On the 5th anniversary of “just 15 days to slow the spread”, it’s past time, and well worth looking at what’s been happening since.
There’s a lot of people tossing the word Nazi around without really understanding it. I’ve written here in the past about how everything the left doesn’t like is Hitler.
But consider that the people that are tossing that epiphate around, we’re not so long ago, advocating forced medical procedures, mass censorship, discrimination, segregation, job termination, healthcare denial, making people show their papers everywhere, and even putting them in camps.
And now they are burning down businesses of their political opponents just like in 1930s Germany and posting obvious propaganda everywhere depicting them as vile creatures or caricatures, which was done against the Jews. Interestingly, often is not the same people are protesting against jews. Look closely at Columbia University as a prime example.
Every socialist in history from Marx, to Saul Alinsky to Joe Gobles to Joseph Stalin, to Fidel Castro, to Mao, to Hitler… Right down the line has been using the same tactics for time immemorium that the left is using today; Accuse your opposition of what you’re doing.
Thing is, based on the most recent election it would appear that the American people are seeing through this ruse… And to them it looks something like the graphic below:
With that all boils down to is this. The worst thing you can possibly do to a socialist is to actually solve the problem. Because once you actually solve a problem they lose their ability to demagogue it.
Does the Democrat party have a future? The party does seem bent on self-destructing.
Let’s bring Victor Davis Hansen in, to start this discussion.
Certainly, they have been having their problems. Last I was looking at the polls.. which was probably a week ago …approval rating of the Democratic party Nationwide is a little over 31%. The way things have been going lately, it’s actually probably lower than that now. Every time I think they can’t go any lower in approval, they apparently take it as a challenge.
Meanwhile of course, Trump’s approval ratings are in the middle of ’70s, in particular when you break it down issue by issue.
When you consider that Giggles McKneepads only got 45% of the popular vote last November (always assuming no vote for of course) it becomes clearer that large swaths of Democrats who voted for Harris are beginning to realize that Trump at the helm wasn’t such a bad idea, after all.
That 31%? They are manifestly experiencing a great deal of butthurt. The American people when given the choice, chose the guy that the left have been spending the last 8 years labeling as Hitler, deciding that he was the better deal than the hastily installed Harris and the Democrats. That’s got to hurt.
From the look of the Democrats in Congress at the State of the Union the other night, and the usual leftist outlets, they’re still trying to figure out if the reason they lost was because they weren’t screaming “sig heil”loud enough.
Keep in mind also that they lost despite the Harris campaign spending pretty much double what Donald Trump’s campaigns spent, leading me to observe immediately following the election last November that the era of big money influencing elections was pretty much over. In any event, with the department of government efficiency on the case, their money laundering has come to an end, anyway.
Let’s face it, the Democrats have two major problems right now.
They first are not dealing in issues that the American voter actually cares about. These issues do not include DEI, sending billions of tax dollars to people that hate us, allowing an unmitigated invasion, and allowing women’s sports to become a fallback for subpar male athletes, to name but a few bits of done since they’ve been trying to push down our throats.
Trump is doing as well as he is because he is actually responding to the will of the people. You know, the voters. Citizens.
People, watch on your gasoline stations and you’ll notice that the prices for fuel are already dropping. I can tell you personal experience that diesel prices are also dropping …which means prices for everything else like food and clothing etc is also going to come down. Remember, kids…diesel moves everything you have.
The other problem that the Democrats have is one that’s been building for a couple of decades now. It is an issue of credibility. If it’s possible for a credibility rating to be Sub-Zero, the Democrats have managed it.
Consider the number of things that they have lied openly about. The entire January 6th scenario. Russia, russia, Russia. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. Bill Clinton reneging on his promise to cut taxes before the echo from his taking the oath of office died.
Add to that the thinly veiled support of the Democrat party for scams like BLM, man-made climate change, the electric vehicle mandate,
To those, Let’s add the criminal misappropriation of funds from the tax coffers, the scope of which we’re just starting to scratch the surface on, while they scream bloody murder over it.
Even if, by some miracle, the Democrats start talking about issues but the American people are actually concerned with, with the credibility they have for at least the immediate future and probably longer, nobody’s going to believe them.
Rather they will take the recent history of the Democrat party into account and assume, probably correctly, that they are simply mouthing what the public wants to hear so they can get their power back.
And finally, we have the woke ultra left which has been driving the party off the cliff for the last several years. It’s not a good look for a party desperately trying to regain the attention and respect of the American people.
Think about it, now…If the Democratic party as a whole goes to the center as pulling data suggests so many rank and file Democrats would like to see, we’re going to see the party splintering at the very least, and a number of the party simply giving up on it all together and becoming Trumpist Republicans. And as I’ve already pointed out that’s already happening.
I noticed Bill Maher the other night, wondering openly if we will ever see another Democrat president. He seems to doubt it. I consider it to be an open question, but suggest that the two issues I’ve mentioned here are prohibitive.
Resolving a problem requires proper problem identification. The word on the wire being that the Democrats are considering running Rahm Emmanuel in four years tells me that they still haven’t gotten the handle on what their actual problems are. Trust me.. a fourth term for Barack Hussain Obama none of us need…. And the voters definitely understand that. Who are the other frontrunners? Steve Smith? Harris version 2.0? Bernie Sanders? Tampon Tim?
The problems that beset the Democrat party right now self-inflicted as they are, have been a long time building.
My read is that in the short term they’re not going to find any significant voter traction …being essentially leaderless and unwilling to address their problems properly leaves the question of any long term future in serious doubt.
# I gather that Ireland as placed a 125% tariff all US goods until we agree to take Rosie O’Donnell back.
# Did you know that during the Biden administration there were more restrictions on oil production which applied to Alaska than there were that applied to Iran?
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# In round numbers, Kamala Harris got 45% of the vote. And yet the approval numbers that Donald Trump is getting currently end up being around 70 to 75% depending on the specific issue. Which means that a goodly amount of those approval numbers are coming from people who voted for Harris…. And the Democrats and particularly establishment Republicans, still aren’t getting the message.
# You doubtless will remember Joe Biden firing all those oil pipeline workers on his day one. I’m pretty sure you’ll also remember the large number of people that got fired by Joe Biden for not taking the experimental “vaccine”. Even on the basis of those two memories alone, there isn’t a person in the country who should be upset about federal employees getting canned for not doing their jobs.
Isn’t it curious how some Canadians are quick to boycott American products over the recent 25% tariffs, yet remain silent about Chinese goods, even though China has imposed similar tariffs on Canada?
This selective outrage seems less about standing on principle and more about jumping on the trendy bandwagon of America-bashing. It’s a classic case of virtue signaling—choosing pettiness over consistency.
If the issue were truly about opposing unfair tariffs, wouldn’t the protests target all countries imposing them, not just the fashionable choice?
96-year-old Woman Is Forced To Sell Her House To Brokers. Then Elon Musk Shows Up And Does The Unthinkable
A 96-year-old woman, facing financial difficulties, is forced to sell her house to real estate agents. She had lived in this house for many years, but with age and financial problems, she has no choice but to sell it at a price far below its value. Her memories and personal history, rooted in the walls of this house, are about to be erased.
However, at that moment, an unexpected event occurs. Elon Musk, the famous entrepreneur, makes a surprising appearance. Intrigued by the situation of this woman, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Not only does he buy the house, but he goes far beyond expectations. He sets up a foundation or program to help seniors keep their homes or receive financial assistance to preserve their homes. Thanks to his wealth and means, Musk offers the woman a chance to stay in her home and improve her situation.
Places which have few billionaires have lots of starvation. Places with lots of billionaires have no starvation. QED.
# One of the seven deadly sins was .envy. These days they call it “social justice”.
# You might want to look into the link between congressman Al Green, the one who shot his mouth off during the State of the Union address, and Lucinda Daniels. Where did that $875,000 go, Al?
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# The very same people who believe to this day the Russian collusion hoax, are the same ones who are insisting on absolute proof that Elon Musk and his team are actually finding massive fraud and waste.
# So, Musk gets millions of whack job leftists to spend literally billions of dollars in deference to their green religion, and then makes them regret it. And the left believes that Musk isn’t smart?
# The far left is always saying ” tax the rich”… Interesting how they lean on that so heavily and not “help the poor”.
# The hysterical reaction to Donald Trump and then later on to Elon Musk and DOGE, is firmly rooted in the fear of the electorate as they increasingly become aware of how badly they’ve been taken.
# The left keeps pointing to the slight down turn in the stock market. First of all it’s back up again. Secondly if we have a downturn economically because of cutting wasteful government spending, I submit that the economic numbers that were presented for quite some time weren’t real to begin with.
# Eith the Eastern Time zone shifting last weekend, there’s a lot of speculation online that Stonehenge was used as a timepiece. It does seem an interesting conclusion, but if that’s the case it would explain why they didn’t develop the wrist watch until some 1800 years later. The early experiments must have been awfully heavy to wear on one’s wrist.
#No we’re not talking about the singer.
And then we have John Kass, who correctly observes:
“Is the Democrat message pure Jacobin hatred for anything pro-American and anything that could be considered pro-President Donald Trump? They’re feral creatures now, lonely, isolated, frightened without leadership, desperate for relevance, without any cogent message, terrified at what’s to become of them. And quite mad, like inmates in Victorian lunatic asylum.”
The saddest part of all is it’s a hell of their own creation.
The one worlders never expected Donald Trump to win a second term, particularly with the numbers that he got. So now, they are forced to try and reorient the structures of world power.
To that end, they’ve started making noises about how the wildly unpopular British prime minister Starmer is now the defective leader of the free world. A laughable concept in itself..
Town Halls Tom Knighton points out that the UK has not been part of the Free world for some years and suggest that nobody else in the EU qualifies for that mantle either.
I quoted Bobby Jindal earlier today where he talked about the left trying to lead the world from behind. That’s not how leadership works. But here it is, that’s why the left and the GOP establishment which is also de facto leftist, are working so hard against Trump. He will never leave from behind, because he recognizes being behind is not the role of a leader.
But this leads me to a thought… political correctness has led us to this pass, where are are told all cultures are equal. The weeds, in effect, are equal to the flowers. And of course the weeds, which now have that leg up, if you will, are pushing the idea that the flowers are the problem.
Back when we fought the Nazis, one of the things we fought for was the American way of life. Our culture, in short. Sadly, we cultivate that garden, our culture, no longer. Is it any wonder the weeds are doing so well?
This is a theme that I will be returning to over the next weeks and months, because i think the concept bears on everything we do as a people, both in terms of government, (and therein both domestically and internationally_ ) as well as at a personal and interpersonal level in our daily lives. That concept being the culture and its values have given the world the most benefit, even with all it’s faults attached.
For the moment, lets look at the international and governmental side of things, particularly with regards to the rise of Islam
(Notice, please, I didn’t say “Radical Islam”. Reason being I find no “moderation” in Islam. This is a point I’ve alluded to in the past and I have some writings in the pipeline that will expand on this, which will be posted in the near future.)
To this point, a years ago, Bobby Jindal spoke to the AEI. Wherein, he said, in part:
When President Obama rejects American exceptionalism, what he is really doing is embracing the idea, long-held by progressives stretching back a century, that we are simply members of a global village, all of us sharing principles and cultures of equal merit.
No country has principles that are better than another’s. There is no nation, system of government or understanding of rights that is exceptional.
I wish President Obama had watched The Incredibles, because then he’d know that when everybody’s special, nobody is.
The danger of this idea is that it ignores the unique and distinct role the United States is called to play in the world, because of her strength, her resources, and her historical commitment to freedom and human dignity.
First of all, Bobby, Obama did know this. He was pushing the ideas he was pushing and what Democrats have been pushing for generations now, toward the goal of eliminating the concept of meritocracy.
And of course the idea that the traditional American culture is what drives that role, that strength.
Ideas have consequences.
It is only when you conclude that we are all just citizens of the world, with ideas that are just as valuable as anyone else’s, that you would come to the conclusion that the United States should “lead from behind” – which really means, of course, not leading at all.
It would take too much of your valuable time for me to list a bill of particulars of all of the consequences of President Obama’s failure on the international stage.
Today, we see a world in which the Obama Administration has neglected or abandoned America’s longstanding allies.
Our “special relationship” with Britain is gone, NATO is drifting, Eastern Europe is disaffected, and Israel has been purposefully alienated from the United States.
Consider the consequences of just the past year.
It has brought us the rise of ISIS and the capture of Mosul, Russia’s expansion and invasion in Crimea and Ukraine, new heights of crisis in the Middle East and Israel, genocide and destruction of religious minorities in Iraq, more Chinese aggression and conflict in the South China Sea, more bombing in Libya, more saber rattling from North Korea, a dangerous trend of anti-Semitism, and a refugee crisis on our own border.
For anyone with a degree of introspection, this would be a time to consider whether the ramifications of your ideas were leading the world to experience more chaos and less clarity.
But that is not what President Obama has done.
He has not reconsidered whether his approach to leadership is perhaps a part of the reason that the world seems to be spinning off its axis.
Instead, he once again views himself as a noble, deliberative thinker who takes his time and gets it right.
Peter Baker recently wrote an interesting piece in the New York Times about a series of off-the-record dinners President Obama has held with foreign policy thinkers.
Of course, as it always is in Washington, not even the president can really go off-the-record.
The attendees recalled the president “sarcastically imitating his adversaries,” saying, quote: “Oh, it’s a shame when you have a wan, diffident, professorial president with no foreign policy other than ‘don’t do stupid things,’ … I do not make apologies for being careful in these areas, even if it doesn’t make for good theater.”
I don’t get invited to the White House much. I wasn’t at that dinner. But if I had been, I can tell you what I would have said when he rolled out that straw man and set it aflame.
Respectfully, Mr. President, this isn’t about “good theater.”
This is about life and death, freedom and despotism, order and chaos.
This is about the role of the United States of America as the leader of the free world.
This is about nothing less than whether we will squander America’s ability to continue in that role, or whether we will pass on to our children a nation that is secure, well-armed, and confident in its ability to sustain a just peace in the world.
As Walter Russell Mead wrote in response to that anecdote, “The real criticism of the president isn’t that his foreign policy is too deliberative, it is that his deliberations don’t seem to end with policies that, well, work.”
The truth is that none of us would care how long President Obama takes to make a decision if it were the right decision.
As the great military strategist Colonel John Boyd once said, “Decisions without actions are pointless.
Actions without decisions are reckless.” Time and again, this president has managed to do both.
The problem with the “smart diplomacy” that was supposed to make everything better isn’t that it doesn’t make for “good theater.” It’s that it isn’t very smart.
This isn’t about disliking how long it takes him to come up with an idea.
It’s about the ideas and what follows from them. The Russian reset. Iraq. Afghanistan. Israel. Egypt. Iran. Libya. Europe. China.
In each of these areas, it’s not just that the President took too long to come up with an answer. It’s that the answer was wrong.
If only he’d had the help of a wise steady hand, a policy expert in dealing with foreign affairs, he’d have come up with better answers. But instead he just had Hillary Clinton.
How did we get to this point? Just ask the people who can be honest about what happened.
Ask former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who says he and others advised the president to negotiate a Status of Forces agreement with Iraq that could’ve forestalled the rise of ISIS… but says the White House refused to lead. Ask , former Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, who says he was abandoned and ignored by Secretary Clinton. Or ask the outgoing chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Michael Flynn, who says the world today is more chaotic than any time since the 1930s.
Today, we are living with the consequences of the Obama-Clinton ideas when it comes to foreign, domestic, and defense policy.
And those ideas have set America on a path that will create more chaos, more conflict, and more wars.
All of this leads directly back to the misbegotten notion that our culture, and the principles that have historically driven that culture are no better than any other… a mindset that has driven leftist thought for decades. Yes, even Islam, which gives us ISIS, which gives us the beheading of the week on YouTube.
As I said the other day, all of this is because we have entrusted the power of government to those who don’t believe in traditional American culture, who are using the power of government to over-ride and debase that culture.
Wait, what?
Yeah it really was a thing.
I thought my post yesterday would put the Zelenskyy debacle to rest but overnight I was included in a Zoom call with some European friends from France, Germany, and the UK. I also went back and watched the whole video of the White House encounter. To say I am horrified at what I missed is an understatement. I got some of this Info from Tucker Carlson and many other podcasts. I just couldn’t believe that little dictator called Vice President Vance a “Bitch.” Hopefully, this post puts the debacle together for those who did not see it.
Did you realize in the exchange with Vice President Vance, Zelenskyy mumbled “Bitch” in his language. This is why the Ambassador to Ukraine, Oksana Markarova, had her hands on her head. She knew what he said. Not only that, but Zelenskyy outright threatened the United States on live TV. What made President Trump angry was when Zelenskyy said the oceans separating us would no longer protect us and we would “feel” the war and terror. This is when President Trump started telling him not to say how we are going to feel. He knew it was a threat and our President went after him.
I am going to try to keep this brief. I knew it was serious when the biggest war hawk in Congress, Lindsey Graham, stood in front of the cameras and went after Zelenskyy, disavowing him. These two men are friends. Graham has been responsible for getting Zelenskyy billions of dollars from the US. He knew the threat had been made. This wasn’t just a shouting match and he wanted to distance himself before something happened.
What disturbs me is what Zelenskyy has been doing with the money and weapons received from the US. Over the past three years, with the tacit support of its Western patrons, the Ukrainian government has committed a remarkable number of serious crimes. The Ukrainians sold huge quantities of American weapons on the international black market at twenty cents on the dollar. These weapons are now in the hands of armed groups around the world, including Hamas, the Mexican drug cartels and the forces now controlling Syria. God knows what the Ukrainians have done with the pathogens in American biolabs in their country. Even US intel agencies aren’t sure. The Ukrainians have also murdered several people in various countries in political assassinations and tried to murder others, including American journalists and a European head of state. This is all true, and it’s all going to come out at some point.
I have never supported Ukraine and it hurts to see so many Americans flying the Ukranian flag on their FB pages. How propaganda has worked on our citizens! Zelenskyy is a part of the party that overtook Europe in 1939 that starts with an “N.” It has been covered up because Obama and Biden were a part of this. Trump was impeached just for questioning them about Ukraine.
I am glad we all got to watch as it unfolded because it was more than a shouting match. We, our Country, the United States, were threatened in the Oval Office yesterday on live television, by a pathetic, diabolical dictator.
The writer of this was unknown to me, but from what I have observed, and researched, this is far closer to the truth than what you will hear on MSM. I hope all my friends who unfriended friends, and changed their profile to the Ukrainian flag, will reconsider.
America first!
