Agreed, TL. I, and I imagine many others, held our noses and voted for the R's down ballot not because we were in agreement with their cartel, but because the opponents were infinitely worse.
The time for accepting mediocre representatives is over. The time for accepting the lesser of two evils is over. We have done that for far too many years and we've run out of time and patience.
We know from The Donald's first term that he at least will do what he says he will do. We need to hold him to it but more importantly help him do it.
We know the Cackler had no firm stance on any issue and often reversed her stance in the same day. We've lived with liars and their promises for decades. Republicans take note: this is aimed at you too.
Representatives, if you ruin this country with your woke nonsense or bankrupt us giving our hard earned dollars to foreigners we will rise again and show you what a real insurrection looks like!
Hell, I'd much rather go back to 1860 minus the issue of slavery, which wasn't the reason the South seceded, it was a by-product of Lincolns war of aggression against freedom. Prior to Lincoln, we were still a Federal Republic, after Lincoln it was a long downhill descent into tyranny, where we find ourselves today. We have a chance to reverse that trend in the next four years. Let's not f#ck it up.
Yes, how far back into the progression of the death cult's alt-reality we consider is always indicative of how much of the big lie one wants to actually confront.
Most can't or won't trace the present antecedents back to their icky origins because it simply aggregates too many sacred cows into the mental pasture. We just don't have time and energy to sort out how we have come to believe the manifold untruths of our time that we pass off as truths.
So, the challenge is always the "without the slavery" part.
Principles and ideals and the wants of the people will always be only as durable and lasting as their mettle that has been forged in the heat and pressure of the truth being upheld against its opposing forces.
It's easy for us to pick those cherries and leave the pits. Thats the human nature that we share with our progressive opposition. The idea of owning another human is abhorrent through our lens but there is always going to be something awful for the axle of progress to wind around, taking with it those other things we supposedly hold sacred.
The result of this has defined 'conservative' and its losing ways for decades. Any potential aggregation of resistance to the death cult becomes fractured along this timeline in which people who are even awake to the reality of our time cling to their individual break-points along the long march. Pick an amendment to the Constitution. Or pre-post 1965 "civil rights". Or the invention of the Fed. Or Gold Standard. Or some other economic hedgerow. Gay "marriage". Or get real edgy and draw the line at the duck-taped boys in girls sports.
Every epoch has its version of slavery. And with that comes the power struggle over defining the moral ground and subsequent social and economic order. The ratchet of progress wins.
Our time has become defined by failing to retain the essential right (and power to assert such) of a People to define themselves and their governance as a result of that moral ground being ceded.
Some ground was taken, but most was given in trade for economic chits and IOU's to be reckoned with well down the road. Kicking the can is our national sport.
Here we are down the road. Still debating what comes downstream of losing that essential right and its moral foundation.
Who "owns" us if we do not own our monetary integrity? Our foreign policy? The moral arbiters of our commons? The right to define who we are and extend that natural right into the law of the land?
The defeat of slavery, since retconned into a moral premise that 'goes without saying' is part of the long march of that moral and spiritual war, of which the War Between the States, was broken open and subsequently moralized into the same narrative that we still confront.
We are slaves to that same moral progress. We create more slaves every day, under the thumb of an Economy that holds primacy over the people for which it should serve.
Today, our slavery issue might be "immigration". Or abortion. Or the mutant vampire of the DIE. Diversity is Our Greatest Strength. Says who?
Well, we lost the right and power to define who we are as a people and subsequently as a Nation, and so the tyranny we endure is just the annuity of that trade long ago, the perpetuity of slaves negotiating with their masters for the conditions of the plantation.
Well, you seem to be quite the intellectual. Maybe you should start your own substack and expand on your thesis that you shared here. I believe it would be riveting!
The point I was trying to make was, since the Lincoln presidency we have slid downhill into the pits of tyranny since his time in office and the only good that came of his war of aggression was the ending of slavery in this nation. (Are you aware that Lincoln wanted to send these freed slaves back to Africa or to colonize them in some South American nation? Which, IMO, would have been the best thing for the USA.)
We;ve only just begun...Republicans will resist our program too, but the people need to keep everyone in the Administration working to free us from this monstrous machine...Otherwise, we will end up like Peanut and Fred.....
I agree with everything T.L. Davis writes in this article. Joe Biden had his pile of Executive Orders already written out when he took office on January 20, 2021. The very next day, Biden signed I think at least a dozen Executive Orders overturning most of what Trump did. Trump needs to do the same thing.
Trump should go after his enemies. Use the IRS and DOJ to do it. Turnaround is fair play. When Hitler took office as Chancellor of Germany he said (paraphrased), "What? You didn't think I'd use the same weapons against you that you used against me? Da ist Dumbkopf!" Who says Hitler didn't have a sense of humor?
Great article.
PS: I was watching a video about Post, Texas in the panhandle. C.W. Post, the breakfast cereal magnate, founded the town around 1914. Post wanted to create a utopia. No booze, brothels, and just clean living. It fell apart after Post died.
C.W. Post's daughter was Marjorie Merryweather Post. She led an interesting life. Merryweather Post build Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach where Donald Trump lives. Post was a Democrat and she had offered the mansion to LBJ, but he demurred. Johnson couldn't afford the taxes and upkeep of Mar-A-Lago.
As expected, wonderfully fresh insights as to our current situation.
T.L. wrote:
<"That puts the onus back onto those slimy representatives, who really don’t want to do anything at all.">
With that comment, an image of Ted Cruz, repub TX Senator immediately came to mind.
Sen. Ted, who is widely regarded as the best legal mind in either House, with Supreme Court litigation already in his toolbox, would have been the obvious point-man for the defense of our liberty in Texas.
Rather than using his talents and position to seek justice for huge numbers of Texans and others, he assumed the strategy of his peer John Cornyn (he's "Just Like Us!") and simply ignored everything happening around him until six months prior to his re-election. Then, we start hearing from Sen. Ted about how he's being unfairly challenged by out-of-state resources, and we need to line-up to help him.
Some conservative firebrand.
I had to grin every time I blocked the current number Cruz solicitations were dialed from.
I suspect Ted may have had a chance to turn back the judgements made or pending against the J6 Patriots if he dared to risk his security or image to soil his hands. He knows the DC vermin and their schemes pretty well.
Agreed, TL. I, and I imagine many others, held our noses and voted for the R's down ballot not because we were in agreement with their cartel, but because the opponents were infinitely worse.
The time for accepting mediocre representatives is over. The time for accepting the lesser of two evils is over. We have done that for far too many years and we've run out of time and patience.
We know from The Donald's first term that he at least will do what he says he will do. We need to hold him to it but more importantly help him do it.
We know the Cackler had no firm stance on any issue and often reversed her stance in the same day. We've lived with liars and their promises for decades. Republicans take note: this is aimed at you too.
Representatives, if you ruin this country with your woke nonsense or bankrupt us giving our hard earned dollars to foreigners we will rise again and show you what a real insurrection looks like!
Hell, I'd much rather go back to 1860 minus the issue of slavery, which wasn't the reason the South seceded, it was a by-product of Lincolns war of aggression against freedom. Prior to Lincoln, we were still a Federal Republic, after Lincoln it was a long downhill descent into tyranny, where we find ourselves today. We have a chance to reverse that trend in the next four years. Let's not f#ck it up.
Yes, how far back into the progression of the death cult's alt-reality we consider is always indicative of how much of the big lie one wants to actually confront.
Most can't or won't trace the present antecedents back to their icky origins because it simply aggregates too many sacred cows into the mental pasture. We just don't have time and energy to sort out how we have come to believe the manifold untruths of our time that we pass off as truths.
So, the challenge is always the "without the slavery" part.
Principles and ideals and the wants of the people will always be only as durable and lasting as their mettle that has been forged in the heat and pressure of the truth being upheld against its opposing forces.
It's easy for us to pick those cherries and leave the pits. Thats the human nature that we share with our progressive opposition. The idea of owning another human is abhorrent through our lens but there is always going to be something awful for the axle of progress to wind around, taking with it those other things we supposedly hold sacred.
The result of this has defined 'conservative' and its losing ways for decades. Any potential aggregation of resistance to the death cult becomes fractured along this timeline in which people who are even awake to the reality of our time cling to their individual break-points along the long march. Pick an amendment to the Constitution. Or pre-post 1965 "civil rights". Or the invention of the Fed. Or Gold Standard. Or some other economic hedgerow. Gay "marriage". Or get real edgy and draw the line at the duck-taped boys in girls sports.
Every epoch has its version of slavery. And with that comes the power struggle over defining the moral ground and subsequent social and economic order. The ratchet of progress wins.
Our time has become defined by failing to retain the essential right (and power to assert such) of a People to define themselves and their governance as a result of that moral ground being ceded.
Some ground was taken, but most was given in trade for economic chits and IOU's to be reckoned with well down the road. Kicking the can is our national sport.
Here we are down the road. Still debating what comes downstream of losing that essential right and its moral foundation.
Who "owns" us if we do not own our monetary integrity? Our foreign policy? The moral arbiters of our commons? The right to define who we are and extend that natural right into the law of the land?
The defeat of slavery, since retconned into a moral premise that 'goes without saying' is part of the long march of that moral and spiritual war, of which the War Between the States, was broken open and subsequently moralized into the same narrative that we still confront.
We are slaves to that same moral progress. We create more slaves every day, under the thumb of an Economy that holds primacy over the people for which it should serve.
Today, our slavery issue might be "immigration". Or abortion. Or the mutant vampire of the DIE. Diversity is Our Greatest Strength. Says who?
Well, we lost the right and power to define who we are as a people and subsequently as a Nation, and so the tyranny we endure is just the annuity of that trade long ago, the perpetuity of slaves negotiating with their masters for the conditions of the plantation.
Well, you seem to be quite the intellectual. Maybe you should start your own substack and expand on your thesis that you shared here. I believe it would be riveting!
The point I was trying to make was, since the Lincoln presidency we have slid downhill into the pits of tyranny since his time in office and the only good that came of his war of aggression was the ending of slavery in this nation. (Are you aware that Lincoln wanted to send these freed slaves back to Africa or to colonize them in some South American nation? Which, IMO, would have been the best thing for the USA.)
As is typical, well-written comment.
I think Trump, and who he aligns with, will be reigning in a surveillance system for the uSA. This is my personal opinion.
Truth bomb.
We;ve only just begun...Republicans will resist our program too, but the people need to keep everyone in the Administration working to free us from this monstrous machine...Otherwise, we will end up like Peanut and Fred.....
I agree with everything T.L. Davis writes in this article. Joe Biden had his pile of Executive Orders already written out when he took office on January 20, 2021. The very next day, Biden signed I think at least a dozen Executive Orders overturning most of what Trump did. Trump needs to do the same thing.
Trump should go after his enemies. Use the IRS and DOJ to do it. Turnaround is fair play. When Hitler took office as Chancellor of Germany he said (paraphrased), "What? You didn't think I'd use the same weapons against you that you used against me? Da ist Dumbkopf!" Who says Hitler didn't have a sense of humor?
Great article.
PS: I was watching a video about Post, Texas in the panhandle. C.W. Post, the breakfast cereal magnate, founded the town around 1914. Post wanted to create a utopia. No booze, brothels, and just clean living. It fell apart after Post died.
C.W. Post's daughter was Marjorie Merryweather Post. She led an interesting life. Merryweather Post build Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach where Donald Trump lives. Post was a Democrat and she had offered the mansion to LBJ, but he demurred. Johnson couldn't afford the taxes and upkeep of Mar-A-Lago.
Maybe Trump will visit Post, Texas.
😉
As expected, wonderfully fresh insights as to our current situation.
T.L. wrote:
<"That puts the onus back onto those slimy representatives, who really don’t want to do anything at all.">
With that comment, an image of Ted Cruz, repub TX Senator immediately came to mind.
Sen. Ted, who is widely regarded as the best legal mind in either House, with Supreme Court litigation already in his toolbox, would have been the obvious point-man for the defense of our liberty in Texas.
Rather than using his talents and position to seek justice for huge numbers of Texans and others, he assumed the strategy of his peer John Cornyn (he's "Just Like Us!") and simply ignored everything happening around him until six months prior to his re-election. Then, we start hearing from Sen. Ted about how he's being unfairly challenged by out-of-state resources, and we need to line-up to help him.
Some conservative firebrand.
I had to grin every time I blocked the current number Cruz solicitations were dialed from.
I suspect Ted may have had a chance to turn back the judgements made or pending against the J6 Patriots if he dared to risk his security or image to soil his hands. He knows the DC vermin and their schemes pretty well.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Thank you.
I would not only defund the corrupt and anti-American/anti-west UN, but I would kick it the hell out of America.
I'm guessing Mr. Trump could find better uses for what must be crazy expensive property.
FB deleted my repost of this article.
FB hates me, I'm still banned and I don't even know what for.
Now they say it’s because I’m trying to get clicks, for what I don’t know, as I didn’t sign up for that. Just pure BS.