It’s high praise. My coffee comes from Hawaii, because I have a sister in law who lives in Hawaii and we send her Dukes Mayonnaise and she sends us Hawaiian grown coffee..
I heard of an akita dog whose owner named him "Khruschev". That's right: Akita Khruschev - "We will bury you - in the back yard, under the tulip tree!"
When my children were young, my neighbor had a big male akita - an aggressive one. He got out of his fence one day and backed me up against my own house. When I heard the school bus stop at the end of the street, Mr. Akita came within about five seconds of becoming a Good Akita under the tulip tree, but then the neighbor heard the commotion and intervened. Never cared for them since.
Thanks for the uplifting post. A couple of years ago, my teenaged grandson asked me where Joe Biden got the money that is sent to the Ukraine. I told him it is stolen from us through taxation. That same boy is working now to pay for his car insurance and other amenities. He works hard and without complaint EXCEPT for the doggone taxes taken out of his paycheck every week. Of course he is being raised in a two parent household. Mom and Dad make very good money and could easily cover all those expenses but insisted he come up with the money to pay for his car insurance himself. I have loved that kid from the moment I met him. (He was an hour old) I am even more proud of his parents who made him get a get a job. He won't be old enough to vote this fall but he doesn't like FJB. I hope you're right about young people waking up. Wasn't "Let's go Brandon" started by young people?
I will never forget the day our daughter came home with her first paycheck as a 16 year old shampoo girl at a local salon. She was outraged at what the government stole from her and complained to us. Our response - never ever vote for a democrat! And she hasn’t. Nor, from what I can tell, have any of her friends. They’re millennials.
Kids are smart that way! Congrats on a wonderful grandson. We made our kids get jobs, too. Our student son, though, is a wheeler dealer, and his part-time job, which is way too many hours, pays him in Bitcoin. His choice - dollars or Bitcoin. He now says he is off the financial grid. His father, a banker, told him that it will all catch up with him. I shudder because when the tax man eventually comes, he gets you.
I have no idea how Bitcoin works. I suppose when the US removed the Gold and sliver standad in 1971 it made the dollar just an idea too. So perhaps Bitcoin isn't any different. I am buying gold and silver as quickly as I am able. We might need it and it will always be worth something regarless how all this plays out.
You have to convert your Bitcoin at a specialized instant teller machine to get cash. The banks and the government aren't tracking this -- at this point. However, Revenue Canada says you are supposed to declare your Bitcoin earnings, which basically almost no one is doing. It's pretty much another black market economy.
It was, it was created by college kids. My Mom & Dad did the same to me. They didnt have the money to spare but I needed the car to get to the school I needed to attend. Dad said I could go so long as I kept the car, insurance and gas in it. My brothers not so much and it shows.
"The tranny wars continue here and Christians are winning. Biden declared Easter Sunday something called “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which Obama began celebrating each March 31 at tranny day when he took office, likely at the request of his spouse." Oh, I like that.
'...likely at the request of his spouse' lol. This is one of the reasons Don has me under his spell. The inside jokes have me convinced I'm in a special club of people who 'get it' and can still laugh at the absurdities foisted on us every day.
I still remember my high school English teacher, Mrs. Webb. One day she was reading to us a passage from a medieval text explaining why many medieval women were quite chaste, and it had nothing to do with morals, to wit: they wore so many layers of clothing that access was a problem. But in typical medieval prose, the concept was couched in tame phraseology, something like "what hath chastity to fear when defended by the nine bull-hides of Ajax," etc.. I got it instantly and looked up to see not a single head up except mine and hers, with that dotted line of understanding passing from her eyeball to mine. It's been like that ever since, and like you, one of the main reasons I love to read Surber's stuff.
Notice how he said "I didn't say that?" Either he's out of it, or those folks running the system just aren't keep him up to date on what he's supposed to think/say.
POLL: Of course we need Melania as First Lady - but I was glad to see Flynn in a strong second place: put him in charge with a nuclear vacuum cleaner to empty out the tranny military trash. Put Navarro in charge of the FBI and John Eastman in charge of the CIA. Revenge will be oh so sweet.
Yes, especially if they fire all the agents, raze the department buildings, then cover the ground with salt. Personally, I want to see the BATF converted from a government agency to a convenience store: "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms".
Thank you, Don! What a great way to start the weekend1
Strauss said, “Indeed, if we were to blindly register nonvoters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump’s quest for a personal dictatorship.”
Dictatorship? What does Strauss think that we have now?
"Dictatorship? What does Strauss think that we have now?"
The leftists and the media are doing an effective job of blasting out the message that they (and Biden) represent democracy and only the Dems can save it. As ludicrous as that sounds, it must work somehow in the lunatic minds of their voters. Perhaps it's a simple message that all the illegals who will be registered to vote can understand.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how anyone can get "Democracy" from the last three years of Biden's reign, or from the actions and beliefs of the democrat party. It's all I hear on talk shows and in sound bytes. . .Democracy . . .Democracy... save Democracy. A true democracy would never have an electoral college. A simple majority would make all decisions in government, and the Dems have perfected the art of getting that last needed vote to win at the last minute.
I propose the NEW RNC launch a media campaign explaining the difference between a democracy (Which America is NOT) and a Representative Republic (Which America is) despite losing much of it in the last few decades. Then, they can show how Trump exemplifies a true Representative Republic and why that should matter.
They took civics out of school shortly after I graduated HS, in 83. That is a true issue. We spent the semester learning about the government and running a mock trial. the younger generations have no frame of reference for our government. and the Democrats are LOUD.
As was stated yesterday in the comments here, the Democrats stick together to win. They win through herd mentality.
It seems the repubs can't find their way to the bathroom on most days.
Trump has performed a miracle of pulling more than 70 million Americans in the same direction. That wasn't a Republican thing. It was Trump using a Representative Republic tenet of working FOR THE PEOPLE. Bottom up.
That is an excellent idea, Shrugged. We should go on the offense about Defending our Republic. It is not a hard concept to grasp--sheer democracy is a recipe for disaster, in that the Minority NEVER gets what they want, breeding resentment, and ultimately internal war within the country. A Republic is the way to protect minority rights and make sure there must be sufficient compromise for all segments of society to continue to support the country.
I would think the time is ripe for all these young folks, white, black, hispanic, to hear this message about the difference between a Republic and a plain democracy. I think it would be a very attractive message that they would embrace. After all, the Democrats have been indoctrinating them for years into valuing "inclusiveness". A plain democracy is NOT inclusive-- it is a dictatorship by the majority.
The Dems have been on the "Democracy" terminology since Al Gore lost the 2000 election (hanging chads?) to Bush. The discussion at that time centered around the fact that GORE WON THE POPULAR VOTE. It surfaced again when Hillary lost to Trump in 2016, again, having WON THE POPULAR VOTE. (NOTE: knowing what we know now, it is likely that many of those popular votes may have been fraudulent, but that doesn't seem to matter yet). While not the most serious issue before us today, it has been a lingering issue that will threaten our nation if it is enacted. The Dems have been trying since 2000 to change the lexicon that America is a Democracy. Unfortunately, many repubs in their sound byte interviews use the same term. Why is the shift to a democracy so important now? Because our Federal government is huge. It becomes a fascist top-down state in perpetuity in a popular vote democracy. A representative government would work to decentralize the Feds and give more power to regions (states). A democracy would continue building more government agencies. A Representative Republic would seek to end them.
A democracy is a popular vote to elect a leader who makes decisions - TOP DOWN. A representative government is one that places the power and decision making process solely in the hands of those who are eligible to vote. In other words, the government works for the people BOTTOM UP.
The RNC would do well to blast a simple message educating people that a Democracy is a bad form of government. It would expose the real motives of the Democrats to remove the electoral college and move to a popular vote.
When the Dems get on the evening news and say "Trump is destroying Democracy" they are CORRECT. We don't want a democracy. We want to restore our representative republic a la our original Constitution.
Well articulated, Shrugged. I'm going to start highlighting this point when it comes up in conversations. The cool thing is, there are millions of us, having millions of conversations, with millions of people. So if we folks just start highlighting this point, we can have in aggregate a great impact.
If you take into account that, for the left, “democracy” is a code word for “democrat party power”, then it all makes sense. And Trump is indeed a threat to their “democracy.
Good point. Just like they (and all our republicans) refer to the DEMOCRAT party as the DEMOCRATIC party, thus expressing a pleasing adjective that is consistent with Democracy. The party's name is the DEMOCRAT PARTY.
Democracy - - Democratic - - all word games. Words matter.
A top-down democracy is a tyranny of the majority, something the founders worked very hard to avoid. A tyranny of the majority is what the Dems want. If they had it, Al Gore would have become president in 2000 and Hillary would have become president in 2016. THE FOUNDERS DESIGNED AROUND THIS FAULT.
Franklin's retort to the lady who asked him what kind of government they had created responded "a republic if you can keep it". The last part of that statement was a reference to a tyranny of the majority. The tyranny is FROM the majority who will not forfeit their freebies.
True freedom and individual liberty don't rest in the majority. In fact, it doesn't rest in anything that is top-down. It begins and ends with the individual.
Yes, the structure of a Republic was part of the genius that our Founding Fathers showed. Truly, their work gave America the most advanced form of government yet known on earth. It is part of American Exceptionalism. The Democrats try so hard to bash the idea of Exceptionalism, but most of us understand it has nothing to do with race or the superiority of one group over another. Our Exceptionalism is the preciousness of our governing structure and all its pillars, the rule of law, individual freedom, etc.
I agree it has nothing to do with race, but it does have to do with culture and religion. Until about 1500 AD Europeans behaved pretty much the way Muslims still do today: they worshipped revenge and cruelty, and homicide was usually excused if it was for "honor" reasons, like common insults. Homicide rates back then were about 20 times what they are today. Look up the work of Manuel Eisner, who acknowledges that the decline of European homicide must be attributed to Christianity, specifically the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. As a result, starting in the 16th century every successive century saw homicide rates drop to about half of the preceding one. Catholic countries like Spain and Italy lagged behind on those developments, but by the 19th century they had pretty much caught up.
To be sure, one cannot credit all of this moral improvement to religion; other developments occurred that helped -- yet they were related. Two were the invention of book printing and Bible translations, that for the first time enabled people to stay home and read instead of going out drinking and getting into fights. Yet another was the invention of corporations, which spread business risks among many shareholders; the Dutch got that started with their East India Company, which the British of course stole as their own. There were more yet, like the various philosophers who led the way toward representative government, and there the British had some excellent guides..
And all these morons who prattle endlessly about "White Supremacy" should be asked this question: Why is it that North America -- with some exceptions -- has been a politically stable part of the world, but Latin America -- which was conquered by European people just as white as those further north, keeps on stumbling from one dictator to the next oppressor? IT MUST be related to the fact that Spain and Portugal were late to modern civic mores, including representative government.
Very interesting, Wim. You're right, it isn't just the governing structure, our Exceptionalism does indeed stem from culture and religion as well. And it is undeniable that American Exceptionalism is also due to Christianity, which is so powerful in affirming each individual's inherent worth as a child of God, the divine Creator--who is infinite Love.
Christianity carries with it a moral code, which develops one's ability to treat other people with respect and honor, based on this common identity as a child of God. Christianity also unfolds this incredible quality of spiritual Love (which, as an aside, Islam is currently showing itself to be very deficient in).
Was it Jefferson (or Adams?) who said that our form of government would only work for a moral people. American Exceptionalism brought together both a unique governing structure, and a cultural grounding on the moral principles of Christianity.
A young woman said to me recently that she thought "America was never really that great". What a damning indictment of our educational system today. America has been the most advanced system on Earth.
Well, thank you for this. Actually I think several of the Founders said that for the nation they designed to work, the people needed Christianity. I know Washington said it, or wrote it. And I've seen how even among non-Christians, or shall I say non-churchgoers, still the Christian ethics ruled their lives. But the contemporary heathens are working on that ...
As to the educational system; don't get me started on THAT.
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Gov. Abbott and Desantis have obviously read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals when it comes to addressing the illegal immigrant invasion in their states. Rule 4: Make your enemy live by their own rules. In this case, make the sanctuary cities/states live by their own faux compassion for the illegals. Abbott and DeSantis ended the virtue signaling by making them live up to their phony concern. And now these corrupt democrats look like the fakes they truly are which is not a good look for a politician that made those promises as they steer their governments into bankruptcy to pay for their foolishness. All the while being lambasted by their own constituents in town halls. It is a thing of beauty.
Why stop at the immigration problem? We need to force the liberals to live up to every standard they have forced on us. Let’s start by demanding that all the old white male senators vacate their seats immediately. Or least declare their new gender!
Great, sneaking poll this morning- just when I was enjoying the thought of Rittenhouse as head of ATF (let convenience stores alone) and Flynn as Sec of Def, you slide in Melania as First Lady. Slam dunk.
Flynn’s a smart guy- he’d replace Uncle Sam with Bisset’s image and turn around recruiting in no time (plus the USMC could return to brainwashing recruits into thinking every woman wants to bed them).
Big thx, Don, for dispelling the nonsense that all is lost.
(And thx for ‘Christianity & Trans Insanity’ and the ‘old maid card of politics’)
Rev Mikey, take heart that these angry women were never abused. They never allowed a man to love them to understand what it is to be a real women. Or they wouldn’t stop talking and criticizing everyone and everything so no man will even attempt to love them. Or you may be right, their daddy didn’t love them appropriately. Either way, they are just horrible to be around.
You’re right, Don. I needed an article like yours on this morning after a day of terrible foreign policy news. Seeing the few rays of sunshine piercing the dark storm clouds gives one a better perspective of where we are; what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I’m more determined than ever to not let these SOB’s win.
I cant help but believe that another 4 years of this crap esp the weaponization of the government, will cause an irreversible decline. I just can't for the life of me figure what ANYONE would vote for these dems in charge.
Entropy, the gradual decline into disorder, has a way of fixing the Democrats hair brain ideas. Don, as a West Virginian, you are aware the confederacy was in full bloom before Lincoln. When he was inaugurated in March 1961, 8 states had already left the union. If you think things are bad now, travel back him time to that period in time. It was indeed a surprise, Lincoln even made it to his own inauguration with assassins everywhere. Even his “trusted” cabinet members Chase and Seward were plotting against him daily wanting to start wars with France and Spain. He wasn’t against slavery on moral grounds, but rather as political maneuver to affect the war’s trajectory in 1863.
Trump is our modern day Lincoln, saving the union from the Marxist’s Wile E Coyote’s ACME Bomb on America.
I would correct one statement. Lincoln was against slavery on moral grounds. He said he could not end slavery with the stroke of his pen because slavery was legal and in the constitution; however, if you read any of his speeches during his senate campaign or his debates with Douglas you would see he didn’t like slavery. Saying one man works an another man eats is immoral is very antislavery. Lincoln also, while not a traditionally religious man, he believed in G0d and the bible and he knew the story of the “Hebrews” escape from slavery and the importance of the story as the will of heaven that men should be free from slavery.
Respectfully Steve, his words with Douglas were different than his actions. In many of the archives of his conversations with rivals for 1860, Salmon Chase (Later Lincoln’s Sec of Treasury) and William Seward (Lincoln’s Sec of State) Lincoln was not morally against slavery. His family was divided as Mary Todd family fought for the confederate side. He did use his pen to free the slaves. However the emancipation proclamation was written and reveled to his cabinet s year earlier than enacted, but kept in a safe. If revealed in 62, after a series of losses and blunders by the union, Lincoln would have lost many border states. However after the battle of Antietam Maryland, the first real Union victory (Shiloh debatable), Lincoln had the capital to issue the proclamation for political and moral superiority.
I've always thought "political capital" is an interesting and valuable concept, and that the right use of political capital is key to success in politics.
TPG you are correct, with Lincoln timing was critical for the EP. If before Shiloh and Antietam, the union might have lost Delaware Maryland Missouri and Kentucky
Thanks for the excellent historical point, Mark. I think that concept of "political capital" also applies to alot of things in life. There is an organization I believe I have a significant opportunity to help red-pill, and have been carefully awaiting the right opening and venue. A possible opportunity opened up last week, and an impulse in me almost rushed to grab it, but I don't want to squander my best "shots" and blow the political capital I have been building, and an inner voice said this wasn't the right opening. As events unfolded, I can see it was not the right venue to do red-pilling. But I am certain a major opportunity will be surfacing. In the meantime, I red-pill within the organization a little here, a little there.
Sometimes, patience is the hardest of all virtues. I have been trying to sneak in points to my cousins. They are good people, just weird they cant see the democratic party has changed like 180 since they were starting out.
I think you actually agree with me. He couldn’t “act” before the proper political time. He also in his speeches assured his listeners at times he wasn’t talking about full equality with whom he hoped would be former slaves just equality under the law. One can point to that and say he truly didn’t believe in equality or freedom for the enslaved, but more correctly, it shows a strategic political mind.
I thought when he was elected, he was trying to keep things together. So he while he didnt like slavery, he dealt with it so that he could keep what was left of the Union together. When it became obvious that would not work, he went to war.
good news, indeed. Remember, though - even a mouse will bite when cornered. The so-called humans on the other side are starting to flail about, and they are going for the most damage they can cause. Keep your wits about you, and, like us life-long bikers, keep your head on a swivel. Don't forget that we also have folks "on our side" that I wouldn't trust any further than I could spit out a dead rat....
Today’s column was better than my first cup of coffee.
Did the column make you choose one over the other with a spit-take? 😀
It’s high praise. My coffee comes from Hawaii, because I have a sister in law who lives in Hawaii and we send her Dukes Mayonnaise and she sends us Hawaiian grown coffee..
Dukes! The ONLY mayonnaise used by real Southerners. As of yesterday, there’s a brand new jar in our fridge.
Gotta see f they have this in Phoenix!
What does it taste like and how is it different from other mayonnaise? I've grown up on Kraft mayonnaise (a staple in Canada).
It’s mayonnaise…..
I get that it's mayonnaise. My question is what makes Duke's better?
Oh No!! It has to be "Hellman's"Mayo!!!!!. But then, I am a Yankee from Cleveland, Ohio who never heard of "Dukes" until we headed South.
re: "We will bury you!" - Khrushchev Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard that before:
"God is dead." ~ Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." ~ God
Neitzche is still dead and God is still with us!
I heard of an akita dog whose owner named him "Khruschev". That's right: Akita Khruschev - "We will bury you - in the back yard, under the tulip tree!"
When my children were young, my neighbor had a big male akita - an aggressive one. He got out of his fence one day and backed me up against my own house. When I heard the school bus stop at the end of the street, Mr. Akita came within about five seconds of becoming a Good Akita under the tulip tree, but then the neighbor heard the commotion and intervened. Never cared for them since.
I remember well a MAD Mag cover of those days (1963), showing a Khrushchev look alike, tearing up the magazine: "This we bury first!!!"
Thanks for the uplifting post. A couple of years ago, my teenaged grandson asked me where Joe Biden got the money that is sent to the Ukraine. I told him it is stolen from us through taxation. That same boy is working now to pay for his car insurance and other amenities. He works hard and without complaint EXCEPT for the doggone taxes taken out of his paycheck every week. Of course he is being raised in a two parent household. Mom and Dad make very good money and could easily cover all those expenses but insisted he come up with the money to pay for his car insurance himself. I have loved that kid from the moment I met him. (He was an hour old) I am even more proud of his parents who made him get a get a job. He won't be old enough to vote this fall but he doesn't like FJB. I hope you're right about young people waking up. Wasn't "Let's go Brandon" started by young people?
Subvet, you and your family are what makes America great and worth fighting for.
Amen.
I will never forget the day our daughter came home with her first paycheck as a 16 year old shampoo girl at a local salon. She was outraged at what the government stole from her and complained to us. Our response - never ever vote for a democrat! And she hasn’t. Nor, from what I can tell, have any of her friends. They’re millennials.
"...never ever vote for a democrat!" And, never, ever trust a Republican.
... and take it from me: after fifty, a fart.
Kids are smart that way! Congrats on a wonderful grandson. We made our kids get jobs, too. Our student son, though, is a wheeler dealer, and his part-time job, which is way too many hours, pays him in Bitcoin. His choice - dollars or Bitcoin. He now says he is off the financial grid. His father, a banker, told him that it will all catch up with him. I shudder because when the tax man eventually comes, he gets you.
I have no idea how Bitcoin works. I suppose when the US removed the Gold and sliver standad in 1971 it made the dollar just an idea too. So perhaps Bitcoin isn't any different. I am buying gold and silver as quickly as I am able. We might need it and it will always be worth something regarless how all this plays out.
You have to convert your Bitcoin at a specialized instant teller machine to get cash. The banks and the government aren't tracking this -- at this point. However, Revenue Canada says you are supposed to declare your Bitcoin earnings, which basically almost no one is doing. It's pretty much another black market economy.
They just just convicted this Friedman character for fraud. I am sure the powers that be are working feverishly on a way to tax it.
What is themBitcoin based on? That's what I don't get.
From what I've read, Bitcoin is given value by its users, supply and demand -- and it has a limited supply. I really don't fully understand it. Both my kids are invested in it, my daughter quite a lot, in addition to stocks. Young people seem quite open to it, especially as a way to avoid taxation. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/100314/why-do-bitcoins-have-value.asp#:~:text=Like%20all%20forms%20of%20currency,regardless%20of%20its%20monetary%20value.
thanks for the link. One is never to old to learn.
Just had lunch at a local restaurant. Right there amid all the signs on the wall was a six-foot long banner: "Let's Go, Brandon"
... and signed "FJB"
It was, it was created by college kids. My Mom & Dad did the same to me. They didnt have the money to spare but I needed the car to get to the school I needed to attend. Dad said I could go so long as I kept the car, insurance and gas in it. My brothers not so much and it shows.
"The tranny wars continue here and Christians are winning. Biden declared Easter Sunday something called “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which Obama began celebrating each March 31 at tranny day when he took office, likely at the request of his spouse." Oh, I like that.
'...likely at the request of his spouse' lol. This is one of the reasons Don has me under his spell. The inside jokes have me convinced I'm in a special club of people who 'get it' and can still laugh at the absurdities foisted on us every day.
Thanks. I write for myself and comments like this tell me I am not alone
I still remember my high school English teacher, Mrs. Webb. One day she was reading to us a passage from a medieval text explaining why many medieval women were quite chaste, and it had nothing to do with morals, to wit: they wore so many layers of clothing that access was a problem. But in typical medieval prose, the concept was couched in tame phraseology, something like "what hath chastity to fear when defended by the nine bull-hides of Ajax," etc.. I got it instantly and looked up to see not a single head up except mine and hers, with that dotted line of understanding passing from her eyeball to mine. It's been like that ever since, and like you, one of the main reasons I love to read Surber's stuff.
Christians have always been winning. We simply haven’t been speaking out. Until now.
Big Mike!
Notice how he said "I didn't say that?" Either he's out of it, or those folks running the system just aren't keep him up to date on what he's supposed to think/say.
POLL: Of course we need Melania as First Lady - but I was glad to see Flynn in a strong second place: put him in charge with a nuclear vacuum cleaner to empty out the tranny military trash. Put Navarro in charge of the FBI and John Eastman in charge of the CIA. Revenge will be oh so sweet.
That would be a really good day to see.
Yes, especially if they fire all the agents, raze the department buildings, then cover the ground with salt. Personally, I want to see the BATF converted from a government agency to a convenience store: "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms".
I hope Trump recruits you for a key position when he wins.
"How embarrassing it is to watch the shrinkage from an ocean away."
Don wins the line of the day! Freedom!!!!!
The only shrinkage joke I know is from Seinfeld and involves George.
Good episode. And it's true - just as George experienced it.
If ever a poll deserved an all of the above choice, this one is it. Made me smile.
Thank you, Don! What a great way to start the weekend1
Strauss said, “Indeed, if we were to blindly register nonvoters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump’s quest for a personal dictatorship.”
Dictatorship? What does Strauss think that we have now?
"Dictatorship? What does Strauss think that we have now?"
The leftists and the media are doing an effective job of blasting out the message that they (and Biden) represent democracy and only the Dems can save it. As ludicrous as that sounds, it must work somehow in the lunatic minds of their voters. Perhaps it's a simple message that all the illegals who will be registered to vote can understand.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how anyone can get "Democracy" from the last three years of Biden's reign, or from the actions and beliefs of the democrat party. It's all I hear on talk shows and in sound bytes. . .Democracy . . .Democracy... save Democracy. A true democracy would never have an electoral college. A simple majority would make all decisions in government, and the Dems have perfected the art of getting that last needed vote to win at the last minute.
I propose the NEW RNC launch a media campaign explaining the difference between a democracy (Which America is NOT) and a Representative Republic (Which America is) despite losing much of it in the last few decades. Then, they can show how Trump exemplifies a true Representative Republic and why that should matter.
They took civics out of school shortly after I graduated HS, in 83. That is a true issue. We spent the semester learning about the government and running a mock trial. the younger generations have no frame of reference for our government. and the Democrats are LOUD.
As was stated yesterday in the comments here, the Democrats stick together to win. They win through herd mentality.
It seems the repubs can't find their way to the bathroom on most days.
Trump has performed a miracle of pulling more than 70 million Americans in the same direction. That wasn't a Republican thing. It was Trump using a Representative Republic tenet of working FOR THE PEOPLE. Bottom up.
When he wins, it will be "Bottoms Up!"
Amen. He showed how good it could be if we did America First. And people listened.
That is an excellent idea, Shrugged. We should go on the offense about Defending our Republic. It is not a hard concept to grasp--sheer democracy is a recipe for disaster, in that the Minority NEVER gets what they want, breeding resentment, and ultimately internal war within the country. A Republic is the way to protect minority rights and make sure there must be sufficient compromise for all segments of society to continue to support the country.
I would think the time is ripe for all these young folks, white, black, hispanic, to hear this message about the difference between a Republic and a plain democracy. I think it would be a very attractive message that they would embrace. After all, the Democrats have been indoctrinating them for years into valuing "inclusiveness". A plain democracy is NOT inclusive-- it is a dictatorship by the majority.
The Dems have been on the "Democracy" terminology since Al Gore lost the 2000 election (hanging chads?) to Bush. The discussion at that time centered around the fact that GORE WON THE POPULAR VOTE. It surfaced again when Hillary lost to Trump in 2016, again, having WON THE POPULAR VOTE. (NOTE: knowing what we know now, it is likely that many of those popular votes may have been fraudulent, but that doesn't seem to matter yet). While not the most serious issue before us today, it has been a lingering issue that will threaten our nation if it is enacted. The Dems have been trying since 2000 to change the lexicon that America is a Democracy. Unfortunately, many repubs in their sound byte interviews use the same term. Why is the shift to a democracy so important now? Because our Federal government is huge. It becomes a fascist top-down state in perpetuity in a popular vote democracy. A representative government would work to decentralize the Feds and give more power to regions (states). A democracy would continue building more government agencies. A Representative Republic would seek to end them.
A democracy is a popular vote to elect a leader who makes decisions - TOP DOWN. A representative government is one that places the power and decision making process solely in the hands of those who are eligible to vote. In other words, the government works for the people BOTTOM UP.
The RNC would do well to blast a simple message educating people that a Democracy is a bad form of government. It would expose the real motives of the Democrats to remove the electoral college and move to a popular vote.
When the Dems get on the evening news and say "Trump is destroying Democracy" they are CORRECT. We don't want a democracy. We want to restore our representative republic a la our original Constitution.
Well articulated, Shrugged. I'm going to start highlighting this point when it comes up in conversations. The cool thing is, there are millions of us, having millions of conversations, with millions of people. So if we folks just start highlighting this point, we can have in aggregate a great impact.
See my previous reply.
I live in a so-called democracy. Currently, it sucks.
Thanks for your honesty. For what it's worth, FJT.
Yes to that Shrugged! Gooder and harder!
I believe we share that plight.
If you take into account that, for the left, “democracy” is a code word for “democrat party power”, then it all makes sense. And Trump is indeed a threat to their “democracy.
Good point. Just like they (and all our republicans) refer to the DEMOCRAT party as the DEMOCRATIC party, thus expressing a pleasing adjective that is consistent with Democracy. The party's name is the DEMOCRAT PARTY.
Democracy - - Democratic - - all word games. Words matter.
Yes, from so many of the Founders' design you can tell they were constantly worried about enabling the Tyranny of the Majority.
A top-down democracy is a tyranny of the majority, something the founders worked very hard to avoid. A tyranny of the majority is what the Dems want. If they had it, Al Gore would have become president in 2000 and Hillary would have become president in 2016. THE FOUNDERS DESIGNED AROUND THIS FAULT.
Franklin's retort to the lady who asked him what kind of government they had created responded "a republic if you can keep it". The last part of that statement was a reference to a tyranny of the majority. The tyranny is FROM the majority who will not forfeit their freebies.
True freedom and individual liberty don't rest in the majority. In fact, it doesn't rest in anything that is top-down. It begins and ends with the individual.
Democracy is not the majority, it’s the MOB,
and represents the last mile on the path to tyranny.
Yes, the structure of a Republic was part of the genius that our Founding Fathers showed. Truly, their work gave America the most advanced form of government yet known on earth. It is part of American Exceptionalism. The Democrats try so hard to bash the idea of Exceptionalism, but most of us understand it has nothing to do with race or the superiority of one group over another. Our Exceptionalism is the preciousness of our governing structure and all its pillars, the rule of law, individual freedom, etc.
I agree it has nothing to do with race, but it does have to do with culture and religion. Until about 1500 AD Europeans behaved pretty much the way Muslims still do today: they worshipped revenge and cruelty, and homicide was usually excused if it was for "honor" reasons, like common insults. Homicide rates back then were about 20 times what they are today. Look up the work of Manuel Eisner, who acknowledges that the decline of European homicide must be attributed to Christianity, specifically the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. As a result, starting in the 16th century every successive century saw homicide rates drop to about half of the preceding one. Catholic countries like Spain and Italy lagged behind on those developments, but by the 19th century they had pretty much caught up.
To be sure, one cannot credit all of this moral improvement to religion; other developments occurred that helped -- yet they were related. Two were the invention of book printing and Bible translations, that for the first time enabled people to stay home and read instead of going out drinking and getting into fights. Yet another was the invention of corporations, which spread business risks among many shareholders; the Dutch got that started with their East India Company, which the British of course stole as their own. There were more yet, like the various philosophers who led the way toward representative government, and there the British had some excellent guides..
And all these morons who prattle endlessly about "White Supremacy" should be asked this question: Why is it that North America -- with some exceptions -- has been a politically stable part of the world, but Latin America -- which was conquered by European people just as white as those further north, keeps on stumbling from one dictator to the next oppressor? IT MUST be related to the fact that Spain and Portugal were late to modern civic mores, including representative government.
Very interesting, Wim. You're right, it isn't just the governing structure, our Exceptionalism does indeed stem from culture and religion as well. And it is undeniable that American Exceptionalism is also due to Christianity, which is so powerful in affirming each individual's inherent worth as a child of God, the divine Creator--who is infinite Love.
Christianity carries with it a moral code, which develops one's ability to treat other people with respect and honor, based on this common identity as a child of God. Christianity also unfolds this incredible quality of spiritual Love (which, as an aside, Islam is currently showing itself to be very deficient in).
Was it Jefferson (or Adams?) who said that our form of government would only work for a moral people. American Exceptionalism brought together both a unique governing structure, and a cultural grounding on the moral principles of Christianity.
A young woman said to me recently that she thought "America was never really that great". What a damning indictment of our educational system today. America has been the most advanced system on Earth.
Well, thank you for this. Actually I think several of the Founders said that for the nation they designed to work, the people needed Christianity. I know Washington said it, or wrote it. And I've seen how even among non-Christians, or shall I say non-churchgoers, still the Christian ethics ruled their lives. But the contemporary heathens are working on that ...
As to the educational system; don't get me started on THAT.
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You are a Patriotic thinker using reasoned logic to solve problems.I like it Shrugged.
Strauss doesn’t think…He projects.
Gov. Abbott and Desantis have obviously read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals when it comes to addressing the illegal immigrant invasion in their states. Rule 4: Make your enemy live by their own rules. In this case, make the sanctuary cities/states live by their own faux compassion for the illegals. Abbott and DeSantis ended the virtue signaling by making them live up to their phony concern. And now these corrupt democrats look like the fakes they truly are which is not a good look for a politician that made those promises as they steer their governments into bankruptcy to pay for their foolishness. All the while being lambasted by their own constituents in town halls. It is a thing of beauty.
Why stop at the immigration problem? We need to force the liberals to live up to every standard they have forced on us. Let’s start by demanding that all the old white male senators vacate their seats immediately. Or least declare their new gender!
Great, sneaking poll this morning- just when I was enjoying the thought of Rittenhouse as head of ATF (let convenience stores alone) and Flynn as Sec of Def, you slide in Melania as First Lady. Slam dunk.
Flynn’s a smart guy- he’d replace Uncle Sam with Bisset’s image and turn around recruiting in no time (plus the USMC could return to brainwashing recruits into thinking every woman wants to bed them).
Big thx, Don, for dispelling the nonsense that all is lost.
(And thx for ‘Christianity & Trans Insanity’ and the ‘old maid card of politics’)
The thing about democrats and liberals: they don’t defend their women. They abuse them.
And elect them.
They only "elect" their most confused angry women...the ones who have been abused by their worthless men.
Illan Omar and her husband brother come to mind.
No mind worthy of the name has ever allowed such a low transgression to occur.
Greg Gutfeld calls them AWFLs...Affluent White Liberal Females.
They are absolutely the worst. Sanctimonius and dictatorial.
Amen and they usually know nothing of which they are bitching about.
Oops Affluent White Female Liberals
Rev Mikey, take heart that these angry women were never abused. They never allowed a man to love them to understand what it is to be a real women. Or they wouldn’t stop talking and criticizing everyone and everything so no man will even attempt to love them. Or you may be right, their daddy didn’t love them appropriately. Either way, they are just horrible to be around.
I needed a lift this morning.
"Please step to the rear. 2nd floor..."
And a childhood memory
Best part of waking up is Don Surber on my screen.
Very nice turn of an ad MA C.
You’re right, Don. I needed an article like yours on this morning after a day of terrible foreign policy news. Seeing the few rays of sunshine piercing the dark storm clouds gives one a better perspective of where we are; what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I’m more determined than ever to not let these SOB’s win.
I hope you all are right.
I cant help but believe that another 4 years of this crap esp the weaponization of the government, will cause an irreversible decline. I just can't for the life of me figure what ANYONE would vote for these dems in charge.
Entropy, the gradual decline into disorder, has a way of fixing the Democrats hair brain ideas. Don, as a West Virginian, you are aware the confederacy was in full bloom before Lincoln. When he was inaugurated in March 1961, 8 states had already left the union. If you think things are bad now, travel back him time to that period in time. It was indeed a surprise, Lincoln even made it to his own inauguration with assassins everywhere. Even his “trusted” cabinet members Chase and Seward were plotting against him daily wanting to start wars with France and Spain. He wasn’t against slavery on moral grounds, but rather as political maneuver to affect the war’s trajectory in 1863.
Trump is our modern day Lincoln, saving the union from the Marxist’s Wile E Coyote’s ACME Bomb on America.
I would correct one statement. Lincoln was against slavery on moral grounds. He said he could not end slavery with the stroke of his pen because slavery was legal and in the constitution; however, if you read any of his speeches during his senate campaign or his debates with Douglas you would see he didn’t like slavery. Saying one man works an another man eats is immoral is very antislavery. Lincoln also, while not a traditionally religious man, he believed in G0d and the bible and he knew the story of the “Hebrews” escape from slavery and the importance of the story as the will of heaven that men should be free from slavery.
Respectfully Steve, his words with Douglas were different than his actions. In many of the archives of his conversations with rivals for 1860, Salmon Chase (Later Lincoln’s Sec of Treasury) and William Seward (Lincoln’s Sec of State) Lincoln was not morally against slavery. His family was divided as Mary Todd family fought for the confederate side. He did use his pen to free the slaves. However the emancipation proclamation was written and reveled to his cabinet s year earlier than enacted, but kept in a safe. If revealed in 62, after a series of losses and blunders by the union, Lincoln would have lost many border states. However after the battle of Antietam Maryland, the first real Union victory (Shiloh debatable), Lincoln had the capital to issue the proclamation for political and moral superiority.
I've always thought "political capital" is an interesting and valuable concept, and that the right use of political capital is key to success in politics.
TPG you are correct, with Lincoln timing was critical for the EP. If before Shiloh and Antietam, the union might have lost Delaware Maryland Missouri and Kentucky
Thanks for the excellent historical point, Mark. I think that concept of "political capital" also applies to alot of things in life. There is an organization I believe I have a significant opportunity to help red-pill, and have been carefully awaiting the right opening and venue. A possible opportunity opened up last week, and an impulse in me almost rushed to grab it, but I don't want to squander my best "shots" and blow the political capital I have been building, and an inner voice said this wasn't the right opening. As events unfolded, I can see it was not the right venue to do red-pilling. But I am certain a major opportunity will be surfacing. In the meantime, I red-pill within the organization a little here, a little there.
Sometimes, patience is the hardest of all virtues. I have been trying to sneak in points to my cousins. They are good people, just weird they cant see the democratic party has changed like 180 since they were starting out.
I think you actually agree with me. He couldn’t “act” before the proper political time. He also in his speeches assured his listeners at times he wasn’t talking about full equality with whom he hoped would be former slaves just equality under the law. One can point to that and say he truly didn’t believe in equality or freedom for the enslaved, but more correctly, it shows a strategic political mind.
I thought when he was elected, he was trying to keep things together. So he while he didnt like slavery, he dealt with it so that he could keep what was left of the Union together. When it became obvious that would not work, he went to war.
"Trump is our modern day Lincoln . . . "
Hopefully, like Lincoln, Trump will make his own inauguration DESPITE having assassins everywhere.
PS: Only an EE would open a comment with reference to the second law of thermodynamics . . . . Very nice
Trump will make it. The biggest threat to FJB right now besides diaper rash is RFK Jr.
Ha
You guys took the bait.
You all have paid the toll, DS will now allow you cross the bridge over his river of denial.
Who wants to bet DS has an article on the CW/ slavery and he looking for a reason to run it ?
Good morning, all.
good news, indeed. Remember, though - even a mouse will bite when cornered. The so-called humans on the other side are starting to flail about, and they are going for the most damage they can cause. Keep your wits about you, and, like us life-long bikers, keep your head on a swivel. Don't forget that we also have folks "on our side" that I wouldn't trust any further than I could spit out a dead rat....
Have a great weekend!