Ben Affleck has told his daughter that she needs to be “realistic” about her demands for mask mandates and can’t rely on his celebrity status after the 18-year-old was left “extremely disheartened” by the “ridicule” she received in response to her speech. The Mail has the story.
Violet Affleck called for an end to all “mask bans” in medical facilities and Government buildings during an impassioned plea to the governing body for Los Angeles County last week, in which she detailed her experience of contracting “a post-viral condition” in 2019.
Unsurprisingly, her unexpected speech, which clocked in at just under one minute, proved divisive, with some hailing her “courageous”, while others branded her “utterly deluded”.
Violet, the eldest daughter of Ben, 51, and his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52, is said to be struggling with the “ridicule” and has been left feeling “alone” in her fight to strengthen pandemic-era protections.
“While Ben and Jen will always support their daughter, Ben had a conversation with her and told her that she needs to be realistic with this because he doesn’t want her to waste all of her time putting effort into something that probably won’t make a difference in the long run,” an insider told DailyMail.com.
“He knows how strongly she feels about this, but now that Violet is an adult, he felt that it was his duty to let her know that she is David fighting Goliath and that most people unfortunately do not feel the same way she does about this.
“He was also concerned that Violet felt as if her parent’s star power was going to be able to guarantee her the outcome that she wanted which, in this case, it is not.”
During her speech, Violet urged the board “to confront the Long Covid crisis” by strengthening protections, offering high-quality tests and opposing a ban on masks.
“I demand mask availability, air filtration and Far-UVC light in Government facilitates, including jails and detention centres, and mask mandates in county medical faculties,” she said.
“You must expand the availability of high-quality free tests and treatment, and most importantly the county must oppose mask bans for any reason.
“They do not keep us safer. They make vulnerable members of our community less safe and make everyone less able to participate in Los Angeles together.” …
Violet – who recently graduated from high school – is now looking to pull back from pushing the pleas further.
“Violet is extremely disheartened and feels that her plea did nothing more than to set her up for further ridicule,” the insider continued. “She believes that her plea for mask mandates fell on deaf ears because it isn’t even being considered.
“She stopped reading the critique and, while she is proud of her bravery in doing this, she sees no point in pushing the envelope even further.
“It is clear to her and to those around her that she is pretty much alone on this one.”
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Trump can be a perplexing character because there is nothing consistent about him. He is a channeler. That is why he he says the most imbecilic things, clearly has no interest in reading about geopolitical complexities – this isn’t just him blustering the things coming out of his mouth are what I would call the holy spirit in the sense that when mankind is facing imminent death a force comes in and manifests in the most surprising of ways. You must never think that you can approach him via rationality.
Say what you like about Trump and his crassness but he is not a worshipper of death.
He says some great things, like “there are only two genders”.
So from that moment onwards, if anybody has a problem with that, you can just shrug: “if the president of the US can say it, why can’t I?”
Perhaps they arewise enough to avoid the traps and pitfalls at the end of empire. Hope so. I don’t like to see the Yanks on their knees because the Yanks are the opposite of that by definition. They will wake up America is a beautiful unexplored continent.
RFK Jr is also a disruptor.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-hhs-rightfully-halts-barda
Wow, thanks for that. An oral covid 19 ‘vaccine’ definitely halt that, it’s just carrying on the propaganda to benefit pharma. Plus no placebo, not that a placebo is worth anything as they fudge that too. Sadly as one commentator to the article said:
“10,000 people deciding to get into this trial. You can’t fix stupid.”
No idea what ‘Alt Left’ even is but I was of the understanding Trump is considered ‘Right wing’, however, this here seems just like something he and his voters would agree with. It’s something I agree with and say similar on here regularly. The Woke/Leftards want to eradicate the sexes, cause division and demasculinize/defeminize society. Trump has done more for the betterment of the American people in mere weeks than the Demtards did in four years so the future will be very interesting indeed;
”This is something we need to start talking about on the left, this constant shaming and demonization of young men – especially young white men – that is causing them to leave the Left in droves. The Political Left simply has nothing to offer them. It’s “yes, you’re welcome here, so long as you sit in the corner, shut your mouth, and defer to your Identity Superiors in all things” and who is going to stick around for that?
We need to stop demonizing men and masculinity, and we need to start celebrating it. Young men are hardwired towards masculinity; not the neutered, emasculated version of it offered to us by the Woke Left, but the real thing. Real masculinity is not toxic and it is not a poison. On the contrary, it is a beautiful thing and is necessary for a healthy society. Any society needs a balance of masculinity and femininity in order to itself be healthy and functional.
Masculinity – typically expressed through men – sits atop society like a blanket; it protects and keeps safe. It provides and guides. Femininity – typically expressed through women – is the glue that holds it all together. It nurtures, it connects, and bonds.
Society without masculinity is listless, meandering, unfocused and with a deep sense of malaise. Society without healthy femininity is cold, distant, unconnected and meaningless. We need both. We are equal partners in this journey together, not competitors and certainly not enemies.
Anybody who says the political left hasn’t been demonizing, silencing and sidelining men over the past twenty years hasn’t been paying attention. The Alt Left rejects that toxic and divisive culture. We reject identity politics, and the idea that a person’s value only boils down to their immutable identity traits.
We believe that all voices should be assessed on the validity and merit of the ideas expressed, period. The identity of the person speaking is utterly irrelevant, all that matters is the words that they speak. THAT’S how you create the truly equal society that we all want.”
https://x.com/The_AltLeft/status/1894772662670361043
If you can’t view the comments this also relates to an earlier article from today regarding why many men don’t vote for the Left parties;
”I discussed this exact thing on the show the other day. Masculinity has been baked into DNA over millions of years of evolution. If we don’t give young men examples of healthy masculinity to aspire to, they will go after the UNhealthy versions, the Andrew Tates of the world.”
https://x.com/The_AltLeft/status/1894774033989714166
Could someone perhaps enlighten me how America pays 70% of NATO leads to Arkansas taxpayers fund the German welfare state¹?
¹ Which – in turn – funds mostly legally and illegally immigrated foreigners, including a good deal of recently naturalized such immigrants. All Ukrainian refugees and deserters who made to Germany, by the way, enjoy preferred access to it, at the same level as German citizens, except with a lot less bureaucratic hurdles to clear.
Some numbers on this: According to the Military Balance Blog, total defence spending of all NATO members was 1382.7 billion USD in 2024. The USA spent 968 billion of this which is 70.008%, making this 70% for all practical purposes and not over 70%. It follows that the European NATO members must have spent the remaining 30%. 30% is 43% (rounded) of 70% and referring to this as next to nothing is certainly not appropriate. In particular, the UK spent 77.9 billion, 5.63%, Germany 76.5 billion, 5.53% and France 63.4 billion, 4.59%. More than 5% of something is also significantly more than next to nothing,
especially considering that all three countries are smaller than the USA, have smaller economies and less population. Lastly, Germany must not have more than 370,000 soldiers, of which at most 345,000 may be army and air force and must not own or control any nuclear weapons (2 + 4 treaty, Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany). Despite this restriction, which makes any meaningful contribution to the NATO military effort essentially impossible, German defence spending is nevertheless 29.7% of German welfare spending.
This knee-jerk anti-German jibe from an another anglo German hater thus seems seriously unfounded, although in line with the overall quality of the article.
Obama said that the “Ship of State” was near impossible to turn around. Trump is doing it.
Obama meant, “The “Ship of State” was near impossible to turn around, ie prosper, when your goal is to destroy it”.
Quite frankly, this is starting to feel boring.
We need to accept that for some people it is an article of faith that Trump can’t do anything good. Even if he created world peace, general prosperity and then donated all his money to an orphanage, they would still hate him.
The same people would smile and clap their hands if Biden pooped his pants, then scooped out the excrement and smeared it all over their faces. (Which, to be fair, would not have been too much of a surprise.)
The author seems to be badly out of touch with what is happening in Canada under Adolf Trudeau and the surging support for his opponents.
In suggesting Canada becomes the 51st state I think DJT misspoke. He should have instead invited each Province to apply. The leftist eastern ones would not have done so but those East of Lake Superior would have thought long and hard about it.
“The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 to address the civil rights of formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War.”
It was obviously never understood or intended to grant citizenship to everyone who happened to be passing through.
The office of POTUS may have more power than the UK PM as the PM needs the support of a Parliamentary majority, but any PM who can command an obedient majority has far more power than Trump because Parliament is sovereign. The executive branch of the federal government has very limited powers, and state power is shared between the federal executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as those same branches in the individual states.
That is such a refreshing article to read. Agree with Professor Allan’s view 100%.
I have marked it as a reference, for those I meet that need it as an explanation of Reality.
I didn’t understand Trump until I read a book on Game Theory. In the past the US always signalled what was the worst deal that they would take, with Trump you get the idea that he is just working out what the worst deal is that the opposition will take.
Trump’s not a dictator. He’s The AntiChrist, worshipped by Hindus as “Vishnu”, and has just put a gigantic gold statue of himself in his “Trump Gaza” video, like Nebuchadnezzar’s gigantic gold statue in the Old Testament, described in Daniel 3. But hey, just carry on sleeping.
There’s certainly something like inverse Trump derangement syndrome, namely, assuming that everything Trump does must be perfect and wonderful because he did it. Many of the so-affected also don’t seem to be Americans and unable to understand that he isn’t their president. From my perspective, Trump is another head of government of a state that’s principally hostile to Germany and has been principally hostile to it since at least 1915.
Vance making loud noises about freedom of speech in Munich while German lower courts order punishment of people for publishing historical photos in the context of historical articles on Facebook despite that’s explicitly allowed by German law, still using Allied Control Council directive 24/ Law 104 as excuse for that, is a particularly poor joke. It basically amounts to throwing someone into the prison and then calling him morally repugnant for missing his son’s birthday.
With ‘allies’ like that, we [Germans] certainly don’t additionally need enemies.
Shouldn’t German citizens and the AfD be loudly calling for the Abolition of the Allied Control Council Directives as OBSOLETE?
It is unjust of you to keep blaming British, French, American or other wartime allies now for these post-war “Revenge Laws” in Germany that few people in the West have ever even heard of, just as they’ve never heard of the horrors of “Hellstorm”, and cannot be held responsible for them.
It’s like blaming the West for slavery, and every other bad thing that ever happened on the planet.
That’s a bit difficult to do because they’re (by reference) part of the German basic law which means it’s principally illegal to want to change them. The present and (according to rumours) also next German home secretary, Nancy Faeser, who’s convinced that holding the – despite all her efforts – ever increasing Nazi threat at bay is her most important duty, also seriously wouldn’t like that.
This is not comparable to slavery because slavery was abolished while de-nazification is supposed to continue in perpetuity and it was tacitly agreed that the situation mentioned in the original article 146 which declared the basic law a provisional constitution supposed to end when the German people had voted in favour of a German constitution for Germany must never actually take place.
BTW, the AfD is very much in favour of celebrating our Russian liberators whenever the opportunity arises and there was at least some amount of Russia-associated propaganda¹ during the recent election campaign which basically threatened all German who didn’t “vote right” (that is, vote AfD) with a Russian attack on Germany. German nationalists these are not and calling them German patriots is at least a dubious claim. They’re not as rabidly anti-German than the western establishment parties but that’s about it.
¹ Distributed by people who claimed to be current or former Russian soldiers.
It seems he intends to build a New Babylon in Gaza, the ancient home of the Philistines, biblical enemies of the Israelites. And then set up his “World Ruler” capital in Jerusalem, forcibly carrying out old prophecies, the way most prophecies end up being carried out: planned and deliberate, not miraculous at all.
Trump the AntiChrist…?
No, he’s just a very naughty boy!
Fantastic piece: clear, concise, unpatronisingly intelligent – the right of centre in a nutshell. Something we’ve got to quietly shout.