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Bingo!
I would also add, hate for people who have trouble making friends, people who are bullied, people who don’t fit in, people who think for themselves, people who hold minority views, people who resist authority, people who decline medical interventions, and people who are different from the norm in any way.
No kings in America…
But yes to mandatory medical procedures.
Yes to society collectively making decisions about which risks people should be allowed to take, rather than people making decisions about risk for themselves.
No kings in America…
But yes to viciously tearing down statues of those who fought for the losing side of a war.
Yes to obliterating all representation of people who are different from the norm, in our public spaces, in our society, in art and culture.
No kings in America…
But yes to the criminalization of political dissent.
Yes to demanding unquestioning, unthinking submission.
Yes to mindless compliance with social norms.
Yes to morally condemning the entire concept of rebellion, of revolution, of resistance to authority.
Yes to using the terms “insurrectionist” and “traitor” as pejoratives, as if the concept of resisting authority is so self-evidently shameful and bad that it ought to be used as an insult.
No kings in America…
But yes to tyranny, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism.
That is the message of the “No Kings Day” protests.
File this under the category of, “things that shouldn’t need to be stated.”
I stumbled across this post in my Facebook feed.
Nothing remarkable about the post itself. Like many people, I’ve heard the news that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a common condition for older people which means that he experiences swelling in his legs and will likely start wearing compression socks.
What is remarkable, and not in a good way, is what I saw in the lower left corner of the post: the fact that the most common reaction that readers had to this post was the “laughing face.”
Out of the 1,600 people who reacted to this post, a plurality reacted with laughter.
Hundreds of people think that President Trump being diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency is funny.
What the heck is wrong with these people???
Why on earth would someone think that a person being diagnosed with a medical condition is funny?
What kind of person laughs at another person’s medical diagnosis?
I simply do not understand this reaction. I don’t get it. At all. It is baffling to me.
I can’t imagine ever finding a public figure’s medical diagnosis to be humorous, no matter how much I disliked the public figure.
It’s difficult to find a better example of the meanness, the nastiness, the cruelty of the progressive left than this.
In our society, we hear again and again about the “cruelty” of the Trump administration, the “intolerance” of right-wing ideology, the idea that conservatives “lack empathy” for those different from themselves. Yet it is the progressive left that chooses to respond with humor, with mocking, with ridicule, with laughter when a person that they dislike is diagnosed with a medical condition.
This behavior is actually cruel.
This behavior is actually intolerant.
This behavior is what actually demonstrates a lack of empathy.
The progressive left has absolutely no claim to the moral high ground when they choose to react with laughter to the president’s medical diagnosis. Every time they accuse the right of cruelty, intolerance, or a lack of empathy, they demonstrate their own complete and utter hypocrisy.
Perhaps someone should visit the profile pages of each of the people who left a “laughing face” reaction to this WMUR news story, and scan their profile pages for any mention of a health struggle or medical diagnosis, affecting either the person themselves, a family member, or a friend. Then, that someone should leave a “laughing face” reaction on each of these posts. I wonder how these people would enjoy being the recipient of their own behavior. I wonder if they would still consider health problems to be funny, if they or their family members or friends were the ones being made fun of.
To state the obvious truth that I alluded to at the beginning of this blog post, the fact that President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency is not funny. If it weren’t for the moral bankruptcy of the progressive left, such a thing wouldn’t need to be stated. But unfortunately, it does.
The U.S. Navy ship that was named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk was recently renamed in honor of World War II hero and Medal of Honor recipient Oscar V. Peterson. The Navy oil tanker was originally named the USNS Harvey Milk in 2016 under the Obama administration, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided to rename it in order to “take the politics out of ship naming,” according to Fox News. The new namesake, Peterson, sustained fatal burn injuries while attempting to keep his ship afloat after it sustained severe damage during a battle with Japanese forces in the Philippines.
I agree with Hegseth. On the one hand, I feel bad whenever a historical figure has their name removed from something. Destroying the monuments, celebrations, and memorials of historical figures is exactly what I have dedicated the past five years of my life to criticizing and fighting against. But with this renaming, the intolerant bullies who have carried out this historical figure genocide are finally getting a taste of their own medicine. Harvey Milk is a historical figure that the intolerant bullies of political correctness tend to admire, so perhaps by seeing his name erased, they are experiencing a tiny, miniscule fraction of the pain that they have inflicted on others.
One such bully, Nancy Pelosi, called the renaming “a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream.” This comment demonstrates a complete and utter lack of empathy. Pelosi and those who think like her have spent the past five years actively carrying out a vindictive erasure of historical figures who actually signify diversity and inclusion. This is what is truly shameful. Perhaps Milk is a historical figure who makes gay people feel included and represented, but having a ship named after him doesn’t do anything to help me. As someone who has always had difficulty fitting in and making friends, who has always been different from the majority, and who has always thought for myself rather than following social norms, Milk didn’t do anything to break down barriers for people like me. Rather, it is historical figures such as Christopher Columbus, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson who make me feel included and represented. And those are exactly the historical figures who have been subjected to a deliberate, vicious, cruel, and brutal campaign of obliteration by Pelosi and her ideological allies. It’s despicable for Pelosi to complain about a “vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers” when that is exactly what she and her allies have been doing.
While I do feel a little bit bad for Harvey Milk, having his name removed from a ship pales in comparison to the sickening acts that have been perpetrated against Christopher Columbus and those who fought for the Confederacy. It is those acts which are truly shameful. And it’s past time that the perpetrators get a taste of their own medicine.
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The third slide of this Instagram post really caught my attention. In it, Barron Trump is called an “oddity on campus” by fellow NYU students because “he goes to class, he goes home.”
Why the heck is it considered “odd” to go to class and then go home? Isn’t that exactly what a student is supposed to do? What is it, exactly, that Barron is expected to do in addition to attending his classes? What is required in order to qualify as “normal” in these people’s eyes?
This is a perfect example of the bigotry and intolerance of the progressive left. They proudly proclaim their support for queer people, trans people, single mothers, poor people, racial minorities, religious minorities… but find it “odd” that a student goes to class and then goes home. They criticize a young man for literally doing exactly what makes perfect sense for a person to do in his situation.
So in case this needs to be stated, which it shouldn’t, there is nothing odd about going to class and then home. It is exactly what makes sense for a student to do. I’m tired of this meanness, intolerance, and hypocrisy.
I recently saw a post from one of my Facebook “friends” regarding the accidental leaking of military information by Department of Defense officials in a group chat.
The post read: “Hey MAGAs, show me your best cognitive dissonance! Best one wins a new red hat!… Go ahead, twist me a pretzel and tell me why this is all OK.”
This post, to be blunt, really pisses me off. And it does so for two reasons:
First, the double standards and logical inconsistency. This person expresses outrage about what is a relatively minor problem in the grand scheme of things, while completely failing to express any criticism of an obvious, pervasive, and blatant campaign of atrocity that is enormous in both its scope and its severity. He calls an accidental leak “a major fuck up” and “justification for heads to roll.” However, he expressed not even the mildest criticism of the statue genocide that began in 2020 and continues to this day, a series of deliberate and intentional acts of extreme cruelty targeting people who are different from the norm in an attempt to ensure their erasure from society. It makes no sense that someone would get so outraged at what is essentially an accident, while apparently feeling no outrage whatsoever at a deliberate and cruel campaign to inflict harm.
Second is the entire way that the argument is framed. This person purportedly invites others to discuss and debate, while simultaneously stating that anyone who expresses a differing opinion is demonstrating “cognitive dissonance” and “twisting a pretzel.” This way of framing the issue puts people who see things differently in a no-win position: we could either be silent and pretend that we agree when we don’t, or we could speak up and have our views automatically be labeled as “cognitive dissonance” and “twisting a pretzel.” Talk about intolerance for those who think and feel differently than you do. What is the point of inviting discussion when you have no openness to considering alternative perspectives? Why even ask people to contribute their views, when you admittedly have no intention of actually hearing or learning from those views, but intend rather to use those views as evidence of their authors’ twistedness and cognitive dissonance?
Personally, I support Trump and his administration because I’m on the autism spectrum and my special interest is history and statues, so the events involving statues that have taken place over the past 5 years have had a profound negative impact on me. The issue of military information being leaked just isn’t important to me in comparison, and therefore I do not share the outrage that this “friend” and so many other people are expressing. This isn’t cognitive dissonance, and it’s not twisting a pretzel. I simply have a different perspective because I’ve had different life experiences and my brain works differently.
Generally, I’m not a big advocate of pointing at people and laughing. Generally, I consider this a pretty mean thing to do. But honestly, I 100% agree with the below posts from Twitchy and the Firearms Policy Coalition:
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I am so utterly sick and tired of Democrats and their hurtful and intolerant words and policies. I am so tired of being insulted, attacked, shamed and ridiculed. I am so tired of the vicious, nasty, and pompous condemnations of people who have done nothing wrong. I am tired of innocent people being hurt, and then when they express their hurt, treated as if they are the problem. I am tired of people violating the rights of others, and then acting as if they’ve done something positive, something that gives them a claim to the moral high ground. I am tired of the self-righteous intolerance, tired of the bigotry mischaracterized as virtue. I am tired of the hypocrisy, the inconsistency, the double standards, the lack of logic, and more than anything else, the lack of empathy.
They hurt us, and then criticize us for being hurt.
They anger us – by taunting, insulting, ridiculing, and attacking us – and then criticize us for being angry.
They violate our rights, and then criticize us for protesting (after they themselves have spent months and months engaging in the most violent and vicious protests imaginable).
They are cruel to us, and then accuse us of being cruel.
They exclude us for being different, and then accuse us of exclusion.
They engage in a campaign of systematic obliteration of all diversity from our world, and then pontificate about the importance of diversity.
They insult us because of our skin color, and then accuse us of being racist.
They condemn us for being “insurrectionists” and “traitors” – as if resisting authority is self-evidently pejorative – and then characterize themselves as “fighting back” and “the resistance.”
They have demonstrated, again and again, the most abject and appalling lack of empathy imaginable, and then accuse us of lacking empathy.
For so long, Democrats have pointed and laughed – and far worse – at people who have done nothing whatsoever to deserve such treatment. For so long, Democrats have piled on – inflicting additional pain and harm on people who are already hurting – and then acted as if this somehow constitutes moral virtue. It’s past time that they get a taste of their own medicine. Maybe then they will actually understand the magnitude, the severity, the sheer enormity, of harm that they have caused and the pain that they have inflicted.