Mike
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my haters don’t want me to get Shrocs
Because conservatives aren't petulant children who believe unhinged temper tantrums will earn them what they believe they're entitled to. Also, they're at work.
Vice President JD Vance has a new book that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be out June 16. apnews.com/article/jd-van…
Tell me if you’ve heard this one. What do you call an elected official who stomps their feet at a #NoKings jamboree screaming about fascism and dictatorship and then, wields governmental power to stop a private citizen from painting on their private property? Answer: Mayor @PVDMayor Brett Smiley waves his little scepter and its bye-bye murdered immigrant girl memorial. Why because it makes you uncomfortable? These people are sick.
Shame on Morales. 1) She was a refugee, but fundamentally she was a person. He doesn’t get to pick the subclassification of her identity to create a narrative that shifts the focus of her violent death to his preferred immigration politics so he can object. The subject is her murder, not her status. That’s narrative manipulation. 2) Using that logic of exploiting deaths, what was BLM about then? What about those murals? Not exploitative because he agreed? 3) Progressivism will fail if intellectual rigor is no longer expected, and it’s sliding into an ugly type of populism one step away from fascism. It is becoming what it accuses the other side of- and how leftist movements generally devolve if you study them.
Way to bully a small business owner into compliance. Only “acceptable” murder victims get artistic tribute. Claiming a victim’s image victimizes others is delusional, privileged co-opting of the marginalized, now a nuevo-progressive hobby. It’s an anti-intellectual movement for the bored and rich. Art should make you uncomfortable and reflective.
According to reports, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley wanted this mural of Iryna Zarutska removed. Let that sink in. A young Ukrainian woman was brutally murdered by a man with a long criminal history, and somehow the mural honoring her became the problem. Why? Because stories like this don’t fit their narrative. They force uncomfortable conversations about what happens when failed Democrat policies around crime and criminal justice put dangerous repeat offenders back on the streets. It’s easier for failed leaders to erase the reminder than to answer for the policies and priorities that keep putting innocent people at risk. We should be honoring victims and standing with their families, not trying to make their memory disappear. Rhode Island deserves leadership with common sense, compassion, and courage. Rhode Island First 🇺🇸 — Vic Mellor
No Kings in Providence 3-28-26 (Pam Bhatia, photog for RINewsToday)
