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Erick Woods Erickson

LET THE DEMS DROWN

drowningThere is a basic reality in Washington. Democrats have a slim margin in the United States House of Representatives and no margin in the United States Senate. In the House, Democrats can lose roughly three votes for their agenda. In the Senate, Democrats can lose no votes.

Now the Democrats are squabbling amongst themselves over infrastructure, a continuing resolution, and a debt ceiling. They have no unity within their ranks on these issues. Now, they have a bold new strategy — expect Republicans to throw them a lifeline to avoid a government shutdown and a debt ceiling through which the United States runs off a fiscal cliff.

Let. Dems. Drown. Give the Democrats no lifeline.

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SKYE’S LINKS 09/23/21

Dave Mustaine

Dave Mustaine

Most TTPers are not heavy metal rock fans, so may not know how immensely popular one of its founders, Dave Mustaine, and his band Megadeth, are with much of young America. Last Friday night (9/17) at a sell-out concert in Camden, New Jersey, Mustaine condemned “mask tyranny”:

“See, the thing right now that’s going on, is tyranny. This is called tyranny. And tyranny isn’t only in government. Tyranny right now is in the schools, and tyranny is in the medical business… And we have the power to push back against it.”

To which the ecstatic crowd chanted “USA! USA! USA!” and “F*** Joe Biden! F*** Joe Biden!”  The revolt is gaining strength:

Megadeth Rocker Dave Mustaine Tells Concert Crowd 'We Have the Power' to Push Back Against Tyranny

 

vaccine-mandateThe vax litmus test and the subsequent witch hunt for and purge of the politically unreliable scapegoats:

They Are Creating The Biggest Witch Hunt In American History

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A SEA OF MISERY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS

sea-of-southern-border-misery"A sea of misery of biblical proportions" is how Steve Bannon described the humanitarian crisis on the southern border.

Within hours of his inauguration, President Biden stopped the building of the border wall and made it clear to all comers around the world that our border is open.  He invited all those migrants who have arrived from all over the world to enter what the Left swears is an irreparably racist nation.

There are hardly words to adequately describe the damage done to America since Biden took office, both here and among our soon-to-be former allies.  It sure seems as though he is doing China's bidding.   At China’s direction, Biden seems determined to turn all of America into a sea of misery.

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AMERICAN MAOISM

uncle-sam-says-choose-sidesNever forget class struggle!” proclaimed Mao in Fall 1962 at the Chinese Communist Party’s annual retreat. This maxim quickly became the fevered chant of the day, paving the way for the Cultural Revolution resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese.

Modified into “Never forget race struggle!,” the command has the same appeal in today’s Woke America.

As a student of the totalitarianism of Mao’s China—which was exceptionally effective in peddling propaganda and staging performances of feigning, preening, and indignation—I find Woke America’s reinvention of Maoism fascinating and terrifying. Mao is the unsung hero for contemporary CRT intellectuals.

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THE DEATH OF SCIENCE

The Woke Are Waging War on Science

The Woke Are Waging War on Science

The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking.

In empirical fashion, scientists advised us to examine evidence and data, and then by induction come to rational hypotheses. The enemies of “science” were politics, superstition, bias, and deduction.

Yet we are now returning to our version of medieval alchemy and astrology in rejecting a millennium of the scientific method.

Take the superstitions that now surround COVID-19, aka the Communist Chinese Virus.

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THE INCURABLE ROT OF THE FBI

corrupt-cultureThe incurable incompetence, corruption, and moral rot of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was on full display last week.

Within a 24-hour period, some of America’s best female athletes recounted to a Senate committee their painful tales of how the FBI ignored evidence that team doctor Larry Nassar was a sexual predator -- and a powerful attorney who colluded with the FBI to concoct one of the most animating chapters of the Trump-Russia collusion fiction was indicted for lying to federal officials.

Overlap in the two cases is more than ironic, it’s illustrative:

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SKYE’S LINKS 09/16/21

26 States Rejecting Biden Vax Mandates

26 States Rejecting Biden Vax Mandates

Oh, please, Massa Joe, please throw us into this briar patch!  We jus’ love yo threats cuz you so desperate to change the subject from the shameful rout of Americans, allies, and $86 billion of weapons you left behind in Afghanistan. And your growing hyperinflation and stagflation at home. And your wanting to force us Americans to get vaxxed with illegal aliens unvaxxed.  But watch out, Massa Joe – the Vaccine Rebellion just might run over you!

Biden Adviser Says President "Will Run Over" GOP Governors Who Resist Vaccine Mandate

I think that he has got it right:

Nebraska Gov. Ricketts: Biden Said He Didn't Believe in Vax Mandates, 'Have to Wonder' if Mandate Is Deflection from 'Disaster in Afghanistan'

DeSantis in revolt:

Ron DeSantis Vows to Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: ‘It’s Not Constitutional’

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RACIST CA DEMS REJECT CHANCE TO ELECT HISTORIC BLACK GOVERNOR

ca-governorsLet’s start with Wikipedia’s List of California Governors. Scroll down the photo of each, from Peter Burnett in 1849 to Gavin Gruesome today, and notice that every single one for the last 172 years has been a white man.

California Democrats had the chance to correct this yesterday (9/14), and of course they blew it, believing their lily-white living-example-of-white-privilege governor, who told them a vote for his black opponent was a vote for white supremacy..

Lesson. Learned. Despite being one of the most psychotic authoritarian COVID governors in America and an all-around awful human being, Gavin Newsom will keep his job.

One bottom line is that over half of California voters are too stupid to recall Newsom. Another is that Democrats are the real racists in this country. That’s the story here.

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A PYRRHIC VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA?

catch-that-birdDemocrats are crowing about California's Gov. Gavin Newsom surviving his recall election, and by a 64% to 35% margin.

According to CNN:

"'No' is not the only thing that was expressed tonight," Newsom, who will now finish out his term, said Tuesday night. "We said yes to science, yes to vaccines, yes to ending this pandemic."

Really?  A blue-state governor with a huge Democrat-registered majority somehow won his recall election?  Not a lot of news in that.  Nor is the breakdown — the rural counties voted against him; the big blue coastal cities voted for him

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THE GREATEST EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO AMERICA

too-whiteThe US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin—the man who presided over the worst, most incompetent, most humiliating military defeat in the history of our nation—is black. Of course, he’s black.

He was appointed by Joe Biden to display the wonderful diversity of the most progressive president in history. He wasn’t chosen because he was a brilliant military leader (obviously). He was chosen because he was a political hack ready and willing to embrace even the most suicidal left-wing policies.

Left-wing policies are by their very nature suicidal because the defining characteristic of the Left is that it hates America and wants to “dismantle” it and replace it with the left-wing fantasy of a socially just future.

Which is why “Pink Lloyd’s goal is not to protect America but indoctrinate all America’s troops in Black Lives Matter hate white people and hate America propaganda.

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THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE CENSORS JOE BIDEN

whos-in-chargeLast week, word emerged from the White House that Biden’s own staff can’t stand to listen to him. It’s not that they don’t agree with his policies (heck—they probably crafted them). Instead, it’s that he’s such a verbal loose cannon that they shudder when they hear him speak off the cuff.

Yesterday (9/13), the White House staffers paying attention to his answers about western wildfires were so worried about where his mouth was taking him that they pulled the plug on him in mid-sentence.

Last Tuesday (9/07) a Politico story explained that Biden’s staff constantly worries about Mr. Big Mouth in the White House. It appears that everyone in Biden's orbit is begging him to keep his mouth shut and be the good little puppet they need.

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WILL GENERATION Z SAVE AMERICA?

Mask-free Gen Z Wisconsin Badger Fans

Mask-free Gen Z Wisconsin Badger Fans

As a college professor for over 35 years, I’ve gotten to know three generations of students: Gen Y (born between 1965 and 1980), the Millennials (1981-1996), and now Gen Z (1997-2012). And because I teach rhetoric, I’ve read thousands of their papers, providing substantial insight into the way they think.

Given what I observed among my Millennial college students, today’s post-rational, fact-free culture, with its toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and utter cluelessness (think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) was inevitable.

We should not, however, despair, remembering that everything is cyclical. The Millennials will not necessarily have the last word. This may be their time in the sun, their opportunity to tear down our civilization temporarily unimpeded, but that moment (as always) is fleeting.

There is another generation of bright young people—Gen Z—following right on their heels and therein may lie our temporal salvation

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HAS THERE EVER IN US HISTORY BEEN A MORE PITIFUL CABINET

Richard and Rachel

Richard and Rachel

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have once again betrayed the American people and voted to confirm one of the most insidious persons ever nominated to a Cabinet position, Richard "Rachel" Levine.  He will now be the assistant secretary of health.

(Yes, the photos above are of the same person.  Richard was married with children until he decided at age 52 to pretend he was a woman named Rachel.  He is now 62. – JW)

The question of the day is, why have any Republicans voted to confirm any of Biden's Cabinet appointees?  Every one of them has been chosen not for their expertise in any sphere of influence, but for their radicalism; the farther left these people are, the better in Biden's (?) view.

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SKYES LINKS 03/25/21

power-sphere"The End Of America" - wisdom on biofascism from the American Institute For Economic Research.  “We have reached Step Ten of the Ten Steps to Fascism.”

The End Of America?

The new thought police; North Korea’s Kim must be green with envy:

The New Normal "Reality" Police

Here is a penetrating analysis of why the woke journalist world is really so full of hate:

It's All Just Displacement: Freddie deBoer

Here is what is really inside of the 'Crats' American Rescue Plan:

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CHINA’S VIRUS HAS MADE CHINA’S DEBT PROBLEM WORSE

virus-world-takeoverChina’s ongoing battle with debt continues, as the government attempts to reduce leverage in the wake of its China Virus fiscal spending.

Guo Shuqing, chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission, stated recently that high financial leverage may threaten Chinese firms with bankruptcy. Guo noted that China’s debt has soared 30 percent since the outset of the coronavirus pandemic.

High debt levels have presented an ongoing challenge to China’s economic health. Here are the details on why.

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HOW CHINA WAGED A COVERT WAR AGAINST THE US WITH THE CHINA VIRUS

china-virus-and-whoThe President of China, Xi Jingping, has made his intentions extremely clear: to overtake the United States as the major global superpower. In domestic speeches for Chinese audiences, he hammers the table about dominating the US.

“The biggest source of chaos in the present-day world is the United States,” President Xi said recently, “The United States is the biggest threat to our country’s development and security.”

Some people are afraid that this means a hot war with tanks and guns is on the horizon. But that would be counterproductive for China. They don’t need to go to war. They already won. Just look at how much China has accomplished over the past year.

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DEFEATING WOKE TYRANTS

david-beheading-goliath

David Beheading Goliath, Guillaume Courtois 1660

“A small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people,” observes Instapundit Glenn H. Reynolds in the New York Post. “Woke tyrants are riding high” and “62 percent of Americans self-censor their political expression.”

The question for me, as a scholar and citizen, is why this minority has been able to gain such control, not only here but throughout the Anglosphere and in Western Europe. This group’s ideas seem weird and entail the debasement of the West’s core population, who are being urged or forced to submit to their own degradation and the canceling of their inherited culture and morality.

Why do we, who are in the majority, allow this?

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HOW TRUMP CAN BUILD A TRUE LIBERTY-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA EMPIRE

trumps-waivingPresident Trump jump-started his presidential campaign because of his outsized presence on Twitter.  Once he became president, he used Twitter to bypass a hostile media.  He also used his tweets to capture the media's attention while he got the real work done in the Oval Office.

No wonder Twitter has deplatformed him.  Now, though, a Trump insider is reporting that POTUS has social media plans for his own: he's got a new platform planned and wants to redefine social media.

For those people around Trump or any of the people he's been meeting with who read TTP, I have a few suggestions.  It's not enough to create a social media site.  Trump needs to create a communication, finance, and platform empire.  Anything he builds should include:

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SKYE’S LINKS 03/18/21

stressed What do all these newly created Fed dollars mean?  It took from 1776 to the start of 2020 for the M1 money supply to rise to 4 trillion dollars.  It took one more year for M1 to rise to 18 trillion dollars.  The Xiden gang is pumping it up even faster:

Brace Yourselves For The Most Dramatic Shift In The Standard Of Living Ever

The 'Crats' $1,900,000,000,000 COVID bill contains reparations (as loan forgiveness) for minority farmers - but if you are a white farmer, forget about it:

Lindsey Graham: Democrat COVID Stimulus Includes 'Reparations' for Black Farmers

joking-with-biden

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AMERICA’S GRADUAL RUIN IS ABOUT TO BECOME SUDDEN

The demented face of America’s ruination

The demented face of America’s ruination

I am not a particular fan of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.”  But there is one exchange between two of the characters, Bill Gorton and Mike Campbell, that has stuck with me.

“’How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked.

‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly’.”

That passage has been running through my head a lot recently. President Trump had arrested America’s gradual decline.  Now this impostor in his place has accelerated it straight off a cliff.

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WHY IS CHINA JOE FLOODING AMERICA WITH COVID-INFECTED ILLEGAL ALIENS ON PURPOSE?

illegals-for-biden The answer to that question may be in his absurd speech last Thursday (3/11) when he said “We may have to reinstate the lockdown restrictions” if… If what?

What if the migrants the Xiden Administration is allowing to come across the southern border without being tested, even if showing symptoms, then given bus tickets to any American city they hope to reach, is a grand plan to spread this flu throughout the country again?

Why? In order to reinstate all the unconstitutional restrictions to which millions of Americans willingly submitted?

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY IX

Sensei Trump in meditation

Sensei Trump in meditation

[This week, TTPer Yasuhiko Kimura provides us profound guidance on keeping our sanity amidst the excess stress, mass neurosis, and cultural decadence permeating our society today.  Thank you, Yasuhiko! –JW]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ― J. Krishnamurti

When the majority of the population suffers from a certain mental disorder, it becomes normalized. Thus, we can restate Krishnamurti’s above quote:

It is no measure of mental health to be well adjusted to and normal in a profoundly neurotic society.

The question is: How can we help people free themselves from this mass neurosis and decadent mass culture so as to restore sanity within and without?

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RUSSIA’S HISTORY AS A MARKER FOR ITS FUTURE

Memorial to Boris Nemstov on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow  assassinated here on February 27 2015

Memorial to Boris Nemstov on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow assassinated here on February 27 2015

Early spring in Russia is a season of awakening from winter slumber—and it is remarkably rich with hopeful historical markers.

The notion of “thaw” is forever connected with the liberating death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953, and the “secret speech” of Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th Communist Party Congress three years later, when the “cult of personality” was denounced.

Today, President Vladimir Putin may be busy building his own cult, but his address to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the organization that inherits the tradition of Stalin’s brutal all-penetrating KGB control, betrayed his fears of uncontrollable shifts in Russian society (Svoboda.org, February 26).

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SKYE’S LINKS 03/11/21

qanon-shamanThe fun has just begun and the sky isn't the limit!  Better watch out or the DMT-smoking QAnon Shaman who is your Facebook friend will get you!!

Far-Left Nation: Your Facebook Friend May Be Next ‘QAnon Shaman’

Something big is happening in Washington DC, even bigger than January 6.  The DC Swamp Dwellers are all nuts.  You'll need to read Eric Frank Russell's "The Space Willies" to understand just how utterly devastating that is. They have no idea what's hitting them, and will continue to hit them.  And they can't stop it...

FNC's Carlson: Lawmakers, Media Hyped Imaginary QAnon Invasion in D.C.

Arizona is serious about the Second Amendment:

Arizona Senate Passes Bill Declaring Federal Gun Controls Unenforceable

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THE WITCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE

the-biden-campaignThe millions of Americans who were paying attention throughout the 2020 election campaign all became painfully aware of the fact that Joe Biden's cognitive abilities were slipping and slipping fast.

His wife, as the person closest to him, should have been the one to call the campaign quits in order to reduce stress on the man. Instead, so anxious to become the First Lady by any means necessary, Mrs. Biden continued to push her failing husband's campaign forward as if he were mentally qualified.

The woman is egregiously guilty of elder abuse for allowing poor Joe to suffer the indignities of encroaching dementia in public.

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BLUE ANON IS FREAKING OUT THE WOKETARDS

A new term has entered the political lexicon in recent months, and it appears to have left-wing activists – woketards – sputtering with rage.

Conservatives on social media have been using “Blue Anon” to describe Democrats who believe in various government-sanctioned conspiracy theories, leading some on the Left to attempt to censor the potent term.  You won’t believe what happened next – just over the last few days.

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CANCELING THE CANCEL CULTURE

cancel-culture-cartoonOn the left, the tumbrels are rolling again, delivering former icons like Dr. Seuss, Pepe Le Pew, and other enemies of the people to the cultural guillotines for immediate beheading.

Their crimes: their decades-old sensibilities are out of touch with those of the seething, humorless and frankly not very bright scolds who currently inhabit the fever swamps of Twitter, Facebook, and the editorial pages of the New York Times.

Go ahead, laugh; what could be more ridiculous than discerning “rape culture” in the broadly drawn behavior of a French striped skunk who’s been looking for love in all the wrong places since 1945?  So here’s how to cancel all this garbage.

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HERD IMMUNITY FOR THE WOKE PANDEMIC

feelings-dont-careThere are tens of millions of Americans who either have been stung, or turned off, by McCarthyite wokeness (and thus have anti-wokeness antibodies). More have been vaccinated from its latest virulent strains by their own values of judging people as individuals, not as racial or gender collectives.

So lots of Americans have developed peremptory defenses against it. The result is that daily there are ever-fewer who are susceptible to the woke pandemic. And it will thus begin to fade out—even as the virus desperately seeks to mutate and go after more institutions.

Peak Wokeness is nearing.  Here’s why.

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SKYE’S LINKS 03/04/21

cuomo-me-too-momentsHave you wondered why the 'Crat supporting media are reporting on Gov. Cuomo's "Me Too" moments instead of simply burying them, as they did with the Hunter Biden laptop emails story?  Here is a plausible explanation:

Nolte: Media's MeTooing of Andrew Cuomo Is Really About Protecting Four Democrat Governors

Snowden on the tech oligarchs:

"Did You Agree To This? Everybody's Locked Up": Ed Snowden On Power Of Silicon Valley Amid COVID Lockdowns

Big tech oligarchs plot to eliminate anonymity:

Bokhari: Microsoft and Friends Want to Destroy Online Privacy

Oklahoma is systemically invoking the 10th Amendment – let’s hope many states follow:

Oklahoma House Passes Bill Allowing Review, Veto of Biden Executive Orders

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HOW WOKENESS CAPTURED BIG BUSINESS

woke-capitalismWhat explains the greening of Wall Street with corporate CEOs becoming woke and dissing the system that made them rich?

“With every breath we take,” Apple CEO Tim Cook declared in the wake of George Floyd’s death, “we must commit to being that change, and to creating a better, more just world for everyone.”

There is indeed something nauseating about people claiming to be virtuous when they’re not, but to accuse Apple and Disney of hypocrisy would be to miss the point. Wokeness is directed at transforming America, using Wall Street and corporate America to help bring it about.

Stephen Soukup’s new book, The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business, provides the best account so far of how finance capital ended up on the woke side of the culture wars.

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TRUMP’S TRIUMPH AT CPAC

potus-fist-pumpPresident Trump gave a memorable address on Sunday evening (2/28) to the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC). For such a boffo performance, the Emmy mistakenly awarded to New York Governor Andrew Pinocchio Cuomo should be retrieved and redirected to him.

In one mighty swinging oratorical stroke of 90 minutes, Trump asserted authority over his party, arraigned the new administration for the complete failure to accomplish anything useful in the first 40 of its vaunted 100 days, and then rolled through the Biden executive orders like a bulldozer.

[Note: please refer to the parts of POTUS at CPAC in italics regarding Lord Black’s specific references in the President’s speech.]

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CHINA DECLARES GAYS ARE MENTALLY ILL – WHERE’S AMERICA’S WOKE LEFT?

hollywood-no-take-on-chinaDissidents have been warning us for years about the nature of China's communist totalitarian regime.  But unlike a lot of them, the dictatorship also has money and markets. In the West, especially in Woke America, that means quisling defenders, many with a snoot in the Chicom trough.

So here comes a pitched curve ball for China's clapping seals:  courts there have declared homosexuality is a mental illness. This puts China's defenders, nearly all leftists, in an increasingly untenable position – from LeBron James, Disney and all Hollwood, to Apple, Eric Swalwell, and China Joe Xiden.

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POTUS AT CPAC

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[This is the full video of the President’s 90-minute address at CPAC on Sunday 2/28, followed by the full text of 12,500 words – an extraordinary performance of dragon energy full of insights, revelations, wit, wisdom, and predictions.  It is worth your time to watch, read, and enjoy entire –JW]

Crowd:

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

Well, thank you very much. And hello, CPAC. Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me yet? A lot of things going on. There’s so many wonderful friends, conservatives and fellow citizens in this room and all across our country. I stand before you today to declare that the incredible journey we’ve begun together, we went through a journey like nobody else. There’s never been a journey like it. There’s never been a journey so successful. We began it together four years ago, and it is far from being over. We’ve just started.

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CAN WE REFORM A FBI THAT BEHAVES LIKE A GESTAPO?

FBI arrests Roger Stone at his home and Gestapo officials

FBI arrests Roger Stone at his home and Gestapo officials

Short answer – I doubt it.

But it is a legitimate question to raise because there are still some patriots serving within the ranks of the FBI who are beyond distraught over the gross politicization of their once proud, respected organization. There is genuine, deep seated hatred for Christopher Wray and his coterie of lackeys.

The final straw for many in the bureau is FBI leadership doing everything in their power to paint honest, law-abiding Trump supporters as nascent “white supremacist” terrorists, the frontline agents are finding no evidence for this whatever.

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SKYE’S LINKS 02/25/21

potus-pays-respectLies piled upon lies; this will not end well for the Dems.  History written from your standpoint?

Once Upon A Presidency - From Populist To Dissident

The near future may be considerably brighter than you think; there are LOTS of people who want to give the elitists the shaft, and there will be LOTS of brand new 21st century ways to do it:

Pinkerton: Just as Politics Has Come to GameStop, So GameStop Activism Will Come to Politics

Are flu hospitalizations really 500 to 1,000 times lower than in previous years or are the Wuhan virus numbers of hospitalizations exaggerated to the Moon?

CDC: Flu Activity Unusually Low, 165 Hospitalizations in Last 4 Months

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WILL PUTIN’S LATEST SCHEME BE LIQUID GOLD OR FOOL’S GOLD?

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

[Prefatory note by Jack Wheeler. Four questions on lakes: What is the world’s oldest lake? The world’s deepest? The world’s clearest? The world’s largest by freshwater volume?  The answer to all four is: Lake Bailkal in Russian Siberia.  My friend of almost four decades, Paul Goble, here focuses on the last question.  Baikal has more water than all of the Great Lakes combined – over 5,600 cubic miles of clear drinkable freshwater.  Putin thinks he can sell it to the Chicoms. Paul discusses the pitfalls.]

Will Putin’s selection of water as “liquid gold,” “the new oil” that it can sell to water-short China recapitulate some of the steps the Communist leaders fatefully took in the years preceding the disintegration of the Soviet Union?

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NORTHEAST CHINA: THE NEXT SECESSIONIST THREAT TO BEIJING LIKE TIBET?

china-territories-on-map[Note by JW: The 100+ million people of Northeast China are chronically and seriously short of water.  They would be Putin’s prime customers for Russian Siberia water. Or would they prefer to secede and join Russia instead?]

As people in northeastern China grow increasingly dissatisfied with the central government’s neglect of the region’s economic development, authorities are worried that mass protests could soon break out, according to an insider I know personally.  We’ll call him Mr. Lee

The Chinese government is worried that northeastern China will follow Tibet and Xinjiang and seek independence,” Mr. Lee said. “This is one of the biggest concerns that the regime has right now.”

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THERE IS NO GOP CIVIL WAR

potus-1st-lady-having-a-laughLet’s be perfectly clear: there is no civil war in the GOP, no major schism, no two sides battling for control of the party of Lincoln.

Poll after poll shows us that Republican voters overwhelmingly see Donald Trump as the leader of the party. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Liz Cheney’s hopes that voters would abandon Trump have been dashed on the cliffs of reality.

So why is the media pretending that some major battle for the future of the GOP has been joined?  The Republican Party is Donald Trump’s party. It is today and it will be tomorrow.

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THE LESSONS OF STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS THAT TRUMP TAUGHT AND XIDEN WON’T LEARN

biden-made-in-chinaWhat causes wars?

Innately aggressive cultures and governments, megalomania, the desire for power, resources, and empire prompt nations to bully or attack others. Less rational Thucydidean motives such as fear and honor and perceptions of self-interest are not to be discounted either.

But what allows these preemptive or aggressive agendas to reify, to take shape, and to leave tens of thousands, or even millions, dead?  Ignoring this lesson, taught by Trump which Xiden refuses to learn:

Nothing is more dangerous than stronger powers, even inadvertently, sending signals that are interpreted as weakness by weaker powers.

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SKYE’S LINKS 02/18/21