Yeah, I'm asking for forgiveness from my Creator...but not enough to remove it. That would be rewriting the chronicle of my thoughts and voice, I have to stay authentic to my truth. I know my Creator will understand.
"Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord, and it makes you miss." - Scotts-Irish Proverb, probably.
Way to go Jessico Bowman. I knew it. I had just thought it was the anti fascist fascist, which they obviously are leading a silent coup. Everyone everywhere should start to root them out and expose them in every state. Especially the blue cities. Silent coup that Obama was a part of. Unreal. Harkens back to an article Rufo wrote on how one Seattle antifa defendant and their lawyer told the jury they would remember their faces. Look into John Dingfelder in Tampa who sued when the GOP convention was here years ago. They have no doubt infiltrated the MAGA movement, libertarians, anarchists and everyone else. They no doubt have bookkeeping and fraud issues. Lots of fraudulent CARES act money filtered through massive unemployment fraud ended up in Bancorp/Chime accounts. PPP loan fraud. These are the vermin that are vast like cockroaches and have instigated civil war and the destruction of the Republic. Gross. George Soros wants to destroy the dollar like he did the Sterling. Alex Jones was right.
Sauf, this time we'll all outlast the bastard, we must remember the Northern Courage and Celtic Passion of our ancestors, to fight back these demons. The Pound Sterling may have collapsed, the dollar may but it won't be the end, it's not the end until we give up.
Could not agree with you more, and on the importance to keep hope in our hearts, resolve there too and to remain defiant as you do madame.
I prefer to think of it as a Brigade Combat Team sized element arrives every day. Every day since Jan 21, 2021. Invasion is not hyperbole, it is descriptive.
That would likely do it. Especially if it was from a civilian shooting someone on their own property. See how viral that goes...they are blowing our heads off...I think I'll stay here.
Not tricky at all really. If SCOTUS demurs from the correct interpretation of the law, then it's one more step toward playing cowboys and Commies. Guess how that turns out.
Well, beauty and truth are sometimes in the eye of the beholder, but it's pretty clear that some of the tortured interpretations of the Constitution are politically motivated. Unfortunately the 6 "Conservative" Justices seem to have about 3 spinal columns between them and routinely disappoint the Right. I think this comes down to common sense or vox populi at the end of the day. I think the salient difference between 2024 and 2016 is that enough people see the reality of the situation and the blinders are off. SCOTUS doesn't do the right thing, meaning the easily interpretable constitutionally correct thing, people will understand and react accordingly. Honestly, I don't think the Left understands what it's been playing with. And I don't think they will last very long in a real kinetic situation. Harvard gender studies professors and Joy Behar versus veteran infantrymen.
Back when I used to do this Constitutional law stuff for a living I found it deeply depressing to see that SCOTUS opinions were often - and obviously - political (despite what CJ Roberts preposterously claims).
Well, then you are a legitimate expert and I am but a rank amateur, and I hereby stipulate the aforementioned and cede any technical knowledge advantage to you. But IMHO the appeal to authority has been severely degraded as a debate technique in the last decade. I don't think anybody who's paying attention at this point expects much from the Federal institutions.
Truly bizarre, yet understandable, is how idiots like Beto and the broader media are cheering on what must be the worst possible optics for "Joe Biden:" a clash with TX NG to keep the hemorrhaging border OPEN. That's something to which about 80% of the citzenry is adamantly opposed, but go for it.
Almost as if Biden/Beto don't really know what they're doing most of the time...? The quality as well as quantity of amnesty cheerleaders has dropped since even 5-6 years ago. Did Ocasio Cortez check into the hospital unannounced for prostate surgery...
I watched a clip yesterday (can't even remember from where) of someone at the border describing this specific pass and the scene there. And he said something that did stand out to me, and that was the two law enforcement forces actually work together all the time and have a lot of camaraderie. They're a team. So no, they're not about to start firing on each other. Been thinking about that ever since - so glad you put it into historical context in your always appreciated Chris-Bray-way.
From the very little I've been able to gather in the very little research I've done into the area, BP agents are frustrated with the situation as well. If push came to shove, they'd tell Biden to fuck off.
I can see it now: the Border Patrol guys cut a bit of razor wire, coil it neatly, hand it to the waiting National guard guys who uncoil it and wire it into place again. They don't even have to move. Just repeat, repeat taking their time and sharing a few jokes.
You gotta understand how Joe thinks! To clean the BII (basic inventory item), you gotta get it to a washrack or hose, then likely let it dry, and then you gotta paint it anyway--because, well a shovel obviously doesn't work if it is not uniformly black!
POD is a much more effective use of one's time, especially when the ENTIRE IDEA of what we were doing was just wasting time! None of it mattered, it was a way to keep us gainfully employed instead of shit-faced playing video games all day.
I heard of others forced to 'dig this hole...what a mess, fill it up...' but I never experienced that one myself. Pretty sure all militaries, for millennia, have used similar tactics to fatigue their restless youth.
I'm from down there and you're exactly right. All these officers, of all agencies, are from that area or nearby, and they have worked together for years, know each other, and have close activities on personal basis with families and friends. My only worry is that some communists/anarchists in the FBI or some other three letter agency comes here from DC and deliberately starts a fight through violence of their own, or through their human/drug trafficking allies. Obama, the Stalinist, and his friends would love to see that happen.
Yes like I said, they aren't going shoot at each other, they know each other.
One item you may have missed.
The BP may have immediate family in the area of their sector, but not extended family. It has long been the practice to bring in out of state agents for border patrol. They also frequently rotate positions, states and sectors, all in an effort to curb corruption.
It's not uncommon to find a guy from MN on the southern border.
Reasonable. But look here's the difference in 2024. Jamie Diamond and Steven Schwarzman say "Uh, hey let's not pick on the Trump supporters. Trump was right on a lot of stuff." Greg Abbott, who is a RINO, is showing some testicular fortitude and a bunch of Republican Governors are backing him.
Does this mean that all of the sudden the Establishment got religion? No. It means they see the writing on the wall and they are frightened.
If they won't like you or respect you, but they fear you, that's acceptable.
They didn't fear us in 2016 or 2020. Somebody sent out a memo and they got it.
People are ready to rock and that's the last thing the Establishment wants. At the same time, they see what a shitshow Biden is and they are afraid about their own situations. I think it's a longshot that the Feds go balls to the wall on this. This could be the thing that sweeps Trump into office.
I hear you. My stepmonster's brother was an ATF agent in Waco. If you knew him, you'd understand everything. These guys are very brave when they are shooting kids and women, kind of like Hamas. When it comes down to a "fair"" fight, why would we think they would perform better against better armed and better organized Americans than the regular military did against goatherders with 100 year old rifles, especially on our home turf? At the end of the day, all this stuff is speculative, and I hope it stays that way. I don't want to see a civil war. But my position is like the most interesting man in the world commercials where the narrator says in one commercial:
"He's a lover, not a fighter. But don't get any big ideas, because he's a fighter too. "
I hope you're right. There are a lot of fractures in US society these days and a little spark from this border situation could blow up in other places. Plenty of dimwit politicians and "journalists", including the ones Chris mentions, would love nothing more than another January 6 to milk for their own advantage, so maybe they're hoping the deplorables will do something deplorable at the border.
Full disclosure: I'm not a native Vermonter ("woodchuck" in common parlance). I was born in northern Europe, came to the US as a child and have lived in a bunch of places, all rural. My husband and I have a policy of respecting local culture when we move to a new place such that the locals come to think of us as natives, which we find very satisfying. Here in Vermont it isn't hard to despise the transplants from Big Eastern Cities, because they're even worse than the worst stereotype: whiny, entitled, and very, very, righteous. You could do a Vermont version of Portlandia.
The husband and I like to think of ourselves as undercover agents, doing what we can to undermine the woke idiocy all around us. It helps that we have a small group of sensible, very conservative, neighbors for mutual support. Vermont is a stunningly gorgeous state, governed by woke idiots who are elected by woke morons.
Lexington & Concord (and more importantly the mass gathering of colonial militiamen along the British troops’ retreat route to Boston) happened because someone in the Mass militia decided “I’m mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore,” and their defiance fell on eager ears. Jan 6 was so milquetoast and the government’s reaction so excessive, that the anger is building far beyond Jan 6. What we’re waiting for is a decisive provocation. Another “Concord.”
What they are hoping for is some rinky dink protest or "lone wolf" that they can call an extremist to use as an excuse for martial law. What they aren't hoping for is several million armed Americans ready to rock.
Deep blue MN is a little schizo. It’s unofficially known as the state where nothing is allowed, but you can ride a motorcycle without a helmet and carry a gun on your hip. Go figure.
I used to live 80 miles north of the TX/MX border and what you're saying isn't true. They do on occasion rotate guys as a kind of punishment but most BP have deep roots in the area including generational.
AND corruption is the order of the day not the exception. Cash under the table is king.
The BP has a great record, probably better than any police station. Their agents are completely monitored.
If they get a new car that is a little too fancy, they will get investigated. If one of their cousins gets busted for drugs, they get investigated. If one's wife goes on an expensive cruise, they get investigated, on and on and on. They keep a microscope on the agents.
I have known a few BP families. They all seemed like decent people to me. I'm not insinuating that it's rampant. Just statistically, every large organization always has a few bad apples, and there is a huge amount of money at stake. Also, there have been publicized cases of BP agents being bought off. Money can be hidden. Just takes some discipline.
Tiananmen Square. The Communist government first called in local units to put down the protest. They hesitated (remember Tank Man). Then the rulers called in units who were Mongolian. They had no love for the Beijing Chinese and slaughtered the students.
If the Feds order the Texas National Guard to follow federal orders and they refuse then what will Biden do?
It's Clintonesque. Bill bombed eight different countries, to take attention away from his domestic problems. He killed more Serbian women and children than cancer.
Thanks for the 'like'! I am ignorant of the event you refer to, cannot find it using Bing or Google (perhaps not a surprise). Do you have a link to it that I can use? I'm interested in learning about it.
The help from the US (meaning Bush-family and affiliated neocons) was simply not stopping Saudi et al from providing soldiers, many of whom would go on to become Al-Quaeda and ISIS leaders.
Meanwhile, american and NATO-nations' press at the time made a huge hoo-ha about russian mercenaries and volunteers going to Serbia to help their orthodox comrades against the moslems.
The Jugoslavian War was as big flustercluck as can be imagined and to this day, tempers can flare between bosnians, bosniaks, serbs, kroats along ethnic, family, and religious lines.
And NATO/US, EU and Russia all sticking their in coupled with militant moslems and other mercenaries made it all the worse: imagine the US Civil War if /each/ state had been a separate entity fighting all the others.
Much thanks! "Volunteer mujahideen arrived from all around the world,[6] including Afghanistan,[7] Egypt,[8] France, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan,[9] Russia (especially around Chechnya and Dagestan), Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey,[10] the United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen.[11] The Bosnian mujahideen were primarily from Iran, Afghanistan and Arab countries.[12]"
Sakib Mahmuljin, a top Bosnian general, has stated that the mujahideen sent 28 severed heads of POW Bosnian Serb soldiers to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović.[19]
I was totally unaware of this. Meanwhile, the US government was bombing Serbian Christians to aid the Muslims? And the leftist media was feeding Americans war propaganda about Serbian atrocities, while blacking out stories about Muslim atrocities?
"to this day, tempers can flare between bosnians, bosniaks, serbs, kroats along ethnic, family, and religious lines."
Yes, I recently saw a Serbian-made movie about the Kosovo war. Shocking the degree to which Americans have been lied to. No wonder a lot of Serbs hate us.
I have to say it...I was blushing and grinning ear to ear when I saw that Chris used a comment of mine in this post!! Holy cow!! Not just a like, but a link!
Such interesting history ! Americans really showed plenty of mettle back then, didn't they. I often wondered how corrupt -as in NZ during convid- governments could persuade miliary to act violently against their own kin and I now, with all the 'refugees' and migrants pouring into different countries, many young and of fighting age (whatever that is), and keen for some action it is all very clear as to governments' real intentions. Hired guns without conscience.
Regardless of pockets of resistance or cooperation, the depression still happened. The farmers still lost their farms, etc. Fantasies are for children.
If the migrants and their children were likely to vote Republican upon citizenship, automatic weapon fire would rattle day and night along the entire border.
Typi fixed IN THE FIRST SENTENCE. Yes, writing in a bar again.
Typo in the sentence about a typo!
I had ONE BEER.
Ooops, I found another typo, you forgot the "dirt" in front of "nap."
I regret having laughed.
Yeah, I'm asking for forgiveness from my Creator...but not enough to remove it. That would be rewriting the chronicle of my thoughts and voice, I have to stay authentic to my truth. I know my Creator will understand.
Yessir. Good call!
1 beer.....suuuure, Chris, suuuure. 😉😊😋
Nevertheless, you brewed a great post!
What kind of drunk counts beer as alcohol?!....:)
I agree to not regard it as such.
What kind? lol
You have beer, then the beer has a beer, then the beer has you.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hey, buzzed typing is drunk typing.
Surrrrrre. ;)
Was it a 64 ounce one? 😂
Or so you claim…. 😂
Alcohol can cause memory loss and other things, like memory loss.
“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!” - Homer J. Simpson
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
Ben Franklin
"Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord, and it makes you miss." - Scotts-Irish Proverb, probably.
Do not f--- with the Scotts-Irish. These people are pissed, in every sense of the word, and perpetually.
Yes. That's part of my Dad's family, so that's part of me.
You f-rs are crazy. There are books about it you know. This isn't just a theory. lol
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"
- Churchill
How can you not like a guy who drinks Pol Roger while smoking a cigar in a bathtub and saves Britain from the Nazis? I mean, give me a break.
No doubt lol.
How can you not like a guy after he says something like this after being accused of being drunk:
“My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.“
More or less, Ryan. lol
She said - You sir are drunk.
He said - what you said.
My favorite:
Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
Lol
LOL
Write drunk edit sober, is what Hemingway said to paraphrase. I'm not good at either so I'll stay away from the soy sauce.😁
A very suburban bar. He would not have approved.
Don’t tell me it’s Golden Road in Atwater Village...
Comparable
Biden is the puppet. Whoever has their hand up his ass is the real problem.
Ewwww
He's a sock puppet. You know this man. Wasn't that commie FDR potus during this time? Eleanor was driving that car, so who is driving Bidens?
Obummer, Hellery, Big Mike, et. al.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/26/exclusive-defeat-maga-meet-the-radical-left-network-that-hijacked-democrats-in-effort-to-stop-trump-at-all-costs/
Way to go Jessico Bowman. I knew it. I had just thought it was the anti fascist fascist, which they obviously are leading a silent coup. Everyone everywhere should start to root them out and expose them in every state. Especially the blue cities. Silent coup that Obama was a part of. Unreal. Harkens back to an article Rufo wrote on how one Seattle antifa defendant and their lawyer told the jury they would remember their faces. Look into John Dingfelder in Tampa who sued when the GOP convention was here years ago. They have no doubt infiltrated the MAGA movement, libertarians, anarchists and everyone else. They no doubt have bookkeeping and fraud issues. Lots of fraudulent CARES act money filtered through massive unemployment fraud ended up in Bancorp/Chime accounts. PPP loan fraud. These are the vermin that are vast like cockroaches and have instigated civil war and the destruction of the Republic. Gross. George Soros wants to destroy the dollar like he did the Sterling. Alex Jones was right.
Sauf, this time we'll all outlast the bastard, we must remember the Northern Courage and Celtic Passion of our ancestors, to fight back these demons. The Pound Sterling may have collapsed, the dollar may but it won't be the end, it's not the end until we give up.
Could not agree with you more, and on the importance to keep hope in our hearts, resolve there too and to remain defiant as you do madame.
lol
I really didn't need that picture. Thank you so much.
You're welcome. 🤣
If it's decided it's LAWFUL for the invasion to continue...then I'm sorry..."we're just following orders"...ain't gonna cut it.
Just my two cents
Yeah, and stepping back if states start to take sides on the immigration disaster....
Yep - that's the tricky part, isn't it? especially where 'lawfulness' - presumably - needs to be determined by the US Supreme Court.
Yeah. All the while as this is contested in court 5k/day illegals keep coming in.
It's almost like the vaxx mandates strategy.
I prefer to think of it as a Brigade Combat Team sized element arrives every day. Every day since Jan 21, 2021. Invasion is not hyperbole, it is descriptive.
bsn
I think that's exactly how we should think of it.
I'll say it a again.
The solution to this mess is simply one bullet:
A bullet buried in the next person who tries to ILLEGALLY enter our country.
That would likely do it. Especially if it was from a civilian shooting someone on their own property. See how viral that goes...they are blowing our heads off...I think I'll stay here.
bsn
It would be nice if our border crossers had to be vaccinated like we do to our toddlers.
Precisely.
Not tricky at all really. If SCOTUS demurs from the correct interpretation of the law, then it's one more step toward playing cowboys and Commies. Guess how that turns out.
Understood - just wondering by what means an interpretation of a Constitutional question could be deemed "correct" if the SCOTUS says otherwise?
Well, beauty and truth are sometimes in the eye of the beholder, but it's pretty clear that some of the tortured interpretations of the Constitution are politically motivated. Unfortunately the 6 "Conservative" Justices seem to have about 3 spinal columns between them and routinely disappoint the Right. I think this comes down to common sense or vox populi at the end of the day. I think the salient difference between 2024 and 2016 is that enough people see the reality of the situation and the blinders are off. SCOTUS doesn't do the right thing, meaning the easily interpretable constitutionally correct thing, people will understand and react accordingly. Honestly, I don't think the Left understands what it's been playing with. And I don't think they will last very long in a real kinetic situation. Harvard gender studies professors and Joy Behar versus veteran infantrymen.
I'll take that bet.
Back when I used to do this Constitutional law stuff for a living I found it deeply depressing to see that SCOTUS opinions were often - and obviously - political (despite what CJ Roberts preposterously claims).
Well, then you are a legitimate expert and I am but a rank amateur, and I hereby stipulate the aforementioned and cede any technical knowledge advantage to you. But IMHO the appeal to authority has been severely degraded as a debate technique in the last decade. I don't think anybody who's paying attention at this point expects much from the Federal institutions.
Dred Scott.
Yes - and it took a Civil War and a Constitutional Amendment to reverse that one.
(and that's without even getting to the part where a federal entity (SCOTUS) gets to decide where federal rights end and states' rights begin)
Texas can always go back to being a Republic and say f SCOTUS.
Correct
Based on D.C.’s instructions, the agent would actually say “Wir befolgen nur Befehle.”
Good thing there's precedence for that kind of thing, eh?
Truly bizarre, yet understandable, is how idiots like Beto and the broader media are cheering on what must be the worst possible optics for "Joe Biden:" a clash with TX NG to keep the hemorrhaging border OPEN. That's something to which about 80% of the citzenry is adamantly opposed, but go for it.
You said "Beto". LMAO. Chris isn't the only one writing and drinking.
As opposed to “Robert Francis?”
It's tough when your father-in-law is worth 20 billion dollars. The struggle is real.
Almost as if Biden/Beto don't really know what they're doing most of the time...? The quality as well as quantity of amnesty cheerleaders has dropped since even 5-6 years ago. Did Ocasio Cortez check into the hospital unannounced for prostate surgery...
I watched a clip yesterday (can't even remember from where) of someone at the border describing this specific pass and the scene there. And he said something that did stand out to me, and that was the two law enforcement forces actually work together all the time and have a lot of camaraderie. They're a team. So no, they're not about to start firing on each other. Been thinking about that ever since - so glad you put it into historical context in your always appreciated Chris-Bray-way.
From the very little I've been able to gather in the very little research I've done into the area, BP agents are frustrated with the situation as well. If push came to shove, they'd tell Biden to fuck off.
I can see it now: the Border Patrol guys cut a bit of razor wire, coil it neatly, hand it to the waiting National guard guys who uncoil it and wire it into place again. They don't even have to move. Just repeat, repeat taking their time and sharing a few jokes.
Endorsed!
Susan!!! Were you spying on my entire enlisted Army career?!?!?!?
Sweep motor pool for CSM inspection. (seriously, we swept a parking lot every day)
Ensure all tanks were dress/right/dress for inspection.
POD (paint over dirt)
I could go on and on...
bsn
Paint over dirt? 😂🤦♂️
You gotta understand how Joe thinks! To clean the BII (basic inventory item), you gotta get it to a washrack or hose, then likely let it dry, and then you gotta paint it anyway--because, well a shovel obviously doesn't work if it is not uniformly black!
POD is a much more effective use of one's time, especially when the ENTIRE IDEA of what we were doing was just wasting time! None of it mattered, it was a way to keep us gainfully employed instead of shit-faced playing video games all day.
bsn
They didn't do the "dig a pit, then move the pit"-drill in the US military?
Was a common make-work assignement in dad's day in the Swedish Armed Forces, as he is fond of pointing out.
I heard of others forced to 'dig this hole...what a mess, fill it up...' but I never experienced that one myself. Pretty sure all militaries, for millennia, have used similar tactics to fatigue their restless youth.
bsn
And sharing Tamales 🫔.
Which is why they imported paramilitary heavies to do some of the covid-era enforcement. See Australia. Stronger cities etc.
And I think UN heavies in Canada too against the Ottawa Trucker protest. Yet hard to prove.
I'm from down there and you're exactly right. All these officers, of all agencies, are from that area or nearby, and they have worked together for years, know each other, and have close activities on personal basis with families and friends. My only worry is that some communists/anarchists in the FBI or some other three letter agency comes here from DC and deliberately starts a fight through violence of their own, or through their human/drug trafficking allies. Obama, the Stalinist, and his friends would love to see that happen.
As Lenin said, "More chaos".
Danny Huckabee
Exactly!
Yes like I said, they aren't going shoot at each other, they know each other.
One item you may have missed.
The BP may have immediate family in the area of their sector, but not extended family. It has long been the practice to bring in out of state agents for border patrol. They also frequently rotate positions, states and sectors, all in an effort to curb corruption.
It's not uncommon to find a guy from MN on the southern border.
The snowbilly from Minnesota isn't a Commie either. He's from rural MN and is a deer hunter and snowmobiler.
BUT...he still demanded you to wear a mask.
I'm not as confident as you guys.
Reasonable. But look here's the difference in 2024. Jamie Diamond and Steven Schwarzman say "Uh, hey let's not pick on the Trump supporters. Trump was right on a lot of stuff." Greg Abbott, who is a RINO, is showing some testicular fortitude and a bunch of Republican Governors are backing him.
Does this mean that all of the sudden the Establishment got religion? No. It means they see the writing on the wall and they are frightened.
If they won't like you or respect you, but they fear you, that's acceptable.
They didn't fear us in 2016 or 2020. Somebody sent out a memo and they got it.
People are ready to rock and that's the last thing the Establishment wants. At the same time, they see what a shitshow Biden is and they are afraid about their own situations. I think it's a longshot that the Feds go balls to the wall on this. This could be the thing that sweeps Trump into office.
I hear ya. The c19 calamity has brought out the tiny cynical homunculus in me.
And don't forget Ruby Ridge and Waco.
I hear you. My stepmonster's brother was an ATF agent in Waco. If you knew him, you'd understand everything. These guys are very brave when they are shooting kids and women, kind of like Hamas. When it comes down to a "fair"" fight, why would we think they would perform better against better armed and better organized Americans than the regular military did against goatherders with 100 year old rifles, especially on our home turf? At the end of the day, all this stuff is speculative, and I hope it stays that way. I don't want to see a civil war. But my position is like the most interesting man in the world commercials where the narrator says in one commercial:
"He's a lover, not a fighter. But don't get any big ideas, because he's a fighter too. "
I sooo miss those ads.
I hope. And you crack me up sir!
“homunculus” Haven’t heard that word since the Sleepy Hollow TV series.
I hope you're right. There are a lot of fractures in US society these days and a little spark from this border situation could blow up in other places. Plenty of dimwit politicians and "journalists", including the ones Chris mentions, would love nothing more than another January 6 to milk for their own advantage, so maybe they're hoping the deplorables will do something deplorable at the border.
What I don't understand is how you Vermonters put up with the woke transplants. Actually, I do. I hate it here too. Must be maddening.
Where are you?
Full disclosure: I'm not a native Vermonter ("woodchuck" in common parlance). I was born in northern Europe, came to the US as a child and have lived in a bunch of places, all rural. My husband and I have a policy of respecting local culture when we move to a new place such that the locals come to think of us as natives, which we find very satisfying. Here in Vermont it isn't hard to despise the transplants from Big Eastern Cities, because they're even worse than the worst stereotype: whiny, entitled, and very, very, righteous. You could do a Vermont version of Portlandia.
The husband and I like to think of ourselves as undercover agents, doing what we can to undermine the woke idiocy all around us. It helps that we have a small group of sensible, very conservative, neighbors for mutual support. Vermont is a stunningly gorgeous state, governed by woke idiots who are elected by woke morons.
Lexington & Concord (and more importantly the mass gathering of colonial militiamen along the British troops’ retreat route to Boston) happened because someone in the Mass militia decided “I’m mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore,” and their defiance fell on eager ears. Jan 6 was so milquetoast and the government’s reaction so excessive, that the anger is building far beyond Jan 6. What we’re waiting for is a decisive provocation. Another “Concord.”
I sure would hate to see some of those journalists get in the way.
The "establishment" is salivating for a civil war.
That's precisely what they want.
What they are hoping for is some rinky dink protest or "lone wolf" that they can call an extremist to use as an excuse for martial law. What they aren't hoping for is several million armed Americans ready to rock.
You actually think several million Americans will react in unison and in time?
Have you never heard of Operation Crimson Mist? Rwanda 1996?
Do you not understand how primitive guns and bullets are against modern weaponry?
Do you not understand the reasons why most people lose wars? Out-weaponized?
There have already been multitudes of rinky dink protests and lone wolves and yet there is no martial law. Hmmmm....
If they get it they lose. They’ve already lost. It’s all over but the fighting
Deep blue MN is a little schizo. It’s unofficially known as the state where nothing is allowed, but you can ride a motorcycle without a helmet and carry a gun on your hip. Go figure.
I have some first hand experience with the Minnesotans.
Me too. Every day for the last 33 years.
I didn't need that much exposure. There are limits.
I used to live 80 miles north of the TX/MX border and what you're saying isn't true. They do on occasion rotate guys as a kind of punishment but most BP have deep roots in the area including generational.
AND corruption is the order of the day not the exception. Cash under the table is king.
I was born in Freer TX.
I lived in Corpus Christi.
I lived in Los Angeles.
I presently live below Tucson.
I went to school with BP kids.
My kids went to school with BP kids.
I have served on border patrol support groups.
I have worked with groups cleaning up the mess left in the desert.
I have friends in the BP.
My neighborhood of 150 homes have presently 10 BP families.
My daughter's have dated agents.
Corruption is not the rule it is rare.
You are full of crap.
I lived in Alpine, TX. The Big Bend. I know what I'm talking about.
Do you actually believe people who do corrupt things will tell you about it?
My experiences were different than yours it seems, but that doesn't mean "I'm full of crap".
By saying "I'm full of crap" it's clear you only see your own experiences as legit.
There is a name for that - SOLIPSISM. Look it up and learn. Oh, I forgot, you're not "into" learning...my bad.
You are full of crap if you belive that corruption is rampant or any worse than any policing agency.
Look at the corruption on a percentage basis of employees. It is rare.
And you are full of piss. So there. Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah....
This is childish. Grow up.
Also, spellcheck is easy to activate. Give it a try.
In the future maybe you should lead with "We may have had different experiences" instead of "that's not true."
I leave spell check for the Karens
I think some are corrupt. I think it’s a stretch to suggest most are corrupt.
The BP has a great record, probably better than any police station. Their agents are completely monitored.
If they get a new car that is a little too fancy, they will get investigated. If one of their cousins gets busted for drugs, they get investigated. If one's wife goes on an expensive cruise, they get investigated, on and on and on. They keep a microscope on the agents.
I hope I spelled everything korrectly.
I have known a few BP families. They all seemed like decent people to me. I'm not insinuating that it's rampant. Just statistically, every large organization always has a few bad apples, and there is a huge amount of money at stake. Also, there have been publicized cases of BP agents being bought off. Money can be hidden. Just takes some discipline.
According to this article.
I'm full of crap.
https://qz.com/1734240/criminal-misconduct-by-us-border-officers-has-hit-a-5-year-high
Wouldn't say that. That's from 2019 btw. The BP is a large organization. Like I said, always a few bad apples.
Tiananmen Square. The Communist government first called in local units to put down the protest. They hesitated (remember Tank Man). Then the rulers called in units who were Mongolian. They had no love for the Beijing Chinese and slaughtered the students.
If the Feds order the Texas National Guard to follow federal orders and they refuse then what will Biden do?
The scope is much bigger than Texas and what will Biden do indeed.
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this is why in the case of texas they call out the salvadoran - woops, new york/new jersey - national guard
Besides dropping a deuce in his diapers?
Start a war somewhere else. Aren't there some Houthis we can bomb? How about posting a BCT in Taiwan?
bsn
"Start a war somewhere else."
It's Clintonesque. Bill bombed eight different countries, to take attention away from his domestic problems. He killed more Serbian women and children than cancer.
Don't forget helping Saudis and pals transporting mujahedin to the Balkans to mass-murder christians and jews.
Thanks for the 'like'! I am ignorant of the event you refer to, cannot find it using Bing or Google (perhaps not a surprise). Do you have a link to it that I can use? I'm interested in learning about it.
Best I can do is link to Wikipedia (sorry about that) and advice you follow the thread from there via the page's links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_mujahideen
The help from the US (meaning Bush-family and affiliated neocons) was simply not stopping Saudi et al from providing soldiers, many of whom would go on to become Al-Quaeda and ISIS leaders.
Meanwhile, american and NATO-nations' press at the time made a huge hoo-ha about russian mercenaries and volunteers going to Serbia to help their orthodox comrades against the moslems.
The Jugoslavian War was as big flustercluck as can be imagined and to this day, tempers can flare between bosnians, bosniaks, serbs, kroats along ethnic, family, and religious lines.
And NATO/US, EU and Russia all sticking their in coupled with militant moslems and other mercenaries made it all the worse: imagine the US Civil War if /each/ state had been a separate entity fighting all the others.
Much thanks! "Volunteer mujahideen arrived from all around the world,[6] including Afghanistan,[7] Egypt,[8] France, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan,[9] Russia (especially around Chechnya and Dagestan), Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey,[10] the United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen.[11] The Bosnian mujahideen were primarily from Iran, Afghanistan and Arab countries.[12]"
Sakib Mahmuljin, a top Bosnian general, has stated that the mujahideen sent 28 severed heads of POW Bosnian Serb soldiers to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović.[19]
I was totally unaware of this. Meanwhile, the US government was bombing Serbian Christians to aid the Muslims? And the leftist media was feeding Americans war propaganda about Serbian atrocities, while blacking out stories about Muslim atrocities?
"to this day, tempers can flare between bosnians, bosniaks, serbs, kroats along ethnic, family, and religious lines."
Yes, I recently saw a Serbian-made movie about the Kosovo war. Shocking the degree to which Americans have been lied to. No wonder a lot of Serbs hate us.
The UN troops.
Won't happen. UN troops cannot be deployed just willy-nilly - that's why the Blue Berets are always late to the party.
The UN does not have any troops of its own, but must always ask member-nations for troops and materiel.
French Peacekeepers
Same dif. to me. They don't give a big rat's ass about us. They'd kill us off in a nanosecond.
lol. It would take a shitload of them in TX. And both sides and all of us civilians would strong them up
Can't shut off Biden's future recruiting channel.
If you all can watch, Tucker Carlson has a great interview with Governor Abbott, who has finally decided to do something about the border - it's on X https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1751018969056616552?s=20
Bring in the drug cartels.
I have to say it...I was blushing and grinning ear to ear when I saw that Chris used a comment of mine in this post!! Holy cow!! Not just a like, but a link!
Thank you Chris! I'm honored and humbled...and...
...in substack afterglow...
bsn
It doesn’t matter, because we love your brilliant insights!
Such interesting history ! Americans really showed plenty of mettle back then, didn't they. I often wondered how corrupt -as in NZ during convid- governments could persuade miliary to act violently against their own kin and I now, with all the 'refugees' and migrants pouring into different countries, many young and of fighting age (whatever that is), and keen for some action it is all very clear as to governments' real intentions. Hired guns without conscience.
Ding, Ding, Ding! We've got a winner!
Regardless of pockets of resistance or cooperation, the depression still happened. The farmers still lost their farms, etc. Fantasies are for children.
The childish fantasies in this case look like this:
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1751066045408829926
Another name for "childish fantasy" is "Hopium".
One of the most deceptive and addictive forms of fantasy.
Sadly I have to agree with you. Only wish I didn't.
If the migrants and their children were likely to vote Republican upon citizenship, automatic weapon fire would rattle day and night along the entire border.
you're assuming that an army of pear-shaped pink-haired boys could get off of tiktok long enough to learn how to shoot
Indeed. I may be assuming facts not in evidence.
SNAP
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