Marxism was easily the most destructive political theory to ever be put into practice.  Over the course of the 20th century it was responsible for the purposeful killing of well over 100 million people.  To put that evil into context, the slave trade into the United States was 400,000 people, the number of Congolese dead during the reign of King Leopold II of Belgium is estimated as high as 10 million and the total number of deaths during WWII was 73 million.  But Communism beats them all, combined.  And the vast majority of those numbers came from governments killing their own citizens!  I mention all of this is because the father of Communism, Karl Marx, has been on my mind lately.

Marx was a despicable human being.  It’s often said that he never had a job in his life.  That’s not technically true. Although he had a doctorate, his radicalism kept most universities from hiring him.  He was a writer and editor for a number of publications, most of which went bankrupt because no one was reading them, or were shuttered by governments seeking to quell what they saw as sedition. He was a writer for the New-York Daily Tribune for a decade and later for the New York Sun. None of these jobs paid particularly well or consistently (other than the Tribune) and what they did pay Marx often spent on alcohol and tobacco.

Marx’s family lived in poverty and debt his entire life and often they went hungry and were evicted a number of times.  This, despite Marx having received substantial inheritances from his parents and his taking numerous “loans” from friends. He fathered at least seven children with his wife, but only three survived to adulthood, in part due to the family’s poverty and its consequent malnutrition. But Marx never once took a job that would economically support his family and give them sufficient sustenance.  In reality, Marx spent most of his adult life supported by his friend, co-author and defacto vassal, Friedrich Engels, the son of a textile manufacturer. Aside from being a hypocrite, arrogant, condescending, violent with words and sometimes deeds, Marx was also a slovenly man.  He drank to excess, smoked and almost never bathed.  A German spy, after visiting Marx, reported “[Marx] leads the existence of a Bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk.” And he was a racist and an antisemite as well, despite his father having converted to Christianity for political and economic reasons.

Marx spent virtually his entire adult life decrying the inequality and “failures” of Capitalism and proffering the replacement of Capitalism & democracy with Communism as outlined in he and Engels in The Communist Manifesto.  But the thing is, Marx had no direct connection to actual Capitalism other than taking the money produced by it to support him and his family.  He had no experience starting a business, building a business, managing payroll, insurance, suppliers, customers, employees, unions or anything else.  No, he learned everything he knew about business and economics from reading.

Not that it’s impossible to learn about economics from reading. I’ve read Thomas Sowell’s books and feel better informed for it.  But unlike Marx, Sowell actually worked in the government and observed in real life the consequences of government programs. In addition, he directly ties his work to specific data from a wide variety of real-world sources. He cites specific companies, government programs, economic measures and studies when he writes.  Marx does none of that.  Most of the information Marx gathered during his career was that of various philosophers, political, economic and otherwise.  These included among others Adam Smith, James Mill, Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and of course Friedrich Hegel. But he never visited a factory, a mill, a mine or interacted with the proletariat he championed.  He did interact with one virtual slave, however, his lifelong family maid who he never paid, and with whom he fathered a child he refused to acknowledge.

Engels on the other hand did have experience, in his family’s manufacturing business, his German father sending him to Manchester, England in 1842 to get the impressionable lad away from the radical politics infecting Prussia. Too late however as Engels was already radicalized and headed on the path that would define his legacy.  Engels would visit the most downtrodden slums of England and would share his observations with Marx. He would leave the company in 1844 and would not return until 1850, two years after the publication of The Communist Manifesto.  Much of what Engels would write however was either embellished, taken out of context or an outright lie, a characteristic he and Marx shared.

Although Engels had limited experience with the proletariat, Marx had none and wanted none.  He demurred when Engels invited him to visit factories with him, nor would he query his merchant uncle about business other than on a single family matter.  But lack of actual evidence or experience with anything outside of reading didn’t stop Marx from writing about the destruction of the entirety of western civilization.  Individual liberty and private property would be gone while the government would control the means of communication, transportation and production and simultaneously undermining the family and dictating where citizens would live. He proffered a world of Communism with no understanding of how the world actually works, ignoring the lessons from New Harmony, Indiana, Robert Owen’s failed attempt to build a socialist nirvana in America, about which Marx would most certainly have known. His means of accomplishing this was not via democracy, but rather violence, writing in 1848 “there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”

Which brings me to why Marx has been on my mind.  Does any of the above sound familiar?  A vile, self-centered and arrogant individual with poor hygiene, highly educated, with little or no experience doing anything resembling productive and spending his time railing against society and advocating for its violent overthrow?  It should, because we’ seeing thousands of individuals – many highly educated (including lawyers!) and most with no experience in producing anything in the real world – violently demonstrating for the overthrow the United States as we know it. From Portland to New York to Atlanta to Tampa every time we get the mugshots and reports from the police of the arrestees, they look exactly like you would expect, unkempt, modern day wannabe Karl Marxs. A majority of them are professional agitators, going from place to place causing trouble.

While Marx had a vision (albeit an absurd and impossible one) with which he wanted to replace democracy and Capitalism, today’s agitators are nihilists with no plan beyond destroying America. They, like Marx, are parasites who do nothing productive for society.  They have no idea how the world actually works, how to build anything productive, nor an idea how to do anything but throw fists, stones and Molotov Cocktails while complaining about the society that nourishes them. But then that’s the beauty of the left, there never needs to be a connection between ideas and reality.  It’s enough to criticize, theorize and legislate, no proof necessary, then let the chips fall where they may. With Marx humanity paid a terrible toll for such folly.  You’d think Americans would have learned something from that history. Sadly however, looking at the support the Democrat party maintains – and make no mistake, the Democrat party of today is a modern incarnation of Marx’s theory – many apparently haven’t.

Vince, Flopping Aces

The brilliantly executed rescue of four hostages by the Israelis has left Hamas deeply chagrined. Another spectacular feat for Israel — and defeat for Hamas — simply cannot be accepted. So some have insisted that others — the Americans — must have played a role in the operation. It’s nonsense. The Americans have said that they been contributing some intelligence to the Israelis about where hostages were believed to be held — it’s not known exactly how much, or how useful it was — but insist there were no Americans involved in either the planning for, or the execution of, the rescue. This attempt by some Hamas supporters to suggest that America provided major help to Israel in the hostage rescue should remind us of Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser, who had been so sure of the swift victory over the Zionists that he had promised hysterical Cairene crowds would soon be theirs, only to find that on the first day of war, June 5, that his air force had been decimated, with 286 planes (out of a total of 420) destroyed on the ground by Israeli bombers. He immediately began to blame America and Britain for “collusion” with Israel — a collusion that did not exist. As Elie Podeh has written here:

In the early hours of June 6, 1967, Egyptian media began to spread the allegation that both the United States and Britain were taking part in Israel’s preemptive attack on Egypt and Syria. According to Radio Cairo, U.S. and British aircraft carriers provided an air umbrella for Israel and played an active role in the operations. In the following hours and days, the Egyptian media constantly repeated the same argument in a variety of forms.

Thus, for example, on the afternoon of June 6, Radio Cairo reported that British Canberra bombers had taken part in air strikes against Egyptian posts in Sinai and that U.S. aircraft had left the U.S. air base in Libya for Israel. The next day, Egypt’s leading newspaper, Al-Ahram, quoted by Radio Cairo, reported that British and U.S. pilots were flying Israeli planes under the guise of volunteers and that Israeli pilots used aerial photographs taken by U.S. spy aircraft. The Egyptian propaganda machinery then let launch a barrage of reports on the Anglo-American “aggression” with Israel.

One might have thought that almost fifty years later, this absurd tale of nonexistent American and British participation in the Six-Day War would have long been buried. But it lives on in Egyptian textbooks. Here is one paragraph that thirty-two years after that war ended was still to be found in those schoolbooks (and it may still be in them today):

The United States’ role: Israel was not [fighting] on its own in the [1967] war. Hundreds of volunteers, pilots, and military officers with American scientific spying equipment of the most advanced type photographed the Egyptian posts for it [Israel], jammed the Egyptian defense equipment, and transmitted to it the orders of the Egyptian command.

As Podeh notes in his Middle East Forum article, “the above quote is not a propaganda item; it is taken from an Egyptian high school history textbook published in 1999. This fictitious depiction repeats older textbooks, and is reproduced in new textbooks for lower grades. For more than thirty years, a fabricated narrative of the 1967 war has been transmitted by the Egyptian education system as a fact.”

The Americans have been providing Israel with whatever intelligence information they have managed to compile on the location of the hostages, a task which constantly changes because the hostages are regularly moved from place to place. But that is all. According to Jake Sullivan, “There were no Americans involved militarily.” No American boots on the ground, no Navy Seals, nothing of that sort. Just some help as to where some of the hostages might have been held. But that won’t stop Hamas and its supporters from accusing America of having done a great deal more.

Jake Sullivan was forthright, in an appearance on CNN after the hostage rescue, on who was to blame for the civilian casualties:

“The Palestinian people are going through sheer hell in this conflict because Hamas is operating in a way that puts them in the crossfire that holds hostages right in the heart of crowded civilian areas, that puts military emplacements right in the heart of crowded civilian areas.”

Do not be surprised if the Palestinians in their future textbooks describe the hostage rescue as a joint “American and Israeli operation,” during which “more than a thousand civilians, almost all of them women and children, were massacred in the greatest bloodbath of modern times.”

Nothing, remember, is too absurd for Hamas to claim, or for the world’s antisemites, from Francesca Albanese and Antonio Guterres to Roger Waters and Eric Clapton, to believe. So just keep sweeping back the tide of malignant nonsense. Brooms out, please!

Hugh Fitzgerald, Front Page Magazine

I wrote this just before Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict:

Hunter’s trial is a SHOW trial. Just like Trump’s trial.

Trump’s trial SHOWS us what happens to dissenters in a weaponized, thoroughly politicized one Party “justice” system.

Hunter’s trial is a SHOW (like Breaking Bad or House of Cards were shows) designed to distract us from what has actually happened to our former republic. Hunter will not be convicted of anything; or if he is, he will walk.

Do not fall for it. And ignore the earnest performances of head nodding, smoothe talking, intellectually dazed news reporters. They hope to earn big bucks drawing you into the charade.

Hunter Biden will be JUST FINE. He never has been accountable a moment of his life; and never will be.

It’s bread and circuses for the conservatives. We all know who’s fully in charge. Whatever happens to the Bidens, the Uniparty will remain in power, until it’s overthrown.

And it will not go quietly; or willingly.

P.S. Emperor Biden said he will NOT pardon his son. This means: He will pardon his son.

P.S. again: If you want to punish Hunter Biden, don’t put him in jail. Just cut off his cocaine and his whores. THAT will be torture for him.

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AOC — America’s own Communist in Congress — screams that Trump will throw her in jail if he wins the “election.” Robert de Niro and other Hollywood sociopaths are saying the same thing.

Let me get this straight …

The people who are jailing their opposition, stifling dissent, wrecking the military, inflating the currency to buy votes, setting real criminals loose, rigging elections, weaponizing courts, opening up the American borders to anyone and everyone, trying to outlaw guns, sexually mutilate minors, and poison people through forced medical experimentation are calling Trump a dictator?

[photo and headline: Breitbart]

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“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out”—David Horowitz

There Are No Civilians in Gaza

Hamas are the civilians.

June 11, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield 20 Comments

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Americans expected Osama bin Laden to be found in a cave in Afghanistan. In reality, he was living comfortably in a military town in Pakistan under the protection of local authorities. Similarly, Israeli hostages, including the four who were last rescued, have come home telling stories of being kept captive in ‘civilian’ households.

In both cases we fundamentally misunderstood what Islamic terrorism is. It’s not a “fringe group of extremists”, as politicians and the media describe it, but an ethnic and religious movement. The religious values of Islamic terrorists are universally shared by the vast majority of Muslims, while the ethnic ones ground Islamic warfare in the interests of specific clans and families.

Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and has a widespread base of support across the Muslim world which is dotted with branches of the Brotherhood, but its ethnic power base is also grounded in the key clans and families that control Gaza. That is why Hamas still retains the support of the majority of the Muslim colonists currently occupying Gaza. It’s also why those same ‘civilians’ held Israeli hostages prisoner and could be trusted not to inform on them.

The latest Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll shows that 71% of Gazans support the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 and 56% expect Hamas to win the war. 62% in Gaza are happy with the performance of Hamas during the war and 59% want Hamas to stay in power.

That’s because they are Hamas and the terror group is also them.

The ‘Palestinian’ myth is that the Muslim colonists occupying parts of Israel are the ‘indigenous’ people. The reality is that they were Arab settlers who arrived with and after the Islamic conquest of Israel. Some, like the notorious Husayini clan, which produced Hitler’s Mufti, were relatively recent arrivals. The most powerful and wealthiest of these large families took control of urban areas, as the Husayinis tried to do in Jerusalem, and became a vital part of the Ottoman feudal order serving as mayors and muftis. When the Ottomans were defeated, the clans fought to reclaim their power with movements like the Muslim Brotherhood also known as Hamas.

Hamas is an ideological Islamist movement, but its control over Gaza depends on these large families. That’s why the idea that most people have that Hamas is a fanatical movement that exists apart from ordinary people and can be fought and defeated apart from them is wrong.

That’s also why so few of the hostages have been rescued. Like the last four, the hostages were largely dispersed among ‘civilian’ clan families across neighborhoods controlled by them. These families are formally civilian households, but many of their members are affiliated with Hamas. Rather than being an army whose members belong foremost to Hamas, they are more like the mafia and belong foremost to their extended clan, and choose to lend their support to Hamas.

It’s not just that Hamas uses human shields, which it certainly does, it’s that its infrastructure depends on clans whose adults provide fighters and whose women and children act as human shields for the greater glory of the clan and for Islam. The same clans that will kill teenage girls for violating family honor will also serve up even younger children as human shields for honor.

There is no way for Israel to rescue its hostages without going into dense neighborhoods under the control of the clans to get them out. And that will lead to firefights and ‘Black Hawk Down’ moments. Clan members, who never identify themselves as such, will cry that they were massacred. And foreign leaders and the media will condemn the deaths of ‘civilians’.

Defeating Hamas without civilian casualties is impossible because the Islamic terrorist group not only operates among civilians, but is rooted in the society of Gaza. The clans that run Gaza, that provide the manpower that controls UNRWA institutions, and that are the mainstays of Hamas are also the large families that dominate the businesses, cultural and religious life in Gaza.

There’s no meaningful distinction between civilians and Hamas. Some clans reject Hamas authority and Israel has tried to solicit some of them to run Gaza. For now with few results. The United States strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq had similarly depended on swaying certain clans, elders and warlords into abandoning Al Qaeda or the Taliban with very temporary success.

Eventually the Taliban or Al Qaeda, rebranded as ISIS, returned. And some of the same men we had armed and trained, turned their guns on us. That is an almost inevitable outcome in Counterinsurgency or COIN. When bringing democracy to the Muslim world fails, Westerners begin competing with Jihadists for the support of the clans only to be stabbed in the back.

The Jihadists have the Koran on their side. To Muslims, their terrorism will always be more righteous than our fumbling efforts to avoid civilian casualties and collateral damage. Appealing to moderates or promising a better life will not win their support. On the contrary, it only infuriates the Imams in their mosques and the influential clan leaders into opposing us.

Instead we must reckon with the reality that there are few civilians in Gaza or in the Muslim world. And those who legitimately are civilians should be measured by their deeds, not their clothing. In a culture where terrorists in the field don’t wear uniforms, where large families have sizable stocks of weapons and children are taught to kill and die, the externals don’t matter.

There are no civilians in Gaza. The vast majority of the population supports Hamas or some Islamic terrorist movement. Only a tiny minority opposes Islamic terrorism and wants peace.

The distinction is not between soldiers, terrorists and civilians, but enemies and non-combatants. Israel and Western nations should stop thinking about civilians, a concept that does not apply in a battlespace where terrorists wear street clothes and entire neighborhoods are controlled by clans that hide hostages in plain sight, and think about enemies and neutrals.

An enemy is anyone, regardless of clothing or sex, who is aligned with Islamic terrorists.

Every poll continues to show that the vast majority of those in Gaza are aligned with the enemy. And if that were not the case, the war would have long since ended once locals informed the authorities of where the hostages are and where the remaining Hamas terrorists are set up.

Israel is not just at war with an organization, but with an enemy culture. As is most of the world whether it chooses to admit it or not. The war is not defined by what they wear, but what they think. As long as human shields, female suicide bombers and child soldiers abound, the war cannot be fought by treating civilians as noncombatants while hunting elusive terrorists.

The only way to defeat an enemy is to fight him as he is, not as we would like him to be.

It would be a far cleaner and neater war if Islamic terrorists fought like conventional armies. They do not. And it is time to fight them on their own terms instead.

Hamas can’t be defeated by waiting until its terrorists take off their civilian clothes and put on uniforms. Hamas are the civilians. They are the ones holding the hostages. The only way to free the hostages and defeat the terrorists is to destroy the terror culture in whatever form it takes.

While some may find that a stretch, it is not.

Just about two years ago, I authored a book titled: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence. The sole purpose of that book was to not only warn of the far-left’s increasing attempts to cancel the 4th of July and our Founding Fathers, but to outline how to stop them.

For over a year prior to its publication, I spent endless hours researching the men who eventually signed the Declaration as well as those who did not. Men, by the way, who were all flawed and imperfect human beings, as are we all.

In many ways, it was the mindset of the men who refused to step up to sign the most famous document in our history, which ultimately highlighted the incredible courage, fortitude, sacrifice and genius of those who did sign. Most especially, the wealthiest of the Signers.

Back in 1776, the vast majority of the wealthy in the Colonies either remained silent, or openly became “Loyalists” to the British Crown. Why? They did not want to rock the boat or risk their wealth and privilege.

Fortunately for us, our wealthy Founding Fathers decided they could not live with themselves if they did not step out from that pack of entitled silent sheep to take a stand against the tyranny of the Crown. Each asked the two most critically important questions of their lives: “If not me, who? If not now, when?”

Now, let’s flash ahead to June of 2015.

At that time, Trump was one of the wealthiest and most well-known men not only in the United States, but in the world. He was a multibillionaire with a global business empire. Why in the world would he rock that boat? Better – like the wealthy of 1776 – to play nice with the entrenched establishment elites in both political Parties so as to secure his wealth and privilege.

I was told by friends of Trump that as he traveled the country in 2015 he was truly shocked and saddened by what he saw. That being countless Americans suffering under the failed policies of a broken and corrupt political system. And it was then, I was told that Trump asked himself those same two questions: “If not me, who? If not now, when?”

So, he declared himself a candidate for President.

And from the second he did, he was savaged by the forces from the left as well as Republican “Never-Trumpers” who knew they could not control him. As we know, once he shocked the political world with his victory in 2016, those vile attacks only intensified. By 2020, it was clear that there was no line the Democrats and their bootlickers in the liberal media would not cross to “get Trump.”

Come 2024 Trump did not have to guess what some Democrats had in store for him if he ran for President because they openly telegraphed the strategy. They had a bloodlust to imprison him by any means necessary.

Now, think about that for a moment. Trump knew they were marshaling an army of activist liberal judges, prosecutors, district attorneys and state supreme courts against him in a desperate attempt to imprison him and he still chose to run for president.

Many have forgotten – or are not taught – that a number of Founding Fathers paid a cruel price for signing the Declaration of Independence. As in: having their homes and crops burned to the ground; their livestock slaughtered; being imprisoned; being tortured; having their wives arrested and sexually abused; and their sons arrested.

In spite of that – and because of that – our Founding Fathers believed that unless and until they imprison us or take our lives, they cannot silence our individual voices. They can’t stop us from speaking out in the defense of our liberty and our rights.

Trump would not be silenced. Illegal gag orders or not, he spoke out for his rights while highlighting the threats against his liberty and…ours.

And as his voice still echoes, we should all think: “There but for the Grace of God go I.” For if the forces of the far-left can do this to a multibillionaire former President of the United States, they can do it to any one of us.

Sadly, there are multiple conservative, Republican, and faith-based billionaires with broad reaching talents who have chosen to remain on the sidelines. Who have chosen to “not rock the boat.” Who have allowed themselves to be cowed into silence by the forces of the far-left.

Trump was – and is – not one. Honest history will one day record that when the United States of our time needed a champion with the traits of a “Founding Father,” Trump stood up and fought the good fight against the entrenched establishments and overwhelming odds.

A fight he is still waging.

Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence.  

Nearly 14 months after the first of four unprecedented criminal prosecutions against former President Donald Trump commenced in earnest, the Democrat-lawfare complex got its man: The Soviet show trial in “Justice” Juan Merchan’s dingy New York City courtroom produced its preordained “guilty” verdict.

It is perhaps hackneyed to observe that, in convicting and seeking to incarcerate a former president and current leading presidential candidate, we have “crossed the Rubicon.” Well …

Did we not cross a Rubicon when the demonic Obama administration sued the nuns—yes, literal nuns—of the Little Sisters of the Poor to force them to subsidize abortifacients? Did we not cross a Rubicon when Democrats threw out 4,000-5,000 years of “innocent until proven guilty” civilizational norms to derail the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh? Did we not cross a Rubicon when then-vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris solicited funds to bail out anarchic Antifa-Black Lives Matter street hooligans? Did we not cross a Rubicon when the American Stasi—sorry, the FBI—raided Mar-a-Lago over a document dispute? Did we not cross a Rubicon when myriad Trump attorneys, including the renowned scholar John Eastman, were prosecuted for practicing the legal profession? Did we not cross a Rubicon when Peter Navarro or Steve Bannon (just now) were ordered to jail?

The Rubicon, truthfully, is a shallow, inconsequential river in Italy. That it is so shallow helps explain why Julius Caesar was able to cross it so easily. At this juncture in American history, it no longer suffices to speak of crossing a Rubicon. We are now rapidly crossing great seas—perhaps even circumnavigating the globe. You might call President Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrat-lawfare complex our modern-day Magellans.

Ruinous or not, however, their precedent has now been set. And that raises the obvious question: For Democrats, will all of this, and especially their multifront anti-Trump lawfare, prove to be worth it?

That obvious question, in turn, has an equally obvious answer: absolutely, positively not.

Josh Hammer, Chronicles

The federal court system is rigged, politicized and weaponized. The FBI is not a police force; it’s a 21st Century Gestapo at war with anyone who questions the government. Social Security and Medicare are broke (for real) and are unsustainable, beyond a few more years according to the government’s own figures. The Federal Reserve is decisively making our money worthless so Biden can forgive student loans and let unlimited Democrats into the country to live off the government permanently. Russia and China are encroaching closer and closer to our shores. Our own military is weakening, and demoralized by woke generals more concerned with protecting the feelings of cross dressers than winning a potential war of self-defense. The federal health system calls for the mandatory imposition of experimental treatments that self-evidently do not work and can likely kill you, and the companies producing this toxic snake oil are awarded billions of government dollars.

The federal government is fiscally, strategically and morally a growing liability, infested with utterly amoral, unaccountable freaks. So WHY do we still have this federal government?

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In a way, the powers-that-be who occupy Washington DC have a point, when they say we’re all in danger. It’s dangerous when mass numbers of people — maybe half the entire population of the U.S., or more — no longer think the court systems are honest, that they’re totally politicized (as they plainly are).

Some leftists think the weaponization of courts is a good thing. “People like Trump, DeSantis and others should be locked up.” Some are actually saying it, and without shame. They applaud the precedent of political incarceration because it’s happening to people they do not like. “Where was political incarceration when Reagan and Bush were president?” the older ones say. Who knew forcing socialism and Communism on the country could be so easy? Just make up a law, charge the undesirable candidate for President with it, and then rig the jury by selecting a jurisdiction where everyone hates the candidate. Then it’s all over!

They’ll rationalize it all by saying, “Well, what alternative do we have to locking up Trump — other than a dictatorship?” They view Trump’s rise to power — and anyone else who shares his views, by the way — as evidence of war. They think that one-party rule, imposed by fraud and force, is freedom; and that Trump’s tax cuts, spending cuts, easing of “climate change” regulations and attempts to uphold the Constitution’s emphasis on due process are the imposition of dictatorship. So they fight back.

Unfortunately, people on the Trump/MAGA/Republican side either lack the will or the means for fighting back, at least so far. They complain to each other on talk radio, the Internet and their media; but that’s all that happens. How many more dissenters will be put in jail before America’s political dissidents organize and start taking some kind of action? What will it take — concentration camps, where people who voted for Trump or said incorrect things on social media will be rounded up for “reeducation”? Does anyone realize how perilously close we are to that, right at this moment?

It’s not stopping with Trump. Already, the Biden regime has charged a medical doctor in Texas who spoke out against genital mutilation of minors with four felonies. Maybe Trump will escape jail, but will all the people with lower profiles be as fortunate?

Things are dangerous all right, but not for the people like Biden, Merrick Garland, the FBI and other Commiefascists who hold all the power and all the cards, at present. Things are dangerous for anyone who disagrees with them, or plans to openly disagree with them in the future. Things are dangerous for the cause of liberty itself. Things are dangerous for any kind of prosperity, with prosperity defined as anything beyond a basic sustenance provided by the government. Why? Because on our present march toward hyperinflation, that’s all anybody is going to get — a pittance from the government, provided they never criticize that government. Only the multibillionaires and connected will be able to handle a dollar that’s worth 1/1,000,000th of its present value in another several years or even sooner.

The totalitarians destroying our Constitution, ruining the currency, wrecking the justice system, opening the borders and opening the floodgates to all of our enemies (including Russia, with warships reportedly headed for the Caribbean in the near future) are the real danger.

They — the leftists, the RINOs, the Commiefascists of our time –scream that they’re in danger; but without any decisive or determined effort yet to remove them from power (hint: elections do not matter to them), they haven’t a thing to worry about. The rest of us do.

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