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  1. You sem to be in a bit of a depressed mood today. Neo. Not that I can blame you given what you laid out above. My depression is given by the fact that I see no way out of this. The GOP is useless, us small folk are powerless especially as our votes are meaningless in states such as Arizona. We either go quietly into the darkness, or there will be an eventual violent reaction….not good either way.

  2. To a large extent, Obama thought he was himself the Hope and Change he promised. In his own mind, he was the person we were waiting for, and once he lost Congress that was about all the major change the country would get (you’re right, though, about all the little changes in personnel and attitude that made the military and security agencies such an important tool for the Democrats). Obama was in no way a national unifier, but his party and progressives in general would have made (or had already made) racism a centerpiece of their rhetoric even without him. The message might have been more successful coming from him, but it was the Zeitgeist.

    The mention of the Overton window is appropriate. The two parties don’t like each other and struggle for dominance, but usually there’s only so much a president or a party can do, and they accept that. When one party really does achieve dominance, all the half-baked ideas think tanks and lobbyists have been toying with come out of the toy chest and are applied in ways that benefit the party. Sometimes a leader can restrain the party, but usually success, and the prospect of getting more goodies from the taxpayer, goes to everyone’s head.

    Biden was a creature of his party and of the Overton window. He changed over the decades, but that was because what was possible and what the party wanted shifted, not because he thought things through at any point.

  3. Disagree. I think you’re looking at cultural shifts at the ground level. Street-level Democrats are quite tolerant of garbage candidates and seem to prefer them in one venue after another. See, for example, Ilhan Omar winning a primary campaign in 2020 over a black lawyer with a conventional family life. See the grotesque elected DA in Los Angeles County over the black woman who had held the position previously (and was a conventional prosecutor). See Larry Krasner’s re-election in Philadelphia. In competitive jurisdictions, the slice of the electorate whose vote would be influenced by the low calibre of the candidates the Democrats nominate is small and can now be countermanded by vote fraud.

    You have a supply side and a demand side problem here – the increasingly odious quality of people presenting themselves as candidates and the indifference to the electorate to their odious qualities. Have a gander at the Democratic candidates for president in 2019. You had four men who had founded profitable businesses, one of whom had a creditable record as a public executive. You had another who had been both a business executive and a state governor. You had a state governor who had successfully appealed to a red state electorate. All of these people were ignored by Democratic voters. Instead, they favored (1) a prosecutor-turned-legislator with a history of abusing subordinates; (2) a walking resume whose primary credential was two terms as the meh mayor of a 4th tier city; (3) a professor-turned-legislator whose academic career had been built on affirmative action fraud (old pictures of Elizabeth Herring Mann show that she used to color her hair black); (2) a Trotskyist legislator whose most salient credential is an eight year stint as a fairly successful mayor of a 4th tier city, a city which has little of the social pathology the walking resume failed to address; and (1) a dopey uber-corrupt grotesque whose previous presidential campaigns had ended in ignominious failure.

    I’d also point out to you how little an older generation of Democrats has had to say about the cultural decay of the Democratic Party. Where have Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, Bill Bradley, George Mitchell been in the midst of all this? (You’ll note the GooGoo groups like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are in favor of further assaults on ballot security).

  4. physicsguy:

    Yes, I’ve not been very hopeful about politics or the press in this country lately, and even in many in Europe. I’m more than willing to see something more hopeful happen, though.

  5. that was always their purpose, obama’s was to destroy this country, a guided missile rather than a bomber, the subprime crises, that he played a small part in,
    the fruit of the joyce foundation, that he was a board member of pushing registration and confiscations, biden served as a vessel for the likes of jen granholm, who sings about the end of fossil fuels! without apology, of course mccain and romney have done their part, the former from the grave, like jacob marley, in abetting all sorts of schemes, and serving as punching bags,

  6. Obama’s successful labeling of the right as racist set up Biden to declare the right as terrorists. An accusation of racism cannot in and of itself result in imprisonment. But since Jan. 20, 2020 an accusation of terrorism can result in indefinite imprisonment and that without trial. The imprisonment without trial of the Jan. 6th political prisoners is a demonstration by the democrats that they regard the Constitution as null and void. And since the GOPe are collaborators with the democrats, there is no corrective political and legal reform possible. Anyone who thinks that we have plumbed the depravity of the left is gravely mistaken. This is at best, the end of the beginning.

  7. hence our concern about the near enemy, not the far, which is China, having killed 7-10 million with the aid of the fatuous fauci,

    destroying monuments, murdering cops, igniting city centers, doesn’t seem to have that much aprobium, I could be wrong,

  8. well meloni has shown promising signs, and orban, after that the political class has locked most all opposition out, and we see their dark designs in netherlands, belgium, and austria, to cite three recent examples,

    I do find a little dark humor that biden and kerry were members of the nuclear freeze crew, along with obama, and now they are all against Russia, but that’s situational ethics, they always had more contempt for their presumed countrymen, that they share physical space, but TWANLOC

  9. This is a very long fight we are in. It may not be truly won in our lifetimes, but it will be won. If I were a better wordsmith I’d find a way to inspire you to think of those things larger than yourself. It will be won.

  10. Democratic leaders have the ruin of the USA at heart, to be replaced by a totalitarian nation a la the old USSR, with elite Democrats in control forever, making D.C. a neo-Kremlin. As Stalin said, “It is not the votes that count; it is who counts the votes”.
    The ordinary Dem is a sheep, unaware of being herded. That sheep has been shorn, and will soon be butchered. As I’ve remarked before, the 2020 election for POTUS showed a disunited US, with the popular votes for Biden and Trump split basically 50-50. Our salvation shall only come by dissolution of the Union, and restructuring into several different nations with strongly different political philosophies. Some of these will build walls, others not. The South shall rise again!

    No president, present or former, has had to endure what Trump has these past six years. He is a very brave and durable man, which the Dems hate.

  11. Well, if they’re circling the wagons, it means that they expect to be pulverized.
    And they have good reason to believe it….
    “Extreme Danger: “Boring” Election Issues”—
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19180/election-issues

    “…Think of the consent of the governed. One of the reasons we agree to election rules in advance is so the loser buys into the result, right? That is why you do not change the rules in the middle of the game. That is why you do not have a billion dollars flood the zone with biased spending by election offices.
    “There’s dark money, and there’s darker dark money. What has been happening is, all of these litigation shops such as the New York University Brennan Center, League of Women Voters — many people are not non?biased — all of these litigation shops are being fueled by dark money.
    “We do not know where Marc Elias is getting his donations. He will not say. He does not have to. He has 60 lawyers — 60. Do some payroll calculations here. These are not fee-cases that can fuel this. You can look at the disclosures from the party apparatus to Elias. It does not add up to the accounting. Somewhere, someone is funding this.
    “What Elias is doing is attacking every state election law that is designed to fix what happened in 2020. Every state is under attack. We just filed to be intervenor?defendants to help Texas, and Georgia, and wherever he goes, but we have only five lawyers. There aren’t other groups like us. They have a huge, gigantic army.
    “My concern is in 2024, not only will 2020 be repeated, but it will get even worse….

    Short version:
    Changing the rules in the middle of the game. Hmmm.
    “What Elias is doing is attacking every state election law that is designed to fix what happened in 2020. Every state is under attack.”… Hmmm.
    Dark money…. Hmmm.
    Where does he get it…. Hmmm.
    FTX…. Hmmm.
    Soros…. Hmmm.
    Zuckerberg…. Hmmm.

    One can fully understand why DISTRACTIONS such as Trump, inflation, Putin, Climate, multitudinous and simultaneous crises…are so sorely needed by “Biden”….
    Hmmm.

    File under: Coverup, Inc.

  12. “…which the Dems hate.”

    And FEAR.

    Because they know that Trump and people like Trump are the only thing that stand in the way of their dream of a gloriously criminal “Democrats’ Democratic Republic”.

  13. Very well said, neo.
    As an optimist, I can’t help seeing a silver lining here. It seems to me that the Overton Window hasn’t opened quite as far as the Left imagines. More and more people are noticing the lawlessness, and getting involved, and fighting back.
    California just elected a Republican to Congress — not a RINO, either; a farmer! (Made possible because of redistricting, but still…)

  14. Here’s a brace….
    (….so brace yerselves…and hold on tight…that is, if there are no seatbelts—i.e., shoulder harnesses—around with which to buckle up…):

    “Greenwald Drags MSM Journos For ‘Hive-Mind’ Hackery Over Taibbi-Twitter Bombshell”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msm-journos-have-meltdown-over-taibbi-twitter-biden-bombshell
    “The Trumpification Of Elon Musk”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumpification-elon-musk
    “Musk Is Right: It’s A Battle For Future Of Civilization”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/musk-right-its-battle-future-civilization

  15. I can certainly understand despairing at the state of affairs in the US–and Canada for that matter. The task of fixing the innumerable things that are wrong seems nearly impossible. I’m afraid I gave up the fight long ago. Feeling trapped by a predatory government, not to mention brutal winters, twenty-four years go I moved from Canada to Mexico. Why Mexico? I know a lot of Canadians move to the US, but after seeing how the justice system treated Conrad Black, it did not appeal to me. One of the happiest years I have had was spent studying music in Spain in the 1970s so when a friend described how lovely a certain town in central Mexico was, we tried it out. It has worked out very well, not least in the matter of health care. Mexico is a healthcare destination because it offers high quality care at a very reasonable price. One example? When I needed an MRI I was able to make an appointment for the next day. Cost $150 US. In Canada it is “free” (meaning you pay through your taxes) but the average wait time is three months. Time to see a specialist here is one week and you can schedule your treatment to suit your schedule. In Canada, the average wait time is 25 weeks. And if you have a sick kid in Quebec and have to visit the emergency room, just don’t bother!

    Lots of other benefits in Mexico. You hear a lot of negative stories about violence here, which certainly exists. But where I live is very peaceful. And government interference in your life is absolutely minimal. Oh, did I mention there is no shoplifting and no homeless problem?

  16. Free at last!
    Free at last!
    Thank god almighty they’re free at last
    To be the arrogant prick Karens they always wanted to be!

  17. Their takeover of most of the controls will be hard to overcome.
    Nothing will happen to Sam Bank-Fraud, Twitter head honchos controlled by Democrats and no doubt every other social media as well.
    Hearing 1,000 people in Gulag Garland and BLM getting cash settlements for rioting in Minneapolis.
    It’s going to get worse to 2024 and after as they have controlled vote fraud to a science

  18. To repeat —

    1. Election results are not likely to be indicative of true voter sentiment. Period. It makes no sense to review all the ways that elections are tainted and then discuss their “results” as if they aren’t.

    2. The horrific abuses by Big Brother will continue and worsen as long as ordinary Democrat voters approve. There are only two paths to correcting the destruction of the republic: a) ordinary Democrat voters join the fight for election integrity, or 2) the nation descends into violence and the storm troopers with integrity are a large enough majority and they choose to side with the rebels against the empire.

    No one wants to descend into violence (except perhaps the sickest and most vicious of the Democrats/Antifa leaders).

    That leaves one viable path — convince decent Democrat voters that they have been voting for destroying America unless we institute election integrity measures used by the rest of the free world. That’s it.

    . Are there any decent Democrat voters left? I don’t know.

    The starting point is to raise awareness of how far our election processes vary from every other democracy. Every single voter in America needs to be bombarded with this information.

    Instead of screaming about stolen elections past, point out how bad the process is. The process cannot be defended. Mailing ballots is ridiculous. Pound that message.

    It’s true that elections have been stolen. But that isn’t a winning message for change. It makes Dem voters resist. Far better would be to point out how outraged they will be when the GOP starts raking in mail ballots and voting imaginary voters.

  19. Gonna be an “interesting” week.
    “Elon Musk vows ‘more smoking guns’ to be revealed by Twitter after Hunter Biden bombshell”—
    https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/elon-musk-more-smoking-guns-to-be-revealed-by-twitter-after-biden-bombshell/

    …But for the life of me, I don’t know how much longer “Biden” can allow this kind of nonsense to continue. Even “The most transparent administration in American history”(TM) has its limits, surely….

    Musk will, somehow, have to be neutralized.
    Maybe Garland will use one of the variants on the old unpaid parking ticket trick and put him away for 50 years (45 for good behavior)….Or maybe they’ll get AOC to invite him to the Capitol…to autograph her Tesla…and get him on vandalism of the property of a public official…

  20. Yep, gonna be interesting:
    “FBI, Big Tech, Big Media: Partners in collusion”
    NY Post takes the gloves off…
    https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/fbi-big-tech-big-media-partners-in-collusion/
    “WUHAN DID IT”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/wuhan-did-it.php
    Opening graf:
    “America’s National Institutes of Health funded a group called EcoHealth Alliance…to collaborate on research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. At least one project consisted of gain of function research on bat coronaviruses. Because of concerns about the dangers of such research, NIH shut it off in 2014, but re-started funding gain of function in 2017, largely at the instance of Anthony Fauci.
    “From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Andrew Huff worked for EcoHeath Alliance, the latter two years as vice president. He has written a book…titled The Truth about Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History….”
    “Hubris Exposed;
    “REVIEW: ‘Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates’ ”
    https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/hubris-exposed/

  21. With Sundowner I see the behind the scenes Puppeteers have a figure head who will eventually get all the blame and they will be nameless. He is doing everything they dreamed becoming their mouth piece, and totally covered by their Propaganda Ministry.

  22. The Internet’s awash with Elon Musk and twitter/government collusion “stuff”.
    None of this stuff is really “new” but it’s fascinating nonetheless….
    Steve Bannon interviewing Miranda Devine of the NY post:
    https://twitter.com/TalkMullins/status/1599142710866477057
    Jeff Carlson has some pretty interesting items on his twitter feed.
    https://twitter.com/themarketswork
    As does Hans Mahncke…
    Elon Musk on “Why I bought twitter…”
    https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1599184980290113536
    https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/
    And one hopes that this is not too much OTT: Actor James Woods: Must may have saved America…but it may just prove to be true (unless they can put the screws on him, which one must ASSUME they’ll do their utmost to achieve—essentially, he’s gone up against the ENTIRE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE THAT IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Heroic. Kind of like—if not quite, Sharansky taking on the USSR…)
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/actor-james-woods-elon-musk-may-have-saved-america/

    + Bonus:
    Di-v-ph-ph-ph-ph-er-sssity! World Cup style:
    https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1599188162596638726
    Along with this spellbinding interview with a Saudi sportscaster (a woman) describing the challenges of her chosen profession: They put me way high up in the stadium—well, the men…you know. But it’s so magnificent up there and I feel so close to God. Um, I don’t really see much from there—I don’t see much, period (modest laughter)—but I really do my best to make it as entertaining as possible for our friends watching on TV….—
    https://twitter.com/ChiefKief710/status/1599188855600840705

  23. @Barry Meislin

    One thing for sure, is that Elon has been triggered. He wasn’t particularly political until about a year ago, at least as far as I could see, and strikes me as fairly libertarian in his views.

    He was just an eccentric billionaire that was doing some very interesting things with technology and engineering. Now that the Left has decided he’s an enemy, for having the temerity to support free speech, he’s activating his Trump-level trolling powers. He must figure that if he’s going to be painted as the bad guy, he might as well own the role. Elon is another sleeping giant the Left has needlessly provoked. I’ve got my popcorn.

  24. like tony stark, who they borrowed some of elon’s personality from, a iconoclastic tech mogul who dreams big, sometimes his alliances were not the best, say with the prc or the quixotic leviathan that is the state of california, for his hypertrain,

    prince salman is another such character we have wanted a dynamic reformer who was willing to challenge the wahhabi death cult, not just with words, but getting at their financial support base, that’s what the ritz carlton raid was about, and their intellectual recruitment network, this isn’t a virtue signaling stunt, this is life or death for him and his family, his tribe the ajman know this in their bones,
    and yet they have driven him into this makeship BRICS framework,

  25. I’m feeling depressed about US politics too.

    Whether the mask is on or down won’t matter to those who cover their eyes; and ears. No need to cover their mouths – just repeat a version of
    la la la
    I can’t hear year –
    but anything the Dem MSM say is assumed to be true until
    the Dem media say otherwise.

  26. With the Biden administration, the left has pulled the mask off.

    –neo

    No doubt about it.

    But isn’t there a silver lining here? Democrats can’t go back to the pretense of being JFK or even Bill Clinton moderates.
    ______________________

    The Economist went on to cite a poll commissioned by Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, that found that the average American voter when asked which party is more extreme answered the Democrats by a significant margin.

    https://spectator.org/strange-party-of-joe-biden/
    ______________________

    The US, especially the young, has probably become more leftist than the past, but I don’t believe so far as the current Dem party.

    I say the rubber band is already snapping back. The midterms showed the Dem ability to “fortify” the vote has made the margin of fraud greater than in the past, but not so great they can win at will. We now have the House and the Senate remains close.

    The midterms have given Biden a bit of a reprieve and he may run in 2024, which is a good for Republicans. I think it would be even better if Trump didn’t run, but that’s a refinement.

    Back when I was on the left we would have called “pulling the mask off” a kind of “heightening the contradictions,” which we thought was a good thing. Maybe that was just happy talk, but I notice that the left spent a lot of time mostly powerless in the desert before their long marches through the institutions bore fruit.

    Hard-core progs and low-info voters aren’t likely to come over. Which is sad, but not too surprising. In the meantime, however, which side do you think is losing support?

  27. Mike K: yes, I read the CTH piece on the surveillance state and the Intelligence Branch. Very long and repetitive in places–Sundance is not a very good writer–but important and plausible. Some key paragraphs:

    “For their own self-preservation, the Intelligence Branch has been interfering in our elections for years. The way to tear this apart begins with STATE LEVEL election reform that blocks the Legislative Branch from coordinating with the Intelligence Branch.”

    “The extreme federalism approach is critical and also explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts. The worry of successful state level election control is also why the Intelligence Branch now needs to support the federal takeover of elections.”

    “Our elections have been usurped by the Intelligence Branch. Start with honest elections and we will see just how much Democrat AND Republican corruption is dependent on manipulated election results. Start at the state level. Start there…. everything else is downstream.”

    The Bush administration created a monster after 9/11; Obama, Holder, and their lieutenants turned it against their political opponents and the American people in general.

  28. It seems that whatever power members of the current liberal alliance acquire, many if not most of them are determined to push the envelope, abuse their authority, cheat, recruit and groom children, etc – all manner of hyper aggressive activism. They dare civil society and our timid courts to reign them in. In this light, election fraud and sexualizing children are aspects of the same aggressive activism.

    California teacher who has ‘queer library’ in classroom is slammed by parents after giving sexually explicit content to teens including books on BDSM, kink and orgies

  29. Absolutely.
    Along with the wide-open border, the anxiety and desperation caused by—INTENTIONALLY-CAUSED—hyper-inflation, the massive crime wave in the cities and breakdown of the social order, the trashing of public education and the military, “his” war on the Constitution, generally, and all the other garbage that “Biden” has been tossing about….

    And now “he”‘s sending “his” shock troops to mix things up with DeSantis.
    Should be “interesting”…
    “Antifa Aims To Disrupt Florida Rally Opposing The Sexualization Of Children”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifa-aims-disrupt-florida-rally-opposing-sexualization-children

    Hold on! “He”‘s IN FAVOR of the sexualization of children???
    That’s right: since “he” can “win” elections AT WILL, “he” no longer has to think about optics…

  30. Hmmm. This sounds potentially entertaining…(though one hesitates to recommend stocking up on popcorn because of all the sheer damage, destruction and hurt these people have caused…and will be causing for some time to come)….
    And so…in another gruesome episode of “Compare and contrast”, we’ll just have to present:
    “Alameda’s Caroline Ellison Spotted In NY Amid Speculation She Is About To Roll On SBF After Hiring Iconic Clinton Lawyer”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/alamedas-caroline-ellison-spotted-ny-amid-speculation-she-about-roll-sbf-after-hiring
    Indeed, she of “the ‘unmedicated’ life is not worth living” fame…may decide to bail on the boy-oh-boy wonder…

    …who—whaddayaknow!—makes another cameo appearance:
    “Sam Bankman-Fried says he will testify before House when he’s ‘finished learning and reviewing what happened’;
    “Rep. Maxine Waters scheduled a hearing on cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s collapse for Dec. 13”—
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/sam-bankman-fried-testify-house-hes-finished-learning-reviewing-what-happened
    “When he’s finished”(!!) he says… Sure thing, pal. Take yer time!…

    And what’s that?? The utterly tone-deaf Mad Maxine Waters—no stranger, she, to questionably-earned moola—SHE’s gonna run the hearing on SBF/FTX?? Oh, right!…Heh…
    Shocka!! Here she is, spouting more of her trademark bilgewater…
    “Maxine Waters praises FTX founder Bankman-Fried for ‘candid’ interviews after billions go missing;
    “Sam Bankman-Fried has defended himself as a well-meaning entrepreneur who got in over his head, claiming FTX’s collapse had nothing to do with fraud”—
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/maxine-waters-praises-ftx-founder-bankman-fried-candid-interviews-losing-people-billions

    Should be a most interesting “hearing”…
    As they say, “Can’t make this stuff up…”.

  31. Ive been watching a fair bit of noir ‘suffering with style’ the elegance even among the illfated like this little farce ‘decoy’

  32. @physicsguy:

    ” We either go quietly into the darkness, ”

    Or conform. Either way, it doesn’t matter to The Left. They want to be in charge and to have their name plastered onto everything, sorta like a narcissistic person. This is The Left’s own version of colonialism.

    They’ll be all “what a nice nuclear family you got there, would be bad if the kids hated their parents and the parents divorced or had an affair wouldn’t it?” to “what a nice home you got there, bad if we took away your car because of climate change, raised property taxes and made your neighborhood dirty and unsafe.” This is them erasing history, saying such a family is archaic and doesn’t work, to such a lifestyle isn’t sustainable so come to the city.

  33. @ Geoffrey:

    “The imprisonment without trial of the Jan. 6th political prisoners is a demonstration by the democrats that they regard the Constitution as null and void.”

    The Left then goes on CNN/MSNBC talking about how Trump wants the Constitution shredded because Orange Man is Big Baby … And upon further research it’s not what Trump said, so go figure.

  34. physicsguy on December 3, 2022 at 5:31 pm said:
    You sem to be in a bit of a depressed mood today. Neo. Not that I can blame you given what you laid out above. My depression is given by the fact that I see no way out of this. The GOP is useless, us small folk are powerless especially as our votes are meaningless in states such as Arizona. We either go quietly into the darkness, or there will be an eventual violent reaction….not good either way.

    You can also do the best to carve out a good live for you and yours possible, while watching things unfold.

    One can prepare for whatever reaction happens, while being as aware of events as possible, with the possibility of a good life in the meantime.

    It may not work out as we wish, but I believe it is certain it will not work out as the left wishes.

    Buckle up and enjoy the ride, even if it isn’t the ride you wanted.

  35. I’ve come to believe that when Obama gave his “fundamental transformation” speech before the 2008 election he was referring to the transformation of the national security/intelligence/law enforcement apparatus.

  36. no he was speaking society wide, and he succeeded much more than we thought, he corrupted every institution he touched, his stamp is on this camarilla as much as any other factor,

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