When Rightist Eyes Are Smiling
For as long as I’ve been alive, the Left has dominated the media. Though its earlier minions weren’t psychotic or Orwellian about it as they are now. They didn’t cancel or ban non-compliant journalism, fiction, and even social media messaging as they are now. And they stopped well short of lunatic fantasy, like men can be women and get pregnant. Until they realized they could force their fantasies on normal people too spineless to resist their indoctrination.
Irish voters overwhelmingly rejected two constitutional amendments that sought to broaden (read woken) the definition of “family.”
Eventually, they discovered that the more they pushed extremity, the more the masses bent to it. Hence, President Obama could go from publicly opposing same-sex marriage in 2008 (“I believe that marriage is a union between a man and a woman … For me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union.”) to lighting up the White House in rainbow colors the day the Supreme Court legalized the practice in 2015. Then, just two years later, the state of Colorado could sue a Christian baker for denying his craft to a gay wedding celebration. At least the Supreme Court ruled rightly if incompletely in his case on the basis of religious freedom. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: The Star Trek Election, Part II: Biden’s Brain)
Around the same time, with the internet exploding, media leftists discovered they could convert cultural influence into political power to overcome popular common sense. Consequently, they got progressive simps Justin Trudeau elected Prime Minister of Canada, Leo Varadkar Taoiseach of Ireland, and Hillary Clinton almost President of the United States. Clinton’s tight loss to Donald Trump in 2016 shocked the Left into violating all ethical standards before the 2020 presidential election.
After the totally fabricated hoax about Russia collusion did President Trump serious political damage, the media and Deep State took two historically unprecedented and contemptible steps ahead of Election 2020. One, they banned and cancelled the New York Post – America’s oldest newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton — for accurately reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop. Twitter and Facebook even disabled the Post account, and that of any person commenting on it. Two, they published a letter by 51 corrupt and partisan former intelligence officials dismissing the Post story as Russian misinformation.
The erasure of this completely true reportage helped defeat Trump and elect the ultimate progressive simp, Joe Biden, President. The following year, Justin Trudeau was re-elected PM of Canada, and one year after that, Varadkar of Ireland. It seemed as if Marxist beta-manhood leadership was globally on the march. But several poli-cultural events since then appear to tell a different tale of woe for the Left.
By far the most significant was Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in April 2022. Ironically, thanks to Musk, future generations may not suspect just how close America came to losing one of its greatest constitutional rights — the Freedom of Speech. The Left’s total monopoly of communication and assault on its free exercise, under the pretense of quashing “disinformation and hate speech,” was almost a fait accompli. (READ MORE: The Conservative Writer’s Block)
Only a man as powerful as Musk could have stopped this, for those even close to his level — such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — were and are against him. The proof lies in the ongoing corporate-media-statist attacks on him. Not only did major companies stop advertising on X (formerly Twitter) over a lie about Musk being antisemitic, but last month, a Delaware court voided his $56-billion Tesla pay package. Judge Kathaleen McCormick probably couldn’t run a coffeehouse, let alone put men on Mars, yet she can cancel a legitimate hard-earned transaction.
Nonetheless, Musk’s X purchase seems to have helped break the Left’s hegemony, at least internationally. In November of 2023, conservative candidate Javier Milei won the Argentinian presidential election by, as CNN put it, “wrenching his country to the right with a bombastic anti-establishment campaign that drew comparisons to former U.S. President Donald Trump.” Last week, Milei fired 5,000 government employees so he’ off to a great start.
Last month, rightist El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele won a landslide re-election (85 percent of the vote). His incredible victory came after, as Reuters put it, “voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown that transformed security in the Central American country. Bukele is another world leader the Left compares to Trump.
Across the Pond, in my troubled Camelot, Great Britain, the most successful author of all time has had enough, and she’s gone on X to show it. J.K. Rowling began her defense of women a few years ago as a kinder, gentler critic of transgender activism. But after enduring some of the bitterest, angriest insults on record, plus the usual lefty attempts to cancel her and her properties, like the Harry Potter video game Hogwart’s Legacy, Rowling has become a witty Voldemort. On Sunday, she “tweeted,” “Happy Birthing Parent Day to all whose large gametes were fertilized resulting in small humans whose sex was assigned by doctors making mostly lucky guesses.” (READ MORE: The Decline and Fall of Hollywoke)
And just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, last Saturday, Irish voters overwhelmingly rejected two constitutional amendments that sought to broaden (read woken) the definition of “family.” One of the amendments would have removed the statement that a woman’s place is in the home. It went down in flames, burning insufferably progressive PM Varadkar, who had aggressively pushed for the reform. “When you lose by this kind of margin, there are a lot of people who got this wrong,” Varadkar said. “And I am certainly one of them.”
Hopefully, his American counterpart will be blathering a similar sentiment in November.
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