HALF-FULL REPORT 10/07/22
I just returned back home, jet-lagged and wigged-out from three intense weeks exploring Central Asia with your fellow TTPers.
Frankly, after leading back-to-back explorations of Ireland, then to the Stans of West Turkestan, I’m not at all sure I can come close to Mike Ryan’s mind-blowing tour de force HFRs of 09/02, 09/09, 09/16, 09/23, and 09/30 for all last month. Mike – you raised the bar on me so high it’s out of sight!
So here goes. We’ll start with something that happened to me a few days ago at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Uzbekistan’s capital. Tashkent. I had come down to the lobby bar to get a bottle of mineral water and standing there was a young fellow I guessed to be in his 30s and looked Russian
I said hello to him with a smile, which he returned then held out his hand to shake which I did. He asked in English where I was from, and I replied, “America, I’m American,” then asked where he was from. He put his hand over his eyes and began to cry.
Wiping away the tears, he explained, “I am crying for my country, my Russia, and what is happening to it.” I rested my hand on his shoulder, looked into his eyes with heartfelt sympathy, and simply said, “I understand.” Instantly he embraced me with a bear hug.
Clearly it was something he needed. We nodded to each other in acknowledgement, and went our separate ways. The interaction lasted less than a minute but I’ll never forget it.
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You see, he knew how Putin was sending thousands upon thousands of his countrymen to be slaughtered in Ukraine for no moral reason, that hundreds of thousands of his fellow Russians felt like he did and were flooding into neighboring lands to escape, that Russia was on the verge of ceasing to exist in its current state.
Our elections for Congress are now just one month away. The only hope for our country on November 8 is that the Republican margin of victory is greater than the Democrat ability to cheat. What if it isn’t? What if the Dems manage to steal control of Congress in 2022 like they stole the Presidency in 2020?
You’d cry for your country just as that Russian man cried for his, wouldn’t you? You and I both would. And then what?
Out come the guns? That’s exactly what the Dems want, so they can stigmatize us as terrorists worth of being shot on sight like looters used to be. Our only hope would be instead of guns, mass civil disobedience – the refusal to obey.
But, but, but… we are not there yet – while Russia is.
As much as Leftie pollsters try to game the polls, most all show massive switches back to the R’s. E.g., Monday (10/03): Monmouth Poll Shows 10 Point Swing Toward GOP to Control Congress August to September; CNN Polling Guru Drops More Bad News on Democrats Ahead of Midterm Elections.
It’s easy to see why. It’s The Question That Terrifies Democrats. Which is: Are you better off than you were two years ago?
When Ronald Reagan in his first debate against Jimmy Carter in 1980, asked it of voters (albeit it was four years, how long Carter had been in office), that’s all it took for him to coast to presidential victory. All Pubs have to do is ask it today compared to 2020 and victory is theirs. If, if, if… swing state races aren’t Dem-rigged like in 2020.
So what are you personally doing to prevent this in your state, district, or precinct?
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Cheating however much the Dems think they can get away with is not, of course, the only slimy trick up their electoral sleeve. There’s the now-traditional October Surprise. Make that plural for they are desperate enough to go for as many as they can.
The Dems’ first salvo came yesterday (10/06): Joe Biden Warns World Facing Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ from Vladimir Putin.
Right… same old same old, scare people into being too frightened to think straight. Get them to think Old Joe and his trusty Dems will protect you from “Armageddon” – not those crazy Trump Pubs itching to have a nuke duke-out with the Russkies.
And at the same time scare your normal opposition into castrating themselves into demanding we must bow down and capitulate to Putin’s nuclear blackmail, whining and bleating that we’re all gonna die unless we do.
Guess folks like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Don Bongino, Greg Gutfeld et al are too young to remember the “Better Red Than Dead” capitulation to the Soviet Union the Left yearned for in the ‘50s.
Ronald Reagan laughed at such talk and won the Cold War. He’d be laughing now too. Tactical nukes would accomplish nothing as Ukrainian forces are too dispersed – they’d just keep fighting, inflicting defeat after defeat upon Putin’s forces who are the farthest thing from being “backed up against the wall.” There is no wall – just a border which they can retreat across and the war is over.
To claim that a tactical nuke escalates non-stop into Armageddon, like the Joe Senility does, is asinine. It would cause the complete boycott of Russia – including kicking them off the UN Security Council and the UN itself. The entire economy of Russia would cease to exist.
But all of this is totally beside the point for one reason: Xi and Chicom China won’t permit it. Putin can nuke bluster all he wants as Xi calibrates the Western reaction. But Xi has told him, “Don’t even think of actually doing it” – as everyone in Samarkand knows when Xi and Putin met there last month (09/19). I was there the following week.
It was thus no coincidence that a few days later (09/28), China’s Ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, spoke to the Security Council about China’s “position and proposal on how to view and handle the Ukraine crisis,” which is:
China is not going to allow Putin to use nukes in Ukraine… period.
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In fact, Putin’s Russia has become a laughingstock among the hundreds of millions on Chinese social media. On Tuesday (10/04):
Chinese Social Media Brands Russia ‘Weak Goose’ After Ukraine Failures.
“Russia has earned the unsympathetic moniker ‘weak goose’ on Chinese social media following the country’s strategic missteps in Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces find themselves mired in a costly and drawn-out war.
The growing meme of ‘weak goose’ is a direct translation of the phrase cai’e (菜鹅), itself a play on the homonym cai’e (菜俄), meaning ‘weak Russia.’ Cai (菜), literally ‘vegetable,’ is a slang descriptor for something of poor quality.”
No wonder. Today’s (10/07) British Defense Intelligence report:
From Forbes ereyesterday (10/05): New Types Of Ammunition Make Ukraine’s HIMARS Far Deadlier. US/Western military technology leaves Russia’s so far behind there’s no contest. Further, while Ukrainians have become incredibly adept warriors, fighting like Marines who “Adapt, Innovate, Overcome,” Russians soldiers have sadly become untrained cannon fodder.
Bottom line now: The Russian Military Seems to Be in Full Retreat in Ukraine. Tucker must be crying in his beer. You know Putin sure is.
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There’s a lot of that all over the world now. While we are hailing the election of Giorgia Meloni, the incoming Prime Minister of Italy, as the Italian Trump, the irretrievably leftist global media can only label her as “far-right” and a threat to “democracy.”
Watch this denunciation of hers in the Italian Parliament of the attempt to codify mass illegal immigration. This was delivered in 2018 during Trump’s presidency. Trump loves her, Joe Bidet is demoralized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-WY52i_Mc
In Brazil, all the polls showed a massive victory for Leftie Lula and massive defeat for hated “far right populist” incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro. Instead, on Sunday (10/02), election results were a resounding victory for Bolsonaro’s party in Congress, and a failure of Lula to win an over 50% vote – requiring a runoff between the two on October 30, with all the momentum shifting to Jair.
The leftist London Guardian whines: Brazil Election: Why Was Sunday’s Result So Disappointing For The Left?
Especially galling was Trump’s endorsement of Bolsonaro just days before the election is what gave Jair the surge of support he needed to have the runoff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KtmZqLMMc
Then there is Iran. There have been mass anti-mullah protests before, all to no avail. This could be the one that gets rid of the Islamofascist tyranny ruling Iran for 43 years – since 1979 – for good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXkyyG75uk0
Conservative triumphs in Italy and Brazil, the imminent collapse of the terrorist states of Putin’s Russia and Mullah Iran.
What a glorious two-fer for freedom the latter would be:
Add to this is one of the world’s most prominent cheerleaders for Climate Change eco-fascism when he was Prince of Wales is abandoning it as King Charles III.
On Sunday (10/02): King Charles III Will Not Attend World’s Major International Climate Change Summit COP26.
A good friend who has grown up with him says Charles understands that as King he must now stay out of politics. His duty must be to carry the legacy of the British Monarchy forward as an inspiration to all the British people and those of the British Commonwealth. A wise decision.
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All this is exceedingly good news – yet what we must be most concerned about is good news on November 8. The only things that can prevent it one month out are massive cheating and a series of October Surprises.
Do what you can to stymie the former where you live. What about the latter? Be prepared to stay calm and not fall into a Dem fear-trap. Some examples of what they could be:
*The DOJ indicts POTUS and his family on phony charges.
*A staged “terrorist” act blowing up one or two major oil refineries or the monster fuel storage tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma.
*Create a financial crisis by cutting an undersea cable between banking centers, blame it on Putin, while knowing when this will occur turns the perps into billionaires (like knowing when to short the British pound made Soros one).
*Arrange for a US warship to be attacked with loss of life.
Now let’s hear from you. Post what you think a Dem October Surprise may be on the Forum. We’ll all be watching!
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Time to close. We may be approaching a Culmination Point for the future of freedom. Freedom is expanding in Italy and Brazil, in Ukraine and Iran with their rulers on the run. Human rights activists in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
And China? A must-read on how Chicom China is in beaucoup deep kimchee is in this week’s (10/05) Foreign Policy: How China Trapped Itself: The CCP’s Economic Model Has Left It With Only Bad Choices.
That freedom will expand or contract throughout the world depends of whether it will here in America – and we’re only one month away from finding out which it will be.