It’s us against them. Another pronoun war. At least, that’s the way “us” always describes a conflict. “Them” is always everybody else. And, if you’re never “us” nor “them,” then you have to pick a side because there are only two sides to every coin and almost every pronoun war.
Rioters … sorry, I meant to write “peaceful protesters” nearly burned down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020. This year the governor of Minnesota and mayor of Minneapolis are fighting a pronoun war with the federal government, i.e. “them.” For the record, “we” are the only ones losing right now.
Meanwhile, back in our “we” little world, neighbors, family and friends are checking on each other to see who needs anything. Power is out in many places and roads are slick with ice. Weather is the most prolific danger across much of America this week.
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” This quote has usually been attributed to Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens, but today many historians attribute it to Charles Dudley Warner who co-wrote a satirical novel titled, “The Gilded Age” with Twain/Clemens.
Nevertheless, “we” are living in sharp contrast to “us” who have declared a law enforcement war against “them.” It’s messy up there. So far it’s relatively peaceful down here primarily because it’s too cold outside to protest or riot, and authorities have been asking everybody here to stay inside since nobody can do anything about the weather.
Climate is the only thing we’ve learned to control, and we haven’t done a very good job with that according to statistical measurements. After more than 50 years of climate science, ice still covers both poles, and America is still waiting for 2025’s first hurricane to make landfall. Apparently, it’s much easier for “us” to change or control the federal government. “They” remain continually embroiled in political wars which resemble pronoun wars.
The first big storm of 2026 in America is the largest storm since 2015. Some have speculated that the gigantic swoosh of cash from Minnesota’s blowing $9 billion in federal tax dollars to Somalia for daycare centers is the root cause of this unusual weather. No one in Minnesota politics believes there is any connection between the pronoun war and the BIG swoosh! It’s merely a coincidence.
Other than President Trump’s deal to buy Greenland and a booming economy that’s been resurrected from the old dead Bidenomics plan, there’s not much news to talk about. Axios reported the murder rate in America fell by 21% last year, the lowest rate since 1900!
Coincidently, America deported about 622,000 immigrants and nearly 2-million immigrants self-departed in 2025. That’s a drop in the bucket considering how many millions of immigrants President Biden welcomed to America unvetted. Not to mention about 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children who are still unaccounted for under Biden.
Anyway, I recommend we all settle back into our “we” little world of checking on neighbors, family and friends. Who would ever have thought pronouns could generate so many conflicts? It won’t be long until the Supreme Court settles all the ambiguity about who is allowed to have babies in America. So far, the opposite sex are the only ones who have been able to have babies. Pronoun wars have never produced any babies.
Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.
4 comments:
Another week, another totally unhinged, completely asinine, and barely thinly veiled racist rant by DL.
The hatred for ICE is merely the outrage for the week, the Marxists can't get to Trump so they attack LEO just trying to enforce the law. There are an amazing amount of weak minded useful idiots out there who believe the propaganda spewed by the democrats and then amplifies by the so called news media.
"Who would ever have thought pronouns could generate so many conflicts?"
You did, DL. You sold tribalism for years.
When the "weak minded useful idiots" can't self diagnose, that's the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action.
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