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As to the GOP debate, it amazes me what they do not discuss - no pandemic response, no state censorship, no corruption, no impeachment - you know, the things that really matter systemically (using that word correctly) right now.

It's like having an election in 1944 and not talking about the war...I mean Basil Fawlty pulled it off, but still.

I expanded on this in my debate post - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/the-elephants-in-the-room - which used a different analogy:

Imagine if you will the best Super Bowl ever.

You and your friends have just watched a three-overtime game featuring amazing catches, a punter pull a fake and run 72 yards for a touchdown, thirteen lead changes, two successful onside kicks, some random guy called down from the stands to fill in as a wide receiver, two statue of liberty plays, a schoolhouse left, and a running back literally cartwheeling into the end zone for a touchdown.

The game ends and you and your friends then spend the next two hours talking – exclusively and sometimes heatedly – about which is better: aluminum or vinyl siding.

That was last night’s (and to be honest the first one a couple months ago) Republican presidential debate in a nutshell – two hours of not talking about what has just happened, what is happening, and what it means.

Does anyone else share my bafflement? Or is it because everyone - especially the media and both parties - want to memory hole the pandemic because everyone acted so awfully?

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Because what you have is a bunch of GOP swamp creatures preaching to what they still believe is the party base. FFS, the declared "winner", Haley, sounds like she just stepped out of a neocon 101 course. The only exception being Ramaswamy who, despite his insistence to the contrary, is running for Trump's VP. And I hope he gets the nod.

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Watch the first two minutes of Liz Wheeler talking about what a farce the Republican debate was due to the worthless questions asked by the moderators. And who picked the moderators? Fox News and the RNC. The Hispanic woman was a Woke leftist from Univision. How did she get on that panel? I had a Mexican friend at work who followed Univision and said they are far worse than anything on our msm and just lie and constantly make up stories about Trump. He was a very strong Trump supporter.

Why didn’t Trump support Harmeet Dhillon for RNC leadership rather than the worthless Ronna McDaniel? He had to have known Harmeet was far better for the job yet he privately supported Ronna. Probably because Ronna said nice things about Trump in her Tweets about him and he wanted to return the favor. A major failing by Trump that did us a lot of damage that we can’t afford.

“Fox News Dana Perino Caught Praising Hillary”

Liz Wheeler. Sept 29, 2023

https://youtu.be/tOLXLVMt5tc?si=Ks_V1148DVHodCLG

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Hi Seva, regarding Trump and Ronna, I agree that Harmeet is an excellent shaker of trees to get rid of the rot ... the problem is that despite the demonisation of Orange Man Bad, he may very well be just a good guy overall and Ronna having been nice to him he just did not have it in him to be cold and calculating towards her. That is probably his Achilles Tendon ... mine too, if I feel someone is acting in good faith towards me I will do just about anything to reciprocate so as to not hurt their feelings ... it drives my wife crazy and of course she is and always will be right, I have often ended up on the losing side of the deal when I tried to make sure I was as nice to those who pretended to be nice ... so using our wonderful South African slang, ja bru my wife skims I am en effing doos, en sy is blerrie fokken right ek se ... :)

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In business, if you help someone, you get loyalty. In politics you do not necessarily get anything..

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(I paraphrase) "If you say something nice about Donald Trump, you're great, fantastic, the best. If you criticize him you're a horrible loser who doesn't know anything. There's no in between"

Scott Adams.

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Mexicans were the largest Latino voting bloc for Trump, followed by Cubans. Univision is as bad as CNN, NBC, PBS......

Harmeet is a fighter, but the odds were against her, having Trump endorse her wouldn't make a difference- the GOP establishment despises Trump - they're happy to go against any recommendations he makes.

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Trump is too hated by too many to govern if he won which he wouldn’t since the democrats would just cheat again and steal it. And when that happens again what’s Trump’s Plan B. Another protest rally at the Capitol? And even if he did somehow win I’m sure he’d be assassinated by the CIA or FBI or deep state thugs. He tells these people who persecuted him for the past 7 years that when he’s president he’s coming after them. Trump is an existential threat to them. They will kill him. No doubt about it.

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I agree that the media is driving the debates... they ask the questions. Terrible format and not much gets accomplished or explained.

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The one female debate moderator wasn't asking questions, she was making statements.

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the one with the scar on her chest? cover that stuff up, for pete's sake!

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Not a scar. A skin condition called vitiligo, an autoimmune disease.

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Illia Calderon...did not see a scar. Kinda glad I missed it :)

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I thought it was some kind of birth mark. So I used “Bing: Chat with AI & GPT-4” to ask “what does illia calderon have on her chest” and came up with this response below. I like this bing search app. Much better than Google.

“Ilia Calderon has a skin condition called vitiligo. Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose their natural pigment or color. This occurs because melanocytes, the skin cells responsible for producing pigment, are attacked and destroyed. As a result, the affected areas of the skin turn milky-white in color.”

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In my view Trump Desantis and Vivek are the only acceptable candidates. The rest are essentially Democrats or useful idiots for Democrats, in effect the same thing. But yeah Fox at this point is a Paul Ryan entity, when I saw they were requiring what was it DEI or gender ideology training or something? That's when it's like ok yeah they're done. Plus firing Tucker. The deep state got to them. They're establishment Republican all the way. Uniparty.

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oh how I loved Basil Fawlty!!!

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Your illustration was spot on! None of the big fat elephants in the room were talked about.

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I personally believe Trump pushes certain people into the spotlight because if he just told us how bad they were no one would believe him. He needs to SHOW the people. He was in an impossible situation with Covid. He let the governors decide. Some did well, others not so much.

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2 vids

1 Megyn Kelly: Why Did Fox Have Liberal Framing of Questions at the GOP Debate? W/ Michael Duncan & Eliana Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-9QvWOGT0k

2. Glenn Beck: GOP & Fox News Are DEAD: Glenn Beck Reacts to 'WORST' Presidential Debate | Glenn TV | Ep 307

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71HHwmVlTf8

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After watching 3/4 of this "Debate" I have not learned One Thing to help me make up my mind who to support.

I have had one (Very Shallow) thing confirmed. I Really Do Not like Vivek Ramaswamy,'s smile.

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Obviously - vinyl siding! 🤣🤣🤣

Yes - I share your bafflement

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"with apologies for the Fox link" 🤣

I like this Nancy Mace woman. She is articulate, thorough, and doesn't speak in that annoying upspeak that pretty much everyone under 40 seems to indulge in. What we used to call "valley girl speak" back when Frank Zappa was still around. "I'm like so sure."

How anyone with a functioning brain cell left (and on the Left) could look at even a portion of the damning evidence collected so far of the entire Biden family grift and still repeat the mindless mantra, "there is no evidence" shows just how deluded so many of our fellow Americans have become. And they won't be snapping out of it any time soon -- if ever.

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Nancy Mace is a RiNO who lives in one of the few Blue counties in South Carolina. She voted against Trump. She's as bad as Nikki Haley in her disdain for Trump. Unfortunately they're both from South Carolina.

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I am of the opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in history the “rule of law” began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (FISA Court) of James Comey, et.al. were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable. And the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump is my proof.

Please be cognizant, the Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to the July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.

According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia. According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”

Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussion.

Therefore as We the People encounter the 2024 election cycle, it is wise to conduct yourselves as living is a “Post-constitutional Republic”. I compare it to the time of Jesus Christ living in Roman occupied Jerusalem.

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Bingo! It was obvious to me from the outset of "Russiagate" that the whole thing was a hoax. Occam's Razor pointed to one thing: The Deep State attempted to put a finger on the scale for Hillary Clinton, hoping to ingratiate themselves with her by helping to usher her into office. It was a foregone conclusion (or so they thought at the time) that she was going to win anyway, so why not demonstrate that they were team players and reap the rewards after she took office?

But, the election didn't turn out as they planned. Panic immediately ensued amongst the cabal that failed. In my opinion, they determined immediately thereafter that this was the last time they would allow the electorate to put the wrong candidate in office. I don't think we've had (and will not again have) another free and fair election. Those who really control the levers of power will not let it happen.

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It may have fallen before July 5, 2016, but that was when it became apparent.

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The Fall of Babylon the Great:

“After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, ‘Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.’

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.”

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I agree that the most accurate way to see Trump is as the leader of a national movement and not primarily as a presidential candidate.

Love him or hate him, he towers over every other national politician in either party. Some have compared him to Andrew Jackson.

I think that is roughly accurate. Like Jackson, Trump champions the outsiders (which is to say, almost all Americans) against the tiny clique of insiders who run the government, our government, for their own benefit.

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I'd like to comment on the Biden speech at the McCain library. My spouse, my most beloved person in the world is a bit to the left of Lenin and Bernie Sanders. She asked me to watch it with her after she'd already seen it twice. Somewhere in the middle with about 20 minutes left, I asked her to pause and said "respectfully, can you tell me how this isn't another campaign ad?". She first stared at me as though I'd just stepped off of the Mars-Earth shuttle and said "how can you say that?". I then very carefully explained that I felt the speech should have been only about McCain and his legacy, what he meant to the country and that there was really no place in THIS speech for MAGA-bashing. I then said that if Trump were giving the same speech but at all denounced any liberal voters or citizens, every talking head she loves would scream about the Hatch act or how dark the speech was. She thought about it and somewhat agreed - one of the very few times she didn't reflexively go all Nicholle Wallace or Rachel Maddow on me. Anyway - from almost exactly that point until the speech was over, Biden dropped the MAGA-bashing and I felt that the rest of the speech was actually pretty good and inspiring. Of course, I know that he didn't write a single word of it, likely didn't see any of it until it was up on the multiple teleprompters, etc. - but it wasn't the worst speech ever written for him. I just shake my head that the "Centrist" who promised to bring Americans together can't seem to string together two sentences without demonizing a huge number of Americans. We never used to be like this - but the MSM and all elected Dems have normalized it - even now seem to require it to justify their own existence. Sad, Sad, Sad.

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I believe it is the only reason mainstream media is still alive! We don’t need them anymore and would all be better off without them!

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That last question -- does an RFKJr independent run take more voters from the left or right? -- is a really good one.

My opinion: It will take more from the right. The left is really good at sticking together, holding its nose, and voting for utter incompetence (Biden) or evil (H. Clinton) even in the face of better alternatives, at least when the alternative has no shot at winning.

Stated differently, the left is better at casting its votes against something, rather than for something. It wasn't Joe Biden that most were voting for. It was Trump they were voting against. Same thing this time around, in my opinion. It would be more interesting if Biden dropped out and the powers that be attempted to insert, say, Newsom. Then all bets are off vis-a-vis the above question.

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Biden just has to be pulled out by someone. And it’s not his age, it’s his corruption and of course his dementia.

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Don’t worry, Biden will not run. He will have a last-second “health crisis” that will require a substitution (not Harris; probably Governor Hairdo). Believe me, they have a plan, and a good reason for not wanting the real candidate to go through the primary process. Eventually we’ll find out what the story is, but obviously they’re hiding something.

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I’m certain you’re right, but filing deadlines are approaching, so it needs to happen soon.

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The plan has been from the beginning to take votes away from the Republican candidate. Thanks to Steve Bannon, who became Robert Malone's useful idiot, Kennedy will succeed at taking Republican votes. Conservatives trust Malone, Kennedy is now also trusted. 100% Steve Bannon's fault.

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I am in TOTAL DISBELIEF that Fox had us watch a foreigner I. Calderon , a Colombian citizen, ask her smarmy leftist questions of courageous Americans who go to the colossal trouble of running for President of the United States of AMERICA!!!

WHO the HAIL is she to be asking questions of these Americans???

What am I missing? I'm in serious disbelief.

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Agreed. It was awful. I felt like the debate was for East and west coast elites, not normal Americans. I understand trying to appeal to Spanish speaking voters, but this was not the way.

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It was pretty bad and she looked uncomfortable too. Blame it on FOX, since they put the debate together and thought this was a good idea.

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Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023

When will Ray Epps be arrested, detained for a year, charged and convicted as the domestic terrorist that he is ??

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Right after the CIA comes clean to the American people with the truth about the JFK assassination.

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Let's all leave time capsules for our great-great-great grandchildren to open on 10/1/2123 asking them to determine for themselves if history has exposed any of the farces of the last 7 years that we've lived through - Trump, Russia, Collusion, Trump, Russia, Collusion, first Trump impeachment, COVID cover-ups and Authoritarianism, government censorship, 2020 election, "MAGA greatest threat to Democracy". Unfortunately, the liberal media-pol complex controls all the messaging and it's unlikely that in our lifetimes, and of us will see a written reckoning of how wrong it all has been.

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Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023

Ray Epps and Bob Menendez are the same ‘person’ …change my mind

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Russel Brand has aged visibly by about 5 years. If he was still an abusive addict they’d have left him alone.

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If he was still a car-carrying Leftist, they'd have left him alone.

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Upon further reflection, I am pretty sure that Russell Brand is not, in fact, big enough to carry cars. But maybe the current controversy will increase his stature. (It took me all night to think of that.)

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I agree with most of what you wrote here Sasha but I am curious about what a Maga Extremist is and what they are doing or saying that is so threatening? I think most people support Maga/or Trump because of Trump's policies that seemed head and shoulders better than the way things have been going these last 3 years.

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Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023

Atenzio, my take is it’s now ‘guilt by association’.

If one supports making America great again, then you also must support the ‘extreme’ misogyny of ‘grabbing them by the p***y’.

The propaganda has gotten this singular.

And for non-thinking or woke-captured minds, this is the only balm they need to hear.

It’s why the eventual reckoning (in ‘24, or some future date’) will be so rough. We’re going to need some kind of Truth & Reconciliation Commission (aka South Africa style), eventually. Or if this doesn’t occur, there are worse alternatives.

Trump winning will cause serious mental meltdowns and inner city destruction

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Lefties never met a fallacy they didn't like. With fallacies comes freedom, the freedom to assert any nonsense they happen to like. Guilt by Association is especially bad, as it positively demands going to extremes. If no Lefty in good standing can "stand with" Trump, then how can any Lefty object to "His supporters must be exterminated"?

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I think both parties should be worried. The smartest move would be for he and Trump to unite and start an America First Party and run together!

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I see your sentiment but a new party isn't the way to do it. Prime example TR with the Bull-Moose Party. The American Presidential election system is designed with two parties in mind. The ONLY way you can change anything is to work within the party & change it within. I think the BEST option is that when Trump gets the republican nomination, he then picks RFK Jr. for VP to shore up the voters & heal the divide in the USA to avoid Civil Secession/Civil War. Any other way... if Trump wins, there will be hell to pay. If Trump loses, there will be hell to pay.

I also wrote a short Substack on it as well: https://open.substack.com/pub/backyardbane/p/rfk-jrs-2024-election-options?r=14wtuv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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You forget the Republican Party was newly formed shortly before the Civil War, and formed over the issue of the expansion of slavery. Their second presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln, won his election as well as re election. While I don't see a new party forming with Trump/RFK, I do think one is in our near future, assuming our Republic can survive this next election. I have grave doubts about that.

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Gonna be hell to pay no matter what unless a lot of people wake up to what has been going on!

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Yes. The two parties are in effect official, through the primary system. Unfortunately it is a fair question whether any real change can occur, given the ability of Big Money to pay candidate and buy ads, not to mention the ability of de facto monopolies to block or retaliate against Free Speech.

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I love this! Just stating the facts, so much better than The Free Press’ Friday roundup which is burdened by half cocked commentary. Do it every week!

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Regarding Biden's speech defaming MAGA. For those who have not seen this, I think his speech is an excellent case in point.

These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Thank You.

The Five Rules of Propaganda

1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.

4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.

5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.

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False consensus is a good part of their game.

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Why did everyone at the debate pile on Vivek and why did they moderators allow the free-for-all chaos? This is the RNC there unifying the message to be anti-Vivek because he was the only one there who isn’t pro-establishment and the RNC does not like that. Well worth watching what they have to say about Vivek.

“We Can’t Trust You!”- Reaction to Nikki Haley Saying Vivek Helped China. (12 min)

Valuetainment. Sept 28, 2023

https://youtu.be/2vrOidLHPzY?si=C2nh-gVQC8qpcXbu

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Epps was a Fed planted there with others to stir up the crowds. That is why he was no charged at first. Only public pressure forced the DOJ to charge him with the misnomer offense which he quickly agreed too as part of the coverup the fact that the DOJ lied about the 30-40 minutes that he lied about not being there and their ignoring the actual video evidence is all you need to know.

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Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023

Ray Epps is being charged now as ‘red meat’ where Left can say “look here, we apply the ‘law’ equally”. Same with Sen Bob Menendez. Both have become expendable pawns. Straw men Left can point to in coming election season, to support narrative that the DOJ is an honest broker. Be on lookout for more of these. Deep State holds the puppet strings & MSM are its sock puppets

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And he will never spend a day in jail and he will get to keep the 30 pieces of Silver just like Judas.

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I'm not sure where RFK's voters will come from, but I found it fascinating that there were people predicting he'd run as a Libertarian! While I like his viewpoints, he is the furthest thing from a Libertarian other than a doctrinaire Democrat or a Cheney Republican.

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They will come from both side. I would much rather not vote for Trump again. He is nothing but a BS artist. I will never vote for Biden but many Moderate D’s would. Same thing for the 2016 Trump voters that Voted for Biden in 2020. The suburban moms who have had their kids harmed by big pharma. The millions of people who have had family and friends killed or injured by theMRNA shots will. RFK jr could pull this off because Trump and Biden are two lousy choices.

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Totally disagree! People may not like Trump’s style, but few can argue that he did great things for our country. First President in my lifetime (I’m old) who didn’t involve us in any foreign wars.

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Still doesn’t change the reality that he blew the COVID-19 response. He had his chance and the reality is that he blew it. He though he could BS his way through it just like he does with everything.

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Please give concrete examples of what you are referring to.

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He allowed Fauci and Birx to cover up Fauci’s lie about Covid-19. He allowed the lockdowns. Don’t lecture me that it was the governor’s that did it. Without Trump’s endorsement then the CDC would have never been able to recommend it. The buck stops on the President’s desk and he blew it. It’s that simple. Millions around the world are dead because he allowed Fauci and Brix to deny us early and effective treatments and then he funded the MRNA shots which were never properly tested and which are yet today killing people. So yes Trump blew it with Covid-19.

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Who is doing the lecturing😂? If you recall, Trump touted the benefits of hydrochloriquine and ivermectin, and literally within a week the governor in my state made it illegal for pharmacists to fill either medicine. The CDC went so far as to call it “horse medicine”! Anything Trump recommended, the media, big pharma and the CDC attacked. I refuse to accept the premise that Trump “blew Covid”.

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Okay, I agree there is wide appeal to his campaign, and that it will draw many people from all political persuasions. I had read about him possibly running as a Libertarian, and that was the main point I was addressing, but I did leave wide open the idea that he would have broad support. I was not trying to limit who would support him; I was just saying that he has many views that are non-Libertarian, and that these would cause the LP to not want to support him if they held the line on their ideas. But they might even surrender those ideas, as they did in 2020.

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Regarding the Russell Brand thing. I tried a small test this week. On each of three search engines, Google, Bing and Duck Duck Go, I made three searches (nine total). On each I searched on my name and substack, the name of my site with my name, and the exact title of one of my posts with my name. On Bing and Duck Duck Go my searches came up at the top, on Google it was not found except possibly far down the list. I do not compare myself to Russell Brand, but it's evidence of what we are dealing with.

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"The latest from Russell Brand. Substack does not allow embeds from Rumble, which is why I’m using Youtube, even though they suck."

Thanks, I did not know that. Why does Substack not allow embeds from Rumble?

@Substack

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Sasha,

Thank you for drawing our attention to Julie Kelly's very interesting post.

In her article Ms. Kelly failed to mention the following: "During the [September 20, 2023 Epps] hearing, a prosecutor told Judge James E. Boasberg, who is overseeing that case, that Mr. Epps had not worked as an agent of the government 'before, during or after' Jan. 6." (http://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/us/politics/ray-epps-pleads-guilty.html)

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Andrew Sullivan does a good job of explaining the NYTs “project of reporting everything through the prism of white supremacy and critical race theory”. It should be called the “Hate Whitey Project.”

Some excerpts below:

“Our democracy’s ideals were false when they were written.”

“I’ve been struggling with that sentence — the opening statement of the introductory essay to the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project on the legacy of slavery in America — for a few weeks now.”

“The New York Times, by its executive editor’s own admission, is increasingly engaged in a project of reporting everything through the prism of white supremacy and critical race theory, in order to “teach” its readers to think in these crudely reductionist and racial terms. That’s why this issue wasn’t called, say, “special issue”, but a “project”. It’s as much activism as journalism. And that’s the reason I’m dwelling on this a few weeks later. I’m constantly told that critical race theory is secluded on college campuses, and has no impact outside of them … and yet the newspaper of record, in a dizzyingly short space of time, is now captive to it. Its magazine covers the legacy of slavery not with a variety of scholars, or a diversity of views, but with critical race theory, espoused almost exclusively by black writers, as its sole interpretative mechanism.”

“The New York Times Has Abandoned Liberalism for Activism.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/andrew-sullivan-ny-times-abandons-liberalism-for-activism.html

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Oct 2, 2023·edited Oct 2, 2023

Seva,

Respectfully your post has nothing whatever to do with the content of mine.

I was simply quoting a straightforward factual news piece describing an exchange between a federal prosecutor and a federal judge in a public federal court proceeding. Yes, my quotation is from the NY Times. So what? Since the information is from the public court record, the item might just as well have appeared in any number of other newspapers.

Please note that you fail even to mention much less address the key point of my quotation, namely that a federal prosecutor told a federal judge that Ray Epps was not a federal agent before, during, or after the January 6 riot. Why?

Bill

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The federal prosecutor is a liar, your New York Times is a hate whitey cesspool of endless lies and America is rotting. A failed state in rapid decline. No longer enough of a country to even maintain something as basic as secure borders. Once I was a Marine and a patriotic American but that was when it was still a country before it became a Woke monstrosity.

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Oct 2, 2023·edited Oct 2, 2023

Seva,

"The federal prosecutor is a liar ..."

Other than the fact that what the federal prosecutor said contradicts your prejudices, do you actually have any evidence for his lying? It is a very serious matter for a lawyer in court to tell a judge something that the lawyer knows to be false. Undoubtedly it would be the basis for the lawyer's disbarment and probably some sort of criminal charge.

So please show your cards. Where is your court admissible evidence that the federal prosecutor lied when he told the federal judge in federal court that Ray Epps was not a federal agent either before, during, or after the January 6 Capitol Hill riot?

Or, contrary to what Fox News and Tucker Carlson have said, perhaps is it just possible that you are mistaken in believing that Ray Epps was a federal agent provocateur?

Bill

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I think the most important one is the last one. I think RFK will peel some from both parties, but my hunch/fear is he would pull more from Trump. And personally RFK would be my choice, but I don’t think he can win and would hurt Trump more than Biden.

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That's a good question about RFK. Both sides will be trying to figure it out. Based on name recognition alone you'd think Dems. But just paying attention to things it seems like he's really hated by Dems and their party base, whereas Republicans are generally receptive to his message. He was just on with Dennis Prager. So I could see him possibly pulling from Trump a fair bit. Honestly if it's Biden-RFK-Trump that will be a difficult call. Personally I might like RFK the most of that bunch, but i'd also be worried voting for him would help Biden win. Which is by far the worst outcome.

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Trump should reach out now to RFK. They are not incompatible and together would bury Biden and the Dems up and down ballot. In 4 years, RFK can take over…

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Scott Adams talked this morning about how the Dems seem to be all in with "MAGA Extremist" label. He doesn't think "MAGA" is a very good slogan for Conservatives to attach themselves to, in particular the "Again" part - it's backwards looking. Instead, he suggests something to do with being the party of anti-corruption. ANTICO? Not sure about this but on the right track.

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How can anyone possibly be against making America great? Seems idiotic yo me.

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The problem is "Again." The Lefty brain will think, "What do you mean by 'Again'? Are you talking pre civil rights? What point in time are you talking about?" That's their frame.

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Exactly. See, it's RACIST to say "again" (if you're a lefty), because they believe the implication is that Obama single-handedly made America NOT Great again. Smart people know that isn't true - it is the entire Dem-media complex that has hurt America. So perhaps just "MAG" would be better. Or MAGT - Make America Great Together (giving liberals the actual "maggot" anagram they so desperately need).

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It’s going to take a Trump win and appointment of an aggressive AG who appoints an equally aggressive special prosecutor to even begin to get to the truth of the J6 witch trials. If Trump wins, I hope to see a lot of pardons & commuted sentences.

The problem is, most conservative prosecutors are fair-minded and play by the rules, which is sadly a losing strategy in the banana republic Dems have created by destroying (often illegally or unconstitutionally) all norms.

I don’t know how many times I’ve read “crossed the Rubicon” in the past year.

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“If Trump wins,”

If Trump wins there will be nothing but chaos because he is too intensely hated by too many to govern and would most likely be assassinated by the CIA, FBI or a deep state thug. He will never make it to the White House though because the democrats will steal the election again as they did in 2020. And what’s the Plan B for when that happens again? Another protest rally at the Capitol?

Will we even make it to the next election though? I live in Chicago which is “overwhelmed” by 15,000 “migrants” bused here from Texas. If we’re overwhelmed by 15,000 what will this look like a year from now when we’ve got 2 or 3 times as many? These people say they came for jobs and to “work” but by work they don’t mean they came to be dishwashers, clean toilets or flipping burgers at McDonalds. They think they’re coming for the American dream, a good, well paying job that enables them to join the middle class and start living the good life in their new home. When these mostly single young men realize that will never happen they will resort to violence and crime. On top of all the homegrown violence and crime we already have.

 “A group of people beat and stabbed a man and woman in the Loop early Saturday, Chicago police said. Both victims were seriously injured.”

“Group stabs man, woman in the Loop: Chicago police.”

CWBCHICAGO. Sept 30, 2023

https://cwbchicago.com/2023/09/group-stabs-man-woman-in-the-loop-chicago-police.html

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“Epps remained on Capitol grounds at least 40 minutes longer than DOJ claimed.”

-Because Epps was FBI. Planted there to help instigate an event that would allow the Democrat party to arrest their political opponents and put them in gulags.

“Joe Biden’s speech in Arizona demonizing the “Extreme MAGA Republicans,… Their extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American Democracy as we know it.”

-Because the Democrat party has become an Orwellian police state hellbent on one party rule and has fundamentally altered all “institutions of American Democracy” to something other than “government by the people and for the people”. So yes, once seen in this context they are closer aligned to the British rule under King George lll and “MAGA Republicans” are very similar to the founders of the USA and seen as “extremists”

“The impeachment of Joe Biden - blatant corruption in the Biden family. They do have evidence.”

Yes, that is why an inquiry/investigation has been launched. To verify the allegations and launch an impeachment trial. It is throwing a lifeline to the Democrat party to have their opponents remove the corpse bride from office for them. Best scenario is that all evidence is presented and verified in public and no actual impeachment launched. Make the Dems themselves remove their front runner. Orrrr….just wait for Trump and the MAGA Republicans to dispatch and dispose of the corpse currently in the White House

“Trump is not really a candidate. He’s the leader of a national movement.”

Same as it ever was…even back in 1776. The thing about national movements is they are like The Terminator; they can not be reasoned with, they can not be tricked, and they can not be stopped. Trump and the MAGA movement is already ahead in all polls and this movement is just getting started. The Orwellian Democrat party is in its descent. They will do childish things and flail and throw temper tantrums like little children…but their 15mins of fame is up and everyone knows it, especially them.

“RFK Jr runs as independent”

Now is the time for Donald Trump to reach out to RFK Jr, a liberal’s liberal, and join forces nationwide to crush the Orwellian Democrats next year across the nation up and down the ballot.

“From the wars against disorder

From the sirens night and day

From the fires of the homeless

From the ashes of the gay

Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.“

~Leonard Cohen

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Could you please share with us your evidence for the following statement: "Because Epps was FBI. Planted there to help instigate an event that would allow the Democrat party to arrest their political opponents and put them in gulags."?

As you know, currently Epps is suing Tucker Carlson for liable. So if you have real verifiable evidence supporting your statement, it will be of great interest and would undercut the Epps lawsuit.

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"Could you please share with us your evidence..."

Ahh...so the legal/moral equivalent of "Source!?" (And who is “us”? You teaching a classroom of kids there or have a frog in your pocket? 🙄😂

Do you mean other than my over 50 years living in the D.C. swamp, the circumstantial evidence, the visual evidence, the historical evidence, and the exculpatory evidence that of all the actors engaged in malfeasance on J6 protests, the one with the most prima facie evidence of malfeasance, Ray Epps, was protected from indictment and NOT pursued by the DOJ until like 10 seconds ago??

OBTW, Epps is not suing Tucker Carlson, he is suing Fox News, and he is not suing for liable, he is suing for defamation of character...which; of course, opens up an entire line of questioning, evidence gathering and analysis as to "the moral character of Ray Epps" and was it defamed? Really?...iow, Epps took the cheese and the trap is closing.

And If it was based on something Carlson said on air, it would be called "slander"...just FYI. Last time I checked, the 1st Amendment to the Constitution allows for citizens to express their opinions, no matter what.

I use critical thinking and deductive reasoning by inference from causal, factual premises. My conclusions are tempered by by cogent probable arguments and refutation. As in most of life, there is no "smoking gun", and yet, we must judge and act with what we can reasonably determine. We must evaluate the evidence presented to us, apply our experience to the extent we care to see where the inference leads. Free of passions. If I see smoke, and am asked what I think, I am going to say "there is fire behind the smoke. You should put it out, rather than argue with me"

I infer from your post, that you require something akin to "direct evidence", the proverbial "smoking gun" supporting my contention that "Epps was FBI. Planted there to help instigate an event that would allow the Democrat party to arrest their political opponents and put them in gulags." (and yet, you have a surprising lack of interest in presenting exculpatory "evidence" that Ray Epps is anything other than what he and the Democrats say he is....I find that disturbing, but predictable.

To that effect, I can only answer that no, I do not have a hidden video or notarized transcript of anyone, including Epps, saying "I am a Fed placed in the crowd with the sole purpose of instigating a riotous breach of the US Capitol so that the incoming Democrat party leaders could avail themselves of pretext for an authoritarian surveillance state takeover of the country and freedom to pursue their political opponents using the DOJ"…it just kind of really really looks that way.

So much like in life, in law, in science, in engineering, and in politics; I must base my judgement and conclusions on the evidence I can gather, the outcome of any given event, and compare against my experience and previous history.

My conclusion is my best guess as to what has occurred. I will base my actions in the future dealing with this particular gang of characters that currently is in charge of our country. I make no attempt to change your mind, nor do I care if you draw different conclusions. This is not a court of law.

Sasha wrote these issues of the current day and wanted to know what people here on her substack thought about any or all of them. That is why I wrote what I wrote.

I think the title of Sasha’s Substack columns contains the words “Free Thinking” try to let that sink in 🤔

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Great comment.

The lefties are still playing with the new toy they only recently discovered- the constant demand for “evidence”. They are confident that the FBI will never offer up an admission that Epps was working for them. Therefore leftists believe they have the winning hand in this argument. It’s a stacked deck in their favor, and they know it.

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Yes, it is interesting how “direct smoking gun evidence” is required for any allegation of wrongdoing that implicates the left; and yet somehow they were able to sidestep even the most remote and flimsiest elements of evidence when the allegations are against Trump and the Republicans.

Furthermore; the left is very fond these days of using the phrase “baseless accusations” or “unverified allegations”…brought to us by the department of redundancy department 🤦‍♂️

My guess is that the left uses calls for “direct evidence” much the same way a drunk uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination. 🙄

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Eric,

Thank you for your long answer. I appreciate it.

Regretfully after reading your remarks, I must conclude that you have no real evidence to support your assertion that Ray Epps was FBI.

(1) Per your query, when I used the pronoun “us” the referent are the readers of this site.

(2) Thank you for correcting me with regard to certain aspects of Epps lawsuit. Epps is suing Fox News for defamation in part based upon on-air statements of Tucker Carlson.

Here is the story:

“Ray Epps, the man at the center of a widespread conspiracy theory about the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Fox News and its former host Tucker Carlson of defamation for promoting a ‘fantastical story’ that Mr. Epps was an undercover government agent who instigated the violence at the Capitol as a way to disparage President Donald J. Trump and his supporters.

‘Just as Fox had focused on voting machine companies when falsely claiming a rigged election, Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for January 6th,’ the complaint says. ‘It settled on Ray Epps and began promoting the lie that Epps was a federal agent who incited the attack on the Capitol.’”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/business/ray-epps-fox-tucker-carlson-lawsuit.html)

“The lawsuit, which seeks punitive and compensatory damages to be determined at trial, argues that Carlson launched a ‘years-long campaign’ that spread falsehoods that ‘destroyed’ the lives of Epps and his wife, who now reside in Utah but were living in Arizona at the time.

‘Fox and Mr. Carlson made Epps the central figure in a lie they concocted about January 6, 2021. After destroying Epps’s reputation and livelihood, Fox will move on to its next story, while Ray and Robyn live in a 350-square foot RV and face harassment and fear true harm,’ the lawsuit says. ‘Fox must be held accountable.’”

(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/-trump-protester-ray-epps-files-defamation-suit-fox-news-rcna93939)

(3) Here is some evidence that Epps was not agent provocateur.

Epps himself has repeatedly denied ever being a Federal agent. Epps claims to be a MAGA Trumpee. He says that he voted for Donald Trump and that he went to Washington at Trump’s urging to join the “Stop The Steal” rally. To the best of my knowledge no one has shown these statements to be false.

Recently in court the Federal government has said that Epps never was a Federal agent: "During the [September 20, 2023 Epps] hearing, a prosecutor told Judge James E. Boasberg, who is overseeing that case, that Mr. Epps had not worked as an agent of the government 'before, during or after' Jan. 6." (http://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/us/politics/ray-epps-pleads-guilty.html)

Hence my repeated requests on this site for actual evidence that he was a Federal agent. Give me real evidence that Epps was a Federal agent and I will reevaluate my opinion.

(4) I do not know why prosecutors only recently charged Epps for actions on January 6. However there are obvious possible non-conspiratorial explanations, e.g., prosecutors selected and pursued cases based on the seriousness of the offense. The cases of people charged with entering the Capitol Building, assaulting police, and conspiracy were prioritized upward, while those who did not were assigned lower priorities. As Julie Kelly acknowledges in the post Sasha discusses, there is no evidence that Epps actually entered the Capitol Building and no one has ever accused him of attacking a policeman.

Again, thank you for your remarks.

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“Regretfully after reading your remarks, I must conclude that you have no real evidence to support your assertion that Ray Epps was FBI.”

Good thing my job here wasn’t to convince you of something.

“1) Per your query, when I used the pronoun “us” the referent are the readers of this site.”

You do not represent any reader of this site other than yourself. Your contention that you do is a commonly used logic fallacy.

“Thank you for correcting me with regard to certain aspects of Epps lawsuit.“

You’re welcome! All part of the service 😃

“Here is the story:…“

I know the story. Most likely better than you or the biased NYT do. I don’t need you to cut and paste from your preferred news source. Do you have any original free thinking to add? Or do you just regurgitate what you can find on the inter webs?

“3) Here is some evidence that Epps was not agent provocateur.

Epps himself has repeatedly denied ever being a Federal agent…. Recently in court the Federal government has said that Epps never was a Federal agent..”

Oh, well that’s different! He and the Fed denies it. Well I guess we shouldn’t investigate then…there must be some perfectly reasonable explanation for his actions and those of the department of justice. I was unaware that accusations of criminal behavior could be countered by simply denying the accusations. My bad 😣😂🤪

“ Give me real evidence that Epps was a Federal agent and I will reevaluate my opinion.”

Define “real evidence”

“ I do not know why prosecutors only recently charged Epps for actions on January 6. However there are obvious possible non-conspiratorial explanations…”

Yes, and if my uncle had tits he would be my aunt.

What makes you so sure that the DoJ and Epps’ denials and legal maneuvers here are not equally “conspiratorial” to an Occam’s Razor explanation of their actions? The only conspiratorial explanations I see here are yours.

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Eric,

Thank you for your further remarks. One thing that I try to do is treat those who may disagree with me with the same respect that I try to treat them.

Bill

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No. I don’t believe that is what you are doing. It’s a nice thing to believe and say; But it is irrelevant.

Define what you mean by “real evidence”

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It would most likely be impossible to find “hard evidence” that Epps was working for the democrats/FBI/CIA/deep state/ruling class. The great problem for our ruling class is that a huge and ever growing number of people in this society now totally distrust our government, media and institutions. Trust though is an essential ingredient for a functional society and for the cohesion to hold it together. This then does not bode well for America’s future as a country. Does America even still exist as a country?

7. The private military industry threatens democratic accountability.

“It also offers policy makers “plausible deniability”; when a mission is politically sensitive or risky, policy makers may turn to the private sector rather than risk US Army soldiers doing something questionable. Contractors don't count as "boots on the ground" and threaten democratic accountability of the armed forces. Congress often has no idea of who's being contracted, why and for how much, even though they write the checks. This facilitates mission creep and lowers the barriers of entry into conflict.”

“10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mercenaries.”

Military. Com May 12, 2016

https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2016/05/10-things-you-dont-know-about-mercenaries

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Sep 30, 2023·edited Sep 30, 2023

Seva,

I find your comment to be troubling.

On the one hand you acknowledge that "It would most likely be impossible to find 'hard evidence that Epps was working for the democrats[sic]/FBI/CIA/deep state/ruling class" and on the other hand you express great distress at the "ever growing number of people in this society [who] now totally distrust our government, media and institutions."

How you can simultaneously talk about the widespread distrust of the our government, media, and institutions while acknowledging a lack of hard verifiable evidence regarding one item of those concerns?

Personally I am too aware of my fallibility. So over many decades I have tried to train myself to follow David Hume's maxim of apportioning my rational beliefs to the strength of the available evidence. To counteract potential biases I read very widely and listen to many sources of diverse views. I am concerned by emotional appeals to believe things which lack verifiable supporting evidence.

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Because you people always come up with this bs of “I see no evidence. Show me evidence.” You sound just like Wray, Mayorkas and Garland. Always that same bs. Last paragraph of Roger Kimball’s article below says of Victoria Spartz, “she still believes the country she adopted still exists. It doesn’t. Disgusting deep-state operatives like Merrick Garland killed it.”

“No one, Spartz concluded, is being held accountable. It is “egregious.” Indeed. “I couldn’t believe that it happened in the United States of America,” she said. But that’s because she still believes the country she adopted still exists. It doesn’t. Disgusting deep-state operatives like Merrick Garland killed it.”

“In Representative Victoria Spartz, a star is born.”

The Ukrainian born Congresswoman gave a passionate, indeed an electrifying performance.

The Spectator. Roger Kimball. Sept 22, 2023

https://thespectator.com/topic/in-representative-victoria-spartz-a-star-is-born/

‘It’s Like KGB!’: Victoria Spartz At AG Merrick Garland Over His Handling Of Justice Dept. (4 min)

Forbes Breaking News. Sept 20, 2023

https://youtu.be/erWZnlR77yY?si=JJkIOGJG3Yq5_5KA

“Putin comments on Trump charges.” (1 min)

CNN. Sept 18, 2023

https://youtube.com/shorts/a9-Dz7RgeuQ?si=HkFAgeY3Htg4l5RF

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Sep 30, 2023·edited Oct 1, 2023

"Because you people always come up with this bs of “I see no evidence. Show me evidence.'”

I understand that this can be difficult but please try to focus on the subject of our discussion, namely whether Eric Gordon (or, for that matter, you) has any real evidence that Epps was an FBI agent.

As I wrote, in matters such as this I place a great value of forming my beliefs rationally, not on the basis of emotional appeals. To do that I require verifiable evidence.

Please remember that you yourself acknowledged that you lacked hard evidence concerning Epps working for "the democrats[sic]/FBI/CIA/deep state/ruling class."

So in such a situation what inference ought a rational person make?

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“So in such a situation what inference ought a rational person make?”

We lack a common reality, have become incomprehensible to each other and can no longer communicate. Where is the common ground in such an infinitely wide divide? There obviously is none. We always just talk past each other. This can only get worse and is getting worse by the day. The same people who insist Jan 6 was an “Insurrection!” have no problem with Joe’s open southern border or his campaign to replace meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes. These are irreconcilable differences. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally?

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Apparently, the DNC strategy is to portray QPQ-Joe as the most clueless father in America.

Great campaign schtick to wave at us, guys!

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Sep 30, 2023·edited Sep 30, 2023

Technical Note

Sasha, from this Friday Chat on Big Topics, "Substack does not allow embeds from Rumble, which is why I’m using Youtube, even though they suck. Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble to allow for that.”

The link below, from September 30, 2023, has a Rumble embed that worked from a Substack article, so maybe they have a work-around or it's not a Substack issue. (I'm a subscriber to their Substack under "Conservative Treehouse," Edgar Friendly, with various posts by Sundance.)

https://www.conservativetreehouse.org/p/president-trump-speech-to-california

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Here is my thoughts on RFK voters. RealClearPolitics polls show him getting 15 percent of democrats against Joe Biden. As far as pulling from republicans..... I view that as a plus for trump because they would've probably voted for Biden anyways (never trumpers). So with those 2 categories of Biden voters going to RFK, it won't even be close. And of course with 69 percent of democrat voters want someone else besides Biden to run for the democrat nomination, there will be another 5 percent who will not even vote for Biden that did in 2020. Trump wins in a landslide.

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With 69 percent of democrats wanting someone other than Biden to be their nominee ....... 15 percent voting for RFK is an understatement. It is very doable.

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They already did with Biden.

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Sasha, thank you for posting this. You rock!

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I am unsure of your market share, Sasha, but I recommend to simply continue on your path. Wow. Great post and I share it with everyone I know as they are in the same boat.

Weekly 'republican' report from flyover: Burgum and Vivek are acceptable because they live in the private sector, the rest represent globalist forces. I like DeSantis, but he belongs to the Bush wing moneywise = bad juju.

RFK Jr. pulls voters from Biden. Love Megyn and Nancy, but be a little wary as they still have ties to the globalist establishment.

Trump with buckets of calm and calculated common sense on Newsmax: https://rumble.com/v3lklo2-trump-democrats-are-destroying-the-blood-of-our-country.html

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In the Megyn Kelly clip - Hakeem Jeffries says “there’s not one scintilla of evidence”. Wow! I wonder where he got that word! Maybe from his buddy Barak! 😎

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I think RFK, Jr is more detrimental to the Dems - as he will pull the "sensible" democrats, if there is such creatures.

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There’s place for every one in the modern day caste system.

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This Real Clear Investigations article below from 2020 is about the “1619 Project” and what the author Nikole Hannah-Jones told the editors of the Chicago Tribune about its purpose which is, she said, to instill guilt in white liberals so they will support reparations for blacks. White liberals are not being targeted though. White children in our public schools are. And our Woke white leftist ruling class loves this and is totally supportive of it. She was even given a Pulitzer Prize for this poison in 2020. This is not “black history” though. This is anti-white hate mongering pretending to be history. This is evil and this is what the democrats have become. And these are the same people who are working to put Trump in prison.

“If you read the whole project, I don’t think you can come away from it without understanding the project is an argument for reparations,” she told the Chicago Tribune in October.

“I'm not writing to convert Trump supporters. I write to try to get liberal white people to do what they say they believe in,” she said. “I'm making a moral argument. My method is guilt.”

“Disputed NY Times ‘1619 Project’ Already Shaping Schoolkids Minds on Race.”

Real Clear Investigations. Jan 31, 2020

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/01/31/disputed_ny_times_1619_project_is_already_shaping_kids_minds_on_race_bias_122192.html

Black history ‘Underground Railroad’ forms across US after DeSantis, others ban books.

Yahoo News. USA Today. Sept 30, 2023

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/black-history-underground-railroad-forms-095608314.html

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“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”

Simon Leys is by no means obscure—much of his work is still in print, and he was the subject of a major biography by Philippe Paquet entitled Simon Leys: Navigator between Worlds. But he deserves greater recognition as an analyst of totalitarianism, not least for the way in which he built upon Czesław Miłosz’s warning: “The man of the East cannot take Americans seriously because they have never undergone the experiences that teach men how relative their judgments and thinking habits are. Their resultant lack of imagination is appalling… If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” To this, Leys added (in the Los Angeles Times of all places): “The everyday order of our lives may seem to us natural and permanent, but it is in fact as fragile and illusory as the cardboard props on a theatrical stage: It can collapse in a flash and turn at once into black horror. Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”

“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”

“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”

“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”

“Please subscribe to our free mailing list to view this article.”

https://quillette.com/2020/09/28/analyst-of-totalitarianism-reading-simon-leys-today/

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Sep 30, 2023·edited Sep 30, 2023

Seva,

Thank you for drawing our attention to this interesting article. I recall reading several of his insightful essays over several decades.

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Where’s the beef? If they can't pin it on the president, I fear all this is for not.

The evidence is there, but is it enough?

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/30/ten-reasons-why-the-biden-impeachment-inquiry-is-justified/#more-210158

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also wanted to add, if you haven't seen this, it's got a lot of behind the scene experiences which endeared me even more to Trump (i'd thought about DeSantis for a short while initially, now, fully support DJT) : https://humanevents.com/2023/09/29/exclusive-raheem-kassam-tells-all-about-surprisingly-candid-personal-donald-trump-interview

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Awesome review, tks! I would add that RFK, Jr pulls votes from Biden (or whoever is installed in his place) due to his adherence to Big Govt, especially his leadership of the eco-fascist movement, which those on the right oppose.

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I am troubled a lot by the recent civil case where judge Engoron basically dissolved the Trump Organization without a plan! Obviously a drastic and highly unusual step to take. The judge sounds irrational and/or incompetent and dependent on his law clerk.

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I'm a big fan of RFK Jr. His possible running an an Independent would be perfect. That would permanently screw the plans of the Docile Mannequin or any other candidate including Big "Mike"

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I'd be happy to sign a petition to get Substack to allow links to Rumble. YT does suck. Linking to their videos defeats the purpose of truth since YT blocks anyone they disagree with. It's why so many YTubers send viewers to Rumble, where they can say whatever they want.

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“ Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble” … yes, please do! And thank you for including the Tucker Carlson links - I refuse to access X, and I would prefer not to access YouTube either!

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GOP debate: Perhaps criticizing Trump to help the Democrats win is the purpose. There are Republicans who have become TDS, and would rather see Joe Biden win (or any Democrat), than have Trump win in 2024.

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I believe RFK Jr will take votes from both the left and right. As a former leftist I have been looking for someone to trust from either side or Independant. RFK is the only one out there at this moment that I believe can stop the corruption. He has the courage to call out the bad actors and actually speaks about what he will do to end the travesty. Trump has a lot of charisma and people behind him, but do you believe he will truly change things and heal the divide? I don't. I want justice for him from all these indictments and the circus of the Dems attacking him to end. I just don't feel in my heart and mind this country can get to where it needs to go with him at the helm.

If you haven't listened to RFK speak, I recommend it.

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RFK supports affirmative action. Vivek says affirmative action is a recipe for tribal warfare and as president he will issue an Executive Order on his first day in office banning race based affirmative action which is the exact opposite of what Biden did on his first day in office which was to issue an Executive Order to replace meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes for blacks. This is an impossible situation. This is just not working at all.

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I question affirmative action also. I don't agree with Bobby on everything and if I ever have a chance to ask him about this choice I will. There are just so many important issues I do agree with his stand on. All things considered he is in my opinion the one who can get this country headed in the right direction.

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The first: Julie Kelly has proved that the DOJ lied about Ray Epps and she isn’t letting the story go. Good for her.

Amen. Good for Julie Kelly.

Fun fact! The Epps name may be as common as Smith, Jones, Fernsby or Dankworth in some circles, but I was surprised *fake shock face* to read that it goes all the way back to the…

Wait for it…

Wait for it…

Salem Witch Trials

“Nevertheless, schoolmaster Daniel Epps helps Bridget financially. In the summer of 1681 she sold him “two poles, or rods, more or less” of land between their houses in exchange for a sturdy fence, ten shillings in money, and other “considerable expense and cost, which Epps hath been at for said Oliver’s use, amounting in all to five and thirty shillings which added to the former makes up the full and just sum of three pounds, ten shillings.” [Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach]

Say what? Daniel Epps and the first person to be executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692 were next-door neighbors? *fake shock face again*

I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that Bridget Bishop, God bless her soul, was not a witch.

Either.

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Sasha, I hate to be the one to have to break it to you... I’ll send you an email if that’s ok.

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Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023

"The second: Joe Biden’s speech in Arizona demonizing the “Extreme MAGA Republicans,”"

Oh That's Scary Boys & Girls!"

Count Floyd

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Hmmm.... hard to say about RFK Jr. Great question though. Of the republicans there's no way he'd get any Trump supporters. Not one would budge away from Trump, mostly because Trump and his way of running the country is a known entity, and his legacy was a positive one. I for one- as much as I agree with what Kennedy has been saying about big pharma- wouldn't vote for him based on that alone.

The best would be a ticket with Trump and RFK Jr. if not, then Trump earned my vote based on his past performance.

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Agree…Trump with an RFK VP would be a very interesting ticket. Might actually go a long way to bringing this country back together.

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The Substack stance on Russel Brand is worrying ... but more so, it is disappointing.

The Establishment Left could have taken down Brand a long time ago, when he was one of them, the Establishment Left - but they did not.

Why only now?

That said, his part in the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"was regrettably not acting, just being his plain debauched self of those times when he was the Darling of the Left.

Yet, as an atheist, in my opinion true and genuine and sincere repentance is a beautiful thing ...

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If Kennedy is really running in the general as an independent, I think it helps republicans-- may even be their best shot. The right wing media have cultivated Kennedy astutely. The Republicans also need Cornel West siphoning votes on the left side.

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