Welcome to the Woketrix, and the War to Destroy Everything You Love

Have you ever felt like you’ve woken up to a world in which up is down, wrong is right, and it takes immense courage just to say things that are obviously true? It’s not your imagination.

You’re not in the Twilight Zone. You’re in a new reality, a harsh new upside-down world in which the American flag is the symbol of oppression, freedom is slavery to the socialist state, men make better and stronger women than actual women, the media colludes to cover up truth, and every day sees your freedom to speak and even think what you want hunted down, cornered, and curtailed.

It’s not your imagination. You’re in the Woketrix. This state of mind you find yourself in isn’t just the subject of a new book by BRAVE Books CEO Trent Talbot – it’s reality. That’s the bad news.

There’s other bad news before we get to the good news. Unlike the iconic red pill-blue pill scene in the Matrix movie, in which Neo has a choice to accept reality or pill his way back to comfort, the Woketrix isn’t fiction. It’s real. It’s also not going away, at least not yet. It’s on every college campus, it’s in almost every corporate boardroom, it’s in the NFL, the NBA, and it pervades nearly every show on every channel. That awful fifth season of Amazon’s detective show, Bosch? It’s a product of the Woketrix. The fake Facebook fact-check that’s destroying your favorite news website’s traffic? That’s the Woketrix made real. It can still cancel you and take away your constitutionally-protected rights.

In fact, that’s why it exists. The Woketrix is a tool of oppression fashioned by the witting and unwitting followers of Mao and Pol Pot, two monsters who ravaged their own people and unleashed hideous new forms of mind control on the world. Left unchecked, the Woketrix will destroy our country, erase our culture, and divide families irreparably, forever. These are the goals of the woke. They want power and will destroy everything in their path to take it.

So that’s some of the bad news. The good news is many have caught on and are pushing back. BRAVE Books’ The Woketrix is one counterattack against the Wokes and their oppression and dishonesty, against their hot takes, their merciless cancel culture, and relentless drive to put their hooks into your child’s mind.

The Woketrix opens with a scene parodying the Matrix movie, only instead of Morpheus offering Neo a blue pill for comfort or a red pill to learn the truth, Talbot offers his young daughter a blue book called Woke Up My Baby (yes, woke books are on kids bookshelves and in school libraries), or a photo of Rep. Dan Crenshaw, the war veteran who is now fighting back against wokeism.

Talbot recently told Fox News, “I’m here to help parents fight for their children’s hearts. Conservative parents can’t afford to take a passive approach to parenting. Wokeism’s whole plan is to influence our children today so that they become the woke activists of tomorrow. BRAVE Books is a tool for parents to teach their kids intentionally so they grow up believing the traditional values that made this country the freest nation in the world.”

Crenshaw, the young Texan who lost an eye fighting for America and our values, agrees: “These days, Cancel Culture has become a tool of the woke mob. That’s why I wrote Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame: to help prepare our children to be brave enough to stand up for what they believe, to never back down against the mob, to understand that Cancel Culture is nothing more than a tool for the weak to attack the BRAVE.”

The Woketrix is unfortunately all too real, and it’s a true threat to your freedom and your family. It takes real courage to stand up against it. The Woketrix is one effort to fight back and restore common sense, decency, family, mercy, faith, hope, and patriotism – all the things that the wokes have constructed their Woketrix to destroy.

NYPost.com
By Mark Moore
December 26, 2021

The official Kamala Harris makeover; Says ‘democracy’ is biggest national security threat

During her interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan asked about the one national security threat that keeps her up at night worrying. “Frankly, one of them is our democracy. There is, I think, no question in the minds of people who are foreign policy experts that the year 2021 is not the year 2000,” she said. “And we are embarking on a new era where the threats to our nation take many forms. Including the threat of autocracies taking over and having outsized influence around the world,” Harris said.

Later in the interview, she clarified her earlier comment, saying there is a need to “fight for the integrity of our democracy. “ In the wide-ranging interview, Harris also talked about the need for the Senate to pass voting rights legislation, but wouldn’t say whether the filibuster should be bypassed, and criticism directed at her.

ENTER HILLARY

Harris also refused to take any responsibility for the debacle surrounding the US military pullout from Afghanistan in August, instead blaming the Trump administration for inking an agreement with the Taliban. She said she “fully supported” President Biden’s decision to end the nation’s 20-year war with Afghanistan by removing US troops.

“I think it’s really important to remember that the previous administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban, did not invite the Afghan government to be at the table, and negotiated a deal that required and and promised as part of an agreement that we would pull out by the end of May,” Harris said on CBS. “So we were saddled with that responsibility based on an agreement between the United States and the Taliban,” she continued. Harris claimed the Biden administration had to abide by the deal worked out by former President Donald Trump or risk a continuation of America’s longest war.

“We made the decision that if we were to break the agreement, it would have been a whole other situation right now,” the vice president said. “I strongly believe that had we broken that agreement, we would be talking about the war in Afghanistan and American troops in Afghanistan, and we’re not talking about that. I don’t regret that,” she said.

Biden has also pointed to the agreement his predecessor made in February 2020 with the Taliban for his reason to plow through with his decision to remove US troops by the end of August. He said he “inherited” the deal Trump negotiated with the Taliban to depart by May 1, 2021, because after that date there would have been no cease-fire to protect US forces, leaving the option of withdrawing the forces or end up escalating the fight with the militant group.

Harris also said the administration will do “whatever is necessary” to push for the 50-50 divided Senate to take up voting rights legislation but wouldn’t commit to bypassing the 60-vote filibuster threshold to do so. Asked if that means using the filibuster, Harris said: “I’m not saying that. What I’m saying is that we are going to urge the United States Congress, and we have been, to examine the tools they have available to do what is necessary to fight for and retain the integrity of our voting system in America,” said Harris, who served as a US senator from California before become vice president.

Creating a carve out on the filibuster would allow Senate Democrats to pass legislation with a simple majority, but moderate Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have opposed using the maneuver.

Democrats contend that Republican-led states are passing bills that will restrict voting rights for minorities as Trump continues to claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Harris also responded to reports that the Biden White House is setting her up to fail amid a possible rivalry with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who, like Harris, may run again for president in 2024 or 2028. She was asked if the scrutiny rises out of the fact that she is the first black and the first woman to serve as vice president.

“I’ll leave that for others to deal with. I have a job to do. And I’m going to get that job done,” she responded, noting that the criticism may be prompted by her raising issues about maternal health, postpartum care and Medicaid expansion.

“I’m vice president United States. Anything that I handle is because it’s a tough issue, and it couldn’t be handled at some other level. And there are a lot of big tough issues that need to be addressed. And it has actually been part of my lifelong career to deal with tough issues, and this is no different,” she said.

"One issue with remote work (and not a new one) is that work that can be done “from home” can be done from Asia - and they’ll replace one American with several Asians to make that happen."

I agree partially, however, for work that is performed overseas, an American can still be the broker and project manager and interface with the US customer.

Also, time zone differences can make it impractical. Also, many US customers want to have a service provider that is a US legal jurisdiction (so they "have somebody to sue", if needed).

And security can cause a customer to require a US provider - and making sure that intellectual property stays under control.

And, finally, some information products (e.g. books, recipes, etc.) are very culture-specific.

Oh, and don't forget becoming the "US warehouse" for products manufactured overseas.

Another problem with offshore tech workers is how unstable their workforce is. In lesser developed countries there is often more importance placed on "ladder climbing" than on gaining expertise. I owned an offshore tech company for over a decade, and I've seen a lot of that. In fact, for every offshore worker I hired I hired an onshore worker.

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