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How Long Can This Continue?
Jeffrey A. Tucker has covered it all here: “The Great Game of Let’s Pretend.”
There are two groups of Americans, those who see, acknowledge, and state the truth and those who won’t.
So now I begin to wonder if I can be on this earth long enough to see this change.
What is possible as we prepare for the 2024 election?
What fabricated scenarios will those ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ come up with?
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From the link
I( didn’t read the entire article, just the few paragraphs Drew copied and pasted here. It’s shocking to say this, but my first reaction was, Ho Hum, I’ve been saying and reading this same thing for nearly two years, maybe more. What can I do? I vote and pray. I stopped trying to convince the lefties of the error of their ways, except when they get in my face. Then I respond vigorously. Other than that, I have never been an activist, even when I was a young man full of righteous socialist secular humanism. I didn’t proselytize then and I don’t now. However, no one who knows me is uncertain of where I stand.
Jeffery Tucker is hardly alone in being critical of Donald Trump for refusing to admit the mistakes that his administration made on the handling of Covid. That said, Donald Trump is hardly alone and being a politician who can’t publicly admit his own mistakes or those of his administration.
Refusal or inability to admit past mistakes seems to be the hallmark of government administrations everywhere.
This is not about Trump.
I suggest the drive to make everything about Trump is why a lot of people allegedly on our side miss the point entirely.
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Who else is so obviously an outsider? Nearly all of Washington unifies against him. That tells a lot of people all they need to know.
Oh Goodie ! Can we play “Let’s Pretend” too?
Oh Boy ! I wanna Just be like all the Uniparty posters here who want to pretend :“we’re winning in Ukraine”, “the Vax is good for you!”, “We can believe our government in everything they say”, “there was no meaningful election fraud except the really diabolical stuff that was caused by Russia which needs to be punished in Ukraine”, “J6 was a dangerous insurrection” “ we absolutely need to censor all speech lest it leads to a Neo-Nazi takeover “, “climate change is killing the planet so we need to end fossil fuel consumption , limit farming and reduce the human population Right Now !!!!’
I think you’ve just revealed the GOP platform.
Missing one. “Abortion is a right that only makes lives better.”
I’d considered that that was missing.
Once again a “killer” bit of writing from the Brownstone Institute.
Thank you for bringing it to us on ricochet.
I can’t disagree with the points that are being made.
As much as I like Tucker, he soft pedaled the interview with Trump.
Now I’d have no problem with the interview allowing Trump to receive some credit for many good things that he did. But Trump’s decision in allowing the “novel virus SARS COV 19” to be worthy of “national emergency” status ruined the lives of so many people. To this day, Trump has not acknowledged this except to say he had been misinformed. (I’m guessing by either Fauci or else the Pfizer industry insider whom he had basically appointed as his health advisor during his first weeks in office.)
I also find no fault in the paragraphs summarizing Kennedy’s campaign for something or other regarding 2024:
“Meanwhile, we’ve got Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., out there on countless public interviews, as a presidential candidate, saying remarkable things like 1) the CIA in 1963 killed his uncle who was president, 2) the intelligence community works with Big Pharma on gain-of-function research to create and cure new killer viruses, 3) they germ-gamed the lockdowns since 2001, 4) the lockdowns of March 2020 was a coup d’etat against representative democracy, 5) right now we have industry-captured Deep-State agencies that are ruling America who have no regard whatsoever for the US Constitution or the idea of freedom.
“He says all of this without any shyness and with a great deal with knowledge and detail. He provides the receipts. Indeed, he has written several books on these themes. People listen and think “Oh that’s very interesting” and go hear him speak, without any presumption that he stands any chance to be President despite his wild popularity because, essentially, the fix is in.”
One thing that Trump called correctly and that Kennedy should give heed to is that Trump’s team of lawyers discovered in 2015 that only the top dog in the Dem Party decides who the candidate-to-be will be.
In 2015, that top dog was Hillary Clinton. (Which is why Trump decided to run as a Republican.)
In 2023, that top dog is Barack Obama.
Unless the same type of tornado that hit the Pfizer vaccine lab and warehouse in the Carolinas hits both the Biden residence and Obama’s residence to knock these two Lizard People off the face of the earth, Kennedy has as much of a chance of being the Dem nomination for the Presidential candidate as my favorite front yard ground squirrel.
And yet it kinda’ is about Trump, his conclusion says:
Thin hope, indeed. DeSantis was much sounder on Covid and would make a better candidate to run against new mandates and lockdowns.
Scott Adams on the American Thinker at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/law_and_order_the_postconstitutional_episode.html
No one said it better than @oldbathos in Have Pity for the Leftist, here.
Here’s the intro- read the whole thing as it is a superb piece of parody (I think it’s parody….):
I know that. But why this drive to make everything about Trump? It’s like you guys WANT to boost his importance. So that you have a scapegoat? Because everyone needs an Emanuel Goldstein? The OP didn’t even mention Trump and yet out come the Trump-obsessives immediately.
The Trump haters claim there’s a cult of personality around Trump. No, rather there’s a cult built around Trump hate.
The only policy issue mentioned by @josephstanko was in reference to Covid, which Trump supporters tend to agree that Trump mishandled, and it is not Trump’s personal political skills that generate his popularity but rather his unique view on the greatness of America and how that should be approached by Washington. Notice that bolded word. When we get the next capable candidate for President with a comparable vision for the country, things might change.
This could be the first draft of the opening paragraph of a biography of Pete Buttigieg.
I’m just beginning to realize, in one respect, what is happening in our country. Some of us have posted on the steps we need to take to stop the takeover–setting agendas for House Committees, candidates calling out illegal government actions, calling out Joe Biden and the other bureaucrats who have no qualms about lying (or don’t know that they are). It’s not that we shouldn’t keep calling people out and even try to take legal action. But if we want to be honest with ourselves, we need to know that any issue of consequence will die. I never would have believed that the enemies of our country were this powerful, and it may even be bigger than George Soros. But the odds of our being successful against this evil tyranny are working against us. By ignoring us, ridiculing us, lying about us, accusing us, they will likely be victorious. I can’t believe I’m saying this. But there have been far too many accusations and call-outs for us to fail repeatedly. Is it already over?
Of course not. Don’t mistake desperation for power. This is their last gasp before the turning.
We’re “ungovernable” and I plan to stay that way.
I don’t know, Chris. How many people outside of Rico will follow your lead? Think of all the illegal actions they have committed beginning at least with Trump’s presidency, and only a couple of low-level bureaucrats were offered up for the slaughter. Sure, a couple quit their jobs or were fired, but they’re on full pensions. Have we had any real victories against them? Will Republicans finally take consequential actions? Who is stopping the crime? Who’s protecting the border? Who is stopping the drugs? And they keep voting for Progressives.
This probably deserves a post.
Who is “they”?
I lost interest when the author of the linked article praised RFK Jr and his nutty conspiracy theories.
Regarding the topics of the Republican presidential debate, recriminations about decisions made in the past over COVID would not play well at all, especially since the factual basis of the recriminations is doubtful. For example, no, COVID vaccines don’t cause large numbers of deadly side effects. Sorry, the converse just isn’t true. The vaccines do work and do help prevent disease spread, they probably saved millions of lives. And nobody knew that masks and lockdowns wouldn’t work very well when the whole thing started. We won’t know a lot when the next pandemic starts, either, and mistakes will be made.
One thing I know for certain about the next election: The people who spend all their time ruminating over conspiracy theories and the past are going to lose.
I don’t expect any inside Rico to follow, much less outside. I believe you’ll come to the same conclusion. There is a reason for the desperation.
People who let fear control them, and who control by fear.
For context, you say this about them
“Of course not. Don’t mistake desperation for power. This is their last gasp before the turning.”
What makes you think this is their last gasp? And remember, they don’t just control by fear; they have a lot of the guns and an unlimited amount of money. I see no indications of desperation on their part, but certainly appreciate your optimism.
The shots do not prevent the taker from either getting or transmitting the disease. In my mind, that makes the shots therapeutics, not vaccines. Other than that, I agree, kinda. The lockdowns were transparently political from the start. Unless you believe that churches should be closed while liquor stores are left open and small businesses are more dangerous to spreading COVID than Costco and Home Depot, etc. Oh, and I do believe the COVID shots are not the best thing for young men. So I guess I agree with everything you said, except for just about everything you said.
This is a non-falsifiable theory.
Meanwhile, the virus itself, created by the U.S. Government, killed millions around the world, and nobody’s been held accountable.
And I’m sorry “oops, we goofed and let it out” doesn’t cut it.
There must be severe consequences so that nobody ever tries this again.
At the least, Fauci must be brought before an international tribunal and made to answer for his crimes of mass murder.
I hate to add to the woe. But the federal government is now testing its AI internet guidance system to identify all internet users with individual markers and to guide what AI identifies as potential alternate (true) facts, stories and narratives away from people who don’t accept the government narratives.
You can still believe what you want but you won’t be able to cite anything from the internet other than the government narrative, and no new information that challenges the narrative will be available.
Not good! I think I’m going to check out knitting.
Knitting needles can be quite dangerous too if left on a chair unattended. I know this.
Ouch!