Jenna, thank you for posting this :) You knocked it out of the park with memes yet again! And YES - almost everyone I know would FLAUNT that "You voted for this" t-shirt.
I'd never seen that Special TV Microwave Computer meme, and giggled so hard at that that I actually just went on etsy and ordered myself a stamped aluminum cuff bracelet that says "Special TV Microwave Computer" 🤣 to remind myself that I don't HAVE to fit in anywhere. Right? I can be whoever the hell I want. And reveal as much of myself as I want.
Bridget, you have friends here! We are normal, caring, hard-working people. These extreme leftist have lost their minds. And they are the most closedminded people. Sometimes I find their comments and ask them a simple question about why they think that way, and they start calling me the worst of names out of the blue for no reason. It’s always attack attack attack and spit vitriol. Anyway, loved reading responses. I hope you find your tribe really soon. At least you have an online tribe if not one actually in person.
Thanks, Donna! Yes, I am so glad to have substack. I would have been almost lost without it.
I know what you mean re the vitriol and closedmindedness. There is NO room for thought difference. In fact just this week I unfollowed / muted conversations with someone who is so smart and funny and who I would really connect with on certain levels, but who is also RABIDLY - I mean RABIDLY liberal/deranged TDS/and hates RFK even more than Trump. This week was the capper for me, I can't stay connected to her anymore - I am getting nothing from my relationship with her but agita. (At least most of my connections only OCCASIONALY spew vitriol.)
I'm trying to remember when/how I found/discovered Substack.
Most likely through the CoV propaganda dissenters.
Understand we all live tough social relationships.
The thing we want the most, but the thing that also repels us the most at times.
For example, I'm no fan of Trump. Why?
Failure to call out the 'real' elephants in the room.
-Gaza Genocide, he's complicit with ethnic cleansing (clarifies who owns him)
-CoV Jabs, clearly a medical bioweapon put out by DoD (RFKJr and Trump, why not just put it out there?)
-Venezuela and the killing of the boat people (11). What's the US Navy even doing there? Drugs? Really? Why not go after the CIA then. Couldn't have anything to do with $$$/power/control/Banking............oh, and I almost forgot, the largest known oil reserve in the World??
So, in my opinion, the 'UniParty' just keeps kicking the can down the road of total human exploitation (and now planned reduction).
So, (as in my case) finding your 'peeps' is going to be tough, even through SubStack.
I get it.
Some days, it's best to just relax a bit, do your best, and seek humor to make it all/somewhat better. Thus, a paid subscription to Jenna.
As the Squirrel meme pointed out, more nuts appearing daily.
Also wanted to say, I admire your bravery. I, too, lost a number of friends when all of this nonsense went down. I called out the scamdemic immediately and all of the ridiculous politics going along with it. I could not for the life of me understand how these friends of mine went so liberal. They fit the upper-middle-class educated, white liberal female meme perfectly. Yes these are the people driving this nonsense. I believe. At first I missed hanging out, shopping, weekly trips to Starbucks. But you know what? I don’t miss any of that nonsense now because I’m really good at just hanging out with myself. And organically I think like-minded people find you. So I have a whole new group of friends that I’m so much more comfortable with now. And I didn’t even realize at the time that I was slightly uncomfortable with the old group of friends. But I was. Anyway, sorry I’m rambling here but welcome aboard.
I totally understand how your friends went there, because I used to be there. Like I posted to David in another comment - "The problem is, without my having being FORCED into the role of "other," I'm not sure I WOULD have found my way here. I hate to say it, but if my kids hadn't been kicked out of school, I might still be over there with them. So I'm not sure what I can do, really...other than watch and wait for openings."
There is cold comfort in being fiercely tribal. Even if you don't fully realize what you're doing. But I guess what you do realize is that you cannot leave the arms of the tribe because if you do - you're one of - THEM. That alternative is scary scary scary.
"And organically I think like-minded people find you" - this is the hard part! Since here, we're all hiding! But - I do hope you are right.
Maybe notice those who don’t say much when others are raging. Maybe drop a neutral question when you have her alone. If she comes back with a neutral answer, you can move to a tiny, smidge right question the next time. If you take tiny steps you won’t scare her. I’m in a mostly blue city in a mostly red state, but it’s filled with the sweetest “trust authorities” folks who dutifully lined up for the deathvax. A couple of years into Covid a doctor’s wife who had lost a ton of friends over the vax and was experiencing great loneliness gave a timid invitation for others feeling isolated to meet at her house for lunch. She expected 5. 32 showed up. The next month 67 came. The next month we met in a church fellowship hall. 167 attended. We had special speakers (Tankersley and McCullough) and gained so much courage. That’s what it takes. Others are all around you. Sadly, we no longer have courage prior generations had. Remember, though, el gato says laughing destroys the left. I bet if you posted your area here there would be other Jenna groupies quick to get with you.
My journey was very similar only my eyes were opened to what the the Banana Republicans had become. Rather than become party-less, I moved toward the Libertarians. I, too, voted for Trump, while holding my nose. Do I still find him to be a rude New Yorker? You bet. But at least now I respect the people in charge. And that goes a long way! Thank you for the article.
My turning point? My view of DJT was informed by headlines over the years, and I never watched the Apprentice. He had a rally somewhere, I was watching FoxNews. DJT was speaking (silently) on the right side of the screen and the Fox anchors were talking about him on the left. I switched to CNN, the Anderson Cooper show, showed the rally. After that, I was a fan and instead of listening to what others said about him, I started listening to him.
yes - I just posted this to someone else. I was SHOCKED!!!--actually like jaw-dropping shocked--when I finally saw my first clips of "LOOK WHAT ORANGE MAN SAID" vs the clip showing the full context of what he actually said. I couldn't believe it. I felt so naive.
Yes! I was in a waiting room at a mechanic shop. This was just as the coronavirus was emerging. I wasn't trying to listen to Donald Trump, but there we were. And I heard the whole press conference, and I thought he made some reasonable points; he seemed interested in finding a solution.
Later that day I followed up with my usual news sources, and they were completely misframing what the hell Trump had said earlier that day. That was the final straw! As I read, I was like "this is completely dishonest. I heard what he said, and it was nothing like this."
That happened to me yesterday! Girl posted "did you hear what he said about BLK children 😡🤮?" On her timeline was the clip of Maryland governor Wes Moore with an edited misleading clip of DJT. So of course I researched it and voila... Upon posting the ENTIRE context of the soundbite, she blocked me 🤭😆🤪
My best friend for 30 years was a liberal, but we could still talk rationally after the 2016 election. She brought up the quote about supposedly Trump saying the Klan members in Charlottesville "some of them are good people". A lie I still hear repeated, including by some of the talking heads on MSM. I sent her a transcript and video explaining that there were more than just Klan members at the rally and that there was a sizeable contingent of historical society members who also were there to support keeping the statues, that were the subject of his remarks. She said, hmm that gives me something to think about. But it didn't stick. She went off the deep end in 2020 and moved several hours away, now a full time community organizer and full blown TDS sufferer. Haven't talked to her in 3 years.
Truth. I felt as if literal scales fell from my eyes when I got a television for the first time in thirty years, in order to follow the dire "pandemic news," and watched the news teams talk about Trump's remarks AFTER I had watched Trump MAKING the remarks. I still remember feeling my jaw drop, and hearing myself say out loud, "HE didn't SAY THAT!!" I was literally shocked. Also indignant, later enraged. :) Which boils down to the fact that I was utterly ignorant of the MSM reality ... WHILE BEING COMPLETELY INFLUENCED BY IT, just as They want. Makes me exasperated with myself, to this day. I also remember the day I realised, "I will not live long enough ~ no human lifetime has ever been long enough ~ to make amends for voting for Joe Biden." As a supposed "Independent!" Independent in name only. I have A LOT to atone for. I thank god there ARE alternatives. Once I woke up, the globalists terrified me. Hail the freedom fighters, hero/warriors. The times we are living in are also more glorious than I ever imagined.
"Which boils down to the fact that I was utterly ignorant of the MSM reality ... WHILE BEING COMPLETELY INFLUENCED BY IT, just as They want."
THIS. This, this, THIS.
I can't even remember what soundbite it was over the past year that was SO out of context, and I shared the full context with a friend, who had to calm down a bit. How can you not? But yeah, it's SO hard to admit you've been FORMED, MANIPULATED - you feel like you're doing your duty reading the papers and watching the news, and of course, Substack and Rumble and whatever else are all horrible illegitimate sources - - and you're stuck in a loop and don't know it.
My husband and I attended a rally in 2016. Most people were professionally dressed (including us) and the crowd represented a wonderful multicultural mix but skewed heavily white and Mexican. In my very white Colorado, there were blacks, Muslims, and Asians present, as well. When we watched the recap on the news later, the clips showed mostly white men wearing MAGA hats, jeans and flannel shirts. (They also failed to mention that the over-filled stadium which resulted in crowds listening to the rally from the lawn outside.)This was NOT representative of the crowd. Shame on them.
Bridget, not sure where you live, but if you’re in NOCO, you’re in good company here…there are more of us than you know…from one Gen X bonafide woman to another ;). Open to all DMs…
This is wild! And exactly the sort of thing that's important. I no longer trust ANYTHING that's said about rallies, on either side, because of stuff like this. I'm on the east coast, but I have friends in verrrrrrrrrrrrry blue parts of CO, who are doing very very blue things. Nice to know you're out there :)
I dumped the whole CNN news as a legitimate broadcaster after Anderson Cooper hosted New Years Eve with comedian Kathy Griffin and the two were laying in bed together naked. 🥵
Hey Bridget! Welcome to the rational dare I say normal side. I was a dem throughout my younger years then became a repub when I got married and switched to independent after DJT was impeached twice. Both parties need serious help but I feel much relief with the current admin. I live in NY too and in 2020 I wore two T shirts to my gym and in stores that declared I was done with the woke nonsense and the only mask I wore was see-thru when I had to take my elderly mother to her dr apptms. I broke up with NYC in 2020 after the “summer of love” riots and when they lit the Empire State Building up in support of abortion. Totally done will never go back. The brainwashing and mindcontrol is real. Speak your truth, let the chips fall where they may, you can make new friends and connections just by speaking out in a friendly and humorous way. I have lots of friends I disagree with and we manage to have civil discussions…if not, adios amigo! The older I get the more comfortable I get speaking my truth, not always easy, but if I lose “friends & family members (some think I’m diseased lol) in the process, so be it.
I have given zero fucks for so long I am convinced that my friends not only expect it of me but appreciate my brutal honesty. I am sought out for it. Eh, she doesn't give two shits lets ask her she will tell me the truth. True story. I quit caring what others thought of me LONG LONG ago as I just absolutely despise drama and lies. It's truly the only way to live.
I too played the conciliatory role trying to be 'tolerant' and respectful of my liberal friends (which, before 2016, didn't even know I had so many) I was fairly political, but most of my involvement was local and thus less partisan. It worked. But 2020 broke everything. Between the covid hysteria (which I NEVER bought) and the election fraud and fake 'insurrection' it was over. Oh it was lonely at first but decided that silence = consent and I did NOT consent. New tribe, new perspectives and new opportunities. The only person who likes change is a wet baby, but in the end it's been freeing and positive.
I don't think I have too many friends that would have civil discussions with me if they knew! I'm not at the point where I'm ready to lose everyone. But even writing this, and thinking more about it, I'm thinking about a few people that I might be ready to have the conversation with...
It’s hard and gave me a nervous stomach to bring up the jabs with some of my jab lover friends. One in particular gave me push back but we didn’t lose the friendship over it. Another friend is a germaphobe, has every shot, carries an arsenal of products and potions wherever she goes. Very annoying when we are in a theater and someone coughs and she freaks out! So I delicately bring up the fact she’s doing more harm to herself than good (oh she’s had coofid 3 times and still doesn’t connect the dots). She’s a smart woman highly educated but CNN has taken over her brain. Her husband is more open minded but still looney enough to be taking Ozempic while he eats like crap. So I just can’t with some people, accept them for who they are and let them live their truth while I live mine.
highly educated seem to be the most susceptible based on my experience of degreed and phd'd former friends. but somewhat unsurprising as (college dropout me) observed the listen to what we say, dont question it, repeat back what we told you, never think for yourself indoctrination that passes for education.
We need to rethink what "highly educated" actually means. In this context, it seems to mean "went to more school after high school, probably A Lot. That doesn't translate to highly educated in my book. I'm pretty sure I'm a whole lot smarter than all those "highly educated" mind drones. In my case, highly educated means "I don't fall for crap!" Oh, and also "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Sounds like a "highly educated" politician to me - lol.
There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom. What happened to the days when school was supposed to teach you HOW to think vs. WHAT to think?
Yes re the health craziness - I have only brought the jab up with a few - the ones that I know have the capacity to reason. One friend who knew I was against it didn't want to tell me when their family member had an adverse event and got an autoimmune illness within 2 days of the jab. My friend was afraid that my finding out would "add more fuel to the fire" - what!?? I don't need any more fuel! It was awful.
I have one friend that sounds like yours, so fearful (this is the same friend I thought would have to be hospitalized after the election - I truly thought she was having a psychotic break). When she found out we'd had Covid, and then that we weren't jabbed, she was SO scared for us! She was worrying about us all the time. She told me to be careful & look out for signs of long Covid. She also took Paxlovid as soon as she got Covid, and then got the rebound and was so sick... I know there's nothing I can do with her, there's no ability to reason. So we just don't discuss any of that, ever. It's...odd. It's odd to live in such different realities.
I find that my “friends” that are the most liberal minded are also on the most pharmaceuticals. I don’t think this is by coincidence, but by design. I also live in a state where you can get high legally all day long, so they get you one way or another. Being zoinked out on any kind of drug whether prescribed or self administered leaves the brain open to influence. Bridget - Maybe you should start asking people what prescriptions they take and then take baby steps with the least drugged of your friends. 😵💫
So true! And it doesn’t just have to be pharmaceuticals, as so many of my liberal friends are addicted to their supplements, potions and essential oils as well LOL!
lose the world and gain your soul. I lost almost everyone just by not enthusiastically talking non stop about all the shots i couldn't wait to take. and then after a while found a whole new group of people who chose sanity over brainwashing.
Same. Hard at the time, but looking back, I always felt like the jigsaw puzzle was missing pieces, but suppressed those thoughts as I didn't know how to break out. 2020 was a clean break. Now feel like I am living an authentic life, and devoting my time to the things that really matter and have friends who feel the same. Funny, we don't always agree, but we CAN debate and disagree and remain friends.
I'm finally getting a better grasp on THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM, which I now recognise as being due to the fact that IT'S A RELIGION, as made clear in two new books: "Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality" by Peter McCullough and John Leake (top-of-list hero/warriors!) and "VACCINES, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines" by Aaron Siri (ditto). What we are talking/reading/writing/blogging/podcasting/etc., etc. about is the new, unimproved, 21st-century enactment of Science v. Faith and NO ONE wants to be taken to task for having chosen the "wrong" faith. Who among us would dream of saying to anyone, let alone a friend or family member, "You do realise that your faith community is entirely built upon a verifiably false premise?" (Let's not all raise our hands at once, right? NONE of us would do this, and doing THIS is what we are talking about.) I thank god I am not the only one; lots of us just can't get it through our heads that the human species is only minimally rational. THAT is what we are encountering and since we are helpless to ALTER that fact, we can only decide HOW we will show up for the encounters. Talking about anything related to what They like to call "Public Health" now means having a RELIGIOUS conversation.
That is beautifully put. I need to get both of these books ASAP! But YES, I didn't realize the absolute religious fervor of it all until the pandemic, and everything since. You're right, there's no arguing it. But what's amazing is that unlike having to prove or disprove the existence of a particular God (if someone's trying to proselytize/take down someone), the vaccine religion DOES have science we can look at. And yet. Like you said. You can't force anyone to believe something they don't want to believe. If they don't want to look, you can't make them. And they don't realize it's because it IS dogma.
Thank you for mentioning those two new books. I am going to order them both. I just needed some validation they are as good as I suspected. Just before the Plandemic, I realized there was a difference between science and scientism. Science is never “settled” as it is a living process of discovery, always open to questioning. Scientism is and has been a religion, since its capture in the 20th century by the Rockefeller medical model that took over the medical idea of health. Vaccines are an ideology within the field of scientism. I’ve completely moved into the terrain model of health as a result. And by the way I am 80 years old and in perfect health, and wish I’d woken up sooner to the medical and liberal brainwashing. I was a life long Democrat until 2020. Never ever again.
My wife and I were Bernie and Obama delegates. I didn't realize then about the illusion. Now I do. It is so strange to see Democrats like Bernie and Warren supporting Drug Cartels instead of agreeing to make people healthy. Some still don't see it because they continue to drink the Kool-aid.
Yes. And now everytime I watch a new show or movie, I can spot how “they” are messaging to us to accept things as normal. Characters having cancers or other illnesses, Rx medications being shown for illnesses, the mention of haxxines, lgbtq and trans characters, alcohol use, marijuana use, caffeine use, things we should fear and worry about, etc.
While some of this is somewhat normal in our lives, the writing of scripts
seems to put as many of these things as possible in one show or movie. Every single one of them now so it is in our faces ALL the time… if one chooses to watch tel-lie-vision or go to the movies.
I find myself watching less and less because now I can see the programming. Once you know, you know.
Oh my gosh. I watched "The Owl House" (an animated series) with my kids, and the storyline was great but the level of WOKE was completely overwhelming. Everything was "representation." EVERYTHING.
Absolutely. The “programming” is so real these days it’s annoying. Tried watching Will & Grace, couldn’t stomach it, same with the new SATC spin off. That was like watching porn. Nowadays I’m basically watching Homestead Rescue and any animal/vet series lol. Dumped the cable TV in 2020 but streaming channels are just as bad :/
OMG the SATC spinoff was INSANE with the whole they/them over the top storyline and Charlotte having to learn that "they" was a pronoun. The whole thing was cringe to the extreme.
I worked for Bernie and gave him far more of my income that I could afford first time around. it breaks my heart to see him now. and truly consider demonic possession a real thing.
Bravo Bridget! Like you, I was deep in the liberal left… until COVID. I naively shared my feelings about vaccination and all of the other idiocy at the time with my two closest friends and poof! They hightailed it right out of my life. Same on Facebook, which I finally left sometime in 2021. Fortunately, I have my partner and sister and a few old friends (who are closer now) who migrated to the dark side with me, but I still feel wary of sharing outside that tight little circle. The one suggestion that came to me while reading your story is that I think most states have medical freedom groups, so maybe there could be new friends waiting for you there. Hang in there… in solidarity with you!
Having friend or family *poof* is so painful - and what pains me right now is remembering how easily I did that myself to that one friend mentioned in my writing - "She supports TRUMP? She's CRAZY now. And I thought she was so smart...ok, she's out."
But I also understand that the FASCISM!! messaging is SO strong that many of my connections would cut me off without hesitation, and think the same thing - that I'd been brainwashed somehow. They accepted my crazy anti-vax views (about the childhood schedule) - I was held at arm's length bc of the CV jab - this would be the end. So I have to decide who I'm ready to sever ties with I guess.
have you asked yourself: do I have a genuine relationship with these people who (I believe) will reject me instantly if I share my true self? what are you actually losing?
The thing is, I used to be like them so I know they're in there, you know? I adore them, we left together, we have history. As long as we don't talk about this stuff it's okay. But yeah I see your point.
Thanks for sharing your heart, Bridget! You don’t say how old your children are or how they are now being educated. I’m curious as to how their worldviews are forming? I would find it very very hard to live in a place surrounded by outspoken liberals. But no matter how much we try to pass on our values to our kids, we can’t predict how (liberal or conservative) they will turn out or what will be their biggest influences — especially in light of the social media takeover of the younger generations. I know this from (disheartening) experience. Anyway, I appreciated your spotlight sharing here and will take special note of your comments in the future!
Great question. They are both in school now, we moved to a different state. They're firmly on the no-jab train and I don't think they'll be getting off. My youngest seems fully aligned with me in most ways, and the eldest (Gen Z) in most ways except for the buy-in of trans ideology (I've been accused of "treading dangerously close to transphobia" on more than one occasion). I'm trying to be mindful of not coming across too stridently, and instead gentle but rational - but ultimately there's little I can do about that right now as the outside influence is VERY. STRONG, but maturity may shift that, too. I sure hope so.
I know, ultimately, they'll think their own thinks - but the one thing I think they are getting from me, is the ability to approach topics thoughtfully and from different perspectives. For example, I've shown them news clips of Trump where something is being taken out of context and the MSM is screaming about it, and then I show them the full unedited clip of whatever he's saying, and they say, ".....OHHHH." So they now understand how much we are spoon-fed propaganda at every turn - from all sides! I wish I'd known that years ago - I think that's VERY important. And of course, they understand TRIBALISM.
Hi Bridget and thank you Jenna for sharing Bridgets story!! My story is very similar- beginning in early 2019, also based on the vaccination and bodily autonomy issue for my kids. I do activist work lobbying legislators for religious exemptions to vaccines. As a life-long liberal, I was shocked and appalled when I discovered that all of the legislators pushing to remove religious exemptions were all Democrats. They were closed minded, obnoxious, high and mighty, intolerant, bitchy and discriminatory. I found myself on the receiving end of disdain and discrimination coming from the likes of one legislator who happened to be an African-American female lesbian. It was so ironic! Anyway, I quickly found my home in the Republican Party, although I deeply identify with libertarians as well. But I vote to win and so I registered Republican. I too slowly came around to DJ T, listening more closely to him and not following mainstream news, but actually listening to full speeches and full sentences. I am currently basically Maga. My one big question for Trump is, why won’t you fully show regret for operation warp speed? But the bottom line is I think everything he’s doing and the people he is surrounding himself with are absolutely miraculous and we are closer now than ever too regaining our country, our Health Freedom, getting men out of women’s sports, stopping the trans of kids, closing the borders and etc., etc. etc.. luckily I am in a purple state, a swing state that just voted for Trump and I had found my people as an activist back in 2019. Many of them are religious, all of them are Republican or independent or libertarian. (Except for the handful of my activist peers who are also ex-Democrats for the same reason.) So I had them to move through the pandemic with. I pray that you find your people or perhaps leave the place that you live. Good luck and thanks for sharing your story! Thanks Jenna!
Katania were you dealing with the nonsense in NY also?? Sounds like you found the right path! I was horrified with all of the state legislators too but not brave enough to jump like you did. How wonderful that you immediately found a community!
I hope Trump's vague questioning of Warp Speed on Truth Social the other day is the beginning of a reckoning - just a crack in the facade. I love how the suggestion of the dam breaking led to this nonsense: https://thehill.com/homenews/5484601-operation-warp-speed-nobel-trump (well, they sure know his ego right?)
It's so hard, I know. I recently even had to sever ties with a 20+ year "friend", not over the political (and moral, ethical and philosophical) divide, but because I got a very clear message about what she really thinks of me (and upon reflection, my deeper feelings about her) and I did what was almost unthinkable given how I have been treated. I won't belabor the details, but sometimes life presents you with a breakthrough moment when what (and who) is important and what is standing in the way becomes crystal clear. Life can be hard that way, but I am grateful now because it strengthened my own self-respect to release something that was only holding me back. Much courage and good fortune to you, Bridget.
I'm sorry you had to do that....I have a feeling writing and thinking about this may end up with me severing some long-term ties, too. But I like thinking about it as a breakthrough moment, or as growing up. <3
Bridget ... *TOTALLY.* Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope I was always at least trying my best to be open-minded and in the truth, and I think often about how I came to be so "progressive" or whatever one calls it, but it does take what it takes to wake up. AND, the left has become much more extreme and much more corrupt, to put it mildly. I was born in a bluer-than-blue city and grew up, went to college, etc., etc. in the region, one of the country's bluest. I have always been "Independent" in terms of voter registration (referred to as "Unaffiliated" out here in Colorado ~ where I now am, having traded one blue habitat for another, lol).
One silver lining to our predicament is that there really is a lot else to talk about in this world, other than politics and even other than liberty and justice and truth, which are things I am disappointed/horrified to find so few understand in the first place (just my view). Among the silver linings: since they are in the overwhelming majority, it doesn't even occur to them that someone they're familiar with might be 'undercover' (ha) and it's therefore not difficult to keep one's thoughts private.
The lashing out (I LOVE your David Attenborough reference) is extreme enough that it has activated my self-protective instincts. Very sadly ~ I would say, tragically ~ it seems that EVERYONE now has PTSD, from PSYOP-19 and everything related to it, which is a hell of a lot. I sense strongly that, T-shirt colour aside (blue?? red??), our world is now a lot less safe than it was earlier in our lifetimes.
One suggestion is to look through local news publications over the past four years now (my god, four years already) to find dissidents ... I know that in my city, there WERE people fighting the school closures, the job terminations, etc., etc., the appalling mandates of every description ~ in an "out there" sort of way ~ and they got news coverage and some interviews. Also, some churches resisted (where I am, only the Catholic churches! I couldn't believe it; even the Christian Scientists were obsequious in toeing the Party line ~ I would call it disgusting except that I know they were frightened, and for good reason ... the WORST OF ALL were the most liberal, the UU's and the Quakers ... god grant us patience!, right? :) and they still have not seen the light or the truth).
GOOD LUCK with your search. Seek and ye shall find, no? Just this morning, a neighbour rushed up to me on his way to work to say, "I found another one!," meaning another kindred spirit; he had told this other neighbour about me, and wanted to tell me about this new comrade. It's too funny, in a way. In most ways, of course, NOT funny. I never imagined living to see these developments. We *will* prevail. Thanks for fighting the good fight, in whatever camouflage gear is necessary. :) Keep the faith ~ <3 <3 <3
I love your ending, "I found another one!" Actually, my ONE simpatico friend out here, when we find someone else who might at least be sympathetic, we share that info too.
Thanks for the thoughts - that's actually a great idea, looking for those who were brave enough to be profiled in some way.
This: "...there really is a lot else to talk about in this world, other than politics and even other than liberty and justice and truth..." is why I still have these people in my life, and why I still love them and am not eager to let them go. But yes, it's hard!
"Among the silver linings: since they are in the overwhelming majority, it doesn't even occur to them that someone they're familiar with might be 'undercover' (ha) and it's therefor not difficult to keep one's thoughts private." YES YES YES. Ding ding ding ding. This is it. It's easy to be undercover because they're so deep in TDS that they cannot imagine for a SECOND that someone they consider intelligent could be on that side.
I hope I find them too...and I think if I do, it may encourage me to speak up more. I just need to feel more real-time support if you know what I mean.
I know *exactly* what you mean ~ we all need "God with skin," as some people put it. As opposed to screens. Another thing I hold the malefactors of recent years responsible for is the receding evermore of in-person community. Naomi Wolf writes beautifully about this. Her most recent books are among the treasures that have kept me going during these past three years.
Bridget—almost my life as well since September 2021. ALL my closer friends are liberals. The moment I changed? I was already going through the hell of not vaccinating. My sister disowned me. I’m 77. No way was I falling for an untested shot. Right at lockdown, my daughter called (lives 1000 miles away) and announced that my adorable, bright and wonderful 14 yo granddaughter was now my grandson. I was speechless. I had no real idea what this was. The kid had ended up on the spectrum from what I’m sure was the HPV jab 3 years before. But nobody talks about it. Ever.
By 2021 my grandchild was medicated with those drugs and heading to the mutilation, which did happen at age 16. Oh, and sterilization too. Therapists and doctors were involved of course. I knew more about it by then and one day in that 2021 September I asked myself “why don’t the therapists and doctors question this. They are CHILDREN”. I actually heard that “still small voice” answer—BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL IN ON IT. Because the liberals were supporting this and championed this evil, to the point of fucking sanctuary states to destroy children—my only grandchild. I was OUT. My last vote for a democrat was 2020. I despise them with all my being. I wish for certain people to get a vaporizing revenge visited upon them ASAP. I BELIEVE they will at some time.
Absolutely no one who is not personally close to this satanic child sacrifice has any idea what it does to a family, let alone a child. The parents are threatened, gaslit and lied to. Actually told “Do you want a dead daughter or live son”. Implying suicide. My daughter was told this. I can’t wait for our democrat (the word I use now is DEMwit) local organizer rings my doorbell next fall. Yes, the one who demonized those who didn’t vax with a sneer right in front of me and referenced deplorables back in 2022. I didn’t say anything. I have ammunition now and I don’t give a flying f#@k what he thinks.I’m reaching that point. I don’t do social media. Never have. My husband still loves me after 57 years. I am comfortable with myself at this point. Thanks for this post. You are not alone. I am part of that growing coalition that joined together to get the monsters out of our lives.
Incredibly sad story. The insanity!!!! The EVIL!!!! These people will pay through all eternity. The Bible talks about what will happen to those who harm children. It’s terrifying. God help them to wake up before Hell descends. 😢🙏🏻
Your post hit home HARD. My dear niece is profoundly learning impaired and severely autistic. She has never had a date, a relationship, or been kissed. She reads at a 2nd-grade level as a 17-year-old. She will never be able to hold a job or run a household. Yet, through school and too much online freedom, she is convinced that she is a boy. Her autistic single father, who is raising her, agrees. They have changed her name and are looking into hormone therapy and sex change surgery. She is cutting herself and drawing huge tattoos and suture marks all over her face with black magic markers. She's gained weight and weighs close to 400 lbs. Her father rewards her with facial piercings and tattoos, and she has been rewarded a LOT. If I forget and call her Madelyn, she screams at me and accuses me of sabotage and dead-naming. She is completely convinced that a sex change and 50 more facial piercings will make her happy.
My heart breaks for this young woman. My grandkid is a sophomore at college (in a bright blue state) and manages fairly well but those horrible drugs causes him to use a cane at times. At 19. She takes antidepressants and has ulcerative colitis now and given more drugs. We are both artistic and nature lovers. I feel closer and she said once she feels safer out in our rural area with us. Makes me cry. I pray and worry so much. Also, there may be a time when his parents realize what they have let happen. Not sure though but if they do I fear for them as well plus all are totally vaxxed with everything. I’m sorry if I have brought this up. Bridget is so strong and seeing the right things, like all of us here. Change is coming. Reckoning is looming. Blessings and safety for your niece. The vulnerable are preyed upon. They will pay.
Another wicked strategy by Satan: the use of the PC term “deadnaming”. When we call you by the name given at birth that matches your true gender, we are lifting you up in life, in reality. Truth always sets us free … and truth is life! Not death. But this evil flips it into death. The prior identity has been killed. Satan celebrates. Twisted and sick. His minions point fingers that we are deadnaming projecting their own act of murder onto the parent ur anyone else that objects.
Then they have the audacity to shame confused parents with “do you want a dead son or a living daughter?” I’m sorry, but wasn’t it THEM that declared they already killed the son? If deadnaming means the old identity is dead? If a he is now a she then the son is ALREADY dead - and if he is still contemplating becoming a she and parents object, they ask that question knowing the parent isn’t the one killing the son but them, so how can they ask that question? Because most people blame the parents if it happens at all and this just persecutes them even more. They want to guilt the parent into being responsible for that death that THEY planned for their child, escaping blame for themselves. When things get so convoluted like that it’s a sign evil is working among us. Satan loves this wickedness towards God’s designs.
Gosh just explaining makes it convoluted to read!
It’s all so evil and ugly. I can barely contain my rage.
OMG I’m so sorry to hear this and I give you props for staying strong and true to your beliefs which is hard to do with all the lia-aria going on and brainwashing. Makes me want to live on another planet. So sad how far we’ve fallen as a nation when we can’t even protect our most vulnerable 😩😢
Similar issue with my daughter and her children/friends child. I think they see it as evolution. Evolving past the old boy/girl templates. Not allowing tomboys, but if you have masculine traits that you must have surgery to 'fix them'. The basic rule of evolution... "It only works if the mutant gets laid". If you can't pass the trait on to you children, it isn't evolution.
Some of this is social conditioning and some I believe it chemicals in our environment. Atrazine will make frogs change their gender. This is a common pesticide used on our foods (corn and soy). If you drink soda with high fructose corn syrup, you are getting dosed.
I suspect you are correct. I think there is a strong 'fad' going on, too. They want to belong so badly to this group. Adolescence is difficult, and this craziness is pushed as a 'cure'. A permanent 'cure' to a temporary problem. There should be a special place in hell for these people who prey on and destroy children.
Oh my gosh Janet 😭😭😭😭 I am SO SORRY. It's horrible seeing it happen to strangers - I can only imagine how absolutely gutted you felt to have to watch that happen and not to be able to do anything.
Bridget, reach out to Naomi Wolf. She made the jump, and said she lost many of her friends. See how she coped. She HAS said that she's found MANY MORE authentic and real friends and tons of support! Thank you for being brave. See Jenna's book for many more brave people who stood up to the nonsense. Many have email addresses and substacks. I hope you find kindred souls amongst them.
Thank you! I follow her. Honestly watching what she's gone through (and Sasha Stone) is part of what makes the "reveal" so scary. I do know the best way to find your real people is through living your truth. Just, scary :) But great idea re Jenna's book!
I would add.... think about what you gain from your current friendships, and why you are fearful of their reactions. Is it an echo chamber of cognitive dissonance? What's the impact on you? Or your kids? (btw, your courage for your kids is admirable!)
Seek for what's most important, not just important.
Bridget, I’m so glad Jenna didn’t cut hardly anything out of your spotlight. Brilliantly written, and so heartfelt. Your story could be mine, except that I didn’t recover from TDS until the plandemic hit. I even voted for Biden and was thrilled that he won. I hosted a whole group of people from New England to March in the women’s March the first time Trump got in. Now those same friends can’t deal with me.
Recently, I started feeling longing for friends I could see in person, because I was plum out of those. Like you, my only friends I could really talk to about this stuff were on sub stack.
I think longing is like prayer and it can bring you what you want. Last week I went for a walk with someone who is actually a descendent of someone I wrote a book about, and it turns out she thinks exactly the way I do. She is black and super conservative about every issue out there. We walked and talked for hours, something I used to do with my best friend whom I recently came out to, and I’m now being ghosted by.
Then yesterday I was invited to a party where I was afraid the talk might turn to liberal politics. There was one woman there who said a few things that maybe made me think she might not be liberal. So I got brave and when she and I were in a room together I said something Positive about Trump. She widened her eyes and looked at me and said thank you! And we then dove into a lovely conversation. She is Iranian and very conservative as it turns out.
There are people out there, they’re just hidden because “Trump supporter” is a dirty word. I wish you Godspeed in your journey toward in-person, friends. Keep your longing, and your prayers, alive.
I love "longing is like prayer" - what a beautiful way to put it. You're making me realize that I haven't spent enough time trying to will a like-minded social group into being. EXCEPT for writing this! Spending the time thinking about this really had me zooming in on what it feels like to live this way, and how much I don't like it. I think the end result may be me "coming out" to more of my friends & family. I really don't want to lose them, but living this split existence feels so unpleasant and so intellectually dishonest, even though it's self-preservation -- I have a LOT of thinking to do.
Interestingly, there's a couple that I know from my kid's school that I THINK must have voted for DJT, bc their kid was the only classmate who wasn't freaking out after the election, and actually said a few sort of supportive things. I've been trying to figure out how to broach the topic with them...
Here's hoping. I guess there's no reason not to. Worst case scenario they're like, "ewww are you kidding? Why would we vote for him??" and I'm like "haha oh I have no idea, these crazy kids," and then on to the next one :P
lol. Or just try a mild positive statement about Trump or what the administration is doing, and see how it flies. It really feels like you've put the request out there and friends a zooming toward you :)
Bridget, I cannot imagine what you put yourself through, regularly, for the sake of your friends, but I do know that it is hope that impels you: hope that, somehow, they too can find what you have found. I could wish that I could do it, but my poor self-control skills would sabotage it next-to-immediately and I would be relegated to living on the edge of my former society. Whatever your pain, I hope you cope. You are the shield around your children--who probably have to be instructed about being drawn into dangerous discussions with non-family. (Your situation feels like one under an oppressive regime with spies everywhere.)
Feel our love through these comments. Ask yourself "to what end?" you were marching in your former state, and compare it to the path you are on now. Clearer? (God bless.)
(Postscript: Bridget sounds like one for "Ottumwa in '26!", ey, Jenna??)
<3 This is more helpful than you know. And yes, I do hope that they can find a different path. The problem is, without my having being FORCED into the role of "other," I'm not sure I WOULD have found my way here. I hate to say it, but if my kids hadn't been kicked out of school, I might still be over there with them. So I'm not sure what I can do, really...other than watch and wait for openings. (That amazing library that Metta Zetty posted about is a start...I'm going to see if I can find some pages I could keep at the ready to push at them, if the chance arises.)
Yes, the kids part is SO DIFFICULT - they do know to keep quiet - during the pandemic, they had to hear teachers & peers talking about how the unvaxxed are a scourge, and even sometimes now (especially under RFK) vaccine talk is starting up again. It's brutal. I cannot IMAGINE having to hold that at their age - it's horrible at MY age. But the reality is, some peers would shun them (why are we living here, again?) - though probably fewer now than before. I think at this point many would just shrug. I miss the days when private medical decisions were, well, private, and people (let alone kids!! Why did kids get pulled into this!?!) didn't discuss this stuff.
You, in point of fact, are an answer to prayer. You were "tripped up" and had your knees skinned as a result of someone's prayer. The pain led to a re-thinking. The re-thinking led to a... and, and and.
It started with someone praying that others could, also, be awakened and see.
So, just, pray.
It will NOT be DONALD Almighty who restores human sanity... ;^)
I guess this is as good as any place for me to add my humble opinions and experience! Thank you, David for the most awesome (sounding like a Gen Z!) lead-in: PRAY 🙏
Bravo, to your courage and bravery, Bridget. Bravo for taking the high road for your sweet babies! Just, BRAVO!!
I have read many comments here and reading/connecting/engaging with Naomi, Sasha Stone, Margaret Anna Alice, and many others is the comfort blanket/invisible cloak needed for the present storm. It’s a very slow process some of us have had to endure for years now.
Although, I didn't have such a massive political shift, I did have a HUGE paradigm transformation that keeps making twists and turns! I lost/dumped/relinquished the majority of my friends over the last few years. The isolation was, at times unbearable. I, too, found solace and friends here on Substack!
Prayer and praying has been my greatest invisible cloak. No one has provided me with more support, armour, love, and guidance. DJT is not the Almighty and cannot solve or unravel all the injustices.
I don't have any simple answers as to finding your tribe locally. I, too, live in a Cobalt blue coastal town of insane morons. I have found a few people to commiserate with, but the ultimate answer for hubby and I is selling and getting the hell out of this god forsaken hellish state!
We are all here to listen, love, and support you in your journey! 🙏❤️💯💥🔥
“I lost/dumped/relinquished the majority of my friends over the last few years.”
Kat - relinquished is such a great word. I can relate.
I live in Ohio. People say it’s red but it’s really purple.
Perhaps the red in it enabled me to find a huge tribe of like-minded people. Most notably, my church with a congregation of over 400 - the overwhelming majority being wide awake. When you have a pastor that openly says the shots are killing people, it tends to weed out those that are still asleep.
Finding my faith again saved me. In more ways than just one.
Thanks, Laura. Relinquishing people is truly empowering; a surrendering of sorts. I used to see the “red flags” and literally try to ignore them, thinking that by ignoring the bad behaviour, it might magically vanish! Duh! It never does, and in most cases, it gets far worse, which leads to “dumping.”
You are very fortunate to have a good and wise pastor. I enjoy my new church, but there aren’t those types of sermons or discussions.
Welcome aboard, Bridget! I find it incredibly sad that friend and family relationships have been severed due to politics and the plandemic. (The Politics of the Plandemic….great book name!)
I also have come to the realization that that is the end goal….to keep us divided. By any means necessary. The gift of getting older is seeing and understanding more clearly. You gave me something to think about with your thought of how to identify non-rabid, like-minded people to actually be face-to-face with socially. Take solace in the fact that you have found your like-minded tribe here! 😃
And we all love Jenna! She’s a gem in these troubling times!
Jeff Childers of coffee and COVID.com (who is amazing!) calls that purposeful divide, the “wedge”. He wrote a great substack about it a few weeks back and it was excellent!
“ Remember: The deep state doesn’t need tanks or tribunals. Its chief soft-power weapon has always been the wedge issue— deployed not to persuade, but to divide, demoralize, and atomize the population into manageable identity fragments. It doesn’t matter what the wedge is: race, gender, climate panic, flag etiquette, vaccines, eastern European wars, or gas stoves. The point isn’t resolution; it’s friction. Pick a pressure point, drive in a rhetorical crowbar, and crack the body politic open like a boiled clam. Then serve the chaos cold with a side of astroturfed protest.
This is the technique. The agencies and their NGO handmaidens have mastered the art of weaponized empathy— deploying just enough moral outrage to make compromise impossible, then stepping back to watch the public eat itself alive over whatever shiny wedge they’ve chosen this round. Whenever a particular wedge starts to dull, they just sharpen up a new one. They always have another clam in the pot.”
I need to reiterate, Jeff Childers coffee and Covid Substack is a wonderful breath of fresh air, positive and winning. I've never felt negative after reading his almost daily emails. Highly recommended!
I have made 2 tangible human friends from the commenters on C&C. Forever friends and we have met for lunch or breakfast. Even gotten together with our hubs.
Isn't it just the weirdest thing?? You would think, with all the news coming out about all the things, people would start lining up behind the truth of the matters. But, nope. It is making everyone move farther apart. I was recently at my mom's in CA and one of her neighbor's daughter's was visiting her dad. She hailed me from her front yard and mentioned she was a conservative during our conversation. I asked her what made her say that and she told me it was seeing my Idaho license plate and thought we might have that in common. Turns out she was correct!!
So much describes me (though I hold nothing back) and many people around me (who are afraid to post their true thoughts). Posting this anonymous still makes an impact. It still gets the word of sanity out into the world. Thank you 'Bridget' for doing so.
I wrote an article for myself during the pandemic titled "I recently lost my daughter" and it was a description of her slide into the psychosis while leaving the assumption that she was dead (first she lost her ability to think and talk..). She didn't speak to my wife or I for a whole year. Now she speaks to us, but we must avoid certain topics. This included access to our two grandchildren, one of which must be addressed as 'they' and I instead use her name instead. She wears dresses often so it is more of a 'you are doing it wrong' control issue from my daughter. Righteous indignation is the word I give it. She feels 'better than us' for having screaming compassion for her 'chosen family'.
As for how to cope with this, I think for some people, there is no hope of getting them out of the psychosis and you have to balance self censorship and keeping them in your life. For others, there is and humor is the best way. When talking about Covid for example, dropping little lines like "If this keeps up, only 98% of us will survive" or "Please advance 6 feet forward in line to the next previously infected bubble.". It makes people think and those that respond and laugh are your true friends. Further conversation with them will be fruitful. Those that don't laugh may think about it, but will probably walk away.
Wow I’m so sorry to hear this about your family. Truly heartbreaking and evil what the lying media and politicians have done to our children and their parents.
Something I can never forgive and certainly a reflection on our broken country…how far we have fallen 😩😢
There was only one Trump sign in this entire area and every time I drove past, I thought, I should probably meet that person...but naturally was too scared to do it. I wish I remembered what house it was.
This is a most excellent post once again, Jenna, and Bridget! Seems like you've caught some of Jenna's awesome humor, and yes, the memes totally rocked in with this storyline!
The entire time I spent reading this I was thinking from the beginning when you questioned your own stance and basically your identity, an old saying, "be yourself, because everyone else is already taken" hahahaha!!!
“Atta girl” Bridget! You will find your people as we are out here. I’ve lost many friends and family since being more vocal about my beliefs. I ask a few questions of people to see where they are at, like “did you get the booster?” It speaks volumes of their belief system. It’s like speed dating. You get their response and stay and chat or move on to “next.” This Substack is certainly a respite from the crazy news and worldviews. It has saved my sanity at times knowing that there are people out there with similar values and opinions.
Haha with speed dating. You should see me on dating sites. swipe left - swipe left - swipe left - in my case, it's 99% because they say they're "liberal," or say "no MAGA" or something about DJT. Even if I'm not MAGA, that ain't the mindset for me. Oh, and the people who still say "fully vaccinated" or "trust in science." NO THANK YOU
I Iive in MA, sadly, but I spend most of my time at our lake house in NH where people aren’t Covid crazy like MA. It’s embarrassing to admit where I live as MA is such a woke state. I’ve always been a liberal until Covid hit and now I can’t stand them. My tribe is very small these days.
Bridget, thanks for sharing your story. It really helps to know we’re not alone. I too held my nose and voted for Trump because I wanted the censorship to end (which I’m still waiting for) and I wanted Kennedy to clean up the corruption and shine the light of truth on vaccines! It’s been rocky and rough and I’ve lost lots of friends. But at least I’m more open minded, open hearted, a better listener and with more compassion!
YES. This is exactly what my vote was about. Both of those things! Especially RFK. I was desperately hoping for a CDC cleanup...we are SLOOOOWLY working our way towards that...of course, it's making the left more rabid than ever, but we NEED the spotlight on this stuff, even if almost no one who isn't already in the know can bear to look at it.
I have a lot of info on my life as a conservative in the Boomer years, but I will just say, "Atta girl Bridget!" because you have given me one more sliver of hope for all those younger generations. Thank you!
I so want to see your crafty side ~ and my first (half-way serious) idea for how you can find other like-minded folks, is to add a bit of Miss Information into your wardrobe!
> This collection of vaccine resources for parents includes a wide variety of resources that might allow you to connect with other parents, including homeschooling parents
Move over, Bridget. You've got company in the neither-fish-nor-fowl zone. My metamorphosis from total liberal to hybrid began with global warming. I just could not understand how a trace gas at the foundation of the food chain suddenly morphs into a planet killer. I watched people I thought I respected refuse to debate the issue because "the science is settled." My ass it is. Then came the COVID spider, and almost the entire medical profession broke the first tenet of the Hippocratic oath by refusing to look for existing treatments for ill patients because they were waiting for vaccine salvation. They hemmed and hawed and people died. My entire family took the vaccine. I did not and never will. Now I filter every claim from all sides with the question, "What's the real agenda here?"
My thoughts exactly. Anyone who paid attention in elementary science class knew it was BS. Can’t understand why “plant more trees” wasn’t the logical choice. Or rather cease razing acres of trees.
They 100% are woke. In fact one local hullaballoo was someone who was at a VERY progressive church and raised the idea of trans ideology harming kids - and long story short, he was kicked out of the church.
That's interesting. I live in the woke blue hell hole that is the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
But not all of the churches here are woke. Maybe it's a difference between East and West Coast blue cities, but in LA, at least there are easily reached suburbs that lean conservative. I have found evangelical churches to be welcoming and like-minded (although there is still caution, knowing they are under siege surrounded by enemies).
I would think that even in NYC there might be a few remnants of churches like this... Staten Island, Long Island?
But perhaps not. I could certainly understand if conservative Christians have all left. I had a conservative Christian friend who lived in Manhattan, and he ultimately moved away primarily because the church he attended moved too far left politically.
Yeah def would not be easy to find in the NYC metro area. I think you're right that probably on Staten Island (where not all is woke) or pockets of Long Island - there's still some red out thataway!
"Woke PLUS," because they have the whole righteousness thing going, in high gear. C.S. Lewis opined, in "God in the Dock," published in 1970, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
Jenna, thank you for posting this :) You knocked it out of the park with memes yet again! And YES - almost everyone I know would FLAUNT that "You voted for this" t-shirt.
I'd never seen that Special TV Microwave Computer meme, and giggled so hard at that that I actually just went on etsy and ordered myself a stamped aluminum cuff bracelet that says "Special TV Microwave Computer" 🤣 to remind myself that I don't HAVE to fit in anywhere. Right? I can be whoever the hell I want. And reveal as much of myself as I want.
It's a journey, for sure!
Bridget, you have friends here! We are normal, caring, hard-working people. These extreme leftist have lost their minds. And they are the most closedminded people. Sometimes I find their comments and ask them a simple question about why they think that way, and they start calling me the worst of names out of the blue for no reason. It’s always attack attack attack and spit vitriol. Anyway, loved reading responses. I hope you find your tribe really soon. At least you have an online tribe if not one actually in person.
Thanks, Donna! Yes, I am so glad to have substack. I would have been almost lost without it.
I know what you mean re the vitriol and closedmindedness. There is NO room for thought difference. In fact just this week I unfollowed / muted conversations with someone who is so smart and funny and who I would really connect with on certain levels, but who is also RABIDLY - I mean RABIDLY liberal/deranged TDS/and hates RFK even more than Trump. This week was the capper for me, I can't stay connected to her anymore - I am getting nothing from my relationship with her but agita. (At least most of my connections only OCCASIONALY spew vitriol.)
I appreciate that <3
Bridget/Jenna,
Thx for putting it all out there.
There's friends:
For a Reason (many)
For a Season (some)
For a Lifetime (few)
I'm trying to remember when/how I found/discovered Substack.
Most likely through the CoV propaganda dissenters.
Understand we all live tough social relationships.
The thing we want the most, but the thing that also repels us the most at times.
For example, I'm no fan of Trump. Why?
Failure to call out the 'real' elephants in the room.
-Gaza Genocide, he's complicit with ethnic cleansing (clarifies who owns him)
-CoV Jabs, clearly a medical bioweapon put out by DoD (RFKJr and Trump, why not just put it out there?)
-Venezuela and the killing of the boat people (11). What's the US Navy even doing there? Drugs? Really? Why not go after the CIA then. Couldn't have anything to do with $$$/power/control/Banking............oh, and I almost forgot, the largest known oil reserve in the World??
So, in my opinion, the 'UniParty' just keeps kicking the can down the road of total human exploitation (and now planned reduction).
So, (as in my case) finding your 'peeps' is going to be tough, even through SubStack.
I get it.
Some days, it's best to just relax a bit, do your best, and seek humor to make it all/somewhat better. Thus, a paid subscription to Jenna.
As the Squirrel meme pointed out, more nuts appearing daily.
Best to you in your journey.
This part super hits home right now:
There's friends:
For a Reason (many)
For a Season (some)
For a Lifetime (few)
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It's true. Right now I have to trim the seasonal ones, keep the few lifetimers, and look for more.
💟
Also wanted to say, I admire your bravery. I, too, lost a number of friends when all of this nonsense went down. I called out the scamdemic immediately and all of the ridiculous politics going along with it. I could not for the life of me understand how these friends of mine went so liberal. They fit the upper-middle-class educated, white liberal female meme perfectly. Yes these are the people driving this nonsense. I believe. At first I missed hanging out, shopping, weekly trips to Starbucks. But you know what? I don’t miss any of that nonsense now because I’m really good at just hanging out with myself. And organically I think like-minded people find you. So I have a whole new group of friends that I’m so much more comfortable with now. And I didn’t even realize at the time that I was slightly uncomfortable with the old group of friends. But I was. Anyway, sorry I’m rambling here but welcome aboard.
I totally understand how your friends went there, because I used to be there. Like I posted to David in another comment - "The problem is, without my having being FORCED into the role of "other," I'm not sure I WOULD have found my way here. I hate to say it, but if my kids hadn't been kicked out of school, I might still be over there with them. So I'm not sure what I can do, really...other than watch and wait for openings."
There is cold comfort in being fiercely tribal. Even if you don't fully realize what you're doing. But I guess what you do realize is that you cannot leave the arms of the tribe because if you do - you're one of - THEM. That alternative is scary scary scary.
"And organically I think like-minded people find you" - this is the hard part! Since here, we're all hiding! But - I do hope you are right.
Maybe notice those who don’t say much when others are raging. Maybe drop a neutral question when you have her alone. If she comes back with a neutral answer, you can move to a tiny, smidge right question the next time. If you take tiny steps you won’t scare her. I’m in a mostly blue city in a mostly red state, but it’s filled with the sweetest “trust authorities” folks who dutifully lined up for the deathvax. A couple of years into Covid a doctor’s wife who had lost a ton of friends over the vax and was experiencing great loneliness gave a timid invitation for others feeling isolated to meet at her house for lunch. She expected 5. 32 showed up. The next month 67 came. The next month we met in a church fellowship hall. 167 attended. We had special speakers (Tankersley and McCullough) and gained so much courage. That’s what it takes. Others are all around you. Sadly, we no longer have courage prior generations had. Remember, though, el gato says laughing destroys the left. I bet if you posted your area here there would be other Jenna groupies quick to get with you.
Oh my gosh. That's an amazing story.
And, you have a point! Maaaaybe I will....
Affluent White Liberal Women=AWFL
u mean "Karen"?
It’s time to retire “Karen”. Thank you. 💕
agreed
Thank you Dave! I so appreciate it, as you can imagine! 🙂
Just think how "Brandon" must have felt!
Which comment are you referring to here?
They fit the upper-middle-class educated, white liberal female meme perfectly. Yes these are the people driving this nonsense.
The AWFUL's - Angry, White, Female Urban, Liberal.
I have to remember that one.
My journey was very similar only my eyes were opened to what the the Banana Republicans had become. Rather than become party-less, I moved toward the Libertarians. I, too, voted for Trump, while holding my nose. Do I still find him to be a rude New Yorker? You bet. But at least now I respect the people in charge. And that goes a long way! Thank you for the article.
What was your turning point?
My turning point? My view of DJT was informed by headlines over the years, and I never watched the Apprentice. He had a rally somewhere, I was watching FoxNews. DJT was speaking (silently) on the right side of the screen and the Fox anchors were talking about him on the left. I switched to CNN, the Anderson Cooper show, showed the rally. After that, I was a fan and instead of listening to what others said about him, I started listening to him.
Once you see how MSM twists what Trump says, it is hard to go back.
yes - I just posted this to someone else. I was SHOCKED!!!--actually like jaw-dropping shocked--when I finally saw my first clips of "LOOK WHAT ORANGE MAN SAID" vs the clip showing the full context of what he actually said. I couldn't believe it. I felt so naive.
Yes! I was in a waiting room at a mechanic shop. This was just as the coronavirus was emerging. I wasn't trying to listen to Donald Trump, but there we were. And I heard the whole press conference, and I thought he made some reasonable points; he seemed interested in finding a solution.
Later that day I followed up with my usual news sources, and they were completely misframing what the hell Trump had said earlier that day. That was the final straw! As I read, I was like "this is completely dishonest. I heard what he said, and it was nothing like this."
When you see it, you cannot unsee it.
That happened to me yesterday! Girl posted "did you hear what he said about BLK children 😡🤮?" On her timeline was the clip of Maryland governor Wes Moore with an edited misleading clip of DJT. So of course I researched it and voila... Upon posting the ENTIRE context of the soundbite, she blocked me 🤭😆🤪
My best friend for 30 years was a liberal, but we could still talk rationally after the 2016 election. She brought up the quote about supposedly Trump saying the Klan members in Charlottesville "some of them are good people". A lie I still hear repeated, including by some of the talking heads on MSM. I sent her a transcript and video explaining that there were more than just Klan members at the rally and that there was a sizeable contingent of historical society members who also were there to support keeping the statues, that were the subject of his remarks. She said, hmm that gives me something to think about. But it didn't stick. She went off the deep end in 2020 and moved several hours away, now a full time community organizer and full blown TDS sufferer. Haven't talked to her in 3 years.
oh, my. I just posted this exact reply to Kate, then scrolled onward and read these words of yours. <3<3<3
Truth. I felt as if literal scales fell from my eyes when I got a television for the first time in thirty years, in order to follow the dire "pandemic news," and watched the news teams talk about Trump's remarks AFTER I had watched Trump MAKING the remarks. I still remember feeling my jaw drop, and hearing myself say out loud, "HE didn't SAY THAT!!" I was literally shocked. Also indignant, later enraged. :) Which boils down to the fact that I was utterly ignorant of the MSM reality ... WHILE BEING COMPLETELY INFLUENCED BY IT, just as They want. Makes me exasperated with myself, to this day. I also remember the day I realised, "I will not live long enough ~ no human lifetime has ever been long enough ~ to make amends for voting for Joe Biden." As a supposed "Independent!" Independent in name only. I have A LOT to atone for. I thank god there ARE alternatives. Once I woke up, the globalists terrified me. Hail the freedom fighters, hero/warriors. The times we are living in are also more glorious than I ever imagined.
"Which boils down to the fact that I was utterly ignorant of the MSM reality ... WHILE BEING COMPLETELY INFLUENCED BY IT, just as They want."
THIS. This, this, THIS.
I can't even remember what soundbite it was over the past year that was SO out of context, and I shared the full context with a friend, who had to calm down a bit. How can you not? But yeah, it's SO hard to admit you've been FORMED, MANIPULATED - you feel like you're doing your duty reading the papers and watching the news, and of course, Substack and Rumble and whatever else are all horrible illegitimate sources - - and you're stuck in a loop and don't know it.
The globalists are terrifying. I worry about the future of our country for the sake of my children and grandchildren.
My husband and I attended a rally in 2016. Most people were professionally dressed (including us) and the crowd represented a wonderful multicultural mix but skewed heavily white and Mexican. In my very white Colorado, there were blacks, Muslims, and Asians present, as well. When we watched the recap on the news later, the clips showed mostly white men wearing MAGA hats, jeans and flannel shirts. (They also failed to mention that the over-filled stadium which resulted in crowds listening to the rally from the lawn outside.)This was NOT representative of the crowd. Shame on them.
Bridget, not sure where you live, but if you’re in NOCO, you’re in good company here…there are more of us than you know…from one Gen X bonafide woman to another ;). Open to all DMs…
This is wild! And exactly the sort of thing that's important. I no longer trust ANYTHING that's said about rallies, on either side, because of stuff like this. I'm on the east coast, but I have friends in verrrrrrrrrrrrry blue parts of CO, who are doing very very blue things. Nice to know you're out there :)
I dumped the whole CNN news as a legitimate broadcaster after Anderson Cooper hosted New Years Eve with comedian Kathy Griffin and the two were laying in bed together naked. 🥵
Ha. Missed that one. Yikes
Something I’ll never forget :/
Hey Bridget! Welcome to the rational dare I say normal side. I was a dem throughout my younger years then became a repub when I got married and switched to independent after DJT was impeached twice. Both parties need serious help but I feel much relief with the current admin. I live in NY too and in 2020 I wore two T shirts to my gym and in stores that declared I was done with the woke nonsense and the only mask I wore was see-thru when I had to take my elderly mother to her dr apptms. I broke up with NYC in 2020 after the “summer of love” riots and when they lit the Empire State Building up in support of abortion. Totally done will never go back. The brainwashing and mindcontrol is real. Speak your truth, let the chips fall where they may, you can make new friends and connections just by speaking out in a friendly and humorous way. I have lots of friends I disagree with and we manage to have civil discussions…if not, adios amigo! The older I get the more comfortable I get speaking my truth, not always easy, but if I lose “friends & family members (some think I’m diseased lol) in the process, so be it.
Agreed. The older I get the more I move to the “Zero fucks given” side of things and I will speak my truth openly
I have given zero fucks for so long I am convinced that my friends not only expect it of me but appreciate my brutal honesty. I am sought out for it. Eh, she doesn't give two shits lets ask her she will tell me the truth. True story. I quit caring what others thought of me LONG LONG ago as I just absolutely despise drama and lies. It's truly the only way to live.
❤️I hate drama! I’m a realist and a truth seeker, as well as a truth bomb dropper. If the snowflakes can’t handle it, they can tune out
Ditto
I too played the conciliatory role trying to be 'tolerant' and respectful of my liberal friends (which, before 2016, didn't even know I had so many) I was fairly political, but most of my involvement was local and thus less partisan. It worked. But 2020 broke everything. Between the covid hysteria (which I NEVER bought) and the election fraud and fake 'insurrection' it was over. Oh it was lonely at first but decided that silence = consent and I did NOT consent. New tribe, new perspectives and new opportunities. The only person who likes change is a wet baby, but in the end it's been freeing and positive.
I've never heard "The only person who likes change is a wet baby" before, and I LOVE this!
I can DEFINITELY see arriving at that point. Just not quite yet :)
Lord make me chaste. Just not yet.
Its still a sin.
Yes!
I don't think I have too many friends that would have civil discussions with me if they knew! I'm not at the point where I'm ready to lose everyone. But even writing this, and thinking more about it, I'm thinking about a few people that I might be ready to have the conversation with...
It’s hard and gave me a nervous stomach to bring up the jabs with some of my jab lover friends. One in particular gave me push back but we didn’t lose the friendship over it. Another friend is a germaphobe, has every shot, carries an arsenal of products and potions wherever she goes. Very annoying when we are in a theater and someone coughs and she freaks out! So I delicately bring up the fact she’s doing more harm to herself than good (oh she’s had coofid 3 times and still doesn’t connect the dots). She’s a smart woman highly educated but CNN has taken over her brain. Her husband is more open minded but still looney enough to be taking Ozempic while he eats like crap. So I just can’t with some people, accept them for who they are and let them live their truth while I live mine.
highly educated seem to be the most susceptible based on my experience of degreed and phd'd former friends. but somewhat unsurprising as (college dropout me) observed the listen to what we say, dont question it, repeat back what we told you, never think for yourself indoctrination that passes for education.
Yes, 'education' isn't what it used to be.
YES. Most of my friends are highly educated. And they seem faaaaar less able to think outside the box than those they look down upon....
We need to rethink what "highly educated" actually means. In this context, it seems to mean "went to more school after high school, probably A Lot. That doesn't translate to highly educated in my book. I'm pretty sure I'm a whole lot smarter than all those "highly educated" mind drones. In my case, highly educated means "I don't fall for crap!" Oh, and also "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Sounds like a "highly educated" politician to me - lol.
There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom. What happened to the days when school was supposed to teach you HOW to think vs. WHAT to think?
Yes re the health craziness - I have only brought the jab up with a few - the ones that I know have the capacity to reason. One friend who knew I was against it didn't want to tell me when their family member had an adverse event and got an autoimmune illness within 2 days of the jab. My friend was afraid that my finding out would "add more fuel to the fire" - what!?? I don't need any more fuel! It was awful.
I have one friend that sounds like yours, so fearful (this is the same friend I thought would have to be hospitalized after the election - I truly thought she was having a psychotic break). When she found out we'd had Covid, and then that we weren't jabbed, she was SO scared for us! She was worrying about us all the time. She told me to be careful & look out for signs of long Covid. She also took Paxlovid as soon as she got Covid, and then got the rebound and was so sick... I know there's nothing I can do with her, there's no ability to reason. So we just don't discuss any of that, ever. It's...odd. It's odd to live in such different realities.
I find that my “friends” that are the most liberal minded are also on the most pharmaceuticals. I don’t think this is by coincidence, but by design. I also live in a state where you can get high legally all day long, so they get you one way or another. Being zoinked out on any kind of drug whether prescribed or self administered leaves the brain open to influence. Bridget - Maybe you should start asking people what prescriptions they take and then take baby steps with the least drugged of your friends. 😵💫
So true! And it doesn’t just have to be pharmaceuticals, as so many of my liberal friends are addicted to their supplements, potions and essential oils as well LOL!
lose the world and gain your soul. I lost almost everyone just by not enthusiastically talking non stop about all the shots i couldn't wait to take. and then after a while found a whole new group of people who chose sanity over brainwashing.
Same. Hard at the time, but looking back, I always felt like the jigsaw puzzle was missing pieces, but suppressed those thoughts as I didn't know how to break out. 2020 was a clean break. Now feel like I am living an authentic life, and devoting my time to the things that really matter and have friends who feel the same. Funny, we don't always agree, but we CAN debate and disagree and remain friends.
I'm finally getting a better grasp on THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM, which I now recognise as being due to the fact that IT'S A RELIGION, as made clear in two new books: "Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality" by Peter McCullough and John Leake (top-of-list hero/warriors!) and "VACCINES, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines" by Aaron Siri (ditto). What we are talking/reading/writing/blogging/podcasting/etc., etc. about is the new, unimproved, 21st-century enactment of Science v. Faith and NO ONE wants to be taken to task for having chosen the "wrong" faith. Who among us would dream of saying to anyone, let alone a friend or family member, "You do realise that your faith community is entirely built upon a verifiably false premise?" (Let's not all raise our hands at once, right? NONE of us would do this, and doing THIS is what we are talking about.) I thank god I am not the only one; lots of us just can't get it through our heads that the human species is only minimally rational. THAT is what we are encountering and since we are helpless to ALTER that fact, we can only decide HOW we will show up for the encounters. Talking about anything related to what They like to call "Public Health" now means having a RELIGIOUS conversation.
That is beautifully put. I need to get both of these books ASAP! But YES, I didn't realize the absolute religious fervor of it all until the pandemic, and everything since. You're right, there's no arguing it. But what's amazing is that unlike having to prove or disprove the existence of a particular God (if someone's trying to proselytize/take down someone), the vaccine religion DOES have science we can look at. And yet. Like you said. You can't force anyone to believe something they don't want to believe. If they don't want to look, you can't make them. And they don't realize it's because it IS dogma.
Thank you for mentioning those two new books. I am going to order them both. I just needed some validation they are as good as I suspected. Just before the Plandemic, I realized there was a difference between science and scientism. Science is never “settled” as it is a living process of discovery, always open to questioning. Scientism is and has been a religion, since its capture in the 20th century by the Rockefeller medical model that took over the medical idea of health. Vaccines are an ideology within the field of scientism. I’ve completely moved into the terrain model of health as a result. And by the way I am 80 years old and in perfect health, and wish I’d woken up sooner to the medical and liberal brainwashing. I was a life long Democrat until 2020. Never ever again.
My wife and I were Bernie and Obama delegates. I didn't realize then about the illusion. Now I do. It is so strange to see Democrats like Bernie and Warren supporting Drug Cartels instead of agreeing to make people healthy. Some still don't see it because they continue to drink the Kool-aid.
The tel-lie-vision does a great job programming the masses.
Yes. And now everytime I watch a new show or movie, I can spot how “they” are messaging to us to accept things as normal. Characters having cancers or other illnesses, Rx medications being shown for illnesses, the mention of haxxines, lgbtq and trans characters, alcohol use, marijuana use, caffeine use, things we should fear and worry about, etc.
While some of this is somewhat normal in our lives, the writing of scripts
seems to put as many of these things as possible in one show or movie. Every single one of them now so it is in our faces ALL the time… if one chooses to watch tel-lie-vision or go to the movies.
I find myself watching less and less because now I can see the programming. Once you know, you know.
Oh my gosh. I watched "The Owl House" (an animated series) with my kids, and the storyline was great but the level of WOKE was completely overwhelming. Everything was "representation." EVERYTHING.
Yep.
Absolutely. The “programming” is so real these days it’s annoying. Tried watching Will & Grace, couldn’t stomach it, same with the new SATC spin off. That was like watching porn. Nowadays I’m basically watching Homestead Rescue and any animal/vet series lol. Dumped the cable TV in 2020 but streaming channels are just as bad :/
OMG the SATC spinoff was INSANE with the whole they/them over the top storyline and Charlotte having to learn that "they" was a pronoun. The whole thing was cringe to the extreme.
Yeah, can't go wrong with animals!
Oh I am so glad it is not just me! I'm very annoying to anyone immersed in a plot. I'm all, "look at the strings!"
🤣
I worked for Bernie and gave him far more of my income that I could afford first time around. it breaks my heart to see him now. and truly consider demonic possession a real thing.
Bernie was the first candidate I ever gave money to! A few times no less. He DISGUSTS me now.
Bravo Bridget! Like you, I was deep in the liberal left… until COVID. I naively shared my feelings about vaccination and all of the other idiocy at the time with my two closest friends and poof! They hightailed it right out of my life. Same on Facebook, which I finally left sometime in 2021. Fortunately, I have my partner and sister and a few old friends (who are closer now) who migrated to the dark side with me, but I still feel wary of sharing outside that tight little circle. The one suggestion that came to me while reading your story is that I think most states have medical freedom groups, so maybe there could be new friends waiting for you there. Hang in there… in solidarity with you!
Having friend or family *poof* is so painful - and what pains me right now is remembering how easily I did that myself to that one friend mentioned in my writing - "She supports TRUMP? She's CRAZY now. And I thought she was so smart...ok, she's out."
But I also understand that the FASCISM!! messaging is SO strong that many of my connections would cut me off without hesitation, and think the same thing - that I'd been brainwashed somehow. They accepted my crazy anti-vax views (about the childhood schedule) - I was held at arm's length bc of the CV jab - this would be the end. So I have to decide who I'm ready to sever ties with I guess.
have you asked yourself: do I have a genuine relationship with these people who (I believe) will reject me instantly if I share my true self? what are you actually losing?
I wish i could 50-star this comment!!
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The thing is, I used to be like them so I know they're in there, you know? I adore them, we left together, we have history. As long as we don't talk about this stuff it's okay. But yeah I see your point.
I stumbled upon this poem a few years ago by M Truman Cooper called ‘See Paris first’:
Suppose that what you fear
could be trapped,
and held in Paris.
Then you would have
the courage to go
everywhere in the world.
All the directions of the compass
open to you,
except the degrees east or west
of true north
that lead to Paris.
Still, you wouldn’t dare
put your toes
smack dab on the city limit line.
You’re not really willing
to stand on a mountainside
miles away
and watch the Paris lights
come up at night.
Just to be on the safe side
you decide to stay completely
out of France.
But then danger
seems too close
even to those boundaries,
and you feel
the timid part of you
covering the whole globe again.
You need the kind of friend
who learns your secret and says,
“See Paris first.”
Great point!
Thanks for sharing your heart, Bridget! You don’t say how old your children are or how they are now being educated. I’m curious as to how their worldviews are forming? I would find it very very hard to live in a place surrounded by outspoken liberals. But no matter how much we try to pass on our values to our kids, we can’t predict how (liberal or conservative) they will turn out or what will be their biggest influences — especially in light of the social media takeover of the younger generations. I know this from (disheartening) experience. Anyway, I appreciated your spotlight sharing here and will take special note of your comments in the future!
Great question. They are both in school now, we moved to a different state. They're firmly on the no-jab train and I don't think they'll be getting off. My youngest seems fully aligned with me in most ways, and the eldest (Gen Z) in most ways except for the buy-in of trans ideology (I've been accused of "treading dangerously close to transphobia" on more than one occasion). I'm trying to be mindful of not coming across too stridently, and instead gentle but rational - but ultimately there's little I can do about that right now as the outside influence is VERY. STRONG, but maturity may shift that, too. I sure hope so.
I know, ultimately, they'll think their own thinks - but the one thing I think they are getting from me, is the ability to approach topics thoughtfully and from different perspectives. For example, I've shown them news clips of Trump where something is being taken out of context and the MSM is screaming about it, and then I show them the full unedited clip of whatever he's saying, and they say, ".....OHHHH." So they now understand how much we are spoon-fed propaganda at every turn - from all sides! I wish I'd known that years ago - I think that's VERY important. And of course, they understand TRIBALISM.
Where that takes them...I can only guess.
I hope they turn out well-rounded and happy❤️
Hi Bridget and thank you Jenna for sharing Bridgets story!! My story is very similar- beginning in early 2019, also based on the vaccination and bodily autonomy issue for my kids. I do activist work lobbying legislators for religious exemptions to vaccines. As a life-long liberal, I was shocked and appalled when I discovered that all of the legislators pushing to remove religious exemptions were all Democrats. They were closed minded, obnoxious, high and mighty, intolerant, bitchy and discriminatory. I found myself on the receiving end of disdain and discrimination coming from the likes of one legislator who happened to be an African-American female lesbian. It was so ironic! Anyway, I quickly found my home in the Republican Party, although I deeply identify with libertarians as well. But I vote to win and so I registered Republican. I too slowly came around to DJ T, listening more closely to him and not following mainstream news, but actually listening to full speeches and full sentences. I am currently basically Maga. My one big question for Trump is, why won’t you fully show regret for operation warp speed? But the bottom line is I think everything he’s doing and the people he is surrounding himself with are absolutely miraculous and we are closer now than ever too regaining our country, our Health Freedom, getting men out of women’s sports, stopping the trans of kids, closing the borders and etc., etc. etc.. luckily I am in a purple state, a swing state that just voted for Trump and I had found my people as an activist back in 2019. Many of them are religious, all of them are Republican or independent or libertarian. (Except for the handful of my activist peers who are also ex-Democrats for the same reason.) So I had them to move through the pandemic with. I pray that you find your people or perhaps leave the place that you live. Good luck and thanks for sharing your story! Thanks Jenna!
Katania were you dealing with the nonsense in NY also?? Sounds like you found the right path! I was horrified with all of the state legislators too but not brave enough to jump like you did. How wonderful that you immediately found a community!
I hope Trump's vague questioning of Warp Speed on Truth Social the other day is the beginning of a reckoning - just a crack in the facade. I love how the suggestion of the dam breaking led to this nonsense: https://thehill.com/homenews/5484601-operation-warp-speed-nobel-trump (well, they sure know his ego right?)
Hi, I am in Nevada. So we are dealing with it to a smaller extent than some places.
It's so hard, I know. I recently even had to sever ties with a 20+ year "friend", not over the political (and moral, ethical and philosophical) divide, but because I got a very clear message about what she really thinks of me (and upon reflection, my deeper feelings about her) and I did what was almost unthinkable given how I have been treated. I won't belabor the details, but sometimes life presents you with a breakthrough moment when what (and who) is important and what is standing in the way becomes crystal clear. Life can be hard that way, but I am grateful now because it strengthened my own self-respect to release something that was only holding me back. Much courage and good fortune to you, Bridget.
here's to breakthrough moments. which I think are what lead us to finally leave childhood behind and become fully adult
I'm sorry you had to do that....I have a feeling writing and thinking about this may end up with me severing some long-term ties, too. But I like thinking about it as a breakthrough moment, or as growing up. <3
I’ve been there! I totally get it
If I see someone wearing a “Special TV Microwave Computer” bracelet I’m going to give you a high five!
I wiuld be SO delighted :)
Bridget ... *TOTALLY.* Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope I was always at least trying my best to be open-minded and in the truth, and I think often about how I came to be so "progressive" or whatever one calls it, but it does take what it takes to wake up. AND, the left has become much more extreme and much more corrupt, to put it mildly. I was born in a bluer-than-blue city and grew up, went to college, etc., etc. in the region, one of the country's bluest. I have always been "Independent" in terms of voter registration (referred to as "Unaffiliated" out here in Colorado ~ where I now am, having traded one blue habitat for another, lol).
One silver lining to our predicament is that there really is a lot else to talk about in this world, other than politics and even other than liberty and justice and truth, which are things I am disappointed/horrified to find so few understand in the first place (just my view). Among the silver linings: since they are in the overwhelming majority, it doesn't even occur to them that someone they're familiar with might be 'undercover' (ha) and it's therefore not difficult to keep one's thoughts private.
The lashing out (I LOVE your David Attenborough reference) is extreme enough that it has activated my self-protective instincts. Very sadly ~ I would say, tragically ~ it seems that EVERYONE now has PTSD, from PSYOP-19 and everything related to it, which is a hell of a lot. I sense strongly that, T-shirt colour aside (blue?? red??), our world is now a lot less safe than it was earlier in our lifetimes.
One suggestion is to look through local news publications over the past four years now (my god, four years already) to find dissidents ... I know that in my city, there WERE people fighting the school closures, the job terminations, etc., etc., the appalling mandates of every description ~ in an "out there" sort of way ~ and they got news coverage and some interviews. Also, some churches resisted (where I am, only the Catholic churches! I couldn't believe it; even the Christian Scientists were obsequious in toeing the Party line ~ I would call it disgusting except that I know they were frightened, and for good reason ... the WORST OF ALL were the most liberal, the UU's and the Quakers ... god grant us patience!, right? :) and they still have not seen the light or the truth).
GOOD LUCK with your search. Seek and ye shall find, no? Just this morning, a neighbour rushed up to me on his way to work to say, "I found another one!," meaning another kindred spirit; he had told this other neighbour about me, and wanted to tell me about this new comrade. It's too funny, in a way. In most ways, of course, NOT funny. I never imagined living to see these developments. We *will* prevail. Thanks for fighting the good fight, in whatever camouflage gear is necessary. :) Keep the faith ~ <3 <3 <3
I love your ending, "I found another one!" Actually, my ONE simpatico friend out here, when we find someone else who might at least be sympathetic, we share that info too.
Thanks for the thoughts - that's actually a great idea, looking for those who were brave enough to be profiled in some way.
This: "...there really is a lot else to talk about in this world, other than politics and even other than liberty and justice and truth..." is why I still have these people in my life, and why I still love them and am not eager to let them go. But yes, it's hard!
"Among the silver linings: since they are in the overwhelming majority, it doesn't even occur to them that someone they're familiar with might be 'undercover' (ha) and it's therefor not difficult to keep one's thoughts private." YES YES YES. Ding ding ding ding. This is it. It's easy to be undercover because they're so deep in TDS that they cannot imagine for a SECOND that someone they consider intelligent could be on that side.
I hope I find them too...and I think if I do, it may encourage me to speak up more. I just need to feel more real-time support if you know what I mean.
Thanks for posting :D
I know *exactly* what you mean ~ we all need "God with skin," as some people put it. As opposed to screens. Another thing I hold the malefactors of recent years responsible for is the receding evermore of in-person community. Naomi Wolf writes beautifully about this. Her most recent books are among the treasures that have kept me going during these past three years.
You are Not Alone! How's that for a t-shirt?
That's actually a great idea for a t-shirt :)
Bridget—almost my life as well since September 2021. ALL my closer friends are liberals. The moment I changed? I was already going through the hell of not vaccinating. My sister disowned me. I’m 77. No way was I falling for an untested shot. Right at lockdown, my daughter called (lives 1000 miles away) and announced that my adorable, bright and wonderful 14 yo granddaughter was now my grandson. I was speechless. I had no real idea what this was. The kid had ended up on the spectrum from what I’m sure was the HPV jab 3 years before. But nobody talks about it. Ever.
By 2021 my grandchild was medicated with those drugs and heading to the mutilation, which did happen at age 16. Oh, and sterilization too. Therapists and doctors were involved of course. I knew more about it by then and one day in that 2021 September I asked myself “why don’t the therapists and doctors question this. They are CHILDREN”. I actually heard that “still small voice” answer—BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL IN ON IT. Because the liberals were supporting this and championed this evil, to the point of fucking sanctuary states to destroy children—my only grandchild. I was OUT. My last vote for a democrat was 2020. I despise them with all my being. I wish for certain people to get a vaporizing revenge visited upon them ASAP. I BELIEVE they will at some time.
Absolutely no one who is not personally close to this satanic child sacrifice has any idea what it does to a family, let alone a child. The parents are threatened, gaslit and lied to. Actually told “Do you want a dead daughter or live son”. Implying suicide. My daughter was told this. I can’t wait for our democrat (the word I use now is DEMwit) local organizer rings my doorbell next fall. Yes, the one who demonized those who didn’t vax with a sneer right in front of me and referenced deplorables back in 2022. I didn’t say anything. I have ammunition now and I don’t give a flying f#@k what he thinks.I’m reaching that point. I don’t do social media. Never have. My husband still loves me after 57 years. I am comfortable with myself at this point. Thanks for this post. You are not alone. I am part of that growing coalition that joined together to get the monsters out of our lives.
This breaks my heart 💔
Incredibly sad story. The insanity!!!! The EVIL!!!! These people will pay through all eternity. The Bible talks about what will happen to those who harm children. It’s terrifying. God help them to wake up before Hell descends. 😢🙏🏻
I'm with you Jenna. This made me feel like crying.
I am crying. Its unthinkable whats happening.
Your post hit home HARD. My dear niece is profoundly learning impaired and severely autistic. She has never had a date, a relationship, or been kissed. She reads at a 2nd-grade level as a 17-year-old. She will never be able to hold a job or run a household. Yet, through school and too much online freedom, she is convinced that she is a boy. Her autistic single father, who is raising her, agrees. They have changed her name and are looking into hormone therapy and sex change surgery. She is cutting herself and drawing huge tattoos and suture marks all over her face with black magic markers. She's gained weight and weighs close to 400 lbs. Her father rewards her with facial piercings and tattoos, and she has been rewarded a LOT. If I forget and call her Madelyn, she screams at me and accuses me of sabotage and dead-naming. She is completely convinced that a sex change and 50 more facial piercings will make her happy.
Oh my heart. To live like that, I cannot even imagine (as the parent or the child or the aunt). :(
My heart breaks for this young woman. My grandkid is a sophomore at college (in a bright blue state) and manages fairly well but those horrible drugs causes him to use a cane at times. At 19. She takes antidepressants and has ulcerative colitis now and given more drugs. We are both artistic and nature lovers. I feel closer and she said once she feels safer out in our rural area with us. Makes me cry. I pray and worry so much. Also, there may be a time when his parents realize what they have let happen. Not sure though but if they do I fear for them as well plus all are totally vaxxed with everything. I’m sorry if I have brought this up. Bridget is so strong and seeing the right things, like all of us here. Change is coming. Reckoning is looming. Blessings and safety for your niece. The vulnerable are preyed upon. They will pay.
I'm at a loss for words, heartbreaking.
Oh Victoria. Oh my gosh. This is heartbreaking 💔 I am so sorry.
Another wicked strategy by Satan: the use of the PC term “deadnaming”. When we call you by the name given at birth that matches your true gender, we are lifting you up in life, in reality. Truth always sets us free … and truth is life! Not death. But this evil flips it into death. The prior identity has been killed. Satan celebrates. Twisted and sick. His minions point fingers that we are deadnaming projecting their own act of murder onto the parent ur anyone else that objects.
Then they have the audacity to shame confused parents with “do you want a dead son or a living daughter?” I’m sorry, but wasn’t it THEM that declared they already killed the son? If deadnaming means the old identity is dead? If a he is now a she then the son is ALREADY dead - and if he is still contemplating becoming a she and parents object, they ask that question knowing the parent isn’t the one killing the son but them, so how can they ask that question? Because most people blame the parents if it happens at all and this just persecutes them even more. They want to guilt the parent into being responsible for that death that THEY planned for their child, escaping blame for themselves. When things get so convoluted like that it’s a sign evil is working among us. Satan loves this wickedness towards God’s designs.
Gosh just explaining makes it convoluted to read!
It’s all so evil and ugly. I can barely contain my rage.
OMG I’m so sorry to hear this and I give you props for staying strong and true to your beliefs which is hard to do with all the lia-aria going on and brainwashing. Makes me want to live on another planet. So sad how far we’ve fallen as a nation when we can’t even protect our most vulnerable 😩😢
I am so sorry you are going through this. I lift you and your family to the LORD, God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth for hope and healing.
I’m so sorry and I admire your fortitude ❤️
Similar issue with my daughter and her children/friends child. I think they see it as evolution. Evolving past the old boy/girl templates. Not allowing tomboys, but if you have masculine traits that you must have surgery to 'fix them'. The basic rule of evolution... "It only works if the mutant gets laid". If you can't pass the trait on to you children, it isn't evolution.
Some of this is social conditioning and some I believe it chemicals in our environment. Atrazine will make frogs change their gender. This is a common pesticide used on our foods (corn and soy). If you drink soda with high fructose corn syrup, you are getting dosed.
I suspect you are correct. I think there is a strong 'fad' going on, too. They want to belong so badly to this group. Adolescence is difficult, and this craziness is pushed as a 'cure'. A permanent 'cure' to a temporary problem. There should be a special place in hell for these people who prey on and destroy children.
I am so sorry for your family. I will be praying for all of you.
Oh my gosh Janet 😭😭😭😭 I am SO SORRY. It's horrible seeing it happen to strangers - I can only imagine how absolutely gutted you felt to have to watch that happen and not to be able to do anything.
You are so strong. Sending you so many hugs.
Oh, Janet, this is heart-wrending. May God help your beloved granddaughter and bring his healing to her. And to the rest of your family.
Grace to you. 🙏
Bridget, reach out to Naomi Wolf. She made the jump, and said she lost many of her friends. See how she coped. She HAS said that she's found MANY MORE authentic and real friends and tons of support! Thank you for being brave. See Jenna's book for many more brave people who stood up to the nonsense. Many have email addresses and substacks. I hope you find kindred souls amongst them.
Thank you! I follow her. Honestly watching what she's gone through (and Sasha Stone) is part of what makes the "reveal" so scary. I do know the best way to find your real people is through living your truth. Just, scary :) But great idea re Jenna's book!
I would add.... think about what you gain from your current friendships, and why you are fearful of their reactions. Is it an echo chamber of cognitive dissonance? What's the impact on you? Or your kids? (btw, your courage for your kids is admirable!)
Seek for what's most important, not just important.
It's a valid point.
I started writing a response and instead I'm just going to think about this today.
Oh yeah, Sasha Stone is worthy to follow as well. I feel for both Sasha and Naomi Wolf.
Bridget, I’m so glad Jenna didn’t cut hardly anything out of your spotlight. Brilliantly written, and so heartfelt. Your story could be mine, except that I didn’t recover from TDS until the plandemic hit. I even voted for Biden and was thrilled that he won. I hosted a whole group of people from New England to March in the women’s March the first time Trump got in. Now those same friends can’t deal with me.
Recently, I started feeling longing for friends I could see in person, because I was plum out of those. Like you, my only friends I could really talk to about this stuff were on sub stack.
I think longing is like prayer and it can bring you what you want. Last week I went for a walk with someone who is actually a descendent of someone I wrote a book about, and it turns out she thinks exactly the way I do. She is black and super conservative about every issue out there. We walked and talked for hours, something I used to do with my best friend whom I recently came out to, and I’m now being ghosted by.
Then yesterday I was invited to a party where I was afraid the talk might turn to liberal politics. There was one woman there who said a few things that maybe made me think she might not be liberal. So I got brave and when she and I were in a room together I said something Positive about Trump. She widened her eyes and looked at me and said thank you! And we then dove into a lovely conversation. She is Iranian and very conservative as it turns out.
There are people out there, they’re just hidden because “Trump supporter” is a dirty word. I wish you Godspeed in your journey toward in-person, friends. Keep your longing, and your prayers, alive.
—Eli (also a pseudonym 😎)
😊💕
Oh wow. That is wonderful re your new friend!
I love "longing is like prayer" - what a beautiful way to put it. You're making me realize that I haven't spent enough time trying to will a like-minded social group into being. EXCEPT for writing this! Spending the time thinking about this really had me zooming in on what it feels like to live this way, and how much I don't like it. I think the end result may be me "coming out" to more of my friends & family. I really don't want to lose them, but living this split existence feels so unpleasant and so intellectually dishonest, even though it's self-preservation -- I have a LOT of thinking to do.
Interestingly, there's a couple that I know from my kid's school that I THINK must have voted for DJT, bc their kid was the only classmate who wasn't freaking out after the election, and actually said a few sort of supportive things. I've been trying to figure out how to broach the topic with them...
🙏
"Hey, my kid noticed that your kid was pretty calm after the election, like he was. Seemed like most of the kids were pretty upset. ...."
Is there a medical liberty group in your state that might have members in your proximity? Stand for Health Freedom is nationwide with state chapters.
I'm going to look into it :)
Great idea...I shoulda said that to them sooner!
I think you’re on your way to finding your tribe! 😁
Here's hoping. I guess there's no reason not to. Worst case scenario they're like, "ewww are you kidding? Why would we vote for him??" and I'm like "haha oh I have no idea, these crazy kids," and then on to the next one :P
lol. Or just try a mild positive statement about Trump or what the administration is doing, and see how it flies. It really feels like you've put the request out there and friends a zooming toward you :)
You make a fine point. I've DEFINITELY put the desire into the universe now!!! <3 :D
Yes!! Btw, it sounds like your kids are back in school? Did you find a way around the stupid mandates?
That is so Awesome! 🤩
Bridget, I cannot imagine what you put yourself through, regularly, for the sake of your friends, but I do know that it is hope that impels you: hope that, somehow, they too can find what you have found. I could wish that I could do it, but my poor self-control skills would sabotage it next-to-immediately and I would be relegated to living on the edge of my former society. Whatever your pain, I hope you cope. You are the shield around your children--who probably have to be instructed about being drawn into dangerous discussions with non-family. (Your situation feels like one under an oppressive regime with spies everywhere.)
Feel our love through these comments. Ask yourself "to what end?" you were marching in your former state, and compare it to the path you are on now. Clearer? (God bless.)
(Postscript: Bridget sounds like one for "Ottumwa in '26!", ey, Jenna??)
<3 This is more helpful than you know. And yes, I do hope that they can find a different path. The problem is, without my having being FORCED into the role of "other," I'm not sure I WOULD have found my way here. I hate to say it, but if my kids hadn't been kicked out of school, I might still be over there with them. So I'm not sure what I can do, really...other than watch and wait for openings. (That amazing library that Metta Zetty posted about is a start...I'm going to see if I can find some pages I could keep at the ready to push at them, if the chance arises.)
Yes, the kids part is SO DIFFICULT - they do know to keep quiet - during the pandemic, they had to hear teachers & peers talking about how the unvaxxed are a scourge, and even sometimes now (especially under RFK) vaccine talk is starting up again. It's brutal. I cannot IMAGINE having to hold that at their age - it's horrible at MY age. But the reality is, some peers would shun them (why are we living here, again?) - though probably fewer now than before. I think at this point many would just shrug. I miss the days when private medical decisions were, well, private, and people (let alone kids!! Why did kids get pulled into this!?!) didn't discuss this stuff.
Pray.
You, in point of fact, are an answer to prayer. You were "tripped up" and had your knees skinned as a result of someone's prayer. The pain led to a re-thinking. The re-thinking led to a... and, and and.
It started with someone praying that others could, also, be awakened and see.
So, just, pray.
It will NOT be DONALD Almighty who restores human sanity... ;^)
I guess this is as good as any place for me to add my humble opinions and experience! Thank you, David for the most awesome (sounding like a Gen Z!) lead-in: PRAY 🙏
Bravo, to your courage and bravery, Bridget. Bravo for taking the high road for your sweet babies! Just, BRAVO!!
I have read many comments here and reading/connecting/engaging with Naomi, Sasha Stone, Margaret Anna Alice, and many others is the comfort blanket/invisible cloak needed for the present storm. It’s a very slow process some of us have had to endure for years now.
Although, I didn't have such a massive political shift, I did have a HUGE paradigm transformation that keeps making twists and turns! I lost/dumped/relinquished the majority of my friends over the last few years. The isolation was, at times unbearable. I, too, found solace and friends here on Substack!
Prayer and praying has been my greatest invisible cloak. No one has provided me with more support, armour, love, and guidance. DJT is not the Almighty and cannot solve or unravel all the injustices.
I don't have any simple answers as to finding your tribe locally. I, too, live in a Cobalt blue coastal town of insane morons. I have found a few people to commiserate with, but the ultimate answer for hubby and I is selling and getting the hell out of this god forsaken hellish state!
We are all here to listen, love, and support you in your journey! 🙏❤️💯💥🔥
“I lost/dumped/relinquished the majority of my friends over the last few years.”
Kat - relinquished is such a great word. I can relate.
I live in Ohio. People say it’s red but it’s really purple.
Perhaps the red in it enabled me to find a huge tribe of like-minded people. Most notably, my church with a congregation of over 400 - the overwhelming majority being wide awake. When you have a pastor that openly says the shots are killing people, it tends to weed out those that are still asleep.
Finding my faith again saved me. In more ways than just one.
Haha 😁 awesome - thanks for posting! God is GOOD 👍
Amen, Laura!
Thanks, Laura. Relinquishing people is truly empowering; a surrendering of sorts. I used to see the “red flags” and literally try to ignore them, thinking that by ignoring the bad behaviour, it might magically vanish! Duh! It never does, and in most cases, it gets far worse, which leads to “dumping.”
You are very fortunate to have a good and wise pastor. I enjoy my new church, but there aren’t those types of sermons or discussions.
Ditto, here with respect to renewing my faith!
100%! What a hero you are, Bridget, for protecting your kiddos!
Great mom, indeed. 💟
Welcome aboard, Bridget! I find it incredibly sad that friend and family relationships have been severed due to politics and the plandemic. (The Politics of the Plandemic….great book name!)
I also have come to the realization that that is the end goal….to keep us divided. By any means necessary. The gift of getting older is seeing and understanding more clearly. You gave me something to think about with your thought of how to identify non-rabid, like-minded people to actually be face-to-face with socially. Take solace in the fact that you have found your like-minded tribe here! 😃
And we all love Jenna! She’s a gem in these troubling times!
Jeff Childers of coffee and COVID.com (who is amazing!) calls that purposeful divide, the “wedge”. He wrote a great substack about it a few weeks back and it was excellent!
I love Jeff's stack!
Thank you for the heads up! I’ll check it out. ♥️
Was ‘the wedge’ written on a Sunday, cuz I missed it if wasn’t?
I’d love to hear his take.
I loved it so much I saved it in my notes:
“ Remember: The deep state doesn’t need tanks or tribunals. Its chief soft-power weapon has always been the wedge issue— deployed not to persuade, but to divide, demoralize, and atomize the population into manageable identity fragments. It doesn’t matter what the wedge is: race, gender, climate panic, flag etiquette, vaccines, eastern European wars, or gas stoves. The point isn’t resolution; it’s friction. Pick a pressure point, drive in a rhetorical crowbar, and crack the body politic open like a boiled clam. Then serve the chaos cold with a side of astroturfed protest.
This is the technique. The agencies and their NGO handmaidens have mastered the art of weaponized empathy— deploying just enough moral outrage to make compromise impossible, then stepping back to watch the public eat itself alive over whatever shiny wedge they’ve chosen this round. Whenever a particular wedge starts to dull, they just sharpen up a new one. They always have another clam in the pot.”
Jeff Childers
AJoy, thank you so much. Jeff never disappoints!
Yes - I think the internet comes with a HUGE set of problems. But for community in these crazy times - it's priceless.
I need to reiterate, Jeff Childers coffee and Covid Substack is a wonderful breath of fresh air, positive and winning. I've never felt negative after reading his almost daily emails. Highly recommended!
Thanks for the recc!
I have made 2 tangible human friends from the commenters on C&C. Forever friends and we have met for lunch or breakfast. Even gotten together with our hubs.
I think you're right. The division is only getting stronger and deeper. And if I have to choose a side, it's definitely this one.
Isn't it just the weirdest thing?? You would think, with all the news coming out about all the things, people would start lining up behind the truth of the matters. But, nope. It is making everyone move farther apart. I was recently at my mom's in CA and one of her neighbor's daughter's was visiting her dad. She hailed me from her front yard and mentioned she was a conservative during our conversation. I asked her what made her say that and she told me it was seeing my Idaho license plate and thought we might have that in common. Turns out she was correct!!
Excellent article!
So much describes me (though I hold nothing back) and many people around me (who are afraid to post their true thoughts). Posting this anonymous still makes an impact. It still gets the word of sanity out into the world. Thank you 'Bridget' for doing so.
I wrote an article for myself during the pandemic titled "I recently lost my daughter" and it was a description of her slide into the psychosis while leaving the assumption that she was dead (first she lost her ability to think and talk..). She didn't speak to my wife or I for a whole year. Now she speaks to us, but we must avoid certain topics. This included access to our two grandchildren, one of which must be addressed as 'they' and I instead use her name instead. She wears dresses often so it is more of a 'you are doing it wrong' control issue from my daughter. Righteous indignation is the word I give it. She feels 'better than us' for having screaming compassion for her 'chosen family'.
As for how to cope with this, I think for some people, there is no hope of getting them out of the psychosis and you have to balance self censorship and keeping them in your life. For others, there is and humor is the best way. When talking about Covid for example, dropping little lines like "If this keeps up, only 98% of us will survive" or "Please advance 6 feet forward in line to the next previously infected bubble.". It makes people think and those that respond and laugh are your true friends. Further conversation with them will be fruitful. Those that don't laugh may think about it, but will probably walk away.
Wow I’m so sorry to hear this about your family. Truly heartbreaking and evil what the lying media and politicians have done to our children and their parents.
Something I can never forgive and certainly a reflection on our broken country…how far we have fallen 😩😢
Oh my gosh, this is so awful. I am so sorry you have had to experience this with your daughter and your grandchildren. <3
It sounds like you have a wonderful (and realistic) attitude. And yes for humor - always.
Oh Bridget. My heart goes out to you.
Your openness and honesty is heartbreaking as well as heartwarming.
God bless you. 🙏🙏🙏
I put up a Trump sign in my yard, and over the next week, all my neighbors were showing their own Trump yard signs.
There was only one Trump sign in this entire area and every time I drove past, I thought, I should probably meet that person...but naturally was too scared to do it. I wish I remembered what house it was.
Nice to meet you Bridget!!!
This is a most excellent post once again, Jenna, and Bridget! Seems like you've caught some of Jenna's awesome humor, and yes, the memes totally rocked in with this storyline!
The entire time I spent reading this I was thinking from the beginning when you questioned your own stance and basically your identity, an old saying, "be yourself, because everyone else is already taken" hahahaha!!!
That is so VERY true. But I can be a Special TV Microwave Computer :)
“Atta girl” Bridget! You will find your people as we are out here. I’ve lost many friends and family since being more vocal about my beliefs. I ask a few questions of people to see where they are at, like “did you get the booster?” It speaks volumes of their belief system. It’s like speed dating. You get their response and stay and chat or move on to “next.” This Substack is certainly a respite from the crazy news and worldviews. It has saved my sanity at times knowing that there are people out there with similar values and opinions.
Haha with speed dating. You should see me on dating sites. swipe left - swipe left - swipe left - in my case, it's 99% because they say they're "liberal," or say "no MAGA" or something about DJT. Even if I'm not MAGA, that ain't the mindset for me. Oh, and the people who still say "fully vaccinated" or "trust in science." NO THANK YOU
I can’t even be in the same room with a lot of “fully vaccinated” people as the shedding adversely affects me. Dr. Kory figured that out for me.
I Iive in MA, sadly, but I spend most of my time at our lake house in NH where people aren’t Covid crazy like MA. It’s embarrassing to admit where I live as MA is such a woke state. I’ve always been a liberal until Covid hit and now I can’t stand them. My tribe is very small these days.
Oh gosh then you definitely couldn't live here...Hooboy! Guessing you don't live in a blue area!
Bridget, thanks for sharing your story. It really helps to know we’re not alone. I too held my nose and voted for Trump because I wanted the censorship to end (which I’m still waiting for) and I wanted Kennedy to clean up the corruption and shine the light of truth on vaccines! It’s been rocky and rough and I’ve lost lots of friends. But at least I’m more open minded, open hearted, a better listener and with more compassion!
YES. This is exactly what my vote was about. Both of those things! Especially RFK. I was desperately hoping for a CDC cleanup...we are SLOOOOWLY working our way towards that...of course, it's making the left more rabid than ever, but we NEED the spotlight on this stuff, even if almost no one who isn't already in the know can bear to look at it.
I have a lot of info on my life as a conservative in the Boomer years, but I will just say, "Atta girl Bridget!" because you have given me one more sliver of hope for all those younger generations. Thank you!
Well, I'm not sure about the generations after Gen X 🤣🤣 Gen Z's pretty locked into the trans ideology. But, the pendulum swings...
Bridget! So glad to see you profiled here. 😄
I so want to see your crafty side ~ and my first (half-way serious) idea for how you can find other like-minded folks, is to add a bit of Miss Information into your wardrobe!
> https://shessoright.co/search?q=miss+information&options%5Bprefix%5D=last
FWIW, they used to have a great little hat, but it looks like it's no longer in stock:
> https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1307178843329548
LOVE THOSE!!! 👏👏👏
Thought you might!
Reminds me of your comment (some time ago) about packing pink heat in your purse! 😉👍
Bridget ~ Here are a couple more ideas for finding kindred spirits locally
> Advocacy Groups (Medical/Health Freedom, etc.)
-- https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/7378d75e28be
> This collection of vaccine resources for parents includes a wide variety of resources that might allow you to connect with other parents, including homeschooling parents
-- https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/ff259b3691e7
oh my gosh these are really amazing. Thank you.
Hope it helps! 💖
hahahahahaha, I've never seen that! That's tempting :)
Move over, Bridget. You've got company in the neither-fish-nor-fowl zone. My metamorphosis from total liberal to hybrid began with global warming. I just could not understand how a trace gas at the foundation of the food chain suddenly morphs into a planet killer. I watched people I thought I respected refuse to debate the issue because "the science is settled." My ass it is. Then came the COVID spider, and almost the entire medical profession broke the first tenet of the Hippocratic oath by refusing to look for existing treatments for ill patients because they were waiting for vaccine salvation. They hemmed and hawed and people died. My entire family took the vaccine. I did not and never will. Now I filter every claim from all sides with the question, "What's the real agenda here?"
Funny how the entire field of environmental concerns was quite suddenly kettled into "CO2 man made climate change".
Yup. Follow the money. Who benefits from that bait and switch?
My thoughts exactly. Anyone who paid attention in elementary science class knew it was BS. Can’t understand why “plant more trees” wasn’t the logical choice. Or rather cease razing acres of trees.
Planting trees is great, provided you choose trees that are native to the locale where you are planting them.
Agreed
Have you tried going to church to meet like minded people? Maybe all the churches in blue hell holes are woke?
They 100% are woke. In fact one local hullaballoo was someone who was at a VERY progressive church and raised the idea of trans ideology harming kids - and long story short, he was kicked out of the church.
Yikes. Shepherds for sale is a great book about how the church has been infiltrated by communists
That's interesting. I live in the woke blue hell hole that is the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
But not all of the churches here are woke. Maybe it's a difference between East and West Coast blue cities, but in LA, at least there are easily reached suburbs that lean conservative. I have found evangelical churches to be welcoming and like-minded (although there is still caution, knowing they are under siege surrounded by enemies).
I would think that even in NYC there might be a few remnants of churches like this... Staten Island, Long Island?
But perhaps not. I could certainly understand if conservative Christians have all left. I had a conservative Christian friend who lived in Manhattan, and he ultimately moved away primarily because the church he attended moved too far left politically.
Yeah def would not be easy to find in the NYC metro area. I think you're right that probably on Staten Island (where not all is woke) or pockets of Long Island - there's still some red out thataway!
"Woke PLUS," because they have the whole righteousness thing going, in high gear. C.S. Lewis opined, in "God in the Dock," published in 1970, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
WOW - that is VERY VERY apt for the left huh??