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James Goodrich's avatar

I had mentioned that a friend of mines son, who says he is trans, worked with me a day and later another. He hadn’t gone to college, honestly I don’t think he is capable to do that, but had been indoctrinated in high school. Although I don’t think he is a bad kid as far as stealing, cheating, or maybe lying, I found he was incapable of being tolerant to anyone who may think at all differently than he thinks and I believe this is what he was taught, or brainwashed to think. This ultra intolerance, i believe, 100% stems from who and how he was taught. Almost anything that was said that he didn’t agree with triggered him. I honestly have a long fuse and tried to talk to him but this 19-20 year old has serious deficiencies in his social etiquette which made it impossible for me to consider him as a viable employee. In my eyes he is unemployable. I know my friend and his wife are really great stand up people so I strongly believe this young man is a product of public schools. These schools have produced a troubled young man that honestly needs reprogramming.

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Ana González's avatar

How sad 😔

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Barbara Charis's avatar

Products of public schools have had to get vaxxed many times...The substances in vaxxes, such as, aluminum, mercury, fluoride, etc. cause brain damage...and affects the mind, memory retention, and personality. This has contributed to students believing everything they are taught without question...and rejecting additional learning in the future...The young people can't retain new information. Since the 1950s...the majority of American children have received these mind and body destroying injections. The American educational system was taken over years ago by many misinformed, gullible and weak-minded people who bought into the Marxist philosophy. It may have sounded good to them, but Communism has failed, wherever it was promoted. It does not produce equality for the masses... Its leaders are the main benefactors. Can brain-damage be reversed...that is the question?

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Mark's avatar

Trans (gender confused) kids are hard to talk to. There is usually mental instability and much trauma, fueled in large part by the psychotropic meds, puberty blockers, hormone treatments, etc. The parents seemed to fall into one of three camps:

Enabling, overly supportive in the wrong way.

Denial and Anger that their kid is not normal.

Confused and hoping this is just a phase.

Very rarely any real discussion about how the kid got there in the first place and how much involvement the schools, social media, child service's and the medical establishment had in directing said child to the trans "identity" in the first place.

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James Goodrich's avatar

I don’t think, I know you hit on many points there Mark! He’s definitely taking meds I saw that. My question is…. Are the schools creating many of these issues by pushing this stuff?

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

I have been listening to an 8 part series on gut health. There is evidence that the microbiome being imbalanced with bad bacteria, molds, parasites, etc. can affect the brain causing imbalance and issues. The way kids eat should be seriously considered with the proven link of gut to brain. This then shows a direct connection to worsening mental health.

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Fred Jewett's avatar

I was "lucky" one day when sitting in the department store car repair shop with my 10 year old son. Suddenly some punker kid ran past us with the store dick hot on his heels. We watched the pair run out the door and the punker headed for a townhouse complex. Problem for him is 12 mechanics from the garage joined the chase and a couple of minutes later they dragged a beaten up punker back to the store and the dick had a bruised eye. The punker didn't go down easily. The cops came and escorted out the punker before our van was ready. I never had a problem with my kids stealing.

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gail's avatar

He saw what happens if you steal, didn’t he!

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Sahara's avatar

And this way these people will never hear about true healing available to them. So sad.

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53rd Chapter's avatar

There is a race on between universities in the US and UK for the Gold Medal of Woke. The outcome is still in doubt. But thanks to President Trump, we can fix it quicker and better than the Brits.

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

They're saying the same thing about Canadians shying away from Vegas because of Trump.

The truth is that Vegas has driven people away with their insatiable greed. And not just Canadians.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

It's upmanship on Dr. Spock! Don't spank the child. You don't need a moral compass and that is what being taugh in our schools. Your feelings define you and that is it and you can do whatever you like. Our relgious leaders have taken a powder too! My view.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

You know he later came to admit he was wrong. Sadly too late to avoid the damage he caused.

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Sonia Nordenson's avatar

He wasn't wrong about "Don't spank the child." Discipline works better without antiquated corporal punishment.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

I think he also said never tell them no. And a tad of corporal admonishment kept me on the straight and narrow

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

Have to agree, Michael. A quick swat on the rear never maimed or mentally abused me. My dad went overboard which created some lifelong issues, but mom knew to temper words with action on occasion. I followed in mom's steps with my 2 boys and they seem pretty well adjusted to me.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Yeah, back in my day peach switches on bare legs one reason little boys eager to grow up into long pants

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Mark's avatar

Dr. Nash did you have to cut your own switch? I did.

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Jackelyn S Myers's avatar

Some people confuse spanking with beating.

I agree that there are many types of techniques that work at times. But a swat on the bottom gets their attention.

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Sonia Nordenson's avatar

In the wrong way, seems to me. It's hard for a little one to tell "tough love" from "mean."

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gail's avatar

I think never punish in anger, a quick swat to get attention and then go cool down and talk later!

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Jean's avatar

Trust you're referring to Spock. I think he was the one that sold my parent's on feeding me every 4 hours. I creamed at 3. My Dad took 1 hour walks. Food has been a lifetime issue ever since.

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Christy's avatar

When my son was looking at colleges we were trying to find a high quality college that was not woke. Even Colorado School of Mines, which is a tech college without any Liberal Arts classes proudly announced co-ed dorms and co-ed bathrooms. We finally settled on Liberty University. It has been a wonderful learning experience for my son with basically zero wokism. It is a Christian University, which some might not like, but is also the reason they refuse to go woke.

Honestly it is a better education than many of the big named institutions because they focus on education instead of indoctrination. I've found most college graduates, today, leave college dumber than when they entered.

I like Thomas Sowell's quote, that I will try to get right. "The problem with Johnny isn't what he doesn't know. The problem is what he knows that just isn't so."

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Melanie Reynolds's avatar

I knew a girl who had an abortion when she was 14 years old. She got pregnant from a Senior boy. Her father had committed suicide the year prior. She has never gotten over her father’s suicide and the abortion . It is sad. She has been married 5 times. She is a lovely person . But she has had a hard time dealing with the tragedies .

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

Half of the homeless population in the U.S. reside in California. It costs $1million to house a family by the state. There are syringes and filth around the camp areas, and fires break out frequently. Starbucks does not employ professional cleaners; the Baristas have to clean the bathrooms and outer areas, which are also used by some homeless people who camp out there. The chairs are grotty and impossible to clean. The BLM could donate land and build much cheaper housing, showers, and clinics outside of urban centers, but no. The city wants to build an apartment building for low-income people in the expensive Hollywood hills, where there will be no parking. The homeless people are throw-away people, and as a society I think we are our 'brother's keepers' in the sense of providing the basics and psychological support. That is not happening, instead unfeasible economic solutions are talked about endlessly, and huge amounts of money aimed at the problem go missing. California is destroyed. Also, a friend corrected me and said unhoused when I said homeless, what is the difference? My heart goes out to the plight of these people, while they are caught in the corruption, and all residents have to pay for the manipulative lip service by State reps.

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Garry Blankenship's avatar

A political party with a platform of abortion, the infinite derivations of minority-ism, sexual deviancy, lawlessness and climate control is struggling to understand it's decline. Is that not the definition of insanity ? Maybe our economy, safety, economic opportunity and freedom might provide some traction.

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Ana González's avatar

Garry, as I was reading some comments on Truth Social about how maybe 🤔 these people really want our country to fail so that they can open up the door 🚪 to THE ONE WORLD 🌎 ORDER⁉️‼️⁉️

THAT MADE LOTS OF SENSE, BECAUSE NOBODY IN OUR WAY OF THINKING WOULD WANT WHAT THEY WANT‼️

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David Merrill's avatar

I heard something encouraging.

North Carolina must extend driver license validity by two years, from eight year licenses to ten year licenses. The reason is that the workforce is too stupid to keep the DMV operational. AI better step up the game there...

I don't think screentime is making anybody any smarter about running infrastructure. They are all gamers looking to increase attrition. Therefore, it won't be getting any better in two years.

P.S. I can manipulate AI easily. I cannot however, work up the courage to ask my granddaughter to set aside her phone and tablet (yes, both on) for a conversation. The silence of her neurodegeneration seems preferable.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Have mentioned before how the post WW II G.I. bill in my mind was the big push to the academic mess we see today. It was incredibly generous and resulted in hordes of college grads competing for jobs nominally held by, and performed well by high school graduates. HR will always hire up when it can leading to a major shift in job requirement meaning more of us now had to get that college degree and this led to a less discriminate growth of colleges and universities...a breeding ground for progressives eager to expound on marxism. Thus a feedback loop evolved where slipping performance at the college level has fed back into pre college expectations.

If this can be fixed, the less interference by the fed gov the better. Their subsidizing student loans has only made the problem worse. The state unis under control if conservative states could begin pushing back as they are here in Texas by banning d.e.i. in the programs. Once they rebuild strong educational programs they could entice the better and brighter students from blue states with lower out if state tuition. Stressing blue collar work in the high schools another way to lessen the impact of woke unis. It can be fixed

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Ana González's avatar

Rambler, I don't know if you subscribe to the Texas Scorecard organization's newsletter, but they usually report on stories that go south after the HEADLINES have lost their shine. They have done some good reporting on how schools and universities have continued to defy any of the ANTI DEI rulings and how they aren't having any consequences 🙄 ‼️⁉️

On the other issue, I can't see how any of the states who have been currently Gerrymandered 🤔 so MUCH THAT THEY HAVE NO CONSERVATIVE REPRESENTATIVES, can ever dig themselves out of that hole⁉️‼️

IMHO, that is why we're at the point where the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is having to implement some unprecedented common sense actions.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

BTW. did you see where Cornyn claims if Paxton wins the primary vs him a dimocrat will be our new senator? How desperate does that sound to you?

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Take the Texas Minute so have seen that but have to start somewhere and they have

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Ana González's avatar

They have become UNIVERSITIES SPECIALIZING IN COMMIE MILLS‼️⁉️‼️

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🤷‍♀️

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Meemanator's avatar

And piles of debt to pay for it.

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Tom Daniel's avatar

So WHERE has the SUNDAY TIMES been for the past 75 + years? - And will another book such as "The Fall of the Ivory Tower" make a jot of difference? Below is a repeat of my May 7, 2024 Comment via the Malone's substack subject - "The Machinery of Fascism Revisited"... Jeffrey Tucker writes "Generations have been taught" - THAT is the keyed operative phrase of explicitly and exactly the back-story over the past half century - and more - by the "Collective academy" WITHIN the American "education" system - and other "free" nations also - that systematically spoon-feed GENERATIONS of YOUNG students into becoming political ACTIVISTS. "As We Go Marching" by John T. Flynn (1944)is a GREAT educational read; as are "The Marxification of Education" by James Lindsay (2022); "RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION" by Andrew Breitbart (2011);

"TENURED RADICALS" (1990 & 91) & "THE LONG MARCH"(2000) by Roger Kimball; and "INSIDE American Education" (1993) by Thomas Sowell. ALL of these authors raise the ALARM BELLS over MANY years - yet NOTHING has changed within the "educational" pedagogy of American and other "western" scholastic institutions: "TENURED" radical Marxist "professors" still DOMINATE and INFEST so-called "higher-education"; and young tyro "teachers" are indoctrinated in the 1,600 teachers colleges with Marxist political and cultural bullshit as educational gospel...and then teach that crap to young public and private school students.

Tyrannical societal systems such as socialism & communism attack capitalism, the free market and private property as the cause of all societal injustice and must be destroyed in the name of "social-justice" aka - Diversity Equity and Inclusion - along with environmental justice - that resonate within the (truly) uneducated masses that inevitably lead to revolution, bloodshed and destruction of private property. It is unfortunate that Mr. Tucker does not define "NAZI" for what it stands for: "The National SOCIALIST German Workers" (a LEFT wing labor party) - who called themselves "National Socialists" in short form - or that Adolph Hitler (who came to power a decade AFTER Benito Mussolini ), liked and copied the "corporatist" FASCIST economic system he saw in Italy - which at the time was hailed by the West - including FDR and the NY Times - as a new economic revolution.

Bottom line circa 2024 AD, "One-World-Order" via transnational "governance" proclaimed by the INTERNATIONAL collective Left as the ultimate panacea that will transcend all "injustice"and provide a global utopian heaven-on-earth, where from birth to death there is NO inequality whatsoever (is) in reality an IMPOSSIBLE dream with NO basis in reality - just socialism/communism and fascism all mixed together resulting in the ultimate OPPRESSION by the few over (global) humanity - in the name of the common good.

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gail's avatar

The globalist 100 year plan to destroy the west and take over the world.

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Tom Daniel's avatar

Indeed! THAT is why the CONTINUOUS unscrupulous attacks on President Trump and ANYONE associated with him...and it is the (American) COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS - and its (36) member Board of Directors (who)are BEHIND the dastardly unprecedented, immoral and out and out CRIMINAL procedures to STOP the MAGA (and) MAHA plans to restore our Constitutional Republic and the Rule of Law.

BTW (and) FYI, the current hullabaloo about the "first black female" appointed (by CFR member Joe Biden) to the Federal Reserve Board - Lisa D. Cook - is HERSELF a longtime member of the COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS. NO coincidence here!

If only President Trump would sign a (RETROACTIVE) E/O that made it a federal crime for ANYONE who is a member of the CFR to be eligible for ANY appointed or elected position within the U.S. federal government...including "general employment".

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James Lord's avatar

There is the old term "the long march through the institutions," that seems totally appropriate for what has happened over years, decades, generations. The Manifesto dates to 1848. Some of us have awakened to the state of things, and ask how we slept while foes were busily at work, and for so long. It's been a while since I read Breitbart's book, but I seem to remember him talking about this (Righteous Indignation), or at least thoughts in the same vein. Long ago I even had my own sympathies with The Left. We might be tempted to think that for marxists, it was just a matter of getting the right people into hiring positions, to screen for those with mindsets suitable for their purposes, and the proliferation grew naturally from there. But it's so massive, so ubiquitous; are there really individuals, even organizations, who are so able to organize disparate forces to work in concert, on a global scale, over generations, to advance their agenda? Sometimes it seems we're dealing with idiot drone armies, cranked out of broken homes, drug dens, and universities without really having any skills. Useful idiots. Yet there must really be malevolent intelligence at the top of it all, the kind that would have to be stored in a collective way because no single human would ever live long enough to see The Agenda carried out. Is this where secret societies work? Spiritual forces? Wouldn't it be something to see the lights turned on to reveal who's been doing what in the shadows?

I also do not rule out that we're dealing with something that includes, but is not bounded by marxism. It's bigger; not just limited to one (apparent) ideology. They might occasionally need to call on Wrays and Comeys and Barrs (and their ilk) to achieve their goals.

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gail's avatar

I believe it is the devil who came to kill steal and destroy. The Bible tells us there will be a one world government in the end times. We are watching it happen.

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Leo's avatar

James, you've described the agenda of the globalists WEF.

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gail's avatar

To me it is so clear what is happening. The Bible says a great delusion would come up on people. People cannot see even today. I believe every single word of the Bible. Prophecies are coming true. The Bible foretold that Israel would come together again as a nation and it did in 1948. People who study the Bible see what is happening. That doesn’t mean we sit back and be apathetic. It means we try to tell people that the end is near, could be decades, But we need to watch the signs as the Bible predicted. The prophecy teaches that God is real because he foretold the future. I trust him.

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David Poe's avatar

The academic mind as found in much of academia is subject to the seductive appeal of utopian fantasies. After all, if only they, the hyper intelligent, were in charge they could make all of those nasty little difficulties of life go away. And who better than them? They looked around and didn't see anyone better; and their arrogance allows them to dismiss the ideas and petty concerns of others. Oh well, pride cometh before a fall. Its' not as much of an issue with those engaged in serious academic work, designing bridges or performing surgery for instance, but mostly with those who essentially debate for a living, with maybe a little teaching thrown in.

https://drp314.substack.com/p/utopia

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LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

Off Topic but Whoa:

08/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI's President Greg Brockman is supporting the launch of a $100 million political action committee to influence US artificial intelligence regulations, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing the initiative's leaders.

The initiative, called Leading the Future, is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and other tech leaders and aims to promote AI-friendly policies through campaign donations and digital ads, the Journal said.

The group plans to oppose candidates who support strict AI limits and wants balanced guardrails instead of broad restrictions. It will begin its campaign in New York, California, Illinois, and Ohio, which are seen as key battlegrounds for AI policymaking, according to the Journal.

The group will support both Democratic and Republican candidates and include PACs and a nonprofit advocacy arm. Other backers include Palantir Technologies (PLTR) co-founder and 8VC managing partner Joe Lonsdale, AI software company Perplexity, and investor Ron Conway, with campaign activities expected to begin later this year, the report said.

Microsoft, OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Perplexity, and EIG's Ron Conway did not immediately respond to a request for comment from MT Newswires.

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Leo's avatar

LB, "Whoa" indeed! The globalists need unbounded A.I. to run the world.

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