According to Newsman: “Former President Trump has been indicted on 7 criminal counts in a federal court in Miami related to classified documents.”
Days like these, the bottom drops out and I often feel hopeless about our country. That they would go this far just to stop someone they didn’t like and couldn’t control, is depressing on a level I can’t comprehend.
What is even worse are all of those in their mass-formation fugue state who go along with it.
We are living in a place that is all the more frightening because more people aren’t frightened. Like him or not , if people can’t see that he has exposed the leviathan that wants to control us all, then we are truly in a terribly dark place
Most of the people I know buy into the narrative that Trump is an evil demon, sociopathic wannabe dictator. Along with that, they do not yet see "the leviathan that wants to control us." They literally do not know it exists. I have mentioned to them Trump's speech at Mr. Rushmore, but they wouldn't understand what he was talking about even if they were willing to listen. We are truly witnessing what happens when an authoritarian government takes control of the media and restricts information. Once people's reality becomes remotely programmed, most seem to surrender readily to it, as if they prefer it that way.
Every faction of the Democratic government is hysterical most of the time now. Emotion drives their thinking and their actions and it all consists of fear and anger.
Because it's much easier -- and more effective -- to trigger a purely emotional response in order to manipulate the proles than it is to attempt logic and reason. Especially when your policies and positions are absurdly irrational and destructive.
Oddly enough, there seems to be a direct correlation between being highly susceptible to emotional manipulation and level of education.
Authoritarian regimes aren't interested in remotely programming people's reality. Ever hear of any dictator telling people that there are no differences between the sexes, much less that males can become females just by clicking their ruby slippers together? No, because all dictators up until 1917 accepted Human Nature as a limit on their power to control populations. Or, let's just say that they accepted reality. Leftists can't accept reality, because in reality they're just a bunch of geeks, criminals, psychos, perverts and other societal rejects. They have to destroy all existing societies and build a strange new one where they can fit in. But reality sez that normal humans cannot live in such artificial arrangements. So Leftists, who create totalitarian regimes to mold the "new man" who can live in their utopia, find that the only way forward is to kill every body who won't fit in. Thus totalitarians' unrivalled record of mass murder.
Jacobite, I am puzzled by your assertion that authoritarian regimes are not interested in programming peoples' reality. Another word for totalitarian programming is "thought reform." Robert J. Lifton discussed in depth the strategies that were used by the Chinese to "reform thoughts" of their own people as well as of POW's captured by them. James Lindsay, on his New Discourses site, is currently engaged in an excellent application of Lifton's ideas to the structure and processes observed in the woke cult. The woke cult operates exactly like other authoritarian cults, except that it is a more or less "leaderless" movement, at least so far.
Lifton observed that the most powerful tools for programming peoples' beliefs involve restricting the information people receive. People are placed in environments where they are exposed exclusively to cult dogma, and are completely isolated from people who might question the dogma or support the perceptions of the people being indoctrinated. Refusing to provide consensual validation of a person's accurate perceptions of reality is a central manipulation typical of totalitarian systems of all kinds, especially cults. People being "reformed" by the Chinese were isolated, usually as individuals, and subjected to non-stop, forced exposure to communist dogma. More recent cults (1980's) isolated people they wanted to induct by enticing them to enroll in conferences and retreats held in isolated places with no way to leave (cell phones did not exist then). The prospective new recruits were then required to attend a succession of individual and group indoctrination sessions that lasted throughout the day and into the night.
You ask the rhetorical question, "Ever hear of any dictator telling people that there are no differences between the sexes...?" No, not specifically, but I can list any number of equally bizarre, perverted and immoral teachings that a plethora of totalitarian cults have preached. For example, many cult leaders have sexually exploited members of their groups, including children, and have even taught that it is good for parents to have sexual interaction with young children as well as teens. The belief systems of major cults in this country have included teachings about how their advanced members can travel to the core of our planet through tubes, channel the Spirit of God and speak for Him, and any number of much stranger ideas.
The practice of inducing subordinated people to surrender their correct views of reality and replace them with the dominant person's false narrative is also a favorite strategy of narcissists. Narcissists, like cult leaders, recognize that to be effective they must isolate the subordinated person from support by other people who question the narcissists versions of "truth" as well as the narcissists character and motives.
Totalitarian regimes that are good at programming their member citizens can eventually induce them to isolate themselves voluntarily from information and people that will disconfirm the leaders' scripted pronouncements about what is and isn't real. Cults that are pseudo-Christian generally instill into members the fear that people outside the group are "of the Devil," and will mislead the cult members to question the cult's dogma, with disastrous consequences for the life, soul, and post-death prospects for the one who stray from the fold.
It is very important and very helpful for anti-woke activists to understand how the woke cult functions exactly like other totalitarian cults with respect to programming members' understandings of what is real or not. Chinese thought reform is the same kind of system, which used the same strategies as those used by totalitarian cults to induce people to question their own valid perceptions and replace them with Maoist dogma. The woke cult has been strongly influenced by Maoist varieties of Marxism, so it is not surprising that DEI "struggle sessions" are so similar to the Chinese version.
I think they WANT the leviathan. Leviathan lets them do what they want, it provides "peace and safety" through it's totalitarianism, it relieves them of thinking and of having to make their own decisions.
That “they” out there seems to be true. Not everyone but a bigger majority of people than I ever wanted to believe. But it’s impossible to deny what we are seeing.
I just posted Vivek's tweet on my website before seeing your column.
Seriously, every R candidate, and RFK jr should be in Miami to loudly proclaim this injustice. Our Federal Government is taking over. The DOJ is now firmly aligned with the DNC, as well as the FBI and CIA.
Only a massive red wave, that results in super majorities (highly unlikely) that can reign in the feds will fix our dilemma, but I doubt that we'll see it. I think we've lost the country our founders envisioned.
I'm assuming that you got home safely, and am personally crushed that you didn't stop at my restaurant for a free lunch as you tooled through Iowa.
I haven’t given up, hope, but I must say that I mostly agree. I don’t see any way that we can get out of this mess unless Trump returns to the White House even if he does, supermajority’s are very unlikely, as you said. Plus, we would have to hold the government for 20 or 30 years to truly turn everything around all of this didn’t happen in the last three or four years. This has taken decades. The left moves two steps forward, then they get kicked back one step, but that is still one step forward.
I have been skeptical of any hopeful declarations that our side is gaining, the woke cult is losing ground. In my state they have total control, and the state legislature plus governor have been rapidly passing very extreme woke legislation. I am trying to resign myself to the fact that the cult has successfully completed the initial stages of its coup, and is behaving more like it is unopposed. It truly has not had to face much push back, and none from its friends and captives.
It matters a great deal that they have gotten this far, but it is possible to fight them still. We need to start to accept that we are the resistance that they always claimed to be, and that they have won in many ways. I think we are in one of those situations in life when people are struggling to save something very dear to them, not wanting to face that it has already been lost.
I know from talking to so many of them on a weekly basis that they have felt the same way about Trump. They have been getting increasingly panicky and rageful as Trump's poll ratings have soared. They truly believe he is a monster on the level of Hitler and they believe that Jan 6 was a serious "Insurrection." My friends and acquaintances say repeatedly that "our country will descend into totalitarianism within the next few years," and they believe that Trump has full intention to make that happen if he is elected.
If it makes you feel any better, I am no Trump fan and voted for Biden. I didn’t really think Biden would be a good president but I , mistakenly, believed he would be the lesser of the two evils. Once Biden rolled into office and I saw what he and his people had in store for us I became horrified very quickly. Today, I am absolutely furious about what has happened with these latest events. I live in a super woke part of the country and have many friends who voted for Biden but now absolutely understand what a horrible idea that was. In the 2022 midterms I voted a straight republican ballot. In the next presidential election I will do the same. I have many friends who have the same plan. Between now and then I’m going to be praying every day that Biden and all the authoritarian crooks he surrounds himself will be driven out of office. If not, I will forever remain a member of the resistance. I’m so disgusted right now I can hardly see straight.
I fear there aren't enough people like you. None of my progressive friends and acquaintances in the super-blue cities I have lived in (Seattle for years, currently northern Virginia) have any idea what is going on. All they know is that Trump was defeated. They blindly support every Democrat policy advanced, and when confronted with disastrous consequences of those policies, they content themselves by acknowledging that "some of the details need to be worked out."
If only the GOP cared as much as the people they might even win once in awhile. FFS, we are on the verge of nuclear war (and escalating it at every opportunity). we have for all intents and purposes become a police state where the wrong political expression will bring about your social and economic destruction if not incarceration. our children's education has declined to Third World levels if not lower, our economy is teetering on what could be a deep and protracted recession, yet what has the GOP and it toadies been going off about all week?
I want to say that "if the Republicans would moderate their extremism, especially the total abortion bans" that they would greatly increase their odds of winning another national election. Unfortunately, the Republicans are very dysfunctional, and some of their coalition members are determined to impose their religious values on everyone else. They are in the same position as the Democrats. As much as I or you or anyone else wants and needs them to be a functional alternative to the Dems, they are not.
Nationally there’s two… in theory. The R’s routinely get around %50 of the vote. And more importantly, in swing states, typically more than. %50 in a fair contest. But that is negated by the unequal voter outreach funded by Zuck et al, ballot harvesting, election laws being changed unconstitutionally to favor one side by judges who aren’t legislators (obviously), and outright fraud that is prevented from an evidentiary hearing.
2016 had an unexpected candidate win. :-) so 7 years....Now we're in trouble because the Democrats have gone completely fascist out on the open. They used to do it more secretly (under Obama forward). As Rush used to say, If people knew what Democrats really wanted to do, they'd never vote for them, so they had to lie (Obama).
Keep fighting for TRUTH to come out. Destroy the corrupt press. If we stop big Pharma advertising on Cable and TV, that'd be a start.
It would if the rules were observed. What we have now is not that mechanism. The new mechanism is easily manipulated by the side that destroyed the real one.
They obviously didn't learn their lesson last year. In a midterm where there should have been a red tsunami, they completely disregarded the damage done by the SCOTUS leak of the Dobbs decision (where the identity of the leaker shall never be exposed) and, as you point out, doubled down on the notion of a nationwide total ban on abortion -- a position supported by perhaps a single-digit percentage. Meanwhile the Left totally capitalized on the fear of such a ban and convinced their voters to once again vote against their own self interest.
I live in CA. There is absolutely no point in trying to affect any change whatsoever at the state level. My fellow voting citizens consistently choose to drive the bus over the cliff and take the rest of us with it.
The very last opportunity for CA to right itself (no pun intended) was the recall election in 2021 where Larry Elder, the front running Republican candidate, was labeled "The black face of white supremacy" by the state's largest (and disreputable) fishwrap. On the heels of one of the worst lockdowns of the plandemic, voters choose overwhelmingly to keep Newsom in office.
Game, set, match. CA is over and done. There is no rescue, no turning back.
Never been to Portlandia. It was once a great city from what I've heard, before Antifa turned it into Mogadishu. Been to Seattle a few times though, which has suffered a similar fate. I don't think there is any greater tragedy though than San Francisco. A truly beautiful American city utterly destroyed from within by its own lunacy and arrogance.
We did win the house albeit narrowly. We just need to beat the propaganda mainstream media (by making it illegal for big pharma to advertise) and get the truth out. Make a plan, keep being positive share the word. The censorship stuff is still out there .
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of dis-figuration - 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.
As I was suggesting earlier the GOP needs to first pull its head out of its ass and let go of the petty culture war nonsense. This is pure misdirection intended to keep your eye off the ball -- and the real issues I stated. The left will always win the culture war. Let's move past this and focus on what really matters in the day-to-day and take our country back.
In the minds of the GOP leadership, scanning a post-nuclear American wasteland while congratulating themselves, "Well, least we finally banned all abortion and even birth control, and put a stop to drag queen story hour" as they raise their martini glasses in a toast offered by Lindsey Graham.
I totally share your perspective BradK! I think that those of us who are living at the center of the hive know what will happen to less radical places, because it was already happening here a few years ago.
The job of the GOP is to absorb all opposition to the radicals running DC. It allows Them to label any new groundswell with all the negativity Republicans have been plastered with for generations. Tea Party? Just a bunch of racist, bumbling old Republicans. MAGA? More racists Repubs. Conservatives? Again. Rich old Republicans that want to take away everything from everyone else. Of course the Republicans play along, that is until one of them is primaried by the new group. Then you see something extraordinary : a Republican putting up a nasty fight. If the primary challenger wins, the GOP withholds all support effectively handing the seat over to a Democrat. The new opposition group is then blamed for being "too radical to win in a general election" and the usual useful idiots parrot their masters by regurgitating this nonsense on boards like this one. You know the ones, looking down their noses at us because they listen to their all-seeing, all-knowing deities who they worship without question.
Mostly. My oldest, who I graduated as a homeschooler in 2014, has a gpa of 3.86 and was told two days ago by her college counselor that she can get into the psychology program at any university she wants. She's no good two-shoes either,,,tattoo on her neck, arms and nose pierced😄
Good job. I have nothing against goodie two shoes, i have no tattoos, no piercings, but just as long as she has her head screwed on straight which she probably does if you home schooled her… Good on you. I have a 2 and 4 year olds and -2 month old :) my wife is a home preschool wizard already
Another misleading analogy. We move in one direction only and that's more centralized power and wealth in the central government, less for everyone else. Sometimes Republicans get to advance their agenda in very minor, symbolic ways, but it's never enough to make a difference. That's why one "side's" gains are always wiped out while the other side's gains become law of the land that can't be undone. They are not sides, they are the same people playing divisive games with everything we hold dear.
Vivek is in part, quick to support because he wants to be Trump’s VP. I think this action will help Trump, more evidence to the middle/swing of 2 tier justice amongst political opponents
Not to mention that selecting a POC as a running mate would trigger the Left like there's no tomorrow. The word "token" would be abused into meaninglessness just as "racist" has.
You assume the leadership of at least the Senate republicans is at all interested in reining or in. Their deafening silence betrays their deep desires.
Part of me suspects these actions are attempt to provoke protests in the streets, which Left could then move to shut down and falsely paint those as 'insurrectionists' or 'interference with the rule of law', like they have done w/ Jan 6th. Measured and responsible replies are needed during these tricky times
The scariest thing is that the deep state is becoming less and less concerned with even putting on a show of being anything other than a KGB/Gestapo police state.
It's so blatant. They have no fear of any repercussions. They are saying, "Game over. There is no rule of law. We are the rulers now and we have no rules."
I agree. We the people, we the people without honest media,have allowed this to happen. There will, sadly, be little criticism. And, many of we the people will rejoice. Do they realize what they are throwing away?
No, they don't know that they are throwing away anything of value. They believe that the Constitution is nothing more than a racist document of white male slaveowners.
How long are we going to let the corrupt leftist fascists in our government get away with all of their EVIL crimes? God willing, a reckoning for all of them will come, I pray during our lifetime. In the meantime, we must fight and expose their pernicious lies, despotic tyranny, planned bioweapon regime and crimes against humanity, by showing people the truth - the truth they don't want to see. We solve nothing until we can do that and then come together as a people. It is the powerful, hellbent, sociopathic, globalist, elite monsters against the populations around the world. It's that simple. DO NOT COMPLY with any more of their fraudulent, tyrannical dictates. They are acting outside of the Constitution and the law and have been doing so without abandon. and only we can stop it by standing up to their police state tactics.
Since clearly they want us disarmed, I wrote a short (and so far only) sub stack essay concerning the 2A and talking about the narrative surrounding it.
It will be thrown out. There's precedence in a case involving Clinton and documents (Bill, not Hillary.) The DOJ and the FBI don't decide what's classified and what isn't. However, we are now in a Banana Republic with a president who has been on the take for decades.
I've looked at this a little closer. They're charging him under the Espionage Act of 1917, which was written to deal with wartime threats. They don't have a prayer of getting a conviction and even if they did, the Supreme Court would toss it. This is a case of an overzealous partisan prosecutor attempting to create a crime then coming up with a law to fit it.
With apologies to Mr. Ramaswamy, we've already crossed over into Banana Republic territory. Hard to pin down the exact moment as there have been so very many qualifying moments in recent history, but make no mistake -- we are here. Gilligan's Island ruled by the Tonton Macoute.
When "Make America Great" is considered akin to treason we're past the PNR. We're speeding down the hill and the brake lines have been cut.
If we were a banana republic we’d at least still be a country. I really don’t believe there’s anything left of America internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally. It took 3 years, 1988 to 1991, for the Soviet Union to collapse. Time is moving much faster now though. We could probably do it in 3 months and the tsunami of shock waves will sweep through our entire online global civilization and perhaps bring it all down. Something like on 911 when the twin towers collapsed ever faster as the upper floors collapsed on those beneath them faster and faster. That’s certainly one big downside to globalization.
I’ve been saying it for a while. Globalists are involved and they want a genuine insurrection. How else can an armed populace be disarmed? The federal government has UN and NATO troops at its disposal. Shove all of these outlandish things in our faces and simply wait for a bit of lashing out. Then move on it. That’s an opinion of course but why else, all of it? Globalists cannot control an armed populace or subjugate a successful capitalist economy. Or Donald Trump.
I think you’re spot on, even if they aren’t that smart, it will happen and it will be used to that effect. I think it’s possible even the globalists don’t see what a win that would be for them
And the world knows it since everyone everywhere sees it online just as easily as we do. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history.
It is not so much the puppet Biden who is the problem. The ability to lead is no longer important now that we are harvesting ballots from the great 40% plurality who could care less.
I think we have to view this as a defensive action because it's so outrageous. Only desperate people do something this stupid. Time to get in their faces.
They are beyond stupid though. They are Woke which means insane and insane people do things like this fully confident that they can pull it off plus they have the msm and many useful idiots in the general public on their side. They cannot win though. Too many people know that they are insane for them to prevail. The most they can do with things like open borders and the demonization of “Whiteness!” is to destroy the country.
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“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.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
I was expecting this but it is still shocking. I know that our country is no longer the place I remember but everyday life sometimes lulls me into believing that things are really not that bad and might return to normal. But then something like this happens and I realize how far we have fallen and that our government is being run by criminals. I don't know how this ends or what can be done to stop it.
It sickens me what has been done to this country. We are that country... like those we have complained about for years of being so corrupt. The left are so bold with what they do and have no fear of being held accountable. There is no justice in our country anymore. It is a sad day for our republic.
Vivek may not be what he seems. His spin off company Datavant, teamed up with San Francisco company Snowflake during the ‘pandemic’ to try and establish global database of all Covid cases. Big Brother stuff that health care provider Anthem said ‘no thanks’ to, but others went along
Here is essay on Vivek to ponder by another Substacker I admire:
The news feels like a combination of the news of the assassination of JFK and MLK, with Joe Biden a combination of Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray. American democracy and the rule of law have been terminated by the Democrats.
Anyone who has escaped a totalitarian banana republic to find asylum in the United States is shaking in their boots right now. They have seen it before!
Not a Trump fan, didn’t listen to the video. I am, however, an enormous fan of both the Constitution and the Republic, I cannot help but feel this is political, but ALSO meant to try and cause chaos. They keep calling our fellow citizens ‘domestic terrorists’, I think they are pushing them to get violent or at least demonstrate against his arrest so that they can place agent provocateurs in amongst them to *help* to rile them up… AGAIN. Color Revolution.
They'd love it if people did that. That's what they've been itching for all these years. Then they could enact gun confiscation, just in time for those 87,000 new IRS agents.
Keep in mind the five rules of propaganda. They make good use of them.
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of dis-figuration - 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.
Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in 5 years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation.
Sasha, you might find interesting a book called It Didn't Start With Watergate by conservative writer Victor Lasky.
Lasky was frustrated that in the seventies Richard Nixon was vilified because of Watergate. So his book presented dirty stuff Democrat heroes did or allegedly did that was as bad or worse than Watergate.
Nothing has changed, except that Donald Trump is today's Nixon. Actually they're making an example of Trump in a way that far exceeds what they did to Nixon.
I'm not a fan of either, but critical thinking allows one to distinguish fairly between different levels of villainy.
We will never lose heart, dear. We fully remember about how good everything was in Feb 2020 and when we declared our independence from Great Britain. Period.
Man up and do what Sasha does, good folks. Put yourself out there for a change. Do not take any $hit from these globalist statists - including republicans.
As I said, 50 years ago, the study of historic authoritarian regimes (pretty much every dictatorship until 1917), contrasted to the brand-new totalitarian regime in Russia was basic political science and international relations discussion. Because nobody had ever seen a totalitarian state before., and social scientists were fascinated.
Some basic conclusions were summed up by aphorisms like:
"Rightists are greedy; Leftists operate on envy" (a Right-wing dictator might want a fleet of Mercedes; a Leftist won't be satisfied until he has taken YOUR car).
"Rightists abolish politics; Leftists politicize everything" (Rightists remove political questions from public discussion and decision; Leftists insist on making the most trivial, personal behavior subject to government scrutiny and decision). The 'New Left' slogan -- "the personal is political" sums up their thinking -- there are no limits to government control. Hitler didn't care which bathroom you used unless you were creating a disturbance. Yet the Left is putting people in front of a judge because they object to men sharing the shower room with their daughters. Heck. they might lose their jobs if they even address a delusional man with male pronouns. That is totalitarianism to a 'T'.
I think C S Lewis (or maybe Belloc) defined Leftism as a never-ending war against everything normal. Their old cover story used to be that they were 'progressives' trying to create a new and improved society - but of course, before they could build a new one (sigh), the old/normal one would have to be destroyed.
The difference between the two is simply the difference between Right and Left. Leftists create totalitarian regimes to create a new version of humanity accepting of Leftists' existential fury at being alienated from normal human society due to their own oddities. Leftists' war is with Human Nature. Normal humans accept their Human Nature as normal and unremarkable. In fact, it is innate, inherited, and immutable -- which means every Leftist/totalitarian regime must fail. Normal people don't accept known congenital criminals, sexual perverts, idiots, lunatics, militant atheists, and just-plain aliens into normal society. Never have; never will. Throughout human history, dictators have understood that they had to run their domains within the bounds of Human Nature, which is why authoritarian dictators tried to control people's actions, but only to the extent they thought necessary to maintain power. They had no desire to alter the basic characteristics of Homo sapiens. Leftists, not being able to conform to normal behavior in order to be accepted by normal society, have to destroy existing society (to which they can never belong), and create a society where the population does not operate according to Human Nature. They try to alter basic human behaviors by force (soft and hard). The reason their regimes end in mass murder and failure is because Human Nature is immutable, but they are incapable of facing this fact, so they simply increase the force and terror to make changes. The fact that they soon find themselves killing most of the people they rule is no problem, since ultimately, the only way to create a society of weirdos is to kill all the normal people.
Fighting back will require sacrifice few are willing to make.
The second most read book on history, Atlas Shrugged, was initially titled "The Strike". That is what is needed, as a start. Huge numbers of people must stop watching TV, stop going to movies, stop using Facebook, instagram, etc, stop buying Dem aligned products, pull their money out of stocks and the banks, and more.
I would not be surprised to see large protests in DC that end up in government suppression as in the protests at the 68 Dem convention in Chicago. I would not be surprised to see thousands of people surround Trump and dare the feds to go through them to arrest Trump.
I would also not be surprised to see a military coup occur. It has reached that level.
How can you say the WEF, in internatioal organization formed by a German in 1971, is meaningless?? It now wields corporate power, money and influence. It has used that power through corporate-owned media to divide us. It now seeks to bring down our economy and to disarm us and to throw this nation into battling disarray.
Any such happenings within the United States is a victory for them.
The only thing we are missing in this country to be a full fledged banana republic is the required bribery of all public servants by the common people to accomplish anything. I have no doubt that we are headed in that direction very soon.
Just watched Ep 2 of Tucker on Real Clear Politics videos. Maybe they’ll be here every day after this. I think most people would prefer watching him on RCP than Twitter. RCP is a great site. I check it every day. And every day I see our once great nation sinking into insanity. This does not bode well for our future.
Thank you Sasha! Circle the wagons, spread the word!
Didn't the 5M bribe news Biden took via Burisma break today? They had to Trump it.... It's SO clear to us, but to the part of America that listens to the Lying Democrat press, they're clueless. Let's help educate them.
IT IS NOT JOE BIDEN doing this- it is BHO! They are terrified of Trump because they know he loves America and only wants the best for ALL of us. They only love POWER-
The good news is that Trump will be tried in Miami, not by a kangaroo court in D.C. (the District of Corruption).
The bad news is that Biden and his co-conspirators have a lot to answer for and instead brazenly twist even the law to their own advantage. If swing voters don't see the terrible need to vote out this hypocrisy, we really are in deep trouble.
They may be indicting Trump so Joe can pardon him and Hunter Biden at the same time. That might be the plan to sweep Joe's corruption under the rug.
Well..... You think California's gone forever. Short-term, seems to be. But I think really you never know what's going to happen in the future. if it gets so bad, people wake up and we educate the people and get rid of the propaganda media maybe they'll vote differently. I think you got to find a way. And anything can happen perhaps things we aren't even envisioning. Perhaps all the illegal migrants will vote Republican. How can we make that happen? Or independent or something, maybe we end up having new political parties like they do over the UK.
But if the people knew the truth and they knew how corrupt these people were, we'd have all the people against them really and then we'd win. We have to keep fighting no doubt. We have to stay positive though and fight and we need some strategies straight away. #warroom
2/3 of my family lives in CA. When articles about the mass migration out are written, they often post them to facebook or instagram with snarky comments like, "More Republicans leaving the state. Good riddance! Now we can finally get this state up and running again."
Yeah, such a strange time. Especially with all the Democrats wanting Trump in Prison because the media says so. So, our enemy is the Media, Trump was right about that too. How to defeat? Sue? Class action, on behalf of the people? Anyone else have any solutions or ideas to combat the dis, mis, mal and other crappy info??
No borders means no country. We will never recover from the damage done. The “court dates” for “migrants” are meaningless since most don’t show up and even if they do and are denied asylum we have no way to enforce the order to leave so it’s just ignored. Democrats opened the border for political gain and created a monster which is already out of control and will only get worse. Democrats have destroyed America. Democrats are evil.
I believe their goal is to destroy the middle class and then start a UBI for the illegals and remnants of the ruined middle class which would make them dependent on and therefore under the control of the Democratic Party aka Satan’s Lapdogs.
I agree, they're trying to flood the country to have more Democrat voters. But, I don't think America's destroyed. We're a self governing Republic and we all need to get more involved. Stay positive and strategize with like-minded people with integrity. Maybe we can convince the illegals to vote Republican. :-) I think Venezuelans and Cubans already do that having experienced communism and totalitarian gov'ts first hand. But you're right- we do have a fight on our hands. Hugo Chavez destroyed Venezuela is about 10 years I believe. So, Let's get going!!
This isn't complicated. Just a demonstration if you run for President and you are not a Democrat, you might go to jail for 100 years. The next step is if you are a VOTER and don't VOTE for the Democrat, you might go to jail for 100 years. Or (to save $$) just disappear.
But why has our society collapsed into insanity? What caused this awful situation? Some excerpts below from a Quillette review of a book about the irrational side of human nature. The last one says: “One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.” That sure is the truth.
“Mackay makes the case, often in gory detail, that episodes of collective mania seem to be an inevitable consequence of human nature. Humans in every time and place have cast aside their better judgment and allowed themselves to be caught up in all manner of irrational hoopla.“
“His chapters on the Swabian Peasants’ War and Anabaptist uprisings are terrifying depictions of the end-times frenzy that wreaked havoc on northern Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The distance between these events in the German-speaking world and, say, the Reign of Terror in France or the Chinese Cultural Revolution is not that great. And the speed with which apparently reasonable people moved from the embrace of a new theological idea to a willingness to torture those whose own theological ideas diverged even slightly is startling.“
“There is plenty to recommend about The Delusions of Crowds. It is laden with great anecdotes and the writing is always engaging. One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.”
If we have to rely on Republicans to protect us from Democrats, we're doomed. If we ever come to blows, don't forget those that sat by in positions of power and did nothing. They are worse and they deserve worse.
No one I know of is more intelligent, articulate, quick thinking and knowledgeable in so many areas as Vivek Ramaswamy. Watch him demolish Dana Bash, CNN, the msm, the democrats and this worthless farce of an “Indictment!” Really impressive. No doubt the CNN producers were appalled by how easily Vivek mopped the floor with their host, Dana. Maybe she’ll join Don Lemon in early retirement from CNN. Their great problem is though that there is no one on the Woke democratic left or their media who could do any better in a debate with Vivek. He’s like a steam roller who just runs over them and leaves them squashed flat like little bugs on the ground.
“Vivek Ramaswamy Talks Trump Indictment on CNN 6.11.23.” (9 min)
I saw a video of Vivek Ramaswamy recently at a Townhall meeting where he was asked what he would do on his first day as president. He said he would issue an Executive Order banning race based affirmative action. That’s exactly the 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.
We’re in a reality war of the Woke vs the nonWoke. Compare a nonWoke public intellectual like Vivek Ramaswamy to a Woke public intellectual like Ibram X. Kendi and the difference is like the difference between day and night or sanity vs insanity yet our ruling class, their media and their many useful idiot followers in the general public prefer Kendi! Watch what Saagar has to say about our ruling class war on merit for the sake of Equity.
So what should we do? We should make use of our greatest advantage against the Woke which is the superbly high quality of people on our side like Elon, Vivek, Tucker, Tulsi, Sasha, Matt Taibbi, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Harmeet Dhillon and so many other people like them. Follow people like this and share information from them with others. Plus follow the exponential advance of AI. This is the wild card now and from now on. This is truly a game changer for humanity. This time really is different. The best of times. The worst of times.
“Exposed: Med Schools Drop Merit For Racial Admissions.” (6 min)
We knew justice was an ideal, something that existed primarily in the mind and in emotions. There is, for instance, no way to bring back the victims of murder, and varying remedies are tried. But injustice has just as many forms, the most obvious being the selective application of the law.
If you believe the WEF has any real power if they lose the support of the US, you are not thinking clearly.
First off, how do you fight the WEF? The have no formal authority and are not elected. Second, their only influence comes from what governments give them. Right now, that comes mostly from the US. And if you take that way, they are severely weakened.
I have already answered this in response to your remark about fiction preceding real events. The WEF is international, founded in 1971 by a German. Merkel was a member before she became Germany’s chancellor. They have garnered the support of multinational corporate entities and wield power through them. There is far more money and influence there than the US and China put together. It is the rise of the Fourth Reich. Corporate media has been used to deliberately divide us and they seek to bring down our capitalistic economy and what remains of our democratic republic, and they are managing it very effectively. Their members have largely been duped.
You fight it the same way you fight any aggressor. You destroy it, from the top down. Fighting among ourselves accomplishes its goals. It was with our help that Germany was last defeated, and the US is just a plum to them.
They ARE who you fight. They do not expect to bleed. They MUST.
At what point does “sedition” become heroic, I wonder.
I hope people will start to see that it really isn’t within; it’s the WEF. They are standing away from all of this expecting to get through it totally unscathed.
That must not be allowed. Take it down and the source of all of this trouble is gone.
And how do you take down the WEF? And if you do, do you honestly think the governments who supported them will stand down? Think critically and logically.
According to you. You believe the WEF has no power, because it is unelected. Therefore no despotic dictator ever had power. Other countries may decide to continue a WEF in some form or other, but after a direct attack the message will be clear. Mitts off the US.
Isn’t it interesting that China is immune? Russia?
At this point I generally dismiss as uninformed. Suggest you think a little harder. The only other choice I see is a very stupid civil war, total societal collapse and life under tyranny, tracking, punishment, making Orwellian society look far better.
Boy do you have a real problem with logic and understanding, or rather likely intentional misinterpretation.
What I specifically said is that the WEF has no power other than through governments. Big difference dude.
Tell me, can the WEF pass laws? Can the WEF dwclare war? Can the WEF arrest people. The WEF can not do anything if governments dont follow their suggestions.
Cut the line between the US government and the WEF and they are impotent.
Well, first, if there was any way to “cut the line,” that would be the way to go. If you were not the idiot you accuse me of being I’d be very interested in how that might be done. But you’re stupid and you don’t have a way.
You said unelected. You said nothing about “through other governments.”
ESG might be considered law, since corporations get debanked unless they are on board. So they made the Netherlands seize and shut down 3,000 farms. No laws.
“I'd love to know what you think about this latest fiasco.”
I agree with Vivek and think this is just more of the same crap the democrats have been doing since 2016. Shortly after Trump was elected and the democrat’s “Resistance!” began I told a Mexican friend at work in Chicago, a Trump supporter who’s from Guerrero, one of Mexico’s poorest and most dangerous states, that the inability to transition to a new government after an election is a classic sign of a failed state. He actually shuddered as if a cold chill had just run down his spine. I never forgot his reaction to what I said.
I voted for Trump twice although I’d now much prefer Vivek Ramaswamy whose campaign is based on fighting Woke ideology. The question is though, is America even still governable or even still a country? I have no doubt the democrats would love to do to me what they did to the QAnon Shaman (prison) or to Ashli Babbitt (murder) at the Jan 6 Capitol rally in 2021. No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally?
“Russiagate: The Scandal That Became Business As Usual.”
Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in 5 years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history.
“Speak of the Devil: How Demonizing ‘Whiteness’ Spreads White Nationalism.” (6 min)
We are living in a place that is all the more frightening because more people aren’t frightened. Like him or not , if people can’t see that he has exposed the leviathan that wants to control us all, then we are truly in a terribly dark place
Most of the people I know buy into the narrative that Trump is an evil demon, sociopathic wannabe dictator. Along with that, they do not yet see "the leviathan that wants to control us." They literally do not know it exists. I have mentioned to them Trump's speech at Mr. Rushmore, but they wouldn't understand what he was talking about even if they were willing to listen. We are truly witnessing what happens when an authoritarian government takes control of the media and restricts information. Once people's reality becomes remotely programmed, most seem to surrender readily to it, as if they prefer it that way.
DOJ head Merrick Garland is reacting like a very scorned man and now he's into burning it all down...
Every faction of the Democratic government is hysterical most of the time now. Emotion drives their thinking and their actions and it all consists of fear and anger.
Because it's much easier -- and more effective -- to trigger a purely emotional response in order to manipulate the proles than it is to attempt logic and reason. Especially when your policies and positions are absurdly irrational and destructive.
Oddly enough, there seems to be a direct correlation between being highly susceptible to emotional manipulation and level of education.
Authoritarian regimes aren't interested in remotely programming people's reality. Ever hear of any dictator telling people that there are no differences between the sexes, much less that males can become females just by clicking their ruby slippers together? No, because all dictators up until 1917 accepted Human Nature as a limit on their power to control populations. Or, let's just say that they accepted reality. Leftists can't accept reality, because in reality they're just a bunch of geeks, criminals, psychos, perverts and other societal rejects. They have to destroy all existing societies and build a strange new one where they can fit in. But reality sez that normal humans cannot live in such artificial arrangements. So Leftists, who create totalitarian regimes to mold the "new man" who can live in their utopia, find that the only way forward is to kill every body who won't fit in. Thus totalitarians' unrivalled record of mass murder.
Jacobite, I am puzzled by your assertion that authoritarian regimes are not interested in programming peoples' reality. Another word for totalitarian programming is "thought reform." Robert J. Lifton discussed in depth the strategies that were used by the Chinese to "reform thoughts" of their own people as well as of POW's captured by them. James Lindsay, on his New Discourses site, is currently engaged in an excellent application of Lifton's ideas to the structure and processes observed in the woke cult. The woke cult operates exactly like other authoritarian cults, except that it is a more or less "leaderless" movement, at least so far.
Lifton observed that the most powerful tools for programming peoples' beliefs involve restricting the information people receive. People are placed in environments where they are exposed exclusively to cult dogma, and are completely isolated from people who might question the dogma or support the perceptions of the people being indoctrinated. Refusing to provide consensual validation of a person's accurate perceptions of reality is a central manipulation typical of totalitarian systems of all kinds, especially cults. People being "reformed" by the Chinese were isolated, usually as individuals, and subjected to non-stop, forced exposure to communist dogma. More recent cults (1980's) isolated people they wanted to induct by enticing them to enroll in conferences and retreats held in isolated places with no way to leave (cell phones did not exist then). The prospective new recruits were then required to attend a succession of individual and group indoctrination sessions that lasted throughout the day and into the night.
You ask the rhetorical question, "Ever hear of any dictator telling people that there are no differences between the sexes...?" No, not specifically, but I can list any number of equally bizarre, perverted and immoral teachings that a plethora of totalitarian cults have preached. For example, many cult leaders have sexually exploited members of their groups, including children, and have even taught that it is good for parents to have sexual interaction with young children as well as teens. The belief systems of major cults in this country have included teachings about how their advanced members can travel to the core of our planet through tubes, channel the Spirit of God and speak for Him, and any number of much stranger ideas.
The practice of inducing subordinated people to surrender their correct views of reality and replace them with the dominant person's false narrative is also a favorite strategy of narcissists. Narcissists, like cult leaders, recognize that to be effective they must isolate the subordinated person from support by other people who question the narcissists versions of "truth" as well as the narcissists character and motives.
Totalitarian regimes that are good at programming their member citizens can eventually induce them to isolate themselves voluntarily from information and people that will disconfirm the leaders' scripted pronouncements about what is and isn't real. Cults that are pseudo-Christian generally instill into members the fear that people outside the group are "of the Devil," and will mislead the cult members to question the cult's dogma, with disastrous consequences for the life, soul, and post-death prospects for the one who stray from the fold.
It is very important and very helpful for anti-woke activists to understand how the woke cult functions exactly like other totalitarian cults with respect to programming members' understandings of what is real or not. Chinese thought reform is the same kind of system, which used the same strategies as those used by totalitarian cults to induce people to question their own valid perceptions and replace them with Maoist dogma. The woke cult has been strongly influenced by Maoist varieties of Marxism, so it is not surprising that DEI "struggle sessions" are so similar to the Chinese version.
No, just a narcissist and circus ‘ring master’.
I think they WANT the leviathan. Leviathan lets them do what they want, it provides "peace and safety" through it's totalitarianism, it relieves them of thinking and of having to make their own decisions.
That “they” out there seems to be true. Not everyone but a bigger majority of people than I ever wanted to believe. But it’s impossible to deny what we are seeing.
The rest of us need to be brave and fight back
It frees them of their freedom.
I just posted Vivek's tweet on my website before seeing your column.
Seriously, every R candidate, and RFK jr should be in Miami to loudly proclaim this injustice. Our Federal Government is taking over. The DOJ is now firmly aligned with the DNC, as well as the FBI and CIA.
Only a massive red wave, that results in super majorities (highly unlikely) that can reign in the feds will fix our dilemma, but I doubt that we'll see it. I think we've lost the country our founders envisioned.
I'm assuming that you got home safely, and am personally crushed that you didn't stop at my restaurant for a free lunch as you tooled through Iowa.
I haven’t given up, hope, but I must say that I mostly agree. I don’t see any way that we can get out of this mess unless Trump returns to the White House even if he does, supermajority’s are very unlikely, as you said. Plus, we would have to hold the government for 20 or 30 years to truly turn everything around all of this didn’t happen in the last three or four years. This has taken decades. The left moves two steps forward, then they get kicked back one step, but that is still one step forward.
I have been skeptical of any hopeful declarations that our side is gaining, the woke cult is losing ground. In my state they have total control, and the state legislature plus governor have been rapidly passing very extreme woke legislation. I am trying to resign myself to the fact that the cult has successfully completed the initial stages of its coup, and is behaving more like it is unopposed. It truly has not had to face much push back, and none from its friends and captives.
It matters a great deal that they have gotten this far, but it is possible to fight them still. We need to start to accept that we are the resistance that they always claimed to be, and that they have won in many ways. I think we are in one of those situations in life when people are struggling to save something very dear to them, not wanting to face that it has already been lost.
I know from talking to so many of them on a weekly basis that they have felt the same way about Trump. They have been getting increasingly panicky and rageful as Trump's poll ratings have soared. They truly believe he is a monster on the level of Hitler and they believe that Jan 6 was a serious "Insurrection." My friends and acquaintances say repeatedly that "our country will descend into totalitarianism within the next few years," and they believe that Trump has full intention to make that happen if he is elected.
If it makes you feel any better, I am no Trump fan and voted for Biden. I didn’t really think Biden would be a good president but I , mistakenly, believed he would be the lesser of the two evils. Once Biden rolled into office and I saw what he and his people had in store for us I became horrified very quickly. Today, I am absolutely furious about what has happened with these latest events. I live in a super woke part of the country and have many friends who voted for Biden but now absolutely understand what a horrible idea that was. In the 2022 midterms I voted a straight republican ballot. In the next presidential election I will do the same. I have many friends who have the same plan. Between now and then I’m going to be praying every day that Biden and all the authoritarian crooks he surrounds himself will be driven out of office. If not, I will forever remain a member of the resistance. I’m so disgusted right now I can hardly see straight.
Glad you opened your eyes. There’s a lot of people out there that are just “team blue” no matter what that means. I fear there are too many of them
Thank you for sharing this. It is, indeed, helpful and we welcome you to join us in fighting this tyranny.
I fear there aren't enough people like you. None of my progressive friends and acquaintances in the super-blue cities I have lived in (Seattle for years, currently northern Virginia) have any idea what is going on. All they know is that Trump was defeated. They blindly support every Democrat policy advanced, and when confronted with disastrous consequences of those policies, they content themselves by acknowledging that "some of the details need to be worked out."
If only the GOP cared as much as the people they might even win once in awhile. FFS, we are on the verge of nuclear war (and escalating it at every opportunity). we have for all intents and purposes become a police state where the wrong political expression will bring about your social and economic destruction if not incarceration. our children's education has declined to Third World levels if not lower, our economy is teetering on what could be a deep and protracted recession, yet what has the GOP and it toadies been going off about all week?
Drag nuns.
I want to say that "if the Republicans would moderate their extremism, especially the total abortion bans" that they would greatly increase their odds of winning another national election. Unfortunately, the Republicans are very dysfunctional, and some of their coalition members are determined to impose their religious values on everyone else. They are in the same position as the Democrats. As much as I or you or anyone else wants and needs them to be a functional alternative to the Dems, they are not.
Maybe the public should stop thinking that child sacrifice is their right and understand that is is disgusting and wicked.
Wouldn’t matter even if we were more “popular”. The game’s been rigged since 2020, it’s unwinnable.
The two party system has broken down. Where I live there has been only one party for the past 15 or more years capable of being elected.
Nationally there’s two… in theory. The R’s routinely get around %50 of the vote. And more importantly, in swing states, typically more than. %50 in a fair contest. But that is negated by the unequal voter outreach funded by Zuck et al, ballot harvesting, election laws being changed unconstitutionally to favor one side by judges who aren’t legislators (obviously), and outright fraud that is prevented from an evidentiary hearing.
2016 had an unexpected candidate win. :-) so 7 years....Now we're in trouble because the Democrats have gone completely fascist out on the open. They used to do it more secretly (under Obama forward). As Rush used to say, If people knew what Democrats really wanted to do, they'd never vote for them, so they had to lie (Obama).
Keep fighting for TRUTH to come out. Destroy the corrupt press. If we stop big Pharma advertising on Cable and TV, that'd be a start.
The mechanism for peaceful change handed to us by the founding fathers no longer works.
It would if the rules were observed. What we have now is not that mechanism. The new mechanism is easily manipulated by the side that destroyed the real one.
They obviously didn't learn their lesson last year. In a midterm where there should have been a red tsunami, they completely disregarded the damage done by the SCOTUS leak of the Dobbs decision (where the identity of the leaker shall never be exposed) and, as you point out, doubled down on the notion of a nationwide total ban on abortion -- a position supported by perhaps a single-digit percentage. Meanwhile the Left totally capitalized on the fear of such a ban and convinced their voters to once again vote against their own self interest.
You are right BradK, we’re at DEFCON 3 as of Jan ‘23
Maybe "Wargames" and "Dr. Strangelove" should be required viewing in schools?
They do win every now and then.
Get involved, we're a self governing country.
I live in CA. There is absolutely no point in trying to affect any change whatsoever at the state level. My fellow voting citizens consistently choose to drive the bus over the cliff and take the rest of us with it.
The very last opportunity for CA to right itself (no pun intended) was the recall election in 2021 where Larry Elder, the front running Republican candidate, was labeled "The black face of white supremacy" by the state's largest (and disreputable) fishwrap. On the heels of one of the worst lockdowns of the plandemic, voters choose overwhelmingly to keep Newsom in office.
Game, set, match. CA is over and done. There is no rescue, no turning back.
I live in Portland. There is a palpable electrical feeling here that reminds me of videos of bees buzzing around the chamber of their queen.
Never been to Portlandia. It was once a great city from what I've heard, before Antifa turned it into Mogadishu. Been to Seattle a few times though, which has suffered a similar fate. I don't think there is any greater tragedy though than San Francisco. A truly beautiful American city utterly destroyed from within by its own lunacy and arrogance.
Hey Sandra, I’m in Beaverton, come on over to Washington county and leave that evil DA behind ;)
Hi Matt! How great to hear that you are local!
Does it really make a difference, crossing the county line? I am pretty close to it, but this is still very much Portlandia.
Not anymore we’re not
We did win the house albeit narrowly. We just need to beat the propaganda mainstream media (by making it illegal for big pharma to advertise) and get the truth out. Make a plan, keep being positive share the word. The censorship stuff is still out there .
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of dis-figuration - 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.
As I was suggesting earlier the GOP needs to first pull its head out of its ass and let go of the petty culture war nonsense. This is pure misdirection intended to keep your eye off the ball -- and the real issues I stated. The left will always win the culture war. Let's move past this and focus on what really matters in the day-to-day and take our country back.
In the minds of the GOP leadership, scanning a post-nuclear American wasteland while congratulating themselves, "Well, least we finally banned all abortion and even birth control, and put a stop to drag queen story hour" as they raise their martini glasses in a toast offered by Lindsey Graham.
I totally share your perspective BradK! I think that those of us who are living at the center of the hive know what will happen to less radical places, because it was already happening here a few years ago.
The job of the GOP is to absorb all opposition to the radicals running DC. It allows Them to label any new groundswell with all the negativity Republicans have been plastered with for generations. Tea Party? Just a bunch of racist, bumbling old Republicans. MAGA? More racists Repubs. Conservatives? Again. Rich old Republicans that want to take away everything from everyone else. Of course the Republicans play along, that is until one of them is primaried by the new group. Then you see something extraordinary : a Republican putting up a nasty fight. If the primary challenger wins, the GOP withholds all support effectively handing the seat over to a Democrat. The new opposition group is then blamed for being "too radical to win in a general election" and the usual useful idiots parrot their masters by regurgitating this nonsense on boards like this one. You know the ones, looking down their noses at us because they listen to their all-seeing, all-knowing deities who they worship without question.
,,,,I don't know about your childrens' education going third world, but mine aren't
You homeschool?
Mostly. My oldest, who I graduated as a homeschooler in 2014, has a gpa of 3.86 and was told two days ago by her college counselor that she can get into the psychology program at any university she wants. She's no good two-shoes either,,,tattoo on her neck, arms and nose pierced😄
Good job. I have nothing against goodie two shoes, i have no tattoos, no piercings, but just as long as she has her head screwed on straight which she probably does if you home schooled her… Good on you. I have a 2 and 4 year olds and -2 month old :) my wife is a home preschool wizard already
Wonderful and all the best to your family💖💖
Good for you and your daughter! You both must have put in a lot of time and effort to achieve that goal!
Sadly you are right - and it will only get worse before - if ever - the pendulum begins to swing back - probably wishful thinking
Another misleading analogy. We move in one direction only and that's more centralized power and wealth in the central government, less for everyone else. Sometimes Republicans get to advance their agenda in very minor, symbolic ways, but it's never enough to make a difference. That's why one "side's" gains are always wiped out while the other side's gains become law of the land that can't be undone. They are not sides, they are the same people playing divisive games with everything we hold dear.
Vivek is in part, quick to support because he wants to be Trump’s VP. I think this action will help Trump, more evidence to the middle/swing of 2 tier justice amongst political opponents
Not to mention that selecting a POC as a running mate would trigger the Left like there's no tomorrow. The word "token" would be abused into meaninglessness just as "racist" has.
You assume the leadership of at least the Senate republicans is at all interested in reining or in. Their deafening silence betrays their deep desires.
Part of me suspects these actions are attempt to provoke protests in the streets, which Left could then move to shut down and falsely paint those as 'insurrectionists' or 'interference with the rule of law', like they have done w/ Jan 6th. Measured and responsible replies are needed during these tricky times
The scariest thing is that the deep state is becoming less and less concerned with even putting on a show of being anything other than a KGB/Gestapo police state.
It's so blatant. They have no fear of any repercussions. They are saying, "Game over. There is no rule of law. We are the rulers now and we have no rules."
I think they’re testing the limits and waiting to quell any “uprising” with a ban on guns.
Marshall Law, we suspected it under Obama. He had to "learn the ropes" before putting his plans in action.
Please, it's "martial" law, as in military.
For some reason I always spell it wrong. Thanks.
I agree. We the people, we the people without honest media,have allowed this to happen. There will, sadly, be little criticism. And, many of we the people will rejoice. Do they realize what they are throwing away?
No, they don't know that they are throwing away anything of value. They believe that the Constitution is nothing more than a racist document of white male slaveowners.
Wow that is shockingly sad... but true.
Yes, that is what I see as well.
How long are we going to let the corrupt leftist fascists in our government get away with all of their EVIL crimes? God willing, a reckoning for all of them will come, I pray during our lifetime. In the meantime, we must fight and expose their pernicious lies, despotic tyranny, planned bioweapon regime and crimes against humanity, by showing people the truth - the truth they don't want to see. We solve nothing until we can do that and then come together as a people. It is the powerful, hellbent, sociopathic, globalist, elite monsters against the populations around the world. It's that simple. DO NOT COMPLY with any more of their fraudulent, tyrannical dictates. They are acting outside of the Constitution and the law and have been doing so without abandon. and only we can stop it by standing up to their police state tactics.
Yes! 👏👏👏👏
A blast from the past. This provides some illumination about power takeover and mind control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOmXiapfCs8
Thank you, David. I have that same video included in a long compilation of videos I call "Early Warnings" in my latest Substack post, which you may find interesting: https://outoftheordinaryworld.substack.com/p/early-warnings?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Since clearly they want us disarmed, I wrote a short (and so far only) sub stack essay concerning the 2A and talking about the narrative surrounding it.
Excellent article. Thank you for sharing it. I look forward to hearing more from you!
Interesting to see that comment from McCarthy. It seems to me that the House of Representatives has no choice but to impeach Biden at this point.
Evil stalks the land.
And rules it.
It will be thrown out. There's precedence in a case involving Clinton and documents (Bill, not Hillary.) The DOJ and the FBI don't decide what's classified and what isn't. However, we are now in a Banana Republic with a president who has been on the take for decades.
I've looked at this a little closer. They're charging him under the Espionage Act of 1917, which was written to deal with wartime threats. They don't have a prayer of getting a conviction and even if they did, the Supreme Court would toss it. This is a case of an overzealous partisan prosecutor attempting to create a crime then coming up with a law to fit it.
With apologies to Mr. Ramaswamy, we've already crossed over into Banana Republic territory. Hard to pin down the exact moment as there have been so very many qualifying moments in recent history, but make no mistake -- we are here. Gilligan's Island ruled by the Tonton Macoute.
When "Make America Great" is considered akin to treason we're past the PNR. We're speeding down the hill and the brake lines have been cut.
If we were a banana republic we’d at least still be a country. I really don’t believe there’s anything left of America internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally. It took 3 years, 1988 to 1991, for the Soviet Union to collapse. Time is moving much faster now though. We could probably do it in 3 months and the tsunami of shock waves will sweep through our entire online global civilization and perhaps bring it all down. Something like on 911 when the twin towers collapsed ever faster as the upper floors collapsed on those beneath them faster and faster. That’s certainly one big downside to globalization.
I’ve been saying it for a while. Globalists are involved and they want a genuine insurrection. How else can an armed populace be disarmed? The federal government has UN and NATO troops at its disposal. Shove all of these outlandish things in our faces and simply wait for a bit of lashing out. Then move on it. That’s an opinion of course but why else, all of it? Globalists cannot control an armed populace or subjugate a successful capitalist economy. Or Donald Trump.
I think you’re spot on, even if they aren’t that smart, it will happen and it will be used to that effect. I think it’s possible even the globalists don’t see what a win that would be for them
The Biden Administration is absolutely frightening. The country is dissolving before our eyes.
And the world knows it since everyone everywhere sees it online just as easily as we do. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history.
It is not so much the puppet Biden who is the problem. The ability to lead is no longer important now that we are harvesting ballots from the great 40% plurality who could care less.
I think we have to view this as a defensive action because it's so outrageous. Only desperate people do something this stupid. Time to get in their faces.
With every point higher Trump climbs in the polls, the more fear and loathing within the swamp unveils itself.
All he has to do is win POTUS 2024 and all the indictments vanish
No they won’t. It will be interesting.
“Only desperate people do something this stupid.”
They are beyond stupid though. They are Woke which means insane and insane people do things like this fully confident that they can pull it off plus they have the msm and many useful idiots in the general public on their side. They cannot win though. Too many people know that they are insane for them to prevail. The most they can do with things like open borders and the demonization of “Whiteness!” is to destroy the country.
Ideological purists. “Fundamentally changing America.”, remember? We’re dealing with a Color Revolution, and psychological war.
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“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.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
https://quillette.com/2020/09/28/analyst-of-totalitarianism-reading-simon-leys-today/
They are committed. It no longer matters what they do because they are completely unaccountable thanks to ballot harvesting.
Very third world.
I was expecting this but it is still shocking. I know that our country is no longer the place I remember but everyday life sometimes lulls me into believing that things are really not that bad and might return to normal. But then something like this happens and I realize how far we have fallen and that our government is being run by criminals. I don't know how this ends or what can be done to stop it.
Alaska has just got to leave this union. Obama set the U.S. on a course it cannot recover from.
It sickens me what has been done to this country. We are that country... like those we have complained about for years of being so corrupt. The left are so bold with what they do and have no fear of being held accountable. There is no justice in our country anymore. It is a sad day for our republic.
Why do you assume this is still a country? Watch Ep 2 of Tucker I just posted above. This is not a country.
No fan of Vivek's policies, but that's a spot on response.
Vivek may not be what he seems. His spin off company Datavant, teamed up with San Francisco company Snowflake during the ‘pandemic’ to try and establish global database of all Covid cases. Big Brother stuff that health care provider Anthem said ‘no thanks’ to, but others went along
Here is essay on Vivek to ponder by another Substacker I admire:
https://www.dossier.today/p/vetting-vivek-ramaswamy?utm_medium=reader2
The news feels like a combination of the news of the assassination of JFK and MLK, with Joe Biden a combination of Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray. American democracy and the rule of law have been terminated by the Democrats.
Anyone who has escaped a totalitarian banana republic to find asylum in the United States is shaking in their boots right now. They have seen it before!
Not a Trump fan, didn’t listen to the video. I am, however, an enormous fan of both the Constitution and the Republic, I cannot help but feel this is political, but ALSO meant to try and cause chaos. They keep calling our fellow citizens ‘domestic terrorists’, I think they are pushing them to get violent or at least demonstrate against his arrest so that they can place agent provocateurs in amongst them to *help* to rile them up… AGAIN. Color Revolution.
They'd love it if people did that. That's what they've been itching for all these years. Then they could enact gun confiscation, just in time for those 87,000 new IRS agents.
Keep in mind the five rules of propaganda. They make good use of them.
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of dis-figuration - 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.
Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in 5 years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation.
Sasha, you might find interesting a book called It Didn't Start With Watergate by conservative writer Victor Lasky.
Lasky was frustrated that in the seventies Richard Nixon was vilified because of Watergate. So his book presented dirty stuff Democrat heroes did or allegedly did that was as bad or worse than Watergate.
Nothing has changed, except that Donald Trump is today's Nixon. Actually they're making an example of Trump in a way that far exceeds what they did to Nixon.
I'm not a fan of either, but critical thinking allows one to distinguish fairly between different levels of villainy.
We will never lose heart, dear. We fully remember about how good everything was in Feb 2020 and when we declared our independence from Great Britain. Period.
Man up and do what Sasha does, good folks. Put yourself out there for a change. Do not take any $hit from these globalist statists - including republicans.
As I said, 50 years ago, the study of historic authoritarian regimes (pretty much every dictatorship until 1917), contrasted to the brand-new totalitarian regime in Russia was basic political science and international relations discussion. Because nobody had ever seen a totalitarian state before., and social scientists were fascinated.
Some basic conclusions were summed up by aphorisms like:
"Rightists are greedy; Leftists operate on envy" (a Right-wing dictator might want a fleet of Mercedes; a Leftist won't be satisfied until he has taken YOUR car).
"Rightists abolish politics; Leftists politicize everything" (Rightists remove political questions from public discussion and decision; Leftists insist on making the most trivial, personal behavior subject to government scrutiny and decision). The 'New Left' slogan -- "the personal is political" sums up their thinking -- there are no limits to government control. Hitler didn't care which bathroom you used unless you were creating a disturbance. Yet the Left is putting people in front of a judge because they object to men sharing the shower room with their daughters. Heck. they might lose their jobs if they even address a delusional man with male pronouns. That is totalitarianism to a 'T'.
I think C S Lewis (or maybe Belloc) defined Leftism as a never-ending war against everything normal. Their old cover story used to be that they were 'progressives' trying to create a new and improved society - but of course, before they could build a new one (sigh), the old/normal one would have to be destroyed.
The difference between the two is simply the difference between Right and Left. Leftists create totalitarian regimes to create a new version of humanity accepting of Leftists' existential fury at being alienated from normal human society due to their own oddities. Leftists' war is with Human Nature. Normal humans accept their Human Nature as normal and unremarkable. In fact, it is innate, inherited, and immutable -- which means every Leftist/totalitarian regime must fail. Normal people don't accept known congenital criminals, sexual perverts, idiots, lunatics, militant atheists, and just-plain aliens into normal society. Never have; never will. Throughout human history, dictators have understood that they had to run their domains within the bounds of Human Nature, which is why authoritarian dictators tried to control people's actions, but only to the extent they thought necessary to maintain power. They had no desire to alter the basic characteristics of Homo sapiens. Leftists, not being able to conform to normal behavior in order to be accepted by normal society, have to destroy existing society (to which they can never belong), and create a society where the population does not operate according to Human Nature. They try to alter basic human behaviors by force (soft and hard). The reason their regimes end in mass murder and failure is because Human Nature is immutable, but they are incapable of facing this fact, so they simply increase the force and terror to make changes. The fact that they soon find themselves killing most of the people they rule is no problem, since ultimately, the only way to create a society of weirdos is to kill all the normal people.
We were warned not to think it couldn't happen here.
Fighting back will require sacrifice few are willing to make.
The second most read book on history, Atlas Shrugged, was initially titled "The Strike". That is what is needed, as a start. Huge numbers of people must stop watching TV, stop going to movies, stop using Facebook, instagram, etc, stop buying Dem aligned products, pull their money out of stocks and the banks, and more.
I would not be surprised to see large protests in DC that end up in government suppression as in the protests at the 68 Dem convention in Chicago. I would not be surprised to see thousands of people surround Trump and dare the feds to go through them to arrest Trump.
I would also not be surprised to see a military coup occur. It has reached that level.
You must remember that the deaths of large numbers of people do not bother democrats at all. Just sayin'.
If it is their own deaths they will likely feel differently. Most Democrats I know are incapable of defending themselves.
True. But it bothers almost all voters, dem and Repubs.
Dude. This is not a novel. Top Dems may be complicit but it is only those with power.
Fighting back will only require a few, if it is against the WEF.
Don’t help them. Not one single protest, not one battle in the US is needed.
There are times when you must fight. For the last 12 years we have been peaceful. How has that worked out?
Our fight is within, because without the US, the WEF is meaningless.
Btw...fiction often preceds reality. Something tells me you don't read much of either, dude.
How can you say the WEF, in internatioal organization formed by a German in 1971, is meaningless?? It now wields corporate power, money and influence. It has used that power through corporate-owned media to divide us. It now seeks to bring down our economy and to disarm us and to throw this nation into battling disarray.
Any such happenings within the United States is a victory for them.
It is the rise of the Fourth Reich. THEY are the enemy. They exist to assault the national sovereignty of every nation.
They are the enemy, but they are not who you fight.
And why not. Being the source of the problem, explain to me why not. We should instead fight Americans? Pure idiocy. That is what they want.
Something about fiction, which in fact, I both read and write; it is critical that one knows the difference between that and reality.
Logical thinking skills are also critical.
The only thing we are missing in this country to be a full fledged banana republic is the required bribery of all public servants by the common people to accomplish anything. I have no doubt that we are headed in that direction very soon.
Welcome to the new Soviet Union.
Buckle up, y'all.
It'll get a Lot worse before it gets better... if we last long enough, that is.
Putin blasts cancel culture, calls gender fluidity ‘crime against humanity.’
The Hill. Oct 22, 2021
https://thehill.com/homenews/578094-putin-blasts-cancel-culture-calls-gender-fluidity-crime-against-humanity/
Just watched Ep 2 of Tucker on Real Clear Politics videos. Maybe they’ll be here every day after this. I think most people would prefer watching him on RCP than Twitter. RCP is a great site. I check it every day. And every day I see our once great nation sinking into insanity. This does not bode well for our future.
“Tucker Carlson: What Is White Supremacy?”
Ep. 2 Cling to your taboos. Jun 8, 2023
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/06/08/tucker_carlson_what_is_white_supremacy_when_a_crime_has_no_definition_anybody_can_be_guilty_of_it.html
Of interest. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-6-10-thoughts-on-the-federal-trump-indictment-its-shockingly-weak
Don’t we all remember Comey saying that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such charges?
For some legal context of this latest "crime "
See here::
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/07/jack-smith-andrew-weissmann-and-lisa-monacos-novel-theory-us-code-793-to-prosecute-trump-it-wont-work/
Thank you Sasha! Circle the wagons, spread the word!
Didn't the 5M bribe news Biden took via Burisma break today? They had to Trump it.... It's SO clear to us, but to the part of America that listens to the Lying Democrat press, they're clueless. Let's help educate them.
Stay strong and keep fighting back!!
IT IS NOT JOE BIDEN doing this- it is BHO! They are terrified of Trump because they know he loves America and only wants the best for ALL of us. They only love POWER-
Biden is just a trash receptacle for whatever his handlers dump into him.
he is a game piece only.
What are they accusing him of this time around?
Forgive me, I pretty much ignore the news these days...
RIP USA
The good news is that Trump will be tried in Miami, not by a kangaroo court in D.C. (the District of Corruption).
The bad news is that Biden and his co-conspirators have a lot to answer for and instead brazenly twist even the law to their own advantage. If swing voters don't see the terrible need to vote out this hypocrisy, we really are in deep trouble.
They may be indicting Trump so Joe can pardon him and Hunter Biden at the same time. That might be the plan to sweep Joe's corruption under the rug.
Well..... You think California's gone forever. Short-term, seems to be. But I think really you never know what's going to happen in the future. if it gets so bad, people wake up and we educate the people and get rid of the propaganda media maybe they'll vote differently. I think you got to find a way. And anything can happen perhaps things we aren't even envisioning. Perhaps all the illegal migrants will vote Republican. How can we make that happen? Or independent or something, maybe we end up having new political parties like they do over the UK.
But if the people knew the truth and they knew how corrupt these people were, we'd have all the people against them really and then we'd win. We have to keep fighting no doubt. We have to stay positive though and fight and we need some strategies straight away. #warroom
2/3 of my family lives in CA. When articles about the mass migration out are written, they often post them to facebook or instagram with snarky comments like, "More Republicans leaving the state. Good riddance! Now we can finally get this state up and running again."
No self awareness or self reflection. Ever.
Yeah, such a strange time. Especially with all the Democrats wanting Trump in Prison because the media says so. So, our enemy is the Media, Trump was right about that too. How to defeat? Sue? Class action, on behalf of the people? Anyone else have any solutions or ideas to combat the dis, mis, mal and other crappy info??
No borders means no country. We will never recover from the damage done. The “court dates” for “migrants” are meaningless since most don’t show up and even if they do and are denied asylum we have no way to enforce the order to leave so it’s just ignored. Democrats opened the border for political gain and created a monster which is already out of control and will only get worse. Democrats have destroyed America. Democrats are evil.
I believe their goal is to destroy the middle class and then start a UBI for the illegals and remnants of the ruined middle class which would make them dependent on and therefore under the control of the Democratic Party aka Satan’s Lapdogs.
I agree, they're trying to flood the country to have more Democrat voters. But, I don't think America's destroyed. We're a self governing Republic and we all need to get more involved. Stay positive and strategize with like-minded people with integrity. Maybe we can convince the illegals to vote Republican. :-) I think Venezuelans and Cubans already do that having experienced communism and totalitarian gov'ts first hand. But you're right- we do have a fight on our hands. Hugo Chavez destroyed Venezuela is about 10 years I believe. So, Let's get going!!
This isn't complicated. Just a demonstration if you run for President and you are not a Democrat, you might go to jail for 100 years. The next step is if you are a VOTER and don't VOTE for the Democrat, you might go to jail for 100 years. Or (to save $$) just disappear.
Here is a good rant:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1666985088834236418
But why has our society collapsed into insanity? What caused this awful situation? Some excerpts below from a Quillette review of a book about the irrational side of human nature. The last one says: “One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.” That sure is the truth.
“Mackay makes the case, often in gory detail, that episodes of collective mania seem to be an inevitable consequence of human nature. Humans in every time and place have cast aside their better judgment and allowed themselves to be caught up in all manner of irrational hoopla.“
“His chapters on the Swabian Peasants’ War and Anabaptist uprisings are terrifying depictions of the end-times frenzy that wreaked havoc on northern Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The distance between these events in the German-speaking world and, say, the Reign of Terror in France or the Chinese Cultural Revolution is not that great. And the speed with which apparently reasonable people moved from the embrace of a new theological idea to a willingness to torture those whose own theological ideas diverged even slightly is startling.“
“There is plenty to recommend about The Delusions of Crowds. It is laden with great anecdotes and the writing is always engaging. One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.”
“The Delusion of Crowds-A Review.”
https://quillette.com/2021/02/08/the-delusions-of-crowds-a-review/
If we have to rely on Republicans to protect us from Democrats, we're doomed. If we ever come to blows, don't forget those that sat by in positions of power and did nothing. They are worse and they deserve worse.
No one I know of is more intelligent, articulate, quick thinking and knowledgeable in so many areas as Vivek Ramaswamy. Watch him demolish Dana Bash, CNN, the msm, the democrats and this worthless farce of an “Indictment!” Really impressive. No doubt the CNN producers were appalled by how easily Vivek mopped the floor with their host, Dana. Maybe she’ll join Don Lemon in early retirement from CNN. Their great problem is though that there is no one on the Woke democratic left or their media who could do any better in a debate with Vivek. He’s like a steam roller who just runs over them and leaves them squashed flat like little bugs on the ground.
“Vivek Ramaswamy Talks Trump Indictment on CNN 6.11.23.” (9 min)
Vivek Ramaswamy. Jun 11, 2023
https://youtu.be/aVAcnMhf72g
Lock him up
I saw a video of Vivek Ramaswamy recently at a Townhall meeting where he was asked what he would do on his first day as president. He said he would issue an Executive Order banning race based affirmative action. That’s exactly the 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.
We’re in a reality war of the Woke vs the nonWoke. Compare a nonWoke public intellectual like Vivek Ramaswamy to a Woke public intellectual like Ibram X. Kendi and the difference is like the difference between day and night or sanity vs insanity yet our ruling class, their media and their many useful idiot followers in the general public prefer Kendi! Watch what Saagar has to say about our ruling class war on merit for the sake of Equity.
So what should we do? We should make use of our greatest advantage against the Woke which is the superbly high quality of people on our side like Elon, Vivek, Tucker, Tulsi, Sasha, Matt Taibbi, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Harmeet Dhillon and so many other people like them. Follow people like this and share information from them with others. Plus follow the exponential advance of AI. This is the wild card now and from now on. This is truly a game changer for humanity. This time really is different. The best of times. The worst of times.
“Exposed: Med Schools Drop Merit For Racial Admissions.” (6 min)
Breaking Points. Saagar Enjeti. Jan 30, 2023
https://youtu.be/xpH6jTMApW4
Ok, so what rules break this?
We knew justice was an ideal, something that existed primarily in the mind and in emotions. There is, for instance, no way to bring back the victims of murder, and varying remedies are tried. But injustice has just as many forms, the most obvious being the selective application of the law.
Did you even read my comment? I said "without the US the WEF is meaningless"..
And that comment is hopelessly dead wrong.
If you believe the WEF has any real power if they lose the support of the US, you are not thinking clearly.
First off, how do you fight the WEF? The have no formal authority and are not elected. Second, their only influence comes from what governments give them. Right now, that comes mostly from the US. And if you take that way, they are severely weakened.
I have already answered this in response to your remark about fiction preceding real events. The WEF is international, founded in 1971 by a German. Merkel was a member before she became Germany’s chancellor. They have garnered the support of multinational corporate entities and wield power through them. There is far more money and influence there than the US and China put together. It is the rise of the Fourth Reich. Corporate media has been used to deliberately divide us and they seek to bring down our capitalistic economy and what remains of our democratic republic, and they are managing it very effectively. Their members have largely been duped.
You fight it the same way you fight any aggressor. You destroy it, from the top down. Fighting among ourselves accomplishes its goals. It was with our help that Germany was last defeated, and the US is just a plum to them.
They ARE who you fight. They do not expect to bleed. They MUST.
A jury will decide.
At what point does “sedition” become heroic, I wonder.
I hope people will start to see that it really isn’t within; it’s the WEF. They are standing away from all of this expecting to get through it totally unscathed.
That must not be allowed. Take it down and the source of all of this trouble is gone.
The healing might then begin.
And how do you take down the WEF? And if you do, do you honestly think the governments who supported them will stand down? Think critically and logically.
Yes. I do think they will stand down.
And that is the basis of our disagreement.
According to you. You believe the WEF has no power, because it is unelected. Therefore no despotic dictator ever had power. Other countries may decide to continue a WEF in some form or other, but after a direct attack the message will be clear. Mitts off the US.
Isn’t it interesting that China is immune? Russia?
At this point I generally dismiss as uninformed. Suggest you think a little harder. The only other choice I see is a very stupid civil war, total societal collapse and life under tyranny, tracking, punishment, making Orwellian society look far better.
Boy do you have a real problem with logic and understanding, or rather likely intentional misinterpretation.
What I specifically said is that the WEF has no power other than through governments. Big difference dude.
Tell me, can the WEF pass laws? Can the WEF dwclare war? Can the WEF arrest people. The WEF can not do anything if governments dont follow their suggestions.
Cut the line between the US government and the WEF and they are impotent.
But you are stupid, so wont understand this.
Well, first, if there was any way to “cut the line,” that would be the way to go. If you were not the idiot you accuse me of being I’d be very interested in how that might be done. But you’re stupid and you don’t have a way.
You said unelected. You said nothing about “through other governments.”
ESG might be considered law, since corporations get debanked unless they are on board. So they made the Netherlands seize and shut down 3,000 farms. No laws.
Fuck you.
I’m not willing.
“Vivek Ramaswamy Talks Trump Indictment on CNN 6.11.23.” (9 min)
Vivek Ramaswamy. Jun 11, 2023
https://youtu.be/aVAcnMhf72g
“Vivek Ramaswamy Talks Trump Indictment on CNN 6.11.23.” (9 min)
Vivek Ramaswamy. Jun 11, 2023
https://youtu.be/aVAcnMhf72g
“I'd love to know what you think about this latest fiasco.”
I agree with Vivek and think this is just more of the same crap the democrats have been doing since 2016. Shortly after Trump was elected and the democrat’s “Resistance!” began I told a Mexican friend at work in Chicago, a Trump supporter who’s from Guerrero, one of Mexico’s poorest and most dangerous states, that the inability to transition to a new government after an election is a classic sign of a failed state. He actually shuddered as if a cold chill had just run down his spine. I never forgot his reaction to what I said.
I voted for Trump twice although I’d now much prefer Vivek Ramaswamy whose campaign is based on fighting Woke ideology. The question is though, is America even still governable or even still a country? I have no doubt the democrats would love to do to me what they did to the QAnon Shaman (prison) or to Ashli Babbitt (murder) at the Jan 6 Capitol rally in 2021. No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally?
“Russiagate: The Scandal That Became Business As Usual.”
Real Clear Politics Commentary. Jun 8, 2023
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/08/russiagate_the_scandal_that_became_business_as_usual_149331.html
Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in 5 years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history.
“Speak of the Devil: How Demonizing ‘Whiteness’ Spreads White Nationalism.” (6 min)
By Bret Weinstein. Jun 5, 2019
https://youtu.be/S1sJgjG5AF4