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The pagan rites of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

23 September 2020

4:33 AM

23 September 2020

4:33 AM

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg succumbed to cancer, #RestInPower immediately trended. The ACLU, New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, actress Reese Witherspoon and the ostensibly Jewish uber-left activists of Bend the Arc all used the woke neologism in their tributes.

The play on words likely originated in the 1990s rap. It entered mainstream usage after the 2016 election when the left lost it mind.

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