Overly Optimistic?

Posted by $ rainman0720 1 week, 5 days ago to Culture
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Over the past few weeks and months, I’ve seen some things that have given me a glimmer of hope for the future. But I know I can be a bit naïve at times, missing some of the more subtle nuances of situations.

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The voters in the country refused to put Kamala Harris—who couldn’t put together a coherent sentence if her life depended on it—into the White House. And the final results weren’t nearly as close as it seemed.

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Another school has finally backed off from its idiotic trans policy, caving to pressure from the Trump administration to restore sanity by keeping men out of women’s sports (and out of their locker rooms).

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What the Dems tried so hard to keep buried is finally seeing the light of day. There are a slew of
documents that prove—as David Marcus so clearly stated—Democrats lied, and half the country believed them. (Link to that Fox News story below)

Everyone from Shrillary and Obummer to Clapper, Brennan, Comey, et al is being exposed for what they truly are: traitors. And while the MSM is doing its best to ignore the issue, it ain’t going away.

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Trump’s tariffs have not only NOT cratered the economy, but they’ve forced a lot of changes to agreements we had with other countries, resulting in better deals for the U. S.

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Public funding of NPR and PBS has, at long last, been cut. I am no longer forced to support an organization that constantly criticizes everything that I believe in, which is everything that doesn’t conform to the leftie agenda.

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Jeff Bezos has, at least by all appearances, tried to turn the Washington Post into something resembling an objective publication.

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While there are still far too many crimes being committed by some of the millions and millions of illegal aliens that the previous administration let in, new crossings by illegals are down to almost nothing. The problem might not get solved, but it might not get worse.

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Mamdani’s brand of insanity is being displayed front and center, and his past posts about defunding the police are coming back to haunt him. Everyone is able to see in the light of day just how batshit crazy this guy really is.

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The stock prices for Target and Anheuser-Busch, two of the worst offenders of the letter/trans
insanity, took serious nosedives from which neither has recovered. American Eagle said “screw you” to the woke crowd and is running a campaign that has seen the value of its company increase by several hundred million dollars.

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Several major SCOTUS decisions went against the woke/lib/prog philosophy. Again, they were simply restoring some common sense to our country.

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So that’s why I’m wondering: Am I being overly optimistic, and I’m due to fall flat on my face when reality sets in?

Or is the pendulum really starting to swing back to the side of common sense?


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  • Posted by katrinam41 6 days, 16 hours ago
    The euphoria over a Republican triumph is dying down now. People who were somewhat undecided over what was happening are now slipping back into complacency. My optimism is very guarded, if not actually slipping.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    "...and everybody gets to choose."

    That is, obviously, in direct conflict with how the libs see themselves and the world. Probably 55 years ago, my late father understood this. He told me that when a conservative doesn't like a restaurant, he says that he won't eat there anymore. When a liberal doesn't like a restaurant, he says that nobody can eat there anymore. My dad nailed it.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    From what I read, not only did American Eagle not cancel their ad campaign (or pause it), but they sold out of stock in record time! Now, I am/was no fan of Marilyn, but whatever floats the boat is okay with me. For me, the point is that AE can feature WHOEVER and no one should lose their sh*t over it. Which is what the left did. They seem to have zero common sense AT ALL!

    Even if their merchandise is manufactured in China, India, or the moon - I really don't care as long as the information is available, per labeling law, on the clothing, whatever tariffs were paid, and the clothing is made according to proper standards. Then you can hate them, somebody else can love them, and everybody gets to choose.

    PS it might be a lot easier for me because I never got over my experience at 6 years old, screaming and crying in public (which I NEVER did) because I had to wear a pair of horrible, scratchy jeans for a cowboy-themed dance recital. It's been 69 years and I have yet to put on another pair, and likely won't for whatever time I have left. Some nightmares never fade.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't listen, but I think you pretty much summed up their entire philosophy: Orange Man Bad. Their entire political agenda is built around that obsession. If Trump spearheaded an effort that led to a cure for 90 percent of all cancers, the only thing the left would do is blame him for letting 10 percent of cancer victims die. I've never seen an obsession like TDS is to the lefties.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 week, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    ie, the insane left will pretend to be sane, and ask to be invited back in "to be fair" and promise "to never go batshit crazy again"...

    And dumb conservatives will let them in. Only to find themselves charged or killed by those they let in.

    If history is any indicator!
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 week, 1 day ago
    "Public funding ... I am no longer forced to support an organization that constantly criticizes everything that I believe in, which is everything that doesn’t conform to the leftie agenda."

    Correct me if you see this differently (and I know many don't listen to NPR at all) but does it seem to you like, now that they know they are on life support (as they should have been from the beginning) they can say things even MORE egregious than the lefty-lying stories they had previously?

    This morning (yeah I hate listening, but you gotta keep up with the opposition)....they brought on a previous CIA operative or officer, can't remember exactly) to actively counter the information that is coming to light over the Russia Hoax. Previously they would say "unsubstantiated claims," or "without evidence," but now they have people saying "No, the MAGA people are outright lying and here's how I know (even though they don't, actually, know. or they themselves are just plain lying) They bring on lefty "experts" who are only "expert" in advancing the Orange-Man-Bad narrative.

    All pretense of "impartiality," as thin as it ever was, is gone completely.
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  • Posted by Abaco 1 week, 2 days ago
    The worm is turning in the theater of public discourse. Yet, we need perp walks. We need offenders sentenced for violating the first amendment when it happens. We need the Epstein honey dippers locked up. Where RFK is firing people for obvious long-term conflicts of interest in the government-pharma complex they need to be prosecuted for it. Without that, they'll all just be right back in there in four years.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 1 week, 3 days ago
    You are overly optimistic. Briefly, there has just enough of a return to sanity (i.e. A = A) that the lemmings haven't gone over the cliff, but the Sith will, as always, insist upon asserting their divine right to rule. The reference to divine is because they view themselves as deities, much like ancient kings and emperors.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 3 days ago in reply to this comment.
    I sure hope you're wrong about that. I looked around, and I can't find any indication that they're not going full ahead. The most recent post I can find from American Eagle is from Friday, and here's what it says:

    "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans is and always ways about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. We'll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone."

    This is being reported by, among others, MSN and Salon. It might be one of the few times I'd ever give credibility to either of those websites; we all know how much they'd be screaming their approval if AE was forced to take a step back.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 4 days ago
    I understand that American Eagle has cancelled (or paused?) their 'good jeans' ad campaign
    because of insane leftist screaming and lying media criticism.
    (Sydney? She's no Marilyn.)
    Morons. Not a penny for their Chinese/Indian made garbage.https://allamerican.org/investigation/america...
    Busch beer has been swill for more than a century.
    Learn to brew your own. It's easy and you cut off funding for your BATF enemies in D.C.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    They are awesome! The normal/offensive pretty much says it all. I keep wondering why the libs/progs are on the 20 side of every 80/20 issue; then I think, "So what? Let 'em show that insanity to the world!"
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Just saw the Sunday edition before this. Awesome, OUC, and right on! LMAO. The culture war is finally seeing some strike back to normal!
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Concur, and duly noting the red blooded American cultural advance of the American Eagle Brand.

    Psst, the subject of the Sunday Paper edition of IN THE MEME TYME, now, back to fingering out what to do for Mondays Edition . . .
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 week, 5 days ago
    I hope you are correct in your assessment of long term optimism. However, the left will not quit - yet. I believe it was Stalin who when asked, "How do we spread the revolution?" answered with, "Probe with bayonets. If you strike mush, proceed, if you strike iron, halt [and wait]". There's been a lot of mush in America for the left to proceed through, but Trump ushered in some iron. Only time will tell if it holds up.
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