I know what it means in the traditional sense, and I’ve looked up the new definition:
woke
/wōk/
verb
past tense of wake
adjectiveINFORMAL•US
alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
“we need to stay angry, and stay woke”
This is not “woke”, this is beyond dumb; this is beyond keeping-a- box-of-hair-trimmings-in-your-dresser dumb.
Of course, all empathetic and caring people should be aware of injustice in society and do what they can to prevent it or minimize its adverse effects.
But I don’t have to be “woke” to do that; I just have be atuned to my place in the universe and life.
“Woke” is one of this words that demand an immediate reaction, usually negative, from societal segments. I’m a senior citizen and “woke” sounds all hip-hop to me and “I ain’t playin’ that!”
Ya dig?
I am “woke” but I ain’t gonna be going to no “woke” meetings or joining in rallying cries of “We Are Woke!”
Just take your own “woke” self and go on down the road. And take all them rappers and Kardashian-type celebrities with you!
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Yesterday the people of Virginia had to make a selection. They had to select a governor from the “evil anti-democracy” party or the “completely incompent” party.
The good people spoke loud and clear. They chose “anti-democracy” over “incompetence.” Of course they did. Anyone in their right mind would make that choice.
The Democrats have done one thing very well over the last 9 months. They have proved to the American people that they can’t govern. They have spent this period fighting each other but not delivering on anything.
The Democratic House and Senate have failed to provide any support to Biden and God knows Biden needs help.
Let’s look at Afghanistan. It is true that Trump’s actions ensured a messy withdrawal but he set the stage and Joe Biden walked on to the stage and shot himself in the foot.
Democrats set themself up for failure. The radial left is not a drawing card for the Democrats; it is an anchor around the Party’s neck. “Defund the Police” is not a popular slogan. It may be popular with the left wing but it’s not popular with Independents – the middle one-third of the country.
Tolerating rioters and looters is not going to win votes. That is why many Democrats have tolerated this. They hope it gets them votes. Message to earth – looters do not vote – they commit crimes.
The loss in Virginia was a prick on the finger for Democrats. It drew blood but the real blood-baths will come with the loss of the House and Senate in 2022 and the Presidency in 2024.
Wake-up — Democrats’ good policies mean nothing if you can’t execute — and YOU HAVE PROVED YOU CAN’T!
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A thought about what a certain image could have accomplished:
Time travel with me back to February 20, 2020. President Donald said this about Covid 19:
“When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
Now, let’s jump to April 3, 2020 in Coronavirus Task Force televised meeting announcing a CDC-recommended mask mandate where Trump said this:
“It’s going to be, really, a voluntary thing. You can do it. You don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and that’s OK. It may be good. Probably will. They’re making a recommendation. It’s only a recommendation.”
What if….on that day, instead of sticking to the macho statement above, the president of the United States opted to give a prime time live speech from the Oval Office. As the cameras activate, he is sitting, masked, behind the iconic Resolute Desk. He encourages all American residents to “Mask up! to keep the pandemic at bay.”
Now, jump to August 23, 2020. President Donald Trump, flanked by his family, cabinet members and staff, plus key members of both parties in Congress, is in just shirt sleeves on the South Lawn of the White House. In a prime time broadcast carried on every major network as a national emergency broadcast, Donald Trump is vaccinated.
After he gets his shot, all those with him are lined up and get immunized.
The total number of U.S. deaths from Covid will hit 750,000 in November.
How many more folks would be alive today if our president had used the power of his bully pulpit for information and positive action rather than the power of his bloaviated ego to further cement political adoration from his herd of conspiracy theory and anti-vaxx sheep?
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Opinion: How-can-dumb-get-any-dumber?-when-it’s Texas-Rep.-Louie-Gohmert headline and story of the day
By George Smith — October 23, 2021
“GOP congressman: Capitol riot defendants are being treated worse than ‘blood thirsty murderers’ at Guantanamo”
Story:
Speaking on the House floor this Friday, Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert went to bat for defendants arrested and charged for participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying that authorities are treating them worse than prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba.
“The reports we’ve been getting indicate that the folks here that are being held in pre-trial confinement and are being punished, although that’s unconstitutional to punish somebody while they are waiting trial and have not been convicted, that they’re not treated nearly as well as bloodthirsty murderers that are being held in Guantanamo,” Gohmert said.
Gohmert went on to say that he’s visited Capitol riot defendants and that it’s “tragic that American citizens are being treated so much worse than individuals who want to destroy America.”
“Dumb” does not do justice to describing the act of mere “thinking” that describes this man’s lack f of moral perspective and mental acuity.
He is so dumb that Baylor should rescind his law degree. He is so dumb that anyone who voted for him or will vote for him should not be allow to…fill in blank here.
His imbecilic remarks and actions — from “anchor babies” to being promoted to “general” of “Trump’s Troops” to excusing the Jan. 6 insurrection, deaths of five people and his excusing actions of his supporters trying to bring down a mainstay of democracu as outlined in the Constitution — woukd be laughable if he were not an elected official.
His First District supporters cannot continue to believe this man is a patriot and expresses the views of East Texas. East Texans, by and large, are hard working, Bible believers who know God in his wisdom and Jesus in his teachings would cast the likes of Louie the Lip into the fiery depths of hell rather than listen to the insane drivel flowing from his lie-laced tongue.
There is no love in Louie, no empathy (except for the lies necessary to hold onto power), no help for the poor and oppressed, you know … Jesus stuff!
Bottomline line: Louie and his supporters are on the wrong side of common sense and decency, and the wrong side of history.
Next year, get out and vote and make this laughable buffoon of an elected official an “ejected” official.
Send Louie home. He’s representing the underbelly of an autocratic movement that is anti-American, and anti-democracy.
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Opinion: What do you get when you mix equal parts of stupid and evil?
By George Smith — October 18, 2021
You may consider it a rhetorical question because there are as many potential answers as there are people.
But several answers quickly pop to my mind: 1. Marjorie Taylor Green 2. Josh Hawley 3. Lauren Boebert.
These three have no redeeming social value, and, along with a choir of messengers singing the praises of and clamoring for the blessing of their cult leader Donald Trump, readily stir up a cauldron of lies, intellectual fraud, divisiveness and lack of the human emotion of empathy.
In a phrase, they are fallen angels preaching that chaos is better than peace, purveyors of wrong-headed thinking, trumpeteers of the dismantling of democracy.
They, along with the likes of Chip Roy, Louie Gohmert and Joni Ernst, are the congressional apostles to Trump’s Mephistopheles; all have attained a certain degree of notoriety due to their ability to open their mouths and insert BOTH feet simultaneously.
A couple of these have obtained cult status by performing their feet-in-mouth trick while having their heads inserted in Trump’s posterior.
Other so-called Republicans, like Stephen Miller, Ted Cruz and Mario Rubio, are evil, but cannot be called stupid by any measurement. That, honestly, is doubly sad in that they willingly help set the destructive agenda of the party’s evil path m, one paved with lies, lies and more lies. It is their choice to put the desire for personal power over the betterment of all people.
But their intelligence has been wasted by their devotion to a cult leader rather than bow to those in the bipartisan choir working to encourage them to leave the COT (Cult of Trump).
They, like Leader Trump, are fallen angels, torn between satanic pride, dark despair and controlling the actions of those who have never met a conspiracy theory they didn’t like.
This round of political shenanigans was predicted long ago in a book chic
of history, cool stories, miracles and prophecies, a book many conservatives praise but do not embrace — the Bible.
“And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.”
— Revelations 12:9
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Question of the day: “What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?”*
“Is ‘critical race theory’ a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against white people? Liberals and conservatives are in sharp disagreement.
“The topic has exploded in the public arena this spring—especially in K-12, where numerous state legislatures are debating bills seeking to ban its use in the classroom.
“In truth, the divides are not nearly as neat as they may seem. The events of the last decade have increased public awareness about things like housing segregation, the impacts of criminal justice policy in the 1990s, and the legacy of enslavement on Black Americans. But there is much less consensus on what the government’s role should be in righting these past wrongs. Add children and schooling into the mix and the debate becomes especially volatile.”
My opinion is just that, an opinion, but is based on the reality that “history is history” and should be made available and studied and discussed in open forums. Truth — telling it and being able to listen to it, to discuss it, is important.
History is full of good, bad, ugly, wretched, horrifying and evil deeds by humans, organizations and governments.
Educational facilities should be charged with relating these truths so the bad/evil/mean events are understood and not repeated.
Examples:
— White settlers, assisted by the military, took land from Native Americans? Historical fact.
— Taxicans absconding with a humongous tract of land from Mexico because it suited the white man’s purpose and dream? History.
— Slavery as a beloved institution is part of this country’s recent past? Real down-and-dirty historical fact.
— Continually unfairly persecuting people of color and treating them as second-class citizens for more than 250 years? It’s a fact.
Why not teach history? Why not teach all of it, from the events that brought forth angelic hurrahs to the festering boils of depravity, the evil deeds of humans throughout history?
There are those who want to cover up the bilious behavior of certain individuals snd groups, including factions of the federal government, like they never happened.
In one of my college classes, I asked students various questions aimed at testing their historical knowledge of the building of this social fabric of this county.
How did the western expansion of predominantly white settlers affect the lives of Native Americans?
Did shavery have any good attributes?
What do you know about the Trail of Tears?
Tell me about the Meadow Mountain Massacre.
What were “carpetbaggers” and how did their actions affect the South after the Civil War?
What caused the rise of the KKK? Why is it still active today?
You know…history questions, important questions to assist putting current events into perspective.
If we do not learn about history, ALL history, it’s hard to develop a strong, intuitive, moral compass that creates a need to right the wrongs upchucked by our ancestors.
Did your know that in Germany, students are taken on field trips to historical sites preserved to show each generation the depths of human sorrow and depravity… they visit Nazi concentration mcamps where more than 6,000,000 hunan beings were exterminated. Think a school district would bus students to the site of a lynching of a black man by a white mob as a life and history lesson?
History must be taught…all of it. Historical fact cannot be changed because it is just thst—fact!
To attempt to hide historical fact, is intellectually fraud. We are better than that. Aren’t we?
*Education Week provide background information for this article)
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Any elected official who is AGAINST a movement to allow Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to reduce the exorbitant cost of medication deserves nothing less than to be ousted in the next election.
Without putting too fine a brush to it, they are bought and paid for by big company campaign contributions.
Think! Why are folks buying needed medications in Mexico and Canada? They are cheaper because these countries created a system that does not make drug companies accountable for exorbitant pricing.
The U.S. encourages high drug costs by allowing full-bore access to elected officials by big pharmaceutical lobbyists who “buy” influence via campaign cash.
And we keep electing these yahoos over and over. Term limits would go a long way to help move “honesty” back in politics.
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If you are a Republican in Texas AND support the GOP’s heavy-handed, smashmouth legislative abuse of minorities in the state…oh, my. I pity you.
Bless your heart.
If you agree with recent laws allowing open carry of guns without a permit or proper training, restricting voters’ ability to conveniently cast ballots, attacking—nay, demolishing — a woman’s right to control health issues affecting her own body after consultation with her doctor AND her god, mandating the teaching of the “lipstick on a pig” version of history, and the pending bill to allow the oil and gas industry to discharge environmentally harmful “wastewater” into streams, rivers and lakes, then shame on you.
The Republican Party of pre-McConnell, President Trump, Rand Paul, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Green amd Lorraine Boebert was more into trying to refocus the party to appeal to a broader audience rather than pervert its mission by focusing on the eras remembered for the shoot-em-up freedom of the Old West, voting abuses aka Jim Crow 2.0, resurrection of the “Scarlet Letter” type labeling of women’s rights, and blatantly bypassing current federal anti-pollution edicts.
Drunk on majority power and high on the “eat-s***-and-die” and “divide and conquer” agenda and policies shoved down Americans’ throats by President Donald Trump, nationwide Republican legislatures will follow Texas’ lead simply because they can.
The Texas Republican-controlled legislature, backed by the state’s smirking higher tier of elected officials are playing the political short game rather than looking a few years down the road when the state’s minority voters will move heavily into the majority.
Then, and it’s less than a decade away, GOP statewide-elected officials will be more rare than an effective border wall on the Texas-Mexico border.
Wake up, Republicans. Your power base is already eroding and your jack-booted way of governing will soon end. It’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”.
It may already be too late to save the party as a viable political entity. But it’s never too late to see the grievously erroneous path you have been taking, admit mistakes and plan for a positive future.
Three E’s that could save the party: Empathy.
Earning Trust through good works.
Energy expended toward positive outcomes for all citizens.
Are you ready to be proactive, redefine your mission and accept the inevitabilities of guaranteed future trends to help save the party?
Let’s see: I’m betting NFW: No Freakin’ Way. Mean-spirited smugness has a way of corroding one’s soul.
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What is it with men, mostly white old men, feeling a need to dictate to women what they can and cannot do with their bodies?
The Texas abortion ban law is a blatant attempt of men telling women, “Your rights end at the end of my pen that writes laws.” The initial reluctance of the Supreme Court (5-4) to overturn the case further divides this country. The issue will come back to the court in the near future.
Equality does not exist in this male dominated society; separation of church and state does not exist if biblical interpretations of specific “umbrella” scriptures —Thou shall not kill.” — are used as the basis for discriminatory laws.
What was the last law passed that took away a “right” of men? Can you remember any law that prohibited men from making a health decision made after consultation with their doctor AND their god?
Who are we to tell ANY WOMAN — or MAN — what they can do with their own body?
Asinine laws by do-gooder legislators will not prevent pregnancy termination; laws discriminating against women will only enhance the back alley abortion business and result in the unnecessary death of women.
The issue of abortion is one of the most divisive subjects and it doesn’t have to be.
Those who use the Bible as a reason to stop abortions on every level are cherry-picking scriptures.
The bible orders the death penalty for murder of a human being, but not for the expulsion of a fetus.
When does life begin?
According to the Bible, life begins at birth–when a baby draws its first breath. The bible defines life as “breath” in several significant passages, including the story of Adam’s creation in Genesis 2:7, when God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Jewish law traditionally considers that personhood begins at birth.
What we all need to remember is that the key to understanding and love is kindness.
Ephesians 4:32. And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
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We are living in a surreal time. It’s like we’re running as fast as we can…but moving in slow motion.
I listen to news and read a multitude of stories daily and it’s like revisiting the worst lectures by the worst teachers l had in high school and college — excruciatingly painful.
Some days I feel like some ham-fisted sadistic brain surgeon with a degree from the University of
Getouttatown! has scrubbed my brain with steel wool.
We need relief. Badly.
We need more adults in the Congressional Room in Washington-on-the-Deficit,
We need every eligible voter to vote in 2022.
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