It’s dying. The inflection point is here, and will be easier than it has seemed. A new cycle is beginning. There will be friction and backsliding, but it’s done: We’re going somewhere else, now. I’ve argued for years, agreeing with Christopher Lasch and Angelo Codevilla, that we’ve
Quick side note: Home earlier than expected, owing to the tediousness of the US Forest Service, which in its infinite wisdom has decided that campfires and cookstoves will be too dangerous to use in the mountains of Southern California until next April.
Through the winter, because heavy snow sometimes bursts into flames or something.
It was 28 degrees outside when we stepped out of the car onto our campsite, with the sun still visible, and the fire pit was taped shut and covered in plastic. That sound you heard from the west, that anguished cry that rang out and filled the sky? Yeah, that was me. I have now vowed never to camp within 200 miles of Los Angeles ever again, because the local foresters are greatly inclined to this kind of silliness, and we had caution tape across our wilderness trailheads for over a year to protect us from a virus. The city-centered zero-risk mentality spreads like an inkblot. Anyway, onward.
Wowzers. That piece in The Guardian with writers Walter, Marche, and Parker was crazier than anything I've ever heard from the Right on 4Chan. These people are lunatics.
These fools believe that democratic elections are only democratic if their side wins. Then, they imagine that their opponents, if they are elected, will arrest them and even kill them. Maybe they believe that because that’s exactly what they have been doing to conservatives. Let’s be very clear: there is a big difference between investigating Trump based on malicious lies about Russia collusion and investigating Fauci over his efforts to censor his detractors, or his relationship with Big Pharma. There are also good reasons to investigate Biden over his ties to China, his dereliction of duty and ignoring federal law at the border. Finally, we should know why Trump’s home is raided based on a dispute with the National Archives, but questions about Obama’s, Clinton’s and Biden’s roles in Russia collusion hoax appear to be off limits. There’s much more.
So, the fools who have abused their power worry about the consequences of a democratic election. We can only hope for accountability.
It would be a much easier thing to believe that the political right was "coming for your kids" if it weren't for the fact that the political left has made sure that people can kill close to a million babies a year for convenience and they weren't pushing to allow adolescents the autonomy to chemically and surgically mutilate themselves into sterilized non-persons who can't even accept the fact they were born with reproductive organs that they are taught are not a match for who they really are.
Between the 2 we won't need to have a civil war, they will have eliminated themselves by the middle of the century.
They still run the corporations, including the banks. I don't see any end in sight to their power, outside Amish country and similar enclaves. I don't give them power over my time by not watching or reading their claptrap. Much like other things I should do, I should reduce further the amount of business I do with them. I guess it's nice that some of the foot soldiers may lose their jobs, but the country will still be controlled by people who want very different things from your ordinary, decent American, regardless of whether that idiot Rubio keeps his Senate seat (and he's from the party that's supposedly the solution... I think I hurt my back laughing so hard).
Just picture it, the republicans win majority in congress and before you know it, there are literal violent riots in our cities, couched in some random racial purpose. Buildings burned down, cities wrecked, people murdered. Meanwhile, the authorities and police literally cow-tow to the rioters! If you oppose it, you’re the racist.
This is what happens thanks to the right! They let this happen. 🙃🤡
This rhetoric is disturbing because they tend to project what they do and think and accuse others of what they end up doing. Is all this destruction and civil war predictive programming? Like event 201? I’m just a regular person making the best decisions I can like most people, but there’s no empathy with these people, we are not real to them.....this makes me so disappointed, this dumbing down crap, this open appeal to hate/fear/emotion....the American public deserves so much better. Frustration and disappointment is something I feel frequently, along with a protective feeling for all my fellow Americans subjected to the endless propaganda
In about a year, America will consist of two camps - people who believe (rightly or wrongly, probably rightly) they were disenfranchised by the elite, and people who know (rightly) they were poisoned by them...
And the loons on MSNBC will be convinced they're all really angry because they hate transvestites.
I could not do it. I tried reading it, but I had brain cells that were threatening suicide. Even worse, some of them were threatening to give me a migraine. 😛
well, there's this from the Guardian: "Still others simply cannot believe that Americans would start killing one another."
i don't know; people i spent years working with bragged that they wished the unvaccinated would die miserable deaths and gloated when some of them did. doctors and hospitals were refusing to treat or transplant people who were unvaccinated.
sounds to me like a certain faction of americans would feel smugly entitled to kill other americans.
of course, no unvaccinated people ever wished death on vaccinated people so i would expect the killing on one side to be offensive and the killing on the other side to be defensive
Oh, man. Thanks for taking up that Michael Beschloss bit. I’ve seen it a few time (and the little I’ve watched of Fox News, the laughter is pretty unrestrained at the sheer ridiculousness). And this Walters chick - every paragraph is riddled with contradictions. Election deniers are how we will all die! They’ll get elected and then they’ll STEAL ELECTIONS! (So how do we fix it? Censor social media! Brilliant!)
But I appreciate how you point out how we got here, which is what’s missing in the commentary I’ve seen. Ok, so we’re at the moment of desperation (DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT EVERYONE!!) and irrational bargains and screaming, but how did we end up where the talking heads and the writers and critics become so irrational? You’ve nailed it, as usual.
Bravo. Some great imagery early on. The self-referential elite looking out of their savespace-cave at a world they can only comprehend as being only filled with terrifying beings. Which leads me to realize the profound importance of pledging allegiance to the Constitution and really meaning it. The Constitution is our salvation. It enunciates principle after principle that leads to the general welfare by encouraging principled self-interest. It is the Ten Commandments of successful self-government. All that needs to be done is populate our leadership class with those having the courage to follow the Constitution.
So much of the federal government is in direct contradiction to the Constitution. If the power exercised by the present day federal government is not enumerated in the Constitution that power, under the Constitution, is reserved for the States. It says so right there in the Constitution. There is nothing in the Constitution about the States being able to irrevocably relinquish any of their power to the federal government.
Quick side note: Home earlier than expected, owing to the tediousness of the US Forest Service, which in its infinite wisdom has decided that campfires and cookstoves will be too dangerous to use in the mountains of Southern California until next April.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/FSEPRD1059248.pdf
Through the winter, because heavy snow sometimes bursts into flames or something.
It was 28 degrees outside when we stepped out of the car onto our campsite, with the sun still visible, and the fire pit was taped shut and covered in plastic. That sound you heard from the west, that anguished cry that rang out and filled the sky? Yeah, that was me. I have now vowed never to camp within 200 miles of Los Angeles ever again, because the local foresters are greatly inclined to this kind of silliness, and we had caution tape across our wilderness trailheads for over a year to protect us from a virus. The city-centered zero-risk mentality spreads like an inkblot. Anyway, onward.
Wowzers. That piece in The Guardian with writers Walter, Marche, and Parker was crazier than anything I've ever heard from the Right on 4Chan. These people are lunatics.
These fools believe that democratic elections are only democratic if their side wins. Then, they imagine that their opponents, if they are elected, will arrest them and even kill them. Maybe they believe that because that’s exactly what they have been doing to conservatives. Let’s be very clear: there is a big difference between investigating Trump based on malicious lies about Russia collusion and investigating Fauci over his efforts to censor his detractors, or his relationship with Big Pharma. There are also good reasons to investigate Biden over his ties to China, his dereliction of duty and ignoring federal law at the border. Finally, we should know why Trump’s home is raided based on a dispute with the National Archives, but questions about Obama’s, Clinton’s and Biden’s roles in Russia collusion hoax appear to be off limits. There’s much more.
So, the fools who have abused their power worry about the consequences of a democratic election. We can only hope for accountability.
Well take comfort; at least none of us rubes are experiencing inflation according to our Elites.
Pretty sure a pet could explain to them that they're working harder for treats and getting smaller portions.
It would be a much easier thing to believe that the political right was "coming for your kids" if it weren't for the fact that the political left has made sure that people can kill close to a million babies a year for convenience and they weren't pushing to allow adolescents the autonomy to chemically and surgically mutilate themselves into sterilized non-persons who can't even accept the fact they were born with reproductive organs that they are taught are not a match for who they really are.
Between the 2 we won't need to have a civil war, they will have eliminated themselves by the middle of the century.
They still run the corporations, including the banks. I don't see any end in sight to their power, outside Amish country and similar enclaves. I don't give them power over my time by not watching or reading their claptrap. Much like other things I should do, I should reduce further the amount of business I do with them. I guess it's nice that some of the foot soldiers may lose their jobs, but the country will still be controlled by people who want very different things from your ordinary, decent American, regardless of whether that idiot Rubio keeps his Senate seat (and he's from the party that's supposedly the solution... I think I hurt my back laughing so hard).
Just picture it, the republicans win majority in congress and before you know it, there are literal violent riots in our cities, couched in some random racial purpose. Buildings burned down, cities wrecked, people murdered. Meanwhile, the authorities and police literally cow-tow to the rioters! If you oppose it, you’re the racist.
This is what happens thanks to the right! They let this happen. 🙃🤡
I’m glad we have Historians to give us a balanced view of history.
As for future historians, this is the most hysterical American period since Cotton Mather was conducting the Salem Witch Trials.
Beschloss and The Guardian piece are Communist marching orders disguised as a warning. Watch and see…
This rhetoric is disturbing because they tend to project what they do and think and accuse others of what they end up doing. Is all this destruction and civil war predictive programming? Like event 201? I’m just a regular person making the best decisions I can like most people, but there’s no empathy with these people, we are not real to them.....this makes me so disappointed, this dumbing down crap, this open appeal to hate/fear/emotion....the American public deserves so much better. Frustration and disappointment is something I feel frequently, along with a protective feeling for all my fellow Americans subjected to the endless propaganda
Wow that Guardian piece is insane.
In about a year, America will consist of two camps - people who believe (rightly or wrongly, probably rightly) they were disenfranchised by the elite, and people who know (rightly) they were poisoned by them...
And the loons on MSNBC will be convinced they're all really angry because they hate transvestites.
I could not do it. I tried reading it, but I had brain cells that were threatening suicide. Even worse, some of them were threatening to give me a migraine. 😛
well, there's this from the Guardian: "Still others simply cannot believe that Americans would start killing one another."
i don't know; people i spent years working with bragged that they wished the unvaccinated would die miserable deaths and gloated when some of them did. doctors and hospitals were refusing to treat or transplant people who were unvaccinated.
sounds to me like a certain faction of americans would feel smugly entitled to kill other americans.
of course, no unvaccinated people ever wished death on vaccinated people so i would expect the killing on one side to be offensive and the killing on the other side to be defensive
Oh, man. Thanks for taking up that Michael Beschloss bit. I’ve seen it a few time (and the little I’ve watched of Fox News, the laughter is pretty unrestrained at the sheer ridiculousness). And this Walters chick - every paragraph is riddled with contradictions. Election deniers are how we will all die! They’ll get elected and then they’ll STEAL ELECTIONS! (So how do we fix it? Censor social media! Brilliant!)
But I appreciate how you point out how we got here, which is what’s missing in the commentary I’ve seen. Ok, so we’re at the moment of desperation (DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT EVERYONE!!) and irrational bargains and screaming, but how did we end up where the talking heads and the writers and critics become so irrational? You’ve nailed it, as usual.
I’m going to use “brutally fucking stupid” as much as I can, thanks.
BFS!
Bravo. Some great imagery early on. The self-referential elite looking out of their savespace-cave at a world they can only comprehend as being only filled with terrifying beings. Which leads me to realize the profound importance of pledging allegiance to the Constitution and really meaning it. The Constitution is our salvation. It enunciates principle after principle that leads to the general welfare by encouraging principled self-interest. It is the Ten Commandments of successful self-government. All that needs to be done is populate our leadership class with those having the courage to follow the Constitution.
So much of the federal government is in direct contradiction to the Constitution. If the power exercised by the present day federal government is not enumerated in the Constitution that power, under the Constitution, is reserved for the States. It says so right there in the Constitution. There is nothing in the Constitution about the States being able to irrevocably relinquish any of their power to the federal government.