It is amazing and welcoming how fast DEI, Wokeness, and DTP (Defund The Police) are disappearing. The Trump victory has been a vitamin shot in the arm for our economy, culture, and hopefully our political system. I wake up happy every day.
good post. expresses the mood of the country (and perhaps even some parts of the rest of the world). everyone expects the ukraine war to end soon and i am sure trump will get the credit.
With today's news (that UKR asassinated some Russian general) we'll be lucky if UKR hasn't catapulted the world into WWIII before DJT is sworn in. I assume that is UKR's goal in order to keep the grift flowing to them.
I pray that Putin will continue with the great restraint he has exhibited recently. What a totally idiotic thing for UKR to have done - Zalensky must have been taking lessons from FJB
I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one Wim. Putin doesn’t need or want WW3. An improperly sighted barrage or missle attack that affects a NATO country would lead directly to that without having to pass go.
I really can’t believe that Russia, with its huge population and manufacturing plants, couldn’t muster enough Men or Equipment to finish off the Ukes. What they need to do is drop an example A Bomb somewhere in their least populated part of the their own Motherland to remind Zelensky who he’s dealing with. And threaten Z with the next one on Kiev.
It may be true that he’s emptying old mother Hubbardskayas cupboard and running out of blini’s but his ultimate goal is to wait till T’s in office who will , most believe, turn off the tap of $ and equipment.
I’m with Cookie on this one! He’s a much more responsible and reserved leader than anyone on the other side, or in iNato. He may not be someone you like but here we are in 2024 and the hot part of the war is still only in the Ukraine!
Well, Chuck, we may just have to agree to disagree. But how can you even say that Putin is "a much more responsible and reserved leader than anyone on the other side, or in iNato"? For one thing, he is the one who has attacked and invaded several of his neighbors -- Georgia, Chechnya (twice), Armenia, Crimea, and then Ukraine, a pattern of serial aggression that looks a lot like Hitler's in the 1930s. Additionally he's been messing around in central Africa and in Syria until the other day he had to pull out of the latter.
And which member of NATO has invaded anybody else?
this dichotomy is right out of a frank kafka movie. on the one hand we have the current american administration that half the world is convinced is trying to start ww3 while the president elect is seen as the guy (that guy) who's incoming administration in less than six weeks is going to save the world from ww3. back to back from the same country with thee most powerful military machine in the history of the human genome.
Good point and right on. His influence at this point in time is astounding. Let's hope he can deliver and that the Democrats cease their practice of opposing anything/everything that they "feel" won't advance their cause. It is time for Congress to work together. If they do, just about everyone will benefit and flourish.
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
All this winning fells kinda good. Especially liked yesterday's...“The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau," Trump posted on Truth Social. LOL. Classic Donald. Who trolls better than this guy?
My two sons and I toured a good portion of the Maritime Provinces of Canada for two weeks this past August. There were a whole lot of F-Trudeau banners up there. Wonderful people however; very friendly; helpful; no graffiti; clean bathrooms everywhere. PEI (Prince Edwards Island) was simply great.
AD - from what I read on CFP last night, I thought it sounded as if she quit that has now led to Tradeau maybe finally being forced to do the same since his opponent has called for a vote of no confidence and new election to have strong government in place prior to January 20 - my - what an interesting time we find ourselves living in!
"Justin from Canada will never resign, he doesn’t have the humility needed to abdicate power in the face of overwhelming defeat; he’s genuinely pathological and narcissistic. Instead, Trudeau will force Canadians to remove him from power. That way he can proclaim his victimhood. Watch, you will see." -- Sundance
Woke, DIE, CRT, et al, may look like they're dying, but these devolutionists are very practiced at cleverly obscuring their devious aims with new monikers, and back door parlor tricks.
They never completely “go away”, they go underground.
We must remain vigilant and make sure that that’s a good, six feet underground, complete with a tombstone that reads, “Don’t even think about trying this sh*# again.”
I like your “they go underground” reference. Snakes do this when they brumate (their form of hibernation). They take over another creature’s den (can’t dig a hole on their own) and ball up together, waiting for warmer days to emerge. A nice big rock over the hole would fix them, as long as there isn’t a back door to the den.
True, we still need to go through America with a fine tooth comb to reverse it's damage, and bring a full understanding to the population about WHY Woke's premises were so flawed.
But what Don is saying makes it clear that the 'strength' of Woke's "back has been broken", and just being able to say this is marvelous. Sometimes, too, such flat out assertions can serve as a rallying cry for the somewhat exhausted soldiers of the Right, helping us see "the forest instead of the trees" and realize how much has been accomplished. So in that respect, such blunt assertions as Don is making can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it energizes us to solidify the victory.
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
Totally agree. I have said for a long time that the left are like cancer cells. If even one remains their multiplying starts happening again until they reach critical mass and take over the center of a major American city. 🙄
Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer: ‘The military is no place for social experimentation by woke bureaucrats seeking to ram liberal agendas down our soldiers’ throats. It isn’t a place to use taxpayer money for genital mutilation or to send men wearing women’s dresses, high heels, and pantyhose into combat units to prove some sort of sick point or to celebrate drag shows on military bases in the presence of children’. He strongly endorses Pete Hegseth.
If only this was true. I fear that what we have come to call "woke/wokeness" has not died. It may have been temporarily anesthetized or fallen into a state of torpor, like lizards do in wintertime, but it is far from dead. It has, to the contrary, burrowed and buried itself under the very skin of our society and transformed it. Think back, oh ye loyal readers of The Annals of Surber, only a mere couple of decades ago we laughed at the concept of "gay/queer marriage." Even B Obama decried it . But what happened? It steadily and stealthily gained ground until today, we all seem to think it's just A-OK, a swell thing, because "love is love," right? Or more elementarily, the entire concept of normalizing the homosexual culture. Where once it was a thing of shame and officially defined as a mental illness in the APA DSM I, II and III--and rightfully so--it is now the latest in fashion accessories. But wait! There's more! We are witnessing an explosion of abberant sexual pathologies being called "normal," not to mention the utterly abominable practice of surgically mutilating vulnerable and immature children so as to condemn them to lives of pain and sterility, not to mention dependency on hormones and medical care to treat their neverending issues with their bodies' natural desire to reject the foreign sexual organs that were grafted on by some monster with an MD. Oh, and let us not forget racial the "racial healing" brought about since the era of "affirmative action," better described as anti-white, anti-male judicial and legislative activism. Take a gander at your state's list of "protected categories" who get a legal leg up for no other reason than skin color, sex, ethnicity and various other irrelevant matters. Although the election of DJT provides a welcome respite, should you suffer under the illusion that the struggle is over, please ask me about the waterfront property I have available for sale in North Dakota. I could go on for pages, but this isn't my blog and I don't want to become an unwelcome guest here at Casa Don, so I'll simply end with the observation that thinking "woke is dead" is a huge mistake. If that is your belief, don't blame me when it rears its ugly head again in the immediate future, back with a vengeance and ready to devour more of your precious Constitutional rights.
The wokesters will try but it will be up to us to stop them. Hoping that the next four years will be so awesome that they will be forced to remain in that state of torpor.
Just a reminder - 0bama sorta kinda decried homosexual “marriage” in order to get elected. But, as always is the case, he lied. Once president, he didn’t have the courage to start the ball rolling on getting it legalized so he sent his puppet, Pedo Joe, out to the microphones to do his dirty work. And here we are.
Its far easier to scam a country with things like DEI and woke if you first teach them to hate their country and its history. Woke and DEI were all pushed by our education system that is not rational or on our side.
Yes--you can't have a revolution in a country that is content. You have to first make them discontent. So to get their Communist revolution, they had to manufacture and pump up some discontent and divisions between us. Bring on the grievance-mongers! And the victims! And the "oppressed"!
And then they just hammered us with this 24/7. Very stupid. They should have realized there might be "a bit" of a backlash--like MAGA getting Presidency, Senate, House, popular vote, all the swing states, etc.
I agree entirely with your well written take on our situation. Many of us have been inclined to sit back and take a breath after the election and assume all is well now. We should remember that the Left still at this moment controls all the institutions. They do not plan to give them up anytime soon.
Klaus Schwab and Goerge Soros still control much wealth and very much want the world government planned since at least the days of George H.W. Bush. Most of these people like Romney, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are not to be trusted. They will hide in the shadows and shoot you in the back like they are Luigi Mangione.
FJB reminds us daily of that by his actions, whether it is by thousands of pardons of bad guys or selling off pieces of the border wall for pennies on the $ which we've already paid for once or trying yet another way to forgive millions in student loan debt he's already been told NO on multiple times or seeing what other kind of trouble he can stir up like a vary bad 2 year old!
"WOKE" may always be with us, but in a greatly diminished state; and that will do. Just like that patronizing, self-congratulating trope from the 1950s, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say ANYTHING!"
BTW, it's "aberrant" -- the meaning of which applies to "abberant".
What allowed DIE, and CRT and the Woke agenda to takeoff was the gradual and deliberate disappearance of actual, factual American History being taught in schools, from grammar school though college.
Even worse, a facsimile of it was substituted that didn’t just downplay the miracle of the American system, but flagrantly disparaged it as “oppressive”, “racist” and “imperial”.
That has to be rooted out, and the history and the marvel of our inspiring Constitutional Republic renewed, in order that our future generations will be able to grow up as proud patriots, willing to safeguard and defend it.
It has to start immediately, as most of us here are of the last generations who were ever taught any kind of real history, and when we’re gone, they will be on their own to carry that torch.
It should be an absolute priority of the Trump administration to see to it, somehow, that this takes place, if we want to “keep this Republic.”
Yes--it was partly the deliberate attack of the Frankfurt School of Marxism, that emphasized promoting Marxism by Race division instead of Class division.
Also, DEI, CRT, and Woke arose because they have functioned as a surrogate religion. Many Americans turned away from mainstream religion, thinking they had "outgrown" it. (Maybe some mainstream religions also failed to keep up with Americans' need for a deeper or more robust spirituality. For example, evangelical denominations have been growing, whereas more 'established' mainstream denominations have been losing adherents.) Agnosticism and atheism have flourished. But humans have an innate desire for an "organizing principle" to life-- nearly all people are governed by some kind of "worldview". Their worldview bases their thinking and drives their everyday life and behavior.
Some form of spirituality is the healthiest worldview available. But our society never really grasped that if we moved away from religion, what would take its place? Many perhaps thought "science" would. But instead, politics took over the role of religion and provided a new worldview for many people. So politics was no longer just about policy, it was about religious things like "virtue" and "righteousness" and "rejection of heresy" (i.e., the other Party) and "cancel culture", worshipping the "nobility of man" instead of worshipping God, and perhaps a tendency to "emotion" over reason, etc., etc.
So a spiritual renewal is also needed to displace "the Woke mind virus".
Rachel !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I always pick the one I laugh at hardest!!! Don, you’re my first read every morning and thank God for you & your funny bone, it has helped me so much over the last few years of cultural stupidity.
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
Ha. Have a guy in our club here in SC who several years ago played golf 365 days in a row. Since then has averaged about 250 rounds the last two years. Indeed, many illnesses out there.
Dear Caitlin, pay attention. If you sow the wind (white privilege), you'll reap the whirlwind (racism). Washington Mystics owner Sheila Johnson went on CNN to protest Clark’s recognition as the face of a league filled with surly black lesbians that few cared about until the college wunderkind arrived on the scene, drawing national attention to the WNBA and packing venues when her Indiana Fever was the visiting team, saying that you're causing racism."31% of the Mystics' total home attendance for the entire 2024 season came from just two games against Caitlin Clark and the Fever, "Caitlin’s brother posted this: Largest crowd in history of WNBA 20,711.
That is SO disappointing to hear about Sheila Johnson that she's another black rayyyyciss! I've heard her Salamander Resort is very nice. I'm scratching that off my list. 😡
To be fair, Ms Johnson is one of the best and brightest-a billionaire who co-founded BET network. So perhaps she was just trying to protect the WNBA franchise. But she should realize Caitlin is the franchise now. If she gets the same treatment next season, she should take her ball and form another league. Guess it would be over the top to call it WWNBA? Scott Jennings 'Caitlin Clark is the best thing to happen to the WNBA, and it’s sad that her co-workers hate her for it. She’ll learn a tough lesson – no matter how much you say “my truth” and apologize for your “white privilege,” it will never be enough for the woke mob'. White privilege/white guilt was paid in full to the lightbringer-twice-a color-blind society and content of character died w/MLK.
Me-Wow-never heard of either- 80s-90s-the race lines had not been drawn-Larry Bird, Michael Jordan will always be the NBA I remember-'Republicans buy sneakers, too'. LeBron James? Doubtful!! He is neither color-blind nor party-blind.
Mr Johnson was playing the Black businessman, give me a piece of the pie free, in the Cellphone auctions in the 90s. Swedish Ericsson’s infrastructure finance group took a pass on his offer for a freebie.
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
‘How much doge could a dogecoin coin if a dogecoin could coin doge?’ Depends on how long the electricity can last. But here’s a blueprint for starters-USPS-’Get rid of 75% of upper management. Get rid of the union. Sell off the electric vehicles for scrap. Drop the DEI nonsense. Remove the unique, restrictive retirement program’-Lucianne. USPS-PONY EXPRESS WAS FASTER-You pay $.73 for a stamp-Corporations pay $.35-.$40 for a flier-cheaper if bulk shipped . Charge ‘em $.73 and the Corps quit-no junk, no USPS. How simple can it be? The Postal Regulatory Commission is responsible for oversight of the U.S. Postal Service, including oversight of rates and services, and ensuring the Postal Service meets all of its legal requirements. Then all the legal requirements must be written on the back of the inspector’s hand. A copy of this post is going to the OIG and the PRC. What are the odds I’ll get a reply? For more, just click on my thoroughly humiliated Founding Member Button.
Who else but Jussie? Born for each other-I'LL HUG MY ELEPHANT; YOU KISS YOUR ASS. While gratified that the comment yesterday was the top comment of the day, I would have been much happier had the comment been this one: Start your week w/a smile, a memory of better days, and a tear; then show it to your grandkids. Take a bit of time to smell the roses-‘We did not miss, you and I, we did not miss that many splendored thing’. Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place
The link to the 50's piece wasn't automatic--meaning, it wasn't in purple and you couldn't just click on it and get straight to the piece, so that was a deterrent to people seeing it. I copied-and-pasted the web address to find it. I did enjoy it, but it was a little before my time.
Also, I don't really feel a yearning to go back to the "old days"--somehow those days do seem to feel a little stifling and narrow. The "breadth" of our world has exploded today, and feels very "spacious". Yes, it has also deteriorated morally to an extent, but that just meant the "expansion/freedom" wasn't sufficiently paired with enough moral/spiritual clarity to weed out what was damaging. I'd rather work now on weeding out the damaging aspects, but I do treasure the increased breadth of our world.
I grew up in a railroad town. People often refer to the wrong side of the tracks as evidence of racism by the railroads. Railroads were built by railroad engineers. They didn’t want people crossing the tracks as it interfered with the railroad, so they put the tracks on the edge of town, not in the center.
I now live in a town on the first railroad in the US. Originally the steam railroad was a few miles from the town, but the town moved to the tracks and the town grew around the tracks.
(A black neighborhood was destroyed to build NYC’s Central Park. It was not the only neighborhood displaced by the park)
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
It is amazing and welcoming how fast DEI, Wokeness, and DTP (Defund The Police) are disappearing. The Trump victory has been a vitamin shot in the arm for our economy, culture, and hopefully our political system. I wake up happy every day.
It was never sustainable because it was built on a lie. Once it began to crack it wasn't going to be able to do anything other than collapse.
Jim - Sort of like Humpty Dumpty!
good post. expresses the mood of the country (and perhaps even some parts of the rest of the world). everyone expects the ukraine war to end soon and i am sure trump will get the credit.
With today's news (that UKR asassinated some Russian general) we'll be lucky if UKR hasn't catapulted the world into WWIII before DJT is sworn in. I assume that is UKR's goal in order to keep the grift flowing to them.
Bet your last dollar the US intel community and the CIA were behind it.
Just call them all The Blob and it will cover it.
I pray that Putin will continue with the great restraint he has exhibited recently. What a totally idiotic thing for UKR to have done - Zalensky must have been taking lessons from FJB
It's not "great restraint", but impotence. He secretly doubts that his nukes will actually work.
Hi Wim,
I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one Wim. Putin doesn’t need or want WW3. An improperly sighted barrage or missle attack that affects a NATO country would lead directly to that without having to pass go.
I really can’t believe that Russia, with its huge population and manufacturing plants, couldn’t muster enough Men or Equipment to finish off the Ukes. What they need to do is drop an example A Bomb somewhere in their least populated part of the their own Motherland to remind Zelensky who he’s dealing with. And threaten Z with the next one on Kiev.
It may be true that he’s emptying old mother Hubbardskayas cupboard and running out of blini’s but his ultimate goal is to wait till T’s in office who will , most believe, turn off the tap of $ and equipment.
I’m with Cookie on this one! He’s a much more responsible and reserved leader than anyone on the other side, or in iNato. He may not be someone you like but here we are in 2024 and the hot part of the war is still only in the Ukraine!
Well, Chuck, we may just have to agree to disagree. But how can you even say that Putin is "a much more responsible and reserved leader than anyone on the other side, or in iNato"? For one thing, he is the one who has attacked and invaded several of his neighbors -- Georgia, Chechnya (twice), Armenia, Crimea, and then Ukraine, a pattern of serial aggression that looks a lot like Hitler's in the 1930s. Additionally he's been messing around in central Africa and in Syria until the other day he had to pull out of the latter.
And which member of NATO has invaded anybody else?
this dichotomy is right out of a frank kafka movie. on the one hand we have the current american administration that half the world is convinced is trying to start ww3 while the president elect is seen as the guy (that guy) who's incoming administration in less than six weeks is going to save the world from ww3. back to back from the same country with thee most powerful military machine in the history of the human genome.
incredible!
It appears Trump has emboldened others to the North and in Europe to say enough is enough.
Good point and right on. His influence at this point in time is astounding. Let's hope he can deliver and that the Democrats cease their practice of opposing anything/everything that they "feel" won't advance their cause. It is time for Congress to work together. If they do, just about everyone will benefit and flourish.
"S" is for The U.S. Supreme Court:
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
All this winning fells kinda good. Especially liked yesterday's...“The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau," Trump posted on Truth Social. LOL. Classic Donald. Who trolls better than this guy?
My two sons and I toured a good portion of the Maritime Provinces of Canada for two weeks this past August. There were a whole lot of F-Trudeau banners up there. Wonderful people however; very friendly; helpful; no graffiti; clean bathrooms everywhere. PEI (Prince Edwards Island) was simply great.
An accurate description of canuks. I have been several times and found Canadians to be delightful. Never could square that circle with Castreau.
I think Canadians were too polite to tell him to get the F out. I think he has finally worn out his welcome even with polite Canadians.
When I lived in the NW we used to take short vacations up in BC. Great people and the cleanest country I have ever toured.
We be drinking Yuengling from a fire hose
Ahh!
The "mother's milk" of the first 6 decades of my life!
AD - from what I read on CFP last night, I thought it sounded as if she quit that has now led to Tradeau maybe finally being forced to do the same since his opponent has called for a vote of no confidence and new election to have strong government in place prior to January 20 - my - what an interesting time we find ourselves living in!
"Justin from Canada will never resign, he doesn’t have the humility needed to abdicate power in the face of overwhelming defeat; he’s genuinely pathological and narcissistic. Instead, Trudeau will force Canadians to remove him from power. That way he can proclaim his victimhood. Watch, you will see." -- Sundance
Is that like the mob informant who "fell or was psushed" from his 14th floor apartment?
Asking for a friend.
“The price of victory is eternal vigilance.”
Woke, DIE, CRT, et al, may look like they're dying, but these devolutionists are very practiced at cleverly obscuring their devious aims with new monikers, and back door parlor tricks.
They never completely “go away”, they go underground.
We must remain vigilant and make sure that that’s a good, six feet underground, complete with a tombstone that reads, “Don’t even think about trying this sh*# again.”
Yes
I like your “they go underground” reference. Snakes do this when they brumate (their form of hibernation). They take over another creature’s den (can’t dig a hole on their own) and ball up together, waiting for warmer days to emerge. A nice big rock over the hole would fix them, as long as there isn’t a back door to the den.
True, we still need to go through America with a fine tooth comb to reverse it's damage, and bring a full understanding to the population about WHY Woke's premises were so flawed.
But what Don is saying makes it clear that the 'strength' of Woke's "back has been broken", and just being able to say this is marvelous. Sometimes, too, such flat out assertions can serve as a rallying cry for the somewhat exhausted soldiers of the Right, helping us see "the forest instead of the trees" and realize how much has been accomplished. So in that respect, such blunt assertions as Don is making can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it energizes us to solidify the victory.
"S" is for The U.S. Supreme Court:
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
Burial to be at a very busy crossroads and with a stake through the heart prior to internment.
Then burial at the landfill.
Very well said. They will reappear soon with yet another scheme to gain power and control. The left is like a bad virus that refuses to die.
Totally agree. I have said for a long time that the left are like cancer cells. If even one remains their multiplying starts happening again until they reach critical mass and take over the center of a major American city. 🙄
Amen, brother!
Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer: ‘The military is no place for social experimentation by woke bureaucrats seeking to ram liberal agendas down our soldiers’ throats. It isn’t a place to use taxpayer money for genital mutilation or to send men wearing women’s dresses, high heels, and pantyhose into combat units to prove some sort of sick point or to celebrate drag shows on military bases in the presence of children’. He strongly endorses Pete Hegseth.
If only this was true. I fear that what we have come to call "woke/wokeness" has not died. It may have been temporarily anesthetized or fallen into a state of torpor, like lizards do in wintertime, but it is far from dead. It has, to the contrary, burrowed and buried itself under the very skin of our society and transformed it. Think back, oh ye loyal readers of The Annals of Surber, only a mere couple of decades ago we laughed at the concept of "gay/queer marriage." Even B Obama decried it . But what happened? It steadily and stealthily gained ground until today, we all seem to think it's just A-OK, a swell thing, because "love is love," right? Or more elementarily, the entire concept of normalizing the homosexual culture. Where once it was a thing of shame and officially defined as a mental illness in the APA DSM I, II and III--and rightfully so--it is now the latest in fashion accessories. But wait! There's more! We are witnessing an explosion of abberant sexual pathologies being called "normal," not to mention the utterly abominable practice of surgically mutilating vulnerable and immature children so as to condemn them to lives of pain and sterility, not to mention dependency on hormones and medical care to treat their neverending issues with their bodies' natural desire to reject the foreign sexual organs that were grafted on by some monster with an MD. Oh, and let us not forget racial the "racial healing" brought about since the era of "affirmative action," better described as anti-white, anti-male judicial and legislative activism. Take a gander at your state's list of "protected categories" who get a legal leg up for no other reason than skin color, sex, ethnicity and various other irrelevant matters. Although the election of DJT provides a welcome respite, should you suffer under the illusion that the struggle is over, please ask me about the waterfront property I have available for sale in North Dakota. I could go on for pages, but this isn't my blog and I don't want to become an unwelcome guest here at Casa Don, so I'll simply end with the observation that thinking "woke is dead" is a huge mistake. If that is your belief, don't blame me when it rears its ugly head again in the immediate future, back with a vengeance and ready to devour more of your precious Constitutional rights.
The wokesters will try but it will be up to us to stop them. Hoping that the next four years will be so awesome that they will be forced to remain in that state of torpor.
Just a reminder - 0bama sorta kinda decried homosexual “marriage” in order to get elected. But, as always is the case, he lied. Once president, he didn’t have the courage to start the ball rolling on getting it legalized so he sent his puppet, Pedo Joe, out to the microphones to do his dirty work. And here we are.
I knew he was lying when he said it and that his mind would miraculously change once elected. Bingo!
Its far easier to scam a country with things like DEI and woke if you first teach them to hate their country and its history. Woke and DEI were all pushed by our education system that is not rational or on our side.
Yes--you can't have a revolution in a country that is content. You have to first make them discontent. So to get their Communist revolution, they had to manufacture and pump up some discontent and divisions between us. Bring on the grievance-mongers! And the victims! And the "oppressed"!
And then they just hammered us with this 24/7. Very stupid. They should have realized there might be "a bit" of a backlash--like MAGA getting Presidency, Senate, House, popular vote, all the swing states, etc.
Reminds me of that song from South Pacific - You've got to be Carefully Taught before you're 6 or 7 or 8
I agree entirely with your well written take on our situation. Many of us have been inclined to sit back and take a breath after the election and assume all is well now. We should remember that the Left still at this moment controls all the institutions. They do not plan to give them up anytime soon.
Klaus Schwab and Goerge Soros still control much wealth and very much want the world government planned since at least the days of George H.W. Bush. Most of these people like Romney, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are not to be trusted. They will hide in the shadows and shoot you in the back like they are Luigi Mangione.
FJB reminds us daily of that by his actions, whether it is by thousands of pardons of bad guys or selling off pieces of the border wall for pennies on the $ which we've already paid for once or trying yet another way to forgive millions in student loan debt he's already been told NO on multiple times or seeing what other kind of trouble he can stir up like a vary bad 2 year old!
It will be something. The federal government is the enemy of the Constitution and the continued existence of our Constitutional Republic.
A great number of the people in it are for sure.
"WOKE" may always be with us, but in a greatly diminished state; and that will do. Just like that patronizing, self-congratulating trope from the 1950s, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say ANYTHING!"
BTW, it's "aberrant" -- the meaning of which applies to "abberant".
What allowed DIE, and CRT and the Woke agenda to takeoff was the gradual and deliberate disappearance of actual, factual American History being taught in schools, from grammar school though college.
Even worse, a facsimile of it was substituted that didn’t just downplay the miracle of the American system, but flagrantly disparaged it as “oppressive”, “racist” and “imperial”.
That has to be rooted out, and the history and the marvel of our inspiring Constitutional Republic renewed, in order that our future generations will be able to grow up as proud patriots, willing to safeguard and defend it.
It has to start immediately, as most of us here are of the last generations who were ever taught any kind of real history, and when we’re gone, they will be on their own to carry that torch.
It should be an absolute priority of the Trump administration to see to it, somehow, that this takes place, if we want to “keep this Republic.”
Yes--it was partly the deliberate attack of the Frankfurt School of Marxism, that emphasized promoting Marxism by Race division instead of Class division.
Also, DEI, CRT, and Woke arose because they have functioned as a surrogate religion. Many Americans turned away from mainstream religion, thinking they had "outgrown" it. (Maybe some mainstream religions also failed to keep up with Americans' need for a deeper or more robust spirituality. For example, evangelical denominations have been growing, whereas more 'established' mainstream denominations have been losing adherents.) Agnosticism and atheism have flourished. But humans have an innate desire for an "organizing principle" to life-- nearly all people are governed by some kind of "worldview". Their worldview bases their thinking and drives their everyday life and behavior.
Some form of spirituality is the healthiest worldview available. But our society never really grasped that if we moved away from religion, what would take its place? Many perhaps thought "science" would. But instead, politics took over the role of religion and provided a new worldview for many people. So politics was no longer just about policy, it was about religious things like "virtue" and "righteousness" and "rejection of heresy" (i.e., the other Party) and "cancel culture", worshipping the "nobility of man" instead of worshipping God, and perhaps a tendency to "emotion" over reason, etc., etc.
So a spiritual renewal is also needed to displace "the Woke mind virus".
Spot on.
Excellent point. Yes, immediately!
Perfect description of mis-education Suzie !
Rachel !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I always pick the one I laugh at hardest!!! Don, you’re my first read every morning and thank God for you & your funny bone, it has helped me so much over the last few years of cultural stupidity.
"S" is for The U.S. Supreme Court:
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
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***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
Is woke really gone or just lurking in the background until its next opportunity? Say in 2 to 4 years. There is a lot of work left to do.
It's a social disease. Once you have it, it never goes completely away. Kinda like golf
Ha. Have a guy in our club here in SC who several years ago played golf 365 days in a row. Since then has averaged about 250 rounds the last two years. Indeed, many illnesses out there.
Please explain the relationship, in your terms.
Not sure if that's a compliment or a slur.
There is a whole generation coming up that believes in pretend… women can be men, men can be women and have babies stuff like that.
Will they wake up and acknowledge reality or will they go in pretending?
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny resent that.
It is our job to speak the truth in love. Who knows, perhaps some of them will grow up.
Dear Caitlin, pay attention. If you sow the wind (white privilege), you'll reap the whirlwind (racism). Washington Mystics owner Sheila Johnson went on CNN to protest Clark’s recognition as the face of a league filled with surly black lesbians that few cared about until the college wunderkind arrived on the scene, drawing national attention to the WNBA and packing venues when her Indiana Fever was the visiting team, saying that you're causing racism."31% of the Mystics' total home attendance for the entire 2024 season came from just two games against Caitlin Clark and the Fever, "Caitlin’s brother posted this: Largest crowd in history of WNBA 20,711.
That is SO disappointing to hear about Sheila Johnson that she's another black rayyyyciss! I've heard her Salamander Resort is very nice. I'm scratching that off my list. 😡
So true
To be fair, Ms Johnson is one of the best and brightest-a billionaire who co-founded BET network. So perhaps she was just trying to protect the WNBA franchise. But she should realize Caitlin is the franchise now. If she gets the same treatment next season, she should take her ball and form another league. Guess it would be over the top to call it WWNBA? Scott Jennings 'Caitlin Clark is the best thing to happen to the WNBA, and it’s sad that her co-workers hate her for it. She’ll learn a tough lesson – no matter how much you say “my truth” and apologize for your “white privilege,” it will never be enough for the woke mob'. White privilege/white guilt was paid in full to the lightbringer-twice-a color-blind society and content of character died w/MLK.
It appears Ms Clark got her privilege from working her ass off. More should try it.
I wonder what would happen if Caitlin tried to play in the NBA?? You think she'd get crushed?
She would be crippled for life w/in a few games.
Why?
Muggsy Bogues was only 5'3" 136#.
Spud Webb was only 5'6" 133#
She must be much bigger than them.
Me-Wow-never heard of either- 80s-90s-the race lines had not been drawn-Larry Bird, Michael Jordan will always be the NBA I remember-'Republicans buy sneakers, too'. LeBron James? Doubtful!! He is neither color-blind nor party-blind.
Oh yeah! I'm a girl and even I had heard about these guys! 😊
See if you can find some old video of them.
It was kind of crazy. 😀
NFL Negro Football League
NBA Negro Basketball Association
WNBA Women's Negro Basketball Association
Take a knee.
I recall Don Imus getting slammed for reference to the Rutgers female basketball team as " a bunch of hoes." He was correct.
Mr Johnson was playing the Black businessman, give me a piece of the pie free, in the Cellphone auctions in the 90s. Swedish Ericsson’s infrastructure finance group took a pass on his offer for a freebie.
"S" is for The U.S. Supreme Court:
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
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***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
Government ruins people.
What a pithy, perfect pronouncement.
‘How much doge could a dogecoin coin if a dogecoin could coin doge?’ Depends on how long the electricity can last. But here’s a blueprint for starters-USPS-’Get rid of 75% of upper management. Get rid of the union. Sell off the electric vehicles for scrap. Drop the DEI nonsense. Remove the unique, restrictive retirement program’-Lucianne. USPS-PONY EXPRESS WAS FASTER-You pay $.73 for a stamp-Corporations pay $.35-.$40 for a flier-cheaper if bulk shipped . Charge ‘em $.73 and the Corps quit-no junk, no USPS. How simple can it be? The Postal Regulatory Commission is responsible for oversight of the U.S. Postal Service, including oversight of rates and services, and ensuring the Postal Service meets all of its legal requirements. Then all the legal requirements must be written on the back of the inspector’s hand. A copy of this post is going to the OIG and the PRC. What are the odds I’ll get a reply? For more, just click on my thoroughly humiliated Founding Member Button.
If you like the USPS you will just love a nationalized single payor health insurance system.
We are half way there after the ACA. Worst scam in the federal governments history.
Amen, Brother.
The fraud actor gets to play the fraud president.
Who else but Jussie? Born for each other-I'LL HUG MY ELEPHANT; YOU KISS YOUR ASS. While gratified that the comment yesterday was the top comment of the day, I would have been much happier had the comment been this one: Start your week w/a smile, a memory of better days, and a tear; then show it to your grandkids. Take a bit of time to smell the roses-‘We did not miss, you and I, we did not miss that many splendored thing’. Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place
The link to the 50's piece wasn't automatic--meaning, it wasn't in purple and you couldn't just click on it and get straight to the piece, so that was a deterrent to people seeing it. I copied-and-pasted the web address to find it. I did enjoy it, but it was a little before my time.
Also, I don't really feel a yearning to go back to the "old days"--somehow those days do seem to feel a little stifling and narrow. The "breadth" of our world has exploded today, and feels very "spacious". Yes, it has also deteriorated morally to an extent, but that just meant the "expansion/freedom" wasn't sufficiently paired with enough moral/spiritual clarity to weed out what was damaging. I'd rather work now on weeding out the damaging aspects, but I do treasure the increased breadth of our world.
PS I also voted for Jussie!
Sorry, I tried for a clean url-that's what they gave me. The youtube is on my comments post-mea culpa-thought you were of the silver tsunami.😇
Sort of, but not quite.
FWIW-came up clean on edge- maybe not on chrome or others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjj9VKKSV2g-
Yes, this one works! And I am on Chrome
I grew up in a railroad town. People often refer to the wrong side of the tracks as evidence of racism by the railroads. Railroads were built by railroad engineers. They didn’t want people crossing the tracks as it interfered with the railroad, so they put the tracks on the edge of town, not in the center.
I now live in a town on the first railroad in the US. Originally the steam railroad was a few miles from the town, but the town moved to the tracks and the town grew around the tracks.
(A black neighborhood was destroyed to build NYC’s Central Park. It was not the only neighborhood displaced by the park)
Caro’s book on NYCs Robert Moses was great. LBJ series too.
12/17/24: Agreed, emphatically. However, avoid his wife Ina's books.
"Paris To The Past, Traveling Through French History By Train" (2011) was unspeakably unreadable.
I refused to have anything to do with Ina's "Paris To The Past " (1994).
Nepotism is the only possible explanation as to why she was ever published.
A busy day ahead, will read later, but the last lines from American Pie came to mind as I glanced at the first paragraphs.
"And the three whom I admire most,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Sent Kami back to the left coast.
The day DEI died.
So bye bye black marionette guy
In spite of all you did,
The nation survived.
The foolish smart
Can move north and cry
Let this be the end of D E I."
Superb! Thank you.
"S" is for The U.S. Supreme Court:
"The reason why the coconut is so terrible*** is that it is the largest single cell known to botany or biology" (Tales From The Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, p. 153).
Washington D.C. (2022).
A nominee to the Samoan Supreme Court is being questioned:
Senator: "Ms Judicial JuicyFruit, can you define what a coconut is?"
Ketanji B. Jackson: "No. I am not a biologist. Ask Kamala Harris."
*
***The coconut was "terrible," according to von Hoffman (not under oath), because its immense hardness rendered a Samoan coconut capable of splitting a human skull wide open should it descend from above.
Wham JR.