Last week DeSantis hosted another amazing Round Table with a dozen highly qualified doctors and scientists calling out the COVID nonsense. This man is an amazing leader who is willing to look at all of the evidence and then use his critical thinking, this is something to be applauded and demanded from other political leaders. Here is the link: The Curtain Closes on COVID
An apology (4 min) was offered to the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. A sincere apology that was not fettered by excuses.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.—Benjamin Franklin
This article has some key notes about how to treat, accept and welcome those waking up to the madness. We’re all there! There are days we too wish we had our heads in the sand because the truth is a painful reality.
Everywhere you look these days, you see people making the turn, the gradual, baffling, painful, redeeming process of realizing that so much of what they thought about the world—about COVID and wokeness and Russia and the Democrats and the Republicans and everything and anything else—might’ve been misguided and must now change. It’s a great awakening, a mass movement consisting of individuals doing that thing that most strongly defines what it means to be human—namely the ability to examine reality, reconfigure our convictions, grow, and change. It’s a very promising sign that a real realignment is at hand, and that on the ashes of our scorched political earth something new and beautiful is being built.
But first, apologies are in order.
I am longing for apologies from some people in my life for how they responded to me with the truth I shared about COVID, the lockdowns, masks and the shots. But I am not holding my breath. I am forming alliances with people who have awoken, perhaps the best use of our time and energy!
Look, it’s perfectly fine to change your mind, especially in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic involving a novel virus or destabilizing political turmoil. Maybe you wanted the vaccines to be a magical panacea so badly that you didn’t bother asking why you should put too much trust in an industry that only very recently promised to heal all pain with opioids, unleashing a major catastrophe and killing tens of thousands, or why government officials were repeating Big Pharma talking points without having any access to raw data. And maybe you mocked those who took the time to ask these questions as conspiracy theorists or, worse, smeared them as nutcases to their neighbors or friends or Facebook group members.
Maybe you felt Trump was so terrible that each and any of his detractors deserved our applause, even if they turned out to be convicted fraudsters, say, or embroiled in peccadilloes with Chinese spies, or dipping into drugs while securing lucrative deals with corrupt foreign entities. And maybe you chafed when anyone raised any objections, shouting that anything that falls short of an unequivocal repudiation of the 45th president is akin to heiling Hitler. Whatever you might’ve felt and said and done, it’s OK, just as long as you can do three simple things: Give yourself an honest accounting of what you got wrong and why; apologize to anyone who got it right and whom you might’ve mocked or dismissed; and cultivate the humility to avoid spiraling into the same pattern of ignorance and contempt next time you hear a patently ridiculous slogan like “two weeks to flatten the curve.”
Sometimes three simple words can be the hardest to say…I AM SORRY! I am sorry. Sorry that I was not awake to the madness sooner. Sorry that I was going along to get along with all of the Leftists that surround me. I had no idea the rot, the destruction, the decay that was happening all around me.
Apologies aren’t easy. I say this as someone who has gotten a lot wrong in his day, and who makes a habit of regularly apologizing to those involved, publicly and privately, not for their sake but for mine, because humility is a great way to keep from falling into the same rusty traps. It helps you, as Walter Kirn pointed out in a public conversation we shared earlier this year, get in the habit of looking at the track record, not the ideology, which is an essential habit if you want to stay sane and safe.
“As much as I’d like to get into the niceties of why the left and the right aren’t the greatest ways to classify ourselves in the first place,” Walter said, “I’ll be plainspoken and simply say: You who didn’t consider yourself to be to the right, who might have thought that they were the enemy, you maybe want to show a little humility, given their track record predicting and protecting and warning about things that have come to pass.”
It’s a wondrous thing that so many of us these days are engaged in awkward and difficult and absolutely necessary conversations, and God bless anyone with enough decency and courage to look back and admit missteps. But to do real teshuvah, real return—not only to normal life, but to something better, kinder, and more promising, we have no choice but to learn to apologize properly and properly accept apologies. No political, social, or spiritual project is more urgent than the one that begins with three small words: I’m so sorry.
Love DeSantis. If I could make it into Florida without needing vax I’d be there in a heartbeat (from Australia). Still can’t even leave the country without a permit so we are a long way from apologies here. I don’t expect any. At all. People will just say well I was just doing what the government and media told me to do it’s not my fault. As hard as it has been I think I’ve reached a level of acceptance now that a lot of people are fear-based and hateful. I’m in a way grateful to see peoples true nature so I can cut them out of my life. I just do not have time in my life for any of those people any more. I choose peace and freedom going forward. Anyone else who wants the same can come with me. To the rest, eat my dust.
Funny
I live with the loooney left in the shitty of Nancy.
First of all, the left are those who left their minds behind
They mostly got hacksxxxinated and the city is such a ghost town with like 75% vacancies its hard to see how it can make a comeback. We still have so many folks wearing masks and putting their fear on firmly
But I called it on day one.
3-11-2020 I said : "Noconomy= no economy"
I said then too, to nobody who could hear, I said
I don't know what is really going on but the viruganda clearly indicate a
FALSE FLAG operation
I always knew the big Harmaceuticals were out to Harma
I didn't yet know these Harmaceuticals had taken over the who Kalousey world yet,
But clearly Gavin Newsome has always been corrupted and sucking off the elite
You can see all that grease in his hair
You can see all the lies on his face
Same with Trudeau
Gavin said , "care not cash" in 2007 was his crappy fuck you campaign slogan to stifle the poor and homeless which he did even before fentanyl hellhole
Watched a girl squirming from withdrawal refused by one hospital and the rehab, begging for help and turned away by our cruel violence of uncaring in London's SF killafornia
Trudeau implementation of care not cash in Canada meant :
We don't care about turning off your money and libelling you, and destroying your livelihood, and hell, now the government is just plain killing folks with...
Care not Cash
Thanks Gruesome Nuisance
Thanks Justin Kalousey turd
I am praying to God for sanity and healing and
Getting gone these garbage slogans
Build life Heller
New harmal
Safe and defective
Flatten your existence
Social distancing Isolation Lockdown lies jail murder
Mask obey submission fear
I need ...
Peace, love, freedom and music
The government has always hurt me more than imaginable
Physically
Emotionally
Arrogantly
Spiritually