Owner Jordan Marks showing U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst around his business, Jordan’s Meat Market in Marcus, on June 27, 2023. Times Pilot photo by Kate Kealey Sen. Joni Ernst can work up one hankerin’ hunger in her role as human scaffolding for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to make certain he does not fall over at Capitol press scrums.
One needs to be awake to be woke. If you’re awake you might just be aware of what’s happening for the good and the bad. If you aren’t awake, and you can’t be woke, you may be just sleeping through life. What a waste. So, WOKE UP!
Actually, I hated the way DeSantis, now Ernst among others, used "woke" & thought, like Mark, it was a mere gingered up negative phrase by those with less than skilled use of the language. So, a while back, I looked it up in Webster's dictionary (quite sure it wouldn't be there, but might be in a slang dictionary). However, it is in Webster: "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice". I find that pretty positive, while woke is most commonly used negatively. The slang dictionary defines woke essentially the same. I suppose the best defense of the popular disuse of woke would be to CORRECT its' overwhelmingly negatively disuse. A good place to start would be with DeSantis, since I have him use it more frequently than anyone else, and ALWAYS negatively. Plus, he seems to be spending a lot of time in Iowa now, thanks to his new galpal Reynolds.
Woke was a word manufactured by neoliberals so they could elevate themselves above those slow to embrace wokeism which is a fraudulent hyperpoliticized version of Identity Studies, a legitimate and awesome field of study which has about as much applicability to the political arena as geometry. Identity is what makes us different from one another. Winning elections is about discovering what we all have in common.
The Wokesters are exactly the same folks who told us that Bernie Sanders was a sexist pig. They let everyone know exactly who was or wasn't really a Democrat. Wokeism's a neofascist trick for controlling the Democrat party whose leadership believes that "not being Donald Trump" is an adequate platform.
Unite to win, division is for losers. The kinds of losers, btw, who see 55-45 "Red" states as 100% filled with knuckledragging losers as seen by our immaculately self-anointed fly-over elites.
One needs to be awake to be woke. If you’re awake you might just be aware of what’s happening for the good and the bad. If you aren’t awake, and you can’t be woke, you may be just sleeping through life. What a waste. So, WOKE UP!
Actually, I hated the way DeSantis, now Ernst among others, used "woke" & thought, like Mark, it was a mere gingered up negative phrase by those with less than skilled use of the language. So, a while back, I looked it up in Webster's dictionary (quite sure it wouldn't be there, but might be in a slang dictionary). However, it is in Webster: "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice". I find that pretty positive, while woke is most commonly used negatively. The slang dictionary defines woke essentially the same. I suppose the best defense of the popular disuse of woke would be to CORRECT its' overwhelmingly negatively disuse. A good place to start would be with DeSantis, since I have him use it more frequently than anyone else, and ALWAYS negatively. Plus, he seems to be spending a lot of time in Iowa now, thanks to his new galpal Reynolds.
Woke was a word manufactured by neoliberals so they could elevate themselves above those slow to embrace wokeism which is a fraudulent hyperpoliticized version of Identity Studies, a legitimate and awesome field of study which has about as much applicability to the political arena as geometry. Identity is what makes us different from one another. Winning elections is about discovering what we all have in common.
The Wokesters are exactly the same folks who told us that Bernie Sanders was a sexist pig. They let everyone know exactly who was or wasn't really a Democrat. Wokeism's a neofascist trick for controlling the Democrat party whose leadership believes that "not being Donald Trump" is an adequate platform.
Unite to win, division is for losers. The kinds of losers, btw, who see 55-45 "Red" states as 100% filled with knuckledragging losers as seen by our immaculately self-anointed fly-over elites.