James: As your post underscores, the facts speak for themselves as it involves the left's spiral into double-speak, psychological transference and insanity. The disconnect from reality - from reason itself - is so complete that this fracture will never heal.
Nor does the "D" word appear in the Declaration of Independence. The Articles of Confederation, or any other document or statement by the founders. They loathed democracy for reasons that are now all too apparent.
The irony here is that the main anti-democracy force in the uSA is the DNC and its Mob. Who wants a Deep State, who campaigns for socialism, who created an oligarchy with a Joe Biden figurehead, who effectively shuts down our legislature, who encourages and defends the federal bureaucracy, who encourages riots, oops, peaceful protests, who favors globalism at the expense of the USA?
If a democracy (republic) is “manned” by intelligent, knowledgeable independent folks, socialism will never be brought up. “Smart” folks want no part of a government that tells them what to do and how to think.
You clearly do not understand what 'socialism' even means while, conversely, 'capitalism' has been feeding you their propaganda (i.e. telling Americans "how to think") for more than a century!
Of course it can, but it has to win the election and it didn't. And now, having lost the election, its adherents want to remove the guy who did win the election from office and not replace him with his Vice President, as the Constitution prescribes, but with a Democrat. That is what they are actively discussing, according to Bernie Sanders--who is THE socialist in America. So...yeah, none of that is democracy.
I never said that I support everything that Bernie Sanders ever said! I merely pointed out that JohnAZ has his head up his butt (yet again) while he indicates that socialism cannot be campaigned for in a democracy.
At the end of their tantrum (for now) they had what they called a parade - all single file, on their assigned route, one after another. I told them to "Follow their orders, get in line, and do as they're told." Crickets. They don't understand sarcasm.
I've found that sarcasm is a perfect litmus test, when you want to surreptitiously determine someone's political leaning, without asking directly. Use sarcastic humor, and when you get that blank stare, you know. Works every time.
Understanding sarcasm requires critical-thinking skills, which they of course, lack. That's why even the few that read Jim's writing, don't get it. He's a master at using sarcastic humor, leaving them perplexed.
One last interesting tidbit, I was the only counter-protester, across the street from maybe 2000 protesters. I've been to every local protest so far - which are every other weekend, and now I'm well known.
Two guys approach me and say, "We're your local Proud Boy's". I immediately asked, why no "colors" - which are yellow and black. Oh, we're undercover today. True. They were undercover Feds - kept trying to get me to cross the street with them to "talk shit", but they wouldn't go without me. Not today, Ray (Epps).
Point is, a lot of people are not who they say they are - dial up your situational awareness and dial up your discernment. Oh, and watch your back. Cowards will never confront you face to face - not me anyway, or they risk a crushed trachea, and they know it.
....AAAAND...This is a Class-A example of why this government is so in debt. They send TWO agents out to entrap ONE GUY. And for what? For exercising his perfectly LEGAL First Amendment rights.
What exactly did they think they were going to pin on you? I know, I know...at this point it's a rhetorical question. They don't need a legit reason anymore.
I'm a Republican, I think the vast majority of Democrats are brainwashed fools.
That said - the modern definition of "democracy" is pretty much the same as "republic", except that one of the definitions of democracy allows for direct elections, while "republic" implies the use of representatives.
I read that when the Constitution was being written, the definition of democracy was pretty much Athenian style democracy with direct votes by all male citizens. That clearly wasn't practical for a country that was more than 1000 miles from north to south.
Always good to hear from you. Been waiting patiently to catch up with you. Saw you *ping* in a few weeks ago, just haven't had a chance to get back to you. Been anxious to get your opinion on the goings on in Germany. From what I've read, they're trying to muzzle the AfD, with success, I gather. Same as all the other populist parties in Europe. How are you and your family doing? Busy with work today, but I'll try to get back to you later.
Hey, Ron. Nice to see you are still around these parts. I've been out for quite a while, aside from my brief comment you mentioned. Germany remains in deep trouble, IMO. The penetration of the Bundestag and the court system here is deep enough that it looks like many of the items on the Davos 2030 Agenda may be checked off over the coming years.
The AFD is the only real option for Germany, but yes, as you note, the techno-communists have had good success stifling the will of the people. At present they are still pushing to ban the party. Although some of the "deutsche Michel" types here are starting to question the tyranny imposed since 2020, they still can't bring themselves to connect it to politicians, much less those pulling the strings.
Family is good. I switched jobs a year ago and am doing comms for a tech company. Son and wife are doing well, but for all of us, there are still days where it is difficult to pretend anything is normal in the world. We've thought about returning to the States, but our short term outlook is to remain here until the our son is through with school. As far as I know, the "vaccine" mandate is also still in place for immigrants/green-card applicants...
A different conversation about what a democracy looks like:
RA: Sir, are you familiar with the US Constitution?
Me: (checks with wife--Yep; I check in, its a habit, what can I say [Shoulder shrug]) Why yes, of course.
RA: Can you tell me how many times the word "democracy" is mentioned in the US Constitution?
Me: (checks with wife) Well, my wife advises me that the Constitution doesn't say the word, "Democracy" or "democratic." It says "Republic," [More whispering]... OK, got it. It says "Republican," but close enough right, to "Republic."
Me: [More whispering] My wife says that you probably read Federalist Papers 10 and 14 by Publius, [more whispering], OK, OK, James Madison. Democracy gets mentioned there, like, ah, ... [whispering] 9 times. Is that about right? And it's based on a distinction.
[Wife starts to whisper...]
Me: Its OK, I got this now, Love. Thanks for jogging my memory. Where was I. Oh, yes! From No. 14: "[I]n a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region."
Me: So, are you suggesting that when I say, "This is what democracy looks like!" you are telling me that your objection is based on who is doing the governing--the people directly or the people through their "agents"? When I was in school, we called these two things a "direct democracy" and an "indirect democracy," because of who is expected to make and pass legislation. A Republic is a form of democracy--it's called an indirect democracy. So, what so wrong with saying, "This is what democracy looks like!" Or would you be mollified if I said, "This is what the US democratic experiment looks like?" Or is the mention of "Democracy" or "Democratic" anathema to you?
A true democracy is only possible in a small grouping of oligarchs, who know each other and can work together towards a mutually satisfying compromise.
The average person is an idiot. Letting them vote is madness. The few, the proud, the oligarchs? He's closer to the Truth than you are. You would let women vote too, right?
Of course William Wallace you and Thomas (above) are correct: But have you considered the priceless value of the data collected from the smart phones of the attendees? I posit the real object of the $65 Million “No Kings” shuck and jive was to obtain the names and smart phone data of far-left citizenry who are (perhaps unknowingly) not against the tearing down the USA and what is left of neo-classical capitalism system and private property rights.
Think about that for a moment: Soros, et al, now have the contact information and smart phone behavioral data of all those in America who, by their actions in attending the "No Kings" event, are in fact controllable by their smart phones. They attended the "No Kings" event by prompting from their smart phones: They are disconnect from reality - from reason itself - and are easily controlled by digital technology. It is so Orwellian!
What Soros, et al have done is to (1) first create a "spontaneous order" which they accomplished in the "No Kings" event and then from the smart phones, Soros will form a "complex system" to accelerate the demise of the American hegemony into the New World Order.
If you know anything about the Karl Marx strategy of "dialectical materialism" and the obvious mind-hypnoses powers of the present smart phone's apps, with its dopamine effects to stimulate endorphins into the dumb-down American sheeple's brains, you can hypothesize this entire "No Kings" event was actually to organize the Karl Marx revolutionary army from within our borders.
The army now looks like the lead photo in this post, and can be referred to as "honey"? No Kings looks more like No Leaders. And the callers of "Honey"s are ridiculously slogging around in heels on mushy lawns in the Hamptons.
Oh, no! At least the ones here locally want leaders -- their own leaders, in charge, without any input from Republicans, libertarians or anyone who isn't in their cult.
NO KINGS is part of the narrative that illegal immigration (and Sanctuary cities) are legal, that the politicians running them aren't committing crimes, and that Trump the Dictator King is violating the Constitution by "illegally" enforcing the law. Even more outrageous, the Left is claiming "proof" that America has "had enough of Trump" because those who voted for Kamala showed up for the protest. There's no hope for the DNC coming back to defend the Constitutional Republic. Best that we file for divorce (irreconcilable differences) and make their Sanctuary Cities permanent--for them (funded on their own dime). UPDATE: Already headed in this direction as Trump Administration appears ready to defund "Sanctuary cities."
Now there's the rub..."Best that we file for divorce (irreconcilable differences) and make their Sanctuary Cities permanent--for them (funded on their own dime)." .... they'd want alimony payments, none of the 'funded on their own dime' bs.
Our "Sanctuary" minded governor looks over a "Human Services" department, a wing of which brags the state's "investment" in it of $1.413B is "matched" by federal dollars of $7.766B. The dumbbell "administrator" exclaims it is a "Great" return on investment.
The “divorce “ is, sadly, inevitable. The logistics will be the greatest challenge in our history. I’ve yet to hear a solution that sounds even remotely workable.
Also, the years leading up to the first civil war. The Federal government became impotent then also as Buchanan is still considered inept to stop the war onset. Even then, the divide was between the cities and the Aggies. There was a sharp geographic divide then as the aggies were in the South and burgeoning industry was in the North. Today, the divide geographically is predominantly the Coasts vs. the middle country with a few exceptions such as Minneapolis, Chicago and Denver.
A really good question is what is today’s motivation as slavery was the first civil wars poster child? What is going to drive the rural USA to secede from the Coasts? IMHO, two things, preservation of drug flow under the control of Mexico, and the manufacture of a neo-slavery state in the country to serve the Elite. Note that this division is between the Deep State and the people including both parties. The new split is the centrist to right leaning MAGA party and the Ult-Left. Anti-Deep State vs. the Deep State, respectively. The first civil war poster pitted Southerns espousing state’s rights against Northerns spouting Union. The first civil war has foreign intrigue, England, as today it is China et al promoting dissension along with the Davos crowd.
For Phil, think about your own civil war, it is based on the same stuff as the USAs oncoming debacle. Both are governments trying to dominate the people as the Elites of both countries are trying to achieve the final push to takeover. Ironically, it is socialistic Europe that is trying to seed the discord that is splitting the New World apart, along with its ally, China.
Buchanan was "inept" to stop the war because he had read the Constitution and understood he didn't have authority to wage war on Americans for choosing to opt out of the unconstitutional system they believed Lincoln wanted to impose. Slavery was wrong, slavery was evil, but slavery was also the core of the Southern economy and ending it would have wiped out the South for a century -- which is what happened when Lincoln took the unconstitutional action of declaring war on Americans for looking out for their own interests. (Understanding economics and psychology in no way should be taken as my condoning slavery).
Therein lies the problem. A country created through an act of secession and a subsequent civil war was designed to allow secession, but over time, the people in charge became convinced that secession would harm their power, so they refused to allow it. Then the Civil War convinced everyone that we could just ignore our history and pretend seccession was never allowed, which set us up for yet another civil war which might already be underway--again because half the country is looking out for its interests and the other half of the country is determined to force everyone to compliance with a totalitarian ideology.
I often thought that slavery was basically on it's way out (in the South) anyway. Many plantation/farm owners saw the writing on the wall and were preparing for it. Another 5-10 years without the war and MAYBE things would have been different.
That's a good analysis. Because of the 3/5ths rule, the South was losing control of the House of Representatives. It would have only taken a few more years to do it peacefully, but the North didn't want to do what England did, which was to compensate slave owners for the theft of their property. The Northern states were unwilling to do that and without that the South was unwilling to even consider it. They also had a realistic fear that the former slaves, once freed, would rise up to kill their former slavers. So it wasn't the right time. But would it have been the right time a decade or so later? We don't know because it didn't happen, but it certainly would have been better than what happened.
Slavery ended in Brazil in 1888, without a civil war and without even an Industrial Revolution (that is, farm machinery.)
Brazil and the Caribbean were where 9/10s of the African slave trade went to, so we can't say its end was due to fewer blacks, either. The Africans were brought in because the original slaves, the Irish and Indians, were dying in droves- one from the heat, the other from new diseases.
'first civil war' wasn't a true civil war. Parts of the South, to this day, refer to it as 'the War of Northern Aggression'. There was no attempt by the Confederacy to overthrow the Federal Government. They withdrew from the Union as sovereign states.
Today we are more likely to see a true civil war as the various factions are within the sovereign states. This could lead to a lot of boundary-realignment with possible subsets within the resulting territories.
The point regarding enslavement by elites is well-taken. The 8 state region of the Northeast is an example. Northern NH & Western Maine are the outliers. The remainder of the 8 states are socialist/marxist locales. The elites, with their supermajority uniparty, do whatever they want with neither check nor balance.
I have not yet found anything germane to the current situation similar to the assessment made in 1861 by WT Sherman:
“The South has no navy, no commerce, no manufactures, and a sparse population, while we have all these in abundance.”
— William T. Sherman, letter to John Sherman, 1861, cited in Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, 1875, Chapter IX.
which foretold the outcome of the war between the States. It took longer than he thought. The assessment was valid.
Remember the role of Britain in the civil war, favoring the South. The South represented the “colony” the British wanted the USA to be, but the North was competition.
Some sort of secessation has been inevitable since around the 1980s during the Sagebrush rebellion. But, sadly, I don't expect it to happen peacefully. Those people lining streets on Saturday - they want to install their own leaders, not allow actual freedom to flourish.
Millions of Indians died in civil strife during the partition. Hindus caught behind Muslim lines and vice versa. The long columns of refugees walking different directions but parallel sometimes got into it too.
Truth Muslims can't and won't live with other religions unless they are in charge when they hit 10% of the population they begin to demand their own courts and living spaces.
Islam and the west do not work out as the west is not sharia compliant.
Divorcing a city is one thing, but the real problem are the brainwashed leftists who believe in all this garbage.
They vote in destructive shitty policies and never connect the dots to the misery index.
Instead, when it becomes too painful, expensive, trashed out and crime ridden they move somewhere else with conservative values and start the cycle of insanity all over.
Democrats are a cancer to the body politic how does one excise out the cancer of progressive aka Marxist leanings?
They are starting to literally kill each other over these very ridiculous policies.
'when it becomes too painful, expensive, trashed out and crime ridden they move somewhere else with conservative values and start the cycle of insanity all over'
There are examples of this around the country.
People 'escape' CA to the Southwest or head East a bit and start the same cycle.
NH is another example, So. NH is a Boston suburb with 'escapees'from MA RI CT & NY
VT went such a way years ago, always a bit socialist, the same influx from NY, CT & MA
The Maine Coast lost out in the same way to the Southern New England influx.
Note the Greater Idaho project. If partially successful I expect people from So CA, and the coasts of Oregon and Washington to start migrating there.
Trump is violating the Constitution by ignoring due process and putting Marines in charge of law enforcement. Even Illegals have a right to a hearing before being deported.
The $65 million for the ‘No Kings’ march was at least $20 million more than the 250th anniversary of the Army which was estimated to cost $25 to $45 million…..and just think SLEEPY JOE blew $85 BILLION when he decided to leave military equipment in Afghanistan - at least 700 trucks & tanks, a million guns, etc….in effect the American taxpayer gave the Afghanis & Taliban a $85 BILLION gift (which Joe just tacked onto the national debt). Trump’s parade to honor the military looked like peanuts in comparison. Biden 'left' an entire 'parade' in Afghanistan and more...
"the 250th anniversary of the Army parade which was estimated to cost $25 to $45 million…"
$45 million, pffft. small potatoes. The US military spends an estimated $2 billion a year on recruitment. This $45 million was the biggest bang for the buck they've had in years. Money well spent rather than paying money to the leftist MSM for TV ads.
CC, consider that the Trump sponsored parade was probably a rally around the flag attempt to reverse the disunion of the country. A slim majority of this country wants a Constitutional USA where the protestors want something, anything else. The scary part is that they have absolutely no idea of what that is. The protests are manned by stupid to insane folks who are just out there to raise hell and are being paid to do it. The man-on- the-street interviews are showing this overwhelmingly. A question, how can politically illiterate folks ((remember the education (indoctrination) system)) be expected to make good decision re: political decisions. Their hallmark is just to follow what they are being told by their Masters, the Ult-Left.
Compare the government of Trump vs. Biden, which is/was the most autocratic? Which is closer to the autocratic socialistic monarchies of Europe and yes, China. There is no comparison.
I am willing to bet that 99.9% of kids today can't recite the 'Pledge of Allegiance', something we did daily before the school day began. And June 14 is also Flag Day, which we celebrated in elementary school with an assembly out-of-doors where each class sang a different patriotic song - so over 6 years one learned 6 new songs before being sent off to middle school. We dressed in red-white-blue - it was lots of fun....I feel sad for kids today who don't experience that community spirit. That said, our principal was a 'Miss Daly' - unmarried, ex-military, with ramrod posture. We all feared her but deeply respected her as well.
You have no self-awareness of what an ass you make of yourself, Janos. Worse still, you have to live with the fallout of your God-hating stupidity. On the good side, that will serve well when you're granted repentance and loathe yourself and your ways.
Oh hell, there were thousands of "MIAs" left behind. American citizens and allies, many who didn't have cover as they were the "plausible deniability" types. Many more who were simply abandoned, now dead or taken as slaves. President Autopen was eliminating the evidence.
That's a good point. I wish I had thought about that last weekend when all the libs were complaining about the cost of the parade, like they really cared.
If there's one thing I've learned over the last decade or so, it's that hypocrisy has become an epidemic and those who have it are incredibly unaware. This sickness doesn't care what letter is behind your name. It affects all who have given up their gift of discernment to become part of the "true believers" of whatever ideology makes them feel part of a herd.
Unfortunately, it's not clear to conservatives that hypocrisy and lies are the most valued, and effective tools of the left. The more egregious, the higher the bonus points awarded by their peers. After all, "extremism in the pursuit of liberty...and so on", justifies it all! They know full well what they're doing, but they leave for the thrill of seeing logical minds explode by their exercise of vanity.
Nonpartisan libertarian here, so not technically a conservative, and definitely not a Republican. This is a sympathetic outsider's view of it. The Republicans have a lot of their own hypocrisies and hypocrites who will swing with whatever the wind says at the moment. That was part of the problem with the first Trump administration. He isn't a fiscal conservative by any stretch of the imagination. We needed then and we need now to have an administration that says "We are cutting the budget. We are reforming things. If we gore your ox, we don't care. We don't need to worry about reelection. Get it done!" So far, he's doing that and I applaud him for it, but...we'll see where he is in a year. In the meantime, I wish people wouldn't act like he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. He's a populist and given any encouragement at all, he will swing with whatever direction the wind is blowing. He's doing great right now, but where will we be in a year?
One of the libs latest talking points is that people are being "disappeared" off the streets, like this is Chile or Argentina in the bad old days. And since the average lib gets zero information other than from the leftstream media, they never hear the other side of the story.
“I know because I was there, on campus, between 1966 and 1971. Back then, the Left opposed the wicked “establishment” and all its nefarious operations, from the war in Vietnam to the FBI’s underhanded suppression of political dissent. These days, strange to relate, the Left stands in staunch defense of the Deep State, big government (and its prodigious corruption), and the politicization of the FBI and CIA.”
Ironic, isn’t it? The left was all about “standin’ up to The Man!” before they became “The Man!” then demanded unfettered obedience.
The 60’s -70’s Liberal Progressive Left ideologues with Dylan’s Times Are Changing anthem, soundtracking their moment, haven’t caught up to the point that the song is still apropos, but the song is now about them.
To all of my Birkenstock wearing geriatric boomer comrades , a heartfelt thank you! It was touch and go there for a while, but the sun shines bright this Monday morning and we have no King ! What brave lads and lasses and those unsure, a new day is dawned. And to think I almost cut my last few hairs this morning.
On Facebook, my almost 80-something HS English teacher proudly displayed herself and her No Kings placard at the Wisconsin Fox Valley gathering she attended. I wonder if she joined in a round of "We Shall Overcome" or some other geezer anthem. We used to call her "Chunky," but I didn't do that. I just congratulated her on how her protest seems to have worked.
And tattooed, green haired, pierced young fat broads that don’t can’t really decide if they are women or men. They revel in their social disassociation and their entitled lives by screaming at the system that actually provides the venue for it. Dumb, immature and in pointed need of ‘the high hard one’..
And Dripping Springs Texas, population 8689, there were about 100 “no kings” protesters abroad Saturday morning. I commented that they all looked like school teachers.
While I appreciate this sophisticated strategies being attributed to the billionaire organizers, I believe the motivation of those who got up and took to the sleepy street corners of America Saturday morning, was simply to magnify their hatred for President Trump by expressing it on his birthday. They try to add intellectual credibility to their cause with signs about “rule of law” and “our democracy”, but their actions belie their ignorance of any such concepts. At bottom, each, and every one of them is animated by one thing-hatred for the person of Donald Trump.
Considering Donald Trump is a 79 year old man who does not practice a particularly healthy lifestyle, Democrats dependence on the unifying hatred for him appears a tenuous bond to keep the reconstituted party glued together long-term. I don’t picture Retired school teachers taking to the streets to demand boys playing in girls sports after Trump’s term ends.
Good recovery after Friday! Smart move to change the subject.
Now allow me to change it back.
If Trump finds a way to get the USA involved in this catastrophic series of war crimes Israel is perpetrating against Iran, he's going to need a lot of jack boots to put down the anti-war protests, because they are going to be legendary. No one in America wants war against Iran but Israel-firsters, and they're every bit as much of an "immigrant" problem as the "mutts" the Zionist government in Mexico keeps sending over our border. They're in America, but their allegiance is to something other than America.
That's what all this anti-protest sentiment Mr. Kunstler is drumming up is ultimately all about, fluffing his supporters to accept brutal crackdown of the protests that are coming up against the upcoming Israeli-US war against Iran. He and his Israel-first allies are so eager to trick and/or entrap us Americans into that war, no matter how disastrous it turns out to be for us, and they will be eager to put down real Americans in the street when we rise up peacefully in our millions to oppose it.
Hopefully these young men that leaned heavily trump are smart enough not to run out and join the military. No need to become cannon fodder for these lunatic Isreal first politicians in America. The groundwork has been laid, probably just need some sort of “terrorist” act to pin on Iran to get the country in a lather to go to war. I’ve seen this episode before.
Enlistments and re-enlistments are way up since Trump. Seems like there may be a big contingent of young men and women that think that flag waving American is worth defending.
I live in a military town so know a few soldiers. Few of them are interested in going to war and most of them think we're less likely to go to war under Trump than Biden. A lot of them joined the military because there weren't a lot of other jobs on offer (which speaks to that situation in Los Angeles) and the military will pay your education if you put in a few years with them.
The Trump supporters point out that Biden's admin set up two wars for us to get involved in while Trump avoided all wars during his first admin. From the perspective of soldiers who aren't anxious to go to war, Kamala looked like a warmonger and Trump clearly isn't one. They are perplexed by the Leftists who keep insisting he is one. Where is the evidence for that?
The reason for the enlistment improvement has to do with safety. Soldiers want comrades who can have their back rather than women trying to be men or men trying to be women, neither of whom have the physical strength to carry an injured comrade off the field of battle if needed, and certainly lack the mental strength to "stow the stress and get shit done". I quote that because that's what multiple solders have said to me in the church lobby. They weren't interested in being in Biden's army because they knew they'd be on their own as a "heterosexual white man who knows he's a male." Now, it feels like it might be safer to join the military, put in your 4-6 and go the college afterward.
Your 4-6 years May very well end up being spent in some desert hellhole, or on a naval ship dodging bombs. Trump may have inherited this mess, but he’s done nothing to slow it down or stop it. His first term may have been free of these wars, but not this time.
Yeah, ok. Isreal wanted war with Iran, and they got it. Trump is 100% on board, as is 98% of Congress. A few weeks ago Tulsi Gabbard told us Iran was not close to a nuke, suddenly days later they are very close and must be taken out immediately. Makes no sense, when confronted Trump says he thinks they are really close. So our national security advisor is a liar, or Trump is liar. I suspect it’s Trump lying. They are using the exact same playbook they used to topple saddam, all based on lies. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Yes, he tells them to surrender. The Plan for the Attack was ongoing during Trump's negotiations (so called) with Iran. We are completely involved at a higher level and always have been - even if troops never go in per se.
Still the salient point; Islam is government rooted in its 17th Century mind set, Israel stands essentially for government evolved through the Western Enlightenment.
Israel deliberately attacked Tehran's water supply so that their streets would be flooded with raw sewage. I'd like to claim that this is not conduct in accordance with Western Enlightenment values.
Very few Muslim countries allow Christians or Jews to live within their borders without some sort of second-class citizenship (more like being an economic slave subject to major penalties for not keeping their eyes on the ground). About 20% of Israelis are Arab Muslims who are treated as full citizens. Tell me again how Israel is not Enlightened?
No doubt..it’s problematic, parents need there kids to understand, dying or getting maimed in some Mideast desert is not patriotic, or a worthy pursuit. I have the utmost respect for enlisted military, but there is rot at the top. A rot that is not capable of running or using a military in any honorable fashion. I know countless men that were permanently scarred by the Iraq war, a complete waste of manpower and resources we have found out.
War not in defense of our own borders is always problematic. We need to teach our kids that patriotism starts at home--not in a far-flung place fighting for someone else's values.
Jim, you are right. IMHO, any military action needs a rubber stamp by Congress and the biggest part of the debate should be what the war is for, and what is the definition of victory. The US has not “won” a war since WW2, and today, I would venture to say that we can not even remember what our military actions were for. For example, Vietnam is currently a trading partner with the USA with many US tourists visiting. They are still a “communist” nation, that defeated the USA, and now reaps the benefits of USA support. What exactly did those 58000 folks die for?
I'm not sure I would agree that JHK has joined the Netanyahu party to go Israel-first, but I did think he was wrong defending Israel on Friday. Objectively, Israel is a rogue, criminal, racist, apartheid state, and no amount of crying out but, but, but 'antisemitism' excuses its actions.
They can defend themselves, just no reason for the US to defend them. They want to stir up a hornets nest in the Middle East, they can live with the consequences. Anybody looking can see that the foreign policy of the last 25 years regarding that region is a complete failure. To keep doing the same thing over and over is insanity. It failed in Iraq, it failed in Afghanistan, and it will fail again.
Iran should have thought twice about taking money from China and then funding Hezbollah and Hamas as proxies to bomb Israel, all while working to build a nuclear weapon. Bad decisions yield bad results.
When you graduate high school later this month, you may possibly, POSSIBLY understand why America must defend Israel always and (almost) at all costs. Your anti-semitism, while feigned, shines through like the Sag Harbor lighthouse on a clear night...
I prefer the term "Judeophobia." Because this idea that I have to support a belligerent, corrupt foreign theocracy "at all costs" scares the hell outta me. It'd scare the hell out of anyone sane.
If you dont understand the strategic importance of Israel in arguably, the area of the world that is the single biggest tinderbox for potential (catastrophic) chaos, your rhetoric is stilted and cannot be circumvented with obfuscating prose and new definitions.
You use whatever invective you like, Sonny. Your emotions are not my problem.
Israel is plainly the source of 99% of the chaos eminating from that region, and in any case, its problems are its own. To the extent the Israelis make their problems America's problems as well, that's going to have its effects. Its most conspicuous effect will be the collapse of Trump's presidency. His legacy will lie in ruins right along with the precious Israeli promised land he appears to love more than his own country.
You have us on a path to horrific failure that will result in unpayable consequences for the American people. To the extent those consequences CAN be paid, we need to see to it that you and your allies are the ones who pay them. I am willing to pay NO costs to continue facilitating Israel's illegal killing spree.
Israel needs to pay all the bills for its war. I don't want a single American dime to go to this doomed cause. When, inevitably, my money is used in this doomed cause despite my protests, all I can hope is that the guilty parties end up being held accountable.
Relentless, unforgiving, merciless, exacting accountability needs to be brought to bear on covert foreign influences in this country, and that includes Israeli influences first and foremost. Israel is no longer a legitimate state. Its interests are adversarial to US interests.
You must be an AI troll...And if so, you ‘got me’... If not, then here goes:
OMG, your blatant hateful ANTI-SEMITISM is so scary it regulates you to permanent membership in the Joseph Goebbels Memorial Association, North American chapter, of course.
Your whole treatise is so inaccurate and bereft of fact, it’s actually disturbing.
You need another hobby or life mission.
PS: You pen: ..Israel is plainly the source of 99% of the chaos emanating from that region......
Do you actually believe that? if you do, please, please do some serious research on the historical turbulence of the mid-east.
The more you and your allies crash out and lose control of your emotions, the more you're going to be abandoned to your fate by everyone around you.
No wants but you wants this. Ultimately, I think, no one but you will receive the brunt of it. It is what it is. This is a war you wanted, and it's a war you insisted on. Either Trump joins in, in which case he'll be ruined along with you, or he'll do the smart thing and leave Israel to die alone and largely unmourned. I have no love for Trump so I'm okay either way. This is his test of loyalty, and a test for his adherents, not for me. I know what side I'm on.
How about this, and don’t like either of them, Isreal nor Iran, is that a position people are allowed to take??? This it’s us vs them mentality is beyond juvenile, and not based in any sort of reality or reasoning.
It is a position we're allowed to take. If I were asked to vote - I'd choose Israel as a better society than Iran because I have no use for legally sanctioned abuse of women or the virtual slavery of minorities and Israel treats its Arab citizens as full citizens whereas Iran frequently kills their Christians and Jews.
But I would also choose not to get involved in any of these side because it's not our battle. We have no compelling national interest other than a lot of American citizens of Jewish descent also live in Israel. So...yeah, we need to stop getting involved in things that aren't our affair.
Listen, I'm being very nice here, but you're a demented piece-of-shit liar. I don't need to prove it because you've already proven it by your screed. That is, for anyone living in reality living with a knowledge of the truth. For those who are not, the truth is shouting at you at every corner. Turn from your selfish sinful ways and open your eyes and ears.
This war of yours was lost before you fired the first shot. Look at you. No one is going to follow you anywhere. You're incapable of being reasoned with, and you're not in possession of your faculties. That seems to be true of your entire nation, at this point--or rather, what little is left of it.
What's really tragic isn't so much Israel's demise, it was always a net burden on the world at large for the short time it was around, but rather, how little it will be missed. There's something sort-of bittersweet in that.
Yeah, the Left has such a commitment to anti-war right now that there wasn't a single Leftist protest against the US involvement in the Ukrainian War.
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy. They quite pro-war so long as it is against their preferred target.
But I also think there will be "spontaneous" anti--war protests if the US decideds to help Israel, not because the Left gives a crap about people dying in war. So long as it's Jews in Islrael, they're happy to see it.
Not that I think we should get involved in Israel's war. I think the US should stay out of all wars that don't impact our own borders. Like, hey, let's put down that invasion rebellion in Los Angeles.
No, they are not LEGAL residents of the United States. Biden ignored US immigration law to allow them into the country and to give them pretend asylum status.
How can you deem the actions of a president following the ACTUAL law to be illegal? Or do you just believe the President of the "correct party" is allowed to get away with whatever he wants? I ask a non-partisan libertarian because I've been watching this immigration stupidity for a long time and I've read the pertinent laws. Trump is the one FOLLOWING the law as it was written by Congress. Biden's admin was definitely not!
Congress makes the laws and Congress said the President can’t authorize green cards for just anyone. There are immigration procedures that have existed for decades. Among those, if you want to claim asylum, you have to enter at a port of entry and immediately announce that you’re seeeking asylum. The law actually says you can’t enter illegally, get caught and then claim you’re seeking asylum. So, the Biden admin saying “Oh, well, we’re just going to ignore the law and do it our way” was a violation of seperation of powers. I’m not surprised, but it does need to be pushed back against and the 2024 election allows us to do that.
The American people have an absolute right to demand their government secure the borders of their country and to remove anyone who entered the country without following the law..
Per Grok - "Legal Basis: Ozturk was arrested by ICE for allegedly overstaying her F-1 student visa, which was revoked after she was placed on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchlist due to her pro-Palestinian activism. ICE has the authority to detain noncitizens for immigration violations under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Her detention followed standard administrative procedures for visa overstays."
Grok is an AI generation tool from X that takes information from multiple sources and presents its findings. These findings strip out emotional diatribes.
"My kind" is not going to sit back and allow non-citizens to protest in my country and burn the US flag. Non-citizens are here at the pleasure of the US government. Do you think you could walk into Iran, or Gaza, and get away with this? If you come to America, you are a guest. Show some respect or get out.
Imagine the joy of Palestinians now, to see Israel's cities being turned into Gaza. They wore the Israelis down, inflicting heavy casualties both physically and morally. As ever, they are are martyr people.
I haven’t had this much fun since Paul Pelosi invited the Berkley nudist BLM supporter with two inflatable rubber unicorns into his home. All that and somehow MAGA radicalized him. Like some magical rainbow with pixie dust. And a hammer. Right in the middle of San Francisco, the ONE Trump supporter literally within a million miles just so happens to show up in shorts at Paul’s house after midnight. What are the chances? Oh, that’s right, he was looking for Nancy. If they could flip that narrative in their favor, they’d have no problem flipping all of the inconsistencies in the Vance Luther Boelter shooting Papa John weeping texts Wife on the Run with the kids and Cash scenario into something having to do with No Kings. Remember, they don’t care if it makes sense or not. They are a criminal enterprise with every escape route and paid-off access point at their disposal.
Not just dumbing down, but indoctrination into socialistic wannabes. The Ult-Left planners of the 20th century have succeeded very well in this country, controlling the DC bureaucracy, education especially higher education, the courts, the media.
If it just wasn’t for that pesky Trump, we could be just like China.
Bezmenov said, The deed was done by the 80's. It cannot be undone. These generations must die in the Sinai, never to be allowed into the New America (if any).
As a libertarian I have a hard time getting real rah-rah about Independence Day, but I kind of hoping people make a big patriotic day out of it this time just to counter the stupidity from Saturday.
Libertarians generally believe in "anarchy" - as in no rulers (though not without rules). However, what I saw Saturday was a farce. They want a RULER -- one of their own choosing. They love the idea of tyranny and authoritarianism -- so long as they (and them alone) get to pick the ones weilding the authority. They seriously don't know what they're asking for and it's going to turn out really badly for them.
Canada has always been supported by its connection back to the royalty in England and the liberal attitudes of Eastern Canada. That is exactly what Alberta is pissed off at. It is also the difference between the USA and Canada, we threw out the Europeans in 1776 and again in 1812 then the civil war. Canada never did and has become a haven for more socialist folks in the new world.
They have had a much higher standard of living than us for decades. Of course that was before their socialism turned toxic, against Capitalism, and for mass immigraton.
“... between 1966 and 1971. Back then, the Left opposed the wicked “establishment” and all its nefarious operations, from the war in Vietnam to the FBI’s underhanded suppression of political dissent. These days, strange to relate, the Left stands in staunch defense of the Deep State...”.
In essence, the roles of the Two Sides (Left/Right) have flipped. ‘The Left’ of today is like the old-State-loving-rabid right-wingers of the 1950s and 60s. And today’s MAGA are more like the ‘60s radicals that opposed big government and the many evils of worshiping The State as a faux god with all the answers and loving arms to keeps us all... Safe! The Left wants Mommy and Daddy State to love and take care of them forever all while they burn offerings to Daddy State from the persecution of anything Not-Left... while today’s MAGA just wants the Filthy State to just leave them the hell alone.
The protests of the ‘60s were organic and real things. Today’s so-called protests are nothing but play-acting at what these fools have seen from 1960s film footage and being financed by some of the worst soul and scoundrels on the face of the Earth. Today’s protesters are clueless dopes, fools, and foils for the movers-and-shakers of the Filthy Dark State. They mimic real protest... act like they’re told... waiting for the their next instructions. They make a mockery of real protest which is – again – honest and organic and not plotted and contrived.
The Left has no use or capability of reason or thinking any more. They are empty vessels – empty of mind, soul, and spirit. They exist solely to suck up whatever the Filthy Dark State Establishment feeds them through The State’s Mommy-Glands.
Everyone needs to find a purpose in life. And for the Left – that is to not think... to follow orders... to love and never question 'Authority'... to hate all who oppose them... and wait for next instructions.
So no one should call what The Left is doing, ‘Protest’ in any form. It is the exact opposite of protest.
It is acting in full service of the very persons and political-social-economic movement that is enslaving and mocking them.
Yes! The Left is liberal, which means they believe in change for change’s sake. If there is a problem, the central authority needs to change something. If there is not a problem, make one up. In Superman 1, Lois Lane said that if there is not news to report, it is the presses job to make the news.
You misunderstand the meaning of "liberal" which means "for liberty." The Left rejects liberty -- which includes things like self-governance, tolerance, recognition of self-interest and a rejection of authoritarianism. And oddly, the conservatives are now the ones who embrace change in the form of reform and liberty. My poli sci professors from the early 1980s would be so confused.
An arranged marriage between dynasties. She is the adopted daughter/lover of Hillary Clinton. He the nerd son of Soros, the tip of the spear of the Rothschilds.
JHK— Thanks as ever, your posts remind me that there's at least one sane grownup out there in the yammering wilds of the USA.
Many of my colleagues, most of them oldsters, went to the No Kings protests, judging by their emails encouraging me to come along (lol x lol x lol) and their reports of the feelz-good times they had dissing in Kumbaya fashion the Bad, Bad, Oh So Very Badly Bad Orange Man.
Every single one of these colleagues has taken multiple jabs of the clot juice, and they either do not know or do not care that the Biden administration censored anyone who said anything in any way negative about said shots. I don't say this as a big fan of Trump, I say this as someone observing something very sad— piteous actually. They think they're showing leadership when it seems to me it's more like they're wandering around with a sign on their back that says KICK ME.
The "liberal royalty" Soros wedding on the same day, whutta hoot.
The Democrat party is a domestic terrorist organization. EVERY one of them has EVERYTHING ass-backward. It is the cult of leftist zombies who cannot think for themselves. This is yet another war they will not win. The lies and corruption will not continue. I don't think they're ready for the consequences of their actions?
Left has crowed, ‘demography is destiny’ - reassuring themselves that as older conservatives die off; they will have a clear majority. However, recent polling suggests that the strongest Trump support lies in the youngest quintile.
Not only that, but most of them young men. Good news for those of us who have reached the conclusion this abandonment of reason ends nowhere but with violence.
Not really what anyone wants, but considering the fact the left consists primarily of boomer and millennial women who have the same understanding of force possessed by a 12 year old boy who just finished watching "Revenge of the Ninja", the odds don't look too bad.
Let's remember, however, that the future belongs to the hand that rocks the cradle. As long as these young women remain committed to having no children, we're golden. There will be no one around to take care of the boomers in their (our) old age, but at least their values won't be passed onto their non-existent grandchildren.
The good news is that the small fraction of young women who are having kids are almost entirely conservatives. The hand that rocks an actual cradle rules the future.
No, they're singing for us to be overrun by invaders so that our grandchildren--such as will be born which doesn't appear to be many--witll live as slaves in a Hispanic "republic" ruled by--oh-oh--kings. You know how I know that? They were demanding, among other things, that Donald Trump (the clear winner of the 2024 election) be removed from office to be replaced--not by his VP Vance who was also the clear winner of the 2024 election), but by a Democrat who lost the 2024 election.
That is not what "democracy" looks like. That's what dictatorship is -- rulers installed by by undemocratic means at the insistence of a vocal and violent minority.
James: As your post underscores, the facts speak for themselves as it involves the left's spiral into double-speak, psychological transference and insanity. The disconnect from reality - from reason itself - is so complete that this fracture will never heal.
To Wit:
My only conversation at yesterday's soiree, after about the 50th worn out refrain of "This is what democracy looks like!"
Me: Sir, are you familiar with the US Constitution?
Cuck: (checks with wife) Why yes, of course.
Me: Can you tell me how many times the word "democracy" is mentioned in the US Constitution?
Cuck: (checks with wife) Well, I can't recall for sure.
Me: Let me help you, zero.
Wife: Come on honey, don't listen to him.
Nor does the "D" word appear in the Declaration of Independence. The Articles of Confederation, or any other document or statement by the founders. They loathed democracy for reasons that are now all too apparent.
The irony here is that the main anti-democracy force in the uSA is the DNC and its Mob. Who wants a Deep State, who campaigns for socialism, who created an oligarchy with a Joe Biden figurehead, who effectively shuts down our legislature, who encourages and defends the federal bureaucracy, who encourages riots, oops, peaceful protests, who favors globalism at the expense of the USA?
Unfortunately, the answer to your question is the politicians of both parties with very few exceptions; actually it is those who control them.
Are you saying that socialism cannot be campaigned for in a democracy?
If a democracy (republic) is “manned” by intelligent, knowledgeable independent folks, socialism will never be brought up. “Smart” folks want no part of a government that tells them what to do and how to think.
You clearly do not understand what 'socialism' even means while, conversely, 'capitalism' has been feeding you their propaganda (i.e. telling Americans "how to think") for more than a century!
Of course it can, but it has to win the election and it didn't. And now, having lost the election, its adherents want to remove the guy who did win the election from office and not replace him with his Vice President, as the Constitution prescribes, but with a Democrat. That is what they are actively discussing, according to Bernie Sanders--who is THE socialist in America. So...yeah, none of that is democracy.
Hold on! And settle down.
I never said that I support everything that Bernie Sanders ever said! I merely pointed out that JohnAZ has his head up his butt (yet again) while he indicates that socialism cannot be campaigned for in a democracy.
"The irony here is that the main anti-democracy force in the uSA is the DNC and its Mob. Who wants a Deep State, who campaigns for socialism, ..."
You claimed that campaigning for socialism is anti-democratic. I'm not making it up, John.
You are 100% correct, Sir, never better said, start to finish.
Good one Ron!!
Next time also ask for a definition of fascism. Also "What is a woman?"
So many questions, so much stupidity and angst.
At the end of their tantrum (for now) they had what they called a parade - all single file, on their assigned route, one after another. I told them to "Follow their orders, get in line, and do as they're told." Crickets. They don't understand sarcasm.
I've found that sarcasm is a perfect litmus test, when you want to surreptitiously determine someone's political leaning, without asking directly. Use sarcastic humor, and when you get that blank stare, you know. Works every time.
Understanding sarcasm requires critical-thinking skills, which they of course, lack. That's why even the few that read Jim's writing, don't get it. He's a master at using sarcastic humor, leaving them perplexed.
One last interesting tidbit, I was the only counter-protester, across the street from maybe 2000 protesters. I've been to every local protest so far - which are every other weekend, and now I'm well known.
Two guys approach me and say, "We're your local Proud Boy's". I immediately asked, why no "colors" - which are yellow and black. Oh, we're undercover today. True. They were undercover Feds - kept trying to get me to cross the street with them to "talk shit", but they wouldn't go without me. Not today, Ray (Epps).
Point is, a lot of people are not who they say they are - dial up your situational awareness and dial up your discernment. Oh, and watch your back. Cowards will never confront you face to face - not me anyway, or they risk a crushed trachea, and they know it.
Careful of those honeypots, Ron. Watch your 6, not theirs.
....AAAAND...This is a Class-A example of why this government is so in debt. They send TWO agents out to entrap ONE GUY. And for what? For exercising his perfectly LEGAL First Amendment rights.
What exactly did they think they were going to pin on you? I know, I know...at this point it's a rhetorical question. They don't need a legit reason anymore.
Sarcasm not only a litmus test for political leanings but intelligence.
Exactly, Deana.
YES. YES. YES. "Understanding sarcasm requires critical-thinking skills, which of course they lack." YES.
I would bet a lot of money that fewer than 1% have ever read the Doctrine of Fascism, despite only being 9 pages long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5vGd0fgVg
I'm a Republican, I think the vast majority of Democrats are brainwashed fools.
That said - the modern definition of "democracy" is pretty much the same as "republic", except that one of the definitions of democracy allows for direct elections, while "republic" implies the use of representatives.
I read that when the Constitution was being written, the definition of democracy was pretty much Athenian style democracy with direct votes by all male citizens. That clearly wasn't practical for a country that was more than 1000 miles from north to south.
Classic NPC interaction. No different here in Germany or anywhere.
Always good to hear from you. Been waiting patiently to catch up with you. Saw you *ping* in a few weeks ago, just haven't had a chance to get back to you. Been anxious to get your opinion on the goings on in Germany. From what I've read, they're trying to muzzle the AfD, with success, I gather. Same as all the other populist parties in Europe. How are you and your family doing? Busy with work today, but I'll try to get back to you later.
Hey, Ron. Nice to see you are still around these parts. I've been out for quite a while, aside from my brief comment you mentioned. Germany remains in deep trouble, IMO. The penetration of the Bundestag and the court system here is deep enough that it looks like many of the items on the Davos 2030 Agenda may be checked off over the coming years.
The AFD is the only real option for Germany, but yes, as you note, the techno-communists have had good success stifling the will of the people. At present they are still pushing to ban the party. Although some of the "deutsche Michel" types here are starting to question the tyranny imposed since 2020, they still can't bring themselves to connect it to politicians, much less those pulling the strings.
Family is good. I switched jobs a year ago and am doing comms for a tech company. Son and wife are doing well, but for all of us, there are still days where it is difficult to pretend anything is normal in the world. We've thought about returning to the States, but our short term outlook is to remain here until the our son is through with school. As far as I know, the "vaccine" mandate is also still in place for immigrants/green-card applicants...
Hi Ron Anselmo,
A different conversation about what a democracy looks like:
RA: Sir, are you familiar with the US Constitution?
Me: (checks with wife--Yep; I check in, its a habit, what can I say [Shoulder shrug]) Why yes, of course.
RA: Can you tell me how many times the word "democracy" is mentioned in the US Constitution?
Me: (checks with wife) Well, my wife advises me that the Constitution doesn't say the word, "Democracy" or "democratic." It says "Republic," [More whispering]... OK, got it. It says "Republican," but close enough right, to "Republic."
Me: [More whispering] My wife says that you probably read Federalist Papers 10 and 14 by Publius, [more whispering], OK, OK, James Madison. Democracy gets mentioned there, like, ah, ... [whispering] 9 times. Is that about right? And it's based on a distinction.
[Wife starts to whisper...]
Me: Its OK, I got this now, Love. Thanks for jogging my memory. Where was I. Oh, yes! From No. 14: "[I]n a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region."
Me: So, are you suggesting that when I say, "This is what democracy looks like!" you are telling me that your objection is based on who is doing the governing--the people directly or the people through their "agents"? When I was in school, we called these two things a "direct democracy" and an "indirect democracy," because of who is expected to make and pass legislation. A Republic is a form of democracy--it's called an indirect democracy. So, what so wrong with saying, "This is what democracy looks like!" Or would you be mollified if I said, "This is what the US democratic experiment looks like?" Or is the mention of "Democracy" or "Democratic" anathema to you?
RA: ...
Be well
HE
You lost me. Maybe you can have your wife explain it to me?
A true democracy is only possible in a small grouping of oligarchs, who know each other and can work together towards a mutually satisfying compromise.
Yes, Alzaebo - "confined to a small spot", "a direct democracy", both of which Hustled Enough's wife mentioned.
"...oligarchs, who know each other and can work together towards a mutually satisfying compromise." ~ Alzaebo
Otherwise known as a monopoly.
Think Blackrock, who *manages assets* for 5,400 different companies.
The average person is an idiot. Letting them vote is madness. The few, the proud, the oligarchs? He's closer to the Truth than you are. You would let women vote too, right?
Sorry, Ron Anselmo.
Given your post, I thought you liked playfulness. No matter.
Be well
HE
Would you be interested in a high IQ robot wife?
No apologies necessary at all. That's the way I took it, and extended it a little.
okey dokey, then
HE
Well put Thomas, this exact explanation is now openly discussed by many, thank you for saying it as clearly as you did.
Of course William Wallace you and Thomas (above) are correct: But have you considered the priceless value of the data collected from the smart phones of the attendees? I posit the real object of the $65 Million “No Kings” shuck and jive was to obtain the names and smart phone data of far-left citizenry who are (perhaps unknowingly) not against the tearing down the USA and what is left of neo-classical capitalism system and private property rights.
Think about that for a moment: Soros, et al, now have the contact information and smart phone behavioral data of all those in America who, by their actions in attending the "No Kings" event, are in fact controllable by their smart phones. They attended the "No Kings" event by prompting from their smart phones: They are disconnect from reality - from reason itself - and are easily controlled by digital technology. It is so Orwellian!
What Soros, et al have done is to (1) first create a "spontaneous order" which they accomplished in the "No Kings" event and then from the smart phones, Soros will form a "complex system" to accelerate the demise of the American hegemony into the New World Order.
If you know anything about the Karl Marx strategy of "dialectical materialism" and the obvious mind-hypnoses powers of the present smart phone's apps, with its dopamine effects to stimulate endorphins into the dumb-down American sheeple's brains, you can hypothesize this entire "No Kings" event was actually to organize the Karl Marx revolutionary army from within our borders.
The army now looks like the lead photo in this post, and can be referred to as "honey"? No Kings looks more like No Leaders. And the callers of "Honey"s are ridiculously slogging around in heels on mushy lawns in the Hamptons.
Oh, no! At least the ones here locally want leaders -- their own leaders, in charge, without any input from Republicans, libertarians or anyone who isn't in their cult.
Aha, you forgot the attendant ghost of the party, Jeff Epstein.
Which is why I don't own a smartphone or attend such pointless gatherings.
www.somefracturesneverheal.com - aka 'you can't fix stupid'
NO KINGS is part of the narrative that illegal immigration (and Sanctuary cities) are legal, that the politicians running them aren't committing crimes, and that Trump the Dictator King is violating the Constitution by "illegally" enforcing the law. Even more outrageous, the Left is claiming "proof" that America has "had enough of Trump" because those who voted for Kamala showed up for the protest. There's no hope for the DNC coming back to defend the Constitutional Republic. Best that we file for divorce (irreconcilable differences) and make their Sanctuary Cities permanent--for them (funded on their own dime). UPDATE: Already headed in this direction as Trump Administration appears ready to defund "Sanctuary cities."
Now there's the rub..."Best that we file for divorce (irreconcilable differences) and make their Sanctuary Cities permanent--for them (funded on their own dime)." .... they'd want alimony payments, none of the 'funded on their own dime' bs.
Our "Sanctuary" minded governor looks over a "Human Services" department, a wing of which brags the state's "investment" in it of $1.413B is "matched" by federal dollars of $7.766B. The dumbbell "administrator" exclaims it is a "Great" return on investment.
I called her a Wolf of Wall Street.
The “divorce “ is, sadly, inevitable. The logistics will be the greatest challenge in our history. I’ve yet to hear a solution that sounds even remotely workable.
I've offered the situation in Missouri 1850's - 1860's is where we are headed on a more 'national' scale.
It became ungovernable.
The history rhymes is the Jacobins. Our host references the French Revolution on a number of occasions, rather on the mark.
Also, the years leading up to the first civil war. The Federal government became impotent then also as Buchanan is still considered inept to stop the war onset. Even then, the divide was between the cities and the Aggies. There was a sharp geographic divide then as the aggies were in the South and burgeoning industry was in the North. Today, the divide geographically is predominantly the Coasts vs. the middle country with a few exceptions such as Minneapolis, Chicago and Denver.
A really good question is what is today’s motivation as slavery was the first civil wars poster child? What is going to drive the rural USA to secede from the Coasts? IMHO, two things, preservation of drug flow under the control of Mexico, and the manufacture of a neo-slavery state in the country to serve the Elite. Note that this division is between the Deep State and the people including both parties. The new split is the centrist to right leaning MAGA party and the Ult-Left. Anti-Deep State vs. the Deep State, respectively. The first civil war poster pitted Southerns espousing state’s rights against Northerns spouting Union. The first civil war has foreign intrigue, England, as today it is China et al promoting dissension along with the Davos crowd.
For Phil, think about your own civil war, it is based on the same stuff as the USAs oncoming debacle. Both are governments trying to dominate the people as the Elites of both countries are trying to achieve the final push to takeover. Ironically, it is socialistic Europe that is trying to seed the discord that is splitting the New World apart, along with its ally, China.
Buchanan was "inept" to stop the war because he had read the Constitution and understood he didn't have authority to wage war on Americans for choosing to opt out of the unconstitutional system they believed Lincoln wanted to impose. Slavery was wrong, slavery was evil, but slavery was also the core of the Southern economy and ending it would have wiped out the South for a century -- which is what happened when Lincoln took the unconstitutional action of declaring war on Americans for looking out for their own interests. (Understanding economics and psychology in no way should be taken as my condoning slavery).
Therein lies the problem. A country created through an act of secession and a subsequent civil war was designed to allow secession, but over time, the people in charge became convinced that secession would harm their power, so they refused to allow it. Then the Civil War convinced everyone that we could just ignore our history and pretend seccession was never allowed, which set us up for yet another civil war which might already be underway--again because half the country is looking out for its interests and the other half of the country is determined to force everyone to compliance with a totalitarian ideology.
I often thought that slavery was basically on it's way out (in the South) anyway. Many plantation/farm owners saw the writing on the wall and were preparing for it. Another 5-10 years without the war and MAYBE things would have been different.
That's a good analysis. Because of the 3/5ths rule, the South was losing control of the House of Representatives. It would have only taken a few more years to do it peacefully, but the North didn't want to do what England did, which was to compensate slave owners for the theft of their property. The Northern states were unwilling to do that and without that the South was unwilling to even consider it. They also had a realistic fear that the former slaves, once freed, would rise up to kill their former slavers. So it wasn't the right time. But would it have been the right time a decade or so later? We don't know because it didn't happen, but it certainly would have been better than what happened.
Slavery ended in Brazil in 1888, without a civil war and without even an Industrial Revolution (that is, farm machinery.)
Brazil and the Caribbean were where 9/10s of the African slave trade went to, so we can't say its end was due to fewer blacks, either. The Africans were brought in because the original slaves, the Irish and Indians, were dying in droves- one from the heat, the other from new diseases.
'first civil war' wasn't a true civil war. Parts of the South, to this day, refer to it as 'the War of Northern Aggression'. There was no attempt by the Confederacy to overthrow the Federal Government. They withdrew from the Union as sovereign states.
Today we are more likely to see a true civil war as the various factions are within the sovereign states. This could lead to a lot of boundary-realignment with possible subsets within the resulting territories.
The point regarding enslavement by elites is well-taken. The 8 state region of the Northeast is an example. Northern NH & Western Maine are the outliers. The remainder of the 8 states are socialist/marxist locales. The elites, with their supermajority uniparty, do whatever they want with neither check nor balance.
I have not yet found anything germane to the current situation similar to the assessment made in 1861 by WT Sherman:
“The South has no navy, no commerce, no manufactures, and a sparse population, while we have all these in abundance.”
— William T. Sherman, letter to John Sherman, 1861, cited in Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, 1875, Chapter IX.
which foretold the outcome of the war between the States. It took longer than he thought. The assessment was valid.
Remember the role of Britain in the civil war, favoring the South. The South represented the “colony” the British wanted the USA to be, but the North was competition.
They had grit and a sense of family and loyalty, misplaced or not.
Throw in a Carrington event grid collapse and we're talking about a Mad Max scenario.
Thanks to all for the civil and Intelligent discussion in this thread.
This type of discussion is WHY I like Substack.
Islam->Cathars->Jacobins->Nazis
Some sort of secessation has been inevitable since around the 1980s during the Sagebrush rebellion. But, sadly, I don't expect it to happen peacefully. Those people lining streets on Saturday - they want to install their own leaders, not allow actual freedom to flourish.
Millions of Indians died in civil strife during the partition. Hindus caught behind Muslim lines and vice versa. The long columns of refugees walking different directions but parallel sometimes got into it too.
The cost was high but it worked.
Truth Muslims can't and won't live with other religions unless they are in charge when they hit 10% of the population they begin to demand their own courts and living spaces.
Islam and the west do not work out as the west is not sharia compliant.
This is 90% of the problem they have with Israel.
Divorcing a city is one thing, but the real problem are the brainwashed leftists who believe in all this garbage.
They vote in destructive shitty policies and never connect the dots to the misery index.
Instead, when it becomes too painful, expensive, trashed out and crime ridden they move somewhere else with conservative values and start the cycle of insanity all over.
Democrats are a cancer to the body politic how does one excise out the cancer of progressive aka Marxist leanings?
They are starting to literally kill each other over these very ridiculous policies.
'when it becomes too painful, expensive, trashed out and crime ridden they move somewhere else with conservative values and start the cycle of insanity all over'
There are examples of this around the country.
People 'escape' CA to the Southwest or head East a bit and start the same cycle.
NH is another example, So. NH is a Boston suburb with 'escapees'from MA RI CT & NY
VT went such a way years ago, always a bit socialist, the same influx from NY, CT & MA
The Maine Coast lost out in the same way to the Southern New England influx.
Note the Greater Idaho project. If partially successful I expect people from So CA, and the coasts of Oregon and Washington to start migrating there.
Same pattern.
Trump is violating the Constitution by ignoring due process and putting Marines in charge of law enforcement. Even Illegals have a right to a hearing before being deported.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-us-deported-more-130000074.html
The $65 million for the ‘No Kings’ march was at least $20 million more than the 250th anniversary of the Army which was estimated to cost $25 to $45 million…..and just think SLEEPY JOE blew $85 BILLION when he decided to leave military equipment in Afghanistan - at least 700 trucks & tanks, a million guns, etc….in effect the American taxpayer gave the Afghanis & Taliban a $85 BILLION gift (which Joe just tacked onto the national debt). Trump’s parade to honor the military looked like peanuts in comparison. Biden 'left' an entire 'parade' in Afghanistan and more...
"the 250th anniversary of the Army parade which was estimated to cost $25 to $45 million…"
$45 million, pffft. small potatoes. The US military spends an estimated $2 billion a year on recruitment. This $45 million was the biggest bang for the buck they've had in years. Money well spent rather than paying money to the leftist MSM for TV ads.
"This $45 million was the biggest bang for the buck they've had in years."
President Trump: always on time and always under budget.
Ha, extremely well said.
CC, consider that the Trump sponsored parade was probably a rally around the flag attempt to reverse the disunion of the country. A slim majority of this country wants a Constitutional USA where the protestors want something, anything else. The scary part is that they have absolutely no idea of what that is. The protests are manned by stupid to insane folks who are just out there to raise hell and are being paid to do it. The man-on- the-street interviews are showing this overwhelmingly. A question, how can politically illiterate folks ((remember the education (indoctrination) system)) be expected to make good decision re: political decisions. Their hallmark is just to follow what they are being told by their Masters, the Ult-Left.
Compare the government of Trump vs. Biden, which is/was the most autocratic? Which is closer to the autocratic socialistic monarchies of Europe and yes, China. There is no comparison.
I am willing to bet that 99.9% of kids today can't recite the 'Pledge of Allegiance', something we did daily before the school day began. And June 14 is also Flag Day, which we celebrated in elementary school with an assembly out-of-doors where each class sang a different patriotic song - so over 6 years one learned 6 new songs before being sent off to middle school. We dressed in red-white-blue - it was lots of fun....I feel sad for kids today who don't experience that community spirit. That said, our principal was a 'Miss Daly' - unmarried, ex-military, with ramrod posture. We all feared her but deeply respected her as well.
See the male holding the sign "Orange Man Bad", trying to seem smart by mocking his actual position. Same as the Zionist when they start jooing.
You have no self-awareness of what an ass you make of yourself, Janos. Worse still, you have to live with the fallout of your God-hating stupidity. On the good side, that will serve well when you're granted repentance and loathe yourself and your ways.
You people thought you had won! Alas for Haifa!
I wasn't talking about God but the Joos. Do you think the Joos are God, Paul?
... and left 13 dead and another 45+ permanently disabled (just counting the US military casualties) plus a state-of-the-art military airport.
Oh hell, there were thousands of "MIAs" left behind. American citizens and allies, many who didn't have cover as they were the "plausible deniability" types. Many more who were simply abandoned, now dead or taken as slaves. President Autopen was eliminating the evidence.
The Army anniversary parade was planned in 2023
Thanks, I had not researched it. interesting
That's a good point. I wish I had thought about that last weekend when all the libs were complaining about the cost of the parade, like they really cared.
If there's one thing I've learned over the last decade or so, it's that hypocrisy has become an epidemic and those who have it are incredibly unaware. This sickness doesn't care what letter is behind your name. It affects all who have given up their gift of discernment to become part of the "true believers" of whatever ideology makes them feel part of a herd.
Unfortunately, it's not clear to conservatives that hypocrisy and lies are the most valued, and effective tools of the left. The more egregious, the higher the bonus points awarded by their peers. After all, "extremism in the pursuit of liberty...and so on", justifies it all! They know full well what they're doing, but they leave for the thrill of seeing logical minds explode by their exercise of vanity.
Nonpartisan libertarian here, so not technically a conservative, and definitely not a Republican. This is a sympathetic outsider's view of it. The Republicans have a lot of their own hypocrisies and hypocrites who will swing with whatever the wind says at the moment. That was part of the problem with the first Trump administration. He isn't a fiscal conservative by any stretch of the imagination. We needed then and we need now to have an administration that says "We are cutting the budget. We are reforming things. If we gore your ox, we don't care. We don't need to worry about reelection. Get it done!" So far, he's doing that and I applaud him for it, but...we'll see where he is in a year. In the meantime, I wish people wouldn't act like he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. He's a populist and given any encouragement at all, he will swing with whatever direction the wind is blowing. He's doing great right now, but where will we be in a year?
We can only hope they've all been vaxxed.
Like lemmings!
One of the libs latest talking points is that people are being "disappeared" off the streets, like this is Chile or Argentina in the bad old days. And since the average lib gets zero information other than from the leftstream media, they never hear the other side of the story.
“I know because I was there, on campus, between 1966 and 1971. Back then, the Left opposed the wicked “establishment” and all its nefarious operations, from the war in Vietnam to the FBI’s underhanded suppression of political dissent. These days, strange to relate, the Left stands in staunch defense of the Deep State, big government (and its prodigious corruption), and the politicization of the FBI and CIA.”
Ironic, isn’t it? The left was all about “standin’ up to The Man!” before they became “The Man!” then demanded unfettered obedience.
The 60’s -70’s Liberal Progressive Left ideologues with Dylan’s Times Are Changing anthem, soundtracking their moment, haven’t caught up to the point that the song is still apropos, but the song is now about them.
To all of my Birkenstock wearing geriatric boomer comrades , a heartfelt thank you! It was touch and go there for a while, but the sun shines bright this Monday morning and we have no King ! What brave lads and lasses and those unsure, a new day is dawned. And to think I almost cut my last few hairs this morning.
We have no King. Yep, the Dems were beaten last year, the Deep State and its potential King, or Queen were handed their marching orders by the People.
LOL
The Manbun tribe are very dangerous; vectors of social pathology every one of them.
How different is the Mannerbund, Warrior Band or Hunting Pack. It is the basis for civilization, predating the "family" (so called).
On Facebook, my almost 80-something HS English teacher proudly displayed herself and her No Kings placard at the Wisconsin Fox Valley gathering she attended. I wonder if she joined in a round of "We Shall Overcome" or some other geezer anthem. We used to call her "Chunky," but I didn't do that. I just congratulated her on how her protest seems to have worked.
I think the old retired battle ax teacher class forms the vanguard of the "movement".
And tattooed, green haired, pierced young fat broads that don’t can’t really decide if they are women or men. They revel in their social disassociation and their entitled lives by screaming at the system that actually provides the venue for it. Dumb, immature and in pointed need of ‘the high hard one’..
‘the high hard one’? Sounds like a villain from a Coen Brothers movie.
And Dripping Springs Texas, population 8689, there were about 100 “no kings” protesters abroad Saturday morning. I commented that they all looked like school teachers.
While I appreciate this sophisticated strategies being attributed to the billionaire organizers, I believe the motivation of those who got up and took to the sleepy street corners of America Saturday morning, was simply to magnify their hatred for President Trump by expressing it on his birthday. They try to add intellectual credibility to their cause with signs about “rule of law” and “our democracy”, but their actions belie their ignorance of any such concepts. At bottom, each, and every one of them is animated by one thing-hatred for the person of Donald Trump.
Considering Donald Trump is a 79 year old man who does not practice a particularly healthy lifestyle, Democrats dependence on the unifying hatred for him appears a tenuous bond to keep the reconstituted party glued together long-term. I don’t picture Retired school teachers taking to the streets to demand boys playing in girls sports after Trump’s term ends.
Good recovery after Friday! Smart move to change the subject.
Now allow me to change it back.
If Trump finds a way to get the USA involved in this catastrophic series of war crimes Israel is perpetrating against Iran, he's going to need a lot of jack boots to put down the anti-war protests, because they are going to be legendary. No one in America wants war against Iran but Israel-firsters, and they're every bit as much of an "immigrant" problem as the "mutts" the Zionist government in Mexico keeps sending over our border. They're in America, but their allegiance is to something other than America.
That's what all this anti-protest sentiment Mr. Kunstler is drumming up is ultimately all about, fluffing his supporters to accept brutal crackdown of the protests that are coming up against the upcoming Israeli-US war against Iran. He and his Israel-first allies are so eager to trick and/or entrap us Americans into that war, no matter how disastrous it turns out to be for us, and they will be eager to put down real Americans in the street when we rise up peacefully in our millions to oppose it.
Hopefully these young men that leaned heavily trump are smart enough not to run out and join the military. No need to become cannon fodder for these lunatic Isreal first politicians in America. The groundwork has been laid, probably just need some sort of “terrorist” act to pin on Iran to get the country in a lather to go to war. I’ve seen this episode before.
Enlistments and re-enlistments are way up since Trump. Seems like there may be a big contingent of young men and women that think that flag waving American is worth defending.
I live in a military town so know a few soldiers. Few of them are interested in going to war and most of them think we're less likely to go to war under Trump than Biden. A lot of them joined the military because there weren't a lot of other jobs on offer (which speaks to that situation in Los Angeles) and the military will pay your education if you put in a few years with them.
The Trump supporters point out that Biden's admin set up two wars for us to get involved in while Trump avoided all wars during his first admin. From the perspective of soldiers who aren't anxious to go to war, Kamala looked like a warmonger and Trump clearly isn't one. They are perplexed by the Leftists who keep insisting he is one. Where is the evidence for that?
The reason for the enlistment improvement has to do with safety. Soldiers want comrades who can have their back rather than women trying to be men or men trying to be women, neither of whom have the physical strength to carry an injured comrade off the field of battle if needed, and certainly lack the mental strength to "stow the stress and get shit done". I quote that because that's what multiple solders have said to me in the church lobby. They weren't interested in being in Biden's army because they knew they'd be on their own as a "heterosexual white man who knows he's a male." Now, it feels like it might be safer to join the military, put in your 4-6 and go the college afterward.
Your 4-6 years May very well end up being spent in some desert hellhole, or on a naval ship dodging bombs. Trump may have inherited this mess, but he’s done nothing to slow it down or stop it. His first term may have been free of these wars, but not this time.
He has at least tried to have dialogue with countries desperately trying to be Americas enemies.
War is when diplomacy breaks down.
Iran is refusing to actually follow through with peace talks and nuclear disarmament.
Yeah, ok. Isreal wanted war with Iran, and they got it. Trump is 100% on board, as is 98% of Congress. A few weeks ago Tulsi Gabbard told us Iran was not close to a nuke, suddenly days later they are very close and must be taken out immediately. Makes no sense, when confronted Trump says he thinks they are really close. So our national security advisor is a liar, or Trump is liar. I suspect it’s Trump lying. They are using the exact same playbook they used to topple saddam, all based on lies. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Yes, he tells them to surrender. The Plan for the Attack was ongoing during Trump's negotiations (so called) with Iran. We are completely involved at a higher level and always have been - even if troops never go in per se.
isreal?
More like Unreal
Still the salient point; Islam is government rooted in its 17th Century mind set, Israel stands essentially for government evolved through the Western Enlightenment.
You are joking, right? There's nothing Enlightened about Israel.
Israel deliberately attacked Tehran's water supply so that their streets would be flooded with raw sewage. I'd like to claim that this is not conduct in accordance with Western Enlightenment values.
Very few Muslim countries allow Christians or Jews to live within their borders without some sort of second-class citizenship (more like being an economic slave subject to major penalties for not keeping their eyes on the ground). About 20% of Israelis are Arab Muslims who are treated as full citizens. Tell me again how Israel is not Enlightened?
That is what the televised coverage of the military parade was all about.
A drive to get enlistment figures up.
No doubt..it’s problematic, parents need there kids to understand, dying or getting maimed in some Mideast desert is not patriotic, or a worthy pursuit. I have the utmost respect for enlisted military, but there is rot at the top. A rot that is not capable of running or using a military in any honorable fashion. I know countless men that were permanently scarred by the Iraq war, a complete waste of manpower and resources we have found out.
War not in defense of our own borders is always problematic. We need to teach our kids that patriotism starts at home--not in a far-flung place fighting for someone else's values.
Jim, you are right. IMHO, any military action needs a rubber stamp by Congress and the biggest part of the debate should be what the war is for, and what is the definition of victory. The US has not “won” a war since WW2, and today, I would venture to say that we can not even remember what our military actions were for. For example, Vietnam is currently a trading partner with the USA with many US tourists visiting. They are still a “communist” nation, that defeated the USA, and now reaps the benefits of USA support. What exactly did those 58000 folks die for?
"What exactly did those 58000 folks die for?"
58,000? Try 1.3 million, 30 to 46% civilian, killed by us. Out of a population of 44.9 million, almost 3% of the population. Was it worth it?
I'm not sure I would agree that JHK has joined the Netanyahu party to go Israel-first, but I did think he was wrong defending Israel on Friday. Objectively, Israel is a rogue, criminal, racist, apartheid state, and no amount of crying out but, but, but 'antisemitism' excuses its actions.
Israel, the only country in the world not allowed to defend itself. WTF?
It depends on what your definition of 'defend itself' is.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74zj9kv2xjo
I don't think it should include killing Palestinians at an aid site. As one example.
They can defend themselves, just no reason for the US to defend them. They want to stir up a hornets nest in the Middle East, they can live with the consequences. Anybody looking can see that the foreign policy of the last 25 years regarding that region is a complete failure. To keep doing the same thing over and over is insanity. It failed in Iraq, it failed in Afghanistan, and it will fail again.
Iran should have thought twice about taking money from China and then funding Hezbollah and Hamas as proxies to bomb Israel, all while working to build a nuclear weapon. Bad decisions yield bad results.
Bull.
Wow 😮
When you graduate high school later this month, you may possibly, POSSIBLY understand why America must defend Israel always and (almost) at all costs. Your anti-semitism, while feigned, shines through like the Sag Harbor lighthouse on a clear night...
I prefer the term "Judeophobia." Because this idea that I have to support a belligerent, corrupt foreign theocracy "at all costs" scares the hell outta me. It'd scare the hell out of anyone sane.
How about: Jew hater? Will THAT work?
If you dont understand the strategic importance of Israel in arguably, the area of the world that is the single biggest tinderbox for potential (catastrophic) chaos, your rhetoric is stilted and cannot be circumvented with obfuscating prose and new definitions.
Israel, a THEOCRACY? laughable comment.
You use whatever invective you like, Sonny. Your emotions are not my problem.
Israel is plainly the source of 99% of the chaos eminating from that region, and in any case, its problems are its own. To the extent the Israelis make their problems America's problems as well, that's going to have its effects. Its most conspicuous effect will be the collapse of Trump's presidency. His legacy will lie in ruins right along with the precious Israeli promised land he appears to love more than his own country.
You have us on a path to horrific failure that will result in unpayable consequences for the American people. To the extent those consequences CAN be paid, we need to see to it that you and your allies are the ones who pay them. I am willing to pay NO costs to continue facilitating Israel's illegal killing spree.
Israel needs to pay all the bills for its war. I don't want a single American dime to go to this doomed cause. When, inevitably, my money is used in this doomed cause despite my protests, all I can hope is that the guilty parties end up being held accountable.
Relentless, unforgiving, merciless, exacting accountability needs to be brought to bear on covert foreign influences in this country, and that includes Israeli influences first and foremost. Israel is no longer a legitimate state. Its interests are adversarial to US interests.
You must be an AI troll...And if so, you ‘got me’... If not, then here goes:
OMG, your blatant hateful ANTI-SEMITISM is so scary it regulates you to permanent membership in the Joseph Goebbels Memorial Association, North American chapter, of course.
Your whole treatise is so inaccurate and bereft of fact, it’s actually disturbing.
You need another hobby or life mission.
PS: You pen: ..Israel is plainly the source of 99% of the chaos emanating from that region......
Do you actually believe that? if you do, please, please do some serious research on the historical turbulence of the mid-east.
The more you and your allies crash out and lose control of your emotions, the more you're going to be abandoned to your fate by everyone around you.
No wants but you wants this. Ultimately, I think, no one but you will receive the brunt of it. It is what it is. This is a war you wanted, and it's a war you insisted on. Either Trump joins in, in which case he'll be ruined along with you, or he'll do the smart thing and leave Israel to die alone and largely unmourned. I have no love for Trump so I'm okay either way. This is his test of loyalty, and a test for his adherents, not for me. I know what side I'm on.
Ideological possession - Party of One!
Israel is not a theocracy. It's a secular democracy. I know, hard distinction for the ideologically possessed.
Israel is no more of a secular democracy than the United States is.
Israel is the modern equivalent of Vienna circa 1683.
Whoa, someone knows history! Well, done!
You clearly have no clue as to the political or cultural history of Iran. Grow up.
How about this, and don’t like either of them, Isreal nor Iran, is that a position people are allowed to take??? This it’s us vs them mentality is beyond juvenile, and not based in any sort of reality or reasoning.
It is a position we're allowed to take. If I were asked to vote - I'd choose Israel as a better society than Iran because I have no use for legally sanctioned abuse of women or the virtual slavery of minorities and Israel treats its Arab citizens as full citizens whereas Iran frequently kills their Christians and Jews.
But I would also choose not to get involved in any of these side because it's not our battle. We have no compelling national interest other than a lot of American citizens of Jewish descent also live in Israel. So...yeah, we need to stop getting involved in things that aren't our affair.
I don’t agree with your perspective that JK is “fluffing his supporters”, but I must admit a smile, almost a chuckle, at your opening salvo.
Thank you!
Re: "fluffing his supporters," let's just say I hope I'm wrong about that.
Yes, I want/you to be wrong.
Please, square with the reality: Islam isn't aimed at peace but is on the same track that was derailed in 1683 at the gates to Vienna.
Listen, I'm being very nice here, but you're a demented piece-of-shit liar. I don't need to prove it because you've already proven it by your screed. That is, for anyone living in reality living with a knowledge of the truth. For those who are not, the truth is shouting at you at every corner. Turn from your selfish sinful ways and open your eyes and ears.
This war of yours was lost before you fired the first shot. Look at you. No one is going to follow you anywhere. You're incapable of being reasoned with, and you're not in possession of your faculties. That seems to be true of your entire nation, at this point--or rather, what little is left of it.
What's really tragic isn't so much Israel's demise, it was always a net burden on the world at large for the short time it was around, but rather, how little it will be missed. There's something sort-of bittersweet in that.
Satan, you’re finished.
Is it a COHENcidence?😉😂
I couldn’t help myself!
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Yeah, the Left has such a commitment to anti-war right now that there wasn't a single Leftist protest against the US involvement in the Ukrainian War.
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy. They quite pro-war so long as it is against their preferred target.
But I also think there will be "spontaneous" anti--war protests if the US decideds to help Israel, not because the Left gives a crap about people dying in war. So long as it's Jews in Islrael, they're happy to see it.
Not that I think we should get involved in Israel's war. I think the US should stay out of all wars that don't impact our own borders. Like, hey, let's put down that invasion rebellion in Los Angeles.
They thought they had won! Alas for Haifa and and Bat Yam (or is it Yor?).
No, they are not LEGAL residents of the United States. Biden ignored US immigration law to allow them into the country and to give them pretend asylum status.
How can you deem the actions of a president following the ACTUAL law to be illegal? Or do you just believe the President of the "correct party" is allowed to get away with whatever he wants? I ask a non-partisan libertarian because I've been watching this immigration stupidity for a long time and I've read the pertinent laws. Trump is the one FOLLOWING the law as it was written by Congress. Biden's admin was definitely not!
Congress makes the laws and Congress said the President can’t authorize green cards for just anyone. There are immigration procedures that have existed for decades. Among those, if you want to claim asylum, you have to enter at a port of entry and immediately announce that you’re seeeking asylum. The law actually says you can’t enter illegally, get caught and then claim you’re seeking asylum. So, the Biden admin saying “Oh, well, we’re just going to ignore the law and do it our way” was a violation of seperation of powers. I’m not surprised, but it does need to be pushed back against and the 2024 election allows us to do that.
The American people have an absolute right to demand their government secure the borders of their country and to remove anyone who entered the country without following the law..
Per Grok - "Legal Basis: Ozturk was arrested by ICE for allegedly overstaying her F-1 student visa, which was revoked after she was placed on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchlist due to her pro-Palestinian activism. ICE has the authority to detain noncitizens for immigration violations under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Her detention followed standard administrative procedures for visa overstays."
Grok is an AI generation tool from X that takes information from multiple sources and presents its findings. These findings strip out emotional diatribes.
"My kind" is not going to sit back and allow non-citizens to protest in my country and burn the US flag. Non-citizens are here at the pleasure of the US government. Do you think you could walk into Iran, or Gaza, and get away with this? If you come to America, you are a guest. Show some respect or get out.
Imagine the joy of Palestinians now, to see Israel's cities being turned into Gaza. They wore the Israelis down, inflicting heavy casualties both physically and morally. As ever, they are are martyr people.
yeah, Iran isn't fighting back. Fighting is bad. If you kill them, they win. Only Israel is fighting and killing!
Are you living on stolen land? Why don't you go back to Europe then? Give you home to a poor Indian family?
Ann Frank's father fled with the Germans rather than stay and face the wrath of the liberating Red Army. That shows how bad the German were!
I haven’t had this much fun since Paul Pelosi invited the Berkley nudist BLM supporter with two inflatable rubber unicorns into his home. All that and somehow MAGA radicalized him. Like some magical rainbow with pixie dust. And a hammer. Right in the middle of San Francisco, the ONE Trump supporter literally within a million miles just so happens to show up in shorts at Paul’s house after midnight. What are the chances? Oh, that’s right, he was looking for Nancy. If they could flip that narrative in their favor, they’d have no problem flipping all of the inconsistencies in the Vance Luther Boelter shooting Papa John weeping texts Wife on the Run with the kids and Cash scenario into something having to do with No Kings. Remember, they don’t care if it makes sense or not. They are a criminal enterprise with every escape route and paid-off access point at their disposal.
Great condensation of the ridiculousness of life in America today.
The dumbing down of education has reached its overarching objective.
Paraphrasing William Casey: "We'll know our work is done when everything Americans believe is a lie."
Mission Accomplished!
Not just dumbing down, but indoctrination into socialistic wannabes. The Ult-Left planners of the 20th century have succeeded very well in this country, controlling the DC bureaucracy, education especially higher education, the courts, the media.
If it just wasn’t for that pesky Trump, we could be just like China.
Bezmenov said, The deed was done by the 80's. It cannot be undone. These generations must die in the Sinai, never to be allowed into the New America (if any).
Nothing but a bunch of infantile, drug addled, self deluded narcissists.
Did JFK and Nancy hook up? The other day I saw a picture of them in serious lust, with JFK staring at her heaving bosoms.
Folks, we already have a No Kings Day and it's known as Independence Day. We celebrate this on the 4th of July.
As a libertarian I have a hard time getting real rah-rah about Independence Day, but I kind of hoping people make a big patriotic day out of it this time just to counter the stupidity from Saturday.
Libertarians generally believe in "anarchy" - as in no rulers (though not without rules). However, what I saw Saturday was a farce. They want a RULER -- one of their own choosing. They love the idea of tyranny and authoritarianism -- so long as they (and them alone) get to pick the ones weilding the authority. They seriously don't know what they're asking for and it's going to turn out really badly for them.
Good comments!
Woke Canadians joined the protests too, but had to change the name - because they actually HAVE a King.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/no-tyrants-toronto-joins-us-024144479.html
Canada has always been supported by its connection back to the royalty in England and the liberal attitudes of Eastern Canada. That is exactly what Alberta is pissed off at. It is also the difference between the USA and Canada, we threw out the Europeans in 1776 and again in 1812 then the civil war. Canada never did and has become a haven for more socialist folks in the new world.
They have had a much higher standard of living than us for decades. Of course that was before their socialism turned toxic, against Capitalism, and for mass immigraton.
“... between 1966 and 1971. Back then, the Left opposed the wicked “establishment” and all its nefarious operations, from the war in Vietnam to the FBI’s underhanded suppression of political dissent. These days, strange to relate, the Left stands in staunch defense of the Deep State...”.
In essence, the roles of the Two Sides (Left/Right) have flipped. ‘The Left’ of today is like the old-State-loving-rabid right-wingers of the 1950s and 60s. And today’s MAGA are more like the ‘60s radicals that opposed big government and the many evils of worshiping The State as a faux god with all the answers and loving arms to keeps us all... Safe! The Left wants Mommy and Daddy State to love and take care of them forever all while they burn offerings to Daddy State from the persecution of anything Not-Left... while today’s MAGA just wants the Filthy State to just leave them the hell alone.
The protests of the ‘60s were organic and real things. Today’s so-called protests are nothing but play-acting at what these fools have seen from 1960s film footage and being financed by some of the worst soul and scoundrels on the face of the Earth. Today’s protesters are clueless dopes, fools, and foils for the movers-and-shakers of the Filthy Dark State. They mimic real protest... act like they’re told... waiting for the their next instructions. They make a mockery of real protest which is – again – honest and organic and not plotted and contrived.
The Left has no use or capability of reason or thinking any more. They are empty vessels – empty of mind, soul, and spirit. They exist solely to suck up whatever the Filthy Dark State Establishment feeds them through The State’s Mommy-Glands.
Everyone needs to find a purpose in life. And for the Left – that is to not think... to follow orders... to love and never question 'Authority'... to hate all who oppose them... and wait for next instructions.
So no one should call what The Left is doing, ‘Protest’ in any form. It is the exact opposite of protest.
It is acting in full service of the very persons and political-social-economic movement that is enslaving and mocking them.
No Kings? Sure. But also, No More Fools, either.
Yes! The Left is liberal, which means they believe in change for change’s sake. If there is a problem, the central authority needs to change something. If there is not a problem, make one up. In Superman 1, Lois Lane said that if there is not news to report, it is the presses job to make the news.
That is scary.
You misunderstand the meaning of "liberal" which means "for liberty." The Left rejects liberty -- which includes things like self-governance, tolerance, recognition of self-interest and a rejection of authoritarianism. And oddly, the conservatives are now the ones who embrace change in the form of reform and liberty. My poli sci professors from the early 1980s would be so confused.
OMG- Huma Abedin/Alex Soros wedding. Just the thought makes me want to hurl chunks.
Me Too! 10 years apart, she all dressed in white. So stupid!
Macron's wife is an older man. The other day "she" pushed him by the face on camera.
Huma, to me, always looked like she should have snakes for hair. And, Brigitte...I bet she can swing a mean baguette.
An arranged marriage between dynasties. She is the adopted daughter/lover of Hillary Clinton. He the nerd son of Soros, the tip of the spear of the Rothschilds.
What a hideous arrangement from no matter which way it's viewed!
Perhaps "hideous" is too strong...I edit to "unnatural"
JHK— Thanks as ever, your posts remind me that there's at least one sane grownup out there in the yammering wilds of the USA.
Many of my colleagues, most of them oldsters, went to the No Kings protests, judging by their emails encouraging me to come along (lol x lol x lol) and their reports of the feelz-good times they had dissing in Kumbaya fashion the Bad, Bad, Oh So Very Badly Bad Orange Man.
Every single one of these colleagues has taken multiple jabs of the clot juice, and they either do not know or do not care that the Biden administration censored anyone who said anything in any way negative about said shots. I don't say this as a big fan of Trump, I say this as someone observing something very sad— piteous actually. They think they're showing leadership when it seems to me it's more like they're wandering around with a sign on their back that says KICK ME.
The "liberal royalty" Soros wedding on the same day, whutta hoot.
Probably just dementia.
The Democrat party is a domestic terrorist organization. EVERY one of them has EVERYTHING ass-backward. It is the cult of leftist zombies who cannot think for themselves. This is yet another war they will not win. The lies and corruption will not continue. I don't think they're ready for the consequences of their actions?
Left has crowed, ‘demography is destiny’ - reassuring themselves that as older conservatives die off; they will have a clear majority. However, recent polling suggests that the strongest Trump support lies in the youngest quintile.
Not only that, but most of them young men. Good news for those of us who have reached the conclusion this abandonment of reason ends nowhere but with violence.
Not really what anyone wants, but considering the fact the left consists primarily of boomer and millennial women who have the same understanding of force possessed by a 12 year old boy who just finished watching "Revenge of the Ninja", the odds don't look too bad.
Let's remember, however, that the future belongs to the hand that rocks the cradle. As long as these young women remain committed to having no children, we're golden. There will be no one around to take care of the boomers in their (our) old age, but at least their values won't be passed onto their non-existent grandchildren.
The good news is that the small fraction of young women who are having kids are almost entirely conservatives. The hand that rocks an actual cradle rules the future.
They are gentile angry people. They are singing, singing for our lives.
No, they're singing for us to be overrun by invaders so that our grandchildren--such as will be born which doesn't appear to be many--witll live as slaves in a Hispanic "republic" ruled by--oh-oh--kings. You know how I know that? They were demanding, among other things, that Donald Trump (the clear winner of the 2024 election) be removed from office to be replaced--not by his VP Vance who was also the clear winner of the 2024 election), but by a Democrat who lost the 2024 election.
That is not what "democracy" looks like. That's what dictatorship is -- rulers installed by by undemocratic means at the insistence of a vocal and violent minority.
Yes, that's what I meant. They want us replaced and gone.