Bondi and Patel should be laser focused on the one perpetrator that they have the most evidence on, that they can bring a solid case on in the shortest amount of time. What the administration needs is an indictment, conviction, and jail sentence for one of these corrupt deep-staters ASAP. Right now the perps feel smug and invincible, since NONE of their crimes has gone punished. As soon as there is one conviction, they will all be hit with the realization that there are CONSEQUENCES to their actions, and they will run for cover, squeal on each other, and make deals with prosecutors.
I don't know. These people seem to be programmed to go down fighting, stupid reason or no. I thought that just Trump winning would shut a lot of them up, keep them from sticking their necks out but nope, they continue to do it. It's pretty fascinating.
Why do they do that - unless they're pretty sure that everything is big talk and no action?
It has been very easy in 'Murica for the last seventy years and the checked suit white shoe Republicans have been way too soft while the other side plays breakneck politics.
They figure they have the media, courts, and the DOJ what could happen they just need to wait Trump out and its back to business as usual.
Ben, you have described exactly what is going on. The Lefties of the Deep State are in control of just about everything. Even a chunk of the supposed GOP are with the Deep Staters. These people are concerned about one thing only, the preservation of their reservation on the Potomac, and most the enlargement of its power. I notice that the MAGA folks, with their control of the executive and very slim majorities in both houses, still do not have enough power to do very much. They have pretty much been shut down. Everywhere.
I do not understand the MAGA mentality right now. Like Adm.1, they are just lying down and taking it. There are people on the blog who believe Trump is just a part of it and all his bantering about is just that. I wonder. If he does not challenge the judiciary by just ignoring it, I will continue to wonder. The people spoke in November, they are definitely not getting what they voted for. We voted for a warrior and his group and so far, 100 days later, all we have seen is a bunch of wimps. Where is Bondi and her campaign against Lawfare? Letitia James is giving the middle finger to the administration with tariffs (along with the AG of Blue Arizona) and no reaction. Don’t the MAGA crowd realize that more than anything else, the people want strength by MAGA against the onslaught presented by the Leftist media, judiciary and Congress with the RINOs. 100 days later and what has been done, a few things re: immigration and tariffs, both of which are soon to be under attack by the judiciary. If something is not done, the judiciary is going to be running the government, and the Trump election representing the people will be meaningless.
I look at the “disorder” of the Dems as presented by Fox. The MAGA has done nothing to exploit it, nothing. They just sit on their collective ass and watch and listen to the Left blistering them over and over. Where is that Trump strength we were promised? Sanders and AOC? Raskin? Carville? Pritsker? Walz? Newsom? If Trump cannot handle these light weights, we are finished. Oh, forgot Van Hollen, who, against the law, went to El Salvador to contest the immigration will of the Trumpers, followed by four reps. Where is Bondi, enforcing the law prohibiting private citizens from doing just that?
This country is heading for dissolution. There is no Robespierre to unite it, no effective leader up to now. This president has 4 years minus 100 days to do something, he needs to start pretty quick. This country has a bad habit of rejecting weak presidents in off-year elections, let’s hope something happens soon to offset that happening. JHK just presented three options, let’s go, MAGA.
Excellent points John! We need to give Trump this entire year to drown the rats in the swamp, because there are many hundreds if not thousands. Such an incredible web of corruption and lies the leftist have spun on the American people. How anyone can continue to call themselves a democrat today is beyond me, but if you look at the amount of mental illness amongst us, we can get a better understanding of how. If these most demented people are proud of being called Leftist, and having a donkey as their political symbol, then we can understand that the democrats are a bunch of asses🫏 that do nothing right:)
Thanks to our lovely government, more people are being squeezed into Have-Not status. We had a manufacturing “paradise” in the Midwest for fifty years that the government “sold” to other lands. Tonight, I was asked to guess what percentage of dress in the USA is manufactured here. I did not have a clue. 2% I was told. A question I would like to know is how much of our oil usage still comes from other lands, including Canada. I do not believe Trump that we are independent of oil. Medicines are manufactured in China, as well as most PPE for healthcare protection. How many healthcare workers were infected with Covid because of limited protective gear. The biggest fiasco is the need for mini-computers in just about everything. Wonderful, except most are made in Taiwan. China is just foaming at the mouth, anticipating how much the acquisition of Taiwan is going to clobber the USA. Reaction is already happening here as two Fabs are being built in Phoenix.
Anyway, I continuously wonder where all the employable people have gone. The unemployment rate at 4%, I just do not see how that is possible. I will say that when I visit a fast food place, I see more older folks now than teens. Are they being held in long term unemployed which is not monitored by the media? The unemployment situation right now is a gigantic falsehood.
The Have-Nots in the country are skyrocketing as phony welfare recipients are being found out, and phony jobs that have been created by the government are being stopped. Manufacturing is the opportunity for the expansion needed. A couple of articles I have seen are saying that bringing manufacturing back is a big mistake as Americans do not want manufacturing jobs. That really pisses me off. I have an idea, cut off the illicit welfare payments, the illegals support, the disability fraud, and people will be lining up for those new jobs.
You are very in tune brother John, but it took over fifty years to get to this end game, and it cannot be fixed In 100 days, or two or even two years. We are giving it until the Fall, and if we don’t see at least a dozen players incarcerated, then we have to go to plan B. So much corruption to address and so little time. And the most corrupt and demented people fighting against us…..
Fabs are slang for wafer fabrication facilities. When I worked in one in the 80s, most were in the USA. Boy did that change in a hurry. Two are being built here in Phoenix, one from Taiwan.
We've been played...again! I hate being a Sucker. I really wanted to believe the best was possible. Not this perfidy of more sanctions on Russia, for God's sake! And, there's no way to justify them, since the scads of other ones have had no effect. So what does Trumpster do. MORE SANCTIONS?! Puh-leeze.
To be fair to Sessions, he was from the old world of the USA, where political opponents were only prosecuted upon solid evidence of a serious crime. The Hilbot was low hanging fruit, but Jeff probably felt it would help heal the Nation after the divisive 2016 election to not have a go at her and her machine. The events of the succeeding months, including "Russiagate" should have disabused Sessions of those old fashioned notions of American Government justice, but they didn't.
As for Ms. Bondi, having been witness to the last eight years, she has no excuse for not prosecuting and locking up hundreds of people for the insurrection they are currently waging against the Trump administration. Well, maybe they have Kompromat on her. Surveillance is everywhere in the Land of the Free. Merrick had no qualms going after the J6 "Insurrectionist," but he apparently on the side of all that is right and good in the New USA, and we just don't get that we're living in Bizarroworld.
Given the pendulum nature of American politics and the inability of the average American voter to consider anything other than Democrat or Republican, the Congress will most likely go back to the Democrats in 2026. However, the Senate, being so evenly divided will put the Kybosh on everything with their filibuster.
I often wonder what Trump could actually accomplish if he had a friendly filibuster proof majority in the Senate and a friendly majority in the House instead of a bunch of dunce morons in both legislative bodies.
It's not just the breakneck politics, although we might be saying the same thing. The Democratic party is almost morally bankrupt. The rampant hypocrisy and flagrant disregard for the Constitution says it all. I have no idea why their voters don't see it. I can only chalk it up to Orange Man Bad!
' I have no idea why their voters don't see it. I can only chalk it up to Orange Man Bad!'
They are myopic. Critical thinking is just a void to be avoided. Suggesting the seeking out of different and contrary opinions removes the false sense of security found on the favorite mainstream media source they choose. The fall from grace of the MSM as an event in motion is a foreign thought, incomprehensible to such a mindset. Essentially, if it is on tv from a msm source, it must be true. Safe and secure, no thinking and evaluating required.
Yep, good points. Way too much reliance on MSM...that's a huge problem. Hopefully, the MSM is being discredited to the point where people will be forced to look for other sources. I'm just not sure they have the time or inclination to do the work.
I don’t believe they have any viable option; they have to bet everything on ‘Black 666’ for the ‘win’.
No doubt, they are doing so now, to keep the game going until some new promised (and greatly hoped for) ‘wonder weapon’ appears on the scene to secure that ‘win’. And, as we are dealing with spiritual warfare behind all of these surface conflicts, whatever they have planned may just work out for them. Heaven forbid!
Nevertheless, those who truly care about what is right, good, and true; who truly seek what is best for the entire country, and this sick and dying world, have a tremendous amount to thank G-d for! He has worked miracle after miracle to bring us to this point, but we need to continue praying for the salvation, protection, guidance, and strengthening for all of our leaders; for revival in the Church and a great harvest of salvation in our nation, and around the world.
And, though I am guilty of not doing so myself, praying even for those who are, knowingly or unknowingly, actively working at cross purposes to the will of G-d, and against their own people.
That is true. But that is not necessarily a bad thing because that allows three years of messaging and, at least right now, Democrat messaging is not persuasive. So it is an opportunity for more voters to turn against Democrats. And to effect true change that rejection needs to be all the way down-ballot. Democrat dog-catchers need to be rejected.
Let's default to Occam's Razor - a headshot from 300 yds out will achieve the same results and is much more expedient. Think of the savings in time and resources.
I think we're well past the point of words, political, legal or dialogue processes solving many problems. The Plandemic drew a distinct line in the sand that .gov will find is quite a minefield of violence if crossed. Meanwhile, the sideshow of lawfare and other distractions takes focus from the other predicaments of The Long Emergency. We'll most likely find out the reality of economic decline, contraction, and the rise in numbers of those "who have nothing to lose" will create new pressures that engulf what passes as "issues" in today's news.
"...and the rise in numbers of those 'who have nothing to lose'..." ~ P. Robert Thorson
That's probably the critical threshold right there insofar as enough people feeling they have nothing to lose may then feel the freedom to make some groundbreaking changes they wouldn't have otherwise.
As long as enough people are comfy enough, however, things that could lead to their uncomfyness won't be addressed, at least sufficiently, if at all, to make any difference.
I'm waiting for and curious about the time, if it comes, when the American pressure-cooker lid finally blows off, and what's going to be the spark, or if America simply fizzles away in a long-drawn-out process.
They say that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Could be.
The last 25 years has seen a economic roller coaster of "squeeze, release.....squeeze, release" - especially for the lower classes. The Dot.Com bubble, 9-11, the 2008 downturn, curious equity flow issues, the rise of the crypto scams, the Plandemic, etc. While some are saying be patient, I think Trump 2.0's honeymoon is drawing to a close. The actions coming out of the administration are too little, and way too late - and the wrong ones - to help out a totally beaten down blue collar worker.
There's little to no resilience left in many parts of the economy, at least in terms of supporting the higher standard of living we've enjoyed in the U.S. for the last 80 years. It appears that several sharp lurches downward are imminent, and I think tariffs will be the catalyst/scapegoat blamed when it fact the foundation has been crumbling for decades. I think the only thing left to debate is whether the policies have been intentional to bring about a crash, or more "organic" as how other collapses of civilizations are described.
The working man won't care about the causes - he'll just be in reaction mode, and that probably won't be pretty.
I think Trump should go full on bull in China shop on the deep state. The majority of Americans would be behind him, damn the torpedoes! Go full berserker on them and get it over with. We have had enough.
Part of Trump's election platform was about the 'working man'. The moment the working man sees Trump as not living up to his end of the bargain could be what blows the lid off America. Working men are, generally, a tough, no-bullshit lot. Recall our Trucker Protest here in Canada. They deliver the food that goes on our tables. Ya, sure, the gov't dicked around with their bank accounts, but that was gesturally-token, no pun intended. Maybe keep tabs on what the average working men and women say about their clock ticking for Trump.
That closely relates to the surprising popularity of the Luigi Mangione fan club. Could they be those who have nothing to lose?
Even if not, it indicates that there may be more than a few other Luigis.
Regarding the foreign invaders, they are only in it for the money, and as soon as that stops or becomes worthless, they are done. The same for any other hired mercenaries too.
We're close now, Mark - words having no meaning. It all depends on what civilization you want. I don't have much runway left in front of me, but this is not the civilization I want - nor where it's headed - for our children.
I agree, Ron. The system itself is too corrupt to correct itself or reduce its size. Drastic measures must be taken. Everything has to be purged and reduced to rubble and a new system must rise up and replace it. Really, what that means is violence. Unfortunately. But these people will not give up their power, glory and cash cow of their own volition and the courts are wasted. The people must decide how this is resolved. Sooner or later, they will have to. I'll probably be dead by that time but who knows.
That's going to happen in the tribulation, Cankerpuss. Three-quarters of the human population of the world will die. In really nasty ways. Everything will be destroyed, and thus made worthless to the point that "they will cast their gold and silver into the streets " "They will pray for death, but they will not find it" until the judgments are done. There are ten, mirroring those in Exodus, but worse.
A date has been set for the return of the Messiah: 2033. Sounds more like human calculation than anything divine, but that's your religion in a nutshell.
CP - you are exactly right! Burn it all down and let it rise again with a newly calibrated moral compass. Stay positive! You deserve to see it all happen my friend.
The problem is the "higher" education Democrats love to say they have intelligence and education over us simpleton rednecks but that kind of schooling removes the commonsense detector element innate in most humans.
It seems like the smarter and more educated they think they are the dumber they actually are.
Mary, teachers are largely folks who could not compete in the real world. Judges and politicians are folks that could not compete in the real law world. Is it any wonder we are where we are as the country is under the control of these loser groups?
If Trump plays the “I will be a good little boy” role, he is done. NOW. BTW, this means that if the SCOTUS does not stop the district judges from making decisions for the whole country, Trump has to tell the judiciary to Eff off, and come and get him as he make things right. He needs MAGA 100% behind him with that and thanks to RINO infestations, that might not be the case.
Right now, the manifestations of how deep a cesspool we are in may be showing itself.
There is no precedent the progressives won't break. They don't believe in the nation state, or laws, or tradition. They only know raw power. There are no rules anymore.
When the FF, the politicians of the day, put together the Constitution, it became so watered down with the assignment of power that little was definitely assigned to the elements of government.
The best example is the judiciary, where the SCOTUS is identified, and “any Federal courts as the Congress deems necessary”. That’s it. What we see today is the accumulated idiocy of generations of Deep Staters. Section one gives just about all the law-making power to the Congress, which due to party ineptitude they have essentially given to the president much of it. Right now, immigration and tariffs are in the hands of the president but the Constitution says the power is in the Congress. The Constitution is a guide and does little in controlling the ability of the politicians to change it when it fits their agenda. It is the responsibility of the SCOTUS, not district judges to stop the politicization of the DC scene and adhere to the Constitution. Uh huh, right!!!!!
The key to all of it is the deceptive and soulless media. Without the endless soapbox even some of these judges would change their tune. I'm not sure what exactly can be done beyond the fact of how discredited they've become for most Americans since there are still enough brainwashed to apparently keep them relevant enough to rile up the sheepiest of sheep for Soros & co. to send out into the streets.
Bringing back the Smith Mundt Act would help. Obama repealed it. The act made it illegal for media to be used by the govt for propaganda against the citizens. It is a tool of the left to nudge, coerce and brainwash, to lie.
There is a lot of nepotism between Democrat officials and the legacy media. But do they have any real impact anymore? Viewership is way down for network and cable "news". Print media readership is nonexistent. The do-called new media - podcasts, substacks, blogs - are in their infancy and as such are by definition not stable. I feel like I am wandering the desert in search of reliable information. But it is oddly liberating because I wind up reading obscure material to ferret out the truth. It is kind of like law school.
As long as 90+% of soulless sellout (my word for legacy) media they still have a HUGE impact in terms of creating the illusion of anything resembling a real and legitimate "resistance" or fight among the populace. And it's far bigger than democrats as roughly half the republicans will swing whichever way the wind blows (e.g., most will side with the pharma sickness & death cult). As I mentioned, the funding for the perpetuation of the illusion in the streets through Soros Inc. and any other funders is also critical for the images of "protests", littered with paid actors and organizers amidst all the boomers, to be aired nationwide. Nonstop propaganda not only works, it works very well because most people are too busy, or simply disinclined, to think and research for themselves.
Admittedly, the media is teetering and has lost even more credibility, but it had been awfully low already when the vast majority of the population bought into the scamdemic and many remain very heavily influenced by that propaganda. I presume you are not from a family which would have liked you censored for your opinions and possibly discriminated against for your medical decisions, as in, choosing not to poison yourself. While the covid psyop is (mostly) over, there is no doubt that most of the people who bought into it all hook, line, and sinker will only ever go so far in coming to terms with the fact they were intentionally lied to about everything from the get-go. Most will believe in "mistakes" and "over-reach", and so forth. They will not be able to come to terms with the reality, which is very likely to be repeated (at least attempted) within the next decade or two.
The creation of mass illusion is the foundational business of the entire system in which we live-- from the DoD to Congress to the consumer culture which relies on mass media. Do not underestimate it until we can smell its rotting decay more pungently.
On the new/alternative media, you must be pretty new to it yourself because much of it is not very new and has been well-established in the sphere for many years. Of course, those people have mostly been kicked off of many platforms and already had enough of a following to survive by just giving up on youtube & twitter and such. If you keep searching I'm sure you'll come across many of them and be able to discern the info you could trust best over time. James Corbett would be just one example that's been around forever and put out a ton of incredible info/work.
Ben - I appreciate your sentiments, but I will never fucking self-censor. When we do, their job is done.
They've already done me, they use the playbook of cowards. Had a contentious conversation with the Editor of our local paper over a letter I'd written. They finally published it.
If interested in reading, Copy & Paste in a new browser.
Next day, whoever does their social, led their Twitter (NKA X) feed with my letter, trying to get pushback against me personally.
The first comment? "Has Ron Anselmo been arrested yet for inciting violence?" It was a complete setup, start to finish - the paper and their "commenter".
The comments didn't say, "Has the letter writer...", I was personally named to imbed this in my dossier. Lenders, prospective employers? Hey, what's this? It was a personal attack and smear - their full intent.
It was clearly an attempted character assassination, my lawyer says defamation hinges upon monetary damages, so no claim there.
That is true Ben. But my concern is for Ron's safety for having dared to speak freely than for what Democrats think about him. They are like the Arabs we now call Palestinians in that they have rejected every single attempt at a meeting of the minds. They only want victory no matter the cost. They would exterminate you, me, and Ron and think they had saved their democracy.
No Lugh it really does not take that long a couple of hours with enough heat applied.
It was also far easier when the victims were starved to death.
In 2008 San Diego had massive forest fires one good rainstorm took care of a large amount of that ash.
Ashes to ashes dust to dust.
It is simply amazing how far some of you will go to deny that millions of people were murdered by Nazis cremated and disposed of and not just the Jews you hate so much.
You are aware that the judges are not backed by the Constitution that their existence is set by the Congress. Like Madison vs. Marbury and yes Roe vs, Wade, the judiciary is over stepping its bounds, taking power that is not challenged. Trump needs to flip these little dictators off and go about his business.
The judges being seen in handcuffs is a good start...Kash's FBI needs some 6 am raids and that asshole who shot his mouth off needs to be on the perp walk.
Since it seems as most of the Republicans are solid members of the uni-party and thus party to the USAID/NGO grift, and those that aren’t grifting off the taxpayers are undoubtedly blackmailed by the 4th branch of government (the IC ), I doubt they’ll pass or fight for anything reining in lawfare. Also doubtful that CJ Roberts will act to reign in the lawfare. I’m 100% convinced he is blackmailed over the adoption of his children and perhaps visits to Epstein Island. This doesn’t end until consequences are imposed for the perpetrators, either by men and women in government with spines, or by hard men willing to do hard things. The question is, “Does this country have either of those?” If not, to those that don’t bend the knee, the sadistic treatment meted out to J6’ers is in all of our futures.
Our constitutional democratic republic's health and future require an all hands evolution: elected representatives as well as We the People. This game of chicken is fast approaching crash time. IMHO
Amy Coney Barrett is said to be terrified of her kids being killed or orphaned by the Left, so she sides with them more and more. Roberts could be in the same boat, or he could be a pedophile, or he could just be a politician in black robes who's fixated on himself at the expense of everything else -- or maybe all three. (Please note that the only non-Catholic or -Jew on the Supreme Court is a black woman who doesn't know what a woman is. Also note the Barrett and Roberts are Catholics -- and not very good ones, in my opinion.)
One of Trump's financial advisors allegedly stated that, if his rejiggering of the global economy doesn't work, America is done. Not just his presidency, or his party. The country. We're hopelessly in debt, with far less manufacturing capacity than we used to have. Half or more of the population is fucking insane, and convinced of their own righteousness. The rest of us aren't sure what the hell to believe, except that we seem to be under some kind of mass confusion, perhaps akin to the kind of divine confusion visited upon humanity after the Tower of Babel, and forecast to occur at the rise of the Antichrist.
I think Trump may partially succeed, enough so that we'll believe we can do anything, both good and evil, and our wealth will be greater than ever before we're destroyed. if Rev. 17 and 18 are accurate. We're no longer interested in cleaning up our hearts and minds and turning to God before we're destroyed.
I think there is much truth to thst. Which is why I vestigation by the FBI and prosecutions by the DoJ are imperative. Bipartisan exposure is necessary to drain that swamp.
And he's not the only one, or even the foremost candidate.
I would truly hate to have the US resort to large-scale capital punishment. If making an example of one would dissuade the others...but that would assume some ability of rational thought among the party.
The Supreme Court must act decisively and expeditiously, unless they want to endure endless sessions, no summer vacation, impeachment and removal from their seats of power.
I will simply point to Jewish people in Nazi Germany not paying attention to the signals thinking it won't ever be them until it's too late.
It's never going to be me syndrome.
I can key this Tesla I won't get caught and punished.
The news is slowly showing some of these types getting caught but are they actually getting punished?
I really think public caning, or the stocks needs to return.
A face full of rotten tomatoes or a nice slimy head of lettuce to the face would go a long way towards stopping this but we come full circle back to it won't happen to me syndrome.
Over a two-week period in March, Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, an employee of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, intentionally damaged at least six Tesla cars by “keying” them while out walking near his apartment in downtown Minneapolis. The damage to property was part of a nationwide, politically motivated effort by left-leaning activists to financially harm the owner of Tesla, Elon Musk, who has taken a lead role in the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
As I wrote earlier this week, the Minneapolis Police Department completed a comprehensive investigation identifying Adams and presented the case to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for felony prosecution. The appropriate charge would have been six counts of damage to property, with an aggregated damage total of nearly $21,000.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty had other plans.
On Monday, April 21, Moriarty announced that her office would be deferring prosecution in exchange for Adams’ participation in a pre-charge diversion program.
The Star Tribune reported that Moriarty defended her decision, saying that the goal in these types of cases is “to hold the person accountable for keying the car, get restitution to the people affected, and avoid felony convictions when possible, because it can waylay someone’s life.”
That reasoning from Moriarty was purely surface level, and it failed to hold up to scrutiny for a single day.
In a bit of sound reporting, the Star Tribune also noted that on the very day Moriarty deferred charges against Adams’s six separate crimes totaling $21,000, Moriarty charged a 19-year-old female with no prior criminal history, with felony damage to property for a single incident of keying a co-worker’s car and causing $7,000 in damage.
The message Moriarty has sent seems clear — there are two separate systems of justice in Hennepin County, and her office will do its part in protecting politically motivated crime against conservative causes.
There's been a two-tier legal system in this country for many years. We got our faces shoved in it with Hunter Biden and recently with the black that stabbed Austin Metcalf. That's never going to change until it's destroyed and the people running it are dead. It can't be reformed and they won't "repent."
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." —H. L. Mencken
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!" "Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid. By the way, keep drinking beer..." —Bill Hicks
The world is a stage. The show must go on. Carry on...
The better way rather than voting and hoping for a politician to save you: The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards and town councils, get to know your sheriff, get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get organized, get moving, get doing, and get God.
"Everyone's looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror" —a lunatic
and stay out of debt. Debt makes a man a slave. Pay cash for as much as you possibly can. If you must take a loan, make it as small as possible and pay it off as fast as possible.
Live modestly. Nobody NEEDS a 7000 square foot home. Nobody NEEDS 5 Cadillac Escalades. Nobody NEEDS rooms full of different shoes or sport jackets. Live within your means. Learn to live on less.
Eat less. The majority of Americans are fat and obese and as such extremely unhealthy, dependent upon drugs and medications and doctors. Free yourself from this. Humans are designed to go periods without food. Fast once in a while. Have just two meals per day. Avoid processed foods, junk foods and fast foods. Get healthy.
Grow a garden. I grow my own potatoes. A human can survive on potatoes alone. Potatoes will keep for months if kept in a dark cool place.
Love your family and your children and teach them principles that will help them govern themselves independently. Teach them personal responsibility, consequences, God, and morality. Teach them to not idolize other men and women as men and women will always, inevitably, fail and let them down. Even their parents.
Tritorch is correct. No single man is going to save us. We must first correct ourselves inwardly. We must first correct our own homes. Then everything else will fall right in line.
It is not human nature. Most people are inherently non-ambitious, and it worsens with age. Most people want someone to make their decisions for them, to tell them what to do, to play nanny state. America is just the latest in a long history of states that have succumbed to the whims of the mob, become socialistic states and dissolved as the people have lost their identity. We are right in the middle of this process. Of all the people that you know, how many identify as Americans and are willing to fight for its Constitution?
As JHK harps over and over, what has happened to the American Common Culture? I would say it is encased in our memories.
OK then. Now expand upon it. What does that fact say about the viability of Democracy? Does it not indicate a strictly hierarchical society where the few control the many? Of course it does.
Control can be benign. We don't have to be ruled by sadistic demons. Pretending that everyone is equal always get you that.
Feudalism is the ultimate hierarchical society, where everyone has their place, period for a lifetime. Power is born into, the rest work the “fields”.
Now, the antithesis to the feudal structure is cities. The development of cities in the Middle Ages caused the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Today, if we spin back to feudalism, the cities will lose their function and become cesspools of humanity. Crime explodes, addiction increases, infrastructure crumbles, gangs proliferate, business moves away, the politics deteriorate, judicial systems become for sale, corruption spreads. Just like we are witnessing. Cities need a function, something to put their people to work to support their families. Otherwise, ??????
Exactly. Some creativity and social mobility is fine, in fact it's wise from the pov of the rulers. And JUST in a higher sense. But it must be controlled.
The United States allowed settlers to do whatever they wanted. So they were often starting trouble with the Indians that led to all out war. Canada didn't allow settlement until a given tribe was pacified. Settlement happened in both cases, one way was just far more rational and peaceful is all.
Of course the Indians started trouble too. And they were losing their lands in both cases.
Ha, look at you, spending hours taking pot shots at people of faith and other people you disagree with. Do you own a mirror, I think you might look in it.
You statement from Hitchens is bullshit, as it actually negates just about everything you say.
Read and weep my ignorant friend. New Zealand, has consistently been ranked as one of best country's in the world to live in in quality-of-life studies. That goddam socialism!
Frank Turek, the Christian apologists, claims "Morality comes from God" and naturally, he claims it's his "Biblical God"...the same God who committed genocide and ordered genocide. (Remember the Amalek).
An atheist says genocide is wrong and immoral. In fact, all but the Christian apologists say that. Only the Christian's say "Genocide is fine if my God does it or orders it."
Government despises independence. While I live as much as possible by what you suggest it is a constant battle as they throw more obstacles at us every day. Inexorably the Canadian government is encroaching on our rights to bear arms and thus make it much more difficult for people like me to feed ourselves. Study us carefully and learn from our mistakes or this creeping cancer will overwhelm you as well.
I hear you, but the dark triads are emotional vampires who thrive on the fear, angst, doubt, and dread their terrorism stir in us. They could kill us all at any second but they hold back because we're more valuable to them as an alive consumable drug than a dead thing with no emotions.
The only winning move is not to play their sick game. Your life is in their hands either way, so why feed them? Ignore them instead and focus on your own happiness and independence - this awareness and rising above their mind control matrix acts as garlic to a vampire.
Fear not. Live your life. Find your happiness. Turn your back on those who would gleefully turn it into misery. Win the game without playing theirs.
What do you do when over half your neighbors are hidebound DEMOCRATS with insane political views?
Californication is real problem they vote the worst sorts of things in until it becomes almost hopeless to live somewhere then they move and destroy the next town, city or state?
These idiot Democrats are trying to vote in a mileage tax on top of outrageous gas taxes and now five other taxes as well.
The problem is that we let them creep and creep and creep and surround us while we failed to follow the basic tenets of civics, and now we're waking up to a world racing toward hell on earth. The answer to this problem has been with us from the start:
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ―Plato
But of course, at least in America, political power has gutted civics because civics guts political power. As Bill Ives told Podesta in a wikileaks publication: "We've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics, and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. Unawareness remains strong but compliance is fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious thinking..". Source: https://tritorch.com/degradation/!PodestaEmailWeveAllBeenContentToDemeanGovernmentDropCivicsToCreateAnUninformedCompliantCitizenry.png [image]
Now all we can do is get back in the game at the bottom of the ninth and start swinging for the fences at that local level, which is still where we, again at least in America, hold all of the cards:
Massive widespread civic participation is required to solve this problem. The corrupt tinpot dictators that infest our every branch of government thrive on both our apathy and absence, and so we must suffocate and constrain them by showing up and getting in their grill as often as we possibly can. Show them they are hopelessly outnumbered. Make clear to these parasites that we are hawkishly watching their every move (the scarce good ones will embrace these enforcement actions because they are actually there to serve the republic rather than themselves).
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." —Thomas Paine
Without this vigilance you will find that to the corporations and their puppet politicians, your ignorance and apathy are worth more than all the slaves in China. Because it is your indifference that enables these bottom feeding cockroaches to thrive in the dark and rob you of your wealth and liberty.
Immediately call out and publicly shame them on every wrong move they make. Train these swine with your merciless attention and corrective action the same way one would potty train a dog. They will shrivel under the scrutiny of our constant gaze and will swiftly arrive at the understanding that we don’t work for them—they work for us and if they make too many mistakes they will lose that privileged position of power they worked so hard to acquire.
Finally, as far as changing the mind of the democrats, here is a better solution:
How to Wake Up Your Friends & Family: They are victims of herd mentality. Rather than trying to change them, instead focus on improving yourself in order to change the herd consensus:
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."- Thomas Paine
Well first, "belief" is not a church, Jesus was totally against them because they eventually devolve into epicenters of manipulation and mind control. A belief system on the other hand, wouldn’t you know it: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is central to every single major one of them (barring satanism which is do what thou wilt):
Christianity:
In everything, do to others as you would have them to to you; for this is the law and the prophets. (Jesus, Matt: 7:12)
Sikhism:
I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all. (Guru Granth Sahib, p. 1299)
Islam:
Not One of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for your self. (Mohammad, Hadith)
Zorastrianism:
Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself. (Shayast-na-Sayast 13.29)
Hinduism:
This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would case pain if done to you (Mahabharata 5:1517)
Buddhism:
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. (Udana-Varga 5:18)
Judaism:
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole of the Torah; all the rest is commentary. (Hillel, Talmud, Shabbat 31a)
Jainism:
One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated. (Mahavira, Sutrakritanga)
Taoism:
Regard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. (T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien 213-218)
Every day "I do unto others as I would have them do unto me."
It's fuckin innate common sense!
I don't need some crazy ancient books to tell me that.
Christian's only have two choices: Obey God or burn in hell forever!"
There are other options, such as don't obey and don't burn in hell because it doesn't exist; and still do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Why do I need forgiveness from an invincible mass murderer?
My morality is derived from tribal utility borne of generations of human evolution. Good social behaviour is necessary to advance a species. “Morality” is behaviour that keeps you safe. Killing, raping, and stealing, are not conducive to remaining safe from reprisal. We behave, “morally” to minimize threat to our own safety. We learned through evolution that survival requires lowering risk to ourselves.
Good morality is how we reduce risk. Morality does not come from the Bible.
If you concede that only GOD stops you from doing bad things, then you are a bad person who is only kept in check by your own cowardice.
Sadly, what I do know: is that I too many times see the lack of morality in the actions of many professed religious people and movements.
Enough of your bullshit, TriTorch! Just present the evidence for the existence of the divine. Gods only exist in the minds of people who need him to give them answers to questions they want to hear.
We all need to stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.
"My morality is derived from tribal utility [...]."
So is the morality of the 0.01% currently engaged in a global cull-and-control agenda to create the global digital gulag of Agenda 21-2030. Good luck in your engagements with that 'morality'.
"they vote the worst sorts of things in until it becomes almost hopeless to live somewhere then they move and destroy the next town, city or state?"
Ditto New Englanders and New Yorkers. Why do you think the South isn't the South anymore? Moronic, self-loathing fucks fled New England and New York, moved south and decided that they would set about destroying the last decent places in this country.
"get ready, get organized, get moving, get doing, and get Gawd."
Which Gawd do you have in mind, my friend?
2,000+ years, many more if you count all the pagan religions before Jeebus, and still not a single convincing reason to believe in the existence of any god, gods, demigods, souls, spirits, magic, any form of afterlife or other divine or supernatural beings.
The debate about the supernatural should have been settled thousands of years ago. It’s unfalsifiable in reality, it doesn't exist and you can't prove a negative. But here we are still. Bogged down because of the influence of irrational religions.
“Did Jesus resurrect?” “Yep!” “Is he still alive?” “Yep!” “Cool, then can I see him?”
My favourite parts of the Bible are where Jesus is talking to God, himself, and no one else is around ~ and his conversation is quoted in the Bible. LOL
Why do Christian's expect a book written by unknown authors in a variety of languages, that was translated, rewritten, edited countless times is evidence for anything? It's just a book.
What Jesus is supposed to have commanded is no more than what some religious cultist made up a couple of centuries after "Jeebus" is supposed to have lived!
Every statement of "Jesus commanded" needs to start with "My old book says Jesus commanded"
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
It's all good brother, i once believed as you do. I cannot imagine how, but who knows, maybe one day i'll go back to believing as you do. It's a faith thing, something I once mocked, and now I revere.
It's just a rollercoaster ride as Bill Hicks said. Whatever comes next, comes next. In the meantime, my belief helps bring out the best in me and gives me comfort. I hope your beliefs do the same for you. It's all good.
I have faith that farting pixies live in the bottom of my garden.
And I have as much evidence for my claim as you have that Jeebus was divine.
Faith is not a reliable pathway to Truth.
There is NOTHING one cannot believe based on faith.
Knowledge is not something you simply assert; knowledge is demonstrated.
If I get on an aeroplane and the pilot says he’s using faith to fly us; I’m getting off. Only in religion is faith considered knowledge.
Imagine doctors performing a surgery doing their operation based on faith.
Not even religious based hospitals have a faith healer on their staff.
All my knowledge is based on evidence and rational thinking.
You are lying if you say you don't do likewise. IE when crossing the road.
There is only one place you don't rely on evidence and rational thinking.
When it comes to the divine. Thats why you can believe all this bullshit.
Sorry, for me at this point pretending to respect people’s religious beliefs is an exercise in futility. I do not respect people who CHOOSE to be gullible and uneducated - and try to foist that nonsense onto me.
The abuse by Marxist judges in our broken judicial system is my biggest concern. The idea that individual Judges can interfere with the President directly on a solo basis is maddening. This is the kind of situation that can create the world's next and worst ever tyrannical society.
Correct. This situation with rogue judges is extremely dangerous and debilitating to the Republic. No unelected man/woman should be able to usurp this kind of authority. No elected person should either, but, Trump has authority that none of these judges have given him by the people. What is happening right now is extremely disconcerting and must come to an end. I'm not suggesting the worthless limp wristed 7 SCOTUS judges (yes, I said 7 even though there are 9). I'm talking about marching into these Federal court houses and perp walking these rogue usurper judges to a place where they are quietly and ignominiously executed for their treason and for the usurpation of powers they DO NOT HAVE.
What year did Congress create and fund this layer of judicial redundancy? Was it created to provide Congress, the Senate, the Deep Bureaucracy with an apparatus that coincided with the acceleration of our deficit, spending our overall debt and their abuse and misuse of our tax dollars?
I think the most practical approach is to enforce 18 USC 371, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States on Eisen, as recommended here, but also upon current and formerly elected & unelected officials ... like the 51 IC stooges. Meanwhile, Congress -- get your shit together and stop these district court national injunctions.
The problem is where to bring that suit? The DC courts? I don’t think so. If they could choose a friendly jurisdiction, bring it on, but I’m sure he expects it.
We are asking the people who have the power to give up that power.
When pigs fly, no government has ever given up power once obtained.
That is the number one message of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration.
How about this? Dissolve the union into Blue and Red. Then just wait until the Blues run out of money from over taxation and overspending and cry to re-join the Reds. Look to Canada today, the same thing is going on there. We have a lot in common. A good example of this happening right now is California, where the people are leaving because they can no longer afford to live there. New York, too.
"The free market doesn’t exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them. How ‘free’ a market is cannot be objectively defined. It is a political definition."
"The usual claim by free-market economists that they are trying to defend the market from politically motivated interference by the government is false. Government is always involved and those free-marketeers are as politically motivated as anyone. Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined ‘free market’ is the first step towards understanding capitalism."
If Americans vote for a Dem majority in either the House or the Senate this forthcoming midterm cycle, it would be a dark signal to say the least.
This administration has exposed such breathtaking amounts of grift, waste and corruption, that to ignore these revelations would be tantamount to throwing in the towel on our former way of governing?
Would it be a dark signal that this corruption and kleptocracy is now the status quo? Are we now accepting of a third world style of government? Has the majority been comfortable with weak and/or demented leaders in the WH?
Love him or not, Trump is the last hope of restoring our precious republic. A loss of the majority in either house would end everything.
Unfortunately, most people choose tyranny. Tyranny brings guarantees. It's "the devil you know." And then there's always a contingent that profits from it.
Yeah, Trump is our last hope......fervently backing genocide.......a totally wild tariff mindf==k.......impinging on the First Amendment by carrying out deportations for those using their tattered freedom of speech........a true blue believer in vaccines seeking to exonerate himself from the disastrous OWS debacle.......etc etc etc. Oh, forgive me from sin, O great Orange Donald. Our Holy Redeemer, how utterly nice.
So utterly laughable: "...impinging on the First Amendment by carrying out deportations for those using their tattered freedom of speech."
Do you actually believe a foreign national has carte blanch First Amendment Rights? Even legal guests are invited to leave when they offend the host -- in all countries. The fact that he's an uninvited guest with a record of violence and terrorist associates just makes it easier to kick him out.
Drop your schlock and get a grip on your narrative.
I'm referring to native Americans and first amendment rights, not illegals. As in citizen college students getting deported for supporting the Palestinians. I made no reference to illegals in my "schlock", try and get your GED ASAP. And you ask me to get a grip.....that 's rich.
MJ, you seem like a person that sincerely wants transparency and to hold accountable all these entities and people that are in fact a threat to our freedoms?
Turning a blind eye to the waste and fraud we have seen so far is counterproductive to this end.
Do you support your party pursuing this Garcia character lawfully deported to his home country? This is just one of the many political stunts by the Dems that won Trump the election in a landslide.
I would be more afraid of my party never being in power ever again?
Yes, the past 4 years were just Obama et al running our country. Fortunately he’s now irrelevant. Speaking of irrelevant people:
Hillary was right about vast political conspiracies.
The Dems massive cover up of a mentally incompetent American President, the “wet market” origins of Covid-19, the narrative that our border was secure-it goes on and on.
This Garcia non-sense is just another agonal breath of a party asphyxiating into irrelevancy.
Why don’t Dems and Libs roll up their sleeves and help their fellow deplorables? There are so many in need right now.
Are they afraid they may have to shake the hand of a poor soul that didn’t attend Princeton? Are they so disgusted by the prospect of having to interacting with an electrician or plumber? What, are we commoners not allowed to come and see the naked Emperor? Guess what, so sorry, but we’ve known all along.
This is a very interesting and thought provoking post, JHK. The ideal outcome is skipping directly to the final episode (guillotine) of the Jacobin’s existence, though that seems unlikely. In the interim it is critical that Trump somehow expedite the policy implementation that these POTUS wannabe district judges are trying to thwart. A bigger question is whether SCOTUS will allow these pipsqueak district judges to continue to delegitimize the judicial branch of the government (assuming SCOTUS realizes this is happening).
My big picture analysis is that the district pipsqueaks think that they are smart enough and tough enough to overcome a POTUS who has survived multiple assassination attempts as well as efforts by the entire FBI, DOJ, legacy media and the DNC to prosecute, incarcerate and financially impoverish him. I’m betting the Trump Train 🚂 claims another victim as it squashes these judges like a bug 🐞 on its bumper.
As a parent the way we handled a petulant child was to simply ignore them. I recall at a grocery store my son wanted a specific toy truck. When I said "no" he dropped to the floor in the middle of the aisle and started kicking and screaming. I simply pushed the shopping cart around to the next aisle. Once we were out of view the child stopped screaming and came to find us, frightened that we had left him. The truck issue was over.
These judges have no authority to control the Executive. If they would be ignored they'd eventually give up the fight. Just like my child and the toy truck.
I don't know why he shies away from this, Lugh. The Constitution clearly gives him authority to execute the law (will of Congress). It doesn't give the federal judges any authority to even wipe their own asses as far as I am aware. The law is on his side. So go with it. Send out an EO to staff that if they don't do their fucking jobs they too will be terminated, regardless of what judge "Jeb" says in DC or wherever the hell he is hiding his ugly mug.
Look what they did to him based on little or nothing. Imagine what they will do to him if he acts against the system as it is now, their fake law in other words. He's afraid. Businessmen take reasonable risks, but they don't risk all, never their lives and all that they have. He's no warrior I'm afraid.
Did you see a picture of that old, white, cucked judge in New Mexico throwing up gang signs with the Tren de Aragua gang members he and his wife were harboring in their home? Can you imagine hating your family and the country so much that you would do something like this? Just speculation, but I'd be willing to bet that the gang members were doing some extra work for his wife on the side. She should be charged with bestiality.
It would seem that if she made it a priority, Tulsi Gabbard could avail herself of the same blackmail that the Dems have been holding over Chief Justice Roberts to get him to provide the critical vote when needed. If both sides hold the same info on him (and I am convinced there is some info; embarrassing enough to control him), then his only option is to resign. This would open up an opportunity for Trump to nominate a judge that could be trusted. I think that's the only play that gets the Supreme to be functional again.
What if part of the blackmail (that you are so certain of) is, "With the goods that I've got on you, Chief Justice Roberts, you now work for me, bitch. And do not think, for one minute, that you can simply resign to get out of this mess. If you resign, I'll spill the beans - now get back to work, bitch!"
All we seem to be finding out the last few weeks is how much the skullcaps hate our country, POTUS Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE ending their free illicit streams of our money.
Anyone that thinks Trump will do anything useful is delusional or at least has been asleep for the past several years. Remember "warp speed" vaccinations and the tyrannical and odious policies he sanctioned? The "peace candidate" has already walked back from his supposed plans and now brags that he is bringing us the largest military budget in history---over a trillion dollars. He has endorsed policies that violate basic rights such as free speech and due process of law. He has waged war over much of the Middle East without a declaration by Congress. He is indifferent to the genocidal slaughter in Gaza and seems to be obeying every wish and dream of the Israeli state. He has no philosophical core and, obviously, no moral compass. None of this should be a surprise. The left and right wings are both attached to the same bird of prey. The phony left/right dichotomy has worked like a charm and it is unlikely that any of the guilty parties will ever suffer consequences.
I hope you are right. So far the only people that have suffered consequences are the January 6th "rioters" who committed no crimes warranting prison time and many of whom are, I believe, still in jail. I didn't include that in my comment. But Trump should have pardoned them on day one---an unforgivable omission.
Almost. He did listen to his advisors and decided not to attack Iran, at least not yet. The Zionsists are now gunning for Hegseth and probably Gabbard as well.
Ultimately, as with so many expressions it all comes down to intent.
But the next time a Christian says, “If you had faith in God you'd enjoy loving, caring thoughts. I’ll pray for you,” notice how the sentence is used.
Is it a kind expression of love and concern, or is it what it is meant to be ~ a big ole slap in your face? "I am superior to you. I'm chosen. I have access to truths that you do not have. You are stupid, I know the truth. I am not all angry and do not hate everybody else like you do"
There is no condescension and arrogance like Christian humility, no ignorance like Christian knowledge and no hate like Christian love.
Wow! You misquote me and then misinterpret what I have said (in a giant strawman argument) to ultimately do to me exactly what you falsely accuse me of!
May God remove the scales from your eyes.
May the misery of others fill you with indignation rather than joy.
Excellent essay today, JHK. You've described the paralyzing situation of the federal leviathan to near perfection.
I've said it before and I will say it again. Any government derives its "authority" ONLY from the faith of the people it governs. Once a government loses the faith of the governed it has lost its authority and becomes an illegitimate government and must be scrapped and replaced. Without the faith of the governed the government itself can no longer truly govern the people. In the United States up to 50% of the population no longer have faith in or trust the federal government. I personally believe that number to be far greater than 50%.
The clusterfuck clown show that is now the federal government can no longer govern and can no longer do its job. The Congress has pissed away all of their authority are nothing more than a bickering boys and girls club who do nothing but hold "investigations" that amount to nothing. Who here can tell me anything that the Congress has done of late that has directly benefitted them? The Presidency is paralyzed from rogue judges usurping authority they have never be given and for some reason the Presidency listens to these rogue judges and gives deference to their rulings. The Judiciary, the lowest of the 3 enumerated Constitutional powers has assumed far greater in power than they were ever designed to have and must be reigned in. The body to do that is the Congress but Congress is so bifurcated by the two petty and bickering tribes that it is paralyzed and useless.
The States themselves could act under Article 5 of the US Constitution but the states themselves are dismal failures, no longer independent and unique, now nothing more than administrative regions of the federal government.
So what recourse do we as the people have? What do we do when we lose faith in the government? What do we do when the government no longer functions and is now illegitimate?
When a government loses faith of the governed it has lost its authority. It then resorts itself to force, coercion and lawfare to gain obedience from the governed. As Mr. Kunstler pointed out for the Jacobins in France, that only went so far. Will that and can that happen in the USA? Only time will tell.
However, the people get the government they deserve, government is the reflection of the people governed. The corrections to the government over the last 70 years have been “blessed” by the people in their Have vs. Have-not election games. Why doesn’t anything change, as we seem to demand regularly? Because of the fact that most people agree with things just the way they are.
I remember that the first stage of recovery from addiction is the acknowledgement that it exists. American has not acknowledged its addiction to the gimme state yet.
I'm afraid the pot could boil over. I would not advocate for this situation, but things are getting tense out there.
Judges in Sanctuary Cities refuse to arrest or prosecute for Tesla burning, robbery, rape, carjacking, murder. Intersection take-overs, blocking public highways, disrupting airline flights, random shooting into buildings. Will there ever be any consequences?
A 27-year-old convicted sex offender tried to register as a 15-year-old transgender high school student to gain access to the girl's locker room. https://youtu.be/RtYAg-llpCk?si=n8CXaKldDacOpMpU.
I'm not sure what will happen when families and innocent people are pushed to the breaking point, especially in this economy.
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
The Democrat playbook is nothing new under the sun. It’s as old as man, who keeps repeating himself. Meerloo laid it all out 90 years, in “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing” (1933). Getting rid of the D.C. Circuit would be an excellent thing.
So long as the current DOJ, FBI, and other current agencies continue to play by the rules they will never overcome the Democratic war machine...The expectations were very high for Patel and Bondi and the addition of Dan Bongino added some much needed support. Like any other revolution there needs to be a "fight fire with fire mentality"...The GOP is now known as the NAGOP for No Action...They continue to prove to the MAGA voters that they do not have the Will to do what is necessary and not always do what is Right...Most Trump supporters are tired and there is high expectations that all of the lunacy that took place for the past 4 years prior would be dealt with...Imagine if people just started disappearing? Kind of like a Jimmy Hoffa scenario...that would be the shot fired over the bow and would garner peoples attention...I am quite confident that there are a number of former J6 prisoners who would volunteer...The current Trump administration is behaving like many former Republican parties...start out strong and fizz out quickly...losing any momentum they earned...If you think the current GOP is strong enough to withstand the forthcoming cheating during the mid terms you are sadly mistaken...Either start arresting the criminals in Congress or give Scott Presler a modern day pay raise...because all of his efforts are going to waste since he does not have an Administration with a backbone...Are they seriously that afraid of Adam Schiff? He owns them...Laslty, none of the MAGA movement give a Rats Ass about the flag poles at the White House...
The main problem is that both parties have significant minorities that are totally for the preservation of the Deep State. It is more important than party affiliation or even morality.
Right back where he was four years ago after the stolen election. Fight or stand down. He's standing down again. The system can't reform itself. We need someone willing to go outside the system, to declare a national emergency and then kick ass.
Maybe the DOJ/FBI/etc don't want to overcome the Democrat war machine. Maybe they're part of it, and are just doing theater until their Democrat masters come back into power.
Bondi and Patel should be laser focused on the one perpetrator that they have the most evidence on, that they can bring a solid case on in the shortest amount of time. What the administration needs is an indictment, conviction, and jail sentence for one of these corrupt deep-staters ASAP. Right now the perps feel smug and invincible, since NONE of their crimes has gone punished. As soon as there is one conviction, they will all be hit with the realization that there are CONSEQUENCES to their actions, and they will run for cover, squeal on each other, and make deals with prosecutors.
I don't know. These people seem to be programmed to go down fighting, stupid reason or no. I thought that just Trump winning would shut a lot of them up, keep them from sticking their necks out but nope, they continue to do it. It's pretty fascinating.
Why do they do that - unless they're pretty sure that everything is big talk and no action?
It has been very easy in 'Murica for the last seventy years and the checked suit white shoe Republicans have been way too soft while the other side plays breakneck politics.
They figure they have the media, courts, and the DOJ what could happen they just need to wait Trump out and its back to business as usual.
Ben, you have described exactly what is going on. The Lefties of the Deep State are in control of just about everything. Even a chunk of the supposed GOP are with the Deep Staters. These people are concerned about one thing only, the preservation of their reservation on the Potomac, and most the enlargement of its power. I notice that the MAGA folks, with their control of the executive and very slim majorities in both houses, still do not have enough power to do very much. They have pretty much been shut down. Everywhere.
I do not understand the MAGA mentality right now. Like Adm.1, they are just lying down and taking it. There are people on the blog who believe Trump is just a part of it and all his bantering about is just that. I wonder. If he does not challenge the judiciary by just ignoring it, I will continue to wonder. The people spoke in November, they are definitely not getting what they voted for. We voted for a warrior and his group and so far, 100 days later, all we have seen is a bunch of wimps. Where is Bondi and her campaign against Lawfare? Letitia James is giving the middle finger to the administration with tariffs (along with the AG of Blue Arizona) and no reaction. Don’t the MAGA crowd realize that more than anything else, the people want strength by MAGA against the onslaught presented by the Leftist media, judiciary and Congress with the RINOs. 100 days later and what has been done, a few things re: immigration and tariffs, both of which are soon to be under attack by the judiciary. If something is not done, the judiciary is going to be running the government, and the Trump election representing the people will be meaningless.
I look at the “disorder” of the Dems as presented by Fox. The MAGA has done nothing to exploit it, nothing. They just sit on their collective ass and watch and listen to the Left blistering them over and over. Where is that Trump strength we were promised? Sanders and AOC? Raskin? Carville? Pritsker? Walz? Newsom? If Trump cannot handle these light weights, we are finished. Oh, forgot Van Hollen, who, against the law, went to El Salvador to contest the immigration will of the Trumpers, followed by four reps. Where is Bondi, enforcing the law prohibiting private citizens from doing just that?
This country is heading for dissolution. There is no Robespierre to unite it, no effective leader up to now. This president has 4 years minus 100 days to do something, he needs to start pretty quick. This country has a bad habit of rejecting weak presidents in off-year elections, let’s hope something happens soon to offset that happening. JHK just presented three options, let’s go, MAGA.
Excellent points John! We need to give Trump this entire year to drown the rats in the swamp, because there are many hundreds if not thousands. Such an incredible web of corruption and lies the leftist have spun on the American people. How anyone can continue to call themselves a democrat today is beyond me, but if you look at the amount of mental illness amongst us, we can get a better understanding of how. If these most demented people are proud of being called Leftist, and having a donkey as their political symbol, then we can understand that the democrats are a bunch of asses🫏 that do nothing right:)
Thanks to our lovely government, more people are being squeezed into Have-Not status. We had a manufacturing “paradise” in the Midwest for fifty years that the government “sold” to other lands. Tonight, I was asked to guess what percentage of dress in the USA is manufactured here. I did not have a clue. 2% I was told. A question I would like to know is how much of our oil usage still comes from other lands, including Canada. I do not believe Trump that we are independent of oil. Medicines are manufactured in China, as well as most PPE for healthcare protection. How many healthcare workers were infected with Covid because of limited protective gear. The biggest fiasco is the need for mini-computers in just about everything. Wonderful, except most are made in Taiwan. China is just foaming at the mouth, anticipating how much the acquisition of Taiwan is going to clobber the USA. Reaction is already happening here as two Fabs are being built in Phoenix.
Anyway, I continuously wonder where all the employable people have gone. The unemployment rate at 4%, I just do not see how that is possible. I will say that when I visit a fast food place, I see more older folks now than teens. Are they being held in long term unemployed which is not monitored by the media? The unemployment situation right now is a gigantic falsehood.
The Have-Nots in the country are skyrocketing as phony welfare recipients are being found out, and phony jobs that have been created by the government are being stopped. Manufacturing is the opportunity for the expansion needed. A couple of articles I have seen are saying that bringing manufacturing back is a big mistake as Americans do not want manufacturing jobs. That really pisses me off. I have an idea, cut off the illicit welfare payments, the illegals support, the disability fraud, and people will be lining up for those new jobs.
You are very in tune brother John, but it took over fifty years to get to this end game, and it cannot be fixed In 100 days, or two or even two years. We are giving it until the Fall, and if we don’t see at least a dozen players incarcerated, then we have to go to plan B. So much corruption to address and so little time. And the most corrupt and demented people fighting against us…..
What are ‘Fabs’? Being built in Phoenix
Fabs are slang for wafer fabrication facilities. When I worked in one in the 80s, most were in the USA. Boy did that change in a hurry. Two are being built here in Phoenix, one from Taiwan.
We've been played...again! I hate being a Sucker. I really wanted to believe the best was possible. Not this perfidy of more sanctions on Russia, for God's sake! And, there's no way to justify them, since the scads of other ones have had no effect. So what does Trumpster do. MORE SANCTIONS?! Puh-leeze.
Pam Bondi seems to be Jeff Sessions after gender affirming surgery.
It might have been simple too, Sessions had no cojones.
He and Pammi have something in common.
To be fair to Sessions, he was from the old world of the USA, where political opponents were only prosecuted upon solid evidence of a serious crime. The Hilbot was low hanging fruit, but Jeff probably felt it would help heal the Nation after the divisive 2016 election to not have a go at her and her machine. The events of the succeeding months, including "Russiagate" should have disabused Sessions of those old fashioned notions of American Government justice, but they didn't.
As for Ms. Bondi, having been witness to the last eight years, she has no excuse for not prosecuting and locking up hundreds of people for the insurrection they are currently waging against the Trump administration. Well, maybe they have Kompromat on her. Surveillance is everywhere in the Land of the Free. Merrick had no qualms going after the J6 "Insurrectionist," but he apparently on the side of all that is right and good in the New USA, and we just don't get that we're living in Bizarroworld.
Sessions was an old style Deep Stater, DC Crony. Trump was nuts for picking him, and a lot of hie first cabinet for the same reason.
Given the pendulum nature of American politics and the inability of the average American voter to consider anything other than Democrat or Republican, the Congress will most likely go back to the Democrats in 2026. However, the Senate, being so evenly divided will put the Kybosh on everything with their filibuster.
I often wonder what Trump could actually accomplish if he had a friendly filibuster proof majority in the Senate and a friendly majority in the House instead of a bunch of dunce morons in both legislative bodies.
Let's try to find out. Get your checkbook and keyboard ready for 2026 and be prepared to volunteer if possible.
I'll volunteer but I don't have enough money to send to any politician.
Thank you!
Money talks and the people walks, Cank.
Not really.
Why do we have to pay twice for good governance?
Because if you cannot be bothered to participate in the selection process it will be done for you. Particularly at this point in time.
It's not just the breakneck politics, although we might be saying the same thing. The Democratic party is almost morally bankrupt. The rampant hypocrisy and flagrant disregard for the Constitution says it all. I have no idea why their voters don't see it. I can only chalk it up to Orange Man Bad!
' I have no idea why their voters don't see it. I can only chalk it up to Orange Man Bad!'
They are myopic. Critical thinking is just a void to be avoided. Suggesting the seeking out of different and contrary opinions removes the false sense of security found on the favorite mainstream media source they choose. The fall from grace of the MSM as an event in motion is a foreign thought, incomprehensible to such a mindset. Essentially, if it is on tv from a msm source, it must be true. Safe and secure, no thinking and evaluating required.
Therein can be found the problem.
Yep, good points. Way too much reliance on MSM...that's a huge problem. Hopefully, the MSM is being discredited to the point where people will be forced to look for other sources. I'm just not sure they have the time or inclination to do the work.
It's easy to brainwash people. Stay inside. Wear a mask. Take a shot. Orange man bad.
Just keep repeating it, and people will believe it with their hearts and minds, no matter what the message happens to be.
Just one conviction and sentencing to some time would break that stupor as kev said kicking off today's comments.
"almost"?
I don’t believe they have any viable option; they have to bet everything on ‘Black 666’ for the ‘win’.
No doubt, they are doing so now, to keep the game going until some new promised (and greatly hoped for) ‘wonder weapon’ appears on the scene to secure that ‘win’. And, as we are dealing with spiritual warfare behind all of these surface conflicts, whatever they have planned may just work out for them. Heaven forbid!
Nevertheless, those who truly care about what is right, good, and true; who truly seek what is best for the entire country, and this sick and dying world, have a tremendous amount to thank G-d for! He has worked miracle after miracle to bring us to this point, but we need to continue praying for the salvation, protection, guidance, and strengthening for all of our leaders; for revival in the Church and a great harvest of salvation in our nation, and around the world.
And, though I am guilty of not doing so myself, praying even for those who are, knowingly or unknowingly, actively working at cross purposes to the will of G-d, and against their own people.
G-d help us, because only He can!
They do it because they’re mad like a rabid animal. There is only one way to deal with a rabid animal.
They think this is like his first term and stalling and sabotage will do the trick. Because it worked so well last time!
If we don't see some traction in a couple of months, I'm going to think it's working!
The problem is time. There is no scenario where such a case goes to trial in less than 3 years, likely longer.
That is true. But that is not necessarily a bad thing because that allows three years of messaging and, at least right now, Democrat messaging is not persuasive. So it is an opportunity for more voters to turn against Democrats. And to effect true change that rejection needs to be all the way down-ballot. Democrat dog-catchers need to be rejected.
Thank you.
Let's default to Occam's Razor - a headshot from 300 yds out will achieve the same results and is much more expedient. Think of the savings in time and resources.
Once you cross that line you are in a different civilization. "Ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun."
Save that for when words no longer have any meaning.
I think we're well past the point of words, political, legal or dialogue processes solving many problems. The Plandemic drew a distinct line in the sand that .gov will find is quite a minefield of violence if crossed. Meanwhile, the sideshow of lawfare and other distractions takes focus from the other predicaments of The Long Emergency. We'll most likely find out the reality of economic decline, contraction, and the rise in numbers of those "who have nothing to lose" will create new pressures that engulf what passes as "issues" in today's news.
"...and the rise in numbers of those 'who have nothing to lose'..." ~ P. Robert Thorson
That's probably the critical threshold right there insofar as enough people feeling they have nothing to lose may then feel the freedom to make some groundbreaking changes they wouldn't have otherwise.
As long as enough people are comfy enough, however, things that could lead to their uncomfyness won't be addressed, at least sufficiently, if at all, to make any difference.
I'm waiting for and curious about the time, if it comes, when the American pressure-cooker lid finally blows off, and what's going to be the spark, or if America simply fizzles away in a long-drawn-out process.
They say that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Could be.
Yes Zazzy, and "those who have nothing to lose", at least once had something. So, they'll be more incendiary and have a relentless will to fight.
The reliance upon our replacements, from without our borders, to overtake us will fall short.
Having never had anything, they've lost nothing - their fire not burning as hot.
Nicely put. It all comes down to force. Not the Black robes, nor the Blacks, but the black rifles will decide.
That's a very good point, Ron, the concept of relativity, such as what one loses, relative to what they had as extra motivation.
The last 25 years has seen a economic roller coaster of "squeeze, release.....squeeze, release" - especially for the lower classes. The Dot.Com bubble, 9-11, the 2008 downturn, curious equity flow issues, the rise of the crypto scams, the Plandemic, etc. While some are saying be patient, I think Trump 2.0's honeymoon is drawing to a close. The actions coming out of the administration are too little, and way too late - and the wrong ones - to help out a totally beaten down blue collar worker.
There's little to no resilience left in many parts of the economy, at least in terms of supporting the higher standard of living we've enjoyed in the U.S. for the last 80 years. It appears that several sharp lurches downward are imminent, and I think tariffs will be the catalyst/scapegoat blamed when it fact the foundation has been crumbling for decades. I think the only thing left to debate is whether the policies have been intentional to bring about a crash, or more "organic" as how other collapses of civilizations are described.
The working man won't care about the causes - he'll just be in reaction mode, and that probably won't be pretty.
I think Trump should go full on bull in China shop on the deep state. The majority of Americans would be behind him, damn the torpedoes! Go full berserker on them and get it over with. We have had enough.
We can't make them do anything. Nor the Russians. We have to negotiate - and that means understanding the above.
Find the people who off shored our industrial base to China and hang them.
That could be another card played or not played that either brings down the house of cards or keeps it up, at least a little longer.
Popcorn times...
Part of Trump's election platform was about the 'working man'. The moment the working man sees Trump as not living up to his end of the bargain could be what blows the lid off America. Working men are, generally, a tough, no-bullshit lot. Recall our Trucker Protest here in Canada. They deliver the food that goes on our tables. Ya, sure, the gov't dicked around with their bank accounts, but that was gesturally-token, no pun intended. Maybe keep tabs on what the average working men and women say about their clock ticking for Trump.
They cling to their hero even as he talks about our great illegal immigrants. Same thing as last time. He never intended to throw them all out.
Let Trump make some kinds of 'mistakes' that directly and adversely affect the working men and women and we'll see what happens.
That closely relates to the surprising popularity of the Luigi Mangione fan club. Could they be those who have nothing to lose?
Even if not, it indicates that there may be more than a few other Luigis.
Regarding the foreign invaders, they are only in it for the money, and as soon as that stops or becomes worthless, they are done. The same for any other hired mercenaries too.
We're close now, Mark - words having no meaning. It all depends on what civilization you want. I don't have much runway left in front of me, but this is not the civilization I want - nor where it's headed - for our children.
I agree, Ron. The system itself is too corrupt to correct itself or reduce its size. Drastic measures must be taken. Everything has to be purged and reduced to rubble and a new system must rise up and replace it. Really, what that means is violence. Unfortunately. But these people will not give up their power, glory and cash cow of their own volition and the courts are wasted. The people must decide how this is resolved. Sooner or later, they will have to. I'll probably be dead by that time but who knows.
That's going to happen in the tribulation, Cankerpuss. Three-quarters of the human population of the world will die. In really nasty ways. Everything will be destroyed, and thus made worthless to the point that "they will cast their gold and silver into the streets " "They will pray for death, but they will not find it" until the judgments are done. There are ten, mirroring those in Exodus, but worse.
A date has been set for the return of the Messiah: 2033. Sounds more like human calculation than anything divine, but that's your religion in a nutshell.
CP - you are exactly right! Burn it all down and let it rise again with a newly calibrated moral compass. Stay positive! You deserve to see it all happen my friend.
Will people be disappointed when there isn't a rapture/ tribulation, and we're not in the so called "End Times?"
Yes, I believe so. Your reply was to just above?
Sadly, it's pretty close to that time.
One of the end results of these Woke Jacobins was removing the meaning of words. They have been pretty damned successful.
No one is very certain what truth is nowadays.
Truth is common sense.
The problem is the "higher" education Democrats love to say they have intelligence and education over us simpleton rednecks but that kind of schooling removes the commonsense detector element innate in most humans.
It seems like the smarter and more educated they think they are the dumber they actually are.
The universities have been taken over by mediocre minds and their narcissistic handlers. Yep.
Mary, teachers are largely folks who could not compete in the real world. Judges and politicians are folks that could not compete in the real law world. Is it any wonder we are where we are as the country is under the control of these loser groups?
If Trump plays the “I will be a good little boy” role, he is done. NOW. BTW, this means that if the SCOTUS does not stop the district judges from making decisions for the whole country, Trump has to tell the judiciary to Eff off, and come and get him as he make things right. He needs MAGA 100% behind him with that and thanks to RINO infestations, that might not be the case.
Right now, the manifestations of how deep a cesspool we are in may be showing itself.
Problem is, if Trump sets these precedents, tomorrow the Dems will use them as well. That's how we've gotten progressively more effed in general.
There is no precedent the progressives won't break. They don't believe in the nation state, or laws, or tradition. They only know raw power. There are no rules anymore.
IMHO, Mary.
When the FF, the politicians of the day, put together the Constitution, it became so watered down with the assignment of power that little was definitely assigned to the elements of government.
The best example is the judiciary, where the SCOTUS is identified, and “any Federal courts as the Congress deems necessary”. That’s it. What we see today is the accumulated idiocy of generations of Deep Staters. Section one gives just about all the law-making power to the Congress, which due to party ineptitude they have essentially given to the president much of it. Right now, immigration and tariffs are in the hands of the president but the Constitution says the power is in the Congress. The Constitution is a guide and does little in controlling the ability of the politicians to change it when it fits their agenda. It is the responsibility of the SCOTUS, not district judges to stop the politicization of the DC scene and adhere to the Constitution. Uh huh, right!!!!!
The key to all of it is the deceptive and soulless media. Without the endless soapbox even some of these judges would change their tune. I'm not sure what exactly can be done beyond the fact of how discredited they've become for most Americans since there are still enough brainwashed to apparently keep them relevant enough to rile up the sheepiest of sheep for Soros & co. to send out into the streets.
Bringing back the Smith Mundt Act would help. Obama repealed it. The act made it illegal for media to be used by the govt for propaganda against the citizens. It is a tool of the left to nudge, coerce and brainwash, to lie.
There is a lot of nepotism between Democrat officials and the legacy media. But do they have any real impact anymore? Viewership is way down for network and cable "news". Print media readership is nonexistent. The do-called new media - podcasts, substacks, blogs - are in their infancy and as such are by definition not stable. I feel like I am wandering the desert in search of reliable information. But it is oddly liberating because I wind up reading obscure material to ferret out the truth. It is kind of like law school.
As long as 90+% of soulless sellout (my word for legacy) media they still have a HUGE impact in terms of creating the illusion of anything resembling a real and legitimate "resistance" or fight among the populace. And it's far bigger than democrats as roughly half the republicans will swing whichever way the wind blows (e.g., most will side with the pharma sickness & death cult). As I mentioned, the funding for the perpetuation of the illusion in the streets through Soros Inc. and any other funders is also critical for the images of "protests", littered with paid actors and organizers amidst all the boomers, to be aired nationwide. Nonstop propaganda not only works, it works very well because most people are too busy, or simply disinclined, to think and research for themselves.
Admittedly, the media is teetering and has lost even more credibility, but it had been awfully low already when the vast majority of the population bought into the scamdemic and many remain very heavily influenced by that propaganda. I presume you are not from a family which would have liked you censored for your opinions and possibly discriminated against for your medical decisions, as in, choosing not to poison yourself. While the covid psyop is (mostly) over, there is no doubt that most of the people who bought into it all hook, line, and sinker will only ever go so far in coming to terms with the fact they were intentionally lied to about everything from the get-go. Most will believe in "mistakes" and "over-reach", and so forth. They will not be able to come to terms with the reality, which is very likely to be repeated (at least attempted) within the next decade or two.
The creation of mass illusion is the foundational business of the entire system in which we live-- from the DoD to Congress to the consumer culture which relies on mass media. Do not underestimate it until we can smell its rotting decay more pungently.
On the new/alternative media, you must be pretty new to it yourself because much of it is not very new and has been well-established in the sphere for many years. Of course, those people have mostly been kicked off of many platforms and already had enough of a following to survive by just giving up on youtube & twitter and such. If you keep searching I'm sure you'll come across many of them and be able to discern the info you could trust best over time. James Corbett would be just one example that's been around forever and put out a ton of incredible info/work.
That's not Occam's Razor. This is: When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
An alternate paraphrase: The simplest solution is always the best solution.
That's Sherlock Holmes.
Ron in these times this kind of post might lead you to some trouble not worth going through.
This is the exact kind of post Democrats would love to point to and say see they are violent and this guy in particular is calling for violence.
Ben - I appreciate your sentiments, but I will never fucking self-censor. When we do, their job is done.
They've already done me, they use the playbook of cowards. Had a contentious conversation with the Editor of our local paper over a letter I'd written. They finally published it.
https://www.staugustine.com/story/opinion/letters/2020/09/03/letter-rioting-violence-could-give-democrats-something-cry/5704987002/
If interested in reading, Copy & Paste in a new browser.
Next day, whoever does their social, led their Twitter (NKA X) feed with my letter, trying to get pushback against me personally.
The first comment? "Has Ron Anselmo been arrested yet for inciting violence?" It was a complete setup, start to finish - the paper and their "commenter".
The comments didn't say, "Has the letter writer...", I was personally named to imbed this in my dossier. Lenders, prospective employers? Hey, what's this? It was a personal attack and smear - their full intent.
It was clearly an attempted character assassination, my lawyer says defamation hinges upon monetary damages, so no claim there.
In summary, fuck them.
That is true Ben. But my concern is for Ron's safety for having dared to speak freely than for what Democrats think about him. They are like the Arabs we now call Palestinians in that they have rejected every single attempt at a meeting of the minds. They only want victory no matter the cost. They would exterminate you, me, and Ron and think they had saved their democracy.
Yeah, people get like that after you incinerate their kids.
Study up on ovens before you lament incineration.
That's what I did. I simply asked myself, after a lifetime of belief, "well, how did they do it?" As in the actual, physical logistics.
Crematoriums are easy to build and just take lots of fuel.
Hell, you can burn a body completely to ash with just wood as a fuel ancient people did it all the time.
Takes a long time. They couldn't have done it in the alleged time frame. Plus where are the mountains of ash?
No Lugh it really does not take that long a couple of hours with enough heat applied.
It was also far easier when the victims were starved to death.
In 2008 San Diego had massive forest fires one good rainstorm took care of a large amount of that ash.
Ashes to ashes dust to dust.
It is simply amazing how far some of you will go to deny that millions of people were murdered by Nazis cremated and disposed of and not just the Jews you hate so much.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16657363
You are all but consumed by hate it would appear.
And the ashy hills? But no, flat. And the new soil would bear a likeness of its source.
Where is the Prussian blue that should be on the walls?
OMG "They are like the Arabs we now call Palestinians in that they have rejected every single attempt at a meeting of the minds."
What total male bovine excrement, Lynne.
Every single attempt at a meeting of the minds has been so heavily in favour of the apartheid ethnosupremacist State as to be a sick joke.
You need to start hanging out with a better class of losers my dear.
And you should be ashamed of yourself
Says one of the ones I was referring too. You illustrate my pount beautifully. Thanks.
Nope. No significant issues are resolved that way. You just get a new crop of fools. Accountability must be built into the system
You are aware that the judges are not backed by the Constitution that their existence is set by the Congress. Like Madison vs. Marbury and yes Roe vs, Wade, the judiciary is over stepping its bounds, taking power that is not challenged. Trump needs to flip these little dictators off and go about his business.
Want to bet?
Maybe this will finally happen with the criminal referrals of Deep State operatives within the CI by DNI Tulsi Gabbards?
The judges being seen in handcuffs is a good start...Kash's FBI needs some 6 am raids and that asshole who shot his mouth off needs to be on the perp walk.
Hillary.
She's worm food. The doubles and her handlers took over.
Since it seems as most of the Republicans are solid members of the uni-party and thus party to the USAID/NGO grift, and those that aren’t grifting off the taxpayers are undoubtedly blackmailed by the 4th branch of government (the IC ), I doubt they’ll pass or fight for anything reining in lawfare. Also doubtful that CJ Roberts will act to reign in the lawfare. I’m 100% convinced he is blackmailed over the adoption of his children and perhaps visits to Epstein Island. This doesn’t end until consequences are imposed for the perpetrators, either by men and women in government with spines, or by hard men willing to do hard things. The question is, “Does this country have either of those?” If not, to those that don’t bend the knee, the sadistic treatment meted out to J6’ers is in all of our futures.
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Democrats and Republicans are “indispensable enemies” (Walter Karp). They simply take turns gang-banging the people.
You REIN in if they are horses or mules. You REIGN in if you are king.
I blame the automobile for the confusion.
Naw education failures English is tough and humans' forgetful nature.
We knew what they meant.
Those two are always tough for me too. Always have to go to the Google to be sure.
Our constitutional democratic republic's health and future require an all hands evolution: elected representatives as well as We the People. This game of chicken is fast approaching crash time. IMHO
Amy Coney Barrett is said to be terrified of her kids being killed or orphaned by the Left, so she sides with them more and more. Roberts could be in the same boat, or he could be a pedophile, or he could just be a politician in black robes who's fixated on himself at the expense of everything else -- or maybe all three. (Please note that the only non-Catholic or -Jew on the Supreme Court is a black woman who doesn't know what a woman is. Also note the Barrett and Roberts are Catholics -- and not very good ones, in my opinion.)
One of Trump's financial advisors allegedly stated that, if his rejiggering of the global economy doesn't work, America is done. Not just his presidency, or his party. The country. We're hopelessly in debt, with far less manufacturing capacity than we used to have. Half or more of the population is fucking insane, and convinced of their own righteousness. The rest of us aren't sure what the hell to believe, except that we seem to be under some kind of mass confusion, perhaps akin to the kind of divine confusion visited upon humanity after the Tower of Babel, and forecast to occur at the rise of the Antichrist.
I think Trump may partially succeed, enough so that we'll believe we can do anything, both good and evil, and our wealth will be greater than ever before we're destroyed. if Rev. 17 and 18 are accurate. We're no longer interested in cleaning up our hearts and minds and turning to God before we're destroyed.
All routes out of this mess start with repentance and revival.
I think there is much truth to thst. Which is why I vestigation by the FBI and prosecutions by the DoJ are imperative. Bipartisan exposure is necessary to drain that swamp.
Perfectly said. Can't say it any better.
Jamie Raskin belongs in prison.
No, his head belongs on a pike. He’s a malignant clown.
. . . a pathological clown.
A bad clown!
And he's not the only one, or even the foremost candidate.
I would truly hate to have the US resort to large-scale capital punishment. If making an example of one would dissuade the others...but that would assume some ability of rational thought among the party.
The Supreme Court must act decisively and expeditiously, unless they want to endure endless sessions, no summer vacation, impeachment and removal from their seats of power.
I will simply point to Jewish people in Nazi Germany not paying attention to the signals thinking it won't ever be them until it's too late.
It's never going to be me syndrome.
I can key this Tesla I won't get caught and punished.
The news is slowly showing some of these types getting caught but are they actually getting punished?
I really think public caning, or the stocks needs to return.
A face full of rotten tomatoes or a nice slimy head of lettuce to the face would go a long way towards stopping this but we come full circle back to it won't happen to me syndrome.
In Minnesota it has already begun --
Mary Moriarty — no stranger to controversy
Over a two-week period in March, Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, an employee of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, intentionally damaged at least six Tesla cars by “keying” them while out walking near his apartment in downtown Minneapolis. The damage to property was part of a nationwide, politically motivated effort by left-leaning activists to financially harm the owner of Tesla, Elon Musk, who has taken a lead role in the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
As I wrote earlier this week, the Minneapolis Police Department completed a comprehensive investigation identifying Adams and presented the case to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for felony prosecution. The appropriate charge would have been six counts of damage to property, with an aggregated damage total of nearly $21,000.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty had other plans.
On Monday, April 21, Moriarty announced that her office would be deferring prosecution in exchange for Adams’ participation in a pre-charge diversion program.
The Star Tribune reported that Moriarty defended her decision, saying that the goal in these types of cases is “to hold the person accountable for keying the car, get restitution to the people affected, and avoid felony convictions when possible, because it can waylay someone’s life.”
That reasoning from Moriarty was purely surface level, and it failed to hold up to scrutiny for a single day.
In a bit of sound reporting, the Star Tribune also noted that on the very day Moriarty deferred charges against Adams’s six separate crimes totaling $21,000, Moriarty charged a 19-year-old female with no prior criminal history, with felony damage to property for a single incident of keying a co-worker’s car and causing $7,000 in damage.
The message Moriarty has sent seems clear — there are two separate systems of justice in Hennepin County, and her office will do its part in protecting politically motivated crime against conservative causes.
There's been a two-tier legal system in this country for many years. We got our faces shoved in it with Hunter Biden and recently with the black that stabbed Austin Metcalf. That's never going to change until it's destroyed and the people running it are dead. It can't be reformed and they won't "repent."
America seems to have a history of "vigilante justice." It will be interesting to see if it re-emerges.
I love the stocks with rotten produce idea. Public humiliation with public inclusion would go a long way. Hey- new reality tv show?
Yeah but IZ RA EL doesn't extradite the refugee criminals they harbor.
With all due respect, i think these apply here:
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." —H. L. Mencken
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!" "Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid. By the way, keep drinking beer..." —Bill Hicks
The world is a stage. The show must go on. Carry on...
The better way rather than voting and hoping for a politician to save you: The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards and town councils, get to know your sheriff, get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get organized, get moving, get doing, and get God.
"Everyone's looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror" —a lunatic
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
and stay out of debt. Debt makes a man a slave. Pay cash for as much as you possibly can. If you must take a loan, make it as small as possible and pay it off as fast as possible.
Live modestly. Nobody NEEDS a 7000 square foot home. Nobody NEEDS 5 Cadillac Escalades. Nobody NEEDS rooms full of different shoes or sport jackets. Live within your means. Learn to live on less.
Eat less. The majority of Americans are fat and obese and as such extremely unhealthy, dependent upon drugs and medications and doctors. Free yourself from this. Humans are designed to go periods without food. Fast once in a while. Have just two meals per day. Avoid processed foods, junk foods and fast foods. Get healthy.
Grow a garden. I grow my own potatoes. A human can survive on potatoes alone. Potatoes will keep for months if kept in a dark cool place.
Love your family and your children and teach them principles that will help them govern themselves independently. Teach them personal responsibility, consequences, God, and morality. Teach them to not idolize other men and women as men and women will always, inevitably, fail and let them down. Even their parents.
Tritorch is correct. No single man is going to save us. We must first correct ourselves inwardly. We must first correct our own homes. Then everything else will fall right in line.
I hate to caste shade on this great post.
It is not human nature. Most people are inherently non-ambitious, and it worsens with age. Most people want someone to make their decisions for them, to tell them what to do, to play nanny state. America is just the latest in a long history of states that have succumbed to the whims of the mob, become socialistic states and dissolved as the people have lost their identity. We are right in the middle of this process. Of all the people that you know, how many identify as Americans and are willing to fight for its Constitution?
As JHK harps over and over, what has happened to the American Common Culture? I would say it is encased in our memories.
OK then. Now expand upon it. What does that fact say about the viability of Democracy? Does it not indicate a strictly hierarchical society where the few control the many? Of course it does.
Control can be benign. We don't have to be ruled by sadistic demons. Pretending that everyone is equal always get you that.
Feudalism is the ultimate hierarchical society, where everyone has their place, period for a lifetime. Power is born into, the rest work the “fields”.
Now, the antithesis to the feudal structure is cities. The development of cities in the Middle Ages caused the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Today, if we spin back to feudalism, the cities will lose their function and become cesspools of humanity. Crime explodes, addiction increases, infrastructure crumbles, gangs proliferate, business moves away, the politics deteriorate, judicial systems become for sale, corruption spreads. Just like we are witnessing. Cities need a function, something to put their people to work to support their families. Otherwise, ??????
Exactly. Some creativity and social mobility is fine, in fact it's wise from the pov of the rulers. And JUST in a higher sense. But it must be controlled.
The United States allowed settlers to do whatever they wanted. So they were often starting trouble with the Indians that led to all out war. Canada didn't allow settlement until a given tribe was pacified. Settlement happened in both cases, one way was just far more rational and peaceful is all.
Of course the Indians started trouble too. And they were losing their lands in both cases.
You are so correct, JohnAZ. If evolution were real, why can't humans evolve past this?
"Most people are inherently non-ambitious, and it worsens with age."
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” - Christopher Hitchens
Ha, look at you, spending hours taking pot shots at people of faith and other people you disagree with. Do you own a mirror, I think you might look in it.
You statement from Hitchens is bullshit, as it actually negates just about everything you say.
The big red, white and blue dick that is being jammed up your ass every day!
You nailed it, George Carlin!
Americans like you John know everything - but not enough to know that capitalism is fucking them up their ass!
Where did that US$485,000 of my wife and my life savings disappear to in 2008?
Merryl Lynch: "Dennis and Anne, you just have to trust the American system. The free market and we are the experts. Just relax."
Yeah right! Now bend over and pull down your pants!
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2023
Read and weep my ignorant friend. New Zealand, has consistently been ranked as one of best country's in the world to live in in quality-of-life studies. That goddam socialism!
This is outstanding! Thank you Cankerpuss!
The Christian God and morality do not belong in the same sentence, Cankerpuss!
God's Hypocrisy: The Case Against Objective Morality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdYmIwxYTE
Christopher Hitchens destroys the myth that morality comes from religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-JLmc4Krw&t=217s
They’re LYING About Morality Coming From GOD | Dr. Richard Carrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px_dPORDFDQ
"Religion Makes Society Better"...Until We Start Listing Facts. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSYY75DAsVk&t=10s
Frank Turek, the Christian apologists, claims "Morality comes from God" and naturally, he claims it's his "Biblical God"...the same God who committed genocide and ordered genocide. (Remember the Amalek).
An atheist says genocide is wrong and immoral. In fact, all but the Christian apologists say that. Only the Christian's say "Genocide is fine if my God does it or orders it."
Government despises independence. While I live as much as possible by what you suggest it is a constant battle as they throw more obstacles at us every day. Inexorably the Canadian government is encroaching on our rights to bear arms and thus make it much more difficult for people like me to feed ourselves. Study us carefully and learn from our mistakes or this creeping cancer will overwhelm you as well.
I hear you, but the dark triads are emotional vampires who thrive on the fear, angst, doubt, and dread their terrorism stir in us. They could kill us all at any second but they hold back because we're more valuable to them as an alive consumable drug than a dead thing with no emotions.
The only winning move is not to play their sick game. Your life is in their hands either way, so why feed them? Ignore them instead and focus on your own happiness and independence - this awareness and rising above their mind control matrix acts as garlic to a vampire.
Fear not. Live your life. Find your happiness. Turn your back on those who would gleefully turn it into misery. Win the game without playing theirs.
The great poet, Shelley, saw it so clearly when he said:
“He has awakened from the dream of life. ‘Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.”
That’s what the religious are doing, fighting self-created phantoms.
What do you do when over half your neighbors are hidebound DEMOCRATS with insane political views?
Californication is real problem they vote the worst sorts of things in until it becomes almost hopeless to live somewhere then they move and destroy the next town, city or state?
These idiot Democrats are trying to vote in a mileage tax on top of outrageous gas taxes and now five other taxes as well.
The problem is that we let them creep and creep and creep and surround us while we failed to follow the basic tenets of civics, and now we're waking up to a world racing toward hell on earth. The answer to this problem has been with us from the start:
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ―Plato
But of course, at least in America, political power has gutted civics because civics guts political power. As Bill Ives told Podesta in a wikileaks publication: "We've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics, and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. Unawareness remains strong but compliance is fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious thinking..". Source: https://tritorch.com/degradation/!PodestaEmailWeveAllBeenContentToDemeanGovernmentDropCivicsToCreateAnUninformedCompliantCitizenry.png [image]
Now all we can do is get back in the game at the bottom of the ninth and start swinging for the fences at that local level, which is still where we, again at least in America, hold all of the cards:
Massive widespread civic participation is required to solve this problem. The corrupt tinpot dictators that infest our every branch of government thrive on both our apathy and absence, and so we must suffocate and constrain them by showing up and getting in their grill as often as we possibly can. Show them they are hopelessly outnumbered. Make clear to these parasites that we are hawkishly watching their every move (the scarce good ones will embrace these enforcement actions because they are actually there to serve the republic rather than themselves).
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." —Thomas Paine
Without this vigilance you will find that to the corporations and their puppet politicians, your ignorance and apathy are worth more than all the slaves in China. Because it is your indifference that enables these bottom feeding cockroaches to thrive in the dark and rob you of your wealth and liberty.
Immediately call out and publicly shame them on every wrong move they make. Train these swine with your merciless attention and corrective action the same way one would potty train a dog. They will shrivel under the scrutiny of our constant gaze and will swiftly arrive at the understanding that we don’t work for them—they work for us and if they make too many mistakes they will lose that privileged position of power they worked so hard to acquire.
More on this here: https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/apathy-is-the-fire-in-which-we-burn
Finally, as far as changing the mind of the democrats, here is a better solution:
How to Wake Up Your Friends & Family: They are victims of herd mentality. Rather than trying to change them, instead focus on improving yourself in order to change the herd consensus:
https://substack.com/@tritorch/note/c-96634899 [3:08 mins]
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."- Thomas Paine
Well first, "belief" is not a church, Jesus was totally against them because they eventually devolve into epicenters of manipulation and mind control. A belief system on the other hand, wouldn’t you know it: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is central to every single major one of them (barring satanism which is do what thou wilt):
Christianity:
In everything, do to others as you would have them to to you; for this is the law and the prophets. (Jesus, Matt: 7:12)
Sikhism:
I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all. (Guru Granth Sahib, p. 1299)
Islam:
Not One of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for your self. (Mohammad, Hadith)
Zorastrianism:
Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself. (Shayast-na-Sayast 13.29)
Hinduism:
This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would case pain if done to you (Mahabharata 5:1517)
Buddhism:
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. (Udana-Varga 5:18)
Judaism:
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole of the Torah; all the rest is commentary. (Hillel, Talmud, Shabbat 31a)
Jainism:
One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated. (Mahavira, Sutrakritanga)
Taoism:
Regard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. (T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien 213-218)
Every day "I do unto others as I would have them do unto me."
It's fuckin innate common sense!
I don't need some crazy ancient books to tell me that.
Christian's only have two choices: Obey God or burn in hell forever!"
There are other options, such as don't obey and don't burn in hell because it doesn't exist; and still do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Why do I need forgiveness from an invincible mass murderer?
My morality is derived from tribal utility borne of generations of human evolution. Good social behaviour is necessary to advance a species. “Morality” is behaviour that keeps you safe. Killing, raping, and stealing, are not conducive to remaining safe from reprisal. We behave, “morally” to minimize threat to our own safety. We learned through evolution that survival requires lowering risk to ourselves.
Good morality is how we reduce risk. Morality does not come from the Bible.
If you concede that only GOD stops you from doing bad things, then you are a bad person who is only kept in check by your own cowardice.
Sadly, what I do know: is that I too many times see the lack of morality in the actions of many professed religious people and movements.
Enough of your bullshit, TriTorch! Just present the evidence for the existence of the divine. Gods only exist in the minds of people who need him to give them answers to questions they want to hear.
We all need to stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.
"My morality is derived from tribal utility [...]."
So is the morality of the 0.01% currently engaged in a global cull-and-control agenda to create the global digital gulag of Agenda 21-2030. Good luck in your engagements with that 'morality'.
WTF are you ranting about, Sheila?
Off your meds again I see.
Which bit did you not understand, Dennis?
Why do you limit yourself to ad homs to avoid dealing with actual issues?
"they vote the worst sorts of things in until it becomes almost hopeless to live somewhere then they move and destroy the next town, city or state?"
Ditto New Englanders and New Yorkers. Why do you think the South isn't the South anymore? Moronic, self-loathing fucks fled New England and New York, moved south and decided that they would set about destroying the last decent places in this country.
The dumbest, most vile and heinous Americans hail from New England. New England has been a scourge on this nation since the Founding.
Excellent!
"get ready, get organized, get moving, get doing, and get Gawd."
Which Gawd do you have in mind, my friend?
2,000+ years, many more if you count all the pagan religions before Jeebus, and still not a single convincing reason to believe in the existence of any god, gods, demigods, souls, spirits, magic, any form of afterlife or other divine or supernatural beings.
The debate about the supernatural should have been settled thousands of years ago. It’s unfalsifiable in reality, it doesn't exist and you can't prove a negative. But here we are still. Bogged down because of the influence of irrational religions.
“Did Jesus resurrect?” “Yep!” “Is he still alive?” “Yep!” “Cool, then can I see him?”
“We’ll, it’s complicated…”
Something tells me today will be no different.
Jesus commanded us to love one another and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That’s good enough for me.
Agree to disagree.
Nope! That’s NOT good enough for me.
We don't even know if "Jesus" even existed, TriTorch.
Jesus Never Existed - Kenneth Humphreys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvNsWH2cmA&t=3547s
The Jesus Lie: The Greatest Deception Ever Crafted | Dr. Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kE4V5kQwI&t=532s
My favourite parts of the Bible are where Jesus is talking to God, himself, and no one else is around ~ and his conversation is quoted in the Bible. LOL
Why do Christian's expect a book written by unknown authors in a variety of languages, that was translated, rewritten, edited countless times is evidence for anything? It's just a book.
What Jesus is supposed to have commanded is no more than what some religious cultist made up a couple of centuries after "Jeebus" is supposed to have lived!
Every statement of "Jesus commanded" needs to start with "My old book says Jesus commanded"
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
It's all good brother, i once believed as you do. I cannot imagine how, but who knows, maybe one day i'll go back to believing as you do. It's a faith thing, something I once mocked, and now I revere.
It's just a rollercoaster ride as Bill Hicks said. Whatever comes next, comes next. In the meantime, my belief helps bring out the best in me and gives me comfort. I hope your beliefs do the same for you. It's all good.
I have faith that farting pixies live in the bottom of my garden.
And I have as much evidence for my claim as you have that Jeebus was divine.
Faith is not a reliable pathway to Truth.
There is NOTHING one cannot believe based on faith.
Knowledge is not something you simply assert; knowledge is demonstrated.
If I get on an aeroplane and the pilot says he’s using faith to fly us; I’m getting off. Only in religion is faith considered knowledge.
Imagine doctors performing a surgery doing their operation based on faith.
Not even religious based hospitals have a faith healer on their staff.
All my knowledge is based on evidence and rational thinking.
You are lying if you say you don't do likewise. IE when crossing the road.
There is only one place you don't rely on evidence and rational thinking.
When it comes to the divine. Thats why you can believe all this bullshit.
Sorry, for me at this point pretending to respect people’s religious beliefs is an exercise in futility. I do not respect people who CHOOSE to be gullible and uneducated - and try to foist that nonsense onto me.
The abuse by Marxist judges in our broken judicial system is my biggest concern. The idea that individual Judges can interfere with the President directly on a solo basis is maddening. This is the kind of situation that can create the world's next and worst ever tyrannical society.
Correct. This situation with rogue judges is extremely dangerous and debilitating to the Republic. No unelected man/woman should be able to usurp this kind of authority. No elected person should either, but, Trump has authority that none of these judges have given him by the people. What is happening right now is extremely disconcerting and must come to an end. I'm not suggesting the worthless limp wristed 7 SCOTUS judges (yes, I said 7 even though there are 9). I'm talking about marching into these Federal court houses and perp walking these rogue usurper judges to a place where they are quietly and ignominiously executed for their treason and for the usurpation of powers they DO NOT HAVE.
It must be loud and public, not quiet or ignominious.
I don't know, Kathy. Having them go down a public manner will create a martyr of them. I would prefer they not have that type of ending.
What year did Congress create and fund this layer of judicial redundancy? Was it created to provide Congress, the Senate, the Deep Bureaucracy with an apparatus that coincided with the acceleration of our deficit, spending our overall debt and their abuse and misuse of our tax dollars?
Send all thank you notes to George Soros and son Alex for figuring out the weak point in our legal system.
Do you know who Trump’s Treasury Secretary is?
You should.
And didn't Soros know it?
Why MAGA pays any attention to these DISTRICT judges absolutely stymies me.
I think the most practical approach is to enforce 18 USC 371, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States on Eisen, as recommended here, but also upon current and formerly elected & unelected officials ... like the 51 IC stooges. Meanwhile, Congress -- get your shit together and stop these district court national injunctions.
The problem is where to bring that suit? The DC courts? I don’t think so. If they could choose a friendly jurisdiction, bring it on, but I’m sure he expects it.
The left judge shops and have made it an art form.
The left is also willing to show up at judge's homes and protest or even threaten them.
We are asking the people who have the power to give up that power.
When pigs fly, no government has ever given up power once obtained.
That is the number one message of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration.
How about this? Dissolve the union into Blue and Red. Then just wait until the Blues run out of money from over taxation and overspending and cry to re-join the Reds. Look to Canada today, the same thing is going on there. We have a lot in common. A good example of this happening right now is California, where the people are leaving because they can no longer afford to live there. New York, too.
Yawn!
Capitalism = Good.
Socialism = Bad!
As long as capitalism is pure, without government interference, your statement is 100% correct. Free markets run themselves.
There is no such thing in the real World as a "Free Market", John.
https://truthout.org/articles/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-market/
"The free market doesn’t exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them. How ‘free’ a market is cannot be objectively defined. It is a political definition."
"The usual claim by free-market economists that they are trying to defend the market from politically motivated interference by the government is false. Government is always involved and those free-marketeers are as politically motivated as anyone. Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined ‘free market’ is the first step towards understanding capitalism."
I think that has a lot to do with the latest supreme court rulings. It's domestic terrorism, basically.
Good question.
Bingo. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
If Americans vote for a Dem majority in either the House or the Senate this forthcoming midterm cycle, it would be a dark signal to say the least.
This administration has exposed such breathtaking amounts of grift, waste and corruption, that to ignore these revelations would be tantamount to throwing in the towel on our former way of governing?
Would it be a dark signal that this corruption and kleptocracy is now the status quo? Are we now accepting of a third world style of government? Has the majority been comfortable with weak and/or demented leaders in the WH?
Love him or not, Trump is the last hope of restoring our precious republic. A loss of the majority in either house would end everything.
You are right. More than anything, it will show the people want the Democrats view to run this country. The battle is lost to the gimmes.
Unfortunately, most people choose tyranny. Tyranny brings guarantees. It's "the devil you know." And then there's always a contingent that profits from it.
Yup.
Nope
Yeah, Trump is our last hope......fervently backing genocide.......a totally wild tariff mindf==k.......impinging on the First Amendment by carrying out deportations for those using their tattered freedom of speech........a true blue believer in vaccines seeking to exonerate himself from the disastrous OWS debacle.......etc etc etc. Oh, forgive me from sin, O great Orange Donald. Our Holy Redeemer, how utterly nice.
So utterly laughable: "...impinging on the First Amendment by carrying out deportations for those using their tattered freedom of speech."
Do you actually believe a foreign national has carte blanch First Amendment Rights? Even legal guests are invited to leave when they offend the host -- in all countries. The fact that he's an uninvited guest with a record of violence and terrorist associates just makes it easier to kick him out.
Drop your schlock and get a grip on your narrative.
I'm referring to native Americans and first amendment rights, not illegals. As in citizen college students getting deported for supporting the Palestinians. I made no reference to illegals in my "schlock", try and get your GED ASAP. And you ask me to get a grip.....that 's rich.
MJ, you seem like a person that sincerely wants transparency and to hold accountable all these entities and people that are in fact a threat to our freedoms?
Turning a blind eye to the waste and fraud we have seen so far is counterproductive to this end.
Do you support your party pursuing this Garcia character lawfully deported to his home country? This is just one of the many political stunts by the Dems that won Trump the election in a landslide.
I would be more afraid of my party never being in power ever again?
Yeah, if only we had Joe back, so we could be further treated to what we endured for the past four years.
Yes, the past 4 years were just Obama et al running our country. Fortunately he’s now irrelevant. Speaking of irrelevant people:
Hillary was right about vast political conspiracies.
The Dems massive cover up of a mentally incompetent American President, the “wet market” origins of Covid-19, the narrative that our border was secure-it goes on and on.
This Garcia non-sense is just another agonal breath of a party asphyxiating into irrelevancy.
Why don’t Dems and Libs roll up their sleeves and help their fellow deplorables? There are so many in need right now.
Are they afraid they may have to shake the hand of a poor soul that didn’t attend Princeton? Are they so disgusted by the prospect of having to interacting with an electrician or plumber? What, are we commoners not allowed to come and see the naked Emperor? Guess what, so sorry, but we’ve known all along.
This is a very interesting and thought provoking post, JHK. The ideal outcome is skipping directly to the final episode (guillotine) of the Jacobin’s existence, though that seems unlikely. In the interim it is critical that Trump somehow expedite the policy implementation that these POTUS wannabe district judges are trying to thwart. A bigger question is whether SCOTUS will allow these pipsqueak district judges to continue to delegitimize the judicial branch of the government (assuming SCOTUS realizes this is happening).
My big picture analysis is that the district pipsqueaks think that they are smart enough and tough enough to overcome a POTUS who has survived multiple assassination attempts as well as efforts by the entire FBI, DOJ, legacy media and the DNC to prosecute, incarcerate and financially impoverish him. I’m betting the Trump Train 🚂 claims another victim as it squashes these judges like a bug 🐞 on its bumper.
It really is time for the Andy Jackson treatment. Tell the judges to come enforce their rulings. Then continue on with business as usual.
He doesn't have the balls. He is actually very timid when it comes to actions.
As a parent the way we handled a petulant child was to simply ignore them. I recall at a grocery store my son wanted a specific toy truck. When I said "no" he dropped to the floor in the middle of the aisle and started kicking and screaming. I simply pushed the shopping cart around to the next aisle. Once we were out of view the child stopped screaming and came to find us, frightened that we had left him. The truck issue was over.
These judges have no authority to control the Executive. If they would be ignored they'd eventually give up the fight. Just like my child and the toy truck.
I don't know why he shies away from this, Lugh. The Constitution clearly gives him authority to execute the law (will of Congress). It doesn't give the federal judges any authority to even wipe their own asses as far as I am aware. The law is on his side. So go with it. Send out an EO to staff that if they don't do their fucking jobs they too will be terminated, regardless of what judge "Jeb" says in DC or wherever the hell he is hiding his ugly mug.
Look what they did to him based on little or nothing. Imagine what they will do to him if he acts against the system as it is now, their fake law in other words. He's afraid. Businessmen take reasonable risks, but they don't risk all, never their lives and all that they have. He's no warrior I'm afraid.
But Trump as vigorous as he is is pretty damn old.
He has three and a half years left no way in hell is he righting this ship of state all the way in that time.
All the evil ones have to do is bid their time and be road bumps to anything and everything he is trying to do.
Swoosh, hope you’re right!
Did you see a picture of that old, white, cucked judge in New Mexico throwing up gang signs with the Tren de Aragua gang members he and his wife were harboring in their home? Can you imagine hating your family and the country so much that you would do something like this? Just speculation, but I'd be willing to bet that the gang members were doing some extra work for his wife on the side. She should be charged with bestiality.
The success of Narco Terrorists rely on corrupting judges, police and prosecutors. How many more to weed out?
They call that the cost of doing business. Same as it ever was.
The Silver or Lead deal.
LOL! Yes.
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." ~ P.J. O'Rourke
The banksters are providing the whiskey.
And the other problem is that we're stuck in the car with them. Some of us handcuffed and locked in the trunk.
Some image you gave me. Goodfellas, the bankers version.
It would seem that if she made it a priority, Tulsi Gabbard could avail herself of the same blackmail that the Dems have been holding over Chief Justice Roberts to get him to provide the critical vote when needed. If both sides hold the same info on him (and I am convinced there is some info; embarrassing enough to control him), then his only option is to resign. This would open up an opportunity for Trump to nominate a judge that could be trusted. I think that's the only play that gets the Supreme to be functional again.
"...Supreme Court to be functional again."
What if part of the blackmail (that you are so certain of) is, "With the goods that I've got on you, Chief Justice Roberts, you now work for me, bitch. And do not think, for one minute, that you can simply resign to get out of this mess. If you resign, I'll spill the beans - now get back to work, bitch!"
All we seem to be finding out the last few weeks is how much the skullcaps hate our country, POTUS Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE ending their free illicit streams of our money.
It really is unnerving to see how hatred has almost consumed one of our Parties.
It's called "reprobate thinking."
They have controlled the country for forty years. Separation anxiety?
Good one.
Anyone that thinks Trump will do anything useful is delusional or at least has been asleep for the past several years. Remember "warp speed" vaccinations and the tyrannical and odious policies he sanctioned? The "peace candidate" has already walked back from his supposed plans and now brags that he is bringing us the largest military budget in history---over a trillion dollars. He has endorsed policies that violate basic rights such as free speech and due process of law. He has waged war over much of the Middle East without a declaration by Congress. He is indifferent to the genocidal slaughter in Gaza and seems to be obeying every wish and dream of the Israeli state. He has no philosophical core and, obviously, no moral compass. None of this should be a surprise. The left and right wings are both attached to the same bird of prey. The phony left/right dichotomy has worked like a charm and it is unlikely that any of the guilty parties will ever suffer consequences.
1 million upvotes…YOU GET IT!
I concur!
Trump is a Zionist.
Fuckin' A.
You nailed it!
Until your conclusion. There will be Judgement Day. Truly.
I hope you are right. So far the only people that have suffered consequences are the January 6th "rioters" who committed no crimes warranting prison time and many of whom are, I believe, still in jail. I didn't include that in my comment. But Trump should have pardoned them on day one---an unforgivable omission.
Now for the bad news: Trump, the "father" of their evil mRNA bioweapon, is in on it.
You betcha!!!! 💯💯💯💯
TDS on full display.
Analogous to the male peacock displaying its vibrant fan of feathers during courtship rituals!
Almost. He did listen to his advisors and decided not to attack Iran, at least not yet. The Zionsists are now gunning for Hegseth and probably Gabbard as well.
Hegseth was an odd pick, though. Disordered personal life, heavily-tattooed, party animal. Too easy to find skeletons in that closet.
Yes. That was a curious pick. He'll be thrown under the bus shortly. Maybe that was the plan all along?
Gabbard was very effectively neutralized. Bring her on board to shut her up, and as it turns out, she's apparently just fine with it.
Bravo. One person the other day mentioned Trump Derangement Syndrome and likened it to Trump Obsessional Syndrome.
I dubbed it TDS180.
My favorite thing about TDS is knowing how much power Trump has over so many people. He has so much control over their miserable propagandized lives!
Enjoying others' misery is nothing to brag about, Den. Maybe if you had faith in God you'd enjoy loving, caring thoughts..
Ultimately, as with so many expressions it all comes down to intent.
But the next time a Christian says, “If you had faith in God you'd enjoy loving, caring thoughts. I’ll pray for you,” notice how the sentence is used.
Is it a kind expression of love and concern, or is it what it is meant to be ~ a big ole slap in your face? "I am superior to you. I'm chosen. I have access to truths that you do not have. You are stupid, I know the truth. I am not all angry and do not hate everybody else like you do"
There is no condescension and arrogance like Christian humility, no ignorance like Christian knowledge and no hate like Christian love.
You brag about your sadistic feelings here on CFN and then attack someone for simply suggesting a potential cure for your repulsive sadistic thoughts.
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Yes, Den, Christians caring for others are indeed superior to despicable sadists like yourself.
Wow! You misquote me and then misinterpret what I have said (in a giant strawman argument) to ultimately do to me exactly what you falsely accuse me of!
May God remove the scales from your eyes.
May the misery of others fill you with indignation rather than joy.
May you improve.
Excellent essay today, JHK. You've described the paralyzing situation of the federal leviathan to near perfection.
I've said it before and I will say it again. Any government derives its "authority" ONLY from the faith of the people it governs. Once a government loses the faith of the governed it has lost its authority and becomes an illegitimate government and must be scrapped and replaced. Without the faith of the governed the government itself can no longer truly govern the people. In the United States up to 50% of the population no longer have faith in or trust the federal government. I personally believe that number to be far greater than 50%.
The clusterfuck clown show that is now the federal government can no longer govern and can no longer do its job. The Congress has pissed away all of their authority are nothing more than a bickering boys and girls club who do nothing but hold "investigations" that amount to nothing. Who here can tell me anything that the Congress has done of late that has directly benefitted them? The Presidency is paralyzed from rogue judges usurping authority they have never be given and for some reason the Presidency listens to these rogue judges and gives deference to their rulings. The Judiciary, the lowest of the 3 enumerated Constitutional powers has assumed far greater in power than they were ever designed to have and must be reigned in. The body to do that is the Congress but Congress is so bifurcated by the two petty and bickering tribes that it is paralyzed and useless.
The States themselves could act under Article 5 of the US Constitution but the states themselves are dismal failures, no longer independent and unique, now nothing more than administrative regions of the federal government.
So what recourse do we as the people have? What do we do when we lose faith in the government? What do we do when the government no longer functions and is now illegitimate?
When a government loses faith of the governed it has lost its authority. It then resorts itself to force, coercion and lawfare to gain obedience from the governed. As Mr. Kunstler pointed out for the Jacobins in France, that only went so far. Will that and can that happen in the USA? Only time will tell.
Good assessment,
However, the people get the government they deserve, government is the reflection of the people governed. The corrections to the government over the last 70 years have been “blessed” by the people in their Have vs. Have-not election games. Why doesn’t anything change, as we seem to demand regularly? Because of the fact that most people agree with things just the way they are.
I remember that the first stage of recovery from addiction is the acknowledgement that it exists. American has not acknowledged its addiction to the gimme state yet.
You are oh so correct.
I'm afraid the pot could boil over. I would not advocate for this situation, but things are getting tense out there.
Judges in Sanctuary Cities refuse to arrest or prosecute for Tesla burning, robbery, rape, carjacking, murder. Intersection take-overs, blocking public highways, disrupting airline flights, random shooting into buildings. Will there ever be any consequences?
A 27-year-old convicted sex offender tried to register as a 15-year-old transgender high school student to gain access to the girl's locker room. https://youtu.be/RtYAg-llpCk?si=n8CXaKldDacOpMpU.
I'm not sure what will happen when families and innocent people are pushed to the breaking point, especially in this economy.
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
The Democrat playbook is nothing new under the sun. It’s as old as man, who keeps repeating himself. Meerloo laid it all out 90 years, in “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing” (1933). Getting rid of the D.C. Circuit would be an excellent thing.
That's a book I need to read.
So long as the current DOJ, FBI, and other current agencies continue to play by the rules they will never overcome the Democratic war machine...The expectations were very high for Patel and Bondi and the addition of Dan Bongino added some much needed support. Like any other revolution there needs to be a "fight fire with fire mentality"...The GOP is now known as the NAGOP for No Action...They continue to prove to the MAGA voters that they do not have the Will to do what is necessary and not always do what is Right...Most Trump supporters are tired and there is high expectations that all of the lunacy that took place for the past 4 years prior would be dealt with...Imagine if people just started disappearing? Kind of like a Jimmy Hoffa scenario...that would be the shot fired over the bow and would garner peoples attention...I am quite confident that there are a number of former J6 prisoners who would volunteer...The current Trump administration is behaving like many former Republican parties...start out strong and fizz out quickly...losing any momentum they earned...If you think the current GOP is strong enough to withstand the forthcoming cheating during the mid terms you are sadly mistaken...Either start arresting the criminals in Congress or give Scott Presler a modern day pay raise...because all of his efforts are going to waste since he does not have an Administration with a backbone...Are they seriously that afraid of Adam Schiff? He owns them...Laslty, none of the MAGA movement give a Rats Ass about the flag poles at the White House...
The main problem is that both parties have significant minorities that are totally for the preservation of the Deep State. It is more important than party affiliation or even morality.
Right back where he was four years ago after the stolen election. Fight or stand down. He's standing down again. The system can't reform itself. We need someone willing to go outside the system, to declare a national emergency and then kick ass.
Maybe the DOJ/FBI/etc don't want to overcome the Democrat war machine. Maybe they're part of it, and are just doing theater until their Democrat masters come back into power.