These people will find anything, any reason at all, to fan the flames of their agenda. It's asinine and I hope more and more people wake up to the reality that life isn't supposed to always go 100% in your favor. Get a life.
This is an extremely important point! "Absolute power" can be wonderfully beneficial, but it also can be extremely dangerous. We humans need to learn balance!
And if we don’t start codifying some very important things (like voter ID and no mail-in ballots for example) it is exactly what we can guarantee happening at the next “regime change”.
The overarching question is: Why can't we just ignore these misguided creatures? We can acknowledge them, ("Yes person, we have different books than you are accustomed to. But we also have another aisle you can walk down. Yes, it does lead to the basement, but you may find it more to your liking since the lights are off." But as a store manager or a corporate person, let's not give them attention.
A call for unity and grace in on this day memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools."
"The person down the street who votes differently than you is not your enemy. They are your neighbor. They worry about the same things you worry about. They want their kids to be safe and their bills to be paid and their country to be a place worth living in. They have been manipulated just like you have been manipulated, fed a different flavor of the same poison, sorted into a different tribe by the same algorithm, pointed at you as the enemy by the same people who point you at them.
The working class Republican and the working class Democrat have more in common with each other than either of them has with the billionaire class that funds both parties.
You share the same struggles. You face the same rigged systems. You are being crushed by the same economic forces that have transferred more wealth upward in the last fifty years than at any point in human history. And instead of uniting against the people doing this to you, you are screaming at each other on the internet about pronouns and flags and whatever fresh outrage the algorithm served up this morning.
This is exactly what they want. A nation at war with itself cannot resist a takeover. A people consumed by mutual hatred will accept any authority that promises to protect them from the manufactured enemy. Every empire that fell was divided before it was conquered. Every free people who lost their freedom were set against each other first.
The red versus blue war is not real. It is a show put on by people who own both teams. It is professional wrestling and you think it is a real fight. The wrestlers go backstage after the match and laugh together while you are still screaming at the guy in the other section who was rooting for the wrong character.
This Is Our Country Not Theirs
This nation belongs to the people who live here and work here and raise families here and will be buried here. It does not belong to billionaires who hold citizenship in three countries and will flee to their bunkers the moment things get bad. It does not belong to tech oligarchs who view democracy as an obstacle to efficiency. It does not belong to foreign interests who have purchased so much influence that they might as well be writing our laws themselves.
We have to stop letting them divide us. We have to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again instead of enemy combatants in a culture war that was manufactured to keep us weak. We have to remember that the person screaming at us online is also a victim of the same manipulation, and maybe if we stopped screaming back and started talking, we might realize we have been fighting the wrong enemy this entire time.
Turn off the television. It is not informing you. It is programming you. Question everything, including the sources you trust, especially the sources you trust. Talk to people who disagree with you and do it without trying to win. Listen to why they believe what they believe. You might discover that the monster you have been told to hate is actually just another person trying to make sense of a confusing world with imperfect information, exactly like you.
Remember who you are.
You are an American. Your ancestors came to this land or were brought to this land or were already on this land, and regardless of how they got here, they built something together that was supposed to be different from the old world’s tyrannies and aristocracies. That project is not finished. Every generation has to fight to keep it alive against the forces that want to drag us back to a world where a handful of rulers own everything and everyone else serves at their pleasure.
Stop letting them divide you. Your enemies are not your neighbors. Your enemies are the people who profit from your division and are building machines to replace you the moment you are no longer useful.
Start acting like it before it is too late". —The Wise Wolf
We will respectfully agree to disagree. You cannot reason or compromise with the fanatic left. They are mentally ill and nothing positive or productive comes from that.
I was in a B&N in Stamford CT last week. There was a large table with Kamala's book on display. I'm proud to say that it did not trigger me, lol.
These poor people need to get a grip and move on. I feel sorry for them because the woke BS is what they are "fed" every day on their social media apps.
But think of the poor trees that died so that Kamala's book could be printed! A tragedy! Definitely a tragedy. Organize a protest! Have a tantrum! Make a Tik Tok video! 😇
Shsssh... don't tell the trees about my personal library. {grin} Not all of my books are good books either! I'm sort of like a bookstore... a bit of this, a bit of that. Reading that which you don't agree with can be educational. However, you won't be finding me buying a book on Kamala!
John, a tragic waste indeed considering that the general sense of Special K's book could be gathered without damage to trees by simply going to any-random-place-that-already-has-some-books and reading random snippets from books opened at random.
There is a bookstore in Wellesley, MA that doesn’t sell a lot of the books that I want. I used to love this place until the Plandemic. I wanted to buy The War on Ivermectin and a few others on my list. They didn’t carry them so I asked them to order them. They were reluctant to do so, but did. I stopped going there because they had a ridiculous mask policy as well as only a few people could enter the store at one time. I occasionally call and ask for some books I know they won’t carry. I order from Amazon or directly from the author or publisher.
I called my library and asked them if they had The War on ivermectin. Of course they did not. So I asked them to order it for me and suggested to the guy that he read it.
I never went in to pick it up. And I never planned to 😃
I suggested to my library that they order "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 by Ed Dowd... And to my amazement they did!!! - In Canada - Nova Scotia LingOL - I went to request to read it and I was 7th in the queue haha!
Since books began to be published about vaccines and the m-RNA shots in particular, I have been placing them in our library in memory of people I am convinced who died from those shots. Our library removed all its Dr. Seuss books, so I can't be certain whether the books I bought are actually on the shelves.
You might see if you can talk to the owner and just (very politely and respectfully) let them know why you no longer shop there. It may not change anything but you represent a percentage of their potential customer base and they may not otherwise be aware of what is happening. It can be difficult as a business owner to determine why traffic is down.
Your post,Jenna, reminded me of a recent display of Left Wing-Ding butt hurt: a Minneapolis anti-ICE mob went after a legal immigrant who was wearing a shirt with the word FREEDOM on it. Apparently supporting freedom means you're a Nazi or a racist or MAGA.
I have reached a level of complete exhaustion and intolerance of these woke retards. How are they actually inhaling oxygen on their own and not on an iron lung? They’re too stupid to be breathing. These retards need to get out and get a hobby or maybe do something to give back to the community. Go pick up some litter. Go clean up the waterways. Volunteer at a retirement home. Do something useful other than Constantly pointing out how everything offends them. It’s old, it’s boring and I’m so fucking tired of it.
"So instead we get a too-familiar series of events."
With an important ommission! Where is the gofundme to help her adjust? I am going to set one up later. For now, just send cash directly to me. I'll get it to the poor lass somehow later. 😂
When I first read this line: “The poor thing may have sprained something in her race . . .” I read “race” as a noun instead of a verb- and wondered (for a brief instant) how one sprained their race - although I do think we’ve seen lots of evidence of people spraining the whole race issue. Brilliant as usual, Jenna. I don’t know what we’d all do without your sane - and hilarious - take on the world these days.
Yet another reason I'll never have a Tik Tok account.
Let us hope that sanity reigns and bookstores remain able to sell books without nutcases having a mental breakdown (and potentially doing something violent or illegal).
she didn't like the books, she wanted them removed. isn't that book banning? she wants them banned because she knows they might change minds, not because they're indecent, immoral, or wrong - she disagrees with them, she sees them as a threat to her world view, which means her world view is actually hanging by a thread.
Yes, it is book banning. They do not do "contradiction" well. For them the Constitution is all about "their" rights. They haven't "caught the vision" that their opponents' rights are also protected--identically.
I’m sorry, I’m getting a severe case of Idiot Fatigue. Normal, live-and-let-live folks like me are rapidly reaching the point of STFU! My libertarian leanings are leaning farther and farther to the Shove It I Don’t Care About Your Feelings mode. If getting what they wish for wasn’t so damaging to the rest of us sane folks, I’d wish they could live in a world of their own making. They have no idea of the horror they would create. They think their world was so great under the last administration, but what they don’t realize is that it is only because of the roadblocks conservatives placed on their agenda that we had any semblance of civility at all. So yeah, I’m done with tolerance.
Barnes and noble used to be one of my favorite hangout places... I loved the diversity and richness of the literature they featured. The past few years however, it's been so disappointing and unfulfilling because they now feature so much weirdness and not as much depth. Never realized I should call corporate and complain!
Same here. I used to love the peace and serenity of Barnes and Noble. But then about 5 years ago it seemed that all their books were left wing. Did i make a Tik Tok proclaiming my outrage? No i did not. I just quietly quit and have not been back.
I had to use them to order a book that Amazon didn't stock locally, but wouldn't say that. It kept throwing address errors, and I finally had to call when it happened across 3 computers, 2 accounts and 5 different browsers.
The book? "And Then They Prayed" by Barry Loudermilk.
Is an incredible book about how prayer was invoked and used to bring about miraculous events in military history.
The shipping from B&N seemed rather excessive. Not sure if it's their standard cost, or if they check Amazon on the back end, see the error, and charge more because you can't get it otherwise, if I live in a "rich" area, if it was a book that's "not approved", or it was close to the holidays.
‘So much weirdness and not enough depth’ honestly describes all discourse in our society these days. No depth, no nuance, just surface level ideas that can be thrown around to inflame.
These people will find anything, any reason at all, to fan the flames of their agenda. It's asinine and I hope more and more people wake up to the reality that life isn't supposed to always go 100% in your favor. Get a life.
It's devolved into a simple process to get "likes" on tiktok.
So performative vacuity.
Two years ago, she might have had a chance of gettng B&N to commit public penance. I suspect we're past that these days.
America is naturally socially conservative - we've just been hijacked by idiots. We're reversing course as we speak.
From your lips to God's ears, my friend. I pray you're right.
And it's key to remember that a "100% your way" system can easily flip to a "100% against you" system because the infrastructure is already in place.
This is an extremely important point! "Absolute power" can be wonderfully beneficial, but it also can be extremely dangerous. We humans need to learn balance!
True story.
Truth. But don't let the left know that. It might cause some common sense.
That would be the definition of a 2 party system!
And if we don’t start codifying some very important things (like voter ID and no mail-in ballots for example) it is exactly what we can guarantee happening at the next “regime change”.
What? You mean I can't "win" every single time? Oh, say it isn't so! I'm such a victim. 😇
{sarcasm}
John, your participation trophy is in the mail and should be arriving shortly. 😂
I shall treasure it forever! 🏆
As you should.
If you lose an argument;
"I'm the victim"
If sane people disagree with you;
"I'm the victim".
The left owns victimhood...
To lose an argument, you'd have to make one.
Not something the Left is interested in anymore.
Some find it easier to scream, call names, and chant mindless slogans than to pause and think.
...while preaching victimizing everyone who disagrees.
There are actual grown ass adults out there that have never been told "NO". Hard to believe, but true. ( got the sarcasm, but I just had to say this)
Adults in age only, not in mentality.
Or had a real (or any) job.
Set up a GoFundMe account you poor poor pitiful soul!
WIC = Whining Industrial Complex
omgosh....seriously!! I love that. Trademark that.
😂
Love this Skenny. Going to borrow it if you don't mind.
The overarching question is: Why can't we just ignore these misguided creatures? We can acknowledge them, ("Yes person, we have different books than you are accustomed to. But we also have another aisle you can walk down. Yes, it does lead to the basement, but you may find it more to your liking since the lights are off." But as a store manager or a corporate person, let's not give them attention.
Went to my local B&N to buy a NKJV bible. That section wasn’t in the basement but it was as close to the floor as the shelving would allow. 😖
of course they were. I will never do business with bn again. Rather buy from the author or their company and not through a leftist corp.
I agree with that completely, but unfortunately the rest of the woke people don't. It's their time to shine when it comes to complaining.
when you have no self esteem or self worth, you seek your 15 minutes of fame anywhere you can get it.
A call for unity and grace in on this day memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools."
"The person down the street who votes differently than you is not your enemy. They are your neighbor. They worry about the same things you worry about. They want their kids to be safe and their bills to be paid and their country to be a place worth living in. They have been manipulated just like you have been manipulated, fed a different flavor of the same poison, sorted into a different tribe by the same algorithm, pointed at you as the enemy by the same people who point you at them.
The working class Republican and the working class Democrat have more in common with each other than either of them has with the billionaire class that funds both parties.
You share the same struggles. You face the same rigged systems. You are being crushed by the same economic forces that have transferred more wealth upward in the last fifty years than at any point in human history. And instead of uniting against the people doing this to you, you are screaming at each other on the internet about pronouns and flags and whatever fresh outrage the algorithm served up this morning.
This is exactly what they want. A nation at war with itself cannot resist a takeover. A people consumed by mutual hatred will accept any authority that promises to protect them from the manufactured enemy. Every empire that fell was divided before it was conquered. Every free people who lost their freedom were set against each other first.
The red versus blue war is not real. It is a show put on by people who own both teams. It is professional wrestling and you think it is a real fight. The wrestlers go backstage after the match and laugh together while you are still screaming at the guy in the other section who was rooting for the wrong character.
This Is Our Country Not Theirs
This nation belongs to the people who live here and work here and raise families here and will be buried here. It does not belong to billionaires who hold citizenship in three countries and will flee to their bunkers the moment things get bad. It does not belong to tech oligarchs who view democracy as an obstacle to efficiency. It does not belong to foreign interests who have purchased so much influence that they might as well be writing our laws themselves.
We have to stop letting them divide us. We have to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again instead of enemy combatants in a culture war that was manufactured to keep us weak. We have to remember that the person screaming at us online is also a victim of the same manipulation, and maybe if we stopped screaming back and started talking, we might realize we have been fighting the wrong enemy this entire time.
Turn off the television. It is not informing you. It is programming you. Question everything, including the sources you trust, especially the sources you trust. Talk to people who disagree with you and do it without trying to win. Listen to why they believe what they believe. You might discover that the monster you have been told to hate is actually just another person trying to make sense of a confusing world with imperfect information, exactly like you.
Remember who you are.
You are an American. Your ancestors came to this land or were brought to this land or were already on this land, and regardless of how they got here, they built something together that was supposed to be different from the old world’s tyrannies and aristocracies. That project is not finished. Every generation has to fight to keep it alive against the forces that want to drag us back to a world where a handful of rulers own everything and everyone else serves at their pleasure.
Stop letting them divide you. Your enemies are not your neighbors. Your enemies are the people who profit from your division and are building machines to replace you the moment you are no longer useful.
Start acting like it before it is too late". —The Wise Wolf
Thank you for posting this, TriTorch It is brilliant and so true.
Thank you Eli, it is a segment of a larger and outstanding analysis here: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/everything-you-watch-or-read-is-owned
I think you will find that more than worth your time.
Professional wrestling…perfect.
Please tell this to this person offended by a book and all of her entitled liberal friends. The rest of us ARE willing!
Not gonna happen anymore. Wish that it could.
Sure it can Lori, one step at a time:
To put one brick upon another,
Add a third and then a forth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether,
What you do has any worth.
But to sit with bricks around you,
While the winds of monsoons bawl,
Weighing what you should or can do,
Leaves no doubt of it at all. —Philip Larken
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing when you can only do a little, do what you can.”
If everyone did that ^ we could take this country back in a groundswell
We will respectfully agree to disagree. You cannot reason or compromise with the fanatic left. They are mentally ill and nothing positive or productive comes from that.
I was in a B&N in Stamford CT last week. There was a large table with Kamala's book on display. I'm proud to say that it did not trigger me, lol.
These poor people need to get a grip and move on. I feel sorry for them because the woke BS is what they are "fed" every day on their social media apps.
But think of the poor trees that died so that Kamala's book could be printed! A tragedy! Definitely a tragedy. Organize a protest! Have a tantrum! Make a Tik Tok video! 😇
Hahaha, good one!
Shsssh... don't tell the trees about my personal library. {grin} Not all of my books are good books either! I'm sort of like a bookstore... a bit of this, a bit of that. Reading that which you don't agree with can be educational. However, you won't be finding me buying a book on Kamala!
John, a tragic waste indeed considering that the general sense of Special K's book could be gathered without damage to trees by simply going to any-random-place-that-already-has-some-books and reading random snippets from books opened at random.
A tragedy indeed. The trees have more worth providing oxygen instead of sucking it away from all of us every time her mouth opens.
Exactly!
kamala who?
I know right. One just does not purchase something one is not interested in.
There is a bookstore in Wellesley, MA that doesn’t sell a lot of the books that I want. I used to love this place until the Plandemic. I wanted to buy The War on Ivermectin and a few others on my list. They didn’t carry them so I asked them to order them. They were reluctant to do so, but did. I stopped going there because they had a ridiculous mask policy as well as only a few people could enter the store at one time. I occasionally call and ask for some books I know they won’t carry. I order from Amazon or directly from the author or publisher.
I called my library and asked them if they had The War on ivermectin. Of course they did not. So I asked them to order it for me and suggested to the guy that he read it.
I never went in to pick it up. And I never planned to 😃
I suggested to my library that they order "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 by Ed Dowd... And to my amazement they did!!! - In Canada - Nova Scotia LingOL - I went to request to read it and I was 7th in the queue haha!
Nice! I’ve have given out so many copies of that book. I even left a copy on my airplane seat once. Too big of a book to ignore and just throw away.
Since books began to be published about vaccines and the m-RNA shots in particular, I have been placing them in our library in memory of people I am convinced who died from those shots. Our library removed all its Dr. Seuss books, so I can't be certain whether the books I bought are actually on the shelves.
mwah, love this
It's juvenile, but genius.
So smart Laura!
You might see if you can talk to the owner and just (very politely and respectfully) let them know why you no longer shop there. It may not change anything but you represent a percentage of their potential customer base and they may not otherwise be aware of what is happening. It can be difficult as a business owner to determine why traffic is down.
Good idea! Thanks!
Your post,Jenna, reminded me of a recent display of Left Wing-Ding butt hurt: a Minneapolis anti-ICE mob went after a legal immigrant who was wearing a shirt with the word FREEDOM on it. Apparently supporting freedom means you're a Nazi or a racist or MAGA.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
What should woke immigrants wear? "CAPTURED?" "BOUGHT AND PAID FOR?"
I have reached a level of complete exhaustion and intolerance of these woke retards. How are they actually inhaling oxygen on their own and not on an iron lung? They’re too stupid to be breathing. These retards need to get out and get a hobby or maybe do something to give back to the community. Go pick up some litter. Go clean up the waterways. Volunteer at a retirement home. Do something useful other than Constantly pointing out how everything offends them. It’s old, it’s boring and I’m so fucking tired of it.
That requires physical labor and personal commitment. Progressives aren't inclined toward either.
Drew don’t gotta clue
"So instead we get a too-familiar series of events."
With an important ommission! Where is the gofundme to help her adjust? I am going to set one up later. For now, just send cash directly to me. I'll get it to the poor lass somehow later. 😂
😂
Don't make light of this, Jenna. I think she has grounds to file a hurt feelings report.
In the U.K. that could lead to jail time.
OMG. Where is this B&N?
I want to go there and applaud the manager.
When I first read this line: “The poor thing may have sprained something in her race . . .” I read “race” as a noun instead of a verb- and wondered (for a brief instant) how one sprained their race - although I do think we’ve seen lots of evidence of people spraining the whole race issue. Brilliant as usual, Jenna. I don’t know what we’d all do without your sane - and hilarious - take on the world these days.
I read it as sprained her face...
MarciaT, I followed the same track, and thought, "Yeah, 'race sprain.' That's what I've got all right. Or rash."
Oh, that’s a good one too - it does look sprained! - but don’t they all!!
We need to talk more about the addiction of being offended.
My favorite t-shirt says: "No one cares if you're offended."
l like "I am offended that you are offended"
recently in a convo with Tucker, Megyn Kelly said: 'yes, I DO have the right to insult, offend and hurt someone's feelings. and I LOVE it!'
hahaha, someone needs to start selling that. Preferably a camel-toe safe length lol
I bought it somewhere about a year ago but I can't remember where! Maybe Babylon Bee, but I'm not sure.
Awesome haha...
Yet another reason I'll never have a Tik Tok account.
Let us hope that sanity reigns and bookstores remain able to sell books without nutcases having a mental breakdown (and potentially doing something violent or illegal).
she didn't like the books, she wanted them removed. isn't that book banning? she wants them banned because she knows they might change minds, not because they're indecent, immoral, or wrong - she disagrees with them, she sees them as a threat to her world view, which means her world view is actually hanging by a thread.
Yes, it is book banning. They do not do "contradiction" well. For them the Constitution is all about "their" rights. They haven't "caught the vision" that their opponents' rights are also protected--identically.
and the nazis did that so who is the real nazi?
My eyes are hurting from all the eye-rolling I'm doing as I read this, so I hold you responsible, Jenna! LOL
Eye exercises are healthy! 🙄
Yes, but this allows for no variation in the exercise! ;)
You can always look forward to "rolling over in your grave". 😇
I’m sorry, I’m getting a severe case of Idiot Fatigue. Normal, live-and-let-live folks like me are rapidly reaching the point of STFU! My libertarian leanings are leaning farther and farther to the Shove It I Don’t Care About Your Feelings mode. If getting what they wish for wasn’t so damaging to the rest of us sane folks, I’d wish they could live in a world of their own making. They have no idea of the horror they would create. They think their world was so great under the last administration, but what they don’t realize is that it is only because of the roadblocks conservatives placed on their agenda that we had any semblance of civility at all. So yeah, I’m done with tolerance.
Jabbed up to their eyeballs might explain a few things. I’m ready for a STFU moment too. Bring it on!!
Barnes and noble used to be one of my favorite hangout places... I loved the diversity and richness of the literature they featured. The past few years however, it's been so disappointing and unfulfilling because they now feature so much weirdness and not as much depth. Never realized I should call corporate and complain!
Same here. I used to love the peace and serenity of Barnes and Noble. But then about 5 years ago it seemed that all their books were left wing. Did i make a Tik Tok proclaiming my outrage? No i did not. I just quietly quit and have not been back.
I had to use them to order a book that Amazon didn't stock locally, but wouldn't say that. It kept throwing address errors, and I finally had to call when it happened across 3 computers, 2 accounts and 5 different browsers.
The book? "And Then They Prayed" by Barry Loudermilk.
Is an incredible book about how prayer was invoked and used to bring about miraculous events in military history.
The shipping from B&N seemed rather excessive. Not sure if it's their standard cost, or if they check Amazon on the back end, see the error, and charge more because you can't get it otherwise, if I live in a "rich" area, if it was a book that's "not approved", or it was close to the holidays.
‘So much weirdness and not enough depth’ honestly describes all discourse in our society these days. No depth, no nuance, just surface level ideas that can be thrown around to inflame.
You can try that, but BN corporate pays lip service to neutrality and local politics.