When Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation, there was much rejoicing in New Zealand. Word had it that restaurants and bars in Auckland’s Viaduct waterfront dining precinct quickly sold out of champagne. On the other side of the world, fellow femi-socialist Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation spurred similar jubilation in Scotland (no word on whether Scots were heavily drinking to celebrate — who could tell the difference, anyway?).
Ultimately, Ardern and Sturgeon both jumped before they could be shoved out by voters. Voters who were rising up against, not just appalling failures of government, but a far left, globalist agenda.
During her tenure, according to the Daily Mail, Scottish life expectancy plunged, drug deaths doubled, alcohol deaths increased, schools continued failing, and Scots were worse off economically than when she took office. Yes, it sounds like Detroit, New York, and other U.S. cities run by Democrats.
Just swap out “Scots” for “New Zealanders”, and it’s a carbon-copy of Ardern’s dismal record of failure. Then came the Wokeism.
But the tipping point was Ms. Sturgeon’s role in the Scottish Parliament’s passage of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which would remove the need for a medical diagnosis for gender changes and allow teens as young as 16 to undergo treatment. Ms. Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party “has been in turmoil” over it, leading to her resignation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Events in Scotland and New Zealand are just the tip of the global backlash against Wokeism. European countries are moving to ban transgender medicalisation and surgery on children, as well as refusing to allow changes to births registration laws.
Across the U.S., there is considerable pushback against various aspects of the woke agenda.
In 14 states, Republicans have filed a total of 23 bills aimed at protecting children from drag queen story hours. That’s when men in exaggerated female attire read gender-bending books to children.
Naturally, woke NGOs and rainbow creepers are flouncing and shrieking at being denied access to the children they so desperately want to get a hold on.
They argue that “proponents of the drag laws are falsely equating sometimes bawdy events in adult-only venues with family friendly performances at libraries,” The Washington Post summarized.
Videos of such supposedly “family friendly performances” have shown drag queens exposing their fake breasts and male genitals to children, drag queens dressing as reindeer with enormous, brightly-coloured fake vaginas, oiled-up leathermen in posing pouches dry-humping in front of families, and children being encouraged to dance in skimpy outfits while adults throw money at them.
Family friendly? Sorry. You can’t put lipstick on this pig. Children should not be around people who want to pervert them.
While too many “progressive” parents are all-too-willing to be pimps with strollers, many more normal people are rising up against the tide of degeneracy targeting their kids.
On Feb. 11 in Idaho, parents found a way to shield children from a drag queen story hour at the library in Pocatello. Inspired by the pro-family group MassResistance, about 50 parents showed up early and took all the seats. The library director ordered them to leave, but they refused. No children were present when the drag queen read his books to the less-than-enthusiastic audience. As if on cue, the media howled at the inhumanity of it all.
It’s not just straight parents, either. Many, many homosexual and even trans people are horrified by what is being done supposedly in their names. They’re forming grass-roots resistance groups like Gays Against Groomers and LGB Tasmania.
In St. Louis, a whistleblower named Jamie Reed has ripped the lid off the Washington University Transgender Center, one of more than 100 clinics in the U.S. that specialize in transgender pediatrics.
“Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down,” said Ms. Reed, a self-described queer woman married to a trans man. “But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.”
The resistance is gathering momentum. Not just in Europe and Britain, where transgender clinics are coming under increasing scrutiny.
On Wednesday, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri filed the Protecting Our Kids From Child Abuse Act. The bill “creates a private right of action for individuals who were harmed by a gender-transition procedure performed on them when they were minors” and prohibits federal funding to pediatric gender clinics […]
Congressional Republicans are investigating the Department of Justice over Attorney General Merrick Garland’s still-active memo targeting parent protesters at school board meetings as possible terrorists.
Likewise, Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 other state attorneys general are threatening legal action over a leaked internal FBI memo from the Richmond office that calls conservative Catholics “potential terrorists” who need to be spied on.
The Smithsonian is being sued under the First Amendment for demanding that anti-abortion teens remove their hats, buttons and shirts.
This is what pushback looks like.
Two lessons should be gleaned from all this. If you’re disturbed by the woke insanity, you’re not alone. Far from it.
The other lesson, which cannot be repeated too often, is that elections have consequences.
Washington Times
Like many people around the world, you’ve probably been gobsmacked by the sudden tsunami attack of Wokeism. You probably felt isolated and helpless, as if you were the weirdo in a world where degeneracy is suddenly the norm.
You are not alone. The resistance is growing. All that’s left is to decide whether to acquiesce or join the resistance.
