Today our military services face growing threats around the world while their ability to maintain a quality, well-trained, and capable force is at risk.  Our focus should be on readiness, warfighting, and especially selecting the best qualified leaders possible, not on recruiting Drag Queens to perform for service members and their families or promoting sex-reassignment surgeries.  Historically, our personnel systems have been built on merit, individual performance, and equal opportunity, aimed at selecting the best qualified. 

Over the past several years that focus on merit has been replaced by a system built on a Marxist ideology we know as Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT). The embrace of this divisive ideology by both our civilian and military leadership has had a significant negative impact on the Armed Forces. It has served to destroy unit cohesion, lower standards, and use race and gender to define outcomes. Even the West Points motto: Duty, Honor, Country, has been jettisoned from the school’s mission statement, all in the name of DEI. The personnel and readiness problems we face today, especially in recruiting and retention can be traced to the introduction of this ideology. A recent WSJ article highlighted a 30-year study done with over 800 companies that embraced DEI. They found it had no positive impact on the workplace. Not a surprise.

The public’s trust and confidence in the military is at an all-time low, while retention and recruiting rates have plummeted, with a shortage at one point of over 40k recruits — an unheard-of number. Parents and family members no longer encourage their children to serve. For the first time this includes military family members serving on active duty. The impact is to discourage young men and women from joining, especially middle-class males who traditionally have been the largest source of recruitment. I continually hear this expressed to me by the public.  This places our ability to successfully fight and win a major conflict at serious risk.

Young Americans join the Armed Forces to serve the country and accept the challenges that military service presents. They join to be part of a team and embrace our enduring value of selfless service over self. The DEI ideology is against everything our military values taught us. A report from the Center for Renewing America tells us that over 40 percent of Flag Officers serving today advocate for DEI as military policy. This is a troubling statistic.

Many former senior officers like myself, along with veterans and concerned civilians, can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch our individual services be subjected to this debilitating ideology and have organized in an effort to educate the public. Our organization, STARRS.US (Stand Together Against Racism & Radicalism in the Services) serves as a resource platform to inform the public and congress and to eliminate DEI/CRT from the Armed Forces. Our goal is a return to performance based on merit and equal opportunity.

In the end, the mission of the Armed Forces is to fight and win our nation’s wars. To do that requires that we instill a warrior ethos, not a woke ideology, into the young men and women who volunteer to join, who want to make a difference and are looking for a challenge. After all, it’s only the security and survival of our nation that’s at stake.

John Deyermond, Major General (ret.)

It would be helpful to voters to know that a “whistleblower” says ABC rigged last week’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But outside of conservative media, it’s being largely ignored, because the legacy press covers its own and as zealously as it does the Democratic Party. Whether the claims are true or not – the existence of the whistleblower remains unconfirmed – the mainstream media’s loyalty to Democrats is uncomfortably similar to the relationship Pravda had with the Central Committee of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.

To quickly recap, the unnamed whistleblower said ABC agreed to fact-check Trump while ensuring “Harris would not face comparable scrutiny.” The plan was so detailed that “various people were assigned to fact check observations it was perceived candidate Trump would make during the debate.”

“In fact,” says the whistleblower, the “Harris campaign required assurances that Donald Trump would be fact-checked.”

These agreements were reached on calls that the Trump campaign was not a part of although all discussions regarding the rules and negotiations were supposed to include both sides.

The affidavit also says Harris was provided with sample questions that, while not the exact questions that would be asked, nevertheless “covered similar topics that would appear during the debate.”

There were also issues that could not be raised – Joe Biden’s health; Harris’ performance as San Francisco’s district attorney; her brother-in-law and “key campaign adviser” Tony West, who allegedly “fleeced taxpayers for billions to give to left-wing groups and lawyers” – since they would reflect poorly on Harris.

“I have observed a pronounced bias against Donald Trump within ABC News,” the affiant continues, while also noting “many” ABC employees “questioned the clear bias that is well known throughout the company.”

The network denies the charges, which is expected. It’s not going to issue a statement that says, “Yeah, you caught us, we cheated for the Democrats.”

What gives the allegations more than a muted ring of truth is that the affidavit was filed, according to its contents, the day before the debate and the charges match the moderators’ actions. It was as if the whistleblower got a copy of the script. So much of what is asserted checks out with what everyone saw.

It also looks bad for the network because Dana Walden, a Disney co-chair who oversees ABC News, has been a close friend of Harris since the 1980s, and their husbands closer for even longer.

Furthermore, Linsey Davis, one of the ABC moderators – and co-conspirator, depending on whose point of view is being taken into account – and Harris are sorority sisters.

Trump would have fared better if the debate had been on another network, but he says the Harris team insisted that she would debate only on ABC. While it’s obvious why, it’s chilling to think that the cabalists aren’t terribly concerned about the striking conflict of interest. To them, it’s just another act of impropriety they will get away with.

But what else should we expect when 28% – that’s a staggering number – of Democrats say the country would have been better off if Trump had been assassinated?

One would think that despite the connections, there would be some fidelity to journalistic standards. But clearly that’s asking too much. At least for the left. Remember that Trump found out in 2015 that “his friendship with the late Fox News chairman Roger Ailes did not spare him a mauling from Megyn Kelly, one of the moderators of the Republican candidates’ debate,” the Telegraph reminds us.

There are no ideologues in the West like those who pose as objective reporters and editors. At times some have internal struggles with the real journalist within. But the propagandist always wins.

We’ve seen this behavior in history’s bloody revolutions. The revolutionaries and their followers believe so deeply in their cause they’ve been willing to kill and destroy. (Of course, those at the top, the Lenins, the Castros, the Guevaras, the Sandinos, and the Ortegas are interested only in power. The revolution is a cover for their tyrannical ambitions.)

Anyone involved in politics in this country who believes in their party, their ideology, their agenda so completely that they feel that their ends justify whatever means they choose needs to back off and reassess. Get away from politics. Find meaning somewhere else, because a blind commitment to the Democrats’ efforts to establish single-party rule, its one and only truth, and its demand for conformity, is toxic to discourse and a threat to our republic.

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President Biden’s Incredible Vanishing Act Reveals Who’s Really in Charge of the Government

The president of the United States, often referred to as the “leader of the free world” and the “commander in chief,” seems not to be his own man. President Joe Biden, who ostensibly wields the awesome power of the Oval Office, yielded to a loud pressure campaign demanding that he step aside in the 11th hour of a presidential race that Donald Trump seemed destined to win.

Jubilant fellow Democrats hailed Biden’s decision to step aside, but his move raises a far more ominous question: Who, exactly, is in control of the U.S. government?

The answer may surprise you.

It seems the answer may be former President Barack Obama. After all, Obama notoriously joked to late-night TV host Stephen Colbert that he wouldn’t mind having a “stand-in, a front man or front woman” in the White House, whom Obama could direct from afar using an “earpiece.” After all, pressure from Obama appears to have convinced Biden to drop out of the race.

Yet if Obama is pulling the strings from afar, he seems to be doing so rather loosely. Biden’s White House has echoed Obama’s policies, employing bureaucrats who once staffed the Obama-Biden administration, but they seem to be following the current trends on the Left more than Obama’s own slick messaging.

The real answer isn’t any one man but a vast network of left-wing nonprofits that work with administrative agencies to draft policy.

Remember that fancy Constitution you learned about in school, with its nifty checks and balances to prevent the tyranny of the majority? Well, forget about all that. Today, the administrative state writes the rules we all must live by, in conjunction with woke pressure groups.

It works like this. Congress passes a law such as the Clean Air Act, saying: “We need clean air. You, Environmental Protection Agency, you give us clean air.” The EPA then makes regulations, and if they’re too harsh, Congress theoretically can defund the EPA, but it usually doesn’t.

When making those regulations, the EPA will consult with a climate alarmist pressure group such as the Natural Resources Defense Council. Gina McCarthy, who headed the EPA under Obama, became president of NRDC after Obama left office and before she became the Biden White House’s national climate adviser.

Bureaucrats such as McCarthy come in and out of government, often finding a home in the woke pressure groups that influence federal policy. Sometimes, these pressure groups actually write official memos for federal agencies.

In 2009, a federal investigation into the Bureau of Land Management found that the agency was consulting with staff at the National Wildlife Federation, a climate group. The federation’s staff were writing and editing official bureau materials to promote the organization’s own policies.

The federal government often relies on such pressure groups for policy ideas, and these pressure groups in turn rely on a vast, left-wing funding network that often employs what many on the Left demonize as “dark money.”

Many conservatives are familiar with George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire philanthropist whose Open Society Foundations directs money to all sorts of left-wing causes, most notably the “reform prosecutor” movement that imposes lenient sentences on criminals.

Yet Open Society is just one among many. Eric Kessler’s for-profit firm Arabella Advisors set up multiple nonprofits—most notably Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund—that direct millions to left-wing pressure groups, cloaking which donors are giving to which causes.

Big labor unions such as the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, and SEIU direct hundreds of thousands of dollars through these Arabella network nonprofits, as do teachers unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. These unions take workers’ hard-earned money and funnel it into activist groups that influence federal policy.

The end result is a behemoth, a monster I refer to as the Woketopus. It’s the subject of my forthcoming book “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”

This Woketopus shoves its policy agenda into the administrative state on wide-ranging issues from immigration to labor policy, to LGBTQ+ activism, to “green” initiatives, and even to weaponizing federal law enforcement against its ideological and political opponents.

This Woketopus relies on Biden—and Vice President Kamala Harris—to enable its agenda, but it often works around these figureheads. In some cases, as on the issue of U.S. policy toward Israel after the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, it actively seeks to undermine the current president, becoming a “deep state” even against its preferred candidate.

So, who’s really in control of the U.S. government? A far-left network of donors, activist groups, and bureaucrats who use the government as a revolving door, going back and forth between woke nonprofits and the administrative state. It may sound far-fetched, but my new book has the receipts.

This Woketopus will be fine if Harris replaces Biden, but all bets are off if something else happens.

That’s why the switcheroo took place, and why Biden is less in control than he appears.

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Polling, why is it so bad?

Its election cycle, and as you know in this day and age with every poll that comes out and plethora of headlines and stories will be written about it, because polling apparently is now a replacement for news.. and has been for a long long time now during election season. Every new poll will be reported both professionally and among the punditry as either the end of days, or the greatest news ever to come about, depending on where in the political spectrum the pundit lies and whether their candidate is up or down.

Polling has its place, it certainly CAN capture trends, but polling in the modern era, particularly poling for public consumption, is a wholly different animal. I learned this lesson decades ago. At the time I was running a small news site, and I commissioned personally poll on one of the lesser known republican candidates running in their primary just to see what sort of numbers I got. It was mainly an experiment by me, I had no intention of ever releasing the results, and was simply curious where this person actually stood. Given they were never going to be an actual serious threat to win the nomination, I was curious what polling about this individual would come back as. I found a pollster, told them what I wanted, paid them their money and waited… a week or so later, I got the results and I probably poured over them for the next few days in my spare time. I began to realize early on that the polling was not indeed biased toward the candidate I had hired them to inquire about. The wording of the questions, the ordering of the questions, the sampling breakdown, all showed to me at least, they they “knew where their bread was being buttered” and wanted to give me results I would like. Now understand this poll was not a high dollar poll, I was not a national news organization, I don’t honestly even remember exactly how much I spent but I can assure it was at most in the 4 figure range at the time.

HamiltonJay….

American Presidential Elections are Too Long

Nothing good happens to the public psyche when the two political parties spend two years fighting it out for the presidency.

John Halpin

Sep 18, 2024

The Major League Baseball season is long—162 regular season games running from April until October followed by a month of postseason action. By the end of those regular season games, the best teams in both leagues are generally well known. They consistently grind out victories, wear down opponents, make solid roster moves, and avoid bad injuries. Good teams from the first half of the season sometimes fade, while others ride high following the July break. The playoff results don’t always reward the best regular season teams as relatively lackluster clubs or wild cards can go on late streaks. Baseball is tough that way. But at the conclusion of the entire season, the World Series winner usually reflects true strength, skill, and resilience—and fans know it.

U.S. presidential elections aren’t anything like Major League Baseball.

For starters, the presidential election “season” is longer—much, much longer. Although exact comparisons with other nations are difficult given various governmental structures, the United States essentially has the longest national election period of all advanced democracies. For example, just this year the United Kingdom announced elections on May 22 and voting was held on July 4 with the new Labour government taking charge the following day. In France, parliamentary elections were called in early June and two rounds of voting were completed by July 7 (although a new prime minister was not selected until just recently and the exact composition of the government remains unknown given coalition haggling following inconclusive results).

In contrast, by the time the U.S. presidential campaign is over in November (maybe), the U.S. will have been waging presidential warfare for 700 plus days. Donald Trump announced he was again running for president back in November 2022. Obviously, the 2024 election season “story” changed markedly with President Biden dropping out of contention and Vice President Harris taking over in July. Despite this unusual historical wrinkle, Americans have been fighting about whether Trump, Biden, or Harris should be president for nearly two years now.

On top of the length of the contest, U.S. elections increasingly end in confusion about the results and what they indicate for the country. With less than 50 days to go in the cycle, no one can say with any certainty who is going to win the presidency or whether the winning party will have any real potential to govern effectively. There’s a decent chance given our insanely dysfunctional vote counting systems—and probable legal challenges that will arise in the aftermath—that we won’t even know who won the presidential “World Series” for days or perhaps weeks after Election Day.

Furthermore, it’s quite possible that the eventual “winner” of the presidential election season will achieve an Electoral College mandate without amassing a majority of the national popular vote—for the third time since 2000. It’s also likely that one party may win the presidency this fall but fail to hold control of Congress making the following two years of governance difficult and highly contentious for the next president. And even after the eventual victor in the presidential race is determined, it’s a safe bet it will be a close election in many states and roughly half the country will absolutely hate the results—with some on the losing side contesting them or refusing to accept the outcome.

Two years of presidential battles. No satisfying conclusion. Nothing truly resolved or settled. Lingering questions about the legitimacy of the outcome among voters. Possible gridlocked government again lurching from crisis to crisis. The American election way.

The worst part of our country’s interminable presidential election season is the effect the drawn out and overly complex process has on the American people themselves. Nothing good happens to citizens when they fight about politics for two years without perceived resolution at the end—or, when there is no mutual acceptance of the results and belief that the rules were fair to both sides, no common understanding that political victories are never permanent in a democracy, and no shared agreement that we should look out for everyone in the country whether they voted for the “right party” or not.

Every presidential contest is now “the most important election of our lifetime” with two polarized political parties and their attendant media systems elevating the stakes to absurd levels: “If the other side wins, it’s the end of democracy as we know it,” with looming “communism” or “fascism” in our future and “people in camps,” “no more rights for Americans,” and “civil war in the streets.”

Election season means political hyperbole on every channel and social media feed. Heightened emotions and anxiety across the partisan spectrum. Total exhaustion among the electorate.

U.S. politics is enough to drive decent people crazy—and crazy people even nuttier. Ideally, our better angels would take over in government and politics, and we would do something collectively to fix the election system and tone it all down several notches. But given vested interests in party politics and the media—and all the money to be made selling chaos, mutual loathing, and emotional anger to citizens—nothing much is likely to change.  

The only solution for civic-minded Americans then is to do their duty and vote, resist the temptation to turn politics into incessant emotional release, and tune out all the campaign noise.

Maybe watch some baseball—it’s America’s better pastime anyway with a season that will actually conclude before the presidential election!

Ask any budget expert in Washington to explain the ballooning deficit and debt, and Social Security and Medicare will be high on the list of causes. That’s wrong. The real driver, the elephant in the room, is means-tested social-welfare spending—Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, federal housing subsidies and almost 100 other programs whose eligibility is limited to those below an income threshold.

True, Social Security and Medicare are a drain on general revenue and will become big fiscal problems if not reformed. But they aren’t the major source of our current fiscal crisis, because both are financed in large part by dedicated payroll taxes. Since its inception, Social Security has produced cash surpluses 60% of the time. In 2023 Social Security payroll taxes funded 88.9% of benefits. The cost of Social Security’s Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program, net of payroll tax collections, was only $88.1 billion. Medicare payroll taxes and premiums funded 49.7% of Medicare expenditures, producing a net cost of $509 billion.

Means-tested social-welfare spending totaled $1.6 trillion in 2023. Welfare spending now absorbs an astonishing 72.6% of unobligated general revenue (total revenue net of Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes and premiums and mandatory interest on the public debt) and is larger than the claims against unobligated general revenue by Social Security (4.1%), Medicare (23.5%) and defense (37.2%) combined.

Since funding for the War on Poverty ramped up in 1967, welfare payments received by the average work-age household in the bottom quintile of income recipients has risen from $7,352 in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars to $64,700 in 2022, the last year with available household income data. This 780% increase was 9.2 times the rise in income earned by the average American household.

Years after the adoption of the reforms, the number of program beneficiaries had fallen dramatically, the labor-force participation rate of never-married mothers had increased, and child poverty had declined. State-imposed work requirements for food-stamp eligibility in Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Florida have thus far also been successful.

Demand for reform would be even stronger if the public understood how generous social-welfare benefits are. In reporting household income, the Census Bureau doesn’t count 88% of transfer payments made to households that are defined as being poor. The census doesn’t count refundable tax credits (for which the beneficiary receives a check from the Treasury), food-stamp debit cards, free medical care through Medicaid, or benefits from about 100 other federal transfer payments as income to welfare recipients. When those benefits are counted as income, 80% of those who are today counted as being poor are no longer poor, and almost half have incomes equivalent to American middle-income earners.

A mandatory welfare work requirement for able-bodied adults receiving welfare benefits, a requirement that the Census Bureau count all transfer payments as income, and a mandate that all federal agencies use the same income measure when determining eligibility for welfare would be major steps toward righting the nation’s finances.

Requiring all able-bodied Americans to work as a condition for receiving welfare would do more than reduce the deficit. It would bring people back into the economy, the source of prosperity and economic independence. A job is the best nutrition, housing, healthcare, education, child-care and general welfare program. That welfare reform isn’t a major issue in the November elections is a missed opportunity to improve the well-being of low-income families and the overall economic health of the nation.

Mr. Gramm, a former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Arrington, a Texas Republican, is chairman of the House Budget Committee. John Early and Mike Solon contributed to this article.

The mindless drivel that is daytime “self-help” TV often leaves people with the impression that their parents are to blame for many of their problems. I suspect it’s a lot more complicated than that, and, by the way, the vapid banality of daytime TV is NOT the place to go looking for help.

The truth is simple: You are responsible for your actions. You’ll be hard-pressed to hear that on daytime TV, but the fact is that you are not responsible for the actions of your parents. Parents can shape some of your thinking, but I cringe when people say, “When I’m faced with a problem, I tell myself I’m stupid. I can’t help it.” This “self-talk” had to start somewhere, and the unpleasant fact is that it most likely began with a parent.

And it works both ways. Some emerge from childhood with a sense that “I’m special, I’m great.” That’s fine, but young people with this attitude are sometimes convinced that things should come easier than they do. They’re surprised when it doesn’t work out that way. They now have to cope with the real world, in spite of the emotional cheering from their parents.

As we approach young adulthood, we are able to examine our parents’ (and our own) beliefs and attitudes to the extent that they could be mistaken. The sooner a young adult starts this process, the better. They can stand back and ask questions like, “What do I think of my family? How did they train me to think about myself and the world? Where do I agree — and disagree — with them?” It’s called introspection, and it’s essential.

Is it your fault that you might hold mistaken beliefs encouraged by your parents? No. Is it your fault that you never looked closely at these beliefs and questioned them? Yes! You’re never too old to introspect.

We’re fortunate to live in a society of constant innovation. The same attitude applies to our lives. Don’t be afraid to try new things. Don’t let yourself coast along on stale assumptions that may be just plain wrong. I know that sounds like common sense, but when somebody feels stuck, they often assume that change is not an option. I see this happen as people get older, and it’s a shame.

Of course, not all change is automatically good. But to routinely rule out major life changes until you’re miserable is not a reasonable solution. Beware of what I like to call “silent premises” that reveal themselves as the automatic self-talk I mentioned earlier. They can lurk back there in your mind, and many of them can be dead wrong.

One example of a particularly insidious silent premise is the underlying belief that, “I’m such a klutz! I can’t figure anything out.” If you can’t figure something out, then move on and try the next best thing. Look a little closer, perhaps, or ask somebody. People often ask me about the central purpose of cognitive therapy. I see it as encouraging people to develop a more positive, “can do” attitude about real, everyday things by believing that there’s a solution for every problem.

Sadly, a lot of emotional damage is done to children in their early years. Much of this damage is unintentional, but many of us emerge from childhood with less confidence in our ability to solve problems than we deserve to have. There’s no purpose in dwelling on who did the damage; what’s done is done. It’s more important to concentrate on the business of restoring that confidence.

Look at the natural happiness, optimism and easy resilience of a young child. This is their natural state. Unhappily, it takes an adult to undo it. But we CAN put it back. It all boils down to attitude. We can’t choose our parents or our childhoods, but we can choose our adult outlooks and beliefs.

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Leftists like to rule, but also to be ruled. First with Joe, and now with Kamala, we have unspeakably bad candidates. These very candidates were rejected overwhelmingly by leftists themselves, back when they still voted in primaries. Yet now, they regard Kamala as a deity. Clearly, it doesn’t matter who rules them. It doesn’t matter if the puppet ruling them is a demented goon or a high priced whore.

Leftists are willfully gullible. They loathe the rational mind and all its byproducts. Terrorists of the spirit, leftists trudge on a perpetual rampage against living in the material world. Yet, in the end, they have no idea what they want. Their quest to rule others reveals their inability to rule themselves. Which is why they eschew freedom, capitalism, (real) scientific knowledge and all else that makes life on earth worthwhile and possible.

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I will give this to ABC News: No pretense. They are ALL IN for the Party. They might not BE state-run media; but they act EXACTLY like state-run media in a totalitarian country. Except they don’t have the excuse of fear of imprisonment. It’s the most sickening display I have ever witnessed.

These wretched, pseudosophisticated “journalistic” morons willingly act as shills for a regime that aims to be the most controlling, toxic and destructive force in the history of nations.

Puppet Commie Kamala’s strategy for the debate in a nutshell: Pretend she has never said or done all the things she has always said and done. Say the opposite. Call you a liar if you point to her prior statements and actions — such as an executive order demanding gun confiscation, as just one example.

Count on enough people being gullible and inattentive enough to buy it.

If America actually falls for it, then America frankly deserves to die.

Hopefully Puppet Commie Kamala will not win, because it’s truly over, if she does.

“America Decides,” says state media ABC News. Really? What if the entrenched, corrupt criminals counting the votes in Uniparty Atlanta, Phoenix and Philadelphia decide something different from what most Americans want? Will you report on any of that, ABC News?

Commie Kamala: Health care is not a right. The minute you make a product or service a right, you enslave the people who are to provide it. That’s why Communism and socialism always fail, and are always morally wrong.

Last night, President Trump debated both ABC state media and Commie Kamala. Kamala could have left the stage. ABC News state media did her job for her. All she had to do was smirk and look perpetually surprised. She is intellectually hollow and lethally superficial. Trump still held his own and won, again and again. He is nearly 80 and was shot just 6 weeks ago. I have never seen energy and determination like this, not in our present era. This man is one for the ages.

Commie Kamala: You are strong only at one thing: The annihilation of America and its freedom.

Terrorists WILL flourish under Kamala. She is one of them, and takes care of them.

Israel has a right to defend itself…just not with military weapons. Right, Commie Kamala?

Commie Kamala: The “world leaders” telling you they hate Trump are global Communists, like yourself.

Good grief, Commie Kamala: If Trump rallies are so dull, why do thousands keep showing up? Where are your rallies, Kamala?

Commie Kamala: A country with unlimited abortion rights AND ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER RIGHTS is NOT a free country.

Commie Kamala outraged over criminalization of doctors on abortion. What about doctors opposing the vax mandate?

Earth to ABC and Commie Kamala: “My body, my choice” applies to EVERYTHING!

Tariffs will not bankrupt America, ABC. SPENDING INTO OBLIVION AND INFLATING THE CURRENCY WILL.

Unity? I have NOTHING in common with you or your kind, Kamala. Our differences are vast enough to fill a galaxy.

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Why Get Help?

I don’t want democracy.

Democracy means the majority rules over individual rights. Democracy means my idiot neighbor can vote away my right to free speech, to private property, to my income, my right to worship (or not worship) as I see fit, and my right to bear arms.

“Majority rule” (in a Constitutional republic, like the USA) presupposes that we may only vote into office people who will uphold our Bill of Rights. Nobody has a right to vote in a Communist, a fascist, a socialist, a Muslim totalitarian or anyone else who will obliterate my sovereign right over my own life, mind and destiny. Nearly everyone running for or holding national office today is an unlawful tyrant. Donald Trump stands as one of the very few exceptions.

If you don’t believe in freedom, it’s your prerogative to believe whatever you wish. If you do not wish to be free, that’s your problem. But you have no right to make your problem an excuse to legalize and legitimize my involuntary servitude. At some point, I simply will not take it anymore. Millions of us feel the same way. And our entirely justified anger is growing.

I am proud to be an enemy of democracy. Not because I oppose freedom, but because I grasp what freedom actually is. I wish more people did.

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