug-in air freshener in the world to clean up after an airing of those over the White House lawn.
They are getting people to actively deny nature, and by denying nature, they are denying God's creation, and saying that what man decrees is greater than what God created.
As a 'boomer', I am saddened to acknowledge the probability that my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will "enjoy" a MUCH lower standard of living, than my generation.
My husband has two children with his ex wife. I don't have any children. I feel bad for all of the future generations, and for the people who had children with the hopes that their offspring would have a better life. I don't think they will, which is perhaps one of the reason I don't have kids of my own.
I have been pushing back hard on the LBTQ.... +- flag by saying that the US flag represents everyone. If they fly that flag then we fly the BLM flag, we fly the Catholic flag, the Satan flag, we fly any damned flag we make up because they are meaningless. The flag for me represents the splintering of people and the “labeling” of others, this perverse cycle of people self-labeling (gay, trans, he, she/it -I use that last one a lot), they claim they don’t want to be discriminated against, have rights, etc, but then illogically they harmfully label everyone else as racist, misogynistic, terf, blah blah. These are mostly rather stupid people who are spouting this stuff as they don’t see the full circle.
Right now I’m watching carefully to see what nations are pushing back on these crazy people- it’s the “bad guys” who are doing the best job, Russia, China, India... I don’t see how this rectifies itself unless within the liberal parties this hysteria dies out and they put out the flames themselves. Right now it’s terrifying that a minority has our nations by the neck and most are too meek to speak up.
It’s also interesting to see the small differences between Germany and the US, but ultimately it is a completely parallel course. Is this movement helping to brainwash the youth? How organized is it? They seem to lurch between various faux outrages between black/race, migrants, sexual gender. It does appear to be one group, though. In the US these fake activists do seem to have organized while Obama was in power.
I don't know how familiar you are with the terminology and recent developments, but in Britain there is a decent pushback. Ironically, a lot of the rejection has come from disaffected gays who object to being lumped in with the TQs (Check out the LGB Alliance, if you're interested). In addition, the so-called "gender critical" feminists (womanists) have quite a base in the country (unlike the US that is overrun with postmodern feminists) and they are highly critical of gender identity ideology. The Trans activists call Britain TERF Island… Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists. Neither a fair, nor accurate term. It's intended as an unpleasant slur, but by now that wouldn't surprise anyone would it?
On 9/11/01, I was dating an Iranian immigrant. He was utterly taken aback by the American flag waving extravaganza that subsequently ensued and experienced it as overly aggressive and threatening. I’ve never viewed excessive flag waving the same again. Having the same response lately.
"Pride Month" seems to be a solution to a problem that no longer exists. In my most cynical moments, I see this as a fund-raising preservation program. With gay rights and gay marriage achieved, the activists need a new cause/crusade so they can keep their fund-raising jobs.
Enter "transgender rights," a cult of the mentally ill and vulgar exhibitionists.
From the podium on inauguration day, I fervently hope the next president will issue an executive order banning all but the USA flag from government buildings, embassies, and military bases.
An award winning gay teacher in Glendale CA just lost his job for saying this:
"Two plus two equals four. The world is not flat. Boys have penises; girls have vaginas. Gender is binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is not hate. Gender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological disorders. No caring professional or loving parent would ever support the chemical poisoning or surgical mutilation of a child’s genitalia.
Transgender ideology is anti-gay, it is anti-woman, and it is anti-human. It wants to take away women’s sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements—it is misogyny writ large.
And I can also say this as a gay man, the gay people …
There are two reasons the LGBTQ+ community is using the rainbow as their symbol:
1) Blasphemy is their bread and butter: for them the bigger an insult to God can be the more highly it is regarded.
2) The intention from the rainbow symbolism is to transform the world, on their terms this time, into a gender-less, Godless, wicked society. They covet and strive to birth unnatural abominations into this world and to normalize them as an affront to the creator because they hate God and all He created that is good, right and true. They live to normalize the unnatural and to corrupt sacred innocence.
I'd also suggest, more generally, that the movement has an over-arching interest in children's aesthetics and symbols, of which the rainbow is one. I can think of a few reasons, why this is the case.
I agree! And if we allow ourselves to use their terms, they've compelled our speech. Don't give them the respect of using the fake term they made up for the sickos.
Some of the best reading material can be found right here in the commentaries ,like today .No wonder Joe Biden looks so sleepy every morning ,because he reads all our commentaries all night long ,to learn something from us .
None of this is organic. It is a demoralization and economic destruction campaign designed to bring western nations to their knees:
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What’s happening is we are dealing with a communist insurgency that is undermining the values and the identity of the American public. What they are doing is they are intentionally creating a scenario where the American people are rejecting this initiative, [and this] is actually hurting iconic American brands that remove much of the American identity. So, when you name these companies off: all of these companies represent America – when you think of them traditionally.
So now, they’re removing part of the identity, which is part of the communist process called demoralization. There’s less identity in America, there’s less to fight for, which makes it easier to conquer. Alright.
Then on top of it, one of the goals, of communism, is to create two classes of very poor and very rich. So what they’re doing here is they are getting the American public to cancel all their own companies. That actually hurts their own neighbors who are good, hardworking American people. The people at Bud Light – at the top – are not the ones feeling the pain here. It’s the delivery drivers, it’s the hard working red, white, and blue Americans that believe the same [things] that you all believe, who are getting fired or laid off, or losing because of this.
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Don’t play their game, don’t get their investment. And who is funding the HRC? Surprise, surprise, it’s George Soros’s, ‘Open Society Foundation’. Now, this HRC has introduced the arbitrary credit rating to everything: States, municipalities, and even schools. Imagine that: there are people who are deciding what credit score an individual school can get. They threaten them by having these big funds withhold investments into them.
Yeah this is a big problem I suspect many do not understand. You can boycott woke institutions like MLB but that institution is an important part of the American identity and the woke won't care if it is destroyed. They just move on to the next thing to subvert.
I agree with the problem of ordinary workers getting hurt in culture wars. But I hate the idea of brands representing identity and enjoy watching that get dismantled.
OMG....Look what the Leftists have draped between our two sacred American Flags. For this and only this they need to be kicked out immediately. This is not a Government FOR THE PEOPLE,
BY THE PEOPLE, AND OF THE PEOPLE.
They are scum and pushing us to the limit. That's their plan, of course. What they are doing in
this country is NOT logical. They need to find their own planet to live on. Maybe, there, they can
Of course the Biden Administration has no qualms breaking flag code (which they did here clearly, you aren’t supposed to do that). But given that he hired a felonious trans/cross-dressing luggage thief to be in charge of spent nuclear materials, well, you can see the White House is being run by idiots.
I know. But, sometimes they do answer. I let them have it. I do get written detailed responses from Rubio. At least it's something. But, we know their game. It's odd. I only gave my
yahoo email address. Then I see his response appear in my Gmail Account. How did he
When politicians make speeches there is a forest of flags ,left and right and behind them .Does that mean flags glorify politicians ?How come there is nothing glorifying the common people ??
If a flag is used by politicians and the people at the same time than the flag is meaningless .It can only be used by one or the other to have meaning .
Not only that, ukrainian troops make regular use of the Totenkopf-badge.
Western journalists (NYT especially) in Ukraine have been instructed to ensure no such symbols are visible in photos before publication.
Though I qustion how "nazi" they actually are - it is in all probability more a send-up of the russians, echoing WW2 and the Wehrmacht's initial steamrolling of the Red Army (without the Wehrmacht realising Stalin's generals were using the same tactics as against Napoleon).
Or something, stuff kind of sprouts in all directions.
“ A negative right restrains other persons or governments by limiting their actions toward or against the right holder. Positive rights provide the right holder with a claim against another person or the state for some good, service, or treatment.”
That’s key in this problem. The US government, for example, has no right to go outside the Constitution to create “rights” not mentioned in the document, expressly for the purpose of limiting its power. But that limitation hasn’t worked. The Constitution has been steadily eroded over the last century plus by Supreme Court rulings and by power grabs of Presidents and Congress. And we saw with COVID, by unelected bureaucrats. The problem isn’t the form of government. Our system is the least worst, at least it was until recently. The problem is people crave power, and usually the people craving power are the worst sort of people. Just as you can’t idiot-proof most things, you can’t sociopath-proof most things. Like rust, they never sleep.
The solution is a free press and eternal vigilance, but they’ve subverted the press, destroyed the educational system, and
the majority of the complacent population is in a trance of “rights” translated into hedonism without limits, personal and special victim group entitlement, and a waning sense of personal responsibility. Somehow all this anomie is still coupled with the absolute illusion of security.
I’d still rather live in the West than under say Soviet Communism. But that distinction is rapidly disappearing in the current era, as these asshats destroy their own countries. Mostly what we are seeing is what the West has done around the world in the past to poorly behaved vassal states, now being done internally. In the US they ruined a democratically elected presidency, then stole the next election.,They’ve done the coup. Now they’re consolidating power.
In the UK it has become government by executive order. The wet dream of the bureaucrat. No need to have it debated in parliament or part of a manifesto if it is in the interests of making us all safer just make it a new rule.
I refer to the growing alphabet soup of this "community" as LGBTQWERTY, as it makes just as much sense as any other word salad they might dream up.
Here in the US, the trans movement, in my opinion, is the beginning of the wedge that leftists intend to use to put the state between parents and children, with the ultimate goal of all US children becoming wards of the state.
Your point about mutual checks and balances being rendered void by the uniformity of the elites is new to me, and helps me understand my biggest question: How come there are absolutely no differences in opinions anymore within the elites, and thus, no discussions at all?
It seems this process needed some time; in the 80s, it was much different. Lively discussion and the political parties were different. You can still see TV discussions on YT with different opinions, intelligent voiced. Impossible today.
But now, the soft Gleichschaltung has been completed.
The other very good point you make is the switch from fundamental rights given to every human, which are mainly rights that curb the state, to state-sponsored entitlements.
This was hard for me to understand: How is it possible that the state becomes more and more totalitarian in the name of freedom and tolerance?
The rainbow coalition is such a great example because many of the followers are so noisy and so clearly insane. But the Corona years showed that it is not only a minority that descends into totalitarianism, but it is the "sane" majority (the sensible center):
"I have a right to health, and the state must do everything to uphold it. This is why we will force you to stay at home, mask up, take an untested novel medication."
I have no doubt that, in time, the majority would have also agreed with camps and violently enforced medications.
Politics becomes samey because most politicians don't invent their own ideas, they absorb them. Meanwhile, ideas age. A lot of people want to stand out by adopting whatever seems new, young, the future. They also want to feel like they worked out things by themselves, even when they didn't.
The old left lost traction partly because the USSR fell and partly because their memes and leaders became stale, old and dead. Economic conservatism likewise. The rainbow flag is now everywhere because it's a relatively new set of memes. People who want to seem cool and with it can adopt them without much risk (so far, at least). It also has the surprising advantage (again, so far) that it's a movement which didn't yet coalesce around any charismatic thought leader. This means people who adhere to it can tell themselves that they and their friends simply arrived at these ideas through their own powers of rational self-reflection, and the fact that they all seem to have concluded the same things at the same time is merely evidence of their brilliant correctness.
As for COVID totalitarianism, well that's nothing really new. That's just authoritarian collectivism, dolled up in a new brand of makeup called Scientism. It's always been a part of humanity, perhaps it always will.
Still, I have some optimism. There are some trends that seem to be going in the right direction:
1. Collapse of elite credibility. The most powerful narrative here is actually the lab leak. It was the most obvious explanation at the time. The evidence for it being what happened is now so overwhelmingly strong that even mainstream media is running convincing and detailed explanations of it (see the Sunday Times today for an example). And yet, our trusted experts told everyone that it was a terrible conspiracy theory and all talk of it was promptly suppressed. I'm already seeing the obvious now happen: nobody can remember that they ever believed in a natural origin, anymore. Nobody wants to admit they were a dupe. Even mainstream "normies" who don't know what Substack is are now getting the message here: the conspiracy theorists were correct, and the experts were lying scumbag conspirators who started a global pandemic.
The social effects of this counter-narrative becoming firmly mainstream are hard to predict but my guess is that it will crowbar open minds far more effectively than anything else. Especially now China is no longer considered everyone's best friend.
2. Ever growing insistence by ever more people that wokeness is both a real thing, and a religion. Lots of woke people really hate this and push back on it hard, but they are losing. This meme has the advantage of sounding high minded and philosophical whilst simultaneously provoking absurdly over the top counter-reactions, often attempts to claim that wokeness doesn't exist at all, something which everyone can see isn't true. The fact that they are forced onto such incredibly thin ice by this strategy implies they didn't yet find a good response that doesn't generate too much cognitive dissonance.
<i>Your point about mutual checks and balances being rendered void by the uniformity of the elites is new to me, and helps me understand my biggest question: How come there are absolutely no differences in opinions anymore within the elites, and thus, no discussions at all?</i>
As far as I can tell, checks and balances work best when the various branches have different, independent sources of wealth. E.g., in 18th-century Britain, the Lords generally owed their wealth to landholding, whilst the House of Commons represented the rich merchants. As land came to be much less potent a source of wealth in the 19th century, the elite became much more uniform. The Lords lost most of their power in the 1911 Parliament Act, and now Britain's leaders all espouse the same globalist creed.
And the original U.S. Constitution stipulated that U.S. Senators would be appointed by each state, which thereby gave them a different source of "wealth," the government of each state. The members of the U.S. House of Representatives, by contrast, represented the people in their district.
EUG, we are witnessing Romans chapter 1 in action. Sodom was destroyed over this same rebellion we are witnessing in the west. The Great Tribulation in the bible (Revelations, Other) paints a picture of the wrath of God descending upon the entire world for its rebellion and perhaps it may be tied to this. Please note, the rainbow as a sign belongs to God. Its a sign of His covenant with Mankind not to destroy it again with a flood. Its a sign of the grace of peace and of perpetual harvest times and warmth and cold. But the perverted have twisted the grace and mercy of God and made it a license and sign to promote their own unclean behaviour. In fact they have expropriated the rainbow justifying their rebellion. Come Lord Jesus quickly.
I was having this same conversation regarding the rainbow as God’s promise to never destroy us again, and wondering if God was rethinking that promise…
James, to clarify the rainbow is a sign/promise to not to destroy the world thru a flood again. Genesis 9. This is not a wholecloth promise to not bring wrath upon the world via other means. Jesus and book of Revelations discuss this.
Yes fire. Before that Gods wrath will come plagues, pestilence, earthquakes and wild animals according to Revelations in the bible, along with those who will be beheaded who resist the antichrist man who will become king of the world. Its going to be nonstop horrors for those who do not know Jesus.
With so many things going on in my life, and I am certain others are also running the rat race every day. I am taking care of my 99 year old dad, and dealing with the selfishness and controlling behavior of daughters their husbands and grandies, two siblings that are super woke and angry.
I am grateful for my husband and my church friends and most of all, the lovely like minded friends here on substack. How long will it hold?
Where do we go from here?
I am going out today to check on my dad, assess his difficulty breathing (probalby the fires of the past week) and when I come back.... I WANT THESE FLAGS DOWN, FOLDED UP AND BURNED.
You know, all the rainbow-pedophile flags all over theplace, and their general mien and demeanor makes me think of Reichsparteitagsgelände; flags all over the place, the symbol of the Party repeated everywhere, and absolute all-consuming total loyalty to Leader and the Leader's word.
No dissension. No autonomous thought. No critique. No reality.
Only masses chanting slogans, threatening non-blievers, and promising fire and blood for anyone daring to challenge them. Small wonder the woke, including the LGBT-pedos, love islam so much. They have the same basic mindset after all.
The pedophile flag, the one with the brown streaks, is distincly aggressive in its design, I'd argue pruposefully so.
They are sending a message: that they are entering the final phase of their final solution for the white peoples and their cultures.
The clock needs to be reset hard, back to before the 1960s at least, if we are to survive at all as anything but a rapidly dwindling minority in a totalitarian neoliberal capitalist-fascist super-state.
I like Eugyppius’s idea of taking good principals from the past but creating a new and better future. We have to harness all of the things on our plate that can go wrong and make them work for us, we won’t be able to erase them. I kind of like having universities that produce ideas, inventions and open source code for the furtherance of civilization.
I remember when I was doing my MA the university library put up a rainbow poster with "Love is love" behind the main desk. It really made me think of all those old Soviet states with "Workers of the world unite!" written everywhere.
In the past, I might not put much thought into the flag. I just see it as away to acknowledge the community. In recent years, I am beginning to see it as a symbol that there is a storm coming. The flag is a symbol that is dividing communities.
The flag originally covered only Lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people. As people: with basic human rights, including bodily integrity (no "corrective" rape, no beatings-to-death), and the right to work and rent or buy a home, etc.
This new alphabet plot does two things: it erases women as a sex-caste, as adult human females, and it grooms us all to accept transhumanism. Jennifer Bilek (The Federalist, and more) writes brilliantly on this, especially on the rich white men who enormously fund it. The T, autogynephile heterosexual men, and the spicy straights, Q, and all the children who merely wanted validation, enbies, etc., are political add-ons to divide the populace.
The original Pride folks are not your enemy. Lesbians are a community loosely allowed with gay men, also a community. The add-ons are pure political manipulation to get us to accept the elites taping into our brains, a mechanism of easy enslavement.
As a lesbian, I cringe these days at the lengthening initials, the 'pride' activities and month, basically the whole shebang. My sexual identity is my own business and not in need of rainbow flags for validation. The whole Transgender movement sickens me and I see it as a capitalist move that is all about money--for pharma, the medical industry, the psychologists and psychiatrists and others.
Thank you for expressing your opinion as a lesbian. I have two male gay cousins which I love dearly and as a consequence have had many gay friends. I have always supported their right to be recognized and respected for their choices in life. It has never been a problem for me as a white straight female.
However I am having a real problem with the transgender movement and all that it entails. Never in my wildest imagination did I think a group of people and a small minority at that could have so much power and influence over our current social beliefs and prevailing government policies.
As a woman who recently turned 73 this year I have come to the conclusion if I was gay that I would want to divest myself of all affiliation of the current alphabet coalition currently in vogue.
As a straight woman I am appalled by the systemic erasure of my species by the transgender movement. For the record my gay cousin and his partner totally agree with your viewpoint. They are not on board in any way with the current government policies that are putting transgender to the forefront with the exclusion of others.
As a female today I am now labeled as a terf or transphobic or cis gender. Take your pick.
I have an 18 year old granddaughter and she is being subjected to a culture that denies her womanhood. She now will have to share gender neutral washrooms with everyone in school and on university campus. Should she have a child it will no longer be necessary to identify same child by gender since it's now an elective. If she chooses to " breast" feed her offspring it will be called " chest feeding".
I remember a time when all progressive first world countries were horrified by countries and cultures that believed in the practice of female genital mutilation.
We are way beyond that now. As a result of the transgender movement we are whole heartedly endorsing the practice of lopping off body parts of both young girls and boys to achieve a perceived benefit!
And it's being offered to our youngest generation of kids.
I have no idea where this is going to end but at this point I don't believe that straight people like me are going to be effective to change the prevailing course we are on. They are not interested in our opinion.
It is my sincere hope and belief that if the gay community takes a stand on these issues we may have a chance to stop this insane juggernaut on our society.
I would welcome your further comments should you choose to do so.
Actually, I think it's the parents who will ultimately put a stop to this, not gays and lesbians. There are lots of parents out there, and if their kids ever get confused, they run the risk of mutilation.
BTW, have you seen the interview that Jordan Peterson did with Chloe Cole? She's an 18-year-old detransitioner (she may be 19 by now, I'm not sure). The whole thing sounds like an over the top satire, except that she's stuck with a deep voice and no breasts. And yes, that *could* happen to a young girl you care about. Which is why I think it'll be the parents who put a stop to this.
I really hope you are right Irena about parents putting the brakes on this madness.
I live in Canada and currently our political climate is not one bit interested in what parents think especially concerning our schools.
Our Prime Minister, Trudeau made that clear last week.
He basically implied that any parent who questioned the current transgender dogma was extreme right wing and that he has the kids back. To put it in context. This is his reaction to the premier of New Brunswick suggesting changes to the current prevailing code in schools concerning transgender policies.
So if parents are going to be the solution in Canada I wish them luck. They are going to need it.
I'm not sure they have the stomach for it. It's going to take guts and courage to fight this current insane dogma.
I don't envy them. I wish them well.
I am watching in horror as John Hopkins just redesigned the definition of "Lesbian" to "non-man". Ireland is holding a referendum in November to remove the word "woman" from the Constitution. Orwell would not be proud. The original Gay Movement was grassroots, but this Transgender movement is fully funded, well organized and appeared out of nowhere a few years ago. Along with BLM, Climate Change and Covid over-reaction. My nieces and nephews are being raised in a dystopian era. How can they ever think critically when the rug has been pulled out from under them. I had to share a Ladies bathroom in corporate America with a man in a dress. We were told to accept it, or we were the problem. You are correct - it is a vogue. A dangerous one.
Interestingly a 48 year old male friend of mine recently told me he had to use a gender neutral washroom recently and in his case he claimed he and other males were urinating in public urinals as women walked behind them on the way to the enclosed toilets. He felt really uncomfortable with it all.
He also is a school carpenter and is on a safety committee for said school district. Apparently school districts are going forward with gender neutral bathrooms. He has tried, unsuccessfully, to dissuade them of this policy.
I couldn't agree with you more. I can't for the life of me find anything positive for humanity in the transgender movement. I find it frightening and yet my adult children and soon to be or already are adult grandchildren are seemingly fine with the whole thing.
Perhaps I'm beating my head against a brick wall. Why should I worry or care given my age of 73. But I do.
After my post on this thread I had the opportunity to watch the documentary by Matt Walsh called " What is a Woman?"
It was wonderful and thankfully Twitter is allowing its presentation. It has had a massive viewership for a documentary. It gave me hope.
I applaud your... disgust at the whole thing, but want to add something else to your observations: along with it being about profit for a vast number of people, it is also about controlling reproduction, which is, I suppose, another way to say depop.
I have come to the same conclusion - children are being encouraged to "castrate" themselves.
yep. These poor children of the coming generation are going to be ... perhaps thrilled to be alive. They made it.
We might be thrilled they are alive. But today’s young people are not happy to be here. They are brainwashed and in a cult and they don’t know it. At least I see this in the US. Can’t speak for other countries.
agree. It is sad
I hate to admit it, but the greedy tort lawyers need to save us. Bleed the malpractice insurance and rid us of this harm.
My partner and I agree.
Great comment.
As a gay man I also cringe at the Pride rituals and the addition of transexuals to the cause. Transexuals have undone decades of progress made by gays and lesbians who just wanted to live their lives as normal functioning members of society. The trans/queer circus and their sexualization and mutilation of children has understandably reversed the trend toward moral acceptability of same sex relationships. https://news.gallup.com/poll/507230/fewer-say-sex-relations-morally-acceptable.aspx Any gay or lesbian who supports the trans/queer circus is unwittingly supporting their own return to the closet.
Well, I think Stonewall has become quite the organization, employing lots and lots of people who are totally invested in keeping their jobs for as long as they can.
Most of my lesbian friends agree with you.
And just like anything that gets pushed down peoples throats there’s a point where you just don’t wanna hear it anymore. That the trans community are we characterizing this as a genocide is the same philosophy and approach used by first nations in Canada who have been the recipients of a lot of support, but want to keep that money spigot open and advantageous policies getting written. What has happened in the past to many demographics is regrettable, but we have to move forward with positivity and fairness.
You see your own kind and call them capitalist? That's funny.
Thus, like the writer you are completely basing your remarks on your own fears, fantasies and ignorance of the people you cringe at?
Thank-you for refreshing me on the history. But, I might have not known it all. I do see that there is a generational difference in what the flag represents. The older people have a clearer idea of the rights of all people. I too agree that the manipulation of the elites is the problem.
Well said, Diane! Kudos for nailing it so well.
Not Diane, but diana. And thank you!
*loosely ALLIED
I do not see rich white men sponsoring the transgenders specifically. I see the feminization of society as a much simpler and testable explanation. Today women run a significant part of the social services, media, academia, and are increasingly present in politics. Women on average have a higher empathy and many women seek something to fill the hole in their heart. Like a duckling adopts the first moving object as mother, so will many young women adopt the clearest victim group as their empathic target. Look at the transgender demonstrations, the far, far, majority is female.
That said, most of the problems are always caused by young men. As far as I can see the biggest problems are caused by trolls that see a way to get access to female privileges and create havoc. The existence that there are female privileges where no similar male privileges exists indicates that the idea of a patriarchy is bollocks.
Read some Bilek. Whatever we might think, there is a definite pattern of wealthy white men funding the genderist cult, not so much for 'kindness' but for societal control (transhumanism is an endgame).
Sex is on a hierarchy, male over female. Just like race is, just like class is. But privilege does tend to be invisible to those who have it.
Of course. Those demonstrations full of women are doing that under instructions of the patriarchy.
Maybe it would help if you would have some face to face discussions with some white males that are willing to do some mainsplaining for you. Your lack of logic reasoning is quite impressive.
how does it erase women as a sex-caste? and what does sex-caste mean here?
I would use sex-class but class has another meaning -- socioeconomic status plus worldview. I am working class, and don't like the class biz muddled.
And, seriously? 'Woman' is now a word with no meaning, except the the extent that men appropriate it as a costume with high heels, makeup, and spinny skirts (plus fake breasts). Mothers? Can't use that term. Birthing parent -- as if there's a selection! Breastfeeding? Nope, it's chestfeeding. It also erases our right -- men in women's prisons rape women, mediocre men competing in women's sports get medals while displacing female athletes -- and they get scholarships designed for women. Female erasure is not too strong a term.
You might get something from this, or you might find it a bit over the top...
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/death-cult-transhumanism-or-postmodern-cycnicsm
"Rich White men"
Well, there are certainly some of those...but many others are merely White passing.
The storm isn't coming.. the storm is here.
Off topic (perhaps) but I think this shows a terrible storm, which was not as advertised ...
CDC and state health agency data prove that cases of “influenza-like-illness (ILI) were widespread and severe across almost the entire U.S. in the months before “official” Covid. If nothing else, the evidence is overwhelming that more Americans became “sick” and experienced Covid-like symptoms than in the 10 previous flu seasons. Is it possible some large percentage of these sick people actually had Covid? I say yes.
If I’m right and the experts somehow completely missed the copious evidence of “early spread,” the implications are seismic. For example, it seems likely that iatrogenic deaths - and not this virus - explains the vast majority of “Covid deaths” that started happening in April 2020.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/influenza-like-illness-probably-tells?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Agree. In Santa Clara county everybody was getting sick in late 2019. (Our dentist said, “everybody has been getting pneumonia.”) And everybody was treated for pneumonia like illness. And we lived.
Never would have believed a plandemic, plan to get rid of trump, world reset, etc. Till now.
Why didn’t the doctors do any treatment?
The docs DID treat the (probable covid) illnesses in 2019 and early 2020. It wasn't until March 2020 and beyond when they STOPPED treating early covid, based on what the CDC and FDA said they should do. Absolutely insane. I still cannot believe that the majority of doctors stayed home, video appts only, no treatment. Unless you're blue and cannot breathe. Then go to the hospital. Fear really does stop human brains from working.
Thanks for sharing. I wish I had a dime for every similar "anecdote" I've read. I've saved hundreds, but at some point quit saving them. I've always thought that if just 15 or 20 percent of the people who think they had early Covid really had early Covid ... that number would be immense.
The same with the number of people who suspect they've experienced a "a vaccine injury."
Symbols are inherently divisive. Symbolism is a display that is expressly to separate. Me. My tribe. Different than you. Your tribe. Flags, mascots, colors, ribbons, hand signs, symbols. Masks are symbols. Zero medical efficacy. Behavioral Science symbols to "show you care." To be afraid/aware of infectious disease. "If you don't wear our tribe's symbol then you're not one of us." A foe. Opposing tribe. Dangerous. Futbol club mascots will provoke fights, sometimes violent between members of the teams/tribes. Symbols.
I agree with what you are saying. Symbols can be a sense of belong, yet today things are pushed to the extreme. I was baffled my the term they/them for one person. I have put a little more thought into it and have figured it is really to disempower the person. By that, I mean you are no longer an individual. Your thoughts and actions are to embody the group. That is where you have a mob like mentality. From what I see, there is a weird social experiment going on. The experiment is at the expense of the people who follow.
I am so old that I remember a time when one referred to themselves as them it was because they had a mental disorder called multiple personality syndrome. Remember the classic " Sybil".
My "pronoun" is "you." Thus follows much confusion in groups.
Loved this comment. I have always been an outlier since I was a child. Could never really get on board with prevailing beliefs and culture. I've pretty much marched to the beat of my own drum during my lifetime. No regrets and just recently celebrated my 73rd birthday.
However, it can at times, prove to be a lonely path. I've discovered that it is rare in life to meet other like minded individuals. I wouldn't change a thing.
There is only one flag that I have pride for...and it only has three colors.
Problem is that in that picture of the three flags you can burn the two with inly three colors the courts will defend your right to freedom of expression. If you burn the multicolored flag you will be charged with a hate crime as you are not allowed to freedom of expression on that subject.
That flag represents nothing but intolerance and totalitarianism. It is the most revered flag of those in power. And like you say anything other than saluting it will result in the government boot on your neck. Here in Florida a guy is being hunted down and possibly being charged with a hate crime for peeling out on a rainbow mural on the road. It’s being treated like the crime of the century. Fuck these intolerant assholes.
Unbelievable
Not quite sure of that Doc.
Gold fringe on a US flag first appeared around 1835 for military flags - close to 60 years after the first US flags were prescribed.
In the late 1800's, the US Army began including gold fringe on flags primarily used in ceremonial purposes. Other Services began the same. But never on a flag used in or that might be in battle (you will never see a US warship flying a flag fringed in gold!)
It is the flag of the Globalists
I take it as the new swastika flag. Wherever it appears on official buildings and streets you know you‘re in occupied territory.
Yep
Thats my view
You hit the nail on the head.
That was my first thought, Leni Riefenstahl, only Kindergarten Socialism.
And the brainwashed and the weirdos
Of the new One World Government/ New World Order/ WEF flag.
Is that an inverted triangle at the top, like the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States
Absolutely....
I think something more fundamental is happening. My feeling from that flag now is actually quite a cold feeling. Depressed. Demoralized. Check this out…
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/death-cult-transhumanism-or-postmodern-cycnicsm
Yes. Same
I'd be interested t get your take on this, if and when you get a mo to look through it…
"Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?
" – https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/ideology-and-anxiety-what-can-we?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
We are living in a time when the machinators have machinated. Cunning plans, long in the making, are in their final phase of execution. Hands are being called. Chips are falling where they may. Chaos incoming. Black Adder would be proud. Pinky and the Brain have control of the levers of power. It's all just so dumb. So unbelievably dumb.
The rainbow revolution is a domestic and international color revolution. ESG is the social credit score of the GAE. https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-execute-a-color-revolution
We need more Yuri!
The Rainbow flag is the symbol of the decadence of western non culture .In my mind homos are the most disgusting among us ,a Sodoma and Ghomorra culture .Sex between a woman and man can be messy enough in some cases. ,Sex between two men or two women is pure swine .
Homosexuals where around as long as humanity exists ,but it was always hush ,hush done in secrete ,simply they knew it was and is a shameful act .Now it is celebrated as a noble act ,with parades ,flags and even official weddings.
I don't mind homosexuality at all, who really cares? Let them love, fuck and whatever.
There is another aspect to all of this, a political one. A different viewpoint here:
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/lin-biaos-curse-of-trans
Homosexuality is anti-life, contrary to nature. If everyone were homosexual, the human race would be extinct within one generation. There is no greater evil than extinction of life.
I dont care too much, creepy consenting adults, but i dont want to be forced to celebrate it, and certainly not to allow them to engage in youth indoctrination as they are. From that perspective, nuke from orbit.
And yes, anti-nature. Statistical anomaly. It should not be a growing phenomena, be queer whatever, but allowing them to forcibly recruit children, that’s a big sick problem
It's all very weird and very recent. Not homosexual and lesbian people - been around forever. But all the totally mad stuff like men putting on frocks and saying they're women and people agreeing. Or cutting off bits of a body to make the illusion go further. All very weird and suspicious. The hippy-dippy crowd from the 1960s are now grandparents and they don't even understand what the rainbow flag is for, let alone approve of it. Who actually approves of any of this? The teeny tiny percentage of the population who participate in it all who would mostly have been diagnosed with some sort of mental disorder a few years ago. Plus world governments and transnational corporations. Very weird. Mega-distraction from Real Life Bad Stuff.
It's happened really suddenly, this TransMaoist 'Cultural Revolution'.
Just yesterday I was discussing Obama with someone, and how he was known to be gay but it had to be covered up, and he actually didn't just avoid the issue, he gave clear statements about how "marriage is a sacred union... between a man and a woman"... and all the activists and boosters from Chicago knew he was lying, but it was the 'noble lie'. It had to be done, he could not have been elected President otherwise.
It's crazy that this was all in 2008. It's really not that long ago! In 2008 Obama had to be anti gay marriage and lie about his personal life. Within the course of just *his Presidency* he moved to the pro gay marriage position. In the course of the course of the 6 years following that, they teach school kids about the various types of "queer identity" in state schools, and hang their movement's flag at equal height to Old Glory on the White House (which I'm pretty sure is against the law actually; no flag can must hang equal to or above the US flag, except another national flag).
That's a wild amount of narrative shift in such a short time span.
Was everyone privy to B.O. on the down low? I was not, so find your history a bit shocking.
It helps to explain an otherwise inexplicable progression in such a short expanse of time.
Thanks.
Yes, a lot of people knew. Certainly within politics, and in liberal areas, it was well known. The 'Bathhouse Barry' nickname started up in 2007, not by rightwingers, but by the lefties who felt he wasn't socialist enough, and they called him that slur because his past in Chicago was well known.
The teamsters and activists all participated in the lie that he was a straight, happily married guy, because I think they really believed that he could win and it was a noble lie. A lot like Covid I suppose, all these people who just straight up lied to us, repeatedly and ever more brazenly, but they really did convince themselves that it was right and necessary (even noble) to do so.
Worth remembering the mood of the nation at that time — Obama's campaign was astonishingly well crafted and executed, and while the 'ground game' of the Chicago political operators was vicious (Alinsky methods) the larger view managed to really win people over with the Hope & Change stuff. A lot of middle America really believed and got swept up in these promises. So you can see how those that facilitated the lie, especially the ones who are identitarian by political nature (the left, the media) felt like propelling this young and handsome black man 'for Change' was the right thing to do — historic. As for his political opponents, I think they shut up for obvious reasons; firstly they knew they also had a number of closeted gay men on their 'team' as well (people in glass houses...), and at that time it was already the era of having to be very careful *how* you go about criticising a black man without having the race card pulled on you, especially making an allegation that middle America would balk at. So, yeah, it was sort of a big, 'noble lie' that was successful enough that many 'flyover' folks I think are still unaware.
So is it true about the kids not being his?
Actually, side note re the rules & protocols of flag hanging, I do believe that it would be acceptable to display the QWERTY+ flag this way if it acknowledged by the state to be a *religious* symbol.
Perhaps this is their low-key admission that this is the new State religion? 🤔
In the United States, no other flag should be placed above the American flag or, if they are to be placed on the same level, to the right of the American flag e.g. no flag to the 'left' of the American flag.
I heard this rumor back then and dismissed it. None of my business, anyway. Now I’ve heard this twice in 2 days. If true, it appears that PRIDE began back in 2008 (and I still ignore it).
Could Biden hang out his under wear besides the flag at the white house ? It may look better than the rainbow flag .
Are you in third grade? Your moronic comments here take the cake. “Immature” hardly comes close to describing your behavior. When I attempt to present the arguments put forth in this essay to folks on the Left, they point to cretinous behavior like yours to reject the argument as coming from stupid racist assholes. You aren’t helping. STFU.
Imagine the smell though!
Commander-in-Chief Poopy Pants should probably keep his Pampers on. There isn't enough plug-in air freshener in the world to clean up after an airing of those over the White House lawn.
Minor correction: Soros and his clan his in favour of open borders, except for Israel.
They are getting people to actively deny nature, and by denying nature, they are denying God's creation, and saying that what man decrees is greater than what God created.
As a 'boomer', I am saddened to acknowledge the probability that my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will "enjoy" a MUCH lower standard of living, than my generation.
My husband has two children with his ex wife. I don't have any children. I feel bad for all of the future generations, and for the people who had children with the hopes that their offspring would have a better life. I don't think they will, which is perhaps one of the reason I don't have kids of my own.
I have been pushing back hard on the LBTQ.... +- flag by saying that the US flag represents everyone. If they fly that flag then we fly the BLM flag, we fly the Catholic flag, the Satan flag, we fly any damned flag we make up because they are meaningless. The flag for me represents the splintering of people and the “labeling” of others, this perverse cycle of people self-labeling (gay, trans, he, she/it -I use that last one a lot), they claim they don’t want to be discriminated against, have rights, etc, but then illogically they harmfully label everyone else as racist, misogynistic, terf, blah blah. These are mostly rather stupid people who are spouting this stuff as they don’t see the full circle.
Right now I’m watching carefully to see what nations are pushing back on these crazy people- it’s the “bad guys” who are doing the best job, Russia, China, India... I don’t see how this rectifies itself unless within the liberal parties this hysteria dies out and they put out the flames themselves. Right now it’s terrifying that a minority has our nations by the neck and most are too meek to speak up.
It’s also interesting to see the small differences between Germany and the US, but ultimately it is a completely parallel course. Is this movement helping to brainwash the youth? How organized is it? They seem to lurch between various faux outrages between black/race, migrants, sexual gender. It does appear to be one group, though. In the US these fake activists do seem to have organized while Obama was in power.
I don't know how familiar you are with the terminology and recent developments, but in Britain there is a decent pushback. Ironically, a lot of the rejection has come from disaffected gays who object to being lumped in with the TQs (Check out the LGB Alliance, if you're interested). In addition, the so-called "gender critical" feminists (womanists) have quite a base in the country (unlike the US that is overrun with postmodern feminists) and they are highly critical of gender identity ideology. The Trans activists call Britain TERF Island… Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists. Neither a fair, nor accurate term. It's intended as an unpleasant slur, but by now that wouldn't surprise anyone would it?
On 9/11/01, I was dating an Iranian immigrant. He was utterly taken aback by the American flag waving extravaganza that subsequently ensued and experienced it as overly aggressive and threatening. I’ve never viewed excessive flag waving the same again. Having the same response lately.
"Pride Month" seems to be a solution to a problem that no longer exists. In my most cynical moments, I see this as a fund-raising preservation program. With gay rights and gay marriage achieved, the activists need a new cause/crusade so they can keep their fund-raising jobs.
Enter "transgender rights," a cult of the mentally ill and vulgar exhibitionists.
From the podium on inauguration day, I fervently hope the next president will issue an executive order banning all but the USA flag from government buildings, embassies, and military bases.
An award winning gay teacher in Glendale CA just lost his job for saying this:
"Two plus two equals four. The world is not flat. Boys have penises; girls have vaginas. Gender is binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is not hate. Gender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological disorders. No caring professional or loving parent would ever support the chemical poisoning or surgical mutilation of a child’s genitalia.
Transgender ideology is anti-gay, it is anti-woman, and it is anti-human. It wants to take away women’s sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements—it is misogyny writ large.
And I can also say this as a gay man, the gay people …
Link to the article:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/06/award-winning-gay-teacher-suspended-for-speaking-out-against-transgenderism/
There where times when politicians where hang ,instead of flags .Could times like that come again ?
Wishful thinking Joe!
There are two reasons the LGBTQ+ community is using the rainbow as their symbol:
1) Blasphemy is their bread and butter: for them the bigger an insult to God can be the more highly it is regarded.
2) The intention from the rainbow symbolism is to transform the world, on their terms this time, into a gender-less, Godless, wicked society. They covet and strive to birth unnatural abominations into this world and to normalize them as an affront to the creator because they hate God and all He created that is good, right and true. They live to normalize the unnatural and to corrupt sacred innocence.
I'd also suggest, more generally, that the movement has an over-arching interest in children's aesthetics and symbols, of which the rainbow is one. I can think of a few reasons, why this is the case.
Furries/plushies, no responsibilities, temper tantrums and wanting to make all of the rules- hmmm you are onto something there...
When MAP is added to the rest of the alphabet insanity, you will have the reason.
MAP is currently hiding under the "+" in LGBTQia+.
I agree! And if we allow ourselves to use their terms, they've compelled our speech. Don't give them the respect of using the fake term they made up for the sickos.
They're pedophiles, not "Maps".
Correct. I just want people to recognize the acronym for what it is when they mainstream it.
Some of the best reading material can be found right here in the commentaries ,like today .No wonder Joe Biden looks so sleepy every morning ,because he reads all our commentaries all night long ,to learn something from us .
They really ARE coming after the children.
Have you noticed that the "rainbow" in the rainbow flag is missing an essential color of the rainbow?
You know:
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, INDIGO, violet?
There's some dark symbolism in perverting the symbol of God's covenant, methinks
Yes I have, and I agree. Also, six colors instead of seven.
I would add that they hate themselves, and blame God for their inability to control their urges.
None of this is organic. It is a demoralization and economic destruction campaign designed to bring western nations to their knees:
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What’s happening is we are dealing with a communist insurgency that is undermining the values and the identity of the American public. What they are doing is they are intentionally creating a scenario where the American people are rejecting this initiative, [and this] is actually hurting iconic American brands that remove much of the American identity. So, when you name these companies off: all of these companies represent America – when you think of them traditionally.
So now, they’re removing part of the identity, which is part of the communist process called demoralization. There’s less identity in America, there’s less to fight for, which makes it easier to conquer. Alright.
Then on top of it, one of the goals, of communism, is to create two classes of very poor and very rich. So what they’re doing here is they are getting the American public to cancel all their own companies. That actually hurts their own neighbors who are good, hardworking American people. The people at Bud Light – at the top – are not the ones feeling the pain here. It’s the delivery drivers, it’s the hard working red, white, and blue Americans that believe the same [things] that you all believe, who are getting fired or laid off, or losing because of this.
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Don’t play their game, don’t get their investment. And who is funding the HRC? Surprise, surprise, it’s George Soros’s, ‘Open Society Foundation’. Now, this HRC has introduced the arbitrary credit rating to everything: States, municipalities, and even schools. Imagine that: there are people who are deciding what credit score an individual school can get. They threaten them by having these big funds withhold investments into them.
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Excerpt from: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/why-all-these-brands-ab-inbev-target
Yeah this is a big problem I suspect many do not understand. You can boycott woke institutions like MLB but that institution is an important part of the American identity and the woke won't care if it is destroyed. They just move on to the next thing to subvert.
I agree with the problem of ordinary workers getting hurt in culture wars. But I hate the idea of brands representing identity and enjoy watching that get dismantled.
OMG....Look what the Leftists have draped between our two sacred American Flags. For this and only this they need to be kicked out immediately. This is not a Government FOR THE PEOPLE,
BY THE PEOPLE, AND OF THE PEOPLE.
They are scum and pushing us to the limit. That's their plan, of course. What they are doing in
this country is NOT logical. They need to find their own planet to live on. Maybe, there, they can
live off of somebody else's money.
Of course the Biden Administration has no qualms breaking flag code (which they did here clearly, you aren’t supposed to do that). But given that he hired a felonious trans/cross-dressing luggage thief to be in charge of spent nuclear materials, well, you can see the White House is being run by idiots.
Are the Republicans going to challenge this disgusting F L A G display at the
White House. I doubt it. Thanks for the information. I'm going to call my
Senators and ask them what they intend to do about it.
both parties are the wings of the same bird
Hahahaha. Call your Senator! Good one
One of my Senators is brain dead: Dianne Feinstein.
I know. But, sometimes they do answer. I let them have it. I do get written detailed responses from Rubio. At least it's something. But, we know their game. It's odd. I only gave my
yahoo email address. Then I see his response appear in my Gmail Account. How did he
get that email address?
When politicians make speeches there is a forest of flags ,left and right and behind them .Does that mean flags glorify politicians ?How come there is nothing glorifying the common people ??
The United States FLAG is For The People.
If a flag is used by politicians and the people at the same time than the flag is meaningless .It can only be used by one or the other to have meaning .
OK....That's why we have our US FLAG flying everyday on our property :-)
Is this a real photo or AI created?
It’s real. It happened yesterday
Thanks for confirming!
It happened in Boston at Fanieul Hall yesterday also.
American flag code requires that no flag flies at an equal or higher position than the American flag.
Also the American flag should be in the center.
The pride flag is hanging outside US embassies all over the world
But, when you see it at the White House between 2 American Flags, it totally shows
you our Country is being run by Communist that must be taken out. Before they
take us out. Like I hear it all the time. People have to see it to believe it.
I read that in the Ukrain war,the swastika flag is being used .
Not only that, ukrainian troops make regular use of the Totenkopf-badge.
Western journalists (NYT especially) in Ukraine have been instructed to ensure no such symbols are visible in photos before publication.
Though I qustion how "nazi" they actually are - it is in all probability more a send-up of the russians, echoing WW2 and the Wehrmacht's initial steamrolling of the Red Army (without the Wehrmacht realising Stalin's generals were using the same tactics as against Napoleon).
Or something, stuff kind of sprouts in all directions.
“ A negative right restrains other persons or governments by limiting their actions toward or against the right holder. Positive rights provide the right holder with a claim against another person or the state for some good, service, or treatment.”
That’s key in this problem. The US government, for example, has no right to go outside the Constitution to create “rights” not mentioned in the document, expressly for the purpose of limiting its power. But that limitation hasn’t worked. The Constitution has been steadily eroded over the last century plus by Supreme Court rulings and by power grabs of Presidents and Congress. And we saw with COVID, by unelected bureaucrats. The problem isn’t the form of government. Our system is the least worst, at least it was until recently. The problem is people crave power, and usually the people craving power are the worst sort of people. Just as you can’t idiot-proof most things, you can’t sociopath-proof most things. Like rust, they never sleep.
The solution is a free press and eternal vigilance, but they’ve subverted the press, destroyed the educational system, and
the majority of the complacent population is in a trance of “rights” translated into hedonism without limits, personal and special victim group entitlement, and a waning sense of personal responsibility. Somehow all this anomie is still coupled with the absolute illusion of security.
I’d still rather live in the West than under say Soviet Communism. But that distinction is rapidly disappearing in the current era, as these asshats destroy their own countries. Mostly what we are seeing is what the West has done around the world in the past to poorly behaved vassal states, now being done internally. In the US they ruined a democratically elected presidency, then stole the next election.,They’ve done the coup. Now they’re consolidating power.
All so that Big Mike Obama can feel better about his penis. Tragic.
I read since the Covid ,there is a new breed of people ,they have a penis and a vagina side by side .That's what it means to build back better .
In the UK it has become government by executive order. The wet dream of the bureaucrat. No need to have it debated in parliament or part of a manifesto if it is in the interests of making us all safer just make it a new rule.
I refer to the growing alphabet soup of this "community" as LGBTQWERTY, as it makes just as much sense as any other word salad they might dream up.
Here in the US, the trans movement, in my opinion, is the beginning of the wedge that leftists intend to use to put the state between parents and children, with the ultimate goal of all US children becoming wards of the state.
Change my mind.....
It's not Trademarked or Copyrighted, so feel free to use it willy-nilly!
Ditto, love it, and will do!
This is a really good article.
Your point about mutual checks and balances being rendered void by the uniformity of the elites is new to me, and helps me understand my biggest question: How come there are absolutely no differences in opinions anymore within the elites, and thus, no discussions at all?
It seems this process needed some time; in the 80s, it was much different. Lively discussion and the political parties were different. You can still see TV discussions on YT with different opinions, intelligent voiced. Impossible today.
But now, the soft Gleichschaltung has been completed.
The other very good point you make is the switch from fundamental rights given to every human, which are mainly rights that curb the state, to state-sponsored entitlements.
This was hard for me to understand: How is it possible that the state becomes more and more totalitarian in the name of freedom and tolerance?
The rainbow coalition is such a great example because many of the followers are so noisy and so clearly insane. But the Corona years showed that it is not only a minority that descends into totalitarianism, but it is the "sane" majority (the sensible center):
"I have a right to health, and the state must do everything to uphold it. This is why we will force you to stay at home, mask up, take an untested novel medication."
I have no doubt that, in time, the majority would have also agreed with camps and violently enforced medications.
Politics becomes samey because most politicians don't invent their own ideas, they absorb them. Meanwhile, ideas age. A lot of people want to stand out by adopting whatever seems new, young, the future. They also want to feel like they worked out things by themselves, even when they didn't.
The old left lost traction partly because the USSR fell and partly because their memes and leaders became stale, old and dead. Economic conservatism likewise. The rainbow flag is now everywhere because it's a relatively new set of memes. People who want to seem cool and with it can adopt them without much risk (so far, at least). It also has the surprising advantage (again, so far) that it's a movement which didn't yet coalesce around any charismatic thought leader. This means people who adhere to it can tell themselves that they and their friends simply arrived at these ideas through their own powers of rational self-reflection, and the fact that they all seem to have concluded the same things at the same time is merely evidence of their brilliant correctness.
As for COVID totalitarianism, well that's nothing really new. That's just authoritarian collectivism, dolled up in a new brand of makeup called Scientism. It's always been a part of humanity, perhaps it always will.
Still, I have some optimism. There are some trends that seem to be going in the right direction:
1. Collapse of elite credibility. The most powerful narrative here is actually the lab leak. It was the most obvious explanation at the time. The evidence for it being what happened is now so overwhelmingly strong that even mainstream media is running convincing and detailed explanations of it (see the Sunday Times today for an example). And yet, our trusted experts told everyone that it was a terrible conspiracy theory and all talk of it was promptly suppressed. I'm already seeing the obvious now happen: nobody can remember that they ever believed in a natural origin, anymore. Nobody wants to admit they were a dupe. Even mainstream "normies" who don't know what Substack is are now getting the message here: the conspiracy theorists were correct, and the experts were lying scumbag conspirators who started a global pandemic.
The social effects of this counter-narrative becoming firmly mainstream are hard to predict but my guess is that it will crowbar open minds far more effectively than anything else. Especially now China is no longer considered everyone's best friend.
2. Ever growing insistence by ever more people that wokeness is both a real thing, and a religion. Lots of woke people really hate this and push back on it hard, but they are losing. This meme has the advantage of sounding high minded and philosophical whilst simultaneously provoking absurdly over the top counter-reactions, often attempts to claim that wokeness doesn't exist at all, something which everyone can see isn't true. The fact that they are forced onto such incredibly thin ice by this strategy implies they didn't yet find a good response that doesn't generate too much cognitive dissonance.
<i>Your point about mutual checks and balances being rendered void by the uniformity of the elites is new to me, and helps me understand my biggest question: How come there are absolutely no differences in opinions anymore within the elites, and thus, no discussions at all?</i>
As far as I can tell, checks and balances work best when the various branches have different, independent sources of wealth. E.g., in 18th-century Britain, the Lords generally owed their wealth to landholding, whilst the House of Commons represented the rich merchants. As land came to be much less potent a source of wealth in the 19th century, the elite became much more uniform. The Lords lost most of their power in the 1911 Parliament Act, and now Britain's leaders all espouse the same globalist creed.
And the original U.S. Constitution stipulated that U.S. Senators would be appointed by each state, which thereby gave them a different source of "wealth," the government of each state. The members of the U.S. House of Representatives, by contrast, represented the people in their district.
Yes, that is the good point.
And as the state gets bigger and bigger and has more and more people on the payroll, it will get worse and worse.
EUG, we are witnessing Romans chapter 1 in action. Sodom was destroyed over this same rebellion we are witnessing in the west. The Great Tribulation in the bible (Revelations, Other) paints a picture of the wrath of God descending upon the entire world for its rebellion and perhaps it may be tied to this. Please note, the rainbow as a sign belongs to God. Its a sign of His covenant with Mankind not to destroy it again with a flood. Its a sign of the grace of peace and of perpetual harvest times and warmth and cold. But the perverted have twisted the grace and mercy of God and made it a license and sign to promote their own unclean behaviour. In fact they have expropriated the rainbow justifying their rebellion. Come Lord Jesus quickly.
Proverbs 10:25 'when the storm has passed the wicked are gone but by the righteous stand firm forever'
I don't know, it sure seems like there is a never ending supply of the wicked.
yes, thank you Camilla
I was having this same conversation regarding the rainbow as God’s promise to never destroy us again, and wondering if God was rethinking that promise…
James, to clarify the rainbow is a sign/promise to not to destroy the world thru a flood again. Genesis 9. This is not a wholecloth promise to not bring wrath upon the world via other means. Jesus and book of Revelations discuss this.
And, the fire next time?
Yes fire. Before that Gods wrath will come plagues, pestilence, earthquakes and wild animals according to Revelations in the bible, along with those who will be beheaded who resist the antichrist man who will become king of the world. Its going to be nonstop horrors for those who do not know Jesus.
This is true. Point taken.
God will not destroy us but he may not prevent us from destroying ourselves.
With so many things going on in my life, and I am certain others are also running the rat race every day. I am taking care of my 99 year old dad, and dealing with the selfishness and controlling behavior of daughters their husbands and grandies, two siblings that are super woke and angry.
I am grateful for my husband and my church friends and most of all, the lovely like minded friends here on substack. How long will it hold?
Where do we go from here?
I am going out today to check on my dad, assess his difficulty breathing (probalby the fires of the past week) and when I come back.... I WANT THESE FLAGS DOWN, FOLDED UP AND BURNED.
👏🏼👏🏼 GET GOING!
Woke and angry seems to always go together.
I would be willing to skip the "folding" step...
I was just now thinking how enjoyable it would be to burn that pride flag.
You know, all the rainbow-pedophile flags all over theplace, and their general mien and demeanor makes me think of Reichsparteitagsgelände; flags all over the place, the symbol of the Party repeated everywhere, and absolute all-consuming total loyalty to Leader and the Leader's word.
No dissension. No autonomous thought. No critique. No reality.
Only masses chanting slogans, threatening non-blievers, and promising fire and blood for anyone daring to challenge them. Small wonder the woke, including the LGBT-pedos, love islam so much. They have the same basic mindset after all.
The pedophile flag, the one with the brown streaks, is distincly aggressive in its design, I'd argue pruposefully so.
They are sending a message: that they are entering the final phase of their final solution for the white peoples and their cultures.
The clock needs to be reset hard, back to before the 1960s at least, if we are to survive at all as anything but a rapidly dwindling minority in a totalitarian neoliberal capitalist-fascist super-state.
I like Eugyppius’s idea of taking good principals from the past but creating a new and better future. We have to harness all of the things on our plate that can go wrong and make them work for us, we won’t be able to erase them. I kind of like having universities that produce ideas, inventions and open source code for the furtherance of civilization.
I remember when I was doing my MA the university library put up a rainbow poster with "Love is love" behind the main desk. It really made me think of all those old Soviet states with "Workers of the world unite!" written everywhere.
Don't forget about the big signs on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.: Arbeit macht frei , meaning "Work makes one free".