Winter comes to American newsrooms
Steve Schmidt, The Warning
When the fear of losing things exceeds the fear of losing liberty because losing liberty can protect things, the abyss is at hand.
Thomas Paine talked about the price of freedom in a dark moment. He asked a question that deserves pondering in the age of Musk, Bezos, Mika and Joe, and a thousand more like them:
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
The ‘Woke-Mind Virus’ is Fictional, But the Fear of it is Very Real
Dr Dan Goyal
Just as the resurgence in the term ‘woke’ has shown us the pervasive desire for a better and more inclusive civilisation, the attachment to ‘anti-woke’ has revealed that some people have a genuine fear about what a ‘woke’ society may look like and how they will cope with such a change in thinking and behaving. The all-encompassing nature that the ‘woke-mind virus’ has taken on is not real, but the fear about change and progress remains very real indeed. And given we live in a shared civilisation and are part of a maturing democracy, we must engage this fear and try and alleviate it if we are to continue humankind’s march forward.
Tulsi Gabbard Holds the Knife
Timothy Snyder, Thinking about…
As Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard would do enormous harm, unwillingly or willingly. She is not just completely unqualified for this role — she is anti-qualified. She is just the sort of person enemies of the American republic would want in this job. This is not a hypothetical — Gabbard is the specific person that actual enemies of the United States do want in the job. The Russian media refers to Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian agent” and as “girlfriend,” with good reason.
Gabbard is worse than unfit. Her public record is as a disinformer and apologist for mass murderers. And there is nothing on the other side of the ledger. There are no positive qualifications. (Yes, she wrote a bestselling book. It became a bestseller because she scammed her followers into donating to a PAC which bought the book in bulk.)
