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andromachos · 2 years ago

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the thing with trads is that they are actually disconnected from all senses of past, and their beautiful "past" is pretty much advertising and paintings. your housewife grandma that couldn't divorce most likely spat in her husband's coffee every morning, their children raised under the unquestionable allpowerful nuclear family who beat them up will send her to the cheapest retirement home and openly discuss who's inheriting what in front of her because they fucking hate her. country life is miserable, dirty, lonely. your body will start breaking sooner or later, and good luck finding a rural doctor with decent tools and medicine. your hay roof will home bugs that will kill you, your crops can be eaten by anything or anyone, killed by a passerby, an animal you didn't enclose properly, or simply two consecutive days of bad weather. you will not find it funny having to make the month's grocery shopping and running out of something quicker. the list can go on and on

a lot steams from the idea of escaping "the problem" but what most fail to name is that "the problem" means doing any meaningful action, specially political ones, and most important, learning to coexist with different people. city life could be bearable if cities were planned to be enjoyable, if there werent cars everywhere and instead estrategic planning and public transportation, and apartments built for comfort with thick walls so you can have privacy instead of the cheapest building method, which you could decorate freely instead of having a landlord obsessed with the idea of reselling the place. but that would mean having an opinion that goes against status quo, and that would require a political stance that calls to action

there is also the most notorious part of anti-urban sentiment: racism. to be able to properly coexist would require to put the effort to unlearn bigotry which means helping dismantle it's systemic power. and that, again demands from the individual to care for others. which is why trads are conservative*, because it is easier (and cheaper) to ban than to make an sort of significant change. think for example the abortion laws, the price of the goverment ensuring professional conditions vs just banning it and not even building decent orphanages)

(* there are some "liberal" and "left-leaning" trads, which consider themselves like that because traditionalism is an ideology that rewards lack of critical thinking and herd mentality, so they band with the groups that will give them specific rights, like drug use or lgbt ones, but when bigotry, specially bigotry that does not affect them, appears they sigh and ask for an apolitical space, to just "focus on what they already have" or ask for an imaginary escape)

and with that chosen disconnection from reality and it's issues that require attention it's how they look at the past. they ignore the recounts of people who came before them and instead think the 50s housewife advertisement is real, the paintings of gorgeous women in pastel colors and satin in the middle of untouched nhe hunted filling an entire family for a sustained amount of time. good luck seeing how many births at home you can have. have fun creating all of your furniture

these, at the same time, are solvable issues through a good governmental infraestructure. but that, again, would mean to be "political" and involve yourself in something. an effort. so it's easier to fantasize and then blame modernity for your mistakes and lack of knowledge. that's how traditionalism, no matter how logic or "based" tries to paint itself, is just a massive daydream, an ideology sustained by roman statues and roccoco paintings, the dream of "putting yourself up by your bootstraps" without even having a boot

even their desire to be apolitical is a lie, if being apolitical is even possible, for most just dream of segregation ("each in their own space") and the ability to commit hatecrimes without consequence, with some being more open on their desire and others less. worse than a spoiled child, it's the dream of never being held accountable, of moving to where no one would judge you, no one can correct you, where you can remain in your echo chamber forever and beat up anyone who dares question you

#feel im having trouble properly explaining some issues so if you want to add you're more than welcome

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artinmovingframes · 6 years ago

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The Bitter Irony of Commander Lawrence’s artworks in The Handmaid’s Tale

[CW: physical and psychological violence against women, violence against minors, murder, racism]

These are my thoughts regarding the relation between the art displayed in the set and the tv show The Handmaid’s Tale. Over-interpretation is part of the reflexion, but please let me know if anything I said may have hurt you or seemed to be completely misconstrued.

In the 12th episode of the second season of The Handmaid's Tale, we were introduced to a new character, Commander Lawrence, who "welcomes" Emily (Alexis Bledel) into his house. The whole setup is somewhat disorienting and the artworks displayed are an important part of it, so I would like to give you my train of thoughts when we were introduced to the house and its inhabitants.

Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) accompanies Emily and comments on how no-one wanted her, following her history of revolt. Of course we are intrigued as to whom would open their house to her, in the context of Gilead. And when the door opened for the first time on a one-eyed Martha, Cora, I had two very opposite insticts, which were then kept up during the episode:

first I thought the Commander would be a cruel cruel man, taking the women nobody wanted anymore to do whatever he wanted to them, a sadist even worse than the "norm" in Gilead.

then I hoped it'd be a kind and considerate man, trying his best to help the scorned, tortured women, (since Emily has also suffered inhumane mutilation).

We then enter the house, a cluttered house full of trinkets, books, paintings unlike the ones we've been accustomed to before (naked bodies, abstract and expressionist art etc.). Quick side-note: most of the art on display in Commanders' houses so far were Impressionnist works, Monet in Waterford's office, Pissarro in Emily's previous commander's bedroom.

Aunt Lydia is surprised, as we are. The maid freely "jokes"(?) and talks back to the Commander as though there wouldn't be any consequence, or maybe she doesn't care about the consequences.

In the staircase, two paintings:

"Julius Caesar on Gold", Jean-Michel-Basquiat, 1981, Sotheby’s "Dark tree trunks", Georgia O'Keeffe, 1946, Brooklyn Museum

Contemporary art in these households?

But then, Commander Lawrence appears. And of course we know Bradley Whitford from The West Wing, but the role which he's now associated with is that of Dean Armitage in Get Out (what, you haven't seen Get Out? Go watch it and come back thanks). In Get Out, his racism (and that of his family) is for the first part of the movie contained to a "fascination" towards black people, hypocrite statements and intrusive behaviour. And the same uneasiness transpires through his character in The Handmaid's Tale.

During this episode, we learn from his wife, seemingly mentally broken and abused, that he is the founder of the Colonies system. We also learn that she was an Art professor.

“Life didn’t turn out the way she wanted it to. She was an art professor. She wanted everything to be beautiful.”

And like Mrs. Waterford who's in charge of the decoration in her home and chose impressionnist paintings (we can assume stolen from museums) to reflect her love of watercolor, it might be an indication that she at least participated in the decoration of the place, maybe even collected these pieces before Gilead existed. However, like everything in this world, and an earlier scene of Commander Waterford supervising the hanging of a family portrait reminds us, men are in charge, and the art surrounding them reflects on the taste and character of these men.

According to me, the art in the Lawrence household is very loud, and talkative.

The Handmaid's Tale has handled very poorly its treatment of race relations (or lack thereof), even though the Colonies are a shameless parallel to slavery and plantations. Here, the casting choice of Bradley Whitford combined with the artworks is voluntary, even though no explicit commentary is made. The irony of a Basquiat representing a black Julius Caesar hanging in the home of what would clearly be described as a white supremacist is not lost on us. O'Keeffe's paintings are known for their erotic symbolism, but here, deprived of any woman agency, the dark trunks might be an echo of a (black?) woman's body, dehumanized. This point of view is reinforced when Commander Lawrence forces his wife back to (her or their) room, and you can see in the background a painting representing two naked women, akin to the orientalist harem paintings of the late 19th century.

This manipulation of art, described as "the elite absorbing the Rebellion" is also evident in the painting by Sidney Nolan featured in the dining room during their last talk.

“After Glenrowan Siege (Second Ned Kelly series)”, Sidney Nolan, 1955, MoMA

The artwork depitcs Ned Kelly, a bushranger, an ambiguous figure of Australia's history, a defender of worker's rights, also associated with the killing of policemen. As an ultra-conservative religious system based on strict order, we could hardly see them align with the politics of Kelly; but as a sectarian minority who imposed their law by force, they might see themselves as rebels (remember the right always complaining of being oppressed by people wanting to be treated equally and respectfully...)

Gauguin is featured as well, surrounded by sculpted women torsos. in my opinion joining the contradictions of this Commander. The painting is that of christian Britton women in a landscape. For the post-impressionnist, Britanny was already an elsewhere, a place of wonder, deep religious fervor even though he was anticlerical, but not enough. He then traveled to French Polynesia where his "fascination" for the autochtones led him to abuse women, minors. We remember the art as one lauding the simple state of nature, with bright colors, celebrating pleasure and harmony, even though that art emerges from his imperialistic and machist desires and abuses.

“Landscape with two Breton Women”, Paul Gauguin, 1889, Boston MFA

The invasive and creepy conversation imposed by Commander Lawrence on Emily is ambiguous at best. I have little hope that we are presented with a respectful, righteous man. Even though in his turns of phrases he seems to disregard the hypocrite politeness of Gilead, and even their beliefs, as he seems to recognize Emily as a woman married and with a child, and not a gender traitor. But his interest is that of a man who maybe enjoys the brutality itself, celebrates genius and intellect and thinks art strives only from pain. So he appropriates that struggle, that of the artists, their history and fights. He is as entitled as the rest. His wife, complicit to a point, may have understood too late, may have felt guilt over their actions (her panick is shown as an illness when she is a voice of reason). She participated in that art deal, because she felt she could make the world beautiful, evidently according to her vision of beauty, so she bought, decorated, put varnish on a system that stripped creators from their agency, perverted their voice, or hid away their true nature.

At one point, Emily, who, as a woman, is not allowed to read, leaned over an open copy of Art Spiegelman’s Maus. The graphic novel is (as best as I can remember), about the artist learning about his family's history, the Shoah. This, too me, is as perverse as the game gets for Lawrence. He purposefully let that book open, at a page where people are shown hanged. We can imagine in this world how "provocative" art could be burnt, destroyed; maybe Aunt Lydia thought so when she entered. Commander Lawrence knows how Gilead could be compared to Nazi Germany (interestingly enough, right wing conservatives who call everyone nazis for wanting gun control, abortion rights etc. always feel offended when Trumpism and their "free thinking is called out as fascist, but I digress). Lawrence shows the totality of his power, how he controls her no matter how free she thinks she can be (by reading). He controls the narrative.

There is something potent in art, especially when we consider who owns it. Because there we either see the limit of the works, or that of the owner's honesty. The apparent failure of a piece brings about that of the person who chose to select it. Therefore, the failure, the crackling varnish, is not only that of Lawrence, whose perversity filters through his presence onscreen and not just because of how the artworks mirror his ambiguity, but a failure of the show itself, either because I gave them too much credit where it is not due, or because this awareness reflects on its previous flaws. I really hope I am wrong about this character, that he is in fact charitable, that the art is there for the wife, and allowed because he’s such an important member of Gilead (think of the high ranking officials who kept artworks for themselves in Nazi Germany). However, I wanted not to give a diagnostic but merely to try and think of ways to interpret art as reimagined in their fictional surrounding. For more debate I invite you to check the Handmaid’s Tale subreddit (as I did... after writing all this down urgh) here here and there. Other mentioned artworks I seem to have missed include Cézanne, Klimt (another wink at Nazi spoils)...

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swampgallows · 8 years ago

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my birthday present this year was having friends, honestly

steve was drunk but he wants to see me get out of my house and he wants it for me because he says i am wonderful, and that i deserve it, and that i’m a good person, and he asked me, “What do you need?” and i dont really think anybody has bothered to ask me that, and i had to think, and what came to mind was love. affection. freedom. but what i said, i think (it was late, i barely recall, but im pretty sure) was “acceptance”. more and more, i feel as if my parents say one thing, then do another. and the bulk of this last decade, for me, was coming to terms with the fact that my parents say a lot of pretty things, but when it comes to boots-on-the-ground effort, execution, they either lose their way or can’t be fucked. my mom keeps getting into these mini tirades when im locked in the car with her for the ten or so minutes to my bus stop where she just unloads all of her hatred, all of her fear that has curdled into hatred, and just steeps me in her world of negativity and rejection for that short time. she doesn’t ask me how my day was at work. she doesn’t ask me “how are you doing?”; she just immediately launches into, usually, something that is… opposite of my “politics”.

she mentioned some story about scholarships, i dont even care to recount it here, but the tired old trope about how PoC get “handouts” while struggling white people are overlooked and get nothing, or that PoC “need it more”. “You’re really the wrong person to be telling this story to,” my mom said halfway through a comment about how her brother is “the most conservative one in his office”. I can’t tell if it’s my mom’s attempt to air her grievances about “my politics” or “the world” or if it’s her having a rebellious reaction to some kind of white/republican/conservative guilt happening with the election of Trump and her, essentially, forcing me to come out.

My parents say that they’ll love me no matter what, but I think the idea of their daughter being even a sliver of gay has them upset. Perhaps not “mad” per se, but “upset”. Disconcerted. Their understanding of “how things are” has been altered. And maybe, I don’t know, my existence now makes them self-conscious, or guilty, or something, because my parents know I do not agree with them. Some of their personal politics are even reverting with the election of Trump (they are now, suddenly, both pro-life, or at least of the opinion that abortion is murder and not birth control [though i can’t say I’ve ever met or read or seen a single soul treat abortion as a flippant alternative to birth control, as they seem to think]). But aside from that, they control everything and leave me in the dark. They have bank accounts set up in my name but dont tell me what they’re for or why, my car insurance is under them, basically everything but my health insurance is handled by them (and that’s only because i got kicked off the family plan when i turned 26). And what they dont control financially or on paper, they control through guilt. I am afraid of what will happen to the dog if I leave. I’m afraid of what will happen to my snake, who already has some strange lump on her face that I’m begging someone take us to the vet for (”I have the number, I just need to find it.” Yeah, good luck in our fucking hoarder house finding anything). I am afraid of what will happen to my parents if I don’t take care of them. But I’m… I’m just sick of being afraid. I’m so tired of not taking care of myself and doing what I want to do (which is hard for me to even figure out, since I feel constant shame or guilt if I do anything for myself; even playing video games I feel guilty that I am not being productive or creative or using my time more ‘wisely’) because I feel so indebted to everyone else.

I cannot visualize beyond this, I told him. I didn’t think I would even get this far. I cannot imagine a job better than the one I have, the only drawback of which being my lack of weekends (and therefore lack of raves, which is lack of exercise, lack of friends, lack of community). I have no career path. To be frank, I have no real dreams (none that can be realized). My desires of late are fairly minimal, superficial, nothing grand. I would like to ride my bike again. I want to take Xena on a hike and have her sniff a lot of things, have a picnic by the trail, and then head back down. I want to organize and practice and play a set, even if I trainwreck. I want a big kandi party with my friends again, and I want to dance in the desert under the moonlight again, pointing out stars and space stations. (That “Jainosh” fic fucked me up. It made me want to stargaze with a big orc real bad :(. ) I’d like a smoothie, I want to eat more salads, and I want a grilled corn on the cob. I miss Appalachian summers.

“I’m going to Thunderdome in October though. Beyond that, there is nothing.” “And I’ll get to see you!” “What? In Holland?” “You said you have a layover in Philly, right? That’s like 40 minutes from me.” “You want to see me?” I asked. “Of course I do!”

I could not help crying. Though aided by the vodka, I think, Steve began crying too. “Oh shit, I know that reaction all too well,” he said through sniffles.

“Last summer,” speaking of Appalachian summers, “I had asked him ‘Do you want to see me?’ And he gave me some cryptic answer like, ‘You can come out if you want to.’ And when I was there, he…”

I gave details. Details I had locked up for a long time. That I hadn’t told anybody. That I wasn’t expecting to tell anybody.

“This might be the… masculine… patriarchal… I don’t know what, in me, but hearing that made me want to punch him in the face.” “He could use a punch in the face, now that he’s a Neo-Nazi and all.” And even Neena [curse all these “n”s with my stupid broken keyboard!!] had said, “I’m so sorry”, when, usually, I’m the one saying that to everyone else.

Telling my stories, hearing the words come out in the open to untrained ears, gave me new perspective on how devoid of excuses those situations were. How devoid of love they were. And how red the flags were, and how I was so blind, and how hindsight has painted it all as something so typical and hackneyed.

“I thought it would be different. I thought, because he’s older, he would know how to treat me. I thought it would be different. I thought, because we’ve been friends for so long, I can trust him. He won’t hurt me.”

I’m sorry, I suppose I’m getting a taste of my own medicine here.

“Listen to me. I struggle with empathy. That… that is not what that is.”

He told me, and I know it’s true, but he reminded me, “It’s going to be very difficult.” He has a bias on me leaving Los Angeles, but I don’t think I would veer far from a city if I did. I want to stay close to the rave community despite my absence in it, and I am accustomed to the hubs of opportunity that urban areas provide.

What to do, what to do.

My desires are small. I want to be safe. I want to feel accepted. I want to shed my guilt—a much bigger venture, to be sure—and I want to celebrate all of the things that deserve celebrating.

I’m not sure where to go from here, but I think at least I am now, in some respects, going forward instead of sinking down.

“You deserve this. I love you, I love you.” It’s… it’s really that easy!

#blathering

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republicstandard · 7 years ago

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5 Reasons Why Jacob Rees-Mogg Should Be Prime Minister: For Brexit & Beyond

Jacob Rees-Mogg is the only hope to save the Tories and UK from Theresa May’s botched Brexit.

Many say Mogg isn’t fit to lead, he doesn't have the qualities or the fire to become Tory leader and Britain’s next PM, as if British Prime Ministers are renowned for being hot-heads in the first place. I say hogwash. Jacob Rees-Mogg is by far the fittest man for the job and the only person in the conservative party with the required testicular fortitude. here are 5 reasons why you need to get some moggmentum.

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1. He’s a man of principle & character.

In particular the right sort of British principles. He is a true conservative that believes in true, traditional conservative values.

Yes, he may be soft spoken but don’t you dare mistake that for weakness. Unlike these fake, spineless, value-compromising Tories who have infested parliament for so long, Mr. Rees-Mogg has a backbone. He is a man of principle, he stands up for what he believes in with unflinching confidence even when he knows the media will spin his lines into soundbites and paint him as a fool. He never folds under media scrutiny and holds his ground against any backlash. This is what arguing from a position of principle looks like, in practice. In his recent interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain, he made very clear his stance on gay marriage and abortion and didn’t backtrack when pressure was applied by the hosts.

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He is a family man- the father of 6 children- and a man who believes in the sanctity of life and the family unit. Can any serious person argue that we have not missed these qualities in our leadership of late? These are the qualities Britain needs to lead this country, particularly at a time when decisions are being made that will define the path of a generation or more. Europe's most powerful leaders are all childless: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and the French President Emmanuel Macron. The list continues with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. What cares do these career politicians have for our sons and daughters, beyond the hypothetical caring one can do for the well-being of someone you do not know? Rees-Mogg need only look at his own children sat at his feet to be reminded of the happy weight of one generation’s duty to the next.

"Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument". — Douglas Murray, The Times.

The only argument I’ve seen against @Jacob_Rees_Mogg is that he’s anti abortion. Being against the murder of the unborn isn’t the worst moral position one could have. If this is the best that his critics have, then they have nothing! Mogg for PM!

— Mark (@markantro) February 8, 2018

Whether you agree with his voting record or not Jacob Rees-Mogg has consistently voted the same way throughout his political career. That’s commendable, particularly when compared to Britain’s bipartisan batch of flip-flopping, indecisive and fair-weather politicians in Parliament.

2. The Red Left and the Crony Capitalist Right Hate Him.

The political left has been alarmed by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s growth in popularity over the last year. With a raised profile thanks to flawlessly executed media appearances and, by fortune, rising in parallel to a resurgence in conservative philosophy he has become a lodestone for true right-wing politics. The left is running scared On the bow-wave of Rees-Mogg’s political battlecruiser- every deft deflection of an anarchist heckler or Labour politician left reeling by his rapier-wit becomes a sign of his possible rise to power. Naturally, with those whose talent is so evident, his enemies come from his own side also. Rees-Mogg infuriates some within his own party. Tory MP Anna Soubry who stated she "couldn't stay in a party" if it was lead by Jacob Rees-Mogg because of his views on Brexit and abortion- despite Soubry herself representing constituents who overwhelmingly voted to leave the European Union.

When the media and establishment hacks on both sides are railing against him, he must be doing something right.

3. He’s not afraid to stand up to ANTIFA Thugs.

Recently Moggy stood up against ANTIFA thugs who attempted to no-platform him during a speech he was giving at the University of the West of England (UWE). They entered abruptly and began screaming “no platform for racists and homophobes”. Cool as a cold salad vegetable on ice Rees-Mogg gets up, walks over to them and asks them what they would like to talk about. One Antifa member replied, “you are not worth debating.” Typical leftist behavior, shut down your political opponent because you can’t win in an actual debate- and expertly exposed by the man with the crisp side-parting.The weak disruptive tactics backfired when the Antifa mob became more aggressive in the face of reason and started pushing and shoving members of the audience, eventually leading to punches being thrown.

Jacob Rees-Mogg then proceeds to stand in harm's way asking for everyone to calm down, until the unwashed sons of middle-class business men decided to go home to mummy and have some supper. As Rees-Mogg noted later, he knew he was in no real danger as for all their hysterical wailing these were still British boys with whom he was engaging. Withot raising a finger he defuses a situation that many others would have enflamed. The actions of Rees-Mogg causing some audience members who originally opposed him to be won over by his courageous action. That is worth reiterating- through being a gentleman and standing between the public and Communist thugs, people who disagreed with his policies came to respect the man. This goes to show the stark contrast between political ideologies on display here. One side is throwing baseless accusations and disrupting what was a peaceful talk in an attempt to censor free speech and the other is attempting to let everyone's voice be heard.

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4. He is hard-line pro Brexit.

Here is the clincher and why I’m throwing my hat in the ring for Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is uncompromising in his anti-EU stance over the years and has always been an ardent opponent of the European Union kleptocracy. His voting record shows he has consistently opposed European Union Integration, repeatedly voted against UK membership of the EU and he voted 7 times since 2011 for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. As I said at the top of the article, this is what a man of principle looks like. He has weighed the evidence and voted accordingly- regardless of the popularity of his views or chance of victory. Principles matter.

He is also against free movement after Brexit is completed. Moggy has always been in favor of strict immigration laws and that doesn't change after Britain leaves the EU. This does not mean that Britain becomes some kind of insular nation- well, rather we should say Britannia will not become more insular than she already is.

Rees-Mogg wants out of the single market. He knows that by staying in the single market we are essentially staying in the EU and cutting ourselves off from a more prosperous and brighter future with other economically booming countries outside the EU. He understands that the EU is doomed and bound to drag us down with it if we stay connected to this failed experiment.

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He expertly grilled a squirming David Davis in a recent Brexit select committee meeting. Mogg, correctly pointed out the ridiculous compromises the committee are willing to accept in the Brexit deal, making Britain nothing more than a vassal state during the 2-year transitional period.

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I don’t agree with Jacob Rees-Mogg on all of his political stances but I do believe he is the best bet we have for securing the Brexit we voted for. The best bet for guiding Britain in the right direction and with the right political values during these turbulent times and into the future.

May and her crony Tory traitors are more interested in clutching on to power, appeasing their buddies in high places and attempting the save face by bending over backwards for the liberal media. They do this all while suckling on the teat of the European Union unwilling to make a firm decision to grow up and lead the nation. “Brexit means Brexit” but Mrs. May’s words ring hollow- she is uncommitted to her own path, unconvincing and weak in the face of a Remain camp that seeks to overthrow the democratic will of the British people.

The Remain-bloc Tories seek to undermine the core British values that hold this great country together. They seek to undermine the vote of the British people and undermine British democracy itself. Instead of actually implementing policies based on conservative policies and interests of the British voters. They seek to benefit themselves and their public persona. They fear the iron fist of a strong European Union, which is a corrupt system we are supposed to be leaving in our wake- and in doing so are bending the knee to Verhofstadt, Merkel, and Tusk. They do this in some vain attempt to be perceived as both reasonable in the eyes of the general public and amenable to their Eurocrat overlords- a dangerous game of appeasement that Britons have never played well. They compromise their values and the values of Britain as a whole. They make us look weak, and even now we feel like a weak nation-. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the idea that Britain cannot now stand ‘alone’ on the world stage is popular in Britain.

I do not believe in this Europhilic mythology, and neither does Rees-Mogg.

It’s plain to see, Jacob Rees-Mogg is a true conservative, a true British man that believes in the traditional family unit, he believes in what he stands for and wants what is best for Britain. He’s a non-compromising Brexiteer. He will fight for the interests of the British people and what they voted for. We need to show the European Union and the Conservative party that we, the British people, will not stand for their lies and deceit anymore. By backing Jacob Rees-Mogg we show what side of the fence we stand on and what sort of ideals we want for Britain.

5. He is the bearer of the idea whose time has come

As we have shown in our previous article 10 Ways the Mainstream Media is Losing the War on Memes, the traditional old guard media is dying and they are hammering in the nails on their own coffin. Each nail an example of hubris, each hammer strike the voice of a people who are sick of being lied to and about. Meme culture, 4chan, political commentary and alternative news on YouTube are winning the online political war- and the war is not between left and right politics but self-determination and liberty versus unending authoritarian tyranny.

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As you know, the left cannot meme.

The left has become the establishment fogies, they are the status quo by virtue of their relentless moralizing from the pulpits of social justice and neo-Marxist philosophies. What power does telling people it is wrong to be a White person have against the chaotic brilliance of an entire generation of internet denizens? This authoritarian left is incredibly dangerous- a viper with perfect hair and polished teeth who tells you without irony that your homeland was always part of Africa and that really, your culture doesn’t exist. Dangerous, yes- but these leftists play to our advantage in terms of pushing out our ideas and actualizing them into public discourse. They unwittingly have provided a framework for satire- and memes are a satirical art form. Never in history have political movements been able to affect public opinion in such a way. We can meme something into the consciousness of the public and change the political landscape. We have seen memes devised on /pol/ become national news overnight. We have seen politicians careers destroyed and made off the back of a meme war.

If Donald J. Trump can be memed into the White House with an Egyptian frog deity and the O.K symbol then Jacob Rees-Mogg can be memed into the Prime Ministerial position.

It is time to show the British public and the out of touch europhiles in Parliament that you can’t clog the Mogg.

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Conservative Political Blogger Confirmed For Seat On Federal Appeals Court

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Conservative Political Blogger Confirmed For Seat On Federal Appeals Court

On a party-line vote, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm President Trump’s most arguably judicial nominee to date is John Bush, a Kentucky legal professional and political blogger whose posts disparaged gay rights and as compared the Supreme Court’s abortion decision in Roe v. Wade to its seasoned-slavery 1857 Dred Scott choice.

And he is now a decision on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

Blogging under a faux name, Bush published more than 400 objects, often mentioning alt-right media reviews containing conspiracy theories and false information, which includes the claim that former President Barack Obama become not born within the U.S.

At his affirmation hearing closing week, Bush characterized his blogging as “political interest” and pledged he would no longer carry his politics directly to the bench.

When Bush said he would follow the Supreme Court’s choices upholding a lady’s right to terminate her being pregnant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reminded Bush that he changed into underneath oath. And Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., caustically added that when reviewing Bush’s blogs, he became “no longer inspired.”

shortly after the listening to, a definitely disgusted Kennedy said he did now not realize how he might vote on the nomination, however on Thursday, he joined the Senate’s other Republican contributors in balloting to verify the nominee.

Few observers concept Kennedy could in the long run vote against Bush’s affirmation in view of the reality that Bush is from Kentucky and his nomination changed into made now not simply with the aid of Trump but behind the scenes by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Crossing your very own birthday celebration leader isn’t always something senators love to do, and Kennedy failed to.

The very last vote become 51-47, with Sen. John McCain the absent Republican.

Bush is the fourth Trump judicial nominee to win affirmation. Twenty- nominations are pending. Including the ones 22, there are a hundred thirty-five judicial vacancies at the federal bench. That is some distance extra than normal. When President George W. Bush left the workplace, there had been fifty-four vacancies. But within the remaining years of the Obama administration, whilst Republicans controlled the Senate, they blocked dozens of Obama judicial nominees, accounting for the huge wide variety of vacancies now.

Trump has actively sought to call judges who aren’t only conservative but also younger and may serve a long time, quickly erasing and exceeding the gains Obama made in his judicial nominations over terms.

Overcoming Writer’s Block for the Beginner Blogger

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Pregnancy Center Opens 100 Yards Form the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi

The only abortion business still operating in the state of Mississippi has a new pro-life neighbor as of April 22, with the Center for Pregnancy Choices cutting the ribbon on its third location just 100 yards away from the clinic’s pink-painted façade.

Behind the veneer of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, close to 2,300 women resort to abortion every year, turning to a list of practitioners that includes self-styled “Christian abortion doctor” Willie Parker, author of the 2017 book, “Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice.”

Now, women in Jackson have one more opportunity to choose life for their unborn children in the heart of the culturally thriving Fondren district. More importantly, the new location is a one-minute walk from the abortion clinic, with the entrance tucked away to allow patients a private entrance and exit.

“We are beyond excited to be there,” Erin Kate Goode, Center for Pregnancy Choices’ executive director said. “We’ve been trying to get there, and it’s finally taken place.”

The location fulfills a long-held dream of Barbara Beavers, a founding board member of Center for Pregnancy Choices in 1988 who has served as executive director for the past 25 years.

Closing in on 30 years of pro-life ministry in Jackson, Beavers’ work has always included tending to the post-abortion needs of former clients at the abortion clinic, and now that the intervention piece is in place, she’s passing the leadership baton to Goode, effective May 1.

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Beavers and her team started zeroing in on an office space across the street from the clinic in 2014, but weren’t able to raise funds in time to rent it out. After the hopes for that space fizzled, a man came into the office and told Beavers his desire to help rescue lives from abortion.

“He drove right there, first thing in the morning,” Goode said. “He went into tears, talking about how he needed to do something about the abortion issue. Then, a couple of weeks later, two other guys came in together and said they felt like they needed to come help us.

“They said, ‘What can we do,’ and Barbara said, ‘Well, you can get us the space in Fondren.’”

That’s exactly what the two men did, connecting with the first man who’d visited Beavers—who turned out to be a mutual friend of the other two. The three men worked together to acquire the space and set a plan for getting it move-in ready.

Ground-breaking was last October, leading up to this April’s ribbon-cutting.

“This neighborhood is the hottest thing in the state,” Goode said. “It’s way more than we could pay, and he’s truly sacrificed to provide that space for us, because he knows that’s what God wants him to do.”

Along the way, the center has brought in Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant as banquet speakers to pitch the vision and raise the funds they’ve needed to start serving women a football field away from the abortion clinic.

In stark contrast to the abortion clinic’s pink façade and toxic interior, the inside of the Center for Pregnancy Concerns’ new location is a decisive highlight—with an ultrasound machine topping its list of most important furnishings.

Goode and her team are exploring adding free STD/STI testing at the site as well, as they move a ministry that has served 22,000 clients into the next era of life-affirming care.

“It’s so pretty inside,” Goode, who has been on the center’s staff for four years, said. “It’s new and fresh, and that’s important in a neighborhood like this. It’s artsy and definitely not the conservative group. We’re excited to be there to serve and be a resource to the community.”

LifeNews Note: Jay Hobbs writes for PregnancyHelpNews, where this originally appeared.

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