Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Thomas Sowell"
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Most people focus on the Roman Empire and draw comparisons based on Rome post-Caesar. However, prior to that, Rome was a republic, and what we are experiencing now is more in-line with Rome circa 48 BC. The republic had degenerated into an oligarchy with a corrupt senate and a patrician class buying the support of the peasants in their regions. It's where the term patronage comes from. Caesar saw an opportunity to capitalize on the growing discontent of the populace and he promised them the sun and the moon if they would support him. He was taken out by senators who didn't want to lose their power and they couched his murder in terms of restoring the republic to its true roots. Sound familiar? Booth tried to make the same argument in 1865 and saw himself as an American Brutus.
Of course Caesar had influence that extended beyond the popular front and the call went out to restore order and consolidate the gains that had been made. And that meant getting rid of the Triumvirate that had caused all the division. A wise dictator, a leader in the mold of Plato's Philosopher King was what the doctor ordered, and who better to fill that role than Julius's favorite nephew, Augustus. Remember, Augustus was a very popular emperor. The people loved him and they loved that order had been restored, the mythical Pax Romana had been established. After that the die was cast. It took another 400 years but over time, as the quality of the emperor's continued to diminish new forces, forces that were Roman in name only, got tired of trying to join the club and decided to just take the place over. They didn't want the empire to die, they wanted to run the thing. That should ring a bell as well.
I say all of this because we have gotten in the habit of trying to explain deep issues in 10 minutes or less. Anything more than that and people aren't interested. They don't see history as anything more than stories about a past they have no connection with so if you don't give it to em fast and simple they have better things to do, like spend two hours watching Barbie or Mario Brothers at the air conditioned theater with the reclining seats and the seven dollar small container of soda. Our founders were influenced by the old Roman Republic. Cincinnati is named for the great Roman general who returned to his crops once the republic was saved. The man who became the role model for George Washington. Yet if you ask most American's about the Roman Republic they will say they have no idea there even was such a thing and claim our form of democracy was based on the Greek model. That's too bad, because the fall of the Roman Republic isn't the only example we can point at and say hey, that looks quite familiar. Check out the Hapsburg Empire sometime if you want to see what happens when you try to rule a bunch of people who want to keep their own cultural practices and way of life rather than assimilate with a bloated bureaucracy they don't understand and some culture they don't have any special allegiance to. History doesn't repeat as much as it rhymes. Or as the demon Azazel tells Denzel in the movie Fallen: "Take a look around sometimes Hobbs."
I get it, this post won't get a lot of attention, but you really should take the time to learn the whole story on your own. It's like fine tuning the monitor and getting rid of all the squiggly lines. Things become much clearer.
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Arbitrary abuse of power isn't restricted to civilian life. When I was in the military a buddy of mine applied for a job that required a top-secret security clearance. One night he showed up for work and was told he had to turn in his flight line badge and was being reassigned to a desk job. He asked why but nobody gave him a reason outside of just turn in your badge. Turns out one of the investigators doing the background check on him spoke with a neighbor of his who said my friend had wild parties where dope was smoked and worse. They yanked his security clearance for that and questioned everyone who spent off-duty time with him, including me. The weenie who interviewed me asked me if I had ever seen my friend smoke weed. I said no then the guy starts asking me how I could be so sure? How is it I know what weed smells like? I saw where this fishing expedition was going and told him I was finished answering his questions. He told me to sit my ass back down unless I wanted trouble. I told him I would sit my ass back down if he read me my rights and there was a witness in the room for the rest of the questioning. He grumbled something and I left.
My friend's clearance was held back for close to six months, until someone finally told him who had made the charge against him that was causing all the trouble. He explained to them that the guy was bonkers, certifiably off his rocker. He used to yell at the sky, argue with everyone who lived nearby, would wear a diaper on his head when the mood hit him, and would put up homemade signs along the road from time-to-time, protesting everything from his girlfriend to the police who he claimed were harassing him 24/7. It took a different investigator about half an hour to confirm my friends claim and since the crazy guy was the only one who had said anything negative about him his secret security clearance was reinstated and he was told they would move forward with his top-secret investigation since he was once again eligible for the job he had applied for. He told em to get bent and got out a couple months later.
Why they didn't tell him sooner about the charge against him is anybody's guess. Why they didn't bother to check out the background of the guy making the claim? Laziness I suppose. Why that jerk-weed tried to lean on me and why they kept my buddy in limbo for so long? Sheer arrogance. I don't go in much for absolutes but when you give small people too much power they will always abuse it. So why are they given that power? Connections, ability to BS the right person, institutional laziness, nepotism, pick your poison. That wasn't the only time I saw that particular investigative service run amok. Later, when I was training recruits fresh out of basic, I used to caution them to never let those guys get too friendly with them during any interview, whether they were the focus of the investigation or not.
People with zero accountability who don't give two damns about the downstream consequences of their actions and could care even less about how it affects people at an individual level are legion, in the public and private sectors. And they are responsible for the vast majority of misery the average Joe and Jane have to deal with. The thing is, you don't know who they are or how they do it. Welcome to transparency, 21st Century style.
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I've seen this sort of thing with white students as well. The high school I attended basically found a way to move you onto the next grade and eventual graduation if you simply showed up more often than you skipped classes. I got a C in an American history course because even though I pretty much just showed up on test day my test average was something like 96%. The teacher had me stand up and asked the other students how it was possible a chronic truant like me could get it when the rest of them couldn't. My smart-ass side wanted to say it was because I was gone so much but I knew better and just kept my mouth shut.
Later, when I was a military instructor, we had a problem kid with a ton of disciplinary infractions and he failed the final test for the course. When he failed the re-test we were confident that would be the end of that young man's illustrious career. Not so fast. We also had to deal with the worst officer in the United States military. That isn't a title I throw around lightly. He was on record as saying he was the students best friend and short of committing some major felony no kid was going to start his career with a black eye from any of us.
But rules were rules and the rules said you fail the final and the re-test you fail the course and must be placed in another career field or administratively discharged. Well, not in the world this commander inhabited. He asked us how long it would take to come up with another test for little Johnny to take. We asked, okay, but what happens if we do that and he fails that one? We were then asked how long it would take to write a fourth test. We got the hint and left. We gave the kid his certificate, and sent him on his way but a memo went out to his gaining unit from my boss letting them know what to expect. Sure enough, the kid arrived at his duty station, at 4 A.M. so wasted out of his mind on ecstasy and God knows what else that the cops sent him straight to hospital. I won't say what ramifications that episode had but let's say that after spending five years in a training squadron because no one else wanted him that commander was moved out, where more than one sexual harassment complaint followed.
So it's not just black folks and it's not just universities who are engaging in the "friend" game. The thing is, maybe that beneficiary of the friendship program is working on the plane your getting on tomorrow. Just a thought. But hey, as we used to joke, if the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum now would it? Live long and prosper gang. 🖖
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People were enamored by the idea of obama. He was going to be the vehicle through which America once and for all could show everyone we weren't the racists the rest of the world claimed we were. But Dr. Sowell is right about community organizers. Community organizers are and always have been marxists, and marxists never unite, it runs contrary to the almighty creed of the dialectic. The thing is, he's still weakening the country, only now he really gets to put his foot on the pedal because his stooge is there to take the blame. As for how we got here, how gay marriage and the question what is a woman came into existence, that one is easy to answer:
“For although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools…Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.” ― Romans 1
When a culture turns its back on God and says: "We don't need you, we've got this," God's response eventually is: "Your will be done." It's not rocket science. The cure is available to all who seek it. He's always with us, He always has been, and He always will be.
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Karl Marx, the original basement dweller who has inspired generation after generation of basement dwellers into modern times. One thing most commies have in common is they are all dorks with the social skills of a scorpion and the mating skills of a black widow spider. And they never leave office once they get a hold of power. President Reagan complained that he couldn't get a meeting with any Soviet Premier because they all kept dying on him. Fast forward to today. pelosi, biden, mcconnell, they are all like the old politburo members from the USSR. Feinstein died rather than give up power when she was in her 90s. And none of them, not one, from Marx to castro, to biden and everyone in between left the world a better place for them having been in it. No one will ever know the exact number of people who have died proving Marx wrong but I guess when you get past 100,000,000 what's a few more corpses between comrades. What was it Stalin said, when one man dies it's a tragedy. When 1,000 men die it's a statistic.
And here we are almost 200 years later, watching silently as groups of ignorant children who have no understanding of just how evil communism really is, march in lock-step with the authoritarian leaders of the world they will inherit. I wonder if after their own show trials, when they are in the cells in the gulag they helped create, if they will follow the example set by their predecessors close to 100 years ago, who stared blankly at their executioner and declared, long live the revolution, long live Comrade Stalin. Probably. One thing sociopaths have an instinct for is human frailty and habits. Sleep well little ones, the utopia is just around the corner.
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The breadcrumb trail is not hard to follow. And because most American's can't be bothered the-powers-that-be aren't terribly concerned about hiding it or their intentions. You've got a Marxist outfit like the Southern Poverty Law Center getting to decide who is a right-wing extremist and a Justice Department so thoroughly corrupted they are more than happy to sic the FBI on such extreme dangerous groups. You know, like people who attend traditional Catholic Masses. Why? Must be all that hate speech coded in Latin.
The rainbow fascists throw around terms like genocide to describe what is happening to them, even though there are more than 150 days dedicated to that wicked cult. obama has his puppet hanging their demonic pagan flags right along side the American flag at the White House at the same height. You've got biden's handlers telling him to make the sign of the cross at abortion rally's and who could forget his speech in front of that deep red background where he declared anyone who didn't agree with him a threat to democracy. When she was running for president, the wicked queen of the Ozarks whose name shall not be uttered here came straight out and said people of faith were just going to have to park their faith at the curb in order for the progressive agenda to be implemented. She still goes around calling anyone who disagrees with her a Nazi. They don't hide their plans because they know they don't have to and they believe every word they say. State-run media backs their play and bureaucrats within law enforcement and other agencies who are more concerned about protecting their pensions than they are about upholding the oath they swore to protect and defend the Constitution are more than willing to carry out whatever orders they are given.
I'm not saying people on the right should start thinking and behaving like anarchists or BLM storm-troopers but we need to stop automatically assuming everyone in the military or law enforcement is a good guy and a hero by default. The whole "back the blue" concept has always been a central tenant of conservatism. Again, to be clear, I'm not saying we should stop supporting military personnel and first responders but we need to be more discerning and stop assuming that just because somebody wears a uniform that they share our values and will always have our best interests in mind. Regular Germans loaded the trains and made sure they arrived at their destination. I'm not saying the trains are going to be running anytime soon but history teaches us that when it comes to doing the right thing people don't have a great track record.
Does all that sound extreme? Sure, but 10-years ago the idea a man would be allowed to compete with women in college sports and grown men would be allowed to pee next to six-year old girls simply because they say they feel like a woman was a crackpot idea, a false slippery slope argument made by conspiracy-minded right-wingers whose homophobia was crushing the souls of people who just wanted to experience love like everyone else. They would never target a specific baker who didn't want to participate in their charade because of his religious objections again, and again, and again, and again, force him to bake wedding cakes for them as a warning to others. That was more right-wing conspiracy stuff. The idea that they would target people and ruin them financially in a very public manner as an intimidation tactic was just ridiculous. Until it wasn't.
Yeah, this is another of my lengthy posts but some things can't be said in 240 characters or less. They are bringing howitzers to gun fights while we keep showing up with the Constitution, expecting them to behave in a civil fashion. They have no intention of engaging in a debate with you, civil or otherwise, over the first amendment. They hate the document and all it stands for and they are in the process of putting a new world order into place to replace one they see as repressive and out-of-date. This is coming from a guy who is probably the furthest away from the tin-foil hat crowd as anyone. But I can read. I can hear. And I can connect dots. People generally mean what they say, unless they are republicans. Just be advised, the people who have been aiming at changing the way this republic operates have been doing so for more than 100 years and they believe they are entering the end-game. Can you blame them? They think they are close. Where are the rest of us? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Chomsky and the rest of the old school Soviet-style commies are either gone or so old nobody gives a damn what they think about anything. They have been replaced with guys like Neil deGrasse Tyson, celebrity scientists and the like who seem to believe because they know a bit about one thing and have been on TV their opinion on matters beyond their scope should be taken as seriously as they take themselves. Then you've got actual celebrities, like that bill nye character popping up on panel shows discussing everything from global warming to transgenderism while some empty headed TV host stares intently, hanging on their every word as if it was coming down from Mt. Sinai.
I have a friend who was heading out to watch the total eclipse a couple years back and when I told him to be careful he said it was okay because the glasses he bought, maybe online, maybe at the gas station, had the bill nye seal of approval. I was going to laugh and ask him if he was serious but I didn't want the argument. Now he's a reasonably intelligent guy but he is definitely a man of the left and when he talks about settled science and the false efficacy of herd immunity, well he means every bit of it. We've been friends for close to 50 years and we just don't discuss politics, that's how we make it work. But he is of the mind that we would be much happier if we followed the lead of our better's, because by golly, they wouldn't hurt anyone, at least not intentionally. I'm telling you, it's a cult. It's a cult and no matter how much you try to persuade them, you are always wrong if you are one of the deplorables. Ce-la-vie.
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They, and by they I mean the powers-that-be and their mouthpieces in state-run-media, are no longer afraid to say the quiet part out loud. They used to be a bit more subtle in their word appropriation but they believe they are on the ascendency, that their time has arrived so now you get terms like Christian nationalism tossed around and Christian nationalists are, by extension, threats to democracy, which now means equality for those the powers-that-be want to be equal.
I heard some crackpot from some university, think-tank, or maybe it was The New York Times bemoaning the fact that there are people out there actually telling other people their rights don't come from government but from some transcendent God who according to her was as real as the Man on the Moon. The guy considered to be the thought leader for the WEF said he looked into a human corpse and could find no rights at all. Therefore, according to him rights didn't exist. No need to concern ourselves with where they come from I guess.
But hey, March Madness is happening and gas dropped two cents last month so life is good. Rights? We don't need no stinking rights and words can mean whatever they need to mean at any given moment. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
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@kale2149 It confirms what I said earlier, they have been lulled by the nanny state and it's what they know. They are told how well the system works day after day by state run media and they see government as a force for good in their lives. I know it, I saw it, lived through it. Have you lived there? If you have, how was it? How'd state run health care work for you? In practice, not theory, not some data from some poll, how did it work for you on a personal level? You seem to be a true believer so it's a fair question. Are your opinions based on what others have told you or on your own experience dealing with the system and the ridiculously high, regressive taxes such as the GST that were put in place to prop it up? If you've been there, I'll lend a bit more gravitas to your take on it. I say it sucks because I dealt with it, in real life, but that's me.
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I graduated from a high school that was roughly 80% black. I remember black boys who studied and got good grades being called Uncle Tom's and accused of trying to be white. But it was always the other boys doing the name calling. Black girls were free to get the benefit of an education if they wanted it and no one called them any names. That was 50 years ago. Between that and the beatification of the single mother in the black community a patriarchy has been established. Single black mom's have always held a high place on the protected class totem-poll. Criticize a single black mother and see how far it gets you. I saw them receive special treatment when I was an undergrad. Professor's would allow them to miss as many classes as they wanted. One white woman called the professor out for this and when he told her that her case was different because she was a single mom the woman exploded, telling the professor she was a single mom as well and that same professor had warned her after she missed three classes that any more absences would result in her being dropped in accordance with the universities policy.
The government did the same, but their objective was to make the family dependent on them since people will vote for the politicians they believe are necessary for their very survival. The liberation movements of the 60s played just as big a role. The sexual liberation movement told young people to do what made them feel good and the women's liberation movement told women they didn't need a man to get by in the world. Young single black girls living on the edge who followed the advice of those two groups were especially vulnerable and were set up for failure. But there was Uncle Lyndon, telling them it was okay because like his hero FDR he would be there to make sure their basic needs were met, basic being the key part of that deal.
I always find it amusing and sad at the same time that the group who claims to be progressive always falls back on old tropes when it comes to dealing with black people. It's always about looking back, righting old wrongs, never looking ahead. Johnson went back 100 years. Jesse simply calls everything another Selma. Compare that to the messaging they use when they are trying to coax illegals over the border to increase their voting base. It's just the opposite. It's all about a better future, a twisted sale of the American dream where they get the benefit of being in America without ever having to become an American. They get to carry their culture with them. Need proof of that? Look no further than all the Palestinian flags being waved in cities like New York as people who have no intention of ever becoming westernized disrupt daily life for everyone else. And what is the response from white America? Shhh, let them be, you don't want to upset them or be called names do you?
Something is gong to give. This country is becoming like the old Hapsburg Empire at the turn of the 20th Century. They had so many different cultures trying to coexist that the internal contradictions caused it to collapse. WWI simply delayed the inevitable. And what happened to those disparate groups? They were either absorbed by other powers willing to crack the whip on them or they fought a series of civil wars over the next 100 years that claimed millions of lives. President Reagan said we were entering a time for choosing. It's here gang. But hey, I'm probably too much of a glass half-empty guy. Sleep well kiddies, the government will make sure it all comes out okay.
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It was interesting to hear that caller from all those years ago try to use the Bible to make his argument. I just had an exchange with a left-wing gentleman the other day who used the same tired trope. He admitted he doesn't go to church, doesn't believe in God, and doesn't accept the notion of sin or a higher transcendent morality, calling religion an outdated superstition from the Bronze-Age, yet he used the same line from scripture that the left had been falling back on for years to create a straw-man for immigration. These guys really should update their tactics. I think they don't because they are lazy.
The truth is obama and his ilk are treating this more like a Soviet-style attack from WWII, a full-frontal assault with the intention of overwhelming the enemy with superior numbers. He knows that even if he is voted out of office this go round the republican president who takes over will never be able to get rid of the millions his stooge has allowed to come in these past three years. What are we going to do; get a bunch of busses, higher a bunch of agents, and drive around the country grabbing these people and then driving them to the border in order to send them back? obama knows that will never happen. His hope is to flood the system until it breaks or to create an internal contradiction along the lines of the old Hapsburg dynasty where it just becomes impossible to manage so many ethnically and culturally diverse groups of people. He needs the existing system to crash in order to complete his fundamental transformation and like all good Maoists he's willing to play the long-game.
The damage is done and the cure is akin to national chemo. Will it come to that? That is hard to say. But at the very least, the infrastructure has been sufficiently weakened. A time-bomb has been set and the clock is ticking, and nothing can be done to diffuse it. It's just a matter of putting together a plan for what a Balkanized America will look like. I wish I could see a rosier future where we all have a kumbaya moment and live in peace and harmony in the utopia the left has promised its true believers for centuries, but I don't. Dystopian nightmares are born from this sort of toxic brew. Free advice, get right with God.
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@MelissaR784 The point I was making is the crazy fellow travelers who have taken control of the democrat party mean what they say and say what they mean. When they have the reigns they use that power to further their agenda because they are true believers in their cause. There is a religious fervor to their actions. When obama said his goal was to fundamentally transform America he meant it. Republicans on the other hand lie to their base. Look at the voting record of most of the party. They keep voting to forward the left's agenda, not to offer any legitimate opposition. They say they are conservatives yet they add trillions to the debt. They say they are pro-life yet they offer no meaningful legislation to protect the unborn. You've got guys like jim jordan who are all sizzle and no steak, running all kinds of investigations that amount to nothing as they get some middling bureaucrat in front of their committee's and pull their pants down so they can get their face on fox news and show everyone what bad-asses they are.
There are a few good members of congress in the party. I'm lucky to have one in my district. But most of them are just sheep in wolves clothing. They'd be democrats if they could but they run in districts where they need the R in front of their name to get elected. Republicans are great and fundraising and lousy at governing because they prefer fundraising to governing and it's easier to do that when you are in the minority. For every Chip Roy and Rand Paul there are 10 mitch mc'connel's and joni ernst's voting for progressive crap. And they do that as they cry; "We did what we had to do because need to work together" or "We can't let the government shutdown so we had no choice" or "We don't have the votes. We need both houses" and then there's my favorite, "But the Courts." In the meantime they go back on their promises, when they have the power they don't do anything with it, and we end up with Justices like kavanaugh and barrett who delivered on one issue then voted in lock-step with their lefty colleagues on other matters.
That is what I mean when I say "People generally say what they mean unless they are republicans." The left is serious about tearing the system down and replacing it with their dystopian vision. When they say a man can be a woman they believe it and when they say they want to pack the Court and abolish the Electoral College or the Senate they mean that too. They also mean it when they say religious liberty is just going to have to take a back seat to the progressive agenda because the arc of history bends in their favor. These are all statements and positions people with authority in that party have made or held. And they'll get around to it too, in due time. Republicans? They stand for nothing for the most part, and lately it's all about the show anyway. Reality-TV as politics.
I dunno, maybe you believe in the republican party, I don't. I've been around too many blocks with them and they have burned me too many times on the big stuff, the stuff that matters, for me to believe anything they have to say. To me, that makes them worse than the democrats. At least the democrats give their base what they want, even if they have to tell them what they want at the same time.
This has been a lengthy response but you claimed my comment didn't make sense. I just wanted to add clarity. As a conservative I'm homeless. The only party that hates my kind more than the democrats are the republicans, I'm not welcome around the MAGA campfire, the libertarians lack any moral center and based on the recent selection of their standard bearer for 2024 tradition has been totally thrown out the window by that bunch. But that's me. You're free to disagree but I mean what I say.
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I believe in sharing the blame equally but the people have been the problem for quite some time. Maybe we've always been the problem and Divine intervention more than anything else has kept us afloat for the past 235 years. I do know this, the teachers union didn't show up with tanks and machine guns saying let us have our way with your kids or else. We just couldn't be bothered. The unelected fourth branch of government didn't create an out-of-control bureaucracy and tell people the Constitution is just an old document that has outlived its usefulness. We decided to hand things over to the experts.
And the people didn't clamor for politics as reality-TV but when they got it they fell in love with it. It allowed us to take part in the ultimate game of shirts and skins and we they leapt at the opportunity. We not only rejected any chance of getting off the ride, we did so vehemently, lashing out at anyone who dared try to stop the show, calling them traitors to the clan, losers of the highest order. When the German's took over Austria in 1938 reporters referred to it as the rape of Austria. One astute newspaperman pointed out that if that is the case Austria seems to like being raped. We seem to prefer lies to truth, problems to solutions, just so long as the games continue.
We have always had a thing for shiny objects and with social media, 24/7 news cycles. and elections that last for years there are plenty of shiny objects to go around, or as the author Neil Postman put it in the 1980s, we truly do seem to be amusing ourselves to death. But it's all fun and games until someone loses a way of life, especially in a country with a well-armed populace. We really should spend more time considering such things as what we are actually going to do about trillion dollar spending resolutions passing every few months or what we are actually going to do about these millions of illegal immigrants when they start doing what they have to do to survive and less time laughing at our president having conversations with imaginary friends or carrying on about the salacious revelations of the porn-stars his opponent paid off. Like I say, just something to consider.
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That recent bi-partisan abomination the senate came up with tells you all you need to know about how political leaders on both sides feel about the open border. They let that cinnamon woman from Arizona sponsor it from the left because she pretends to be an independent and while she's up for re-election she's running against the news lady who has decided being trump in a skirt is a winning strategy. Kinda like it did for the book she wrote, the one that sold in the dozens. The cinnamon lady knows she will have no trouble dusting the maga queen bee off so she was willing to take one for the team, most likely in exchange for the committee chair of her choosing come 2025. That lankofrd joker out of Oklahoma who was the republican sponsor for the bill did what his master ditch ordered him to do. Then he stood back and watched as mcconnell, in true mcconnell fashion, tossed him under the bus and rocked it from forward to reverse and back again a few times for good measure. But he's not up for re-lection until 2028 and he can always lie about his conservative credentials because his is from Oklahoma after all and people will have long forgotten this traitorous bill. Fox News will make sure it gets buried properly.
The thing is, I think it was just a trial balloon anyway. The little weasels got together and drafted a bill so obnoxious they knew it was DOA before it even saw the light of day. Now they are gauging just which parts were deal-breakers and which parts they can slip into the real bend-you-over bill they will pass in 2025, when democrats will have the WH and both chambers of congress. You think things are bad now? Wait until you get a load of obama's fourth term.
But hey, the republican voters have spoken. They want trump and his flying circus with it's bruce jenner freak tent and carney-barkers like roger stone more than some boring candidate who can't even come up with any good nicknames for his opponents. I mean, the man has never had a reality-tv show or cheated on his wife. What exactly qualifies him to be president? What qualifies him to play ringmaster for the greatest show on Earth? Why, I didn't hear any tv-evangelical tell me DeSantis is a Godly man. Not like trump who according to preachers on his payroll is God's son in whom he is well pleased.
But hey, I'm probably over reacting. Of course trump will win. He will beat all those black robed meanies who want to lock him up and will capture 35% or more of the black vote because as Fox News has pointed out, the brotha's be flippin for trump in Rhode Island, and we all know what a bellwether state Rhode Island is when it comes to race in America. The man is loved from sea-to-shining-sea after all. Just ask him. Or better yet, learn to speak Spanish, or Uzbek or whatever the preferred language of your new neighbors is. It will help you out as you ask them to stop pissing on your lawn and to take their tent down because it's blocking your driveway.
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