Ellen has left the country (I hope she turned in her passport so she really cannot come back). Joy Reid has come unhinged over the election results. Wasn’t it Obama who told us elections have consequences? Why hasn’t she left with Ellen?
Reid’s rant even implied that she worshipped Jesus while all of the MAGA voters worship Trump. In truth, most MAGA voters actually believe in God and in the Constitution, as evidenced by election results. Christian voters appear to have been a decisive factor in his historic victory.
Trump supporters have been dealing with the tribulations of attacks on him since he started running in 2015, through his administration and for the four years since. That he persevered and his followers stuck with him is a sign of strength. Perhaps our clinging to our Bibles and our guns provided the support we needed. Or maybe it was just our faith in God and the Constitution. After all, Jesus told us we had to endure through tribulations (Mt 24:13, also Mk 13:13) but that it was necessary to persevere and endure to the end.
The democrats tried denigrating Trump, attacking him, and taking a holier than thou approach, not only with respect to Trump but to the electorate as well, at one point calling them garbage. They never looked at themselves in the mirror to see how out of tune they were with the country. When they did, they only saw themselves as better and smarter than everyone else and so continued to push failed policies that the people turned down in various ways.
“The sin of the modern era is pride, and pride makes the proud stupid. To borrow a thought attributed to George Orwell—himself no friend of the Catholic Church, but an honest voice nonetheless—some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual can believe them.” Maier, F. X. (2024). True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church
Isn’t it ironic that those progressives who were pushing “white fragility” on the rest of us have turned out to be so fragile themselves.?
Many conservatives entertained themselves these past two weeks watching the YouTube and TikTok rants of broken progressives who can’t seem to cope with their election loss. Not only are they intolerant but they have no resilience for adversity (although to half the country it isn’t adversity but elation). I have even heard one claim that Trump didn’t win the popular vote but when I checked he had 2.5 million more votes than Kamala.
Of course, this is another product of recent democrat administrations that brought us such wonderful policies and programs like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). One of the main “features” of DEI, besides dividing the organizations that adopted it into affinity groups and pitting them against each other, is the establishment of “safe spaces.”
Apparently the “safe” spaces of those lamenting their loss in the election aren’t safe enough or they just can’t find them. And their inability to cope means we have to be subjected to the rants of the likes of the women of the “View” footling around their cauldron being profoundly disturbed, worrying about internment camps, and calling Trump voters misogynists, racists and dumb. I have yet to understand how anyone can think the audience of The View has any common sense to keep watching such tripe.
But this is what the democrats have made of America. American progressives are not doers, they are whiners, complainers. They believe they have the right to be triggered by the slightest negative comment or event but never take the responsibility to learn from their mistakes, from differences of opinion, or even how to make a cogent argument. So much of the election campaign on the part of the democrats was demeaning Trump with ad hominem attacks while avoiding articulating any meaningful policy or plan. Of course, it worked for the basement campaigner, Biden, so why wouldn’t it work for his incompetent vice president?
Fortunately the excitement over DEI seems to be waning. Industry seems to be waking up to the fact that in order to be effective, they need people who are not only capable but willing to perform. A recent article pointed out that many young people are being let go from their jobs or are in low demand because of their lack of willingness to prioritize their work over their own little foibles.
Sadly, the result of all of this progressive fragility, espoused and propagandized in the media and institutes of higher education, is that the country has been badly weakened. Thus it’s not surprising that the military has missed recruiting goals, readiness and training of military units is lacking while DEI is emphasized, and militarily we are probably at our weakest point since prior to WWII. Unfortunately, I’m not sure the population has the resilience to respond quickly in the case of an emergency. And on top of that our industrial capacity is not poised to react as it did in WWII.
From many of his picks to round out his cabinet and his administration it appears the Trump recognizes the need to restore America’s strength, leadership, and resilience. Many on the left have attacked his choices but they represent the setting of a tone that subordinates can follow and execute. Of course we shouldn’t expect anything different. The progressives have spent their time trashing the things that made America unique, breaking down people into “something”-Americans and pitting them against each other contrary to the melting pot that has characterized our nation for so long, and acting as if they know better than the people do without even considering what the people want, expect, or need.
They ignored the voice of the people trying to tell them they were failing, and even with polls telling them they were losing, refused to take any responsibility for that failure. All the while the lies continued and just got bigger. Even leftie Bill Maher hit paydirt when he commented that when you’re in a hole trying to get out, stop digging! Fortunately enough Americans had the common sense to take the shovel away from the left.
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