Woke is on the run, nevertheless it’s removed from defeated.
President Donald Trump’s warfare on DEI, with assists from subject generals like Christopher Rufo and Robby Starbuck, are taking the tradition again from the exhausting Left.
We are able to nonetheless see woke parts in plain sight, together with the Oscars’ crimson carpet broadcast.
Host Julianne Hough of “Dancing with the Stars” fame shared a “land acknowledgement” Sunday as a part of her protection.
Julianne Hough does an indigenous land acknowledgement at #Oscars💀 pic.twitter.com/WiSwdASQYZ
— Amala Ekpunobi (@amalaekpunobi) March 2, 2025
“We collect in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and Chumash peoples, the standard caretakers of this water and land. We honor and pay our respects to indigenous communities right here and around the globe.”
Social media mockery ensued, and rightly so.
The host of HBO’s “Actual Time with Invoice Maher” took that ribbing to a brand new, mandatory stage.
Invoice Maher could also be liberal, however he stays one among woke’s harshest critics. He had politics firmly in thoughts together with his Friday evening critique of Hough’s feedback.
His fundamental takeaway? She’s removed from alone in sharing the land acknowledgement charade.
He began with a blast of widespread sense.
‘I’ve mentioned it earlier than, I’ll say it once more—both give the land again or shut the f*** up!’
Maher made it a tad private subsequent.
‘I’m certain Julianne Hough is honest about her love for the Chumash individuals, however I doubt she drives to work in a canoe, scavenges for acorns, or lives in a dome home product of reeds and dried mud.”
He then minimize to the guts of the matter.
“Can we please recover from this concept that historical individuals weren’t simply as stuffed with s*** – actually, extra stuffed with s*** – than people immediately?’ he requested. ‘This concept that being historical and Indigenous was at all times higher than us? It wasn’t… The Māori in pre-colonial occasions have been like most indigenous individuals – fairly war-like, ceaselessly preventing different tribes, with the winners enslaving the losers. And even consuming them.”
He posted the HBO section on X with a dire warning to his fellow Democrats.
Democrats, if you happen to ever wish to win an election once more, absolutely the most necessary first step is to cease doing this.
Considered one of his followers put a tremendous level on Maher’s argument.
Can’t win elections if you happen to’re dying on the 20% aspect of the 80/20 points
— Parker McCumber (@Parker_McCumber) March 8, 2025
Maher loathes President Donald Trump and seems desirous to vote Democrat in perpetuity. He additionally sees a celebration that has change into a caricature.
That’s why he makes use of his “Actual Time” pulpit to warn fellow progressives of the political risks they face by clinging to these 80/20 points.
Suppose permitting trans ladies to compete in opposition to organic ladies in sports activities.
Democrats have spent President Trump’s second time period beclowning themselves on a number of fronts, together with the cringey “Select Your Fighter” meme.
Trump Deranged Democrats launch “select your fighter skit” after refusing to face and clap for a kid with most cancers throughout President Trump’s tackle to congress.
Democrats have sunk so low that I’m really beginning to really feel sorry for them.
Pitiful.
pic.twitter.com/KIrW9vDc4h— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) March 6, 2025
Even far-Left host Jimmy Kimmel torched it.
They’d be smart to contemplate Maher’s warning earlier than the midterm elections arrive.