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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.

Nobody HATES Like a Leftist

Leftists call anyone who disagrees with them — on anything — “haters.”

But consider all the things leftists hate.

Leftists hate the Constitution. They won’t say why, other than it was written by white men. Leftists hate white men. Some leftists are white men, so we can only assume they hate themselves.

They don’t really say why else they hate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We can only assume it’s because it doesn’t impose Communism or fascism on the country. Leftists hate freedom, and in order to wipe out economic freedom you need socialism; in order to wipe out other kinds of freedom, you need fascism; in order to wipe out ALL freedom you need Commuism. Leftists hate the Constitution because it gets in the way of legislating absolutely everything and everyone the way they think we all should be.

Leftists hate guns — except when in the hands of government agencies doing what they want. When agents with guns show up at Donald Trump’s house, or at the house of a less well-known dissenter, then they LIKE guns. Otherwise; not so much.

Leftists hate free speech. They claim to love free speech, but they pressure social media companies to eliminate hate speech, defined as any speech they dislike. The whole purpose of free speech is that the government does not restrict anyone’s speech, ever. With leftists, it’s selective. When you bring this up to a leftist, he or she becomes irate, even hateful.

Leftists hate capitalism. Except when it’s their OWN economic choices. They hate wealth. Except when the wealthy are progressives and fellow leftists. They hate religion, except when they can manipulate or exploit religious people into doing what they want, as with environmental fascism or other kinds of controls. They count on us overlooking that their own religion — Government intervention in absolutely every aspect of our lives — is a form of state-sanctioned religion bigger than anything seen since the Holy Roman Empire of the middle ages.

I have never seen people as hateful as leftists, when they’re screaming about their leftism. Some of them are highly reasonable, personable, seemingly nice people, unless the subject of Donald Trump or anything remotely nonleftist comes up. Then they become intimidating, rude, nasty, threatening and more hateful than anyone else you’ve ever read about from Hitler or the KKK. And make no mistake: People carrying around this much hatred will, eventually, act on all of it — or at least stand passively by (silently satisfied) when their own version of Hitler or Stalin or Mussolini takes everything over and runs all dissenters out of town. Look around at what’s happening today. They don’t need a Hitler. They can do it with a demented puppet. And they’re doing it.

Michael J. Hurd

Dementia Joe’s Campaign Biggest Worry is That It’s Impossible to Prove He’s Competent

NBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann on Friday said President Joe Biden’s campaign’s largest concern is that persuading certain voters the president is competent may be a lost cause.

Biden’s cognitive capabilities have repeatedly been raised as a possible problem, with NBC political analyst Elise Jordan earlier on Friday saying voters tell her they will be tuning into the upcoming presidential debate to “make sure that he’s up to the task” of being president. Heilemann on “Morning Joe” said the campaign’s deepest fear is that there may be no solution to persuading voters who have “stubborn concerns about” the president, based in part on an interview he conducted with Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon.

“I think that the thing, Katty, that worries them, is that the information environment is what it is,” Heilemann told MSNBC contributor Katty Kay. “And so I asked [O’Malley Dillon] to kind of try to make the case for, you know we see surrogates all the time go on TV and say, ‘I was in a meeting with Joe Biden recently and he seemed great.’ And I said, ‘Look, most of those people have been at one meeting with Joe Biden or a couple. You spend more time with him or as much time with him as anybody in the White House over the course of the last three years. How do you make the case that Biden is, give me a vivid reason to believe that for those who say Joe Biden is not up to the job?’”

“And she told a great story … emotional, powerful, vivid, but it’s a four or five-minute long story,” he added. “And in this information environment … the voters they have to reach are people who don’t hear the five-minute story. They’re never going to see Joe Biden that way. What they’re going to see is deep fakes, cheap fakes and not fakes, but images, quick images that leave a certain impression. And trying to reach people in this environment is really hard, reach anyone in the environment we live in now in the information ecosystem.”

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seemed to guide Biden off a stage during a campaign event where he appeared to freeze. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday endeavored to downplay worries about Biden appearing to wander off at the latest G7 Summit, calling it a “cheap fake” orchestrated by Republicans following a video of it circulating recently.

“And I think they are grappling with that, a small set of voters that are very hard to reach with some very significant, stubborn concerns about Biden,” the analyst said. “How do you get through to those people? How do you move the needle with those people? There is no answer. There’s no secret silver bullet answer to that question. And that’s, I think, the thing, Katty, I think they worry about more than anything else.”

Back-to-back listeners on Tuesday called into popular hip-hop radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” to attack the president, as well as Democrats who assert he is fine.

The first caller dubbed Biden “demented Joe,” and the second said “these Democrats keep wanting to tell us not to believe our lying eyes, like everybody can’t see Joe Biden.”

“He is 81. And God bless him, but that don’t mean you capable and you the only person to run this country. We see what’s going on,” the second caller continued. “You can tell us this is not happening … but we see it. We actually out here living it. I’m actually seeing people having to put their groceries back at the cash register. People barely can afford energy bills now.”

Jason Cohen, Liberty Daily

An Occupied Country

America is an occupied country. Our government is a bunch of unaccountable mobsters. Elections don’t matter to them.

One way or another, they will win. Trump entered the White House in 2017, for 4 years. Still, they won. They undercut him in ways nobody realized at the time, and they managed to get him out — and later prosecute him for fake felonies. The legal system does not matter to them; neither do elections.

This is not negativity. It’s not a “lack of faith.” It’s not a refusal to believe, “This is America, and this cannot happen here.” It IS happening here, because it can happen anywhere.

Dictators, sociopaths, tyrants and (actual) felons do not care about the things that you — as decent, liberty-loving Americans — take for granted that everyone with power cares about. Think of the worst criminal or mobster you ever read about. Then imagine that criminal or mobster with unlimited power, zero accountability and — through it all — getting to call himself an advocate of “democracy” or even freedom.

That’s what it means to say we have an occupied country. The Nazis and the Japanese never got this far, in World War II, not in America. The Soviets never got this far, in the Cold War. But we’re there now. There are Jew-hating Nazis, money-grubbing fascists and ideological, woke Communists in charge of everything. So accept this fact, and realize what we’re up against. Otherwise, no strategy is going to work.

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Trump HAS to Win. But It’s Not Even Close to Enough.

If Trump wins, it won’t be enough. All hell will break loose. You saw what the tyrants did after Trump’s first election, and throughout 2020. It will be much worse.

Trump has to win. It’s a bare minimum. But we will have to reclaim our republic. This will mean investigating, arresting and prosecuting Biden, his attorney general, and others in his regime for treason. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s offenses should be brought to justice, too. Don’t call this revenge. It’s an absolute necessity. Otherwise: they will come back. They’ll destroy Trump’s second term like his first, and they will come for us all. Punishment for treason is the only way to reverse course, and ensure we become a republic again. A convention of states will also be required, not to rewrite our Constitution, but to reestablish it by massive (I mean MASSIVE) reductions in federal spending and power. The FBI, the EPA, the Department of Education–these and much, much more must GO.

I remain doubtful Trump will win. The magnitude of the fraud and manipulation is too great, and ALL of it from 2020 remains unpunished. Millions of Americans are, quite frankly, ignorant and stupid. Somebody has to say it, because it’s true. But maybe Trump will still somehow win. If he does, it won’t be enough.

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Leaving California ?  Imagine That !

 I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.”

— Courtesy of Moses Popescu, Patriots Last Stand

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

— Nietzsche

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“When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s too.”

— Socrates

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“I grew up here. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman. My mom’s a Jew. My dad’s an Arab. I have a black kid. And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn’t look like it,” she said. “I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker. And when I leave California, maybe you’ve lost your f***ing mind. Just maybe! When you have me running from home, maybe it’s gone way too far.”

She said the laws that are being passed in the legislature and signed into law by far-Left Governor Gavin Newsom are “absolutely f***ing mind boggling.”

“In relation to crime, protecting our kids, like, we’re decriminalizing everything, which arguably I would probably be okay with, but we’re not regulating any of it,” she said. “So it’s like, okay, you’re gonna decriminalize sex work, but only so women can loiter on the streets, not to keep them safe, not to have them pay taxes, not to make them, you know, regularly check for STDs, not to take away the pimps out of the equation.”

“The fact that a 12-year-old child can be put on off-label cancer drugs to irreparably change their body,” she said. “If my son came to me and said, ‘Mom’ — or my daughter — ‘I think I’m trans,’ I’d say, okay, you know, like, you want to dress this way, you want me to call you whatever the heck you want, dress, fine. Explore it. I love you. I’m cool, do you as long as we’re safe, but we’re not changing your body until it’s fully developed. I’m sorry. Conversation’s over. Can’t get a f***ing tattoo!”

— Fitness Influencer Jillian Michaels On Leaving ‘Woke’ California

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Progressives Always Display the Ultimate Red Flag


“For the greater good” almost always means “this will be bad for you.”

And it’s almost always said by someone it will be good for.

“Great” just means them.

[from @RealSpikeCohen, on Twitter/X]

Once enough people understand this post, socialism (and all its toxic variants, including green fascism) are DONE.

Every destructive movement of human history, from the murder, censorship and brutality of the Middle Ages to the nihilistic destruction of Nazism and Communism — and their stepchild, today’s “woke” psychotic totalitarianism — are based on the idea, “This is good for you … because I say so.”

If something is really and truly good, it doesn’t have to be forced. And if it has to be forced — well then, something is wrong with the ideology right there.

Even if you can find a situation where the thing being forced is good for ALL involved — including the person being forced — it still would have no meaning. If a person is not convinced that the virtuous thing he’s doing is right, then there is no virtue in his coerced action. There’s only resentment, subtle hostility and a breeding ground for rebellion.

I find it darkly comical that today’s Woke Establishment — the modern day apostles of coercion and guilt-infused lecturing, moralizing we see everywhere we turn today — think they’re “progressive,” sophisticated or somehow new.

They’re as old as the Stone Age. They’re as sophisticated as savages. It all has been tried before, as recently as the Nazis, who took their coercion and moralizing all the way.

Today’s totalitarians reply, “I’m no Nazi. I’m virtuous.” If you’re so virtuous, then why must you imprison your political opponents — in America, of all places — and force, intimidate, defund, “cancel” and intellectually neuter anyone who sees fit to disagree with you, people as diverse as Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld, Elon Musk or Donald Trump?

The need to “guilt” and coerce people into believing what you believe — that’s the ultimate red flag.

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