Since I don't know how to use emojis on this site (nor do I really want to), I'll just say...LOL!
So first of all, this whole thing (even the guy walking off) was most likely scripted. So that brings up the question "Why?" Why is the show seemingly going against the current "social grain"?
Could it be because old Media - just like its lifelong Boomer followers - is dying off slowly? That die-off means no more advertising revenue, no more jobs for people in the industry so something must be done to try and entice people to watch to keep the money flowing. And outrage sells.
Hollywood will always go where it thinks the money is. This stunt hits on two levels - it showcases old people rejecting modern "standards" (which plays to the Boomer audience) but also allows the troons and their supporters to Point At the Bigot. And because I don't follow how ad revenue etc works on social/online media, I'll just guess that there's probably another entire cash grab from online outrage about this as well.
There's an awful lot of LARPing happening on social media that's behind this surge, I think. Guys slapping on some lipstick and a wig, taking a selfie for their Twitter account and claiming to be "trans" but never doing any more than that. Going out and actually living as a woman is not the point - the point is for unwashed losers to suddenly be "popular" and put themselves beyond criticism.
It puts them beyond criticism while at the same time giving them a free pass to criticize and attack other people - especially women. It certainly doesn't help that there's a significant number of "feminists" who clap like trained seals for these guys.
It's always different when they do it. They self-define as being "correct-thinking" so when they name-call, it has to be true and justified, they have to be in the right about it.
It's maddening, but it's always good to remember that, out of all the people they hate, they hate themselves the most. And they get to live inside that hated Self all day, every day.
Everybody loved the billionaire right up until he decided to run for office. In a logical world, the bootlicking would have intensified because he was their "friend" and he was going to be President. So many possible perks and special events for them!
It pays to read through these things. At first glance, I thought that they were reporting on 6 completely separate incidents - which looks pretty bad. Four of the articles listed are about the same shooting, just with slightly different wording/focus.
(Having problems editing today. Yikes.)
This is great. It's the absolute truth (the 69% funding) and they themselves brought it up.
But the best part is that he didn't argue it with them, or make a big deal out of it. He just changed the label. Now it's true AND it's funny.
A similar (more positive) take:
Leadership was supposed to guide mankind, prepping us for a new Golden Age. Instead, the cabal kept their focus on the same old things - money, power, physical control over others, keeping any "goodies" for themselves. Now the Big Bosses (the Elders) are back and they're asking the big questions - why didn't you (the cabal) do what you were told? Why are people still held back? Why did you decide to be Wolves instead of Shepherds?
And (as we've seen in so many smaller ways), the cabal can't/won't do the right thing. Narcissists can never admit that they were in the wrong but what they can do is double-down on the crap that they've been doing.
That whole "change of the ages" doesn't happen all at once. It could take a couple of generations for it to "click" completely.
Think of how long it took for Christianity to settle in at the beginning of the Piscean Age. It didn't happen overnight and there were plenty of struggles and arguing and schisms for hundreds of years. I don't believe that it will take quite as long this time, because we are more connected through technology.
I would also throw music into that mix. Music used to be confined to the am/fm stations. It was a rare person who sought out imports etc to find something different to listen to. With the advent of internet, there are so many more places to find music to listen to that there is no real "community" anymore unless you're right into some niche like rap or metal.
It was a two-pronged approach, I believe. TV controlled the visual aspects and radio controlled the audio.
Gotta try and get this stuff normalized and legalized before they're found out. Can't be tried for a crime if it isn't illegal anymore, correct?
Every time that I can think of that blackmail has been used on people, there's some sort of "normalization" process that hits the media and public reality. Back in the 60s/70s, it was simple to blackmail a guy who slept with another woman so they started normalizing having affiars, getting divorced (think magazine articles, TV shows, movies). By the late 70s/80s, same techniques used to remove the "stigma" of being gay.
Now it's trans issues and pedophilia. Destigmatize. Normalize. Decriminalize.
Just adding that it also allowed a whole new era of US intervention in other countries, all under the guise of "defeating the Axis of Evil". Manipulating a psychologically-broken public into thinking that any military activity must now be justified (and be beyond criticism), all in the name of stopping terrorism.
There was some CCP official who has had several organ transplants. Sorry I don't have a source. It was on YouTube a couple of months ago, maybe the "China Insights" channel. They weren't making a big deal out of it, just saying that it had come out that this one guy had had several organs transplanted.
So there are wealthy people out there who can get access to new kidneys, corneas, livers etc without going through the channels that the rest of the world uses. Just like everything else in the world, if someone is willing to pay a high enough price, there'll be someone else who will provide what they want.
Having seen what graft-vs-host does to a person, I don't understand it at all. Getting one transplant? Sure. Getting several body parts replaced? Why??
It isn't even that JKR said "transphobic" things. If I recall correctly, she just wanted to protect womens' rights.
"Women should not have to share bathrooms with predatory males" is absolutely not the same thing as "trans people need to be wiped out!"
But part of this is her own doing. She bowed a few times to the dangerhair mob when she should have just ignored them and continued writing her books. Kissing narcissistic butt is how we've ended up in a lot of this turmoil.
First thing I thought of! He probably thought the guy in the uniform was King Charles and Sunak was just an aide.
Oh, no. Anyway...
He's just sorry that people have archived him saying that and can refer back to his statement. He can't use the excuse "I never said that!" because he'd be called out on it.
I don't know if it made the rounds here, but there are people trying to claim that the word "fren" stands for "Far Right Ethno Nationalist".
I wonder how long it took some loser to think up that combination of words, in order to make it fit...which it doesn't, really because those words should be hyphenated and (pedantically) should only count as two words instead of four.
I find it helpful to stop thinking in terms of "CCP" or "Russia" or "US" and start thinking of it in terms of "organized crime". Behind all of the rot and garbage are petty-minded thugs who (as you say) want to run the world. They use political affiliations and nationalities as covers for their crimes, just as they're using the populations of the world as meat shields.
From Clandestne's Substack
The US do fund biolabs there, and not just some, A LOT. According to the US NIH, there are 1,251 microbiology labs on the island of Taiwan. ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE. Keep in mind Taiwan is roughly the size of Maryland…
Normies getting vaxxed bothered me a lot less than those supposedly "educated" doctors and nurses. It was shocking to see people whose whole focus is supposed to be on science and rational thinking turn into drooling idiots.
"Durr durr durr! Wear a mask! Get an experimental injection! The government told me to do something and now I do it!"
They definitely should have been at the front, pointing out the lies and inconsistencies.
I try to look at certain posts that I make as "planting seeds" for other people. Will my post give a person a new perspective? I hope so but that's completely out of my control.
He's not wrong about letting politicians know that you oppose the things they produce. I think a lot of politicians are terrified of being booted out of office because the majority of them would have no access to any of the sweet book deals or speaking gigs that the Biggies get. They'd be forced to WORK for a living, with no more perks/bribes/grift...and no more access to power.
So calling them or writing and letting them know in large numbers that you don't agree with what they're up to scares the crap out of them. It reminds them of that potential - that they aren't all-powerful and that they can have all their goodies taken away.
"I wonder how the lawyers, employees and lobbyists for Planned Parenthood can sleep at night. Knowing they are responsible for the slaughter of our kids for profit."
Watched a clip the launch/explosion last night. It was odd. All the cheering and applause (at least on the clip I watched) just sounded so fake - like those cheesy applause tracks on bad shows. We've come to expect "Mission Control" to cheer at Launch - it's almost a ritual at this point - but people were cheering/clapping at the weirdest small announcements.
Note to the producers - try to be more subtle. Not everything needs to be turned up to 11, even if it does feed your ego.