RFK Jr's speech has brought a new optimism for me into this race. I had been feeling pretty down but I am pretty excited now. The thought of Trump winning and having RFK Jr overhauling the nasty foods in this country and the pharma control of the agencies would be an amazing thing.
I hope and think Trump learned a lot in his first term about who to trust and who to listen to and who to appoint where. I hope he makes full use of all the smart and influential people who are lining up to support him (Kash Patel has to be in there somewhere). It's going to be an unseen internal war when he wins and it will require cutting off the head(s) of the deep state. Trump has to start up on day one and be relentless weeding out the corrupt forces in our government.
I'm afraid you had it right the first time. The difference between then and now is that now self-interest and a moralistic ideology are in alignment. That combination produces a powerful incentive for action in accordance with self-interest: the moralistic aspect of the ideology conveniently washes away any and all feelings of guilt. The road ahead is clear!
It's been 'taken' before and yet here we are. I strongly recommend the book about the 4th turning. I read it on vacation in March.
Also, read DiStefano The Realignment.
What I'm trying to say is that throughout our history, the USA has contended with enormous internal threats. JHC... we didn't have a Constitution for 13 years after declaring Independence and that document has been under assault ever since by forces both foreign and domestic.
We have become a fat...FAT and lazy populace drugged on iPhones instead of TV. Weve almost surrendered. Almost.
But if there's ONE thing I know about our nation is that...
When times get tough Heroes rise. It's now happening in real time right before our eyes since July 13th.
If you haven’t already read yesterday’s essay by Toby Rogers, here is the conclusion: “Our society is now a strange hybrid of the Middle Ages, the Third Reich, and Brave New World. We have two classes — lords and peasants; we are in the midst of a very profitable genocide; and it’s all infused with surveillance technology, mind-altering drugs, and wall-to-wall propaganda.
The urgent task for the Resistance is to define a political economy that addresses the failures of conservatism, liberalism, and progressivism while charting a way forward that destroys fascism and restores freedom and human flourishing. That’s the conversation that we need to have all day every day until we figure this out. “
I'll take the formerly usual "laundry list" of policies over either nothingness or an ideology founded on fallacies, ignorance, and hate. A mix of the latter is all we are ever going to get from Cacklin' Kamala.
But does her country even still exist as a country? I thought RFK’s speech was great but then quickly saw that the msm censored what he said about the Democratic Party and just reported that he’d dropped out of the race and it wouldn’t change anything since most people had already realized the guy’s just a conspiracy theories nutcase.
To me! that is why it is so important for Trump and the Republican Party to win. The way the country is going is not good. I'm not a supporter of RFK Jr but I knew that his biggest opponent was the liberal media and the democratic establishment.
Msm is irrelevant- sure their censorship makes it more difficult to get the whole truth out but people who want to know get the information one way or another. I agree with RFK - there is a political & cultural shift happening. It’s a shaking & it’s difficult to live through, but so needed. We are in deep sh** as a country. These things happening, the lining up of good, smart people who will risk everything in order to work together to set us on the right path as a country - these are such unexpected & almost miraculous happenings that were set in motion with Trumps miracle on 7/13. It all means something. Never easy when you threaten the ones in power.
It's up to us to pass it on. I went to an adult birthday party this evening. I told everyone to not only watch RFK Jr's speech but most importantly his interview with Tucker. He describes a way to talk to Dems. I will re listen again tomorrow. Well worth the investment of time. Well worth.
But it only takes a few of them to register illegal aliens and stuff ballot boxes to win again. Please All, help out with the election in any way you can!
I hope your'e right Sasha. However, I sense that 2028 will be too late. If the corrupt Democrats and their lackey institutions of power rule for another four years, American freedoms and democracy could be beyond recovery. If there's anything left to recover after their war mongering starts WW3.
Just look at strategies the power addicts like Chavez/Maduro in Venezuela, Ortega in Nicaragua, and of course those in Russia and Cuba did to ensure they will never give up power. Take control of the Supreme Court, elections, and the national assembly. Once you own the court (as will be the case when the Democrats pack it with their partisans), any law you favor will be upheld and those they don't like will be nullified or re-interpreted into meaninglessness. Ortega in Nicaragua had his court exempt him from the term limits that are in the Nicaragua Constitution! When they pack SCOTUS then I believe it is all over. It's 2024 or bust.
I don’t think ANY elite wants even limited nukes. They would have already deployed imo. We are already IN WWIII, and I believe it’ll be the dems undoing. People are truly sick of it and the sleeping giant is rustling.
The only thing keeping them competetive is the dislike of Trump. They define themselves by Trump. Even if Trump loses, once he's gone, they will have nothing.
They'll always have abortion to b!tch about. They want it enshrined in the constitution. I fear for children like never before, that the left won't stop till pedophilia is legal. Then what? Animals? Marry your dog or horse? They are sick. Soulless.
Most people don't know that the Roe v Wade decision was based on an inferred right to privacy in the 14th amendment. So if you codify the right to an abortion into the Constitution, you are codifying the right to privacy also. And that takes away almost all of their ammunition. Spying, data harvesting, algorithmic analysis of social media activity, etc... will all become unconstitutional.
Not that Dems give a hoot about formalities like that.
I’m pro-choice. My mother was super pro-choice and my sister had two abortions because she couldn’t afford more kids. We’d be a lot better off if we just left that as a personal decision.
I am happy to leave it as a personal decision as long as the two most vested lives in the procedure, the child and the mother, get equal representation in the decision. Per science, human life begins at conception. And Seva, please know that I am sorry for your sister’s pain and for the children she aborted. There are no winners in it.
The pro life movement's huge mistake was making it a political fight. If Christians and other pro life people had been paying attention in the mid '70s, they'd have realized that the country had already gotten drawn into the quicksand of post Christianity. Every penny of the billions of dollars which went to "pro life" politicians, some of whom may have been genuinely pro life, should have gone instead to the support of crisis pregnancy centers and the building of new crisis pregnancy centers all over the country.
Think of how many more unborn children's lives might have been saved!
And yes, Seva, when a fertilized eggs implants, a new human life, genetically unique, has come into being. It is impossible to make a case that this is not so. Even Bill Maher has acknowledged this. He's for abortion on demand, though he acknowledges that an abortion is the murder of a human being. Horrifying, but true.
It is horrifying that 70% of the American public is "pro choice," but politically, those of us who cannot lie to ourselves about what an unborn child is need to live with that, fight political battles which we can win, and fight our pro life struggle non politically.
we don't have to get our own way all the dang time. how about make our own choices for ourselves, and let uh, your deity of choice decide who is right later?
That's by design. Per the words of Barack Obama, if you have nothing to run on, you attack and demonize your opponent. It's been pretty effective, but it's pretty pathetic for a party that's supposed to be compassionate and all the other BS. They're full of hate. And they're inside of a bubble it's so bizarre, & such a world of delusion. Kamala Harris won't even debate, she won't even go on Fox news or any program That's how little she respects the American people. And she disrespects the journalists who are complete pushovers and under state control. How some people can't see it is amazing to me and a case study in and of itself.
I have background in the cross-disciplines which explain totalitarianism. You might say that totalitarian pursuits are just like mass cults. The Democrats are one big ugly cult these days. Wanting as much destructive power and control as possible. And they do not care how many they hurt to get it.
A large part of totalitarianism is capturing minds first; bodies and countries fall in line after the mind goes.
Good Quillette about Simon Leys on totalitarianism.
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
Simon Leys is by no means obscure—much of his work is still in print, and he was the subject of a major biography by Philippe Paquet entitled Simon Leys: Navigator between Worlds. But he deserves greater recognition as an analyst of totalitarianism, not least for the way in which he built upon Czesław Miłosz’s warning: “The man of the East cannot take Americans seriously because they have never undergone the experiences that teach men how relative their judgments and thinking habits are. Their resultant lack of imagination is appalling… If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” To this, Leys added (in the Los Angeles Times of all places): “The everyday order of our lives may seem to us natural and permanent, but it is in fact as fragile and illusory as the cardboard props on a theatrical stage: It can collapse in a flash and turn at once into black horror. Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
"But even if they do win in 2024, 2028 will be breathing down their necks. Whatever happens in November, the rise of the American Dream Team illuminates this country’s future."
I have great respect for you, Sasha, but this is a fantasy. If they win in 2024, they will absolutely destroy anything that's left of their opposition. ("They", being Democrats, RINOs, the Gatesian elite.) Like an abuser who is allowed to go back into the home, with the "strong admonition" that "we're keeping an eye on you..." Abusers, narcissists and psychopaths are always most dangerous when their targets try to leave them.
I wish there was an ounce of possibility that 2028 will be breathing down their necks. Trump loses to these people (who are lockstep with the rest of the falling West) and the seawall has been breached.
They are jailing people in Europe for publicly disagreeing with the violent overthrow of their countries. Covid showed what these governments are capable of (including Walz's Minnesota shooting non-lethal rounds at people sitting on their own porches.) Canada is gone; Australia is gone; the EU is gone; Britain is gone. There is no cavalry coming. Every single one of the "dream team" will be in jail (if they are lucky.) There is literally infinite money and power motivating the authoritarians, they've just arrested one billionaire, and they're openly threatening another.
I feel hope too, just not nearly as optimistic regarding the "at least we have 4 years from now" thought. Watch France, Macron today literally saying "ya, I called an election, but you are too stupid to take power, so I'm gonna keep it in the best interest of the state". The UK, literally releasing murderers and locking up mean tweets. Authoritarianism happens slowly, then ALL AT ONCE.
The NRA is a lot of things, and reasonable people can agree to disagree about them. One thing they've been 100% against consistently since the 80's has been incrementalism, which is why they have never ever once conceded a reasonable argument against assault rifles. I've thought that dogma was illogical at times, but I no longer do. We need to be strongly against incremental individual liberty attacks.
Incrementalism starts with banning mean tweets and ends with totalitarianism. The power-hungry machine of the Dems/3 letter agencies/and corporate interests are incrementalists. We need to resist now, and not be ok with '28, as it could easily be way too late....
"The Biden/Harris administration believes the non-compliant are enemies of the state. We also have an army of zealots who are paranoid enough to want to know everything about everyone and threaten to destroy our lives if we dare step out of line."
What this is called is Communist-totalitarianism. As in CCP China.
They are a brilliant team. However. The dem ballot harvesting and fake votes are not being addressed.
Kamala taking a weeklong yellow bus ride through Georgia- filling in the mail in ballots at the Walmart parking lots - thousands of them. And not a harsh word could be spoken.
I saw a podcast in Philadelphia in the drug addled City with junkies all over the place ---those cities have been run by democrats for decades. It never ceases to amaze me how Black America still votes for that party largely when they do nothing for them. Trump went to the hood what a month ago? I don't think Obama's ever gone ever since he's made it.
I’m next to Philly and went to HS there and lived there for years. The blacks there are cradle to grave complete dependents on the governments; Fed/State/City. Subsidized delivery at birth, pre-K to 12 full year day care called “schools”, 80%+ failure in grade level proficiency tests, average a murder a week and 3x that shot, 10x that felony incidents, if they work it is 90%+ for a government entity of some type, 70%+ born out of wedlock and no father allowed in the house for fear of loss of food stamps, etc.
Honestly, the Democrats were the party of slavery and they still are. For every one that makes it on their own merit, there are 99 that were either aborted, murdered, in prison, in a DEI job, or simply left behind. And it won’t change because their master is the urban Democratic Machine and it controls every aspect of their life from conception to death.
"Kamala Harris’ father, Donald Harris, was a tenured self-professed Marxist economist at Stanford University. Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II, father of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, was an openly admitted tenured Marxist professor of literature at Notre Dame, funded incidentally by the William R. Kenan Foundation in Chapel Hill.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama was mentored in his youth by avowed communist writer, playwright and activist Frank Marshall Davis. His chief political adviser, Valerie Jarrett, grew up in a family surrounded by numerous outspoken communist professors and activists who are too many to list here." https://nsjonline.com/article/2024/08/hill-marxist-college-professor-dinner-table-talk/
Another point to mention is that Frank Marshall Davis has long been rumoured to have been the biological father of Obama, and not just his mentor. In the same way that in Canada, former PM Pierre Troodo (Communist) was the stepfather of current PM Justin Troodo, but his biological father was very likely to have been Fidel of Cuba.
While Margaret Trudeau seems to have had an affair with Fidel, the timing is such that paternity seems unlikely. There is a picture of them at what purports to be their first meeting and she has baby Justin. Could have been Mick Jagger though.
Those in the know would put conception of Justin just after the Troodo marriage, when they had plenty of private time to swing by Cuba. Pierre had been there illicitly many times before.
And it was not an affair in the sense you think. It was an arrangement. Pierre adored Fidel. To raise Fidel's child as the next Communist leader in North America would have kept old power-mongering Pierre walking on clouds the rest of his life. He was a fellow Communist, of course, and wanted a Castreau dynasty.
There was an official pregnancy announcement four months into their marriage. So that part is correct. He would have been conceived one month after the marriage, barring fudging the dates. I can't prove your scenario is wrong but it just seems unlikely. A Prime Minister's wife would have a hard time just disappearing, especially right after a celebrity marriage. She did have a reputation, like Churchill's mother, of screwing any male that came in sight. Margaret Sinclair was drawn to celebrities while Jenny Jerome liked aristocrats.
Regardless of his parentage, Justin is a totalitarian like both of his purported fathers.
Doing a little research, I noted that Wikipedia had carefully excised any mention of Justin's first wife who divorced him when he got an underage girl pregnant. He also got fired from the school where he was a teacher and she was a student.
Pierre and Margaret were married March 4, 1971. Justin was born December 25, 1971. Which puts it in the right time-frame for a honeymoon trip to see Fidel (who became the father of many more children too).
There used to be American Intell Agency files on the internet for years, about Pierre and his trips to Cuba, often by fishing boat from Florida. But then the files were wiped.
Of course JT is a totalitarian. Never any doubt about that.
I knew about the school firing of Justin. Where did you find the info. about a first marriage for JT?
I recommend that everyone take some time and go over to the Substack by James Lindsay at New Discourses. Today he posted a podcast (11 minutes) on the fact that WOKE is evil. Not just accidental harm or incompetence....but intentional evil.
WOKE is totalitarianism, which intends to destroy the world, because they think they can remake it to their wishes. In a totalitarian model. The WOKE are in a mass delusion, and they want to pull you in too.
Many people have explained this publicly in the past, but so few bothered to listen.
Everyone REALLY needs to listen now! The West is on the brink.
RFK Jr's speech has brought a new optimism for me into this race. I had been feeling pretty down but I am pretty excited now. The thought of Trump winning and having RFK Jr overhauling the nasty foods in this country and the pharma control of the agencies would be an amazing thing.
True. Plus Musk and Tulsi are wonderful
And Vance
I am excited to see Vance with Tucker in Hershey, PA in September.
I think Vance is the smartest guy on our side
They are!
As RFK Jr said, “Make America Healthy Again”…I’m all for this!!
Anti-vax k00kery doesn't make anyone healthier. Quite the opposite, actually.
I hope and think Trump learned a lot in his first term about who to trust and who to listen to and who to appoint where. I hope he makes full use of all the smart and influential people who are lining up to support him (Kash Patel has to be in there somewhere). It's going to be an unseen internal war when he wins and it will require cutting off the head(s) of the deep state. Trump has to start up on day one and be relentless weeding out the corrupt forces in our government.
I hope so as well!
I'm afraid you had it right the first time. The difference between then and now is that now self-interest and a moralistic ideology are in alignment. That combination produces a powerful incentive for action in accordance with self-interest: the moralistic aspect of the ideology conveniently washes away any and all feelings of guilt. The road ahead is clear!
Seeing RFK Jr. was shocking. It brought me back to a time when politicians did real things.
Sasha, Your words are encouraging and I hope SO MUCH you are correct.
BUT I really fear, though, that the United States has been taken and they may never lose the grasp on their power grab.
They're in bed with nearly every major institution.
It's been 'taken' before and yet here we are. I strongly recommend the book about the 4th turning. I read it on vacation in March.
Also, read DiStefano The Realignment.
What I'm trying to say is that throughout our history, the USA has contended with enormous internal threats. JHC... we didn't have a Constitution for 13 years after declaring Independence and that document has been under assault ever since by forces both foreign and domestic.
We have become a fat...FAT and lazy populace drugged on iPhones instead of TV. Weve almost surrendered. Almost.
But if there's ONE thing I know about our nation is that...
When times get tough Heroes rise. It's now happening in real time right before our eyes since July 13th.
And...and... Just as they are among us...
WE ARE AMONG THEM
I really hope so.
I'm afraid there won't be a "Hero" rising.
So far they're throwing all who "rise" in PRISON!
Thanks Jim for reminding us that we’ve been here before and “ when times get tough Heroes rise” and it will happen again.
If you haven’t already read yesterday’s essay by Toby Rogers, here is the conclusion: “Our society is now a strange hybrid of the Middle Ages, the Third Reich, and Brave New World. We have two classes — lords and peasants; we are in the midst of a very profitable genocide; and it’s all infused with surveillance technology, mind-altering drugs, and wall-to-wall propaganda.
The urgent task for the Resistance is to define a political economy that addresses the failures of conservatism, liberalism, and progressivism while charting a way forward that destroys fascism and restores freedom and human flourishing. That’s the conversation that we need to have all day every day until we figure this out. “
uTobian is awesome. One of my favorite Substack authors for sure, along with Sasha of course.
This is so weird...I went to his page to subscribe, and it won't work. I'm not having trouble with any other page.
I'll take the formerly usual "laundry list" of policies over either nothingness or an ideology founded on fallacies, ignorance, and hate. A mix of the latter is all we are ever going to get from Cacklin' Kamala.
100 percent, Toni!
Tulsi Gabbard is awesome. She speaks the truth and doesn't make decisions for the party, but her country.
Trump, Vance, Musk, Kennedy, Gabbard all have courage. Courage is the rarest of attributes; we are very blessed to have them fighting for our country.
But does her country even still exist as a country? I thought RFK’s speech was great but then quickly saw that the msm censored what he said about the Democratic Party and just reported that he’d dropped out of the race and it wouldn’t change anything since most people had already realized the guy’s just a conspiracy theories nutcase.
I encourage you to have hope, Seva. Many people here appreciate your comments and consider you someone with leadership.
I hear you but I remind myself that the MSM is less relevant every single day.
To me! that is why it is so important for Trump and the Republican Party to win. The way the country is going is not good. I'm not a supporter of RFK Jr but I knew that his biggest opponent was the liberal media and the democratic establishment.
Of course they censored his comments about the Democratic Party, that is to be expected and comes with the territory.
Msm is irrelevant- sure their censorship makes it more difficult to get the whole truth out but people who want to know get the information one way or another. I agree with RFK - there is a political & cultural shift happening. It’s a shaking & it’s difficult to live through, but so needed. We are in deep sh** as a country. These things happening, the lining up of good, smart people who will risk everything in order to work together to set us on the right path as a country - these are such unexpected & almost miraculous happenings that were set in motion with Trumps miracle on 7/13. It all means something. Never easy when you threaten the ones in power.
It's up to us to pass it on. I went to an adult birthday party this evening. I told everyone to not only watch RFK Jr's speech but most importantly his interview with Tucker. He describes a way to talk to Dems. I will re listen again tomorrow. Well worth the investment of time. Well worth.
I will then write a SS and get it out.
I agree. It feels like something big is happening. There is so much disgust with the current situation, but it feels like hope is on the horizon.
I agree with your optimism. I cannot envision another time in my long adult life when such a diverse team could be assembled.
Having said that, we ARE at a do or die moment for our country.
The most important and truest words yet this year: “the Democratic Party is collapsing.”
But it only takes a few of them to register illegal aliens and stuff ballot boxes to win again. Please All, help out with the election in any way you can!
I hope your'e right Sasha. However, I sense that 2028 will be too late. If the corrupt Democrats and their lackey institutions of power rule for another four years, American freedoms and democracy could be beyond recovery. If there's anything left to recover after their war mongering starts WW3.
It's never too late. See David versus Goliath, and the United States revolution against mighty Great Britain.
It was a secession, not a revolution. But it does give reason for hope.
Just look at strategies the power addicts like Chavez/Maduro in Venezuela, Ortega in Nicaragua, and of course those in Russia and Cuba did to ensure they will never give up power. Take control of the Supreme Court, elections, and the national assembly. Once you own the court (as will be the case when the Democrats pack it with their partisans), any law you favor will be upheld and those they don't like will be nullified or re-interpreted into meaninglessness. Ortega in Nicaragua had his court exempt him from the term limits that are in the Nicaragua Constitution! When they pack SCOTUS then I believe it is all over. It's 2024 or bust.
I don’t think ANY elite wants even limited nukes. They would have already deployed imo. We are already IN WWIII, and I believe it’ll be the dems undoing. People are truly sick of it and the sleeping giant is rustling.
The only thing keeping them competetive is the dislike of Trump. They define themselves by Trump. Even if Trump loses, once he's gone, they will have nothing.
They'll always have abortion to b!tch about. They want it enshrined in the constitution. I fear for children like never before, that the left won't stop till pedophilia is legal. Then what? Animals? Marry your dog or horse? They are sick. Soulless.
Most people don't know that the Roe v Wade decision was based on an inferred right to privacy in the 14th amendment. So if you codify the right to an abortion into the Constitution, you are codifying the right to privacy also. And that takes away almost all of their ammunition. Spying, data harvesting, algorithmic analysis of social media activity, etc... will all become unconstitutional.
Not that Dems give a hoot about formalities like that.
I am a well-educated non-feminist woman. I have NEVER agreed with abortion. As bad as slavery in many ways.
Heinous. Over 63 million abortions in the U.S. since the original Roe vs. Wade.
It kills one’s life and torments the other’s soul.
I’m pro-choice. My mother was super pro-choice and my sister had two abortions because she couldn’t afford more kids. We’d be a lot better off if we just left that as a personal decision.
I am happy to leave it as a personal decision as long as the two most vested lives in the procedure, the child and the mother, get equal representation in the decision. Per science, human life begins at conception. And Seva, please know that I am sorry for your sister’s pain and for the children she aborted. There are no winners in it.
Well and kindly said, Libertarian.
But there is always birth control, Seva. Many different and effective types. Abortion should never be birth control.
There is also adoption. Give your own child nine months' safe harbour in the womb, then offer them to a couple who wants children.
We don't leave murder as a personal choice. It affects all of us to live in a society like that.
We cannot change the past. This is where forgiveness offers options, where there would otherwise be none.
The pro life movement's huge mistake was making it a political fight. If Christians and other pro life people had been paying attention in the mid '70s, they'd have realized that the country had already gotten drawn into the quicksand of post Christianity. Every penny of the billions of dollars which went to "pro life" politicians, some of whom may have been genuinely pro life, should have gone instead to the support of crisis pregnancy centers and the building of new crisis pregnancy centers all over the country.
Think of how many more unborn children's lives might have been saved!
And yes, Seva, when a fertilized eggs implants, a new human life, genetically unique, has come into being. It is impossible to make a case that this is not so. Even Bill Maher has acknowledged this. He's for abortion on demand, though he acknowledges that an abortion is the murder of a human being. Horrifying, but true.
It is horrifying that 70% of the American public is "pro choice," but politically, those of us who cannot lie to ourselves about what an unborn child is need to live with that, fight political battles which we can win, and fight our pro life struggle non politically.
Abortion was introduced in the 70s in the U.S. as a Neo-Marxist totalitarian tactic to tear families apart and to support Eugenics.
That is the truth!
it is not, it was not.
we don't have to get our own way all the dang time. how about make our own choices for ourselves, and let uh, your deity of choice decide who is right later?
It’s a slippery slope, but as a sick, soulless dem a main goal of mine is to get people to marry a horse.
I'll pray for you
Thank you. I’m also concerned the horse I’m married to might get judged, so can you pray for him too?
Are you the kicker or receiver in that unsavory relationship? https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/details-we-cant-quite-comprehend/
That's by design. Per the words of Barack Obama, if you have nothing to run on, you attack and demonize your opponent. It's been pretty effective, but it's pretty pathetic for a party that's supposed to be compassionate and all the other BS. They're full of hate. And they're inside of a bubble it's so bizarre, & such a world of delusion. Kamala Harris won't even debate, she won't even go on Fox news or any program That's how little she respects the American people. And she disrespects the journalists who are complete pushovers and under state control. How some people can't see it is amazing to me and a case study in and of itself.
I have background in the cross-disciplines which explain totalitarianism. You might say that totalitarian pursuits are just like mass cults. The Democrats are one big ugly cult these days. Wanting as much destructive power and control as possible. And they do not care how many they hurt to get it.
A large part of totalitarianism is capturing minds first; bodies and countries fall in line after the mind goes.
Good Quillette about Simon Leys on totalitarianism.
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
Simon Leys is by no means obscure—much of his work is still in print, and he was the subject of a major biography by Philippe Paquet entitled Simon Leys: Navigator between Worlds. But he deserves greater recognition as an analyst of totalitarianism, not least for the way in which he built upon Czesław Miłosz’s warning: “The man of the East cannot take Americans seriously because they have never undergone the experiences that teach men how relative their judgments and thinking habits are. Their resultant lack of imagination is appalling… If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” To this, Leys added (in the Los Angeles Times of all places): “The everyday order of our lives may seem to us natural and permanent, but it is in fact as fragile and illusory as the cardboard props on a theatrical stage: It can collapse in a flash and turn at once into black horror. Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
Quillette. Sept 28, 2020
https://quillette.com/2020/09/28/analyst-of-totalitarianism-reading-simon-leys-today/
Ugh
Faith, yes - and we must be careful ourselves not to demonize the Dems, Harris, etc. as being full of hate and disrespectful...
Because deep down, they are nothing.
If Trump loses, we all have nothing.
There is no one else that will take the heat he takes to push through this authoritarian hellscape.
I was just saying this to my wife, although they have plenty to hate (well, Trump EXTENSIONS); hate and evil cannot outlast what we know.
No, we’ll have power.
That’s what it’s all about- power. The hope, joy, hate has no home here stuff is just a cover for the lust for power.
"But even if they do win in 2024, 2028 will be breathing down their necks. Whatever happens in November, the rise of the American Dream Team illuminates this country’s future."
I have great respect for you, Sasha, but this is a fantasy. If they win in 2024, they will absolutely destroy anything that's left of their opposition. ("They", being Democrats, RINOs, the Gatesian elite.) Like an abuser who is allowed to go back into the home, with the "strong admonition" that "we're keeping an eye on you..." Abusers, narcissists and psychopaths are always most dangerous when their targets try to leave them.
I wish there was an ounce of possibility that 2028 will be breathing down their necks. Trump loses to these people (who are lockstep with the rest of the falling West) and the seawall has been breached.
They are jailing people in Europe for publicly disagreeing with the violent overthrow of their countries. Covid showed what these governments are capable of (including Walz's Minnesota shooting non-lethal rounds at people sitting on their own porches.) Canada is gone; Australia is gone; the EU is gone; Britain is gone. There is no cavalry coming. Every single one of the "dream team" will be in jail (if they are lucky.) There is literally infinite money and power motivating the authoritarians, they've just arrested one billionaire, and they're openly threatening another.
They win in November, and they WIN.
I agree 100%. November is the hill we live or die on.
I feel hope too, just not nearly as optimistic regarding the "at least we have 4 years from now" thought. Watch France, Macron today literally saying "ya, I called an election, but you are too stupid to take power, so I'm gonna keep it in the best interest of the state". The UK, literally releasing murderers and locking up mean tweets. Authoritarianism happens slowly, then ALL AT ONCE.
The NRA is a lot of things, and reasonable people can agree to disagree about them. One thing they've been 100% against consistently since the 80's has been incrementalism, which is why they have never ever once conceded a reasonable argument against assault rifles. I've thought that dogma was illogical at times, but I no longer do. We need to be strongly against incremental individual liberty attacks.
Incrementalism starts with banning mean tweets and ends with totalitarianism. The power-hungry machine of the Dems/3 letter agencies/and corporate interests are incrementalists. We need to resist now, and not be ok with '28, as it could easily be way too late....
You need to shoehorn Tom Cotton in there too. He was solid over the weekend.
Ans get Lindsey off the circuit for crissakes.
"The Biden/Harris administration believes the non-compliant are enemies of the state. We also have an army of zealots who are paranoid enough to want to know everything about everyone and threaten to destroy our lives if we dare step out of line."
What this is called is Communist-totalitarianism. As in CCP China.
“For the first time in a long time, I feel hope.” Same here!! Hopefully the Democrat party machine is so well oiled, it’s losing traction!!
They are a brilliant team. However. The dem ballot harvesting and fake votes are not being addressed.
Kamala taking a weeklong yellow bus ride through Georgia- filling in the mail in ballots at the Walmart parking lots - thousands of them. And not a harsh word could be spoken.
Better get that dream team amped.
I saw a podcast in Philadelphia in the drug addled City with junkies all over the place ---those cities have been run by democrats for decades. It never ceases to amaze me how Black America still votes for that party largely when they do nothing for them. Trump went to the hood what a month ago? I don't think Obama's ever gone ever since he's made it.
I’m next to Philly and went to HS there and lived there for years. The blacks there are cradle to grave complete dependents on the governments; Fed/State/City. Subsidized delivery at birth, pre-K to 12 full year day care called “schools”, 80%+ failure in grade level proficiency tests, average a murder a week and 3x that shot, 10x that felony incidents, if they work it is 90%+ for a government entity of some type, 70%+ born out of wedlock and no father allowed in the house for fear of loss of food stamps, etc.
Honestly, the Democrats were the party of slavery and they still are. For every one that makes it on their own merit, there are 99 that were either aborted, murdered, in prison, in a DEI job, or simply left behind. And it won’t change because their master is the urban Democratic Machine and it controls every aspect of their life from conception to death.
This, from the North State Journal:
"Kamala Harris’ father, Donald Harris, was a tenured self-professed Marxist economist at Stanford University. Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II, father of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, was an openly admitted tenured Marxist professor of literature at Notre Dame, funded incidentally by the William R. Kenan Foundation in Chapel Hill.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama was mentored in his youth by avowed communist writer, playwright and activist Frank Marshall Davis. His chief political adviser, Valerie Jarrett, grew up in a family surrounded by numerous outspoken communist professors and activists who are too many to list here." https://nsjonline.com/article/2024/08/hill-marxist-college-professor-dinner-table-talk/
Another point to mention is that Frank Marshall Davis has long been rumoured to have been the biological father of Obama, and not just his mentor. In the same way that in Canada, former PM Pierre Troodo (Communist) was the stepfather of current PM Justin Troodo, but his biological father was very likely to have been Fidel of Cuba.
While Margaret Trudeau seems to have had an affair with Fidel, the timing is such that paternity seems unlikely. There is a picture of them at what purports to be their first meeting and she has baby Justin. Could have been Mick Jagger though.
Those in the know would put conception of Justin just after the Troodo marriage, when they had plenty of private time to swing by Cuba. Pierre had been there illicitly many times before.
And it was not an affair in the sense you think. It was an arrangement. Pierre adored Fidel. To raise Fidel's child as the next Communist leader in North America would have kept old power-mongering Pierre walking on clouds the rest of his life. He was a fellow Communist, of course, and wanted a Castreau dynasty.
There was an official pregnancy announcement four months into their marriage. So that part is correct. He would have been conceived one month after the marriage, barring fudging the dates. I can't prove your scenario is wrong but it just seems unlikely. A Prime Minister's wife would have a hard time just disappearing, especially right after a celebrity marriage. She did have a reputation, like Churchill's mother, of screwing any male that came in sight. Margaret Sinclair was drawn to celebrities while Jenny Jerome liked aristocrats.
Regardless of his parentage, Justin is a totalitarian like both of his purported fathers.
Doing a little research, I noted that Wikipedia had carefully excised any mention of Justin's first wife who divorced him when he got an underage girl pregnant. He also got fired from the school where he was a teacher and she was a student.
Pierre and Margaret were married March 4, 1971. Justin was born December 25, 1971. Which puts it in the right time-frame for a honeymoon trip to see Fidel (who became the father of many more children too).
There used to be American Intell Agency files on the internet for years, about Pierre and his trips to Cuba, often by fishing boat from Florida. But then the files were wiped.
Of course JT is a totalitarian. Never any doubt about that.
I knew about the school firing of Justin. Where did you find the info. about a first marriage for JT?
Man, has that been scrubbed. I think it was an aside in a story about his recently ended marriage or maybe in a story about the sex scandal.
Hmmmmm… Seems like there’s a pattern in all of that….
I recommend that everyone take some time and go over to the Substack by James Lindsay at New Discourses. Today he posted a podcast (11 minutes) on the fact that WOKE is evil. Not just accidental harm or incompetence....but intentional evil.
WOKE is totalitarianism, which intends to destroy the world, because they think they can remake it to their wishes. In a totalitarian model. The WOKE are in a mass delusion, and they want to pull you in too.
Many people have explained this publicly in the past, but so few bothered to listen.
Everyone REALLY needs to listen now! The West is on the brink.
Can you post a link here? I have to download or sign in on my phone it's a pain in the patootie