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bookmark_borderTrump to pardon unjustly convicted Capitol protesters

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According to Yahoo News, president-elect Trump is planning to pardon people who were unjustly charged and convicted for the crime of participating in a protest whose message the establishment disagrees with. This is fantastic news, as it is appalling that these people were charged with crimes in the first place (or criticized in any way, for that matter). And even better, Trump plans to jail members of the committee that decided to treat a protest that they disagree with, as somehow meriting investigation.

Yahoo’s headline is a bit confusing, as there is no such thing as “Capitol rioters.”

The headline, of course, ought to read “Trump vows to pardon Capitol protesters and jail Jan. 6 committee members.”

Notwithstanding Yahoo’s defamatory and inaccurate headline, this is good news indeed.

bookmark_borderDonald Trump and world leaders are re-opening of Notre Dame

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Another cool Trump update: he and other world leaders attended the beautiful ceremony for the re-opening of the Notre Dame cathedral after it was severely damaged in a fire in 2019:

 

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He also greeted some U.S. marines who are stationed in France as part of his visit:

 

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bookmark_borderTrump wins Patriot of the Year award from Fox Nation

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A cool update: president-elect Donald Trump has won Fox Nation’s Patriot of the Year award and spoke at the award ceremony in New York:

 
 
 
 
 
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bookmark_borderWise words from Charlamagne tha God

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“I just want Democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground politically when they have shown us that they’re not.”

 

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Bingo. One of the most angering things about those on the left-hand side of the political spectrum is their stuck-up, sneering, condescending, and contemptuous attitudes. In other words, their belief that they hold the moral high ground. As radio host Charlamagne tha God points out, they most certainly do not.

bookmark_border“When you voted for Trump…”

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“When you voted for Trump, you voted to put Tulsi Gabbard, a Russian asset, in charge of our nation’s intelligence. That’s what you voted for. Congratulations.”

So reads an idiotic tweet by former congressman Joe Walsh. (His handle is @WalshFreedom, which is ironic because he appears to advocate exclusively for government policies that take away people’s freedom.)

 
 
 
 
 
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This response by @EndTribaliam is 100% correct. Walsh’s claim that Gabbard is a “Russian asset” is misinformation (a better term in my opinion would be false information, or simply a lie). Walsh is, indeed, spreading misinformation, and he is, indeed, either a scumbag or an idiot (or both). 

But more importantly: even if Gabbard is a Russian asset… who cares? 

Voting for the Harris / Walz ticket meant voting for people to be forced to undergo medical procedures against their will, voting for historical figures to be obliterated from existence, and voting for everything that makes life worth living to be destroyed. 

Is all of this somehow supposed to be preferable to having a Russian asset in charge of our nation’s intelligence? Because it isn’t. Putting a Russian asset in charge of intelligence is a tiny, minute, insignificant problem compared to the things listed above.

For four and a half years, I’ve endured a living hell in which statues have been viciously torn down and destroyed for the “crime” of representing unpopular historical figures, people barred from public life for the “crime” of declining medical intervention, and hundreds of people tracked down by the FBI and arrested for the “crime” of participating in a protest for an unpopular cause. The fact that Walsh considers a Russian asset to be a bigger problem than all of this demonstrates both his moral bankruptcy and his lack of empathy.

Let’s have a country in which everything even remotely beautiful or good has been deliberately destroyed, in which every public space has been redesigned to ensure that people who are different from the norm feel excluded, in which people are forced to undergo medical procedures against their will and arrested if they dare to voice dissent…. but at least a Russian asset isn’t in charge of intelligence. 

Sounds great.

Not.

“That’s what you voted for. Congratulations.”

Yes, we voted for people’s fundamental rights to be protected, for historical figures to have a chance of receiving some semblance of justice, and for a possibility that life might actually be worth living.

I’m not sure why Walsh considers this a bad thing.

bookmark_borderPassing the responsibility of your health onto others is selfish

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An old post that I came across recently, but the philosophical arguments that it makes are still relevant and likely always will be:

I see a whole lot of this: ‘People who don’t wear masks are selfish and putting everyone else in danger.’
Just no. Stop.
Do you know what’s selfish? Passing off responsibility for YOUR health to everyone else around you. It doesn’t work that way.

Read the post in its entirety here.

bookmark_border“Actually, they were! Hope this helps!”

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Take a look at the below comment by “maddieelam”: 

“Actually, they were! Hope this helps!”

Excuse me?

Maddie appears to be stating that, in fact, Benny Johnson’s ancestors were evil. 

What an abhorrent, despicable, and brainless thing to write. 

How dare someone state that another person’s ancestors, in their entirety, were evil?

It is unclear exactly what Benny’s ancestors did wrong to merit such a harsh condemnation. It’s possible that an individual ancestor, or even several individual ancestors, did something sufficiently bad to merit the designation of evil. But for each and every one of Benny’s ancestors to have been evil is statistically extremely unlikely, to say the least, and is not something that Maddie could possibly have evidence to prove. Therefore, Maddie is falsely, and without justification, condemning people as evil.

To criticize, let alone condemn as evil, a person or group without justification is cruel and mean-spirited. And to state that a person’s ancestors, in their entirety, were evil, is an act of intolerance and bigotry.

Does Maddie think that the ancestors mentioned in the post are evil because they came from Europe? Because they had light skin? Because they lived in a different time period than she does, and therefore dressed differently, talked differently, and thought differently than her? Regardless of the exact reasoning, Maddie is cruelly condemning people as evil for the “crime” of being different from her. This is the epitome of intolerance and bigotry. 

Maddie’s intolerance and bigotry become even worse if one interprets Benny’s post as being about the ancestors of Americans in general, rather than just his own personal ancestors. If one interprets the post this way, then Maddie is stating not only that all of Benny’s ancestors were evil, but that all Americans of the past were evil. The bigotry and intolerance inherent in such a statement are appalling. 

“Actually, they were! Hope this helps!”

Um, no. Actually, they weren’t. And you are a bigot and a bully for making this racist comment. Hope this helps, Maddie!