Sadly, as per my policy, I quit reading at the abbreviated expletive. I believe that civility, decency, and consideration mean not putting crude words in people’s minds, even if the word is not written entirely. Doing this also perpetuates the use of such words and gives approval to others to continue doing so.
The first part of the essay (the part I read before encountering the roadblock) was interesting and mostly good advice, but it doesn’t take into account the vast chasm between those of us who believe that tiny baby lives should be protected and those who believe tiny baby lives are a “choice.” This is an unbridgeable divide. There is no compromise. Either those babies have a right to life, or mothers have the right to chose death for them.
Unity is good only if it is based on truth.
I did not vote for Trump. I voted for a “third party.” I am a reader of Tanach and the Messianic Writings. I’m suspicious of what is going on. I will be watching to see how this turns out.
As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. …he will refuse to believe it… That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.” — Yuri Bezmenov [1983]
I’m afraid what has been done to roughly half of our country’s population is irreversible. Yuri tried to warn us.😥😥😥
Probably one of your best pieces since I started following you, Dr. Wolf. I think you are right on the mark to encourage the Trump team to engage with those who have poo, pood him and the MAGA movement (to put it kindly). Invite the Peggy Noonans- (she has lost me); and others and explain your mission. Show respect for the voices of the left. Don't back off the "mission" to bring equal protection of the law to bear on all, but, as Dr. Wolf suggests, do it on principle, not vengeance or gloating.
I couldn't agree more that often "less is more". I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said: "I apologize for my three page letter; had I more time I would have said it in one page." A written statement of mission is also super valuable. Verbal, video clips, etc. can be manipulated in any number of ways; but a written, posted, statement of your mission, you intentions, your MO, can be so, so helpful.
Thank you, Dr. Wolf. Best wishes to the Trump team.
Ms. Wolf: As a pensioner I disagree on playing nice with the irrational. Humanity has survived because we can learn from mistakes and share our experiences with the next generation. The enlightenment gave us rational thought and freedom from the magic and superstition of the Platonic ideal. Common sense disproves magic as it supports the scientific method.
Do you think magic is a viable option to operate our modern civilization?
I love your work and am happy to support and be a Founder. I hope you know I think a lot of you. But au contraire, I think we are way past playing nice.
I’m all for making America sane and normal again, but so many in the media have contributed to ending marriages, splintering friendships, driving young women insane, and breaking families apart. Take Joe Scarbough and Mika going to meet Trump. I mean seriously, a couple of weeks ago, they called Trump Hitler! Now that they've decided to end it once and for all, and start behaving like rational, reasonable adults, it might be a good time to follow up with an apology. Trump is far more gracious than I could be.
Unfortunately, the discourse in our country has devolved this way: you are a friend or enemy. There is no in-between. I do not know when or how it happened but civil discourse and debate is the only way to fix it. I blame lawyers in large part because I see it all the time as a member of that profession: the inability not to exchange ideas rationally but to fall into ad hominem attacks as a way to wiggle out of reasoned debate.
To me, MAGA just means taking us back to the America we knew before ..... it is far bigger than Donald Trump or Elon Musk. They are just two guys with enough fortitude and FU money to stand with courage and say the things many of us would do or say, but for our circumstances.
I, too, have lost long-time friends and even family over MAGA differences and have even have been fired by clients. Oddly, I don't think any of those people truly genuinely think you or I are deplorable, irredeemable, or, more recently, a Nazi who is a white supremacist or racist due to our views. Somehow they have been transmogrified into thinking we are, however.
Remember the old childhood adage “You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time”
I put it another way: if I announced to all my clients that I planned to give them each one million dollars, no doubt someone would be upset that they must pay taxes." Some people, and sadly, I think this group, has grown enormously, fed by the legacy media and the 24-hour news cycle on TV, desire to stay in their own echo chamber.
I understand your desire to play nice and I am proud to be a Founder, but not everyone will agree.
Don't let it get you down.
By the way, check out Don Surber's recent substack on the media. He is an old-time (albeit now retired) real journalist, but a great substack now too: quite humorous at times too.
The way newspapermen were when I was a delivery boy.
Legacy media isn’t interested. They are propaganda arms captured and controlled by the globalist establishment that tried to gulag and KILL the opposition. They aren’t sorry, except that it didn’t work. Appealing to the existential (hopefully) death rattle of the Blob is to miss the point of what it is. And MAHA/MAGA aren’t gloating. Individuals are. Enough with appeals to collectivism or popularity, the weaponization of actually got us here. The only thing to do is what the campaign did throughout the season: put your head down and keep ramming through the enemy lines, holding strong in your spirit and intention. Intestinal fortitude vs making friends. This is war not politics.
Dr. Wolf, OK I get your point and your correct. So when are you going to send your letter to Governor Hochul or Pritzker or Hobbs? As well as all the Democrats in Congress urging resistence? Or all the foaming media people on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC? Until they tone it down there is no reason for our side to tone it down. We saw what happened after Presdent Trump won in 2016 and we won't be fooled again.
I agree that MAGA needs to deliver its message in a way that is not counterproductive. The goal is to win more converts to the Trump side, not to rub his victory in to those who are, in many cases, shocked and upset, having been heavily indoctrinated by leftist media that Trump is some sort of villain. Jubilation is appropriate, but smug gloating is not.
Yeah I couldn’t read all of your comments too much and I got the sense we are supposed to play nice in the sandbox now and not gloat, etc. Not gonna happen. DJT and all Patriots have woken up to how evil the looney left feminist radicals and their ilk are and the destruction they have caused. So, NO.
Naomi, as much as I like reading your posts, the last few interviews you've had are still in my list to go back to because I don't have an hour or so to listen to them. You are asking our new chosen leaders to constantly cowtow to the losers who were for an unrealistic world view. Let them do their own homework which they avoided previously just listening to sound bites. It's about time for them to get real! Talk about living in bubbles those folks separated themselves on a volunteer basis! I listen to both sides and do my own homework to check out the facts, maybe they need to learn to do the same! Naomi, I remember a time when you were hurt and shunned by those folks, why don't you explain it to them, oh I forgot you did already....
After being canceled, threatened, called a bigot and a Nazi and stupid and a Trump worshipper for years, I’ll celebrate all I want for as long as I can. I’m really tired of hearing, on the rare occasions that Republicans haven’t been cheated out of an election by either outright cheating or by a media that refuses to report facts, that I shouldn’t feel vindicated and shouldn’t celebrate. Funny how no one ever says this to the left when they “win”. Give us some time to revel in the fact that we fought fairly and won a righteous victory. God bless America!
I couldn't get through this. Naomi, you're doing it again.... you just can't get past your feminist indoctrination, can you?
STOP PANDERING to the FEELINGS of irrational liberal women who will NEVER see the light. They lost, we won.
Whether you like it or not, this is a WAR for the world's freedom. There's no room right now for the extremely conflict averse. When Trump's job is done, maybe the other side will compromise to achieve peace.
Enough of this shifting of the Overton Window to the left.
Naomi I hope you read this and anybody else who wants to know the REAL outcome of rabbi trumps win go to rumble and find nicholas fuentes and watch his last podcast called trumps neo con cabinet which clearly shows benicide shapiro jonathan schemeblatt and bibi satanyahoo won the election. Naomi being you are real smart and a gifted writer would love to see you wright an article about what Nick has said as a supplement to this article
Sadly, as per my policy, I quit reading at the abbreviated expletive. I believe that civility, decency, and consideration mean not putting crude words in people’s minds, even if the word is not written entirely. Doing this also perpetuates the use of such words and gives approval to others to continue doing so.
The first part of the essay (the part I read before encountering the roadblock) was interesting and mostly good advice, but it doesn’t take into account the vast chasm between those of us who believe that tiny baby lives should be protected and those who believe tiny baby lives are a “choice.” This is an unbridgeable divide. There is no compromise. Either those babies have a right to life, or mothers have the right to chose death for them.
Unity is good only if it is based on truth.
I did not vote for Trump. I voted for a “third party.” I am a reader of Tanach and the Messianic Writings. I’m suspicious of what is going on. I will be watching to see how this turns out.
As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. …he will refuse to believe it… That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.” — Yuri Bezmenov [1983]
I’m afraid what has been done to roughly half of our country’s population is irreversible. Yuri tried to warn us.😥😥😥
As Barbara said brilliant and timely. I pray that Trump's people read it and having read it that they implement it.
They seemed to listen to you before the election Dr Wolf. I pray that they listen to you now.
If God is as Trump believes with him then please God help him now!!
Brilliant and timely. Go for it, Naomi!
Probably one of your best pieces since I started following you, Dr. Wolf. I think you are right on the mark to encourage the Trump team to engage with those who have poo, pood him and the MAGA movement (to put it kindly). Invite the Peggy Noonans- (she has lost me); and others and explain your mission. Show respect for the voices of the left. Don't back off the "mission" to bring equal protection of the law to bear on all, but, as Dr. Wolf suggests, do it on principle, not vengeance or gloating.
I couldn't agree more that often "less is more". I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said: "I apologize for my three page letter; had I more time I would have said it in one page." A written statement of mission is also super valuable. Verbal, video clips, etc. can be manipulated in any number of ways; but a written, posted, statement of your mission, you intentions, your MO, can be so, so helpful.
Thank you, Dr. Wolf. Best wishes to the Trump team.
Yes Martin thanks
Ms. Wolf: As a pensioner I disagree on playing nice with the irrational. Humanity has survived because we can learn from mistakes and share our experiences with the next generation. The enlightenment gave us rational thought and freedom from the magic and superstition of the Platonic ideal. Common sense disproves magic as it supports the scientific method.
Do you think magic is a viable option to operate our modern civilization?
I am not sure what you are saying Henry but if you are saying what I think you are saying I hear you but I do not agree
Naomi,
I love your work and am happy to support and be a Founder. I hope you know I think a lot of you. But au contraire, I think we are way past playing nice.
I’m all for making America sane and normal again, but so many in the media have contributed to ending marriages, splintering friendships, driving young women insane, and breaking families apart. Take Joe Scarbough and Mika going to meet Trump. I mean seriously, a couple of weeks ago, they called Trump Hitler! Now that they've decided to end it once and for all, and start behaving like rational, reasonable adults, it might be a good time to follow up with an apology. Trump is far more gracious than I could be.
Unfortunately, the discourse in our country has devolved this way: you are a friend or enemy. There is no in-between. I do not know when or how it happened but civil discourse and debate is the only way to fix it. I blame lawyers in large part because I see it all the time as a member of that profession: the inability not to exchange ideas rationally but to fall into ad hominem attacks as a way to wiggle out of reasoned debate.
To me, MAGA just means taking us back to the America we knew before ..... it is far bigger than Donald Trump or Elon Musk. They are just two guys with enough fortitude and FU money to stand with courage and say the things many of us would do or say, but for our circumstances.
I, too, have lost long-time friends and even family over MAGA differences and have even have been fired by clients. Oddly, I don't think any of those people truly genuinely think you or I are deplorable, irredeemable, or, more recently, a Nazi who is a white supremacist or racist due to our views. Somehow they have been transmogrified into thinking we are, however.
Remember the old childhood adage “You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time”
I put it another way: if I announced to all my clients that I planned to give them each one million dollars, no doubt someone would be upset that they must pay taxes." Some people, and sadly, I think this group, has grown enormously, fed by the legacy media and the 24-hour news cycle on TV, desire to stay in their own echo chamber.
I understand your desire to play nice and I am proud to be a Founder, but not everyone will agree.
Don't let it get you down.
By the way, check out Don Surber's recent substack on the media. He is an old-time (albeit now retired) real journalist, but a great substack now too: quite humorous at times too.
The way newspapermen were when I was a delivery boy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/donsurber/p/media-discovers-republicans-buy-sneakers?r=nbl2d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I hear you Dennis but I do not agree. Dr Wolf is right even though if she is right what she is asking for transcends normal humanity.
I still do not know how dying on a cross helped get us where we are today but this is the model we must follow.
Legacy media isn’t interested. They are propaganda arms captured and controlled by the globalist establishment that tried to gulag and KILL the opposition. They aren’t sorry, except that it didn’t work. Appealing to the existential (hopefully) death rattle of the Blob is to miss the point of what it is. And MAHA/MAGA aren’t gloating. Individuals are. Enough with appeals to collectivism or popularity, the weaponization of actually got us here. The only thing to do is what the campaign did throughout the season: put your head down and keep ramming through the enemy lines, holding strong in your spirit and intention. Intestinal fortitude vs making friends. This is war not politics.
Dr. Wolf, OK I get your point and your correct. So when are you going to send your letter to Governor Hochul or Pritzker or Hobbs? As well as all the Democrats in Congress urging resistence? Or all the foaming media people on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC? Until they tone it down there is no reason for our side to tone it down. We saw what happened after Presdent Trump won in 2016 and we won't be fooled again.
I agree that MAGA needs to deliver its message in a way that is not counterproductive. The goal is to win more converts to the Trump side, not to rub his victory in to those who are, in many cases, shocked and upset, having been heavily indoctrinated by leftist media that Trump is some sort of villain. Jubilation is appropriate, but smug gloating is not.
Yeah I couldn’t read all of your comments too much and I got the sense we are supposed to play nice in the sandbox now and not gloat, etc. Not gonna happen. DJT and all Patriots have woken up to how evil the looney left feminist radicals and their ilk are and the destruction they have caused. So, NO.
Very well said!
Naomi, as much as I like reading your posts, the last few interviews you've had are still in my list to go back to because I don't have an hour or so to listen to them. You are asking our new chosen leaders to constantly cowtow to the losers who were for an unrealistic world view. Let them do their own homework which they avoided previously just listening to sound bites. It's about time for them to get real! Talk about living in bubbles those folks separated themselves on a volunteer basis! I listen to both sides and do my own homework to check out the facts, maybe they need to learn to do the same! Naomi, I remember a time when you were hurt and shunned by those folks, why don't you explain it to them, oh I forgot you did already....
After being canceled, threatened, called a bigot and a Nazi and stupid and a Trump worshipper for years, I’ll celebrate all I want for as long as I can. I’m really tired of hearing, on the rare occasions that Republicans haven’t been cheated out of an election by either outright cheating or by a media that refuses to report facts, that I shouldn’t feel vindicated and shouldn’t celebrate. Funny how no one ever says this to the left when they “win”. Give us some time to revel in the fact that we fought fairly and won a righteous victory. God bless America!
Agree :)
I couldn't get through this. Naomi, you're doing it again.... you just can't get past your feminist indoctrination, can you?
STOP PANDERING to the FEELINGS of irrational liberal women who will NEVER see the light. They lost, we won.
Whether you like it or not, this is a WAR for the world's freedom. There's no room right now for the extremely conflict averse. When Trump's job is done, maybe the other side will compromise to achieve peace.
Enough of this shifting of the Overton Window to the left.
Well said 🙌
Naomi I hope you read this and anybody else who wants to know the REAL outcome of rabbi trumps win go to rumble and find nicholas fuentes and watch his last podcast called trumps neo con cabinet which clearly shows benicide shapiro jonathan schemeblatt and bibi satanyahoo won the election. Naomi being you are real smart and a gifted writer would love to see you wright an article about what Nick has said as a supplement to this article