The "Rules"
The left-wing/democrats perversely claim that they are freedom orientated and that those who object to their power grabs are the autocrats - - a typical propaganda rouse employed by autocrats. But the reality is that decades of usurpations of the Constitution, family and faith, and abuses of and governance in support of left-wing desires are destroying our country from within. Moreover, the decay is quickening and the extent is broadening. The leaders of this authoritarian system devote full-time attention to the challenge of crippling the opposition while flouting the rule of law in attempt to maintain a plausible veneer of order, legitimacy, and prosperity. It smells a lot like the stench of communism. The democratic Party has been totally co-opted by left-wing ideology. Left-wing ideology, once in position of power, uses undemocratic means to impose centralized governmental policies of their choosing on the body politic. What kind of policies? Liberation policies. Policies that will free people from their tradition and associations such as families and churches. In other words, to destroy what binds people to specific, concrete communities and beliefs. Accordingly, centralized government has worked for decades to capture or kill local associations and communities and transform education into cultural indoctrination so that people may take up on a character strikingly similar to the inherently flawed Soviet model of the new socialist man. Subsequently, the left-wing/democrat Party has evolved into an anti-American political and cultural entity dragging our nation into their marxist nightmare, forcing us to get what they instead solely deserve.
Let's look at the “communist Rules for Revolution” and see if that's what’s happening, or not, in America today?
The "rules," listed below, read like the playbook of what the left-wing/democratic Party has been doing for years. Let’s briefly analyze, point by point.
Point A: Corrupt the young, get them away from religion, oversexualize them, and emasculate them. We all bemoan what too many of America’s youth have become. They have largely rejected religion and are obsessed with sex and pleasure. As we all know, masculinity is condemned, and femininity is exalted. The homosexual/transgender movement is deliberate.
Point B: Get control of all means of publicity. Journalism, of course, no longer exists in America. The left-wing controls the media, as is according to plan.
Point B1: Get people’s minds off the government and concentrate on indulgence. Most Americans have no clue what is really going on in Washington, or their state governments, but they can tell you anything you want to know about taylor swift.
Point B2: Divide the people into hostile groups. Many of the issues that separate us are downright lies (climate change) or of no importance to the country (wars of no national interest).
Point B3: Destroy the people’s faith in natural leaders. Elevate the BObamas, clintions, bidens, schumers, pelosis, destroy the Trumps and DeSantises.
Point B4: Always preach true democracy but grab power as fast as possible. Everything the left-wing/democratic Party does (so they claim) is “democratic,” and Trump and Republicans are hitler. And countless Americans believe that garbage.
Point B5: Encourage government extravagance, destroy credit, and produce inflation. That is one of the best descriptions possible of the 1st 3 years of the biden regime. They haven’t destroyed America’s credit yet, but that’s only a matter of time if the other 2 continue.
Point B6: Encourage strikes, inspire civil disobedience, and promote government leniency towards such. We haven’t seen an overabundance of destructive strikes in America recently. Still, there is no question the left-wing/democratic Party encourages civil disobedience (george floyd, looting, Palestinian riots, illegal alien invasion) and is very lenient towards such activities. The 1st Amendment is vital in America, but that doesn’t include burning buildings, stealing other people’s property, or killing police. Laxness towards such activities will only produce more of the same—which is their intent. The lib/dem Party, if/when it gains the totalitarian power it craves, will eventually use government to step in with a mighty hand, “save the country from right-wingers,” and produce a party dictatorship (witness the ccp in China). The libs/dems will have power that they will never surrender. Governments never give back power once they have obtained it.
Point B7: Break down moral virtue with specious arguments. “Live and let live.” “As long as it doesn’t hurt anybody.” “It’s my body.” A licentious, pleasure-oriented society can never be free—their “passions forge their fetters” as Edmund Burke knew. But freedom isn’t the goal of the Left; control is.
Point C: Registration and confiscation of firearms. This is blatantly self-evident in America today; no comment is needed.
There is very little in the Dusseldorf communist document of 1919 above that isn’t in evidence in America today, all of it being promoted by the left-wing/democratic Party. biden proves the point, that in order to be politically successful, as a left-wing/democrat, you must despise your country. You must lie about it. You must denounce it. You must smear it. You must attack its longstanding institutions, its history, its founders, its economic system, its sovereignty, and multi-millions of its people. And never apologize or acknowledge your previous support of racism and segregation.
Attaining, accumulating, retaining, and exercising power over the country is the nature of an autocratic party that demands, in practice, the centralization of power over things small and large; control over the individual; conformity and obedience; uniformity of ideas and thoughts; and an elaborate, intrusive, and far-reaching police state to enforce its rule. This is what the left-wing/democratic Party has become. Slowly at first but, ever quickening to soften existing societal morals, then radicalizing them and ultimately destroying the country and culture that has, like no other in history, provided so much freedom and prosperity for so many in such a quick time
Too many Americans are the frog in the pan of water; the temperature is slowly elevated, the frog doesn’t notice the incremental rise, and before long, he is a meal for despots. When it finally happens, many on the left-wing will rebel; they will finally realize—as many communists in all the nations took over did—that they were lied to, hoodwinked, and snookered. But it will be too late then. They will be lined up against the wall and shot, too, by the very bullets they will have helped pay for.
Like the frog being boiled to death, history doesn’t usually happen fast. But it does happen. And it tends to accelerate the farther down the slope to destruction a nation goes. And that acceleration is happening now under the biden regime. If he gets 4 more years, what remains will not be America.
Do not apologize for stating that blue cities are crumbling and falling apart because of the bad seeds that they themselves have sown. Do not apologize for believing that the 2nd Amendment and the American citizens’ right to bear arms might be one of our last best hopes of remaining free. Do not apologize for pointing out that the ACLU remains silent and a co-conspirator in the denying of 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. Don’t apologize for knowing that the deep state, including those in the CIA/FBI/NSA, do not want the American citizens to enjoy the rights stated in the Bill of Rights. Do not apologize for wondering if most Republicans in D.C. are corrupt, cowards, or compromised. Do not apologize for wondering if the majority of the Supreme Court are corrupt, cowards, or compromised. Do not apologize for thinking something terribly, terribly wrong is going on in America today. Do not apologize for wondering who is ultimately pulling the strings.
Related News:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/mexicans_know_a_stupid_gringo_when_they_see_one_here_comes_feckless_joe.html
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/donors-richest-zip-codes-america-throw-support-behind-blue-collar-biden
Let's look at the “communist Rules for Revolution” and see if that's what’s happening, or not, in America today?
The "rules," listed below, read like the playbook of what the left-wing/democratic Party has been doing for years. Let’s briefly analyze, point by point.
Point A: Corrupt the young, get them away from religion, oversexualize them, and emasculate them. We all bemoan what too many of America’s youth have become. They have largely rejected religion and are obsessed with sex and pleasure. As we all know, masculinity is condemned, and femininity is exalted. The homosexual/transgender movement is deliberate.
Point B: Get control of all means of publicity. Journalism, of course, no longer exists in America. The left-wing controls the media, as is according to plan.
Point B1: Get people’s minds off the government and concentrate on indulgence. Most Americans have no clue what is really going on in Washington, or their state governments, but they can tell you anything you want to know about taylor swift.
Point B2: Divide the people into hostile groups. Many of the issues that separate us are downright lies (climate change) or of no importance to the country (wars of no national interest).
Point B3: Destroy the people’s faith in natural leaders. Elevate the BObamas, clintions, bidens, schumers, pelosis, destroy the Trumps and DeSantises.
Point B4: Always preach true democracy but grab power as fast as possible. Everything the left-wing/democratic Party does (so they claim) is “democratic,” and Trump and Republicans are hitler. And countless Americans believe that garbage.
Point B5: Encourage government extravagance, destroy credit, and produce inflation. That is one of the best descriptions possible of the 1st 3 years of the biden regime. They haven’t destroyed America’s credit yet, but that’s only a matter of time if the other 2 continue.
Point B6: Encourage strikes, inspire civil disobedience, and promote government leniency towards such. We haven’t seen an overabundance of destructive strikes in America recently. Still, there is no question the left-wing/democratic Party encourages civil disobedience (george floyd, looting, Palestinian riots, illegal alien invasion) and is very lenient towards such activities. The 1st Amendment is vital in America, but that doesn’t include burning buildings, stealing other people’s property, or killing police. Laxness towards such activities will only produce more of the same—which is their intent. The lib/dem Party, if/when it gains the totalitarian power it craves, will eventually use government to step in with a mighty hand, “save the country from right-wingers,” and produce a party dictatorship (witness the ccp in China). The libs/dems will have power that they will never surrender. Governments never give back power once they have obtained it.
Point B7: Break down moral virtue with specious arguments. “Live and let live.” “As long as it doesn’t hurt anybody.” “It’s my body.” A licentious, pleasure-oriented society can never be free—their “passions forge their fetters” as Edmund Burke knew. But freedom isn’t the goal of the Left; control is.
Point C: Registration and confiscation of firearms. This is blatantly self-evident in America today; no comment is needed.
There is very little in the Dusseldorf communist document of 1919 above that isn’t in evidence in America today, all of it being promoted by the left-wing/democratic Party. biden proves the point, that in order to be politically successful, as a left-wing/democrat, you must despise your country. You must lie about it. You must denounce it. You must smear it. You must attack its longstanding institutions, its history, its founders, its economic system, its sovereignty, and multi-millions of its people. And never apologize or acknowledge your previous support of racism and segregation.
Attaining, accumulating, retaining, and exercising power over the country is the nature of an autocratic party that demands, in practice, the centralization of power over things small and large; control over the individual; conformity and obedience; uniformity of ideas and thoughts; and an elaborate, intrusive, and far-reaching police state to enforce its rule. This is what the left-wing/democratic Party has become. Slowly at first but, ever quickening to soften existing societal morals, then radicalizing them and ultimately destroying the country and culture that has, like no other in history, provided so much freedom and prosperity for so many in such a quick time
Too many Americans are the frog in the pan of water; the temperature is slowly elevated, the frog doesn’t notice the incremental rise, and before long, he is a meal for despots. When it finally happens, many on the left-wing will rebel; they will finally realize—as many communists in all the nations took over did—that they were lied to, hoodwinked, and snookered. But it will be too late then. They will be lined up against the wall and shot, too, by the very bullets they will have helped pay for.
Like the frog being boiled to death, history doesn’t usually happen fast. But it does happen. And it tends to accelerate the farther down the slope to destruction a nation goes. And that acceleration is happening now under the biden regime. If he gets 4 more years, what remains will not be America.
Do not apologize for stating that blue cities are crumbling and falling apart because of the bad seeds that they themselves have sown. Do not apologize for believing that the 2nd Amendment and the American citizens’ right to bear arms might be one of our last best hopes of remaining free. Do not apologize for pointing out that the ACLU remains silent and a co-conspirator in the denying of 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. Don’t apologize for knowing that the deep state, including those in the CIA/FBI/NSA, do not want the American citizens to enjoy the rights stated in the Bill of Rights. Do not apologize for wondering if most Republicans in D.C. are corrupt, cowards, or compromised. Do not apologize for wondering if the majority of the Supreme Court are corrupt, cowards, or compromised. Do not apologize for thinking something terribly, terribly wrong is going on in America today. Do not apologize for wondering who is ultimately pulling the strings.
Related News:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/mexicans_know_a_stupid_gringo_when_they_see_one_here_comes_feckless_joe.html
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/donors-richest-zip-codes-america-throw-support-behind-blue-collar-biden
Past, Present, and Future.
Editors Note;
When you read this, you will begin to see our only possible way to restore the Republic, will be through a States petitioned for Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention, where 'We The People' can take back the powers stolen from us by the Congressionally created amendments 16 - 17 - and modify the 14th back to it's original intent. We must act now and demand our state legislatures petition for that Article-V.
The Editor
Source; Sent from Anonymous friend
"That's a conspiracy theory" they say? Was it because we, with all our information, knowledge and wisdom, see something coming, like we have so often in the past? Don't you wonder why everything is getting worse? Is there is a plan to destroy Western civilization?
Dismissing questions about the decline of our country as conspiracy theories is an attempt at intimidation in order to discourage people from further investigations into those questions. Or even investigations into conspiracy theories themselves. Maybe we should take a look at the possibility of conspiracies since the left-wing, and you a member, seems so intent on invalidating them.
A conspiracy is a secret agreement between 2 or more people to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. A conspiracy can be a little plan or a big one, and it may or may not involve the government. The claim has been made that conspiracies can't exist because it only takes one person to reveal the plan, and then everyone knows about it. This isn't necessarily true. For one thing, whistleblowers are often viewed as crack pots, and their message is frequently disparaged instead of investigated to determine if it is true. Furthermore, the leaders of some perverse movements have stated their despicable goals outright, and their messages have been ignored. So no matter whether there is a whistleblower or an outright admission of the plan, conspiracies are not necessarily taken seriously, so the plan can remain a secret right out in the open for all to see.
It just isn't true that conspiracies don't or can't exist. There have been secret plans throughout history:
Genocide in Nazi Germany
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
911
Germany's pretense for invading Poland in World War II
Bombings/attacks by terrorists
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bank robberies — e.g., in Lincoln, Nebraska 2017
Communist control of citizens by spying on and murdering them
Communist reconnaissance missions in foreign countries
Menendez brothers' murder of their parents
Kidnapping conspiracy by Iranian intelligence officials
The 1793 military coup called the Newburgh Conspiracy
Espionage attempts by former CIA agents
Media cover-up of Stalin's famine, which resulted in millions of deaths in Ukraine.
An example of a current conspiracy is the woke movement of hatred against humanity, which includes racism against whites and a crusade against the United States and our way of life.
We have to take leaders of movements seriously, because they are the people who drive those movements. The environmentalist groups have the desire to terminate human existence, and marxist groups are determined to extinguish the United States, and it should be noted that both those groups are organized. It is no coincidence that we are now facing the destruction of our country.
What is the motivation of those who don't want us to talk about conspiracies? Would they have stopped us from talking about the Jewish genocide in Nazi Germany? The purpose of accusing people of being conspiracy theorists is to discredit those who notice patterns, connect dots, and ask questions. And the goal is to shut down not just their speech, but also their thinking. If all the naturally analytical people stop themselves from theorizing about what they're seeing in the cultural and political landscape with a dismissive conspiracy theory wave, well then, the enemy can get away with a lot more. And if you think that is a conspiracy theory, there is a bridge I want to sell you.
After seeing everything we've seen with the governments enacting all sorts of authoritarian controls and many other conspiracy theories coming true, maybe there's something to be concerned about? Conspiracies have happened in the past, and to think they can't happen again is naïve at best and suicide at worst. The possibility of bio-warfare has been talked about for years. Genocide has happened before, and it can happen again, and it doesn't take a gas chamber to do it. Evil people have existed before, and they exist now. Conspiracies are a possibility, and we ignore that fact at our own peril.“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their stated intentions rather than by their actual results.”--Milton Friedman
Let's briefly review the progress the great reset and great narrative movement have made in recent years.
Influential leaders from government, corporations, financial institutions, Central banks, think tanks, and various activist groups have been actively calling for a new world order, a great reset and a new great narrative for the human race, driven in large part by technological advancements and globalization.
2. The biden regime has started to lay the foundation for the widespread use of esg scores in the US. I'm on other actions, the biden regime has established new SEC rules that require companies to create various esg reports and disclosures. This regime has also killed Trump era OCC regulations that would have stopped Banks from using esg scores and other very subjective metrics when evaluating customers, and it has established an official program, the first movers coalition, with the world economic forum to further expand the government's public private partnerships with large corporations.
3. Thousands of companies, located in more than 50 countries, have jumped on the esg bandwagon. This includes 82% of large corporations in the us. Adoption is even more common among the largest corporations, about 96% of the g250.
4. Led by the biden regime, the G7 Nations launched in June of 2021 a global build back better world initiative, a great reset themed global infrastructure plan.
5. The European Union is now on the verge of creating a mandatory esg social scoring system, one that would apply to the biggest and most influential companies in Europe, America, and Canada. this mandatory esg system would have an immediate impact on corporate behavior in the us, and as a result, it would dramatically change our own markets and culture.
6. Many of the most powerful CEOs have collaborated with the wef to develop a new international esg model that would standardize scores across North America and Europe.
7. Moody's Investor Services has developed an esg predictor tool that institutions are already using to review esg scores for almost every small and medium size business on the planet, most of which have never produced an esg report.
8. Large financial service companies such as Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan have started to develop personalized ESG scores for individuals, many of whom have no idea that this has occurred. Further, FICO has predicted that esg scores will soon be applied to individuals.
9. With the help of the biden regime, michael bloomberg and other left-wing elites connected to the Biden regime or the wef launched the glasgow financial alliance for netZero. GFANZ members control more than $130 trillion in assets and have pledged to use their wealth and influence to push countries around the world toward the bogus climate goals of the great reset, as well as to destroy as much of the fossil fuel industry as possible.
10. in 2022 the biden regime and the Federal Reserve laid the groundwork for the creation of a new central bank digital currency, one that would almost certainly be programmable, trackable, and easy to manipulate to promote the great reset and the great narrative.
The times in which we live truly do represent an inflection point in the course of humanity. We must be fully attuned to and recognize the reality of the dangers because if we're not, it will swallow up our Liberty and push societies in the direction of full-blown tyranny."No problem can be solved without sober identification and acceptance of the nature of the challenge." --Doug Casey
Here are 11 fun assumptions from Mr. Casey about our coming future as things currently stand. Enjoy:
1. Less Freedom of movement. There will be more effort so to restrict and regulate our freedom of movement. From Vax passports to increased visa requirements and 15-min city initiatives – a grid is being constructed to regulate our freedom of movement.
2. A Central Bank Digital Currency is coming. Cash will be eliminated. How restrictive it may end up being, who knows? But, CBDC is a foregone conclusion. Timing? BIS publishes estimates of 14 retail CBDC and 9 wholesale by 2030. And there are indications that the major economies are working to be ready to deploy by 2025.
3. The digital ID is already here. Biometrics are the future. If you have a government issued ID associated with your photograph, you are in the system already. How the ID is deployed and enforced is the only question.
4. GFC 2.0 and/or the Greater Depression. Timing is hard. But, can any thinking person imagine how the outcome can be avoided altogether. Simon Hunt suggests a market pullback of up to 30% between now and early 2024 followed by a pump and a deflationary wipe-out in 2025.
5. Most financial assets will disappear at some point. Inflation, bank bail-in, market wipe out, or the Great Taking.
6. Increasing crime & disorder. You’ve seen the videos, read the articles, maybe even experienced. Whether, driven by economic desperation, mass migration, the inversion of law, or mostly in the name of social justice. Crime and disorder will grow and lead to greater physical threats to our lives and property from our fellow man. This makes urban environments, especially but not exclusively, a real risk.
7. Supply constraints are increasing around all commodities – from food to energy. Tight supplies are showing up everywhere. Live Cattle, long dormant, hit an all-time high recently. Oil Prices are up 30% in the last 3 months. 40% of Argentina’s wheat crop is in poor to fair condition and protectionist policies are on the rise globally.
8. WW3 is coming. A good case can be made that it’s already begun. The Army War College recently published a study suggesting that the All Volunteer Force had reached the end of its useful life. With the military struggling with recruiting, conscription is likely at some point.
9. Censorship and Digital Control will enter a new phase. Deplatforming, de-banking, shadow banning, and social media account suspensions will increase. Centralized digital services of all kinds should be considered suspect and, very likely, dangerous to use in the future. The Secretary-General of the UN antonio guterres wants to silence anyone who dares to stand in the way of their global power grab.
10. The US election – regardless of the outcome – is an inflection point and potentially a flash point. The outcome will not be accepted by half of the country, there may not be a 2024 election. Who knows? We can be sure of is that running up to and shortly after the election, things could get wild. In advance of the 2020 election we had Covid and BLM. Shortly after, J6 and state overreach. What will 2024 bring?
11. There is a war happening today. It’s a war on us. The primary battleground is within the sphere of 5GW – informational/psychological. Much progress has been made in the Great Reset without the need for kinetic tactics. For most of this cycle, they will rely on this same approach. If/When we see a move toward kinetic force, we should be alarmed because we will have entered a new and more dangerous phase.
We do not live in the world of Wiley Coyote, where one can run off the top of a cliff and not start falling until one realizes that there’s no ground below.
Additional info:
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/woke-esg-dei/2023/09/20/id/1135170/
https://internationalman.com/articles/as-the-us-military-goes-woke-china-could-surpass-it-sooner-than-expected/https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-x-breton-disinformation-threat
Great Reset is corporate communism, and it’s coming to America: https://apple.news/AR1RxSzS5NGS9wwmvSi6NCA
As you can see, the current hard Left Biden Administration is onboard with most of the agendas that are seriously destroying Traditional American Social Standards. The US Supreme Court has backed some of, this nonsense too. The only way to stop it is to make certain things Constitutionally Illegal, Bolster other Amendments like the Second Amendment with clear direct language like "The government is strictly forbidden from creating any new weapons laws, and enforcing any current weapons laws, rules, and regulations unless 3/4 of the legal voting public approves every one of them individually". Or, Repealing the 16th and returning to the original apportioning of taxes plus eliminating the IRS and removing the Federal Reserve so the US Treasury can resume it's traditional role of creating legal tender coinage and money backed by gold and silver.
The Editor .
When you read this, you will begin to see our only possible way to restore the Republic, will be through a States petitioned for Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention, where 'We The People' can take back the powers stolen from us by the Congressionally created amendments 16 - 17 - and modify the 14th back to it's original intent. We must act now and demand our state legislatures petition for that Article-V.
The Editor
Source; Sent from Anonymous friend
"That's a conspiracy theory" they say? Was it because we, with all our information, knowledge and wisdom, see something coming, like we have so often in the past? Don't you wonder why everything is getting worse? Is there is a plan to destroy Western civilization?
Dismissing questions about the decline of our country as conspiracy theories is an attempt at intimidation in order to discourage people from further investigations into those questions. Or even investigations into conspiracy theories themselves. Maybe we should take a look at the possibility of conspiracies since the left-wing, and you a member, seems so intent on invalidating them.
A conspiracy is a secret agreement between 2 or more people to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. A conspiracy can be a little plan or a big one, and it may or may not involve the government. The claim has been made that conspiracies can't exist because it only takes one person to reveal the plan, and then everyone knows about it. This isn't necessarily true. For one thing, whistleblowers are often viewed as crack pots, and their message is frequently disparaged instead of investigated to determine if it is true. Furthermore, the leaders of some perverse movements have stated their despicable goals outright, and their messages have been ignored. So no matter whether there is a whistleblower or an outright admission of the plan, conspiracies are not necessarily taken seriously, so the plan can remain a secret right out in the open for all to see.
It just isn't true that conspiracies don't or can't exist. There have been secret plans throughout history:
Genocide in Nazi Germany
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
911
Germany's pretense for invading Poland in World War II
Bombings/attacks by terrorists
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bank robberies — e.g., in Lincoln, Nebraska 2017
Communist control of citizens by spying on and murdering them
Communist reconnaissance missions in foreign countries
Menendez brothers' murder of their parents
Kidnapping conspiracy by Iranian intelligence officials
The 1793 military coup called the Newburgh Conspiracy
Espionage attempts by former CIA agents
Media cover-up of Stalin's famine, which resulted in millions of deaths in Ukraine.
An example of a current conspiracy is the woke movement of hatred against humanity, which includes racism against whites and a crusade against the United States and our way of life.
We have to take leaders of movements seriously, because they are the people who drive those movements. The environmentalist groups have the desire to terminate human existence, and marxist groups are determined to extinguish the United States, and it should be noted that both those groups are organized. It is no coincidence that we are now facing the destruction of our country.
What is the motivation of those who don't want us to talk about conspiracies? Would they have stopped us from talking about the Jewish genocide in Nazi Germany? The purpose of accusing people of being conspiracy theorists is to discredit those who notice patterns, connect dots, and ask questions. And the goal is to shut down not just their speech, but also their thinking. If all the naturally analytical people stop themselves from theorizing about what they're seeing in the cultural and political landscape with a dismissive conspiracy theory wave, well then, the enemy can get away with a lot more. And if you think that is a conspiracy theory, there is a bridge I want to sell you.
After seeing everything we've seen with the governments enacting all sorts of authoritarian controls and many other conspiracy theories coming true, maybe there's something to be concerned about? Conspiracies have happened in the past, and to think they can't happen again is naïve at best and suicide at worst. The possibility of bio-warfare has been talked about for years. Genocide has happened before, and it can happen again, and it doesn't take a gas chamber to do it. Evil people have existed before, and they exist now. Conspiracies are a possibility, and we ignore that fact at our own peril.“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their stated intentions rather than by their actual results.”--Milton Friedman
Let's briefly review the progress the great reset and great narrative movement have made in recent years.
Influential leaders from government, corporations, financial institutions, Central banks, think tanks, and various activist groups have been actively calling for a new world order, a great reset and a new great narrative for the human race, driven in large part by technological advancements and globalization.
2. The biden regime has started to lay the foundation for the widespread use of esg scores in the US. I'm on other actions, the biden regime has established new SEC rules that require companies to create various esg reports and disclosures. This regime has also killed Trump era OCC regulations that would have stopped Banks from using esg scores and other very subjective metrics when evaluating customers, and it has established an official program, the first movers coalition, with the world economic forum to further expand the government's public private partnerships with large corporations.
3. Thousands of companies, located in more than 50 countries, have jumped on the esg bandwagon. This includes 82% of large corporations in the us. Adoption is even more common among the largest corporations, about 96% of the g250.
4. Led by the biden regime, the G7 Nations launched in June of 2021 a global build back better world initiative, a great reset themed global infrastructure plan.
5. The European Union is now on the verge of creating a mandatory esg social scoring system, one that would apply to the biggest and most influential companies in Europe, America, and Canada. this mandatory esg system would have an immediate impact on corporate behavior in the us, and as a result, it would dramatically change our own markets and culture.
6. Many of the most powerful CEOs have collaborated with the wef to develop a new international esg model that would standardize scores across North America and Europe.
7. Moody's Investor Services has developed an esg predictor tool that institutions are already using to review esg scores for almost every small and medium size business on the planet, most of which have never produced an esg report.
8. Large financial service companies such as Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan have started to develop personalized ESG scores for individuals, many of whom have no idea that this has occurred. Further, FICO has predicted that esg scores will soon be applied to individuals.
9. With the help of the biden regime, michael bloomberg and other left-wing elites connected to the Biden regime or the wef launched the glasgow financial alliance for netZero. GFANZ members control more than $130 trillion in assets and have pledged to use their wealth and influence to push countries around the world toward the bogus climate goals of the great reset, as well as to destroy as much of the fossil fuel industry as possible.
10. in 2022 the biden regime and the Federal Reserve laid the groundwork for the creation of a new central bank digital currency, one that would almost certainly be programmable, trackable, and easy to manipulate to promote the great reset and the great narrative.
The times in which we live truly do represent an inflection point in the course of humanity. We must be fully attuned to and recognize the reality of the dangers because if we're not, it will swallow up our Liberty and push societies in the direction of full-blown tyranny."No problem can be solved without sober identification and acceptance of the nature of the challenge." --Doug Casey
Here are 11 fun assumptions from Mr. Casey about our coming future as things currently stand. Enjoy:
1. Less Freedom of movement. There will be more effort so to restrict and regulate our freedom of movement. From Vax passports to increased visa requirements and 15-min city initiatives – a grid is being constructed to regulate our freedom of movement.
2. A Central Bank Digital Currency is coming. Cash will be eliminated. How restrictive it may end up being, who knows? But, CBDC is a foregone conclusion. Timing? BIS publishes estimates of 14 retail CBDC and 9 wholesale by 2030. And there are indications that the major economies are working to be ready to deploy by 2025.
3. The digital ID is already here. Biometrics are the future. If you have a government issued ID associated with your photograph, you are in the system already. How the ID is deployed and enforced is the only question.
4. GFC 2.0 and/or the Greater Depression. Timing is hard. But, can any thinking person imagine how the outcome can be avoided altogether. Simon Hunt suggests a market pullback of up to 30% between now and early 2024 followed by a pump and a deflationary wipe-out in 2025.
5. Most financial assets will disappear at some point. Inflation, bank bail-in, market wipe out, or the Great Taking.
6. Increasing crime & disorder. You’ve seen the videos, read the articles, maybe even experienced. Whether, driven by economic desperation, mass migration, the inversion of law, or mostly in the name of social justice. Crime and disorder will grow and lead to greater physical threats to our lives and property from our fellow man. This makes urban environments, especially but not exclusively, a real risk.
7. Supply constraints are increasing around all commodities – from food to energy. Tight supplies are showing up everywhere. Live Cattle, long dormant, hit an all-time high recently. Oil Prices are up 30% in the last 3 months. 40% of Argentina’s wheat crop is in poor to fair condition and protectionist policies are on the rise globally.
8. WW3 is coming. A good case can be made that it’s already begun. The Army War College recently published a study suggesting that the All Volunteer Force had reached the end of its useful life. With the military struggling with recruiting, conscription is likely at some point.
9. Censorship and Digital Control will enter a new phase. Deplatforming, de-banking, shadow banning, and social media account suspensions will increase. Centralized digital services of all kinds should be considered suspect and, very likely, dangerous to use in the future. The Secretary-General of the UN antonio guterres wants to silence anyone who dares to stand in the way of their global power grab.
10. The US election – regardless of the outcome – is an inflection point and potentially a flash point. The outcome will not be accepted by half of the country, there may not be a 2024 election. Who knows? We can be sure of is that running up to and shortly after the election, things could get wild. In advance of the 2020 election we had Covid and BLM. Shortly after, J6 and state overreach. What will 2024 bring?
11. There is a war happening today. It’s a war on us. The primary battleground is within the sphere of 5GW – informational/psychological. Much progress has been made in the Great Reset without the need for kinetic tactics. For most of this cycle, they will rely on this same approach. If/When we see a move toward kinetic force, we should be alarmed because we will have entered a new and more dangerous phase.
We do not live in the world of Wiley Coyote, where one can run off the top of a cliff and not start falling until one realizes that there’s no ground below.
Additional info:
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/woke-esg-dei/2023/09/20/id/1135170/
https://internationalman.com/articles/as-the-us-military-goes-woke-china-could-surpass-it-sooner-than-expected/https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-x-breton-disinformation-threat
Great Reset is corporate communism, and it’s coming to America: https://apple.news/AR1RxSzS5NGS9wwmvSi6NCA
As you can see, the current hard Left Biden Administration is onboard with most of the agendas that are seriously destroying Traditional American Social Standards. The US Supreme Court has backed some of, this nonsense too. The only way to stop it is to make certain things Constitutionally Illegal, Bolster other Amendments like the Second Amendment with clear direct language like "The government is strictly forbidden from creating any new weapons laws, and enforcing any current weapons laws, rules, and regulations unless 3/4 of the legal voting public approves every one of them individually". Or, Repealing the 16th and returning to the original apportioning of taxes plus eliminating the IRS and removing the Federal Reserve so the US Treasury can resume it's traditional role of creating legal tender coinage and money backed by gold and silver.
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Who's the threat? Many things it will take an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention to correct/
The Left-wing insists on talk rather than action to address rioting, theft, and even violent assault. The one place where they will not use it--something they are loath to -- is to debate ideas. The left is instead attacking us.
At the beginning of the 21st century Americans enjoyed an unprecedented era of peace, social order, civility, optimism, and achievement. Rates of crime, casual violence, and antisocial behavior plummeted. Premarital pregnancy rates dropped sharply, and alcohol consumption declined 2/3 from the previous era. Church attendance rose dramatically. Homes, farms, and streets became cleaner and more orderly.
When joe biden became president, America was basically on a solid footing, with non-left-wing Americans attempting to stop the needless destruction brought about by the disastrous/useless China-virus policies liberal state and local officials were mandating. Inflation was still under control, income was rising(1), we were energy independent, the price of gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were general great, according to studies.
Now most of that has been undone, and nothing is being done about it. This is like a nightmare in which you are terrified only to awake and be thankful it was only a dream. But the present nightmare is no dream, and things are only getting worse in America.
While Trump was president, nearly 500 miles of wall were built and immigration was controlled. biden has opened the border and invited all to come, and they are coming by the millions. Drug and sex trafficking is rising significantly, as is crime. Known terrorists are only caught occasionally.
When biden became president, America was energy independent and we were even selling energy abroad. biden stopped construction of oil pipelines, stopped drilling on public lands, and began a campaign against fossil fuels, the very product that has made America great.
Trump appointed constitutional judges around the country, and 3 to the Supreme Court. They have protected life by reversing Roe V. Wade. biden, nominally a Catholic, is the most pro-abortion president in recent history. Protestors at abortion clinics have been assaulted and pro-life clinics and churches have been attacked and his DOJ just shrugs while it jails those who complain.
When Trump left office, everyone knew what was a woman and there was no question. biden has continued to promote the idea that people can ignore science and say they are whatever they pretend to be, inclduing puberty blockers and radical surgeries that injure children for life. Now men undress in women’s locker rooms, and compete in women’s sports, destroying the even the concept of a woman and their life pursuits.
While Trump was in office you were pretty much permitted to say whatever you knew to be true and free speech was not hindered. Now, under biden, you can be fired for simply pointing out something destructive which you know to be true. This includes issues about climate change, the value of masks and vaccinations, abortion, sex-change, mental disorders and other so-called health measures.
biden has made it clear that he supports going to zero carbon emissions which would eliminate all use of coal, and fossil fuels, despite modern life’s utter dependence upon it (over 6,000 things that we use on a daily basis are made from oil), with no viable alternatives that will come close to replace them. Wind and solar will never take the place of coal-fired, or natural gas-fired energy generation. Electric cars, heavily dependent on China to build, will soon be a national disaster because they are useless during a time of disaster with no electricity available.It is not possible to build batteries large enough to carry a city during times when the sun does not shine nor the wind blow, while our electric grid is over-taxed and falling apart faster than it can be fixed.
Meanwhile, several credible witnesses have testified that the bidens received $5 to $10 million, in payments from foreign governments, which is illegal, but nothing has been done about it. hunter doesn’t pay taxes on millions of $ of income, commits fraud, illegal drug use, doesn’t pay child support and yet he only gets a slap on the hand while others doing less get huge fines and years in jail, even while just awaiting trial! biden’s 2-tier justice system. The president who promises transparency, to unite us and get us back to normal.
And there is considerable evidence that the past 2 elections were rigged against Republicans, yet no serious investigation or measures are taken to ensure this, except to cancel those who point this out. Try disagreeing with any element of neo-liberal ideology and see what happens. Challenging any of their core positions will not be met with germane, cogent facts and sound logic, but with insults, cancellation, and even physical attack. Challenge them on:
Climate change -- you’re a denier.
Trans grooming of children -- you’re a homophobe.
Affirmative action -- you’re a racist.
Abortion -- you’re anti-human rights.
2020 election -- you’re part of the big lie.
In the name of protecting neo-liberal ideology from truth:
-Pundits are deplatformed for challenging leftist narratives,
-Teachers are fired for stating scientific facts,
-Citizens are doxed or swatted for expressing opinions,
-Attorneys are threatened with disbarment for representing unfavored clients, and
-Doctors/nurses are threatened for opposing the government/pharmaceutical complex recommendations.
Cancellation is a genuine attack on the physical wellbeing of those targeted. It can happen to anyone, for the most trivial of reasons and can trigger calls to deny one’s livelihood. But we’re supposed to have constitutionally protected rights to prevent disagreements from becoming attacks. Our Constitution is our pact of civilized behavior -- in which we agree to resolve our conflicts nonviolently.
So, why isn’t the system working now? Because the left-wing and the government bureaucrats devoted to that party, have decided that the pact doesn’t serve them anymore. The Constitution stands between them and the political power they seek, so they’ve cast it aside.
In just the past 3 years, government orders have:
Run small businesses out of business,
Restricted access to churches,
Limited our rights of movement and association,
Challenged our right to parent our children,
Undermined free and fair elections, and even
Limited our freedom of speech.
Their law enforcement doesn’t even pretend to pursue justice anymore. “Public servants” behave as if they are our masters. Uncontrolled government growth has become a burden on our economy. Schools are indoctrinating our children. The left-wing insists that it is the arbiter of proper thinking. Our God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been sacrificed to enable corruption. And yet, we’re not even permitted to express our concerns without being censored by our own government.
Judge Doughty cited a mountain of evidence that administration officials (the White House, Surgeon General, CDC, NIAID, FBI, CISA, State Department, Food and Drug Administration, Treasury, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the Department of Commerce) had sought to censor speech relative to hunter & joe biden, pandemic protocols, COVID’s origin, election fraud, the economy, and even political parody – because making fun of liberals/democrats they claim is threat to democracy, or something.
biden requested a stay on the injunction. Note what biden is not saying. He’s not saying that the evidence was wrong or mistakes were made. Were that the case, he could simply leave the injunction in place, state that he does not condone attempts at censorship, and order it stopped. But biden has said no such thing. Biden’s actions are stating that it is within his purview to censor opinions in opposition to him. He is declaring authority to violate the Constitution because our opinions may undermine his. He has broken his oath of office and breached our pact of civilized behavior.
Our current path is unsustainable. Americans are sorting themselves between blue and red states on the basis of ideology. This appears to be the preferred path of the neo-liberal. A massive migration is underway. When the sorting is complete, the United States will cease to be “united.” The reds will pursue God, freedom, and capitalism; while the left-wing pursue Gaia, central control, and communism.
1. Because the average size of a US household has steadily declined over time and reached an all-time low in 2019 of 2.52, the increase in real median household income since 1967 of 43.4% significantly understates the increase in real median household income per household member of 86.6% by a factor of two over the last half-century. The 6.8% gain in American’s median household income in 2019 to $68,703 was the largest annual increase on record based on Census Bureau data starting in 1967. It was also 10 times the average annual increase of only 0.72% over the last 52 years. The average annual increase of 3.02% during Trump (2017-2019)was the 2nd largest three-year increase since 1968. For black households the nearly 8% increase last year was the largest gain on record for black median household income and was almost 9 times the average annual increase of 0.90% over the last half-century. Over the last half-century, the share of black households earning incomes of $75,000 or more (in 2019 dollars) had more than tripled as that share increased by 3.2 times over the last half-century! At the same time, the share of middle-income black households earning $25,000 to $75,000 (in 2019 dollars) has decreased over time, from 46.4% of black households in 1967 to 41.4% in 2019. Likewise, the share of low-income black households earning $25,000 or less (in 2019 dollars) had decreased from 44.5% of black households in 1967 to only 28.7% of black households last year, a record low. due to ongoing increases in prosperity and economic gains for all Americans, there were more high-income black households (29.4%) than low-income households (28.7%) for the first time.
ED. Note:
These things the Left has forced into our lives, can be corrected by amendments that target them and prevent Congress from tryig to force them again. We must demand our State Legislators call for an Article-V.
At the beginning of the 21st century Americans enjoyed an unprecedented era of peace, social order, civility, optimism, and achievement. Rates of crime, casual violence, and antisocial behavior plummeted. Premarital pregnancy rates dropped sharply, and alcohol consumption declined 2/3 from the previous era. Church attendance rose dramatically. Homes, farms, and streets became cleaner and more orderly.
When joe biden became president, America was basically on a solid footing, with non-left-wing Americans attempting to stop the needless destruction brought about by the disastrous/useless China-virus policies liberal state and local officials were mandating. Inflation was still under control, income was rising(1), we were energy independent, the price of gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were general great, according to studies.
Now most of that has been undone, and nothing is being done about it. This is like a nightmare in which you are terrified only to awake and be thankful it was only a dream. But the present nightmare is no dream, and things are only getting worse in America.
While Trump was president, nearly 500 miles of wall were built and immigration was controlled. biden has opened the border and invited all to come, and they are coming by the millions. Drug and sex trafficking is rising significantly, as is crime. Known terrorists are only caught occasionally.
When biden became president, America was energy independent and we were even selling energy abroad. biden stopped construction of oil pipelines, stopped drilling on public lands, and began a campaign against fossil fuels, the very product that has made America great.
Trump appointed constitutional judges around the country, and 3 to the Supreme Court. They have protected life by reversing Roe V. Wade. biden, nominally a Catholic, is the most pro-abortion president in recent history. Protestors at abortion clinics have been assaulted and pro-life clinics and churches have been attacked and his DOJ just shrugs while it jails those who complain.
When Trump left office, everyone knew what was a woman and there was no question. biden has continued to promote the idea that people can ignore science and say they are whatever they pretend to be, inclduing puberty blockers and radical surgeries that injure children for life. Now men undress in women’s locker rooms, and compete in women’s sports, destroying the even the concept of a woman and their life pursuits.
While Trump was in office you were pretty much permitted to say whatever you knew to be true and free speech was not hindered. Now, under biden, you can be fired for simply pointing out something destructive which you know to be true. This includes issues about climate change, the value of masks and vaccinations, abortion, sex-change, mental disorders and other so-called health measures.
biden has made it clear that he supports going to zero carbon emissions which would eliminate all use of coal, and fossil fuels, despite modern life’s utter dependence upon it (over 6,000 things that we use on a daily basis are made from oil), with no viable alternatives that will come close to replace them. Wind and solar will never take the place of coal-fired, or natural gas-fired energy generation. Electric cars, heavily dependent on China to build, will soon be a national disaster because they are useless during a time of disaster with no electricity available.It is not possible to build batteries large enough to carry a city during times when the sun does not shine nor the wind blow, while our electric grid is over-taxed and falling apart faster than it can be fixed.
Meanwhile, several credible witnesses have testified that the bidens received $5 to $10 million, in payments from foreign governments, which is illegal, but nothing has been done about it. hunter doesn’t pay taxes on millions of $ of income, commits fraud, illegal drug use, doesn’t pay child support and yet he only gets a slap on the hand while others doing less get huge fines and years in jail, even while just awaiting trial! biden’s 2-tier justice system. The president who promises transparency, to unite us and get us back to normal.
And there is considerable evidence that the past 2 elections were rigged against Republicans, yet no serious investigation or measures are taken to ensure this, except to cancel those who point this out. Try disagreeing with any element of neo-liberal ideology and see what happens. Challenging any of their core positions will not be met with germane, cogent facts and sound logic, but with insults, cancellation, and even physical attack. Challenge them on:
Climate change -- you’re a denier.
Trans grooming of children -- you’re a homophobe.
Affirmative action -- you’re a racist.
Abortion -- you’re anti-human rights.
2020 election -- you’re part of the big lie.
In the name of protecting neo-liberal ideology from truth:
-Pundits are deplatformed for challenging leftist narratives,
-Teachers are fired for stating scientific facts,
-Citizens are doxed or swatted for expressing opinions,
-Attorneys are threatened with disbarment for representing unfavored clients, and
-Doctors/nurses are threatened for opposing the government/pharmaceutical complex recommendations.
Cancellation is a genuine attack on the physical wellbeing of those targeted. It can happen to anyone, for the most trivial of reasons and can trigger calls to deny one’s livelihood. But we’re supposed to have constitutionally protected rights to prevent disagreements from becoming attacks. Our Constitution is our pact of civilized behavior -- in which we agree to resolve our conflicts nonviolently.
So, why isn’t the system working now? Because the left-wing and the government bureaucrats devoted to that party, have decided that the pact doesn’t serve them anymore. The Constitution stands between them and the political power they seek, so they’ve cast it aside.
In just the past 3 years, government orders have:
Run small businesses out of business,
Restricted access to churches,
Limited our rights of movement and association,
Challenged our right to parent our children,
Undermined free and fair elections, and even
Limited our freedom of speech.
Their law enforcement doesn’t even pretend to pursue justice anymore. “Public servants” behave as if they are our masters. Uncontrolled government growth has become a burden on our economy. Schools are indoctrinating our children. The left-wing insists that it is the arbiter of proper thinking. Our God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been sacrificed to enable corruption. And yet, we’re not even permitted to express our concerns without being censored by our own government.
Judge Doughty cited a mountain of evidence that administration officials (the White House, Surgeon General, CDC, NIAID, FBI, CISA, State Department, Food and Drug Administration, Treasury, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and the Department of Commerce) had sought to censor speech relative to hunter & joe biden, pandemic protocols, COVID’s origin, election fraud, the economy, and even political parody – because making fun of liberals/democrats they claim is threat to democracy, or something.
biden requested a stay on the injunction. Note what biden is not saying. He’s not saying that the evidence was wrong or mistakes were made. Were that the case, he could simply leave the injunction in place, state that he does not condone attempts at censorship, and order it stopped. But biden has said no such thing. Biden’s actions are stating that it is within his purview to censor opinions in opposition to him. He is declaring authority to violate the Constitution because our opinions may undermine his. He has broken his oath of office and breached our pact of civilized behavior.
Our current path is unsustainable. Americans are sorting themselves between blue and red states on the basis of ideology. This appears to be the preferred path of the neo-liberal. A massive migration is underway. When the sorting is complete, the United States will cease to be “united.” The reds will pursue God, freedom, and capitalism; while the left-wing pursue Gaia, central control, and communism.
1. Because the average size of a US household has steadily declined over time and reached an all-time low in 2019 of 2.52, the increase in real median household income since 1967 of 43.4% significantly understates the increase in real median household income per household member of 86.6% by a factor of two over the last half-century. The 6.8% gain in American’s median household income in 2019 to $68,703 was the largest annual increase on record based on Census Bureau data starting in 1967. It was also 10 times the average annual increase of only 0.72% over the last 52 years. The average annual increase of 3.02% during Trump (2017-2019)was the 2nd largest three-year increase since 1968. For black households the nearly 8% increase last year was the largest gain on record for black median household income and was almost 9 times the average annual increase of 0.90% over the last half-century. Over the last half-century, the share of black households earning incomes of $75,000 or more (in 2019 dollars) had more than tripled as that share increased by 3.2 times over the last half-century! At the same time, the share of middle-income black households earning $25,000 to $75,000 (in 2019 dollars) has decreased over time, from 46.4% of black households in 1967 to 41.4% in 2019. Likewise, the share of low-income black households earning $25,000 or less (in 2019 dollars) had decreased from 44.5% of black households in 1967 to only 28.7% of black households last year, a record low. due to ongoing increases in prosperity and economic gains for all Americans, there were more high-income black households (29.4%) than low-income households (28.7%) for the first time.
ED. Note:
These things the Left has forced into our lives, can be corrected by amendments that target them and prevent Congress from tryig to force them again. We must demand our State Legislators call for an Article-V.
A Plethora of Reasons Why We Need A States Called Article-V Convention Part II
We have the 1st Amendment Part II
some of the gazettes of the United States have teamed with all the invective that disappointment, ignorance of facts, and malicious falsehoods could invent, to misrepresent my politics and affections—to wound my reputation and feelings and to weaken, if not entirely destroy, the confidence you have been pleased to repose in me...To the best of my abilities I have consulted the true and permanent interests of our country, without regard to the local considerations, to individuals, to parties, to other nations.”—George Washington
Prominent leaders in the Deep State believe they are the elect — superior to the masses and deserving to be above the law. Which is, of course, why they prefer and count on a two-tiered justice system for immunity from prosecution for law-breaking. In practice they’re more comfortable with saul alinsky, whose Rules for Radicals provide the apologetics for all the ways in which the ends justify the means. For alinsky, deceit and law breaking were standard methods of operation. George Washington defined as demagogues those object is not to give the people the materials from which they can make up their own minds but rather to sell them predigested opinions, make them not thinkers but followers.
An important component for the Deep State to do the above is its cozy, symbiotic and vital relationship with the liberal-biased mainstream & social (digital) media, which it has helped corrupt, and which can be counted on to pursue stories incorporating government leaks, sensationalism, sleaze, or a politically correct angle. The media are indispensable in providing the means for propagating Deep State disinformation and false narratives. They distract the public from the real and important stories — such as those disclosing government corruption — by simply crowding those stories out. The Deep State understands the importance of the long view — both in defanging scandal by making it old news and in running out the clock on statute of limitations in the event one or more of their own might face indictment. They emphasize form over substance in a variety of ways — such as focusing on leaders’ fashion and manner of speaking rather than the content of what they say and do. Lastly, the liberal-biased media routinely provide little or no historical context in news stories, a practice that exploits the public’s limited memory of such.
George Washington too not only had his behavior condemned because of entirely unfounded distrust of his motives, but what he did had been distorted; and not only had his acts been distorted, but he had been assaulted by lies which the perpetrators often knew were total lies. And the vilification appeared in newspapers of national circulation that were semi-official organs of what then was the equivalent of the Democrat party. Nothing changes.
[He answered angrily that he had not believed]: ” that parties would, or even could, go to the length I have been witness to...that I should be accused of being the enemy of one nation, and the subject to the influence of another; and to prove it, that every act of my ministration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made by giving only one side of a subject, and that too in such exaggerated and indecent terms...To misrepresent my motives, to reprobate my politics, and to weaken the confidence which has been reposed in my administration are objects which cannot be relinquished by those will be satisfied with nothing short of the change of our entire political system.”—George Washington
some of the gazettes of the United States have teamed with all the invective that disappointment, ignorance of facts, and malicious falsehoods could invent, to misrepresent my politics and affections—to wound my reputation and feelings and to weaken, if not entirely destroy, the confidence you have been pleased to repose in me...To the best of my abilities I have consulted the true and permanent interests of our country, without regard to the local considerations, to individuals, to parties, to other nations.”—George Washington
Prominent leaders in the Deep State believe they are the elect — superior to the masses and deserving to be above the law. Which is, of course, why they prefer and count on a two-tiered justice system for immunity from prosecution for law-breaking. In practice they’re more comfortable with saul alinsky, whose Rules for Radicals provide the apologetics for all the ways in which the ends justify the means. For alinsky, deceit and law breaking were standard methods of operation. George Washington defined as demagogues those object is not to give the people the materials from which they can make up their own minds but rather to sell them predigested opinions, make them not thinkers but followers.
An important component for the Deep State to do the above is its cozy, symbiotic and vital relationship with the liberal-biased mainstream & social (digital) media, which it has helped corrupt, and which can be counted on to pursue stories incorporating government leaks, sensationalism, sleaze, or a politically correct angle. The media are indispensable in providing the means for propagating Deep State disinformation and false narratives. They distract the public from the real and important stories — such as those disclosing government corruption — by simply crowding those stories out. The Deep State understands the importance of the long view — both in defanging scandal by making it old news and in running out the clock on statute of limitations in the event one or more of their own might face indictment. They emphasize form over substance in a variety of ways — such as focusing on leaders’ fashion and manner of speaking rather than the content of what they say and do. Lastly, the liberal-biased media routinely provide little or no historical context in news stories, a practice that exploits the public’s limited memory of such.
George Washington too not only had his behavior condemned because of entirely unfounded distrust of his motives, but what he did had been distorted; and not only had his acts been distorted, but he had been assaulted by lies which the perpetrators often knew were total lies. And the vilification appeared in newspapers of national circulation that were semi-official organs of what then was the equivalent of the Democrat party. Nothing changes.
[He answered angrily that he had not believed]: ” that parties would, or even could, go to the length I have been witness to...that I should be accused of being the enemy of one nation, and the subject to the influence of another; and to prove it, that every act of my ministration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made by giving only one side of a subject, and that too in such exaggerated and indecent terms...To misrepresent my motives, to reprobate my politics, and to weaken the confidence which has been reposed in my administration are objects which cannot be relinquished by those will be satisfied with nothing short of the change of our entire political system.”—George Washington
A Plethora of Reasons Why We Need A States Called Article-V Convention
We have the 1st Amendment
When it comes to social media companies, the left-wing has forgotten this simple fact. Instead, it claims a new age of information warfare demands that the Constitution be set aside - as if propaganda campaigns haven’t always been a feature of mass media. It has forgotten the importance of freedom of speech, an open marketplace for ideas and debate.
Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction that - in essence - tells the White House and much of the executive branch to stop bothering social media companies over opinions and reporting and other content they carry.
Judge Doughty’s ruling doesn’t violate the federal government’s own First Amendemnt rights to speak. It doesn’t say the White House can’t use facebook or Twitter. it doesn’t say the White House can’t express its own views on vaccines or Russia or other issues as forcefully as it likes. It doesn’t say that law enforcement agencies can’t go after child pornography or terrorist threats on social media.
What it says is government must end its aggressive and growing censorship and quasi-censorship complex - and whose reach and power Judge Doughty details in the 155-page memorandum supporting the injunction. What is says is that if speech is legal and protected by the First Amendment, social media platforms have the right to carry it, and the federal government must stop telling them not to do so. (Whether social media platforms - especially the biggest ones - must that speech is a separate and much more complicated question, but that is NOT the issue here.)
Doesn’t matter if the speech is true or half-true or false. It's FREE SPEECH. If an American says it on a social media site, and it’s legal, IT IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE OR FBI OR ANYONE ELSE IN THE GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO SUPPRESS IT.
Look at this left-wing/democrat censorship episode like WWII interment camps for Japanese-Americans - as a terrible, unconstitutional, never-to-be-repeated mistake. Let's hope!
Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, the social media titans, have become monopolies. They have become monopolies of information and social media and in the process of monopolizing it and mass media, they are excluding anything and everybody conservative. The tentacles of this monopoly are woven much more deeply into the grain of our culture and society. They are partisan and exclusionary.
These monopolies aren’t just an economic threat(1): They’re a political threat because they’re largely free of market constraints, because they don’t have any competition they don’t have to put all their energy into making a better product for less money. Instead, they put a lot of their energy into political manipulation to protect their monopoly. These are people who are uber-leftists and they are not just setting up their systems here to make money, they’re setting up their systems to influence public opinion.
Facebook’s news digest is a daily contemptible hit piece on conservatism featuring lies and misrepresentations, and they are. They have no competition. They’re buying up the competition—WhatsApp—Instagram, they control virtually every aspect of it. Monopolistic circumstance like this are way beyond the concept of fairness and unfairness. The idea of a free press is being stood on its head here. They are monopolizing against a free press and eliminating the opinions and thinking and thoughts of well over half the people of this country. They are financially bankrolling democrat after democrat after democrat after leftist after leftist politicians, causes, issues, at the same time, denying such participation to any opposing point of view--while being destructive at the same time.
It is punitive toward ideas they oppose. It basically is eliminating them, and there’s nothing anybody can do. Conservatives can appeal, conservatives can ask, conservatives can request, and they are laughed at — and then they’re told that they’re imagining things. that there isn’t any bias! Yet do a Google search on any subject that involves conservatism and see where they send, see what they’re saying about you.
They’re all part of an online monopoly that controls the flow of information, that controls the flow of opinion, that is openly restrictive to Republican and conservative ideas. For example, Facebook donated $50 grand to leftist liberal senator schumer’s campaign, wile schumer’s daughter works at Facebook, making 6 figures. That’s just one example. It’s to the point that a Facebook employee happens to be a good friend of Brett Kavanaugh and shows up at the Kavanaugh hearings to show support, Facebook employees demand that he be fired! Or look at the recent multicity scramble for Amazon’s second headquarters to see how much power these companies wield. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, nonetheless managed to get the state of New York to build him a helipad, and to give Amazon a tax break of nearly $70,000 per employee. These new tech leviathans have a one-two punch that Standard Oil didn’t have. Not only do they control immense wealth and important industries, but their fields of operation, give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies of the Teddy Roosevelt era.
“The more in owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for the use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumcised by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.”-- Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
The left loves to throw around the word “fairness.” They’re obsessed by it. But there isn’t anything approaching fairness in the social media universe. Busting them up as monopolies is not to facilitate conservatism. It is to help American consumers by providing competition and so forth, which they, these companies are all shutting out by buying them up. Teddy Roosevelt busted up monopolies, among them Standard Oil, the Rockefeller family, and J. P. Morgan. Bust up Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
1. The Journal of American Epidemiology found that the use of Facebook correlated with the declining physiological and physical health.
Further reading:
Technological expansion of expression has lead to new levels of censorship
https://apple.news/AyeaAk8d2NPuHuBPFhYQ3DA
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/facebook_assists_dems_in_shutting_down_bill_of_rights.htmlFacebook Attacks Critics 'in the Name of Privacy'
https://apple.news/AmMb9XL-LNfW-JnifAvhD1A
No matter how many times liberals lie and say that Big Tech is not biased towards conservatives, it won't be true. Not even close: https://apple.news/AYesVXifZQUugynhIo0AUhg
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/how-censorship-facebook-reinforces-writers-point-liberals-intolerance
By Suppressing Medical Debate, It Is Twitter that Endangers Americans
https://apple.news/A3PJ_CuNWNx-l5ZOylVviZg
DEADLY LIES: How media attacks on Trump put our KIDS in danger
https://apple.news/AnqXLVv9PQjijs0s2Ik6qdA
Stop Big Tech companies from censoring speech : https://apple.news/ArB63-MU9PQuClnwsB28Jfg
How the media, left use language to control black Americans
https://apple.news/AtB_-UCvQTve2e3267OY0hA
Evidence of Coordinated Censorship by Google, Facebook, Twitter
https://apple.news/AVvce8tzSPXK46EIhueQtxg
Facebook and Twitter are guilty of 'deceptive trade practice'
https://apple.news/AhER3r-yDRwWz2EtEcUWEZg
Stop Big Tech companies from censoring speech: https://apple.news/ArB63-MU9PQuClnwsB28Jfg
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/republicangoverned_states_can_stop_social_media_censorship.html
Editors Note:
WE must use what the Founders and Framers of then Constitution left us to combat a corrupt overreaching Government in a bloodless manner. It does not take a genius to see our current government has reached those definitions. It's time for We The People to force our State Legislatures to petition Congress for an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention.
When it comes to social media companies, the left-wing has forgotten this simple fact. Instead, it claims a new age of information warfare demands that the Constitution be set aside - as if propaganda campaigns haven’t always been a feature of mass media. It has forgotten the importance of freedom of speech, an open marketplace for ideas and debate.
Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction that - in essence - tells the White House and much of the executive branch to stop bothering social media companies over opinions and reporting and other content they carry.
Judge Doughty’s ruling doesn’t violate the federal government’s own First Amendemnt rights to speak. It doesn’t say the White House can’t use facebook or Twitter. it doesn’t say the White House can’t express its own views on vaccines or Russia or other issues as forcefully as it likes. It doesn’t say that law enforcement agencies can’t go after child pornography or terrorist threats on social media.
What it says is government must end its aggressive and growing censorship and quasi-censorship complex - and whose reach and power Judge Doughty details in the 155-page memorandum supporting the injunction. What is says is that if speech is legal and protected by the First Amendment, social media platforms have the right to carry it, and the federal government must stop telling them not to do so. (Whether social media platforms - especially the biggest ones - must that speech is a separate and much more complicated question, but that is NOT the issue here.)
Doesn’t matter if the speech is true or half-true or false. It's FREE SPEECH. If an American says it on a social media site, and it’s legal, IT IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE OR FBI OR ANYONE ELSE IN THE GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO SUPPRESS IT.
Look at this left-wing/democrat censorship episode like WWII interment camps for Japanese-Americans - as a terrible, unconstitutional, never-to-be-repeated mistake. Let's hope!
Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, the social media titans, have become monopolies. They have become monopolies of information and social media and in the process of monopolizing it and mass media, they are excluding anything and everybody conservative. The tentacles of this monopoly are woven much more deeply into the grain of our culture and society. They are partisan and exclusionary.
These monopolies aren’t just an economic threat(1): They’re a political threat because they’re largely free of market constraints, because they don’t have any competition they don’t have to put all their energy into making a better product for less money. Instead, they put a lot of their energy into political manipulation to protect their monopoly. These are people who are uber-leftists and they are not just setting up their systems here to make money, they’re setting up their systems to influence public opinion.
Facebook’s news digest is a daily contemptible hit piece on conservatism featuring lies and misrepresentations, and they are. They have no competition. They’re buying up the competition—WhatsApp—Instagram, they control virtually every aspect of it. Monopolistic circumstance like this are way beyond the concept of fairness and unfairness. The idea of a free press is being stood on its head here. They are monopolizing against a free press and eliminating the opinions and thinking and thoughts of well over half the people of this country. They are financially bankrolling democrat after democrat after democrat after leftist after leftist politicians, causes, issues, at the same time, denying such participation to any opposing point of view--while being destructive at the same time.
It is punitive toward ideas they oppose. It basically is eliminating them, and there’s nothing anybody can do. Conservatives can appeal, conservatives can ask, conservatives can request, and they are laughed at — and then they’re told that they’re imagining things. that there isn’t any bias! Yet do a Google search on any subject that involves conservatism and see where they send, see what they’re saying about you.
They’re all part of an online monopoly that controls the flow of information, that controls the flow of opinion, that is openly restrictive to Republican and conservative ideas. For example, Facebook donated $50 grand to leftist liberal senator schumer’s campaign, wile schumer’s daughter works at Facebook, making 6 figures. That’s just one example. It’s to the point that a Facebook employee happens to be a good friend of Brett Kavanaugh and shows up at the Kavanaugh hearings to show support, Facebook employees demand that he be fired! Or look at the recent multicity scramble for Amazon’s second headquarters to see how much power these companies wield. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, nonetheless managed to get the state of New York to build him a helipad, and to give Amazon a tax break of nearly $70,000 per employee. These new tech leviathans have a one-two punch that Standard Oil didn’t have. Not only do they control immense wealth and important industries, but their fields of operation, give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies of the Teddy Roosevelt era.
“The more in owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for the use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumcised by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.”-- Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
The left loves to throw around the word “fairness.” They’re obsessed by it. But there isn’t anything approaching fairness in the social media universe. Busting them up as monopolies is not to facilitate conservatism. It is to help American consumers by providing competition and so forth, which they, these companies are all shutting out by buying them up. Teddy Roosevelt busted up monopolies, among them Standard Oil, the Rockefeller family, and J. P. Morgan. Bust up Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
1. The Journal of American Epidemiology found that the use of Facebook correlated with the declining physiological and physical health.
Further reading:
Technological expansion of expression has lead to new levels of censorship
https://apple.news/AyeaAk8d2NPuHuBPFhYQ3DA
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/facebook_assists_dems_in_shutting_down_bill_of_rights.htmlFacebook Attacks Critics 'in the Name of Privacy'
https://apple.news/AmMb9XL-LNfW-JnifAvhD1A
No matter how many times liberals lie and say that Big Tech is not biased towards conservatives, it won't be true. Not even close: https://apple.news/AYesVXifZQUugynhIo0AUhg
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/how-censorship-facebook-reinforces-writers-point-liberals-intolerance
By Suppressing Medical Debate, It Is Twitter that Endangers Americans
https://apple.news/A3PJ_CuNWNx-l5ZOylVviZg
DEADLY LIES: How media attacks on Trump put our KIDS in danger
https://apple.news/AnqXLVv9PQjijs0s2Ik6qdA
Stop Big Tech companies from censoring speech : https://apple.news/ArB63-MU9PQuClnwsB28Jfg
How the media, left use language to control black Americans
https://apple.news/AtB_-UCvQTve2e3267OY0hA
Evidence of Coordinated Censorship by Google, Facebook, Twitter
https://apple.news/AVvce8tzSPXK46EIhueQtxg
Facebook and Twitter are guilty of 'deceptive trade practice'
https://apple.news/AhER3r-yDRwWz2EtEcUWEZg
Stop Big Tech companies from censoring speech: https://apple.news/ArB63-MU9PQuClnwsB28Jfg
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/republicangoverned_states_can_stop_social_media_censorship.html
Editors Note:
WE must use what the Founders and Framers of then Constitution left us to combat a corrupt overreaching Government in a bloodless manner. It does not take a genius to see our current government has reached those definitions. It's time for We The People to force our State Legislatures to petition Congress for an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention.
The Left Wing State.
WE ARE NO LONGER INDEPENDENT AND IT IS OUR OWN FAULT!!!!!!!
Maybe the best reasons for Americans to demand their State Legislatures call for an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention where Congress has no control over what is being proposed.
"Laws today in the United States, in fact most laws, are not being made any longer by Congress but by agencies of the executive branch. Majorities have no power. Bureaucrats co-opt, manipulate or veto them. Elites operate autonomously from the public. Liberty and justice are secured through the fundamental right to oppose, which is protected only by the dispersion diffusion of countervailing economic, social, and governmental power."--James Burnham
“I cannot persuade myself that a democracy whose notions of public and private virtue are slowly being emptied of their substance can sustain itself. Democracy, after all, means self-government; and such self-government is, in the long run, utterly impossible without adequate self-definition, self-certainty, self-control.”-- Leo Strauss
Lockdowns and mass vaccination policies arose from the myopia of public health mandarins, who regarded everyone in their jurisdiction as equally likely to spread SARS-2, equally likely to die from it and equally able to endure months of rolling house arrests and an indefinite marathon of mRNA injections. They were wrong in every respect: The virus was only ever dangerous to a very small segment of the population, there was never any purpose in vaccinating the millions of people who had recovered from SARS-2 infection, and even according to officially accepted, heavily massaged statistics, the vaccines have no measurable upside for any healthy person under 50.
Underlying these policy initiatives and many others is a highly abstract bureaucratic conception of the individual. This is how state bureaucrats everywhere approach their subject populations, and it is an unavoidable artefact of routine bureaucratic processes like regulation and taxation. In this conception, everybody is more or less the same, subject to the same incentives, requiring the same protections from the same risks, and likely to benefit from the same one-size-fits-all solutions. The highly differentiated lives that people actually lead – their vast differences in personal circumstances, wealth, individual preferences, religious beliefs and political opinions – are at best ignored, at worst considered a massive inconvenience and will not be allowed.
No system has been so well positioned to impose its vision of politics and culture on its subjects than ever before. There is an eagerness to confine human variation to those areas of least concern to the institutional apparatus, and thus to “celebrate,” or actively promote, all those diversities which are of least consequence to the left-wing ideal. Left-wing nations actually want highly uniform, undifferentiated populations, and they hope to confine personal expression to sexual, ethnic and consumerist spheres.
What’s more, the state itself seems only intermittently conscious of and profoundly uninterested in the distance between its abstract model of humanity and the reality of human variation. They’re rather soft authoritarian systems, which operate via sophisticated messaging campaigns and realigning incentives – approaches which are always limited from the beginning by the deep inaccuracies of the left-wing vision.
Here are just a few ways our current system exploits us and, in the process, continues to destroy our societal fabric and morality:
-Higher education is incredibly expensive. Financial aid allows people to take out loans they could not otherwise carry, breeding fiscal irresponsibility and disregard — per Pew Research, 60% of students taking out loans they may never be able to repay. It lowers academic and intellectual standards and saturates the market with college graduates; when schools can get just about any price for tuition because the federal government is paying, “everyone” gets accepted, and rates go through the roof. Did you know that only 41% of students graduate within 4 years? Students want loan “forgiveness” or refunds, or they simply default, believing educational and opportunity promises made were unfulfilled; this is how we train people to think they are owed something for nothing.
-Taxes. The majority of us, the middle-incomers, pay less than 33% of the income tax revenue. The top 20% pay 66%, and the bottom 20% pay less than 2%. Yet, we constantly hear how the rich don’t pay their “fair share.” Too often, there is little, if any rational and unemotional discourse, and greedy left-wing whims end up dictating policy, facts be damned! After all, liberals claim to know best. Such is the root of political demagoguery amplified endlessly, to all our detriment.
-An activist-entrenched bureaucracy Perhaps our most dangerous adversary. Treachery on all fronts: trillions of dollars needed to support it which puts a drag on any economic progress that could be made; and the support and cover it gives to marxist schemes that threaten our lives, pocketbooks, and fraternal bond and belief that America is still exceptional. Bureaucracies ostensibly exist to carry out the needs of the people; how many fools still believe that? Government agencies, departments, and their subdivisions have morphed into amorphous parasites which primarily have an imperative to live on, procreate, and extend their reach. This is not what our Founding intended, but this is what we have now. Is it any wonder bureaucracies fight against the people, Congress, and even a president when threatened? The domestic weaponization of our government must cease. We must restrain all federal agencies, from the FBI to the Education Department, that act as political persecutors rather than civil servants.
-Narcissism. From selfies to tiktok, and from “live your truth” to “you do you”, we’ve been instilled with narcissism. A healthy society must be concerned with the betterment of the whole; this cannot happen when our overwhelming focus is on ourselves. Yet, that’s precisely what the left-wing screams at us, and we have “leaders” that never mention sacrifice, but just what they’ll do for you. Then, we reward anti-societal behavior like homelessness, crime, and sloth with protected class status. The Obese are now demanding special status. Pedohillia is coming. Where does it end? The opposite of narcissism is self-sacrifice. We see far too little of that today. In fact, we subsidize our narcissists. A universal law of society is that you get more of what you incentivize/subsidize.
-Marriage and family. Is there a correlation between the conundrum of divorce and being a good parent? Maybe, statistics say there is. The divorce rate in America is actually down, but so is the rate of marriage. A telling point is that 33% of children live in single-parent households. Progressives don’t see anything wrong with that statistic. Worldwide, that number is only 7%. What has happened here? Have we forgotten the importance of children, focusing instead on perpetual immaturity and instant gratification. We are all paying for that hubris. Having a father is still very important.
-Discredited institutions. Something fundamental has been lost for us all, and that is too many people have lost faith in our system. Many election officials are openly partisan with little to no interest in open, free, and fair elections. "Many voters used alternative voting methods, and there was a large shift to early voting and voting by mail.” Voting by mail is an invitation to fraud so it disproportionately benefits left-wing/democrats. It undercuts the importance of taking the time and effort to show up at the polls on a particular day and participate in a sacred manner enshrined within the American experience, and it diminishes ownership in the effort democracy requires.
When all grievances are dumped into the lap of government, government is asked to do too much and government ends up doing little well, except becoming more authoritarian. Hannah Arendt postulated that the origins of totalitarianism come from masses of alienated and deracinted individuals who invested their hopes in totalitarian governments that collapsed the distinction between public and private life.
Who we are will largely be determined by the effort we are willing to put into fixing this broken process which has robbed us of the trust we so desperately want and need in our systems, our fellow citizens, and, ultimately, ourselves.
The American left wing's ideal includes a democracy of largely powerless citizens who are led by charismatic, ideological political leaders while the real government takes place among the vast bureaucratic machinery, molding the citizenry according to their so-called experts. In due course, all aspects of life are brought under their tutelage and systems. The exact opposite of Reagan's belief that the American people have a government rather than the government has a people.
Dark clouds are forming on the horizon. This darkening includes a decline in viewpoint diversity, and ever-growing emphasis on equity, and punishment for non-woke thinking. Political correctness and increasingly complex speech codes in particular are fostering increases in social communication disorder, ptsd, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and a variety of other paranoid historic, narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. The potential mass threats on the horizon include a mistaken environmental panic, a decline in citizens, a potentially serious decline in freedom and expression, and the omnipresent danger of further restrictions of the freedom of the market.
There is a cause for every effect. The great historian Edward Gibbon, in his masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, found 5 underlying major causes that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire: 1) the breakdown of the family; 2) increased taxation; 3) insatiable craving for pleasure; 4) an unsustainable buildup of armaments; 5) the decay of religion.
18th century Western Europeans became the first people to largely free themselves from the shackles of suffocating political and economic institutions, irrationality, and counterproductive ethics and set the stage for the era not only of great enrichment of innovation but of increasing freedom and prosperity.
It’s happened in one form or another before, and we’ve come back. We are the sleeping giant that can change things. Will we wake up in time and right the ship while there is still time? The jury is truly out on this most consequential of issues.
“When any Nation begins to look to its government to provide, the nation is on a greased toboggan- slide to decay into oblivion. It brought about the fall of Rome. It brought about the fall of Babylon long before. And it's bringing about the fall of America today."-- Herbert W. Armstrong
“Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberties and return for relieving you of yours; those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must ultimately see a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will. This nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion.”- Barry Goldwater
Further reading:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/why_the_democrats_call_to_save_our_democracy_is_a_lie.html
bidenonmics: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6330250024112
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/white-house-touts-bidenomics-as-voters-trash-economy/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gallup-economic-confidence-democrat/2023/06/28/id/1125245/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/if_joe_bidens_economy_is_as_great_as_he_says_it_is_why_have_401ks_plunged_20.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/taxes_arent_the_only_form_of_legalized_government_takings.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/the_american_tyranny_that_taxpayers_are_funding_.html
ED. NOTE:
If we don't take back our stolen powers and restore the republic, there will be no Republic to restore!!!
Maybe the best reasons for Americans to demand their State Legislatures call for an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention where Congress has no control over what is being proposed.
"Laws today in the United States, in fact most laws, are not being made any longer by Congress but by agencies of the executive branch. Majorities have no power. Bureaucrats co-opt, manipulate or veto them. Elites operate autonomously from the public. Liberty and justice are secured through the fundamental right to oppose, which is protected only by the dispersion diffusion of countervailing economic, social, and governmental power."--James Burnham
“I cannot persuade myself that a democracy whose notions of public and private virtue are slowly being emptied of their substance can sustain itself. Democracy, after all, means self-government; and such self-government is, in the long run, utterly impossible without adequate self-definition, self-certainty, self-control.”-- Leo Strauss
Lockdowns and mass vaccination policies arose from the myopia of public health mandarins, who regarded everyone in their jurisdiction as equally likely to spread SARS-2, equally likely to die from it and equally able to endure months of rolling house arrests and an indefinite marathon of mRNA injections. They were wrong in every respect: The virus was only ever dangerous to a very small segment of the population, there was never any purpose in vaccinating the millions of people who had recovered from SARS-2 infection, and even according to officially accepted, heavily massaged statistics, the vaccines have no measurable upside for any healthy person under 50.
Underlying these policy initiatives and many others is a highly abstract bureaucratic conception of the individual. This is how state bureaucrats everywhere approach their subject populations, and it is an unavoidable artefact of routine bureaucratic processes like regulation and taxation. In this conception, everybody is more or less the same, subject to the same incentives, requiring the same protections from the same risks, and likely to benefit from the same one-size-fits-all solutions. The highly differentiated lives that people actually lead – their vast differences in personal circumstances, wealth, individual preferences, religious beliefs and political opinions – are at best ignored, at worst considered a massive inconvenience and will not be allowed.
No system has been so well positioned to impose its vision of politics and culture on its subjects than ever before. There is an eagerness to confine human variation to those areas of least concern to the institutional apparatus, and thus to “celebrate,” or actively promote, all those diversities which are of least consequence to the left-wing ideal. Left-wing nations actually want highly uniform, undifferentiated populations, and they hope to confine personal expression to sexual, ethnic and consumerist spheres.
What’s more, the state itself seems only intermittently conscious of and profoundly uninterested in the distance between its abstract model of humanity and the reality of human variation. They’re rather soft authoritarian systems, which operate via sophisticated messaging campaigns and realigning incentives – approaches which are always limited from the beginning by the deep inaccuracies of the left-wing vision.
Here are just a few ways our current system exploits us and, in the process, continues to destroy our societal fabric and morality:
-Higher education is incredibly expensive. Financial aid allows people to take out loans they could not otherwise carry, breeding fiscal irresponsibility and disregard — per Pew Research, 60% of students taking out loans they may never be able to repay. It lowers academic and intellectual standards and saturates the market with college graduates; when schools can get just about any price for tuition because the federal government is paying, “everyone” gets accepted, and rates go through the roof. Did you know that only 41% of students graduate within 4 years? Students want loan “forgiveness” or refunds, or they simply default, believing educational and opportunity promises made were unfulfilled; this is how we train people to think they are owed something for nothing.
-Taxes. The majority of us, the middle-incomers, pay less than 33% of the income tax revenue. The top 20% pay 66%, and the bottom 20% pay less than 2%. Yet, we constantly hear how the rich don’t pay their “fair share.” Too often, there is little, if any rational and unemotional discourse, and greedy left-wing whims end up dictating policy, facts be damned! After all, liberals claim to know best. Such is the root of political demagoguery amplified endlessly, to all our detriment.
-An activist-entrenched bureaucracy Perhaps our most dangerous adversary. Treachery on all fronts: trillions of dollars needed to support it which puts a drag on any economic progress that could be made; and the support and cover it gives to marxist schemes that threaten our lives, pocketbooks, and fraternal bond and belief that America is still exceptional. Bureaucracies ostensibly exist to carry out the needs of the people; how many fools still believe that? Government agencies, departments, and their subdivisions have morphed into amorphous parasites which primarily have an imperative to live on, procreate, and extend their reach. This is not what our Founding intended, but this is what we have now. Is it any wonder bureaucracies fight against the people, Congress, and even a president when threatened? The domestic weaponization of our government must cease. We must restrain all federal agencies, from the FBI to the Education Department, that act as political persecutors rather than civil servants.
-Narcissism. From selfies to tiktok, and from “live your truth” to “you do you”, we’ve been instilled with narcissism. A healthy society must be concerned with the betterment of the whole; this cannot happen when our overwhelming focus is on ourselves. Yet, that’s precisely what the left-wing screams at us, and we have “leaders” that never mention sacrifice, but just what they’ll do for you. Then, we reward anti-societal behavior like homelessness, crime, and sloth with protected class status. The Obese are now demanding special status. Pedohillia is coming. Where does it end? The opposite of narcissism is self-sacrifice. We see far too little of that today. In fact, we subsidize our narcissists. A universal law of society is that you get more of what you incentivize/subsidize.
-Marriage and family. Is there a correlation between the conundrum of divorce and being a good parent? Maybe, statistics say there is. The divorce rate in America is actually down, but so is the rate of marriage. A telling point is that 33% of children live in single-parent households. Progressives don’t see anything wrong with that statistic. Worldwide, that number is only 7%. What has happened here? Have we forgotten the importance of children, focusing instead on perpetual immaturity and instant gratification. We are all paying for that hubris. Having a father is still very important.
-Discredited institutions. Something fundamental has been lost for us all, and that is too many people have lost faith in our system. Many election officials are openly partisan with little to no interest in open, free, and fair elections. "Many voters used alternative voting methods, and there was a large shift to early voting and voting by mail.” Voting by mail is an invitation to fraud so it disproportionately benefits left-wing/democrats. It undercuts the importance of taking the time and effort to show up at the polls on a particular day and participate in a sacred manner enshrined within the American experience, and it diminishes ownership in the effort democracy requires.
When all grievances are dumped into the lap of government, government is asked to do too much and government ends up doing little well, except becoming more authoritarian. Hannah Arendt postulated that the origins of totalitarianism come from masses of alienated and deracinted individuals who invested their hopes in totalitarian governments that collapsed the distinction between public and private life.
Who we are will largely be determined by the effort we are willing to put into fixing this broken process which has robbed us of the trust we so desperately want and need in our systems, our fellow citizens, and, ultimately, ourselves.
The American left wing's ideal includes a democracy of largely powerless citizens who are led by charismatic, ideological political leaders while the real government takes place among the vast bureaucratic machinery, molding the citizenry according to their so-called experts. In due course, all aspects of life are brought under their tutelage and systems. The exact opposite of Reagan's belief that the American people have a government rather than the government has a people.
Dark clouds are forming on the horizon. This darkening includes a decline in viewpoint diversity, and ever-growing emphasis on equity, and punishment for non-woke thinking. Political correctness and increasingly complex speech codes in particular are fostering increases in social communication disorder, ptsd, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and a variety of other paranoid historic, narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. The potential mass threats on the horizon include a mistaken environmental panic, a decline in citizens, a potentially serious decline in freedom and expression, and the omnipresent danger of further restrictions of the freedom of the market.
There is a cause for every effect. The great historian Edward Gibbon, in his masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, found 5 underlying major causes that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire: 1) the breakdown of the family; 2) increased taxation; 3) insatiable craving for pleasure; 4) an unsustainable buildup of armaments; 5) the decay of religion.
18th century Western Europeans became the first people to largely free themselves from the shackles of suffocating political and economic institutions, irrationality, and counterproductive ethics and set the stage for the era not only of great enrichment of innovation but of increasing freedom and prosperity.
It’s happened in one form or another before, and we’ve come back. We are the sleeping giant that can change things. Will we wake up in time and right the ship while there is still time? The jury is truly out on this most consequential of issues.
“When any Nation begins to look to its government to provide, the nation is on a greased toboggan- slide to decay into oblivion. It brought about the fall of Rome. It brought about the fall of Babylon long before. And it's bringing about the fall of America today."-- Herbert W. Armstrong
“Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberties and return for relieving you of yours; those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must ultimately see a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will. This nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion.”- Barry Goldwater
Further reading:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/why_the_democrats_call_to_save_our_democracy_is_a_lie.html
bidenonmics: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6330250024112
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/white-house-touts-bidenomics-as-voters-trash-economy/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gallup-economic-confidence-democrat/2023/06/28/id/1125245/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/if_joe_bidens_economy_is_as_great_as_he_says_it_is_why_have_401ks_plunged_20.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/taxes_arent_the_only_form_of_legalized_government_takings.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/the_american_tyranny_that_taxpayers_are_funding_.html
ED. NOTE:
If we don't take back our stolen powers and restore the republic, there will be no Republic to restore!!!
Why we need an Article-V to Restore the Republic VIA Understanding The Goals Of The 4th
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"The reality of freedom must depend on the values which free individuals pursue.”--Fredrick A. Hayek
“To secure these rights [life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government..." --Thomas Jefferson, from the Declaration of Independence
"A republic, if you can keep it."--Ben Franklin
If it be asked, 'What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?' The answer would be an inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government."-- Alexander Hamilton
“If congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions...what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature...If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."--James Madison
"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."-- John Adams
Our constitution, informed by over 2 thousand years of human history, with the premise that humans are fallen and prone to selfishness, and also that humans are endowed by their creator with natural rights, was designed to protect rights and liberties while seeking to limit power in a way that would prevent tyranny, with no wish for government to socially engineer the people. Thomas Jefferson wrote: “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution…Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution…If it has bounds, they can be no others than the definitions of the powers which the instrument gives. It specifies & delineates…”(1). And those bounds were based on uniquely American legal foundations, designed on several premises. Premises that were in essence what Nobel Prize winner James Buchanan defines as relatively absolute absolutes. That the state and its institutions exist for the sake of the individual and that our leaders remain trustees of our individual liberty. That laws should be negative in nature, meaning they describe what we, as citizens and as government, cannot do rather than what we are allowed or must do. That laws should be general and unchanging. That they be known in advance, not ex post facto. That the law be applicable to all. That the goal is to preserve individual freedom and limit sovereign power. In laying down the fundamental reason behind our Constitution perhaps William Blackstone put it best years before when he said: "Law is not a transient order from a superior to or concerning a particular person or thing, but something permanent, uniform and universal.” And with what was later recognized by Supreme Court Justices Holmes and Hand, that: “The less law the better”.
Conservatives, following the learnings of Edmund Burke who elaborated long ago that a conservative philosophy attends to time, circumstances, convention, experience and practical wisdom in matters of reform, have always endeavored to conserve our successful constitutional based republic. Conversely, liberals, using a misnomer, have sought to "liberate" America from constitutional rule of law for decades, preferring instead to make all the rules themselves, employing a deceptive concept know by the term “living document”.
In addressing the question of whether our Constitution should be treated, in the neo-liberal view, as a “living document”, C. Wolfe has positioned the argument when he stated: "The burden of proof rests upon those who contend that the Constitution was understood by its ratifiers [and now by their philosophical descendants] differently from the way it was written by its authors...that what its words mean are not taken separately nor related to the whole document…that the fair implications that what the Constitution ratified was expectations but not principles. To understand these principles we turn first and primarily to the words of the document, read as a whole...we cannot know with certainty that anyone's opinion about the meaning of the document was meant to be given authority. To rely on extrinsic sources of the meaning of the document as the primary source would be to undercut the clarity and certainty that are an essential element of the rule of law. The language of the document will be our guide... interpretation which places primary emphasis on construction of words of the document itself, not the debates behind it... for solving an increasing number of problems arising over time.
Or, as Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story said: "The Constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes for which those powers were conferred. ... Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy...It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and forever."
Jeffery Folks warned that: "To view change as an end in itself is to fall prey to a dangerous form of idolatry." Why then has there been an unfortunate shift of emphasis from reading of the document to examining extrinsic, even spurious sources for its intent?
First: Many people read the document less carefully and therefore jump too quickly to conclusion that the words of the document provide little, or at least insufficient guidance.
The words of language influences not only how we think but also how we discover and understand, in how we view, what we see and pay attention. It is how we navigate the complexities of human living. It can also operate as deception, delusion, manipulation, revelation and not just communication.
Words only make sense within the broader context of broader units of discourse, like whole narratives. Meaning however never transcends convention(2). There is nothing to keep our linguistic usage in check save the convention of the contextual, spatial and historical contingent. As soon as we stipulate convention, words assume meanings and we are no longer free to interpret as we choose. If we allow pragmatism to determine meaning, then we subject ourselves to meanings based on expedience, and not truth. Once expedience dictates meaning, meaning is capable of being anything, anytime. Therefore, the Deconstructionalist's claim, at its base, that texts are indeterminable and inevitably yield to multiple, irreducibly diverse interpretations, or that criteria does not exist for preferring one interpretation over another, is false.
It is a common age-old misconception that law is an assemblage of senselessly rigid rules from which departures from defined principles are continually necessary to save the whole clumsy edifice from collapsing. But texts are anchored to their meaning and not free to float about indiscriminately. No contract can be made to say anything unless the author and the reader share a common understanding of the words and the essential contextual factors, including the purpose of the contract itself. To subject the rule of law to current social, economic, educational and cultural conditions can only lead to making the term worthless and guarantee the repudiation of the rule of law. Without that absolute there is no law that will protect you absolutely, we are back in the jungle As P. Brest said: “That which is voted on and adopted is not a set of intentions but a set of words…the starting point for its principle is language.”
Second: There is a tendency to try and clear up uncertainty by recourse to intent; this may create a disposition or habit of looking for extrinsic evidence even where the words are unclear.
The danger in all interpretation is that it easily leads to a game played without rules. Convincing answers to contested questions are reducible to ones of fact. To apply “particularism” to the definition of the principles of the facts creates that aforementioned undisciplined and ad hoc game played without rules. In other words, facts matter. Without facts, evidence, proof and a sound analytical logic it is just rationalization, posing as law. Of course just getting the facts right can't decide a case; there has to be an analytic framework to fit the facts into As R.K. Winter stated: “The Interpretive view is not a vulgarized view of strict constructionism. Rather it is a complex set of concepts relating to whether constitutional questions should be adjudicated, how, when and what it will be. It embodies a methodology of constitutional interpretation, designed to insulate dispute settling from transitory whim or purely personal desires of the judge.” Methodology, as C.L. Black Jr. stated, includes inference from the structures and relationships created by the Constitution in all it parts or principle part(s). Interpretation must seek to extrapolate from all the data and definitional doctrine the core principles and meanings. Where constitutional language makes no objective policy, the courts have no business imposing one. To do so is fait accompli legislation. If policy or position is indeterminate then there isn’t even a vocabulary left in which to defend any decision. However, we must also guard against the liberal tendency of deconstruction relativism, which Richard A. Posner warns about, saying: “The fact that interpretation can be given animation such that it is indeterminate is just plain wrong. Although one can argue both sides of an issue, the arguments for one side can fall completely flat.”
Third: “… a tendency to believe that judges have the right and duty to interpret and exercise judicial review, which encourages subjective judicial opinions.”
Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall both early on established that it is the law that is supreme and not the judge. Personal values and political preference are apt to play an important role in courts that have broad discretion. And the power of that personality grows with the recession of the constitutional text as a limitation on judicial discretion. Starting perhaps with the Slaughter-House Cases the Supreme Court did just that, taking it upon themselves to amend rather than interpret the law.
One of the ways the courts have invented for concealing ideological personal preference is to use notions of public good, to bridge the gap between conventional legal understandings and the desire for a predetermined outcome. The underlying problem is that the social engineering efforts made are being done by mechanisms proven to be inherently poorly designed to accomplish their object.
Even the pragmatist cannot ignore the good that results from compliance with settled rules of law. If one is free to issue a decision that has no basis in law, merely because he thinks it is for the “good”, then the result is not pragmatic adjudication but lawlessness. As Richard A. Posner wrote: “The Constitution contains democratic principle, but is not a synonym for democracy. As Scalia points out, people who look to the courts for social reform do not take democracy seriously…. inviting judges to give constitutional status to powerful currents of public opinion are now understood to have been to a considerable degree deeply misinformed.” The lateral entry of pragmatic adjudication runs into conflict with the intellectual, political and moral diversity combined with individualistic character of our culture.
Sound legal pragmatism, concerned with making decisions with regard to the present and the future, realizes that past decisions, statutes, constitutional text and so forth can be repositories of both knowledge and wisdom that should not be ignored or obscured gratuitously. To make a decision that contradicts past positions can provide a destabilizing effect with significant bad consequences. Pragmatism’s greatest danger is therefore when it succumbs both to intellectual laziness and dishonesty. Legal reasoning is modestly defined as reasoning with reference to distinctive legal materials and doctrines.
In conclusion, legal reasoning can be modestly defined as reasoning with reference to distinctive legal materials such as statues, legal doctrine and other rule of law virtues. Judicial pragmatism has an interest in past decisions, statutes and so forth. It recognizes that they are repositories of knowledge and wisdom; that judges are not trained nor authorized to analyze and absorb the theories and data of social sciences. To ignore legal reasoning rules and standards presents a large probability of unintended negative consequences, including the substitution of the goal of a democratic society, that being the replacement of sound means applied to all with the desired goals of those in power. Law does not include ignoring good of compliance with the rules. If the application of law meant simply applying ever floating interpretations, then we would not have judicial adjudication, we’d have what the Federalist Papers defined as tyranny.
Our Constitution gives us a framework of government that is NOT meant to address every issue or answer every grievance, real or imagined. This is its strength, because it design is intended to deliver the best form of government, a limited one. If the Constitution’s meaning can be erased or reinterpreted, it ceases to be a constitution but instead becomes a concoction of arbitrary political expedients that serve the political agenda du’ jour of the few entrusted with government power.
"[C]onfidence is every where the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence; it is jealousy & not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."-- Thomas Jefferson
“I've been predicting for 20 years, that ultimately the theory of the living Constitution will destroy us. Once the people figure out what the game is, they will say, 'We will select our judges on the basis of who will modify the Constitution today to what we desire. The Constitution’s meaning doesn't change. To achieve change, all you need is a legislature and a ballot box. Things then can change just as fast as you like, while liberty, freedom and justice are not sacrificed to expediency."-- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
(1) When the federal government claimed and exercised a right of enlarging its own powers by constructions, inferences, and indefinite deductions, Thomas Jefferson called that a direct infraction of the Constitution. He also denied that the General welfare Clause constituted a general grant to Congress of power to spend money on anything it wanted. He asserted that rather the Clause meant money could be spent by Congress in furtherance of the powers spelled out in Article I, Section 8 (which is primarily regarding aspects of the use of the military and foreign trade).
(2) “A nation’s oral culture is even more fundamental than its physical ecology.”---M. Novak
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“Under the conditions of neo-liberalism it is the social group rather than the individual which is increasing in importance.”---Frank Goodnow
Our Constitution and it's 27 amendments balance individual rights and popular sovereignty through the separation of powers and federalism. It not only protects human freedom but also creates the space for the deeper satisfactions of family, religion, community, and voluntary association...That protects the individual against all arbitrary coercion."--Matthew Continett
It was the neo-liberal progenitor woodrow wilson, building on a view promulgated during the French Revolution(1), who believed any checks and balances mechanism, or limits on government must be convenient and easily dispensable so as to be swept aside by the party in power. As both the major figures in the creation of our representative democracy, Adams and Jefferson disagreed, instead they knew certain political principles are eternal verities that even the ancients understood as well as us moderns. But for the likes of Wilson and his liberal offspring, the philosophical, theological, procedural or any otherwise fundamental is not to be of greater importance than the will of the political elite. Hence for Wilson and those following in his ideological footsteps, the American Constitution is a malleable instrument, in other words a “living constitution” subject to manipulation by political leaders du jour in order to attempt to engineer whatever the social goal they desire. Kinda like every other tyrant.
The wilsonian ideological(2) construct is based on the erroneous belief, or more accurately, wish that human beings and their societies are immanently perfectible, that then can be reengineered so that all can be one. The devil however, always resides in the details. The concept of a “living constitution” is maintained only by the fiction that it is rooted in the continuity of the original Constitution. But the living constitution proponents do not really believe in the values and principles that form the basis of our Constitution. Nor do these elites believe in limited government or the representative form of democracy. In fact, one of the subtle ironies in the legacy of “living constitutionalism” is the rise of judicial supremacy. Seven non-elected people in black robes become their new man-made god(3). As even the majority opinion of the Supreme Court said of itself recently: “to…speak before all others for [our] constitutional ideals.”(4)
It’s inevitably what you get when you treat the Constitution as a living document that can be redefined whenever expediency requires. A living Constitution evolves into removing more and more of the responsibility for making law away from elected Congressmen and instead placing it exceedingly into the hands of a few judges appointed, not elected, for life. The will and whim of those judges, as we are experiencing more and more, in effect create laws, that we all are forced to live under, regardless of what the Constitution does or does not say, and regardless of the wants and needs of the citizenry.
So, our checks and balances system(5), that worked so well it created in a mere decades the freest, most prosperous country in the world for hundreds of millions domestically, and supported the efforts of billions of others around the globe is intentional being rapidly destroyed. Instead of the original design of a powerful Congress and executive, both strong, moral and honorable but carefully checked along with what was described at the time as the “least dangerous branch” --the judiciary, we now have a weak to dysfunctional Congress and sometimes executive too, that a relatively unchecked bullying judiciary power can now easily reside in our government in inverse portion to the democratic process. That is not reform—that is a negative revolution. It is they who are outside the law.
“America now divides ever more sharply into 2 classes, the smaller which hold the commanding heights of government power, from which it disposes I ever greater detail of America’s energies from which it ordains ways of living as if it has the right to do so, and from which it asserts that that right is based on the majority’s class stupidity, racism, and violent tendencies. hence, they can justify that they may transcend our Constitution while pretending allegiance to it.”--Angelo M. Codevilla
“The basic principle of democracy is the sacredness of the individual as a creature endowed by God with inalienable rights. The basic principle of totalitarian systems is that the individual has no rights, except those sometimes granted him by the Party or the State. The latter is not what America has been or is, yet. ”--Fulton J. Sheen
“The real objective here is the further erosion of liberty and freedom. But even more, it's if the left can render the Constitution irrelevant. If they can get the American people to the point where the Constitution is just some piece of paper that doesn't amount to a hill of beans, that's what they would love. And to the effect that they can violate it, that they can avoid it, that they can pretend it doesn't exist -- that they can wantonly, in public, spit on it and get away with it -- that's the objective.”--Rush Limbaugh
1 The French Revolution was initiated deliberately by a group of intellectuals bent on undermining the principle of inalienable rights with which men are endowed by their Creator.
2 The term “ideology,” first used by the french philosopher Destutt de Tracy, has come to refer to a set of ideals and hopes, like human perfection or social equsilty, that philosophers mistakenly believe can be implemented in the world because it exists in their heads, allowing the seductive powers of imagination to block out concrete realities that expose the illusions. Ideology provides an attractive rhetorical advantage no matter how wrong reality proves it.
3 “The liberal democratic tradition is of opening the public square to the full and civil engagement of the conviction of all citizens, including their religiously-informed moral conviction.”---Richard John Neuhaus
4 A survey of the Supreme Court found that of the 7, only 3 of the Supreme Court Justices support jurisprudence based on natural law, as taught by the Catholic Church for millennia and which also guided Thomas Jefferson thoughts when he wrote the Declaration Of Independence.
5 “The first maximum of a free state is that the laws be made by one set of men, administered by another and challenges by yet another, in other words there could be no such thing as liberty if the judiciary power united either to the legislature or to the executive.”--William Paley. “A good move may not seem to pay off in the opening, or in the middle game but it will show its worth in the ending.”---Tom Wiswell
EDITORS NOTE;
Intertwined within the article are the principles our self rule Republic was based on. I know we must return to those principles or lose the Republic and what it stands for.
Start pushing your State Legislatures to open an Amendment Proposal Convention to retake the powers that Congress and the Bureaucracies have usurped from us since the end of the Civil War.
We Need;
Term Limits
Repeal of the 16th & 17th Amendments
Citizen oversight and agreement on ALL Weapons laws, regulations, requirements w/3/4 vote of eligible citizen voters to affirm.
Citizen oversight on Legislation and Supreme Court Rulings with a 7/8 vote of eligible citizen voters to overturn them.
Reestablish the check and balances boundaries between the three areas of government.
Reestablish the original meaning of the 14th Amendment, redefine the due process clause under the original meaning of the 14th, do away with the anchor baby and other expansionist rulings combined with a modern immigration policy that protects national interests and allows for screening of immigrants using the same standards for all.
Return the education system to state control.
Any more suggestions from anyone?
"The reality of freedom must depend on the values which free individuals pursue.”--Fredrick A. Hayek
“To secure these rights [life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government..." --Thomas Jefferson, from the Declaration of Independence
"A republic, if you can keep it."--Ben Franklin
If it be asked, 'What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?' The answer would be an inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government."-- Alexander Hamilton
“If congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions...what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature...If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."--James Madison
"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."-- John Adams
Our constitution, informed by over 2 thousand years of human history, with the premise that humans are fallen and prone to selfishness, and also that humans are endowed by their creator with natural rights, was designed to protect rights and liberties while seeking to limit power in a way that would prevent tyranny, with no wish for government to socially engineer the people. Thomas Jefferson wrote: “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution…Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution…If it has bounds, they can be no others than the definitions of the powers which the instrument gives. It specifies & delineates…”(1). And those bounds were based on uniquely American legal foundations, designed on several premises. Premises that were in essence what Nobel Prize winner James Buchanan defines as relatively absolute absolutes. That the state and its institutions exist for the sake of the individual and that our leaders remain trustees of our individual liberty. That laws should be negative in nature, meaning they describe what we, as citizens and as government, cannot do rather than what we are allowed or must do. That laws should be general and unchanging. That they be known in advance, not ex post facto. That the law be applicable to all. That the goal is to preserve individual freedom and limit sovereign power. In laying down the fundamental reason behind our Constitution perhaps William Blackstone put it best years before when he said: "Law is not a transient order from a superior to or concerning a particular person or thing, but something permanent, uniform and universal.” And with what was later recognized by Supreme Court Justices Holmes and Hand, that: “The less law the better”.
Conservatives, following the learnings of Edmund Burke who elaborated long ago that a conservative philosophy attends to time, circumstances, convention, experience and practical wisdom in matters of reform, have always endeavored to conserve our successful constitutional based republic. Conversely, liberals, using a misnomer, have sought to "liberate" America from constitutional rule of law for decades, preferring instead to make all the rules themselves, employing a deceptive concept know by the term “living document”.
In addressing the question of whether our Constitution should be treated, in the neo-liberal view, as a “living document”, C. Wolfe has positioned the argument when he stated: "The burden of proof rests upon those who contend that the Constitution was understood by its ratifiers [and now by their philosophical descendants] differently from the way it was written by its authors...that what its words mean are not taken separately nor related to the whole document…that the fair implications that what the Constitution ratified was expectations but not principles. To understand these principles we turn first and primarily to the words of the document, read as a whole...we cannot know with certainty that anyone's opinion about the meaning of the document was meant to be given authority. To rely on extrinsic sources of the meaning of the document as the primary source would be to undercut the clarity and certainty that are an essential element of the rule of law. The language of the document will be our guide... interpretation which places primary emphasis on construction of words of the document itself, not the debates behind it... for solving an increasing number of problems arising over time.
Or, as Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story said: "The Constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes for which those powers were conferred. ... Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy...It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and forever."
Jeffery Folks warned that: "To view change as an end in itself is to fall prey to a dangerous form of idolatry." Why then has there been an unfortunate shift of emphasis from reading of the document to examining extrinsic, even spurious sources for its intent?
First: Many people read the document less carefully and therefore jump too quickly to conclusion that the words of the document provide little, or at least insufficient guidance.
The words of language influences not only how we think but also how we discover and understand, in how we view, what we see and pay attention. It is how we navigate the complexities of human living. It can also operate as deception, delusion, manipulation, revelation and not just communication.
Words only make sense within the broader context of broader units of discourse, like whole narratives. Meaning however never transcends convention(2). There is nothing to keep our linguistic usage in check save the convention of the contextual, spatial and historical contingent. As soon as we stipulate convention, words assume meanings and we are no longer free to interpret as we choose. If we allow pragmatism to determine meaning, then we subject ourselves to meanings based on expedience, and not truth. Once expedience dictates meaning, meaning is capable of being anything, anytime. Therefore, the Deconstructionalist's claim, at its base, that texts are indeterminable and inevitably yield to multiple, irreducibly diverse interpretations, or that criteria does not exist for preferring one interpretation over another, is false.
It is a common age-old misconception that law is an assemblage of senselessly rigid rules from which departures from defined principles are continually necessary to save the whole clumsy edifice from collapsing. But texts are anchored to their meaning and not free to float about indiscriminately. No contract can be made to say anything unless the author and the reader share a common understanding of the words and the essential contextual factors, including the purpose of the contract itself. To subject the rule of law to current social, economic, educational and cultural conditions can only lead to making the term worthless and guarantee the repudiation of the rule of law. Without that absolute there is no law that will protect you absolutely, we are back in the jungle As P. Brest said: “That which is voted on and adopted is not a set of intentions but a set of words…the starting point for its principle is language.”
Second: There is a tendency to try and clear up uncertainty by recourse to intent; this may create a disposition or habit of looking for extrinsic evidence even where the words are unclear.
The danger in all interpretation is that it easily leads to a game played without rules. Convincing answers to contested questions are reducible to ones of fact. To apply “particularism” to the definition of the principles of the facts creates that aforementioned undisciplined and ad hoc game played without rules. In other words, facts matter. Without facts, evidence, proof and a sound analytical logic it is just rationalization, posing as law. Of course just getting the facts right can't decide a case; there has to be an analytic framework to fit the facts into As R.K. Winter stated: “The Interpretive view is not a vulgarized view of strict constructionism. Rather it is a complex set of concepts relating to whether constitutional questions should be adjudicated, how, when and what it will be. It embodies a methodology of constitutional interpretation, designed to insulate dispute settling from transitory whim or purely personal desires of the judge.” Methodology, as C.L. Black Jr. stated, includes inference from the structures and relationships created by the Constitution in all it parts or principle part(s). Interpretation must seek to extrapolate from all the data and definitional doctrine the core principles and meanings. Where constitutional language makes no objective policy, the courts have no business imposing one. To do so is fait accompli legislation. If policy or position is indeterminate then there isn’t even a vocabulary left in which to defend any decision. However, we must also guard against the liberal tendency of deconstruction relativism, which Richard A. Posner warns about, saying: “The fact that interpretation can be given animation such that it is indeterminate is just plain wrong. Although one can argue both sides of an issue, the arguments for one side can fall completely flat.”
Third: “… a tendency to believe that judges have the right and duty to interpret and exercise judicial review, which encourages subjective judicial opinions.”
Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall both early on established that it is the law that is supreme and not the judge. Personal values and political preference are apt to play an important role in courts that have broad discretion. And the power of that personality grows with the recession of the constitutional text as a limitation on judicial discretion. Starting perhaps with the Slaughter-House Cases the Supreme Court did just that, taking it upon themselves to amend rather than interpret the law.
One of the ways the courts have invented for concealing ideological personal preference is to use notions of public good, to bridge the gap between conventional legal understandings and the desire for a predetermined outcome. The underlying problem is that the social engineering efforts made are being done by mechanisms proven to be inherently poorly designed to accomplish their object.
Even the pragmatist cannot ignore the good that results from compliance with settled rules of law. If one is free to issue a decision that has no basis in law, merely because he thinks it is for the “good”, then the result is not pragmatic adjudication but lawlessness. As Richard A. Posner wrote: “The Constitution contains democratic principle, but is not a synonym for democracy. As Scalia points out, people who look to the courts for social reform do not take democracy seriously…. inviting judges to give constitutional status to powerful currents of public opinion are now understood to have been to a considerable degree deeply misinformed.” The lateral entry of pragmatic adjudication runs into conflict with the intellectual, political and moral diversity combined with individualistic character of our culture.
Sound legal pragmatism, concerned with making decisions with regard to the present and the future, realizes that past decisions, statutes, constitutional text and so forth can be repositories of both knowledge and wisdom that should not be ignored or obscured gratuitously. To make a decision that contradicts past positions can provide a destabilizing effect with significant bad consequences. Pragmatism’s greatest danger is therefore when it succumbs both to intellectual laziness and dishonesty. Legal reasoning is modestly defined as reasoning with reference to distinctive legal materials and doctrines.
In conclusion, legal reasoning can be modestly defined as reasoning with reference to distinctive legal materials such as statues, legal doctrine and other rule of law virtues. Judicial pragmatism has an interest in past decisions, statutes and so forth. It recognizes that they are repositories of knowledge and wisdom; that judges are not trained nor authorized to analyze and absorb the theories and data of social sciences. To ignore legal reasoning rules and standards presents a large probability of unintended negative consequences, including the substitution of the goal of a democratic society, that being the replacement of sound means applied to all with the desired goals of those in power. Law does not include ignoring good of compliance with the rules. If the application of law meant simply applying ever floating interpretations, then we would not have judicial adjudication, we’d have what the Federalist Papers defined as tyranny.
Our Constitution gives us a framework of government that is NOT meant to address every issue or answer every grievance, real or imagined. This is its strength, because it design is intended to deliver the best form of government, a limited one. If the Constitution’s meaning can be erased or reinterpreted, it ceases to be a constitution but instead becomes a concoction of arbitrary political expedients that serve the political agenda du’ jour of the few entrusted with government power.
"[C]onfidence is every where the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence; it is jealousy & not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."-- Thomas Jefferson
“I've been predicting for 20 years, that ultimately the theory of the living Constitution will destroy us. Once the people figure out what the game is, they will say, 'We will select our judges on the basis of who will modify the Constitution today to what we desire. The Constitution’s meaning doesn't change. To achieve change, all you need is a legislature and a ballot box. Things then can change just as fast as you like, while liberty, freedom and justice are not sacrificed to expediency."-- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
(1) When the federal government claimed and exercised a right of enlarging its own powers by constructions, inferences, and indefinite deductions, Thomas Jefferson called that a direct infraction of the Constitution. He also denied that the General welfare Clause constituted a general grant to Congress of power to spend money on anything it wanted. He asserted that rather the Clause meant money could be spent by Congress in furtherance of the powers spelled out in Article I, Section 8 (which is primarily regarding aspects of the use of the military and foreign trade).
(2) “A nation’s oral culture is even more fundamental than its physical ecology.”---M. Novak
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“Under the conditions of neo-liberalism it is the social group rather than the individual which is increasing in importance.”---Frank Goodnow
Our Constitution and it's 27 amendments balance individual rights and popular sovereignty through the separation of powers and federalism. It not only protects human freedom but also creates the space for the deeper satisfactions of family, religion, community, and voluntary association...That protects the individual against all arbitrary coercion."--Matthew Continett
It was the neo-liberal progenitor woodrow wilson, building on a view promulgated during the French Revolution(1), who believed any checks and balances mechanism, or limits on government must be convenient and easily dispensable so as to be swept aside by the party in power. As both the major figures in the creation of our representative democracy, Adams and Jefferson disagreed, instead they knew certain political principles are eternal verities that even the ancients understood as well as us moderns. But for the likes of Wilson and his liberal offspring, the philosophical, theological, procedural or any otherwise fundamental is not to be of greater importance than the will of the political elite. Hence for Wilson and those following in his ideological footsteps, the American Constitution is a malleable instrument, in other words a “living constitution” subject to manipulation by political leaders du jour in order to attempt to engineer whatever the social goal they desire. Kinda like every other tyrant.
The wilsonian ideological(2) construct is based on the erroneous belief, or more accurately, wish that human beings and their societies are immanently perfectible, that then can be reengineered so that all can be one. The devil however, always resides in the details. The concept of a “living constitution” is maintained only by the fiction that it is rooted in the continuity of the original Constitution. But the living constitution proponents do not really believe in the values and principles that form the basis of our Constitution. Nor do these elites believe in limited government or the representative form of democracy. In fact, one of the subtle ironies in the legacy of “living constitutionalism” is the rise of judicial supremacy. Seven non-elected people in black robes become their new man-made god(3). As even the majority opinion of the Supreme Court said of itself recently: “to…speak before all others for [our] constitutional ideals.”(4)
It’s inevitably what you get when you treat the Constitution as a living document that can be redefined whenever expediency requires. A living Constitution evolves into removing more and more of the responsibility for making law away from elected Congressmen and instead placing it exceedingly into the hands of a few judges appointed, not elected, for life. The will and whim of those judges, as we are experiencing more and more, in effect create laws, that we all are forced to live under, regardless of what the Constitution does or does not say, and regardless of the wants and needs of the citizenry.
So, our checks and balances system(5), that worked so well it created in a mere decades the freest, most prosperous country in the world for hundreds of millions domestically, and supported the efforts of billions of others around the globe is intentional being rapidly destroyed. Instead of the original design of a powerful Congress and executive, both strong, moral and honorable but carefully checked along with what was described at the time as the “least dangerous branch” --the judiciary, we now have a weak to dysfunctional Congress and sometimes executive too, that a relatively unchecked bullying judiciary power can now easily reside in our government in inverse portion to the democratic process. That is not reform—that is a negative revolution. It is they who are outside the law.
“America now divides ever more sharply into 2 classes, the smaller which hold the commanding heights of government power, from which it disposes I ever greater detail of America’s energies from which it ordains ways of living as if it has the right to do so, and from which it asserts that that right is based on the majority’s class stupidity, racism, and violent tendencies. hence, they can justify that they may transcend our Constitution while pretending allegiance to it.”--Angelo M. Codevilla
“The basic principle of democracy is the sacredness of the individual as a creature endowed by God with inalienable rights. The basic principle of totalitarian systems is that the individual has no rights, except those sometimes granted him by the Party or the State. The latter is not what America has been or is, yet. ”--Fulton J. Sheen
“The real objective here is the further erosion of liberty and freedom. But even more, it's if the left can render the Constitution irrelevant. If they can get the American people to the point where the Constitution is just some piece of paper that doesn't amount to a hill of beans, that's what they would love. And to the effect that they can violate it, that they can avoid it, that they can pretend it doesn't exist -- that they can wantonly, in public, spit on it and get away with it -- that's the objective.”--Rush Limbaugh
1 The French Revolution was initiated deliberately by a group of intellectuals bent on undermining the principle of inalienable rights with which men are endowed by their Creator.
2 The term “ideology,” first used by the french philosopher Destutt de Tracy, has come to refer to a set of ideals and hopes, like human perfection or social equsilty, that philosophers mistakenly believe can be implemented in the world because it exists in their heads, allowing the seductive powers of imagination to block out concrete realities that expose the illusions. Ideology provides an attractive rhetorical advantage no matter how wrong reality proves it.
3 “The liberal democratic tradition is of opening the public square to the full and civil engagement of the conviction of all citizens, including their religiously-informed moral conviction.”---Richard John Neuhaus
4 A survey of the Supreme Court found that of the 7, only 3 of the Supreme Court Justices support jurisprudence based on natural law, as taught by the Catholic Church for millennia and which also guided Thomas Jefferson thoughts when he wrote the Declaration Of Independence.
5 “The first maximum of a free state is that the laws be made by one set of men, administered by another and challenges by yet another, in other words there could be no such thing as liberty if the judiciary power united either to the legislature or to the executive.”--William Paley. “A good move may not seem to pay off in the opening, or in the middle game but it will show its worth in the ending.”---Tom Wiswell
EDITORS NOTE;
Intertwined within the article are the principles our self rule Republic was based on. I know we must return to those principles or lose the Republic and what it stands for.
Start pushing your State Legislatures to open an Amendment Proposal Convention to retake the powers that Congress and the Bureaucracies have usurped from us since the end of the Civil War.
We Need;
Term Limits
Repeal of the 16th & 17th Amendments
Citizen oversight and agreement on ALL Weapons laws, regulations, requirements w/3/4 vote of eligible citizen voters to affirm.
Citizen oversight on Legislation and Supreme Court Rulings with a 7/8 vote of eligible citizen voters to overturn them.
Reestablish the check and balances boundaries between the three areas of government.
Reestablish the original meaning of the 14th Amendment, redefine the due process clause under the original meaning of the 14th, do away with the anchor baby and other expansionist rulings combined with a modern immigration policy that protects national interests and allows for screening of immigrants using the same standards for all.
Return the education system to state control.
Any more suggestions from anyone?
CHINA VIRUS UPDATE
The China-virus vaccines were untested, minimally helpful, and are to an extent unsafe, especially for the young. Aggressive use of ventilators may have killed some Covid patients, Northwestern University researchers suggests that. Covid itself has a “relatively low mortality rate" compared to other respiratory illnesses, the researchers found. Yet Covid patients remained intubated longer than other patients and developed secondary bacterial infections more often. Those extra infections caused many deaths in Covid patients, the researchers wrote. More patients may have died from the bacterial infections than Covid itself. Left-wing media outlets and hospitals both pressed ventilator use for Covid patients in 2020, frequently claiming ventilator shortages were likely. When Trump's position was I don’t believe you really need that many ventilators, left-wing reporters focused on ventilators as a way to criticize Trump’s pandemic response.
The CDC and NIH manipulated the government and the willing left-wing press into supporting incredibly corrupt behavior. Prestigious medical journals, such as the Lancet suspended their usual stringent review processes to publish fraudulent data. The regulatory agencies, and Big Pharma acting in concert, punished nondoctrinaire opinions. They manipulated our academic institutions by the issuance and withholding of grant money. Leaders such as the beloved Dr. fauci promoted phony letters to the editor decrying the lab leak origin story. This was done to protect the NIH , and its likely illegal contributions to the Wuhan Institute of virology for gain-of-function research.
But the Covid hysterics will not quit. 3 years later, they continue to defend the indefensible - even including hyper-aggressive ventilator use. No wonder they won't tell the truth about the mRNAs. Dr. craig spencer, for example, had been a Covid shrieker from the beginning. Before Covid, spencer was best-known for wandering around New York City while sick with Ebola, a virus that kills half the people it infects. But spencer’s laissez-faire attitude toward infectious disease deserted him when Sars-Cov-2 arrived in New York, on Twitter, the washington post, TV and others he raised an alarm about the china virus. He survived a virus that can make you bleed out through your eyes; he feared one whose mortality rate for healthy people under 50 was almost too low to measure. Why? The answer might have something to do with Trump.
So what? spencer just wanted the world to know that Covid was dangerous, right? He was just relaying what he saw, right? He was a doctor, not a politician, right? NO!!spencer was the opposite of apolitical. He wanted the world to know that he hated Trump. He wanted biden. And he wanted lockdowns. The hysterics that spencer and other anti-Trump physicians adopted was not just absurd at the time and embarrassing in retrospect. It fed the fear that made lockdowns so hard to undo. It set the stage for the later demonization of the unjabbed. Naturally, Spencer was a huge mRNA shot advocate and cheered vaccine mandates. Even now, more than 3 years after Covid began, spencer will not admit the truth about anything that has happened.
His cognitive dissonance revealed itself. He complained about coverage of the new Northwestern University study showing ventilators - which doctors used very aggressively in spring 2020 - almost certainly killed some Covid patients. In truth, by April 2020, anyone tracking the data closely could see that Covid’s threat - to children, to reasonably healthy adults, and to society as a whole - had been vastly overstated.
Some of us said so at the time. We have the receipts to prove it.
We cannot let people like spencer forget that they were wrong then and are still wrong now, the public health authoritarians have not just failed to learn from history. They are desperate to repeat it.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch proved the simmering battles over Covid and civil liberties are nowhere near done. School closings, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and censorship efforts have ended. But public health authoritarians and politicians who imposed them are in no hurry to give up the powers they seized. They will attack anyone who speaks out.
So Gorsuch learned when he released an 8-page statement about the Covid power grab, and the failure of legislatures and courts to stop it. The left’s furious response has made clear why the Supreme Court must step in to prevent state and federal governments from using future emergencies - or “emergencies” - to take our Constitutional rights.
Gorsuch released the opinion as the court blocked efforts to extend a Covid-era border policy that made expelling illegal immigrants easier. With the Covid declaration of emergency officially over, the government can no longer use emergency authority for immigration rules, conservative and liberal justices agreed. The border restrictions were far from the only “emergency” government rules during Covid. Local, state, and federal governments used their authority to interfere to restrict basic rights to work, assemble, and even pray and protest:
Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions In Michigan, left-wing governor whitmer decided who was allowed to meet and under what terms. whitmer was far from alone. The courts and legislatures did not check the seizure of power by unelected public health officials, mayors, governors, and the President. State legislatures and Congress—the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws—too often fell silent.
And Gorsuch explained why: "Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces… we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear."
Thus the left-wing's fury at him. biden's plan to force tens of millions American adults to be vaccinated with a useless drug, or worse, or lose their jobs apparently didn’t even register as a possible civil liberties or Constitutional violation.
So here we are. 3yrs after governors shut down businesses and schools and churches and tried to keep people from leaving their homes, 2 yrs after biden broke his promise not to impose vaccine mandates, the left-wing continues to defend its unconstitutional, anti-freedom policies.
Further reading:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fda-detects-serious-safety-signal-for-covid-19-vaccination-among-kids_5288229.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
What they said
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1657822409628557312
https://www.clayandbuck.com/watch-one-of-the-best-videos-ever-posted-on-twitter-all-the-smart-people-dead-wrong-on-covid/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/most-infected-in-covid-outbreak-at-cdc-were-vaccinated-agency-confirms_5297678.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/never_forget_the_covid_fanatics_.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/after-getting-everything-wrong-during-covid-top-health-officials-now-try-to-deflect-blame_5256547.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=op-cc&src_cmp=op-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/messenger-rna-covid-19-vaccines-had-no-effect-on-overall-mortality-trial-data-reanalysis_5258825.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=gv-cc&src_cmp=gv-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-drops-near-zero-within-months-study_5242659.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=t5-cc&src_cmp=t5-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-leaked-pentagon-report-forensically-dismantled-fauci-led-natural-origin-study_5269475.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-vaccine-mandates-for-patients-healthcare-workers-being-reversed-overturned-across-the-u-s_5248633.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-05-09&src_cmp=mb-2023-05-09&utm_medium=email&est=KMRLDEfu5Z4ul%2FUEV0rca7FvsWl%2BfhmdlIgupXqIrfTE5sFKi1rUV5bwrbIeoNzN6w%3D%3D
https://www.theepochtimes.com/its-2023-and-patients-are-still-being-denied-medical-treatment-because-of-covid-19-vaccines_5244345.html?src_src=opinionnoe&src_cmp=opinion-2023-05-08&est=misUaJU2pOr2rQr7oFsSVGuztME5uQ5zG4OIvrlze2pVNRwEoMvwWXBwdg%3D%
WITH ALL THE CORRUPTION BEING FORCED ON US. WITH FACTIONS OF OUR GOVERNMENT IGNORING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. OUR ONLY LOGICAL RECOURSE IS TO DEMANMD OUR STATE LEGISLATURES CALL FOR AN ARTICLE-V AMENDMENT PROPOSAL CONVENTION WHICH THOSE FACTIONS CAN NOT SUBVERT TO THEIR OWN POLITICAL BENEFIT!
The CDC and NIH manipulated the government and the willing left-wing press into supporting incredibly corrupt behavior. Prestigious medical journals, such as the Lancet suspended their usual stringent review processes to publish fraudulent data. The regulatory agencies, and Big Pharma acting in concert, punished nondoctrinaire opinions. They manipulated our academic institutions by the issuance and withholding of grant money. Leaders such as the beloved Dr. fauci promoted phony letters to the editor decrying the lab leak origin story. This was done to protect the NIH , and its likely illegal contributions to the Wuhan Institute of virology for gain-of-function research.
But the Covid hysterics will not quit. 3 years later, they continue to defend the indefensible - even including hyper-aggressive ventilator use. No wonder they won't tell the truth about the mRNAs. Dr. craig spencer, for example, had been a Covid shrieker from the beginning. Before Covid, spencer was best-known for wandering around New York City while sick with Ebola, a virus that kills half the people it infects. But spencer’s laissez-faire attitude toward infectious disease deserted him when Sars-Cov-2 arrived in New York, on Twitter, the washington post, TV and others he raised an alarm about the china virus. He survived a virus that can make you bleed out through your eyes; he feared one whose mortality rate for healthy people under 50 was almost too low to measure. Why? The answer might have something to do with Trump.
So what? spencer just wanted the world to know that Covid was dangerous, right? He was just relaying what he saw, right? He was a doctor, not a politician, right? NO!!spencer was the opposite of apolitical. He wanted the world to know that he hated Trump. He wanted biden. And he wanted lockdowns. The hysterics that spencer and other anti-Trump physicians adopted was not just absurd at the time and embarrassing in retrospect. It fed the fear that made lockdowns so hard to undo. It set the stage for the later demonization of the unjabbed. Naturally, Spencer was a huge mRNA shot advocate and cheered vaccine mandates. Even now, more than 3 years after Covid began, spencer will not admit the truth about anything that has happened.
His cognitive dissonance revealed itself. He complained about coverage of the new Northwestern University study showing ventilators - which doctors used very aggressively in spring 2020 - almost certainly killed some Covid patients. In truth, by April 2020, anyone tracking the data closely could see that Covid’s threat - to children, to reasonably healthy adults, and to society as a whole - had been vastly overstated.
Some of us said so at the time. We have the receipts to prove it.
We cannot let people like spencer forget that they were wrong then and are still wrong now, the public health authoritarians have not just failed to learn from history. They are desperate to repeat it.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch proved the simmering battles over Covid and civil liberties are nowhere near done. School closings, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and censorship efforts have ended. But public health authoritarians and politicians who imposed them are in no hurry to give up the powers they seized. They will attack anyone who speaks out.
So Gorsuch learned when he released an 8-page statement about the Covid power grab, and the failure of legislatures and courts to stop it. The left’s furious response has made clear why the Supreme Court must step in to prevent state and federal governments from using future emergencies - or “emergencies” - to take our Constitutional rights.
Gorsuch released the opinion as the court blocked efforts to extend a Covid-era border policy that made expelling illegal immigrants easier. With the Covid declaration of emergency officially over, the government can no longer use emergency authority for immigration rules, conservative and liberal justices agreed. The border restrictions were far from the only “emergency” government rules during Covid. Local, state, and federal governments used their authority to interfere to restrict basic rights to work, assemble, and even pray and protest:
Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions In Michigan, left-wing governor whitmer decided who was allowed to meet and under what terms. whitmer was far from alone. The courts and legislatures did not check the seizure of power by unelected public health officials, mayors, governors, and the President. State legislatures and Congress—the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws—too often fell silent.
And Gorsuch explained why: "Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces… we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear."
Thus the left-wing's fury at him. biden's plan to force tens of millions American adults to be vaccinated with a useless drug, or worse, or lose their jobs apparently didn’t even register as a possible civil liberties or Constitutional violation.
So here we are. 3yrs after governors shut down businesses and schools and churches and tried to keep people from leaving their homes, 2 yrs after biden broke his promise not to impose vaccine mandates, the left-wing continues to defend its unconstitutional, anti-freedom policies.
Further reading:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fda-detects-serious-safety-signal-for-covid-19-vaccination-among-kids_5288229.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
What they said
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1657822409628557312
https://www.clayandbuck.com/watch-one-of-the-best-videos-ever-posted-on-twitter-all-the-smart-people-dead-wrong-on-covid/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/most-infected-in-covid-outbreak-at-cdc-were-vaccinated-agency-confirms_5297678.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/never_forget_the_covid_fanatics_.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/after-getting-everything-wrong-during-covid-top-health-officials-now-try-to-deflect-blame_5256547.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=op-cc&src_cmp=op-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/messenger-rna-covid-19-vaccines-had-no-effect-on-overall-mortality-trial-data-reanalysis_5258825.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=gv-cc&src_cmp=gv-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-drops-near-zero-within-months-study_5242659.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=t5-cc&src_cmp=t5-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-leaked-pentagon-report-forensically-dismantled-fauci-led-natural-origin-study_5269475.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-vaccine-mandates-for-patients-healthcare-workers-being-reversed-overturned-across-the-u-s_5248633.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-05-09&src_cmp=mb-2023-05-09&utm_medium=email&est=KMRLDEfu5Z4ul%2FUEV0rca7FvsWl%2BfhmdlIgupXqIrfTE5sFKi1rUV5bwrbIeoNzN6w%3D%3D
https://www.theepochtimes.com/its-2023-and-patients-are-still-being-denied-medical-treatment-because-of-covid-19-vaccines_5244345.html?src_src=opinionnoe&src_cmp=opinion-2023-05-08&est=misUaJU2pOr2rQr7oFsSVGuztME5uQ5zG4OIvrlze2pVNRwEoMvwWXBwdg%3D%
WITH ALL THE CORRUPTION BEING FORCED ON US. WITH FACTIONS OF OUR GOVERNMENT IGNORING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. OUR ONLY LOGICAL RECOURSE IS TO DEMANMD OUR STATE LEGISLATURES CALL FOR AN ARTICLE-V AMENDMENT PROPOSAL CONVENTION WHICH THOSE FACTIONS CAN NOT SUBVERT TO THEIR OWN POLITICAL BENEFIT!
Subject: A look at Chicago
The Chicago Teachers Union, not content just to negotiate contracts for teachers, shifted into political action, rallying its members around woke ideology goals ranging far beyond teaching. The CTU moved into high gear, networking with other progressive groups and throwing money and volunteers behind candidates for state and local office. One was Brandon Johnson, who won a seat on the Cook County commission with the union’s support. The union had no interest in conservatives or even for moderates.
Johnson has since been elected mayor by 26,000 votes, just in time to face a severe and intensifying cash squeeze. Interest rates have gone up. It will cost more to borrow. Tax revenues are sluggish. The federal stimulus money will soon run out. Washington is trying to claw back any unspent portion. And then there are the pensions.
It isn’t just the teachers’ plan. Chicago owes hundreds of millions of dollars to thousands of other retirees. There are pensions for teachers, pensions for park crews, pensions for mass-transit drivers, pensions for college professors, pensions for the people who fix the water mains, all technically separate from the city but supported, at least in part, by city residents. All are underfunded. They do have one thing in common: They are “mature plans,” with lots of retirees who need to be paid, and more retiring every year. It’s punishingly difficult to run a severely underfunded pension plan with cascading rolls of retirees. Chicago’s taxpayers, and in some cases state taxpayers, have to keep putting in new money as it’s paid out, especially after a year like last year, when the plans’ investments lost money.
Actuaries for the teachers’ plan warned in a recent report that the fund had only enough money to last 8 more years. Researchers at the University of Chicago say the city spent 20% of its 2023 budget shoring up just its 4 pension funds. That crowds out spending on other city services, and the worst of it is, it’s never enough to fill the hole. The pension funds will need to be replenished again next year and the years after that. And Springfield increased Chicago’s police and fire pensions without providing any money to cover the added cost. johnson doesn’t yet grasp how big this problem is, or how hard it will be to fulfill his left-wing agenda while keeping promises to city retirees.
Blaming the past doesn’t make the missing money appear. If Mayor Daley couldn’t afford the pension system back then, how can Johnson afford it today? By making the same 'ol left-wing mistake, "taxing the rich," of course. johnson has called for a There’s somebody out there earning higher income and johnson thinks it's his and they should fund his mystically left-wing utopia.
But you can’t tax the rich if the rich are leaving. Last year 4 large companies left Chicago: Boeing, Caterpillar, Tyson Foods, and Citadel, the big hedge fund. With them went hundreds of taxpaying employees and millions in philanthropic dollars. McDonald’s has so far stayed put, but its CEO warned when he told the Economic Club of Chicago that high taxes and rising crime were making it hard to recruit. “There is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis,” he said.
It takes a long time to kill a city–Detroit’s bankruptcy developed over a period of decades. But you can hasten the process if you lock residents into policies that don’t make any financial sense. You can’t expect people who don’t have secure jobs or pensions themselves to pony up to keep a vast civil service comfortable in retirement. Last year, more than 94,000 people moved out of Cook County, which overlaps much of Chicago. In a recent survey, 34% of Chicago respondents said they would like to leave the city, given the chance. Low-tax Indiana is right next door.
Johnson has since been elected mayor by 26,000 votes, just in time to face a severe and intensifying cash squeeze. Interest rates have gone up. It will cost more to borrow. Tax revenues are sluggish. The federal stimulus money will soon run out. Washington is trying to claw back any unspent portion. And then there are the pensions.
It isn’t just the teachers’ plan. Chicago owes hundreds of millions of dollars to thousands of other retirees. There are pensions for teachers, pensions for park crews, pensions for mass-transit drivers, pensions for college professors, pensions for the people who fix the water mains, all technically separate from the city but supported, at least in part, by city residents. All are underfunded. They do have one thing in common: They are “mature plans,” with lots of retirees who need to be paid, and more retiring every year. It’s punishingly difficult to run a severely underfunded pension plan with cascading rolls of retirees. Chicago’s taxpayers, and in some cases state taxpayers, have to keep putting in new money as it’s paid out, especially after a year like last year, when the plans’ investments lost money.
Actuaries for the teachers’ plan warned in a recent report that the fund had only enough money to last 8 more years. Researchers at the University of Chicago say the city spent 20% of its 2023 budget shoring up just its 4 pension funds. That crowds out spending on other city services, and the worst of it is, it’s never enough to fill the hole. The pension funds will need to be replenished again next year and the years after that. And Springfield increased Chicago’s police and fire pensions without providing any money to cover the added cost. johnson doesn’t yet grasp how big this problem is, or how hard it will be to fulfill his left-wing agenda while keeping promises to city retirees.
Blaming the past doesn’t make the missing money appear. If Mayor Daley couldn’t afford the pension system back then, how can Johnson afford it today? By making the same 'ol left-wing mistake, "taxing the rich," of course. johnson has called for a There’s somebody out there earning higher income and johnson thinks it's his and they should fund his mystically left-wing utopia.
But you can’t tax the rich if the rich are leaving. Last year 4 large companies left Chicago: Boeing, Caterpillar, Tyson Foods, and Citadel, the big hedge fund. With them went hundreds of taxpaying employees and millions in philanthropic dollars. McDonald’s has so far stayed put, but its CEO warned when he told the Economic Club of Chicago that high taxes and rising crime were making it hard to recruit. “There is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis,” he said.
It takes a long time to kill a city–Detroit’s bankruptcy developed over a period of decades. But you can hasten the process if you lock residents into policies that don’t make any financial sense. You can’t expect people who don’t have secure jobs or pensions themselves to pony up to keep a vast civil service comfortable in retirement. Last year, more than 94,000 people moved out of Cook County, which overlaps much of Chicago. In a recent survey, 34% of Chicago respondents said they would like to leave the city, given the chance. Low-tax Indiana is right next door.
Subject: Durham Report
In case you missed it, the Durham Report chronicles in detail what can fairly be called an attempted coup by the FBI. The agency’s investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign, code-named crossfire hurricane. In this case, the Washington cliche “worse than Watergate” is apt. The Russia-collusion investigation was nothing less than a coordinated effort by the agency’s top brass to prevent Trump from becoming president using any means necessary — lying to FISA judges to secure warrants to spy on Trump campaign associates, ignoring or quashing exculpatory evidence, illegally leaking to the news media, and at every turn betraying the FBI’s guiding principles. Ultimately, Crossfire Hurricane was a betrayal of the Constitution and the principles of republican self-government. Simply put, the FBI didn’t think the American people could be trusted, so they decided to meddle in the presidential election and, after Trump won, to undermine his presidency.
What the Durham Report reveals it not merely a case of people who were willing to believe anything about Trump, and, in the case of the FBI, willing to pursue any probe even when the evidence was thin or nonexistent. Impossible to justify in light of the report, is that the people at the center of the Russia-collusion hoax were acting in good faith. That's a position almost as absurd as the false equivalence the left-wing tries to draw between the treasonous launch of crossfire hurricane and Trump being friendly to putin at a joint press conference in 2018 as evidence of a deep, dark conspiracy.
The truth that the left-wing can't admit is that in public, Trump was generally friendly and deferential to nearly every world leader, especially ones who, like putin Anybody recall the advice of very smart people to basically "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?" Part of what made Trump an unconventional politician, and therefore difficult for the left-wing to comprehend, was the casual, not-too-serious way he treated the traditional trappings of politics, such as press conferences, which he clearly — and correctly — thought were ridiculous.
Thus when Trump declined to accuse putin of election interference to his face at the behest of an AP reporter at the Helsinki press conference in July 2018, it was evidence of a sinister plot, that Trump would take such a moment not to attack putin but to imply, correctly it turns out based on overwhelming evidence, that the FBI “was incompetent or corrupt.”
Never mind that the FBI was incompetent and corrupt. For the liberals/democrats, the staged, fake atmosphere of a televised press conference was more real than Trump’s actual policies vis-à-vis Moscow — policies that, in the real world, were much tougher on Putin than anything BObama had done or anything biden would do after 2020. Trump urged Europe to reduce its reliance on Russian oil, unleashed the U.S. military on Russian forces in the Middle East, armed Ukraine with weapons that BObama withheld, and imposed sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (which biden lifted).
None of these things seem to matter to those under the influence of hate-filled liberal ideology. To them, he was “an obviously bad man” and a “threat to our country” while they dismiss all the destruction they wrath all around.
What utter nonsense. After everything we know now, the left-wing still thinks the FBI was motivated by patriotism or the rule of law in its perpetuation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, they merely confirm they are not to be trusted, followed or believed, having lost the ability not only to explain the state of American but, to ascertain basic reality.
The reality is that he aided an economic boom, revamped the space program, moved embassies, cut off funds for and killed terrorists, confronted china's cold-war tactics, repurposed monies to support border control, eliminated regulatory obstacles, proved that experts and consultants were often wrong and revealed that the liberal press, social media and corporations we're often hypocritical, dishonest, and self-interested. He identified problems and acted as a check on unaccountable liberal elites. But Trump wasn’t a member of the establishment, so the establishment hated him. He had bad manners. He was boorish and rude. He thought the liberal mainstream media and the federal bureaucracy were corrupt and ridiculous, and said so repeatedly. That deeply offended the liberal establishment. Who was he to give them orders? He was just some griftery New York real estate mogul. They think they're the experts, the serious people. That many ordinary Americans liked Trump and actually agreed with him didn’t much matter. They had to destroy him.
For our elite liberal class, Trump’s popularity couldn’t possibly be real. They themselves couldn’t possibly be that out of touch, could they? No, there had to be another explanation for Trump. He had to be a real-life villain, a Russian agent, or at least a Putin apologist. Nothing he did, no actual policies or actions undertaken by Trump would dissuade them of this belief. It was an indispensable narrative. Their careers, reputations, huge-egos, and self-satisfying hate depended on it.
No wonder, then, that faced with something as damning as the Durham report, the left-wing’s reaction is to ignore or disparage it. Well, we all know the truth now. We also know the truth about the liberal/democrat.
"Those most likely to be receptive of Trump are those who believe America is in the midst of a great crisis in terms of its economy, it's chaotic civil society, it's political corruption, and the inability to defend any kind of tradition because of the transformation of its culture by liberal elites.”--John Marini
"All history makes clear that an indispensable quality of any man that wishes to lead, to hold power and privilege in society, is boundless self-confidence."--James Burnham
“Trump, with all his vices, has the necessary virtues and the strength to fight the fight that needs to be fought."--Norman Podhoretz
Further reading:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/second-whistleblower-in-hunter-biden-investigation-claims-retaliation/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/17/6-freshly-documented-instances-of-systemic-pro-democrat-fbi-corruption/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=6-freshly-documented-instances-of-systemic-pro-democrat-fbi-corruption&utm_term=2023-05-20
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-improperly-used-warrantless-search-powers-278000-times-2021-fisa-court-filing-reveals
https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/fresh-evidence-justice-is-sweeping-biden-family-crimes-under-the-rug/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/19/fbi-office-handling-the-hunter-biden-investigation-failed-the-russia-hoax-test/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fbi-office-handling-the-hunter-biden-investigation-failed-the-russia-hoax-test&utm_term=2023-05-21
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fbi-retaliated-against-whistleblowers-who-exposed-bureau-s-politicized-rot-by-revoking-security-clearance-suspending-employees-house-report
https://www.theblaze.com/news/whistleblowers-chilling-testimony-warns-about-costs-of-exposing-government-corruption
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/top-house-republican-demands-irs-briefing-after-alleged-whistleblower
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-surveillance-fisa-court-rudolph-contreras-a7f69cd6
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-fbis-integrity-has-been-fatally-compromised
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/durham-reports-shocking-findings-still-rejected-group-despite-media-lies-about-hunter-biden-trump
https://www.foxnews.com/media/russiagate-government-figures-exposed-durham-report-rewarded-cushy-tv-gigs-lucrative-book-deals
What the Durham Report reveals it not merely a case of people who were willing to believe anything about Trump, and, in the case of the FBI, willing to pursue any probe even when the evidence was thin or nonexistent. Impossible to justify in light of the report, is that the people at the center of the Russia-collusion hoax were acting in good faith. That's a position almost as absurd as the false equivalence the left-wing tries to draw between the treasonous launch of crossfire hurricane and Trump being friendly to putin at a joint press conference in 2018 as evidence of a deep, dark conspiracy.
The truth that the left-wing can't admit is that in public, Trump was generally friendly and deferential to nearly every world leader, especially ones who, like putin Anybody recall the advice of very smart people to basically "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?" Part of what made Trump an unconventional politician, and therefore difficult for the left-wing to comprehend, was the casual, not-too-serious way he treated the traditional trappings of politics, such as press conferences, which he clearly — and correctly — thought were ridiculous.
Thus when Trump declined to accuse putin of election interference to his face at the behest of an AP reporter at the Helsinki press conference in July 2018, it was evidence of a sinister plot, that Trump would take such a moment not to attack putin but to imply, correctly it turns out based on overwhelming evidence, that the FBI “was incompetent or corrupt.”
Never mind that the FBI was incompetent and corrupt. For the liberals/democrats, the staged, fake atmosphere of a televised press conference was more real than Trump’s actual policies vis-à-vis Moscow — policies that, in the real world, were much tougher on Putin than anything BObama had done or anything biden would do after 2020. Trump urged Europe to reduce its reliance on Russian oil, unleashed the U.S. military on Russian forces in the Middle East, armed Ukraine with weapons that BObama withheld, and imposed sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (which biden lifted).
None of these things seem to matter to those under the influence of hate-filled liberal ideology. To them, he was “an obviously bad man” and a “threat to our country” while they dismiss all the destruction they wrath all around.
What utter nonsense. After everything we know now, the left-wing still thinks the FBI was motivated by patriotism or the rule of law in its perpetuation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, they merely confirm they are not to be trusted, followed or believed, having lost the ability not only to explain the state of American but, to ascertain basic reality.
The reality is that he aided an economic boom, revamped the space program, moved embassies, cut off funds for and killed terrorists, confronted china's cold-war tactics, repurposed monies to support border control, eliminated regulatory obstacles, proved that experts and consultants were often wrong and revealed that the liberal press, social media and corporations we're often hypocritical, dishonest, and self-interested. He identified problems and acted as a check on unaccountable liberal elites. But Trump wasn’t a member of the establishment, so the establishment hated him. He had bad manners. He was boorish and rude. He thought the liberal mainstream media and the federal bureaucracy were corrupt and ridiculous, and said so repeatedly. That deeply offended the liberal establishment. Who was he to give them orders? He was just some griftery New York real estate mogul. They think they're the experts, the serious people. That many ordinary Americans liked Trump and actually agreed with him didn’t much matter. They had to destroy him.
For our elite liberal class, Trump’s popularity couldn’t possibly be real. They themselves couldn’t possibly be that out of touch, could they? No, there had to be another explanation for Trump. He had to be a real-life villain, a Russian agent, or at least a Putin apologist. Nothing he did, no actual policies or actions undertaken by Trump would dissuade them of this belief. It was an indispensable narrative. Their careers, reputations, huge-egos, and self-satisfying hate depended on it.
No wonder, then, that faced with something as damning as the Durham report, the left-wing’s reaction is to ignore or disparage it. Well, we all know the truth now. We also know the truth about the liberal/democrat.
"Those most likely to be receptive of Trump are those who believe America is in the midst of a great crisis in terms of its economy, it's chaotic civil society, it's political corruption, and the inability to defend any kind of tradition because of the transformation of its culture by liberal elites.”--John Marini
"All history makes clear that an indispensable quality of any man that wishes to lead, to hold power and privilege in society, is boundless self-confidence."--James Burnham
“Trump, with all his vices, has the necessary virtues and the strength to fight the fight that needs to be fought."--Norman Podhoretz
Further reading:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/second-whistleblower-in-hunter-biden-investigation-claims-retaliation/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/17/6-freshly-documented-instances-of-systemic-pro-democrat-fbi-corruption/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=6-freshly-documented-instances-of-systemic-pro-democrat-fbi-corruption&utm_term=2023-05-20
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-improperly-used-warrantless-search-powers-278000-times-2021-fisa-court-filing-reveals
https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/fresh-evidence-justice-is-sweeping-biden-family-crimes-under-the-rug/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/19/fbi-office-handling-the-hunter-biden-investigation-failed-the-russia-hoax-test/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fbi-office-handling-the-hunter-biden-investigation-failed-the-russia-hoax-test&utm_term=2023-05-21
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fbi-retaliated-against-whistleblowers-who-exposed-bureau-s-politicized-rot-by-revoking-security-clearance-suspending-employees-house-report
https://www.theblaze.com/news/whistleblowers-chilling-testimony-warns-about-costs-of-exposing-government-corruption
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/top-house-republican-demands-irs-briefing-after-alleged-whistleblower
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-surveillance-fisa-court-rudolph-contreras-a7f69cd6
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-fbis-integrity-has-been-fatally-compromised
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/durham-reports-shocking-findings-still-rejected-group-despite-media-lies-about-hunter-biden-trump
https://www.foxnews.com/media/russiagate-government-figures-exposed-durham-report-rewarded-cushy-tv-gigs-lucrative-book-deals
A good Penny is nothing to Bragg about
This opinion piece shows just how far Government has gotten out of hand because of Democrat Liberals agendas.
“First, we’ll release all the criminals because too many black bodies are in prison! Then we’ll denounce the police as Nazis and refuse to prosecute any suspects they arrest. The city will be overrun with violent criminals — raping robbing, assaulting and killing at will… But if anyone steps up to protect the citizenry from the mayhem that’s been intentionally inflicted on them, well, then we’ll prosecute the hell out of that douchebag.”--New York City:
This exactly how things are playing out right now with Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who subdued a deranged lunatic on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette Street station in Manhattan on May 1.
According to witnesses, Jordan Neely, a homeless man was pacing madly, and throwing trash at passengers trapped in a hermetically-sealed subway car with him. He said he did not mind “going to jail or getting life in prison” and was “ready to die.” The ex-Marine quietly stepped behind the kook and put him in a choke-hold to hold him for the police and protect everyone on that subway car. neely struggled so much that 2 other men had to help secure him. neely died in the skirmish. neely’s admirers say that he’s mentally ill, but notice that he was sane enough to keeping choosing elderly people to attack. Among his forty-plus arrests, neely punched a man on a subway platform in May 2019, breaking his nose. This was NYC, so a month later, he was still roaming the streets, and cold-cocked a 67-year-old man. Then in 2021, neely decked a 67-year-old woman, hitting her so hard he broke her nose and fractured her orbital bone.
We’re supposed to be impressed that neely hadn’t punched anyone on the subway car-yet. He was merely throwing garbage and threatening to hurt them but, things always escalate with crazies.
In August 2020, around 11 a.m., also on the F train, jose reyes, was “making weird noises and laughing to himself,” according to a witness. He wasn’t assaulting anyone. The next thing you know, he’d grabbed a 25-year-old woman, punched her, pushed her to the ground and started raping her in front of horrified bystanders.
On March 18, 2021, a disturbed man on the on the 1 train in Manhattan, marc mathieu, yelled “you motherfucking Asian!” at Narayange Bodhi, a 68-year-old Sri Lankan on his way his job as a security guard, and knocked him unconscious. Mathieu had 9 prior arrests.
One January 2022, an emotionally disturbed man was taunting passengers on the platform at the Times Square Station. Suddenly the nut ran full force at a woman, Michelle Go, 40, shoving her in front of an oncoming train, where she was pulverized beneath the wheels. Naturally, the man, martial simon, was a homeless ex-con, out on the streets where he could continue terrorizing the public. The station was full of transit officers, but what could they do? Until Simon ran at Ms. Go, he wasn’t doing anything wrong. Harassing strangers is a basic constitutional right in New York!
In February, 2022, a woman was waiting alone at the Wakefield-East 241 Street station when a man approached her saying, “Mami, how come you don’t want to talk to me?” The man, frank abrokwa, returned and jammed a bag full of his own feces into her face, ears, eyes, nose and hair, saying, “Like this, bitch?” In the previous 6 weeks, Abrokwa had punched a man on a subway platform and a man at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. So naturally, he was still at large. In fact, the feces attack was his 40th arrest — whereupon, he was released again without bail. He committed another violent crime the very next day. And again he was released without bail.
In May 2022, andrew abdullah was pacing and muttering to himself on the Q train as it crossed from Brooklyn into Manhattan. Then he pulled out a gun and blew away a Goldman Sachs employee, Daniel Enriquez. abdullah was facing a slew of criminal charges — for stealing property, domestic abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and gun possession. No bail,free as a bird!
The stories go on and on and on. New Yorker officials are releasing insane people onto the streets and refusing to remove them, even when they commit violent crime, after violent crime. And now our brave Marine has been indicted by the despicable alvin bragg for finally putting an end to Neely’s one-man crime wave — something bragg steadfastly refused to do. Penny protected every person in that subway car. So now he’s got to pay.
And all that is what the left-wing/democrats want more of!
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
Further reading:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/what_the_arrest_of_daniel_penny_is_all_about.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/how_the_morlocks_seized_new_york.html
“First, we’ll release all the criminals because too many black bodies are in prison! Then we’ll denounce the police as Nazis and refuse to prosecute any suspects they arrest. The city will be overrun with violent criminals — raping robbing, assaulting and killing at will… But if anyone steps up to protect the citizenry from the mayhem that’s been intentionally inflicted on them, well, then we’ll prosecute the hell out of that douchebag.”--New York City:
This exactly how things are playing out right now with Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who subdued a deranged lunatic on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette Street station in Manhattan on May 1.
According to witnesses, Jordan Neely, a homeless man was pacing madly, and throwing trash at passengers trapped in a hermetically-sealed subway car with him. He said he did not mind “going to jail or getting life in prison” and was “ready to die.” The ex-Marine quietly stepped behind the kook and put him in a choke-hold to hold him for the police and protect everyone on that subway car. neely struggled so much that 2 other men had to help secure him. neely died in the skirmish. neely’s admirers say that he’s mentally ill, but notice that he was sane enough to keeping choosing elderly people to attack. Among his forty-plus arrests, neely punched a man on a subway platform in May 2019, breaking his nose. This was NYC, so a month later, he was still roaming the streets, and cold-cocked a 67-year-old man. Then in 2021, neely decked a 67-year-old woman, hitting her so hard he broke her nose and fractured her orbital bone.
We’re supposed to be impressed that neely hadn’t punched anyone on the subway car-yet. He was merely throwing garbage and threatening to hurt them but, things always escalate with crazies.
In August 2020, around 11 a.m., also on the F train, jose reyes, was “making weird noises and laughing to himself,” according to a witness. He wasn’t assaulting anyone. The next thing you know, he’d grabbed a 25-year-old woman, punched her, pushed her to the ground and started raping her in front of horrified bystanders.
On March 18, 2021, a disturbed man on the on the 1 train in Manhattan, marc mathieu, yelled “you motherfucking Asian!” at Narayange Bodhi, a 68-year-old Sri Lankan on his way his job as a security guard, and knocked him unconscious. Mathieu had 9 prior arrests.
One January 2022, an emotionally disturbed man was taunting passengers on the platform at the Times Square Station. Suddenly the nut ran full force at a woman, Michelle Go, 40, shoving her in front of an oncoming train, where she was pulverized beneath the wheels. Naturally, the man, martial simon, was a homeless ex-con, out on the streets where he could continue terrorizing the public. The station was full of transit officers, but what could they do? Until Simon ran at Ms. Go, he wasn’t doing anything wrong. Harassing strangers is a basic constitutional right in New York!
In February, 2022, a woman was waiting alone at the Wakefield-East 241 Street station when a man approached her saying, “Mami, how come you don’t want to talk to me?” The man, frank abrokwa, returned and jammed a bag full of his own feces into her face, ears, eyes, nose and hair, saying, “Like this, bitch?” In the previous 6 weeks, Abrokwa had punched a man on a subway platform and a man at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. So naturally, he was still at large. In fact, the feces attack was his 40th arrest — whereupon, he was released again without bail. He committed another violent crime the very next day. And again he was released without bail.
In May 2022, andrew abdullah was pacing and muttering to himself on the Q train as it crossed from Brooklyn into Manhattan. Then he pulled out a gun and blew away a Goldman Sachs employee, Daniel Enriquez. abdullah was facing a slew of criminal charges — for stealing property, domestic abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and gun possession. No bail,free as a bird!
The stories go on and on and on. New Yorker officials are releasing insane people onto the streets and refusing to remove them, even when they commit violent crime, after violent crime. And now our brave Marine has been indicted by the despicable alvin bragg for finally putting an end to Neely’s one-man crime wave — something bragg steadfastly refused to do. Penny protected every person in that subway car. So now he’s got to pay.
And all that is what the left-wing/democrats want more of!
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
Further reading:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/what_the_arrest_of_daniel_penny_is_all_about.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/how_the_morlocks_seized_new_york.html
AN EXPLOSION AT THE BORDER
This is another example of why we need an Article-V States petitioned for Amendment Convention to stop government overreach!
I agree we need to pick and choose who can come to this country.
We keep hearing about needing an “orderly process” to get the migrants into our country, “building lawful pathways,” and helping the migrants bypass coyotes.
The 2 missing points are:
1) They have no right to come to our country; and
2) We don’t want them here.
We are a country, not a battered women’s shelter. We have a right to decide who moves here, becomes our fellow citizen and shapes the kind of country we are. But the left-wing media act as if every desperate, poverty-stricken foreigner has a God-given right to come here. The New York Times tells us: “Many migrants are coming from places like Venezuela, which was suffering one of the worst economic crises in the world before the pandemic.” The times acts as if “the economy” is some sort of supernatural force raining down on hapless innocents, manna from heaven or perhaps brought on by witchcraft -- or maybe Martian rays! No, an economy is created by people and their values. In dinosaur times, for example, there was no “economy” because there were no humans.
Why is it a good idea to bring in people with a track record of creating economic catastrophes? It’s not as if they’re coming from places where it’s pitch-black in December and the average temperature is freezing -- like Finland. Oh no, they’re coming from some of the most beautiful, tropical, resource-heavy nations on the globe. Let’s take a few of the migrants' home countries:
--Venezuela has 1,700 miles of coastline and larger proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, a medieval society that refuses the labor contributions of half the population (women). Yet Venezuela is completely destitute, and its people can’t find medicine or toilet paper.
-- Guatemala has black sand beaches, surfing beaches and abundant natural resources, including uranium, sand and gravel, nickel, limestone, petroleum, coal, gold, silver, copper, iron ore and cobalt.
-- Nicaragua has beachfront on both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, freshwater lakes and wildly fertile soil enriched by volcanic ash.
-- Cuba has beaches, rolling plains and the Sierra Maestra mountains. The average temperature in January is 70 degrees, and its resources include nickel, cobalt, petroleum, sugar, tobacco, fish, citrus fruits and coffee.
-- Colombia has white sand beaches, is a major petroleum nation, and is bursting with emeralds, gold, platinum and silver.
How do you screw that up? But for some reason, now that they have screwed it up, it becomes our job to take them all in.
the times cites the brilliant plan of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "Biden’s new policy, combining the carrot of new legal pathways with the stick of more punitive measures for unlawful crossings, was working, Mr. Mayorkas said in television interviews." Why does the biden regime imagine it has to negotiate with illegal immigrants? We’re not obliged to negotiate with foreigners who have no right to make any demands on us -- and, by the way, who have no negotiating power. What on Earth are foreigners on our border offering? The situation is more like a complete stranger walking up to you on the street and demanding you give him $5,000. biden: "OK, I’ll give you $6,000 (carrot), but I warn you, this is the last time--again! (stick)." The left-wing proclaims him a genius!
The times also reports that: “migrants now must prove that they were first denied asylum in a country they passed through enroute to the United States.” Are you grasping this? That’s how you get in -- not a reason for us to laugh in your face. We’re crowd-sourcing asylum claims -- but then doing the opposite of what the crowd-sourced information tells us. Fantastic -- everyone else has looked at your claims of persecution and called B.S. on them. Please, come right in!
But The times blathers on: “Economic, political and environmental forces driving people to the United States are unlikely to subside in the coming months ...” I’ve got news for you, NY times: Those “forces” are never going to subside. Have they ever subsided? In 200 years, has any Latin American country been crushing it? Nope! Any brief periods of peace and prosperity were immediately replaced by a military junta and/or 1-party rule (like the democrats want here). As Paul Johnson describes the history of the region in the 20th century: “In the years 1920–66, for instance, there were 80 successful military coups in 18 Latin-American countries.” Nothing in substance has really changed.
Left-wing MSNBC’s Chris Hayes described the only way this will ever end, saying: “I mean -- if you're thinking about the scales, right? On one side of the scale it's like the current situation in Venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in Cuba, right? Like what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation?”
Yes, that's an example of the clarity of the liberal mind defining the problem and explaining the solution!
Here's the only way it ends if we keep implementing the left-wing's ideology: we wreck our own country so that we’re as miserable as they are. Then, finally, there will be no reason for anyone to ever move from one country to another, because we’ll all be living in "hell-holes," except of course the left-wing elites in charge.
Sadly, that is what liberal democrats want more of.
Further reading:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/the-white-house-says-immigration-officials-dont-release-migrants-the-border-tells-a-different-story/
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/18/border-policies-immigration-title-42-biden-admin/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-takes-zero-questions-from-reporters-chaos-erupts-southern-border-following-expiration-title-42
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/asylum_officers_are_deliberately_misleading_the_public_or_dont_understand_the_laws_they_apply.html
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/video-u-s-enabling-mass-asylum-and-humanitarian-permit-fraud-at-the-southern-border/
https://spectator.org/just-say-asylum/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/biden_administration_is_handing_out_ludicrous_court_dates_for_border_invaders.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/bidens_asylum_app_creates_fresh_round_of_border_chaos.html
I agree we need to pick and choose who can come to this country.
We keep hearing about needing an “orderly process” to get the migrants into our country, “building lawful pathways,” and helping the migrants bypass coyotes.
The 2 missing points are:
1) They have no right to come to our country; and
2) We don’t want them here.
We are a country, not a battered women’s shelter. We have a right to decide who moves here, becomes our fellow citizen and shapes the kind of country we are. But the left-wing media act as if every desperate, poverty-stricken foreigner has a God-given right to come here. The New York Times tells us: “Many migrants are coming from places like Venezuela, which was suffering one of the worst economic crises in the world before the pandemic.” The times acts as if “the economy” is some sort of supernatural force raining down on hapless innocents, manna from heaven or perhaps brought on by witchcraft -- or maybe Martian rays! No, an economy is created by people and their values. In dinosaur times, for example, there was no “economy” because there were no humans.
Why is it a good idea to bring in people with a track record of creating economic catastrophes? It’s not as if they’re coming from places where it’s pitch-black in December and the average temperature is freezing -- like Finland. Oh no, they’re coming from some of the most beautiful, tropical, resource-heavy nations on the globe. Let’s take a few of the migrants' home countries:
--Venezuela has 1,700 miles of coastline and larger proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, a medieval society that refuses the labor contributions of half the population (women). Yet Venezuela is completely destitute, and its people can’t find medicine or toilet paper.
-- Guatemala has black sand beaches, surfing beaches and abundant natural resources, including uranium, sand and gravel, nickel, limestone, petroleum, coal, gold, silver, copper, iron ore and cobalt.
-- Nicaragua has beachfront on both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, freshwater lakes and wildly fertile soil enriched by volcanic ash.
-- Cuba has beaches, rolling plains and the Sierra Maestra mountains. The average temperature in January is 70 degrees, and its resources include nickel, cobalt, petroleum, sugar, tobacco, fish, citrus fruits and coffee.
-- Colombia has white sand beaches, is a major petroleum nation, and is bursting with emeralds, gold, platinum and silver.
How do you screw that up? But for some reason, now that they have screwed it up, it becomes our job to take them all in.
the times cites the brilliant plan of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "Biden’s new policy, combining the carrot of new legal pathways with the stick of more punitive measures for unlawful crossings, was working, Mr. Mayorkas said in television interviews." Why does the biden regime imagine it has to negotiate with illegal immigrants? We’re not obliged to negotiate with foreigners who have no right to make any demands on us -- and, by the way, who have no negotiating power. What on Earth are foreigners on our border offering? The situation is more like a complete stranger walking up to you on the street and demanding you give him $5,000. biden: "OK, I’ll give you $6,000 (carrot), but I warn you, this is the last time--again! (stick)." The left-wing proclaims him a genius!
The times also reports that: “migrants now must prove that they were first denied asylum in a country they passed through enroute to the United States.” Are you grasping this? That’s how you get in -- not a reason for us to laugh in your face. We’re crowd-sourcing asylum claims -- but then doing the opposite of what the crowd-sourced information tells us. Fantastic -- everyone else has looked at your claims of persecution and called B.S. on them. Please, come right in!
But The times blathers on: “Economic, political and environmental forces driving people to the United States are unlikely to subside in the coming months ...” I’ve got news for you, NY times: Those “forces” are never going to subside. Have they ever subsided? In 200 years, has any Latin American country been crushing it? Nope! Any brief periods of peace and prosperity were immediately replaced by a military junta and/or 1-party rule (like the democrats want here). As Paul Johnson describes the history of the region in the 20th century: “In the years 1920–66, for instance, there were 80 successful military coups in 18 Latin-American countries.” Nothing in substance has really changed.
Left-wing MSNBC’s Chris Hayes described the only way this will ever end, saying: “I mean -- if you're thinking about the scales, right? On one side of the scale it's like the current situation in Venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in Cuba, right? Like what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation?”
Yes, that's an example of the clarity of the liberal mind defining the problem and explaining the solution!
Here's the only way it ends if we keep implementing the left-wing's ideology: we wreck our own country so that we’re as miserable as they are. Then, finally, there will be no reason for anyone to ever move from one country to another, because we’ll all be living in "hell-holes," except of course the left-wing elites in charge.
Sadly, that is what liberal democrats want more of.
Further reading:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/the-white-house-says-immigration-officials-dont-release-migrants-the-border-tells-a-different-story/
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/18/border-policies-immigration-title-42-biden-admin/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-takes-zero-questions-from-reporters-chaos-erupts-southern-border-following-expiration-title-42
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/asylum_officers_are_deliberately_misleading_the_public_or_dont_understand_the_laws_they_apply.html
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/video-u-s-enabling-mass-asylum-and-humanitarian-permit-fraud-at-the-southern-border/
https://spectator.org/just-say-asylum/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/biden_administration_is_handing_out_ludicrous_court_dates_for_border_invaders.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/bidens_asylum_app_creates_fresh_round_of_border_chaos.html
More on the Durham Report
This is another example of why we need an Article-V States petitioned for Amendment Convention to stop government overreach!
With the facts out, it is time to formally indict and prosecute these treasonous deep state operatives to the fullest extent of the law up to and including a firing squad!!!!!
Sent: 5/19/2023 10:10:13 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: The Durham Report
“Freedom depends on effective restraints against accumulation of power in a single authority."--Barry Goldwater
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
John Durham's FINAL REPORT exposed the shocking lengths the Deep State went to go after Trump. The report states:
"Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation...Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we concluded the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report...The FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probably cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of foreign power... FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials...There is a continuing need for the FBI and the Department to recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or restraint...The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence."
Both the press and the FBI abandoned any semblance of professionalism and took up the cause with a vengeance. I think the real story here from the FBI's perspective is what an abomination this was, this so-called investigation. It wasn't a witch hunt, it's a damn good imitation of one. ... Trump deserves a lot of credit for what he accomplished. And this Russia collusion charade was a grave injustice. And the fact that he was able to accomplish a lot in the face of it, I think was a great achievement."--William Barr, former Attorney General
"The FBI didn't ignore Russian intel on Hillary's plan to smear Trump — it abetted the plan."--former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy
"...a malicious use of federal law-enforcement officers to conduct a contrived investigation utterly lacking any valid, factual foundation from the very beginning. That is itself incredibly troubling — and also unconstitutional."--Mike Lee
But, the left-wing/democrats cry that it's all a conspiracy theory, just like all the others--that have been proven true! Wouldn't this would be a good time for former House Intelligence Chair and liberal/democrat adam schiff to reveal that evidence he said showed the Russian collusion? He's NEVER divulged anything that hasn't been proven false(1).
These sites have nearly 8 years of analysis documenting the conspiracy between mrs. clinton and her collaborators, former FBI Director comey (and his lieutenants mcCabe and strzok), in concert with former CIA Director brennan, BObama, and biden:
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/categories?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body#category-47
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/categories?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body#category-79
https://patriotpost.us/articles/97397-and-the-pulitzer-for-fake-news-goes-to-dot-dot-dot-2023-05-17?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/67271-the-doj-fisa-report-trump-was-right-2019-12-10?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/61292-comey-brennan-mccabe-et-al-dot-the-coup-co-conspirators-2019-02-20?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
The only genuine piece of Russian intelligence that US spy services ever received about Trump’s ties to Russia was intelligence that Russia knew mrs. clinton backed a 2016 campaign plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent. According to Durham’s 300-page report, that information reached the CIA in late July 2016. brennan told Durham that on August 3 he briefed BObama at the White House on what the special counsel refers to as the clinton Plan. Others in attendance at the meeting (all liberal/democrats) were Vice President biden, Attorney General loretta lynch, and FBI Director james comey. The reason so few other FBI officials knew of the clinton Plan is because it was buried. Otherwise, it would have implicated senior BObama officials — AND the president and vice president and his security chiefs — AND the Crossfire Hurricane team in an illegal surveillance and propaganda operation targeting a presidential campaign.
The left-wing media, with franklin foer’s July Slate article, Putin’s Puppet, put the Russia-collusion narrative in full swing. In the July 2021 washington post, anne applebaum cited foer’s piece and asserted that “Russia is clearly participating in the Trump campaign.” In an Atlantic article published the same day, jeffrey goldberg wrote that Trump has chosen “to unmask himself as a de facto agent of Russian president Vladimir Putin.” Before the end of July, scores of articles in the weekly standard, the new yorker, new york Magazine, the ny times and elsewhere made the same case. Trump, according to the usually wrong partisan hack ny times columnist paul krugman, Trump was the “Siberian candidate.”
The Durham Report adds to the documented facts that Trump being a Russian puppet was all a LIE, enacted by our left-wing government and press, done in attempt to perpetrate a "soft coup." That's real Treason! But Durham states in his report that he declined to pursue a criminal because it “would face what in all likelihood would be insurmountable classification issues given the highly sensitive nature of the information itself.”
My god! We come to the point that the bad guys are getting away with even Treason! And that's what liberals/democrats want more of!
“They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent."---Ludwig Von Mises
To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Suppose you were a liberal. And suppose you were a hypocrite. But I repeat myself." Leftists are consummate hypocrites. Because undermining the Left's statist agenda, and anyone who steps in the way of that agenda will be labeled conspiratorial, xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, etc., etc., etc. Surely too many non-liberals fear their own shadows -- and are incapable of articulating a defense against such derogatory references. But the reality is that Leftists use those slurs to divert attention from their own unmitigated hypocrisy in pursuit of their political goals.
Indeed, they have taken the tawdry art of political hypocrisy well beyond the outer-most limits of decency. Leftist protagonists have taken the democrat Party and converted it into the Socialist Party, whose leaders are case study in the exhibition of double standards, pretense, duplicity and authoritarianism.
But the biggest hypocrisy of all is Leftist talk about liberty when the terminus of their political policies is, unequivocally, tyranny. They talk about Rule of Law when they really mean rule of certain individuals--meaning themselves. They condemn fascism while promoting socialism, but conveniently omit that NAZI stood for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party). In the words of British historian Dr. John Joseph Ray, "The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism." Jacob Hornberger exaggerates much but still there is substance in his words that : “There is no difference in principle, between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”
"In the Russian Federation, the individual citizen is very poorly protected, since the courts and law enforcement agencies are part of the executive branch, and so any confrontation between the citizen and officials and powerful individuals is hopelessly futile. The legal framework of society exists on paper, but it is not workable. The citizen of the Russian Federation is as helpless before the authorities."-- Alex Gordon
H.L. Mencken once concluded: "The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses."
1. The Durham report states that clinton General Counsel marc mlias declined to be interviewed. The clinton campaign was fined by the FEC for his hiding the funding of the dossier as a legal expenditure (maybe bragg in New York can bring felony charges against him, just like he's doing to trump). elias is the link to mrs. b.j. clinton.
Further reading:
The Durham Report
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/durhamreport.pdf
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/durham-report-rips-fbi.php
https://www.theblaze.com/news/durham-final-report-fbi-wrong
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/top-10-takeaways-from-the-durham-report/
https://spectator.org/does-john-durhams-strongly-worded-letter-make-you-feel-better/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/durham-report-fbi-did-not-speak-to-any-witnesses-before-opening-full-investigation-of-trump-campaign_5266757.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4005219-durham-report-slams-fbis-trump-russia-probe-but-does-not-recommend-new-charges/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-faulted-for-its-probe-of-russian-meddling-in-2016-campaign-32287018
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/just-in-john-durham-releases-final-report-concluding-fbi-had-no-verified-intel-when-it-opened-crossfire-hurricane-investigation-into-trump/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/durham-probe-findings-cause-lasting-damage-trust-intel-community-former-federal-prosecutor
https://freebeacon.com/elections/durham-report-finds-fbi-had-insufficient-basis-to-open-trump-russia-probe/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-fbis-integrity-has-been-fatally-compromised
https://spectator.org/peter-strzok-villain/
biden obstructed
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327556817112
https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-durham-report-shows-fbi-repeatedly-hamstrung-clinton-investigations_5270382.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
Worse than Watergate
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327569903112
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/15/by-the-standards-democrats-applied-to-trump-joe-biden-is-a-traitor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=by-the-standards-democrats-applied-to-trump-joe-biden-is-a-traitor&utm_term=2023-05-15
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/05/16/ex-doj_official_and_wife_had_bigger_roles_in_dossier_than_known_durham_report_899718.html
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fbi-special-counsel-john-durham/2023/05/15/id/1119883/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/16/the-durham-report-leaves-no-doubt-the-fbi-is-a-mortal-threat-to-democracy/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/durham_proved_a_vast_conspiracy_to_deceive_voters_about_trump_and_russia_but_wont_indict_anyone_so_media_can_bury_the_story.html
https://www.conservativereview.com/durhams-much-needed-record-of-deep-state-and-dem-corruption-proves-conservatives-were-spot-on-2660272566.html
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jake-tapper-durham-report-devastating
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-rachel-maddow-quickly-dismissed-durham-report-after-spending-years-pushing-collusion-narrative
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-report-contradicts-guarantee-maxine-waters-trump-colluded-russia
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dershowitz-durham-report-shows-americans-are-right-to-distrust-government_5268378.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=bn-cc&src_cmp=bn-cc
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/gutfeld_durham_lays_the_basis_for_questioning_the_2020_election_results.html
https://newsrollup.com/trump-delivers-stellar-performance-at-cnn-town-hall/
https://spectator.org/trump-is-soaring-in-the-polls/
Example of left-wing hate and lies
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-rep-adam-schiff-still-insists-trump-conspired-with-russia-after-durham-report-further-discredits-fbi-probe_5269272.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=gv-cc&src_cmp=gv-cc
With the facts out, it is time to formally indict and prosecute these treasonous deep state operatives to the fullest extent of the law up to and including a firing squad!!!!!
Sent: 5/19/2023 10:10:13 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: The Durham Report
“Freedom depends on effective restraints against accumulation of power in a single authority."--Barry Goldwater
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
John Durham's FINAL REPORT exposed the shocking lengths the Deep State went to go after Trump. The report states:
"Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation...Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we concluded the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report...The FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probably cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of foreign power... FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials...There is a continuing need for the FBI and the Department to recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or restraint...The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence."
Both the press and the FBI abandoned any semblance of professionalism and took up the cause with a vengeance. I think the real story here from the FBI's perspective is what an abomination this was, this so-called investigation. It wasn't a witch hunt, it's a damn good imitation of one. ... Trump deserves a lot of credit for what he accomplished. And this Russia collusion charade was a grave injustice. And the fact that he was able to accomplish a lot in the face of it, I think was a great achievement."--William Barr, former Attorney General
"The FBI didn't ignore Russian intel on Hillary's plan to smear Trump — it abetted the plan."--former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy
"...a malicious use of federal law-enforcement officers to conduct a contrived investigation utterly lacking any valid, factual foundation from the very beginning. That is itself incredibly troubling — and also unconstitutional."--Mike Lee
But, the left-wing/democrats cry that it's all a conspiracy theory, just like all the others--that have been proven true! Wouldn't this would be a good time for former House Intelligence Chair and liberal/democrat adam schiff to reveal that evidence he said showed the Russian collusion? He's NEVER divulged anything that hasn't been proven false(1).
These sites have nearly 8 years of analysis documenting the conspiracy between mrs. clinton and her collaborators, former FBI Director comey (and his lieutenants mcCabe and strzok), in concert with former CIA Director brennan, BObama, and biden:
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/categories?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body#category-47
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/categories?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body#category-79
https://patriotpost.us/articles/97397-and-the-pulitzer-for-fake-news-goes-to-dot-dot-dot-2023-05-17?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/67271-the-doj-fisa-report-trump-was-right-2019-12-10?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/61292-comey-brennan-mccabe-et-al-dot-the-coup-co-conspirators-2019-02-20?mailing_id=7495&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.7495&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
The only genuine piece of Russian intelligence that US spy services ever received about Trump’s ties to Russia was intelligence that Russia knew mrs. clinton backed a 2016 campaign plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent. According to Durham’s 300-page report, that information reached the CIA in late July 2016. brennan told Durham that on August 3 he briefed BObama at the White House on what the special counsel refers to as the clinton Plan. Others in attendance at the meeting (all liberal/democrats) were Vice President biden, Attorney General loretta lynch, and FBI Director james comey. The reason so few other FBI officials knew of the clinton Plan is because it was buried. Otherwise, it would have implicated senior BObama officials — AND the president and vice president and his security chiefs — AND the Crossfire Hurricane team in an illegal surveillance and propaganda operation targeting a presidential campaign.
The left-wing media, with franklin foer’s July Slate article, Putin’s Puppet, put the Russia-collusion narrative in full swing. In the July 2021 washington post, anne applebaum cited foer’s piece and asserted that “Russia is clearly participating in the Trump campaign.” In an Atlantic article published the same day, jeffrey goldberg wrote that Trump has chosen “to unmask himself as a de facto agent of Russian president Vladimir Putin.” Before the end of July, scores of articles in the weekly standard, the new yorker, new york Magazine, the ny times and elsewhere made the same case. Trump, according to the usually wrong partisan hack ny times columnist paul krugman, Trump was the “Siberian candidate.”
The Durham Report adds to the documented facts that Trump being a Russian puppet was all a LIE, enacted by our left-wing government and press, done in attempt to perpetrate a "soft coup." That's real Treason! But Durham states in his report that he declined to pursue a criminal because it “would face what in all likelihood would be insurmountable classification issues given the highly sensitive nature of the information itself.”
My god! We come to the point that the bad guys are getting away with even Treason! And that's what liberals/democrats want more of!
“They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent."---Ludwig Von Mises
To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Suppose you were a liberal. And suppose you were a hypocrite. But I repeat myself." Leftists are consummate hypocrites. Because undermining the Left's statist agenda, and anyone who steps in the way of that agenda will be labeled conspiratorial, xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, etc., etc., etc. Surely too many non-liberals fear their own shadows -- and are incapable of articulating a defense against such derogatory references. But the reality is that Leftists use those slurs to divert attention from their own unmitigated hypocrisy in pursuit of their political goals.
Indeed, they have taken the tawdry art of political hypocrisy well beyond the outer-most limits of decency. Leftist protagonists have taken the democrat Party and converted it into the Socialist Party, whose leaders are case study in the exhibition of double standards, pretense, duplicity and authoritarianism.
But the biggest hypocrisy of all is Leftist talk about liberty when the terminus of their political policies is, unequivocally, tyranny. They talk about Rule of Law when they really mean rule of certain individuals--meaning themselves. They condemn fascism while promoting socialism, but conveniently omit that NAZI stood for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party). In the words of British historian Dr. John Joseph Ray, "The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism." Jacob Hornberger exaggerates much but still there is substance in his words that : “There is no difference in principle, between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”
"In the Russian Federation, the individual citizen is very poorly protected, since the courts and law enforcement agencies are part of the executive branch, and so any confrontation between the citizen and officials and powerful individuals is hopelessly futile. The legal framework of society exists on paper, but it is not workable. The citizen of the Russian Federation is as helpless before the authorities."-- Alex Gordon
H.L. Mencken once concluded: "The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses."
1. The Durham report states that clinton General Counsel marc mlias declined to be interviewed. The clinton campaign was fined by the FEC for his hiding the funding of the dossier as a legal expenditure (maybe bragg in New York can bring felony charges against him, just like he's doing to trump). elias is the link to mrs. b.j. clinton.
Further reading:
The Durham Report
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/durhamreport.pdf
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/durham-report-rips-fbi.php
https://www.theblaze.com/news/durham-final-report-fbi-wrong
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/top-10-takeaways-from-the-durham-report/
https://spectator.org/does-john-durhams-strongly-worded-letter-make-you-feel-better/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/durham-report-fbi-did-not-speak-to-any-witnesses-before-opening-full-investigation-of-trump-campaign_5266757.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4005219-durham-report-slams-fbis-trump-russia-probe-but-does-not-recommend-new-charges/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-faulted-for-its-probe-of-russian-meddling-in-2016-campaign-32287018
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/just-in-john-durham-releases-final-report-concluding-fbi-had-no-verified-intel-when-it-opened-crossfire-hurricane-investigation-into-trump/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/durham-probe-findings-cause-lasting-damage-trust-intel-community-former-federal-prosecutor
https://freebeacon.com/elections/durham-report-finds-fbi-had-insufficient-basis-to-open-trump-russia-probe/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-fbis-integrity-has-been-fatally-compromised
https://spectator.org/peter-strzok-villain/
biden obstructed
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327556817112
https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-durham-report-shows-fbi-repeatedly-hamstrung-clinton-investigations_5270382.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=mb-cc&src_cmp=mb-cc
Worse than Watergate
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327569903112
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/15/by-the-standards-democrats-applied-to-trump-joe-biden-is-a-traitor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=by-the-standards-democrats-applied-to-trump-joe-biden-is-a-traitor&utm_term=2023-05-15
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/05/16/ex-doj_official_and_wife_had_bigger_roles_in_dossier_than_known_durham_report_899718.html
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fbi-special-counsel-john-durham/2023/05/15/id/1119883/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/16/the-durham-report-leaves-no-doubt-the-fbi-is-a-mortal-threat-to-democracy/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/durham_proved_a_vast_conspiracy_to_deceive_voters_about_trump_and_russia_but_wont_indict_anyone_so_media_can_bury_the_story.html
https://www.conservativereview.com/durhams-much-needed-record-of-deep-state-and-dem-corruption-proves-conservatives-were-spot-on-2660272566.html
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jake-tapper-durham-report-devastating
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-rachel-maddow-quickly-dismissed-durham-report-after-spending-years-pushing-collusion-narrative
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-report-contradicts-guarantee-maxine-waters-trump-colluded-russia
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dershowitz-durham-report-shows-americans-are-right-to-distrust-government_5268378.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=bn-cc&src_cmp=bn-cc
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/gutfeld_durham_lays_the_basis_for_questioning_the_2020_election_results.html
https://newsrollup.com/trump-delivers-stellar-performance-at-cnn-town-hall/
https://spectator.org/trump-is-soaring-in-the-polls/
Example of left-wing hate and lies
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-rep-adam-schiff-still-insists-trump-conspired-with-russia-after-durham-report-further-discredits-fbi-probe_5269272.html?utm_source=ref_share&src_src=ref_share&utm_campaign=gv-cc&src_cmp=gv-cc
green energy = magical thinking = liberal ideology
Another Good Reason To Create An Amendment That puts in Term Limits and Lets Us Take Back Our Government!
The international left-wing press has maintained near-total silence on the escalating insanity of what is happening in Germany. Media outlets that routinely celebrate German progress towards energy transition don’t want you to know that Europe’s dominant industrial power has entered a deeply destructive political and administrative spiral from which it may never recover. The fault lies with the self-defeating and unworkable energy policies that have a death grip not merely on the Scholz government, but on the entire administrative state. Since completing the nuclear phase-out in the midst of an ongoing energy crisis and avoiding winter catastrophe thanks only to the accident of mild weather, our rulers are now forcing devastating changes to the Gebäudeenergiegesetz, or the Building Energy Act, which regulates energy consumption in residential and commercial structures.
Over many years, the climate brigade have worked to fill academia and the bureaucracy with their ideas and their supporters. They took advantage of generational change and retirements to position their people, and they waited for an election to bring the right politicians to power and complete the circuit. Leftists view politics almost entirely through an economic lens. In this conception, captains of industry are held to corrupt the political process and to blame for all flaws leftists ideology can concoct, saying they want nothing but the death of humanity seemingly for temporary profit. Yeah, right, LOL!
Let's review some facts about energy:
A large-scale power grid consists of 2 segments:
-Baseload power and peaking power. Baseload power is the minimum amount of energy needed for normal daily operations, which requires a fairly constant flow of power. Coal, nuclear, hydro, and to a lesser but growing extent natural gas have satisfied the country’s base-load for the past century because they operate full-time, providing a steady flow of power.
-Peaking power is the additional power needed when the system is faced with unusual amounts of demand, when air conditioner use soars, and when the furnaces kick in. Natural gas has commonly served to provide peaking power because it can be cycled on and off quickly, as needed.
Neither wind nor solar can be relied upon for either base-load or peaking power. Wind turbines generate power only when the wind blows between certain speeds, and the power they generate fluctuates constantly as wind gusts vary. Solar provides no power at night or when solar panels are covered by snow or ice, and only reduced power on cloudy days, during storms, or when dirty. Battery backup, the power source that is supposed to fill the gaps when wind and solar are not producing electricity or are producing less than what is in demand, will not exist in the needed capacities for decades to come, if ever. There simply aren’t enough batteries, not enough being built, and not enough of the needed materials to build them being mined and refined, to change that anytime soon.
Real world engineering truths are now being ignored by liberals/democrats to score points with green voters. Reality matters, and as wind and solar have increasingly displaced coal, the number of blackouts and brownouts across the nation has increased dramatically, more than doubling in the past 6 years alone. It is true that new technologies are being developed, such as new types of batteries and technologies to allow geothermal power to become more widespread, but they are years away from commercial practicality. They won’t make substantial additions to the electric power system on the short timelines demanded by net zero advocates.
These realities mean every megawatt of wind and solar added to the electric grid requires a megawatt of backup from traditional sources to run constantly at less-than-peak levels as spinning reserve, to regulate the flow of fluctuating power delivered to the grid from turbines and solar panels when they are operating and to take up the slack during periods when either or both sources of weather-dependent power are not operating. Despite these realities, liberals/democrats and climate extremists at the federal level and in the states are shutting down necessary base-load and peaking power sources as fast as they can.
The electric grid was built up over 80 years or more. To reduce CO2 emissions (which are in fact have benefits for the environment), climate scolds are demanding the impossible, to replace fossil fuels with renewable power plants in just 7, 12, or at most, 27 years. To meet current electric power needs, estimates are millions of wind turbines would have to be erected, millions of solar panels installed, and billions of battery packs stored in millions of homes or at tens of thousands of centralized battery farms that would have to be built. Wind turbines would have to cover one-third of the continental US, or solar panels would probably have to cover more than 20% of the countryside, just to meet current demand.
We would also have to erect thousands of additional electric towers, string thousands of additional miles of transmission lines, and build thousands of new transformer stations to get the power from the locations where the wind blows and sun shines regularly—which is where the wind and solar farms will have to be built, of course—to the cities and towns where the power is needed. That will have a devastating impact on wildlife and wilderness.
Of course, that’s just to meet the current demand for electric power. The U.S. population is growing, the economy is growing, and because of biden regime regulations limiting natural gas appliances and vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, more people will be plugging in more electric vehicles, more electric stoves, more electric furnaces, more electric water heaters, etc., so demand for electricity is going to grow dramatically, meaning we will need even more turbines, panels, batteries, and transmission lines than estimated.
How big a task is the net zero transformation? Roger Pielke Jr. calculated reaching net zero globally by 2050 would require bringing online the equivalent of 3 new large nuclear power plants every 2 days, beginning 2019 and going to 2050. Alternatively, hitting net zero by 2050 would require the deployment of approximately 1,500 new wind turbines covering 300 square miles of land each day from 2019 through 2050, Pielke calculated. The US’ contribution would require 1 new large nuclear power plant deployed every 6 days or the equivalent of 1,000 wind turbines every 6 days. Simultaneously, countries around the world would have to retire an equivalent amount of fossil fuel power along the same timelines.
The necessary pace of power plant closures and openings of new zero-emitting power sources is steeper now than when Pielke produced his analysis 3 1/2 years ago. And that’s to hit net-zero by 2050. To meet the much more ambitious target of net-zero by 2030, as some are demanding, the US would have had to begin deploying the equivalent of 1 new nuclear plant or 1,000 wind turbines every other day, starting back in 2019.
Proponents of net zero admit the technological transformation required is akin to a wartime effort. If net-zero is to be accomplished, all manufacturing will have to be directed away from whatever products we build now and diverted to the production of millions of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, transmission towers and power lines, rail tracks, cars, battery packs, heat pumps, and associated technologies for the net-zero economy. The government will have to conscript all factories, and by extension their workers, into a warlike net-zero crusade against chimeric climate change. It would all be for naught, moreover, because global greenhouse gas emissions would continue to rise to power economic growth in developing countries that are not foolish enough to impose fossil fuel restrictions on themselves.
Energy analyst Mark Mills refers to the green energy transition demanded by climate alarmists as an exercise in “magical thinking,” and he’s right. Mills has provided 41 “inconvenient truths” about the new energy revolution. Here are some examples:
Unnecessary and dangerous net zero emissions targets should not replace the historic goal of the electric power system in the US, which has until recently been to provide affordable, reliable power for all U.S. residents. Even if cutting CO2 emissions to net zero were a worthwhile goal, the energy transformation required to do so in the timeline demanded is “magical thinking”—and electric power systems do not run on magic.
Further reading:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/job-killer-congress-energy-groups-slam-bidens-power-plant-proposal
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/chart-of-the-day-why-the-dream-of-a-new-green-energy-revolution-will-most-likely-never-happen/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/3_damning_equations_to_defeat_global_warming_zealots.html
Again, the so-called experts we're "surprised (note: never wrong)"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/space/space-object-10-million-times-brighter-sun
The international left-wing press has maintained near-total silence on the escalating insanity of what is happening in Germany. Media outlets that routinely celebrate German progress towards energy transition don’t want you to know that Europe’s dominant industrial power has entered a deeply destructive political and administrative spiral from which it may never recover. The fault lies with the self-defeating and unworkable energy policies that have a death grip not merely on the Scholz government, but on the entire administrative state. Since completing the nuclear phase-out in the midst of an ongoing energy crisis and avoiding winter catastrophe thanks only to the accident of mild weather, our rulers are now forcing devastating changes to the Gebäudeenergiegesetz, or the Building Energy Act, which regulates energy consumption in residential and commercial structures.
Over many years, the climate brigade have worked to fill academia and the bureaucracy with their ideas and their supporters. They took advantage of generational change and retirements to position their people, and they waited for an election to bring the right politicians to power and complete the circuit. Leftists view politics almost entirely through an economic lens. In this conception, captains of industry are held to corrupt the political process and to blame for all flaws leftists ideology can concoct, saying they want nothing but the death of humanity seemingly for temporary profit. Yeah, right, LOL!
Let's review some facts about energy:
A large-scale power grid consists of 2 segments:
-Baseload power and peaking power. Baseload power is the minimum amount of energy needed for normal daily operations, which requires a fairly constant flow of power. Coal, nuclear, hydro, and to a lesser but growing extent natural gas have satisfied the country’s base-load for the past century because they operate full-time, providing a steady flow of power.
-Peaking power is the additional power needed when the system is faced with unusual amounts of demand, when air conditioner use soars, and when the furnaces kick in. Natural gas has commonly served to provide peaking power because it can be cycled on and off quickly, as needed.
Neither wind nor solar can be relied upon for either base-load or peaking power. Wind turbines generate power only when the wind blows between certain speeds, and the power they generate fluctuates constantly as wind gusts vary. Solar provides no power at night or when solar panels are covered by snow or ice, and only reduced power on cloudy days, during storms, or when dirty. Battery backup, the power source that is supposed to fill the gaps when wind and solar are not producing electricity or are producing less than what is in demand, will not exist in the needed capacities for decades to come, if ever. There simply aren’t enough batteries, not enough being built, and not enough of the needed materials to build them being mined and refined, to change that anytime soon.
Real world engineering truths are now being ignored by liberals/democrats to score points with green voters. Reality matters, and as wind and solar have increasingly displaced coal, the number of blackouts and brownouts across the nation has increased dramatically, more than doubling in the past 6 years alone. It is true that new technologies are being developed, such as new types of batteries and technologies to allow geothermal power to become more widespread, but they are years away from commercial practicality. They won’t make substantial additions to the electric power system on the short timelines demanded by net zero advocates.
These realities mean every megawatt of wind and solar added to the electric grid requires a megawatt of backup from traditional sources to run constantly at less-than-peak levels as spinning reserve, to regulate the flow of fluctuating power delivered to the grid from turbines and solar panels when they are operating and to take up the slack during periods when either or both sources of weather-dependent power are not operating. Despite these realities, liberals/democrats and climate extremists at the federal level and in the states are shutting down necessary base-load and peaking power sources as fast as they can.
The electric grid was built up over 80 years or more. To reduce CO2 emissions (which are in fact have benefits for the environment), climate scolds are demanding the impossible, to replace fossil fuels with renewable power plants in just 7, 12, or at most, 27 years. To meet current electric power needs, estimates are millions of wind turbines would have to be erected, millions of solar panels installed, and billions of battery packs stored in millions of homes or at tens of thousands of centralized battery farms that would have to be built. Wind turbines would have to cover one-third of the continental US, or solar panels would probably have to cover more than 20% of the countryside, just to meet current demand.
We would also have to erect thousands of additional electric towers, string thousands of additional miles of transmission lines, and build thousands of new transformer stations to get the power from the locations where the wind blows and sun shines regularly—which is where the wind and solar farms will have to be built, of course—to the cities and towns where the power is needed. That will have a devastating impact on wildlife and wilderness.
Of course, that’s just to meet the current demand for electric power. The U.S. population is growing, the economy is growing, and because of biden regime regulations limiting natural gas appliances and vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, more people will be plugging in more electric vehicles, more electric stoves, more electric furnaces, more electric water heaters, etc., so demand for electricity is going to grow dramatically, meaning we will need even more turbines, panels, batteries, and transmission lines than estimated.
How big a task is the net zero transformation? Roger Pielke Jr. calculated reaching net zero globally by 2050 would require bringing online the equivalent of 3 new large nuclear power plants every 2 days, beginning 2019 and going to 2050. Alternatively, hitting net zero by 2050 would require the deployment of approximately 1,500 new wind turbines covering 300 square miles of land each day from 2019 through 2050, Pielke calculated. The US’ contribution would require 1 new large nuclear power plant deployed every 6 days or the equivalent of 1,000 wind turbines every 6 days. Simultaneously, countries around the world would have to retire an equivalent amount of fossil fuel power along the same timelines.
The necessary pace of power plant closures and openings of new zero-emitting power sources is steeper now than when Pielke produced his analysis 3 1/2 years ago. And that’s to hit net-zero by 2050. To meet the much more ambitious target of net-zero by 2030, as some are demanding, the US would have had to begin deploying the equivalent of 1 new nuclear plant or 1,000 wind turbines every other day, starting back in 2019.
Proponents of net zero admit the technological transformation required is akin to a wartime effort. If net-zero is to be accomplished, all manufacturing will have to be directed away from whatever products we build now and diverted to the production of millions of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, transmission towers and power lines, rail tracks, cars, battery packs, heat pumps, and associated technologies for the net-zero economy. The government will have to conscript all factories, and by extension their workers, into a warlike net-zero crusade against chimeric climate change. It would all be for naught, moreover, because global greenhouse gas emissions would continue to rise to power economic growth in developing countries that are not foolish enough to impose fossil fuel restrictions on themselves.
Energy analyst Mark Mills refers to the green energy transition demanded by climate alarmists as an exercise in “magical thinking,” and he’s right. Mills has provided 41 “inconvenient truths” about the new energy revolution. Here are some examples:
- When 4 billion poor people increase energy use to 33% of Europe’s per capita level, global demand rises by an amount equal to twice America’s total consumption.
- A 100-times growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million by 2040 would displace only 5 percent of global oil demand.
- Renewable energy would have to expand 90-fold to replace global hydrocarbons in 2 decades. It took a 50yrs for global petroleum production to expand 10-fold.
- Replacing U.S. hydrocarbon-based electricity generation over 30 years would require a construction program at a rate 14-fold greater than at any time in history.
- Eliminating hydrocarbons in the production of U.S. electricity would leave untouched 70% of U.S. hydrocarbon use—and America uses 16% of world energy.
- The batteries produced annually by the Tesla Gigafactory (the world’s biggest battery factory) can store 3 minutes’ worth of annual U.S. electric demand.
- To make enough batteries to store 2 days’ worth of U.S. electricity demand would require 1,000 years of production by Gigafactory.
Unnecessary and dangerous net zero emissions targets should not replace the historic goal of the electric power system in the US, which has until recently been to provide affordable, reliable power for all U.S. residents. Even if cutting CO2 emissions to net zero were a worthwhile goal, the energy transformation required to do so in the timeline demanded is “magical thinking”—and electric power systems do not run on magic.
Further reading:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/job-killer-congress-energy-groups-slam-bidens-power-plant-proposal
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/chart-of-the-day-why-the-dream-of-a-new-green-energy-revolution-will-most-likely-never-happen/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/3_damning_equations_to_defeat_global_warming_zealots.html
Again, the so-called experts we're "surprised (note: never wrong)"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/space/space-object-10-million-times-brighter-sun
Econ Recon
Your federal government is painting a rosy employment picture. Despite the pool of people working or seeking work as a percentage of the population is at a major low, and despite a rising increase in job cuts, try looking at unemployment data on a state-by-state basis. Tracking the 4-week, year-over-year percentage changes in initial filings for unemployment, 24 of 50 states plus Washington DC are showing an average 10% t or greater increase in those filings over the period from mid-March 2023 to mid-April 2023.
Despite continued small monthly narrowing in the headlines of April 2023 Unemployment , the U-3 and U-6 measurements details remain consistent with an unfolding recession. Including Long-Term Discouraged Workers, however, the broader, April 2023 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate of 24.6% held for a 3rd month at an 8-month high of 24.6%. In line with the FOMC’s rate hikes, annual Payroll Growth has been slowing for the last 14 months, from 5.3% in February 2022 to 2.6% in April 2023, suggestive of softening economic activity. Where recovered monthly jobs growth in the key Manufacturing, Retail Sales and Construction Sectors has been holding in line with broad year-to-year payroll growth, plus-or-minus, the Leisure and Hospitality Sector has shown continued strong, albeit slowing monthly growth, and still is holding shy by -2.4% of ever recovering its pre-Pandemic level of activity.
The ShadowStats Corrected Alternate-GDP estimate, adjusted for the continual understatement of headline GDP Inflation, and the corresponding continual overstatement of growth in the Real GDP, showed a “corrected” 1q2023 real annualized quarterly contraction of -0.98%, with an annual contraction of -0.49% in 1q2023, against an annual drop of -1.16% in 4q2022. That also was in context of a deepening shortfall against its Pre-Pandemic Peak by -1.46% in 1q2023, versus a -1.22% shortfall in 4q2022. That means the U.S. Economy already is in intensifying Recession. Current inflationary pressures appear to be tied to excessive Monetary stimulus out of the Fed, not due to an overheating economy, so higher interest rates, now, would do little to contain inflation, while at the same time, still-higher interest rates are beginning to impair economic activity, meaningfully. Fed Chairman Powell suggested the recent ongoing string of rate hikes through May 3rd could be at a pausing point.
The biden regime resumed Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) depletion in First-Quarter 2023. That action was taken irrespective of the extreme and unprecedented depletion in the prior 2 quarters and mounting systemic-security concerns. The effect of the 2023 depletion continued to dampen headline inflation and to boost, artificially, an otherwise moribund economy, as seen once again, with “improved” Net Exports, now with First-Quarter 2023 GDP. Such SPR depletion has continued at the cost of increasing National Security risks tied to maintaining an adequate Petroleum Reserve. Such will have some negative impact on the already struggling U.S. and will do little to contain inflation, which otherwise is being fueled by heavy Money Supply and Liquidity growth, not by an overheating economy.
The 10 US states with the lowest "official" unemployment rates, as of mid-April 2023, include the following: South Dakota 1.9%, Nebraska 2.1%, North Dakota 2.1%, Alabama 2.3%, Montana 2.3 %, New Hampshire 2.4%, Utah 2.4%, Missouri 2.5%, Wisconsin 2.5%, and Florida 2.6%,
The ten US states with the highest unemployment rates include: Michigan 4.1%, New York 4.1%, Pennsylvania 4.2%, California 4.4%, Delaware 4.4%, Illinois 4.4%, Washington 4.5%, District of Columbia 4.8%, and Nevada 5.5%.
In most of the ten US states with the lowest and highest unemployment rates, initial claims are trending both higher and at an accelerated rate over the past 3 to 6 months. This is at odds with the current publicly available federal unemployment data biden is telling us. Federal and state unemployment data draw from different sources. State filings provide a more comprehensive “under the hood” view of developing economic trends than that which is available and published by the deep state federal government departments and agencies. On the basis of both initial claims for unemployment (in both high and low employment states) and WARN filings (in 39 US states), unemployment is rising rapidly. More importantly, those increases are not currently being captured in the reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) or other federal sources. With rigidly elevated inflation and shrinking output, it’s not an exceptionally daring proposition to predict that job losses will follow.
Further reading:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/29/high-inflation-and-low-wage-growth-are-bad-for-bidens-reelection/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-layoffs-jumped-in-march-as-job-openings-fell-3805c6a1
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/chart-of-the-day-us-economy-slip-sliding-into-recession/
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6326703536112
https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/time-biden-and-schumer-stop-demagoguing-and-take-debt-spending-talks
https://www.heritage.org/debt/commentary/here-are-winners-losers-if-houses-debt-ceiling-plan-becomes-law
Despite continued small monthly narrowing in the headlines of April 2023 Unemployment , the U-3 and U-6 measurements details remain consistent with an unfolding recession. Including Long-Term Discouraged Workers, however, the broader, April 2023 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate of 24.6% held for a 3rd month at an 8-month high of 24.6%. In line with the FOMC’s rate hikes, annual Payroll Growth has been slowing for the last 14 months, from 5.3% in February 2022 to 2.6% in April 2023, suggestive of softening economic activity. Where recovered monthly jobs growth in the key Manufacturing, Retail Sales and Construction Sectors has been holding in line with broad year-to-year payroll growth, plus-or-minus, the Leisure and Hospitality Sector has shown continued strong, albeit slowing monthly growth, and still is holding shy by -2.4% of ever recovering its pre-Pandemic level of activity.
The ShadowStats Corrected Alternate-GDP estimate, adjusted for the continual understatement of headline GDP Inflation, and the corresponding continual overstatement of growth in the Real GDP, showed a “corrected” 1q2023 real annualized quarterly contraction of -0.98%, with an annual contraction of -0.49% in 1q2023, against an annual drop of -1.16% in 4q2022. That also was in context of a deepening shortfall against its Pre-Pandemic Peak by -1.46% in 1q2023, versus a -1.22% shortfall in 4q2022. That means the U.S. Economy already is in intensifying Recession. Current inflationary pressures appear to be tied to excessive Monetary stimulus out of the Fed, not due to an overheating economy, so higher interest rates, now, would do little to contain inflation, while at the same time, still-higher interest rates are beginning to impair economic activity, meaningfully. Fed Chairman Powell suggested the recent ongoing string of rate hikes through May 3rd could be at a pausing point.
The biden regime resumed Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) depletion in First-Quarter 2023. That action was taken irrespective of the extreme and unprecedented depletion in the prior 2 quarters and mounting systemic-security concerns. The effect of the 2023 depletion continued to dampen headline inflation and to boost, artificially, an otherwise moribund economy, as seen once again, with “improved” Net Exports, now with First-Quarter 2023 GDP. Such SPR depletion has continued at the cost of increasing National Security risks tied to maintaining an adequate Petroleum Reserve. Such will have some negative impact on the already struggling U.S. and will do little to contain inflation, which otherwise is being fueled by heavy Money Supply and Liquidity growth, not by an overheating economy.
The 10 US states with the lowest "official" unemployment rates, as of mid-April 2023, include the following: South Dakota 1.9%, Nebraska 2.1%, North Dakota 2.1%, Alabama 2.3%, Montana 2.3 %, New Hampshire 2.4%, Utah 2.4%, Missouri 2.5%, Wisconsin 2.5%, and Florida 2.6%,
The ten US states with the highest unemployment rates include: Michigan 4.1%, New York 4.1%, Pennsylvania 4.2%, California 4.4%, Delaware 4.4%, Illinois 4.4%, Washington 4.5%, District of Columbia 4.8%, and Nevada 5.5%.
In most of the ten US states with the lowest and highest unemployment rates, initial claims are trending both higher and at an accelerated rate over the past 3 to 6 months. This is at odds with the current publicly available federal unemployment data biden is telling us. Federal and state unemployment data draw from different sources. State filings provide a more comprehensive “under the hood” view of developing economic trends than that which is available and published by the deep state federal government departments and agencies. On the basis of both initial claims for unemployment (in both high and low employment states) and WARN filings (in 39 US states), unemployment is rising rapidly. More importantly, those increases are not currently being captured in the reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) or other federal sources. With rigidly elevated inflation and shrinking output, it’s not an exceptionally daring proposition to predict that job losses will follow.
Further reading:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/29/high-inflation-and-low-wage-growth-are-bad-for-bidens-reelection/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-layoffs-jumped-in-march-as-job-openings-fell-3805c6a1
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/chart-of-the-day-us-economy-slip-sliding-into-recession/
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6326703536112
https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/time-biden-and-schumer-stop-demagoguing-and-take-debt-spending-talks
https://www.heritage.org/debt/commentary/here-are-winners-losers-if-houses-debt-ceiling-plan-becomes-law
The Synthesis Report = Garbage in ....
Subject: The Syntheis Report = Garbage in...
"We can't have a livable future if we don’t take urgent climate action—above all rapidly eliminating fossil fuel use."--UN Chief Antonio Guterres
The UN IPCC's recent Synthesis Report, has a huge influence on global energy policy. The Report is supposed to accurately synthesize the best info about human climate impacts—including the threats of dangerous temps, storms, floods, etc—to rationally guide policy, above all what to do about fossil fuels, the leading cause of climate-warming GHGs.
Instead, it severely distorts science to advance a corrupt political agenda. It is just an absolute piece of garbage, which at this moment is one of the most destructive forces in the world. The IPCC's Synthesis Report has been criticized intelligently by various experts, including Roger Pielke and Patrick Brown, to name just 2. The report gives a 180-degree false portrayal of today's record-low climate danger by exaggerating our negative impacts and ignoring our climate mastery, so as to portray climate danger as record-high.
A proper, sound and honest climate synthesis report must cover 2 key issues:
1. An evenhanded (covering minuses and pluses) and precise account of our climate impacts. With rising greenhouse gasses we must consider both negatives (e.g., more heatwaves) and positives (e.g., fewer cold deaths, global greening from CO2). And we must be precise, not equating some climate impact with huge impact.
2. An account of our ability to master climate danger, including the use of fossil fuel to neutralize its own negative climate impacts—e.g., via fossil-fueled air conditioning to alleviate heat and irrigation to alleviate drought.
You don't need to be a scientist to know that a proper climate synthesis report should include both an evenhanded and precise account of our climate impacts and an account of our ability to master climate danger. And if you actually read the IPCC Synthesis it's obvious it fails at both. Byt just try skimming the Report and ask yourself if it is remotely evenhanded about human impact on climate, or if it accounts for our mastery of climate.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_LongerReport.pdf
Instead of an evenhanded and precise account of our climate impacts, the IPCC SR gives us a blatantly biased view of exaggerated negative impacts, with no mention of positives like global greening thanks to CO2 fertilization of the atmosphere or decreasing cold-related deaths. Instead of accounting for our climate mastery ability, the IPCC SR ignores our ability to neutralize negative climate impacts, despite the fact that we've driven climate disaster deaths down by 98% over the last century! This is like a polio report omitting the polio vaccine.
By exaggerating our negative climate impacts and ignoring our ability to master climate danger, the IPCC Synthesis perpetrates a 3-part perversion of science:
A: Current Status and Trends distorts the present state of climate danger
B: Future Climate Change, Risks, and Long-Term Responses distorts the evidence about future climate danger
C: Responses in the Near Term calls for huge power and money for an anti-fossil-fuel agenda
By exaggerating negative impacts and ignoring climate mastery, the IPCC portrays the world as suffering “widespread adverse impacts… and related losses and damages” when climate danger is lower than ever! Any scientific and honest report on climate would start by acknowledging that any negative climate changes so far have been far outweighed by our increasing climate mastery ability, which led to plummeting climate deaths thanks to our fossil fuel-powered technology.
Insofar as a climate report addresses the overall state of the world, it should acknowledge that human life has never been better. E.g., extreme poverty (~$2/day) plummeted from 42% in 1980 to <10% today. And it should recognize fossil-fueled industrialization as a root cause. The IPCC 100% falsely portrays fossil fuels as making climate, and life, worse than ever, even though they’ve made both better: “Climate change has adversely affected human physical health globally… and is contributing to humanitarian crises.”
Honesty on climate would also acknowledge the impressively stable level of economic losses from climate—vs. an expected catastrophic increase–despite the increasing accumulation of wealth in disaster-prone spots like coastal areas. Instead of acknowledging flat or declining climate damages, the IPCC portrays things as worse than ever: “individual livelihoods have been affected through, for example, destruction of homes and infrastructure, and loss of property and income, human health and food security.”
Any honest report should acknowledge that while everyone has become safer from climate, the most developed countries are safest. And thus the path to increasing safety is more development, which will largely require more fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. Instead of acknowledging the improving climate safety of the poor world, largely due to fossil fuels. the IPCC pretends their situation is worsening due to the world's use of fossil fuels.
This, of course, paves the way for advocating massive, unjust “climate reparations” schemes.
Just as the IPCC distorts the present evidence about (actually declining) climate danger, so it does with future danger to falsely claim: “Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.” The fact that the Report portrays record-low current climate danger as record-high calls its Future Climate Danger section into question: Why trust predictions about the future by those who deny the reality of the present?
To understand how bad the IPCC's Future Climate Change, Risks, and Long-Term Responses section is, note that it portrays climate danger as “a threat to human well-being” even though the reports it's based on say nothing of the sort. Preceding parts of the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report that supposedly inform the Synthesis Report have many flaws—most notably, they severely underestimate humanity's climate mastery ability. But those reports do not show a threat to a “livable future” like the Synthesis claims.
The IPCC's Assessment Reports, contrary to the Synthesis, all show that the overall well-being of humans will continue to increase for the foreseeable future. The Synthesis is a lie.
Looking at the claims of IPCC Assessment Reports about future climate impacts, there is nothing that human beings can't master. E.g., it doesn't project storms that would overwhelm us by being 2-3 times more intense but rather projects storms being 1-10% more intense. For example, the danger of sea level rises that would destroy coastal investments. But extreme IPCC projections are just 3 feet in 100 years. Future generations can master that. We already have 100 million people living below high-tide sea level.
How does the Synthesis distort evidence about masterable climate changes, as part of overall improvements in human life, to be evidence of overwhelming, apocalyptic climate changes? Once again by exaggerating negative impacts and ignoring our climate mastery abilities. An example is ignoring of mastery is agriculture, a field of massive progress in recent decades as CO2 levels have risen. Humanity’s productivity has grown so fast that we can now produce more and more food while decreasing agriculture’s land footprint.The massive progress in agriculture was made possible by the improvement of crop species, increasing use of fossil-fueled farm equipment, fossil fuel-based fertilizers, and also increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere, which increases photosynthesis productivity. Given today's agricultural renaissance and the remaining potential for agricultural improvements in the developing world plus new technological advances, we should logically expect a bright, increasingly productive future for human agriculture—even with significant warming. Instead of pointing out our unprecedented and increasing fossil-fueled ability to feed the world, the Report ignores it and portrays fossil fuels as making things worse: “Increasing weather and climate extreme events have exposed millions of people to acute food insecurity”
The IPCC implies that agriculture will take a serious hit from climate change, but it has to engage in massive ignoring of fossil fuel and CO2 benefits, as well as cherry-picking and distortion of the literature it cites to get there. Example of IPCC bias, when the IPCC “discusses weeds that might inhibit crop production, climate change, and enhanced CO2 are suddenly portrayed as being biologically beneficial rather than detrimental.” CO2 somehow makes weeds thrive and crops suffer! Any reasonable assessment of future agriculture would project continued growth in our ability to feed ourselves thanks to a combo of more CO2, better gene technology, mechanization in developing countries, etc. But the SR makes it sound like agriculture will decline in absolute terms.
Another way the IPCC distorts reality is by abusing greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, called Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP), which reflect assumptions on future emissions that inform the climate model projections. It deliberately uses unrealistic, extreme RCPs. The dominant emissions scenario in the reports and much of the impact literature is the extreme scenario RCP8.5, which assumes our emissions continue to escalate into the 22nd century powered by an unrealistic growth in fossil fuel use, economic prosperity, and population. RCP8.5 is already an implausible-to-impossible scenario. But it continues to be used, especially in the impact literature and the IPCC reports. It's often portrayed as a “business as usual” scenario to make projections of high negative impacts plausible. As Roger Pielke and Justin Ritchie commented, “RCP8.5—the most commonly used RCP scenario… represents not just an implausible future in 2100, but a present that already deviates significantly from reality.” We can expect global emissions to decline at some point later this century with the development of scalable, cost-effective alternatives—most likely nuclear. Thus RCP 8.5 doesn’t capture any plausible reality.
The reason the IPCC uses the bogus RCP8.5 scenario is to make its models produce the highest warming and negative impacts. That plus ignoring fossil fuels’ climate mastery and other benefits leads to more false disaster projections.By exaggerating negative climate impacts and ignoring our ability to master them, IPCC's Long-Term Climate and Development Futures section scares us into thinking future generations will be worse off if we’re free to use fossil fuels, when the opposite is true.
Not only does IPCC severely distort the science about our present and future climate impacts, it uses those distortions to advance a corrupt agenda. Even if the IPCC was giving accurate information about our present and future climate impacts, as an entity with a climate focus it should not be making broader policy prescriptions—which involve expertise in many fields besides climate, and which also involve value choices.
Instead of restricting itself to a scientific advisor, the IPCC effectively advocates totalitarian, anti-fossil-fuel, anti-nuclear policies to reduce projected warming to 1.5°C above 1800s levels—just 0.5° above today’s.And it totally violates cost-benefit analysis to do so. The IPCC claims “Near-term actions that limit global warming to close to 1.5°C would substantially reduce projected losses and damages related to climate change in human systems and ecosystems” but fails to mention the enormous cost and human suffering such policies would create!
The IPCC falsely implies that limiting warming to 1.5°C (over 1800s levels) prevents harm by saying: “with every increment of warming, losses and damages will increase.” But this both ignores climate mastery and the catastrophic cost of rapidly restricting fossil fuel use. Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective form of energy—affordable, reliable, versatile, and scalable—which is why they’re 80% of energy use and still growing. Billions of people need far more energy. Instead of either staying out of energy economics or recognizing the reality that fossil fuels are uniquely cost-effective, the IPCC falsely portrays fossil fuels as easily replaceable by unreliable solar and wind, and notably refuses to endorse nuclear. This is solar and wind lobbying, not science.
Reading the IPCC's policy recommendations makes it clear that many at the IPCC are just using the veneer of science to advocate all the standard far-left causes: “Actions that prioritise equity, climate justice, social justice outcomes.” Further illustrating that it’s a political activist, the IPCC also pushes for more money to go into the coffers of the professional curators of “climate action...If climate goals are to be achieved, both adaptation and mitigation financing would have to increase many-fold.”
The IPCC itself at minimum needs fundamental reform, and more likely needs to be abolished. the IPCC is a deeply corrupt organization that is animated by anti-human philosophical ideas, and run by power-lusters, less like a serious science and more like an activist meeting. And note that they know that the nature of cognition and the nature of news interact in ways that make us think that the world is worse than it really is. News, after all, is about things that happen. Things that did not happen go unreported. Furthermore, the left-wing seldom provides comparative analysis or put terrible events in their proper, long-term context.
"We can't have a livable future if we don’t take urgent climate action—above all rapidly eliminating fossil fuel use."--UN Chief Antonio Guterres
The UN IPCC's recent Synthesis Report, has a huge influence on global energy policy. The Report is supposed to accurately synthesize the best info about human climate impacts—including the threats of dangerous temps, storms, floods, etc—to rationally guide policy, above all what to do about fossil fuels, the leading cause of climate-warming GHGs.
Instead, it severely distorts science to advance a corrupt political agenda. It is just an absolute piece of garbage, which at this moment is one of the most destructive forces in the world. The IPCC's Synthesis Report has been criticized intelligently by various experts, including Roger Pielke and Patrick Brown, to name just 2. The report gives a 180-degree false portrayal of today's record-low climate danger by exaggerating our negative impacts and ignoring our climate mastery, so as to portray climate danger as record-high.
A proper, sound and honest climate synthesis report must cover 2 key issues:
1. An evenhanded (covering minuses and pluses) and precise account of our climate impacts. With rising greenhouse gasses we must consider both negatives (e.g., more heatwaves) and positives (e.g., fewer cold deaths, global greening from CO2). And we must be precise, not equating some climate impact with huge impact.
2. An account of our ability to master climate danger, including the use of fossil fuel to neutralize its own negative climate impacts—e.g., via fossil-fueled air conditioning to alleviate heat and irrigation to alleviate drought.
You don't need to be a scientist to know that a proper climate synthesis report should include both an evenhanded and precise account of our climate impacts and an account of our ability to master climate danger. And if you actually read the IPCC Synthesis it's obvious it fails at both. Byt just try skimming the Report and ask yourself if it is remotely evenhanded about human impact on climate, or if it accounts for our mastery of climate.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_LongerReport.pdf
Instead of an evenhanded and precise account of our climate impacts, the IPCC SR gives us a blatantly biased view of exaggerated negative impacts, with no mention of positives like global greening thanks to CO2 fertilization of the atmosphere or decreasing cold-related deaths. Instead of accounting for our climate mastery ability, the IPCC SR ignores our ability to neutralize negative climate impacts, despite the fact that we've driven climate disaster deaths down by 98% over the last century! This is like a polio report omitting the polio vaccine.
By exaggerating our negative climate impacts and ignoring our ability to master climate danger, the IPCC Synthesis perpetrates a 3-part perversion of science:
A: Current Status and Trends distorts the present state of climate danger
B: Future Climate Change, Risks, and Long-Term Responses distorts the evidence about future climate danger
C: Responses in the Near Term calls for huge power and money for an anti-fossil-fuel agenda
By exaggerating negative impacts and ignoring climate mastery, the IPCC portrays the world as suffering “widespread adverse impacts… and related losses and damages” when climate danger is lower than ever! Any scientific and honest report on climate would start by acknowledging that any negative climate changes so far have been far outweighed by our increasing climate mastery ability, which led to plummeting climate deaths thanks to our fossil fuel-powered technology.
Insofar as a climate report addresses the overall state of the world, it should acknowledge that human life has never been better. E.g., extreme poverty (~$2/day) plummeted from 42% in 1980 to <10% today. And it should recognize fossil-fueled industrialization as a root cause. The IPCC 100% falsely portrays fossil fuels as making climate, and life, worse than ever, even though they’ve made both better: “Climate change has adversely affected human physical health globally… and is contributing to humanitarian crises.”
Honesty on climate would also acknowledge the impressively stable level of economic losses from climate—vs. an expected catastrophic increase–despite the increasing accumulation of wealth in disaster-prone spots like coastal areas. Instead of acknowledging flat or declining climate damages, the IPCC portrays things as worse than ever: “individual livelihoods have been affected through, for example, destruction of homes and infrastructure, and loss of property and income, human health and food security.”
Any honest report should acknowledge that while everyone has become safer from climate, the most developed countries are safest. And thus the path to increasing safety is more development, which will largely require more fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. Instead of acknowledging the improving climate safety of the poor world, largely due to fossil fuels. the IPCC pretends their situation is worsening due to the world's use of fossil fuels.
This, of course, paves the way for advocating massive, unjust “climate reparations” schemes.
Just as the IPCC distorts the present evidence about (actually declining) climate danger, so it does with future danger to falsely claim: “Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.” The fact that the Report portrays record-low current climate danger as record-high calls its Future Climate Danger section into question: Why trust predictions about the future by those who deny the reality of the present?
To understand how bad the IPCC's Future Climate Change, Risks, and Long-Term Responses section is, note that it portrays climate danger as “a threat to human well-being” even though the reports it's based on say nothing of the sort. Preceding parts of the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report that supposedly inform the Synthesis Report have many flaws—most notably, they severely underestimate humanity's climate mastery ability. But those reports do not show a threat to a “livable future” like the Synthesis claims.
The IPCC's Assessment Reports, contrary to the Synthesis, all show that the overall well-being of humans will continue to increase for the foreseeable future. The Synthesis is a lie.
Looking at the claims of IPCC Assessment Reports about future climate impacts, there is nothing that human beings can't master. E.g., it doesn't project storms that would overwhelm us by being 2-3 times more intense but rather projects storms being 1-10% more intense. For example, the danger of sea level rises that would destroy coastal investments. But extreme IPCC projections are just 3 feet in 100 years. Future generations can master that. We already have 100 million people living below high-tide sea level.
How does the Synthesis distort evidence about masterable climate changes, as part of overall improvements in human life, to be evidence of overwhelming, apocalyptic climate changes? Once again by exaggerating negative impacts and ignoring our climate mastery abilities. An example is ignoring of mastery is agriculture, a field of massive progress in recent decades as CO2 levels have risen. Humanity’s productivity has grown so fast that we can now produce more and more food while decreasing agriculture’s land footprint.The massive progress in agriculture was made possible by the improvement of crop species, increasing use of fossil-fueled farm equipment, fossil fuel-based fertilizers, and also increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere, which increases photosynthesis productivity. Given today's agricultural renaissance and the remaining potential for agricultural improvements in the developing world plus new technological advances, we should logically expect a bright, increasingly productive future for human agriculture—even with significant warming. Instead of pointing out our unprecedented and increasing fossil-fueled ability to feed the world, the Report ignores it and portrays fossil fuels as making things worse: “Increasing weather and climate extreme events have exposed millions of people to acute food insecurity”
The IPCC implies that agriculture will take a serious hit from climate change, but it has to engage in massive ignoring of fossil fuel and CO2 benefits, as well as cherry-picking and distortion of the literature it cites to get there. Example of IPCC bias, when the IPCC “discusses weeds that might inhibit crop production, climate change, and enhanced CO2 are suddenly portrayed as being biologically beneficial rather than detrimental.” CO2 somehow makes weeds thrive and crops suffer! Any reasonable assessment of future agriculture would project continued growth in our ability to feed ourselves thanks to a combo of more CO2, better gene technology, mechanization in developing countries, etc. But the SR makes it sound like agriculture will decline in absolute terms.
Another way the IPCC distorts reality is by abusing greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, called Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP), which reflect assumptions on future emissions that inform the climate model projections. It deliberately uses unrealistic, extreme RCPs. The dominant emissions scenario in the reports and much of the impact literature is the extreme scenario RCP8.5, which assumes our emissions continue to escalate into the 22nd century powered by an unrealistic growth in fossil fuel use, economic prosperity, and population. RCP8.5 is already an implausible-to-impossible scenario. But it continues to be used, especially in the impact literature and the IPCC reports. It's often portrayed as a “business as usual” scenario to make projections of high negative impacts plausible. As Roger Pielke and Justin Ritchie commented, “RCP8.5—the most commonly used RCP scenario… represents not just an implausible future in 2100, but a present that already deviates significantly from reality.” We can expect global emissions to decline at some point later this century with the development of scalable, cost-effective alternatives—most likely nuclear. Thus RCP 8.5 doesn’t capture any plausible reality.
The reason the IPCC uses the bogus RCP8.5 scenario is to make its models produce the highest warming and negative impacts. That plus ignoring fossil fuels’ climate mastery and other benefits leads to more false disaster projections.By exaggerating negative climate impacts and ignoring our ability to master them, IPCC's Long-Term Climate and Development Futures section scares us into thinking future generations will be worse off if we’re free to use fossil fuels, when the opposite is true.
Not only does IPCC severely distort the science about our present and future climate impacts, it uses those distortions to advance a corrupt agenda. Even if the IPCC was giving accurate information about our present and future climate impacts, as an entity with a climate focus it should not be making broader policy prescriptions—which involve expertise in many fields besides climate, and which also involve value choices.
Instead of restricting itself to a scientific advisor, the IPCC effectively advocates totalitarian, anti-fossil-fuel, anti-nuclear policies to reduce projected warming to 1.5°C above 1800s levels—just 0.5° above today’s.And it totally violates cost-benefit analysis to do so. The IPCC claims “Near-term actions that limit global warming to close to 1.5°C would substantially reduce projected losses and damages related to climate change in human systems and ecosystems” but fails to mention the enormous cost and human suffering such policies would create!
The IPCC falsely implies that limiting warming to 1.5°C (over 1800s levels) prevents harm by saying: “with every increment of warming, losses and damages will increase.” But this both ignores climate mastery and the catastrophic cost of rapidly restricting fossil fuel use. Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective form of energy—affordable, reliable, versatile, and scalable—which is why they’re 80% of energy use and still growing. Billions of people need far more energy. Instead of either staying out of energy economics or recognizing the reality that fossil fuels are uniquely cost-effective, the IPCC falsely portrays fossil fuels as easily replaceable by unreliable solar and wind, and notably refuses to endorse nuclear. This is solar and wind lobbying, not science.
Reading the IPCC's policy recommendations makes it clear that many at the IPCC are just using the veneer of science to advocate all the standard far-left causes: “Actions that prioritise equity, climate justice, social justice outcomes.” Further illustrating that it’s a political activist, the IPCC also pushes for more money to go into the coffers of the professional curators of “climate action...If climate goals are to be achieved, both adaptation and mitigation financing would have to increase many-fold.”
The IPCC itself at minimum needs fundamental reform, and more likely needs to be abolished. the IPCC is a deeply corrupt organization that is animated by anti-human philosophical ideas, and run by power-lusters, less like a serious science and more like an activist meeting. And note that they know that the nature of cognition and the nature of news interact in ways that make us think that the world is worse than it really is. News, after all, is about things that happen. Things that did not happen go unreported. Furthermore, the left-wing seldom provides comparative analysis or put terrible events in their proper, long-term context.
The Carroll Show Trial
A jury of New York left-wing democrats found Trump guilty, not of rape but, of assault and defaming an innocent Ms. carroll. Note that Ms. carroll could not recall the year the alleged battery took place. But the jury nevertheless determined it happened, at some point, maybe in the mid-1990s. How can you prove you weren't there if there is no date of the alleged act, which by the way was past the statute of limitations, which was retro-actively changed for this case! All that seems fair to left-wingers!
And who cares about such trivial details as the year a crime occurred? Would you or your closest male relative faced such punishing & reputation-shattering charges not mind if your accuser could not quite pin down the year of the assault, would you?
carroll first alleged that she was raped by Trump in a book released in 2019. Her story is extremely similar to the sub plot of a Law and Order episode which aired in late 2012, a few months after she posted a sex question about Trump to her Facebook followers. carroll has admitted to being both a Law and Order and an Apprentice fan, the latter hosted by Trump for almost 2 decades. carroll alleges she was raped by Trump in the dressing room of the busy Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York in the mid-1990s. Yet apparently there was no one else there to corroborate even famously recognizable Trump being there!
And as to being so innocent, e. jean carroll has a bizarre Facebook post history that sheds light on some of her more personal thoughts and questions. Much of her commentary appears obsessed with sex, violence, and pornography, with one post from 2012 discussing sex with Donald Trump in a jovial fashion. “Would you have sex with Donald Trump for $17,000?” she asked her followers, before going on to suggest that in her fantasy scenario, Trump may not be able to speak. Other Facebook posts uncovered by The National Pulse shed further light on the mind of Trump’s accuser. Carroll, who penned an advice column for Elle magazine, posed questions for her audience including: “Big Dick Energy: Obama’s got it. Putin’s got it. Maxine Waters’s got it. Who’s on YOUR Big Dick Energy List? And “Let’s play Boff/Marry/Strangle. I’ll start: Ryan Seacrest, Dick Cheney, Steve Jobs. (And yes I KNOW the game is really called F/M/K)”.
“A great many who debunk traditional values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”---C.S. Lewis
Modern liberalism has morphed into Neo-Liberalism, which has now become the operative world-view of the current leadership of America’s democratic Party. Neo-Liberalism’s world-view fully embraces a philosophy of relative, constantly changing values and self-contradicting special interests. Its core belief is that no values, and by logical deduction no laws, are absolute. Therefore, no one should push their values, hence their laws on anyone else. The result is a serious dilution of the fundamental underpinning concept required for a free and open society(1), one called the rule OF law. Neo-Liberalism, when it achieves the aforementioned experiences the inevitable result of its philosophical antecedents, a deeply significance nonsense, which is a modern version of the Yin and Yang, purporting over-arching contradictions
Actually, true to its only constant, Neo-Liberalism employs the double standard approach when furthering its own agenda by preaching adherence to the rule OF law only when it's in power. A honest critic, however, would reveal that Neo-Liberalism’s actual approach is one that can be defined as rule BY law instead, which is a profound difference. For example, when forced to abide by its own laws, ones itself finds unpalatable, it consistently finds ways to avoid them by twisting and torturing those laws, often with the judiciary as a willing accomplice, by abusing them, over-extending them, getting around them, or simply assuming a glassy transcendent approach that amounts to saying but we have a higher purpose and are therefore not obliged to obey whatever law we deem in our way. Unfortunately, individuals who privately abrogate public rules by violating those in existence, thereby imposing their own rules on others, become, quite literally, outlaws.
One specific way Neo-Liberalism uses a bastardized rule OF law to achieve its own insupportable agenda is by creating so many complex laws and regulations that it is difficult to exercise rights as a defense against Neo-Liberalism’s so-called “good-intentions.” Yet Neo-Liberalism is the first to complain when those actions result in the loss of such tangibles as their freedom of speech, habeas corpus, speedy trials, privacy, etc. The fact of the matter is that all those detrimental cracks in the foundations of our institutions of freedom are made possible by Neo-Liberalism's efforts to legislate, adjudicate and pontificate out of existence the very laws, processes and values that hold those cracks in check.
Yes, the rule BY Law ideology of Neo-Liberalism, enacted through an expanding centralized government, has created so many laws, so many regulations, so many fines and so many penalties that it has made it possible for all of us to be guilty when political expedients deem it necessary, or at least harassed by government agencies with endless resources
Consider this example. Neo-Liberalism, ignoring the 10th Amendment by claiming states-rights are some form of evil, allows it to systematically forge a bloated, sprawling, out-of-control government to manage virtually everything in our lives, based falsely in the name of helping the little guy or the environment. That’s made it possible for its good intentions to empower our government to increasingly snoop on who we are, control what we do and take what we earn or own to do it. Neo-Liberalism has even seated activist judges, who cavalierly ignore laws that exist and contrive laws where there are none, just to forward its agendas, making it possible for successive judges of other philosophical persuasions to do the same thing. The reality of that is that our rights are becoming ignored and rationalized away from legal protections, especially those protecting the individual.
Other examples include how Neo-Liberalism said it was acceptable for clinton to commit both sexual harassment (one of Neo-Liberalism’s favorite laws—notice the hypocrisy—again!) and perjury. That set the stage for allowing the most powerful office in the world to abuse its public trust and lie. And now Neo-Liberalism complains if it does! Or how Neo-Liberalism taught children that our Constitution was mistakenly made a fixed document and the product "… of long-dead white slave owners…" laying the foundation for its unimportance and abolition in the minds of youth. And now Neo-Liberalism complains when someone else doesn't want to honor their alleged rights, even when those rights are the very ones written down by those who Neo-Liberalism slanders as nothing more than long-dead racist slave owners.
Another? Sure, Neo-Liberalism’s rule BY law disconnects the 4th Amendment, fostering civil forfeiture laws, which creates a stream of takings (free booty) for government agencies, justified by alleged violations of endless, often inconsistent regulations, making it possible for your property to be seized for increasingly frivolous reasons. Regulations that do little to address the assumed problems they were created to resolve.
Or how about Neo-Liberalism’s inversion of the 1st amendment, from freedom OF religion to freedom FROM religion. That disenfranchises tens perhaps a hundred million of citizens in this country from their value system. As if that’s not enough, it seems Neo-Liberalism also forgot that freedom of speech is part of the same amendment those who oppose Neo-Liberalism have a right too also, such as when it’s denied by Neo-Liberal-controlled colleges in actively suppressing the free speech rights of conservatives and libertarians on college campuses, with the gall to say they’re doing it in the name of tolerance and diversity. That is neither tolerance nor diversity. It is the subversion of rights by elitist Neo-Liberal special-interests—which another product of dead white-men, the dictionary, defines as a form of tyranny.
A just rule OF law then must be:
a) Negative----stating what you cannot do vs. what you must do.
b) General-----abstract enough to apply to unknown future instances.
c) Permanent--to promote knowledge of, plan for, commit to and be responsible for, actions.
d) Minimal----it must be designed to address the rate of failure and not the fact of it. That is critical. The task is to minimize the breach of performance, even though that risk can never be driven to zero. There are enormous and numerous costs in trying to tailor an entire legal set to forestall the occasional failure.
The concept of a healthy free and open society, one that creates and maintains a level playing field for the above to be effective, is particularly hard to implement when Neo-Liberals have an incoherent belief system, comprised of floating, non-absolute, frequently-contradicting values that can be morphed into getting what they want at any given moment to satisfy any political agenda they have, du’ jour. That creates powerful revolutionary forces that when set in play, like all revolutions, always eventually eats its young, whether they’re believers, or not.
1. When living our lives our way and expecting the same for others leads to conflict, what shall guide us other than simply might makes right?
Further reading:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/how_liars_wreck_a_country.html
And who cares about such trivial details as the year a crime occurred? Would you or your closest male relative faced such punishing & reputation-shattering charges not mind if your accuser could not quite pin down the year of the assault, would you?
carroll first alleged that she was raped by Trump in a book released in 2019. Her story is extremely similar to the sub plot of a Law and Order episode which aired in late 2012, a few months after she posted a sex question about Trump to her Facebook followers. carroll has admitted to being both a Law and Order and an Apprentice fan, the latter hosted by Trump for almost 2 decades. carroll alleges she was raped by Trump in the dressing room of the busy Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York in the mid-1990s. Yet apparently there was no one else there to corroborate even famously recognizable Trump being there!
And as to being so innocent, e. jean carroll has a bizarre Facebook post history that sheds light on some of her more personal thoughts and questions. Much of her commentary appears obsessed with sex, violence, and pornography, with one post from 2012 discussing sex with Donald Trump in a jovial fashion. “Would you have sex with Donald Trump for $17,000?” she asked her followers, before going on to suggest that in her fantasy scenario, Trump may not be able to speak. Other Facebook posts uncovered by The National Pulse shed further light on the mind of Trump’s accuser. Carroll, who penned an advice column for Elle magazine, posed questions for her audience including: “Big Dick Energy: Obama’s got it. Putin’s got it. Maxine Waters’s got it. Who’s on YOUR Big Dick Energy List? And “Let’s play Boff/Marry/Strangle. I’ll start: Ryan Seacrest, Dick Cheney, Steve Jobs. (And yes I KNOW the game is really called F/M/K)”.
“A great many who debunk traditional values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”---C.S. Lewis
Modern liberalism has morphed into Neo-Liberalism, which has now become the operative world-view of the current leadership of America’s democratic Party. Neo-Liberalism’s world-view fully embraces a philosophy of relative, constantly changing values and self-contradicting special interests. Its core belief is that no values, and by logical deduction no laws, are absolute. Therefore, no one should push their values, hence their laws on anyone else. The result is a serious dilution of the fundamental underpinning concept required for a free and open society(1), one called the rule OF law. Neo-Liberalism, when it achieves the aforementioned experiences the inevitable result of its philosophical antecedents, a deeply significance nonsense, which is a modern version of the Yin and Yang, purporting over-arching contradictions
Actually, true to its only constant, Neo-Liberalism employs the double standard approach when furthering its own agenda by preaching adherence to the rule OF law only when it's in power. A honest critic, however, would reveal that Neo-Liberalism’s actual approach is one that can be defined as rule BY law instead, which is a profound difference. For example, when forced to abide by its own laws, ones itself finds unpalatable, it consistently finds ways to avoid them by twisting and torturing those laws, often with the judiciary as a willing accomplice, by abusing them, over-extending them, getting around them, or simply assuming a glassy transcendent approach that amounts to saying but we have a higher purpose and are therefore not obliged to obey whatever law we deem in our way. Unfortunately, individuals who privately abrogate public rules by violating those in existence, thereby imposing their own rules on others, become, quite literally, outlaws.
One specific way Neo-Liberalism uses a bastardized rule OF law to achieve its own insupportable agenda is by creating so many complex laws and regulations that it is difficult to exercise rights as a defense against Neo-Liberalism’s so-called “good-intentions.” Yet Neo-Liberalism is the first to complain when those actions result in the loss of such tangibles as their freedom of speech, habeas corpus, speedy trials, privacy, etc. The fact of the matter is that all those detrimental cracks in the foundations of our institutions of freedom are made possible by Neo-Liberalism's efforts to legislate, adjudicate and pontificate out of existence the very laws, processes and values that hold those cracks in check.
Yes, the rule BY Law ideology of Neo-Liberalism, enacted through an expanding centralized government, has created so many laws, so many regulations, so many fines and so many penalties that it has made it possible for all of us to be guilty when political expedients deem it necessary, or at least harassed by government agencies with endless resources
Consider this example. Neo-Liberalism, ignoring the 10th Amendment by claiming states-rights are some form of evil, allows it to systematically forge a bloated, sprawling, out-of-control government to manage virtually everything in our lives, based falsely in the name of helping the little guy or the environment. That’s made it possible for its good intentions to empower our government to increasingly snoop on who we are, control what we do and take what we earn or own to do it. Neo-Liberalism has even seated activist judges, who cavalierly ignore laws that exist and contrive laws where there are none, just to forward its agendas, making it possible for successive judges of other philosophical persuasions to do the same thing. The reality of that is that our rights are becoming ignored and rationalized away from legal protections, especially those protecting the individual.
Other examples include how Neo-Liberalism said it was acceptable for clinton to commit both sexual harassment (one of Neo-Liberalism’s favorite laws—notice the hypocrisy—again!) and perjury. That set the stage for allowing the most powerful office in the world to abuse its public trust and lie. And now Neo-Liberalism complains if it does! Or how Neo-Liberalism taught children that our Constitution was mistakenly made a fixed document and the product "… of long-dead white slave owners…" laying the foundation for its unimportance and abolition in the minds of youth. And now Neo-Liberalism complains when someone else doesn't want to honor their alleged rights, even when those rights are the very ones written down by those who Neo-Liberalism slanders as nothing more than long-dead racist slave owners.
Another? Sure, Neo-Liberalism’s rule BY law disconnects the 4th Amendment, fostering civil forfeiture laws, which creates a stream of takings (free booty) for government agencies, justified by alleged violations of endless, often inconsistent regulations, making it possible for your property to be seized for increasingly frivolous reasons. Regulations that do little to address the assumed problems they were created to resolve.
Or how about Neo-Liberalism’s inversion of the 1st amendment, from freedom OF religion to freedom FROM religion. That disenfranchises tens perhaps a hundred million of citizens in this country from their value system. As if that’s not enough, it seems Neo-Liberalism also forgot that freedom of speech is part of the same amendment those who oppose Neo-Liberalism have a right too also, such as when it’s denied by Neo-Liberal-controlled colleges in actively suppressing the free speech rights of conservatives and libertarians on college campuses, with the gall to say they’re doing it in the name of tolerance and diversity. That is neither tolerance nor diversity. It is the subversion of rights by elitist Neo-Liberal special-interests—which another product of dead white-men, the dictionary, defines as a form of tyranny.
A just rule OF law then must be:
a) Negative----stating what you cannot do vs. what you must do.
b) General-----abstract enough to apply to unknown future instances.
c) Permanent--to promote knowledge of, plan for, commit to and be responsible for, actions.
d) Minimal----it must be designed to address the rate of failure and not the fact of it. That is critical. The task is to minimize the breach of performance, even though that risk can never be driven to zero. There are enormous and numerous costs in trying to tailor an entire legal set to forestall the occasional failure.
The concept of a healthy free and open society, one that creates and maintains a level playing field for the above to be effective, is particularly hard to implement when Neo-Liberals have an incoherent belief system, comprised of floating, non-absolute, frequently-contradicting values that can be morphed into getting what they want at any given moment to satisfy any political agenda they have, du’ jour. That creates powerful revolutionary forces that when set in play, like all revolutions, always eventually eats its young, whether they’re believers, or not.
1. When living our lives our way and expecting the same for others leads to conflict, what shall guide us other than simply might makes right?
Further reading:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/how_liars_wreck_a_country.html