I graduated under Bush 43 and the teachers weren't trying to turn me into a girl either. The trans thing has not even been around for a decade. If you pay attention to the news timeline rather than the news cycle, then you already know that this transgender horse shit started immediately after Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Progressives didnt even take a victory lap. Literally no one was talking about using the other sex's bathrooms until 2015.
I had been obese since I was a teenager and started working on finally slaying the dragon about 2 years ago (July 4th is my anniversary, how cool is that?). I started with only resistance training in the gym, then added in cardio, then tuned my diet. The only carbs I'm eating are 100% whole grain bread, tortillas and rice. Everything else is animal protein, fruits and vegetables. For drink all I consume is water, coffee, whole milk and unsweetened tea. No alcohol. Been on the diet since about Christmas and I'm down about 40 pounds. I feel better than I did in my 20s.
I have a whiteboard on my fridge and I wrote this quote on it
"The toughest enemy you will ever encounter is yourself."
Motivates me like you would not believe. I'm not perfect and sometimes lose to myself still, but I've made remarkable improvements in most areas of my life living by this philosophy.
I think people get the idea that Taylor Swift is an op because of the timing of her relationship with Travis Kelce going public being immediately after he became the face of Pfizer's new covid shot ad campaign.
I dont think Taylor Swift has the power to influence the election in a measurable way. If she comes out and endorses Biden, anyone who votes based on that would have done it if any celebrity told them to. Other celebrities surely will do the same, so it will wash out in my opinion.
Evey presidential election the left uses celebrity pawns to influence votes. Katy Perry endorsed Obama and Hillary. This is not new.
Fake news has obviously been around for ages but I truly believe the Reality TV boom of the late 90s and early 00s primed the pump for mass propaganda brainwashing of the US public. Reality TV showed them the production value needed for the average person to actually believe it was real. It was then applied to the news and the season 1 premiere was September 11th, 2001. Change my mind.
Long time ago I worked for a cable company in their call center doing sales and support work. After I saw how much tax is in those monthly bills coupled with dishonesty about how long you were getting the lower "new customer" rate I lost the willingness to pay for that product. It's probably even worse now. You really are paying for all the content you get even the stuff you never watch. Ridiculous. Cut the cord in 2013 and haven't missed it. Still use antenna so I can pick up the free channels, there are a few that air older shows from the pre woke era and that's nice to have for a rainy day.
The reason is two-fold. First is that the US public at large is extremely disgruntled and jaded on how federal politics works in Washington DC, going back many decades. We are sick of all the backroom deals with corporate interests that result in corporations taking in record profits and politicians receiving insanely lucrative kickbacks from whatever lobby they are working with while the common person suffers and is left holding the bag. The idea of a politician who is not part of the system being elected president and restoring power to the people, which is the central idea of Trump's MAGA movement, is something that quite literally everyone should be able to get behind.
But the system, the swamp, the deep state - whatever you want to call it - does not want to give up its power. They recognize that the general public does not like the results of decades of political corruption in DC and would gladly overthrow them if the opportunity presented itself. In general they combat this by turning us all against each other. White vs Not White. Man vs Woman. Straight vs Gay. Normal vs Trans. Middle Class vs Lower Class. This is the game they have been playing since Occupy Wall Street (honestly longer than that, but that OWS is a definitive point on the timeline you can point to when the divisiveness started going off the charts).
The problem with this idea of an outsider hero becoming president and restoring power to the people is the naivete some people have about this idea. They think a commoner, a low to middle class person of humble means will be the only way to achieve the goal. This sounds nice on paper, but it does not consider that the swamp is so deep that the candidate will inevitably become beholden to his largest donors. Effectively, a commoner wouldn't be able to fill this role because they would be controlled. This is why it has to be someone like Trump.
The swamp understands this and recognizes Trump as an actual threat to their survival. That is why they have "all assets deployed" against him. They immediately used a coordinated mainstream media gaslighting campaign to broadcast negative stories on Trump 24/7 on all media platforms the minute it appeared he was seriously running for president in the 2016 campaign.
As Covid has shown us, the number of people on this planet who believe what mainstream sources tell them is staggering. Yes, more and more people wake up every day but the current optics support that the general public is basically a giant flock of sheep. They kept up the gaslighting through Trump's entire first term, never letting up or giving even an inch. People believe he deserved to impeached back then, and they believe he should be prosecuted for all these indictments now. Not because they have looked at the evidence and found him to be guilty of breaking the law, but because the TV told them to.
That's why he is so polarizing. Some see him as the answer the the problem of the swamp, and want to see him achieve his goal of draining. Some believe he Is an evil, mean-tweeting racist demon who would only use the office of president to benefit himself.
He is also the voice of the Joker in many of the Batman cartoons/animated features going back to the 1990s. In my opinion he does a much better job with voice over than he does acting in front of a camera, but it is sad that someone who played two very iconic roles ended up being this much of a tool.
Close the IRS too while you're at it