It still astonishes me the number of people I come across in the pundit class who simply refuse to see what is in front of them. Today I saw yet another – it was a bit of a rant blaming Trump for the fact that Xavier Becerra will be confirmed as HHS Secretary. Now, to be sure, there might have been things Trump could have done or not done to secure a better electoral result both on November 3rd and January 5th, but Becerra doesn’t matter. These pundits are all hair on fire over the sort of person Becerra is and how he’ll do all sorts of horrible things at HHS. Yeah. No kidding. But so would any other person selected by Biden’s handlers. Liberals are liberals are liberals – there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between any of them. They are all egregious liars and hopelessly corrupt. And every last one of them will enact the same policies as any others because policy isn’t decided by the guys we see on TV, but by the people behind the scenes who are juiced into the activist groups which control the funding for campaigns.
The only thing about the implementation of the latest, most insane proposals on the left is whether they’ll be imposed now, or a little later. There is no one on the left who will stand against the left. Maybe Becerra will actively push the most lunatic things imaginable, maybe he’ll back burner the most crazy stuff. But it is all coming, if the left remains in power. If you want to see what will be dogma for the Democrats in a couple years, just check out whatever lunacy is most current on college campuses today. The only way to prevent it from happening is to ensure no one on the left has any say in policy, at all.
And that brings me to the other thing which I’m still finding irritating. Seventy Senators voted to confirm Garland as AG. Why? Why in heck would you do that? The Democrats will not return the favor. Not ever. I mean, it’s one thing if you’re a Susan Collins and you have to some times register that vote in favor of the Democrats to keep electoral viability. Totally cool with that. But for most of ours, there’s no reason. It won’t help them politically and the Democrats will never reciprocate. Absolute opposition is the only way to go here.
But, they still haven’t learned; though I do believe that there is a learning curve and it is far better than it used to be. Meanwhile, Trump is setting up a 2022 where he’s going to try to get rid of as many RINOs as he can. Part of this would be payback (which is a necessity in politics), part of it is testing his own popularity which will go a long way towards deciding Trump on 2024, but the biggest part of it is Trump’s understanding that if there isn’t a GOP as committed to itself as the Democrats are to themselves, then it is all for nothing. America is at the point of choosing: are we going to be a Social Democracy, or a Republic? For the moment, the GOP is still not offering a choice save a slower path to Social Democracy. Trump wants the people to have a real choice – likely because he believes they’ll choose a Republic (I do, too).
It has to be hit home that there is no longer – if there ever really was – a shared vision of America between us and our political opponents. This situation may well devolve into secession and/or civil war. It isn’t that the Democrats and Republicans want different means to the same ends: they want different ends. What the Democrats consider good is considered vile by us and vice versa. And one side or the other will triumph. We hope by peaceful means. If the American people decide to become Social Democrats, then that is what they shall be. But for those of us who don’t want this – and Trump is one of them – the thing to do now is to starkly contrast the visions and offer no cooperation to the Democrats in any way, shape or form. Absolute opposition to whatever they want and then ruthlessly doing whatever we can if we are restored to power. There are no rules or norms – there is only power and the will to exercise it. They will exercise power to destroy us…and so we’d better exercise it to destroy them. It is a bit better for us – because if we do win and exercise the power, we won’t disturb the Democrats in their personal lives…they will, on the other hand, hound us all endlessly to force us to lie in their favor. But it is in the winning where it will be decided, not in the compromising and “working across the aisle”. All of that is over – and it won’t return until “working across the aisle” means that everyone agrees on the basics.
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I’ve been having this conversation with my son-in-law who resents the fact that he is called a RHINO. I say, “if the shoe fits….” Much of what I’ve written to him parallels your post. He says he’s thinking about re-registering as a Democrat, and I’m still contemplating whether or not I should tell him what I really think — that the current iteration of the Democrat Party is somewhere between a criminal enterprise and enemy combatants.
I’d just ask him why he thinks the nation is best governed under a system that consolidates power in the hands of a few, and centralizes government decisions. He sounds caught up in Identity Politics, and in voting based on who he likes more than which system he thinks is better.
If he is willing to come right out and say he prefers a top-down system in which a Central Authority decides what is best for everyone across the nation, then he is right, and does belong in the Democrat Party. If he is registered as a Republican but favors expanding the size, scope and power of the federal government instead of keeping it to its original intent of merely providing a national identity and an umbrella of protection of rights, with the true authority left to the states or to the people, then he is a Republican In Name Only. If he believes that the role of government is to impose social engineering on people instead of providing a safe society in which people can make their own choices and choose their own paths, he is not a true Republican.
And if he is trivializing the importance of his vote by basing it on personality instead of who will attempt to stay the closest to our Constitutional rule of law he really shouldn’t be voting at all—-but it is probably wiser not to say that.
I’d just ask him why he thinks the nation is best governed under a system that consolidates power in the hands of a few, and centralizes government decisions. He sounds caught up in Identity Politics, and in voting based on who he likes more than which system he thinks is better.
In one of my responses to him, I said the following:
I should have asked how that differed from what he believes, I expected the conversation to continue, but he never responded. It’s been nearly a month, and, at this point, I don’t expect him to.
I think you are looking at an example of how no response is really a response after all.
I think you’re right. I sent you a copy of the email chain. He has some pretty indefensible positions, and a really dark view of the future. Quite frankly, I don’t expect his generation (Gen X) to be the saviors of our republic. I think many of them have already resigned themselves to gulags.
They are all egregious liars and hopelessly corrupt. And every last one of them will enact the same policies as any others because policy isn’t decided by the guys we see on TV, but by the people behind the scenes who are juiced into the activist groups which control the funding for campaigns.
In 2004 we were all discussing tax cuts, the misguided military excursions, the federal debt of $5 trillion, and the benefits of a smaller government vs the social welfare state advocated by Democrats. Today, we are discussing whether or not we will be allowed to even voice our opinion without reprisal and continue to operate our small business.
So what’s the plan? Are we still convinced we can persuade the Left on the virtues of a Constitutional republic through debate? Does anyone think conservatives can still win at the ballot box? Portland was again subject to far left violence last night and yet no one does anything, and 5,000 military troops still surround DC in anticipation of far right violence. It’s absolutely surreal, so let’s come up with a plan or this country as we all knew it … is over.
Sadly, conservatives are not as committed to their ideology as the far left is too theirs and unless and until that dynamic changes, you will have to keep your opinions to yourself and wear your mask. Let me know when you’re ready
Are we still convinced we can persuade the Left on the virtues of a Constitutional republic through debate?
Actually, I don’t think anyone has ever been convinced the hard Left, those in charge, can be “persuaded” about anything. No one says they can and no one says it should be tried.
However, there is an argument, which I also make, that the power of the Left is handed to them by the gullible and easily led but not strongly ideological, and it is that demographic that can be persuaded by argument. At least it is worth a try, and that is an attempt the Right has not really made, at least not in a very productive manner.
That is because we are using the same tactics the Left uses, but (1) they are better at it and (2) because they got there first we are trying to play catch-up. We are playing Identity Politics, we are focusing on ISSUES and we are ignoring the very things the Legacy Democrats are finding objectionable now.
They are telling us what they don’t like about the direction of the party and we are not following up on that. We should be recognizing that theme, developing it, expanding it and turning it to our advantage.
the power of the Left is handed to them by the gullible and easily led but not strongly ideological,
Yes it was handed to them by useful idiots but now we will have to fight to reclaim it because they have no intention of ever giving it back. The “equality act” will cement their power for generations. If we want to preserve individual liberty, freedom of expression and assembly, and a free market economy, we can no longer ignore the fight that lies ahead of us. They will not go down quietly
we can no longer ignore the fight that lies ahead of us.
You may be needed soon. Be prepared for God’s work. ✌🏻
You two certainly sound eager for a confrontation. As for “God’s work” that has been claimed by a lot of very bad people to justify ungodly acts.
Oh I disagree. I think those of us on the right have shown remarkable restraint. There is always a line in the sand where discussion becomes pointless and confrontation is all you have left. My opinion is we’ve crossed well beyond that line.
confrontation is all you have left.
So go confront! How does that work? You strap on some jazzy armament and then go…confront. Who? When? How?
I’m speaking as Patriots, not as individuals. And you confront by resisting. By not playing by their rules, by not adopting their language, by not subscribing to their platforms, by not frequenting their businesses, by not being friends with them, and by calling out and correcting every falsehood they endorse like systemic racism, climate change, and this Marxist equality act. And by ALWAYS having the threat of credible physical force. I hope I didn’t scare anyone with that last one. That’s the only way to win. Short of that it’s just a matter of time before this country is a socialist progressive shithole. Think Chicago on steroids
OK, I am fine with that. As a matter of fact I believe the tone of my posts for the last two decades has been quite similar, though always with the caveat that if we can’t figure out how to get our message across we are wasting our time. No…let me correct that. It has been that we have to develop a coherent message and then figure out how to get it out there. I have been lecturing about semantic infiltration and the utter stupidity of “conservatives” using Leftist language and terms.
So, now that we are pretty much on the same page, now what?
Well, here in Colorado I am putting together a list of strategies I think we need to adopt, strategies like the ones I promote here—dropping Identity Politics, identifying conservatism by its inherent political structure and so on—-and working on getting it in front of the Colorado GOP. If that doesn’t work I will work on some candidates. You can do the same in Arizona.
You have a certain position and name recognition in your city, so use it. Make a fuss about the fact that the supposedly Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich turned a blind eye to the felonious false certification of Arizona votes. People don’t know there is a law about false certification, so get out there and tell people. Make noise about the legal, ethical and moral obligations of elected officials, cite their oaths of office and demand that they honor them. Don’t do it to support Trump, don’t talk about who should have gotten the contested or illegal votes, just say if the citizens of Arizona can’t count on their elected officials to do their job then they might as well skip elections completely.
You’re pissed off, which you should be. You are frustrated because you see the country sliding into a death spiral and can’t think of how to stop it. So channel that anger and frustration and passion and raise some hell. The thing is, though you are quite partisan this is a topic that doesn’t have to be party-related.
Also, yours is a state which will suffer more than most from Biden’s disastrous open borders fiasco, so make a stink about that, too.
My opinion is we’ve crossed well beyond that line.
You may have an entirely different dynamic at play in Phoenix. In rural northeast Indiana, we aren’t even close to the line yet. Not saying we aren’t headed in that direction, but we aren’t there yet.
Antifa sent thugs to three Colorado towns, and three Colorado towns ran them off. In one encounter a thug struck out against a guy in a wheelchair and that resulted in some scuffling and one thug getting the end of a flagpole rammed into him when he pulled a weapon, but the point is, there are places in this country where the wannabe violent Left can’t prevail. The people dealt with these thugs, and made it clear they can only operate in selected places. They won’t even think of going to Wyoming, and I doubt they will target Spook’s neighborhood.
People in Portland or Seattle or San Francisco or Chicago have the ability to run these thugs out of their towns, too. They choose not to. They choose to live under the tyranny of the mob, and they get to do that. It’s not up to anyone else to pick up arms and go save them from the fate they have chosen for themselves.
From a personal perspective, I would be happy to see the antifa mobs mowed down with automatic weaponry, cleaning out those nests of vipers so they can’t come back. All this tiptoeing around fretting about upsetting them drives me nuts—who cares if they are upset? Who cares if they get the vapors when the cops scare them? I don’t. I wouldn’t care if they all got killed. I truly wouldn’t.
If it were up to me I would declare any attack on a federal building to be a federal crime, taking it out of the hands of local crime-supporters, and then I would “kettle” them (just saw that term and had to look it up) and arrest every one of them and take them out of the Lefty jurisdictions and detain them in federal custody under domestic terrorism statutes. I’d hit them with skunk juice and quick-hardening silly string and I’d drop nets on them. I’d make their lives a living hell till they ratted out the people who paid them and then go after THEM on RICO charges I wouldn’t worry about broken fingers or inducing asthma with pepper spray, much less a body count. I really don’t care what happens to these subhuman creeps.
But the thing is, I don’t get to make those decisions because these are not my communities and I am not in law enforcement. If they come to my community that’s a different story. If they come to my front gate the gloves are on the ice and they get what they get. One thing about the ammo shortage is the shift to self defense shotguns and I am fine with that. The thing is, they don’t just have to cross A line, they have to cross MY line for me to go kinetic.
I understand that these thugs did not get the power they have through violence—they got it through politics. So while violence might feel good, or at least the fantasy of violence might soothe a troubled mind at least till the screaming and running and bleeding start, the real solution is to cut off the political support that lets these goons flourish in certain parts of the country. They are not the real threat—they are the window dressing, they are the distractions, they are the theatrics to keep people from focusing on the political violence being perpetrated by elected and appointed government officials.
Well there you go. That’s called confrontation and on a small scale is exactly what I advocate.
They choose to live under the tyranny of the mob, and they get to do that. It’s not up to anyone else to pick up arms and go save them from the fate they have chosen for themselves.
I disagree. We can’t have a fully functioning country when major parts of it are under siege.
In a perfect world you are right. But when large segments of the nation make self-destructive and stupid decisions if we are true to the concept of state sovereignty then we have to stand by and watch them do it, because there is no federal authority to step in and tell them how to run their states, or their cities. All the feds can constitutionally do is refuse to enable them by bailing them out.
At a certain level of insurrection the feds can legitimately declare a state of emergency and step in, but only the government can do that, not ticked-off citizens of other states or cities.
If we wait until the violence is on our door step then we will definitely lose. The far left is still burning down Portland, OR almost on a nightly basis. The Capital in DC is still militarized for some unknown threat, people are still losing their jobs and small businesses for little justifiable reasons, people are still apologizing and even going to jail for having the wrong “political think”, our children have lost a year or more of social development and education, they are soon to prosecute Officer Chauvin for following the Minneapolis Police Dept. training manual, and the once thriving cities of NY, Seattle, Chicago, etc., are shells fo their former selves. But don’t worry, Biden said he is going to deploy an “army of vaccinators” to keep us safe.
This is all unacceptable to me and reason enough to pick up arms and defeat this cancer that plagues this once great country. I will give the scum sucking leeches on the far left credit for one thing … they don’t worry about the consequences.
they don’t worry about the consequences.
I doubt that the ones who will suffer the consequences have been told that there WILL BE consequences. There haven’t been any so far.
I’m not going to wait till they start shooting at me or take my house to give to some poor illegal immigrant family, but nothing like that is happening in Indiana and not likely to any time soon. Indiana is one of the freest and most prosperous states in the country. Our unemployment rate is back down close to 4%, the virus is on the decline, most businesses have been open since last June, and schools have been open since last fall. We’re about to join eight other states that allow anyone not legally prohibited from owning a firearm to carry a firearm without a license. The Indiana House of Representatives has been controlled by Republicans for a decade, and the Senate for nearly 3 decades and the governor’s office since 2005.
It’s gotta suck to live in Portland, but I doubt anyone is holding a gun to anyone’s head forcing them to live there. For those that would like to get out, they’d be welcome in Indiana as long as they don’t forget why they left Portland.
We can undermine the machine by playing smart, by taking over more statehouses and state legislatures and by making it clear to those state legislators that we WILL prosecute them for malfeasance and failure to do their duty.
Two or three state legislatures that simply refused to certify votes in states where it had been proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the votes could not accurately be determined to be for any candidate would have changed the entire political picture of the United States today. Two or three Attorneys General with backbones, two or three state legislatures ditto, two or three governors ditto, and we would not be having this conversation. No threats, no guns, no uprisings, no drama, just focused political visions implemented by people with guts.
For that matter, the statute of limitations is still open for prosecution for the felonies of false certification. Think of the message that would be sent to the election commissions for the 2022 election if it is clear that only properly run and properly counted elections will count.
Wars are not won on the battlefields. Wars are won by disrupting the support systems that allow the armies to function. Wars are won by bombing ball bearing factories or sabotaging munitions as much as by shooting people. Political wars are won, as we saw last year, not at the big visible national ballot box but at the small individual local ballot boxes where a few thousand votes which had a small effect on the national count still nudged the important state count in one direction. In some cases these margins were under 50,000 votes. And also won in the state legislatures and governors’ mansions where people who were either corrupt or just weak let fraud take over the process and then certified the fraud.
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In case anyone doesn’t already realize this, power, money, control and EUGENICS are the real reasons behind COVID and the associated vaccinations. There is NO real concern for the health of the masses. Some of the most powerful people in world, people like Bill Gates, have repeatedly called for population reduction. Those pushing this vaccine have no more concern for your health than those pushing abortion. That is the mirage perpetrated by evil, simply as a means to an end.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
The AstraZeneca vaccine is being promoted for developing countries, in part because it doesn’t require the deep-freeze cold storage that mRNA vaccines do, so the logistics surrounding distribution are less complex.
Patents and royalties for the AstraZeneca vaccine are held by a private company called Vaccitech, investors of which include Google Ventures, the Wellcome Trust, the Chinese branch of Sequoia Capital, the Chinese drug company Fosun Pharma and the British government.
While AstraZeneca has promised it will not make any profit from its vaccine, there’s a time limit on this pledge. The not-for-profit vow expires once the pandemic is over, and AstraZeneca itself appears to have a say when it comes to declaring the end date.
The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was co-developed by Adrian Hill, who has long-term ties to the British eugenics movement through his work with the Wellcome Trust’s Centre for Human Genetics and affiliation with the Galton Institute, formerly the U.K. Eugenics Society.
Members of the Galton Institute have called for population reduction in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia and Africa, the very areas where the AstraZeneca vaccine is being promoted.
If we were on the border right now and we were talking to migrants that are being apprehended, what they would tell you is that the Biden administration said to come, and they have come. That’s just the facts of it. I mean throughout the campaign the Biden administration said that if people are going to cross, they’re going to be let in the country. And you have to understand that was like a beacon to folks all over the world.
Jones said it is well-known that perception drives migration. He also said that people have been traveling to South America from China and Africa for the last nine or ten months to make their way north. Jones said we will see more Special Interest Aliens than we have ever seen. This term is a designation for migrants who come from countries with a terrorism nexus. There are already large numbers of SIAs hitting the Darien Gap, a break in the Pan-American Highway in southern Panama. Jones says as the number of migrants increases, it is easier for those individuals to go undetected.
Not only this, but migrants under the control of the cartels have to provide personal information:
That number was specifically assigned to that migrant where they had taken what we call the PII or personally-identifying information. Meaning that now they had the migrant’s cell number and destination where they were going. And any identification they may have had in their wallet or on their person at the time.
But also, there’s another part to this. And that is their country of origin. They pick up the phone, they call the family, and validate that the family, how they’re linked. And then they get their address and their phone number. Now here’s why that’s important because we’re going into a realm of debt bondage. The prices at the border, the cartels are really charging a lot more than we’ve seen historically.
When Jones says debt bondage, he means a migrant has only paid a portion of the fee, and the cartel now has all of the information they need to come collect in the United States. He confirmed that this means the debt bondage increases the likelihood the migrant can be pressured into criminal activity to support the cartel’s activities once they arrive. According to Jones, there are thousands of cartel operators throughout the United States coordinating these types of activities.
But we are supposed to be distracted by the terrifying specter of a deadly lethal voracious virus with a nearly 100% survival rate and multiple effective therapies, while this administration essentially coordinates a massive invasion of anti-American militants, deadly drugs and criminals, not to mention enabling the enslavement of people, human trafficking, gang rapes and other abuses.
Go back for a moment to this statement about debt bondage: …debt bondage increases the likelihood the migrant can be pressured into criminal activity to support the cartel’s activities once they arrive.. These are the people the Left wants to become citizens.
the Biden administration said that if people are going to cross, they’re going to be let in the country. And you have to understand that was like a beacon to folks all over the world. Which “folks”? People “who just want a better life?” Sure. Some of them, but who knows how many of them will be forced into criminal activity to protect their families back home, or to pay off massive debt bondage? Then there are those bringing in deadly drugs, and those wanting to infiltrate the nation to establish terrorist groups intent on destroying this country and killing Americans.
When we talk about a “crisis at the border” we need to get past the imagery of children in cages and pay attention to the dangerous situation there—one fomented and created and enabled and supported by this administration.
This poll should dispel any doubts as to which side advocates violence as a political tool.
The survey found that 95.8% of “very conservative” white respondents said violence should never be used to pursue a political ambition,
Well first of all, I don’t consider protecting your way of life to be “violence”. Secondly, we can all be thankful that our “white” founding fathers didn’t feel the same way as those “very conservative” white respondents.
It’s always interesting to see how people try to justify hurting other people, and how important it is to them to assure everyone that this violence is OK because it is “God’s work” or “protecting a way of life”.
Let some of these armchair warriors who are so eager to “take up arms” because they are just sooooooo pissed off watch someone bleed to death, experience the carnage they think they are so ready to get rolling, and I think the tune will be a little different. Violence seems pretty cool to some people, at least until, as the character in “Jurassic Park” said, “Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”
Sorry, but not everyone is accepting of the posturing that says “I can be an even bigger A-hole than those guys—hold my beer”.
As for the Peterson survey, I suggest that he was smart enough to define “conservatives” by commitment to a certain Constitutional form of governance, not some hyper-emotional commitment to acting out some action movie.
But…if someone in Phoenix really stands behind the statement “This is all unacceptable to me and reason enough to pick up arms and defeat this cancer that plagues this once great country.” there is a big old fight brewing just a few miles away, a cancer far more immediate than a bunch of senile old white people in Congress flexing their flaccid muscles knowing that their positions of power are transient. There is an actual invasion that IS “right on your doorstep” so why not go down there and show us how to protect our way of life by doing something to halt drug smuggling or human trafficking or the influx of wannabe terrorists? And wouldn’t THAT be “God’s work”?
Do a little reading on the actual history of the Revolution. It is not that a bunch of brave guys said “Let’s go kick some British butt and run them out of the colonies”.
Well first of all, I don’t consider protecting your way of life to be “violence”.
I don’t either, at least not in the sense that the Left uses violence, but I make a distinction between using violence to force your views on others and using violence to protect your right to have views that might differ from others. One is offensive, and one is defensive. If it comes to an all-out conflagration, then defensive will probably become offensive — at least in my case it will.
I’m in 100% agreement with you, Spook. I feel that anyone has a right to self defense, and I also think that when someone throws the rule book away by coming after me or what is mine he can no longer count on those rules to protect him. At that point he is in for whatever happens, and “whatever happens” can be and sometimes should be lethal.
I also think that when someone throws the rule book away by coming after me or what is mine he can no longer count on those rules to protect him.
I could not agree more. It’s called karma. It’s why ANTIFA and BLM concentrate their efforts in areas when they know no one will fight back, not even the police.
Would like to share a link to a drawing this lady done of Thomas Sowell https://www.instagram.com/p/CMYQIatBKSg/?igshid=wpqy0cod1p5k
Laugh for the day: Bill O’Reilly on Glen Beck show last Friday speaking about the deteriorization of the military.
“Lieutenants and Captains run the military. No one knows who the Secretary of Defense is — Joe Biden doesn’t even know who the Secretary of Defense is.”
Well, he does think the guy is a general, who runs that outfit over there.
What AOC said: Tibetans simply seek the freedom to be – to speak their language, practice their religion, sustain their culture & to live freely in their own country.
What AOC did not say: Americans simply seek the freedom to be – to speak their language, practice their religion, sustain their culture & to live freely in their own country.
Interesting times. First I am in agreement with Cluster and now I find that Elon Musk and I are on the same wave length:
Elon Musk
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Woketopia. Battle for the Moral High Ground in this new game!
LOL interesting times indeed. And I have always respected Elon. Like DaVinci, I think Elon is a man ahead of his time and he should be the one to start a conservative media conglomerate … and I think he might.