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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson
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No objective observer could possibly say that the world has become less chaotic. The news is steeped in a constant bath of leftist rage and character assassination directed at President Trump and everyone in his administration. Every day we hear that the House of Representatives is howling for Speaker Pelosi to begin impeachment proceedings. CNN, despite their abysmal viewership ratings, continues on with the imbecilic droning of accusations against the President and calls for a do-over on the Mueller investigation. The myriad of Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential primary have been howling and gibbering against the President like some collection of minor squid dragons, mushroom lobsters and frogmen out of a second-rate H. P. Lovecraft story. The headlines from the New York Times and Washington Post scream about obstruction of injustice and trumpet the low approval ratings of the President.
But if you carefully compare the underlying situation now and back in 2017 a clear distinction appears.
In 2017 Jeff Sessions was the Attorney General and based on fake evidence he allowed the corrupt Justice Department to appoint Robert Mueller as Witch-Hunter in Chief and unleashed a two-year drum beat of prosecutions and false rumors of collusion.
In 2019 William Barr is Attorney General and he doesn’t give a damn about fake evidence. In fact, he’s investigating the fake evidence and appears determined to prosecute those that used the fake evidence. Now the rumors are the ones filling the nightmares of Comey, Brennan and Clapper as they squirm to blame each other for their crimes.
In 2017 the economy had a growth rate of about 1% and the unemployment rate was in double digits. Manufacturing jobs were as rare as unicorns and government managing the middle-class decline was the consensus opinion of the Cloud People.
In 2019 the economy is roaring along at around 3% growth rate and unemployment is only for those who just plain don’t want to work. President Trump has used tariffs and the threat of tariffs to level the playing field for American business and workers. Manufacturing has rebounded and there is the hope of even greater concessions from China.
In 2017 even the Republicans in Congress refused to even consider immigration reform and the Wall was an abomination that Speaker Ryan wouldn’t even discuss.
In 2019 President Trump has used executive orders and an emergency declaration on the southern border to allocate funds to start building the Wall. And now the President has finally declared that he will begin the deportations of the millions of illegal aliens already in the country.
In 2017 Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham cravenly refused to back the President’s agenda out of calculation that he wouldn’t last out the year under the Mueller investigation.
In 2019 McConnell and Graham are charter members of the Trump fan club. Now granted, McConnell will still quail if he thinks something will anger his corporate paymasters but he has certainly done the right thing for the Supreme Court and other judicial appointments. And the President’s popularity is the reason. These curs follow the alpha wolf.
In 2017 Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg at the Weekly Standard and the National Review respectively were Republican opinion leaders. These NeverTrumpers spent gallons of digital ink mocking the President and predicting his failure and eventual demise.
In 2019 the Weekly Standard is gone and Jonah Goldberg is leaving the National Review to continue his anti-Trump career at some new start-up that has found Left Wing funding. And the NeverTrumpers have reached such heights of lunacy that they are now indistinguishable from Leftists (e.g., Max Boot). And most of the NeverTrumpers have returned to the fold and now sing President Trump’s praises as if they were always with him.
In 2017 the newspapers, television stations and the leading internet pundits attacked President Trump with accusations of collusion and predicted impeachment was around the corner. And the public believed them.
In 2019 it isn’t even necessary any longer for the President to say “fake news.” We say it for him and more importantly, even the Left knows it’s true. They know that the collusion was on their side of the fence and William Barr is coming for them. If the pollsters tell us that President Trump is losing to Creepy Uncle Joe Biden or Granny Warren, we can just look at Biden giving a rally in front of a crowd of less than a hundred bored ringers while the President hosts a gathering of over a hundred thousand cheering fans. Do we have to even bother saying the poll is fake?
So, to sum it up, the only thing that hasn’t changed is the Left’s tactic. Attack, attack, attack. But the result has changed. We don’t believe them anymore, we’re not afraid of them and President Trump’s accomplishments now speak for themselves.
When President Trump wins the 2020 election in a landslide, I think we’ll finally see even the likes of CNN throw in the towel and try something new. Maybe even the truth? Doubtful, but miracles can happen.
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Three astronauts are aboard the, by now familiar, Forbidden Planet flying saucer set that is bringing them to explore and evaluate a new planet that Earth hopes to colonize. Lieutenants Ted Mason and Mike Carter along with Captain Paul Ross (played by Jack Klugman) are scanning the planet’s surface to identify a good landing site to begin their work. But they see a shiny object and land to investigate. It turns out to be a crashed flying saucer. They go to investigate and discover what appear to be their own three bodies lying dead in the wreckage of their own ship. Mason and Carter now start to hallucinate that they’ve gone back to Earth. Carter imagines that he visits his home and sees a telegram with his death notice on it. Mason meets his wife and daughter but when Ross finds him and forces him back he is reminded that his wife and daughter died in an automobile crash years ago.
Mason and Carter are now convinced that they’ve all died in a crash. But Ross claims that aliens are causing them to hallucinate the crashed ship, the bodies and even the scenes on Earth. Ross tells them that they must escape from the planet to escape the delusions. But Mason and Carter are convinced that taking off will be the occasion for their ship to crash. When they successfully take off everyone is overjoyed but when Ross says it’s now safe to return, Mason and Carter panic and attempt to stop him from landing. In doing so they force the ship into a power dive from which they barely escape without crashing. Once on the surface they see that the crashed ship is still there. Now Mason and Carter are despondent and convinced that all of them are already dead. But Ross refuses to believe he’s already dead and says they must go over the logic of what’s happening to them again.
In the final scene we return to the beginning when they see the shiny object from orbit as they approached the planet. They are in an endless loop of denying their own deaths.
While some of the scenes between the men and their friends and family from Earth are affecting and the interactions between the captain and his crew are somewhat interesting and Jack Klugman is fun to listen to, the season four hour format finally draws out this premise too long. It’s too thin a premise to keep it going that long. C+
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson
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The folks on the dissident right are known for making the statement that “we aren’t going to vote our way out of this.” For that reason, it’s interesting to see the Z-Man discussing the importance of tactical flexibility with respect to political opportunities.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=17824
The gist of it is that even if you don’t think that political reform can solve all our problems it doesn’t make sense to ignore the advantages that can be obtained at the ballot box.
And this is a good sign. A lot of the time, the gloom and doom and apocalyptic language coming from the fringe is unhelpful and self-defeating. President Trump has actually made some good progress (against unbelievable headwind) in judicial appointments, business and trade policies, reining in the bureaucrats and declawing the Justice Department.
While the question of whether restoring the values of the Old America is possible under our present system is still in doubt, it doesn’t seem to me to be the time to give up. Especially since we’ve actually had some measure of success at the ballot box recently.
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Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
Andrew Jackson
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