State of Friday: GOOD NEWS!
Western culture, America, is nothing if not a series of comeback stories.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
There’s a lot of bad happening. News is mostly bad. Heck, I had one of the worst days yesterday, and I have a longer day today. Tons of challenges, personal, community and country.
But there’s at least a little good news.
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GOOD NEWS!
MAGA “is dead.” Trump appears ready to waffle on H-1B visas, which are supposedly for geniuses. They’re supposedly for technical know-how we simply don’t possess. Instead, they go to rank-and-file coders and technicians we can produce ourselves. Corporations hide ads in small local newspapers and then insist with a straight face they can’t find American applicants. Well, duh. Meanwhile, outsourcing companies use half the allocations. It reeks of fraud, and it seems like Trump is gonna fold.
So there’s that.
The political right is in the middle of the lamest identity crisis known to man. Various highfalutin conservative intellectuals are arguing over the definition of “post-liberal.” Knives are out for leadership in some of the most prominent, established conservative organizations in America.
None of it really matters. The only thing that does is which ideology best addresses things like ideologically captured public schools teaching marginal adult sexual material to kids. Things like homes being unaffordable, the student loan crisis, captured academia, war, economics, immigration, trade.
And all of it is over podcasters who have no real influence or position at any of these organizations.
Instead of ignoring the noise and focusing on America First, these dorks are busy slapping each other with gloves on X dot com. Truly lame.
Meanwhile, the political left has no issues publishing glossy magazine spreads of its antisemites, and nobody really bats an eye.
Somehow, while the right self-immolates over Tucker, Candace and Fuentes, the left has zero friction about campus Hamas fan clubs, Piker, and Zohran “Make Everything Free” Mamdani.
The woman who just won the race for mayor of Seattle looks as if woke corporate HR took over an entire city.
Hold on a second, though, there’s more: The New York Times was caught tipping off Jeffrey Epstein to investigations, and nobody seems to care. The only thing left and right seem to agree on is that AI is going to eat 25 million jobs in five years. China is testing out how AI works for hacking U.S. infrastructure. White liberals in Paris’s Bataclan venue were filmed chanting “Free Palestine” almost exactly a decade after Muslims slaughtered 130 people and maimed more than 600 others in an act of religious extremism.
If all that seems bad, just look at this travesty of a chicken sandwich Chick-fil-A gave me last night.
Truly brutal. Where even is the chicken in this chicken sandwich?
So I know what you’re thinking: Geoff, what’s good in all this mess?
Well, Dear Reader, you’re still here.
What a buildup. What a tidal wave of disappointment. What? That’s it?
I’m totally serious. The good news is you’re still here. You’re still alive. The game clock hasn’t hit zeros yet. Your heart is still beating, and let me tell you, each beat carries with it quite the legacy.
Nothing gets me jumping out of bed in the morning faster than tribulation. Trump built an ice rink in months after the city had spent decades dickering only to achieve bupkis. George Foreman lost all his money to a scammer late in life. So he trained. Then he knocked the snot out of a 26-year-old champion at the ripe old age of 45. He went on to sell 100 million grills.
I bought one. It literally kept me alive in college.
Another George crossed the frozen Delaware a few hundred years earlier, slaughtered some Hessians and outflanked the Brits. The city we named after him seemed lost to crime, drugs, and liberal prosecutors. Then Trump took over.
Western culture, America, is nothing if not a series of comeback stories.
The Romans thought they buried Christ. He got up three days later and famously said, “Hey, Rome, I didn’t hear no bell.”
(Don’t quote me on that; I’m not sure it’s Gospel.)
These are not only our forebears; they are our legacy.
Our legacy is strong. It’s in you, each of you, and you’re still here. That’s the good news.
Now let’s get back up and get after it, shall we?
WHAT I’M READING
Natalie tackles a big issue in America’s current culture.
Sexual Communism Is Knocking At Our Door
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Uh oh, another big Trump on the horizon.
Kai Trump Silences Haters, Drains Monster Birdie Putt In LPGA Debut
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Everything they do is fake and/or gay.
MSNBC Reportedly Enlists Black Actors To Surround White Anchors In Video Promoting Rebrand
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A good reminder from the great John Loftus.
Remember When Republicans Said ‘Drain The Swamp’? So Do We
WHAT I’M WATCHING
VIRAL: Hannity Gets in Wild CAT FIGHT With “Comedian” Who Kissed Crockett’s Shoes
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