Great info coming from Pedes and Patriots ends up getting posted on GAW with only a few hundred upvotes on some of the most interesting topics. Always wondered what the true traffic/volume is i.e. how many VIEWS are there on the top topics?? I'm sure there are many who view the site without an account...but how many??
Since the last general election in 2020, my son and daughter are now 20 and 18 respectively and are allowed to vote for the first time. I'm proud to say that my wife and I have raised 2 MAGA republicans and all 4 of us have voted MAGA down the ticket here in NC! Proud papa moment...just thought I'd share....
Getting a "Server is Down" error message...haven't seen that before....
Welp...it's done. After 20 years at my fortune 500 financial services firm, yesterday was my last day. I submitted my resignation several months back as I refused to give into their vax mandates. There were many unethical situations that I've seen over the years but the "icing on the cake" was them pushing the vax (really hard) and threatening employee's livelihoods if they didn't get the shots. That was the last straw for me. I decided to take control of my future and not bow down to tyrannical edicts. After a 60 day notice period (legal obligation for employees at my title level) it's finally over.
Those 60 days were rough. There were many people trying to pull me back into the matrix ("misery loves company" syndrome, if you will) and leaving some really good colleagues and friends behind was especially hard, harder than I originally thought it would be. But I stood my ground and made it through to my last day. I think I woke up a few colleagues along the way and on my way out I did receive several emails from co-workers admiring my stance. So "mission accomplished" from a red pill perspective.
My job was a lucrative position and I'm leaving at a time when I have a son in college (I've posted on this board about his heroics with pushing back on vax mandates at his school and on his football team) and a daughter who's starting college next year. I announced my resignation BEFORE my year end bonus was allocated therefore I was entitled to $0 bonus this year (if I literally stuck around 2 more weeks I would have received my full year end bonus). I left with no job lined up which leaves me with an uncertain professional future. I gave up all healthcare benefits for my family and my company had a very good plan. Me leaving my comfortable and lucrative job is way out of my comfort zone, but I did it anyway. So I think it's safe to say that I'm ALL IN on the fight against tyranny.
It was not ideal timing for me to resign, but I couldn't spend any more time with a firm that is directly going against the US Constitution and stepping on personal freedoms. If you want the vax then get it, if you don't want it, then don't get it. NOBODY should be telling anyone what they should and should not do with their healthcare choices, especially upper management at a fucking financial institution!!!
Today is my first day on the other side. It feels good...a little scary, but good. Immediate plan is taking my 401k out of Cabal-delity and invest it the way I see fit. Then beyond that....who knows! Thinking of running for office on a patriot platform but have no political experience at all (which may not be a bad thing) - or helping out a Patriot campaign (any takers??). I'd like to pivot towards a "service to others" type of role as financial services is primarily "service to self".
Wish me luck fellow Patriots! Time for a cool change...
My family is very much awake and I'm so proud of them all. My daughter, a high school senior, refuses to wear a mask. My wife preaches to all her friends the potential harm of the vax (and never, ever wears a mask). And I have left my job recently due to my firm pushing the vax - giving a big middle finger to the woke management team that run my company on my way out (and hopefully waking up a few colleagues in the process).
My son though is the leader of our pack when it comes to standing up to tyranny. He's an academic all American scholar athlete who plays football at a large University. The football program is a top 20 D1 team. All summer the coaching staff was pushing the vax. He and several of his teammates refused. Just before the season started the coaches threatened to cut players if they didn't get vaxed and he and a handful of teammates walked away, giving up their dream of playing big time D1 football. I'm so very proud of those young men.
As the semester progressed, now not playing football, he focused on his academics. Throughout the semester he was told he had to take weekly Covid tests since he wasn't vaxxed. He refused. He then started getting threatening emails that he would be kicked out of school if he didn't take his Covid test. He still refused. His professors preached daily, early in the semester, how everyone needed to get vaxxed. He didn't listen. He then was told that he couldn't sign up for classes next semester if he didn't take his Coved test. He didn't take any Covid tests - not one. He went through the semester with a cloud over his head thinking he may get kicked out of school - and still pulled straight A's in an intense engineering program.
The threats from the university were baseless as they ended up caving and they ultimately allowed him to sign up for next semester. He's been talking to the coaches of his football team and they want him back and they know his stance on the vax, and they still want him back.
Moral of the story...IT'S OK TO SAY NO! Don't give in! And never, ever do anything you are uncomfortable with. It will all work out in the end.
Last week I posted on this board that I verbally resigned from my woke fortune 500 financial institution. Today I formalized and submitted my written resignation effective Dec 31. It feels good.
The past week was crazy emotional to say the least - after 20 years with my firm I'm leaving some very good people behind. But I refuse to spend any more time with a company that is imposing vax mandates and, from my standpoint, is on the wrong side of history. I told management that they might as well quit too as the company will be litigated into oblivion (a little dramatic but could be true) with all the civil rights and constitutional violations.
I'm leaving a lucrative position with 2 kids in college so not the best time to leave - It's in Gods hands now and I know all will be OK. By stepping out of the matrix for real today I only hope that I can wake up a few folks on my way out. For the next month my new job at my firm is to red-pill-the-fuck out of as many colleagues as possible. Wish me luck.
After 20 years with my firm (a big Financial Institution) I told them that they can "shove it" with their vax mandate and I'm retiring effective Dec 31. My boss thinks I'm nuts and he spent the rest of the day trying to pull me back into the Matrix by "enticing" me to stay. Didn't work. I told him that i can no longer work for a company that is taking a tyrannical approach to these vaccines and that those in management who chose to enforce these "mandates" chose poorly and will end up on the wrong side of history.(I believe that resonated with my boss but in the end, he still thinks I'm nuts!). Now that I have no job I plan on becoming a full time red-piller...wish me luck!
A good by product of this is that I have much greater control of my 401k after I leave the firm. Thinking of moving a portion to a precious metals IRA - any thoughts on that? Any other suggestions?
