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"I am very concerned about the continued lockdown. It is killing many people." (Roy Eappen - Q&A comment)
This sums up the policy advice of Scott Atlas (versus Dr Fauci), yet "President-elect" Biden is proposing a national lockdown that will make Dan Andrews in suicide-central look soft.
As Mark says, "Lockdown land is killing everything - including people who don't suffer from the Covid. But the control... they can't give it up." #NewNormal
I wonder whether 'flu deaths are being systematically over-counted and suicide deaths are being even more systematically under-counted, K. My daughter does IT work for a mid-sized British funeral business. She tells me that the number of funerals for suicide victims which that organisation alone has conducted every month since February has accounted (give or take) almost entirely for the entire national suicide statistic for that month. There are literally hundreds of mid-sized funeral operators of a comparable scale active in Britain. The information should probably be treated as anecdotal at this point, but the interesting thing is that in the entire anglophone world I can find no sign of any empowered body checking on these numbers.
Conspiracy theory? Lot of those going around just now: lockdown conspiracy, media conspiracy, climate conspiracy, election conspiracy, EU-remainer conspiracy, to name only a few of the popular ones which preoccupy the right wing of politics. I think that the left wing of politics trades in a much larger list. Most conspiracy theories are self-serving, which is to say, the material benefits for the people positing the theory are substantial and evident. I tend to amplify my skepticism when that is the case. I think in this instance that extra skepticism is not called for: I think that this smoke raises valid suspicion of a fire.
But please do not quote my daughter's statistics: I have no means of verifying them, and I would not wish to embarrass her. Somebody ought to be checking on the numbers, though. I shall be appalled if it proves that Liberal-National Prime minister Morrison has not been having Labour-CCP State premier Andrews's cause-of-suicide and absolute suicide figures checked.
I feel a case of appalment coming on, if you'll pardon the neologism.
The Victorian suicide numbers are both anecdotal and actual: there was a recent report on the increase in women aged (approx) 30-45 years, in addition to other demographic groups that have been identified.
If this were really about public health, deaths of any/all causes - and attempts to minimise them - should matter.
Yes, you'd have thought so.
It's true that the hospitals have been ghost towns, now for quite some time. If I look at it from a distance it looks like the leftists are working as hard as they can to collapse the healthcare system right around the time President Trump takes office. When it collapses they'll blame it on President Trump and try to rile everyone up to support his arrest and the destruction of his whole family. Then President Harris will step in and beneficently bestow on the rest of us the 'single payer' healthcare the leftists have been agitating for since I can remember. It will be healthcare that's rationed and the rationing will benefit the leftists and their friends. The rest of us will be left to die. Nurses like me who began giving pro bono care under obamam care when it created a contraction in what Medicare offered will be punished for giving free care, along with any nuns who's orders are fashioned around free care.
If President Trump is beginning to back down because the leftists have promised to leave him and his family he needs to remember that there is no honesty in the left and there's no integrity and loyalty. They'll throw him to the demented crowd along with his family and say, "How sad. We tried to protect him but he was so universally hated he had to pay for his sins to the crowd who've been so badly hurt by him." When society becomes insane and the economy collapses no one is safe.
"If I look at it from a distance it looks like the leftists are working as hard as they can to collapse the healthcare system."
Covid-19 has been the ideal pretext for a socialist "reset" of everything, from healthcare to jobs. AOC is a big fan of Universal Basic Income: this might be her big chance.
One of the questions yesterday concerned a good WWI novel. I'd recommend Willa Cather's "One of Ours." It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 - a time when the Pulitzer committee recognized true literary merit.
Question that I didn't get into the queue is: I see what is happening over at Fox as a continuation of the Left media's effort to change the station into presenting more of the content that they approve of, if not ultimately reaching their goal of closing it down for good. I don't think they accounted for the number of alternatives that have popped up, however,and I wonder what your take on this is and whether you think that someday you'll be making guest appearances with Tucker on his own podcast? I would think that the current employees might be interested in a new owner...perhaps even themselves?
I wondered the same thing, Janet. Other than a few of my favorites there, I feel betrayed. It can't just be we here at the club, because I heard their ratings plummeted last Friday. Good riddance, and don't let the door hit you on the backside as you leave, the saying goes. Of course, they could be saying that about me.
Fran, there are still too many there that I continue to want to see to give up on them yet. I've depended on them since 1996 and haven't found a suitable alternative. That will change in the coming years and I can only hope that the biggest change is an accelerated scale on the conservative side and a bankruptcy sweep on the Left. The most important change would be terming FB and Twitter as publishers and therefore able to be sued.
True, many still there, Janet, but I feel as if they need to earn back my trust after the events of the last couple weeks. I was pleased to see the interview Lou Dobbs had with Sydney Powell on the Doninion voting machines. Lou said there's a contradiction between what we were told about the machines re the updates. I believe he said they were updated the day before the election.. He's earned back my loyalty for exposing that. I need to go back and rewind it to be sure I got all that Sydney said. I like what she says when she speaks.
Fauci shared the results of the Pfizer tests with Biden, then the press. The Trump campaign learned of the results from the press.
Check out the WHO/World Bank joint venture, the "independent" Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, and Fauci's role thereon, in company with the Bill and Melinda Gates Fund, Wellcome Trust, Communist China and others.
Whilst there, read the report with the recommended couple of pandemic scenarios that were to be run in 2020.
Trump's tale of the old lady and the snake comes to mind.
BTW, The Gates Fund is actually an investment vehicle, with stakes in pharma, focused on vaccinations and population control. The Gates fund also donates to the BBC, Guardian, WHO and many other globalist bodies.
The most interesting stakeholder involved with "Event 201" in NYC in October last year - where experts from around the world gathered to workshop a pandemic scenario based on the fictional "CAPS" respiratory virus (Coronavirus Acute Pulmonary Syndrome) - was the World Economic Forum. Why would the WEF be so invested in "pandemic preparedness"??
For all the so-called planning (with respect to early diagnostics, sentinel surveillance, PPE acquisition, and expansion of hospital resources etc), none of it translated into action in real life when it might have had an impact - in January and February - as Mark noted.
PS. One kooky conspiracy theory would be that the experts discussed plans for mass-quarantine, mass-testing, "non-essential" workers, QR codes and Zoom etc etc over dinner that night.
PPS. A lot of interesting reading at the (CCP-affiliated) WEF lately. See: "These tech giants want to help prepare the world for the future of work" - with a bar graph of company revenues to show they have "shrugged off" lockdowns. The WEF "Covid Pass" - for approved travel now, and during *future* pandemics - is interesting to.
... interesting too.
Fauci may find out that it's better to be the guy who snipes from the rafters (basically his role under Trump) than the guy who gets pushed to the front and is expected to perform (most likely his role under Biden). After decades in government what medical problems has Fauci solved? Certainly not AIDS. He's studied the heck out of it for sure but if you look back you'll find with that disease as well apocalyptic predictions by Fauci that have yet to come to pass.
Great one-volume history of WWI: "A World Undone" G. J. Meyer.
"When Heroes Die" - documenting the WW1 loss of 100 pupils, from a 1914 roll of 229 boys, and one master, of Gresham's School - is well worth reading. Lovely school in Norfolk that my son attended.
To your point Mark - we're fighting to preserve our history, culture, customs, origin, provenance. Our stories.
The left wants this and every year to be Year Zero. If we don't know where we came from, we will be more readily to accept the State as our family.
A close friend of mine back in high school was originally from Cuba. She's an artist living in Rome now and is having an exhibit at the Temple U in Rome now. I think there may be a streaming event this Tuesday. I really don't know her political positions but regardless of her politics, she spoke in her exhibition preview last week, also streaming, about how Cuba's history, before Fidel, was wiped away and she is now devoting her time to writing a book with her drawings and mixed media. It seems as if it will be a very personal account of what life was like there for her father, a prominent architect, and her mother and siblings before she was able to get away to America as a child. While I viewed the event, I wondered if that could happen to us and we, too, might have to start looking for saved artifacts from our youth and our parents' lives to keep the memories and stories alive.
Fran, with our digital world under the control of the elite left, everything we know can be re-written (as happens with Wikipedia) to recreate the truth - or obliterated. There will be no Dead Sea scrolls, no cave paintings.
A vanished civilization.
I swing between cautious optimism and overwhelming despondency on the outcome of the election. The statistical anomalies in the distribution of votes and the brazen illegality in the way they were counted argue that widespread fraud almost certainly robbed Trump of outright victory. But what is the remedy? How are fraudulent votes to be discriminated from genuine votes? The Supreme Court has said they won't address voter fraud if the outcome of the case or cases wouldn't change the outcome of the election. But are they any more likely to take up a case or cases if their decision WOULD change the outcome of the election? Wouldn't John Roberts recoil like Count Dracula at daybreak in the harsh glare of such a spotlight? Or would he, who seeks consensus the way a sailor seeks safe harbor, side with the five conservative justices to make the majority appear stronger at 6-3 rather than 5-4? Isn't the very discussion of the court's involvement in the election an admission that the whole game is over? John Roberts is the arbiter of societal evolution and the rule of law? [Bleep] it, I'm staying home.
PS: As for WWI fiction, I was quite taken with A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin. Not to be confused with Mark Halperin, the journo-lech accused by "at least a dozen" women of sexual harassment. The term "trench warfare" has entirely different meanings to the two.
Why would they go to the trouble of vote braiding if it wouldn't change the outcome? How do we know it wouldn't if we don't know how much fraud there was anyway? I'm looking forward to joining the #RESIST movement. Great fun to be had.
I don't know anything about Geraldo's phone chat with Pesident Trump but I know a large group of patriots will be in Washington DC today for the Million MAGA March and Stop the Steal Rally.
As reported in passing in news in Australia, the "patriots" are relatively few in number - and most of them are "Proud Boys".
The media unison in declaring a winner and dismissing "false claims" of voting irregularities and fraud is one of the more disturbing aspects of events of the past week. We're witnessing the evolution of state-run media (including corporations). Or media-run states.
It looked wonderful! If only the mainstream media carried the story. Thank God for Lifesite News and Newsmax.
It's a more horrible prospect than many folk realise, K. I lived in South Africa when for decades a rigorous unwanted-information media blackout (which included an element of distortion and downright disinformation) was in place (incidentally with an even more rigorous unwanted-jokes blackout and an absolutely rigorous unwanted-philosophy blackout). Killing stuff.
On a whimsical note, in South Africa, the blackout was imposed by the self-styled "conservative" wing of politics and was opposed by a self-styled "progressive, liberal" wing (which was able to point at a concern for genuine economic progress and human liberty, at least).
The common element, then as now, was to manage society by dividing it into racial factions set at one another's throats in a zero-sum contest. Karl Marx never foresaw that one! Actually, I don't think that he foresaw that his sympathisers (I baulk at calling them acolytes) would be enthusiastic exponents of information, philosophical and comedy blackouts either.
Fast-moving world, I'd offer.
Yes, fast-moving indeed, S. And not limited to media, needless to say. The "defenders of the working class" are aligned with Silicon Valley etc, and "liberals" have embraced full-on censorship.
That was dammed good, so much so that after listening live last night I had a re-run this morning
I am increasingly saddened by the plight of my many American friends who are clinging on, almost desperately, hoping for the miracle that isn't going to happen. They have been subject to disappointment and betrayal at every turn by pretty much everyone other than the president. Bill Barr, he's a straight shooter, he'll clean house after Sessions and Rosenstein. Nope. The Durham Report, that's going to change everything, Nope. Two new Conservatives on the Supreme Court. Meh (so far). Q Anon, c'mon man! Even the excellent Conservative Treehouse Site has eventually to admit its hopes are dashed. The time to move on is with us, unpalatable as it may feel, and Mark's opening monologue should be required listening to a reluctant audience of over 70m.
I haven't got much else to contribute other than to acknowledge an increasingly important "Oasis of Sanity", something we will all be needing in the coming months and sadly years. Oh that and keep on worrying about my own country led in the loosest sense of the word by the embarrassing and ineffective serial shagger.
Mark. Excellent analysis as usual. I am sorry to report that I am in depression mode. We are living in a world of paradoxes. The main factor I have noted in my 63 years of life, is the way in which the anglo - saxon, western nations have exhibited an exraordinary inability to develop long-term wisdom with regards to safeguarding the integrity of Christian culture, which has made them successful (until now). This wisdom encompasses strict moral behaviour and the observance of self-discipline based on Biblical teachings (no other religions or ideologies will do); the evolution of a fair and flexible economy, which can adapt to change.
(Note, I don't say 'sustainable'. Dangerous word that - especially in the hands of the green movement); the rigorous development of science to promote happiness and security (defense/deterrence); the correct interpretation of the past and to read the road ahead, with a view to being prepared to cope with logically thought-through threats (the madness of the climate change scaremongers is not one of them). In other words , 'Put yourself in a position where you cannot be challenged'. Detractors will say - John that is impossible.
Is it? The Bible talks about the second coming of Jesus who will rule for a millennium: 'I will wipe every tear; there will be no poverty, pain, suffering etc. This is the only thing keeping me going. At least it is better than the secular dystopia we are very likely to see in the next ten to twenty years.
In a world where identity determines your place in this world, America is losing it's own identity. The globalists want America to be the rest of the western world where its commands come from a permeant bureaucracy that exists in either a major city in it's borders like New York City or a foreign power like in the EU or in this case China. We fought wars wanting America to have it's own identity and now it's like we're all too eager to give it away to be like everyone else. I want America to be like America, not to be like China. If America is going to be run like a colony of a foreign power I'd rather be run by the UK than China but the way the UK is now, it's going to be another colony of China as well as the rest of the western world.
"If America is going to be run like a colony of a foreign power I'd rather be run by the UK..."
As Mark said, "All is forgiven, King George".
Mark-
It has been reported that former Vice President Biden will name Michael Mann as head of his Climate Task Force, should he be declared the winner of Nov. 3rds dust up with Pres. Trump. I know you and Mr. Mann are currently in litigation, but I would imagine you may have some thoughts to share on this news.
I'm not the boss-man, but I have a thought to offer: phonies of a feather flock together. If America has to undergo the nightmare of a Biden government, it may as well take pleasure in the discrediting by association which it puts in prospect.
I've never before had such an urge to cause a warm, tropical rain on the White House lawn. Well after January 20th, of course.
I for one am sure that our incredibly professional and trustworthy media will all point out that he had a default judgement handed down upon him in a BC court when he refused to cooperate with requests for records and info in a lawsuit he filed with the intent of bleeding a critic dry.
Yeah...
Thoughtful. Riveting. A real fireside chat. Not that FDR drivel but somewhere between an overheard monologue of the beloved sage at the local pub and something from the counsel of Gandalf, Aragorn or Elrond in Rivendell. Enjoyed all of it in peace.
Heard a caller on a local Richmond radio show who had attempted to post newspaper headlines touting Dewey defeats Truman, and Gore Wins! On Farcebook. You can guess what the Dark Lord Z did with that. Temporarily banned, and all...
Great show, Mark! So great I listened twice in a row. Was driving home from Phoenix area when I hit the the part about Brad's Ferrari just around where there's a fantastic 90° turn from the back roads over to the I10 and having a Ferrari would be pretty cool for a day drive to Phoenix and back to So. New Mexico.
This was an important show to hear because not only was it a reality check for the status of our national joke elections, it also informed me of etiquette at a nudist beach when hugging someone. I nearly lost control of the wheel at that point but I recovered and enjoyed the rest of the show.
I guess I'm just a lowly cheerleader, Boring! Yet, essential. Some of us must do some heavy lifting here. Cheers!
When you reach our age 75 mph is pretty darn fast...
Those telephone poles were like a picket fence
They said "Slow down, I see spots!"
The lines on the road just looked like dots...
In the off chance I ever meet Mark in person, my correct etiquette is a square look in the eye and a firm handshake (ChiCom-19 be damned,) no hugging required.
Geez, i don't see many doing 75 anymore around here. If I set it at 80 every car passes me. I have to do at least 85 to keep the traffic flowing. It's important to slow down to sixty when passing through little towns. That's where they nab you. I'm going to start saving for my Ferrari. Maybe by the time I'm ninety they'll fix the voting machines and gasoline will be back at the old-fashioned pumps. (I passed the ghost town of Stein again but I didn't see any old cowboys, floozies or miners floating around. Nothing but truckers around late at night.
I hope you meet Mark Steyn. I call the period before I met Steyn, the BS period. After I met Steyn in Rochester at the Kodak Center, I was in the CSE, the Common Steyn Era, where I then knew I would have to see him again. Since then, I saw him in Montreal prancing around like a reindeer in his Live Christmas Show, I call this period of my life, AS, Alive Steyn. I still hope I make a Mark Steyn cruise some day so that will fall into the same period of my life. Then it'll all be over for me but it will have been grand.
Fran, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln
I agree completely with you Fran. I got to see Mark talk back in 2004 in Australia and it was great. Got to sit up on the stage next to him as well, I was too timid to ask a question though. I have no idea of what my head would have been like if I had not had Mark to read/listen to all these years. Now that America is essentially sailing into oblivion for the next 8 years, is Mark going to move back to Canada until this blows over? Whatever he chooses to do, I will be sending my Pacific pesos to lend a hand. Best club ever!
Just want to be sure I don't swerve off topic, Walt, but there's a famous quote by some 19th century Englishman, (who else?) I used to know, maybe someone else knows, but it roughly says, the best revenge is living a good life. I will substitute a "good drive." It can apply to a beautiful long car ride or a long down-the-middle fairway drive.
Same with me, Robert, I'm timid as well. I needed a few beers before I had the courage to meet Mark, and Dennis Miller was there, too. I was so focused on meeting Mark that I forgot and went all wobbly kneed standing next to Dennis. When he asked me where my husband was I made some stupid comment about how he needed to watch our eighteen pets at home while I had my back to Mark. And then it was over, the photo flash went off a ten times (as I have a load of weird expressions they at least waited for one normal one which was sweet of them). That was quite brief so I just had to see Mark's Live Christmas event to say I really saw him. There I did get to shake his hand as he was waving his good-byes. Very classy show! I may have had a little too much wine (it just kept flowing) but I do remember most of the show.
I used to know his name, I meant, I'm not 140 years old yet.
A nudist beach is much safer than a cruise ship for group events; good suggestion, Walt.
Maybe I should start watching more television. Who would have thought the high morbidity protagonists from AMC's The Walking Dead would rise up and elect one of their own as president. I never saw that coming...dang zombies!
Musings from California... our glorious governor was sued in court land a Superior Court judge found for the plaintiffs last month and ordered a Permanent Injunction against Newsom so he can't rule by decree any longer. However, he asked the judge to put it on hold for a minimum of two-weeks, but he didn't say what his reasons were. She hasn't responded to his request, but we're all wondering what he has in store for us, just in time for the holidays!
Great, great show: many thanks, and congratulations to the MSC members whose questions put the discussion on its way.
Yes, too much conservative faith has been misinvested. Yes, the swamp was never drained. Yes, there isn't much future in electoral litigation. Yes, it wasn't a review which excited optimism - but it did, partly because of the boss-man's exuberance, partly because it will take more than this to get him down, and partly because we all know that nothing is over even when the latest thing is over.
Contradictions. That's a theme worth exploring. Take "protracted adolescence" as an example. The H in the B/H duo wants to lower the voting age to 16. Yet a 26-year-old individual can still be covered on a parents' insurance plan. How can those things be reconciled? (Despite the horror the ACA is, one feature that made in even less workable is the 26 years option. If young adults had been in the payment pool, dipping into their own resources to pay for coverage, there might have been more negative reaction to the plan or demands for reforming it.) And even as the B of B/H pushes a giant national lockdown, the duo supports open borders. By any standard, U.S. borders has been quite open during the last 242 days, quite different from a place like New Zealand. Contradictions at every level...And on the other side, the contradiction of Trump being fiscally liberal and more socially conservative merits thought, too. In a way, even many who think they are fiscally conservative are the opposite, but they find ways to conceal sources of revenue (adding massive taxes and 'fees' to bills from utility service providers, etc.).And how can self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives in Congress laud the 26 year-old cutoff for ACA and decry taxes? Is it any more honest than those on the far left demanding free stuff without a concern about paying for it? Aren't there many people on both sides aiming to have someone else pay? Here's a radical thought, for instance, about what would do the most to quickly shore up Social Security fund: Those who don't need it shouldn't take it. (The Bs, according to the income tax form, collect in total $66,000 from SS last year. Do they need it?) Contradictions stem from the human struggle with mendacity and hypocrisy no doubt. It's a real struggle each day to try to avoid both just -- in one quiet life.
And we just dumped over $2 Trillion into the Blue State Government mismanagement of CoViD-19 fund. God's gift to the left, as Jane Fonda stated and a three-fer for the Dems long term: force people to stay home from work and make them more dependent; finally break the AllTime World Champion Government Deficit annual mark set by Obama & Pelosi back in 2009 and push the currency and treasury closer to collapse. The Republicans will win a majority of national offices again and the Democrats will ensure it's just in time to take the blame for the collapse.
Reported today in the WP that B/H want employees to be able to sue their employers if they contract the virus in their workplace ...businesses on hanging by threads (if they are open at all)
And doesn't H also want to lower the voting age to 16? That would be fine if the sixteen-year olds signed up for any of the armed forces, or, as you mentioned, if they weren't on put on the parents' insurance. I know that the borders are open in El Paso and Palomas because Juarez people work here and go to college at UTEP. I hear more Spanish when I visit the El Paso malls than I do English when I did have to go there for something or other. It has been over twenty-five years since locals would spend a weekend night in Juarez. Way too dangerous, now. But I used to talk to people from there in my Italian club and they wouldn't live anywhere else, but you're correct that the border is still open. Locals here in Las Cruces and El Paso will cross for inexpensive dental work. They love their dentists there. You can get braces half price, crowns, bridges or whatever. Also, some families live on opposite sides of the border and come and go. It's not like the US/Canadian border. That's just weird.
There is an update on Target stores banning Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage" after it received one complaint from an anonymous Twit complainer. Target has now gotten many complaints from bona fide named people about their objection to Target's stupid ban. Target has reversed course. Moral of the story: speak up and sign your real name when these corporations suppress free speech and freedom of expression.
Thanks for this news, Elisa. There's a lesson here Mark and all of us. The way to defeat institutional liberal diktatism - whether from Target or a Biden White House - is direct democracy, via us, the demos!
What impresses me most about the voter fraud is the complete lack of subtlety. Not only did the MarxoDems cheat, they want us to know we were cheated. It was a nice republic while it lasted.
That's right: it was pretty barefaced, wasn't it? Has it been subtler in the past, or is this just how it goes in the United States, W.?
In the past the Democrats would furtively "discover" a few boxes of uncounted ballots in the trunk of an "election official's" car and then brazenly shove them through the process with as low a profile as possible. This time they openly trucked in hundreds of boxes in full view of the world, kept out Republican poll watchers, ignored judges orders and the local elected Sheriff refused to enforce the court orders. This was a complete breakdown of the political order in the one-party precincts in big cities and the Marxists are both proud and claiming a mandate.
Thanks, W. Will put that in the pantry for the next time visitors call.
As to all these new Marxists who haven't read Marx, couldn't ever understand Marx, themselves couldn't tell a genuine Marxist from a hole in the ground, and from whose notions genuine Marxists would probably want to disassociate themselves, I submit we need a new term. I offer "pseudo-Marxists", but there must be something more apt. Bernie Sanders himself isn't even a proper Marxist. Maybe "new age racists"? "Retro-neolithic socialists"? Hm...
Finding a suitable term will entertain me for at least the next five minutes. Okay, three.
"Trendy lefties"?
You can see it everywhere now on so many levels, they are just not hiding it anymore as there is no need. The list that AOC was advocating on twitter - she doesn't care who knows now, yes there is a list and yes if your name is on it you will be ruined. Deal with it. It is quite depressing but it shows that we are at the beginning of the end or is it the end of the beginning? Either way, it marks something that is not good and it is no longer coming, it is here!
Truly brazen...but read about Portland (OR) where theft and more will not be considered a crime if the perpetrator was under duress (from poverty, drugs, etc.). So if the Dems believe they have been under duress, there is no crime in the election...they can rationalize anything. None of this started in 2016. Well before then, 'flash mobs' were roaming through jewelry and other stores in Bethesda, MD and Georgetown (DC) taking whatever and not being prosecuted.
The brazenness of the Democrats' cheating isn't as shocking as the media collusion which enabled it.
Another cut-and-paste, from Bartholomew Chiaroscuro:
"And remember this suffocation [by media] of the truth has occurred even before they control the full power of Presidential office. United with social media and tech giants (representatives of whom, no doubt for their important role in the coup, have already been publicly offered key roles in a Biden administration) their control of the Presidency would bring almost unbearable pressure on any person still prepared to defend and share truth in all its forms."
"We have seen where the majority of supposedly right wing parties and fiercely independent commentators stand. [...] Mainstream 'conservative' parties across the world have lined up to support a globalist media coup, and laugh away or sneer at very legitimate fears. Not even fears, actual travesties and injustices occurring before our eyes. Instead of realising that if a US election can be fixed like this all elections become suspect, and instead of being shocked by the scale of the crime, they happily congratulate the criminals. Are they afraid that they will be next? Or are they too complicit in every move towards a perpetual media tyranny in which only that which is reported is considered real?"
Here's hoping that Fox News, in particular, will crash and burn...
Speaking of John McCain being not being a nice person, I can tell you that John McCain was one of the rudest people I ever met. Once upon a time in the mid 1990s, I was asked tasked with delivering McCain and then US Senator from New Hampshire Bob Smith to a political fundraiser in Houston, Texas. While Bob Smith was as sweet as pie and a gentleman with the prettiest blue eyes, his companion McCain was as rude as rude could be. I'll never forget it. The two Senators were polar opposites. I delivered the two Senators to the event, and I then I gave the friend who I was helping with the event an earful about McCain who wouldn't speak, shake hands, or make eye contact with any of us trying to help him get from Point A to Point B. To this day, I don't know what ticked McCain off, but I don't care either. He treated us all like we were beneath his contempt that day, and none of us deserved it.
Thanks for sharing the insight, E.
The most depressing thing I've heard all week was in the first couple of minutes of your Q&A, that Trump is saying he will "Do the right thing", which presumably means conceding gracefully to the thieving Democrats.
The only "right thing" to do is to fight it to the very end and contest every single fake vote by every legal means possible. If Trump doesn't try to peel the lid off the horrendous corruption in democrat run cities it's hard to see who will.
Very depressing, indeed -- not anything freedom lovers want to hear. And then there's the awful corollary that things will go down very fast.
I thought they were making headway into the voter fraud investigations and with the legal challenges?
Yes but the headwinds on the nose are Cat 5. As I said before... it's like planning for D-Day when stuck in German-occupied France. The top to bottom hate of Trump and the fervent cultism of the Democrat Party faithful (and how) is stunning. Add to that the squishy GOPe and this is Herculean epic in proportion. No, elections do matter and .. yes.. nations can take just so much abuse before they crumble. Don't they understand and care that a nation can be so utterly dismantled that it can't be rebuilt even in their hoped image?
RB - when the power elites do not realize just how much they depend on the "deplorables" (like me) for the privilege of living in luxury in the U.S.A., they can be as stupid as they are in promising free stuff. I fear for my children and grandchildren
What did Mark's friend who was a financial adviser say to him when obmama was elected for the second time? Something like buy a house on a hill in a rural area and buy lots of guns and ammo and stock up on supplies- right? I think it was something like that. Notice how so many people are moving out of places like NY City and into places like New Hampshire as if the people in the rural areas of New Hampshire want some self centered New Jersey lawyer in their neighborhood.
Dennis Prager just discussed how cheating would be considered morally correct by Dem vote counters because they were stopping a fascist racist from winning. Witness the election outcomes as tens of thousands of Biden only ballots are "found" and chain of custody destroyed. These are people who devoutly will follow their leaders into Hell and drag America with them. Jefferson was right...a nation cannot remain both free and ignorant. I will not pity them for their ignorance.