Just to lighten things up for a moment (with apologies to Paul Newman) . . .
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Just to lighten things up for a moment (with apologies to Paul Newman) . . .
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Yesterday’s blog linked to William A Jacobson’s “pep talk”
for conservatives. Today, the executive
editor of The Federalist, Joy Pullmann,
looks back on what Michael Anton was predicting in 2016, and why we all need those
pep talks. Here’s an extract – towards the
end of her column:
Biden’s Destruction Of America Vindicates
Mike Anton’s 2016 ‘Flight 93’ Essay
. . Anton was also right that
Trump’s top issues — border security, international trade, and endless foreign
wars — were broadly popular and could form the basis of a national renewal. The
Biden administration’s gross and dangerous mismanagement of all these issues
has vindicated this analysis as well. We’re just two years into Biden’s
divisive, lawless, scorched-earth reign, and one already wonders if
there will be anything left of our country after two more.
On the flip side, Trump’s platform
and four years in office transformed and united the Republican Party. The only
people who haven’t figured that out are the people who misread the nation and their
own constituents and refused to man up and admit it, forfeiting their
credibility to lead. Their cowardice and softness have revealed themselves as
more dangerous than Trump’s rudeness and intimidation, and voters are over it.
Riding the center of the maelstrom,
Trump’s presidency did change the political winds, in ways Anton couldn’t
predict. For one, Trump cracked the right’s tolerance for political correctness, a
major victory. We are now free to say, yes, we do want our border secured, and
to call that racist is simply unserious and callous to all the women and
children trafficked and raped by the cartels. We can say that anti-white racism
is also racism, and it’s the right that maintains the strictest zero-tolerance
policy on racism.
Trump’s moderate appeal and
bull-in-the-China-shop bashing of the racist stigma barrier set the GOP toward
becoming a truly multiracial working-class and middle-class coalition party.
The amplified media propaganda machine and woke incest between big business and
government has prompted a deep and wide backlash, alienating normies from the
Democrat Party. In this, Trump’s presidency helped people awaken to their true
political foes and allies, clarifying what time we are in and who is a
talk-only grifter and who’s a legit freedom fighter.
Anton also couldn’t account for
Covid opening so many people’s eyes — except many among self-appointed
conservative “leadership,” who acquiesced instead of fighting for actual
constitutional rights such as freedom of assembly, free speech, and not being
“deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”! They left
resisting the communists to ordinary citizens, such as the few Democrat
lawyers who still believe in civil rights, apolitical doctors who
formed impressive new messaging and policy coalitions, and mom bloggers with
kids banned from school.
We don’t need the right’s Monday
morning armchair quarterbacks to do anything but get out of the way as Ben
Sasse did. . . .
Read Ms. Pullman’s full column here. It’s one to bookmark.
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Periodically I’m called upon to
give a Pep Talk. Too often, because that has been the reality of
our political system in the over 14 years since Legal Insurrection was founded.
It’s not easy. I feel what readers
feel. While I play therapist, I’m also the patient. It weighs heavily on me. No
more so than now.
I received this message from a
reader who was unsubscribing from the Morning
Insurrection newsletter, explaining why she was leaving:
“I need to step away for a bit. It
is so overwhelming, I am getting too depressed about where our country is
heading.”
That’s a feeling I have almost
daily. It’s a feeling others have expressed to me apart from that reader.
The swiftness and efficiency with
which the Biden administration has damaged the country is something to behold,
and it’s built on a generation of institutional capture. I could run a list,
but you know already. The current trajectory cannot be sustained, something has
to give.
I wish I had an easy answer. But I
don’t.
I do know that there is no choice
but to keep fighting back. It’s our nature.
. . .
There’s more here. Same message as Dr Robert Malone’s: you are not alone.
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This blog has been posting some of the more disturbing examples of America's self-inflicted wounds, the result of a government-gone-rogue engaged in deliberate destruction. Yesterday, the subject was homelessness - by design. Today, Frank Miele at Real Clear Politics has another example:
North America Goes South: The Plan To Dismantle USA
People are starting to realize that
the collapse of the American border is not an accident. It can’t be. When the
vice president of the United States says the border is “secure” at the same
time that illegal border crossings have surged to more than a million a year,
then one of two things must be true.
Either the vice president and the
rest of the Biden administration have to be delusional, or they are lying. And
while there is plenty of evidence that President Biden is cognitively
challenged, there is no reason to believe that he or his handlers are out of
touch with reality.
So they must be lying. But why? A
lie is usually told to cover up some kind of bad behavior, some unacknowledged
guilt or secretive misdeeds. Yet if there were an ulterior motive behind the
Democratic policy of importing millions of unvetted immigrants into the
interior of the country, what could it possibly be?
Unfortunately, there was no way to
determine what the Biden administration was up to – until now. Two weeks ago,
we learned that Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken is actively engaged
in a campaign to break down all barriers between the United States and Mexico.
In other words, the huge influx of Mexicans and other foreigners across the
U.S. border is just the first stage in a globalist effort to blur the lines
between not just the United States and Mexico, but also Canada.
It’s called the North American
Union, and the idea has been around for three decades. I wrote about it
extensively between 2006 and 2008 when President George W. Bush was pushing it.
. . .
It goes back further than that. The rest of Mr Miele’s report is here and it cites chapter and verse.
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It’s just 15 days before the mid-term elections, and the DOJ is switching its story. Sundance reports:
FBI and DOJ Switch Tactics,
Now Claim 2022 Election is Vulnerable to Manipulation
With the majority of American
voters now positioned to rebuke the political efforts of Joe Biden and federal
Democrats, the narrative from the DOJ and FBI does a 180° reverse course. The transparency of a corrupt and manipulative
political justice system is beyond obvious.
. . .
Read the full report at Conservative
Treehouse here.
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Elizabeth Nickson researched a book titled Eco-Fascists. Over the years of her research, she came to some conclusions that relate to the collapse of the western world. And her findings tie in to some of this blog’s earlier postings on the government’s plans for deliberate destruction (e.g., see here, here, and here). Here’s an example from her Substack posting:
. . . All the poverty you see
around you, all the lack, the financial pain in the faces you pass, the lost
businesses of the last three years, the titanic risk in the markets, the actual
recession, all of it has been engineered. We all, all of us, every single one
of us, should be three times as wealthy, and three times as creative.
The most visible result of their
malfeasance is homelessness. Which has been engineered to shame
you. Entirely. 100%. Every time you drive by some poor soul dying on the
sidewalk, you are meant to feel
- Guilt
- Anger at the system (capitalism) and
- An urge to vote for the compassionate left who promise to work only for the dispossessed.
It’s a psy-op. It is why the
homeless population is front and center in the richest, most beautiful city in
the world: San Francisco. This fact is meant to shout that no matter how much
money private enterprise generates, capitalism means losers, addicts, madmen
and women, because our system is brutal and must be changed.
San Francisco’s beauty and
reputation mean that its homeless catastrophe is publicized all over the world.
When I was researching Eco-Fascists for
Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US, I drove 20,000 miles into the American
hinterlands, talking to everyone who would talk to me about why their
communities were dying. There was one reason: over-regulation. . . .
Ms. Nickson's full column is here.
Not pretty.
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Don Surber is in the process of closing down his blogspot and moving to Substack. He’s wing-walking during the transition:
A reader sent me this graphic [above] mocking Google’s censorship of my blog posts for what Google called “unreliable
and harmful claims.” Two recently censored posts relied on reporting by the New
York Times and the Washington Post, so Google might have a point.
Readers know this Substack account
is my response to Google censorship. Eventually I will abandon Google and my
blog — https://donsurber.blogspot.com —
in favor of Substack. The censors don’t bring me down. They are an annoyance.
They are not even mosquitos. They
are mere midges. Censoring is a sign that we are winning because they
cannot handle the truths we tell.
Mr Surber goes through the laundry list of what he perceives as recent victories for conservatives and patriots. I am still waiting to see how much election
fraud there is in next month’s elections.
Still, this blog also plans to migrate over to Substack; it is no longer possible to use a Google search even to find this blog -- you’ll eventually find a robot instead. I also know from tracking the traffic patterns over
the past year that someone has tampered with the algorithms. So we’ll see.
Meanwhile, Mr Surber closes his column with optimism and another clam:
Be of good cheer. We are winning.
We will — we will — rock them with our “unreliable and harmful claims.”
We won’t clam up.
Source link is here.
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