Sunday Smiles

David Strom 2:30 PM | March 03, 2024
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I keep looking for signs of sunlight breaking through the clouds in the gloomy cultural landscape. 

There are a few rays, but it's hard to know whether the dark clouds are parting or whether there are just occasional thin spots in the general overcast. 

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One bright spot is that all the polls show the public has turned on Joe Biden. 

According to the polls, Donald Trump is winning the presidential race right now, and it's not even close in public opinion. On the one hand, it's good that the public has seen through Biden's BS, but on the other hand, the only cultural issue on which we have seen a decisive shift in opinion is illegal immigration. 

Trump is winning because people rightly see the country is moving in the wrong direction. But do they understand that it is the underlying cultural rot that the Left has created as the root of the problem? 

Other issues I care deeply about, which can all be put under the broad umbrella of "truth" and "freedom," are less obviously catching on with the public. Trust in the government and the media has plummeted, which is good, but I don't yet see a big backlash against the censorship complex. 

There is an anti-gender ideology movement, but it has yet to reach a critical mass. People are beginning to doubt, but too few will stand up and fight. 

This means that as little as the public trusts officialdom, they still buy the propaganda put out by the blob that opponents of the alphabet movement are hateful jerks. They don't want to seem to be a hateful jerk, so they keep their heads down. 

This all comes down to the persistent cultural power that the MSM and Big Tech retain. In theory people know that they are being gaslit, but they still haven't acquired the instinct to distrust what they are being told on incendiary issues instantly. 

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A great example of this is how persistent the belief is that Nex Benedict, the "nonbinary" girl who died for unknown reasons after a scuffle in school, was the victim of a vicious hate crime. The story is false, and we know that because we have the video of her interview in the hospital by a responding police officer. She was, apparently, unharmed, and she had actually started the fight. 

While the cause of death has not been released, the police have already said that it was unrelated to the fight. Nex's mom refers to her as "she," and if the media didn't tell you that she was nonbinary, you would never know from any of the evidence. It's not even clear she considered herself nonbinary. 

In other words, every bit of evidence tells us that there was no hate crime, that she wasn't beaten up for being "nonbinary," that the fight had nothing to do with her death, and that even the "nonbinary" status may be fake. It's pure narrative.

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Yet I see several articles a day being pumped out with the approved Narrative, and chances are that almost everybody who hasn't followed the story closely assumes the original narrative was correct. Even though people distrust the MSM, they still implicitly accept what they are being told. 

Our job in the coming years is to get people to instantly doubt any story that fits The Narrative™. Not reject, because sometimes there is truth in such stories, but it is so rare as to inspire doubt until all the evidence is in. Assume it is false until it is proven to be true. 

Think Covington Catholic. The press lies. 

With criminals, we presume innocence until proven guilty. With hate crimes, we should assume it's bulls**t until proven otherwise. The MSM are liars, and liars gonna lie. 

Now you know why I do Sunday Smiles. I need them. 




















































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Want to see my kitties?

This is Tigger and Turtle back when they were kittens, a few weeks old. 

This is Mickey, the stray cat I adopted, nursing her litter a few weeks after birth. The kittens are Tigger, Turtle, Little Mickey, and Smudge. We adopted out Smudge to a friend, and then we didn't have the heart to part with any of the others. So they have lived with us for 10 years so far. 

This is Little Mickey in the front and Turtle looking over his head at me. They love me very much, of course!

This is Turtle and his mom taking a nap together. He was a year or two old back then. 

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