TRAVEL ADVISORY!!
Will Americans see more political dirty tricks to come?
HOW "RICH" IS THIS? LOL FACTS MATTER!
Thanks, Jean.
Previous discussion on this:
NAACP-Travel warning to blacks going to Florida
Started by metmike - May 23, 2023, 7:58 p.m.
Politically weaponizing the power of this once great institution to try to hurt Ron DeSantis, despite the people most hurt by this are the ones they claim to be standing up for.
“This action is nothing more than a political stunt, and, if this stunt were to have any impact, it would be to hurt the actual workers in the tourism industry. Ironically, many of these people are the very same the NAACP purports to represent,” an official in the DeSantis Administration told The Capitolist. “Further, the accusations being levied against the state could not be further from the truth. The fact is, Florida is a tough-on-crime state where all residents and visitors are protected from harm; our thriving economy gives everyone a chance to live the American Dream; and our education standards are second-to-none.”
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Recent assertions that the NAACP is now just a political organization that no longer serves the best interests of black people, being called conspiracy theories..............all got confirmed with a capital C!
Here's the thing.
There won't be any consequences to the NAACP for doing this and all the other fake environmental justice and other crap they spew out.
They don't answer to anybody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP
“Any man can withstand adversity; if you want to test his character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/does_power_corrupt_everyone_equally
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Fact checking this source and myself on the Lincoln quote:
Misattributed. There is no evidence Lincoln ever made such a statement about testing a man’s character. The author appears to be Robert G. Ingersoll, who used this phrase to describe the 16th president of the United States on several occasions in the 1890s.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .
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Despite the actual source being less famous, the meaning of it is no less profound!
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy.”
This phrase is also found in the “Works of Robert G. Ingersoll” volume III, published in 1902 ( here ).
According to Worthington, the quote had been correctly credited to Ingersoll up until the 1930s, when newspapers attributed it to Lincoln instead."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When North Carolina in 2016 banned transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender identity in public buildings, California retaliated by banning state-funded travel to that state and any other state with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ people.
But seven years later, California now bans state-funded travel to nearly half of the country following a surge of anti-LGBTQ legislation in mostly Republican-led states.
The prohibition means sports teams at public colleges and universities have had to find other ways to pay for road games in states like Arizona and Utah. And it has complicated some of the state’s other policy goals, like using state money to pay for people who live in other states to travel to California for abortions.
Wednesday, state Senate leader Toni Atkins announced legislation that would end the ban and replace it with an advertising campaign in those states that promotes acceptance and inclusion for the LGBTQ community. The bill would set up a fund to pay for the campaign, which would accept private donations and state funding — if any is available.
“I think polarization is not working,” said Atkins, who is a lesbian. “We need to adjust our strategy. We know what we need to do, but we need to be able to be there to do it.”
Overturning the ban could be difficult in the California Legislature, where 10% of lawmakers now identify as LGBT. Assemblymember Evan Low, a Democrat from Campbell who authored the travel ban in 2016, said he supports the advertising campaign but said “we shouldn’t completely end California’s state-funded travel ban without having an alternative action in combating discrimination.”
“We can’t back down, especially as a record amount of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is being introduced,” said Low, who is gay.
California’s travel ban has been in effect since 2017. The state Attorney General keeps a list of states subject to the ban, a list that has grown quickly as several states have passed laws restricting doctors from providing gender-affirming care to minors and stopping transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity.
Travel advisories fly on right, left after NAACP's Florida warning
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/24/conservatives-issue-travel-warnings-against-califo/
“Both states have recently passed laws which legal experts argue could result in even out-of-state parents losing custody of their children,” said Mr. Schilling. “These laws give state family courts the power to take temporary emergency jurisdiction over a minor coming into the state to access sex-change drugs or surgical procedures, regardless of if the minor is traveling from another state.”
He cited bills passed last year in California and Minnesota making each a “trans refuge state” for families seeking gender-transition treatment for their minor children by crossing state lines from states that ban such drugs and surgeries for those under 18.
5 million/black person reparations/wokeism cult
Started by metmike - March 14, 2023, 11:05 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93809/
Great negotiator........NOT!
Started by metmike - May 24, 2023, 6:28 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/95465/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/95465/#95467
People with messages like this:
Greatest FORMER President in history/J. Carter
20 responses |
Started by metmike - Feb. 18, 2023, 7:49 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/95231/
MLK
https://jongordon.com/positive-tip-mlk-quotes.html
LOVE
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.'
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92441/#92519
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92242/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/77011/#81278
metmike: Dr. King called it dead on. We're acting like complete fools because groups that disagree with each other are completely abusing their power and trying to weaponize it to punish those that they disagree with any way possible.
The ends justifies the means.
Don't try to get along or find middle ground. It's your agenda or nothing. Zero tolerance for people that don't think just like you. Extreme, religious/cult like, belief systems. Extreme policies.
I'm thinking that it's the politicians and media that are actually taking on this mentality and leading the people vs them doing it because the people want that.
However, it seems to be both.
People go to places that tell them what they want to read/hear ..........so those places(government/media) create situations that appeal to just one side INTENTIONALLY and snub the other side because in 2023, if you use a tactic trying to attract both sides...........you end up being rejected by almost everybody. People gravitate to places that cater to just THEM or their side and its a huge bonus if that place also attacks the other side which is the BEST way to win in politics today.
"California may end travel ban to states with anti-LGBTQ laws"
IMO ~ WE'RE LIVING IN A MODERN DAY SODOM & GOMORRAH. MOST OF US KNOW OF THE END TO THAT. IT WASN'T & ISN'T, STRICTLY ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY... BUT, ABOUT HEAVILY CONCENTRATED AREAS OF EVERY CONCEIVABLE SIN THERE IS. SIN IS LIKE A FIRE IN A WINDSTORM, IMO ~ IT SPREADS, EXPONENTIALLY ~ FEEDS ON ITSELF ~ EVENTUALLY, DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN IT'S PATH.
GRANTED, ONLY GOD CAN CREATE LIFE. DOES EVERY LIFE GET BORN PERFECT? NO ~ NO ONE IS BORN PERFECT ~ HENCE THE NEED TO BE "BORN AGAIN". DOES THAT MAKE ANYONE PERFECT? LOL NOPE! IT JUST OPENS US UP TO BE ABLE TO DO OUR BEST ~TO RECOGNIZE WRONG FROM RIGHT. THAT'S WHEN OUR GIFT OF CHOICE COMES INTO PLAY.
I totally respect your views on religion, Jean. with each religion, comes a set of specific beliefs, rituals and values, all of which are intended to maximize the individuals holiness/purity and worthiness of attaining life after death.
most of these principles, when applied authentically, contribute towards a universal appreciation of humanity which focuses on helping people most in need and helping them to enjoy the wonderful things that you and I have had the great fortune and luck to be blessed with. The objective is for everybody to live in harmony with each other.
turns out that there are flaws in the religious belief systems that sabotage harmony with our non religious brothers and sisters And those of different religions.
I totally get you loving the sinner and hating the sin but when a religion defines something important to them as a sin that those not in the religion strongly view as a right and both of them fight hard against each other for laws and rules that enforce their sides belief system you will NOT have harmony.
you have tribalism and people judging and fighting against the other side. One side can be sincere as heck and with great intentions but the other side is just as sincere in viewing those intentions as an attack on their rights or values…depending on what side it is.
On abortion, for instance. There can never be complete harmony between the 2 sides That satisfies both sides. NEVER!
In realms defining sexuality, based on strict religious definitions, you can NEVER have perfect harmony.
The best that you can do is have acceptance of the disagreements. The greater the acceptance, the greater the harmony.
But humans are not very good at accepting things when they don’t get their own way.
I started a thread to address that earlier in the week.
Great negotiator........NOT!
Started by metmike - May 24, 2023, 6:28 p.m
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/95465/
Every war was a result of this, especially the tragic one in Ukraine right now. No negotiating after over a year Because each side refuses to acknowledge anything that the other side wants.
Current battle over the budget in the US right now. Same thing. Both sides focusing on getting what they want.
The fake climate crisis based on one side scaring the world into thinking we have to adopt their political agenda in order to save the planet…..which punishes poor people with unreliable high energy prices while wrecking the planet and hurting wildlife with the solutions of wind and batteries. That’s the opposite of harmony between humans and especially not being in harmony with authentic environmentalism and Gacia.
The best solutions would come in a world of open minded, honest people that are willing to meet those they disagree with halfway. Negotiate agreements that find common ground.
But many belief systems don’t tolerate that mentality.
And so there can’t be harmony.
"The best solutions would come in a world of open minded, honest people that are willing to meet those they disagree with halfway. negotiate agreements that find common ground."
RELIGION, ASIDE ~THE KEY WORD? HONESTY!! IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST FLAT OUT BE HONEST, THIS WORLD WOULDN'T BE IN THE MISERABLE SHAPE IT'S IN. EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE, WHEN HONESTY IS AT THE FOREFRONT.
WHY DO SO MANY FIND IT SO DIFFICULT TO BE HONEST????!!!!!!!
I'VE ALWAYS MADE MYSELF VERY CLEAR, FROM THE GET-GO, IN ANY TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHO I AM & WHAT I STAND FOR..... I DON'T EVER NEED TO WONDER IF I'M GONNA GET "TRIPPED UP" & GET CAUGHT IN A LIE. EVERY DISHONEST PERSON, EVENTUALLY WILL "TRIP" THEMSELVES UP. THAT HAS GOT TO BE ONE HORRID WAY TO LIVE ~ ALWAYS ON THE "WATCH"....ANTICIPATING THE INEVITABLE... DUE TO THEIR OWN DISHONESTY ~ BE IT THEFT OR LIE.
Extremely well said, Jean! Worth a post of the week!
Conservatives are less likely to be classified with a mental health disorder and suffer mental illnesses, a Pew poll concluded.
WIBC reported that the study included men and women who were liberals, moderates, or conservatives. Conservatives are less likely to suffer from mental health illnesses than liberals or the so-called “woke crowd.
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This study is actually based mostly on junk science and not legit but I'm posting it because its something that everybody from the right will totally believe from the get go because their minds are conditioned to believe in everything that tells them what they want to hear/read.
Regardless of that. This lady from the far left is completely bonkers and there are plenty more from where she came from!!!!
Fonda told the audience at Cannes, “We’ve got about seven, eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use of fossil fuels, and unfortunately, the people that have the least responsibility for it are hit the hardest — Global South, people on islands, poor people of color. It is a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop. We have to arrest and jail those men — they’re all men [behind this].”
Fonda continued, “It’s good for us all to realize there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism. There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy. A mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. White men are the things that matter, and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”
The actress said, “You can take anything — sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, whatever, the war.” She then articulated, “If you really get into it, and study it and learn about it and the history of it, everything’s connected. There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.”