Various leftists, including Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, are now claiming that you can’t drag them for past statements because “Woke 1 was crazy.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) debuted a new phrase on Sunday meant to distinguish the current rise of socialism in the Democratic Party from the “woke” cultural peak of 2020 that featured calls from Democrats to defund the police during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While speaking with Jonathan Karl on ABC’s This Week, the prominent socialist and potential 2028 presidential candidate was asked about Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s prior support for abolishing prisons and canceling Thanksgiving.
“My understanding is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate,” she said before confirming to Karl that Hong has “moved away from” these positions. “And I have a local city councilman who has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ and I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”
To which I can only reply: No. Fucking. Way.
“You can’t ding us for our past madness, you can only believe the obvious lies we’re dispensing now.”
You don’t get to back away from your past lunatic statements because you still believe in all that bullshit.
There was no “Woke 1.0,” just a continuous racialist, anti-Western Civilization, anti-rational, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-Republican movement whose roots stretch back into the Comintern, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, carried forward into the Port Huron Statement, the Weather Underground, the campus radicals of the 1960s and their long march through academia and other western institutions, special campus victimhood identity politics carve-out departments for blacks, Hispanics, radical feminists and “Queer Theory,” into the political correctness of the 1980s that blossomed into the poisonous flowers of social justice, radical transsexism, Palestinian- and Islamo-felia and anti-Israel animus that has turned into full-blown antisemitism, and a radical fringe in the Democrat Party that metastasized to its core under Obama and President Autopen. AOC’s Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow-travelers were all on-board with their lunacy every step of the way.
And that lunacy included a cancel culture that sought to debank, deplatform and disemploy anyone bucking its ideological dictates, all of which had achieved a crazy level of hatred and groupthink long before the madness of 2020. That bumped the social justice hubris up another notch when The Science™ made it a a moral imperative to keep normies locked in their homes and firing them for refusing a vaccine while prominent Democrats felt free to visit the expensive restaurants and salons of their choice. Then everything turned on a dime when #BlackLivesMatter rioted over a dead criminal, and the social justice sorts demanded that we “defund the police” so they could get their sticky fingers on money going to law enforcement while Soros-backed DAs did everything in their power to get criminals back on the street to continue victimizing law-abiding citizens. And then President Autopen threw open the borders to let tens of millions of illegal aliens flood into the country.
And throughout it all, the SJW/DSA types were onboard with all of it, every step of the way. There was no “woke 1.0,” there was only the same madness taking on new forms.
You didn’t regret it then and you don’t regret it now, you only regret getting caught. You thought your control of the Democrat Party, the mainstream media and the halls of academia would let you impose policies opposed by 85% of Americans by force majure, that the moral purity of your virtue signaling would let you sweep all before you as inevitable historical processes validated your Will to Power clothed in the triumphalist language of “the moral arc of history.”
It didn’t happen that way.
The Tea Party happened. Then Trump happened, The Mule derailing your inevitable, preordained triumph. Then your hand-picked candidates like Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams came up short, keeping you from cementing the Democrat voting fraud machine in those two states. Then Elon Musk bought Twitter, and your attempt to lock anyone opposed to social justice lunacy out of the public square failed. Then followed the Twitter Files, revealing for all the extent to which you went to establish a global censorship regime to silence political opposition. You were happy to have a boot stamp on a human face forever, as long as you were the one wearing it.
No, you don’t get to just go “Whoopsie! Mistakes were made!” and expect to waltz away from your unpopular bullshit without any of it sticking to you, especially now that the DSA has thrown the mask off and gone full Commie, admitting it wants to destroy America’s constitutional government of ordered liberty by getting rid of the Electoral College, the Senate, and a independent President and Supreme Court.
No, you don’t get any grace for the bullshit you spewed, especially since you used that bullshit to destroy people for refusing to bend the knee to your sick religion, from people fired for refusing to use your idiotic pronouns to California still forcing men into women’s prisons.
You don’t regret any of the pain you inflicted on normies, you only regret not getting to inflict more of it. You still view yourself as the natural anointed rulers of those benighted rubes in JesusLand.
You don’t get forgiveness as long as you continue trying to force social justice and communism down America’s throat.
You don’t get forgiveness without repentance.
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A large number of these psychos are women. They absolutely believe they get to back away from their past lunatic statements. How dare you for remembering.
In exactly 2015 many colleagues and others I’d served with started making lists. The venom and posturing was undeniable. We’d seen this show before. We know how it ends. Accountability doesn’t stop at simply losing elections, as if that will actually stop this. Sorry isn’t good enough anymore. My-bad-giggles less so. Large numbers of people have been killed over “Woke 1” and that’s without naming the household names everybody knows.
There must be consequences for this. Call it a new Warren Commission or McCarthyism or whatever one likes but there must be inquests at the highest levels of government. The laundry must be hanged, dirtbags exposed and made example of. It’s a shame we don’t put heads on pikes anymore but shredded reputations are better than they deserve. It’s good to see some of this is already happening with Fauci et al but more is needed.
They absolutely will not stop until confronted with force, however gloved that must be to prevent the timid from getting the vapors. It’s taken 11 years, but the mask is totally off now. Piker and his ilk are boasting because they don’t believe they have to walk the walk. They’re wrong. No grace this time. They should’ve kept the clown noses on.
Let’s not forget Abigail Spanberger. She campaigned as a centrist Democrat and we now see what a crock that was. I love seeing her get BOOED at the Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention. So sad for those Virginians who got gobsmacked into thinking a Democrat could be centrist.
Well put. As Brett Weinstein said, “We have unfinished business.” The crazies don’t get to just pretend it didn’t happen and expect us to forget.
“[W]hat’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now”
We were warned about this methodology: The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell, 1984
When nasty, vile, vicious people do unspeakable Big Brother-type things to abuse others, there have to be consequences.
“You don’t get forgiveness without repentance.”
The likelihood of this woman ‘s repentance is vanishing small; she is already pivoting from “what happened?” to “what is to be done?” Her handers will manage the details of that and this incident will go down the memory hole.
The issue facing us right now is what are we to do? Do we inaugurate a new Inquisition (Warren Commission/McCarthyism)? Do we just stoically grin and bear it as we mumble to ourselves, “This too shall pass”?
How do we push back against this? f we are to win, we must discover the best way to fight.
Which invites the fundamental question: Why can’t Conservatism conserve anything?
Consider this to be a rhetorical question, not a black pill.
I’m willing to let some people “back away from their past lunatic statements”. Specifically, people who weren’t elected or hired into positions of power relevant to those statements, so long as they also didn’t campaign, fundraise, or “influence” on behalf of such people.
Which doesn’t really exempt that many of them.
OK, were you lying then are you lying now?
Because we’ve established that you’re a liar.
“In exactly 2015 many colleagues and others I’d served with started making lists.:
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comprises a list of those to be killed in the revolution.
Winston Smith rebelled but an invitation to Room 101 led to his renouncing what he had loved and transferring all his affection to Big Brother. Winston was ill-prepared to confront Leviathan. Learn from his bad example.
“How do we push back against this?”
A few suggestions, by no means a complete list:
– Blackpillers are wrong. We can vote our way out of this, but it requires a change in the conservative constituency’s compromise calculus. There is no compromise. Old guard boomer generation “there are good people across the aisle” Thune & McConnell conservatives need to be canned. The RINO/neocon nucleus of the republican party is at best uniparty and at worst literally complicit with forces attempting to destroy the country. They must lose primaries, and conservatives who will actually cowboy the fuck up and conserve things must win. Only uncompressing hardline voting constituents can put them there.
– Go after the money. Deep diving investigations into the opposition’s finances. Absolutely no expenses spared, and transparent. None of this NSA bs. Timid conservative voting constituencies are turned into uncompromising hardline conservative constituencies by revealing what existing hardliners already know to be true about the left’s funding mechanisms. No massaging. Lift the veil and keep showing people it’s breadth and depth in all of its ugliness. The average conservative voter has been failing for decades to recognize that finance is a gun while they talk about the bill of rights. The enemy is using finance as a weapon. Start using it back.
– Hard one. Stop believing in rules. They don’t. Less of an actual recommendation and more of a change in mindset, one that needs to be stenciled on the inside of every conservative skull.
– Make lists and keep them updated. The day of proscription may never come, but when it does those with the best intelligence preparation will be best poised to act. If you think the DSA – like all marxists – hasn’t been doing this there’s great beachfront property in Arizona.
These people have declared war on us. Declare war back.
” Hard one. Stop believing in rules. They don’t. Less of an actual recommendation and more of a change in mindset, one that needs to be stenciled on the inside of every conservative skull.”
This is very close to where I wanted to go but I suggest one small change to your prescription: Stop PLAYING by THEIR rules. When the other guy gets to frame the narrative and choose the referee, the outcome is predetermined.
FWIW, it’s the same thing with the “climate” b.s. – only worse because they make predictions, the “predictions” are totally, completely, 180-degrees wrong… but you’re not supposed to notice that (or ask about it) and they just make a bunch of new predictions.
Here’s my favorite.
2007:
“SHUMLIN: Any reasonable scientist will tell you that we’re going to rise anywhere between another two and three degrees in the next 30 years. That means that New Jersey’s climate is moving to Vermont in the next decade. That has tremendous implications in our economy’s ski, maple-sugar making, leaf-peeping and the list goes on and on. So we are — I at least am — looking at this with a major sense of panic.”
http://www.marketplace.org/2007/04/18/sustainability/when-theres-less-white-green-mountain-state
(Note – surprisingly, this link/piece has NOT been memory-holed…)
Well, what happened by 2017? Let’s let Tim Blair have the last word:
“Australia’s climate horror forecasters look like fools. The same is true in the US, where then-Vermont Senate President Peter Shumlin had this to say about his snowy state in April 2007:
“’Any reasonable scientist will tell you that we’re going to rise anywhere between another two and three degrees in the next 30 years. That means that New Jersey’s climate is moving to Vermont in the next decade.’
“Any reasonable scientist standing outside in Vermont lately would have been submerged by the state’s second-largest snowstorm on record. We finally have an answer to a question asked by a New York Times headline in 2014: ‘The end of snow?’ The answer, piled up across the US in great mountainous loads, is ‘no’.”
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/any-reasonable-scientist/news-story/60dfae44b0388d268b27334f646982b5
Yet the scam and the grift roll on…
Jordan Peterson interviews Paul Kengor to discuss his book “The Devil and Karl Marx”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gGhUHdUhaNU
The Communist Manifesto is readily refuted. Yet it is seemingly imperishable. What accounts for its enduring appeal?
It is a mistake to imagine we wrestle against flesh and blood adversaries. Our enemies are hypersomatic beings who have no fear of Aristotelian logic, ethics or rhetoric. Don’t play by the enemy’s rules.
Simple. Envy. No flesh and blood necessary, just an endlessly malicious feeling that accompanies every generation. It can’t be beaten but vigilance must be eternal, and renewed generationally. It’s why teaching children well is so important.
As weird as it sounds, maybe it’s the Golden Days now, when the Democrats are all obviously insane, corrupt and abysmally, shamelessly evil and deeply, openly totalitarian.
Just three or four decades ago the Dems were “just” peddling policies based on their worldview that a nicer, warmer government could make everything better, without loss of freedom or other consequences. We had guys like the “Happy Warrior”, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, smilingly pushing that.. that GUFF. And decent people bought it. We had gentle, personally honest grandfatherly Eugene McCarthy, who just wanted a world of peace and love. Don’t worry about the Commies.. We had Jimmy Carter, who only lusted in his heart, not like that nasty Bill Clinton who came along only a moment later.
I recall that Robspierre mumbled something like “man, the Terror 1 was crazy” as they led him up the stairs to disconnect his head from the rest of his body. People had a hard time hearing him because his jaw was shot off and was held in place only by a rag tied around his head.
The French knew what accountability looked like. We could learn a thing or two from the French.
“The French knew what accountability looked like.”
Bloodthirsty Jacobins knew nothing about accountability.
They [French Revolutionaries] are surrounded by an army not raised either by the authority of their crown or by their command, and which, if they should order to dissolve itself, would instantly dissolve them.–Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
The Mountain didn’t move against Robspierre out of an enlightened sense of justice or accountability, but simply because they feared their heads would be next on the block.
“[T]hey they feared their heads would be next on the block”
Kill or be killed is how the “noble savage” operates. Having exalted pagan society, the cultural enlightenment propagated by French salons ultimately led to their being sacrificed like Aztec war captives.
Still looking for the release notes for the 2.0 release. I mean, it’s a major release, so it should have solid documentation, right? At least where’s the dev specs – what were their major targeted improvements, and what’s been deprecated?
“Still looking for the release notes for the 2.0 release. ”
That’s easy–Death to the Zionists.
Tucker Carlson: “I think the single biggest threat to Christianity in this country is Christian Zionism. I hate it more than leftist writers, Islamic terrorists, Nazis, or Chinese communists.”
The DSA’s NPC resolution (no joke):
Be it resolved, that DSA shall expand on the expectations, established by the “Make DSA an Anti-Zionist Organization in Principle and Praxis” resolution ratified by the 2023-2025 NPC [ NATIONAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE] DSA candidates support the BDS movement, refrain from any and all affiliation with the Israeli government or Zionist lobby groups, and pledge to oppose legislation that harms Palestinians and support legislation that supports Palestinian liberation, by affirming that these commitments as detailed in this resolution must hold true for all candidates endorsed by national DSA or a DSA chapter;
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1uVRuqCw1UKgNmurmCWvswerswEHHmkJ4UyXo8zvCVaM/mobilebasic?pli=1#heading=h.nbezqkvakitt
“Past performance guarantees future results.” If they were that stupid before, they’re still that stupid now. Unless they vociferously denounce their old views, explain why they were wrong, and proclaim their new views with the same enthusiasm as a reformed leftist who’s discovered Thomas Sowell.