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About theartfuldilettante

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 Seems to Grasp How BAD America’s Situation Is


“If the law is not equally applied to all, it turns into a weapon for injustice. If the powerful can break constitutional norms about legal equality for one man, they can — and will — break constitutional norms about legal equality for anyone else they want.” [The Federalist]

Unfortunately, once the apparatus of state is weaponized, and the government itself becomes the criminal, it’s impossible to expect the now malignant system to correct and reform itself. The only possible solution is to physically remove the criminals from their positions of power, imprison them or otherwise keep them from doing further harm.

Nobody is accepting this fact, but the glaring reality of these facts will grow with each indictment, arrest and prosecution of innocent parties. Trump is simply the highest profile example. The Biden regime and its weaponized state are simply not reformable, and will not leave power willingly.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Good, Evil and the 2024 Election

Newsmax reports that Donald Trump is holding a 6-point lead over Biden in a 2024 rematch, despite President Trump’s recent arrest and indictment for holding documents after leaving office.

The lead is probably much bigger. But it doesn’t matter. Nothing is in place to stop the ballot fraud we saw in 2020. The federal government — DOJ, FBI — is now weaponized against Trump. He will be spending most of the next two years in courtrooms, and possibly will die in prison. The creepy, demented creature on the right and his sociopathic relatives will be dropped back in the White House for another term, until Harris or Buttigieg get their turn to play little Caligula or Nero. Whatever the solution to all this, I am 100 percent certain it’s not business as usual.

Today’s tyrannical cabal/regime, headed by the ruins of the American republic, is far worse than any organization of mobsters. They possess a weaponry and military unparalleled in all of human history, built up by the blood and brains of free men who gave it all away to these monstrous, grotesque, moronic twits. The twits enjoy (if only by default) unchallenged moral and physical authority from hapless, ignorant masses who believe the propaganda their media spews out, even when common sense and simple, glaring facts refute it.

The twits in charge are worse than the Hitlers, Stalins or slave masters of bygone eras. Why? Because they face virtually no opposition. No army, no widespread political or social movement, no intellectual establishment or media apparatus stands ready to defeat them. The closest is the MAGA movement headed by Trump, a man they intend to weigh down with legal battles and ultimately imprison, and a man already once defeated by fraudulent election schemes unopposed by any legal or journalistic source in society. Even without those literally impossible obstacles, Trump has no army, and when he did serve as commander in chief, he never enjoyed the control we thought he had. By the time Trump was sworn in, as we now can see, it was already too late. The top generals, thanks largely to Obama, had turned.

I believe the present tyrants, while so obviously unintelligent, scheming, arrogant, smug, immature and even psychopathic, because of their immense storehouse of power and total absence of any plausible opposition to defeat them, will end up as the perpetrators of the greatest destruction in all of world history. They hold ALL of the cards. And they intend to mercilessly play each and every one of them. Just observe them now. Look at what they’re doing to Trump, or any voice of dissension.

UNLESS the good guys rise up and roar with the force of a trillion nuclear bombs. With massive resistance. With utter destabilization of the illegitimate authorities aiming to literally ruin all our lives and make billions of dollars doing it. Now is the time to become as defiant as hell, tens of millions of us, all at the same time. Just resist, resist, resist. Stop pretending things are other than the way they so obviously are, where in America — of all places! — we now weaponize our legal system to thwart political opponents.

Is anybody awake yet? Or do you still think some Soviet-style, Mao-inspired, Hitleresque rigged election will save you from it all?

I am still waiting for the good guys to wake up and get madder than hell. I hope there still are good guys.

The moral is the practical. So good will overcome evil. But ONLY when the good guys wake up. After 3 years of a relentless, unwavering and unequivocal attack on reason, decency and freedom, the good guys who still exist are hiding in the shadows. I don’t know if there is anything people won’t take.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

“Climate Change” is Deeper — and Worse — than a Hoax

A meme says the following:

Climate change — the made up catastrophe used by globalists to instill fear and guilt so they can tax, regulate and remove our freedoms while pretending to be saving the planet.

One reader responds, “I’m dismayed that so many don’t seem to realize this.”

My reply: “Climate change” is an urban/suburban, postmodern religion for people who have no other religion, no philosophy, no ideas, no ideals of any kind, other than unarticulated, undigested ones that involve hatred of capitalism, freedom and all the things that go with them — with their sensing, correctly, that the green movement will obliterate all that. Psychologically, it makes sense that the vast majority of young people would fall for this. They’re profoundly lost.

The Biden regime is a rogue government. When it comes to climate change or anything else, treat it accordingly. In a country with a history of freedom, mass passive resistance and, as much as possible, noncompliance can be a very powerful thing. They can’t arrest everyone.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Notes from the Underground in the Post-American Republic

DemComs do not really oppose slavery. If they did oppose slavery, they would not support Communism. Communism is the enslavement not just of one race; it’s enslavement of EVERYONE: To a politically connected elite, a bunch of rich people made wealthy by the capitalism of a bygone era. It’s a wealth from which the rest of us are forever excluded by a centrally planned, command-and-control socialist economy.

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A federal government at war with its citizens is not a government. It’s our enemy.

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“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”
— Albert Einstein

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“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
— Aristotle

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Don’t look back. You’re not going that way. (unknown)

If You Think It’s Just About Trump, You’re a Fool

It’s critical for decent people to understand: President Trump was not answering to “the law” yesterday. There is no law — not at the federal level. They are lawless. They are not just immoral; they are totally amoral. They are subjecting Trump to THEIR law, which is the law of dictators everywhere throughout history: In other words, to their whims. They’re twisting and distorting existing laws — which are actually civil matters, not criminal ones, civil penalties that never were applied to cases where sitting or former Vice Presidents or Presidents allegedly disobeyed them. As Trump pointed out, Bill Clinton was sued for a violation similar to what Trump was accused of, and he won the lawsuit.

We know what this is about. We are not stupid. Many of us are too afraid and (incredibly) still too complacent, but we are not stupid. The thing that good people must now understand is that Trump is being used as an example. What they can get away with doing to him, they can get away with doing to anyone, any time they wish. It’s not about Trump. It’s about power and control for the sake of power and control — and, of course, the money that goes along with it, which explains why most Republicans have sold out (other than to pay lip service in faux outrage).

Perhaps Trump will grow in popularity as he’s persecuted. Perhaps he’ll get the nomination and (however unlikely) get past the early morning data dumps to come in Philadelphia, Atlanta and greater Phoenix in November 2024. Perhaps he’ll become the first American President to serve from jail. It seems unlikely. What seems more likely (to me) is that Trump’s popularity will erode somewhat as the charges keep coming (there will be more, e.g., from Georgia), and then someone capable in a different way — DeSantis seems the obvious choice — will fill the vacuum for people who don’t like The Party. The key, at that point, will be to see what happens to DeSantis and his family. If you don’t believe me now, you’ll have to believe me then … this was never just about Trump. Even getting Trump in jail will not be enough for these leftists. The leftists in power are totalitarians. Their paid-off RINO enablers are morally no different, if not worse.

It’s important, going forward, that you look at the regime in Washington DC and everything connected to it as morally and politically illegitimate as any other occupying force would be — as if, for example, the Nazis or Soviets had taken over our government back in the 1940s or 1950s.

These are not people who wish to uphold your rights but only in a different way. These are people who openly seek to eradicate your rights, so they can have control in a one-party government (already in place) to perpetrate all manner of tyranny and abuse. They make millions (if not billions) for destroying our republic. It’s evil on a scale never perpetrated in all of human history; and it’s just getting started. If you think the colonists were up against some nasty abusers back in the 1770s — you haven’t seen anything yet.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

It’s Not Just About Election Theft. It’s About SUBMISSION

U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) says that Biden is using the “justice” system in America to preemptively steal the 2024 election.

Entirely true. They’re still going to use mail-in voting in Phoenix, Atlanta and Philadelphia to steal the electoral college. But tying up Trump–the overwhelming Republican front runner–with dozens of felony charges, and possibly imprisonment, ensures more than a stolen election. It ensures SUBMISSION and a permanently one-party rule in the former American republic.

They’re doing it right in front of you, unopposed, winning every single battle and crushing us in the war. Until we wake up and realize we’re dealing with Hitler or Stalin-level evil, and fight them as such, we’re doomed.

This is war: DemComs vs. Freedom Lovers.

DemComs have jails, judges, armies, police and guns. Freedom Lovers have talk radio and outrage.

Something has got to change.

Private sector space travel. Bring the books of great thinkers. In a world going mad, it may be the best hope for your children.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

George Carlin on Ethnic or National Pride

I could never understand ethnic or national pride.

Because to me pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accidnet of birth.

Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fuckin’ genetic accident.

You wouldn’t say, “I’m proud to be 5 foot 11 inches. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.”

So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or anything?

— the late George Carlin

Correct, Mr. Carlin!

Note to GLBTQ activist-Communists:

“Pride” does not mean shaming or threatening others with violence. Pride is calm, confident and internal.

How Republicans Fight & Why They Always Lose

How Republicans fight: we might charge FBI Director Christopher Wray with contempt of Congress and then it will go to AG Merrick Garland who will dismiss it anyway.

How Democrats fight: you’re in prison for 18 years under a Civil War statute we revived specifically to get you when you haven’t committed any actual crimes.

How Republicans select a leader: let’s all tear chunks out of our most popular candidate repeating everything our enemies say about him.

How Democrats select a leader: This is your leader. He’s a vegetable and shits himself. We know that every single one of you will back him 100% at all times even if he shits on your leg.

How Republicans organise: let’s spend 20 or 30 years giving money to the same candidates who never do anything.

How Democrats organise: We’ve turned everything from the American Chamber of Commerce to the NFL and every clothing brand into cheerleaders for Satan. You won’t find a single body or institution small enough that we haven’t turned it into a mouthpiece, purchased it or subverted it. The Alaskan Jam Makers Confederation is on our side. We control the election process and the FBI and we invent crazy shit like Diversity Equity and Inclusion and make it a checklist of things every company has to do to be allowed to exist.

How far Republicans will go: I’ll march right into that PTA meeting and give them a piece of my mind.

How far Democrats will go: Shoot the bitch in the neck while she’s unarmed and stuck in a window then celebrate the murder as the rescue of Democracy.

– Daniel Jupp

Via Richard Ruggiero (on Facebook)