UPDATE: Steyn's Georgian callers were correct in their assessment of what the empty polling stations foretold. Loeffler and Perdue are gone, and a supposedly red state will send to Washington what Mark called yesterday "a trustiefundie who makes ChiCom propaganda videos and a Castro suck-up who ran over his wife's foot and operated a kids' camp rife with child abuse".
On Tuesday, Steyn returned to the Golden EIB Microphone for another three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence in Broadcasting on The Rush Limbaugh Show. In the course of the programme Georgians went to the polls in the double-seat Senate runoff to save America from the (all together now) "radical socialist agenda", and Mark did his best to enthuse them - sometimes in the face of not altogether reassuring reports from voters around the state. A Democrat caller said he didn't care if he was voting against his own interests because he hated Steyn more than he loved himself - and we also looked at the spread of masks, and at priority Covid vaccinations for jihadists. Click below to listen:
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The laws that ultimately will be well and truly enforced: Kipling's The Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Yesterday I wrote 'Forget the politicians, forget the pundits, this is up to us, the demos.'
Well, we delivered. The demos, us, has struck fear into the very heart of the liberal 'establishment' dictatorships - political and media ones alike - in Washington and elsewhere throughout the US and the West generally. And this is only the start.
As I said yesterday, 'We've got the power. Use it.' We did. Now all we have to do is keep on using it, intellectually and physically, until victory against the liberal 'establishment' is ours completely - until our democratism defeats institutional diktatism. Power to us, the demos!
Apparently Pence never got your message.
He tried not to get it by hiding under the seats but he and the rest of the liberal 'establishment' dictatorships everywhere have definitely got it by now - and they're going to go on getting it until we, the people, achieve complete victory.
I'm sick of the line "This is not who we are" and I want people to shut it. Four years they have attacked us non stop and were unforgiving about it. Now we're worried about how we're going to be perceived in the eyes of people who already hate us? I was right, we are the "play it safe" party. Whenever we do demonstrate, we show shame, embarrassment, contempt, and we condemn because "it's not who we are". A couple defending their property from the mob gets the same treatment because "it's not who we are". Well then who are we? Are we the party that has to bend over and kiss the ass of the establishment because we are the party of low self esteem? This isn't the attitude that got us to crush ISIS. This isn't the attitude that pushed for Middle East peace. This isn't the attitude in bringing a Iranian general to justice. This isn't the attitude that got us to move our embassy to Jerusalem. To hell what they think of us. Their perception was never going to change so long as we hold on to our values that make us who we are.
So anyone who thinks that "this is not who we are" needs to wake up and see that this is who we became not because we wanted to but this is what we needed to be in order to not just survive but to win. No one has noticed our calls for civility, not one. Don't believe that all of a sudden they'll listen. They are going to shut you down whether you were there at Capitol Hill or not.
So I ask: What was your plan of action?
What did you want to see happen?
What plan did you have that was going to give us victory and still allow us to "be who we are"?
Did you see any indication that the left, mainstream media, and the establishment was ever going to leave us be if we gave them what they wanted?
I'm still waiting for a response and to this day I haven't gotten anything other than generalizations of not wanting violence. Freedom was never won through non-violent acts because the people they won them from were violent in nature themselves.
It's been a sad and terrible day. I'm supposed to be horrified that the hallowed halls of congress have been violated. Probably I should be. But I'm far more sad about the death of the woman that was shot there. Who was she, why was she there, what did she hope to accomplish? Will Neil Young write a song about her? Will her name become a national movement and will the guy that shot her become a notorious villain? We already know that won't happen. He'll get awards and a promotion and she'll be labeled a domestic terrorist.
Her name is Ashli Babbitt----See my post below 22:17
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Robin Babbitt
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Cant stop crying...
Dear Mark: Please pass on to Tucker that reaching across the aisle to join together to "solve" the voting issues is ...well.... wishful thinking... Hint: If it isn't "broke" why fix it? The steal works superbly and is backed by multiple court rulings. That's a guarantee the Bidens, Romneys, Kerrys, Clintons, Pelosis and others can take to the back of Xi.
As far as I'm concerned, the protesters who stormed the capitol are heroes. For at least a short period of time, our political class feared for their safety and cowered in a basement. These people who are not gods. They are not invulnerable. They can be resisted.
We have exhausted every peaceful option at this point. We have tried working within the system. We organize, we vote, we got involved in the political system, and all we are met with is censorship, stolen elections, and a political party whose response is always later, not now, we can't do that because of the next election.
The past year we have seen the shrinking of every constitutional liberty we used to take for granted with the full approval of our political class. Our oh so important elites, who live decades on a government salary, yet somehow emerge multimillionaires several times over between themselves and their family members, deign themselves generous for giving us a mere $600.00 of our own money, even as we see in real time a massive redistribution of wealth from middle class and small businesses to the approved big box stores and Amazon. These of course, was preceded by decades of the Washington consensus that shipped our manufacturing base and every other industry overseas because a handful of Goldman Sachs consultants wrote a white paper about optimized growth.
The fact is that we don't need their mandates, their one sided enforcement of laws, their taxes, their failed wars, or their Great reset. It's a fundamentally illegitimate government. We owe it no allegiance, no deference, and no respect.
Eric: Amen! I've been saying to my friends for a long time that nothing will change until the politicians know fear. Fear of what a couple of hundred million Americans are capable of doing to them and everything that they think they've amassed.
Glad to see someone see things the way they are and not the way they should be.
Great post, Eric! I feel as you do that they were heroes trying to take a stand and stop the inevitable. Ashli Babbitt is a hero and a martyr and died in service to her country by trying to uphold the Constitution while those inside the Capitol were making a mockery of it.
Will there be millions of strangers all over the world mourning her death or weeping by her grave? Will there be murals painted in her honor throughout cities across America while millions chant and immortalize her dying words? The answer is no. Her sacrifice has been deemed unworthy because she supported President Trump and that sin cannot be forgiven.
Thank you, John. I was afraid that I was being too radical after I posted, but it's been radicalizing times.
Another random thought here: If this was such a violent, riotous mob, how is it that the only corpse is that of a Trump supporter?
As someone said, "And who killed her? Not the people who were protesting."
Contrast this with the "mostly peaceful protesters" supporting the Democrats in smouldering cities throughout the summer.
That's right. And shot (apparently) by a law enforcement officer, from behind a window. You can see the video, well, before big tech removes it anyway. I've watched it a few times. A lot of chaos, then a gunshot (has to be from law enforcement), then people trying to help for a few seconds, then more law enforcement rushing in with long guns saying there's an active shooter and shouting out orders to comply.
I was so glad that Tucker spent so much time asking who was this woman and why was she there?
As far as I can tell, based on early NY Post reporting, she was a veteran and mother, but probably deluded by Q'Anon BS about a storm coming on Jan 6. Plenty of blame to go around and Trump will surely take all of it. But for me, when I think of her and now she's gone, the first person that comes to mind isn't Trump, it's General Michael Flynn, hero and martyr of the movement, who promised this storm on Jan 6.
I didn't watch the Tucker segment yet, so maybe this question is out of context but - why should anyone be asking why she was there? She was there because she believed, like another oh, 60 million or so Americans, that this election was a complete and total fraud and that, being a law-abiding citizen, the only thing to do about it is join a demonstration.
What's not to get?
And it does seem, from what I can tell, that those who actually stormed the Capitol and entered the chamber were - surprise, surprise - Antifa infiltrators. And that Antifa was actively encouraging its members to wear MAGA hats and join the protest with the explicit intention of turning it riotous.
But Trump is staging a coup.
Yes, a Trump supporter was killed and no unrest. Had it have been a BLM supporter, cities would be burning and Capitol Hill would be another CHAZ. Someone please play some Twisted Sister for me.
We're not gonna take it
Oh no, we ain't gonna take it
We're not gonna take it anymore
Storms required energy behind them and we saw nothing from what we got. The media can make a storm out of a gust of wind and people will believe them. We need an F5 hurricane for us to be noticed. More evidence of the same old garbage that they say wouldn't change the outcome isn't going to help us this time around. We need something disturbing that would put fear into every voters hearts: Every vote cast by everyone was thrown in the trash and the cases you see were the votes they wanted counted, giving a predetermined outcome to who was going to win. If that was shown, people would be angry. How angry would you be if there was an under the table deal that guaranteed a seat to your Republican rep and in return they turn their back on Trump and certify a stolen election? You'd be furious about it right? I don't see that happening. Minds have been made up. The time to convince people is over. Chose a side and chose wisely as the establishment is now telling us to do.
Sorry my bad. I didn't mean why was she at the demonstration. I meant why was she with the people that went into the Capitol building. I totally get why she was down there in DC. I have a friend that went there, though he like most didn't go into the Capitol building itself.
Got it. Sorry for the misinterpretation!
It's hard for me to understand how people don't see a link between all of the (largely media and Democratic-endorsed) violence from this summer and what we saw today. It's a direct line as far as I can tell. It was only when polling began to show that it was a losing issue for the Dems that we saw some half-hearted repudiations of the BLM/Antifa violence that had been going on for moths to the general approval of our liberal elites.
Put another way, you've let a fire burn in your kitchen for hours and then you're shocked and appalled that it's spread and is now burning down your house.
God bless you Mark Steyn. Saw your appearance on Tucker Carlson and you're right: Something has to give. They have allowed the left to do whatever they wanted. All violence should be condemned but all violence hasn't been condemned, not by the left. They get to tear down statues and monuments. They get to steal from businesses and then burn them to the ground in mostly peaceful protests. They get to do everything that we can't and they call us privileged. You can't have it both ways. Either you give both sides the same leeway or you don't. Instead they view only themselves to be allowed to do this. I hope you continue to deliver the message of reality Mark. Civility can only happen when you demand it from all of your citizens, not just from the groups that you hate.
Yes Brian, God bless Mark. I also saw the segment and what a breath of fresh air it was. I don't mean that Tucker's other guests were bad, in particular VDH was excellent. But I mean, and I hope I'm quoting generally correctly here, when Mark said he's tired of hearing for six hours about this is not who we are, no this is exactly who we've been, who we were all summer. All of the relentless blame on Trump with no context whatsoever that, actually this was quite predictable given months and months of law enforcement looking the other way or actually bending the knee to the BLM/Antifa/Dem party violence.
Thanks. I don't like that someone died any more than the next person, but this is what happens when you have a bureaucracy that says "Rules for thee but not for me." They talk about "law and order" yet they have broken the laws and changed them for their own advantages for god knows how long and yet somehow "we" are the ones undermining the rule of law? The election was stolen and they believe they have the right to just pretend it never happened and somehow it's now a conspiracy theory to believe otherwise. We've been peaceful. We've done everything by the book but they keep rewriting it and telling us that we're wrong. No more. They had a chance to put their foot down on incivility when the George Floyd protests went out of control yet they didn't. Don't tell me a police station is just brick and mortar yet the hollowed halls of Capitol Hill is sacred. What about the businesses that were burned down? What about the monuments and statues being destroyed? What about CHOP, CHAZ, or whatever they created in Seattle when they actually TOOK OVER federal buildings? But since it was all done by radicals, it's just a movement for unity and they were just "taking a stand against racism". Spare me. Why should the police, National Guard, or any one else be told to stand down when it comes to the real mob yet we, WE are the criminals for not allowing Biden to be president? This was going to happen eventually. Now they will forbid any Trump rally to take place. They will effectively take away our right to protest. The First Amendment is dead.
Many groups have taken over federal buildings over the years, including anti-war protesters. They have no business deciding which protests have merit and which don't. That's up to individuals and their conscience and always has been in America - until now.
Maybe it's all the legal weed they've been smoking has clouded their memories, but the Leftists mobs began protesting,often destructively and violently, as soon as Trump was elected. That was the whole "Resist" movement when they shut down streets in major cities and protests were going on all over the country. And if any claims about a stolen election were spurious, it was theirs, as we later discovered after years of investigations and hearings, all meant to undermine Trump and derail his agenda.
Nobody should have stormed the Capitol, if this is what happened. If it didn't, we need to get to the bottom of the media lies. If it did, we need to figure out how we -- all of us -- contributed to people behaving is such a grotesque and stupid manner. All of us, host included. We're better than this. And you know it.
It happened many hours ago - very similar to when protesters stormed the Parliament in Hong Kong in 2019 in response to unlawful acts by government and massive abuses of state power.
PS. Kelly Loeffler on record saying she decided to change her mind about upholding the Constitution. What an appalling human being - even worse than Mark had noted. No wonder she lost.
I am sorry but I have to ask how did I contribute to the supposed rioters in DC? I live in Georgia and I voted yesterday and I don't see how I contributed to the mayhem in DC. I didn't send anyone or group money, I didn't go to DC to protest, I don't do social media so I wasn't on Facebook or Twitter egging these people on to riot.
I also am not an election official that falsely counted ballots, I am not a congressional staffer that fills the bills with pork. I am not an elected representative who gets rich by selling out our country nor am I a government bureaucrat that gets a full pay check for doing nothing while the rest of my fellow citizens are locked down. I am not a media talking head going out and disparaging my fellow citizens for trying to make a living and raise a family. I am not social justice warrior or Antifa protestor out trying to erase our history and tear down our statues as I try to implement fascism in this country.
How are we better than this when after 20 years we have been told we are nothing but bitter clingers, deplorables, and losers.
Like I said earlier our elites see as peasants and nothing else and that we should be replaced by a new wave of peasants.
So, no I don't feel I contributed to the madness that took place outside the Capitol and I definitely did not contribute to the madness taking place inside the Capitol as they installed Biden/Harris as our new "duly elected" leaders.
It's the logical outgrowth of years of frustration, anger and being held in contempt by your "betters", i.e. elected officials. They were in the process of certifying a fraudulent election. Did you expect a cocktail party with cheese straws?
As Michael said so succinctly, we watched for four years while the real hooligans and miscreants burned and looted and committed acts of depravity and violence only to be let off scot-free or applauded, no matter how much damage and suffering they caused. We saw them win. Eventually, you believe that's what it takes to succeed in 21st century America.
"They were in the process of certifying a fraudulent election."
Exactly right. "All of us" sounds like projection.
We have done what we were told to do for decades and what did we gain: Nothing. No respect, no acknowledgement of our grievances. We were told to shut up and do as we say. Trump came as our voice and they wanted us to be silent once again so they went after Trump and then went after us. They never have and never will remove the label of "villain" or "evil" from us because of what we stand for. Anyone who believes that if we give them what they want they'll leave us alone is still living in a fantasy world. Wake up America, they hate you. They always have and they always will.
If we are to oppose political violence, we need to oppose it under all circumstances. The event was planned to deteriorate into violence, yet I did not hear a single citizen activist leader urge people to stay away. None of us took responsibility for the volatile people our movement attracts. I listened to Trump's speech yesterday and was shocked to hear him specifically urge on violence against Pence and tell the crowd specifically to follow him to the congressional buildings. He now has liability for what happened in that building. He has also destroyed our hard-earned credibility. Why are we responsible? We are responsible because we did not stop this stupid insistence on to-date unproven voter fraud by producing evidence instead of egging on a riot.
But even evidence of fraud is no excuse for what happened yesterday. What did Bill Ayers say about his behavior? "The skies were blue the day we bombed the Capitol"? "I don't regret setting bombs; I wish I had done more"?
We're better than scum like Bill Ayers.
We can no longer be the polite party or the gentlemanly party or whatever it is Mitt Romney and the other squishes want us to be. We will get steamrolled every time. The Dems/Left changed the rules of the game after Trump was elected. you surely must see that and recognize it as fact. If we don't play by the new rules we will lose every time - at the ballot box and elsewhere.
As a Georgian, you have undoubtedly witnessed or heard of all the voting irregularities just in your state alone. The conduct in places like Fulton county was reprehensible, if not illegal and unconstitutional. These were all verifiable instances of wrongdoing or at least questionable actions that merited a full investigation, not just merely recounting fraudulent ballots.
Have you forgotten what it was like after Trump won in 2016? The riots and violence and destruction from the Left encouraged wholeheartedly by the Dems, who then launched their stupid investigation into election tampering and collusion with Russia? Their claims of an illegitimate presidency were far more spurious than ours, yet they were allowed to wreak havoc in cities, protest with their Resist movement, not to mention the ridiculous investigations and hearings that consumed much of Trump's time and energy and derailed his agenda, which was their point. All over Wiki-leaks info about Hillary the FBI should have made public and some Facebook Ads that greedy Zuckerberg sold to the Russians while he spied on American citizens.
(Daily Star UK) "Ashli Babbitt, from San Diego, California, has been named by local news media as the woman who was shot and killed during the US Capitol protests... Kusi-TV News reports Ashli served four tours with the US Air Force and was a high level security official throughout her time in service."
The news outlet, who claim to have spoken to her husband, says she was a strong supporter of President Trump and was a great patriot to all who knew her.
KUSI News on their twitter site has a video
It's 4PM here and after watching all the commentators deploring the violence I have to ask them "Why?" What did you expect? For the past 4 years we have been shown that laws are for suckers and the people who win are the ones who make their own laws. The Congress failed us, the courts failed us, and the law has failed us. Look at who the winners are and what they did to win, and then don't be so surprised at what has happened today.
Perfectly said.
See Interview just posted: "Man who stormed Capitol tells his story to LifeSiteNews - There is enough 'illegal activity' being committed by elected officials, what are you supposed to do?"
Leo Kelly seems very typical of the millions of ordinary, decent Americans you describe, and note that he did not engage in either violence or destruction of property *of the citizenry*: he says people prayed together in the Senate chamber! Presumably that's why he agreed to being interviewed and identified - unlike the masked thugs of the Democrat Party paramilitary who spent the summer destroying American cities.
Rumors is that ANTIFA infiltrated the rally and stormed Capitol Hill. I hope that's the case and our base is being set up but at this point I don't care, truly. We have been lectured on who has the right to protest. We have been lectured as to whom has the right to occupy federal buildings. We have been lectured as to whom the "real victims" are. And we have been lectured as to who's voice should be heard and only heard while the rest must be silenced. They chose to silence us and censor us. This was going to happen eventually either by set up by ANTIFA or a planned invasion by a small faction of supporters that have had enough. Once again, we are the bad guys, we are the mob, we are undermining democracy, we are attempting a coup. We can do no right in these people's minds when we do what they do and what they have done for four years is criminal yet somehow, it's all justified. They will write the last four years as when they had an uprising against an illegitimate president and his bigoted supporters. How will history view this moment? Apparently, unless we lay down and die, we are undermining the "will of the people."
Michael sums it up perfectly.
Exactly. Following laws made by criminals, no one to blame but ourselves. Favoritism always undermines integrity and we have none. Pence even certified the votes. What more do we have to lose at this point? They don't care. They never cared. I'm done with their calls of civility when for months they allowed the left to have their revolution while we hid in our homes and remained the party of "law and order". There is only one option left and no one even wants to admit it. They will beg us to wait, to hope, to pray and that the system will once again be for the people and by the people and I say "Walk over talk" to those who believe it.
I don't know if you are feeling the same but I kind feel like Superman did in Superman II when he is told to bow before Zod and has to because he has given up all his powers to consummate his love with Lois. That's the feeling I get as I see and read the news this evening. It is utterly depressing made even more so by the GA results. I hate to say this but our best hope is now Joe Machin. Maybe Mitch can get him to switch parties?
More likely 5 Rs jump on the bandwagon and go the other way.
The Reichstag Moment arrived today. A 16 yo old Trump supporter was killed. I believe that Antifa plants triggered the occupation and considering how pent up people are .. in they went. Now the Repubs have fallen in line with their Dem masters to bring in the Era of Peace with Harris/Bi-Gone. Folded like a cheap suit. They have seized defeat at the threshold of a tough victory. Now to whitewash and erase history in a truly Orwellian way. The totality of today's Capital incursion is minimal to the 1-2 billion dollar hit to the country.. BUT.. it happened to THEM and that is unforgivable. Now to neuter the citizens of the USA.
FOX breaking news headline: "Democracy Perseveres".
The garbage treacherous Republicans have supported the shredding of the United States Constitution with the approval of the garbage lying "conservative" MSM. They are rewriting history as it unfolds, after two months of intensified Big Media propaganda and Big Tech censorship. As per comments in November, the media now has blood on its hands.
"Now to neuter the citizens of the USA", as you note. As Mark says, "unity" means the elimination of all opposition.
PS. Congratulations to Chairman Xi are in order.
Fog of war... woman killed now described as Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbit, a 14-year veteran from San Diego who served 4 tours with the US Air Force as a high-level security officer was killed today. Bystander as cops shot through a broken glass door. OK...age different but still very dead. I am reminded that a primary rule is never shoot unless you know where the bullet is going. Thanks to the now proclaimed hero Capitol Cops (Keystone?) all is back to usual in the Temple of Democracy.
I thought they defunded them?
I have for a long time been thinking that the Republican Party (to distinguish between the corruptocrat party and some individual members who are trying to fight the good fight) is just like the Weimar coalition in the late 1920s - too self-absorbed, too comfortable and too cowardly to even do what is clearly in its own self-interest.
By the way, I looked up "corruptocrat" because it got red-squiggly-lined and I wanted to double-check that I wasn't misspelling it. Lo and behold, the first result on first page Google is from the Urban Dictionary:
"Corruptocrat - The group of Senators, Representatives, lawyers, and others who have teamed up to attempt to overturn the election of Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump."
In the same vein, last night when I heard the first reports out of Washington I tried to search for information coming out of Trump-friendly news sources. Even when I explicitly included the name (OAN, Newsmax, Epoch Times, etc.) - no breaking news results showed up on the SERP.
The Democrats have successfully eliminated elections in the U.S. Nobody bothers because they know they are rigged and complete shams like those in other banana republics.
It was before November 3rd that Mark noted: "We are living in a blizzard of lies".
Soon afterwards - when the President's tweets had Twitter "warnings" attached - Mark said we'd know when the coup was complete because they'd delete Trump's account.
Check out the recent 1 minute video by DJT - *explicitly* calling for peace - viewed over 10 million times, and Jack Dorsey's message: "This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can't be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence."
Antifa breached the Capitol in the same way CCP operatives in Hong Kong infiltrated peaceful, "anti-government" demonstrations and made them violent - in order to crack down on them.
A blizzard of lies - and evil.
Update: The tweet with the video message has since been deleted, along with several others!!
Trump: "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"
Contrast this with the words of incoming President Harris during an interview in the summer when she openly condoned - while smiling - the violence and destruction by Antifa-BLM: "It's not gonna stop".
Excellent and true posts Kate.
I don't know why Trump would even issue such a plea. Doesn't he know how it works by now? What has being the party of Law & Order gotten us, or him, for that matter? As for the Men and women in Blue, they've already turned tail and run, scared to be the latest victims of the so-called Social Justice Warriors and their finger-pointing henchman in the media.
Big Tech and their cohorts in the Establishment for both the Left and Right keep parroting the lies about these elections being fair and lawful, which is what they always say in the banana republics. However, they've refused every opportunity to launch a full investigation and have thwarted those who have demanded it.
How much longer can we live with these lies as we face the imminent destruction of our country? If Antifa wants to gin up the mayhem, so be it. Give 'em a wink and a nod and ask them to pass the Molotov Cocktail.
Hey AlyM. I beg to differ. Did you not see the thousands of police and assorted helmeted enforcement there. Thousands of them. Two for every elected official as they paraded back to chambers for the final destruction of the election process. No buildings burned. No real damage done. Name the many cities that burned like hell and tell me where the police were when that went down. Or up in smoke as it were. The fix has been in for a long time. The slow descent began long ago. Now it's time to hit the gas for the ones that want to destroy the Republic. For them today is missioned accomplished. For the other 80 million of us. To steal a movie line, "hell is coming for breakfast".
Trump is the only one I trust at Capitol Hill. It's sad to see this. We can't even protest anymore. They have taken away our First Amendment. Even with his plea and with us complying, they will say that this is an incitement on Trump and his supporters and what they did for four years was justified.
Steyn mentioned on Rush's show about Senator Hawley's wife and 7 week-old newborn being at home alone when the Antifa/BLM mob arrives to terrorize her. Senator Hawley later commented about how some of the neighbors called the police because they were terrorized themselves. But none of the neighbors could be bothered to leave their homes to help their neighbor. If I have a neighbor who is alone with her small child and some mob is threatening them, I'm not staying in my home. After calling the police, I'm marching next door to protect my neighbor and telling the mob to get lost. What kind of neighbors are these? I always dial back in my time machine to recall how things like this were handled when I was a kid. It wouldn't have happened. Had this happened 40 or 50 years ago, it would have been the mob calling the police to protect themselves from the grown-ups who would have none of it. And everyone knew that. Today it's been turned the other way around. Today the mobs have the measure of us and it ain't good.
Respectfully disagree Robert. I've seen the video of the Bullhorn group uttering threats and intimidations in front of Sen. Hawley's house followed by 3 of them walking right up to the Hawley's front door. At least 2 of Josh's neighbors or older men crossed the street and confronted the group and asked them "why are you shouting with a bullhorn and scaring our children" (paraphrased).
Other words were exchanged and while the group was bullhorn loud and definitely disturbing the peace of a quiet family neighborhood, they weren't the usual brutal anti-fa thugs. But Josh's wife would not know that from inside her house. A few of them were tall stocky men.
A police car was parked at the end of the street but disturbing the peace and uttering threats isn't illegal there; I guess. The police called the event "a peaceful candlelight vigil". There were a few women holding lit candles. I would provide a link but Mark asked us not to post any.
The intimidators /looters/rioters /arsonists have so far mostly picked soft targets in favorable environments. As police are told more and more to stand down and government becomes more adversarial to law abiding citizens, the agitators are bound to overreach and eventually encounter, on a regular basis the confluence of record gun ownership and self-preservation. Once the shooting starts in earnest, the cowards will think twice before accepting Soros' money to go do a little shakedown.
As of right now, it looks like the Capital Police capped a small young female Trump supporter. Bravo Coppers... no wankers you... more akin to the Iranian sniper that took at that young woman in the Green demonstrations. IF they did.. and it looks like it... prayers for her and pox on those coppers. Think Boston Massacre.
I firmly believe Antifa infiltrated the protests and ignited the storming... but... frankly I do not care. Legislators peaceably partitioned for a delay and were rebuffed. If much of this sounds familiar ... you bet your Betsy Ross it is. There is a picture of the empty office of Pelosi with her email link up... oh.. please forward everything. Even bad things can have silver linings.
It was a beautiful sight. If we could just keep the U.S. Congress building empty for the foreseeable future, the rest of the country will be all the safer for it.
Just to be clear: the beautiful sight was the vacant congress.
This in from the Washington Post (via my Kindle Fire - don't ask why I have one it's a long story), this is the headline inside the icon:
"Trump Prompts Warning of a Coup"
I'll be surprised if those attempting the "coup" in the Capitol today turn out to have any conservative credentials. Back in the summer there were reports that they were planning something like this, only it was supposed to happen at the pre-election rallies.
Not owning a television or a streaming service, I don't know exactly what's going on right now. But if what I'm hearing is correct, it's merely Mark Steyn's prediction coming true: If you take away people's ability to speak up, they have no choice other than to punch your lights out.
You can't disenfranchise millions of people, take away their vote and then tell them shut up, there's nothing to see here without consequences.
They need to have the support of the military as all successful coups do. After the fraudulent presidential election result, I suggested a "Seven Days in May" scenario, referencing the 1960's movie about an internal coup started by a anti-Communist Pentagon general who thought the weak-willed president gave away the farm to the Ruskies in peace treaty negotiations. The plot is found out and foiled but highlights the need for the military, or other "muscle", to be involved. We've already seen what the Dems got, but where's ours? Mitch McConnell menacing foes with his cane? Lindsey Graham spitting fire - and teeth?
Banana republic status is now fully achieved. So called "battleground states" violate their own laws, the US Constitution's mandate that legislatures (not bureaucrats, not courts) set the voting process, and some violate their own state constitution to keep counting (and manufacturing) votes until Usurper Joe wins, and now it's "too late" and there's "nothing we can do"? Well, except "study the voter fraud"—to death apparently. Now the new lie is: Congress's role in approving Electoral Votes is "purely ministerial." People are expected to be stupid enough to believe the "experts" asserting that "voting" does not presuppose one can vote yes or no. If Congress has no power to reject Electoral Votes arising out of fraudulent and unconstitutional processes, the Constitution's requirement of voting on Electoral Votes is empty and meaningless. The outcome for President Trump is beside the point. This farce of an election strikes at the heart of the Constitution. But true to form with all but hard core constitutional conservatives, actually defending the Constitution is something always scheduled for "the future."
We were promised that Jan 6 things are going to go our way and they haven't. I saw one objection to the electorate be destroyed with a vote of two hundred or some votes of nay to our hundred or so yay or however they do it. The system is corrupt and it's rigged. The silent majority will be forever silenced if we don't do something, anything about this. How can anyone of our supporters be happy with how things are going on here? Two tiered justice in this nation where one side can make and break the laws with impunity while the other has to be the party of "law and order" and obey them no matter how ridiculous they are. We will never be allowed to win anything if we allow this. This can't end here.
Um... I was told there would be a Kracken. Has anybody seen a missing Kracken? About 40 feet high, green, monstrous tentacles....
Kracken's all over the Capitol....
Oops, I forgot "Release The kracken!"
Another random thought: Why is the National Guard in D.C. out in full force because of Trump supporters but never deployed during the "mostly peaceful protests?"
And another one: I feel, again, like the day the Twin Towers fell. There are some events that you will always remember where you were, what you were doing, when you heard about them. I will always remember exactly where I am now, what I was doing, when America died.
I am, like I said, a usually cheerful warrior. But at this moment, I could cry. To paraphrase (who else?) our esteemed host here (as long as I still can), the last two months have seen way too much cowardice and disaster coming together. And we will be the price for it. Dearly.
You've summed up how so many others outside the United States feel, Dafna. As Segnes noted - regarding the Democrats' impending hammerlock on power - it matters to the entire anglophone world, and beyond that to the West at large. It matters to the whole world.
"Party documents are unequivocal: the CCP is hostile to free speech, a free media, religious freedom, independent courts and civil society." (Clive Hamilton - The Australian, January 6th.)
Party-wise, I can't see any discernible difference except for the fact that the Democrats are subordinate to the ChiComs.
Freedom is pretty but getting it is ugly. I hoped for this to go peacefully too. But we need to be real. The America of old where we could have our disagreements and still be together is gone and it's never coming back as long as the establishment is going to pick and chose who has the right to protest, get angry, and get to have closure. They are picking who the winners and losers are and right now, they want us to lose.
It continues to amaze me that so many on this site didn't see this coming. I predicted this catastrophe before the runoff election on this site and it required no special insight on my part. That Biden would win on Nov. 3rd was equally obvious. Conservatives never understood what they were up against with this new neo-Marxist left - what they were about and what tactics they were willing to use to achieve total control of America. The republican party never wanted Donald J. Trump in the first place. Does anyone on this site recall the plot afoot prior to the convention to deny Trump the nomination by persuading enough committed delegates to skip the first ballot thereby allowing an open convention so Trump could be tossed overboard on subsequent ballots with now unsecured delegates? This kind of palace coup was only abandoned at the last minute. On January 20th I can drop the neo prefix as our ignorant, incurious and apathetic populace adapts to living under a totalitarian Marxist regime. Not that there is any other kind.
I think many people on this site saw this coming. No one here seems surprised, just pained and angry as purgatory.
I'm wondering if Mark will feature the 1970's, one-hit-wonder, "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" as his Song of the Week? Apropos not only for the events of Jan 5th 2021, but also Nov. 3rd/4th 2020.
Maybe follow up with "it's a rainy night in Georgia." "Georgia on my mind?
Where do we go from here? I guess that is the next question.
Will it be just decline or will the Democrats embrace New York's plan to detain people up to 60 days due to a public health crisis? I mean the proposed New York law makes sense, right? Now that racism is a public health crisis and guns are a public health crisis, the government can now just send us off to our detention camps for 60 days. In those camps we can easily be reeducated and made to see the light.
This country has moved so far from its ideals and has been so corrupted by China and dare I even say Satan, that there is probably no road to recovery?
Where do we go from here? First, shore up Republican states. Make sure Republican politicians there know what you support and what you expect of them. Second, start working on the voting systems. How much would it take to buy the company that makes the voting machines? Get people into every county's election office. If the election can't be fair, then make sure we win. Third, primary every rino in Congress. Fourth, establish alternate media sources.
Brawndo: How can there be a political solution when there are no fair elections?
But Red states aren't the problem. And the Democrats have Blue states in a vice grip. They're the ones with the electoral fraud issues, sometimes abetted by feckless Republicans at various levels who are only thinking of their own skins. And you can add swing states to that because if the Dems even sniff a chance at victory, they are going for the jugular. Look what they did in AZ and GA.
Brawndo: I do agree with you on most points. Just don't put too much hope in elections that are rigged or in politicians that don't care that they're rigged.
I'd love to hear the thoughts of Chief Justice Roberts today. The Supreme Court he claimed he wanted to preserve is due to be packed, so there goes its integrity and purpose. Perhaps, you should have at least heard oral arguments of the original jurisdiction case Texas brought to the Court last month.
Agreed, but they probably had some backroom deal in place along the lines of, "we just want to get rid of Trump. We don't really want to pack the court." If they believed the treacherous Dems/Left on that then I have some swampland southwest of Mar-A-Lago I'd like to sell them.
Roberts does not care. He still gets to be Chief for life.
He can do his Canute act as the tide of Marxism come in.
Why would Roberts care? In fact he's probably all for it. Add 4 or 6 liberals to SCOTUS and he can quit being the Chief Swinger. He can go about pretending to be conservative.
"a trustiefundie who makes ChiCom propaganda videos and a Castro suck-up who ran over his wife's foot and operated a kids' camp rife with child abuse"
In other words, the will of the American People!
Don't be a democraphobe. It's not the American people you need to blame. It's their corrupt politicians, pundits and anti-democratic system. Direct democracy is the only democracy that works. Period. Every other 'democracy' is fake and corrupt. Simples.
WHAT DO WE WANT?
FWEEDOM!!!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
WIGHT NOW!!!
You wascal!
Even Newspeak wasn't ready for this. After the change of accepted terms by the Congress, I guess we will now have to obey "Big Sibling". We will address each other as "sibling". "Comrade" still works in English since gender neutral but that leaves French and Spanish speakers to avoid gender.
Well...The Left is "in powerr". A conservative traveler told Romney in an airport that she had voted for him to maintain conservative values. His reply..." that's not how the Constitution works". Well that is exactly how "it works" when the Left votes. Lin Wood was blasted for not wanting to vote in Georgia runoff. With the fix in, how does it feel to have your vote just a participation reward? In what future century will the "we'll beat them next time" GOPe think they will win? Things happen slowly and then faster...and how. The tragedy is that the GOPe got its party back but it took destruction of the country to do it. When I stepped off the Aeroflot jet in Moscow back in 1971, I never thought I wouldn't have to travel to go to a communist state. (Lenin said communism is socialism in a hurry). Have a good day Comrade Sibling.
The only question left is how long will it be before Biden turns the presidency over to Harris (either willingly or unwillingly)?
My guess, 100 days.
Slightly less than 2 years so that Comma-La can reign for 10 years. It's like with Franco... suspended in a coma to allow a ... "peaceful transition of power" ...as "W' praised today. My stock in "W" is as worthless as a ZImbabwe dollar.
On the overthrow of the Republic by Queen Kamala and Co...
"It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy." - Alexander Fraser Tytler (1854).
I don't know whether to laugh or cry hearing our embarrassing media and assorted political hacks blame last night on Trump and claim it as a repudiation of him. Could you have come up with two candidates who were more of an antithesis of Trumpism than those two uninspiring status quo losers? They represent everything Trump supporters despise, if the incompetent GOP had run Trump style candidates they'd have won beyond even theft margin as soft turnout is what proved fatal.
Spot on. Liberal Republicans are losers. They always have been.
I'm relieved - we no longer have to secretly hope for a miracle deliverance, only to be let down by the Romney/Collins crew as they stiffed Trump for the next 4 years.
It's like all those times I watched England running madly around the pitch trying to salvage the game in the last 2 minutes after being cheated yet again. I was so desperate to believe in the team. Then I dropped the baggage and let it go forever.
The future may be dire, but it is ours to make.
We don't have to carry their water anymore.
We are now a vassal state to China. The world is returning to the feudal system that was disrupted by the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. The world's elite have been working the past few centuries to return to this system and we have allowed them to do it without a true fight. We are slowly marching back into a thousand years of darkness.
Will this truly impact our day to day to lives in a major way, probably not. We will just slowly see that we are making less money, we won't be able to talk about more and more topics, our kids will have less opportunities, and any remaining independent institutions will fall in line with the new feudal system.
Well the exciting part is that we will get to see 2 new states in the Union and the formal end of the Constitution with the packing of the Supreme Court and see the establishment of a new government by judges and experts.
I think Mark hit the nail on the head when he said that in the long term, America needs to replace its major parties with new ones that better represent the actual views of the voters.
At this point, we don't have to stay with the Republican Party. There's no reason why we belong in the same party as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan or any of the chamber of commerce types.
I say let the business wing have the GOP. Let them argue how we're just one corporate tax cut and middle east war away from prosperity.
Let's build a new/join a new party that addresses the issues that matter. My proposal would be a platform for election integrity, border security and restricted immigration, strong antitrust legislation and litigation to break up the oligopolies, an industrial policy that favors domestic manufacturing and workers, and an end to the lockdowns. Call it the America First Party.
Well that's depressing, 2020 sucked and now the futures looking even bleaker as western Civilization circles the drain. When France is the last major country standing up against the post modernists ( Communists) we are in deep trouble. I guess I could always move to Hungary, Budapest is a beautiful City and the hot pools are great.
I would hesitate to move to a country that is sort of near to Turkey.
Just a random thought here on some of the members of the GOP we're all demanding stand up and protest. (But first, a disclaimer: I am not talking about those who sold us out before Trump ever became president.)
The George Floyd mostly peaceful protests, besides not being at all peaceful, also had nothing to do with George Floyd. If Floyd hadn't existed, Antifa, BLM and the Democratic Party - wait, I just repeated myself three times. Anyway, if Floyd hadn't existed, they would have had to invent him.
Because the point wasn't to protest Floyd's death. The point was to show, very clearly, what the consequences of daring to challenge the 2020 election heist would be.
These people have wives, husbands, children, families. Do we really fathom the courage it has to take for someone like Josh Hawley to do what he did? The above Axis of Evil surrounded his home - when he was away, of course - when his wife and newborn baby were inside.
How many of us would want to be in a place where we need to make that choice?
The Democrats didn't steal the election in Georgia last night: we lost it due to massive population replacement and the leftist youth vote that will come in wave after hard left wave now thanks to the re-education industrial complex we call "school."
I didn't repeat this in the days before the election because trying to win elections involves working for victory with people you don't always like much, but Loeffler and Perdue did themselves no favors with the swing small businesspeople and centrist tech folks by literally standing at ground zero of job-poaching legal immigration, Forsyth County, on the very day they voted to increase job-poaching legal immigration.
A bill that Trump, who stood next to them, wanted and signed.
Georgia registrations have been trending from deep red to 50/50 for 20 years. Look up the dwindling Republican victory percentages over the last four or five Governor and Senate races -- before the machines, before the Lin Wood Steve Bannon John Fredericks mau mauing. Of us.
The only deviation in this march towards inexorable Democrat dominance was Trump's showing in 2016, where he did about as well as Romney had done in Georgia four years earlier. In other words, Trump temporarily stopped the bleeding in 2016 by appealing to a lot of independents and centrists. Then he went back on his promises on immigration and crime and ripped open that vein again.
Last night Georgia bled red and woke up blue. It's time for all of us to wake up to this fact.
I would challenge in part that ...The relaxing of voting laws accentuated this. Party affiliation and race preference were key.
"Georgia registrations have been trending from deep red to 50/50 for 20 years."
Is this due to massive demographic changes, i.e. illegal immigration, migrants from blue states, etc.? Similar things are happening in other formerly reliably red states like Texas. Both states also have had a huge influx of East Indians/Middle Easterners, most of whom are Muslims and tend to vote Democrat (although those from India, including Sikhs, are generally conservative). Apparently, Houston and its suburbs is now home to one of the largest populations of East Indians in the U.S.
Which brings me to the job-poaching bill the GOP passed, obviously due to pressure from their C of C and tech industry donors, so is this now another job Americans won't (or can't) do? Why the need to import millions of skilled tech workers? Why is there a burning need for such professionals, and what does that say about our workforce and the education of such? Since the emphasis in American colleges for the past 30 years or more has been about promoting a particular socio-political viewpoint, and radicalizing students who are majoring in things like Gender Studies and Women's Literature, then I guess I have my answer.
I failed to mention voting itself in my comments to Tina but the Dems have a hammerlock on that vote harvesting thing which reached a state of synergy with the advent of the mail-in ballot. Where's the GOP/Conservative equivalent? There isn't one and never has been, as they wouldn't even know where to begin.
The entire voting apparatus in this country is controlled by the Left, and in every state, blue or not. In states like PA, and also in my state of CA, the state legislatures passed changes to voting requirements under the radar and whenever such laws are challenged, the Left springs into action and the accusations about voter suppression, racism, etc. start to fly. It's no coincidence that two years after Stacey Abram's failed run-off for the GA governorship that the tables have turned in dramatic fashion.
And in other news...
"More than 50 Hong Kong activists arrested under national security law."
This is the CCP's moment. (And the Democrats will likely do the same to "anti-government" protesters after the Antifa-BLM paramilitary wing deals with them.)
Forget the politicians, all of them. Forget the pundits, all of them. This is now down to us, the demos, the people. See y'all in Washington! We've got the power. We're going to use it. Anyone and anything that stands in our way is going to get blown away by the forces of democracy. No one and nothing can stand in the way of us, the demos, and real democracy, namely direct democracy. Washington, here we come!
Our last hope is with you and the people who show up in DC. Trump said we need this win now more than ever. I believe in him but that's about all the faith that I do have right about now. I hope time proves me wrong.
The theft of the presidential election occurred because the election itself was UNCONSTITUTIONAL: the fact that states *violated the federal constitution* - to facilitate the fraud - is absolutely indisputable.
The Supreme Court didn't care. Will the Vice President?
PS. Tweet by Sean Davis on Georgia: "Instead of investigating obvious mail-in voter fraud and demanding reforms in Georgia, the GOP establishment attacked Trump. Those same Republicans then refused to give more than $600 to Americans whose livelihoods were destroyed by lockdowns in 2020. They never fail to fail." * *Addendum by Jack Dorsey: "Learn how voting by mail is safe and secure."
Pence will fall in line like all the rest of the traitors. I expect nothing less at this point from someone who said he will "follow the law." Who's law?
I don't care that we have the facts because they don't want to hear the facts. They have their own set of facts and those facts say that Biden won, no questions asked. We have a failed system and we are trying to use that same system to win. How pathetic have we become? Yes we lost the election but at least we know deep down Trump won and that's enough right? WRONG! We knew this was going to happen and the GOP didn't care. We were a flash in the pan, lightning in a bottle, and just as quickly as it happened it vanishes. Four years wasted because we believed in the same failures that have done nothing for us for decades but we had no choice but to vote for them. Why did we settle for them? Why didn't anyone on our side challenge them? How can we still be so blind as to what our party did to us for so long before and after Trump?
I'm angry Kate that once again I'm told the same three things: Vote, hope, and pray. Did the left do that to their base? They said "Don't worry, we've got this." They ruined the GOP by having their operatives make their way into it to where they became the party of wishful thinking. If we are to build a new party, the GOP needs to go the way of the dodo. Iran even is demanding Trump to be arrested for killing their general. I'm pissed off to no end Kate. What can I do?
It's not over until January 20th.
Secession Party. Plus Hong Kong-style demonstrations.
They took our votes while sneering at us. We need to restructure the party. The congressional districts are enormous. I have suggested various possible ways of dealing with this over the years, but everyone just wants to talk ideology and pays no attention. There are so many people in each district that it is a real problem and ideology is just so much hot air in the face of problems like this. I've heard some solutions that sound bad, but having a bad solution does not solve the original problem. There needs to be a structural, organizational answer, or we will be told to know our place forever.
The cheating has been really bad, worse than I ever thought I would see in the U.S. But really there are so many other problems. I have said for a long time, and I still believe it that the main hub of the Left is their control of the so-called Universities. Everything really seems to come downstream from there, including ultimately this flagrant election fraud. The Left is very well organized and we just get run over. We say we are more practical and that they are feelings based. The reality is that their useful idiots are feelings based while their leadership is practical, while we have become overly philosophical and our leadership is practically treacherous.
Mark Steyn emphasized for many years how real politics stems from the demographic reality on the ground. Meanwhile the GOP and a great many of our media pundits talked about principles. Well, principles don't mean much in politics when the population is in demographic chaos and vast numbers of people owe their jobs and careers to their education based credentials. The crazy things the Lefties say in public are a clear demonstration of this. They already have demographic, tribal, and infrastructural loyalties and they check this by saying ridiculous things, things so ridiculous that without cemented loyalties they would be laughed off the public stage. It is just a show of power. Flagrant election fraud is another, and very frightening, show of power and with the prospect of Biden/Harris on the horizon, this show is just the warning shot of some very bad things to come.
I've thought about the possibility of secession and how that would work for a long time, not just since the presidential election. It's been apparent for awhile that America is a dichotomy - a nation split between two distinct ideologies that cannot coexist. Brexit gave me hope it can be done but Great Britain is an island so it's easier from a practical standpoint compared to doing something similar with contiguous states. I think the model should be more along the lines of Native American sovereignty which allow tribes to operate independently of state and local laws but they still pay taxes and are U.S. citizens.
How would a movement like that start and would it be stopped in its tracks by both the Establishment Right and the Left, who are soon to be both in office and in power? It would be a daunting task just to galvanize states' support for such a thing, which I assume, would also require a vote of the people...er...uh...never mind!
As we both know Kate the great Diana West foretold all this many years ago. Most conservatives wrote her off and despised her for not supporting Bush's insane attempts to change by military force Islamic countries in the middle east into western allies. No one listened. One of her main points was if you willingly turn the education of your children over to the far left then you will eventually lose the country. Look at it as a poisoned tree - it will produce poisoned fruit eventually. Here's how many new college grads with poisoned minds America produced this year - 2 million with bachelor's - 820,000 with Masters and 184.000 with Doctorate's. Of this 3 million how many voted for our new Marxist party? Who knows precisely but I'll take an 'educated' guess - most of them for sure. You'll here a lot of BS now about how the American people will rise up in righteous anger and re-take this country in '24. That's truly funny in the most perverse sense.
"We say we are more practical and that they are feelings based. The reality is that their useful idiots are feelings based while their leadership is practical, while we have become overly philosophical and our leadership is practically treacherous."
Well said. Excellent comments along with those by Richard Eisenman and RAC et al: The Left's attack on the Republic has been sustained and many decades in the making.
"... would also require a vote of the people...er...uh...never mind!"
Just so.
"Look at it as a poisoned tree - it will produce poisoned fruit eventually."
You are so right, Roy, along with Richard E, Joseph R and others.
Diana West was right all those years ago in identifying, "The Death of the Grown-Up". Subtitle - "How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization".
A great many of those Doctorates are not going to American citizens. There was mass migration ushered into STEM PhD programs beginning in the late 70s. All those years when we heard about how there was a shortage in STEM was a lie. They just did not want those jobs filled by Americans.
Just to be clear, I know that there are a great many very decent foreign citizens who go into STEM in America and I would never do anything to undermine them or rip them off. It is not their fault, the bad situation. It is the fault of the politicians.
I believe I posted somewhere in these pages around November 4 or 5 that the Dems weren't finished after stealing the Presidential election. As I predicted, they came after both Georgia Senate seats in the same fashion, with the exact same tactics.
Last night I watched in real time as the deed was done. Around 11:15 pm both Perdue and Loeffler were comfortably ahead; Perdue by about 115-120 thousand votes and Loeffler by 80-85 thousand. About 90% of precincts had reported and the pace of new results had slowed considerably. Then, POOF! At about 11:16 pm Loeffler was suddenly behind by about 25 thousand votes, Perdue had a slim lead of less than two thousand and 95% of precincts had reported. Then the results went back to trickling in with no real change in the margins.
They didn't even try to hide it this time. I guess they no longer think they have to.
As Mark said on November 6th, there's a coup coming on. As you note, it was the same old playbook.
The issue is that the DNC is aided and abetted by GOP Inc. in stealing the election, as part of our 24x7x365 reality TV series, America's Got Votes!
To lose this big is liberating, cause there is no greater freedom than nothing left to lose. I will endeavor to find a nice quiet province in the dying embers of Pax Americana.
Retiring early for the night and rising early in the morning has yet to make me healthy, wealthy, and wise, but I do get the sports and election results before anyone else. Bad news out of Georgia, I'm afraid: as if a two-game losing skid wasn't bad enough for the once high-flying Hawks, their backup point guard, Rajon Rondo, will miss a few games with a sore knee. In other news...
Ah yes, other news. The good news is that today is officially the start of Year Zero USSRofA. You don't need to trouble yourself with any previous news, as the last election we'll ever have or need has been decided, thanks to wossname, the Voting System Implementation Manager. I love hearing these Republican Senators intone piously their Constitutional duty to affirm the count of the Electoral College and install the senescent executive in chief. In which article of the Constitution will I find the office of the Voting System Implementation Manager? I love "Governor" Abrams (as I'm sure she likes to be called) as Cordelia loved her father, King Lear: "I love your majesty/According to my bond; nor more nor less." But does that mean she gets to pick our leaders--all of them--for us? Especially one so threatening to women and children as (gulp) Senator-elect Warnock?
Doesn't matter, not anymore. Sci-Fi fans would be familiar with the terrifying phenomenon of "the rise of the machines," in which computers like HAL take over the running of the world, of us. But did the likes of Asimov or Heinlein consider the pimply geeks behind the machines, the Voting System Implementation Managers and Assistant Managers who program the machines? We were conquered not by Drs. No or Evil, but by Bruce, the president of the AV Club in high school (as we should have known all along). I ran against him, but he got the football team to show up and vote for him on the promise of writing their history term papers. I was lucky to get Treasurer.
President Trump has promised us something big for today, the 6th. I hope it's more than just a burst water pipe.
I have been thinking for a while that it is the geek squad led by AOC and her ilk who have been programming the US into oblivion... so sad to see it from my safe home in Israel...
I never understood why the corruption angle wasn't pushed more strongly into the mainstream...
I didn't believe there were not enough honest politicians or electors who could allow themselves to actually vote for that desiccated husk of a corrupt and venal lifelong political hack and the witch he's flying under...
I have grown to love that big lug in the WH... and I have seen the evidence and expected it from the summer but hoped that the sting was in... but they never had the chance to present the case...
I am grateful to Barr for ennabling Durham to work unimpeaded for a while... at least that...
They should start impeachment proceedings immediately for Chinese and Ukrainian ties ...they surely have sufficient evidence by now...
I hope Trump can put a muzzle order on those who would muzzle a sitting president...
so glad to have a place to rant a bit...
the truth will out... eventually...
Great putdown of the Minnesota hater and critique of the conniving Democrat strategies.
The decision by the Uni-party Republicans to oppose even investigating election fraud was probably a major factor that led to the Georgia defeat. There has been constant bickering and in-fighting in the GOP since the Nov. election while the Democrats led by Stacey Abrams were diligently harvesting ballots to win both Senate seats.
Mitch McConnell and the other RINO's haven't suffered a regrettable loss because Warnock and Ossof won and helped the Dems regain majority control of the Senate. They are probably celebrating because they know the lobbyist trough from China will soon reopen and continue to enrich all Uni-party politicians while some American jobs will be sent back once again to China.
(Re-Stacy's comment about voting) There are 7.6 million registered voters in Georgia; up 1 million since 2016. Supposedly a younger, more racially diverse electorate. According to voting stats at 5:00 am Est. over 3 million voters hadn't bother to vote for control of the Senate and the future of their country. I wonder how many decades the Democrats will rule over the USA before it crumbles.
I wouldn't be surprised if foreign actors have been actively funding and encouraging a significant amount of this political division and election fraud in America while some Americans continue to fight against each other like gullible saps and destroy their country. Many others are well aware of the reality and rightfully fighting for the survival of their country. But they have corrupt leadership in Congress that opposes their best efforts.
Cute mention of me at the beginning of your comment. Glad you see humor in all of this. Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.
Mark replies:
It's nothing to do with you. It's a reference to a caller from Minnesota that I spoke to in the first hour of the show.
Apologies. My mistake.
No problem Brian. Thanks for the clarification Mark.
People keep saying things like the following:
A) "this is going to lead to civil war"
B) "we need to everything we can to avoid civil war"
C) "we need civil war"
Etc.
Seems to me the point is moot. We are already embroiled in a civil war, and have been for quite some time, at least since 2016. Right now it boils down to the Democratic Party Machine vs. 55%-60% of the American people. The DPM is winning.
The question is, what will that 55%-60% do if (when?) they lose?
"The DMP is winning"... because of a complicit GOP.
PS. See piece by Lee Smith (Tablet Magazine): "How the US elite declared its independence from America and embraced autocracy - Chinese Communist Party style."
Too true, Kate. My question still stands, though: What will that 55%-60% do?
I hope the answer isn't "We'll try again in 2024, and by that time we will have all the voter fraud concerns worked out and the election will be right as rain."
I don't think it will be, for the simple reason that trying again in 2024 isn't an option. It seems to be rather more of a now or never situation, methinks.
Hi Kate,
You might find Barton Swaim's article "The Know-Nothing Elite" in the November issue of Commentary to be of some interest. Eventually, the elite will have to face "unwelcome intrusions", as Swaim puts it, by the common folk whom it detests. The election of 2016 was one such intrusion, and there will be more. I'm hoping against hope that a year or two of the Scarecrow and Giggles Show will rouse Americans out of their sleep.
Thanks for the recommendation, Tom. A lot has transpired in the 12 hours since your comment!
It looks like things may happen much more quickly now that the Left has *total* power. Their political agenda for consolidating that power is clear. And as Richard Eisenman noted recently: "Well, the time required for change has now been markedly compressed, so how long before today's "crazy tweet" becomes tomorrow's federal law?". But it could be worse than that - and more convulsive - as Richard also suggested.
It's difficult for the citizenry to stage a comeback in a totalitarian system where all the levers of power have been weaponised and the news and social media platforms are aligned with the State, not to mention an election process that has been trashed to enable autocrats to seize control and maintain it.
America is now officially post-Constitutional. Sad!
It is a tragedy on many levels, but I have a gut feeling that the incoming gang of thugs, thieves, and airheads will overreach and overburden the citizenry, and will thus be turned out. I have that slim hope! If we don't recover, I've got my camping gear and reading materials at the ready — and will be prepared to go the Fahrenheit 451 route.:-)
Get to Washington, people! Take power, people power! We, the demos, need nothing else but us! Make no mistake, we have the power - so use it!
I have one final comment. Who do you think they'll go after when there are no more statues to topple over and behead or schools and military bases to rename? They'll come after us. We will be the ones that will be beheaded and the state will let it happen. They turned their backs during the riots, they turned their backs during this election, and they'll turn their backs again when the mob shows up at our front door. But they will turn up when we exercise the Second Amendment in an act of self defense. They'll show up to shut down our businesses because we're non-essential. They'll show up when you refuse to "move on" and acknowledge Biden as president. I've been raised to love this country and now I'm being told by the old establishment and the new administration that I have to hate it. Why should I have to give up my freedom when they refuse to do the same? They get to live their lives while the only life we're allowed to have is either the board game or the breakfast cereal. If I knew this was the path America was going to take then I would've wished to have lived in China and just be done with it. At least I wouldn't have to be given the goalpost moving motivational speeches on not giving up. I don't want to just live and to be happy about just being alive. I want to live a life where I am loved and respected. Instead, I have to live one where I'm hated.
You should run for office, Brian.
"Imagine the Tea Party but with Trump campaigning for every primary challenger. That's what is coming."
(David Chapman - Twitter.)
They'd lock me up for conspiracy to commit a coup.
You're right. They will increasingly destroy more of people's lives when they run out of statues and consolidate their power. You're also right that the 2nd amendment and individual gun ownership has serious limitations. We should definitely be looking for strategies to prepare ourselves for what might come. Obviously there are things that people will do on their own. But there should be better organized efforts as well. I hate to dwell too much on media solutions, but we really do need more and much better fact sheets. We should have dozens of real newspapers, specializing in different topics. We need more independent reporting. If we are to stay vigilant, we need a much larger corps of independent reporters, rather than editorials on the latest associated press etc. drivel. We have some great commentators, but we need better fact sheets.
For your next Ave atque vale, do one on America. Four years we've been promised justice and we didn't get it. For four years Trump was attacked and we did nothing. For Four years we knew the establishment were snakes and we let them bite us yet again. It's clear I have a base that is too afraid to fight or too angry to unite. I need to be honest: I want a civil war. I'm not ok with living in fear, hiding the fact that I'm a conservative and that if I say anything that I'll be confronted by the mob and no one will help me. I'm not happy of once again being told to "get used to it because it's not worth fighting your neighbors over it." Just what are they saying then? That yes, my husband is abusive and I've had to go to the hospital a few times but he's a provider and you should be grateful he's in your life? Am I supposed to be that battered wife and just take it? Seems that way to me. I beg you Mark, please tell me if I'm wrong. The truth won't die in darkness but with us if we don't do something.
Two silver linings from a very grim tonight:
1) The career of that incompetent Cocaine Mitch is dead and buried.
2) The GOP is now nothing more than a glorified Libertarian/Green Party at the national level so there is no excuse for everyone to leave it to form a new national party (like how the GOP replaced the Whigs). Let's see how long the donor class continues to give money to a Potempkin Party that literally has no base.
The GOP never had a base that expected them to do anything. When Trump came and they were expected to do their jobs, they cried and whined. Trump was the only president to look at the GOP and say "Get off your sorry butts and serve the people for once in your pathetic carriers." To which they all took offense.
To modify Mark, it's easier for the base to get itself new leadership (than the other way around). And the base already has a leader!
A couple of related twitter insights...
• Drew Savicki: "The diehard Trump fans vote only for Trump. They showed up in 2016 and 2020 but not in 2018 and not in the runoffs."
• Mike Cernovich: "Experts" blaming Trump for Georgia's loss never learned anything from 2016. Trump brings out voters who DO NOT VOTE GOP otherwise."
PS. When he appeared after Mark's guest-hosting on FNC last week, Dinesh D'Souza said something to the effect that Trump needed the GOP more than it needed him. Apparently not.
The GOP only used Trump and we know it. I agreed with Dinesh at first but seeing the mass dissent there is only one other option and that is to form a new party. Yes, Trump might have lost votes if he does this but it's better than being screwed over by those who only rode on his coattails and then jumped off when they won and left Trump out to dry. I'll go down with people I trust than win with people who are willing to sell me out.
Cernovich is one to watch.
It's time to leave the Republican Party. We don't need their failures, their shilling, or their baggage.
All roads in the GOP lead to Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney/George W. Bush. We don't need to carry their baggage and they don't deserve our support.
Reverse... The GOP needed Trump more than Trump needed the GOP. Trump aided the GO P and the full favor needed returnefc. It's on Youtube...for now.
View from the UK.
I was desperately sorry but not surprised to wake up to the news that both Georgia seats appear to be heading south even before the creative counting starts.
However as the "best" outcome would have been to rely on the likes of Romney, Murkowski, Collins, Sasse and way too many other squishes I hope I don't offend too many of my American friends by paraphrasing HC "what difference does it make?". A McConnell led Senate standing up to the Democrats? C'mon man!
Oops, I hit send before I finished.
I look at the map of Georgia and once again, more than 75% of the state is red yet somehow, the big cities get to make the state blue. We are in a nation where all of the major cities get to decide what direction their state goes in or as we have just seen, what direction or nation goes. They shouldn't have more say than any other city or town. It's BS that you can have 98% of the country be red yet cities like San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Chicago, NYC, and every other leftist metropolis that makes up the other 2%, their vote matters more and they decide on the direction this country takes. What makes a state red or blue should be on how much of the state votes for your party, not on if you can win Chicago or NYC.
"A nation that is defeated by its enemies can rise again but a nation that defeats itself cannot." I bring this line up because I don't believe the goal was to "divide America" but rather to divide MAGA through the revelation that the people they elected are traitors. The RINOs could care less to see their party divided because the party they represent is the Uniparty. They hope to get rid of us by making us mad and that is and has been their goal. Get enough Trump supporters to not show up so they'll win.
I look at the map of Georga
Stacey from Atlanta was a great caller. What she said may not be the best ad for moving to Georgia, but I appreciate her honesty and frank comments about the corruption there. And she's right too that electing the two GOP candidates will help keep socialism at bay.
Keeping socialism at bay even briefly might buy us enough time to regroup and fight it off for a longer period.
The abolition of gender is an attack on all religions not just Christianity. All scriptures even in Islam, recognize there are two genders. Are we going to see a push to make the Quran more inclusive and gender neutral? Are we going to see a demand for Buddhists to make their gods non-binary? The default setting has and always will be male or female if you were developed properly in the womb or test tube. The other genders happen after the fact. We are no longer humans to the left, we are snails.
The problem is that no one calls them on their hypocrisy. Or if you try to you are "silenced" in so many ways. Gender/biological sex is still promoted by the Left when it's convenient, i.e. "women's rights". If gender should should be neutral then why are women's issues or their struggles so important? Shouldn't the word "woman" not be used at all and be discussed in terms of human inequalities or something similar?
Instead, it's all about "women's" marches for reproductive rights, breaking the glass ceiling, ending sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, etc. Feminism has been the cornerstone of the Leftist movement in America for over 50 years. Also, the same people who support this nonsense are often into organic food, living naturally, earth-first/green energy, animal-empaths, etc. But there is nothing "natural" about not recognizing the genesis of life on this planet and the necessity of two genders which should be encouraged and celebrated in order to ensure human existence.
Long story short - these people hate themselves and their fellow human beings. I don't know why or when it started, but between their fixation on such ideas, plus the world-wide reaction to and handling of COVID-19, it makes you realize the end goal might be annihilation of the human race, or at least its enslavement to totalitarianism that looms in the not-too-distant future.
Amazing no one has called for an end to "woman's" marches or to feminism in general. You'd think that such a thing would be viewed as non welcoming or a sign of gender superiority to the LBGTQ community. In the end it's all about symbolism rather than actual change. Like sending troops to the Middle East to fight an enemy now and forever. That is there to give soldiers the feeling we're doing something good when in fact we're just paying tribute to the Islamic state. Empty gestures designed to make people feel as if they're making a difference when in fact all they're doing is making people rich.
Whenever things get as depressing as this, I always say G-d bless the Babylon Bee. Here's their headline on this:
Congressional Prayer Lasts Two Days As Democrat Includes All 5,787 Genders
Same here. Although there is an underlying grimness to my laughter, nonetheless time with the Bee does make me laugh out loud.
With you on the grimness. And the laughter, hopefully.
I hope Trump uses his money to put together a whole new media, let first and foremost by Mark Steyn, the Babylon Bee, and those on Fox who still have their heads on straight (Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson come to mind).
Hey, I can wish, can't I?
The abolition of gender is an attack on humans. The elites are allowed to have families and all the protection that families offer. They want to isolate everyone else to enslave us.
Douglas, one of the callers, saying that he is planning to sell his stock portfolio, seems reasonable, but he should not do it all at once unless he's already ahead on those stocks and he has a plan to put the money elsewhere. For example, after I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts, I sold my Facebook stock. And none of my investment devices (e.g., something like an ETF) hold Facebook stock. It is hard to completely extricate yourself from these rotten companies, so I suggest doing it slowly and by following a plan so you still make money. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face, but start doing it. Several publicly traded companies are contributing to the ruination our country, why support them? Support the ones that promote the values you have. That seems a better deal to me.
I'm no financial advisor, but with the way things are going my gut feeling is that it might be better to go as liquid as possible because when the powder keg goes, the stock market is going to go right with it. And this time, there isn't going to be anyone to bring it back.
I'm so not the doom and gloom type - I'm actually a pretty cheerful warrior - but to me this looks like the end of the world as we know it. America isn't the UK. At the risk of being repetitive, yes, I still keep seeing the Twin Towers. America is the top and when she implodes in on herself, she is going to take a huge swath of the developed world with her.
I keep thinking this too. But it's largely our billionaires who are financing this takeover - Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Bezos, Schwarzman, etc. I'm not sure how they plan to protect their fortunes from the conesquenses of their politics, but I assume they have done so.
And they collectively have too much to just hedge the risk away. They in effect ARE the stock market. Schwarzman runs a major investment firm that allows him to leverage his influence as a "force multiplier" that may make him more evil than all the rest combined. Anyway, I'm just saying that I think they have the stock market almost as well rigged as the elections, so selling may not be a good idea.
That's my point.
I have no doubt that the multigazillionaires running the planet have done something to protect themselves when the place goes up in smoke.
I also have no doubt that whatever they've done, it's set up in such a way as to protect themselves but no one else.
I probably wasn't being clear there. My point is that they control SO much capital that there just isn't anywhere to hide it. It's like the fidelity Magellen Fund it has so much money invested that it's essentially an index fund. It's impossible to actively manage.It's too big to beat the market, or even underperform the market to any great degree. In that same sense, the only way these billionaires can actively manage their money is to make the entire market go up in some way.
Just how naïve are people to believe that the actions Democrats make are always in the best interests of the people and the actions of the Republicans are always for their own self interests? The Democrats have always been the party that choses who succeeds and fails in life. Take my city in the riots for example. If the rioting was done by an enraged right wing mob, my mayor Sir Wokesalot would have the National Guard and the police stop them in no time flat. But the moment they saw who was doing the destruction, they protected their own and no one else. Every action they take they tell us we will get used to if not the TSA shoeless shuffle to the now mask mandate that will last for all time from the ever evolving Wu Flu strains. The Democrats also make the rules and if they don't work they change them. Republicans just follow the rules and act as if the laws that are in place are as sacred as the Constitution itself. Being told by the establishment "I'm the pitcher, you're the catcher" is the best description of how they want to run things. We take what they deliver and we don't dare complain about it.
"He hated Steyn more than he loved himself." Sad to see a generation whose only motivation for living is to give others pain and suffering to make themselves feel whole. Reminds me of Islamic terrorists. Say what you will of their motivations but they wouldn't carry out cowardly attacks if they didn't hate their enemies to the point where they're willing to take their own life as well. A generation raised on revenge is doomed to misery until the next enemy comes along to make them feel important again.
If the Democrats steal the Georgia run-offs, after stealing the Presidential election, it will be the end for secure elections, not just in the US, but around the world. Admittedly, electoral rules don't make cheating quite as easy in most other countries, which aren't called "Venezuela," or "North Korea," but, when the top job in the United States is so obviously stolen, where is the example for other countries to follow?
The comments from the caller from Atlanta reminded me of something I was told by a lady in Peru (I think I have mentioned this here before): the last four mayors of Cuzco were in prison for corruption. Did that make Cuzco more corrupt than Atlanta, because more of its former mayors were in clink, or less corrupt, because it did a better job of putting bent mayors in the slammer?
It's 8:35 and right now it's not looking good. There's going to be a very special place in Hell for that ridiculous con artist/grifter Lin Wood.
The legitimate voters make their decisions based on the facts before them, and whatever else they take into account.
The Senate GOP waved S.386 through, after running on Trump's America First platform.
This bill, designed to give permanent residence to millions of Indian and Chinese workers who will take American STEM jobs, was a GOP initiative let by Mike Lee.
Why bother voting for ersatz Democratic Party senatorial candidates when the real thing is there?
Why bother voting? The GA GOP set this entire fraud in motion. Don't blame Wood - he just told the truth.
GA voters had two choices:
- Show up in numbers and try and push it beyond the margin of theft. Even if it's a small chance it's still a chance.
Or
-Stay home out of spite and ensure the destruction of America and most likely civilization.
Yes, we know the GOP is crap but unfortunately we have a choice between bad and apocalypse here and bad is far preferable. If they go 0-2 tonight America ends up like Mexico with one party rule for the next century.
Just want to clarify my remark at the end: The country will end up a one party state but a few years from now control will go from the DNC to the CCP. Better work on my social credit score.
Blame the traitorous, garbage Never-Trump wing of the Uniparty (for aiding the Dirty Dems).
"Once Trump is off the ballot all the independents and suburban moderates will swing our way. Oh yeah, it's all coming back to the G-O-P, baby. [...] And then once we refuse to give them stimulus checks, the suburbs will vote for us. This is the move. Pure genius." - Jack Posobeic
PS. Why didn't Loeffler and Perdue indicate their intention to support election integrity and uphold the US Constitution - in line with Senator Hawley - on January 6th?
We can't confront the issue until we have the military and political backing of our home States, if your state is like Texas.
Georgia is a theoretical "red" state (going purple), but the GA GOP leadership would clearly be on the Blue side.
So Georgia conservatives would need to remove their State leadership through force, or be aligned with those who stole the election.
So We the People can't do anything except use legal channels, talk and complain, until we (jointly and severally) accept the next step.
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The rantings of the deluded, angry democrat who called in reminded me of Golda Meir's famous quote that there could be no peace with the Arabs until they loved their children more than they hated Israel.
Golda Meir also said what has to be the stupidest, most self-destructive line I've ever heard from a politician:
"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will not forgive them for teaching our children to kill."
Sorry, but for all the glorification she was hands down one of the worst PMs Israel ever had.
Dafna, I agree. Another leftist hagiography of a largely incompetent PM. And that quote, along with Anne Frank's apartment should be set aflame.
Anne Frank was just a kid. It's all the adults who tried to cash in and exploit her who are shameful.
Indeed.
I assume I must have misread something. I apologize.
Indeed, indeed.
No need to apologize. We agree. For many years, I've argued that the Frank apartment and the trees outside it should be razed to the ground. Way too many people (and particularly the city of Amsterdam) have profited from that young, murdered Jew. Her diary and memory have been thoroughly and cunningly de-Judaized to the point where there's nothing notably Jewish about her story and legacy at all. Lots of sentimental schlock abounds with respect to Anne Frank in particular, as with the idiotic Golda Meir quote that Dafna mentioned. Meir was a terrible leader who failed the Jewish people miserably in the Yom Kippur war. So she was a woman-big whoop.
Laura,
The unhinged fellow who called in during Mark's guest hosting stint unwittingly, I assume, repeated, almost exactly, the Meir quote, except that he was referring to himself (that is, hating Mark more than he loved himself). That is all I was pointing out.
I have no issue with your comment, I understand what you are saying. And that caller, pathetic as he clearly is, well I admire his honesty instead of couching it in flowery language. I say the same about antisemites-I have no issue dealing with Jew-hating cretins, their comments don't bother me in the slightest and I like living in their heads rent-free. These people are miseries with poisoned souls.
Oh-and the "L" is pronounced in Dekalb Illinois, so Mark is still rocking a good ole American pronunciation!
Mark makes Mr. Snerdley sound like his imaginary friend.
I've been wondering, is there actually a Mr. Snerdley or is Mark sinking deep into "a Beautiful Mind" like madness?
Mr. Snerdley is real. His real name is James Golden and he has worked in radio for years. Indeed, he was working at WABC AM in New York City when the fabled station transitioned from all hit music to all talk in May of 1982. He helped produced a music montage for DJs Dan Ingram and Ron Lundy they played on the final music show and for which they lauded James on air. When Rush came to WABC in 1988 he wisely chose James to work on his show.
I wonder if Mr. Snerdley might sail aboard the Mark Steyn Cruise as he always prompts Mark to plug it when guest hosting.
Heh. It's always my favourite part. Sometimes there's the faintest, almost-imperceptible sound of Mr Snerdley's side of the conversation. But silence is even funnier.
This is hilarious. After thinking about it, the same thing applies to Rush. His discussions with the voices in his head are some of the best moments of the show.
You didn't mention, Michael, that Snerdley is [gasp!] black. That's especially interesting in that Rush Limbaugh is routinely dismissed as a right-wing racist hater.
Mark, You called today, January 5th, a "big day", by reason of the Georgia elections (or, as I like to call them, "voting experiences"—like the voting experience we had last November 3rd.) Absent a miracle, we will have another big day on January 20th. On the morning of January 20, 2021, the White House will be in the possession of the validly elected President of the United States. By the end of the day, the building will be under occupation—whatever people choose to call former Vice President Biden, he will not be the lawful occupant of the building as the actual winner of a presidential election. During the War of 1812, on August 24, 1814, British soldiers seized and then burned the White House. That day back in 1814, President Madison was there at the White House in the morning, but gone in the afternoon. His Majesty's Government claimed that they were entitled to take their actions due to American raids into Canada, particularly the raid in Port Dover in May 1814. Mark, you have spent lots of time in courtrooms and around lawyers. Which occupation of the White House looks more justifiable to you, from a legal standpoint: former VP Biden's, or the occupation two hundred and seven years ago?
This Mark Steyn fellow needs to be buried. This Mr. Snerdly, on the other hand, needs a push.
What on earth are you talking about?
I was making a joke, Laura. I was saying that we needed less Mark and more Snerdley.
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Well done drawing out the sick David late in the first hour, Mark!
That guy is the poster child for how things like the Tutsi/Hutu massacre happen. He is driven by hatred, isn't even interested in what could actually help him. He just wants to destroy.
To put it into terms American moviegoers will understand, David is the guy from The Dark Knight, who just wants to watch the world burn. He is a sick sick sick sick man.
Precisely the type we saw thousands of rioting all summer. Until they go hungry, a la CHAZ/CHOP, the ultimate consequences of their actions never occur to them. Ayn Rand's apocalyptic depiction was far more decorous and antiseptic but, then, that was a different age...
Mark's handling of the call from David the Democrat near the end of the first hour was epic. The coup de grace was his takedown: "You've so got this myopic tunnel vision that you think your biggest problem is some no-name, dilettante Canadian guest host and you hate him more than Chairman Xi!"
I wonder if Johnny Donovan will be recutting his introduction for Mark to now refer to him as a the dilettante Canadian host live from Ice Station EIB. He is certainly not a no-name!
Bravo, Mark!! The last time I laughed this long during one of your guest-hosting appearances was when you started singing "Kung Fu Fighting" and dared the authorities from the Isle of Wright to arrest you for a race crime.
Well noted! When I posted, I hadn't even seen your comment, but we can all recognize the defining issues.
Absolutely. And your analogy to the Dark Knight is spot on.