As I've said before, I was stunned when noted historian Emory Morton Thomas told those of us in his graduate 19th century American history class in 1990 that the only way to save Ametica is yo round up all Republicans and ship them off to Nazi-style ectermibation camps. Everyone in the class roared with laughter except me. I was horrified. I'd never run into anything like this, even in the People's Republic of Ithaca. That class killed my desire to follow my planned career path of getting a PhD and teaching at the college level. Thomas, asshole that he is, left me a nasty note in my inbox; when I asked what he meant, he said I should take a tramp steamer to the Orient. Interesting thing is, Bill McFeely, who was allegedly to the left of Thomas, thought Thomas was being a horse's ass, but without Thomas' assent, my MA candidacy was dead in the water. My point is, this partisan bullshit in the academy started way earlier than most people think, and it destroyed a lot of careers before they got off the ground solely on the basis of politics. These walking anuses corrupted American efucation and the media, culminating in what we see today with the arrogant whore O'Donnell continuing to lie about Trump to his face. Don't doubt for a minute that these assholes want you dead because you stand in the way of their bif plans to turn the USA into the USSR, starting with the murder of the president.
A guy I know who went to Cornell thinks the annual day off they give students in "celebration" of the communist takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black extremists is a disgrace. That's an understatement.
Aristotle: Most nations that accepted immigration have experienced rebellion.
In other words, it's simply a mistake. Benjamin Franklin believed it was perilous to accept Irish immigration. And German? A bridge too far. What would he have said Somalis and Mexicans? The whole thing is madness, a madness that the Left and most of the Right support to the hilt. Of course the Communists have waxed strong. Of course. How could they not given this foolish decison?
L., sorry guy, but respectively, your logic is a bit flawed, B. Franklin was in fact a product of immigrants himself. I imagine a Polish guy is a bridge too far too? Tell that to my Grandparents. As for Mexicans, they are more closely related to the original inhabitants of the continent and the Spanish explorers than any latter Europeans so I wouldn't dis them outright. I employed many a illegal as a General Contractor because they were the only guys who wanted to work. I paid them a fair wage for the work provided. Those that were good workers I re-employed on a regular basis. These were good men, most family orientated who spent Sundays picnicking at the park and playing soccer. They represented the hard working people who built our County's character and infrastructure. If there was a way or if either of us understood the process I would have sponsored many of these men for citizenship. They were far more worthy of respect than those entitled ne'er-do-wells found everywhere staring at their cell phone pacifiers. I think the main focus should be measured vetted immigration via a due process. We're supposed to already have that. Coupled with legitimate assistance to those around the world less fortunate than ourselves. Sadly, most of the Programs and NGO's have morphed into nothing more than financial grifting scams. Unless things change dramatically in this Country and soon we'll have our own hands full of an overwhelming share of destitute and impecunious fellow citizens. We're not headed to a good place...
Yes, while growing up in Southern California those are my experiences exactly with the unlawful immigrants from Mexico. These Mexican men my father and uncles hired were the only men who knew what it was to work from sunup-to-sundown in farming the Navel Oranges. Family men.
It's not that the Nation CAN'T work, it's that the Nation WON'T work, big dif. Don't you see that as a problem? I sure do since it creates a vacuum. A viable and necessary productive segment of an economy will fill that labor vacuum or wither and die, also known as de-Industrialization. If you know of a way to get soy-boys, couch potatoes and don'tdonuffins off their duff then please share that knowledge with all of us. Like I stated before, I'm for measured vetted immigration not the wide open border strategy of the IL-liberals and Rentier Class meant to disrupt society. We are losing on that battlefront and have for some time. I've got to get back to the literal drawing board, even a retired guy can be productive and not just a keyboard warrior all day.
Lugh: Or better yet, imagine what the now emerging AI economy will do to a nation that won't have productive work because robots can do it cheaper and without Social Security and Medicare?
Carl, so your father and uncles cashed in by exploiting Mexicans -- I doubt the orange pickers supported families strictly on the wages your relatives paid -- who worked sunup to sundown as field hands. Your relatives and others paid the bills by running what amounted to a system of indentured servitude, and you seem proud of it. What an argument for multiculturalism.
"Cashed in by exploiting Mexicans", how insulting. The fair exchange of labor with agreed upon remuneration is the basis of a true productive Capitalist Economy. Not some faux economy where one sits on their butt playing in the Wall Street Casino of Mirrors just to hope not to be the last guy to be scammed that day.. all the while calling that "Investing".
FYI Vegan Shark: My great-great grandfather was named Gerald Michael McWilliams. He was Irish/Scottish (we don’t know which) and in 1849 he sailed on a tall ship from Ireland/Scotland, “round the horn” to San Francisco and became a 49er. Later with his new found gold, he migrated to Southern California where his posterity became navel orange growers. I was born in LA on Cinco-de-Mayo in 1948 and adopted by Redlands, California navel orange growers who were the victims of FDR’s 1933 executive order to confiscate the people’s gold. I grew up hearing the stories of what happened to the Southern California economy after FDR devalued the gold from $20.00/ounce to $35.00/ounce. My family and most of the Southern California farmers despised FDR.
That said, my father and my uncles acquired their orange groves by restoring foreclosed orange groves, with the sweat of their brows, after FDR stole the farmer's gold. Foreclosed agriculture property was ubiquitous in Southern California after FDR stole the farmer's gold and through hard work and delayed gratification my dad and uncles became owners of orange groves. The Mexican family men I refer to were full-time employees of my dad and uncles. Every Saturday, especially in the growing season, my dad would pay 3-6 Mexican men for their week of work.
The orange pickers you refer to was part of the US government's Bracero Program. The Bracero Program (from the Spanish for "manual laborer") was a guest worker initiative established by the United States and Mexico in 1942 to address agricultural and railroad labor shortages caused by World War II. It operated as a series of bilateral agreements that allowed Mexican men to enter the U.S. on short-term contracts, making it the largest guest worker program in U.S. history.
Yeah, Ben and his group (Anglo-Saxons) conquered the East Coast of the United States. Are you conflating conquerors with immigrants? They then went on to conquer a lot more. He said what I say he said. If he was a bit too conservative, we are far, far too liberal. If the Irish and Germans worked out (it wasn't easy), so the Somalis and the Mexicans will too, right?
I will add on that importing Muslims is a death threat. Their credo is to convert the world. I do not want to see sharia law anywhere in the country.
And gals and Jews, you continue to vote Social Democrats into office, you are going to learn what Islam is all about, and you are not going to like it.
Conquered or Invaded? When one group of people extirpates another it's pretty much genocide no matter how you cut it. That is the true origin of our Country, sad but true. Immigrants who assimilate can not only enhance their own culture but the established one too. We saw this in the first 150 or so years of the Country when we considered being a melting pot to be a positive feature. But that was when the Country was actually growing productively and improving itself and not mired in the Financial Capitalism scam
When I employed illegal labor that was, in a way, a vetting process based on character & work ethic, not of race, creed or religion.
Perhaps you have a differing litmus test, ok so be it.
The unbridled illegal migration we have experienced for the 50 or so years has been a political power grab and labor control mechanism. For me, I just needed a guy who could competently handle a shovel.
Out here in the SW I never saw a Caucasian, Black, Somalis or Inuit day-laborer or Landscape crew. However, I do see an excessive number of broken people without purpose on the streets and that speaks to our societal corrosion.
The lack of respect for and the non-interest in; skilled work and the effort required; both physical and mental is the mentality that damns us.
I'll close by saying; I don't get too hung up with religious affiliations, they are all a mixed bag which have a long sordid history of transgressions against one another and pathetically in the name of their own god. In this realm Actions speak louder than pseudo-pious Words.
L.L., sorry guy, but your argument is pure whataboutism. (Almost) no one is saying all immigrants -- even illegals -- are bad people. That's not the point. The character of a country at every level is ultimately down to its demographics. In the apartment complex where I live I overhear far more Spanish than English, as well as a half dozen other languages. (And this is a prosperous northern Virginia neighborhood.) We've been colonized. I'm reduced to minority status, an overwhelming change that I never had a chance to vote against.
I believe you when you say you had better luck hiring Mexicans than members of a certain other crew. We both know who you're talking about. Well, sorry mate, but I don't accept having my citizenship in my country reduced to a shadow of what it was because it's convenient for you running a business. And frankly I disagree that Mexicans who drop in illegally or legally are just good Americans without benefit of papers. We've had several generations of them now. Taxpayers are still supporting lots of Mexicans who have come to expect such largesse. It's as much part of their culture as mariachi bands.
You support a balkanized formerly United States because it helps your bottom line, while others pick up the tab.
Read what I wrote; I'll repeat some here; Can I quote myself?
"I think the main focus should be measured vetted immigration via a due process. We're supposed to already have that. Coupled with legitimate assistance to those around the world less fortunate than ourselves. Sadly, most of the Programs and NGO's have morphed into nothing more than financial grifting scams."
You and I are being subjected to nothing short of "Cultural Erasure" some refer to it as "Replacement Theory", UN Global Plan 2030, it's not a Theory it's part of the plan being executed by Global Elites, aka the Rentier Class. This has been going on for over 100 years and now it's accelerating. Why? To disrupt Western Society to the point where any alternative solution will be deemed acceptable. We have a DEBT Based Financial system and they're calling in their mark. What happens when you can't pay? You lose, you lose everything. Not just stuff but freedom and Liberty.
"Some others picking up the tab to aid my bottom line", not quite, more like adhering to a contractual commitment to deliver a product by the specified time. You won't find many Construction laborers on Linked In.
And to JohnAZ below what the Biden Administration did was flat out treasonous. The most dangerous thing about Democracy is when the system is corrupted and it becomes nothing more than Mob Rule. We are near that point.
Yes, when others pick up the tab, a very good point.
The Biden invasion has created a problem for the country, how to take care of the millions that have entered when we already have too much indebtedness trying to take care of who is here already plus the rest of the world. Bidet’s mob was just plain economically stupid in their desire to acquire more Lefty-Left voters.
That's a good point, CankerP. Indulge me with a Samuel Huntington quote from his book, "The Clash of Civilizations."
"Peoples and nations are attempting to answer the most basic question humans can face: Who are we? And they are answering that question in the traditional way human beings have answered it, by reference to the things that mean the most to them. People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and, at the broadest level, civilizations. People use politics not just to advance their interests, but to also define their identity. We know who we are only when we know who we are not and often only when we know whom we are against."
IMO, cultures ie language groups, evolved from families. In one source, the Bible, the Hebrew culture evolved from Abram’s family. Some neighboring families formed language groups, some families contested for resources.
We need to break the patronage reach around between government and education funding. Eliminate government loans to students for a start. If the education has a high return, let private banks provide loans and take the risk. Education is too important to give the government control over it.
Extremely well said. But, but if we do not have government subsidies, where would we get all those multi-million dollar stadiums and all those spoiled brat football players.
And the students are basically indentured servants for life because they have to repay those loans. Meanwhile, banks and colleges get tons of money due to those same loans. Student loans are a large reason why so many college kids are raging communists by the time they graduate.
IMO, society needs educated leaders for its economy and government. It needs maybe 30% of its folks to be college educated to provide that brainpower. So if a society is educating 60% of its children through college and above, what happens to the 50% that do not get college level jobs, especially after taking worthless majors. Bitch, bitch and bitch right into the Gimme class.
Right now, I would bet that 50% of the white collar work force is useless. The advent of AI onto this demographic is going to tear things apart.
exactly right! They are right to have those feelings, but it seems to be a case of Stockholm Syndrome. They have a debt the size of a house payment for what is often a worthless piece of paper, while the school administration is a bloated overpaid bureaucracy.
That would create riots because "you're keeping kids from getting college degrees!" Not everyone is meant for advanced degrees, despite what we're told. Also, what woukd bankers do if they couldn't rope kids into signing away their lives with student loans?
Professor Thomas appears to love violence against his political enemies. Typical cowardly leftist. All talk. So I guess when push comes to shove, he'd feel right at home if a Republican shoved a muzzle into his mouth?
I have to think a lot of students kept their mouths shut because he had an endowed chair, so he could influence whether students got assistantships or their degrees. Of course, most of the faculty at Georgia were anywhere from left of center to full-on Bolsheviks, just like any other university's history department. The students tended to be lefties, as well. I don't know how they'd deal with me if I were to go back to get the MA now, but honestly, there's little point in doing so. And let's face it, I'm sure it's even more of a leftist sewer now than it was in 1990. But at least the football team is better now than it was in the Ray Goff years.
This guy got a 1600 on his SAT, was valedictorian of his high school class, and didn't go to Harvard because it was full of snobs and entitled assholes.
I am not sure where you got the idea that many Jews voted for Hitler.
I asked ChatGPT about this and got the following response:
No, many Jews did not vote for Hitler.
The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, was openly antisemitic and promoted policies that targeted Jews. In the elections prior to Hitler's rise to power (especially the 1932 elections), Jewish voters overwhelmingly supported liberal, socialist, or centrist parties rather than the Nazis. Additionally, Jews made up a very small percentage of the German population—less than 1%—so their overall impact on the election results was minimal.
They weigh in way over their numbers. They boast about this and it's real. They controlled the Unions and went on strike, helping the Allies to defeat Germany in WW1.
Aided and abetted by the incompetent, or intentionally ignorant, Secret Disservice. What a disgraceful abdication of honor and duty times 4 and counting.
The coup is here, too stupid to smell the rotten stank?
Regarding Mao, it was also the Pseudo Intellectuals around the world that loved him...Secret Chinese Haters. They couldn't stop being terrified of the numbers of people in China...fake crap pearl s. buck rot in hell. fake missionnaries....and the Rolling stones stopped a concert to praise Mao...we are in a MAO world now...see the FOUR OLD THINGS ...CULTURAL PURGE...YOU BETTER BELIEVE YOU HAVE WITNESSED IT HERE SINCE 1990
Ditto with Muslims who clearly declare here in their host nation they will come into every American home. And that all America will be Muslim and Sharia law will replace the Constitution. “We will us Democracy to destroy Democracy”. Just believe them. They have the means and the will and the ability to bring it. Texas is their’s and all 4,000+ Mosques on American soil are sovereign Islamic territory claimed by the global Califate. Arm up.
The quote “Stand your ground, don’t fire unless fired upon, and if they mean to have a war, let it begin here” is widely attributed to Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, on the morning of April 19, 1775, at the start of the American Revolution.
Historical Context: Parker issued these orders to his men as they confronted British red coats on Lexington Green. He also ordered his men to disperse, but the command was largely ignored or unheard. A shot of unknown origin ignited a volley that killed eight militiamen/minutemen, including Parker’s cousin, before the British continued to Concord.
Thus on the evening of April, 19, 1775, eight minutemen did not go home that night, allowing me to post this comment on JHK's Substack 250 years later.
On the other side, I do not have a quote, but some Southern gentleman issued the order for the first shot at Fort Sumter. We are very close, not in South Carolina, maybe California, Oregon, Minnesota, Washington or even DC.
Remember too that World War One was started with an assassination, another nut.
In the early 1970s I was an undergraduate in Sociology at the University of California. Governor Ronald Reagan, as Governor of the University of California Regents, fired many of the Marxists professors at University of California/Berkeley and San Francisco. Many of these fired closet-Communists ended up embedded onto the state government payroll at the University of Colorado in Boulder. And that is why Circa 2026, Colorado is full of Marxists/Communists at all levels of power - state, county and local.
Then, ironically, he was shot and nearly killed a month after 1st inauguration. Then 'Poppie' (coined after the flower) Bush ran the place from behind the scenes. Proving that bloodshed works.
It seems, and someone can provide a correction if I’m wrong, that anything. Anything a Democrat in any political position says nowadays is either a lie or a gerrymandered prostitution of reality. Ditto for The Media. But I repeat myself.
John Thune. Mitch McConnel. Mike Lee. Jim Banks. Katie Britt. John Boozman. Ted Budd. Susan Collins. Mike Crapo. Ted Cruz. John Curtis. Mike Lee. Lisa Murkouski. Rand Paul. Rick Scott. Tim Scott. Tommy Tuberville. There are few more but my brain isn't functioning well on a Monday morning.
I used to think Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul were good standouts in the Republican party but in recent months they haven't stood out for anything. Like all who go to DC with good intentions they get corrupted by the filthy nature of the vermin inhabiting the hallowed halls of our capitol building. Nobody can go to DC with good intentions and come out of DC unscathed.
John's in the Party loyalty part of his brain this morning. Other times he admits that they're half corrupt. Needless to say it is far more than that. There are a few good ones, not a few bad ones.
And as usual, you do not read or try to understand my posts about our parties.
Again.
There is no GOP and Democrat parties. We are in the world of MAGA, and lefty-Left, to borrow JHK’s good nomenclature. The transition to this division makes the Deep State look like it is insane, which it is. Add on the globalist influence, infiltrating the country, and the result is the chaos we witness.
Something must have injured Dennis soul at one time and he is going to try to undercut God in revenge. The fact that he targets God in his posts shows that he acknowledges God as the enemy. Otherwise, why would he bother?
Finally, after 10 years, it's all coming to a head. It's going to be a hot summer in our cities. As our host points out, be prepared for DNC violence. They know what they did. We know what they did. So does the Trump Administration--with all of the evidence.
They're planning May 1 riots all across the country. That's not what they're calling them but that's what they'll be. Here in Wisconsin, public school teachers have been given the day off on May 1 to participate in the riots. This has been planned to deliberately cause hardship for the very working people the Marxists claim to champion.
They said that it's to make people scramble for sitters for the kids, and cause people to call in to their jobs because they lack child care. To strike a blow for the working man, don't you know.
I am hoping that diving for cover and hiding under tables in their fancy outfits might have a salutary effect on the character of the presstitutues (sorry, JHK) in attendance. They got to co-experience for a few terrified minutes what Trump goes through on a regular basis.
Saw a YouTube video Tube talking about New Zealand starting to prepare to defend itself against a Chinese invasion. Maybe there are some common sense folks in New Zealand.
Then we have Canadian idiots making deals with those nice folks in China. Then we have Alberta’s getting enough signatures plus to have their referendum this fall. Carney is a blooming idiot. Hope they like their 100% tariffs.
Watch the hotel surveillance video. The Secret Service agent who is clearly visible at the checkpoint is focused at the floor in front of his feet, instead of the entrance he should have be focused on. Consquently he doesn't notice the gunman until the gunman is right in front of him, by which time it's too late.
The first time we saw gross Secret Service incompetence in protecting President Trump was in Pennsylvania. This is the second time. Happenstance, coincidence, or enemy action?
Secret Service doesn't equal quality. There is a myth that the Secret Service is infallible. Nothing is infallible, especially when it is populated by morons, idiots and DEI hires.
Agreed, their track record is not good. But again, IMO, it is impossible to think of every possibility and an assassin can out guess security if clever enough.
Is it my imagination, or was this really smart assassin really dumb, or insane to think he could run through that checkpoint and actually get to the auditorium?
My point exactly. Are the two events examples of incompetence, or something worse? As for JohnAZ, if a Secret Service agent cannot remain focused for one evening, perhaps they should seek another job. The agents were there to make sure no one unauthorized gained entrance. The notion that to do so requires one to focus on the entrance does to require an IQ over 145, or unusual attentiveness.
Yes they do need IQs over 145 JDave. In this day and age of the much touted "Artificial Intelligence", where is the FBI, CIA with LISTS of suspicious individuals that are all over social media? And why are they not keeping tabs on them? The dastardly left wasted no time tracking down thousands of INNOCENT J6ers. WTAF? Then burn down every useless data center, they're watching the wrong ppl.
Didn’t Charlie Kirk’s assassin access a private stairway to the roof? And the Butler would-be assassin utilized a rooftop the then Secret Service chief thought was too slopey to worry about? Lots of nonchalant “security” going on.
Wouldn't surprise me if a hotel employee left a door unlocked so he could get in that way. You have to consider the Trump haters in every walk of life, now, from fast food places to hotels and restaurants.
Some people wondered the same thing when Mr. Stephen Paddock somehow got 23 guns, 50 pounds of explosives and 5,000 rounds of ammunition up to his Las Vegas hotel room, past dozens of security cameras. We've never been allowed to see the video.
This guy is another intelligence wind-up toy in my view. It's always with the three first names and manifestos and such. Not saying he didn't bring a gun and didn't shoot, just saying he probably had some help.
Hey, to them, it's just a job, and they're not about to jeopardize retirement or their house on the lake to protect anybody, especially someone they don't like or voted for.
The 'Regime' arranged for woke lunatic and a shootout in the Hilton in order to advance the build of a ballroom?
Snort!
Although even I admit that the sight of the press scuttling under tables like roaches and their pale, tear-stained faces peering out beneath the tablecloths might have been worth it. Might have been. Would definately have been worth it if a synapse fired in one or two of them that they birthed this Frankenstein monster, who lurched home to his makers for a final act of murder and mayhem.
Considering the track record of integrity of the White House occupants over the past couple of decades, the default setting of news and events is now "lie", "false flag" and/or psyop. Doesn't mean the event isn't true as reported, but that's an exception of the rule.
The comment of need for a new WH ballroom falls under the category of "never let a crisis go to waste". Seemed odd to me. The media also couldn't resist the opportunity to point out the trend of growing "gun violence" in these events. Gee, wonder what the goal with that might be?
As for TDS, it's now morphed into two flavors - those who have slurped down the Orange Kool-Aid are just as much out of touch with reality as the ones with pink hair screaming Trump is a tyrant. He's most accurately described as an actor and puppet, IMHO.
When does the right reach the breaking point? How many more assassinations and attempted assassinations on the president will we tolerate before reaching in to the personal armories?
I hope it never reaches that point, but the hour is getting close for a lot of extremely patient people.
Still way too comfortable. Thus does the frog cook. If you're supporting enemy invaders so that they can have children, you're already conquered. It already happened quietly and from the top.
I think that's what they want. They've been poking the bear for ten years, now. They'd love nothing better than for that to happen. Then they could use that as the excuse to eliminate the second amendment, which is what they want.
On a Left-Right axis, the Right is not likely to act. The Left is proving on a regular basis they will act. This axis sows and highlights division. If it were a valid axis for action, it would not be one-sided.
It is the Up-Down axis where it can come to a head. Up is freedom, down is tyranny.
Right. Ask Trump what magic medicine he used to completely heal the damaged cartilage in his right ear after it was “shot” in Butler, PA. It’s a medical miracle!
What are you trying to say, Gonzo? That Trump wasn't shot, it was staged? Come out and tell us what you think. Do you think Trump staged Corey Comperadore's death, then? Let's have it. Tell us the real story.
"Ear cartilage cannot naturally regenerate or grow back once it has been destroyed, removed, or severely damaged.
"Because ear cartilage is avascular—meaning it lacks its own direct blood supply to deliver nutrients and stem cells—the body cannot repair or rebuild it, resulting in permanent structural changes.
"Unlike bone or skin, damaged ear cartilage does not grow back. If the cartilage is damaged by trauma or infection, the body fills the space with dense scar tissue, which can lead to permanent deformities like "cauliflower ear". While the skin over the ear can heal after a cut, the cartilage beneath will not return to its original shape."
Do not waste your time making up shit about the assassination attempts. Trump’s ear, if you would take the time to look at it in a close up with enough resolution, has a nick in it where the blood was on the Butler pics. If you can get past your TDS, try it and see. Then stop the bullshit posts.
I do have one comment about number three.
The press and the others cowered under the tables, a beautiful scene, in panic over a gunshot out of the area. Security did its job. One complaint was lodged by Secret Service, Trump took a moment to look out to see what was happening before being covered up and scooted out of the auditorium.
Did you know that Reagan was shot at that hotel and the reason that it is used, a great security risk, is because the government has no large ballroom facility available in government hands.
No doubt the best money can buy. With early intervention and a few techniques deftly enacted, a great plastic sx can make it look ~perfect.
In a rollover accident the cartilage of my ear was torn + glass shards. In the hospital a drunk plastic surgeon was assigned to [screw] it up (only cost me $1200) and it eventually healed back to near perfect. (Took 10 yrs for all the glass to migrate out of the tissue).
I had a cancerous tumor removed from my face just below my right eye at the right corner of my eye the surgeon had to slice my face open from just about the center of my forehead, all the way down to the bottom of my cheek at a zigzag to go under the eye at the left side of my eye and straight down. At the time of the surgery to remove the tumor there was a plastic surgeon specialist standing right beside the doctor and stitched it up. Yeah it seemed to have left a scar initially that I thought was gonna be a real Viking scar and in the end today you can’t even tell that I had surgery.
The point being that today, modern plastic surgery stitchery is light years ahead of what it was decades ago.
Appreciate your optimism Mr Kunstler but with turncoats like John Thune in Congress I can’t share it. Hope you are 100% correct. One question though; why the hell does Trump keep going on the leftist media’s broadcasts? Norah O’Donnell for crying out loud/60 Minutes? They’re a joke & a proven joke beyond a reasonable doubt. A smarter move would be going on alt media - Joe Rogan et al - & make the corporate media chase after them.
This reeks of Susie Wiles; the remaining dumb broad - that we know of - in the WH. Any “Republican” who expects fair treatment from Vanity Fair is not playing with a full deck.
The insurrection Acts, like the war powers act is acknowledgement by Congress that they are incapable of doing the job that the Constitution gave them, responding to emergency situations.
Well-stated. The war powers act is rather new, unlike the Insurrection Act. It is a current statement (spanning a number of decades) on how the Congress has failed to perform its Article I, Section 8 function on matters of declaring War, granting Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
I doubt they give it much thought because the focus is always on the election cycle and being re-elected. The livelihood of both the office-holder and the staff depends on re-election.
Without doing a deeper dive, there was some discussion of Letters of Marque and Reprisal in the recent past (post “Joe Biden”). This would involve privateers investing their own funds to ‘Capture on Land and Water’ prizes of high value. In the Western Hemisphere, it would be a conflict between privateers and the drug cartels, for example.
Trump's time as POTUS is coming to an end sooner than you think. That's not a threat, it's a sober reflection on his fragile state of mind. Picking a fight with the with everyone from the Pope to to America's closest allies is a guaranteed way to alienate the average American voter, which only works in the Democrats favor. Trump's economy is a house of cards fueled by debt.
What ‘closest allies’? The UK? Perhaps it’s time to investigate history a bit more, and understand that the UK has actually been the puppet master for most global chaos.
Mr. George----picking a fight with our closest allies? Maybe they were allies 30 or 40 years ago when at least some of them were still sane but......today they have totally screwed their citizens by allowing 3rd world parasites / 7th century barbarians to walk right in and get firmly clamped to the gov't tit. I would more likely classify these so called allies as parasites. As long as the US goes along with the nonsense they spout, they are friends but when we point out the suicide path they are on with their energy policies and immigration idiocy they do everything in their power to screw us. The NATO countries that did not allow us to use their air fields during our military efforts should be kicked out of NATO or......maybe we should take our marbles home and tell them to try to defend their countries with their 2 ships and 3 tanks. Russia is not as powerful as everyone thought but.....I believe that if it wanted to it could roll into Berlin and on to Paris within a few weeks. What would be left of NATO would not be able to mount any kind of defense whatsoever. Even tho Russia seems to be a kleptocracy it seems we have more in common with them than the Brits, Cheese eating surrender monkeys and the Germans.
Russia has zero interest in taking over Europe. And after 1991, it desperately WANTED friendly relationships with the West. But kick someone in the teeth enough times -- as we did to Russia -- and eventually they get tired of it. Threaten to put nuclear missiles aimed at them right on their border, and gee, they just might want to defend themselves.
Many of our politicians are old enough to remember the Soviet Union, which on US and NATO turf was constantly bashed as the supreme threat to our way of life. That characterization had some validity, especially in early Cold War days, but it persisted long after the Soviet Union (steered by Russia) evolved from a collection of Bolsheviks into a collection of bureaucrats.
But old mental habits die hard, and the picture of Russia as Red in tooth and claw was thoroughly imprinted on the older generations. They are passing on or retiring, so maybe one can dare to hope a more realistic view of Russia will prevail. As Kathy S. says above, the idea that today's Russia wants to invade and subdue Europe is ridiculous. We need to snap out of it.
Ha, the first thing the USSR did was rid itself of all the economic load that Europe was in 1991. They still are. Trump wants to cut them loose as he knows Putin wants no part of them.
Think about this, what will happen if Ukraine finally mow tows to Russia, the ME settles itself into the Abraham accords, Taiwan is settled, and NATO is dissolved.
Look to the money losers. The USA defense industry and Their MIC buddies in the government. So maybe that is why they hate Trump like they do. Also, think what would happen to the US economy with a diminishing defense posture.
Same thing applies to Iran. Park nuclear capable navy vessels off their shores and build military establishments all around their borders and they just might want to defend themselves. Few there be, for some reason, who can't grasp or understand this concept and that this might be the reason why the Iranians refer to the USA as the "Great Satan."
When I visited Bandai Abbas in 1972, courtesy of the USN, it was a busy little town and the people were really friendly. That was the Shah..
Iran started the war on 1979 when the opposition to the Shah took hostages for over a year. Even then, Reagan knew that the only thing that would assume the Iranians was force and a big stick.
Iran has been a thorn in the side of the Middle East ever since, killing many Americans with the help of its proxy buddies. The Ayatollahs and their guard started it and have been playing chicken with the US ever since.
Ask yourself, are the people better off there under a religious fundamentalist dictator ship or a secular dictatorship? Or maybe a republic?
I'm reading James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" right now. According to him -- and I think Clavell was known for doing good research -- it was "American MATERIALISM" that they called the Great Satan -- at least back in 1979. That made me wonder whether it's been misquoted all these years. Then again, their definition might have expanded to the more general "America" as time went on. I don't know.
At any rate, the Great Satan label originated long before the current situation. And we shouldn't forget that Iranian leaders did pledge to annihilate the "Little Satan" -- meaning Israel -- off the face of the earth. Again, decades before the current situation. Remember that sweetie pie Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Cassandra George, those whom you think or say Trump is picking a fight with have been waging war on God and Truth long enough, God says. And He prevails every time, all the time. Bring it on.
The average American voter cannot read above maybe a fifth or sixth grade level. Less if they're black. They don't know who their closest allies are, much less care. A democrat economy won't be any better than Trump's. Worse, actually, because in addition to the inflation introduced by Richard Nixon by taking us off the gold standard, we'll have the massive taxation they're planning.
I think Trump has thrown in the towel. He made an effort to vanquish leviathan but realized its hide it too thick to penetrate. His hair is no longer golden, it's white and unkempt. His speech is jarbled and sentences are incoherent and unfinished.
Trump is not a solution to what ails America. He's a symptom of a very sick and dying political system.
But it remains that he is the only obstacle to the oncoming of the great reset, the globalists, the world socialists that think that the role of people is to serve the state.
Here is the irony, CP, he started to war to rid the world of a nemesis to order. The energy flow of oil is an imperative and no country can impede it. That is what Iran is up to, to be able to control the world due to its proximity to the Straits. Imagine if little countries shut down the Panama Canal, the Suez, the Malacca Straits, the South China Sea, just to make themselves look like big shots. Unfortunate for your POV, the USA took on the role of guaranteeing the sea lanes after WW2 and still feels that obligation.
Rumors were out that Irans nut jobs were eleven days away from the bomb(s). Ever wonder why Iran wanted the bomb? Ever wonder why SA, uAE, etc. did not? You do realize that the USA was committed to defends the Gulf states since WW2 in return for oil? That is what created the 1st Gulf war in Kuwait, it is what fired up the Iraq Shock and Awe to dump Hussein, protecting the ME oil supply from primarily Iran. You know Trump, when Iran got to a certain point of irritation, that was it.
I acknowledge your points, JohnAZ, and I understand the reasoning. But he did run on a promise of no new wars and to be a president of peace. Disappointing.
If you remember, he the first war he said he stopped was the Gaza Strip ceasefire. He over promised Ukraine, and is totally frustrated by two egomaniacs that will not make a deal.
Trump prides himself on being a deal maker, but when some wars starts, obliteration of one side is required. Ukraine is not there yet. He has mediated other wars successfully.
Since the beginning of man, how do you mediate two sides that refuse to give in? If people are willing to die for their cause, how do you stop war? You don’t.
The Iran shit is not new it is almost fifty years old. How long can a country ignore another's attempts at proxy war? Iran fafo and is still in the fo phase. It can only end one way and that is no Shia theocracy warring on their neighbors and playing terrorist party cake.
The man is 80 years old (give or take). We the people need to put forth someone, or perhaps many someones, about 20 or 30 years younger to take up our position.
While Trump is certainly a mixed bag, it was the only deal on offer at the time. I can’t imagine the perversion of a Harris/Waltz administration.
"While Trump is certainly a mixed bag, it was the only deal on offer at the time. I can’t imagine the perversion of a Harris/Waltz administration."
Yes, he was the best we had to choose from. No argument from me.
"We the people need to put forth someone"
I don't believe we the people have any choice in the matter. We are told who we are going to vote for. Partisan politics have made it nearly impossible for the people to select and support their chosen candidate. We get who the party will support. Period. Trump is an enigma.
Sorta halfway disagree. I believe that the parties are falling apart right now and Trump is really closer to an independent. IMHO, five years from now, row new parties will displace the fiasco we have now. Lefty-Lefts will be socialist globalists and the MAGA derivative will be 20th century patriots. By then, the Trump legacy could be realized or gone, with a USSA in its place.
The biggest political "party" in the USA right now is registered "independents." I have read that independents outnumber registered Republicans and Democrats combined. The problem with independents is they still vote Republican or Democrat. So, are they really independent?
I would love to see a collapse of the partisan system that has been foisted upon us in favor of a new system of many parties, or a system of no parties at all, just candidates with distinct political views and persuasions.
The fact that the Democrats never have a dissenting vote drives me bat shit crazy. Not one of those 212 Democrats has a unique point of view that doesn't line up with the party bosses? Republicans break party lines all the time. Not the Democrats. More political parties or no political parties could serve to break this nonsense.
Democrats are ideologically driven. They all subscribe to the same ideology, and like the Marxists that they are, punish anyone who goes against the party. Hence, uniformity in thought, belief and deed. Rather like in Eugene Zamyatin's book We.
The biggest political “party” in the USA now are the approximately 90M eligible voters that don’t vote. This can be considered good or bad depending on one’s POV but it is factual.
I haven’t studied the arguments for or against ranked choice voting but I’m thinking it’s time we consider it.
Just one, once in a while, Fetterman and the DNC want him out.
Again, humanity always has differences of opinion. One opinion has an equal and opposite opinion. It is the function of government to afford compromise and keep the society functioning.
I just wanna say ... it helps me if I always look at Trump ... from the day he descended the Golden Escalator ... down to today ... as a *symptom* ... mostly for better ... but sometimes for worse ... of the underlying disease. Which I agree is a very serious, life-threatening disease.
No, you are wrong. He goes on expecting unfair treatment in front the largest audience that is still susceptible to having their eyes opened. He's doing exactly what he should be doing. Scott Adams would approve.
"If he does all this, it must include an executive order mandating common sense election procedure for the midterm"
Fact is, Trump can not do this. An Executive Order applies only to the Federal Bureaucracy. It isn't law and has no effect over the states and how the states administer their election policy. The authority of the executive is extremely limited by design of the founders.
The US Congress needs to get its shit together. Nothing but a no selling waste of space the US Congress is. They do absolutely nothing to benefit the average citizen of this country. Nothing. We are all hard-pressed to think of something that the Congress has done that benefits us personally. I get emails from my lousy Senator John Curtis and a stupid "representative" and I delete them immediately. They aren't about the peoples' business. They are all about sound bites for Tic-Toc during their useless but numerous "committee hearings."
The American people should be pissing razorblades about the state of their Congress. Instead they are too busy pointing fingers at one man. One man who really has no authority to foment any long term changes that can't be undone with a signature once he leaves office.
Trump can't fix this mess. Period. Congress can. But won't.
"The US Congress needs to get its shit together. " Yup.
"They are all about sound bites" Yup
add the insider trading, the 'large donations' to buy votes, and the 'brownstoning ' traps they fall into... dysfunction doesn't begin to describe the failure.
Well, don't worry, next democrat administration, you'll get a chance to pay for it's demolition with your tax dollars. I'm sure the expense will be worth the satisfaction.
Dear JHK, if what you suggest isn’t coming soon, it is all over. We have to pray that it IS coming and soon, and that patriots do what is necessary to do. I like watching Mel Gibson’s patriot flick - he didn’t want to, but when he had to…(((they))) mean to destroy all of us. The CIA programming has worked to perfection - next???
“Prayer is an act of doubt, not an act of faith, for if you truly trusted your god's plan, you wouldn't ever have pray for anything.” ― Michael Sherlock
“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.” - Christopher Hitchens
George Carlin on prayer: “What’s the point of having a divine plan when any schmuck with a 2-dollar prayer book can fuck up your plan?”
Just how many times has the Pope prayed for peace in the holy land? That's worked out very well...yeah right!
"May God bless America!" Why? What kind of God would bless a country providing 2,000lb bombs to a mass-murderer knowing full well he is going to drop them on hospitals and refugee camps?
We are told an all-knowing God designed the incredible complexities of life yet was so unimaginative and primitive it could only resolve issues by killing people.
The main difference between believers and non-believers is magical thinking.
It comes from a desire that there is some magical power out there that will save you from the responsibilities of life.
Now, go listen to Stephen Meyer on Youtube. It was only when humans developed computer code and understood it, that they realized exactly what the DNA genetic code is, and that’s it’s impossible for that to have been designed randomly.
This is why The Lord’s Prayer is NOT a “prosperity gospel” type of lesson, but essentially asking the believer to be open to what God has planned. *Your* kingdom come. *Your* will be done.
I agree it’s unavoidable, it’s all coming - the insurrection act, the military tribunals, the EO for voting, all of it. We’re going to have to make it through a very spicy summer first though.
Pretty much sums up the situation: "...and asked President Trump “What is your reaction to that?” Mr. Trump did not fall for the ruse — which was just an opportunity to reinforce a well-worn scurrility. “You’re a disgrace,” the president replied, and Ms. O’Donnell just continued with the interview as if his answer never registered. There it is."
Bill O’Reilly famously stated that the press elected Trump in 2016 by allowing him name recognition and lots of air time by trying to debase him with lies especially on TV. Fox, especially Ingraham is doing the same thing, allowing the Lefty-Left( Love that description of the insane class) way too much air time to express their bullshit, thinking they are “embarrassing” them. Most of America is not sophisticated enough to understand the “embarrassment” technique. I do think Fox talks over the head of much of the American public these days. .???
Thank you for the irony of many of the press attendees being responsible for feeding the diseased mind of Mr. Allen. The Democrat Party stink pile just keeps rising; USAID, SPLC. Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud. COVID relief fraud, illegal immigration, no citizen only voting, extorting the National security budget, the Clintons, the Russia hoax and too much more for my keyboarding skills. Yet the Lemmings that follow the Democrat Party are not only out there, they are abundant. George Clooney, as example, raised millions for Joe Biden's re-election just before Biden' dementia was exposed and Clooney backed that up with a $ 1 million donation to the SPLC. Unthinking Gerbils live among us. In the interest of a healthy country I hope for the Democrat Party to find a platform and/or path that is constructive. One that would benefit not just it's party members, but the entire country. Independent thought is not a disease.
Good luck w that Garry. When I hear such stupid gibberish in a news report that "Mia Farrow (of all ppl) says that the latest assassination attempt was staged," then there is no hope for these mutants. But she had no idea what her degenerate bf Woody was doing w her kids under her nose? Sorry not sorry.
When a Political Party tells you they want to kill you, put you in camps, reeducate you... LISTEN TO THEM!
History is replete with People who did not heed that lesson and then were shocked when they were killed, put in camps, reeducated.
Many Jews voted for the NAZIs since they KNEW all of the extremist talk was just that... Talk.
The Kulaks under Stalin.
The Educated under Mao
The City dwellers under Pol Pot.
When they say they want to kill you... BELIEVE them!!!!
As I've said before, I was stunned when noted historian Emory Morton Thomas told those of us in his graduate 19th century American history class in 1990 that the only way to save Ametica is yo round up all Republicans and ship them off to Nazi-style ectermibation camps. Everyone in the class roared with laughter except me. I was horrified. I'd never run into anything like this, even in the People's Republic of Ithaca. That class killed my desire to follow my planned career path of getting a PhD and teaching at the college level. Thomas, asshole that he is, left me a nasty note in my inbox; when I asked what he meant, he said I should take a tramp steamer to the Orient. Interesting thing is, Bill McFeely, who was allegedly to the left of Thomas, thought Thomas was being a horse's ass, but without Thomas' assent, my MA candidacy was dead in the water. My point is, this partisan bullshit in the academy started way earlier than most people think, and it destroyed a lot of careers before they got off the ground solely on the basis of politics. These walking anuses corrupted American efucation and the media, culminating in what we see today with the arrogant whore O'Donnell continuing to lie about Trump to his face. Don't doubt for a minute that these assholes want you dead because you stand in the way of their bif plans to turn the USA into the USSR, starting with the murder of the president.
Yeah, Ithaca in 1990. 1980. 1970. This shit started in the sixties.
A guy I know who went to Cornell thinks the annual day off they give students in "celebration" of the communist takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black extremists is a disgrace. That's an understatement.
I'm sure you've heard the saying:
"Those who do not learn from History are doomed to repeat it."
There is a corrallary that few know:
"Those who do learn from History are doomed to watch others repeat it."
I think modern times prove the latter.
Aristotle: Most nations that accepted immigration have experienced rebellion.
In other words, it's simply a mistake. Benjamin Franklin believed it was perilous to accept Irish immigration. And German? A bridge too far. What would he have said Somalis and Mexicans? The whole thing is madness, a madness that the Left and most of the Right support to the hilt. Of course the Communists have waxed strong. Of course. How could they not given this foolish decison?
L., sorry guy, but respectively, your logic is a bit flawed, B. Franklin was in fact a product of immigrants himself. I imagine a Polish guy is a bridge too far too? Tell that to my Grandparents. As for Mexicans, they are more closely related to the original inhabitants of the continent and the Spanish explorers than any latter Europeans so I wouldn't dis them outright. I employed many a illegal as a General Contractor because they were the only guys who wanted to work. I paid them a fair wage for the work provided. Those that were good workers I re-employed on a regular basis. These were good men, most family orientated who spent Sundays picnicking at the park and playing soccer. They represented the hard working people who built our County's character and infrastructure. If there was a way or if either of us understood the process I would have sponsored many of these men for citizenship. They were far more worthy of respect than those entitled ne'er-do-wells found everywhere staring at their cell phone pacifiers. I think the main focus should be measured vetted immigration via a due process. We're supposed to already have that. Coupled with legitimate assistance to those around the world less fortunate than ourselves. Sadly, most of the Programs and NGO's have morphed into nothing more than financial grifting scams. Unless things change dramatically in this Country and soon we'll have our own hands full of an overwhelming share of destitute and impecunious fellow citizens. We're not headed to a good place...
Yes, while growing up in Southern California those are my experiences exactly with the unlawful immigrants from Mexico. These Mexican men my father and uncles hired were the only men who knew what it was to work from sunup-to-sundown in farming the Navel Oranges. Family men.
Yes, keep 'em coming, right? Imagine what they must think of a nation that can't work. Why not take it for themselves?
This is the mentality. If a little is ok (not great), then more must also be ok or even better. This lack of philosophical understanding damns us.
It's not that the Nation CAN'T work, it's that the Nation WON'T work, big dif. Don't you see that as a problem? I sure do since it creates a vacuum. A viable and necessary productive segment of an economy will fill that labor vacuum or wither and die, also known as de-Industrialization. If you know of a way to get soy-boys, couch potatoes and don'tdonuffins off their duff then please share that knowledge with all of us. Like I stated before, I'm for measured vetted immigration not the wide open border strategy of the IL-liberals and Rentier Class meant to disrupt society. We are losing on that battlefront and have for some time. I've got to get back to the literal drawing board, even a retired guy can be productive and not just a keyboard warrior all day.
Lugh: Or better yet, imagine what the now emerging AI economy will do to a nation that won't have productive work because robots can do it cheaper and without Social Security and Medicare?
Carl, so your father and uncles cashed in by exploiting Mexicans -- I doubt the orange pickers supported families strictly on the wages your relatives paid -- who worked sunup to sundown as field hands. Your relatives and others paid the bills by running what amounted to a system of indentured servitude, and you seem proud of it. What an argument for multiculturalism.
"Cashed in by exploiting Mexicans", how insulting. The fair exchange of labor with agreed upon remuneration is the basis of a true productive Capitalist Economy. Not some faux economy where one sits on their butt playing in the Wall Street Casino of Mirrors just to hope not to be the last guy to be scammed that day.. all the while calling that "Investing".
FYI Vegan Shark: My great-great grandfather was named Gerald Michael McWilliams. He was Irish/Scottish (we don’t know which) and in 1849 he sailed on a tall ship from Ireland/Scotland, “round the horn” to San Francisco and became a 49er. Later with his new found gold, he migrated to Southern California where his posterity became navel orange growers. I was born in LA on Cinco-de-Mayo in 1948 and adopted by Redlands, California navel orange growers who were the victims of FDR’s 1933 executive order to confiscate the people’s gold. I grew up hearing the stories of what happened to the Southern California economy after FDR devalued the gold from $20.00/ounce to $35.00/ounce. My family and most of the Southern California farmers despised FDR.
That said, my father and my uncles acquired their orange groves by restoring foreclosed orange groves, with the sweat of their brows, after FDR stole the farmer's gold. Foreclosed agriculture property was ubiquitous in Southern California after FDR stole the farmer's gold and through hard work and delayed gratification my dad and uncles became owners of orange groves. The Mexican family men I refer to were full-time employees of my dad and uncles. Every Saturday, especially in the growing season, my dad would pay 3-6 Mexican men for their week of work.
The orange pickers you refer to was part of the US government's Bracero Program. The Bracero Program (from the Spanish for "manual laborer") was a guest worker initiative established by the United States and Mexico in 1942 to address agricultural and railroad labor shortages caused by World War II. It operated as a series of bilateral agreements that allowed Mexican men to enter the U.S. on short-term contracts, making it the largest guest worker program in U.S. history.
Ben Franklin was not an immigrant. I saw that and read no further.
Born January 17, 1706
Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Died April 17, 1790 (aged 84)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Fritz, I didn't say that, I said he was the PRODUCT of immigrants, look that up.
You did get his Birth info correct so I'll give you that, and where did his parents come from???
Yeah, Ben and his group (Anglo-Saxons) conquered the East Coast of the United States. Are you conflating conquerors with immigrants? They then went on to conquer a lot more. He said what I say he said. If he was a bit too conservative, we are far, far too liberal. If the Irish and Germans worked out (it wasn't easy), so the Somalis and the Mexicans will too, right?
This is the mentality that damns us.
I will add on that importing Muslims is a death threat. Their credo is to convert the world. I do not want to see sharia law anywhere in the country.
And gals and Jews, you continue to vote Social Democrats into office, you are going to learn what Islam is all about, and you are not going to like it.
“I do not want to see sharia law anywhere in the country.”
How about Beth din courts? Are you ok with them?
Conquered or Invaded? When one group of people extirpates another it's pretty much genocide no matter how you cut it. That is the true origin of our Country, sad but true. Immigrants who assimilate can not only enhance their own culture but the established one too. We saw this in the first 150 or so years of the Country when we considered being a melting pot to be a positive feature. But that was when the Country was actually growing productively and improving itself and not mired in the Financial Capitalism scam
When I employed illegal labor that was, in a way, a vetting process based on character & work ethic, not of race, creed or religion.
Perhaps you have a differing litmus test, ok so be it.
The unbridled illegal migration we have experienced for the 50 or so years has been a political power grab and labor control mechanism. For me, I just needed a guy who could competently handle a shovel.
Out here in the SW I never saw a Caucasian, Black, Somalis or Inuit day-laborer or Landscape crew. However, I do see an excessive number of broken people without purpose on the streets and that speaks to our societal corrosion.
The lack of respect for and the non-interest in; skilled work and the effort required; both physical and mental is the mentality that damns us.
I'll close by saying; I don't get too hung up with religious affiliations, they are all a mixed bag which have a long sordid history of transgressions against one another and pathetically in the name of their own god. In this realm Actions speak louder than pseudo-pious Words.
"The lack of respect for and the non-interest in; skilled work and the effort required; both physical and mental is the mentality that damns us."
You justify your illegally hiring illegals by blaming society for not being interested in skilled work. The last refuge of a scoundrel.
So the United States is illegitimate. You're a leftist and thus a fool.
All nations are founded on force and maintained by force and/or the threat thereof.
L.L., sorry guy, but your argument is pure whataboutism. (Almost) no one is saying all immigrants -- even illegals -- are bad people. That's not the point. The character of a country at every level is ultimately down to its demographics. In the apartment complex where I live I overhear far more Spanish than English, as well as a half dozen other languages. (And this is a prosperous northern Virginia neighborhood.) We've been colonized. I'm reduced to minority status, an overwhelming change that I never had a chance to vote against.
I believe you when you say you had better luck hiring Mexicans than members of a certain other crew. We both know who you're talking about. Well, sorry mate, but I don't accept having my citizenship in my country reduced to a shadow of what it was because it's convenient for you running a business. And frankly I disagree that Mexicans who drop in illegally or legally are just good Americans without benefit of papers. We've had several generations of them now. Taxpayers are still supporting lots of Mexicans who have come to expect such largesse. It's as much part of their culture as mariachi bands.
You support a balkanized formerly United States because it helps your bottom line, while others pick up the tab.
Read what I wrote; I'll repeat some here; Can I quote myself?
"I think the main focus should be measured vetted immigration via a due process. We're supposed to already have that. Coupled with legitimate assistance to those around the world less fortunate than ourselves. Sadly, most of the Programs and NGO's have morphed into nothing more than financial grifting scams."
You and I are being subjected to nothing short of "Cultural Erasure" some refer to it as "Replacement Theory", UN Global Plan 2030, it's not a Theory it's part of the plan being executed by Global Elites, aka the Rentier Class. This has been going on for over 100 years and now it's accelerating. Why? To disrupt Western Society to the point where any alternative solution will be deemed acceptable. We have a DEBT Based Financial system and they're calling in their mark. What happens when you can't pay? You lose, you lose everything. Not just stuff but freedom and Liberty.
"Some others picking up the tab to aid my bottom line", not quite, more like adhering to a contractual commitment to deliver a product by the specified time. You won't find many Construction laborers on Linked In.
And to JohnAZ below what the Biden Administration did was flat out treasonous. The most dangerous thing about Democracy is when the system is corrupted and it becomes nothing more than Mob Rule. We are near that point.
Yes, when others pick up the tab, a very good point.
The Biden invasion has created a problem for the country, how to take care of the millions that have entered when we already have too much indebtedness trying to take care of who is here already plus the rest of the world. Bidet’s mob was just plain economically stupid in their desire to acquire more Lefty-Left voters.
Partisan politics supersedes the common good.....for a loooong time.
Partisan politics is nothing but tribalism in disguise. Tribalism is almost impossible to break.
That's a good point, CankerP. Indulge me with a Samuel Huntington quote from his book, "The Clash of Civilizations."
"Peoples and nations are attempting to answer the most basic question humans can face: Who are we? And they are answering that question in the traditional way human beings have answered it, by reference to the things that mean the most to them. People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and, at the broadest level, civilizations. People use politics not just to advance their interests, but to also define their identity. We know who we are only when we know who we are not and often only when we know whom we are against."
Clash of Civilization Chap 1, page 3.
IMO, cultures ie language groups, evolved from families. In one source, the Bible, the Hebrew culture evolved from Abram’s family. Some neighboring families formed language groups, some families contested for resources.
We need to break the patronage reach around between government and education funding. Eliminate government loans to students for a start. If the education has a high return, let private banks provide loans and take the risk. Education is too important to give the government control over it.
Extremely well said. But, but if we do not have government subsidies, where would we get all those multi-million dollar stadiums and all those spoiled brat football players.
don't get me started on taxpayers having to subsidize stadiums for the billionaires
It’s gone straight downhill from day one of Government Control.
They sold out the students for the money and each year the negative results are compounded!
And the students are basically indentured servants for life because they have to repay those loans. Meanwhile, banks and colleges get tons of money due to those same loans. Student loans are a large reason why so many college kids are raging communists by the time they graduate.
And feed right into the Gimme class.
IMO, society needs educated leaders for its economy and government. It needs maybe 30% of its folks to be college educated to provide that brainpower. So if a society is educating 60% of its children through college and above, what happens to the 50% that do not get college level jobs, especially after taking worthless majors. Bitch, bitch and bitch right into the Gimme class.
Right now, I would bet that 50% of the white collar work force is useless. The advent of AI onto this demographic is going to tear things apart.
exactly right! They are right to have those feelings, but it seems to be a case of Stockholm Syndrome. They have a debt the size of a house payment for what is often a worthless piece of paper, while the school administration is a bloated overpaid bureaucracy.
That would create riots because "you're keeping kids from getting college degrees!" Not everyone is meant for advanced degrees, despite what we're told. Also, what woukd bankers do if they couldn't rope kids into signing away their lives with student loans?
Professor Thomas appears to love violence against his political enemies. Typical cowardly leftist. All talk. So I guess when push comes to shove, he'd feel right at home if a Republican shoved a muzzle into his mouth?
It's always punch, no punch backs with them.
I have to think a lot of students kept their mouths shut because he had an endowed chair, so he could influence whether students got assistantships or their degrees. Of course, most of the faculty at Georgia were anywhere from left of center to full-on Bolsheviks, just like any other university's history department. The students tended to be lefties, as well. I don't know how they'd deal with me if I were to go back to get the MA now, but honestly, there's little point in doing so. And let's face it, I'm sure it's even more of a leftist sewer now than it was in 1990. But at least the football team is better now than it was in the Ray Goff years.
Yur Kool aid recipe is too strong.
It goes down easier when a communist hands it out.
JJ was a communist? Thought he only had a god complex
He was both.
The determination of this Imbecile Cult endeavoring towards their own demise.
This guy got a 1600 on his SAT, was valedictorian of his high school class, and didn't go to Harvard because it was full of snobs and entitled assholes.
Lotta brilliant assholes in the world. If all you do is aspire to be a teacher at a college, it proves you're lazy.
I am not sure where you got the idea that many Jews voted for Hitler.
I asked ChatGPT about this and got the following response:
No, many Jews did not vote for Hitler.
The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, was openly antisemitic and promoted policies that targeted Jews. In the elections prior to Hitler's rise to power (especially the 1932 elections), Jewish voters overwhelmingly supported liberal, socialist, or centrist parties rather than the Nazis. Additionally, Jews made up a very small percentage of the German population—less than 1%—so their overall impact on the election results was minimal.
How many Jews voted for Mayor Mamdani? I think that whole election was fixed.
I agree with you. Many elections have been stolen. We cannot take their results on face value.
They weigh in way over their numbers. They boast about this and it's real. They controlled the Unions and went on strike, helping the Allies to defeat Germany in WW1.
Aided and abetted by the incompetent, or intentionally ignorant, Secret Disservice. What a disgraceful abdication of honor and duty times 4 and counting.
The coup is here, too stupid to smell the rotten stank?
Regarding Mao, it was also the Pseudo Intellectuals around the world that loved him...Secret Chinese Haters. They couldn't stop being terrified of the numbers of people in China...fake crap pearl s. buck rot in hell. fake missionnaries....and the Rolling stones stopped a concert to praise Mao...we are in a MAO world now...see the FOUR OLD THINGS ...CULTURAL PURGE...YOU BETTER BELIEVE YOU HAVE WITNESSED IT HERE SINCE 1990
Ditto with Muslims who clearly declare here in their host nation they will come into every American home. And that all America will be Muslim and Sharia law will replace the Constitution. “We will us Democracy to destroy Democracy”. Just believe them. They have the means and the will and the ability to bring it. Texas is their’s and all 4,000+ Mosques on American soil are sovereign Islamic territory claimed by the global Califate. Arm up.
“Stand your ground, don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
- Captain John Parker at the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.
The quote “Stand your ground, don’t fire unless fired upon, and if they mean to have a war, let it begin here” is widely attributed to Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, on the morning of April 19, 1775, at the start of the American Revolution.
Historical Context: Parker issued these orders to his men as they confronted British red coats on Lexington Green. He also ordered his men to disperse, but the command was largely ignored or unheard. A shot of unknown origin ignited a volley that killed eight militiamen/minutemen, including Parker’s cousin, before the British continued to Concord.
Thus on the evening of April, 19, 1775, eight minutemen did not go home that night, allowing me to post this comment on JHK's Substack 250 years later.
On the other side, I do not have a quote, but some Southern gentleman issued the order for the first shot at Fort Sumter. We are very close, not in South Carolina, maybe California, Oregon, Minnesota, Washington or even DC.
Remember too that World War One was started with an assassination, another nut.
When you set atop a powder keg, all it takes is a spark.
Yup.
"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with, no more appeasement".
Governor Ronald Reagan regarding Berkeley Protestors...1970
In the early 1970s I was an undergraduate in Sociology at the University of California. Governor Ronald Reagan, as Governor of the University of California Regents, fired many of the Marxists professors at University of California/Berkeley and San Francisco. Many of these fired closet-Communists ended up embedded onto the state government payroll at the University of Colorado in Boulder. And that is why Circa 2026, Colorado is full of Marxists/Communists at all levels of power - state, county and local.
Reagan gave orders that live ammo was to be employed at the Berkeley riots.
Then, ironically, he was shot and nearly killed a month after 1st inauguration. Then 'Poppie' (coined after the flower) Bush ran the place from behind the scenes. Proving that bloodshed works.
It seems, and someone can provide a correction if I’m wrong, that anything. Anything a Democrat in any political position says nowadays is either a lie or a gerrymandered prostitution of reality. Ditto for The Media. But I repeat myself.
And fraud.
Ditto for The Republicans. Either a lie or a gerrymandered prostitution of reality.
They are ALL lying sacks of shit!
Provide me a correction if I’m wrong! LOL
Bless your heart.
Which Republicans?
John Thune. Mitch McConnel. Mike Lee. Jim Banks. Katie Britt. John Boozman. Ted Budd. Susan Collins. Mike Crapo. Ted Cruz. John Curtis. Mike Lee. Lisa Murkouski. Rand Paul. Rick Scott. Tim Scott. Tommy Tuberville. There are few more but my brain isn't functioning well on a Monday morning.
Hmmmm, the non-MAGA, country club, RINO part of the Deep State.
I used to think Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul were good standouts in the Republican party but in recent months they haven't stood out for anything. Like all who go to DC with good intentions they get corrupted by the filthy nature of the vermin inhabiting the hallowed halls of our capitol building. Nobody can go to DC with good intentions and come out of DC unscathed.
That's why it's all going to be destroyed.
Will he answer you or just toddle off and slobber all over his picture of Mao?
It's more comforting to slobber over the picture of Mao.
John's in the Party loyalty part of his brain this morning. Other times he admits that they're half corrupt. Needless to say it is far more than that. There are a few good ones, not a few bad ones.
And as usual, you do not read or try to understand my posts about our parties.
Again.
There is no GOP and Democrat parties. We are in the world of MAGA, and lefty-Left, to borrow JHK’s good nomenclature. The transition to this division makes the Deep State look like it is insane, which it is. Add on the globalist influence, infiltrating the country, and the result is the chaos we witness.
MAGA is treason in favor of another country from whom they accept money.
Why don't you want the United States to be an independent, successful country?
Hi name is d(p)enis (needs)more-wood
Still praying for you, Dennis, that you're found.
Something must have injured Dennis soul at one time and he is going to try to undercut God in revenge. The fact that he targets God in his posts shows that he acknowledges God as the enemy. Otherwise, why would he bother?
I will give you that they consistently inconsistent at best.
Republicans are famous for F-ing up a Free Lunch!
Democrats are famous for trying to provide the free lunch with no means to do it.
Finally, after 10 years, it's all coming to a head. It's going to be a hot summer in our cities. As our host points out, be prepared for DNC violence. They know what they did. We know what they did. So does the Trump Administration--with all of the evidence.
More waiting........Sigh. Just once I would actually like to see one of these "Trump knows" predictions come to pass.
They're planning May 1 riots all across the country. That's not what they're calling them but that's what they'll be. Here in Wisconsin, public school teachers have been given the day off on May 1 to participate in the riots. This has been planned to deliberately cause hardship for the very working people the Marxists claim to champion.
Communist Day
They said that it's to make people scramble for sitters for the kids, and cause people to call in to their jobs because they lack child care. To strike a blow for the working man, don't you know.
I am hoping that diving for cover and hiding under tables in their fancy outfits might have a salutary effect on the character of the presstitutues (sorry, JHK) in attendance. They got to co-experience for a few terrified minutes what Trump goes through on a regular basis.
Not a chance. Those mopes dont have this thing instilled in most of us at an early age called shame. Nope.
Gosh, can you say "no balls"?
Presstitutes.
Craven fifth-estate catamites projectile -vomiting the party dialectic (sorry Gwennie).
JHK writes in a non-shrill, matter-of-fact style that, like Trump, dismisses progressive narratives out of hand.
Conservatives find that very refreshing.
Actually, JHK writes in a style that, like Trump, is 100% hyperbolic.
Way too much Xenophobic clap trap.
Conservatives eat this stuff up!
He trends toward optimistic, not hyperbolic.
Saw a YouTube video Tube talking about New Zealand starting to prepare to defend itself against a Chinese invasion. Maybe there are some common sense folks in New Zealand.
Then we have Canadian idiots making deals with those nice folks in China. Then we have Alberta’s getting enough signatures plus to have their referendum this fall. Carney is a blooming idiot. Hope they like their 100% tariffs.
Who the hell is Alberta? Any naked pics?
Doesn't Alberta have a lot of oil? That's something at least.
Yup, it provides much of the wealth to Ottawa to waste. That is the main focus of the separatists.
Hmmmm? Bad grammar? Leave off the ‘s.
"100% hyperbolic" ...exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect...
Yep. That's you.
I believe the term "Dennis you are full of crap is equally correct."
More-wood d(p)enis!
Dennis sounds like a writer for Jimmy Kimmel.
Watch the hotel surveillance video. The Secret Service agent who is clearly visible at the checkpoint is focused at the floor in front of his feet, instead of the entrance he should have be focused on. Consquently he doesn't notice the gunman until the gunman is right in front of him, by which time it's too late.
The first time we saw gross Secret Service incompetence in protecting President Trump was in Pennsylvania. This is the second time. Happenstance, coincidence, or enemy action?
Secret Service doesn't equal quality. There is a myth that the Secret Service is infallible. Nothing is infallible, especially when it is populated by morons, idiots and DEI hires.
Secret service let Kennedy get killed.
Yes, and they didn't prevent Reagan from being shot either.
Agreed, their track record is not good. But again, IMO, it is impossible to think of every possibility and an assassin can out guess security if clever enough.
Is it my imagination, or was this really smart assassin really dumb, or insane to think he could run through that checkpoint and actually get to the auditorium?
My point exactly. Are the two events examples of incompetence, or something worse? As for JohnAZ, if a Secret Service agent cannot remain focused for one evening, perhaps they should seek another job. The agents were there to make sure no one unauthorized gained entrance. The notion that to do so requires one to focus on the entrance does to require an IQ over 145, or unusual attentiveness.
Yes they do need IQs over 145 JDave. In this day and age of the much touted "Artificial Intelligence", where is the FBI, CIA with LISTS of suspicious individuals that are all over social media? And why are they not keeping tabs on them? The dastardly left wasted no time tracking down thousands of INNOCENT J6ers. WTAF? Then burn down every useless data center, they're watching the wrong ppl.
AMEN, Letsrock.
So many people making excuses for folks not doing the One Thing they were supposed to do - emblematic of our era, I guess.
"Watch the door. Don't let anybody in without a pass"
See of someone with an IQ of 90 can understand that - try it.
Time to use Retired Special Forces
Tedium breeds complacency. Good example? Pearl Harbor.
Withholding intelligence breeds complacency.
https://www.amazon.com/Day-Deceit-Truth-About-Harbor/dp/0684853396/ref=asc_df_0684853396?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80195839596886&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=99817&hvtargid=pla-4583795319152671&psc=1&msclkid=f1688f6e262212f16ceee681e0599a14
Ever stood a watch? It gets boring until it isn't.
Oh yes, Ben. Most do not understand that.
Yep!
I read last night that the shooter "bypassed security using a hotel stairway." WTH? It is not security if you can bypass it using a hotel stairway.
Didn’t Charlie Kirk’s assassin access a private stairway to the roof? And the Butler would-be assassin utilized a rooftop the then Secret Service chief thought was too slopey to worry about? Lots of nonchalant “security” going on.
Yeah, I saw that too. If true, what a bunch of amateur dumb asses.
Or maybe done by design.
BINGO.
Wouldn't surprise me if a hotel employee left a door unlocked so he could get in that way. You have to consider the Trump haters in every walk of life, now, from fast food places to hotels and restaurants.
It is if a woman is in charge!
Some people wondered the same thing when Mr. Stephen Paddock somehow got 23 guns, 50 pounds of explosives and 5,000 rounds of ammunition up to his Las Vegas hotel room, past dozens of security cameras. We've never been allowed to see the video.
It's called wheeled luggage.
This guy is another intelligence wind-up toy in my view. It's always with the three first names and manifestos and such. Not saying he didn't bring a gun and didn't shoot, just saying he probably had some help.
Hey, to them, it's just a job, and they're not about to jeopardize retirement or their house on the lake to protect anybody, especially someone they don't like or voted for.
Oddly enough, the Regime quickly pointed out that "this is why we need a new White House ballroom". Motive behind the smokescreen of a lone wolf?
The inscrutable logic of TDS never ceases to amaze or entertain.
The 'Regime' arranged for woke lunatic and a shootout in the Hilton in order to advance the build of a ballroom?
Snort!
Although even I admit that the sight of the press scuttling under tables like roaches and their pale, tear-stained faces peering out beneath the tablecloths might have been worth it. Might have been. Would definately have been worth it if a synapse fired in one or two of them that they birthed this Frankenstein monster, who lurched home to his makers for a final act of murder and mayhem.
Considering the track record of integrity of the White House occupants over the past couple of decades, the default setting of news and events is now "lie", "false flag" and/or psyop. Doesn't mean the event isn't true as reported, but that's an exception of the rule.
The comment of need for a new WH ballroom falls under the category of "never let a crisis go to waste". Seemed odd to me. The media also couldn't resist the opportunity to point out the trend of growing "gun violence" in these events. Gee, wonder what the goal with that might be?
As for TDS, it's now morphed into two flavors - those who have slurped down the Orange Kool-Aid are just as much out of touch with reality as the ones with pink hair screaming Trump is a tyrant. He's most accurately described as an actor and puppet, IMHO.
Why’d you feel the need to fling that comment right into the making of a conspiracy?
I thought it was an odd comment - like Trump was trying to generate misdirection in the form of "conspiracy". I'm not the only person thinking of it:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/27/trump-assassination-attempt-conspiracy-theory/
Do you think the next democrat administration will tear it down at taxpayer expense because Trump built it?
When does the right reach the breaking point? How many more assassinations and attempted assassinations on the president will we tolerate before reaching in to the personal armories?
I hope it never reaches that point, but the hour is getting close for a lot of extremely patient people.
Still way too comfortable. Thus does the frog cook. If you're supporting enemy invaders so that they can have children, you're already conquered. It already happened quietly and from the top.
I think that's what they want. They've been poking the bear for ten years, now. They'd love nothing better than for that to happen. Then they could use that as the excuse to eliminate the second amendment, which is what they want.
On a Left-Right axis, the Right is not likely to act. The Left is proving on a regular basis they will act. This axis sows and highlights division. If it were a valid axis for action, it would not be one-sided.
It is the Up-Down axis where it can come to a head. Up is freedom, down is tyranny.
I think it is better framed as Up-Down.
There are differing degrees of freedom between:
* judgement proof
* family provider
Right. Ask Trump what magic medicine he used to completely heal the damaged cartilage in his right ear after it was “shot” in Butler, PA. It’s a medical miracle!
We’re all being played.
What are you trying to say, Gonzo? That Trump wasn't shot, it was staged? Come out and tell us what you think. Do you think Trump staged Corey Comperadore's death, then? Let's have it. Tell us the real story.
Maybe it was plastic surgery. Ever consider that?
"Ear cartilage cannot naturally regenerate or grow back once it has been destroyed, removed, or severely damaged.
"Because ear cartilage is avascular—meaning it lacks its own direct blood supply to deliver nutrients and stem cells—the body cannot repair or rebuild it, resulting in permanent structural changes.
"Unlike bone or skin, damaged ear cartilage does not grow back. If the cartilage is damaged by trauma or infection, the body fills the space with dense scar tissue, which can lead to permanent deformities like "cauliflower ear". While the skin over the ear can heal after a cut, the cartilage beneath will not return to its original shape."
Gonzo, or is it Phil?
Do not waste your time making up shit about the assassination attempts. Trump’s ear, if you would take the time to look at it in a close up with enough resolution, has a nick in it where the blood was on the Butler pics. If you can get past your TDS, try it and see. Then stop the bullshit posts.
I do have one comment about number three.
The press and the others cowered under the tables, a beautiful scene, in panic over a gunshot out of the area. Security did its job. One complaint was lodged by Secret Service, Trump took a moment to look out to see what was happening before being covered up and scooted out of the auditorium.
Did you know that Reagan was shot at that hotel and the reason that it is used, a great security risk, is because the government has no large ballroom facility available in government hands.
Thanks for the anatomy lesson. You gave it your best "shot", but missed the point.
Perhaps. But perhaps he has access to a good plastic surgeon.
No doubt the best money can buy. With early intervention and a few techniques deftly enacted, a great plastic sx can make it look ~perfect.
In a rollover accident the cartilage of my ear was torn + glass shards. In the hospital a drunk plastic surgeon was assigned to [screw] it up (only cost me $1200) and it eventually healed back to near perfect. (Took 10 yrs for all the glass to migrate out of the tissue).
I had a cancerous tumor removed from my face just below my right eye at the right corner of my eye the surgeon had to slice my face open from just about the center of my forehead, all the way down to the bottom of my cheek at a zigzag to go under the eye at the left side of my eye and straight down. At the time of the surgery to remove the tumor there was a plastic surgeon specialist standing right beside the doctor and stitched it up. Yeah it seemed to have left a scar initially that I thought was gonna be a real Viking scar and in the end today you can’t even tell that I had surgery.
The point being that today, modern plastic surgery stitchery is light years ahead of what it was decades ago.
With Trump, the nick is still there.
Appreciate your optimism Mr Kunstler but with turncoats like John Thune in Congress I can’t share it. Hope you are 100% correct. One question though; why the hell does Trump keep going on the leftist media’s broadcasts? Norah O’Donnell for crying out loud/60 Minutes? They’re a joke & a proven joke beyond a reasonable doubt. A smarter move would be going on alt media - Joe Rogan et al - & make the corporate media chase after them.
This reeks of Susie Wiles; the remaining dumb broad - that we know of - in the WH. Any “Republican” who expects fair treatment from Vanity Fair is not playing with a full deck.
Dutchman-- John Thune will not have anything to say about the Insurrection Act, if it comes to that. He'll have to lump it. . . or worse.
The insurrection Acts, like the war powers act is acknowledgement by Congress that they are incapable of doing the job that the Constitution gave them, responding to emergency situations.
Keep voting for those elected representatives!
You seem to be saying a lot of things today that I agree with and wish I would have said first.
Join in!!!!
Well-stated. The war powers act is rather new, unlike the Insurrection Act. It is a current statement (spanning a number of decades) on how the Congress has failed to perform its Article I, Section 8 function on matters of declaring War, granting Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Do you think most of them know what those are?
I really doubt they do.
I doubt they give it much thought because the focus is always on the election cycle and being re-elected. The livelihood of both the office-holder and the staff depends on re-election.
Without doing a deeper dive, there was some discussion of Letters of Marque and Reprisal in the recent past (post “Joe Biden”). This would involve privateers investing their own funds to ‘Capture on Land and Water’ prizes of high value. In the Western Hemisphere, it would be a conflict between privateers and the drug cartels, for example.
I do not think much has come of it.
You’re A Shill and a BAPNigger.
Worse, I hope.
Trump's time as POTUS is coming to an end sooner than you think. That's not a threat, it's a sober reflection on his fragile state of mind. Picking a fight with the with everyone from the Pope to to America's closest allies is a guaranteed way to alienate the average American voter, which only works in the Democrats favor. Trump's economy is a house of cards fueled by debt.
What ‘closest allies’? The UK? Perhaps it’s time to investigate history a bit more, and understand that the UK has actually been the puppet master for most global chaos.
Yeah, what closest allies? That is a joke. Right now, Europe is a bigger enemy than China, beginning with Canada.
Trump is so refreshing compared to the idiots on the world stage that he ought to be selling You Tube posts.
Mr. George----picking a fight with our closest allies? Maybe they were allies 30 or 40 years ago when at least some of them were still sane but......today they have totally screwed their citizens by allowing 3rd world parasites / 7th century barbarians to walk right in and get firmly clamped to the gov't tit. I would more likely classify these so called allies as parasites. As long as the US goes along with the nonsense they spout, they are friends but when we point out the suicide path they are on with their energy policies and immigration idiocy they do everything in their power to screw us. The NATO countries that did not allow us to use their air fields during our military efforts should be kicked out of NATO or......maybe we should take our marbles home and tell them to try to defend their countries with their 2 ships and 3 tanks. Russia is not as powerful as everyone thought but.....I believe that if it wanted to it could roll into Berlin and on to Paris within a few weeks. What would be left of NATO would not be able to mount any kind of defense whatsoever. Even tho Russia seems to be a kleptocracy it seems we have more in common with them than the Brits, Cheese eating surrender monkeys and the Germans.
Russia has zero interest in taking over Europe. And after 1991, it desperately WANTED friendly relationships with the West. But kick someone in the teeth enough times -- as we did to Russia -- and eventually they get tired of it. Threaten to put nuclear missiles aimed at them right on their border, and gee, they just might want to defend themselves.
Many of our politicians are old enough to remember the Soviet Union, which on US and NATO turf was constantly bashed as the supreme threat to our way of life. That characterization had some validity, especially in early Cold War days, but it persisted long after the Soviet Union (steered by Russia) evolved from a collection of Bolsheviks into a collection of bureaucrats.
But old mental habits die hard, and the picture of Russia as Red in tooth and claw was thoroughly imprinted on the older generations. They are passing on or retiring, so maybe one can dare to hope a more realistic view of Russia will prevail. As Kathy S. says above, the idea that today's Russia wants to invade and subdue Europe is ridiculous. We need to snap out of it.
Ha, the first thing the USSR did was rid itself of all the economic load that Europe was in 1991. They still are. Trump wants to cut them loose as he knows Putin wants no part of them.
Think about this, what will happen if Ukraine finally mow tows to Russia, the ME settles itself into the Abraham accords, Taiwan is settled, and NATO is dissolved.
Look to the money losers. The USA defense industry and Their MIC buddies in the government. So maybe that is why they hate Trump like they do. Also, think what would happen to the US economy with a diminishing defense posture.
Same thing applies to Iran. Park nuclear capable navy vessels off their shores and build military establishments all around their borders and they just might want to defend themselves. Few there be, for some reason, who can't grasp or understand this concept and that this might be the reason why the Iranians refer to the USA as the "Great Satan."
When I visited Bandai Abbas in 1972, courtesy of the USN, it was a busy little town and the people were really friendly. That was the Shah..
Iran started the war on 1979 when the opposition to the Shah took hostages for over a year. Even then, Reagan knew that the only thing that would assume the Iranians was force and a big stick.
Iran has been a thorn in the side of the Middle East ever since, killing many Americans with the help of its proxy buddies. The Ayatollahs and their guard started it and have been playing chicken with the US ever since.
Ask yourself, are the people better off there under a religious fundamentalist dictator ship or a secular dictatorship? Or maybe a republic?
I'm reading James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" right now. According to him -- and I think Clavell was known for doing good research -- it was "American MATERIALISM" that they called the Great Satan -- at least back in 1979. That made me wonder whether it's been misquoted all these years. Then again, their definition might have expanded to the more general "America" as time went on. I don't know.
At any rate, the Great Satan label originated long before the current situation. And we shouldn't forget that Iranian leaders did pledge to annihilate the "Little Satan" -- meaning Israel -- off the face of the earth. Again, decades before the current situation. Remember that sweetie pie Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Cassandra George, those whom you think or say Trump is picking a fight with have been waging war on God and Truth long enough, God says. And He prevails every time, all the time. Bring it on.
Jewish fundamentalism rules the United States. And they are behind Leftism as well. Thus the "vise" described so well by John Birch.
Hmmmm?
Jewish Fundamentalism?
Or Islamic Fundamentalism in Minnesota and Michigan?
Or
Christian Fundamentalism in Texas and the South?
Or CCP fundamentalism on the West Coast
Or Catholicism in Maryland or the SW?
I think you give the Jews too much credit.
The average American voter cannot read above maybe a fifth or sixth grade level. Less if they're black. They don't know who their closest allies are, much less care. A democrat economy won't be any better than Trump's. Worse, actually, because in addition to the inflation introduced by Richard Nixon by taking us off the gold standard, we'll have the massive taxation they're planning.
You and the The Pope are retarded faggots.
your the reason I learned to block.
But doesn’t that play right into their hands - labeling Trump a “fascist”?
Yep, it does. And that’s why they’re wanting to do that because it makes it easier for Peter Thiel’s Gay Space Communism.
I think Trump has thrown in the towel. He made an effort to vanquish leviathan but realized its hide it too thick to penetrate. His hair is no longer golden, it's white and unkempt. His speech is jarbled and sentences are incoherent and unfinished.
Trump is not a solution to what ails America. He's a symptom of a very sick and dying political system.
But it remains that he is the only obstacle to the oncoming of the great reset, the globalists, the world socialists that think that the role of people is to serve the state.
He "was" the only obstacle and I applaud much of what he has done (other than starting a new war).
Here is the irony, CP, he started to war to rid the world of a nemesis to order. The energy flow of oil is an imperative and no country can impede it. That is what Iran is up to, to be able to control the world due to its proximity to the Straits. Imagine if little countries shut down the Panama Canal, the Suez, the Malacca Straits, the South China Sea, just to make themselves look like big shots. Unfortunate for your POV, the USA took on the role of guaranteeing the sea lanes after WW2 and still feels that obligation.
The logical fallacy at work. Before we went to war the strait was open, working just fine. Trump and his followers can’t keep their stories straight.
Rumors were out that Irans nut jobs were eleven days away from the bomb(s). Ever wonder why Iran wanted the bomb? Ever wonder why SA, uAE, etc. did not? You do realize that the USA was committed to defends the Gulf states since WW2 in return for oil? That is what created the 1st Gulf war in Kuwait, it is what fired up the Iraq Shock and Awe to dump Hussein, protecting the ME oil supply from primarily Iran. You know Trump, when Iran got to a certain point of irritation, that was it.
I acknowledge your points, JohnAZ, and I understand the reasoning. But he did run on a promise of no new wars and to be a president of peace. Disappointing.
If you remember, he the first war he said he stopped was the Gaza Strip ceasefire. He over promised Ukraine, and is totally frustrated by two egomaniacs that will not make a deal.
Trump prides himself on being a deal maker, but when some wars starts, obliteration of one side is required. Ukraine is not there yet. He has mediated other wars successfully.
Since the beginning of man, how do you mediate two sides that refuse to give in? If people are willing to die for their cause, how do you stop war? You don’t.
The Iran shit is not new it is almost fifty years old. How long can a country ignore another's attempts at proxy war? Iran fafo and is still in the fo phase. It can only end one way and that is no Shia theocracy warring on their neighbors and playing terrorist party cake.
The man is 80 years old (give or take). We the people need to put forth someone, or perhaps many someones, about 20 or 30 years younger to take up our position.
While Trump is certainly a mixed bag, it was the only deal on offer at the time. I can’t imagine the perversion of a Harris/Waltz administration.
Better luck next time, America…
Tampon dispensers in every bathroom in America!
"While Trump is certainly a mixed bag, it was the only deal on offer at the time. I can’t imagine the perversion of a Harris/Waltz administration."
Yes, he was the best we had to choose from. No argument from me.
"We the people need to put forth someone"
I don't believe we the people have any choice in the matter. We are told who we are going to vote for. Partisan politics have made it nearly impossible for the people to select and support their chosen candidate. We get who the party will support. Period. Trump is an enigma.
Sorta halfway disagree. I believe that the parties are falling apart right now and Trump is really closer to an independent. IMHO, five years from now, row new parties will displace the fiasco we have now. Lefty-Lefts will be socialist globalists and the MAGA derivative will be 20th century patriots. By then, the Trump legacy could be realized or gone, with a USSA in its place.
The biggest political "party" in the USA right now is registered "independents." I have read that independents outnumber registered Republicans and Democrats combined. The problem with independents is they still vote Republican or Democrat. So, are they really independent?
I would love to see a collapse of the partisan system that has been foisted upon us in favor of a new system of many parties, or a system of no parties at all, just candidates with distinct political views and persuasions.
The fact that the Democrats never have a dissenting vote drives me bat shit crazy. Not one of those 212 Democrats has a unique point of view that doesn't line up with the party bosses? Republicans break party lines all the time. Not the Democrats. More political parties or no political parties could serve to break this nonsense.
Democrats are ideologically driven. They all subscribe to the same ideology, and like the Marxists that they are, punish anyone who goes against the party. Hence, uniformity in thought, belief and deed. Rather like in Eugene Zamyatin's book We.
The biggest political “party” in the USA now are the approximately 90M eligible voters that don’t vote. This can be considered good or bad depending on one’s POV but it is factual.
I haven’t studied the arguments for or against ranked choice voting but I’m thinking it’s time we consider it.
Just one, once in a while, Fetterman and the DNC want him out.
Again, humanity always has differences of opinion. One opinion has an equal and opposite opinion. It is the function of government to afford compromise and keep the society functioning.
That is what is failing.
I just wanna say ... it helps me if I always look at Trump ... from the day he descended the Golden Escalator ... down to today ... as a *symptom* ... mostly for better ... but sometimes for worse ... of the underlying disease. Which I agree is a very serious, life-threatening disease.
No, you are wrong. He goes on expecting unfair treatment in front the largest audience that is still susceptible to having their eyes opened. He's doing exactly what he should be doing. Scott Adams would approve.
"If he does all this, it must include an executive order mandating common sense election procedure for the midterm"
Fact is, Trump can not do this. An Executive Order applies only to the Federal Bureaucracy. It isn't law and has no effect over the states and how the states administer their election policy. The authority of the executive is extremely limited by design of the founders.
The US Congress needs to get its shit together. Nothing but a no selling waste of space the US Congress is. They do absolutely nothing to benefit the average citizen of this country. Nothing. We are all hard-pressed to think of something that the Congress has done that benefits us personally. I get emails from my lousy Senator John Curtis and a stupid "representative" and I delete them immediately. They aren't about the peoples' business. They are all about sound bites for Tic-Toc during their useless but numerous "committee hearings."
The American people should be pissing razorblades about the state of their Congress. Instead they are too busy pointing fingers at one man. One man who really has no authority to foment any long term changes that can't be undone with a signature once he leaves office.
Trump can't fix this mess. Period. Congress can. But won't.
"The US Congress needs to get its shit together. " Yup.
"They are all about sound bites" Yup
add the insider trading, the 'large donations' to buy votes, and the 'brownstoning ' traps they fall into... dysfunction doesn't begin to describe the failure.
Mr wkenn----dysfunction by design. The correct word to use to describe Congress and most of our bureaucracy is corruption with a capital C
Needs a good cleaning out every generation (20 years).
If he can do all this....he MUST start ripping the COMPLICIT MSM to legal shreds. This is nothing short of INCITEMENT to VIOLENCE and Sedition.
Keep voting for those elected representatives!
Build the ballroom!
Call it a bingo parlor and all of Christendom will climb aboard the building there of…
Well, don't worry, next democrat administration, you'll get a chance to pay for it's demolition with your tax dollars. I'm sure the expense will be worth the satisfaction.
Dear JHK, if what you suggest isn’t coming soon, it is all over. We have to pray that it IS coming and soon, and that patriots do what is necessary to do. I like watching Mel Gibson’s patriot flick - he didn’t want to, but when he had to…(((they))) mean to destroy all of us. The CIA programming has worked to perfection - next???
“Prayer is an act of doubt, not an act of faith, for if you truly trusted your god's plan, you wouldn't ever have pray for anything.” ― Michael Sherlock
“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.” - Christopher Hitchens
George Carlin on prayer: “What’s the point of having a divine plan when any schmuck with a 2-dollar prayer book can fuck up your plan?”
Just how many times has the Pope prayed for peace in the holy land? That's worked out very well...yeah right!
"May God bless America!" Why? What kind of God would bless a country providing 2,000lb bombs to a mass-murderer knowing full well he is going to drop them on hospitals and refugee camps?
We are told an all-knowing God designed the incredible complexities of life yet was so unimaginative and primitive it could only resolve issues by killing people.
The main difference between believers and non-believers is magical thinking.
It comes from a desire that there is some magical power out there that will save you from the responsibilities of life.
What a waste of space effort and time or is this another copy paste job from hate Christiansdotcom?
Now, go listen to Stephen Meyer on Youtube. It was only when humans developed computer code and understood it, that they realized exactly what the DNA genetic code is, and that’s it’s impossible for that to have been designed randomly.
This is why The Lord’s Prayer is NOT a “prosperity gospel” type of lesson, but essentially asking the believer to be open to what God has planned. *Your* kingdom come. *Your* will be done.
Thanks so much d(p)enis morewood for your incredible insights. I’m praying right now…for some magical viagra to help you with your problems
I agree it’s unavoidable, it’s all coming - the insurrection act, the military tribunals, the EO for voting, all of it. We’re going to have to make it through a very spicy summer first though.
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Likely will continue well beyond one Summer, probably into the next decade.
To use a baseball analogy, we are barely emerging from 'hot stove' season, the pitchers and catchers are still at home.
Pretty much sums up the situation: "...and asked President Trump “What is your reaction to that?” Mr. Trump did not fall for the ruse — which was just an opportunity to reinforce a well-worn scurrility. “You’re a disgrace,” the president replied, and Ms. O’Donnell just continued with the interview as if his answer never registered. There it is."
Yet, bread and circuses....
Bill O’Reilly famously stated that the press elected Trump in 2016 by allowing him name recognition and lots of air time by trying to debase him with lies especially on TV. Fox, especially Ingraham is doing the same thing, allowing the Lefty-Left( Love that description of the insane class) way too much air time to express their bullshit, thinking they are “embarrassing” them. Most of America is not sophisticated enough to understand the “embarrassment” technique. I do think Fox talks over the head of much of the American public these days. .???
Headscratcher. What's the difference btw "Lefty-Left" and "DemonCrats"?
Easy right now, Lefty-Left is cool, DemonCrats might get you thrown off the blog for a month.
Or longer.
I agree with you John! Tired of the show-off tv hosts
Nothing registers with the dead.
Thank you for the irony of many of the press attendees being responsible for feeding the diseased mind of Mr. Allen. The Democrat Party stink pile just keeps rising; USAID, SPLC. Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud. COVID relief fraud, illegal immigration, no citizen only voting, extorting the National security budget, the Clintons, the Russia hoax and too much more for my keyboarding skills. Yet the Lemmings that follow the Democrat Party are not only out there, they are abundant. George Clooney, as example, raised millions for Joe Biden's re-election just before Biden' dementia was exposed and Clooney backed that up with a $ 1 million donation to the SPLC. Unthinking Gerbils live among us. In the interest of a healthy country I hope for the Democrat Party to find a platform and/or path that is constructive. One that would benefit not just it's party members, but the entire country. Independent thought is not a disease.
Good luck w that Garry. When I hear such stupid gibberish in a news report that "Mia Farrow (of all ppl) says that the latest assassination attempt was staged," then there is no hope for these mutants. But she had no idea what her degenerate bf Woody was doing w her kids under her nose? Sorry not sorry.
They only donate because it's a tax write-off.
And here I thought “unthinking gerbils” lived up Richard Gere’s ass. 😉