2-20-25

So is it just me…..or did everyone grow up sitting at the kids table during

Thanksgiving?......I don’t even know for sure whether that’s just a southern thing,

but somehow I doubt it……for me it was always when we got together on my

Dad’s side of the family because that’s where all the cousins were…..We would

head over to my Aunt and Uncles house down in Pleasant Grove……my brother

and I, our cousins, and the occasional stray friend or 2 nd cousin’s kids that came

for the meal, and we always sat at what we just called the “kids table”……the one

in the kitchen…..while all the grown ups sat at the dining room table

together……there was some good cutting up, there was the occasional food that

you stole off your little cousin’s plate, or the hollering that commenced when

someone got kicked under the table……but for the most part it was laughter and

homemade everything…….but then you always had to make the occasional foray

into the dining room to ask if you could have seconds, or to tell on your brother,

or to ask if we could go outside and play now (but not until you eat your green

beans young man)…..and how many times did someone, or all of us, at the kids

table get out of hand and at least one of the adults turns from the grown up

conversations to shout “ya’ll keep it down in there! Stop poking your sister! Eat

your vegetables and let us enjoy our meal! Answer me!”…….yes mam! Yes

sirrrrrrrr………..and five minutes later we were back at it as kids will do……..

but as much as I enjoyed being at the kids table there was always this sense that

one day I would graduate up……matriculate to the dining room where food ran

a’plenty, there seemed no end of laughter that I couldn’t explain, and grown up

conversations that I didn’t understand…….its a rite of passage, that time when

every kid is allowed, or perhaps even invited, to sit at the grown ups table…….and

to hear the grown up conversations about work, or news, or neighbors, or

memories from before I was born……those grown up conversations were often a

mystery and sometimes resulted in the usual questions like, “Dad, who’re they

talking about?”……followed quickly by “don’t interrupt son”…….until suddenly one

day something gets said in a grown up conversation at the grown up table and

you actually understand it, maybe even relate to it, and on that day of day’s you

chime in and your comments are well received…..at that point you feel like

adulthood has arrived…..because you were in the grown up conversation and they

treated you like…..well, a grown up……

Having said all of that can we just have a grown up conversation right now?.......all

of us in Rightside land, can we talk a minute?......because sometimes I look

around the world and feel like I am sitting at the adult table but somehow or

another the kids table is dominating all of the discourse……look at society right

now…..when did it become right for wrong to be considered right?.......I know

traditions and mores and culture can all shift sometimes……but even when they

do, even when society picks up a new fashion, or does less of one thing and more

of another…….even when those cultural shifts take place they are usually still

guided by right being right and wrong being wrong……principles if you

will…..principles don’t change……principles are meant to withstand the fickle

winds of culture……and so I’m just saying that all of us that are in the know need

to have a grown up conversation and deal with the kids table…….

I feel like we’ve had the past four years that were like a large-scale version of the

kids table getting out of hand…..woke culture, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Critical

Race Theory, Environmental-Social-Governance in your banking, covid lockdowns,

online censorship, transgender ideology, men playing in womens sports……it got

to the point that it seemed like the kids table was completely out of

control…….there were the occasional shouts for them to calm it down…..and the

library of terms that Woke required us to memorize……everyday it was a new

addition to the LGBTQ acronym, a different way of addressing systemic racism

and cultural appropriation…….buzz words became real words as suddenly

pronouns meant something other than what they were intended……its as if Woke

had its own dictionary and we had better get on board or the woke police would

start correcting us for speaking old school……we learned about deadnaming,

equity, and intersectionalism and heteronormativity…….we were taught that

pansexual was good and queerbaiting was bad…..toxic masculinity and white

feminism were all the thing for a week or two…..we heard about BIPOC,

performative activism, whitewashing, ……there was BAME, BoPo,

Bropropriation,……not to be confused with mansplaining and manspreading which

are totally different but related……listening from the adult table to the kids table

was like listening in on a different language……

But I recall distinctly in 2023 When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White

House Press Secretary and now the youngest Governor in America came on and

had an adult conversation…….she was the Republican rebuttal to Biden’s 2023

state of the union speech……it was refreshing to me to say the least……she pulled

no punches and made it clear that those of us on the right are not out of our

minds for thinking that the left are out of their minds…….and then she dropped

the bomb….no foolin’…..in the political equivalent of the adults shouting to the

kids table to keep it down and eat their veggies Governor Sanders said, " The

dividing line in America is no longer between right or left — the choice is between

normal or crazy."…..

it was refreshing……it was affirming…….it was a grown up conversation……

sometimes I do what I do and say what I say but it does me good to hear someone

else clearly and unequivocally speak words of truth to power that remind me that

WE are the ones at the grown up table…..we have the knowledge and the

experience and the care and concern to clearly and articulately tell the unruly

kids at the other table to keep it down and eat their vegetables……or in this

conversation, to quit trying to pretend there are more than two genders, that tax

dollars grow on trees, that children really really want to have their bodies altered

for life because that’s just so cool, or that failing schools should be allowed to

continue failing…….well, how about no……I’m done with that……All ya’ll in

Rightside land, let’s enjoy the fact that we are at the grown up table…..but woke

is not going down easy…..woke is unruly and petulant…..woke world is filled with

folks that act like the spoiled cousin who whines and carries on and always seems

to have someone patting them on the head when what they really need is a good

whoopin’……

Take this past weekend as Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50 th Anniversary with

an all-star cast……Tom Hanks, who’s work I truly admire, thought it would be

awesome to put on a MAGA hat and portray a white redneck who just want’s

everyone to go to church but then refused to shake the hand of a black

man…..was it meant to be humor? Maybe…..was it funny…..nope….and let’s be

honest it was really designed as an insult because woke can never read the

room…..Or how about the news that broke yesterday that Cynthia Ervivo…..the

bald black woman with the nose ring who self-identifies as “gender queer” will

play the role of Jesus in an upcoming production…..yes, Jesus….that Jesus…..a

bald black genderqueer woman…..with a nose ring…..I don’t what that it is….but it

ain’t Jesus and the woke mob knows it…..but they are still at the kids table

believing that people want to see their God mocked…….and then there’s the epic

work being done by the dudes at DOGE which has liberal heads exploding……they

don’t know what to do and as the woke jobs are being axed they take to social

media to actually air their grievances with the belief that the world will rush in to

sympathize with the notion that we no longer have the 28-year old using millions

of tax dollars to study equity in Sudan through the gender lens…..or the woman

who grieves that her NIH funded studies of the implications of transgender

affirming therapies on cancer research in third world nations is now over……I

could go on…..and on…..but I don’t have to…..because we won…..and we are the

ones sitting at the adult table…..the era of common sense is back and it could not

have come a moment too soon……As nice as it was to hear Sarah Huckabee

Sanders affirm how we felt two years ago it is even better that I can now tell you,

with deep assurance, that we have been given the authority to tell the kids at the

Woke table to pipe down…..

Ya’ll keep it down in there! The grown ups are talking!

And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way