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Fighting Words
Powerline just posted a must-read essay from the great David Horowitz. The whole thing is frighteningly perceptive as you might expect (Horowitz spent 20 years as a communist radical in his younger days, and he understands the left as few do), but here is a very brief taste:
Democrats are not democrats; they are totalitarians. They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system, and the idea of civil order.
I would love to hear my Democrat friends attempt to argue with any of those points.
Conservatives tend to believe in freedom to do as one pleases. So conservatives naturally tend to allow those they don’t agree with a great deal of latitude: “Well, I don’t see it that way. But whatever makes you happy, buddy. None of my business.” So while polite conservatives like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, myself, David Horowitz, and millions of others were playing nice, the left was using any means at their disposal to accumulate power.
Democrat voter fraud is not a new concept.
In the last election, the Democrats made it clear that they didn’t care (and it didn’t matter) who voted for whom. Biden didn’t even bother to campaign, which seemed odd at the time. But not now. This blatant power play has scared a large number of previously deferential conservatives into the realization that we are involved in a war, whether we choose to participate in it or not. And that this war has been going on for some decades.
And that has many of us, like me and Mr. Horowitz for example, rapidly evolving from disappointed to pissed off.
Voter fraud is an important part of all this. But it’s not that simple – read Mr. Horowitz’ quote above again, if you like. As he points out in that passage, a nation of free people is faced with an invasion of totalitarians. This election matters, but not as much as everything else Mr. Horowitz discusses in his essay.
What should be done? What can be done? I’m not sure.
But a good first step would be acknowledging the situation we find ourselves in, and recognizing what exactly we are up against.
And Mr. Horowitz’s essay is a good place to start.
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His popularity the week before the election—the time that really matters—was 52%, per Rasmussen reports.
We really need to retire these “Trump just wasn’t popular” comments. Rallies, YT views, and polls all refute this claim.
UPDATE: Oh, you really are referencing “the polls”—the polls that were spectacularly wrong come election day. No, I don’t believe those. I believe honest election results.
That 52% number is referring to his job approval rating, by the way. A sitting president with job approval over 50% has never been denied reelection. I’m expecting that pattern to continue.
According to exit polls. How many white men are revealing their support of Trump to pollsters? These would be the same white men, presumably, who were delivering all that support to Biden in the months leading up to the election.
I don’t buy that “except white men” claim for a minute.
Drop ’em out of helicopters. It’s the only cure for what ails them.
I don’t know how seriously people take Sundance and CTH, but this paragraph is worth reading.
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Bracing post, and vivid analysis by David Horowitz. I’m bookmarking is essay and look forward to reading his forthcoming book Thanks for this post!
Angelo Codevilla is on fire.
The late Mike Vanderboegh was a former Leftist who, after leaving the Left, spent the remainder of his life trying to repair the damage he had helped bring about. Read his words with that in mind.
We are in the midst of a political realignment amongst the various parties. The Neo-cons are merely going home, from where they fled to Reagan from Carter.
Trump merely accelerated the trends. I have been reading Glenn Greenwald since his departure from the Intercept, and he has been highlighting lots of things that are going on.
Actually I have been watching a few left wing sources since the Election, Greenwald, Jimmy Dore and the Useful Idiots podcast. There are allies out there and rebels from the left we should be talking to. Those three sources are super angry at Biden, and much of the betrayal of the progressives by the corrupt Biden cronies. The left is not the monolith we often think it is.
But yeah, the realignment is happening here on Ricochet, and it remains to be seen whether or not the editors realize that. And given a couple recent posts making the main feed, I think they have.
Bad polls or bad pollsters? Because they’ve tried to make Donald Trump the “President for White Men” so they can hang the White Supremacy label on him — and us. So exit polling that shows the exact opposite is the sort of thing the media would bury.
Those 57,000 people who attended rallies were imaginary, I guess.
I mean Biden who had higher totals of supposed black votes than Obama. More excuses. Trump’s “divisiveness” was mostly the political left and the NTs, of which you seem to be one, with 24/7 attacks that were based only on hate.
What was good for Romney’s dog is good enough for Leftists…tie ’em to the roof of the Chevy. Heck, tie Romney up there with ’em. When they run outta road, it’s a station wagon so they can end their journey with a Thelma and Louise.
I thought you were going for the driving high through the low mouttain tunnel.
Yes, Antifa/BLM/Et al are well organized, funded, and do great street theater for MSM. However, to paraphrase Orwell’s comments about Kipling’s poem “Tommy” referring to soldiers guarding civilians that: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf,” and update it for our purposes to say “Tyrants can only sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” The “mobs” are not going to do the hard and deadly counter-insurgency action that will be required to go state-by-state, city-by-city, town-by-town, street-by-street, house-by-house to find, disarm and subdue possibly 74 million insurgents/rebels/freedom fighters – whatever.
This will require a well equipment and professionally train and lead military and police force to have any chance of bringing the “deplorables” to heel. As I see it, with the bulk of the U.S. military force made up of personnel from fly over country, it is going to be difficult to turn these assets against their own kind. I believe Brock O and crew understood this and began the process of purging the military forces back in 2009, starting with the officer class. The “de-fund the police” movement is just a continuation of the process. My best guess is the current military and police structure is not going away. The designated “head busters” will come from there.
The idea of forcible confiscation of guns is old school. It won’t happen that way. The government will simple freeze the bank accounts and investment portfolios of those who don’t turn in their guns. If you can’t pay for food, it’s over unless you can grow and store your own. The groundwork has been done and mechanisms are in place. Biden and especially Harris will use them.
You guys are quibbling about how the next regime will try and enforce it’s freedom-squashing edicts, once again counting on others to do the heavy lifting through nonenforcement, just as many of us once counted on the Supreme Court (and then the Senate) to eradicate Obamacare. Clearly it’s not a winning strategy.
Give up your guilt and put on your big-boy pants. There are already thousands in the streets in California, a state we have taken for granted as blue and made no effort to help.
You think a Biden regime is a forgone conclusion. I do not. And it’s fine that you think so, just don’t get in the way by telling others it’s time to give up.
It’s not foregone, but it’s very likely, and I can’t argue that it shouldn’t happen. I don’t have good enough evidence that fraud flipped a bunch of swing states.
But who’s giving up?
In prayer, in court, in speech, in philosophy, in the next election, and even by collecting evidence of election fraud and weighing it carefully–we continue to fight the darkness.
They only think Joe And Friends won’t bring even more turmoil and stress because they just haven’t experienced it YET.
You don’t have good enough evidence because you don’t think we deserve to win for all sorts of reasons. All those rationalizations amount to hiding from conviction, resolve, forthrightness. Things we have honestly feared in ourselves because we were told they were wrong or rude or unseemly.
Time to make a choice. Protest the decline or fight for this beautiful experiment that must not fail.
Whom do you think you’re talking to? And how do you think you know so much about what I want?
I think we deserved to win. I’ve been protesting the decline for about 30 years now.
And I’ve done more work than anyone else on Ricochet to keep track of election fraud.
If you think I’ve got some flawed logic, point to the flaw. If you think I’m missing some facts, you’re right; I find new facts all the time; let me know which important one I’m still missing, and I can adjust the analysis accordingly.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I was not “quibbling”. I was doing my best to point out what the opposition would use as a tactic to accomplish gun confiscation.
Now, perhaps you can tell me what those “thousands in the streets” will accomplish beyond making a lot of noise and making themselves feel good.
We’re up against it, and I see only one approach. No one has mentioned it yet.
This is not personal to you, you chose to respond to my comment, so you must have thought it applied in some way.
I have also said that however you think, it’s fine. As to whom I’m addressing, that’s up to you. Every day, all the time.
Maybe I trust in a = a and my own eyes too much. Probably not, but I won’t rule it out. ;-)
You’re not making any sense. In # 81, you were responding to my comment and explicitly addressing me, while saying false things about me.
In # 78 I was responding to your comment because my response did apply in some way, and I still never said anything even hinting at the things you said about me in # 81.
I don’t know about you, but what I saw was surprising and then inspiring. If anyone should have laid down the fight already, it is MAGA supporters in California. What will it accomplish? A little at a time, it disrupts the narrative that everything they do is okay, and everything we do is not.
What do they accomplish? They let me know that there’s thousands of other people that I need to hook up with somehow before things really go south, among other things.
What’s this conversation called again? Oh yeah, Fighting Words.
This is gonna be like that time I saw “Fighting Animal Testing” written on a package and then realized that they weren’t testing fighting animals, they were against testing things on animals, isn’t it.
I’m just watching Augie and Chris.
Truth be told, I’m doing this and engaging my 8-year-old who napped a bit too much today. Give me a sec….
I replied to your comment, but it wasn’t intended for you in particular, but everyone who says “there’s not enough,” becaue I think if most of them are honest, there will never be enough until the thing is decided, and then an “I told you so” regardless of the result.
It is that point of decision that is difficult, I think. I also think we were all, or nearly all, coached for many years not to step over that line.
Addendum: Clearly I am of the opinion that stepping over the line, one direction or another, is important. I do not think it is defining, other than in the moment.