Posted on 03/10/2023 8:38:45 AM PST by TigerClaws
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BREAKING: House unanimously sends bill to Biden’s desk that mandates DNI declassify all COVID origins info
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JUST IN - House votes 419-0 on a bill that requires the Director of National Intelligence to declassify all information on the origins of COVID. The bill now requires Biden’s signature.
The bipartisanship is amazing.
Please accept a humble apology and do not turn away from those who are now firmly on your side.
We have to learn that many were deceived and are now seeing that.
She been living in a liberal dominated bubble.
We’ll see if her eyes continue to see the light so I’d give her some slack.
Even Reagen used to be a Democrat.
Before continuing, I want to acknowledge fully anyone on this thread who thinks she is not likely to be that leopard that changes its spots. I understand that. But at the same time, if this country is to go on, we NEED people on the Left to undergo the same thought process that Naomi Wolf has apparently undergone. And when we do, we need to welcome them and give them a fresh evaluation. Naomi Wolf may be like the alcoholic who swears off, then the first time a Manhattan Cocktail party is dangled in front of her face, she reverts to form. But if we want to save this Republic, and have any future, we need to hope more and more people like her have the scales fall from their eyes, and see the incoherence and deceptions of the Left, and engage in, as she apparently has, a valid introspection.
That said, folks...this is about as close to a real apology as anyone is ever likely to get from any Leftist anywhere, so in that sense, I applaud her and accept it. I think we all should.
I doubt she is a dummy to have come this far before feeling compelled to write this. What is more likely is that she is a poster child for that dynamic of Leftists who live within that “bubble”, and they assume that any piece of information that penetrates the soapy membrane of that bubble to reach them is the truth.
We, as Conservatives, are largely different in this respect.
We are absolutely susceptible to being inside the same soapy bubble that insulates us, but there is a difference:
First, Conservatism by its nature tends to be more reality based. It just is. We are less driven by unhinged (from reality) emotion and sentimentality. It is why, you would probably have to classify most of the founders as conservatives, with a few exceptions. The believed in the inherent evil that exists in Man, and that it must be fought on an ongoing basis.
Second, Conservatives HAVE to engage in introspection. We have to, and most that I know, do to varying degrees. I say we have to because we are vilified in the media, entertainment, educational, and government spheres. We are put into a point where we, as conservatives, must examine our beliefs, because so many societal forces out there tell us that not only we are wrong, but we are evil.
Conservatives have more solid foundational principles that we build our ideological house on top of. Often we don’t have to go back and re-examine our principles on many of those things, because we have already thought them through. Principles such as valuing the individual over the collective. Opposition to wholesale and unlimited slaughter of the unborn. Adherence to the laws of a Republic. The concept that personal liberty and economic liberty are inextricably intertwined, and you cannot destroy one without destroying the other.
And so on.
It also means that we tie back any new issues to those we have thought through in the past to ensure they are as consistent as can be going forward.
That is why I view much of this coming from Naomi Wolf as significant. She is engaging in candid introspection, which is wholly a Conservative value. The Left is totally, completely, and utterly devoid of introspection. They KNOW in their hearts they are right, but their river of intellectual coherence being a mile wide and a nanometer deep (as most emotionally based people are) once you scratch the surface, their intellectual coherence is non-existent.
In summary, I welcome hearing a Leftist icon speaking the unspeakable aloud. She may have reservations. But we need to welcome people who manage to stick their heads through that soapy bubble and hear something that challenges their beliefs.
Yes, the shutdowns had nothing to do with health or science. I wondered how Covid was ok in big box stores but not small business. So many lost their livelihoods. And kids lost out on education.
100%. Well said. Completely agree.
Naomi Wolf is about to get cancelled. She’ll see things from the right side before she knows it.
Any transition which involves surrendering long-held beliefs is a painful one for most people. This cannot have been easy for her to write.
Looks like this Liberal just got mugged!
I don’t know about her stance on masks but she was banned from twitter because of her anti-Covid vaxx views.
Spot on comment.
It too struck me as hypocritical of her to now call for accountability when she has supported the party that destroyed it.
Furthermore, Nancy Pelosi decided to engage them for one final action, the insurrection of the Capitol.
While it pains me that you failed to see the reality far sooner, I accept your apology, and also thank you for it as well.
This is a must read. Phenomenal, actually.
Someone is starting to realize just how badly she’s been mugged.
It will be interesting to see where she goes next.
Too late
Much too late
She may have penned a genuine apology, and that’s good in itself, but it does little to stop the daily output of leftist propaganda, lies and personal attacks against conservatives.
You’re only truly sorry if you take real steps to stop the problem from continuing. She needs to do more to expose the deceivers IMO. If she’s truly remorseful, that’s what she should do.
100% agree!
I sure wish I could force Liz Cheney to read it - three times so it sinks in.
You won’t see her on The View ever again.
That’s a lot of words to say, “I’m a dumbass, sorry.”
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A dumbass because emotionally she fell for the avalanche of lies and propaganda poured out daily by the State Aligned Media. To many of us, that has been painfully obvious for a very long time.
The relentless chorus of one sided stories and an obvious media echo chamber should have caused her to question the veracity and objectivity of the so-called “news” long ago.
Its an overdue apology that should have been made long before the release of the J6 tapes. The signs of deceit and subterfuge were clearly there for all to see.
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