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HAPPY EGG PRODUCER BIRTHING PERSON DAY

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   May 14, 2023 - 9:36 am at 9:36 am

   *SPECIAL MOTHERS’ DAY EDITION*
   It wasn’t only moms, but it is inarguable that it was the moms who led the pushback against tyrannical government overreach during the pandemic. While there are now lots of prominent dads in the fight, like Matt Walsh, that was not the case in 2020 when the first mask mandates were headed down the pike.

   As a lawyer who filed one of the first mask lawsuits in Florida, I wound up talking and zooming with a LOT of folks during 2020. It was mostly very passionate and fired-up moms. There were some dads in the mix, for sure — I was one — but we were a clear minority. And when it came to roasting the school boards at their meetings, the moms took it away. You just can’t beat that mom voice, and the moms let the leftist school boards have a taste of that voice they won’t soon forget.

   The pandemic also witnessed the creation of lots of terrific mom groups, like Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, and countless other smaller, local groups, like the Oregon Moms Union, or here at home, the blandly-named Gainesville Unmasking Group that was organized on Facebook.

   In fact, moms were so effective that the deep state even schemed up a trick, recruiting the National School Board Association to send an alarmed letter to Merrick Garland at the DOJ fretting about the “safety” of elected school board officials and calling moms an “immediate threat.” Of what, was never clear. Maybe they were afraid the moms would send them to their rooms, or make them wash the car or something.

   Merrick Garland might look like a sweet old lady, but he’s not, he’s actually more like a combination between a scorpion and a pit viper, and he promptly slipped an official letter over to the FBI, directing the agency to start investigating moms as domestic terrorists — and to get to it within 30 days — even though they still haven’t had time to get around to opening Hunter’s laptop.

   And so it was moms versus the federal government. And the moms won.

   The moms weren’t intimidated by old lady Garland. Or even FBI raids. The moms kept fighting. And over the last two election cycles, they’ve tossed countless awful school board members out of office, lobbied for new laws that yank powers away from school boards, and have pushed parents’ rights to the forefront of American politics.

   Terrific Moms for Liberty Founder Tiffany Justice Testifies Before Congress in March 2023
   For one great example, in November the Epoch Times ran this story:

   Here’s how the article explained the electric atmosphere at the very first school board meeting in a South Carolina school district where Moms for Liberty just helped elect a new conservative-majority school board:

   In one meeting, Deon Jackson went from being South Carolina’s Berkeley County school superintendent to being unemployed. His firing came at the hand of a newly elected school board, which appears to have declared a judgment day for “woke” practices in its district.
   In its first meeting after the Nov. 8 election, the board fired Jackson and school counsel Tiffany Richardson. Then it hired Anthony Dixon as superintendent and retained Brandon Gaskins as counsel. And before the day was over, the board banned teaching critical race theory and created a board to review library books for pornographic content.
   Moms for Liberty, an activist group that supports parental rights in education, endorsed six of the board’s nine members. Many Moms for Liberty candidates won school board elections this November, as reported previously. The group’s leaders say that more aggressive school management decisions may soon be in order.
   Hopefully!

   Some media outlets describe what happened over the last three years as an “awakening” for moms. I don’t think that’s quite right, although I can see why they think that way. To me, what happened was leftists went after our kids and ran straight into the moms, who were already standing there, minding their own business.

   When the moms saw what was going on, they did what moms do: they started cleaning house.

   On this special day I am — we all are — thankful for the moms, without whom we wouldn’t even exist, but definitely without whom we wouldn’t have recovered from this pandemic of out-of-control government as fast as we did, or maybe at all.

   And ladies: aren’t you glad the Dads are in the fight now too?

2. YYZ says:

   May 18, 2023 - 2:52 am at 2:52 am

   Thanks FGC – Noticed the other day how all the greeting cards in my local super mart refer to Mom instead of Mother, the latter being my preferred term of endearment.