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Early WROL (Without Rule of Law) Looks Like This
I could try to describe the current situation as running on fumes, coasting up a hill, ropes fraying, corks slipping, and so forth, but I just want to provide a couple of tweets from others who have captured the actual decline, rather than my talk-talk.
Here’s one about the NYPD besieged inside of Grand Central Station while the same Marxist rent-a-mob who shows up with whatever signs or flags are the uniform of the day simply bashes and batters their way into the building. Have you seen this? I am including it as a retweet by Ian Miles Cheong because his comment accurately captures the immediate context, in order to precisely locate this event on the slide into lawlessness.
Don’t blame the cops for just letting this happen. The last time they arrested Antifa they got sued for it and the city lost millions of dollars that it had to pay out to the activists. https://t.co/EGaigDCJOC
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 11, 2023
And here’s plenty of NYPD doing “crowd control” while the same literally foreign-flagged army in our streets hurls American flags to the ground — on Armistice Day; the day after Veterans’ Day.
Those US flags, disrespectfully tossed to the ground, are the symbol of the blood, sweat and tears of generations of people who believed in and built this great country.
If you love Palestine so much, why don’t you move there?pic.twitter.com/AT7ZKrH6lx
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 11, 2023
Some people will be protected, but you are probably not among them. If you are, Nice! How’s that government caviar? For the rest of us, here are our tax dollars at work rolling up a combat veteran suspected of using pepper spray at J6 — three years ago. No longer serving because he refused the government’s unproven “vaccine” injection for COVID. Julie Kelly reports:
I just spoke with Todd Yetman, brother of Gregory, the man hunted down by FBI for J6 related offenses.
The conversation was sad, infuriating, and in some instances, funny.
First, he said the FBI staked out their home for THREE MONTHS prior to the raid on Wednesday am.
(Todd,… pic.twitter.com/T8te0QJUtX
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) November 10, 2023
This is all going to get worse before it gets better. I’m laying my cards out — no Republican will be elected President in 2024. That will simply not be allowed. Well, some Democrat-friendly Judas like Chris Christie, maybe, but that’s only if the Dems really need the camouflage. I will still vote, and will do some campaign work if I can, but I’m snapping a chalk line right here — this government will no longer tolerate changes in leadership or direction from a bunch of mouth-breathing tools who don’t even have TS clearances, and aren’t read in on the grey book.
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Cheong is right, sorta, and I can excuse his lack of full explanation because he’s a dude living in Malaysia whose entire perspective is filtered through the internet.
The settlement to which he refers was . . . typical for our times, but:
So there’s that. But the larger point stands: the police did not wade in and engage, preferring to wait, gather forces, and push forward away from the entrance without opening the doors. (The video above does not show that sequence.) The crowd was instructed to disperse. I expect that they did not, but probably shouted and hooted and moved along to some other target – like the flags on the poles.
I don’t know if the person who took down the flags was arrested; I doubt it. The cops, outnumbered, may have declined to risk their safety. A few arrests were made, per reports.
My personal opinion: if you attack cops who are arresting someone who took down a flag, you deserve a truncheon to the dome, and if that does not get the point across, and your comrades are intent on swarming the police, it’s weapons free. For the progressives who would insist that this is simply passionate protest, and all lives matter, imagine a horde of neo-Nazis attacking police attempting to arrest someone for taking down a rainbow flag on private property. Shouldn’t be hard to imagine, since we’ve seen endless footage of all these white-supremicist pro-trans-genocide fascists filling the streets chanting “from border to border, coast to coast / there are two genders at the most,” right? I mean, I realize that the rainbow flag is a symbol of liberation, and the American flag an emblem of repression, but just try to grasp the analogy at a basic level.
There is a maniacal spirit abroad in the land. The leftist nomenklatu believe they can stand with it when it’s advantageous, distance themselves when it’s not. They know that the media is generally sympathetic to The Cause, so they will not be overly alarmed by street violence. They can be counted upon to condemn reactionary street violence as an opportunistic escalation whose motivations lack the essential purity of the original protestors, whose zeal and excesses do not reflect the truth of The Cause. But in the end all they have done is let loose the Brown Shirts, and blessed the arrival of chaos. They think it ends with a new order that lets them rule over a better world, but it usually ends with a grinning young man with a gun telling the editor of the paper to hit the bricks, because we’re in charge now.
I think that @Amuse account is exactly right. This is another account I follow, by the way. Lots of great stuff.
Sorry for tweet-commenting on a tweet-post:
Absolutely. I’ve been calling these thugs the Democrats’ brownshirts since Obama first recruited a street army in #Occupy. Since then, it’s been rinse and repeat sessions of identifying talent, running drills, filling gaps, and smashing Western Civilization.
Maybe someday, when it doesn’t matter anymore, the narrative will shift, and everyone will know that American elections have been badly corrupted for a long time, but now that’s old news, and what the [cussword] is wrong with you for thinking it wasn’t necessary to stop the Bad Orange Man or the Yet Unnamed Bad Republican who doesn’t want a people subservient to the wise and benevolent Deep State?
But if it’s some kind of federal thing, wouldn’t they just turn him over to the FBI anyway?
Anarcho tyranny
My falling out with the GOP is directly related to their response to January 6th, and the rigging of the 20 election. They allowed the Democrats to rig the election, and when their own base begged them to stop it, they ignored them. Why? Well, the easy answer is they wanted rid of Trump and this way they can say he was voted out of office. They acted as cowards. There is an old, but very true saw that says what gets rewarded gets repeated and the Dems were able to rig an election, use political violence to their end, and censor conservatives using the government. Heck, they used the government to undermine a Presidency and suffered no consequences.
What gets rewarded gets repeated. So, they did it again in 22…and still nothing. Why would they change? Anyone who thinks that they won’t do the same in 24 is deluded. Honestly the election is similar to the GOP debates that Trump hasn’t attended…some theater with not bearing on the outcome that has been decided already.
A lot of the lawsuits you mention have a collusive smell to them.
Yes!
Well, yes. But he denied the FBI a televised siege and avoided the likelihood of a Ruby Ridge (which by the articles I’ve seen, they were hoping for).
Yes, and Sundance at CTH refers to the number 1 position after Trump as First Loser.
Of course they will. But the twp police are not ready with cameras rolling and a plan to kill him in broad daylight.
Edit: Dawg’d!
Who was in charge of the government in 2020? Trump. If the election was stolen (I don’t think it was, though I don’t think it was a fair election given the hoaxes the media promoted), it was stolen on his watch.
Fire hoses. Set them up and turn them on.
Because everyone knows the President has full control over elections in 50 different states…
The Deep State, to a rather large extent. See the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Twitter Files.
You are officially not serious about this. That is just troll-level ignorance. Please don’t do it here, moderator or no.
Amen.
Full control? No, but he has resources to combat fraud. If Trump’s claims are true, then he let himself get rolled.
More proof that Trump was ineffective at fighting fraud. Why would anyone think he’s going to better the second time around?
He did get rolled. Heard of the Russian Collusion Hoax and the Twitter Files? The only question is to what extent election cheating at a federal level involved Trump being rolled.
This isn’t trolling, it’s in response to your line in the original post, ” I’m laying my cards out — no Republican will be elected President in 2024. That will simply not be allowed. “, and David Broussard’s comment above. I happen to agree with you – I don’t think a Republican will be elected president in 2024 either, but I think that because it looks like the GOP is going to nominate an elderly eccentric entertainer who galvanizes the Democrats . The country, poll after poll, is telling both parties that it doesn’t like their frontrunners, and both parties seem disinclined to listen. Don’t get me wrong – if we are stuck with a Biden/Trump rematch, I hope Trump wins because Biden is just a disaster, but frankly I would rather both parties get someone else.
Proof, at least, that he was largely ineffective at fighting the Deep State–due in large part to its being bigger and more corrupt than we knew.
Did I miss the part where someone said Trump was going to be better at fighting fraud this time?
I hesitate to even respond here because this level of willful ignorance and misinterpreting what I said is amazing.
I did not say it was stolen, I said it was rigged. Heck, they bragged about it in Newsweek after the election. Now they are “worried” that the coalition that secured the 20 election is being fractured by the GOP. From that article:
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that the party of totalitarianism sees the government controlling elections and social media as the solution to everything…as long as THEY are controlling everything.
So, first off, as others have said, no President controls every aspect of the gov’t, and more so, Republican Presidents control even less as the bureaucracy always opposes them. Next, we do not have a single election in the US, nor does the Federal gov’t even run any of the over 3,300 elections in the US as each county (and county-equivalent) runs their elections independently. Even the States don’t always have the ability to call rogue counties to heel when they violate the State laws. For example, Harris County tried to implement drive-thru voting in 20, and it was actually difficult for the Governor to stop them.
So, the President doesn’t control any election and is limited to very specific actions that they can take as a candidate. When a PA Rep brought suit about the absentee ballot changes in PA, the courts refused to hear the case saying that no injury had occurred, and then after the election said that it should have been challenged before the election because now it was too late. Nice double-speak when you can get away with it, luckily for them, there are plenty of media propagandists who will lie about the lawsuits to protect them.
The idea that the Federal government was telling social media companies to shut down conversations they didn’t like should piss everyone off…amazingly so many people seem to think it was just fine. That they all appear to want Trump to lose seems to be the motivating factor.
No, it’s just that I don’t see why the GOP is set to nominate a person who has already demonstrated that they can’t fight fraud effectively. What, is he going to be magically better at it this time around?!
Because of reasons. Maybe some bad ones.
And maybe some merely understandable ones–like “I was all ready to move on, and then you jerks told me I wasn’t even allowed to vote for Trump; well, I’ll show you!”
And maybe some good ones, like “There is now a struggle between the Constitution and the Deep State; only one can survive, and only one candidate for President is clearly involved in this fight and is also on the right side of it.”
RE: vote fraud
There are over 3K individual county or parish boards of election. They are not monitored by their states. They are monitored by people appointed by the political parties, issues committees and individuals representing independent candidates.
If the observer rules are like Ohio’s you wonder why they even have them.
https://www.sos.state.oh.us/globalassets/elections/directives/2022/eom/dir2022-13-ch09.pdf
That’s a fair response. I agree with you about the struggle between the Constitution and the Deep State, though I would perhaps prefer the term “institutionalized Leftism”, because that seems to be its most toxic aspect. I just don’t think Trump is the person to nominate, because 1. Democrats will crawl over broken glass to vote against him; and 2. He’s an old fart, and we need someone younger and with a potential for 8 years to fight against this.
Is any other candidate clearly involved in the same fight and also on the right side of it?