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The Artful Dilettante is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of Penn State University. He is a lover of liberty and a lifelong and passionate student of the same. He is voracious reader of books on the Enlightenment and the American colonial and revolutionary periods. He is a student of libertarian and Objectivist philosophies. He collects revolutionary war and period currency, books, and newspapers. He is married and the father of one teenage son. He is kind, witty, generous to a fault, and unjustifiably proud of himself. He is the life of the party and an unparalleled raconteur.

Disease is Progressive. Kamala is the Carrier.

What will you do if Kamala “wins”? Yes, fraudulently. But what rational plan of action do you have, if any — or will you just keep adapting and taking it all? Remember: she could be President next month if they make Biden step down. They WILL do that if they think it increases her votes.

Kamala has promised executive orders to demand gun confiscation. She has promised 100 percent socialized medicine, meaning government will control and pay for everything. If you thought COVID was tyrannical… are you ready for this? If you own a gun, and if she goes there with national gun confiscation, will you comply? Will you fight? What is your personal, individual tipping point? Social media accounts getting shut down, even more than they are now? Do you have a tipping point or is there nothing you won’t let these psychopaths do to you, your loved ones and what remains of your country? Do you care if your children and grandchildren will not be living in a free country, not even the disappearing remnants of one, as we do?

What about frozen bank accounts for Trump donors, or other dissenters, like they did in Canada over the truckers? What if you refuse to name your pronouns at your job, as Kamala herself does at official meetings? Are you ready for continuing hyperinflation (the ultimate tax increase for unlimited government spending), rising economic panic (if Trump loses) and subsequent excuses for the government to do whatever it wishes during a national emergency? And what about the clock ticking on the elimination of gas as a fuel? As a Republican, or as insufficiently woke, will you be last in line for electricity rations as energy prices skyrocket under all the mandates presently in place, at the federal level?

The propaganda media is parading its best Stalin and Mao regime tactics. And we don’t yet know their plans for September and October. They already tried killing Trump. The Secret Service protects Democrats and RINOs like George W. Bush just fine. There is absolutely nothing these bipartisan, truly evil totalitarians won’t do. In the end, dictatorship always loses, but with no America anymore to push back (it’s not 1943, nor even 1983), it will take much longer for this dictatorship to fall.

“President Kamala” is a real possibility. Even well before November. I think they are going for broke with her, and are confident that with the propaganda machine plus additional fraud they can certainly get 51 percent to do this. I still think they will find a way to imprison Trump, especially if they can convince people he lost the election.

Face reality. You are much more likely to survive and thrive if you do. If the good guys could simply unite in our frightened, timid society, we’d crush the psychopaths, probably without ever firing a shot. They are so weak, so very weak, beneath that arrogance and smugness. They should never have come this far.

Michael J. Hurd

Life in a Very Liberal Town

I walk my dogs around my town twice a day. I’ve always known it was a 96% white and 99% liberal town. It’s the kind of California town with yoga studios and health food stores. The rules are very strict. My brother, who is building a house here, had to go to court three times to fight for a gas stove in his new house. It’s the kind of place that has those lawn signs, you know:

I’ve lived here for about a year. I am ordinarily a city girl, but there are reasons for me to be here right now. It’s been strange getting used to the slower way of life. I don’t exactly fit in.

But I know the vibe because I grew up in California. This is the hybrid-driving, green juice-drinking, MSNBC-watching utopia. It’s the kind of place where there is no crime to speak of, no abused pets tied up in the yard. It hardly ever rains. There are birds everywhere. You’d almost think you were in a David Lynch movie.

I don’t mind it too much. It’s beautiful and clean, and I don’t have to worry about my car being stolen. No sirens are blaring, and no helicopters are flying over.

I often see the same people out walking their dogs. Most of them are very friendly. Every so often, there is an angry person. As much as they want to project a loving and tolerant attitude, if you break the rules, they will come for you.

I’ve been chatting with a woman who walks her dog around town. She’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. After I broke my arm, she advised me on how to exercise it back to health. She is a Pilates teacher. We always say hello and have been doing so for a while.

Today, our conversation went a little deeper than usual. It was something about getting old and how fast time goes by the older you get. And it’s true. It does. I said to her, “I can’t believe it’s Friday already.”

Then she said, “Things are getting so scary. November is coming.” I pretended not to know what she was talking about. I didn’t add to the conversation or pretend to agree. I just said, “And it’s so hot.”

“We do seem to have just gotten some hope,” she said. I imagine that to her, hope means Kamala Harris now has the nomination. Again, I said nothing. What could I say? “It was looking dire for a while there,” and that I took to mean Biden, she believed, could not beat Trump.

I didn’t say, “Can you believe Donald Trump was shot just 13 days ago?” I couldn’t say that. I could not ding her hope, what little she had. I quickly pivoted again, “I can’t believe Summer is almost over! It’s July!”

We’d reached a door we could not open, a conversation we could not have. I realized it was expected that I was in her tribe. I fit the demographic. I live in this town. It would never occur to her that someone like me might not agree with her that a Kamala Harris presidency represents hope. Quite the opposite.

I smiled, and we tried to continue our conversation, but I left shortly after that, leaving the odd conversation hanging in the air. She would no doubt think about it and wonder why I didn’t go further. Did she not understand what I meant, she might wonder. Would that thought take her further?

She might google me and find out pretty quickly why I said nothing. Then what? Would she still say hello to me? Would she still invite to come and do yoga with her and a group of women once a week? I’d like to think so, but I don’t know.

It just made me think how strange our lives are now, how we are on such opposite sides, and how our votes could instantly end a potential friendship. I could hear her explaining it later to her boyfriend, “Then I found out she was a Trump supporter.”

If I could be honest with her, I would try to tell her that there is nothing to fear with Trump, that it’s a media narrative that got out of hand and inadvertently caused a mass hysteria event that we’re still not all the way through. I’ve tried to have that conversation with so many people over the years, but it has never gone well.

My dog Jack is funny. When I see he’s scared, I always say, “It’s okay, Jack.” But somehow, telling him that always makes him more anxious. To him, his fear is something he won’t give up, certainly not if I try to tell him that he has nothing to fear.

The same would be true if I tried to tell this woman that the truth awaits on the other side of the delusion. She would do what my dog does: Glance back at me before trying to get away as fast as she could.

And so went my Friday morning.

In the other America, Trump is headed back to Butler, PA. What a great thing to do.

Sasha Stone

In Killing the Olympics, Leftism Reveals Itself

“Only the weakest of males want to physically compete with women.

Only the weakest of intellect celebrate them.” [Facebook meme]

Yes. And only the weakest in character are too frightened to say aloud, “It’s wrong. And it’s stupid.”

The Olympics used to represent all the things leftists CLAIM to want: international cooperation, diversity and multiculturalism.

Now they have ruined the Olympics with their glorification of psychosis, bigotry and stupidity.

Clearly, it was NEVER diversity that they loved; it was the excellence and achievement epitomized by the Olympics that leftists loathe.

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Kamala and More on the Fall of Civilization

Kamala Harris is a symptom, not the cause. The absurdity of her becoming a “President” is the exact same as the absurdity of Biden. Unless she and her fellow totalitarians are stopped, she will rise to office, probably without winning and possibly well before next January. The destruction of America will continue, uninterrupted. Kamala will issue executive orders that defy the Constitution and all of Western civilization. Biden gladly did it, and Kamala will gladly do the exact same thing. The Palace intrigue does not matter. The obliteration of freedom for mankind DOES matter.

In 2020, the media created a crisis. They turned a flu outbreak (fatal only to a few, like all flu outbreaks) as the greatest catastrophe in all of human history. They ousted a President, coerced millions into compliance with untested treatments that HAVE killed people, in the process proving they have the clout to alter the behavior of billions (literally overnight) in a manner that Hitler, Stalin and Mao could only dream about.

Now they’re doing it with Kamala. Read 99 percent of the media. She’s beloved by Democrats and has wowed all independents. She’s converting Trump supporters. She will win all the swing states and maybe even red ones. Reagan and Nixon never saw such landslides as Kamala will see. She may even eclipse Obama! They’re writing it like it’s true; as if writing it MAKES it true.

They think they can do with Kamala what they did with COVID. Kamala IS a virus. But unlike COVID, she is truly lethal. She is deadly wrong about everything. Left free to spread her toxicity, she can kill billions, cackling while she does it.

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The Psychology of Loyalty

There’s been a lot of talk lately about loyalty. Some use the term correctly, and others simply use it as a tool to get what they want. I equate loyalty with integrity, i.e., consistency among your ideas, your principles and your actions. It focuses on upholding your ideals, especially in the case of people who are important to you. When you put it that way it sounds psychologically virtuous.

This is where it gets complicated: Many people choose friends and romantic partners based only on vague or unidentified feelings. Then when it comes time to be loyal (or disloyal) to friends or associates, they’re unclear about what they’re actually being loyal to. They have no guidelines other than undefinable feelings.

If someone annoys you for a trivial reason, you might back away from them without really knowing why, and regret it later. Conversely, if someone betrays you over something important, you’re lost without a set of conscious convictions to guide you; so you might stay in the relationship longer than you should, bolstered by the vague notion that “This person has been in my life, and I shouldn’t change that now.”

Living by a set of conscious convictions and principles grants you the power to select your friends and loved ones accordingly. If you value integrity and honesty, for example, then you not only seek to practice it, but you seek out people who do the same. Ditto for any other virtue you consider important, such as intelligence, productivity, and rationality.

By consciously valuing those ideals and upholding them in daily life, then the friends and spouse you choose will be more important to you because they embody your cherished values. In that context, loyalty is easy. And the thought of betraying someone who represents what’s important to you would be a contradiction.

Most people are not consciously principled. They’re not deliberately bad or evil, but many are pragmatists, i.e., somebody who doesn’t hold a particularly fixed set of convictions about important matters. Such a person, either by philosophical choice (or more likely by default), goes through life making choices — about work, friendship, even romance or marriage based on “what feels right” or “what works” at the moment. Without explicit ideas, principles or a philosophy, there’s nothing else to guide you when hard decisions must be made. It’s amazing how often things seem to boil down to this one issue when I talk to people – especially couples – in my office. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with a choice that feels right or works, it takes more thought to build a strong case for a particular choice, especially in a significant decision like marriage, etc.

The natural result of this way of thinking makes it difficult to practice integrity in the realm of ideas, since the pragmatist holds no fixed ideas. And loyalty is one of the first things to suffer, since the pragmatist has nothing consciously powerful to which they can be loyal. Of course, nowadays it’s socially acceptable, or “cool,” to not hold any conscious convictions “too strongly.” Or, if you must hold deep or conscious convictions, then at least don’t let anybody know about it. Not only is this shallow, but it also makes genuine loyalty impossible because there are no concrete, significant virtues or qualities that can be used as a guide in the process of being loyal.

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A Cautionary Tale from Venezuela

Cautionary tale from Venezuela:

Communist government holds an election. Communists lose — while claiming a victory, and refusing to surrender power. After much vocal pressure, the Communist dictator promises an “investigation” to be performed by his own bureaucracy, and his own courts. The outcome is already obvious.

Based on 2020 and 2021, America was even worse. The Biden regime censored and arrested not only people who questioned election results, but the leader of the opposition movement (and former president).

Our occupation government in the USA is WORSE than Venezuela’s dictator Maduro. Given how American Communist fascist Democrats have behaved since 2020, what do you think is in store for 2024?

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Eight Reasons Why the Establishment Hates Trump

A survey conducted this past February found that the top concerns for Americans heading into the November elections were inflation, immigration, poor leadership, federal spending, hunger and homelessness, crime reduction, and the fear of terrorist attacks.

Since Resident Biden has (illegally) occupied the Oval Office over the past 3.5 years, we’ve all been decimated by inflation across the board, including for fuel, food, insurances, travel, supplies and other necessities. It’s an ongoing horror story.

Just since Resident Biden took office 3.5 years ago, we’ve watched 15 million illegal immigrants stroll right into the United States, with money, transportation and no vetting, thanks to the Democrats’ open border policy. It’s a complete living nightmare, as many of these illegals have criminal histories, deal drugs, commit new crimes and almost entirely get away with it, thanks to liberal judges and D.A.s (funded by Soros).

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Since Dementia Joe snuck into office, trillions of dollars have been printed and gone missing, while the U.S. funds senseless wars overseas, fake “green energy” companies that go bankrupt and the mass-terrorist infiltration from our southern border.

That brings us to the main reasons “Big Brother” hates Donald J. Trump so much, and why the fake news industrial complex has convinced nearly every loyal Democrat and Liberal that Trump is the #1 enemy of the State, an “existential threat” that needs to be “stopped at all costs” or “assassinated” in order to “save democracy.”

Top 8 reasons the “establishment” hates Trump so badly and wishes he had not survived the attempted assassination 1. Trump is a multi-billionaire, so he’s not interested in embezzling billions of dollars via the Military Industrial Complex (that’s why he’s not a war monger). Trump calls out the Fake News Industrial Complex, which reveals so many of the government’s scams, plots and unconstitutional control-tripping schemes.

2. Trump knows that the whole “climate change” movement is a Ponzi scheme, and that “Green Energy” is just a Leftist plot to launder billions in taxpayer funds. 3. Trump questions the toxicity of vaccines and getting too many too close together as a baby and developing child, suggesting (correctly) this as a cause of autism. 4. Trump is NOT pushing anything fascist or communist that supports police-state tyranny or depopulation. 5. Trump is NOT a gun grabber. 6. Trump aims to expose Deep State prerogatives and corruption, including past, present and future. 7. Trump actually likes America and its citizens and wants the nation to do well.

8. Everyone, including Democrats and Liberals who hate Trump so much that they suffer from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), knows that whatever puppet takes Biden’s place will just inflict MORE of the SAME damage we’ve seen for the past 3.5 years. Inflation will double or triple. World War III is likely to begin under Democrat leadership. 15 million new illegal immigrants will enter America, including thousands of terrorists from China and Iran.

The psychotic leaders in Washington DC want to end all gas-powered vehicle and equipment use. That means the end of farming as we know it, and mass starvation periods coming up very soon, if the Democrats win in November. They have been very clear about this, and there are NO MACHINES ready to farm America that run on electric power, and even if there were, the whole grid is under attack anyway. We must end this “climate change” cultist scam once and for all.

There really is not another choice for saving the Republic, other than voting for Donald Trump and non-RINO Republicans to run Congress. God save the Queen (in this case, it’s King Trump). Remember to bookmark Censored.news to your favorite websites for truth news about the economy, national security and constitutional rights that need to be upheld, forever.

Liberty Daily

Not Wise to Place ALL Your Hopes in a Rigged Election

Shock and outrage over the Secret Service “ineptitude” continues. Seriously?

If terrorists took over an airplane with the intention of crashing it, would they seek to land the plane competently and carefully? Of course not. If you were stuck in that plane, you would not express shock and outrage that the kidnappers are flying the plane incompetently. You would save your outrage for the fact that terrorists had taken over the plane. If you could, you would try to stop them (by any means necessary and available).

The people who voted for Biden and now plan to vote Kamala are ignorant and stupid beyond repair, at least when it comes to knowing what human survival requires. Intellectually if not morally– they are all burnt toast. They are, quite literally, applauding the hijackers. When their metaphorical plane crashes, their final moments and thoughts will scream that it’s “all Trump’s fault,” or it’s all “climate change.”

The people supporting Trump, in most cases, don’t fully get it, either. I look at Fox News, Newsmax, even Breitbart. They think it’s 1980. Ronald Reagan will save us from the hapless Jimmy Carter Democrats, who may mean well, but are just naive and incompetent. That’s NOT the situation. We are living under an occupation government. They are doing ALL the things that occupation militants hellbent on destroying their conquered foes do: wreck the economy; debase the currency; invent ridiculous fights to divide the people; censor free speech; disarm the population; take over medicine, schools, corporations, entertainment and sports; intimidate religions; regulate us into oblivion; and imprison political dissidents.

IT’S ALREADY OVER, people. They will crash the plane of freedom and prosperity, unless or until they are forcibly stopped. Your vote in September thru November’s election fraud season will at best be symbolic. Certainly in blue states and (let’s be honest) in swing states run by hard left Democrats in every case. Be ready to fight to get your freedom back. I do not know exactly what that will look like. But it will take more than a rigged Election Day.

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