Whoopee, Trump is 1 percent ahead of Biden!! I know a lot of people consider this GOOD news. I find it PITIFUL. I would prefer not to live in a country where even 1 percent would support the tyrannical, demented perverted puppet Biden over ANYONE. I find it all impossible to comprehend. The world has truly gone mad.
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People yearn for a big event. For something larger than life. For something that unites them. The solar eclipse provided that for many today. In this case it was benign, and harmless. But in other cases — not so much. COVID provided the same escape hatch for “something larger than myself.” COVID was a calamity. Not the virus itself (mostly just a nasty flu), but the ensuing economic and psychological destruction. It will take years to recover, and most may never fully recover, especially children. We let the media and government blow a hole in young people’s lives, all so mass numbers of neurotic adults could feel a sense of toxic meaning.
Millions signed on for the B.S. because the media told them it was real, important, and just as the media told them it was. It led to disaster. Today’s eclipse mania was not destructive. But it sprang from the same faulty premise as COVID. “I need something to make me feel important, like I belong.” Isn’t your LIFE enough? Isn’t that important enough? If not, you’re vulnerable to manipulation and treachery. Be careful. And don’t you dare impose your lack of fulfillment on others who already know how to enjoy and find meaning in life. Don’t make your existential neuroses a healthy person’s calamity.
Michael J. Hurd.
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Neither state governments nor the federal government have “rights.” The sole legitimate purpose of a government is to uphold rights.
Governments exist to serve US. Not by stealing from fellow citizens to give us their wealth or property. Governments serve us by upholding our individual rights to life, property and the pursuit of happiness. That’s it. But that’s everything. If government betrays us, especially on the scale we have witnessed in the last few years alone — well, it’s unforgivable.
At present, the federal government does virtually nothing but violate rights. Its very legitimacy is questioned, if not invalidated, due to the Biden-Obama regime. Most state governments violate rights, but some more than others; some state governments — primarily in red states — uphold some rights, some of the time.
We have to stop looking to the government to fix itself. Once a government crosses over the line and starts violating rights, it’s like a spouse who has repeatedly cheated on you, or a business partner who has swindled you. You can’t come back from it.
These people in government are worse than criminals. Criminals and mobsters face at least the threat of accountability. Career government officials face ZERO accountability. Yet they wield unlimited power over their fellow man in unprecedented ways. Most tyrants of history have never enjoyed the unchallenged power of today’s American tyrants who exercise their tyranny in the name of “freedom” and “democracy.”
The federal government is not going to correct itself; certainly not under the Biden-Obama regime, nor anything equivalent, such as a Gavin Newsom, Michelle Obama or Kamala Harris regime. They tell us as much, often in their words and always in their actions. It’s time to start believing them.
You can hold out hope that Trump will somehow overcome all the “lawfare,” election fraud and whatever else they have in store for us (perhaps the declaration of a “climate emergency” on Nov. 1 which will cancel the election); that Trump will somehow make the federal government into something other than what it has become. To me, that seems highly doubtful, but I get that most otherwise well meaning patriots don’t want to hear it. So we’ll wait out the year and the next couple of years and see who’s right.
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It is the height of naiveté to believe that the seditious, anti-American left has any desire for, or intention of, peaceful coexistence with traditional America’s patriotic conservatives or Judeo-Christian culture. They despise those of us who reside in the so-called “flyover” part of the country…the “deplorables,” “Bitter Clingers,” “Deniers,” “American Nationalists,” etc. Despite all their empty rhetoric about tolerance, equality, diversity, and social justice, make no mistake about it: the “radical left’s” ultimate goal is the demise of all and any who oppose their totalitarian worldview.
Understanding your adversaries’ overall intentions, strategy, and desired outcome should determine your resistance level. Ask yourself some simple questions: Where do you fit in their worldview? How would traditional, patriotic, religious Americans fare in a supposed “utopian socialist society?” What part would our children and grandchildren play in an “Orwellian” culture that had absolute control over their lives? Would they be free to express and practice their beliefs? What are the chances that their values and religious convictions would be tolerated? How much latitude would there be for peaceful coexistence? For insight concerning these questions, consider: Historically speaking, how well have Christians and Jews fared in radical Islamic or Communist totalitarian cultures?
Now that the media has become the purveyors of progressive propaganda, powerful leftist politicians are proposing to end the Second Amendment, and our “freedom of speech” legislated “hate speech,” what recourse would be available to us? History is replete with tragic examples.
The idea that you can compromise, negotiate, or coexist with those bent on your destruction is philosophical nonsense, the philosophy of naiveté. Only someone drunk with idealism could suggest such foolishness. Take, for example, the disastrous results of the deluded, liberal Israeli leaders Shimon Peres, Itzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak, and Ehud Olmert, who advocated “land for peace” with their surrounding Palestinian enemies. Shortly after withdrawing from Gaza in 2005, Hamas began showering rockets on Israeli civilians.
On October 7, 2023, the absurdity of “land for peace” culminated in a surprise attack by 3,000 Hamas terrorists against Israel from the Gaza Strip, slaughtering 1200 innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
Respite gained by foolish compromise and passivity in the face of evil is a vain attempt to circumvent reality. Refusal to confront and refute an increasingly demonic, depraved culture comes with a steep price. Silence motivates and encourages evil and ends in subjugation.
There is no such thing as mutual concession between light and darkness. God never has nor will compromise or tolerate evil…nor should we. When we fail to respond to the words and actions of those intent on our destruction, we allow them to define us. Paralyzing fear is the most potent tool of tyrants and devils. Lies and slander must be fearlessly refuted with truth; indifference toward sin and apathy to evil, whether personal or cultural, always culminate in ruin and regret. Ignorance is bliss until reality comes knocking.
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity…in the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” Antonio Gramsci (20th-century Italian Marxist philosopher)
If freedom-loving patriotic Americans do not soon rise up and confront the radical left’s progressive agenda, the radical left’s progressive agenda will put an end to America as we know it.
It is hard to believe how any clear-thinking person could interpret the current radical leftist policies other than an attempt to subvert and destroy our constitutional republic and replace it with a Marxist system of government. The agenda-driven mainstream media, the unofficial propaganda arm of the Democratic party, is, in my opinion, responsible for the public’s ignorance of the pending peril. You must first control what and how they think to indoctrinate people to believe what you want them to believe. To control how they think, you must secure the means to restrict their access to any information that runs counter to your ideology while simultaneously utilizing a well-coordinated propaganda campaign to stigmatize and silence your critics and demonize and marginalize those who oppose your repressive ideology. The time is late, and the stakes are high.
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” Pericles
“Those who fail to see their enemies for who they are will soon become extinct.”
“Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.” “And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.” (Jer. 1:17 & 19)
Pray the Lord will continue to bless and protect America so we may remain free until His return.
A. W. Weckeman
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Face facts, sentimentalists. America is about as just, fair and reasonable a place as Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China or Castro’s Cuba. It’s getting worse by the day. We not only sense it; we literally see it.
Sooner or later, you will have to face the fact that the American republic succumbed. It became all the things its founders hoped it would not. We blew it. A LOT of people blew it, over a period of generations. We are the generation who gets to see it all play out.
What went wrong? America’s founders had the greatest idea yet. Government is never the solution, they knew; it’s always the problem. But, they reasoned, you can’t exist without a government. Otherwise, you’ll be run by competing gangs of mobsters (kind of what we have now). It’s better to have a standing military and local police — held in strict Constitutional check — than no government at all.
So their premise was a good one: Severely limiting the government’s reach and powers. And use a Bill of Rights to restrain it.
For a long time, it worked amazingly well. Nobody else has ever come close. America pulled it off for a very long time.
Until recent years, there were no open or concentrated attacks on the Bill of Rights. Yes, the Bill of Rights were sometimes violated; this was a problem from the beginning. Slavery was a glaring issue from day one. But violations were the exception, not the rule. Slavery was eventually outlawed.
Today, violations of our Constitution and Bill of Rights — on the local level as much as the federal level, in many locations — are daily, even hourly. Vax mandates, government-run medicine, government-run indoctrination of children with obviously psychotic ideas, fossil fuel mandates, skyrocketing property taxes to pay for “schools”, deliberate inflation of the currency to keep the elites in unearned wealth, the poor dependent on the dole and all at the expense of the middle class. Need I go on? It has never been so bad, from a freedom point-of-view; not in the USA. NEVER.
Limited government was the right idea. But it didn’t work out in practice, at least not forever. Think about the kind of people who enter government, in any place or time. For the most part, they are the least morally and mentally qualified of the population. Otherwise, why would they work in government? This was always a problem. When you look at Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, the long-time problem has only become more obvious. These goons are caricatures. But state and local governments are just as full of these types. They ruin lives every time they touch something. They do absolutely no good for anyone, and they end up hampering, distorting and doing a lot of harm, economically and otherwise.
Put simply: You can’t get good people into government because good people want to do other things. And the best, most productive and most worthwhile things are virtually always done OUTSIDE of government. So we leave the government to the corrupt who will not be accountable for their actions, because in government, you largely don’t have to be accountable. (And don’t talk to me about elections — not anymore!)
Ayn Rand picked up on this problem in her famous novel, Atlas Shrugged. Early on in the book, you see her fictional heroes of business — Hank Rearden, Dagny Taggart — minimizing or ignoring the overreaching hand of government. They correctly saw the bureaucrats as a bunch of idiots who couldn’t hold a staff position in a railroad, much less run a railroad; but they missed the toxic hold the government could eventually have on all of society. They learned the hard way, and eventually had to go on strike to fight it all and bring the government down.
That’s exactly what happened in America (well, not the strike — not yet, at least). Our republic was brought down not by an ideological revolution of the sort we saw in China, Russia and Cuba. Those countries were impoverished lands of anti-liberty in the first place; to the lost souls inhabiting those countries, any revolution seemed like a potentially good one.
America had far less excuse. We lost our freedom through negligence and ignorance. And some brainwashing, because our cultural and intellectual elites are — frankly, psychopaths. If you cannot see that now, then I cannot help you.
Too many of us told ourselves, “Politics doesn’t matter to me.” Then, one day — as many of us are increasingly finding — we find politics knocking on our door. I’m not just talking about the FBI going after conservatives and other brazenly anti-Constitutional overreaches, which is really happening. I’m talking about the economy. Under our failure to watch, the economy became political too. Now it’s a plaything for puppets like the Biden crime family — and it doesn’t matter who succeeds them — to play havoc with our rights, our lives, our prosperity and our basic well-being. We used to arrest and imprison people like the Biden crime family. Now, we arrest and imprison Trump — for speaking truth to the lies.
America was the greatest thing to date. But from a liberty point-of-view, it ultimately did not work out. Mankind has to find a better solution. Either we have to find an alternative to limited government; or we have to find a way to staff the limited government with people who will be removed from power and/or imprisoned the moment they go outside the boundaries.
I don’t have an obvious answer. But I know human beings of the future will suffer the same outcome we’re witnessing now, unless they get it right next time.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
— Dostoyevsky
Honesty is not a selfless trait. It’s not a sentimental gesture befitting a Boy Scout.
Honesty means adherence to reality. When you’re honest, you’re sane.
You don’t necessarily owe everyone the truth. You don’t owe someone the truth just because they say so. You never owe the truth to someone with a gun pointed at your head. Nor to a gossip, nor to anyone else without proper respect or boundaries.
But you have an allegiance to yourself, to your own survival, and to the well-being of anyone you love to know what’s true, as best you can. That’s how honesty is connected to love. If you are unable or unwilling to be honest with yourself — to let yourself KNOW facts, know reality — then your love and allegiance to another will not be worth very much.
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Turns out that evidence was factual, and polling later showed had it been reported as other issues during the runup to the election, Joe Biden almost certainly would have lost the election.
Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime Democrat but running as an independent because of Democrat party allegiance to Biden as a candidate, says if elected president, he’d have a special counsel look at the disputes.
And he debunked the standard Democrat talking point against Trump and his voters.
“January 6 is one of the most polarizing topics on the political landscape. I am listening to people of diverse viewpoints on it in order to make sense of the event and what followed. I want to hear every side,” he said.
“It is quite clear that many of the January 6 protestors broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot. Because it happened with the encouragement of President Trump, and in the context of his delusion that the election was stolen from him, many people see it not as a riot but as an insurrection.
I have not examined the evidence in detail, but reasonable people, including Trump opponents, tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection. They observe that the protestors carried no weapons, had no plans or ability to seize the reins of government, and that Trump himself had urged them to protest ‘peacefully,'” he said.
But he does have concern for how Joe Biden and his appointees have manipulated the situation.
“Like many reasonable Americans, I am concerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment. That would fit a disturbing pattern of the weaponization of government agencies — the DoJ, the IRS, the SEC, the FBI, etc. — against political opponents,” he warned.
“One can, as I do, oppose Donald Trump and all he stands for, and still be disturbed by the weaponization of government against him,” he said. “As president, I will appoint a special counsel — an individual respected by all sides — to investigate whether prosecutorial discretion was abused for political ends in this case, and I will right any wrongs that we discover.
“Without the impartial rule of law, there is no true democracy or moral governance. That’s why John Adams, a staunch patriot, defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in court. If we betray justice in pursuit of an ideal, that betrayal will corrupt anything we accomplish,” he said.
He said political opponents in America should be defeated “at the ballot box,” rather than through “legal maneuvers and dirty tricks.”
In fact, Democrats have launched a multitude of criminal charges, often on the shakiest of foundations, against President Trump, trying to hamstring his 2024 presidential campaign.
Kennedy said political parties now appear to be campaigning “on the demonization of their opponents and all who support them.”
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President Joe Biden’s welcoming Easter Sunday message posted on X that, “Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you…” was shocking. Most could not understand how the President’s judgment can be so skewed on the most holy day for Christians.
As offensive as this was, it provides a window through which all can see what’s happening. With Biden’s cognitive decline being so obvious, there can be little doubt that he is being used by internal and external enemies of America intent on breaking down the constitutional republic of the United States without firing a shot. And it’s not hard to recognize the plan being followed is parallel to the blueprint plan revealed forty years ago by Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, who explained the four stages of communist subversion: 1) Demoralization, 2) Disorientation, 3) Crisis, and 4) Normalization.
The United States has been under prolonged internal attacks of demoralization for several generations, through the educational system and the culture which have delivered messaging that disparages the United States and derides traditional values.
The second stage, known as disorientation, is most successful after a large portion of the population has been demoralized. Covid-19 brought about disorientation through mask mandates, social distancing, quarantines, lockdowns, and the abandonment of best medical practices of preventative and therapeutic treatments. Another important part of disorientation that was inflicted on America at that time was the ginned-up racism after the death of George Floyd, which triggered rioting, looting, and destruction of several billion dollars’ worth of property and the tearing down of historic statues and memorials in many cities across the United States.
What added to the disorientation of Americans at that time was that for weeks nobody seemed able to do anything about the rioting, lawlessness, and destruction going on in big cities across America. There were few arrests while some 1,000 police officers were injured and 33 were killed. At the same time cities with the most lawlessness like Minneapolis, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore initiated efforts to defund their police and law enforcement.
When nothing makes sense, the subliminal message is, “This is not the America you know, it’s a new world that you have entered.” This was as close to a mass state of disorientation in a time of relative peace as Americans have ever experienced.
The stage that follows “disorientation” is the “crisis” stage. The crisis stage would come in November 2020 with election rigging. The fear factor of Covid contagion was exploited by Democratic operatives who brought change to swing state election rules that greatly expanded mail-in ballots and drop boxes, which everyone knows facilitates vote fraud.
Simultaneous to the changes to election rules to facilitate stuffing the ballot boxes, a social media censorship and cancellation campaign was undertaken by the Stanford University-based NGO Election Integrity Project (EIP) in consultation with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a unit within the Department of Homeland Security.
EIP had an inordinate influence on the 2020 election by convincing major social media companies such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube, Reddit, and Pinterest to change their customer terms of service policies to incorporate language about “delegitimization.” Once that was accomplished, according to Mike Benz, a former U.S. State Department communications policymaker and an expert on propaganda, the door would be open to instantaneous algorithmic mass censorship and cancellation. EIP then exerted pressure on all the social media companies to adhere to their customer service policies and censor, cancel, or deplatform any content that contained “delegitimized” terms such as: ‘new election protocols and processes,’ ‘issues and outcomes,’ ‘mail-in ballots,’ ‘early voting,’ ‘drop boxes,’ and ‘Antifa.’ And when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke in mid-October 2020, it was immediately delegitimized, and taken down from every social media site.
In the end by EIP’s own admission, Twitter was forced to cancel 22 million tweets that contained “misinformation” associated with delegitimized terms that violated the company’s terms of service prior to the November 2020 election. After the election, when many Americans felt disenfranchised and had many questions about perceived irregularities, they found that social media effectively thwarted discussion about election fraud, again facilitated by censoring and canceling any content containing new delegitimized terms such as ‘Stop the Steal,’ ‘dead voter rolls,’ ‘Sharpiegate,’ ‘manufactured ballots,’ ‘stolen election,’ and ‘Postal Service’ to name a few.
While America is still in the crisis stage, some subversion experts argue that the censorship and cancellation regime that now exists is also part of the last and final stage of communist takeover known as “normalization.” If Americans are denied access to information, become accustomed to rigged elections, accept limitations on free speech, and acquiesce to the rewriting of history facilitated by cancellation and deconstructing the past, the constitutional republic that was America will be gone, and the new world of government elite control will be normalized. As John Adams, the second president, warned, “Liberty once lost is lost forever.”
With information narratives coming from government agencies that have direct portals to social media, combined with information and voices being blocked, canceled, or deplatformed on social media by NGOs like Election Integrity Partnership, the result is an Orwellian thought control.
Censorship is not just a violation of the First Amendment and an assault on the Constitution. It is a betrayal of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Our entire way of life is protected by the First Amendment, which is the firewall against abuse of power and tyranny.
Scott Powell is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger China and senior fellow at Discovery Institute. His timeless book, Rediscovering America, was a #1 Amazon new release in history for eight straight weeks. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
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