Tatyana Larina comes from my favorite work of poetry. And that's the only time you'll see me quoting Wikipedia as a source.
I came to the US in 1991, lived in Bay Area for 30 years, and I have a Computer Science degree. I worked in software industry for several years, later switching to a career of a full time mom, and I never looked back. I am currently a resident of Florida.
In my younger days, I wasn’t a conservative. That is not to say that I was ever a liberal – I was not anything at all. I had no idea that there were such concepts as “conservative” and “liberal”. I did not pay attention to politics at all, and the most political knowledge you would get out of me would be who the US President was, and even for that you had to catch me on the right day.
My first introduction to politics was during the second Israeli intifada in 2002. Unspeakable violence erupted in Israel. Every day dozens of people were killed. Even though I didn’t follow politics, that deeply affected me. I felt sad, frustrated, and powerless. And one night, I happened to stumble on an MSNBC program called “Alan Keyes is making sense.” He was talking passionately about Israel and the violence, and he addressed my feelings very well. Since that evening, I turned on Alan Keyes every night, and by his commentary he was able to take away some of the frustration and anger that I had. It was like a nightly therapy session.
Feeling intrigued after watching Alan Keyes, I wondered what else MSNBC had in store. I switched through the channels, and low and behold, I found Scarborough Country. Right off, Joe Scarborough wasn’t what he is today at all. He was a solid conservative (as I now understand), making common sense conservative points. I found him interesting and engaging. Opposing liberalism had not entered my mind at that time. I still didn’t know anything about liberalism. It was just the things he said sounded very common sense and worthwhile to me. Imagine that at some point, MSNBC had a conservative host on the air. Crazy times, ha?
Exploring my new political universe, I switched through more channels, and one night I found FOX. O’Reilly Factor was on. From the very first night, I was hooked. I abandoned Scarborough. O’Reilly was not just common sense – he was aggressive, and he was a fighter. He was Scarborough on steroids. He wasn’t just talking – he was taking on what he thought to be wrong and unjust. Ever since the first time, and until untimely end of Bill’s FOX career, I don’t think I ever missed one Factor.
For forming my political views, and my ability to formulate them, I have to give special credit to three people: Charles Krauthammer, Bill O’Reilly, and Greg Guttfeld. To Charles - philosophy. To Bill - realistic and pragmatic approach to politics. To Greg - realization that a good joke will change more minds than a long lecture.
And for everything else, thanks to my family.
Tatyana Larina
RWR original article syndication source.
You may consider this a campaign ad for de santis and you would be right if your target audience were bigots racists homophobes and conspiracy theorists, but they may not be as numerous as you suppose and certainly not enough to win an election
I see you keep missing the point of my articles, so I’ll spell it out: liberals (and Joy Reid is NOT one – she is just a race hustler) keep describing people who think differently as bigots, racists, homophobes and conspiracy theorists. It can’t be just “good people who disagree with us.” Can’t be that, because what person would disagree with ME on ANYTHING? I am the moral compass of society, so anybody who disagrees is either stupid or immoral. So Joy (and you as well) doesn’t even UNDERSTAND that the measures she is describing are totally common sense to many people.
As to “not be as numerous” – Joy Reid’s audience is in single digits, and half of them are people who are watching her for laughs. And Ron DeSantis just won by 20 points, and people are coming to Florida by the millions. From blue states, btw – not places where racists and homophobes reside, those are usually “highly moral people.” Very few refugees from Texas over here. Mostly from New York and California. So more numerous than you think.
Tatyana- Mintsauce is a progressive marxist socialist from pal talk chat space.
She is Joy Reid personified.
There is no amount of explaining that could lend her grasping the point lol.
Although I doubt I would ever move to Florida I do like DeSantis and the path he’s moving the state.
We have our election for governor this November and the candidate I am supporting and campaigning for is our version of DeSantis. He is our State Attorney General right now and he’s done an excellent job, kinda hate to lose him in that position but he can do so much more as governor……
Tatyana you may be right that the racists, homophobes and conspiracy theorists are more numerous than I think. After all they are everywhere including places (as you point out) where you may not expect to find them ie the blue states . That was an interesting observation and one on which I would have to agree. By implication they are probably far more numerous in the red states again although we have readily available data, it does seem to be an intuitive conclusion. As for bekah no I am not a Marxist and your continual ad hominid attacks and refusal to engage the issue are becoming tiresome.
Ah the good ol’ race baiter at it again.
Stupid racist Joy. Right-Wing Paradise > Left-Wing Hell Hole.
Mintsauce –
Your reply to Tanya’s response to your first comment reflects no reading comprehension on your part. NONE,
Go back and read here article. Then read your response. Then read her response, and note how totally clueless and inaccurate your next response to her reads.
For all that is holy – READ before you spew going forward.
Mintsauce – all you are doing by smearing WHOEVER DISAGREES WITH YOU as racists, homophobes, and whatever “phobes” you can think of is you are proving my point. “Whoever disagrees with ME is a terrible person. ” What happened to plain disagreeing? I have plenty of friends who disagreed with me on Covid restrictions. They didn’t call me “a grandma killer.” I didn’t call them “sheep.” We just disagreed. We are still friends. As weird as it sounds to YOU, there are many things that people can disagree on, plain and simple. Somehow, conservatives understand that. It is liberals who declared, probably a decade ago, that whoever disagrees with them is either stupid or evil.
This was the point I was trying to make. Whatever Joy Reid described as “hell” 80% of people see as common sense. So it doesn’t matter if you agree that there are “more than you think” as long as you still consider them “homophobes.” Do you find it strange that “homophobes and racists” are now in the majority (even in the blue states, by your own admission!) and it’s only you and Joy Reid and Al Sharpton who are “the pure ones?” If everyone thinks the sky is blue and you and “the sky is green” Facebook chat are the only ones who dissent, maybe it’s YOU who are wrong. That didn’t occur to you?
Right Wing Paradise sounds better than a Far-Left Criminal Paradise.
Tatyana I was simply agreeing with your assertion that you wouldn’t expect to find racists homophobes and conspiracy theorists in blue states. Nothing more nothing less. And bekahs personal slurs still continue. No substance no content just a childish tantrum.
Here is an idea for YOU – you shouldn’t expect to find racists, homophobes and conspiracy theorists ANYWHERE. In NO states. They are few and far between. I’ve been in this country for 32 years, and I haven’t met ONE. If you don’t count Joy Reid. She is ALL OF THOSE THINGS. It’s been proven time and time again. And yet you defend her. And you are accusing other people you have never met of vile things – just because of where they live, and their political affiliation. And, you blame other people for “personal slurs.” Do you see the disconnect here?
Maybe our temper is a little short because we know how YOU operate. “You are evil person unless you see the world MY way.” No. I don’t ascribe people motives unless they explicitly state them. And Joy Reid does, daily. That’s how I know who she is.
OK so if my understanding of reading posts in other articles Mintsauce is in New Zealand, correct me if I’m wrong.
Doing a little simple research shows the population in 2020 has New Zealand with a little less than 5 million people while the state of Florida has 21.5 million people and quickly growing by people escaping their liberal hellhole states, meaning this one state has 4x the population of that country.
Florida has a wide diversity of people from many ethnic backgrounds, they include eastern and western European, Caribbean, Haitian, Cuban, African and Asian where New Zealand is by far predominantly European background with some local tribesmen, and Asian.
So to think anyone from New Zealand has any idea of what living in Florida or the US, which has approximately 300 million people, is like is totally ridiculous and for them to think anyone would listen to or care what they think is even more ridiculous, if possible.
Some Americans, specifically people from Florida may have feelings that are different than I expressed but I doubt it, they live/move there because they like the path it’s on….. despite what low information people might think
It’s a sad fact that racists homophobes and conspiracy theorists are everywhere including nz might I add.. Are they growing in number or diminishing? This is one of those areas where it’s difficult to find data. My hope is that they are diminishing despite them being encouraged by certain irresponsible politicians
See Just Me – It is a miracle . Mintsauce completely ignored the content in your post – who knew? lol
Bekah of course I didn’t respond to it. Doesn’t mean I didn’t read it though. Soon realized it was complete nonsense that failed to address the issue being discussed. It did raise a small chuckle though. Cos what just me is saying isi’m not going to comment on what mintsauce says because of which part of the planet she is standing on. Can u even begin to imagine what kind of primitive society we would be living in if we all thought that way? Best leave such these things untouched!
Bekah
I don’t engage trolls, certified or otherwise, and it became obvious to me that that is a troll.
It can’t refute anything I posted as fact so it’s still on it’s never ending drivel, it’s the only reason it’s here…. We should forget about facts and listen to a troll 8,800 miles away because ??????…… Absolutely no reason.
I know I’m fairly new here and I’ve enjoyed my conversations with you and the other real people here….
Enjoy the rest of your weekend