{"id":33864,"date":"2025-07-14T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=33864"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:40:45","slug":"were-fresh-out-of-give-a-damn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/were-fresh-out-of-give-a-damn\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Fresh Out of \u201cGive a Damn.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last three weeks there have been two opinion pieces in the New York Times that, to me, acknowledge that the Left\u2019s narrative is starting to become untenable.<\/p>\n

The first is called, \u201cMen, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back.<\/a>\u201d is from a fifty-something divorced career woman bemoaning that men no longer are interested in bringing her out to expensive restaurants.\u00a0 She goes through this whole long description of a scene in one of these restaurants where all the patrons are women either in groups or alone and men aren\u2019t present at all.\u00a0 We hear all about how men used to value escorting \u201chigh-status\u201d women out into society to signal their own high status as the possessor of such a trophy.\u00a0 She finishes up with an embarrassing plea for all the good men to come back and be of service to her.<\/p>\n

The second one is called, \u201cIs It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?<\/a>\u201d and is by a woke loser who up until recently gave his brother-in-law the cold shoulder because he didn\u2019t want a COVID vaccine.\u00a0 His disdain was palpable in his writing and the only reason he relented is because he wanted to take up surfing and his brother-in-law is an excellent surfer and was generous enough not to reciprocate his callous political snobbery.\u00a0 But the lefty snob makes the whole thing sound as if it\u2019s his enlightened attitude that suddenly allowed him to lower himself to feigning friendship with his wife\u2019s brother.\u00a0 And all the shots he takes at his brother-in-law.\u00a0 He\u2019s only a lowly electrician while the writer is an Ivy League graduate and obviously part of the elite few.\u00a0 He ends by sagely noting that by sharing this surfing hobby he is opening up a space where he can interact with even someone as benighted as this ignorant tradesman, who also happens to be part of his family.<\/p>\n

So, what do these two articles tell me about the current state of the Left.\u00a0 What it seems to signal to me is that the cancel culture they constructed to keep normal people out of their little echo chamber has worked a little too well.\u00a0 They\u2019ve excluded all the normal people and they\u2019re trapped inside with just the psychopaths that really believe the stuff they\u2019ve been gaslighting the world with.<\/p>\n

The women watched one season too many of \u201cSex and the City\u201d and convinced themselves that they would always be in demand and men would be beating down the doors to squire them around Gotham City for the chance to have geriatric sex with them.\u00a0 So now instead of being a doting grandmother and spending her golden years with husband and family, she\u2019s a lonely, frustrated single women hoping for some chump to show up and pick up the tab one last time before she checks out of the Hotel California.\u00a0 They kicked all the men out of their club because they didn\u2019t need them.\u00a0 They could play girl boss and not need a man to be happy.\u00a0 That is until they stopped showing up.<\/p>\n

The guy with the surfer electrician for a brother-in-law was the typical COVID cancel-culturist.\u00a0 He says, \u201cBeing unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t the only one thinking this. A 2021 essay for USA Today declared, \u201cIt\u2019s time to start shunning the \u2018vaccine hesitant.\u2019\u201d An L.A. Times piece went further, arguing that to create \u201cteachable moments,\u201d it may be necessary to mock some anti-vaxxers\u2019 deaths.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 Pretty close to that female pediatrician who mocked the Texas flood victims because they voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

But now this Ivy League genius wants to add some human interest to his boring life and finds out that this rube related to his wife is accomplished at the thing that he wants to do.\u00a0 And on a dime, he switches on his \u201clive and let live\u201d mode and now we\u2019re all just one big happy family!\u00a0 Funny how that happens after they lose a big election.\u00a0 Real funny.<\/p>\n

So, the New York Times is hinting that maybe we should \u201call just get along.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a funny thing about that.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like I don\u2019t care anymore what they want.\u00a0 They tortured us for four years and called us everything under the sun.\u00a0 They did everything they could to force us to kowtow to COVID and trans-madness and there is no inflation and \u201cBiden is sharp as a whip\u201d and every other crazy thing they could think of.\u00a0 And now it\u2019s, \u201clet\u2019s let bygones be bygones.\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna happen.\u00a0 We\u2019re fresh out of \u201cgive a damn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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