"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Plus I am from New York. My dislike of Trump goes back to the SPY era of the 1980s.
I was a subscriber to Spy in the '80s. It was hilarious. National Lampoon hilarious. Yeah, they had a bug up their ass about "short-fingered vulgarian" Donald Trump. I thought it was satirical, like the rest of the magazine.
Is it just a coincidence that they are mostly leftists?
Mostly leftist women (with a few "kept" effeminate men). I'd wager NONE of these people had good relationships with their fathers (because of divorce, "absentee", distant/disengaged, or what have you).
The article is especially poignant given that this lady lives in Olympia.
That's the state capitol, and it is a socialist shithole. You think Seattle is bad? Olympia is one huge CHAZ. It closely resembles a commune, only with armed security.
Evergreen College is nearby, an institution that used to be a fair-to-middling institution of higher learning. These days, it's a training camp for socialists, antifa, and BLM (with only some redundancy there), focusing on Critical Race Theory. Word has it, that's where the shock troops for riots in Olympia come from.
And Ms. Mercer is basically telling her peers that they are wrong in many ways. For which she is paying the price, at least in the short term. I just hope that the longterm is favorable for her, as the left is quite happy to eat their own.
Along the same topic, Michael Yon is in that part of the country, looking into the low level insurrection.
I had an "LOL!" moment when she admitted her response to the 2016 election (after she stopped crying) "was to convene an emotional support group that excluded cis straight white men." Because, well, ick! You can't possibly have a loving tolerant inclusive society if you allow those people in, right?
And then there was the "ouch!" moment when she admitted "But they were right. People like me were insufferable and arrogant. We were detached from reality."
You don't often see a person seriously examine long held and cherished values and opinions, especially ones tied to their sense of self worth. Whenever I hear somebody say, as Biden did at the last debate, that there's no evidence that raising the minimum wage harms business and workers, I ask how dedicated must one be to ignore the plethora of evidence that shows the opposite? Whenever I see the much discredited trope that Trump called Nazis "good people" I a astounded that anybody could even pretend ot believe that.
This person has integrity and guts, kudos to her for that. But I fear that Olympia is no longer the place for her. For her physical, mental and emotional well being she ought to relocate.
Plus I am from New York. My dislike of Trump goes back to the SPY era of the 1980s.
ReplyDeleteI was a subscriber to Spy in the '80s. It was hilarious. National Lampoon hilarious. Yeah, they had a bug up their ass about "short-fingered vulgarian" Donald Trump. I thought it was satirical, like the rest of the magazine.
She took it seriously???
Yeah, SPY was "all caps", but so is TIME.
ReplyDeleteSpiny, I bought SPY for a few years too, and I remember how obsessed they were with 'short-fingered' Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteFinding the problematic in everything and everyone is exhausting and soul destroying.
ReplyDeleteBut, you have to admit, there are a lot of people who seem to thrive on it. Is it just a coincidence that they are mostly leftists?
r-man,
ReplyDeleteIs it just a coincidence that they are mostly leftists?
Mostly leftist women (with a few "kept" effeminate men). I'd wager NONE of these people had good relationships with their fathers (because of divorce, "absentee", distant/disengaged, or what have you).
The article is especially poignant given that this lady lives in Olympia.
ReplyDeleteThat's the state capitol, and it is a socialist shithole. You think Seattle is bad? Olympia is one huge CHAZ. It closely resembles a commune, only with armed security.
Evergreen College is nearby, an institution that used to be a fair-to-middling institution of higher learning. These days, it's a training camp for socialists, antifa, and BLM (with only some redundancy there), focusing on Critical Race Theory. Word has it, that's where the shock troops for riots in Olympia come from.
And Ms. Mercer is basically telling her peers that they are wrong in many ways. For which she is paying the price, at least in the short term. I just hope that the longterm is favorable for her, as the left is quite happy to eat their own.
Along the same topic, Michael Yon is in that part of the country, looking into the low level insurrection.
I had an "LOL!" moment when she admitted her response to the 2016 election (after she stopped crying) "was to convene an emotional support group that excluded cis straight white men." Because, well, ick! You can't possibly have a loving tolerant inclusive society if you allow those people in, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd then there was the "ouch!" moment when she admitted "But they were right. People like me were insufferable and arrogant. We were detached from reality."
You don't often see a person seriously examine long held and cherished values and opinions, especially ones tied to their sense of self worth. Whenever I hear somebody say, as Biden did at the last debate, that there's no evidence that raising the minimum wage harms business and workers, I ask how dedicated must one be to ignore the plethora of evidence that shows the opposite? Whenever I see the much discredited trope that Trump called Nazis "good people" I a astounded that anybody could even pretend ot believe that.
This person has integrity and guts, kudos to her for that. But I fear that Olympia is no longer the place for her. For her physical, mental and emotional well being she ought to relocate.