Today’s Word of the Day, dear reader, is odium.  Odium is a general or widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions.  It comes from the Latin odium, meaning “hatred,” derived from odisse, “to hate.”  First recorded in English in the late 16th century, odium has long been a linguistic suitcase nuke – sharp, incendiary, and impossible to ignore.

There’s a special kind of odium reserved for those who, in their infinite self-righteousness, manage to torch the very foundations of the society they claim to be saving.  Enter Renee Good, the poster child for the deluded liberal white woman who has been led, like a mindless lemming, to believe her Instagram activism and a few poorly thought-out slogans scrawled on cardboard give her the moral authority to interfere with armed federal officers doing their jobs.  Good, indoctrinated by the cult of performative wokeness, thought she could stand in the way of law enforcement with impunity.  Of course, she couldn’t.  And yet, her pitiful ilk continues to metastasize across the cultural landscape like a particularly virulent strain of societal rot. 

But Renee Good is just the tip of the iceberg.  There is the broader phenomenon of bougie wine moms who have recently become painfully aware of their complete irrelevance, in their quest to out-virtue-signal one another, have become the architects of our collective decline.  Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey- yes, dear reader, I’m aware that they allege to be men, but they govern with the same spineless, self-flagellating ethos that defines this demographic.  These are the people who, when faced with riots, looting, and the wholesale destruction of their cities, clutch their pearls and issue statements about “systemic injustice” while their constituents are left to fend for themselves in the smoldering ruins.  They are the enablers of chaos, the apologists for anarchy, and the cheerleaders for policies that prioritize feelings over facts, optics over outcomes, and I wish them all ill.

And then there’s Portland Police Chief Bob Day, who delivered what can only be described as a vaginal press conference.  I don’t mean to insult vaginas, here, but there’s not another word that adequately captures the sheer, quivering weakness on display as he literally broke down in tears over having to admit that the Department of Homeland Security was right about a shooting involving a Tren de Araguq shitbag and his literal whore.  Let’s recap: a Border Patrol agent fired a defensive shot after the driver of a vehicle – affiliated with a brutal Venezuela-based gang – tried to weaponize said vehicle against law enforcement.  DHS laid out the facts, clear as day.  But instead of standing firm, Day melted like a gluten-free douche, apologizing to the “Latino community” and wringing his hands about “historic injustice” as if that somehow negates the reality of gang violence. 

This is the problem with the liberal white women mindset, whether it’s embodied by Renee Good, Gavin Newsom, or Bob Day: it prioritizes narrative over truth, emotion over logic, and self-flagellation over accountability.  It’s a worldview that sees criminals as victims, law enforcement as oppressors, and the rule of law as an inconvenient relic of a bygone era.  And it’s killing us. 

The odium they’ve earned is well-deserved.  They’ve turned our cities into war zones, our institutions into laughingstocks, and our culture into a parody of itself.  They’ve replaced competence with virtue signaling, strength with performative fragility, and common sense with ideological dogma.  And they have the stupid audacity to call it progress. 

So here’s my message to the Renee Goods, the Bob Days, and all the other liberal white women (and their spiritual kin) out there: Spare us your tears, your hashtags, and your hollow apologies.  Spare us your performative outrage and your endless self-flagellation.  Spare us your odious crusade to save us from ourselves.  Because the truth is, we don’t need saving.  We need you to get the fuck out of the way. 

N.P.: “Hefna” – Danheim