Just a few pictures that brought a smile to my face:
View this post on Instagram
Source here
Tag: Donald Trump
bookmark_borderWhite House X account officially expresses support for Second Amendment
A beautiful thing to see, and something that certainly wouldn’t have taken place under the Biden administration:
View this post on Instagram
Source here
bookmark_borderWise words from John Dolmayan, System of a Down drummer
Check out this post from Breitbart regarding John Dolmayan, drummer for the band System of a Down, and his support for President Trump.
“I voted for Donald Trump and I’m glad he won, because it brings a little sanity back,” Dolmayan said in an interview with an Australian Youtuber. “I don’t believe in the woke culture at all.”
He explained further:
“I don’t want people to starve to death, I want people to have homes. But I also believe in self-sacrifice, and hard work will get you to where you to where you want to be. And I don’t wanna subsidize somebody that is lazy or doesn’t wanna pursue something because I worked very hard to get to where I am. Whether I had been successful or not, I was going to work extremely hard on whatever I did. So, there’s a balance there.”
I 100% agree with these sentiments. I was the valedictorian of my high-school class and earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard. I secured a full-time, white-collar job after sending out over 100 applications, and lived a bare-bones lifestyle for years so that I could save up to buy a house. I’ve now owned my home for 13 years, maintain it, and financially support myself. I worked extremely hard for these achievements. Not only that, but I’ve accomplished all of this while having autism. And because I wasn’t diagnosed with autism until age 27, I accomplished all of this while receiving no supports, no services, and no accommodations. I accomplished all of this on my own.
So yeah, it sucks to see other people receive supports, services, and benefits that I never got to receive. Especially when these benefits are paid for with my hard-earned money. It sucks to see other people get things handed to them for free, when I had to struggle and sacrifice.
While helping people who are homeless and starving has obvious appeal, progressive economic policies really do present a significant fairness issue, as my life story illustrates. I appreciate John Dolmayan for calling attention to this.
bookmark_border“Hey MAGAs, show me your best cognitive dissonance!”
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.
bookmark_borderThere’s nothing “weird” about being interested in art
I recently saw an article about President Trump’s appointment of several of his supporters to the board of directors of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The article’s headline read, “Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is right out of the fascist playbook.”
This headline is just another example of the intolerance and bigotry of the supporters of “woke” ideology. Why do these people consider art to be something that only those who share their ideology are allowed to take part in? Why do these people consider anyone who thinks differently than they do to be “weird” and “fascist”? It’s because they are bullies. It’s because they are intolerant bigots who value sameness and conformity above all else and believe that being different from the norm is intrinsically bad. In other words, they have values and beliefs that are the exact opposite of the values and beliefs that they claim to have. If this sounds completely hypocritical, logically inconsistent, and morally bankrupt, that’s because it is.
I consider myself to be both right-wing, and a Trump supporter, and I love art. Art is one of the most important things in my life, if not the most important. As someone whose ideological views are not shared or understood by the people around me, art is a crucial form of self-expression. It is because of my right-wing values and beliefs – not despite them – that I love art. Art is how I express my emotions, feelings, and thoughts. It’s how I honor the historical figures that I love. (If you are interested, you can see some of my artwork at my art website here.)
There is nothing “weird” about being interested in art, and there certainly isn’t anything “fascist” about it. Silly me, but I would argue that it is fascist to believe that only people who think like you are allowed to be interested in art. Unfortunately for the woke bullies, there is no law restricting art to only one ideology. People like me have just as much right to partake in art as they do.
bookmark_borderTrump takes action to restore statues on federal sites!
A very significant piece of good news took place Thursday night, when President Trump signed an executive order titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order directs the Vice President and the Secretary of the Interior to restore federal parks, monuments, memorials and statues “that have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events.”
This is objectively fantastic news and for me, desperately needed. I’ve had an absolutely awful few days and this lifts my spirits somewhat. Trump should have signed this order on his first day in office, but better late than never! This executive order means that thanks to President Trump, the statue genocide will indeed be partially reversed, something that my 2020-2021 self did not think was possible.
Check out some posts / coverage by:
- Dixie Forever
- John Reid (Candidate for Virginia Lt. Governor)
- Virginia Flaggers
- Stonewall Brigade Sons of Confederate Veterans #1296
bookmark_borderGive me liberty or give me death
I’m a few days late, but March 23 was the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous “give me liberty or give me death” speech.
President Trump signed a presidential proclamation honoring this important moment in history.View this post on Instagram
This isn’t something that I can picture Joe Biden or Kamala Harris doing, because neither liberty nor history is something that they value. Although he is not perfect, it is things like this that make me glad we have Trump as our president.View this post on Instagram
bookmark_borderHypocrisy at its finest…
bookmark_borderLight in the darkness
Things have not been great for me lately. Life has felt heavy and dark, for various reasons. I am sick and tired of the cruelty, the nastiness, the self-righteous intolerance, and the hypocrisy of so many people. I am sick of being condemned as “cruel” and “un-American,” by the very same people who have spent the past five years unleashing an avalanche of shocking cruelty. I am sick of pompous lectures about the importance of diversity and inclusion by the very same people who have waged a merciless campaign to obliterate all diversity from the earth and to ensure that people who are different from the norm cannot feel included anywhere. I’m sick of words being used to mean the opposite of what they actually mean. I’m sick of people brutally attacking those who have done nothing wrong and then calling their victims cruel. I am sick of it, and it is taking a heavy toll on my mental health.
But I’m not making this post to write about all of the things I’m sick of (although I’ve ended up writing quite a long paragraph about this topic). I’m making this post to draw attention to a few things that have brought a smile to my face in these dark times. Hopefully these things will bring a smile to your face as well:
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
View this post on Instagram
bookmark_borderTrump signs executive order withholding funds from schools that require covid vaccine
On February 15, President Trump signed what is perhaps his most awesome executive order yet. It withholds federal funds from schools that force their students to receive the covid vaccine.
According to the text of the order on the White House website:
“It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an educational service agency, State educational agency, local educational agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program.”
Trump’s order correctly points out that people should be “empowered with accurate data” and “left free to make their own decisions accordingly,” and that “threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom.”
This really shouldn’t be a revolutionary concept. The right to make medical decisions about one’s body is the most fundamental right that there is. And vaccine mandates violate this right. It’s completely unacceptable for any school, employer, or organization to require a medical procedure.
With this executive order, Trump has decided that the federal government will step in and defend people’s rights from schools that would violate them. This is exactly what the federal government should be doing. In fact, it’s what the federal government should have been doing all along.
Despicably, the Biden administration attempted to use the power of OSHA – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration – to force all companies with 100 or more employees to implement vaccine mandates, thereby violating the rights of their employees. This is the literal opposite of what the government should have done. The government should have banned companies from violating the rights of their employees, not required it. Now, under the Trump administration, the government is moving in the direction of what it should have been doing all along. It is punishing institutions that violate people’s rights, thereby providing a deterrent from doing so.
I can’t think of a more important or worthy use of the power of the federal government, than to enforce people’s rights to bodily autonomy. So thank you, President Trump, for standing up for the fundamental right to decline medical intervention.