[JohnPavlovitz] If you voted for Donald Trump, you owe my children an apology. Do tell...
You owe them an apology for making them grow up with a hateful, incompetent, petulant, predatory monster as their President.
For placing their safety in the hands of an impulsive child, who trolls world leaders with nuclear weapons and wields our military like an insecure coward brandishes a gun at a party. Trust me when I say if you are brandishing a firearm at a party, you are not insecure. Crazy, yes. Insecure, no.
For unleashing the fierce tide of bullying, racism, bigotry, and homophobia they have to see in their classrooms and ball fields and neighborhoods—because the man you chose has repeatedly encouraged and legislated it. Wait. Wha?
For making them do “shooter drills” at school, because you’ve sanctioned a man who is fully in bed with the NRA, who removes barriers to mentally ill people getting guns, and who does nothing to prevent military weapon proliferation. First I heard of mentally ill people getting a pass when it comes to guns.
For the terrifying images of a crowd of emboldened, violent, torch wielding Nazis terrorizing a town—and of a President who coddled them afterward. Huh? As I recall Trump could give a f*ck about Charlottesville.
For the inexplicable disconnect they see in a man claiming to be Christian—while being so devoid of anything remotely resembling Jesus. "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
It's right there in the Holy Bible.
You owe my daughter an apology for excusing his reprehensible words about women when voting for him; for ignoring the multiple accusations of sexual assault against him, for placing a man with such clear disregard for her at the highest level of leadership in the country she calls home. Trump leads the government, not the nation. He sure as hell isn't my leader.
You owe my son an apology for taking someone with a lifetime resume of filth and misogyny, and asking him to look up to that man as a leader; for rewarding the very sexist, ignorant, repugnant behavior we implore him never to engage in or abide in those around him. See above. If you are teaching your kids that elected people are supposed to be leaders and not representatives, you are leading them down a dark path.
You’ve let my children down by thrusting them into an America that is far less secure, less compassionate, less decent, more fractured, and more violent than it was a year ago—and because that truth alters children immersed in it. And that's just the good things Trump has done.
But lest you think this is just about me, about my family, about my children—be assured it is not. Oh, thank heaven. I was actually worried.
Yes, you’ve surely failed my children with your vote, and more so with the way you’ve doubled down on the toxicity released over the past year—but you don’t owe an apology to them alone.
You owe your children an apology too. Really? Do go on.
They too are inheriting this jagged, hateful, angry nation you’ve co-created with your vote. They too are reminded every day by their President, that honesty and integrity and empathy and kindness are of little value; that going low gets the intoxicating applause of the crowd and the affection of the ignorant.
They too will have their personalities, their priorities, their sense of safety, and their very identities formed in the crucible of this scalding hatred Donald Trump presides over and continually cultivates.
If your children one day become ill, they too will have a difficult time affording care or staying alive without going broke. Obamacare was legislated broken.
They too will have to breathe the air and drink the water and reside on the planet that this President leaves to rot.
They too will be saturated in the enmity and the callousness of this country—and make no mistake it will change who they are. It will change the way they perceive truth and the way they respect differences and the way they value people’s bodies and well-being. And if that means real change, then it should happen.
And not just my children and not just your children. FFS!
You owe an apology to every child who has to spend their formative years in an America that is defined by:
fear of the other,
an epidemic of cruelty,
a poverty of decency,
a deadly allergy to facts,
a Christianity of coercion and malice,
a defiant resistance to diversity. Or what we call Saturday night in Chicago
You owe an apology to every young woman growing up in an America where celebrity preachers vilify assault victims and defend predators, where accusers are tried and offenders elected. And Trump gets fingered for that?
You owe an apology to every young man who forms his identity in a culture where men can do whatever they want to women and they will rarely be held accountable; where gentleness is a liability and brutality an asset. Both are assets, actually, if used correctly.
Yes, this horrible stuff existed long before this year, but it’s never had such a powerful and uncontested cheerleader with such an ability to ratify it all—and that’s something that’s on you and that you’ll have to own. That’s just how it is.
So yes, you can puff out your chest online, and posture and boast all you want. Thank you, but I think I'll pass. The way I hear, love ain't s'posed to be puffed up.
You can cling to the fading lie that you’ve won anything here, or that you’ve somehow struck a blow for America or Jesus or patriotism.
You can tell me to suck it up and to let it go and to f*ck off—which I’m now quite used to. So why doncha?
But at the end of the day you’ve simply let a lot of people down: My mom once told me that I could be anything I wanted. So I became a disappointment.
My children.
Your children.
The children of this country and the planet.
They all have lost because you were irresponsible with one of the greatest responsibilities you’ve ever had in their lifetime, and now they have to live with the terrible fallout—and you owe them all an apology.
I’m well aware of what your likely response to all this will be. I don’t imagine an apology will be forthcoming—so I’ll apologize to them on your behalf. Please. Feel free.
Then, I’ll spend every day living that apology. Sounds to me you ARE a walking, talking apology.
I’ll remind my children your children and all children, that there are lots of adults who still believe that people are inherently valuable and stunningly beautiful—that not all adults fear brown people and gay people and foreigners and immigrants.
...some of whom quietly voted for The Donald, same as some of the white folks.
I’ll remind them that there are still people committed to the truth and to equality, and the richness found in diversity.
I’ll do my best to make them feel safe and loved and hopeful here, even on the days that I don’t. You'll be overwhelmed, coz there's a lotta need out there and one sorry socialist can't fix it all. Even while presidenting.
I’ll even teach them to forgive people who fail and hurt them, because I know how difficult that it is right now. A straight up invitation for gratitude. Hope you can live with yourself.
And I’ll remind them that even when bad people are rewarded, doing the right thing is still the thing most worth doing.
I’ll teach them that when hatred seems the most treasured currency, that love is still worth more than gold.
I’m just sorry that they have to live with something (and someone) far less than they deserve—and they didn’t have to.
The writer is a minister, writer, speaker, and idiot.
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To your children: "I'm sorry that you have such a deluded father. But - try to look past him - and watch as an imperfect President - with his heart in the right place - does battle with the forces of evil in America - and fights to Make America Great Again."
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The child who wrote this needs help. It's living in a delusion, as NONE of what it says is true.
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11/24/2017 7:20 Comments ||
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#10
Sadly far too many people share that delusion - spurred on by the likes of MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the alphabet networks. Someone should hold them accountable.
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11/24/2017 11:10 Comments ||
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As Almostanonynmous has already noted, the poor man has written Trump where the name Obama belongs. IF you make the substitution, his rant is more or less correct, though still overheated.
lets go over it
"For placing their safety in the hands of an impulsive child, who trolls world leaders with nuclear weapons and wields our military like an insecure coward brandishes a gun at a party."
The current threat of nuclear weapons emanates from Iran and North Korea both encouraged by President O
"For unleashing the fierce tide of bullying, racism, bigotry, and homophobia they have to see in their classrooms and ball fields and neighborhoods—because the man you chose has repeatedly encouraged and legislated it"
The fierce tide exists and is directed against white males encouraged by whom?
(I ignore the next paragraph which makes no sense. It is true that O's policies did encourage gun sales, but shooter drills?"
"For the terrifying images of a crowd of emboldened, violent, torch wielding Nazis terrorizing a town—and of a President who coddled them afterward."
I suppose he is referring to Antifa. Images of its behavior are terrifying"
The next paragraph is out of place, It refers to the previous Democrat who was president.
"You owe my son an apology for taking someone with a lifetime resume of filth and misogyny, and asking him to look up to that man as a leader; for rewarding the very sexist, ignorant, repugnant behavior we implore him never to engage in or abide in those around him."
The "Chume Gang" and close association and even dependence on the vile terrorist Bill Ayres (who apparently wrote O's autobiographies) are horrifying, but maybe not that horrifying.
"You’ve let my children down by thrusting them into an America that is far less secure, less compassionate, less decent, more fractured, and more violent than it was a year ago—and because that truth alters children immersed in it."
Obviously this is Obama's legacy but it should refer to eight years rather than one.
Today the almost orgasmic hate we see is directed at Trump, not by him, as this rant illustrates.
The rest of the rant clearly refers to Obama, from the references to medical care failures, coercion by government, allergy to facts, injustice, etc.
I suppose the poor ranter got more and more frustrated by his inability to criticize president O that when able to criticize a president he blurted it all out. It's like someone frustrated by inability to criticize the boss, come home and rants at one's spouse.
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11/24/2017 12:39 Comments ||
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I don't know why, but some still worship the ground Hillary collapses on.
[Reuters] U.S. shoppers had splurged more than $1.52 billion online by Thanksgiving evening, and more bargain hunters turned up at stores this year after two weak holiday seasons as retailers opened their doors early on the eve of Black Friday.
At the start of the holiday season consumer spending rose 16.8 percent year-over-year until 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracked 80 percent of online transactions at the top 100 U.S. retailers.
Surging online sales and a shift away from store shopping have thinned the crowds typically seen at stores on Thanksgiving evening and the day after, Black Friday, for the past two years. But a strong labor market, rising home prices and stock markets at record highs have improved shopper appetite this year.
Crowds at stores in many locations around the country were reported to be strong, according to analysts and retail consultants monitoring shopper traffic across the U.S.
[DAWN] A RECENTLY launched collection of Hamza Alavi’s papers and speeches should be a timely reminder to us about the role that faith has come to play in Pakistain’s politics. Translated into Urdu by Dr Riaz Ahmad Sheikh (dean of Social Sciences, Szabist), Tashkeel-e-Pakistain: Mazhab aur Secularism leaves no one in doubt about the misuse of religion by our leaders to gain advantages in public life at the expense of the people’s well-being and the national interest.
Hamza Alavi, who was a Marxist scholar recognised in world academia, firmly believed that the founder of this country never sought to set up a theocratic state. Yet that is the direction in which Pakistain appears to be heading.
Much has been written and said about the exploitation of religion in the country to marginalise the minority communities and the non-mainstream Moslem sects. Religion has also been misused to try and suppress the freedom of expression and to unleash violence and extremism in order to concentrate influence ‐ and ultimately power ‐in the hands of a right-wing, religious oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of this phenomenon has been the use of faith in our foreign, defence and strategic policies. Religious symbolism was employed from the start in the security establishment. Initially, it was more to mobilise the soldiers, so no one thought twice about the use of religious slogans such as ’Allah-o-Akbar’ and titles such as Nishan-e-Haider. But then we went much further. The word ’jihad’ was also used by the security establishment to justify action that may not be universally acceptable in the eyes of modern-day international law.
The rise of Islamist extremism that has spawned myriads of bully boy groups in the Middle East and South Asia was initially facilitated by the introduction of rigid interpretations of faith in public life. With extremism opening a Pandora’s box, it is difficult to see how such misuse will ever be checked.
What is worrying is that this approach was not only used to try and gain our own strategic goals and foreign policy objectives. Successive governments also allowed outsiders to use religion on our behalf. Remember how we fought Charlie Wilson’s war in Afghanistan as proxies for the US dubbing the guerillas as "freedom fighters" engaged in jihad. Now we know better ‐ as has been recounted by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... ’s security adviser ‐ that the ’godless’ Russians were lured into Afghanistan by the Carter administration. Gulbadin Hekmatyar and colleagues were mobilised in Afghanistan in July 1979. The use of the religion card was evident to evoke a military response from the Soviets in December 1979. That was to trap the Russians in their Afghan ’Vietnam’.
This approach was also formerly seen in India-held Kashmire. The various lashkars that roamed freely in this region were said to be the creation of our security establishment, and held up as our ’strategic assets’. The aura of faith that surrounded them gave them extraordinary protection especially in the public perception. So powerful had they become that our foreign policy was seen as being held hostage to their wishes.
Against this backdrop, the situation has now taken a serious turn with the entry of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in the White House and his announcement of a new South Asian strategy in August. A key feature of this new policy was spelt out by Trump as, "Pakistain will have to stop providing safe-haven for terrorists. ... That must change immediately."
We have not been told about the tactic the US plans to employ to achieve this end. Given Mr Trump’s performance, it would be unwise to believe that it will be business as usual. No official announcement has been made about the outcome of the American secretary of state’s visit to Pakistain apart from the outpouring of scorn from our leaders.
It is time we were told about what Mr Rex Tillerson had to say apart from his ’expectation’ that the 75 ’terrorists’ whose names were given to Pakistain should be handed over to the US or information about their whereabouts be provided. How will the security establishment react to this demand?
In this context the New York Time’s report of Oct 17 carries certain implications. According to the NYT the US had planned to send in SEALs to rescue the American/Canadian couple kidnapped by the Haqqani network four years ago. The family had been sighted by US drones. Reportedly, Pakistain went into action to recover the hostages when Washington gave the message, "Resolve this or the United States will."
Is this report to be believed? One cannot help but recall the US helicopter operation of 2011 that saw SEALs entering Pakistain territory to kill the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... ? Are similar incursions to be expected to destroy the alleged safe havens set up in the name of religion?
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What is the use of a corruption charge when the meaning of corruption (Shariah Law) is the law of the land?
What? this is a tribal thing?
Makes the Sura look weak
Corruption YE say?!?!
My Shariah Law'
No MINE'!
No my daughter
No, My wife
No interest on dowry'
You are four months late, I take your other Daughter and sell her as a sex slave'
Take my son instead' he has good hands'
The shariah does not take your son'
Then sell him as an ass'
Inshallah.
I AM GOING TO FUCK YOU SHARIAH IDIOTS UP IN THE END,
[The Hill] The use of propaganda for diversion to an altered state of reality that is defined by the politicians and the political parties is not new. We even observe this concept of diversion in antiquity.
Will Luden in "Bread and Circuses for the Masses ‐ Not Just Ancient Rome" describes the Roman government policy as "Emperors, in the later stages of the Empire, used both free bread (and other food) and free entertainment to placate the larger number of people who were otherwise poorly served by their government."
Jose Azel’s definition in "The Politics of Bread and Circuses" provides an easily understood and concise description. "Bread and Circus" are "political strategies calculated to appease a population and divert attention from controversial or failed policies with populist welfare programs..." He further explains, "public support is thus created not through exceptional public service and effective public policy, but through diversion, and patronage."
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The real killer was the graft, state-mandated holidays and other rent-seeking Rome killed its economy with in order to buy off the masses and keep the looting going.
h/t Instapundit
The original "Reign of Terror" occurred during the French Revolution, when socialism itself was fully birthed. It was a period during which the French Revolutionaries executed thousands of people, many of whom were themselves Revolutionaries, including the father of the French Revolution, Robespierre. We are seeing something akin to the Reign of Terror on the Left today with the sudden purging of stalwart Progressives who have engaged in sexual harassment and abuse. How did we get here and how will it end?
[Victory Girls] Emily Lindin is a Harvard graduate, a documentary director, a PhD candidate, a Teen Vogue columnist, a suicide prevention specialist, and the author of Unslut ‐ a middle school memoir in which she tells her story through her own diary entries of being labeled a slut at age 11.
On Tuesday, Ms. Lindin tweeted this:
Here's an unpopular opinion: I'm actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations.
‐ Emily Lindin (@EmilyLindin) November 21, 2017
As she sort of already knew, this was quite an unpopular opinion. So after a couple of hours of being schooled on why this is opinion was so bad, she then tweeted this:
I guess this is why people announce threads. I am definitely interested in nuancing around this point (re: how it works on campuses, race, other factors) ‐ Thanks to those of you who are doing that. https://t.co/jlO1cV0wvM
‐ Emily Lindin (@EmilyLindin) November 21, 2017
She was then schooled on how "nuancing" was not a word, and even if it was, she needed to admit that she was backtracking. She admitted that she had "missed a few layers" but denied that she was moving off of her position. Click through to the thread to see more.
This is just sad: A young woman can be so educated and yet have such an entitlement mentality that she can still be so unaware of how attitudes like this do nothing to correct real problems. She’s advocating a position exactly opposite of what our legal social contract promises ‐ due process. Without attention to the rights of an accused, all order falls apart. It does not matter if the accused is guilty or innocent, that is to be determined at a later time through a fairly applied process. Without due process guarantees nobody is safe. Do you hear that Emily? Yes, even your protections under the law are subject to the whim of whoever is in power. Shouldn’t the fact that Donald Trump is president alert you to the dangers of doing away with these protections ‐ your party is not guaranteed to forever be in power?!
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A young woman can be so educated and yet have such an entitlement mentality that she can still be so unaware of how attitudes like this do nothing to correct real problems.
NO, what is so sad is that we have such a debased education system that promotes the totalitarian attitude on no constraints of power and the subjugation of basic human rights. Power is self rationalizing and self justifying.
#4
I blame chemistry and modern medicine. Birth control medications throw them into premature menopause and fits of anxiety, dry skin, irritability, man hating moodiness.
To be fair, some arrive at the station without the use of medications.
#10
Insensitive vermin disturb
The immense self-esteem of this kurwa,
This libertine godess
Whose brains burst her bodice,
This va-va-voom Harvard Minerva?!?
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[Victory Girls] Emily Lindin is a Harvard graduate, a documentary director, a PhD candidate, a Teen Vogue columnist, a suicide prevention specialist, and the author of Unslut ‐ a middle school memoir in which she tells her story through her own diary entries of being labeled a slut at age 11.
