My response to a conservative on Twitter who wrote, “Trump’s not going to jail because he’s not guilty of anything”:

Of course Trump’s not guilty of anything. But criminals are in charge of the FBI, the DOJ, the White House, the entire Democratic Party and much of the Republican Party. Innocent people are arrested all the time under one-party regimes, such as we now have.

Wow … the naivete of conservatives, including pro-Trump people, is unnerving. Do they think they will be saved by magic? Do they think they’re living in a comic book? This is real life. America is an emerging dictatorship. Dictatorships exist to torture, imprison and murder.

What else do they think will happen on our present course? Leftist dictators are 100 percent unencumbered.

If you fantasize that the American Bill of Rights and tradition of (more or less) freedom in the USA will save you, then you might as well be on drugs.

Leftists cannot and will not tolerate living in a world where rational, freedom-loving, life-loving, articulate and principled people are free to speak. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE NONE OF THESE THINGS. And it makes them look bad.

Republicans TALKED about arresting and charging Hillary Clinton, but never did. Democrats TALKED about arresting and jailing Donald Trump, and are well on their way to doing so. THAT’S the difference between the Evil party, and the Stupid party.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

New “Twitter files” released by Elon Musk show proof of how federal and state governments — even during the end of the Trump administration — monitor social media posts for political content.

Stop pussyfooting around, America. #DefundtheFBI. And arrest all in charge who are responsible. Freedom will not survive if we continue to let tyrants get away with murder. This is war.

Also in the news: “Senate Passes Defense Bill that Repeals Military Coronavirus Vaccine Mandate”.

Sadly, too little, too late. The most freedom-loving soldiers are now gone. Only solution: impeach and arrest Biden and his regime, so this will NEVER happen again.

In a democratic republic, you can’t have elected officials act and speak like tyrants and then not only go unpunished — but remain in power. The moment that happens, you are no longer a democratic republic.

The purpose of a proper government is to PROTECT the rights of individuals to property, life, and the pursuit of happiness. Instead, we are manipulated by those who rule to prop up their narratives and give them whatever sick, evil pleasure it gives them to have power over other people. Or to make money illicitly.

It has to stop. But it shows no sign whatsoever of stopping, because — as of yet — there has been virtually no sign of resistance. We’re sending tyrants a message: It’s OK to do whatever you wish to do to us. We have no limits.

And, so long as you keep sending this message to tyrants, you will get exactly what you deserve.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Get Woke, Go Broke: Washington Post Staff Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Layoffs Announced After losing more than half a million subscribers in the past two years, did the far-left writers and employees at the Washington Post really think they would avoid any consequences?

It would appear that they are exactly as oblivious as many people suspected.

A recent hidden camera video has surfaced of the latest Washington Post employee “town hall” meeting, in which CEO Fredrick Ryan delivers the bad news that the company will be executing worker layoffs after subscription revenues plummeted.

Not surprisingly, the employees (presumably made up primarily of journalists) erupted into a mass chatter of squawking chickens, demanding answers as well as job guarantees.

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The Washington Post has long operated as a mouthpiece/bullhorn for establishment propaganda, and has functioned as an attack dog against conservatives for years rather than an accurate news source. Specifically, the outlet’s use of fraudulent “fact checking” has contributed to a considerable decline in public trust, and this habit accelerated after Jeff Bezos acquired the Post in 2013. Amazon must not be doing so great this holiday season, and funds are drying up.

The corporate media is facing a reckoning this year going into 2023. Their audience numbers are in steep decline and have been since before the covid pandemic. While PPP loans and stimulus measures may have kept some of these outlets afloat, even that life raft is now disappearing along with ever shrinking ad revenues. The real culprit behind the fall of these companies, though, is themselves.

Woke zealotry does not sell. This is a fact proven time and time again, even more so in the past two years. When a media edifice chooses to cater to a tiny percentage of the population, many of them younger zennials with little to no money, it is only a matter of time before they face a profit collapse. The Washington Post is a victim of its own elitist ideology, and many of the employees are just as guilty as the leadership. Get woke, go broke.

Tyler Durden

The Democratic Party and the bulk of the U.S. federal government is now a criminal enterprise. So how could it be a shock that their biggest donor is a fraud and a criminal?

Michael J. Hurd

This is what happens when you merge private business with the top levels of government — especially a one-party government, which we now have: the DemCom-RINO Establishment.

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@janninereid1 on Twitter asks:

Why do Democrats hate America so much?

My reply:

They loathe freedom and they feel guilty for living in prosperity. They take it out on people who love liberty, life and prosperity.

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“It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.”

— George Orwell

An Inflexible Putin indicates he is sticking with his go-slow war that results in ever more Western participation. In rare comments on the status of the war, Putin admitted it would likely be a “long process.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-risk-nuclear-war-rising-will-defend-russia-all-available-means

Does Putin realize that by needlessly prolonging the conflict he is not only causing unnecessary Russian casualties, but also he could be putting his leadership in danger? Many Russians believe that Putin is making Russia look foolish by inability to bring the conflict to a victorious close. This might also affect recruitment. There is no pride for youth to be in a military force that does not defeat a third world country like Ukraine. Considerations of this sort together with the ability a prolonged conflict gives Washington to expand Western participation in the Ukraine conflict, while building up NATO forces on Russia’s borders, raise serious questions about the wisdom, if any, of Putin’s go-slow limited military intervention. Playing a goody two-shoes role at the expense of your own country doesn’t make sense. Does Putin understand that he cannot simultaneous be at war with Ukraine and protect Ukraine?

Putin seems to be extremely gullible when it comes to dealing with the West. If the West would let him, he would be continuing to supply them with oil and gas even as he is at war with them. Former German Chancellor Merkel has just admitted that the West easily deceived Putin by pretending to go along with the Minsk Agreement, using it as a ploy to deter any Russian response to the murder of Donbass Russians until the West had built up the Ukraine military. Those 8 years Putin spent being fooled has made the conflict in Ukraine far different from what it would have been in 2014. Merkel said the Minsk agreement was “an attempt to give Ukraine time. Ukraine used this time to get stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014/15 is not the Ukraine of today. As you saw in the battle for Debaltseve in early 2015, Putin could easily have overrun them at the time. And I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much then as they do now to help Ukraine.” https://www.rt.com/news/567863-merkel-minsk-stronger-ukraine/

Ukraine’s post-coup US installed president, Pyotr Poroshenko, confirms Merkel’s admission. RT reports: “Pyotr Poroshenko, who became president of Ukraine after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev, told a domestic audience in August 2015 that Minsk was a ruse to buy time for a military build-up. He admitted as much to the West in July 2022, in an interview with German media.”

Having wasted 8 years relying on peace diplomacy spurned by Washington, Putin then took half-way measures when Russian success required a quick and complete victory to prevent Washington’s involvement. Consequently, the problems for Russia have multiplied with an ever widening war leading, as Putin warns, to nuclear war.

Yet Putin sticks with a policy that has not worked for 8 years, a policy that plays into the hands of Washington’s neoconservatives.

(Republished from PaulCraigRoberts.org by permission of author or representative)

1. Dissent is equated to violence

2. Media is controlled

3. The legal system is co-opted by the state

4. Power is exerted to quash dissent

5. State police protect the regime, not the people

6. Rights—financial, legal, and civil—are contingent on compliance

7. Mass conformity of beliefs and behaviors is demanded

8. Power is concentrated in inner ring of elite institutions and people

9. Semi-organized violence is permitted (in some cases)

10. Propaganda targets enemies of the state regime

11. Entire classes singled out for persecution

12. Extra-legal actions are condoned against internal regime opponents

13. Harsh legal enforcement against unfavored classes

14. Private and public levers of power are used to enforce adherence to state dogmas

Fauci is a savage charlatan who will be remembered by decent people as the man who sacrificed American liberty, prosperity and the reputation of medical integrity to participate in a cultural and political coup, the likes of which humanity has ever seen.

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“Since when did unquestioning obedience to corporate interests become patriotic?” This was a bumper sticker from the Bush years. Today, now that large corporations act literally as agents of left wing government compulsion, leftists LOVE corporations. #NotMyDictatorship

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I love young people. That’s why it’s painful to watch them commit suicide. The great majority of 20 and 30 somethings are Democrats. This means they are Communists, knowingly or not. This means their future is Venezuela, Cuba, Soviet Russia–or worse. It’s heartbreaking

https://artfuldilettante.com/2022/12/12/the-constitution-our-bill-of-rights/