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Truman Verdun's avatar

When a country is too hesitant or internally conflicted to correct itself, Reality will correct it--often with even more pain--like overdue compounded interest from delay.

Lincoln had something to say about a house divided against itself.

Skenny's avatar

It appears there is a government equivalent to the "blue wall of silence" that exists in law enforcement. Politicians and government continually get away with actions that send private citizens to jail.

"Brown wall of silence" is an apt moniker for the government version, as these folk are generally full of shit.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

How many times need it be said? We live in a lawless country. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Will Martin's avatar

So Then, Who Do We Kill?

Three and Two's avatar

Maybe that's your whole problem, Will. Your only solution to everything is to simply throw more money at your MIC to then go abroad slaughtering and terrorizing innocent people.

Shock & Awe indeed.

All we are saying is give minding your own beeswax a chance.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

I believe the 82nd Airborne had two sayings, 1) Death From Above and 2) Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out. I'll go with Door No. 2.

Mr. Orange's avatar

He wasn't talking about leaving the border

Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

Everybody knows what went down in our country the past ten years, that a vicious blob called the Deep State has been running a continuous coup, just as everybody with half-a-brain knows exactly what Covid-19 was about. The question that remains: does having half-a-brain mean you’re retarded, and does that explain why nothing works in the USA, including the ability to manage the nation’s justice apparatus?"

Wake up and smell the coffee America; our Constitutional Republic has fallen. I compare living in 2026 USA, similar to living in Roman occupied Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria during the times of Jesus Christ.

Maranatha.

Scott's avatar

True. It's obvious that we the people must right the ship, there are no saviors, although Trump and team are doing what they can. The problem is, how can we the people do anything when there is a sizeable contingent of crazies, like the recent 11 that voted to acquit a woman of strangling her kids. Mostly white liberal boomers, the bane of the Republic.

Castelletto's avatar

When people change, it usually doesn't happen all at once but over an extended period of ups and downs. What does change instantly is awareness. There is no doubt that our awareness as a country is changing dramatically and has been over the last couple of decades, particularly since the scamdemic.

The ship is definitely turning, albeit gradually, and there is coming a moment when, like the attitude about drunk driving, we will look back and see that everything is different than it used to be.

JohnAZ's avatar

From someone from mid 1900s, believe me it has changed to be almost unrecognizable.

Castelletto's avatar

1948 here. I think you could probably say that about every 75 years since the so-called enlightenment, which is interesting in itself.

To me, it looked like a long slide since JFK was murdered, with the darkness and clouds only starting to lift in 2024.

Three and Two's avatar

Addiction does that ... and you're addicted to meddling in every other nations' business.

Three and Two's avatar

"Instantly" "over the last couple of decades"?

Now there's a head-scratcher.

Kathy S.'s avatar

Thank you for supplying the needed optimism today, when JHK himself could not!

Three and Two's avatar

Yes, Trump and team sure are doing all that they can.

Trump’s WEF gems:

Operation Warp Speed (COVID-19 shot)

Stargate (blood tests and mRNA vaccines powered by Palantir, Open AI, SoftBank, Oracle to “cure cancer…” [caused by COVID-19 shot? 🤔])

GENIUS Act (Digital Currency)

REAL ID rollout led by “Mullin-it-over” (intermediate step to national digital ID linked to medical records among other future [digital currency] applications). Built into the SAVE Act.

Genesis Mission (National AI platform linking federal data centers)

6G Executive Order with “implantable technologies” as one of its purposes

Clarity Act to further digital currency

John Schrauth's avatar

He might have also said the Constitution is not a suicide pact and neither are elections.

C Munkholm's avatar

A quote attributed to Ayn Rand - but a paraphrase of her philosophical passages: “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

Three and Two's avatar

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” - Ayn Rand

Castelletto's avatar

That's actually biblical, in Mark 3:25.

Three and Two's avatar

"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." [KJV]

Praise be the Word of God. ✝️🙏🏻

Carolyn's avatar

Lincoln???? I believe and know GOD is/was and will be the author of that statement of fact.

dbriz's avatar

Well you know…Saint Lincoln has been canonized for 150+ years.

Michael Huye's avatar

Lincoln is the reason we are in this mess.

TomNearBoston's avatar

"Nothing works." Except, apparently, the mind-control techniques and wealth-extraction machinery of the those really calling the shots.

Really think Obama is calling the shots? Seems obvious he is just part of somebody's cast of characters.

Casey Jones's avatar

And so again the Stupid Party does the Gentlemen Don't Do That shit whilst the house burns down? Surprised not.

Marilyn F's avatar

Whoever thought righting this wrong would be easy didn’t take into consideration that our side doesn’t have enough principled men to bring this home. Even when brave men charge ahead someone pretending to be on our side blocks the way.

Len Penzo's avatar

Weak men make for hard times. Unfortunately, that seems to be all we have left. For now.

Three and Two's avatar

"Even when brave men charge ahead someone pretending to be on our side blocks the way."

Exactly. Like, say, Trump.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-theory-of-everything/comment/337044049

Gary Edwards's avatar

The party in charge inevitably over reaches causing its own demise.

Three and Two's avatar

It's all by design. Frick v Frack. The pendulum swings Left/Right, Back/Forth, To/Fro while TPTB advance their evil agenda.

Gail's avatar

The so called " Conservatives" make up the Party of C.

A collective of constipated cowardice, co-conspirators,confusion, craven,corrupt,coverup, conceit,criminality, confusion,consternation, clannishness, constraint,churlish,clueless,coerced, coopted, communication-deficient, culturally obsolete, conflicted ... cloaked in a cliche' of church choir Christianity. A cacophony of clucking cucks.

Whatever the adjective/s, they are complicit in the collapse of our Constitution.

The only issue they have dogged energy to pursue is the one that should have been put to bed 50 years ago.

Abortion.

The single issue that not only costs local and state elections, but Presidential elections. It cost them the 2008, 2012 general elections, the 2022 midterm elections, contributed to the 2020 loss and will contribute to the 2026 midterms.

Combined with Trump's behavior, the inability to pass any bills when they had a hefty majority in the House and Senate- and the Oval, failure to fill cabinet appointments, leaks, lousy picks, lousy candidates, lousy messaging, failure to hold anybody accountable for not just infractions but criminality so blatant as to qualify as Treason, Sedition, extortion, embezzlement, grand theft, false imprisonment, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder...

They can't even list the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist entity!

They haven't shut down any NGOs, gone after Soros, Singham,Code Pink, SJP, Al Aqsa Mosque

, Catholic Charities, JVP, CAIR, J-Street, Wespac, Clinton Foundation, Palestine Legal, If Not Now, Bend The Ark, Penn-Biden, Teacher's Union,HMS, Sedona Foundation...

We have members of Congress who ARE the NGOs sponsoring, funding and organizing the pro-Hamas jihadist /Marxist anti-Israel, anti-America, antisemitic, anti-Capitalism, anti-Elon, anti-ICE, anti-SCOTUS Hate protests/riots... the most notable are Pritzker, Dan Goldman and Mamdani. Nary a fucking peep.

And they are hardly the only terror abettors in elected office and the federal bureaucracy.

Omar, Tlaib, the DSA contenders, Van Hollen, Debbie Dingell,Chris Murphy, Walz, Bass,McConnell,Massie, Mark Kelly are a mere handful acting as foreign agents.

Why isn't there any action being taken?

Look no farther than the Trump Qatar Cabinet... Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Lee Zeldin, Steve Witkoff were all Qatar lobbyists. Now, Don Jr, Kushner, Eric, Lara and the Big Man, DJT are all in bed with Qatar. And who pushed for Vance and Joe Kent? Here's a clue- He now hates Trump, America, the Republicans, Evangelical Christians, Churchill... Supports Al Sayed, Socialism, "Chrislam", Putin, Maduro, Iran, the MB, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hitler.. and has a virulently insane , fanatical hatred for Israel, Zionism and drumroll... the Jooooz!

Cucker Carlson!

Which makes me wonder... Are Cucker, Kent, Buckley Carlson, MTG, Massie going to face consequences for commission of Treason ? They have all had access to the WH, classified info and aren't even attempting to hide their collusion with Russia, Iran, Turkey, China, Qatar, Hamas, Hezbollah, Cuba and Venezuela.

Anthony Freda's avatar

The Diabolical Deep State/Epstein Criminal Mafia is working perfectly. Bongino and anyone else who even thought about exposing the crimes of these demons will never do it. They know that their lives and the lives of their families will be utterly ruined and it's just not worth the price.

Sheila Barkofske's avatar

Yes & that is why my support of Trump will never waiver. You got to know he knows all this & more & knows their one & only strategy is to publicly draw & quarter him & his family to cut off the head of the snake

IAN2364's avatar

Trump looks and acts like a guy that is holding the high hand.

PapayaSF's avatar

I think so, too. Everything points to Trump wanting to win the midterms and having Vance win in 2028. He knows that it’s victory or catastrophe. There are simply too many Democrat scandals that have been investigated for years for one or more to *not* blow up before November.

IAN2364's avatar

What do you think about Ron DeSantis as president?

Lugh's avatar

Will they match Vance with Erika Kirk as they were leaning to awhile ago? They're both Catholics!

Three and Two's avatar

Right. You see it every day at the gas pumps.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Trump is guilty is guilty as hell in the Epstein matter. He was a best friend of Epstein for a decade.

Why do you think that Maxwell got moved to a cushier penitentiary? She's covered for Trump when Blanch interviewed her.

It's SO obvious. They're withholding 3 million documents and Trump doesn't say a word about it.

The truth is eventually coming out and it's NOT going to be good for Trump and many others.

JohnAZ's avatar

You are wrong. The TRUTH will never come out. Whether or not Trump was involved, the Deep State itself is deeply involved with Epstein and TPTB will never allow full disclosure of the files.

You are believing a pipe dream, Trump is just one of hundreds and the Leftists who hope he would have been hurt by Epstein now find themselves in the wringer. So nothing will happen.

A constant in DC is that everyone has skeletons in their closets so no one will push bombshells like Epstein. Look at what happened to Swallwell, that sent a shiver through DC and we have heard nothing since.

Jeff the Original's avatar

You say that the Deep State is deeply involved with Epstein. HOW? Trump is charge! The AG reports to him.

If the Deep State is preventing Trump from releasing the files...why isn't he complaining about it? He seems pretty damn content that they are NOT being released.

You seriously don't know that Trump and Epstein were really close friends for a decade? You don't think that Trump might have been aware of what was going on? You don't think he's trying to distance himself from it and impede the release of the rest of the files?

Quit fabricating this Deep State BS because all you do is get lazy by constantly blaming it even though it really doesn't exist...except in your imagination. In fact, it's worse than that....the concept was invented for that very reason...to be able to pull it out whenever something doesn't go your way. It's BS.

Kathy S.'s avatar

What happened to Swalwell? I must have missed that.

PapayaSF's avatar

Nonsense. If there was Epstein dirt on Trump, Biden would have used it.

Ben R's avatar

Yep, and like the MeToo movement, it seems to snare and destroy more Democrats than the actual Republicans, the real targets of the movement.

Which is why it went so big for a while and then died on the vine.

Three and Two's avatar

Unless, of course, Biden and Trump were in cahoots.

The lying liars tell us that they oppose one another but they are, of course, lying.

Inisfad's avatar

Trump helped the Palm Beach investigation into Epstein’s first arrest. So no, Trump is not ‘guilty as hell in the Epstein matter’.

Ben R's avatar

Inconvenient truth!

The self-professed former RINO-turned-progressive commie Jeffie does not want to address it, and since his newsy sources never bothered to report it, he probably doesn't even know that.

Three and Two's avatar

Good thinking. Guilty people in power NEVER cover-up their own crimes. Perish the thought.

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What of the statutory rape charges filed against the Donald while he was besties with Epstein? What about Maxwell being moved to cushy digs under Trump 47 after she stated what a fine gentleman he was in the midst of their sick pedo ring?

Makes ya think.

Free Range Texan's avatar

Tired dogmatic soldier of the left as always.

Jeff the Original's avatar

I'm as open as they come to entertaining facts...but I'm actually VERY TIRED of battling people who love conspiracies but only the ones that support their pre-conceived notions.

I voted for Reagan from boot camp in 1984. Didn't regret it then...don't regret it now. Trump is a very LONG WAYS from Reagan. The GOP changed too much for me to still be a part of it. You are the damn crazy train now...just like Lindsey said.

dbriz's avatar

“Trump is guilty is guilty as hell in the Epstein matter.”

“It's SO obvious.”

Hmmm. But aren’t you the guy who says it must be adjudicated in the courts BEFORE we can call it anything but a conspiracy theory?

Jeff the Original's avatar

Yes I’m saying he’s guilty as hell and should have an investigation, proper charges rendered, a trial and a verdict. If there’s no monkey business and he’s found not guilty then that’s the way it goes.

Notice I wasn’t chanting anything close to “Lock him up!” or “Hang Mike Pence!” I don’t even join in with a “Let’s go, Brandon!” chant.

Boring I know…

Mike Simmons's avatar

Jeff,

You should get that head injury evaluated by a competent medical professional.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/b52d751b23fe4715a87c37e78f626c43

Three and Two's avatar

They released bupkis. They redacted all the pedos' names, ffs.

Lugh's avatar

His girl, Bondi, redacted the names of the perps and released the names of the victims. Mind blowing. And she got away with it of course.

Mike Simmons's avatar

Is that what Rachel Maddow told you?

Robert Italia's avatar

Not worth the price to win the war on our Republic? Allowing the Deep State to finish it off? Insanity.

JohnAZ's avatar

A good model for DC is a large circle of people, front to back, alternating parties, with everyone poised with a knife ready to plunge it into the person in front of them. The wise men know this model and are trying to avoid the trigger.

Three and Two's avatar

A better model is elephants and donkeys gleefully playing together while sexually abusing our kids.

Mitch's avatar

hang them all and let God sort it out

William Voelz's avatar

Sheila. The Golden Golem of Greatness ain’t. He won’t survive this year. He’s dead by Dec.

Frank Whiten's avatar

Listen for your doorbell to ring soon, Bill.

William Voelz's avatar

Frank. Love you too.

Three and Two's avatar

You oppose Epstein by supporting his long-time bestie?

"Does not compute."

Will Martin's avatar

Trump is a Cuck. You're Jewish.

Seeing Through the Keyhole's avatar

Many have understood that ruin but act with wisdom and courage despite knowing the cost.

Ask anyone who has ever worn a uniform in service to the nation.

Three and Two's avatar

To do so, you can find many of them living in American downtown tent cities (surrounded by meth addicts and feces).

Jeff the Original's avatar

You seriously aren't aware that Trump's DNA and fingerprints are all over the Epstein files. If Trump's so innocent...why isn't he stomping up and down for ALL the files to be released? Why is his guy Blanche preventing it?

The Deep State is Trump at this point...he's the boss.

Kathy S.'s avatar

You may be right, Jeff. Or it may just be that what's in it is so explosive that it would trigger the implosion and explosion of the whole country.

I do think, as a former student of the American Civil War, that what may be coming will make that conflict look like a Sunday school picnic. There will be way more than just two sides. There will be random scattered terrorist guerrilla activity, not nice, neat battlefields with obvious front lines. As in the chaotic Missouri region of the Civil War, you will never know who is your friend and who is your enemy. And the whole country is now lacking in the social and moral resources that the country had 170 years ago, i.e., there is no common language based on Christianity as there was back then (however opposed the interpretations of it were). Even the Spanish Civil War and the Russian Civil War may look organized and comprehensible compared to what will happen here if it all busts wide open.

Even if Trump is a relatively good guy, not actively in on the Epstein Class evil, I could understand his reticence to blow up the country.

Of course, that could happen in any case.

Get yourself right with God, everyone, is my advice.

Lugh's avatar

The execrable Bondi said that very thing - as did Assange.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Which "God" do you recommend my dear!

You know there currently over 3,000.

Three and Two's avatar

If the truth will destroy your country, what good is your country?

Kathy S.'s avatar

It is very sad. As I said above, we no longer have the social and moral resources as a country that we did in 1861. The coming civil war will be unimaginably worse as a result.

Aa John Adams said - -and it is no less true for our having heard it a hundred times -- our Constitution only works for a religious and moral people; it is unsuited for the governance of any other.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Thank you for a cogent and respectful response. Much appreciated.

I'll agree with you that this could get really bad especially since the AI thing is making everything look real and authentic even though it is not. If people are prone to conspiracies and unable to ascertain the lies from the truth...we are lost.

Regarding your theory about Trump's motivation wrt the Epstein files...I give your theory about a 1% chance of being the reason. While I'll grant you that he knows that there will be hell to pay if the information is released...he's predominantly concerned about himself and if he's concerned about others...it's only in the sense that if they go down...so will he.

There's so much good reporting out there about Epstein and Trump being besties for nearly a decade. You don't stay friends with a guy like Epstein unless you are ok with what he's doing. There's an allegation of Trump raping a 14 year old that the FBI investigated and yet those particular files have yet to see the light of day. Hmmmmm.....not to mention the Epstein ranch in New Mexico that that state is investigating.

Three and Two's avatar

European crime investigators are stymied as US law enforcement refuse to cooperate.

JohnAZ's avatar

Again, you are so wrong. The Deep State hates Trump as evidenced by the MSM for ten years. He is the boss of a counter movement to the Deep State, but lately, I am scratching my head about his decision-making. I believe he is a fan of the MIC and national security, foremost. If you believe he is Deep State then you must believe he agrees with Schumer, AOC, and other Lefty-Left leaders of the Deep State.

When pigs fly.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

JAZ - Schumer and AOC, neither of which can find their ass with both hands, are leaders of the Deep State? Shirley you jest.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Well...while I don't think that either of those two are as stupid as you portray...I do agree with the incompatibility of so many MAGA theories that make them sound like 4-d chess players despite the MAGAs claiming they're SO stupid all of the time.

Like claiming that Nancy Pelosi set up Trump on 1/6. She was thinking THAT far ahead? (Truth is that it makes no sense after winning an election to have a crowd attack the Capital with them in it anyway)

Three and Two's avatar

Right. You know that Trump opposes the Left because ... the lying liars told you that he does. Good thinking, John.

Has it ever occurred to you that they are playing a simple divide-&-conquer as they all get rich raping our kids?

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

Inisfad's avatar

You must be a Democrat. Surely, if there was anything about Trump in those files, there was plenty of opportunity during Biden’s term to release them. But they didn’t, and only began to push ‘Epstein’ once Trump was elected. So either you are disingenuous. Or you’re just misinformed.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Well...now...it seems to me that when Biden took office...1/6 had just happened, we had 1000's of people dying in hospitals all across the country, the vaccine needed some serious logistics planning and the economy was shutdown. Then...covid-caused inflation hit the world and so there was that also to deal with.

Finally...Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal was still in process and so the files were not legally available to release until that case was settled when the SCOTUS declined the appeal on October 6, 2025 which was during Trump's time in office...obviously.

Not trying to be overly snarky but those are the relevant facts that I pay attention to.

Three and Two's avatar

Or ... there's enough in the Epstein Files to make both sides want them to never see the light of day.

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“I’m not sure that I agree with you 100% on your police work, there Lou.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3k0gqtYgM&t=3m0s

ron's avatar

Not ruined. He and his ilk are set for life. He's just worried that his ability to accumulate more tens of millions might be threatened.

Ben R's avatar

I suspect even more than money he is worried about his legacy now.

Which is why he wants the ballroom in the Whitehouse and the worlds largest arch.

Something to peg his name in the history books.

Well, something other than the gigantic lunatic freak out of the crazy cat ladies.

Kathy S.'s avatar

That has always been the ultimate trump card of the Mafia and every other criminal enterprise through all of human history: Threaten a person's FAMILY, and they will do whatever you say.

Lugh's avatar

That's the secret to dealing with Muslims. Kill the family and burn their village. That's how the Chinese do it.

And they're a nation not a mafia. Or is the difference just one of size?

Ben R's avatar

So, not killing all of Gaza and the West Bank is Israel's mistake?

It seems you are pro-genocide and ethnic cleansing until your not.

AJF's avatar

Anthony, exactly. Mafioso tactics work extremely well and are the reason for all decisions made. Everyone needs to realize this. I always ask people, "what would you do?"

dancingtime's avatar

Sorry, but "everyone" does NOT know what has been going on in this country. Better would be the same descriptor as used to describe what was going on with covid: Everyone with half a brain knew what was going on in this country.

I guarantee that I could go to my CNN-watching neighbor's house back in the woods and he would be clueless about what had been going on during Trump 1.0 and Biden era. If he did, he would no longer be watching CNN and would have changed parties...to anything but Democrat, DSA, or communist.

Gary Edwards's avatar

The MSM has lost a lot of its power, that will likely continue.

Jeff the Original's avatar

I don't agree. I compared Fox News vs the MSM for 8 straight years. I was a GOP guy when I started comparing them and left the party after 6 months after doing so in 2017.

The Dominion voting machine case is the ultimate example of how the right wing media pushed a story because it made them money even though they knew it was BS.

I have an idea...how about doing the same thing. Watch both for a week and compare notes.

There's a website called "Decoding Fox News" and she's been documenting Fox News and their news coverage for several years now. The level of manipulation of what Fox News presents as "news" is pretty obvious if you take the time to research it.

I agree that the MSM is biased...the problem is that Fox News (and many other RW sites) is propaganda. Remember...I started doing the comparison as a GOP guy.

I'm not telling you how to think...I'm asking you to go out and do the same as I did...your own independent comparison. Don't just trust the RW media to play it straight up about the MSM...because they just aren't straight up...at all.

JohnAZ's avatar

So you believe what CNN and MSNOW say? You believe what The View says as opposed to Fox? I have done the same as you and I continue to be astounded by the bullshitting lies the Lefties come up with.

A good example right now is Iran. Listen to the Lefties and the US is losing the war. Yeah, right. Another is the lack of respect POTUS gets from the mouth breathing talking heads on the Left. When I think that Whoopie Goldberg and Rachel Maddow are the thinkers for the Left, it just shoves me more to the right.

Alice Ball's avatar

Oh, for sure the lefties are lunatics, and especially any of them in media. MSM is nothing but the propaganda arm of the Left & they lie about everything, and in unison. The "ladies" of the View are uniformly despicable. That said, Fox is also propaganda. Not nearly as bad as NBC/ABC/CNN/MS-whatever. CBS is a little better these days with Bari Weiss....she's a Dem but not an outright liar. NBC & CNN probably equal. When Fox fired Tucker for suggesting the Dominion machines were hackable, when it's obvious they are, I turned off Fox. Tucker is now a lunatic, anti-semitic and cheering for Muslim candidates. He's either getting so much money from Qatar that he's switched sides, or he's doing serious drugs.

Ben R's avatar

Tucker owns a huge mansion in Qatar and is on the payroll.

Jeff the Original's avatar

When was the last time you actually watched the MSM? For 2 seconds and then flip the channel?

I was GOP for 30 years and did the same thing....until Trump was elected and I actually started to watch them. Wow...what an eye-opener that was and I left the party to become an Independent.

You should really do more actual research for your opinions...but that might take some energy and the results might not be what you want them to be.

dbriz's avatar

You may disagree with them though Joe Kent, Anthony Napolitano, Col Douglas MacGregor, Col Larry Wilkerson, Col Danny Davis, Amb Charles Freeman and a good number of others who declare the war lost are NOT “lefties”. Not even close.

You do your position no credibility when you throw around these nonsense accusations.

BTW, a couple of diesel pumps in Northern California were unable to process diesel fuel cost because they stopped at 9.99 and fuel was over 10.00. Ask your friendly farmer, truck driver there or anywhere else paying for diesel fuel if they sense “victory” in Iran.

Gary Ward's avatar

Correct me if I'm wrong but I recall that Col. MacGregor predicted, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, that Ukraine was weak and that Russia wold walk all over them in short order. He lost all credibility with me and now I see he is predicting the the war with Iran is lost.....which gives me hope.

Three and Two's avatar

Are you saying that Trump, with diesel at all-time highs and getting worse, is winning his "2-4 week" war (that's not a war)?

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Bad donkeys hardly prove good elephants, John. They're all pigs at the trough.

Three and Two's avatar

Of course it is not a war so that the families of the American servicemen who have perished fighting it can be legally stiffed their due compensation.

You know? To "Support the Troops."

Jeff the Original's avatar

Well...just to make the details correct...I don't watch The View and never have. I do watch CNN and MS-NOW and like I said....I actually did a nearly daily comparison of what they were reporting. I 100% standby my claim that the MSM is biased; Fox News is propaganda.

You know what my response is to your rebuke of what the MSM is reporting on the Iranian war? "You think that the Straight of Hormuz being essentially blocked and now the Bab el-Mandeb Strait looks very much vulnerable to the same is winning? They were both open and free before Trump took his ill-advised military action."

I suppose you believe Trump when he says that gas will be under $2/gal AFTER the mid-terms if the GOP wins? What a JOKE!

I'll tell you what I hear from the experts of oil...the price of oil will never be at $2/gal and it's only going up in the near future. These are guys who have made a career of providing informed opinions about the world of petroleum and shipping.

Mike Simmons's avatar

Regular gas was over $6/gal under Biden due to his Inflation Induction Act that printed a trillions to hand out to corrupt green scammers and NGOs...with the Strait of Hormuz wide open. Cumulative inflation over his four years almost 23%. Did you cry about it then?

But, seriously, as long as gas stays under $4/gal it's okay if a sadistic death cult has nuclear weapons, amirite?

Even more seriously, how about anyone whose idea of a president is Joe Biden just keep their opinions about Trump to themselves?

Mike Simmons's avatar

Direct TV Streaming offers two news mix "channels" displaying four cable news outlets each. You can see what's being covered on 4 channels simultaneously.

One mix shows Fox News, CNN, Newsmax, and News Nation. The other mix is Fox News, MSNOW, CNN, and BBC.

On the first mix, 3 of 4 channels will show national news showing the President, cabinet members, or Congressional Republicans in front of cameras. CNN, meanwhile, covers pro-Democrat stories or presents derogatory "information" about Trump and his policies. Presently, 3 of 4 channels are covering live statements on anti-fraud efforts. CNN is covering Democrat fundraising gains and trashing the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina.

On the other news mix, you get Fox News vs three left wing channels not covering national news without leftwing spinning.

95% of "journalists" self-identify as liberal and their work appears more as left-wing political advocacy than journalism.

Did you sustain a recent head injury? ...or are you just dishonest?

Ben R's avatar

Ding ding ding...Dishonest for the win.

Three and Two's avatar

None of the networks covered any of Trump's rallies ... until they ALL showed up at Butler, PA on July 13, 2024.

They sure were all lucky, eh?

Mike Simmons's avatar

We were talking about cable news, not the networks. There's a difference in cable vs network, though to be fair, the American Marxist taint permeates ABC, NBC, and CBS nearly as much as CNN and MSNOW.

Enjoy all your "news" programming!

Allan Quatermain's avatar

"Not just a civil war but, in effect, a civil race war, for fear of painting America’s only black president a criminal." Please, please, please ; Half black at best, full Mulatto as is. Truth in labeling please.

Letsrock's avatar

And Muslim. But not gay regardless of his male partner. A truly sorry specimen.

Jami Brizendi's avatar

Michael never had his parts removed - there are some things I never want to see in life

Letsrock's avatar

Thanks for the visual! That being said, we now have Big Mike 2.0 who may or may not have 'parts'. Apparently Big Mike 1.0 has been relegated to brother status. Compare photos, most ppl don't believe that many have been switched. Really? Then WTF was Biden?

Paula Kroll's avatar

Like Kamala, the Indian.

Frans Susan Phillips Duncan's avatar

Any part black is black. She's black.

Jami Brizendi's avatar

With a white mother and Indonesian father who was head of the Subud clan that his mother and Loretta Fuddy were part of —- what a coincidence she was awarded the job in Hawaii that presented his fake birth certificate! And how strange that shortly thereafter she died

Look at the subud photo

So complex

So evil

https://youtu.be/TQl7XnmBy5E?is=9WHJRxyaipqlWmLj

Lugh's avatar

His mother is also to be seen in old porn mags, apparently.

Jami Brizendi's avatar

Anyone with half a brain should be able to figure out BO’s intention…. The problem is that wisdom and intelligence are in short supply thanks to media mind control!

JohnAZ's avatar

BOs intention was to tear down the power base of the USA, to make the US into a third world country. Look around, his disciples are still at work.

Frans Susan Phillips Duncan's avatar

He's a stupid stooge. He's glib and friendly but he's not smart enough to be in charge of anything. He's an empty suit they trot out to be the friendly stooge for the communist cabal. He does as he's told and is well paid for it.

Jami Brizendi's avatar

Look at all his illegal friends he brought in to do his dirty work

Now Pres Trump working to get these hordes of traitors removed

And there are idiots that support the idea that AOC should be allowed to stay…. I hope we are not totally lost

Ben R's avatar

I have heard that illegal alien numbers could be as much as half the country, and looking around as of late, it is believable.

Mike Simmons's avatar

Irish-African, him quaffing Guinness in Dublin...Barack Hussein O'Bama.

MarshaLouise's avatar

Also, remember that Todd Blanche had been a Democrat. He may still have some loyalties there. Trump too often trusts the wrong people. Blanche may prove himself a traitor to the American people if he denies justice where Obama is concerned. There is no guiltier person than BHO of the worst crimes possible against a nation and its people.

Jami Brizendi's avatar

The lie of the race was used to divide the masses - and expose the morons

Lugh's avatar

The Founders founded this nation for themselves and their progeny - only. By us, for us. Sin Fein, for ourselves, ourselves alone. That's what a nation is after all, one people and one culture.

Lugh's avatar

Half White and human. Half Black and divine. A Christ figure with his two natures to many.

Corrin Strong's avatar

A fish rots from the head, and certainly Obama has been the head of the crime family known as the Democrat party since 2008. It looks like Trump blinked and didn't want to have that fight before the midterms. That may be a wise political move if the GOP can hold majorities in both houses. If not, it is a disaster for the country!

dancingtime's avatar

Re your last two sentences: Yes...a repeat by the Democrat election deniers of Trump 1.0. I always found it rather rich that the Dems would say that Trump was an election denier. When have the Republicans tried to impeach a Democrat president just for being president?

John Schrauth's avatar

The election denier GW Bush was proven correct and assumed office in 2001. How few seem to remember that imbroglio? Yet that SOB has never said one word about whether or not there should have been recounts in 2020 when there was so much evidence it was a proper thing to do.

Jami Brizendi's avatar

It would be impossible for Bush to say anything now since he is no longer steaming mirrors - remember the envelopes at daddy Bush’s funeral ???

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Dubya, still steaming mirrors, and clearing brush at the ranch, I guess.

Jeff the Original's avatar

"Head of the crime family" - What does that even mean?

If the Dems get the majorities...there are going to be a bunch of investigations because this particular administration has been ransacking the place.

OMG...open up your eyes...go explore some actual news sites because it's pretty damn obvious you aren't getting real news.

Corrin Strong's avatar

I think you’re the one on the wrong site!

JohnAZ's avatar

You are wasting keystrokes, you will never convince a TDS troll.

Ben R's avatar

OMG...open up your eyes...go explore some actual news sites because it's pretty damn obvious you aren't getting real news.

Blinded by the light.

Howard Skillington's avatar

No surprise at DiGenova’s bail-out from any likely RussiaGate prosecution. It would be nice to think that this is an aberration from reliable American Justice, but for Justice to be served would be the aberration in these times, and aberrations are no longer permitted. So - who, exactly, does not permit them?

Everything is so dysfunctional in today’s USA that the word “retarded” has had to be rehabilitated to have something to call it. But retarded is an enabling word, suggesting that the condition is a congenital misfortune that, sadly, has no remedy. The obvious remedy would be the restitution of Rule of Law but, again, that is not permitted. When stout-hearted people like DiGenova and Bongino fold at the political poker table the only conjecture that makes any sense is that the thug standing behind the guy on the other side of the table can be relied upon to break your kneecaps if he doesn’t win.

Our host’s guess that Obama is at the center of this dysfunction is a good bet, but he’s not the Big Guy, playing his cards. He’s just the thug. The big guys don’t identify as partisan office holders, or even as American. They live in the ethereal realm of Finance, transferring wealth ever upward from individuals and even nations that produce it to ever fewer Alpha Capitalists at the very top of the planetary food chain.

If someone were to capture Obama and break his kneecaps he could probably identify at least some of those international alphas, but half of the American electorate is incapable of thinking ill of him, because his skin contains slightly more melanin than that of previous presidents.

And if that isn’t a retarded lens through which to view politics in America today, I don’t know what is.

Jeff the Original's avatar

You talk like Obama's still in office! The GOP owns the 3 branches. They won the last election. Trump has placed his own people in all the top positions. And yet...you still blame everyone else. You glom onto any conspiracy that continues to somehow support your bad initial assumptions. You guys are dragging this country down the tubes with this cultish behavior.

Why does Trump not push his own AG to fully release the Epstein files? Because he's trying to protect Dems? NO...he's trying to protect himself and many other cronies.

Wake up.

Howard Skillington's avatar

Of course, of course. And you are still trying to contend that one squad of the Uniparty is the Bad Guys while implying that the other squad might, in some theoretical universe, be counted on to be the Good Guys.

Neither party dares even seriously try to put things right, and neither is the Good Guys. The two squads divvy up the mischief assigned to them, and Obama just happens to be the most likely perp for the mischief that is observable to us at this time.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Our country doesn't operate on "most likely" in our legal and justice system. It requires evidence.

That's why you guys THRIVE on social media and DIVE in the courts. You're attempting to turn entertainment into facts and, thankfully today, that doesn't work.

Howard Skillington's avatar

Okay, Mister Original. List the facts for us, and prescribe the method by which they can be imposed upon TPTB.

We will all be grateful to you for straightening everything out.

JohnAZ's avatar

It requires evidence? Friend, you are blind to the reality of this country’s politics. Facts, evidence hardly ever enter discussion.

Night owl's avatar

Trump has reversed course on almost every major promise he was elected to fulfill.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

You are correct, sir. Long live the AfD. Marine Le Pen next.

Night owl's avatar

Hey Ron, good to hear from you again. I check in only very sporadically these days.

I still think AFD will likely do what they promise, but they have a long road ahead. Former East German states are still considered backwoods by people where I am, and most would tell you that politics there has always been out of synch with the rest of Germany.

My point: They have a ways to go to win elections in places like NRW, where I am.

Ben Blaz's avatar

Night owl>"Almost" isn't nearly good enough. Before making such a general, blanket accusation, try backing up your own perception of 'reality' with incontrovertible, WELL established FACT(S). Doing so could/should improve whatever personal credibility you're attempting to establish in your 'contribution' to any ongoing controversy regarding Mr.Trump's "promise(s)".

Howard Skillington's avatar

Of course he has - just like Obama did. Capiche? I suppose not...

JohnAZ's avatar

No, Jeff, you wake up. The Epstein files will never be released. Haven’t you noticed that the vast majority of folks affected by Epstein are Democrats or Lefties?

The party trying to destroy the character of America is the Democrats, the party turning communist right in front of our eyes. The Democrats, the schizophrenic party that moderates are starting to realize is turning into a globalistic socialist takeover. I pray the Mod Dems are able to hold off the invasion.

Vegan Shark's avatar

Those trying to destroy the American character are all Democrats, except for those who are Republicans.

Jeff the Original's avatar

All Dems, huh? How did Mayor (or DOT) Pete do this? Just picking a former military guy to how they’re trying to destroy America.

Jeff the Original's avatar

You aren't even aware of the ongoing lawsuits attempting to get those files released. They will be released or there's going to be the biggest legal fight the USG has eve seen...when a Federal judge holds Blanche in contempt for not following the courts orders.

It's coming. The truth always manages to surface but sometimes it takes a while.

Night owl's avatar

They will not be released because the ruling class at the global level are neck deep in the corruption and debauchery.

Trump pretended he was going to do something, but he's friends with or dependent on the support of a good portion of the people involved, so there will be nothing.

The list of criminals who have visited the White House and came out smiling is long and growing. Bourla, Gates, etc. Other criminals like Lutnik and Thiel are involved in policy.

LOL.

JohnAZ's avatar

Dream on, we still do not know about JFK, MLK, Watergate, The lunar landings, 9/11, just to name a few. Your TDS dreams are a fantasy.

Ben R's avatar

Released and heavily redacted.

The chain of custody for everything is the problem here, and nothing can be trusted not to have been manipulated by one intelligence agency or another.

Paul B. Cohen's avatar

What was described in this posting isn’t retardation - it’s craven moral cowardice - if true.

NY Nanny's avatar

Meanwhile- where is Mitch McConnell? Dead or alive?

JohnAZ's avatar

I think I just saw him giving a I am done speech in Congress.

Letsrock's avatar

His clone is apparently only half baked.

Gary Edwards's avatar

But it's a practical truth. Theoretical stuff hardly matters on the face of practicality.

MattAboutTown's avatar

Nazis targeted people with disabilities too Paul, like you're doing, they murdered about 500,000 people before the Holocaust, did you know? Is that why you target people with slur words now, you've been inspired?

Freedom 4 conservatives's avatar

The sad fact is that many Americans don't want to hear the truth. They don't want to hear that the "first Black President" was/is a treasonous, fraudulent, criminal, lying piece of horseshit manufactured by the quite-white-dominated Illinois Democrat Party machine--a crime syndicate extraordinaire with decades of experience in committing election fraud. Their little black toady student, Barack Obama, learned the craft well.

Then Biden. There are still a few brainwashed morons out there who believe that Biden was actually running the country from 2021 until 2025. Biden was never anything but a stupid tool of various special interests for his whole career, but he added dementia to his toolbox and, thus, was easily manipulated by a treasonous cabal, with Obama, Hillary, Soros, and a whole gaggle of Democrat dirtbag operatives out of the Obama and Hillary camps working to purposely run the U.S. into the ground, with them personally profiting from foreign players like Communist China on the way down.

Many American people similarly don't want to hear that gruff, profane Donald Trump actually is trying to save America from becoming a Third-World Socialist shithole, while Democrats do everything possible--much of it illegal and/or unconstitutional--to make his efforts fail. To be sure, Trump has made mistakes, most of them early on from trusting Deep State operatives that he should not have listened to.

Now Iran. No one wants to ask the obvious question: why would President Trump make what he knew would be a very politically unpopular and risky decision to take on Iran right before the midterm elections? The leftist traitors and the MSM bleat that Trump was just stupid and egotistical to do it, all the while discounting the idea that President Trump likely had a mountain (excuse the pun) of evidence that Iran was very close to having a deliverable nuclear weapon. President Trump is exactly correct: Iran will hold out at any cost its own population must bear to drag out the conflict until the midterm election. If the Democrat scum win majorities in Congress or the Senate, Iran WILL get its nuclear weapon and, as for fuel price hikes, well, American ain't seen nothin' yet compared to what will happen later. If the Republicans hold the Senate and House, expect Iran to fold and many of its allies to walk away from them. Also, expect the treasonous left in America to go absolute bat-shit crazy with violence to start a Civil War. Sadly, that may be what it takes to eliminate the parasitic, pathogenic Socialist left from America for good.

Darrell Koerner's avatar

Thank you and very well said.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Who appointed Murica the moderator of who can and cannot have nuclear weapons?

The only country who has used them!

You can't make this up folks!

Three and Two's avatar

The world would be a much better place if the USA simply followed Founding Fathers George Washington and John Quincy Adams’ sage wisdom: Befriend all nations, trade with all nations, eschew becoming entangled in foreign alliances and conflicts and do not seek monsters abroad to destroy.

"All we are saying is give minding your own beeswax a chance."

Jeff the Original's avatar

Where's this "mountain of evidence" that Iran was close to a deliverable nuclear weapon? You know....as much grief that he's been getting over the attack...you'd think he would be providing more than just a single statement.

You do know that the Israeli's said the same thing to Obama and Biden and they refused to believe it and guess what? Nothing happened.

When Trump has an Iran agreement in place better than what Obama created...then you can throw shade at Obama.

But Trump hasn't got shix...and we're spending a lot of money, upset the world's oil supply and have very few options left for getting out of this with our world reputation intact.

Trump 2.0 has been a failure. Sorry you don't see it.

JohnAZ's avatar

If anyone has blinders on, it is you. The very good question he asked was why has Trump committed to a politically controversial decision with Ira when mid-terms are looming? How come? Something convinced him that the danger from Iran is bigger than politics. You do not have a clue what that may be. Why not keep your claws retracted until the TRUTH comes out? You may look the fool after the election.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Your conspiracies keep getting kicked down the road and/or replaced by others.

Sometimes you need to just realize that some of what you see is exactly what it is. Trump stepped in it by attacking Iran and it's not coming off his shoe...ever.

JohnAZ's avatar

And you do not have a single clue why.

dbriz's avatar

And you don’t know what that “something” was that “convinced” him?

It’s been covered extensively.

Ben R's avatar

Change horseshit to dog shit.

One still has a use, while the other has no use.

Vegan Shark's avatar

" ... President Trump likely had a mountain (excuse the pun) of evidence that Iran was very close to having a deliverable nuclear weapon."

Suddenly it's 2003! "Weapons of mass destruction ... weapons of mass destruction ... weapons of mass destruction ... ." If Iran is trying to develop nukes -- which I don't believe -- it's for self-preservation, to have a counter-threat against those the US and Israel can toss around.

MarshaLouise's avatar

Correct. Keep in mind that 1) Iran with a nuclear weapon is an absolute threat and there’s the fact that 2) the City of London holds power/control over them as well. The bigger issue is for Trump to destroy the “money-changers in the temple”, the British central bankers, so as to get the hegemonic powers for USA that had been stolen by those central bankers. His biggest challenge is to defeat the UN/WEF global order.

Three and Two's avatar

Which is bizarre since Trump A) Was invited to and spoke at the WEF, B) Pals and partners with WEF Co-chair Larry Fink and C) Constantly institutes WEF agenda into the USA:

Trump’s WEF gems:

Operation Warp Speed (COVID-19 shot)

Stargate (blood tests and mRNA vaccines powered by Palantir, Open AI, SoftBank, Oracle to “cure cancer…” [caused by COVID-19 shot? 🤔])

GENIUS Act (Digital Currency)

REAL ID rollout led by “Mullin-it-over” (intermediate step to national digital ID linked to medical records among other future [digital currency] applications). Built into the SAVE Act.

Genesis Mission (National AI platform linking federal data centers)

6G Executive Order with “implantable technologies” as one of its purposes

Clarity Act to further digital currency

MarshaLouise's avatar

Gee, I think I’m reading a printout of several CNN stories.

NY Nanny's avatar

I guess that's as good an explanation as any for the current catastrophic state of affairs.

Meanwhile- I would love to know the truth as to why the Big Guns, Bongino, DiGenova, Gabbard, et al, have all taken a look at the Augean Stables aka the Intelligence Community, and decided to take a pass on the cleanup operation.

Could it be that someone whispered to Joe- "that's a nice little retirement you've got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it." Or words to that effect.

Once Trump got elected to a second term after getting royally screwed in 2020, I truly thought that we were going to see some heavy action and that the Bad Guys were gonna get theirs. As it turns out, not so much, if at all.

In fact, what's happening is that the arch villains like Fauci who created his own Holocaust of millions of vaccine injured, can basically take the stand and give the finger to the whole world.

It reminds me of that scene in "Clear and Present Danger" where Jack Ryan confronts Robert Ritter about the illegal secret war in Columbia, and Ritter replies: "Wrong again. I have an autographed get-out-of-jail-free card!"

From where I sit, looks like ALL the bad guys have one and there will be no justice coming for our Satanic Overlords, no cavalry coming over the hill to save the day. It will in fact be just us.

Pnoldguy's avatar

THIS will be the post of the year! I'm copying it and putting in my notes so when I die someone can look in my phone and say, "Yep, this was the truth!".

Kathy Christian's avatar

When there is no human justice, God steps in with divine justice, which is always much, much worse than the human kind.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

What is "divine justice" Kathy? LOL

complex Craftsman's avatar

You mean much, much better . God does not work toward the bad in anything .

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Which "God". You know there are over 3,000 "Gods" my friend?

Lugh's avatar

Yes, Prabhupad said that capital punishment by a legitimate government was a great mercy since much of the karma was thereby paid. Far worse to pay in the infernal realms below.

Frans Susan Phillips Duncan's avatar

"There will be no justice coming for our Satanic Overlords." Precisely right!

MarshaLouise's avatar

I had some hope with Joe DeG. Now, I’m perturbed badly by the actions of Todd Blanche. Obama’s satanic power)!

IAN2364's avatar

"Meanwhile- I would love to know the truth as to why the Big Guns, Bongino, DiGenova, Gabbard, et al, have all taken a look at the Augean Stables aka the Intelligence Community, and decided to take a pass on the cleanup operation." ~ NY Nanny

Are a million eyes on these guys when they are in the private sector?

Stacks of information have been declassified by Trump. Gabbard has redacted information for release for public review. Judge Nap's INTEL Roundtable : w/ Larry Johnson & 9/11 Whistleblower Coleen Rowley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZafI7w-9w ... were naming names and discussing incompetence and corruption within the agencies last Friday. Do you think they could have done so without the information being declassified?

Kenneth Solomon's avatar

using Hollywood doesn't enhance or help your story.

IAN2364's avatar

Priority number one: Win the mid term elections.

JDaveF's avatar

With the USA and allies currently losing the war against Iran, and gas prices way high I'm really worried the Dems win the mid terms.

JohnAZ's avatar

AI will be a big part of voter decisions. Trump is wrong, period. He knows nothing about the technical character of AI yet is supporting what could be a global disaster. Shades of mRNA Vaxx.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

JAZ - AI is a psyop. They are seeking full-on regulatory control as the endgame.

9/11 = Patriot Act and TSA = Regulatory Control

COVID = Forced Medical Tyranny = Regulatory Control

AI = Anal Cavity Microscope = Regulatory Control

Keep asking for it. You've heard of hunkering down? Well, I'm puckered up.

IAN2364's avatar

'The next day, diGenova told the media that if the Florida team is “allowed to do their jobs” they will “succeed supremely” and that the U.S. Attorney’s office there was doing a “phenomenal job under the worst of circumstances.” He later added, there was “plenty of evidence” but it “just takes time.”'

If the coup is proven, will it matter who wins the mid terms?

JDaveF's avatar

Myabe it will, but I'm worred if the Dems sweep the midterms the Trump government will be overwhelmed with impeachments and so much malarky it will become impossible to prove a coup.

JohnAZ's avatar

With what I am observing of Trump recently, getting Vance in there might not be a bad idea. The Dems will rue the day they remove Trump. Either way, if the government splits, the veto will stop the Leftist lunatics. I am much more concerned about 2028, especially when AI knowledgeable whistleblowers are projecting disaster by 2030.

IAN2364's avatar

What are the major obstacles that the Trump administration is confronted with, and what are the ideal solutions for dealing with them?

George Norwell's avatar

While it's tempting to go right for the Big Fish, the sensible thing is to roll the conspiracy up from the bottom. No one will care about the low level people they've never heard of, and those little fish will rat out the people at the top.

Gary Edwards's avatar

Yes but that takes longer than 4 years.

Pingman's avatar

The only way is the Military...

Jeff Keener's avatar

Well, shit. Obama continues to fundamentally transform the republic into a nation that no one would defend.

Frans Susan Phillips Duncan's avatar

He's not smart enough to accomplish anything. He's a stooge, an affable, glib stooge, but that's the end of his talents.

Shnarkle Von Barkle's avatar

Re: "no one in the country seems to give a shit about it."

No one else in the country is under the delusion that justice will be served by a corrupt legal system.

Re: "nobody will be held accountable for it"

More importantly, they're coming after you and everything you hold dear to your heart. You're the target. It's up to you to decide whether you're going to be a stationary or a moving target.

Re: ", a monumental insult following a possibly fatal injury to the country."

No. The monumental insult is in spending years having to witness the delusional belief that all of these sociopaths would be brought to justice. What country? By all of the most commonly accepted definitions of the term, it no longer exists.

Lugh's avatar

Yes, nations endure (one people, one culture). Countries (political/economic zones) do not. Even when the former fall, they rise again. Countries (polygot multicult little empires) fall and do not rise again. Why would they?

Google the respective etymologies for more clarity.

Shnarkle Von Barkle's avatar

The "one people, one culture" ship sailed a while ago. There is still some semblance of group think or group identity, but those sands shift so rapidly that fracture is inevitable. The best example is from the woke left LGBQETC. They're all for women's rights until the trans community wanted biological men to compete in women's sporting events. Transwomen are caricatures of women, so much so that they're basically insulting their own by assuming and promoting women's stereotypes, e.g. the Bud Light spokesperson etc.

Not only is there no single homogenized culture, but most college graduates have no idea who they are or where they came from beyond some vague sense of self-loathing. There could be a backlash from the white heterosexual Christian male, but I'm not holding my breath. They seem to be the most prominent target which historically does have a tendency to create a sense of solidarity. In this case it isn't enough to induce a sense of urgency in expanding their numbers most notably through reproduction. They've lost the will to live.

complex Craftsman's avatar

Well , it smacks as totally unexceptable , so we think somehow it wont be excepted by the institutions , all the while the institutions , where" everything is broken" in Mr Kunstler's and Bob Dylan's words created the unexceptability themselves to begin with . There is no cavalry coming and" the pump wont work cuz the vandal stole the handle " Mr Kunstler is hip to all of this , he understands that its all the effect of" too much "/ too much complexity and too much centralization of power and control , and oh , too much debasement of the currency, too much usury, too much dependency . Think of it like a carburator or better yet the whole dang engine( actually 'my' boilers worked essentially the same back on the Carrier in The Gippers 600 ship Navy ) where you need just the right amount of spark just the right amount of fuel and just the right amount of air or it'll run crappy and inneficiently .

Lugh's avatar

The people work too hard for too little. No slack. No time to think or feel outrage. They only long for rest and distraction. Shopping for women. The game and some beer for men.

complex Craftsman's avatar

" Shopping for women " ? I should have purchased one that came with a mute button ( kidding , I love Mrs Craftsmen ) " Take my wife , please "

Lugh's avatar

That's no lady. That's my wife. So many great "gags" from yester-year.....

Shnarkle Von Barkle's avatar

Mr. Kunstler doesn't appear to be all that hip to the fact that the powers that should not be will always be immune from prosecution. He's been ranting for years about how heads were going to roll and the swamp was going to get cleaned up. It's something we would all love to see, but anyone who is hip to what's going on knows that it ain't ever going to happen. When it is all distilled down, the problem is what Jeremiah usefully observed a few thousand years ago when he said, "The human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." The closest thing we have to that sentiment today is the Christian right arrogantly and condescendingly claiming that "we're not perfect." and openly and defiantly rebelling against all that is sacred or holy while justifying doctrines that falsely allow them to sin with impunity. We're all stewing in a culture of lawlessness. The biblical authors noted for our edification that one cannot fix stupid but must necessarily run from stupidity. Those who are hip to that are already gone. The rest will gladly buy tickets to watch this spectacle unfold much like people used to pack a picnic and go watch the country coming apart at the seams during the so-called Civil War. Today Boobus Americanus views those who say, "May you live in interesting times" as a benediction not having enough sense to know that it's a Chinese curse. Those who stick around will eagerly reap the whirlwind.

complex Craftsman's avatar

Hey I'm, a right wing Christian , and also admittedly not perfect either , I must be among the most dangerous of people that stand in your way of creating the nation in your own image ,whatever the fuck that is .. Yeah, watch out for those barber shop quartet guys as well, they are what we really need to worry about , they'll getcha !!!!.

Shnarkle Von Barkle's avatar

I'm not the one trying to create a utopia or a nation in my image. Right wing Christians aren't either. In fact, they've basically given up on doing much of anything to fix the mess we're in because that's what we're all waiting for Jesus to do when he returns, right? He's going to return and save all of those Christians who are damn near perfect already. Yes, people who think they're damn near perfect are dangerous. They're perfect examples of the Dunning/Kruger effect in action. They will always win the championship in The Darwin Awards. “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”, and confidence in the hands of a fool is a very dangerous thing.

Jesus himself usefully observed that what originates in the heart is nothing less than complete depravity. Christianity interprets this to be something close to perfection. Just how does one repent when they're so close to perfection? What possesses a Christian to justify lawlessness while Jesus condemns it as an abomination? According to all of Christianity, "the law is done away with." No law = no sin. You can't transgress laws that don't exist which is a great way to get your free pass into heaven, right? Who needs a savior when it's impossible to sin?

AZAKVet's avatar

I am convinced that Joe diGenova would have succeeded supremely in his mission if the biggest race card in the deck wasn't played. And unlike most players in this drama of destruction, 81-year-old diGenova would have been tough enough to call everyone's hand, colorful or not.

Too bad the same can't be said about Bongino and the rest of them. Maybe they feel they are too young to give their life for a doomed Republic. Somebody knows, and they ain't talking.

Kathy Christian's avatar

It's only doomed because we love our sin, vis a vis the Clancy trial jurors. That infinitesimal minority of one out of twelve is all that keeps God's full judgement from falling on the country.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

For centuries, Christianity has been presented as a faith built on divine truth.

But when we dig into history, we find something very different.

Religion is a foundation shaped by distortions, fabrications, and myths that became unquestionable dogma. From the invention of eyewitness gospels, to the myth of resurrection, to the rewriting of history itself.

These claims became powerful tools for control reinventing entire cultures.

Why questioning them matters more than ever today.

Religion and the human tendency to accept stories over facts - is how fragile lies became world-shaping truths.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Save this nonsense for your church please Kathy.

If you allow the church to run the country, the same frauds who caused the Dark Ages, Holy Wars, Inquisitions, witch hangings and burnings. The same racketeers who spawn paedophilia in their own house, those oh so loving and caring “children of god” who detest every other religion, every homosexual, every Agnostic or Atheist, every free-thinker and every person who will not knuckle under to their virulent fist–then you are as insane, hypocritical and delusional as they are.

All I know is that the same guys who supposedly believed that Jesus died and was resurrected... also believed that Jesus would return in their lifetimes. Because they were wrong about the return of Jesus... it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their claim that Jesus was resurrected to begin with....

Ben R's avatar

Shut up.

Kathy, post what you want; this guy is no one.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

The truth getting under your thin skin, eh Ben?

Lugh's avatar

They long to dox and ruin him. If they do, they must be charged and jailed.