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.
The definition of an insurrection is a rise against government authority or a revolt. An example of an insurrection is a rebel protest against a dictatorship. An organized opposition to an authority; a mutiny; a rebellion.”
Wasn’t the American Revolution an insurrection, by this definition?
Even if the events manufactured or exaggerated regarding January 6, 2021 really happened, what was being rebelled against, and why? Is a rebellion always and automatically a BAD thing — even if it’s in opposition to tyranny?
Why is it NOT an insurrection to engage in Antifa or BLM violence, while it IS an insurrection even to show up at the Capitol and object to election results for which there is extensive evidence of fraud?
At what point do we start to view our present government as tyrannical? Or is there no point? Can it do whatever it wishes to us whenever it feels like it — and then call anyone who objects an “insurrectionist” even though they are the ones ignoring the Bill of Rights the American government was supposed to uphold?
Insouciant Wyoming Republicans sent Liz Cheney to Congress to help the Democrats destroy the Republican Party by building a case out of thin air that President Donald Trump organized a coup to keep himself in power.
The charge that Trump planned a coup has never made any sense whatsoever, because President Trump authorized 20,000 National Guard soldiers to protect the Capitol during the January 6 rally for Trump, which was held at the Washington Monument, not at the Capitol. If Trump had organized a coup plot, why would he authorize troops to be on hand to put it down?
This obvious question has never been asked by the Democrats and whore media. Instead, Republican US Representative Liz Cheney has made big deal out of denying that President Trump issued an order to deploy the National Guard to protect the Capitol.
There is a huge difference between “authorizing” troops and an “order to deploy” troops, and Liz Cheney cleverly obfuscates the difference. It is unconstitutional for a president to deploy the US military domestically. A president can authorize the use of troops, but deployment requires a request, in the case of the District of Columbia by the mayor. The Democrat mayor following the Democrat game plan refused to make the request.
By pretending that Trump claims to have issued an order to deploy troops to protect the Capitol, a power the president does not have, Liz Cheney achieves her aim of presenting Trump as a liar, while obscuring the fact that if Trump planned a coup, he would not authorize the use of troops and put that authorization in the hands of Democrats so that they could put down his coup. The fact that the Democrats did not accept Trump’s offer proves that they knew that there was no planned coup or insurrection.
If the Democrats actually knew of a planned coup and rejected the authorized troops, the Democrats are guilty of complicity in the coup by rejecting National Guard deployment.
The idea that a few unarmed people, even if they were acting on their own and not guided by federal agents, could cause an insurrection by walking around in the Capitol and taking selfies of themselves sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair is mindless. How is it possible that the Democrats have been able to perpetuate such a fantasy in hearings month after month reported assiduously by the whore media and actually convince people of such a fantasy? Yet American citizens have been arrested for insurrection, held in solitary confinement, framed, and convicted by all-Democrat-juries of participating in an insurrection and committed to prison. The Republican Party has done nothing to stop this outrage. Hows can Republicans be seen as leaders when they turn their backs on their own supporters?
Why is Republican Liz Cheney helping Democrats demonize and discredit a Republican President? What is wrong with Wyoming Republicans that they stupidly elected Liz Cheney to Congress?
The scary part is that it is the Democrats who are conducting a coup, and the Republicans are too weak to do anything about it. The US lacks an objective media to blow the whistle and wake up the insouciant American population. The CIA, the FBI, and the US Department of Justice (sic) are all part of the Democrat’s coup. The presstitutes are driving the coup. If Americans fall for it, they will find themselves under Democrat dictatorship. Executive orders will replace legislation, courts will be shunted aside, and the greatest crime will be to believe in the values of the Founding Fathers.
“Capitalism isn’t a system. It’s merely free people exchanging goods and services with other free people for voluntarily agreed upon prices.” [Peter Fithian]
Spot on.
Capitalism simply refers to economic freedom from government interference. It’s not a system, and it’s not obliged to be a system. The obligation is on government, busybodies and criminals to STAY THE HELL OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES.
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Unless your explicit goal is to destroy America, nobody can deny: The Biden Regime is a catastrophe.
If the American republic somehow recovers from all this, and private property, rationality, capitalism, individualism, self-responsibility and the Bill of Rights unexpectedly roar back into relevance … WHAT will future historians make of this era?
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“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
— Isaac Asimov
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“Americans are fleeing Democrat-run cities in blue states and relocating to more affordable metro areas, in part due to housing costs and inflation that are pricing them out of their origin cities, according to a report from the real estate brokerage site Redfin.”
The same idiots will, in many cases, vote for the same policies in their new homes that caused them to flee their old homes. Example: Austin, Texas. It’s a vicious, unending cycle of incurable stupidity.
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Someone asked: Do we need a dictatorship to get us out of this mess?
It’s not so much that we “need” a dictatorship but that we are living in a dictatorship already. The U.S. Constitution is no longer operative. That millions of us on the right — good souls, all of us — still persist in thinking we are in a free country, and that all we need is one good election to fix it all — well, it’s heartbreaking and stupid. If we are to survive, and if freedom is ever to make any kind of comeback, we, the good guys, must stop being stupid. Forget the law. Their law is not the Bill of Rights. These tyrants are lawless. We are at war, because they declared it.
Too strong a position, you say? Check back with me in a few months.
“There’s no way to vote your way out of tyranny.” (Facebook meme, Richard Ruggerio)
Bingo. That’s why elections won’t matter, other than nominally. We lost our freedom gradually over the decades, and then totally in 2020. The rotten, fully corrupt people in power will not step aside, any more than they did when Trump held office. We need another 1776, not a takeover of Congress by Republicans who will put a different shade of lipstick on the pig. Yes, there are some meaningfully different Republicans like Trump and DeSantis, but it’s the horrific Mitch McConnells running the show. I don’t know that most Americans today are capable of supporting another 1776, but that’s the only way around the present disaster.
House Republicans lead Democrats by 10 points among likely U.S. voters less than five months before November’s midterm elections, according to a Rasmussen survey released Friday. Forty-nine percent of voters say they’re leaning toward a Republican candidate, while just 39% favor a Democrat in the Rasmussen survey, which polled 2,500 likely U.S. voters between July 17-21.” [NEWSMAX 7-22-22]
IT DOES MOT MATTER. There is no way in HELL the Democrats and Communists who control most election boards, most of Congress, all of the media, all of the schools, all of corporate America, all of social media, Google, Amazon, the entire entertainment and sports worlds, Wall Street, the RINO wing of the Republican Party, many churches, all of our major cities, much of the military and police (what with vax mandates as a political loyalty test), all of the universities, and most of the population age 35 and under WILL PERMIT A REPUBLICAN SWEEP to happen. Not that a Republican sweep would even matter if the party is still run by the morally tiny RINOs who have run it for at least 40 years.
I keep trying to warn you: Lovers of freedom need a Plan B. And fast. The real Red Wave in America is Communist — not Republican.
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