There’s video out there showing Border Patrol agents using a forklift to raise up the barbed wire Texas placed along the border so that illegals can steam in. Need to really understand all that is happening here.
All law enforcement officers take an oath to uphold the law. All persons in the military and law enforcement are instructed in their duty to disobey illegal orders. It is against the law to illegally enter the USA – even if you’re an asylum-seeker, you’re still supposed to present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. There is never any justification for anyone to cross the US border outside of legal border crossings. What the Border Patrol – the agency tasked with defending the border! – is doing is abetting illegal activity. They are breaking the law. Now, they’ll just say they are obeying orders…and you know they are! But that is irrelevant: since WWII “I was just obeying orders” is no defense; nobody is supposed to obey an illegal order. Not under any circumstance.
Understand that our law enforcement agencies will break the law and will obey any order given. While some county Sheriff’s departments might be on our side (especially in deep red areas), I wouldn’t bet a nickle that a city or State (let alone federal) police agency will protect my rights. They are not, at the moment, going out of their way to oppress but they are definitely willing to obey any order to oppress. One thing we need to do is completely revamp how policing is done in the United States. It needs to be very local and very much under the control of the people.
The Biden people are in a funk – they are trying to thread the needle between supporting Israel and pleasing their increasingly anti-Semitic base and it just isn’t working. My perception now is that they’ve decided to lean towards the Islamist side: just more votes and money in it (nations like Qatar provide buckets of money to any institution willing to parrot the Islamist line…if you’re really wondering how America’s prestige universities became anti-Semitic sewers, there ya go). Just as Israel is set to encircle Gaza City, itself, and thus contain (and eventually destroy) the prime area of Hamas power, Pudding Brain’s people are out there saying we need a “humanitarian pause”…you know, a breather for Hamas and more time for Iran and Hezbollah to deploy forces which can strike Israel. Yes, it really is disgusting…but when your internal polls are showing you down in Michigan and that promised “consulting” job paid for by Qatari money is being pulled, you do what you gotta do.
And that anti-Semitism is getting more vile and open, isn’t it?
To be fair, it isn’t all on the Left; there are plenty of Right voices also joining in on it, on the absurd notion that “America First” is undermined by the Jews. These idiots just need to remember – if they know anything at all – that most Russian Jews weren’t Bolsheviks even if a lot of Bolsheviks were Jews (as one Russian Jewish leader put it: “the Trotsky’s make the headlines but the Bronstein’s pay the bills”). Yes, there are Jews in the Globalist groups undermining all Western nations. There are also Protestants and Catholics. For the Globalists whatever ethnic or religious status they might have is secondary to their Globalist ideology. Meaning: that they are Jewish or Catholic or Protestant is entirely secondary. Their nature is Globalist first and foremost. In the end, probably better these vile people revealed themselves to us – we can ditch them and move on; they only make up a very small proportion of the Right.
On the Left, though, it is becoming endemic. To keep your Leftists bona-fides these days you pretty much have to offer support for Hamas; you have to, in one way or another, approve of 10/7. Anyone who doesn’t is a racist, sexist, homophobic, settler colonialist bastard. This is why we get people calling for a ceasefire: it is the easiest way to support Hamas without overtly stating support for Hamas. To the casual observer, calling for a ceasefire seems like a good thing and not in Hamas’ favor; but, of course, it is. It is, in fact, the one thing that can save them now. It is, in the end, a call for a repeat of 10/7 at a later date. And anyone who thinks for a moment or two realizes this…including all those Leftists in the USA who are calling for a ceasefire. They know what they are doing: and they are doing it to maintain their Leftist membership.
They do have a problem, though: most Americans – and at least a plurality of Democrats – don’t like anti-Semitism and broadly support Israel’s right to self defense. This is going to make it hard for Democrats, even with the MSM working overtime to hide the Leftist anti-Semitism.
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What the Border Patrol – the agency tasked with defending the border! – is doing is abetting illegal activity. They are breaking the law.
And the DOJ/FBI are covering for the Biden crime family, as they did Hillary. The American system is wholly corrupted.
And while Antony speaks softly and almost apologetically, Hamas said this …
Hezbollah leader calls Oct 7 attacks on Israel a ‘glorious jihadi operation’ and warns Hamas war with Jewish enemy is ‘now on more than one front’
We need leaders with bigger balls.
This is just shocking //sarc. Are we to believe that government officials leave their posts to take lucrative private sector jobs with the industries they were regulating??? Say it isn’t so.
Now we know why America is corrupt
BMJ investigation raises concerns over ‘cozy relationship’ between the FDA and Moderna – after 2 officials who held oversight roles for COVID vaccines got lucrative jobs at pharma firm
And I come back to my assertion that the oath of office should be binding, an employment contract. Violate it and lose your job and all its associated benefits. That would go for every government employee and official, appointed or elected, including district attorneys, mayors and judges.
Oooh, he DID go there! RDS throws down! After being asked about the fuss over his boots and his comment that it’s time to get past foot fetishes, he said:
I’ll tell you this, if Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head.”
He has to do something to break through and I hope he does because I like RDS. But here’s the way I currently see it, and I suspect I am not alone. I’m hiring a contractor to build a new custom home and I have two contractors to choose from. One of them previously built a home for me and the work was exceptional and on schedule but there was a little chaos. The second one has a great reputation, has built some homes for other people and did very well, but I have no experience with him. The thing is, timing is is extremely important as the home has to be constructed in a short period of time with little room for error. I have full confidence in my previous contractor on getting the job done, whereas with the other contractor, I have confidence but it’s not 100%. Right now, I’m leaning towards the first contractor.
A metaphor! Fun times!
But I suggest that you search your memory for details of that first homebuilding experience. Remember all the times he had to go back and rebuild something because the plans were wrong—-or he didn’t follow them correctly? Remember the corrections that had to be made, as windows wouldn’t open or a door was in the wrong place? Remember when he hired a foreman who turned out to have no experience in building, then replaced him with one who was even worse?
I think it’s important to look beyond the house you eventually liked and play a little “what-if”? What if he had started off with a competent foreman who knew his business and didn’t have to go through the learning curve of how to find the right fit for the job? What if he had been better at organizing and communicating, so less time was spent dealing with confusion? What if he had hired the right architect before the project even started, so he and you didn’t have to keep going back to move walls or change roof angles to deal with issues you had not anticipated? What if the “chaos” you mention meant that the project couldn’t get completed and had to be stopped without the other wing of the house completed? And what if Contractor #1 has problems with getting permits and inspections and might lose his license?
Is your lack of complete confidence in the second contractor based on mistakes he has made, or is it because although he has built fifty houses on time with no problems he’s never built one quite as big as the one you have in mind?
Maybe you ought to set your plans aside for a while because the fact is, only one of these contractors is going to be available when you want to build, and it will be a while before you have a thing to say about which it will be. You can cross your fingers and hope and pray it will be the guy you liked working with, but if it turns out not to be you will probably end up being grateful it turned out the way it did.
To keep things in perspective:
That was exceptional.
Forgiving someone is hard, especially the kind of forgiveness that Rob Schneider talks about.
To get a little woo-woo here: I have read about a man named Edgar Cayce, a man who had to deal with the discovery that when hypnotized his brain had access to information that he could not explain. As a fundamentalist Christian he had a hard time accepting that this might be a gift from God and not a temptation from Satan.
One of the things he could experience was knowledge of past lives of people who went to consult with him. (You don’t have to believe in this, just go with it. He also had a hard time reconciling this with his beliefs.) Anyway, a woman came to him in despair. She had poor health, was stuck in a job she hated caring for the son of a wealthy man because the son was so disabled that he was like a baby, and she hated her life. He told her that this client (the son) had been in her life many times–as an abusive husband, as a man who enslaved her, etc—and that every time she had died she had died hating him. He said that until she could find the spart of divinity that is in all of us in this helpless man she resented so much, and learn to love it and forgive him for the pain she was experiencing, she would encounter him over and over until she learned this lesson.
Now I don’t think you have to accept the concept of reincarnation into many lives to learn something from this story. What I got from it was that there is a spark of God and God’s love in all of us, and we need to look for it and overcome our hatred and resentment to move on. It’s a hard lesson, even harder when facing the evil we see every day in the world around us, but I think it is this awareness of this element of what one might call “soul” that lets the families of people who were murdered forgive the murderers.
It might be easier if we see the evil men do as the expression of Satan but consider that this, while appearing to have conquered the soul, is merely hiding it, and that the spark of divinity is still there, even if buried, and that our faith demands that we look for it and believe it is there even when we can’t seem to find it. It is probably the hardest thing Christianity demands of us. I personally have a hard time with it, but I recognize its importance even as I struggle with it.
It is probably the hardest thing Christianity demands of us. I personally have a hard time with it, but I recognize its importance even as I struggle with it.
I could not have said it better.
The Apostle, Paul, talks often about forgiveness throughout the New Testament, but in 1st Corinthians 15:33 he says:
In essence, you can forgive someone’s transgressions, but you don’t need to hang out or be friends with them.
Your laugh for the day:
If we get in an all-out war we are just SO SCREWED!
In any given conflict the armed forces are taken not from the general population but from the demographic most suited for combat. So there could be a 60% female-over-40 majority and that would not change the fact that the armed forces would be recruiting from the demographic of healthy males in good physical condition aged 18-30 who are mentally and psychologically capable of effectively serving.
This guy sounds truly committed to the cause, convinced that somehow it is in the best interest of the country to have a military focused not on the ability to defend the nation but on making marginalized people feel better about their psychological conditions by including them in roles they are clearly not qualified to fill.
Last night there was a segment on Gutfeld where a man approached people protesting in favor of Palestine and asked several if they would sign a commitment to Hamas. He got some enthusiastic yes responses, eager to sign what he had in his hand, but then he said it was important that they know what they were approving by signing. Every time he read one of the declared agendas of Hamas the person would back off and say no. Not one person was willing to sign agreement with killing all Jews and Christians, forbidding women to drive or leave the home without a male relative as escort, etc. but the strongest rejection was from a woman who was eager to sign till she was asked if she agreed to the death penalty for homosexuals. She had such a visceral reaction I almost thought she would hit the guy, and she just threw down the paper.
I’ve been nagging for years about doing this same thing with Liberals—pinning them down to the actual nuts and bolts of the political system they enable and promote, without the slightest idea of its true structure.
Some good, or at least potentially good news.
This should infuriate every American ….
WASHINGTON — U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war,
So many lives could have been saved had the Military Industrial Complex not encouraged this war, but now that they have a real problem on their hands in Israel, I guess it’s time to clean up this mess.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-european-officials-broach-topic-peace-negotiations-ukraine-sources-rcna123628
So isn’t it time the GOP capture the most unhinged and violent protestors and put it on a 24/7 loop to be played in the media over and over again? And then claim Democrat voters are an extreme threat to our democracy? I know I would.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12710855/Pro-Palestine-march-Washington-DC.html
Lara Logan is one of the best independent journalists out there, so I’ll leave this here …
A short but important little history lesson:
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/11/05/nick-freitas-schools-hamas-lovers-with-actual-history-of-palestine-getting-kicked-out-of-arab-nations-n2389437
we’re starting to think these protesters just want another reason to froth, pound their chests, break stuff, and pretend they have something to fight for or against because otherwise, they have to accept they don’t stand for all that much.
Reminds me of a couple of perennial antagonists on this blog.
And that’s what it amounts to—the conviction that acting out and posturing conveys relevance, to people unwilling or unequipped to earn relevance through being, well, relevant. I’m going to keep looking for a clip of the Gutfeld! segment where people were all hot to trot to sign on as Hamas supporters, till they heard just snippets of what Hamas stands for. None were willing to sign as supporters of death to homosexuals, elimination of all Jews or the treatment of women under sharia law. They were all surprised to hear any of this. They were happy to march, carry signs, chant and even sign their names to support for a system they had never even bothered to investigate.
Our resident trolls seem to be desperate to be considered relevant, yet only hide under their bridges waiting for something they think can be ridiculed or held up as “proof” of something they have decided to hate. Every such gleeful pouncing on what they find important merely illustrates, over and over again, their total lack of relevance. At least the protestors get away from behind their keyboards and get some fresh air and exercise as they strut their ignorance.