Jim, a concise and brilliant summary of the last several decades of the revolutionary long march through the institutions, yet the slippery underminers of (actual) democracy seem to have evaded much hammer-blowing, as the no-doubt janky elections in California appear to be revealing.
Step One in a return to electoral health would appear to be the passing of the SAVE Act, which several Republicans continue to block.
The cultural and mental rot will take another two generations at least to wash out of the system, of the tide indeed does flow that way.
Wishing will for the USA in its coming 250th. (We know, of course, that mind-scrambled citizens and others are pinning poisoned needles in the voodoo doll of Uncle Sam...)
Passing more laws will not change or save America. We have more than enough laws already. Instead, the Insurrection Act should be invoked to really clean house. Even with that, however, America is done.
There are so many Federal Laws, State Laws, County Laws and City Laws on the books that the average American slob commits 3 felonies a day and doesn't even know it.
There are so many laws on the books that law enforcement agencies do not have the resources to enforce them all so they pick and choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore.
As I have said before the system has become so great, so massive, so incredibly huge that the only solution is to bring it down entirely and start over. This mess we call the American government cannot be resolved by voting. It can only be resolved by staunch rebellion by the American people and Americans, largely obsessed with porn, sex and the teevee aren't in a position to do anything about it.
This. We are watching unbelievable shenanigans going on in the California elections: you can be registered to vote with a library card which requires no proof of citizenship. Reports of homeless being paid to vote. Every single mail in vote in a large batch reported for Nithya Raman, despite the two top vote-getters in the in-person voting being Pratt and Bass. Indeterminate time line for counting votes/certifying elections. And yet, once again, conservatives will whine, cry, stamp their feet - and do nothing.
Nobody in any position of influence cares and certainly the people of California don't care.
We still have it way too good in America for people to consider significant changes in their actions, attitudes and ways of life. Period. People won't change things until they MUST.
"Step One in a return to electoral health would appear to be the passing of the SAVE Act, which several Republicans continue to block."
TV,
You want fundamental change? Simply restore secret balloting in House and Senate. Let men vote their best interests rather than those of their paymasters.
Rescind the Supreme Courts disastrous rulings that large corporations are considered legal individuals and have the right to contribute large sums of money to a candidate's campaign. Get the big money out of politics.
Most of the solutions to what ails America are quite simple when you think about it. There just isn't any will to execute these solutions because the grift is so great by the perpetrators that they will never act. Until the people force them to and, as i mentioned above, the American people are too addicted to drugs, porn, sex, food and the teevee to take such action.
Yes – delusions abound, including the notion that we are nearing an agreement with Iran, notwithstanding Iran’s daily reminder that they have quite reasonably found the US and Israel to be agreement-incapable. Then there’s the fact that our terms are entirely unreasonable, especially given the fact that we have failed to win the war.
Another delusion is that the Iranians are driven by some sort of wish for an apocalypse, which is especially amusing, given the fact that it is the eschatology of both Zionist Jews and Evangelical Christians that drives them to bring about the End Times.
As the US war machine continues to exhaust itself against the Iranian Rope-a-Dope strategy, the fog of war will gradually reveal the fact that we have no other option than to slink home and pretend that this horrible mess never happened. Unfortunately, the world economic collapse and subsequent famine which we are bringing about will make forgetting Netanyahu's War quite impossible.
Nonsense. What is the evidence that the US is exhausting itself? And the rope-a-dope. strategy is a City of London scam, just like the one in Ukraine. You lose a war, and keep losing a war, and just pretend you haven't. It's all just Baghdad Bob on steroids, something that cannot go on and so it won't.
We shall see won't we? It has been ninety-nine days since the predicted Five Day War ran past its announced schedule.
Surely we can agree that the US has not yet "won." Let's check back with each other every three months until the facts on the ground obviate argumentation.
The Iranians have let it be known that they're prepared to prosecute the defense of their country for at least two years. I predict that we will have thrown in the towel by then.
$39,216,905,060,894 in national debt. What more evidence do you need? Or are you one of those guys who thinks the debt is actually to ourselves so it doesn't matter?
Look at the value of the dollar and you'll see what the money printing to fund these wars is doing to us. Look at the price of an ounce of gold and you'll see what money printing to fund these wars is doing to us.
We have spent our strength and means making war in foreign lands. The USA is busted, broke, kaput, bankrupt. The money is gone. There is no money. We are living on the graces of the reserve currency status and the ever whirring printing presses of the US Treasury.
It is going to end and it is going to end far worse than any other nation who has attempted to print their way out of the financial obligations. Buckle up.
Yeah, keep your eyes on the ball, people. Not only the debt continues to go ballistic, but the good image of the United States continues to decay in the eyes of the rest of the world, which is....part of the plan.
JHK wrote: "The outstanding question might be: why do so many in the West continue to believe it?"
My humble opinion is that post WWII the middle class of the United States, then Europe and Japan, grew and amassed fabulous wealth. Wealth that the oligarchs were okay with as long as their wealth also rose even faster. Since 1980 or so, the oligarchs/globalists have decided to recoup that wealth from we-the-deplorables in the Middle Class, and the war on class began. They find the Lefties are the natural stooges for this kind of work, since most grew up not understanding what a hard day's work is all about anyway, and their rose-colored view of human nature was a cinch to exploit.
Now we're at the stage where Lefties are so twisted and insane, it's Germany 1933 again, where we'll be happy to give over the reins of <absolute> power to the lessor of two evils. That is to say, the Right.
Trump may appear to be dismantling the Lefties, but since he's an insider from birth, you know his real role now and who his masters are - and it ain't the American people. He is the exact definition of Controlled Opposition. Short of a Civil War, Constitutional Convention, Convention of States or some other miracle, I don't see a path forward where the Republic survives.
The human mind cannot comprehend the utter immense size of a trillion dollars, it is beyond our ability. Now multiply that by 40 and you're talking a really really really really really really ENORMOUS number that it hard to comprehend. THAT is the US debt and most of the war mongers on this site like JohnAZ and even our gifted host seem to be okay with as long as the USA kicks Iran's ass!
We have so many problems right here in the lower 48 that it infuriates me that Trump is fucking around and spending money we don't have in a shithole country like Iran who has been "3 weeks away from getting a nuke" for the last 30 fucking years.
The likelihood that we will collapse any time now provides succor to all who despise our rogue state - that, and the fact that our collapse will bring Israel down about four minutes later.
What America’s Lefty-left has proven beyond cavil is the immutability of human nature, which is itself incompatible with their vision of what America should be. It is a sort of endless loop that devolves in much the same manner as it has throughout history, the twentieth century being a particularly bloody example of this paradigm.
Evidence is irrelevant to these sickos. One thing not brought up often enough is that should any of this succeed and the D's take the House and Senate, they would, regardless of lack of evidence, impeach and "convict" both Trump and Vance, giving us President Hakeem Jeffries and "Bosnia 2027" coming to a neighborhood near you.
This is correct. The recent Supreme Court redistricting opinions appear to have put some balance back into the system. It remains in a Left/Aright axis, not a good place. There are also those in what is referred to as a 'party' existing as a faction wanting to remove Trump. the term RINO seems somewhat appropriate. Interesting times.
DJT has abandoned his base, gone against just about everything on which he campaigned. This adds more intrigue to the mix.
I'd really like to see RICO put to the test, as you opine, yet also want to know why it has not already happened on some level.
If he doesn't wrap up this nonsense in Iran and bring fuel prices and subsequent food prices back down the Democrats will re-take the House and Trump will be spending the last two years fighting back sham impeachment charges that the Senate will never convict.
The American people know nothing different that voting Democrat or Republican. Back and forth they go, expecting a different result every time. Insane lunatics, all of them, if you ask me, for continuing to believe in a broken system that hasn't served them well for decades.
You use the term "Lefty-left" 11 times in this article, not even counting the title.
For context, I'm very anti-Trump and I openly admit that much of the media I consume is critical of him. But what strikes me most about this article isn't your criticism of Democrats. Criticize Democrats all day long if the criticism is accurate. As an independent, I don't have much interest in defending a political party.
What strikes me is the picture you've created of Democrats as an almost all-powerful force that simultaneously controls elections, controls government, controls institutions, controls speech, controls the economy, and yet somehow keeps losing elections. Democrats lose governorships, state legislatures, congressional seats, the White House, and local elections all the time. Republicans currently control the White House, the Senate, the House, and enjoy a conservative Supreme Court majority. The idea that Democrats are secretly running everything simply doesn't match reality.
The same goes for the claim that Democrats "hate America." Do they hate America, or do they disagree with certain policies? There is a huge difference. In a healthy democracy, opposing a policy is not the same thing as opposing the country.
What I find ironic is that I used to be much more sympathetic to conservative media. I listened to Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s. Even when he was criticizing the Left, I don't remember this level of cynicism, apocalyptic thinking, or the constant portrayal of political opponents as enemies of civilization itself. Maybe he evolved in that direction, but I never knew as I stopped listening to him in the early 2000's. What I see today feels like a distorted and much more amplified version of what once seemed to be legitimate criticism of the Left.
Rush often argued that politics had become the religion of the Left. Looking around today, I can't help but notice that many on the Right have blended politics, identity, and religion into a very toxic stew of their own. When every disagreement becomes a battle between good and evil, patriot and traitor, America and anti-America, there's no room left for reality, nuance, or self-reflection.
That's not a recipe for saving the country. It's a recipe for tearing it apart.
"Republicans currently control the White House, the Senate, the House, and enjoy a conservative Supreme Court majority."
And they do diddly poo with that majority. Republicans can't help but step on their own dick, can't they? They are paid vocal opposition to the powers that be, that's all they are. When they are in power they do the same damned things the Democrats do.
Spend money we don't have.
Wage wars in foreign shit hole countries that pose no threat to us.
Grow the government.
Continue to tax us into oblivion.
Get it? I sure do and I won't participate in the fraud anymore.
Being a former GOP guy with years of observation both inside and outside the political fence line...it sure seems like over the last 3 decades that the GOP has traded in it's former political strengths for an "owning the Libs" thing. Being good at that doesn't do a damn thing when you're the one in charge.
They're still owning the Libs even though the GOP is literally in charge. That's 70% of what Trump talks about these days...not the current state of things...but he lashes out at the Dems even though he's in charge with all 3 branches of the federal government.
What's truly ironic is when Trump complains about things being perpetually wrong that no previous administrations fixed...when the fact is that HE is a part of that group of "previous administrations"!
I had great hopes that Mr. Trump would be better than he is. He is an utter disappointment and has demonstrated himself to be just another cog in the federal Leviathan's gears.
Our host keeps predicting that Mr. Trump has big plans and that Democrats are going to finally get their licks for their naughtiness. Yet, what has happened? I'm just a dumb hick jack mormon living in the mountains of eastern Utah so I admit I know very little, only what I read and hear on sites like the CFN. Still waiting for our gifted host to finally tell us about things that are actually happing instead of telling us to wait just a little longer.
This is thoughtful, thanks. Clearly, the center did not hold — and these days political polarization is extreme. The family business of the Democrat-Left is government and to that end the Lefty-left needs a robust revenue flow from the private sector into the public sector but that dynamic only works when the Golden Goose is able to create wealth. Kill the goose — and everything goes down and the Left will resort to ‘zero sum’ thinking (Dr. Zhivago-esque). The Lefty-left is a dependency class which is unfit to be our ruling class.
That's an argument that's been around a LOOOONNNNG time. Do you really think that Democrats don't know where tax dollars come from? That's literally your belief about the Democrats? Are you sure that's not the Right's argument about the Democrats based upon the fact that Dems like to tax and spend? Being pro-tax & spend is not the equivalent of being an economic idiot unsure of where we get tax dollars from.
If you actually take your argument literally...then wouldn't the Dems be all about enabling the private sector to grow and thereby generating more tax revenue? Oh wait...is that the trickle down theory? That theory is about the equivalent on the Right isn't it? The belief that we'll all get richer by letting the billionaires have more tax breaks.
Let's work toward the middle shall we? We need taxes. The level of taxation and how those dollars are spent will ALWAYS be the issue. I just bristle with the old notion that the Dems have no idea where the taxes come from or that they think taxing generates business. That's an old argument that I don't think reflects reality if it ever did about the left's knowledge.
If you need facts about who does better with the economy...it sure seems like the Left has a far better record than the Right in the past 3 decades.
Thank you James for your daily dose of truth and facts🙏 “Remember, liberalism was pure live-and-let-live, with an emphasis on minimal government intrusion in our affairs” Liberalism is dead on the left and has naturally evolved into progressive nihilism. Self loathing, mentally unstable individuals who not only despise themselves, but everything good. They look at our God, family and country beliefs as a threat to their mental instabilities and destructive agenda. They embrace darkness and evil because it makes them feel normal. Unfortunately, these most vile creatures have gained much power and influence over the past few decades. President Trump is now reversing the insanity by ending the financial support and hopefully starting to prosecute the criminal cult that supported it. America still has hope as long as the SaveAct passes and the scales continue to weigh in the favor of freedom, humanity and freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I sure hope the hammer is coming down on Iran, Islamic extremists, the Democratic Party, and the deep state because if it doesn’t, and the government falls into Democrat hands, life as we have known it is finished. Be active folks. Enlighten your liberal children and liberal friends.
I don't think we'll see a single prosecution or conviction for any of the deeds they have done. Judges will claim malicious prosecution and throw out every single case. So if you think as I used to that this will all land before the mid terms sorry to dash your hopes, but it won't. They've won. They stacked the DC courts with operatives who are not going to prosecute anyone and if they do, they certainly won't convict.
OMG...in 2026...you are still bringing up, Hillary? Seriously...how many people have you accused of TDS? At least Trump's actually in office doing stupid stuff to complain about! You're complaining about someone who hasn't been much of a political influence in over a decade.
There have been lots of Trump appointed judges who have not ruled in his favor. You guys act like the deck is stacked against you but it's really just the lack of veracity in many of your claims and arguments. Blaming the judges is just an easy/lazy way of avoiding the fact that you have losing arguments.
The evidence is pretty clear to me, Jeff. The Republicans are NOT the answer. No, I am not saying the Democrats are. Both parties are not worth a big stinky shit and should be wiped out completely.
Yes. Well said. And the Lefties and jihadists have formed an unholy alliance. A broken coalition with a common foe, US. Once the Muslims take over, they will execute the lot of useful lefty idiots.
The regime change happened. It just didn't happen the way the neocons in their dream state imagined it. The mullahs, the theocracy, has been replaced by the IRGC. Goes to the saying 'be careful what you wish for...'.
The IRGC was always in charge. That's why we're now dismantling all of the global money laundering operations that feeds them and City of London. The kinetic war has been over for more than a month and been replaced by a financial one that is bleeding the old, globalist scheme dry.
That war won't end even if a peace accord is reached.
Not until the IRGC and the mullahs are punted out of power and not a second sooner.
They will start scheming ways to kick-start their weapons program, both conventional and nuclear, under the radar yet again.
If they manage to start selling oil again, they will also fund every lousy terrorist group they can find willing to work with them on destroying the little Satan and the great Satan.
In other words, back to their business as usual of attacking their neighbors via proxy and imagining the great Shiite caliphate to come.
The real way to mitigate Iran is to break it up into several countries aligned with the people who live in the region.
Straight line borders drawn by the British have been a source of conflict since World War 1.
The “hammer of law” is an absurdity. It’s a critical limb of the “racketeering operation” that is America’s system of government. Nothing will change (enduringly) under the “hand of Trump,” because human nature will not change. Believing that politicians of any stripe will save anything (but their own skin) is like believing in Santa Claus — childish. The Iranian people may well be quite sick of their leaders, but they have no more power to change it than Americans do their own ass-clown government.
Every time the left opens its mouth, my mind goes back to the message scrawled on the end wall of the big barn in that very prophetic book, "Animal Farm". Which should be renamed to fit today's situation as "Human Animal Farm"! Not many using their 'superior intellect' out there it seems.
But I digress, which is good in that it shows I'm still more human than animal, according to who you ask, of course!
They had set up seven commandments to live by and were written in great white letters for all to read and be inspired by. The seventh one is the one I'm particularly mentioning:
"All animals are equal." Pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? But it eventually got refined to better fit the situation at hand and the seven commandments were reduced to just one, the only one that counted--to those in charge!
"All animals are equal. BUT some animals are MORE equal than others."
Thus we see the lefty-lefts design for total control, their version of 'equity', equality, fairness and truth. Should any of us still possessing a working brain be surprised?
Jim, a concise and brilliant summary of the last several decades of the revolutionary long march through the institutions, yet the slippery underminers of (actual) democracy seem to have evaded much hammer-blowing, as the no-doubt janky elections in California appear to be revealing.
Step One in a return to electoral health would appear to be the passing of the SAVE Act, which several Republicans continue to block.
The cultural and mental rot will take another two generations at least to wash out of the system, of the tide indeed does flow that way.
Wishing will for the USA in its coming 250th. (We know, of course, that mind-scrambled citizens and others are pinning poisoned needles in the voodoo doll of Uncle Sam...)
Passing more laws will not change or save America. We have more than enough laws already. Instead, the Insurrection Act should be invoked to really clean house. Even with that, however, America is done.
There are so many Federal Laws, State Laws, County Laws and City Laws on the books that the average American slob commits 3 felonies a day and doesn't even know it.
There are so many laws on the books that law enforcement agencies do not have the resources to enforce them all so they pick and choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore.
As I have said before the system has become so great, so massive, so incredibly huge that the only solution is to bring it down entirely and start over. This mess we call the American government cannot be resolved by voting. It can only be resolved by staunch rebellion by the American people and Americans, largely obsessed with porn, sex and the teevee aren't in a position to do anything about it.
So we wait.....
This. We are watching unbelievable shenanigans going on in the California elections: you can be registered to vote with a library card which requires no proof of citizenship. Reports of homeless being paid to vote. Every single mail in vote in a large batch reported for Nithya Raman, despite the two top vote-getters in the in-person voting being Pratt and Bass. Indeterminate time line for counting votes/certifying elections. And yet, once again, conservatives will whine, cry, stamp their feet - and do nothing.
And yet, once again, conservatives will whine, cry, stamp their feet - and do nothing.
Begs the question...Do What?
Something!
?
Start dropping them.
*Let's see if the Substack Decider Algorithm corral's this comment like last Monday*
Nobody in any position of influence cares and certainly the people of California don't care.
We still have it way too good in America for people to consider significant changes in their actions, attitudes and ways of life. Period. People won't change things until they MUST.
"Step One in a return to electoral health would appear to be the passing of the SAVE Act, which several Republicans continue to block."
TV,
You want fundamental change? Simply restore secret balloting in House and Senate. Let men vote their best interests rather than those of their paymasters.
Rescind the Supreme Courts disastrous rulings that large corporations are considered legal individuals and have the right to contribute large sums of money to a candidate's campaign. Get the big money out of politics.
CP,
That is EXACTLY what a private vote would do.
True that!
Most of the solutions to what ails America are quite simple when you think about it. There just isn't any will to execute these solutions because the grift is so great by the perpetrators that they will never act. Until the people force them to and, as i mentioned above, the American people are too addicted to drugs, porn, sex, food and the teevee to take such action.
Yes – delusions abound, including the notion that we are nearing an agreement with Iran, notwithstanding Iran’s daily reminder that they have quite reasonably found the US and Israel to be agreement-incapable. Then there’s the fact that our terms are entirely unreasonable, especially given the fact that we have failed to win the war.
Another delusion is that the Iranians are driven by some sort of wish for an apocalypse, which is especially amusing, given the fact that it is the eschatology of both Zionist Jews and Evangelical Christians that drives them to bring about the End Times.
As the US war machine continues to exhaust itself against the Iranian Rope-a-Dope strategy, the fog of war will gradually reveal the fact that we have no other option than to slink home and pretend that this horrible mess never happened. Unfortunately, the world economic collapse and subsequent famine which we are bringing about will make forgetting Netanyahu's War quite impossible.
Nonsense. What is the evidence that the US is exhausting itself? And the rope-a-dope. strategy is a City of London scam, just like the one in Ukraine. You lose a war, and keep losing a war, and just pretend you haven't. It's all just Baghdad Bob on steroids, something that cannot go on and so it won't.
We shall see won't we? It has been ninety-nine days since the predicted Five Day War ran past its announced schedule.
Surely we can agree that the US has not yet "won." Let's check back with each other every three months until the facts on the ground obviate argumentation.
The Iranians have let it be known that they're prepared to prosecute the defense of their country for at least two years. I predict that we will have thrown in the towel by then.
$39,216,905,060,894 in national debt. What more evidence do you need? Or are you one of those guys who thinks the debt is actually to ourselves so it doesn't matter?
Look at the value of the dollar and you'll see what the money printing to fund these wars is doing to us. Look at the price of an ounce of gold and you'll see what money printing to fund these wars is doing to us.
Wake up.
$39,216,905,060,894
That is the current US National Debt.
We have spent our strength and means making war in foreign lands. The USA is busted, broke, kaput, bankrupt. The money is gone. There is no money. We are living on the graces of the reserve currency status and the ever whirring printing presses of the US Treasury.
It is going to end and it is going to end far worse than any other nation who has attempted to print their way out of the financial obligations. Buckle up.
And that number has increased by $94,804 per second since you posted.
Yeah, keep your eyes on the ball, people. Not only the debt continues to go ballistic, but the good image of the United States continues to decay in the eyes of the rest of the world, which is....part of the plan.
JHK wrote: "The outstanding question might be: why do so many in the West continue to believe it?"
My humble opinion is that post WWII the middle class of the United States, then Europe and Japan, grew and amassed fabulous wealth. Wealth that the oligarchs were okay with as long as their wealth also rose even faster. Since 1980 or so, the oligarchs/globalists have decided to recoup that wealth from we-the-deplorables in the Middle Class, and the war on class began. They find the Lefties are the natural stooges for this kind of work, since most grew up not understanding what a hard day's work is all about anyway, and their rose-colored view of human nature was a cinch to exploit.
Now we're at the stage where Lefties are so twisted and insane, it's Germany 1933 again, where we'll be happy to give over the reins of <absolute> power to the lessor of two evils. That is to say, the Right.
Trump may appear to be dismantling the Lefties, but since he's an insider from birth, you know his real role now and who his masters are - and it ain't the American people. He is the exact definition of Controlled Opposition. Short of a Civil War, Constitutional Convention, Convention of States or some other miracle, I don't see a path forward where the Republic survives.
The human mind cannot comprehend the utter immense size of a trillion dollars, it is beyond our ability. Now multiply that by 40 and you're talking a really really really really really really ENORMOUS number that it hard to comprehend. THAT is the US debt and most of the war mongers on this site like JohnAZ and even our gifted host seem to be okay with as long as the USA kicks Iran's ass!
We have so many problems right here in the lower 48 that it infuriates me that Trump is fucking around and spending money we don't have in a shithole country like Iran who has been "3 weeks away from getting a nuke" for the last 30 fucking years.
I'm swearing a lot. Sorry.
The likelihood that we will collapse any time now provides succor to all who despise our rogue state - that, and the fact that our collapse will bring Israel down about four minutes later.
"There are none so blind as he who will not see."
(Describes you to a "T".)
I quite agree with you. (you forgot to close your parenthesis)
Domo arrigato!
What America’s Lefty-left has proven beyond cavil is the immutability of human nature, which is itself incompatible with their vision of what America should be. It is a sort of endless loop that devolves in much the same manner as it has throughout history, the twentieth century being a particularly bloody example of this paradigm.
Another astonishingly complete summary of the situation.
Just wondering if Trump is waiting to be past the midterms to go after the RICO operations of the Democrats.
Step number one: Take down Act Blue and scatter salt among the ashes.
Looks like that is exactly what they are doing now. You are spot on.
Trump is waiting until after the midterms to find out if he will remain in office or be impeached and convicted.
If the Democrats win the midterms which is doubtful, they will impeach Trump but they may not have the votes or the evidence to remove or convict him.
Evidence is irrelevant to these sickos. One thing not brought up often enough is that should any of this succeed and the D's take the House and Senate, they would, regardless of lack of evidence, impeach and "convict" both Trump and Vance, giving us President Hakeem Jeffries and "Bosnia 2027" coming to a neighborhood near you.
What happens when Maduro sings like a canary and we get all the goods on Smartmatic and election tampering? They may lose their minds!
When is this happening?
Hopefully around the same time the DOJ gives him the option of life in prison or full disclosure.
If they try to impeach him again, Trump will pretty much ignore them.
How do you know this?
Possible. It would open up an entirely new situation. Look at the way Lincoln dealt with dissent.
This is correct. The recent Supreme Court redistricting opinions appear to have put some balance back into the system. It remains in a Left/Aright axis, not a good place. There are also those in what is referred to as a 'party' existing as a faction wanting to remove Trump. the term RINO seems somewhat appropriate. Interesting times.
DJT has abandoned his base, gone against just about everything on which he campaigned. This adds more intrigue to the mix.
I'd really like to see RICO put to the test, as you opine, yet also want to know why it has not already happened on some level.
Not in Utah. Redistricting here is going to result in one Democrat seat and 3 Republican seats instead of four Republican seats.
If he doesn't wrap up this nonsense in Iran and bring fuel prices and subsequent food prices back down the Democrats will re-take the House and Trump will be spending the last two years fighting back sham impeachment charges that the Senate will never convict.
The American people know nothing different that voting Democrat or Republican. Back and forth they go, expecting a different result every time. Insane lunatics, all of them, if you ask me, for continuing to believe in a broken system that hasn't served them well for decades.
Always waiting until this date or that date before they start taking down the bad guys. Always waiting until.......
Hope Not!
You use the term "Lefty-left" 11 times in this article, not even counting the title.
For context, I'm very anti-Trump and I openly admit that much of the media I consume is critical of him. But what strikes me most about this article isn't your criticism of Democrats. Criticize Democrats all day long if the criticism is accurate. As an independent, I don't have much interest in defending a political party.
What strikes me is the picture you've created of Democrats as an almost all-powerful force that simultaneously controls elections, controls government, controls institutions, controls speech, controls the economy, and yet somehow keeps losing elections. Democrats lose governorships, state legislatures, congressional seats, the White House, and local elections all the time. Republicans currently control the White House, the Senate, the House, and enjoy a conservative Supreme Court majority. The idea that Democrats are secretly running everything simply doesn't match reality.
The same goes for the claim that Democrats "hate America." Do they hate America, or do they disagree with certain policies? There is a huge difference. In a healthy democracy, opposing a policy is not the same thing as opposing the country.
What I find ironic is that I used to be much more sympathetic to conservative media. I listened to Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s. Even when he was criticizing the Left, I don't remember this level of cynicism, apocalyptic thinking, or the constant portrayal of political opponents as enemies of civilization itself. Maybe he evolved in that direction, but I never knew as I stopped listening to him in the early 2000's. What I see today feels like a distorted and much more amplified version of what once seemed to be legitimate criticism of the Left.
Rush often argued that politics had become the religion of the Left. Looking around today, I can't help but notice that many on the Right have blended politics, identity, and religion into a very toxic stew of their own. When every disagreement becomes a battle between good and evil, patriot and traitor, America and anti-America, there's no room left for reality, nuance, or self-reflection.
That's not a recipe for saving the country. It's a recipe for tearing it apart.
"Republicans currently control the White House, the Senate, the House, and enjoy a conservative Supreme Court majority."
And they do diddly poo with that majority. Republicans can't help but step on their own dick, can't they? They are paid vocal opposition to the powers that be, that's all they are. When they are in power they do the same damned things the Democrats do.
Spend money we don't have.
Wage wars in foreign shit hole countries that pose no threat to us.
Grow the government.
Continue to tax us into oblivion.
Get it? I sure do and I won't participate in the fraud anymore.
Being a former GOP guy with years of observation both inside and outside the political fence line...it sure seems like over the last 3 decades that the GOP has traded in it's former political strengths for an "owning the Libs" thing. Being good at that doesn't do a damn thing when you're the one in charge.
They're still owning the Libs even though the GOP is literally in charge. That's 70% of what Trump talks about these days...not the current state of things...but he lashes out at the Dems even though he's in charge with all 3 branches of the federal government.
What's truly ironic is when Trump complains about things being perpetually wrong that no previous administrations fixed...when the fact is that HE is a part of that group of "previous administrations"!
I had great hopes that Mr. Trump would be better than he is. He is an utter disappointment and has demonstrated himself to be just another cog in the federal Leviathan's gears.
Our host keeps predicting that Mr. Trump has big plans and that Democrats are going to finally get their licks for their naughtiness. Yet, what has happened? I'm just a dumb hick jack mormon living in the mountains of eastern Utah so I admit I know very little, only what I read and hear on sites like the CFN. Still waiting for our gifted host to finally tell us about things that are actually happing instead of telling us to wait just a little longer.
This is thoughtful, thanks. Clearly, the center did not hold — and these days political polarization is extreme. The family business of the Democrat-Left is government and to that end the Lefty-left needs a robust revenue flow from the private sector into the public sector but that dynamic only works when the Golden Goose is able to create wealth. Kill the goose — and everything goes down and the Left will resort to ‘zero sum’ thinking (Dr. Zhivago-esque). The Lefty-left is a dependency class which is unfit to be our ruling class.
That's an argument that's been around a LOOOONNNNG time. Do you really think that Democrats don't know where tax dollars come from? That's literally your belief about the Democrats? Are you sure that's not the Right's argument about the Democrats based upon the fact that Dems like to tax and spend? Being pro-tax & spend is not the equivalent of being an economic idiot unsure of where we get tax dollars from.
If you actually take your argument literally...then wouldn't the Dems be all about enabling the private sector to grow and thereby generating more tax revenue? Oh wait...is that the trickle down theory? That theory is about the equivalent on the Right isn't it? The belief that we'll all get richer by letting the billionaires have more tax breaks.
Let's work toward the middle shall we? We need taxes. The level of taxation and how those dollars are spent will ALWAYS be the issue. I just bristle with the old notion that the Dems have no idea where the taxes come from or that they think taxing generates business. That's an old argument that I don't think reflects reality if it ever did about the left's knowledge.
If you need facts about who does better with the economy...it sure seems like the Left has a far better record than the Right in the past 3 decades.
Thank you Jeff. Nicely said.
I truly appreciate your comment. Thanks.
Thank you James for your daily dose of truth and facts🙏 “Remember, liberalism was pure live-and-let-live, with an emphasis on minimal government intrusion in our affairs” Liberalism is dead on the left and has naturally evolved into progressive nihilism. Self loathing, mentally unstable individuals who not only despise themselves, but everything good. They look at our God, family and country beliefs as a threat to their mental instabilities and destructive agenda. They embrace darkness and evil because it makes them feel normal. Unfortunately, these most vile creatures have gained much power and influence over the past few decades. President Trump is now reversing the insanity by ending the financial support and hopefully starting to prosecute the criminal cult that supported it. America still has hope as long as the SaveAct passes and the scales continue to weigh in the favor of freedom, humanity and freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I sure hope the hammer is coming down on Iran, Islamic extremists, the Democratic Party, and the deep state because if it doesn’t, and the government falls into Democrat hands, life as we have known it is finished. Be active folks. Enlighten your liberal children and liberal friends.
I don't think we'll see a single prosecution or conviction for any of the deeds they have done. Judges will claim malicious prosecution and throw out every single case. So if you think as I used to that this will all land before the mid terms sorry to dash your hopes, but it won't. They've won. They stacked the DC courts with operatives who are not going to prosecute anyone and if they do, they certainly won't convict.
Hillary won after all.
OMG...in 2026...you are still bringing up, Hillary? Seriously...how many people have you accused of TDS? At least Trump's actually in office doing stupid stuff to complain about! You're complaining about someone who hasn't been much of a political influence in over a decade.
There have been lots of Trump appointed judges who have not ruled in his favor. You guys act like the deck is stacked against you but it's really just the lack of veracity in many of your claims and arguments. Blaming the judges is just an easy/lazy way of avoiding the fact that you have losing arguments.
The evidence is pretty clear to me, Jeff. The Republicans are NOT the answer. No, I am not saying the Democrats are. Both parties are not worth a big stinky shit and should be wiped out completely.
“bomb the shit out of them,...”
I'm liking plan A.
One giant 'penatrator' type bomb as they open the next meeting of the Council of Government, and the problems all go away.
Yes. Well said. And the Lefties and jihadists have formed an unholy alliance. A broken coalition with a common foe, US. Once the Muslims take over, they will execute the lot of useful lefty idiots.
Understand your point in principle but categorically it’s Not a Good idea to have Jihadist eliminate anyone, it’s better to remove the Jihadist!
"Once the Muslims take over, they will execute the lot of useful lefty idiots."...and all the rest of us - except for those needed for slaves.
Call me crazy (ok..you're crazy) but i'll take any sliver of hope to end Iran war. Like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.
The unacknowledged but real goal that ends the war is regime change.
The regime change happened. It just didn't happen the way the neocons in their dream state imagined it. The mullahs, the theocracy, has been replaced by the IRGC. Goes to the saying 'be careful what you wish for...'.
The IRGC was always in charge. That's why we're now dismantling all of the global money laundering operations that feeds them and City of London. The kinetic war has been over for more than a month and been replaced by a financial one that is bleeding the old, globalist scheme dry.
"The IRGC was always in charge." Are there verifiable citations for this?
Yeah, in all the news clips, you can see them goose-stepping all over the place.
Or you could read what their stated goal is at least according to the west.
https://alexanderhamiltonsociety.org/security-strategy/issue-one/irgc-history-and-role-in-iranian-statecraft/
The question is: 'were they in charge', which is much different than being, for instance, tools of the theocracy.
The Trump administration isn’t clued out like you, thank God.
Where’ve you been? Neocons aren’t in charge.
That war won't end even if a peace accord is reached.
Not until the IRGC and the mullahs are punted out of power and not a second sooner.
They will start scheming ways to kick-start their weapons program, both conventional and nuclear, under the radar yet again.
If they manage to start selling oil again, they will also fund every lousy terrorist group they can find willing to work with them on destroying the little Satan and the great Satan.
In other words, back to their business as usual of attacking their neighbors via proxy and imagining the great Shiite caliphate to come.
The real way to mitigate Iran is to break it up into several countries aligned with the people who live in the region.
Straight line borders drawn by the British have been a source of conflict since World War 1.
Thank goodness for the Atlantic Ocean
The “hammer of law” is an absurdity. It’s a critical limb of the “racketeering operation” that is America’s system of government. Nothing will change (enduringly) under the “hand of Trump,” because human nature will not change. Believing that politicians of any stripe will save anything (but their own skin) is like believing in Santa Claus — childish. The Iranian people may well be quite sick of their leaders, but they have no more power to change it than Americans do their own ass-clown government.
Does our clown ass government shoot us in the face by the thousands for daring to protest peacefully, or even when they loot and riot?
The Iranian government has murdered thousands of people and executed at least that many for daring to say they want change.
We here in America have hundreds of millions of guns.
In Iran, the guns are in the very people's hands who are ruling with them.
Real power comes from the barrel of a gun. -Mao
"Does our clown ass government shoot us in the face by the thousands for daring to protest peacefully, or even when they loot and riot?"
#J6
#NYC draft riots
#Watts
Add:
#Kent State
# Ruby Ridge
# Branch Davidians
Every time the left opens its mouth, my mind goes back to the message scrawled on the end wall of the big barn in that very prophetic book, "Animal Farm". Which should be renamed to fit today's situation as "Human Animal Farm"! Not many using their 'superior intellect' out there it seems.
But I digress, which is good in that it shows I'm still more human than animal, according to who you ask, of course!
They had set up seven commandments to live by and were written in great white letters for all to read and be inspired by. The seventh one is the one I'm particularly mentioning:
"All animals are equal." Pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? But it eventually got refined to better fit the situation at hand and the seven commandments were reduced to just one, the only one that counted--to those in charge!
"All animals are equal. BUT some animals are MORE equal than others."
Thus we see the lefty-lefts design for total control, their version of 'equity', equality, fairness and truth. Should any of us still possessing a working brain be surprised?
I recall the line from "Doctor Zhivago" where some Zampolit is saying "All men will be judged politically, regardless of military record."
OUTSTANDING!!!