This is awesome. I have been wondering why the states aren't taking Biden to court over his blatant violation of immigration laws. The Democrats have certainly become the no law and disorder party, but these constitutional violations are too much.
Sorry, I'm kind of late to the party, but I saw this article last night and had to laugh though I was too tired to comment. I was just having a discussion with my husband about the use of the phrase "*our* democracy" re: the January 6th "insurrectors." I kept hearing the words "our democracy" coming out of Democrat lawmakers mouths. Not "American democracy," "Western democracy," or just plain old vanilla "democracy," but "*our* democracy." I don't think that's an accident. "Our" is a pronoun with a definite antecedent, and in that single word Democrats (and a few "Republicans," like Cheney and Kinzinger) said the quiet part out loud. They're not worried about losing "American democracy," or "Western democracy," or just plain old vanilla "democracy." (One might suggest that those have been on life support for years, with the cemetery plot already picked out.) They are worried about the collapse of "our"--meaning Democrat/establishment elite/swamp/pick your favorite word--"democracy." Sorry for the ramble, but your article reminded me of that oddly appropriate turn of phrase: "our democracy."
It ranks right up there with "defending democracy by curtailing freedom."
I'm not sure whether to be terrified by the way Fauci talks about public health or to see it-- optimistically-- as the enraged dying throes of a discipline whose most important job is done (and better represented by your local sanitation worker or wastewater operator than by Fauci) and who is now causing more harm than good in its restless and idle old age.
I like being optimistic better than seeing in this the last gasps of American democracy itself, but I'm not always optimistic.
You will likely see Antifa/BLM amp up again if there's election fraud in the offering. It's a classic - riot and loot and burn near the election office in critical districts locally and hope for a nation wide drop in votes for your opponent. Much more difficult in the US, being a very large nation, but not impossible simply due to the rich abundance of people willing to believe the hate-propaganda from Democrats and their stormtroopers and affiliated NGOs.
As I'm certain I've mentioned before, here or in other 'stacks, you USAmericans are having a rude awakening as to what liberal democracy actually is in reality: how to give the corporate administrators legitimacy so that they may safeguard the power and profits of their masters. The only real reason any westerner associate post-WW2 democracy as being good and true and right is because it was compared to the USSR, and well, that's not a high bar to clear.
But compared to the people actually being the ones to decide on the issues? Not even Switzerland lives up to that any longer.
Expect criticism of Biden/his masters to be called treason, working for Russia, and neo-nazism.
Tangent:
For a fun time, take a look at national socialism beyond all the stuff about race: amalgamation of state and party and the largest businesess and banks, state mandated homogenous schools system and state kindergarten, both with politically correct curriculum decided by the party, Füher-prinzip meaning what the Leader say is right is right as interpreted by the bureaucracy, militarisation of civil society, mass surveillance, political control laws akin to your 'war on terror'-stuff, state hospitals and state health insurance, and a lot more you might recognise from the Democrats' suggestions over the years - you see, all that business with the Holocaust and the war tends to obscure the socialism part of it, and as I used to point out when teaching: socialism is either internationalist striving for a global, cosmopolitan society under party rule, or nationalist. Right now, the internationalist socialists are at the helm of the s/s Discourse hunting their white whale called Utopia under the all-seeing eye of captain Narrative.
In today’s world, even on a “free speech” platform such as Substack, I could never write what I actually think about the health “experts” that have done what they did for the past 2+ years.
We have an opportunity to begin correcting things in November. Probably our last chance. Even if we win that round, we can still blow it. Probably will.
One little quibble. The idea that no one was above the law was our great inheritance from England, where even the monarch had to show legal justification for, say, cutting off the heads of wives.
It's a considerable irritation to me that the Republicans are almost entirely morons and do not deserve any more than the Democrats to have the least scrap of trust of the populace. People tout DeSantis, and I always like a guy who can say "fuck 'em" and mean it, but there are areas where I feel a failure of courage in him too.
It's only when a majority in this country identifies as independent/unaffiliated that we may have a chance to restore Constitutional values and common sense.
One can only imagine what America would look like if the *exact* same madness that has taken place over the last two years had taken place under a Trump administration or any administration to the right of Mao or Stalin... I don't think there'd be a city left standing because everything would have been burned to the ground. To save"democracy".
"CNN’s Washington Generals-level reporter" best quote ever!
This is awesome. I have been wondering why the states aren't taking Biden to court over his blatant violation of immigration laws. The Democrats have certainly become the no law and disorder party, but these constitutional violations are too much.
Sorry, I'm kind of late to the party, but I saw this article last night and had to laugh though I was too tired to comment. I was just having a discussion with my husband about the use of the phrase "*our* democracy" re: the January 6th "insurrectors." I kept hearing the words "our democracy" coming out of Democrat lawmakers mouths. Not "American democracy," "Western democracy," or just plain old vanilla "democracy," but "*our* democracy." I don't think that's an accident. "Our" is a pronoun with a definite antecedent, and in that single word Democrats (and a few "Republicans," like Cheney and Kinzinger) said the quiet part out loud. They're not worried about losing "American democracy," or "Western democracy," or just plain old vanilla "democracy." (One might suggest that those have been on life support for years, with the cemetery plot already picked out.) They are worried about the collapse of "our"--meaning Democrat/establishment elite/swamp/pick your favorite word--"democracy." Sorry for the ramble, but your article reminded me of that oddly appropriate turn of phrase: "our democracy."
It ranks right up there with "defending democracy by curtailing freedom."
I'm not sure whether to be terrified by the way Fauci talks about public health or to see it-- optimistically-- as the enraged dying throes of a discipline whose most important job is done (and better represented by your local sanitation worker or wastewater operator than by Fauci) and who is now causing more harm than good in its restless and idle old age.
I like being optimistic better than seeing in this the last gasps of American democracy itself, but I'm not always optimistic.
You will likely see Antifa/BLM amp up again if there's election fraud in the offering. It's a classic - riot and loot and burn near the election office in critical districts locally and hope for a nation wide drop in votes for your opponent. Much more difficult in the US, being a very large nation, but not impossible simply due to the rich abundance of people willing to believe the hate-propaganda from Democrats and their stormtroopers and affiliated NGOs.
As I'm certain I've mentioned before, here or in other 'stacks, you USAmericans are having a rude awakening as to what liberal democracy actually is in reality: how to give the corporate administrators legitimacy so that they may safeguard the power and profits of their masters. The only real reason any westerner associate post-WW2 democracy as being good and true and right is because it was compared to the USSR, and well, that's not a high bar to clear.
But compared to the people actually being the ones to decide on the issues? Not even Switzerland lives up to that any longer.
Expect criticism of Biden/his masters to be called treason, working for Russia, and neo-nazism.
Tangent:
For a fun time, take a look at national socialism beyond all the stuff about race: amalgamation of state and party and the largest businesess and banks, state mandated homogenous schools system and state kindergarten, both with politically correct curriculum decided by the party, Füher-prinzip meaning what the Leader say is right is right as interpreted by the bureaucracy, militarisation of civil society, mass surveillance, political control laws akin to your 'war on terror'-stuff, state hospitals and state health insurance, and a lot more you might recognise from the Democrats' suggestions over the years - you see, all that business with the Holocaust and the war tends to obscure the socialism part of it, and as I used to point out when teaching: socialism is either internationalist striving for a global, cosmopolitan society under party rule, or nationalist. Right now, the internationalist socialists are at the helm of the s/s Discourse hunting their white whale called Utopia under the all-seeing eye of captain Narrative.
A righteous rant. The gaslighting by these clowns is downright infuriating.
In today’s world, even on a “free speech” platform such as Substack, I could never write what I actually think about the health “experts” that have done what they did for the past 2+ years.
Meanwhile, Jay Inslee has had emergency powers for ~800 days. Totally normal. Nothing to see here.
We have an opportunity to begin correcting things in November. Probably our last chance. Even if we win that round, we can still blow it. Probably will.
One little quibble. The idea that no one was above the law was our great inheritance from England, where even the monarch had to show legal justification for, say, cutting off the heads of wives.
It's a considerable irritation to me that the Republicans are almost entirely morons and do not deserve any more than the Democrats to have the least scrap of trust of the populace. People tout DeSantis, and I always like a guy who can say "fuck 'em" and mean it, but there are areas where I feel a failure of courage in him too.
It's only when a majority in this country identifies as independent/unaffiliated that we may have a chance to restore Constitutional values and common sense.
Fauci’s arrogance is unbelievable, beyond pathological.
One can only imagine what America would look like if the *exact* same madness that has taken place over the last two years had taken place under a Trump administration or any administration to the right of Mao or Stalin... I don't think there'd be a city left standing because everything would have been burned to the ground. To save"democracy".
Better go to mail in ballots. Out of an abundance of caution.