There is little future for ignoring Lord Montgomery’s first rule of war —
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: ‘Do not march on Moscow’…[Rule 2] is: ‘Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.’
Speech,1962
America does not have a justice system. It’s organized crime. Only WAY more dangerous. It has false moral credibility and almost unlimited military and economic power, which no underground mobsters ever enjoyed. America was originally a free country — literally a wilderness, at first — and grew into the greatest, most prosperous nation in human history, lifted by freedom and the moral strength of a free people.
Now we are an awful mess, because we let our government grow into the biggest monster ever seen. We allowed parasites to acquire power on the backs of productive geniuses and average people who worked for a living.
The grotesque narcissists and sociopaths in power (absolutely BOTH parties) are the byproducts of a malignancy, created by a government wildly out of control and a media-intellectual establishment as dishonest and vicious as anything ever seen. America — actually the whole free world — has cancer.
Cancer can be defeated, but it takes unrelenting force and courage, as any cancer survivor knows. You have to eradicate the malignancy. You don’t compromise with it. Remember that, as more and more of your freedoms go away.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Being humble means having a low or modest estimate of one’s character or importance. It means selflessness and viewing others as more important than oneself. This is widely regarded as a virtue.
Humans are supposed to feel humble before God and burdened with original sin. God is credited with creating the earth and all the creatures on it. He is said to be omniscient, totally moral, all-loving, and omnipotent. He can violate the laws of nature through such actions as the “virgin birth,” miracle cures of disease, and bringing back people from death. In contrast, humans are inferior to God in all these respects and must be obedient to God in order to get into heaven and avoid hell. When humans sin, to be saved they must beg God for forgiveness.
Given human inferiority, religion logically views pride or self-valuing for one’s virtues and achievements as the worst of all sins, the cancer of the soul. Practically, pride “goeth before the fall.” Morally, pride is considered unjust because, by implication, it puts humans on the same plane as God, though they are obviously inferior. Many decades ago, I saw a light-hearted movie in which a woman was talking to a friend and said how much she loved her husband because he was so modest. The friend replied, “Well, he has a lot to be modest about.” Religion views this to be the case for the whole human race.
Christian virtue is largely based on the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. The overall themes are selflessness and obedience. In the end “The first shall be last and the last shall be first.” “The meek shall inherit the earth,” although, of course, in reality, they never do.
Here are some common examples that have been proposed as ways to practice humility and thereby avoid the sin of pride.
Actually, such examples of humility do not involve self-belittlement but rather commitment to reason and justice and thus make one worthy of self-respect.
A newborn knows nothing. Starting at birth, learning things from others, starting with parents and then teachers, is necessary for survival. As one grows, if one wants to thrive, one needs to proactively gain and actively seek knowledge throughout one’s life. Thanking or acknowledging others who enhanced your life in some way (i.e., gratitude) is giving them their due. This applies even to those who are not living. For example, we owe a tremendous debt to Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, the Founding Fathers of America, and many others who have helped make the world a better place. Pretending to be a know-it-all is to harm oneself. Imagine, for example, the foolishness of trying to run a business while refusing to listen to the ideas of experts, capable employees, and others. To be just, give credit to others where credit is due.
Learning from others does not negate the reality of your own discoveries and achievements, including the hard work involved in processing and applying what you learned and putting forth the efforts needed to attain goals. Making the most of one’s freedom to think and act is a source of earned pride. If one adopts pro-life virtues such as rationality, integrity, honesty, productiveness, and justice, and gains the benefits they make possible, one deserves to feel proud. Aristotle said pride was the sum of all virtues. Real, earned pride is a healthy internal state based on your thinking, actions, and their consequences. At the same time, be proud of being just by giving others credit where credit is due.
Real pride is not based on just aspirations and is not the same as boasting or trying to dominate every conversation. The purpose of boasting is to impress others. Using others’ approval as your standard dooms you to dependency and endless self-doubt. After all, there is virtually always somebody, somewhere in the world, at some time, who in some way knows more and has achieved more than you. So what? That does not negate what you have achieved, because that is based on the choices you make, i.e., using your free will to think and act.
What if you are asked by others about what you have achieved or how good you are at something? Ask them exactly what they want to know and then tell them the truth. Give them concrete examples. Neither embellish your achievements nor deny your limitations or your actual skills.
Having some flaw, such as ignorance of certain facts or making an honest mistake, is not necessarily proof that you are fundamentally no good, provided you take steps to acknowledge and correct any errors. Irrationality, the refusal to use reason or take reality seriously or to engage in deliberate dishonesty, will promote deserved humility.
Consideration and politeness are based on the fact that other people have rights and values too; you are not the center of the universe. Narcissists try to live in a “me-only” world. This makes real friendship and intimacy impossible.
What about charity? Some people in life do better than others, sometimes due to their own faults and sometimes not. You may feel empathy for some of the less fortunate and the less able. But if you are an honest person, you must hold in mind that you did not cause others’ problems, such as through dishonesty. And you certainly did not cause slavery, as evil as it was, and could not support every poor person in the world. That would make you selfless. If you are selfless and have no personal values, you are not a person at all. That would be humility.
What about donating to a non-profit? There are tens of thousands of possibilities. Start by asking: what is important to you personally? Is there any group or organization that you think is doing something that has personal meaning, something that is a value to you? Then consider what degree of involvement you want and can afford and act accordingly.
If you lose in an honest competition, say a game, congratulate your opponent for their achievement because it is just– they earned it. Sometimes you can learn from them.
Humility, looking down on what you have achieved is nothing to be proud of. It is a negation of your right to your own life. Life is a process of setting and pursuing goals in order to attain values and thereby achieve happiness. To enhance happiness, do things to make you proud. Never accept unearned guilt for your honest achievements and virtues.
Edwin A. Locke
“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
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
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
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)
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
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
“People do not decide their futures; they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
— F. Matthias Alexander
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