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Candida’s Rant - Are you a sheep or a Wolf?
The UK is divided into two groups, the sheep who blindly comply regardless of scientific data, lying politicians and good old common sense. And the Wolves who question everything, believe only their own research, refuse to wear a mask, be vaccinated and are prepared to fight for freedom.
Wolves are massively outnumbered by sheep but the good news is the majority of the compliant are so lackadaisical, so zombie-like that they offer no resistance to anything, whereas the awake are brave, fearless and ready to shout about it.
You may have heard about our Health Minister, Matt Hancock, recently having to resign from that position as he was caught on camera doing exactly what he was preaching to the country not to do. Getting up close and personal with an aide – no social distancing for him, not to mention he’s a married man with 3 children. Reprehensible. It was a wake-up call for some people who are beginning to see that those in a position of power do what they like but punish the masses for stepping out of line.
Our new Health Minister has often spoken of the rights of the individual in the past so we can only hope he doesn’t abandon his political ideologies as Boris Johnson has. I’m not particularly hopeful but he can’t be worse than Hancock whose authoritarian fixation with rules and restrictions had become ungoverned and idiotic.
Thousands of school children are still being sent home to isolate despite the rate of testing positive being as low as 4%. It’s ludicrous to me that Wimbledon has gone ahead with its crowds, the horse racing has seen literally thousands mingling mask free and of course the Euro Football Championship which has seen every possible restriction lifted (even travel) Don’t get me wrong, I am delighted these things have gone ahead but what makes them more important that a child’s education, a child’s induction day at their new school, a 16 year old’s prom? The answer is – nothing. They are less important but more lucrative. It always comes down to money.
Our latest cry for freedom was a protest march in London on June 26th. We were a million strong if not more and we marched to Downing Street where the Prime Minister resides and peacefully made our voices heard. Many took tennis balls inked with a message they cared about and these were tossed over the gate. No one was hurt, it was really quite joyous. Our protests have never been reported on main stream media, other than a mention of arrests that may have happened long after the march is finished and were more to do with being drunk and disorderly in a park than any protest. Thankfully we have a new news channel who is choosing to show footage and to describe it accurately (the BBC will give us a cursory mention but always in a negative light). The BBC is not to be trusted, I stopped watching their news coverage early on in the scamdemic.
You have a similar divide in the US but it’s the Democrats and the Republicans. It feels like the Republicans are the Wolves. I’ve seen over and over again that right wing states such as Florida and Texas are the least likely to lock down or enforce mandates that affect civil liberties. As luck would have it, those are two of the states I have personal experience with. I spent some time in California too and have to say I loved it, but that was the 90’s and times have changed and right now I think their reactionary, liberal approach to covid would drive me nuts! Teachers protesting to keep schools closed! This is madness – child abuse. And they call the anti vaxxers selfish.
I’m interested to see what will happen if Trump announces he will run again, I know he has a lot of support but over here it’s as if anyone who would vote for him must be mad - have they seen Biden???
Well our Freedom Day approaches, restrictions lifted on the 19th of July, the return of our rights. Except for international travel, and maybe masks on transport, and we recommend you do still wear them indoors, and let’s keep contact tracing going - oh and we reserve the right to take those rights away again any time we please!
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So, for the first time in history, we have quarantined the healthy. This would have been impossible to imagine a year ago but here we are, locked in.
In the UK it’s all about the NHS (Britain’s National Health Service). We are constantly bombarded with the message ‘we must save the NHS’. What the majority fail to remember is that we hear this message every winter as the organisation is and has always been ‘at breaking point’. If I were to pull up newspaper headlines from the last 10 years, you would see headlines like ‘NHS’s toughest winter ever’ or ‘hospital beds at record high’ or ’intensive care patients sent elsewhere due to lack of beds’. These are actually real headlines I’ve plagiarised. And yet, this year, it’s completely different, a new phenomenon – but it isn’t, it’s just what the government and the media want you to think.
For me, the rational solution was to keep the vulnerable safe. Effectively allowing everyone to take responsibility for their own wellbeing and those close to them. This would have prevented the loss of businesses, children going hungry and losing an entire school year of education, months and months of ruined university experience, countless suicides and we will have to wait and see the missed cancer diagnoses toll. When suggesting we only target those at risk, the predictable response is always ‘you can’t just lock up old people’ and yet those same people are happy to lock up the entire population, which includes the old.
Why is it okay for the majority of the population, the young, the healthy, the middle aged, to be acceptable collateral? Why is there this obsession with protecting the very old and yet total disregard for the young who have yet to live their lives and need to be free to do so?
Harsh? Maybe, but I am feeling harsh as I watch my own children retreat and become less of themselves. Why are we not putting them first?
What will the future look like for our young people. Will they be spending their evenings drinking, socialising and hooking up? Or will they be at home, online? I look back at my youth and think how wonderful it was, how free; I want that for all future generations. To me it is obvious and yet, to most the fear seems to outstrip all semblance of common sense, the short-sightedness of it astounds me.
I worry that there is a very real danger that these draconian measures will be used with every new virus, or will they be locking us down in future years in the name of climate change?
I read that in the UK one in four young people say they are unable to cope with life. According to a well known children’s charity, half of 16- to 25-year-olds said their mental health has gotten worse during the pandemic, and there will be more than that, there always is.
So, let’s look at the Covid Act which has given government the power to pretty much do what they like to our civil liberties. In the UK this has now been extended to July 2021 (quietly and under the radar) but in reality, the Act will expire in 2 years with 6 monthly reviews. That takes us to March 2022.
The Act originates from the Public Health Act 1984 (PHA) and the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA).
The PHA provides powers to restrict the movement of individuals known to have a communicable disease and to control spaces which are known to be contributing to contagion. Our restrictions are far wider reaching than this, it’s literally stretching it as far as it can go and completely out of shape!
The other piece of legislation which allows government to curtail our liberties is the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA). This basically allows government power in an emergency. Schedule 21 has been added to the Coronavirus Act and this extends the existing Public Health Act powers to control infectious disease in the specific context of the coronavirus. This is a huge worry as now that they have exercised this, there is very little scrutiny going forward. It’s obviously more complicated than this but these are the broad strokes of how our civil liberties are being trampled on – legally.
It’s much more difficult to understand in the U.S., as there is so much autonomy given to individual states. Over here, there is a mask mandate, however, you can be exempt and cannot be challenged on this (it still happens obviously, but I personally do not wear a mask and have had very little resistance). We can order a lanyard from Amazon and that’s considered good enough.
I had a look at the rules in Texas (a right-wing state and I hear from my 18-year-old son, the place to be if you want your civil liberties upheld). Their order is ‘Stay Home, Mask, and Otherwise Be Safe’ but it seems like this is a recommendation rather than law, does this mean you don’t actually have to stay home and wear masks and if so, is anyone exercising the right not to?
To bring us right up to date, Prime Minister Johnson (he of the ridiculous duckling hair) has announced our roadmap out of lockdown. This is indeed very good news, although we have been given reason to rejoice before and then had it taken away from us. This feels like it might actually be the beginning of the end. The next big issue will be the vaccine. As it’s still in phase III of the trials, we know that we are basically the trial and this is not something I personally want to be part of. I am not an anti vaxxer but my immunity has served me just fine for the last 11 months so I really don’t feel inclined to be injected with something for no reason. Will I be forced to if I want to leave the country? Will this be another infringement on our freedom? Watch this space.
Candida is a native Londoner, seasoned educator, wife, and mother of two teenage boys. Above all else, she values freedom and the freedom of expression made available to all through civil rights. Having spent many years of her life in the United States, Candida cherishes the ‘American spirit’ and considers herself a ‘freedom warrior,’ standing up for individual rights, calling out tyranny and offering a unique perspective on the issues that affect us all.
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Over the years, Bill Maher has taken many a delight at mocking Christians, but his latest rant clearly exposes who the true religious zealots are: Maher and his disciples like to think of themselves as humanistic, science-based intellectuals, forced to live among the knuckle-dragging, lower life-forms of the religious Right:
"...Republicans should tell their base who still believe the election was rigged that they need to grow up and move on and stop asking the rest of us to respect their mass delusion."
Really, Bill Maher? Let's talk about, "mass delusion."
How about the "mass delusion" peddled since the 1970's and most recently by former waitress-turned-Congresswoman AOC and that pubescent climate alarmist Greta Thunberg that the earth will be irreparably harmed in twelve years if we don't do something now?
How about the "mass delusion" that those who don't believe in climate change as the greatest global threat are, "science deniers" yet science is conveniently forgotten when it comes to the number of biological genders existing in nature?
How about the "mass delusion" that in spite of the fact that welfare hasn't lifted a single person out of poverty, Liberals still insist that top-down, centralized government insiders know how to run our lives better than we do?
How about the "mass delusion" that America's founding is illegitimate because the men who formed it were products of a different time, even as they risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to craft a government that allowed The People to overcome the tyrannies of that time?
How about the "mass delusion" that there are invisible, racist thoughts embedded in your brain that you act upon daily even though you're not aware of them and which you can never overcome simply because of the color of your white skin?
How about the "mass delusion" that you are oppressed and helpless and that you're incapable of ever overcoming your circumstances simply because of the color of your dark skin?
How about the "mass delusion" that a President who asked his supporters to, "peacefully and patriotically" walk to the Capitol and "make your voices heard," a President who held over 600 peaceful rallies since 2015 and who was elected by over 70 million people is somehow responsible for the act of a handful of criminals who we now know premeditated the entire thing?
How about the "mass delusion" that a President who has never been found guilty of a single injustice despite the Left's relentless attempts, should be impeached twice, barred from ever holding office, de-platformed from all communication and his supporters hunted down, cancelled and their careers ruined?
And finally, Bill, how about the "mass delusion" that the people who make fun of Christians as dogmatic fanatics, are themselves worshiping at the alter of humanism, globalism, woke-ism, climate-change, censorship, victim-peddling, racism, race-baiting, eugenics, and revisionist history?
You, Bill Maher, and your arrogant disciples, are the poster-children for "mass delusion." In fact you're so vain, I'll bet you think this blog is about you. Don't you?
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A quick introduction: I live in the UK, in a suburb of London with my husband, two teenage boys and a Labradoodle. I did however, go to high school in Florida due to a bizarre turn of events in which my parents jetted off to Florida with some friends in 1980 and immediately smitten with the Florida lifestyle, decided to buy a house. My brother and I got a phone call one evening from the U.S. telling us we were moving. Although horrified at the time (I was 13 and my whole life was my best friend and the dogs) I won’t deny once I got there, I adored it (house on the Gulf of Mexico, beach, no uniform at school – what’s not to love) I loved it so much that after my parents returned (separately) I kept going back. My efforts took me to Texas, New York and California, but it never stuck and it was with a very heavy heart I said my goodbyes over a decade later and returned to England. So, I have a somewhat unique perspective I suppose, having lived in both countries, even if it was many years ago in a very different era.
I have never lost my love of the country and what it stands for, or stood for. I see America as a place where civil liberties are held high. I won’t pretend to be any kind of expert on your Constitution, but freedom of speech, press and religion are mentioned in your Bill of Rights and that is something to be proud of. The Conservative government in the UK was meant to have similar beliefs, however in these times of COVID they have flagrantly abandoned any kind of Libertarian principles. I worry that your new president is about to do the same.
Lately I’ve been hearing about this new idea that America’s foundation is questionable and its Constitutional guarantee of liberty is dangerous. My initial reaction to that is WTF?! If Trump said the First Amendment needed to be amended, that dangerous ideas should not be given free expression, there would be outrage (albeit masked and socially distanced).
I see the endless propaganda being spewed out – my favourite - "The grown-ups are back in the Whitehouse." In both our countries I have to ask, “Have main-stream-media completely given up on holding the government accountable, or will it just be endless bootlicking and over dramatization?” Many Brits are tuning out of the BBC and even cancelling their TV license (money paid to the BBC for the privilege of having no commercials) in an attempt to break away from the national narrative that’s being hammered home morning, noon and night. But the majority believe every word that comes out of their television (and this is only main-stream media). They hated Trump and they want to love anyone who quite literally, isn’t him, despite many remembering Biden’s Kinnock blunder in the late 80’s where he plagiarized a British Labour leader; I believe it contributed to him losing that election.
In recent days, the new president has signed off on an order ‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’. I believe in everyone’s human rights, every living being (animals too, as far as humanly possible!) should be able to be whoever they want to be and believe whatever they want to believe, however, in reality what does that mean for women? Will they no longer have the right to a single sex bathroom? This may seem trivial but looking ahead to the future, how far will this go? But let’s see, much of the British public seem to think the Democrats will do a better job (although many liked Trump but don’t want to admit it) and those that do are usually the same people who believe in liberty above all and are fighting against the lockdown restrictions. These two beliefs seem to go hand in hand.
Over here in the UK even Brexit has been overshadowed by the pandemic. We are being treated like naughty children, blamed if the cases are rising and yet locked down either way. We’re coming up to a year now of interrupted education, being told where we can go, when we can do it and what we should wear for the privilege. Masks are everywhere, if I were to have a rant, I would rant about that – the majority of the population are just following the rules (they are literally to scared not to) but there is no government mandate about covering up when you’re outside and yet everywhere I go, I am greeted with people wearing muzzles in take-out lines, school grounds, even walking their dogs (?!?!). I see it’s the same over there, and one of the things I loved about Trump was his laissez-fair attitude to masks and his ability to play down the drama on Covid. He seemed to have perspective and that is something sorely needed at the moment. It’s taught me that whatever is expected from those who like to obsess and overreact, they will always take it further. Local councils have introduced their own Covid rules; doctors, dentists and opticians have all added to the drama by locking their doors and bringing in their own rules and regulations that go even further than those the government have imposed. Why? What’s the message behind the hysteria? I wish I knew but at least I am asking the question.
Candida is a native Londoner, seasoned educator, wife, and mother of two teenage boys. Above all else, she values freedom and the freedom of expression made available to all through civil rights. Having spent many years of her life in the United States, Candida cherishes the ‘American spirit’ and considers herself a ‘freedom warrior,’ standing up for individual rights, calling out tyranny and offering a unique perspective on the issues that affect us all.
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They asked the founder of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid, about the future of his country, and he replied: "My grandfather was riding a camel, my father was riding a camel, I was riding a Mercedes, my son was riding a Land Rover and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover, but my great grandson will have to ride a camel again... ′′
"Why is that?" he was asked.
′′Tough times create strong men, strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men, weak men create hard times. ′′
I completely agree with the Sheikh's assessment: Many will not understand it, but you have to create warriors, not parasites... Life's difficulties, challenges aren't there to wipe you out of existence, but to make you stronger.
Remember what Rumi said: "If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
So, if all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Written by: Emine Fougner, International Best Selling Author: Romance Genre in English & Portuguese – Echoes in Eternity January 29, 2021
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Cindy Marten has a 37-year career influencing San Diego’s children with her radical, racist ideologies, and if confirmed next month, she’s headed to Washington as Deputy Secretary of Education, where she will help install her bigoted agenda into the curriculum of schools across the nation.
Have a look at these fun-facts about Marten’s Marxist resume’ as Superintendent of San Diego Unified Public Schools and decide for yourself:
Marten's series of mandatory teacher trainings are so radical they deserve a list of their own. Here are some highlights from those trainings, which, if she’s confirmed, could be coming to your child’s school:
Marten contends that White people writ-large are responsible for Black poverty, suffering and "systemic" racist oppression.
As dangerous as that is, there is one thing in this hate-filled agenda that White people are responsible for: And that is allowing this divisive, belittling propaganda to permeate our schools and poison the minds of our teachers and children in the first place.
We have been asleep at the watch. We've placed our most precious asset -- our children's minds -- into the hands of a public school system that has been quietly installing Marxist ideology into every facet of education and it's critical that we take a stand.
First: Call your Congressman and tell them not to confirm Cindy Marten. Then get laser-focused on your community. Every reasonable person must stay informed about local politics, get involved in local school board decisions, run for office, communicate regularly with your child's school administration and make your voice heard about harmful curriculum before it's adopted. And when all else fails, opt your child out of toxic videos, reading assignments and all lessons that give validity to these soul-crushing ideologies.
Make 2021 the year of local politics and start with your schools. The dignity of all children is at stake.
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For further information on Marten, Love, White Privilege rhetoric and more, take a good swig of anti-nausea medication and check out these links:
white-privilege-understanding-power-and-privilege-in-education.pdf (documentcloud.org) San Diego Unified Schools teacher training on white privilege Contributed by Chris Rufo, City Journal:
San Diego schools won't count attendance or late work toward grades (nypost.com)
Biden pick for Deputy Education Secretary embraces "critical race theory" (lawenforcementtoday.com)
How Schools Are 'Spirit Murdering' Black and Brown Students (Opinion) (edweek.org) By Bettina Love May 23, 2019
White Teachers Need Anti-Racist Therapy (Opinion) (edweek.org) By Bettina Love: 2-6-2020
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Realizing that ranking member Senator Diane Feinstein’s, “the dogma lives loudly in you” was a failed strategy, the Dems opted to sound the healthcare alarm.
Blumenthal began by saying that an Amy Coney Barrett appointment would threaten gun control laws, abortion rights and health care laws. A Justice Barrett, he warned, “would ensure that all of these things are wiped away forever.”
From the time Trump first nominated Barrett to the 7th Circuit back in 2017, she’s embodied everything that most terrifies the power-hungry Dems: anti-activism and a strict adherence to interpreting the law as written; not helpful to their Constitution-shredding plans.
In the Dems’ desperate attempts to transform the courts into an activist arm of their party, they then shared this gem:
What we really need is some kind of ‘blueprint!’
“There’s no blueprint for the future,” Blumenthal illuminated, “the American people want a blueprint for the future!”
Oh, and he is so right. If only we had some sort of written document to guide us in such times of disagreement. And don’t all the smart people agree on this? Billionaire Tom Steyer, who was a 2020 Presidential candidate for about five minutes, also thought this “blueprint” thing was a great idea for our country and that someone with a lot of brains should definitely write one. And so he did: Steyer’s creatively entitled, “The Five Rights,” outlines the positive “rights” the benevolent Steyer Regime would bestow upon us.
Dems like Steyer, Pelosi, and the good Senators in ACB’s hearing are either complete Constitutional ignoramuses or they’re hand-wringing, cackling witches standing over their cauldron of Communist soup. Either way, they have the ear of millions of people who are listening and who also don’t have the Constitution in mind when it comes to issues analysis.
My guess is that Steyer hasn't considered the Constitution once in his whole life and actually thinks he's the first one to come up with the idea of having some kind of document that outlines the rights of citizens. The sheer stupidity required for that makes him first pick for the next Dumb and Dumber flick. But Feinstein, Schumer and Blumenthal aren't ignorant to the Constitution, they're well-aware, and they hate it. They're the lions, tigers and bears we should fear because they know what they want and they how to destroy the Constitution to get it: eliminate the electoral college, pack the Supreme Court, install activist judges (an Obama playbook favorite), paint the words of our Founders as outdated, racist dogma, destroy objective truth, and confuse the masses until nothing has any meaning.
Truth much?
The Schumers and Blumenthals of the world are betting that facts don’t matter because their base followers don’t know history or civics, and they’re right about that.
But newsflash: There is already a blueprint for the future. It’s the same one we’ve had for almost 250 years. It’s called the Constitution of the United States of America. The best hope we have for restoring sanctity to our governmental institutions is if our schools are instilled with Trump’s “1776” curriculum, because only an educated citizenry will see through this truth-twisting evil that Democrat Senators displayed today.
If and until then, Amy Coney Barrett will be appointed, and she will serve as a sober, Constitutional voice in the wilderness.
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Harris and the women who share her worldview, see men – specifically white men – as oppressors. Defining someone as an “oppressor,” however, assigns that person potential power over another and as such, is naturally a threat that must be stopped.
For neo-feminists, the white-male patriarchy is the inherent threat that must be destroyed in order for women to rise to their full potential. If not completely eradicated, the patriarchal system and its male enablers will continue to keep women in the dark ages.
The problem with this theory, aside from the fact that it smacks of sophomoric angst and dramatic egoism, is that in order to believe it, women must define themselves as victims, who are weaker than men, and the last time I checked, “victims” need rescuing (Not exactly an empowering mental model).
Not surprisingly, the media are eager to play the role of gender-defender: The Los Angeles Times ran coverage of the VP debate with the sympathetic headline: Kamala Harris’ Sterling Debate was for Every Woman Who’s Been Talked Over by a Man, complaining that the country is like an endless episode of Mad Men, with “male candidates treating their female opponents like subordinates, and men dismissing women in boardrooms and office cubicles across the country. ”CNN’s Van Jones came to Harris’ aid saying that Vice President Pence “was a man-splainer-in-chief,” for doing what the rest of us would describe as defending his positions.
Seeing everything through an emotional lens:
Neo-feminists claim to want equal treatment, yet when they get it, they play the damsel-in-distress card: In the case of the VP debate, the media rushed to Harris’ aid, claiming that Pence was “mean” to her, talked over her, and asserted his maleness in a way that was just unfair.
WTF happened to debating the issues?? If Harris can’t handle some verbal sparring in the most important job interview in the country, how are we supposed to believe that she’s equipped to stand up to the Putins of the world?
What we’re seeing is the worst possible hybrid of weakness, anger and entitlement: a bitter cocktail that encourages women to be righteous victims. Neo-fems insist that men shut up and “respect” their authority while at the same time displaying a Victorian-era frailty at the slightest look, challenge, or even humor.
A worn-out recipe for success:
Harris-style feminism is the result of pioneers like Hillary Clinton, who dredged up this playbook from 1960 issues of Cosmopolitan, where the only chance a woman had of success was to ride the coattails of a truly chauvinistic man, enduring his vulgarity, his clumsy verbal mis-steps and embarrassing antics until that day when her years of patience and humiliation would pay dividends in power. With Hillary, it was Slick-Willie’s womanizing. With Kamala, it was climbing the ladder of success on her back, beneath the Willie Browns of the world until she could tether herself to the next powerful man.
Harris is the neo-feminist’s definition of a strong women, but for what? For playing the race card? For playing the woman card? Or is it for enduring Uncle Joe's history of racial slurs and creepy hair sniffing in exchange for success? Success not earned, but rather bestowed. Sad.
Neo-fems see Harris as smart and empowered, when the reality is that if the best a woman can hope for is a Faustian trade of dignity for power, then she’s neither dignified nor powerful.
Practically speaking, modern feminists are a bad risk for business:
Today’s working culture is based on close collaboration and relationships with long hours, business trips, meals together, intensive projects, night-time texts and emails, all setting at atmosphere for misconduct, misconstrued humor, and hurt feelings.
Sixty percent of women say they experience some form of workplace harassment and a whopping $165 million was collected in 2015 by the EEOC from alleged offenders. Based on those statistics, only one of two things is true: Either the workplace is rampant with misconduct – in which case the risk of intermingling men and women is a bad bet for recruiters – or these numbers are grossly inflated from bogus claims by hyper-sensitive, vigilante feminists with a distorted mission left-over from their grandma's bra-burning protests of the sixties. My bet is on the ladder.
In both cases, the results are not helpful for truly professional women or for women who are actual victims of harassment and whose claims are made more trivial by the preponderance of false reports.
What’s more, neo-fems seem to agree:
More neo-feminists than ever are self-segregating into enclaves of women-only businesses that favor female employees and female leadership. This would be a good thing if these changes were the natural result of a positive move toward developing teams of talented women where comparative advantages in certain markets shine, but this trend is more motivated by a reactionary move away from what these woman see as the oppressive male-dominated workplace. Too weak to hack it out with men, these powerful feminists are choosing to retreat.
So while neo-fems look in the mirror and see power, many of us women see the obsession with labels, victimhood and retreating as the adult version of picking up your toys and stomping out of the room, and if life has taught me anything, it’s that success, fulfillment, respect is overwhelmingly gained by value creation, not isolation.
Today’s so-called feminists are neither feminine nor powerful:
They’re embittered and emboldened and they don’t want equality, they want revenge. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t male chauvinist assholes out there. But playing the victim at every joke or challenge makes it harder to be taken seriously for women with legitimate claims.
Neo-feminists need to toughen up and choose their battles more wisely:
Strong women know that power doesn’t rely on feminism, it relies on contribution. Since all movements tend to have a shelf-life, maybe one day the neo-fems will hang up their pink kitty-cat hats and join adulthood. Until then, they'd do well to lay off Oprah, anti-depressants and Chardonnay.
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It began eleven years ago at a secret meeting in New York, where an elite cabal of global billionaires gathered to solve the world’s problems. The meeting, organized by Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and David Rockefeller, included the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner and George Soros.
The days of the uber-rich improving their communities and neighborhoods by building a school or donating a new hospital wing are today small potatoes, replaced with the biggest prize of all: a stake in global governance.
Galvanized by issues like overpopulation, education, government reform and the climate crises, “The Good Club” is a telling group of bedfellows whose alliance gave birth to the so-called, “public-private partnership” of the the global age, a true wolf-in-sheep’s clothing, as an idea that’s cloaked in benevolence but is in fact a powerful group of unelected, unaccountable human beings with the money and connections to craft whatever vision of daily life they wish to impose upon the rest of us.
In the words of Alanis Morrisette, “Isn’t it ironic” that these billionaires, who reaped fortunes from the rewards of free-market capitalism, now want to reorganize the world in the image of big-government solutions where only the highest echelons have a say.
Flash-forward to 2020
“The Good Club” has made a lot of progress while we were all at work. It's their surge toward what they dub as, “philanthro-capitalism” that should be of concern. "Why?" you say, "Philanthropy is great, right?" The problem with “The Good Club” is not the they want to do good, the problem is that they get to define “good,” for everyone.
Where’s the accountability?
On April 5 of this year, Bill Gates went on Fox News Sunday and said, “Life in the U.S., will not return to ‘normal’ until a coronavirus vaccine is gotten out to basically the entire world…before then, if we do the right things, we’ll be able to open up significant parts of the economy.”
In a stunning modern-day version of, “Let them eat cake,” payroll giant Steve Sarowitz waxes sentimental about the good side to COVID: “…it shows how interconnected we all are and that we all must rely on each other and work together to fight it. Also, with less travel, families will be spending more time at home together. I’m personally thrilled to be getting a respite from my heavy travel schedule…” He then goes on to cite how “plagues and earthquakes increase our belief in God” and help us to be less materialistic.
And really, who among us isn't thankful to be off of those tedious Lear Jets, happily ensconced behind our ivy-covered mansion walls, feasting on baked brie and apples? The flippancy of Sarowitz’ remarks is truly staggering and belies the ignorance to the many unintended consequences of shutting down the economy: children stuck in abusive homes, family businesses shut down, social interaction cut off, the lost comradery of sports and the lessons they teach our young people, and so much more.
All of this is to say...
...that just like Soylent Green, “The Good Club” is made of people, not gods or overlords with great insight into our souls or heroes to humanity’s every problem. “The Good Club” is made up of a tiny number of people with a Progressive agenda for the world population and the money and power to see it through. Think about that.
Our Founders understood the tyranny of giving too few men too much power in government. The danger of “The Good Club” is no different.
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