There is no magic sauce, just the Bible and The Constitution for reference. The Republic will endure only as long as each generation rises against the parasites that inevitably appear.
"The Republic will endure only as long as each generation rises against the parasites that inevitably appear."
Yes, the Bible is the basis of our founding and of the Constitution, but both guidebooks are slowly being 'legislated' out of their original impact on our lives in America. They certainly don't influence the majority of our elected leaders. One need look no further than the pride MONTH of gay, lesbian, transgender sin that precedes our ONE DAY of celebrating Independence. Covid was the case study in how to negate deeply set Constitutional rights with the wave of an Anthony Fauci hand. POOF! Our rights vanished and mandates were the society-demanded solution to a man-caused control weapon. . . worldwide.
Documents (Bible, Constitution) are meaningless unless tens of millions stand up and demand the correct behavior and decisions from our officials.
Wish I could suggest a solution as our Republican Senate refuses to enforce fair and validated elections in our "Constitutional Republic".
Our country and original culture are dying with barely a whimper. The glue of affiliation that holds us together as Americans is not being torn apart, it is simply disintegrating from lack of interest. A group of young students in NYC were asked what America 250 was all about and who we fought in the Revolutionary War. Some of them answered "Sweden!" Most young people don't have a clue about the blessings they have been given and see no reason to worry about protecting or nourishing them. I doubt they will even realize it is something valuable when they lose it.
Homeschooling is so important. My high school diploma is more valuable than any college degree outside of the hard sciences. And I graduated 50 years ago, when bicentennial mania was in full swing. Education has been deliberately dumbed down and turned into indoctrination.
" . . . it is simply disintegrating from lack of interest."
Yes, it has been systemmatically deprogrammed from our entire learning institutions for the last generation of youth such that it has no presence in perceptions of what this country is about. Their brain memory cards are empty.
The Islamists joined forces with communists. Islamists are the foot soldiers. As I write this Muslims are, for now, quietly trying to spread their death cult ideology through elected positions on school boards, city councils, county commisions and HOA’s. Hamtramck, Michigan, a small town just north of Detroit is an example of what can happen.
We all keep saying that but when will it happen. That tree should have its cup overflowing by now. These vermin will never stop until they are put in the ground, but that is too violent and beneath who we are!
Is it too violent to "put them in the ground" as you say - to save our children's and grandchildren future?
I think that is a very easy choice - and it may have to be us old men (I'm now 68) who put our lives on the line to become "Vigilante Citizens." After all, what is a vigilante if not viligant for a good cause?
Interesting thoughts that beg for an in-depth conversation among concerned friends (a la CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien).
What is the boundary between justice vs revenge? “Revenge is mine says the Lord’ yet we are called in our Christian-based society to leverage ‘old Testament’ justice.
I'm not the Rev, but when you don't get justice in the courts as was shown in Citizen Vigilante, then vigiliantism becomes the means to get justice. Like it or not.
I respect your opinion, but taking the law and justice into your own hands as judged only by your opinion makes anyone (Islamists?) allowed to continue the murder and terrorism they enact for THEIR religious opinions.
Don't we need a neutral standard by which we all live? (ie) social contracts and laws?
We have those neutral standards, but only some people live by those standards. Especially when you invite the third world, which has no social contracts or laws in its country. Who are we supposed to look to? The government that is more than happy to watch its citizens die at these people's hands? Should we call our representatives who helped usher in the invasion? The judges who let them go at the time, after time? I think it's high time these people feel anxious every time they step out of their homes, as it could be the last time.
As the founders said, governments should not be changed for light or transient causes, but the long train of abuses and usurpations are nearing the point that they rival those listed in the Declaration of Independence.
Just think what little traction the hate America crowd would get if our once great “fourth estate” actually functioned as the protector of the people from the tyranny of the State. Instead, we have a media that has become this nations most dangerous fifth column now merely the propaganda arm of the DSA party promoting the forces out to make America the new CCCP. Journalists like our Don are the only people fighting for our survival as the shining city on the hill.
You hit the nail right on the head. With an honest media this clown car of Democrats would be mocked incessantly and laughed right off the stage. All the media are nothing but Democratic political operatives with press passes. Just a shrill chorus of clapping seals.
Regarding USMCA: Its dying and hopefully will croak - but it will take 10 more years. The person(s) in the Whitehouse over that 10 year reign will either let it die or will resurrect it for more unfair trade to the USA.
From AI sourced from PBS: "The United States, Mexico, and Canada missed the initial six-year review deadline to automatically extend the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for another 16-year term. While the deal remains in force, the U.S. declined a long-term renewal in its current form, kicking off a 10-year countdown to the treaty's expiration alongside new, complicated annual negotiations."
As for the Brits, we kicked their asses back across the ocean in 1776 and again in 1812. Their "wittle fweelings" are still hurt. Our best measure of victory is what we have achived in the last 250 years. Keep in mind, they are STILL wearing powdered wigs. Many not using deoderant (or air conditioning) smell as they did in 1776 as well.
On another (FIFA) topic: SCREW Belgium (WEF country) and the official rendering a red card for an obvious unintentional contact between players which occurs naturally in a very active and physical sport. They called the fourth of July April Fools Day? Belgium is the face and voice for WEF on the world stage - global economies, one world government, and a clear enemy to a Constitutional Republic. I say we show them what the Fourth of July looks like - George Washington style!!!!
Yes, after Trump sent a note to FIFA thus making Belgium exptremely angry since they are now playing the USA with a restored excellent striker on the team.
More Trump anger, and I love it when it comes from European bastards.
The Carney Liberal government in Canada has purposely sabotaged the USMCA. I think part of the strategy is hoping that once Trump is gone, it's back to business as usual. That phase of the deal is now over and there is no more business as usual. Letting the clock tick down over 16 years on the trade agreement (it's 16, I think) brings nothing but investment uncertainty to Canada. Many Canadians are too busy hating Trump and the U.S. to see beyond this. Also, China has increased tariffs on Canadian pea starch, which hurts our agricultural sector even though we are taking their stupid EVs. Canada is on the path of managed decline that will likely head to a huge crash. All of my sympathy goes to businesses that are trying to make money in this quagmire of uncertainty and insanity.
" I think part of the strategy is hoping that once Trump is gone, it's back to business as usual."
Thanks for your closer insight and I agree 100% on 'waiting out Trump until he is gone". Not only are the Democrats doing that but our Republican Congress, especially the Senate, is doing the same". I think many USAID emoployees and other Federal emoployees who lost their jobs are laying low - waiting out MAGA's loss in the Midterms so Trump can be impeached - so the Dems can return all of them to their former positions.
We can’t tolerate an ideologically hostile country on the other side of our 4000 mile long undefended border. That being said, we're all part of one (more or less) continuous culture from the temperate parts of Canada to northern Mexico
True, but he only has two more years as President. It will depend the person who replaces him to know how to play the game like he does. Are JD and Marco capable? Reagan was followed by H W who was a total disaster. W wasn't any better. Im not saying JD and Marco are the "Bushies" but they're not Donald Trump either. Charlie Kirk could have been but which is probably why he was taken out. I am not convinced a "furry" got a luck shot.
Did anyone else listen to JD Vance's speech from NY harbor ? I thought it was excellent and loved the stories he told regarding the 3 men whose histories he described
I’m praying. I’ve been praying. And one of my prayers is that NYC gets what it voted for, good and hard. The example they set needs to be seen by the rest of the country.
I spent 3 years in a communist country so I know what they have to look forward to.
When those rent controlled apartments are falling apart the government will never get around to sending anyone to repair them. Because there was a well known expression in the old Soviet Union, “The government pretends to pay us and we pretend to work.”
Nothing gets done because there is no incentive to work. Nothing gets created because there is no incentive to achieve. There will be a thriving black market when Mamdani runs out of other peoples’ money and the huge evil corporations and luxury stores have left town.
Enjoy the food lines, the rationing and the deterioration of everything around you, New Yorkers, because, as the old Toyota commercial said, “You asked for it. You got it.”
If I sound angry, it’s because I am. When I was living temporarily in that communist country I firmly believed that what I saw there could never happen here. I’m angry at the utter stupidity of ignorant greedy lazy people.
Saturday night President Trump emphatically stated that America would never be a communist country. From his lips…
The smug little p****k Mamdani sneers at all of us with his cocky mouth. It’s time the Trump administration denaturalize and deport him back to Uganda with his entire family.
It is very, very far past time for Americans to realize that most, or nearly all, government jobs are not intended to achieve anything. With few exceptions, their real purpose is to keep a dependent but highly pretentious class of people satisfied, and supporting equally useless establishments elsewhere. I believe the term for this is "mutually supportive do-nothings".
This had not occurred to me until I studied the history of a Port Commission in my (thankfully) former hometown. At one time that body had some use, back when the harbor was full of ships, hauling stuff away. Then the stuff was gone, but like all bureaucracies the Port Commission was not abolished; in fact, the opposite happened. Decade after decade, its overpaid staff and its ignorant local supporters have promoted one harebrained "development" scheme after another, to "create new jobs" that never materialize, because the place is simply unsuitable for big new transportation developments.
But as long as this continues -- and there's no sign of it abating -- there will be a handsome office filled with overpaid bureaucrats promising a glorious economic future -- that is, until they retire with generous benefits. In the meantime the State Legislature, full of the same class of people, keeps throwing hundreds of millions their way ...
My husband and I traveled to Vladivostok and Nakhodka 22 years ago. What we saw told us all we need to know about communism. Tucker Carlson might like to hype up Moscow grocery stores but the reality is quite different.
And pass the House “Power of the purse” (public school skata tavru ) Credit Card over here to add a new Progom for only $75 million a year (based on my pygmalian assumptions)
I apologize for having to ask 2 questions: (1) I tried to find out what "skata tavru" is, and all I got for my trouble was this opaque clarification:
"V 96 tam bylo skata tavru .-) Tsamadou maj vyfocenou i na letištní hale v Potokaki..... Takže asi jako topofka.-) Jsou na severní straně ostrova za Kokkari ..."
To say this is all Greek to me would be an overstatement because I still know a bit of Greek but not one word of this gibberish which looks like some east-European lingo.
1) bullshit is a good interpretation, 2) yes certain US urban areas and states seem t/b laying groundwork to conduct Pogroms of Jews here in the US, esp w growth of muslims that have no intention of assimilating and accepting the US Constitution as the final law of our land.
Stop pretending communists “ignore economics.” They understand the only economics that matter to them: dependency buys obedience. North Korea is a success for the Kim dynasty. Cuba is a success for the communist party. Iran is a success for the mullahs. The people suffer, but the rulers stay fat, armed, insulated, and obeyed. That is the point. Rent control is landlord control. Gun control is citizen control. Energy rationing is lifestyle control. Speech codes are thought control. Mamdani is not selling compassion. He is selling a cage with better graphics. Free people build wealth. Communists build lines, shortages, informants, and fear.
Communists do understand economics: They know that they must take and redistribute the wealth of others. After that, that's when things get fuzzy for them because someone has to keep creating wealth to have it constantly redistributed.
"Kimball does not understand that communism is not about economics." In fact, Kimball does understand this. See, e.g., my essay "Leszek Kolakowski & the Anatomy of Totalitarianism" (in my book The Fortunes of Permanence):
Marxism has been as wrong as it is possible for a theory to be wrong. Addicted to “the self-deification of mankind,” it continually bears witness to what Kolakowski calls “the farcical aspect of human bondage.” Why then was Marx- ism like moral catnip—not so much among its proposed beneficiaries, the working classes who bore the brunt of its immiserating effects, but among the educated elite? Why?
Well, beguiling simplicity was part of it. “One of the causes of the popularity of Marxism among educated people,” Kolakowski notes, “was the fact that in its simple form it was very easy.” Marxism—like Freudianism, like Darwinism, like Hegelianism—is a “one-key-fits-all-locks” philosophy. All aspects of human experience can be referred to the operation of a single all-governing process, which thereby offers the illusion of universal explanation.
Marxism also spoke powerfully to mankind’s unsatisfied utopian impulses. How imperfect a construct is capitalist society: how much conflict does it abet, how many desires does it leave unsatisfied! Can we not imagine a world beyond those tensions and conflicts in which we could realize our full human potential without competition, without scarcity, without want? A society in which, as Marx famously put it in The German Ideology, the alienating “division of labor” has been overcome and anyone can “do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, and be a critic after dinner, just as I have a mind.” Sure, we can imagine that, but there is a reason that “utopia” means “nowhere.” Kolakowski shows how Marxism speaks powerfully to those unrealized, and unrealizable, utopian dreams. Marxism, he wrote, was the “greatest fan- tasy” of the twentieth century, not because it offered a better life but because it appealed to apparently ineradicable spiritual cravings.
Of course, it is not just to mankind’s spiritual cravings that Marxism appeals. It also speaks to its inherent thuggishness.
This point cannot be emphasized too much. These days, Stalin and Stalinism are in bad odor. But we forget the romance that Western intellectuals indulged for this mass murderer. We also tend to overlook the fact that thuggishness is an integral, not an accidental, feature of Marxism. Marx spoke of the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” What did he mean by “dictatorship”? Lenin explained. “Dictatorship,” he wrote in 1906, “means unlimited power based on force, and not on law.”
In case that was not sufficiently compelling, Lenin add- ed the word “scientific”: “The scientific term ‘dictatorship’ means nothing more nor less than authority untrammelled by any laws, absolutely unrestricted by any rules whatever, and based directly on violence.”
Although there is a lot of overlap between socialism and communism, Don was writing about communism and the allure of power, in which no private property is allowed. That's total control. It's why Bernie Sanders calls himself a socialist--he doesn't want to part with that taxpayer wealth that ended up in his real estate holdings.
“…the illusion of universal explanation.” All men are born seekers. But seekers of what?
John 1:9
..”That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
Every man, woman and child in the world, no matter where or when or under what circumstances he is born, is imbued with a seemingly indiscernible impulse to search for purpose and meaning in their life.
This “light” that drives all men will be under constant pressure, and attack, as the man desperately seeks to grab ahold of that meaning and purpose in his life. Everything that man does, everything he learns, everything he chooses will revolve around either connecting with or disconnecting from that light he was born with.
That light is truth.
Deuteronomy 30:19
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live”
Our Life is designed to be the pursuit truth itself.
And when it comes to communism, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn so aptly put it, “Live not by lies.”
Has anyone thought about amputating one of the hands of all these economists? That might, might, wake them up.
Even better, make them live under their system. Create special cities where they can't leave. Rent control so somehow someone will pay for repairs and you will probably not have much air conditioning or heat. Pay them what they are worth! THAT WOULD HURT. Free medical care with DEI personnel and to keep costs low, widespread end of life procedures and those people who normally could not get into medical schools as your doctors. Controlled food prices. Yes, line would be long and there would not be much meat but there are at least some vegans who live a long life. Diabetes would disappear since few carbs. And there are always those "special" shots that will end all your worries.
And, of course, no other way out. We could have TV cameras everywhere so regular people could see what goes on and those devoted enough can move there.
The rest of us just might live free.
And the best way to keep our freedom: Keep the Second Amendment.
Then there's always that dolt woman in Congress who thinks that Cuba is absolutely wonderful and a great example for us to emulate. In what universe is she living in? The Cubans are starving to death, they have blackouts all the time
Those who advocate for communism do so on the theory that it is something that applies only to "other people," and when it comes to the part where they claim "to each according to his need," they personally will be the ones who determine who "needs" what. Strangely, they always seem to "need" a lot more than the rest of the people. Communism in theory is like phrenology in theory; it sounds like something that makes sense, but once it is tried, it always fails. (That is why the communists always tell us that "real communism" has never been tried; because every time it is implemented, it fails.) The little tyrants who have been elected on the promise to make things "more equal/equitable" never live out their promise in their personal lives. A quick review of all communist governments in action through all time will provide proof. Did Stalin live in one of the concrete boxes soviet communism provided for "the people"? Nope; he took up residence in The Kremlin, which was built by Tsars as their personal palace. How about Castro? Nope, same thing; As Cuba's "communist" dictator, he lived in a heavily guarded, four-bedroom home just outside Havana and maintained a private island getaway known as Cayo Piedra. Surely, Mao lived with and among his peasants. Again, nope; from the founding of the so-called People's Republic of China in 1949 until his death in 1976, Mao lived and worked primarily in the Zhongnanhai compound, a historic imperial garden adjacent to the Forbidden City that serves as the central headquarters for the Chinese government. Never once has any self-styled "communist" lived as he or she preached. Madmani went from a rent controlled apartment (despite being personally wealthy) to Gracie MANSION, (they don't call it "Gracie Hovel for a reason) courtesy of the NYC taxpayers over whom he now rules. It's always the same; stupid, selfish people fall for the lie of communism like bass fall for a rubber worm. And they get just as much out of it: nothing. At least the lucky ones do; the unfortunate ones wind up in the gulag, the workhouse, the prison or the morgue.
Closing the borders is an absolute Must, as is praying. If we don't stop the invasion, we will be overwhelmed and hang together we will, separated only by the distance between lamp posts.
Trump has two years plus a few months then who takes over? Vance isn't Trump pt 2 and his election isn't guaranteed.
Yes we need to control the debt, but that is a secondary problem and doing so starts with stopping spending that isn't about infrastructure, national defence or law enforcement.
We have a lot of problems to fix that were created by the donks and not a lot of time to do it.
In Russia in 1917 the people defeated one form of feudalism for another more vicious one. They owned nothing before and even less after. Under feudalism at least the had their souls.
There is no magic sauce, just the Bible and The Constitution for reference. The Republic will endure only as long as each generation rises against the parasites that inevitably appear.
"The Republic will endure only as long as each generation rises against the parasites that inevitably appear."
Yes, the Bible is the basis of our founding and of the Constitution, but both guidebooks are slowly being 'legislated' out of their original impact on our lives in America. They certainly don't influence the majority of our elected leaders. One need look no further than the pride MONTH of gay, lesbian, transgender sin that precedes our ONE DAY of celebrating Independence. Covid was the case study in how to negate deeply set Constitutional rights with the wave of an Anthony Fauci hand. POOF! Our rights vanished and mandates were the society-demanded solution to a man-caused control weapon. . . worldwide.
Documents (Bible, Constitution) are meaningless unless tens of millions stand up and demand the correct behavior and decisions from our officials.
Wish I could suggest a solution as our Republican Senate refuses to enforce fair and validated elections in our "Constitutional Republic".
Our country and original culture are dying with barely a whimper. The glue of affiliation that holds us together as Americans is not being torn apart, it is simply disintegrating from lack of interest. A group of young students in NYC were asked what America 250 was all about and who we fought in the Revolutionary War. Some of them answered "Sweden!" Most young people don't have a clue about the blessings they have been given and see no reason to worry about protecting or nourishing them. I doubt they will even realize it is something valuable when they lose it.
Homeschooling is so important. My high school diploma is more valuable than any college degree outside of the hard sciences. And I graduated 50 years ago, when bicentennial mania was in full swing. Education has been deliberately dumbed down and turned into indoctrination.
Oh, I think they will appreciate it “when they lose it” because it is at that precise moment they will realize it will be way…too…late.
" . . . it is simply disintegrating from lack of interest."
Yes, it has been systemmatically deprogrammed from our entire learning institutions for the last generation of youth such that it has no presence in perceptions of what this country is about. Their brain memory cards are empty.
this says it all, I see it among the youth even at private schools.
Amen Shrugged, indeed AMEN !
We have an entire political party dedicated to the parasites.
The Bible and The Constitution for that matter only work on a virtuous people, which is why we are having such a difficult time currently.
Unfortunately these people won’t stop on their own and it’s just a matter of time before we are forced to water the tree again.
The Islamists joined forces with communists. Islamists are the foot soldiers. As I write this Muslims are, for now, quietly trying to spread their death cult ideology through elected positions on school boards, city councils, county commisions and HOA’s. Hamtramck, Michigan, a small town just north of Detroit is an example of what can happen.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/05/the-islamic-revolutions-red-green-alliance-comes-to-america/amp/
And Islam will execute all the commies once they have a chance at power.
All non-Islamist. Convert or die is their true heart.
We all keep saying that but when will it happen. That tree should have its cup overflowing by now. These vermin will never stop until they are put in the ground, but that is too violent and beneath who we are!
Is it too violent to "put them in the ground" as you say - to save our children's and grandchildren future?
I think that is a very easy choice - and it may have to be us old men (I'm now 68) who put our lives on the line to become "Vigilante Citizens." After all, what is a vigilante if not viligant for a good cause?
Interesting thoughts that beg for an in-depth conversation among concerned friends (a la CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien).
What is the boundary between justice vs revenge? “Revenge is mine says the Lord’ yet we are called in our Christian-based society to leverage ‘old Testament’ justice.
Thoughts Rev?
I'm not the Rev, but when you don't get justice in the courts as was shown in Citizen Vigilante, then vigiliantism becomes the means to get justice. Like it or not.
I respect your opinion, but taking the law and justice into your own hands as judged only by your opinion makes anyone (Islamists?) allowed to continue the murder and terrorism they enact for THEIR religious opinions.
Don't we need a neutral standard by which we all live? (ie) social contracts and laws?
We have those neutral standards, but only some people live by those standards. Especially when you invite the third world, which has no social contracts or laws in its country. Who are we supposed to look to? The government that is more than happy to watch its citizens die at these people's hands? Should we call our representatives who helped usher in the invasion? The judges who let them go at the time, after time? I think it's high time these people feel anxious every time they step out of their homes, as it could be the last time.
As the founders said, governments should not be changed for light or transient causes, but the long train of abuses and usurpations are nearing the point that they rival those listed in the Declaration of Independence.
Just think what little traction the hate America crowd would get if our once great “fourth estate” actually functioned as the protector of the people from the tyranny of the State. Instead, we have a media that has become this nations most dangerous fifth column now merely the propaganda arm of the DSA party promoting the forces out to make America the new CCCP. Journalists like our Don are the only people fighting for our survival as the shining city on the hill.
You hit the nail right on the head. With an honest media this clown car of Democrats would be mocked incessantly and laughed right off the stage. All the media are nothing but Democratic political operatives with press passes. Just a shrill chorus of clapping seals.
The MSM in the Western world is corrupt. It's not just in the U.S. that this is happening.
I call them the fourth branch of the government.
Good morning y'all.
I really enjoyed all the festivities this weekend, especially the flybys and the tall ships.
More importantly, how other nations honored us, especially France & Japan.
Very disappointed in the British though. You'd think they'd be more grateful.
But I'm especially perplexed at the lack of anything from Mexico and especially Canada. Something to keep in mind as we reorder our hemisphere.
Nice to hear your thoughts.
Regarding USMCA: Its dying and hopefully will croak - but it will take 10 more years. The person(s) in the Whitehouse over that 10 year reign will either let it die or will resurrect it for more unfair trade to the USA.
From AI sourced from PBS: "The United States, Mexico, and Canada missed the initial six-year review deadline to automatically extend the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for another 16-year term. While the deal remains in force, the U.S. declined a long-term renewal in its current form, kicking off a 10-year countdown to the treaty's expiration alongside new, complicated annual negotiations."
As for the Brits, we kicked their asses back across the ocean in 1776 and again in 1812. Their "wittle fweelings" are still hurt. Our best measure of victory is what we have achived in the last 250 years. Keep in mind, they are STILL wearing powdered wigs. Many not using deoderant (or air conditioning) smell as they did in 1776 as well.
On another (FIFA) topic: SCREW Belgium (WEF country) and the official rendering a red card for an obvious unintentional contact between players which occurs naturally in a very active and physical sport. They called the fourth of July April Fools Day? Belgium is the face and voice for WEF on the world stage - global economies, one world government, and a clear enemy to a Constitutional Republic. I say we show them what the Fourth of July looks like - George Washington style!!!!
I read on CFP last night that the "red card" was withdrawn yesterday so our entire USA team will be able to play today - go USA!
Yes, after Trump sent a note to FIFA thus making Belgium exptremely angry since they are now playing the USA with a restored excellent striker on the team.
More Trump anger, and I love it when it comes from European bastards.
The Carney Liberal government in Canada has purposely sabotaged the USMCA. I think part of the strategy is hoping that once Trump is gone, it's back to business as usual. That phase of the deal is now over and there is no more business as usual. Letting the clock tick down over 16 years on the trade agreement (it's 16, I think) brings nothing but investment uncertainty to Canada. Many Canadians are too busy hating Trump and the U.S. to see beyond this. Also, China has increased tariffs on Canadian pea starch, which hurts our agricultural sector even though we are taking their stupid EVs. Canada is on the path of managed decline that will likely head to a huge crash. All of my sympathy goes to businesses that are trying to make money in this quagmire of uncertainty and insanity.
" I think part of the strategy is hoping that once Trump is gone, it's back to business as usual."
Thanks for your closer insight and I agree 100% on 'waiting out Trump until he is gone". Not only are the Democrats doing that but our Republican Congress, especially the Senate, is doing the same". I think many USAID emoployees and other Federal emoployees who lost their jobs are laying low - waiting out MAGA's loss in the Midterms so Trump can be impeached - so the Dems can return all of them to their former positions.
Exacatly and hopefully the voters will not let that happen.
We can’t tolerate an ideologically hostile country on the other side of our 4000 mile long undefended border. That being said, we're all part of one (more or less) continuous culture from the temperate parts of Canada to northern Mexico
Trump notices - and he never forgets as he plays the long game.
True, but he only has two more years as President. It will depend the person who replaces him to know how to play the game like he does. Are JD and Marco capable? Reagan was followed by H W who was a total disaster. W wasn't any better. Im not saying JD and Marco are the "Bushies" but they're not Donald Trump either. Charlie Kirk could have been but which is probably why he was taken out. I am not convinced a "furry" got a luck shot.
There will only ever be one DJT.
Did anyone else listen to JD Vance's speech from NY harbor ? I thought it was excellent and loved the stories he told regarding the 3 men whose histories he described
Not yet. However based on your recommendation I look it up. We had company this weekend.
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I’m praying. I’ve been praying. And one of my prayers is that NYC gets what it voted for, good and hard. The example they set needs to be seen by the rest of the country.
I spent 3 years in a communist country so I know what they have to look forward to.
When those rent controlled apartments are falling apart the government will never get around to sending anyone to repair them. Because there was a well known expression in the old Soviet Union, “The government pretends to pay us and we pretend to work.”
Nothing gets done because there is no incentive to work. Nothing gets created because there is no incentive to achieve. There will be a thriving black market when Mamdani runs out of other peoples’ money and the huge evil corporations and luxury stores have left town.
Enjoy the food lines, the rationing and the deterioration of everything around you, New Yorkers, because, as the old Toyota commercial said, “You asked for it. You got it.”
If I sound angry, it’s because I am. When I was living temporarily in that communist country I firmly believed that what I saw there could never happen here. I’m angry at the utter stupidity of ignorant greedy lazy people.
Saturday night President Trump emphatically stated that America would never be a communist country. From his lips…
From your keyboard Plays-
The smug little p****k Mamdani sneers at all of us with his cocky mouth. It’s time the Trump administration denaturalize and deport him back to Uganda with his entire family.
FAFO
It is very, very far past time for Americans to realize that most, or nearly all, government jobs are not intended to achieve anything. With few exceptions, their real purpose is to keep a dependent but highly pretentious class of people satisfied, and supporting equally useless establishments elsewhere. I believe the term for this is "mutually supportive do-nothings".
This had not occurred to me until I studied the history of a Port Commission in my (thankfully) former hometown. At one time that body had some use, back when the harbor was full of ships, hauling stuff away. Then the stuff was gone, but like all bureaucracies the Port Commission was not abolished; in fact, the opposite happened. Decade after decade, its overpaid staff and its ignorant local supporters have promoted one harebrained "development" scheme after another, to "create new jobs" that never materialize, because the place is simply unsuitable for big new transportation developments.
But as long as this continues -- and there's no sign of it abating -- there will be a handsome office filled with overpaid bureaucrats promising a glorious economic future -- that is, until they retire with generous benefits. In the meantime the State Legislature, full of the same class of people, keeps throwing hundreds of millions their way ...
That's the goal of the credentialed class -- good paying jobs that create nothing but meetings and lists and consultations.
Leftists are not wise, only mouthy. Communism has never worked and will never work.
My husband and I traveled to Vladivostok and Nakhodka 22 years ago. What we saw told us all we need to know about communism. Tucker Carlson might like to hype up Moscow grocery stores but the reality is quite different.
It's always we will work smarter not harder with these over educated, know nothing fools.
And pass the House “Power of the purse” (public school skata tavru ) Credit Card over here to add a new Progom for only $75 million a year (based on my pygmalian assumptions)
I apologize for having to ask 2 questions: (1) I tried to find out what "skata tavru" is, and all I got for my trouble was this opaque clarification:
"V 96 tam bylo skata tavru .-) Tsamadou maj vyfocenou i na letištní hale v Potokaki..... Takže asi jako topofka.-) Jsou na severní straně ostrova za Kokkari ..."
To say this is all Greek to me would be an overstatement because I still know a bit of Greek but not one word of this gibberish which looks like some east-European lingo.
And (2), what is a Progom? Not a Pogrom, I hope.
Phonetic translate for the Augean stables compost and an all-so-smart AI spell check back to Ashkenazi pogroms….
Sorry if I'm the problem here, but to me that clarified nothing.
1) bullshit is a good interpretation, 2) yes certain US urban areas and states seem t/b laying groundwork to conduct Pogroms of Jews here in the US, esp w growth of muslims that have no intention of assimilating and accepting the US Constitution as the final law of our land.
Stop pretending communists “ignore economics.” They understand the only economics that matter to them: dependency buys obedience. North Korea is a success for the Kim dynasty. Cuba is a success for the communist party. Iran is a success for the mullahs. The people suffer, but the rulers stay fat, armed, insulated, and obeyed. That is the point. Rent control is landlord control. Gun control is citizen control. Energy rationing is lifestyle control. Speech codes are thought control. Mamdani is not selling compassion. He is selling a cage with better graphics. Free people build wealth. Communists build lines, shortages, informants, and fear.
Communists do understand economics: They know that they must take and redistribute the wealth of others. After that, that's when things get fuzzy for them because someone has to keep creating wealth to have it constantly redistributed.
"Kimball does not understand that communism is not about economics." In fact, Kimball does understand this. See, e.g., my essay "Leszek Kolakowski & the Anatomy of Totalitarianism" (in my book The Fortunes of Permanence):
Marxism has been as wrong as it is possible for a theory to be wrong. Addicted to “the self-deification of mankind,” it continually bears witness to what Kolakowski calls “the farcical aspect of human bondage.” Why then was Marx- ism like moral catnip—not so much among its proposed beneficiaries, the working classes who bore the brunt of its immiserating effects, but among the educated elite? Why?
Well, beguiling simplicity was part of it. “One of the causes of the popularity of Marxism among educated people,” Kolakowski notes, “was the fact that in its simple form it was very easy.” Marxism—like Freudianism, like Darwinism, like Hegelianism—is a “one-key-fits-all-locks” philosophy. All aspects of human experience can be referred to the operation of a single all-governing process, which thereby offers the illusion of universal explanation.
Marxism also spoke powerfully to mankind’s unsatisfied utopian impulses. How imperfect a construct is capitalist society: how much conflict does it abet, how many desires does it leave unsatisfied! Can we not imagine a world beyond those tensions and conflicts in which we could realize our full human potential without competition, without scarcity, without want? A society in which, as Marx famously put it in The German Ideology, the alienating “division of labor” has been overcome and anyone can “do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, and be a critic after dinner, just as I have a mind.” Sure, we can imagine that, but there is a reason that “utopia” means “nowhere.” Kolakowski shows how Marxism speaks powerfully to those unrealized, and unrealizable, utopian dreams. Marxism, he wrote, was the “greatest fan- tasy” of the twentieth century, not because it offered a better life but because it appealed to apparently ineradicable spiritual cravings.
Of course, it is not just to mankind’s spiritual cravings that Marxism appeals. It also speaks to its inherent thuggishness.
This point cannot be emphasized too much. These days, Stalin and Stalinism are in bad odor. But we forget the romance that Western intellectuals indulged for this mass murderer. We also tend to overlook the fact that thuggishness is an integral, not an accidental, feature of Marxism. Marx spoke of the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” What did he mean by “dictatorship”? Lenin explained. “Dictatorship,” he wrote in 1906, “means unlimited power based on force, and not on law.”
In case that was not sufficiently compelling, Lenin add- ed the word “scientific”: “The scientific term ‘dictatorship’ means nothing more nor less than authority untrammelled by any laws, absolutely unrestricted by any rules whatever, and based directly on violence.”
Wow. You sound like Roger Kimball.
Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸
Although there is a lot of overlap between socialism and communism, Don was writing about communism and the allure of power, in which no private property is allowed. That's total control. It's why Bernie Sanders calls himself a socialist--he doesn't want to part with that taxpayer wealth that ended up in his real estate holdings.
Are we going to see a charity boxing match between Kimball and Surber to settle this? 😂😂😂
“…the illusion of universal explanation.” All men are born seekers. But seekers of what?
John 1:9
..”That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
Every man, woman and child in the world, no matter where or when or under what circumstances he is born, is imbued with a seemingly indiscernible impulse to search for purpose and meaning in their life.
This “light” that drives all men will be under constant pressure, and attack, as the man desperately seeks to grab ahold of that meaning and purpose in his life. Everything that man does, everything he learns, everything he chooses will revolve around either connecting with or disconnecting from that light he was born with.
That light is truth.
Deuteronomy 30:19
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live”
Our Life is designed to be the pursuit truth itself.
And when it comes to communism, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn so aptly put it, “Live not by lies.”
Has anyone thought about amputating one of the hands of all these economists? That might, might, wake them up.
Even better, make them live under their system. Create special cities where they can't leave. Rent control so somehow someone will pay for repairs and you will probably not have much air conditioning or heat. Pay them what they are worth! THAT WOULD HURT. Free medical care with DEI personnel and to keep costs low, widespread end of life procedures and those people who normally could not get into medical schools as your doctors. Controlled food prices. Yes, line would be long and there would not be much meat but there are at least some vegans who live a long life. Diabetes would disappear since few carbs. And there are always those "special" shots that will end all your worries.
And, of course, no other way out. We could have TV cameras everywhere so regular people could see what goes on and those devoted enough can move there.
The rest of us just might live free.
And the best way to keep our freedom: Keep the Second Amendment.
Just send them to Cuba or North Korea.
England is almost as bad and they can learn to live with people who refuse to assimilate.
Then there's always that dolt woman in Congress who thinks that Cuba is absolutely wonderful and a great example for us to emulate. In what universe is she living in? The Cubans are starving to death, they have blackouts all the time
England and Australia gave up their guns and they're trying to convince us to take the final steps in Canada.
Apathy and ignorance have put these Communists in power. Less than 20% of the eligible people voted.
Those who advocate for communism do so on the theory that it is something that applies only to "other people," and when it comes to the part where they claim "to each according to his need," they personally will be the ones who determine who "needs" what. Strangely, they always seem to "need" a lot more than the rest of the people. Communism in theory is like phrenology in theory; it sounds like something that makes sense, but once it is tried, it always fails. (That is why the communists always tell us that "real communism" has never been tried; because every time it is implemented, it fails.) The little tyrants who have been elected on the promise to make things "more equal/equitable" never live out their promise in their personal lives. A quick review of all communist governments in action through all time will provide proof. Did Stalin live in one of the concrete boxes soviet communism provided for "the people"? Nope; he took up residence in The Kremlin, which was built by Tsars as their personal palace. How about Castro? Nope, same thing; As Cuba's "communist" dictator, he lived in a heavily guarded, four-bedroom home just outside Havana and maintained a private island getaway known as Cayo Piedra. Surely, Mao lived with and among his peasants. Again, nope; from the founding of the so-called People's Republic of China in 1949 until his death in 1976, Mao lived and worked primarily in the Zhongnanhai compound, a historic imperial garden adjacent to the Forbidden City that serves as the central headquarters for the Chinese government. Never once has any self-styled "communist" lived as he or she preached. Madmani went from a rent controlled apartment (despite being personally wealthy) to Gracie MANSION, (they don't call it "Gracie Hovel for a reason) courtesy of the NYC taxpayers over whom he now rules. It's always the same; stupid, selfish people fall for the lie of communism like bass fall for a rubber worm. And they get just as much out of it: nothing. At least the lucky ones do; the unfortunate ones wind up in the gulag, the workhouse, the prison or the morgue.
Closing the borders is an absolute Must, as is praying. If we don't stop the invasion, we will be overwhelmed and hang together we will, separated only by the distance between lamp posts.
Trump has two years plus a few months then who takes over? Vance isn't Trump pt 2 and his election isn't guaranteed.
Yes we need to control the debt, but that is a secondary problem and doing so starts with stopping spending that isn't about infrastructure, national defence or law enforcement.
We have a lot of problems to fix that were created by the donks and not a lot of time to do it.
In Russia in 1917 the people defeated one form of feudalism for another more vicious one. They owned nothing before and even less after. Under feudalism at least the had their souls.
That’s Communism