I just posted this note a few minutes ago but I'll repost it here since I think it's relevant, and while my family story isn't as bad as Josh's there's certainly parallels:
Lefty brain-washing truly is impressive. Weekend with the Team Blue genetic acquaintances (I hate to use the term family) and I could get them to agree that:
-Illegal immigration is a problem
-Taxing unrealized gains is a stupid idea
-Forgiving student loans is unfair to tax payers
-$25k to every home buyer just makes houses more expensive
-Censorship is wrong
-Endless wars are bad
-More money dumped on teacher’s unions is a waste
-Electric cars are a bad idea
-Etc., etc.
But the second I said I didn’t like Kammy and won’t vote for her the reaction was a mass of verbal and emotional abuse. The propaganda has completely disassociated the things they don’t like or agree with from the very political party and philosophies that created them and that they will vote for because Orange Man Bad.
It’s terrifying to see up close and watch their eyes go from kind to glazed to crazy in mere seconds.
I’m grateful that my friends are a good mix of Left and Right philosophies but also smart, open-minded people. And also grateful to my fellow Substack dorks, only by reading you do I realize I haven’t completely lost my mind. The genetic acquaintances have.
The pivot to Kamala is weird considering how unpopular she was in 2016 and record of zero achievement from the platform of a vice presidency. What we are facing is a religious army of manufactured consent.
What's terrifying is how quickly the spin was spun... seemingly, if not literally, overnight. I am disturbed to see that it has even affected me. I am having trouble remembering how I felt about her. Don't get me wrong: I detest her with every fiber of my being, I just can't quite recall how we all pretty much felt about her before her anointing as presidential candidate. The propaganda machine is so powerful.
The same applies to magic, particularly the school of Enchantment. This is an extremely weak spell, if you call them out on not believing their own words they might not admit it, but they will burn up even more psychic energy to pretend that they don't still hate her.
Such an interesting comment, thank you. I see a similar spin going on re: her VP pick Walz. I have a liberal 'friend' on FB who immediately posted memes where it is evident they want to cast him as a good ol' guy, former social studies teacher, etc., as opposed to the radical left deviant who believes boys need tampons, abortions should be for any baby too dumb to crawl away fast enough, and pedophilia should be a sexual orientation like gay or straight and not a perversion.
I just watched the documentary, “Into the Light.” It zeros in on the psyops that we (collectively, including the entire world as we know it) are being subjected to, including way way back in history. The PTB(powers that be) are in control and it is up to us to ferret out the TRUTH. Read, watch, listen and always be vigilant. NOTHING is as it appears. 2020 did not fool me and thank God most of my family listened to me when I told them it was all a ruse. Our nation depends on smart, engaged and moral people stepping up for the truth, whether it be in school board meetings, city council meetings, county commissioner meetings or at the State and National level of government. The bad news is that bad people step up to run for these offices while good people are sitting back, afraid to rock the boat. If we are to survive as a nation, we are going to have to become uncomfortable and alienate a lot of people but sticking to and spreading TRUTH will set us free.
That sounds like the annual Christmas Eve gathering at my mother-in-law's house, except I don't have the patience or masochism to argue ideology and politics with them. Besides, trying to reason with them is about as effective, as Thomas Paine said, as administering medicine to the dead.
It’s like the way that orthodox people can, unprompted, describe extensively and deplore the tragic consequences of what they call “Covid,” but there’s a wall that blocks them from concluding that doing those things was actually bad. It wrought untold damage, but you’re a bad person if you aren’t happy it happened.
The main issue I see with the "he should be stoic" accusation or whatever, is that it's classic emotional invalidation and it serves the abuser. It's the exact type of defense response required from victims of abuse who then often go on to develop their own disorders *because* of the emotional invalidation.
Josh, spot on once again. I very much fear a Harris presidency. I look on in dumbstruck disbelief that so many people, many of whom I know personally, cannot see the demonic collusion between the Democratic Party (with Harris as their chosen dictator), the worldwide cabal, and the media. I am trying to have the faith of a mustard seed but the relentless savagery bombarding my data feed every day makes me want to close our gate and hide away from it all. Thank you for continuing to have the strength and courage to post and podcast.
The bombardment of far off events, and decisions which you have no input on, can be overwhelming. But each one of us is a conscious agent, blessed with many unseen graces.
Don't allow the raucus media-feed to drown out the quiet voice within. You have more power than you realize, the ability to shape reality itself in ways which would seem petty and contemptible to a power junkie like Harris, but which are capable of sending her and her kind back into the pit for another generation.
Have faith in yourself. Their side is faster and easier, but it is not stronger.
The Vote Blue zombies I have to deal with are all the same. They act as though Kamala wasn't a known reject until 5 minutes ago, they can't seem to grasp that she is part of the team that is IN OFFICE NOW, they can't name a single good thing she has ever done or stands for, but you have to Vote for her because Trump. When pressed, multiple people have admitted that they just want their team elected "so I can go back to not thinking about politics".
That to me is both the real truth and one of the biggest problems. Democrats pay ZERO attention to what goes on when one of them is in office. ALL of the things they freaked out upon constantly during the last few Republican presidencies not only didn't go away, they were worse under the follwing D!! More wars entered, more people droned, more attacks on our civil liberties, but half the country is willfully blind.
That dynamic is now ramped up to truly hysterical hights the last few years, with the help of a fully captured media propaganda machine. I (lifelong democrat) used to be confused by the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Surely the MAGA people were the ones who were "Trump deranged"?? I get it now. It is this spell the propaganda has wrought upon so many, that Trump is "literally Hitler" (etc, etc ad nauseum) They believe it SO HARD that they will go along with anyone & anything, no matter how truly depraved - to prevent Trump from getting back in. It is truly insane.
Watching that debate was infuriating and literally sickening. Kamala is the perfect pawn. She is soulless, heartless, and absolutely willing to do the bidding of the Deep State, and no one may question or challenge her, with her several "protected class" memberships. It is hard to not feel doomed.
I was never a Trump fan, but the way the media and most people have reacted to these assassination attempts is chilling. When I ask someone to substitute any other public figure into that scenario and ask what the coverage would look like, you can see the struggle going on in their head. WELL OBVIOUSLY, it would be on every program for days! But this, you know...well, it's Trump, so...
Who would have ever thought it would be the Left, the party of bleeding hearts and welfare for all, who would seem to have so completely lost their humanity?
Back in the early days of male athletes calling themselves female and bullying their way into women's sports, I wondered why men in general, and my beloved good-ole-boys in particular, weren't stepping up on behalf of their sisters. And then I thought, ooohhhh, they've become indifferent to the obvious unfairness of the situation, likely because of decades of women rejecting chivalrous behavior, even claiming to be physically equal to men (as reflected in so many movies where tiny women fighters easily beat the asses of their hulky male foes), and demanding to be allowed into men's private spaces (public spaces are a very different thing). Alas, many women (especially young women) think this is progress and are pleased that we got what we wished for. . . . Josh, please try not to let yourself feel that you're somehow at fault for feeling psychically alone. One enters into wisdom only through the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14), which I believe you are trying to do.
I know there was a lot to comment about besides this, but I think it is building very much in men, the anger, and if women don’t watch out, we are going to end up being abused.
I don’t blame the men. Do you see the commercials that have been airing for the last 40 years? Just one of them alone can make me lose my temper. All those 40 years of men being treated like dirt is going to come back on us.
And it used to make me sick when talkshow host like Sally Jesse Rafael would tell men to cry, to insist on it, and they would never, never have a different opinion about it. Never.
They did not allow It, literally having options like Substack, the only way to fight against it.
Men are not defective. There are many reasons why they don’t cry physically, including having huge tear ducts, and testosterone fighting the crying as well. There are physical and mental reasons why they are different. God put it that way as something men could always put to their advantage for society sake . How dare they screw with this?!?
And I’m so sorry about your mother. Loving my kids was the strongest feeling I had. I can’t get some women at all. I guess she was emotionally disturbed and had a bad life as well. Still, there was no excuse.
Women have been abusing men psychologically for years and men cannot respond to defend themselves. They have been trained to physically hold back, at best to walk away. There are sociopath/psychopath women all over: think women who drown their kids for some greater (twisted religion) cause, female celebrities who find deep pockets and psychologically, financially and personally/ physically abuse a partner simply for her own power and exploitation and hatred of men.
Josh has such good clear perspective: many of our systems, govt, corporate, media, financial, etc….. are systems of ClusterB/sociopathic/psychopathic abuses, manipulations, gaslighting. All for ultimate CONTROL and $$$$.
When I stepped out of my own genetic cult “family” of women on the “maternal” side I have recovered from the codependency and enmeshment I was conditioned to be since a very young child.
I have seen the patterns, the destruction in my own family, the severe sociopathy that is behind generations of it as a closed system. They did not allow any outside information in, no one could think independently (on and on).
And I see it in our culture now. There are red flags everywhere that I didn’t even recognize before my recovery. And that’s how others are sucked into it.
If anyone thinks Harris is weak - think again. The thing with sociopaths is they don’t have a conscience.
And psychologically it has been proven that one on one abuse is different whether men or women. Many men perpetuate physically (and emotionally) but women lean mostly to the psychological and mental abuse as they present themselves as “victims” (lesser, smaller, dumber, sweet, bringing joy and maternal comfort to all) but underneath they don’t care, no guilt, no compassion or empathy. It’s about “winning” and destroying the other. Hmmm in this case the “other” is “Orange Man” and all the “deplorables, ie. MAGA).
Josh is absolutely clear. I recently finished reading The Sociopath Next Door and it is eye opening to those of us who have hearts and souls. who are discerning and who may believe that we all bleed, we all have pain, love, joy, etc. nope: 1 in 25 people have no conscience, no love, no empathy. And often make their way to the top that way, because people just don’t understand and cannot see it.
Yup. 40 years of its being acceptable to demean men publicly in ways that, if it were women being roasted for laughs, there would be outrage at the sexist hateful dismissiveness. Double-standard still offensive. I am glad we are talking about this.
Sir! We have to supply our own not-alls, but also our own title now? I’m not smart enough for that and need to be spoon fed. lol.
Kidding. I’m so glad that you’re putting all of this into words that most people can understand. I appreciate you and your work. Looking forward to tonight’s episode
My husband and I both read your prior article about the debate. Neither one of us took it remotely to mean Trump was a little boy who needed protected from mommy. And my husband is a guy’s guy.
Wow.... Josh, you brought back a memory just now. My mother had a horrific temper, was a fat bully, and beat us kids and my father. One time, when I was 11, she threw the bunk bed ladder at me, leaving a gash on my cheek. The next morning, I was sullen while getting ready for school. She looked at my face, burst into tears and said "look what you made me do." At that moment, my hatred grew even greater for her.
She made it about HER, casting herself as the victim. Classic DARVO and this was PHYSICAL abuse. Denying and dismissing women's being capable of violent acts and dynamics hurts all of us. Thank you for posting.
My mother was very similar. Later in life, she would pull the “I just don’t care if I live or die” card, to get her way with me. It was a trip growing up in her household, although by all accounts her behavior was pretty tame to what Josh and other people posting in this substack have gone through.
The way some reacted to your thoughts about Kamala and the debate is tiresome, and yet predictable at the same time. And by the way, I really enjoyed what you wrote about it. It helped me see and understand why I have such a strong dislike for Kamala. But back to the comments of those who didn't get it.
It seems to me that this whole oppressor/victim paradigm is so ingrained in how many of us think now. So when we see bad behavior like in the debate, too many think that the only response is to coddle the receiving end of the bad behavior. It's so easy to fall into the simplistic and false view of the woke: that the goal is to discover who to coddle and pander.
The point isn't that Trump was the victim. The point is that Kamala is going to treat all of US like that and it closely matches how an abuser gets a thrill out of making the target emotionally volatile. We are going to be Kamala's targets.
And because Kamala is female she will get away with it over and over and over. Wokeness is about grabbing power so that certain groups can be awful to other groups and feel righteous about it.
We are coming up for a very rough time. This is just the pre show. If Harris is President (which is likely whether she actually wins or not) the evil will compound. If Trump is allowed to win and take office this country will burn. Remember it's more than 2 months between election day and Inauguration. Not to mention what happens afterwards. Not sure that I see a way out of this in the near term, maybe ever.
When I get overwhelmed by the evil and madness I see around me I go meta and intellectualize. Yes, I understand that is a cope. Everyone has something. This is mine.
To that end I’ve been wondering if the Soviets , East Germans, Czech’s Hungarians etc… perceived the same kind of dominating cluster b behavior when their cultures were debased and demoralized half a century ( more) ago.
I think yes for some people . Many just took it ( obviously ) as we see today . I have wondered too what other eras over millennia could be understood in terms similar to our cluster b culture today. 17th century New England is an obvious example but what might be the others?
I do believe that humans never change and western culture today is one more cycle in an endless cycle of circling the drain and hopefully rising back from the darkness. I have my doubts about this time around though .
The ubiquitous screens in front of us globally may be the death knell for any chance of sanity making a come back. The brainwashing and short circuiting of thought is much too easy to manipulate en masse .
Thank you! It’s actually bringing our family closer together. We lost our way and yes I did have to make some waves to get us back on track and the ones that want truth and love are responding to it. We can’t get along if we are not speaking truth. It’s all a pack of lies at that point. It’s a microcosm but charity begins at home.
That video of "turn the page" Mrs. Walz is absolutely horrifying.
It was no different than a teacher talking down to her students. Actually, it's worse. Why? Because her "turn the page" hand and body movements looked like she was casting a spell on everyone. She's a witch without the green paint, even her voice.
I just posted this note a few minutes ago but I'll repost it here since I think it's relevant, and while my family story isn't as bad as Josh's there's certainly parallels:
Lefty brain-washing truly is impressive. Weekend with the Team Blue genetic acquaintances (I hate to use the term family) and I could get them to agree that:
-Illegal immigration is a problem
-Taxing unrealized gains is a stupid idea
-Forgiving student loans is unfair to tax payers
-$25k to every home buyer just makes houses more expensive
-Censorship is wrong
-Endless wars are bad
-More money dumped on teacher’s unions is a waste
-Electric cars are a bad idea
-Etc., etc.
But the second I said I didn’t like Kammy and won’t vote for her the reaction was a mass of verbal and emotional abuse. The propaganda has completely disassociated the things they don’t like or agree with from the very political party and philosophies that created them and that they will vote for because Orange Man Bad.
It’s terrifying to see up close and watch their eyes go from kind to glazed to crazy in mere seconds.
I’m grateful that my friends are a good mix of Left and Right philosophies but also smart, open-minded people. And also grateful to my fellow Substack dorks, only by reading you do I realize I haven’t completely lost my mind. The genetic acquaintances have.
The pivot to Kamala is weird considering how unpopular she was in 2016 and record of zero achievement from the platform of a vice presidency. What we are facing is a religious army of manufactured consent.
What's terrifying is how quickly the spin was spun... seemingly, if not literally, overnight. I am disturbed to see that it has even affected me. I am having trouble remembering how I felt about her. Don't get me wrong: I detest her with every fiber of my being, I just can't quite recall how we all pretty much felt about her before her anointing as presidential candidate. The propaganda machine is so powerful.
Fast, good, cheap... pick two.
The same applies to magic, particularly the school of Enchantment. This is an extremely weak spell, if you call them out on not believing their own words they might not admit it, but they will burn up even more psychic energy to pretend that they don't still hate her.
Such an interesting comment, thank you. I see a similar spin going on re: her VP pick Walz. I have a liberal 'friend' on FB who immediately posted memes where it is evident they want to cast him as a good ol' guy, former social studies teacher, etc., as opposed to the radical left deviant who believes boys need tampons, abortions should be for any baby too dumb to crawl away fast enough, and pedophilia should be a sexual orientation like gay or straight and not a perversion.
I just watched the documentary, “Into the Light.” It zeros in on the psyops that we (collectively, including the entire world as we know it) are being subjected to, including way way back in history. The PTB(powers that be) are in control and it is up to us to ferret out the TRUTH. Read, watch, listen and always be vigilant. NOTHING is as it appears. 2020 did not fool me and thank God most of my family listened to me when I told them it was all a ruse. Our nation depends on smart, engaged and moral people stepping up for the truth, whether it be in school board meetings, city council meetings, county commissioner meetings or at the State and National level of government. The bad news is that bad people step up to run for these offices while good people are sitting back, afraid to rock the boat. If we are to survive as a nation, we are going to have to become uncomfortable and alienate a lot of people but sticking to and spreading TRUTH will set us free.
Thank you
I needed to hear this today. Cause I feel like I have lost my mind. TDS has taken over my home.😢
That sounds like the annual Christmas Eve gathering at my mother-in-law's house, except I don't have the patience or masochism to argue ideology and politics with them. Besides, trying to reason with them is about as effective, as Thomas Paine said, as administering medicine to the dead.
Hey Cary, thanks for throwing some money into the pot, sir!
Well, I figured it was about time. I've been parking on your couch quite a while without contributing any rent.
It’s like the way that orthodox people can, unprompted, describe extensively and deplore the tragic consequences of what they call “Covid,” but there’s a wall that blocks them from concluding that doing those things was actually bad. It wrought untold damage, but you’re a bad person if you aren’t happy it happened.
The main issue I see with the "he should be stoic" accusation or whatever, is that it's classic emotional invalidation and it serves the abuser. It's the exact type of defense response required from victims of abuse who then often go on to develop their own disorders *because* of the emotional invalidation.
Yes. Thank you so much for finding words for this, Jake.
Reminds me... if they say to you, I feel like YOU [should, etc]...
it's not a feeling, it's an attack. :-)
💯
Josh, spot on once again. I very much fear a Harris presidency. I look on in dumbstruck disbelief that so many people, many of whom I know personally, cannot see the demonic collusion between the Democratic Party (with Harris as their chosen dictator), the worldwide cabal, and the media. I am trying to have the faith of a mustard seed but the relentless savagery bombarding my data feed every day makes me want to close our gate and hide away from it all. Thank you for continuing to have the strength and courage to post and podcast.
The bombardment of far off events, and decisions which you have no input on, can be overwhelming. But each one of us is a conscious agent, blessed with many unseen graces.
Don't allow the raucus media-feed to drown out the quiet voice within. You have more power than you realize, the ability to shape reality itself in ways which would seem petty and contemptible to a power junkie like Harris, but which are capable of sending her and her kind back into the pit for another generation.
Have faith in yourself. Their side is faster and easier, but it is not stronger.
God bless.
The Vote Blue zombies I have to deal with are all the same. They act as though Kamala wasn't a known reject until 5 minutes ago, they can't seem to grasp that she is part of the team that is IN OFFICE NOW, they can't name a single good thing she has ever done or stands for, but you have to Vote for her because Trump. When pressed, multiple people have admitted that they just want their team elected "so I can go back to not thinking about politics".
That to me is both the real truth and one of the biggest problems. Democrats pay ZERO attention to what goes on when one of them is in office. ALL of the things they freaked out upon constantly during the last few Republican presidencies not only didn't go away, they were worse under the follwing D!! More wars entered, more people droned, more attacks on our civil liberties, but half the country is willfully blind.
That dynamic is now ramped up to truly hysterical hights the last few years, with the help of a fully captured media propaganda machine. I (lifelong democrat) used to be confused by the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Surely the MAGA people were the ones who were "Trump deranged"?? I get it now. It is this spell the propaganda has wrought upon so many, that Trump is "literally Hitler" (etc, etc ad nauseum) They believe it SO HARD that they will go along with anyone & anything, no matter how truly depraved - to prevent Trump from getting back in. It is truly insane.
Watching that debate was infuriating and literally sickening. Kamala is the perfect pawn. She is soulless, heartless, and absolutely willing to do the bidding of the Deep State, and no one may question or challenge her, with her several "protected class" memberships. It is hard to not feel doomed.
I was never a Trump fan, but the way the media and most people have reacted to these assassination attempts is chilling. When I ask someone to substitute any other public figure into that scenario and ask what the coverage would look like, you can see the struggle going on in their head. WELL OBVIOUSLY, it would be on every program for days! But this, you know...well, it's Trump, so...
Who would have ever thought it would be the Left, the party of bleeding hearts and welfare for all, who would seem to have so completely lost their humanity?
Back in the early days of male athletes calling themselves female and bullying their way into women's sports, I wondered why men in general, and my beloved good-ole-boys in particular, weren't stepping up on behalf of their sisters. And then I thought, ooohhhh, they've become indifferent to the obvious unfairness of the situation, likely because of decades of women rejecting chivalrous behavior, even claiming to be physically equal to men (as reflected in so many movies where tiny women fighters easily beat the asses of their hulky male foes), and demanding to be allowed into men's private spaces (public spaces are a very different thing). Alas, many women (especially young women) think this is progress and are pleased that we got what we wished for. . . . Josh, please try not to let yourself feel that you're somehow at fault for feeling psychically alone. One enters into wisdom only through the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14), which I believe you are trying to do.
Josh, you are SO not "psychically alone." Thank you for making each of us less so, for finding words for what we haven't been able to name.
I know there was a lot to comment about besides this, but I think it is building very much in men, the anger, and if women don’t watch out, we are going to end up being abused.
I don’t blame the men. Do you see the commercials that have been airing for the last 40 years? Just one of them alone can make me lose my temper. All those 40 years of men being treated like dirt is going to come back on us.
And it used to make me sick when talkshow host like Sally Jesse Rafael would tell men to cry, to insist on it, and they would never, never have a different opinion about it. Never.
They did not allow It, literally having options like Substack, the only way to fight against it.
Men are not defective. There are many reasons why they don’t cry physically, including having huge tear ducts, and testosterone fighting the crying as well. There are physical and mental reasons why they are different. God put it that way as something men could always put to their advantage for society sake . How dare they screw with this?!?
And I’m so sorry about your mother. Loving my kids was the strongest feeling I had. I can’t get some women at all. I guess she was emotionally disturbed and had a bad life as well. Still, there was no excuse.
You deserved much better.
Women have been abusing men psychologically for years and men cannot respond to defend themselves. They have been trained to physically hold back, at best to walk away. There are sociopath/psychopath women all over: think women who drown their kids for some greater (twisted religion) cause, female celebrities who find deep pockets and psychologically, financially and personally/ physically abuse a partner simply for her own power and exploitation and hatred of men.
Josh has such good clear perspective: many of our systems, govt, corporate, media, financial, etc….. are systems of ClusterB/sociopathic/psychopathic abuses, manipulations, gaslighting. All for ultimate CONTROL and $$$$.
When I stepped out of my own genetic cult “family” of women on the “maternal” side I have recovered from the codependency and enmeshment I was conditioned to be since a very young child.
I have seen the patterns, the destruction in my own family, the severe sociopathy that is behind generations of it as a closed system. They did not allow any outside information in, no one could think independently (on and on).
And I see it in our culture now. There are red flags everywhere that I didn’t even recognize before my recovery. And that’s how others are sucked into it.
If anyone thinks Harris is weak - think again. The thing with sociopaths is they don’t have a conscience.
And psychologically it has been proven that one on one abuse is different whether men or women. Many men perpetuate physically (and emotionally) but women lean mostly to the psychological and mental abuse as they present themselves as “victims” (lesser, smaller, dumber, sweet, bringing joy and maternal comfort to all) but underneath they don’t care, no guilt, no compassion or empathy. It’s about “winning” and destroying the other. Hmmm in this case the “other” is “Orange Man” and all the “deplorables, ie. MAGA).
Josh is absolutely clear. I recently finished reading The Sociopath Next Door and it is eye opening to those of us who have hearts and souls. who are discerning and who may believe that we all bleed, we all have pain, love, joy, etc. nope: 1 in 25 people have no conscience, no love, no empathy. And often make their way to the top that way, because people just don’t understand and cannot see it.
Yup. 40 years of its being acceptable to demean men publicly in ways that, if it were women being roasted for laughs, there would be outrage at the sexist hateful dismissiveness. Double-standard still offensive. I am glad we are talking about this.
Sir! We have to supply our own not-alls, but also our own title now? I’m not smart enough for that and need to be spoon fed. lol.
Kidding. I’m so glad that you’re putting all of this into words that most people can understand. I appreciate you and your work. Looking forward to tonight’s episode
My husband and I both read your prior article about the debate. Neither one of us took it remotely to mean Trump was a little boy who needed protected from mommy. And my husband is a guy’s guy.
I want to double/triple love this story :)
Wow.... Josh, you brought back a memory just now. My mother had a horrific temper, was a fat bully, and beat us kids and my father. One time, when I was 11, she threw the bunk bed ladder at me, leaving a gash on my cheek. The next morning, I was sullen while getting ready for school. She looked at my face, burst into tears and said "look what you made me do." At that moment, my hatred grew even greater for her.
Classic. Jesus.
She made it about HER, casting herself as the victim. Classic DARVO and this was PHYSICAL abuse. Denying and dismissing women's being capable of violent acts and dynamics hurts all of us. Thank you for posting.
My mother was very similar. Later in life, she would pull the “I just don’t care if I live or die” card, to get her way with me. It was a trip growing up in her household, although by all accounts her behavior was pretty tame to what Josh and other people posting in this substack have gone through.
The way some reacted to your thoughts about Kamala and the debate is tiresome, and yet predictable at the same time. And by the way, I really enjoyed what you wrote about it. It helped me see and understand why I have such a strong dislike for Kamala. But back to the comments of those who didn't get it.
It seems to me that this whole oppressor/victim paradigm is so ingrained in how many of us think now. So when we see bad behavior like in the debate, too many think that the only response is to coddle the receiving end of the bad behavior. It's so easy to fall into the simplistic and false view of the woke: that the goal is to discover who to coddle and pander.
The point isn't that Trump was the victim. The point is that Kamala is going to treat all of US like that and it closely matches how an abuser gets a thrill out of making the target emotionally volatile. We are going to be Kamala's targets.
And because Kamala is female she will get away with it over and over and over. Wokeness is about grabbing power so that certain groups can be awful to other groups and feel righteous about it.
We are coming up for a very rough time. This is just the pre show. If Harris is President (which is likely whether she actually wins or not) the evil will compound. If Trump is allowed to win and take office this country will burn. Remember it's more than 2 months between election day and Inauguration. Not to mention what happens afterwards. Not sure that I see a way out of this in the near term, maybe ever.
When I get overwhelmed by the evil and madness I see around me I go meta and intellectualize. Yes, I understand that is a cope. Everyone has something. This is mine.
To that end I’ve been wondering if the Soviets , East Germans, Czech’s Hungarians etc… perceived the same kind of dominating cluster b behavior when their cultures were debased and demoralized half a century ( more) ago.
I think yes for some people . Many just took it ( obviously ) as we see today . I have wondered too what other eras over millennia could be understood in terms similar to our cluster b culture today. 17th century New England is an obvious example but what might be the others?
I do believe that humans never change and western culture today is one more cycle in an endless cycle of circling the drain and hopefully rising back from the darkness. I have my doubts about this time around though .
The ubiquitous screens in front of us globally may be the death knell for any chance of sanity making a come back. The brainwashing and short circuiting of thought is much too easy to manipulate en masse .
I'm cynical enough to title it "So the man owned a machine gun." or "Brainwashed man tries to assassinate Trump, Harris/Walz implicated."
It’s relevant and very meaningful to me that you write on these topics from the abusive perspective of late stage feminism and its aggression tactics.
I have actually just banished it from my household.
Not kidding whatsoever.
I put my foot down on it with our daughters. Enough. No more euphemisms no more pretend games no more lying.
A high stakes move that forced them to expose their true natures to me and my wife and their other siblings.
Sunlight was shone on it all.
I’ve taken this family and this house back.
It brought conflict that I had to drag my wife in to.
I put my foot down.
Masculine energy defeats this. But you gotta put it out there and be prepared for things to get very uncomfortable.
It defeats all of this. It lives in shadows and obscurity. The devil lives there.
Once he’s outed in the sunlight he shrivels and dies.
I’m done not living in truth. And my family has my back.
It begins at home and so shall it be in our nation and our world.
Plain spoke truth. Measured words. Care and compassion that is real and also not be afraid to take some arrows. It is a war.
Honestly I have a lot of people I follow here to thank for this.
I learned about this situation mostly from you guys. And approaches to deal with it.
It starts with speaking up. Have debate. Have opinions. Watch for setups. Find ways to shine sunlight on it.
Be unafraid of conflict. And never again to “go along to get along”. Never. Not in this house.
Now there is misguided hatred and reconciliation is needed. But I’ve put the line starkly in the sand and I can breathe in my own house now.
Bravo, good man!!!
I hear the freedom and the strength in what you've said and done.
Your family doesn't know it yet, but they are very, very lucky that you're now steering the ship.
Thank you! It’s actually bringing our family closer together. We lost our way and yes I did have to make some waves to get us back on track and the ones that want truth and love are responding to it. We can’t get along if we are not speaking truth. It’s all a pack of lies at that point. It’s a microcosm but charity begins at home.
That video of "turn the page" Mrs. Walz is absolutely horrifying.
It was no different than a teacher talking down to her students. Actually, it's worse. Why? Because her "turn the page" hand and body movements looked like she was casting a spell on everyone. She's a witch without the green paint, even her voice.