Our bladders were true patriots that day! :D
There is another resource--again, created by the oppo--that has videos sorted by timestamps. It is posted here:
https://thedonald.win/p/11S0poYC1P/capital-hill-january-6th-footage/c/
And yeah...I'm hanging onto that energy from the 6th, too. They are downplaying that a crowd of easily 1.5 million--likely more--could be so angry and yet so utterly self-governed, so joyous. We were never a mob.
I will never forget. And yes--the prayers, the songs, the dawning realization that there was great power wielded that day by voice and presence, and that we chose to leave after we did what we came there to do...I shall hold that hope and strength in me forever. They don't want that knowledge to spread.
They don't want us to know how many of us there are. They want us beaten down, isolated, defeated, made to feel that what happened that day was a fringe group, not the hundreds of thousands of businessmen, working men, leos, teachers, lawyers, pastors, veterans, grandmas, anti-CCP Chinese immigrants, etc etc. It was the best of The Everyman and the most American moment we've had in modern history.
Bless you, Pede. We Patriots have the upper hand, even now, when all is seeming grim. Many of us were there standing with you and we will NEVER forget!!!
Got rid of current tv and movies 20 years ago and haven't regretted it. I don't lack for entertainment: I binge watch entire series a few years after they are completed if it's something that gets recommended or piques my interest. Have over the years amassed a good collection of great movies and books. I go to drive-ins for older films...covid has brought about a resurgence of those. I'd been turned off of cinemas long before that with the lovely super lice and bedbug populations now thriving in our big cities. Last regular movie theatre I started to go to had several families in line with all manner of bedding in hand...noooo thanks!!!
I read the first one as an adult and thought it was clever but not my thing...then at someone's urging, read book 5 and was blown away when I realized that, in addition, to creating a bang up decent children's series, she was writing an allegory of Europe between the world wars. Holy cow. I was hooked...finished the series from 5, then went back and read them all again to the end from book 1.
I forgive Rowling her twittery for that one book alone.
When we're on the other side of this thing, consider yourself officially invited to the 1st annual PotterPede Independence Day book fest and celebration. Our (Weasely) Frens have the best fireworks....
Apparently I did miss the mark because it sounds like people think I took offense at the use of "autist" rather than my frustration that our side is becoming intellectually weak with all the over-labeling of kids. Not sure what part implied the former, but I'll go back and check to see where I misspoke. But "portrays us in a bad light"? Ouch, Dude...have you seen this place? I love me some TD, but if this school marm's lament is your bad example amidst the stormy sea of Big Mike and FangFang jokes, we're screwed! ;D
If you were here in person I'd make you a hot cup of covfefe. This is a really difficult time right now if you love your country, and I do; sounds like you do, too, and deeply so.
All I can do now is say that there are many, many more of us than there are of them, and the more they push, the more of us they will awaken.
What the Left doesn't understand is that Donald Trump is one man...but every one of us is Trump. No matter what happens on the 20th, that remains the same. And we will not give up to China. He called us to DC to give strength to our friends, and to drag hissing into light of day the weak vipers in our bosom. We did both...and in doing so set long rust-frozen gears into motion.
<hands Tokens_Worth a virtual cup of covfefe made with fellowpede love>
He fought tooth and nail against the CCP. Our own benighted countrymen have welcomed the tendrils of communism with a near-childlike wonder. It's sickening.
But President Trump did not give us up to China, nor will he.
Nah...very conservative, which is why it bothers me that our side's academic robustness has been so watered down. Reading comprehension, attention span, critical thinking at levels our Founding Fathers would have seen as basic are now seen as quirky or symptoms of some sort of mental aberrance (plus it minimizes how awe inspiring the savant autists truly are).
I teach in the trenches, Fren...wasn't trying to start a fuss or upset anyone, but I stick by what I said. We HAVE to increase our side's academic rigor...it deteriorated dramatically in the last 20 years or so. :( It's part of why I urge parents to homeschool and use classical curricula....
Having said that, I think the "weaponized autism" etc lightheartedness is fantastic! I'm not a joy sponge...just getting tired of every call for analysis being a buck passed because "I'm not an autist" or somesuch.
If I were savvier at such things, I'd have been making Patriotic Potterpede memes with abandon this whole time. The comparisons are just too rich. I know Rowling is a nitwit on many things irl but she nailed it as far as describing how evil is allowed to rise by denial and appeasement and division. Loving the LOTR memes that have been going around as is. Book nerds ftw!
I, too! That's the whole point..."Dumbledore's Army" was NOT, in fact, an insurrectionist group crafted by Dumbledore as the increasingly-paranoid Ministry of Magic accused him of making, but an organically formed group of--actually, I don't want to spoil the books for you. Trust me, though, it's an apt analogy, and meant to mock the Left, not demonize us. I was there on the 6th and it was life changing...like permanent hopium to see so many fellow patriots being the best of what America has to offer.
"2E" is academia's current buzz word slang for "twice exceptional." Means the kid is labeled as both G/T (gifted/talented) and having special needs through either learning, behavioral, emotional, or other state-recognized disability.
And yes; completely agree re. the need for understanding in this area.
I teach 2Es including many autistic kids...this is VERY true. I hate that we have shunted critical thinking and the rigor of focus largely into some sort of neurodivergent superpower. Doing so as well as overly-broadening our definitions of being on the spectrum is a threefold hit: it cheats the truly autistic savants out of recognition for what makes them extraordinary, it excuses the edge-of-the-spectrum crowd from working toward better social skills, and it excuses the non-autist from developing intellectual rigor and discipline.
In much the same way that the hyper-categorizing of sexuality has now labeled any girl who is a tomboy suddenly "on the gender spectrum," we now are awfully quick in early education to suspect a gifted child's natural hyperfocus on what delights him as a sign of autism. ADHD, too, while very much real, has been misused in such a way to medicate a whole generation of boys and many girls into coping with a very broken system.
Please know I am NOT dismissing the truly awesome pedes out there on the spectrum--quite the opposite! Rather, I am speaking to my own experiences in that the over- and mis- labeling diminishes the understanding of both autistic and everyday intellectuals and serves to weaken the robustness of both types of minds.
True. However, there's plenty of swamp for them to wade through just in day-to-day life. Government schooling has honed indoctrination to an efficiency level unimaginable even 15 years ago. Good parenting is no longer enough in many ISDs, sadly.