re: Bari Weiss on Bill Maher show says she is done with covid

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Naw, they are dead to me.

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Same. Their actions have made my heart hard as stone. I remember all the times I’ve been banned (still am!) and all the horrible things they said.

These people are evil and I will never trust or forgive them. Once you cross the lines they did... you don’t just cross it back again and says Oops!

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when you think people like Bari Weiss are capable of reason and sanity when they’ve proven over and over again they are not.

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This doesn’t make any sense. She’s clearly capable of reason and sanity when she’s just said something reasonable and sane - statements which you agree with btw Read her resignation letter from the NYT.

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she’ll be back to voting exactly the same way she did before

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This is just empty cynicism. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe she wouldn’t if there was less tribalism, ideological purity, and political religiosity.

Does it really matter anyway? Shouldn’t we just seek and applaud truth?

frick that stupid bitch and everyone like her.

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They need to beg for forgiveness.

Acknowledging you were incorrect doesn’t cut it bitch.

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And, that is the vicious cycle the elite have us in.

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I didn't watch the clip, but Bari Weiss left the NYTimes over its BS and started a Substack that has become a fantastic platform for liberals sounding the alarm about the excesses and foolishness on the left and in the mainstream media. I'd say she's done a hell of a lot of atoning for her previous ignorance.

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Yeah, she has some good writers on her new site. This was one example of a good piece - have to edit a bit so it fits here -

ALANA NEWHOUSE - Choose your fighter, as the kids say.

For decades, a strong federal government was the preferred soldier for me, and for many people I knew. The reasons could be soaring and justice-seeking—my father valued the New Deal so deeply that he effectively forgave FDR his betrayal of Jews during the Holocaust—but were more often simply obvious. You couldn’t face nuclear war as an individual. You couldn’t even attempt to right the historical wrong of slavery and extend civil rights fairly across citizens on any level other than a national one.

When the Cold War ended, there was the promise—backed by the emergence of new technology we now refer to as the internet—that power was being returned to people. Individuals suddenly had access to seemingly unlimited knowledge, the ability to organize themselves outside the bounds of mediating institutions, the promise of global reach at their very own fingertips.

Then came 9/11, when everything switched back to the “trust us” model. Suddenly, we were thrust back into a war. And, though we didn’t see it at first, that new technology was turned against the individual; emails and phone calls were not personal communications but potential property of the federal government. Even the definition of surveillance expanded, as phones equipped with cameras meant that our lives could be watched not just by the state but by everyone around us.

To the extent that any of this was unclear, Covid pulled the curtain away, and showed us the reality of the landscape we had actually been living in—in which all of our intermediary institutions have been hollowed out or are dead, and how we’ve all been left bare and alone in front of this giant all-seeing eye of government and the monopoly corporations with which they’d become enmeshed. This was the year we learned that this interlocking blob could decide to shut down our schools, force children in pre-K to be masked all day and isolate others from necessary social interaction, regardless of the consequences to their mental or physical health; they will decide what we’re allowed to read; and what we must put in our bodies. In the face of this seemingly omnipresent power, where can one find shelter?

This was the year I remembered which way the arrows point in a republic. Rights inhere in individuals, who in this country chose to grant some of their powers to the states; states then granted some of their power to the federal government. The problems of the modern surveillance state are new, but maybe the answer to them has been here all along.

So, while you’re trying to figure out how to set up a crypto wallet, you might also take note of what is happening one level up: In Georgia, the state school board voted to break with the National School Boards Association; Oklahoma’s governor is pitching a battle with the Pentagon over control of its national guard; and Florida’s credit rating just surpassed that of the federal government’s.

In ways the founding fathers did not foresee—or did they?—we seem to be facing something quite unexpected. A new era of the states is upon us.

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If Maher truly cared about this topic as much as he wants people to believe he would’ve asked why that hospital ship was sent away after a couple weeks of sitting completely unused.

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Naw, let’s ease all of these frickers into the barn & then shut the doors & show them some patriotism.

I knew it was a moral crying when we started it. I'm glad she is decided to come along for the ride but she hasn't asked herself the real question. Liberals like her need to ask themselves why conservatives knew it was a moral crime two years before they did

Just wait until she figures out all the other liberal progressive bullshite she believes in now is also all a hoax …..

War Room played that clip 2-3 times Saturday morning.

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This is just empty cynicism. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe she wouldn’t if there was less tribalism, ideological purity, and political religiosity. Does it really matter anyway? Shouldn’t we just seek and applaud truth?

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She supports repealing the 2nd Amendment.... that’s her truth.