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Guest Contributor – Nostradumbass – 25OCT2024 – Reaction to “Can Trump Win?”

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sometimes when I drop in, I feel like someone was reincarnated. The following two quotes seem to be appropriate for your discourse:

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right.”

“I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers, or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you: ‘There is no I in team.’ What you should tell them is: ‘Maybe not. But there is an I in independence, individuality, and integrity.’” George Carlin

A Jaded Mandarin

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People are always trying to compare the present era to other historical epochs.  Thucydidean Athens or Caesarian Rome or pre-revolutionary France.  All these analogies are clever or foolish depending on the author.  And all of them are of necessity partial in their similarity.  What’s the expression, “History never repeats itself but merely rhymes.”?

And that is true.  This era is like no other because the assembly of characters is unique.  What I notice about the cast of this drama is that most of them are a poor lot.  Don’t look for a Pericles or a Julius Caesar or even an Augustus.  We’ve got the Clintons, the Bushes and the Obamas.  And when even these mediocrities walk away, we get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  Now I don’t mean to exhort Trump’s virtues as if he’s some messiah.  His feet of clay are legendary.  But he isn’t a politician.  He’s more of a supporting cast member dragged on stage because the headliners all forgot their lines and ran off stage in terror of the audience pelting them with tomatoes and oranges.

There’s something distressing about the people who run things from behind the scenes handing over the kabuki theater to really obvious fifth raters like Biden and Harris.  I can’t make up my mind whether they just don’t think it’s necessary to keep up the pretense of a republic anymore or that some bizarre sequence of circumstances has thrust these two truly unimpressive hacks into the limelight.  I’m not sure which of these two reasons is true and I’m not even sure which is a worse reason.

But for whichever reason, here we are.  And it is a spectacularly awful moment in our history.  For more than twenty years I have been steadily more and more dismayed by the path our leaders have been dragging us down.  Every presidential term has plumbed new depths until at this point it appears we may be well beyond the point of no return.  And so possibly the only thing left to do about our present situation is laugh.

Maybe mockery is all that’s left to do.  After all, exposing the stupidity and evil of our supposed leaders may even accomplish some small good.  Maybe it could even tip the balance by waking up even the terminally dense to just how imbecilic someone like Kamala Harris truly is.  And, if nothing else, laughter is good for the soul.  Watching those compilations of Biden stumbling and bumbling around trying to walk off stage or failing to remember words like government or health care were hilarious and without a doubt cheered me up.  And listening to Kamala expound on yellow school buses or the relationship of Russia and Ukraine on the map of Eurasia did my heart good.

But humor aside, I do think about what it means that Biden and Harris are now the caliber of leader that the dominant party of this empire finds acceptable.  It’s got to say something about how this country works.  We don’t elect political leaders.  We hire actors to read us the news from the regime.  In fact, it’s gotten so bad that we now have actors who translate the news from the actors we “elect.”  We have the Haitian Betty Boop come out and explain what Joe Biden meant when he mumbled incoherently about Russia or Gaza or ice cream.  We won’t get the truth but we’ll get today’s version of the narrative.

And so, looking at what we have devolved into I wouldn’t compare us to Athens or Rome.  I wouldn’t even compare us to Stalin’s USSR.  We’re more like one of the decadent Chinese bureaucratic dynasties right before the barbarians overran it.  We’re the Middle Kingdom that has always been and will always be.  It will go on regardless of ineptitude, graft and stupidity.  It will survive due to the titanic size and inertia of the whole interlocking structure.  Even the Mongol hordes were subsumed into its colossal bulk.  Maybe in a century a revolution will sweep the Earth and topple it to the ground but a century seems like the minimum time needed.

In the meantime, I hope for some miracle where Trump gets in and like some latter-day Heracles he beheads and cauterizes the polycephalic Hydra of the Deep State and returns sanity to our poor abused republic.  Otherwise, I better learn to bow.

Guest Contributor – Glenn W – 23MAR2024 – Smartest Guys in the Room

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Like the other readers of this blog I have been watching our culture slowly disintegrate over my lifetime. I am certain that the oligarchs have ran many simulations (remember the Club of Rome?) and are certain that they have the winning hand. That being said I think they have made a very basic logic error which is human beings have agency. Anyone who has a science or engineering background usually views every process as being a mix deterministic or random, it’s drilled into us. However I don’t believe that applies to human beings who have agency. A steel beam doesn’t evaluate the torsion being applied to it and decide how to react but a person does evaluate the forces being applied to him and reasons about how he should react. I think that’s why we constantly hear about how those stupid so-and-sos didn’t do the “rational” thing. Actually they did, it’s your model that’s stupid.

Time will tell but I don’t think the “smartest guys in the room” really know very much.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 22MAR2024 – Monkey Joe

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Maybe the geniuses chose Joe deliberately. Plans within plans. Joe is a distraction while the deep state makes itself irremovable. Joe is the screeching monkey distraction while the real work goes on surreptitiously. Rush Limbaugh was the distraction for GW Bush. He was the MAGA type of super-patriot distraction that allowed Bush’s people to work quietly building power. Bush was decried by the left as a yokel, all the while he beat them twice in a row and got the great majority of his legislative aims passed.

Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 22MAR2024 – Rule Over Ashes

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Sun Tzu refered to the evil men who would burn their homeland to rule over the ashes.

I think the wheels are going to come off the US/Petrodollar deal that Nixon carved out over 50 years ago. Pull on your tinfoil beret, I personally believe the gold in Ft Knox bought that deal with the House of Saud, and they are now getting ready to after 50 years of meddling in our foreign policy mostly to their benefits, to dump us on the rubbish heap. Explain coherently why before the OPEC deal was signed that the tours to Ft Knox depository were shut down, and nobody has done an exact counting and inventory since ’72, at least one publicly available. I smell shenanigans, and am worried about the BRICS+ currency because it is gold backed, and has a large portion of both the worlds population and real estate to back it. By being gold backed it has an advantage over the Euro, or the Dollar, both of which are now straight up fiat “We Say So” bucks, only good because we say so.

I do not believe the oligarchy realize how few they are, and how many disillusioned and increasingly angry, bitter people are looking at them wondering why the WEF, and all the other asshats who fly in private jets to eat catered meals served to them by their underlings while they lecture us about our carbon footprint, and recommend we learn to downsize and enjoy “Micro Livestock” so they can shepherd us towards their brighter happier future.
The unelected enviro-nazis do not have any authority over me that I do not grant them, but somehow their wants are translated into the laws governing the US, and Europe while the “Poor unfortunate Asians” like India and China get a pass on all the environmental BS.

We have reduced our environmental impact and are decreasing our utilization of coal, oil and natural gas, while they build a new coal fired plant every 2 weeks. The Clinton administration locked up one of our supplies of low sulfur coal in Utah to help out campaign donors from Indonesia who coincidentally also export low sulfur coal, kinda cozy.
I know I am rambling, but that happens, I don’t think the US people will go gently into that long dark night without a struggle, and would prefer it to be sooner rather than kicking it down the road for my grandchildren to deal with.

Colorado Wake Up Call

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If anyone, not on the Left, needed any further proof of the lack of political freedom in this country, the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court has hopefully provided it.  Bottom line; the powers that be will decide which candidates you are allowed to choose between.  Maybe it would be more efficient if on January 1st the Department of Truth just tells us in advance who will win the November election and saved us all that time and expense.  Maybe it’s Nikki Haley’s turn.  After all she’s slightly smarter than Kamala Harris, better looking and she will have the same policies as Joe and Kamala.  And she has the added bonus that she can drag along another ten percent of the electorate who call themselves compassionate conservatives, whatever that means.

I’m reconciled with the Left keeping Donald Trump off the ballot.  People should know what’s what.  Enough making believe.  Look around you and understand how things get done.  If Trump wouldn’t play ball with the State Department and CIA over Ukraine then they stage a race war and then a pandemic.  And if he’s still too popular to beat in an election then just bring out the “vote harvesting” and manufacture a presidency.  If the Biden agenda bankrupts the nation and alienates 70% of the electorate, why simply manufacture an insurrection charge against Trump and presto-change-o, we get candidate Nikki Haley.

In effect that is what they mean by “our democracy.”  What they really mean is “their oligarchy.”

Well, there you go.  That’s what it is.  And unless someone really wants to go toe to toe with their mafia gang you live under that oligarchy.  What you don’t have to do is pretend it’s some sacred arrangement.  You have to pay the mafia shakedown guy.  You don’t have to pretend you like it.  And when the day comes that some other mafia gang comes along and tries to knock them off their pedestal it’s definitely not your job to take up arms for them.  Let them send their own sons off to die.  That’s the nature of a mob.  They’re killers and they better be the best at it or someone stronger or nastier will knock them over.

For us it’s a matter of surviving in an oligarchic tyranny.  There are all kinds of strategies and tactics.  Mostly find a spot outside of the epicenters of the regime and try to hold onto whatever prosperity they haven’t managed to extract from their slaves.  Find a spot where they haven’t managed to hem in their cattle in the tightest pen.

And maybe someday when the disastrous global policies of this regime lead to catastrophe, which becomes more likely every day, then there will be a strong enough reaction to pull down this regime and install more moderate maniacs who will confine themselves to simply stealing money and not killing off the majority of their citizens through nonsensical policies like green energy and de-industrialization.

But until then watch what happens.  If Trump stays on the ballots and wins the election then I have wildly overestimated the strength and arrogance of the regime.  If he ends up in jail then I’ve got it about right.

Well, Maybe

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I get an e-mail whenever Curtis Yarvin writes a post in his Substack; Gray Mirror.  Now Yarvin is a lunatic but an engaging and clever lunatic.  His answer to all of the ills of our society is always the same; install a king.  So, I’m always a little daunted when I consider reading his posts, not least of all because they are usually between five and ten thousand words long.  Yikes!  Luckily this one was on the low end of that range.

It was a gentle chiding of Richard Hanania for becoming a moderate.  I guess Hanania was being attacked in the media for being an alt-right partisan in his younger days.  Well, who wasn’t?  Anyway, after a few thousand words to ridicule the concept of classical liberalism Yarvin gets down to his bottom line.  Any and all progress against the woke left is hopeless because the oligarchy protects it and the only way to get rid of the oligarchy is with a king.

Well, maybe.

So, because our representative democracy has been hijacked by an oligarchy, according to him we should welcome a dictator.  And you wonder, how did that work out for the Romans?  Julius Caesar and Augustus were pretty good.  But after that, what a nightmare.  How do you keep the king from being a madman or an incompetent?  Yarvin has this idea that it would be like some kind of CEO for the country and there would be a board of directors who could hire and fire the king.

Well, maybe

But I’m guessing that stuffing that board would be like stuffing the Supreme Court.  And truth be told the board would be the oligarchs and they would just choose one of their oligarchi-est oligarchs to run their show.  And how in hell do you get something like this started?  No, there is no way out that way.

What seems to be the case is that we are heading for a crisis.  The old system and the way that it works is reaching a breaking point.  Those in charge seem to have a plan to permanently make the voting system just a rubber stamp for their regime.  And at the same time, they want to change the class system in this country from a middle-class dominant model to a feudal system with the peasants working for the oligarchs.  And to be totally honest it sure looks like they’re way ahead getting their plan done.  A big chunk of the millennials and zoomers have serf written all over them.

Well, maybe.

But the best laid plans of oligarchs and serfs oft time go to hell in the real world.  I still think it’s too soon to just throw in the towel.  The demolition of the American economy is preceding at such a breakneck pace that it is somewhat possible that a popular revolt might miraculously sweep the Democrats completely out of power long enough to allow actual representatives of the people to make drastic reforms and restore our interests.

Well, maybe.

After reading about the FBI gunning down that old guy in Provo, Utah I’m not feeling so chipper today.  I know the radical nature of the killing should help to delegitimize the institutions like the FBI.  And it probably does.  The man as described was obviously no threat to anyone.

“Neighbors who spoke with the Deseret News described Robertson as a markedly different person than what he portrayed online. One person called him a “teddy bear” known for his woodworking who would sit in the same seat at church every Sunday; another said he was barely mobile, weighed nearly 300 pounds and was unable to walk without a cane. He would drive to church, despite it only being about 200 yards from his home, because he had so much trouble moving around.

Neighbors also described a harrowing scene, with dozens of agents converging on the Provo house, rifles drawn and hiding behind bulletproof shields as flash bangs exploded.

“I just can’t believe that this man warranted that kind of response,” said Travis Clark, who lived up the street from Robertson.”

It makes me sick to think that the FBI has become a secret police agency, no different from the Stasi and the KGB.  In fact, worse than those organizations.  At least the KGB wouldn’t have allowed BLM and Antifa to burn down their own cities.  But maybe it will be this kind of gestapo tactics that convinces a solid majority of the American people that our “leaders” are really our overlords now and need to be replaced with something better.

Maybe, maybe not.

Tough day to be optimistic.

10APR2023 – Through the Looking Glass

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“Curiouser and curiouser!”  (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

In the late 1970s I thought America had lost its way.  We had elected a terrible president in Carter and everything was coming apart at the seams.  But then we elected Reagan and it seemed like the ship had been righted and America was back to what it should be.

In the nineties we got George Bush 1 and that got us Bill Clinton and once again were going down the wrong path.  In 2000 we tried to fix things with Bush 2 and then everything went to hell.  We got 9/11, endless wars, bankruptcy for the country and that led to Obama.  That was horrible and I could see the country fraying at the seams.  When Trump came along it was like a last lifeline thrown to us.  There was some honest talk and the hope that maybe we could undo the damage that had been done over the last several decades.  But then came the George Floyd riots, COVID and the 2020 election fraud.  And now after the 2022 midterms it’s official.  We were being kidded along.  The powers that be control the country and we were never going to be allowed to run this country.  We were just chumps who fight the wars for them.  There’s no way back to what we thought was normal anymore.

 

 

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.

“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”  (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Now it’s apparent that what’s happened is more than just the Deep State usurping the political process and stealing elections.  Really what’s going on is that the majority of the population has bought into the new America.  Minorities, white women and the youth have drunk the cool-aid and love Big Brother.  They believe in global warming, saving Gaia, transgender surgeries for ten-year-olds, the desirability of a childless life and owning nothing and liking it.  Joe Biden’s America is what they aspire to.  They believe in this madness and we aren’t going to talk them out of it.

 

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.

“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”  (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

So that leaves the rest of us in a quandary, where do we go from here?  That’s the one no one can answer.  All the smart people on the Right who fulminate against the managerial state and the hive and the deep state and the oligarchy don’t have an answer to what we do or where we go or how to get to a better place.  Frankly I don’t think they know.

And I can’t blame them.  I don’t know either.  But it seems we must try to do something.  Just going along with the others is giving in to madness.  And the only hopeful thing is that we’ve seen so much of the grift being used against us that we have at least gained a little wisdom.  There’s the hope that we can at least tell the difference between something real and the fakes and the crazies.  At least we can hope that’s the case.  So, we have to keep trying.

 

‘I could tell you my adventures–beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’

“Who are YOU?” said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I–I hardly know, sir, just at present– at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”  (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

And after all that has happened and all we’ve learned about the lies we were told about our country, who exactly are we.  What part of the country doesn’t want this “brave new world” of wokeness?  And what unites us?  Is it just cultural traditionalists?  Or does it include civic nationalists who believe in the wisdom of the United States Constitution as a basis for a civil society.  Can we put together a coalition that is willing to risk everything we have to free ourselves from the tyranny of the Left?  And will it have any permanence?  Who will be our leaders?  Certainly not the likes of Lindsey Grahams and Mitch McConnell.  They have shown their stupidity and baseness.  Where will we find leaders to unite us and help us achieve our freedom?

 

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”  (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

And even if we figure out who we are and what we want is escaping from this mad world possible?  The brainwashed masses who believe in the dictates of the Hive are totally madmen.  But the cynical people who control the country and own most everything there is to own are quite capable of using the apparatus of the federal government to destroy their enemies most efficiently.  They have trillions of dollars of equipment and millions of pawns under their power and no scruples at all about using them against anyone who won’t knuckle under.

How exactly are we to move them out of our ways?

Mob Rule or Oligarchy; Potato, Puhtatuh

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Going all the way back to Plato and Aristotle, Europeans have theorized and even attempted to set up the optimal form of government.  Aristotle divided all governments into one of three forms, each with its deviant version:

“The distinction between correct and deviant constitutions is combined with the observation that the government may consist of one person, a few, or a multitude. Hence, there are six possible constitutional forms (Politics III.7):

 

Form                     Correct                 Deviant

One Ruler             Kingship               Tyranny

Few Rulers           Aristocracy         Oligarchy

Many Rulers       Polity                     Democracy

I suppose we could make a case that our government has slipped from a polity into a democracy that Aristotle would consider a deviant form of government in which mob rule corrupts the correct governing of a state.  But many contend that we had long ago slipped into an oligarchy that is controlled by the combination of the managerial class inhabiting the federal bureaucracy and corporate boardrooms.

Be that as it may, the outward form of government is portrayed as a democratic republic or representative democracy.  But if an oligarchy has effectively captured permanent control over the federal government, then regardless of appearances, we are living under a regime that will not respond to our wishes or protests.

And this is not a surprising occurrence.  Every historical instance of democratic rule has eventually devolved into some form of tyranny.  Athens was overthrown by an oligarchy and Rome became essentially a military monarchy.  I guess it was inevitable that eventually a powerful faction would decide to impose its will on a state as rich and powerful as the United States of America.  The vast wealth was just too tempting.

But for us who remember the almost paradisical conditions that existed while the oligarchs had not yet consolidated their control over the levers of power it is problematic to know what to do going forward.  Many have just given up and now adopt whatever dictates and fashions the oligarchy and its servants dictate.  They do what is necessary to survive in the hive.  Some people call these individuals “bugmen.”  It’s a galling existence.  At any point it might be necessary to allow yourself to be denounced because of your sex or race.  You may even have to take a demotion in order to satisfy the diversity, equity and inclusion caprices of your employer.  But you’ll do it to keep the stock options you’ve been given and the connections you need to get your kids in a “good school.”

Of course, your children are also at the whim of the weirdos who run these good schools.  If things go poorly your son or daughter may end up as your daughter or son.  Which is another way of saying psychologically broken, sexually mutilated and permanently sterile.  And there is a very high probability that they’ll be taught to hate you and your ancestors for being the wrong color.

As you can see joining the hive is not without its sacrifices.  And perhaps in the long run is a dead end for all but the true aristocracy.  Then, the question is are there any alternatives?

Currently, the workaround most people resort to is moving to a Red State that resists the worst of the Left’s interference.  Ron DeSantis in Florida has of late become the champion of Red State resistance.  And consequently, hundreds of thousands of people have moved to Florida over the last couple of years from places like New York.

Another alternative is leaving for another country.  This is a much riskier proposition.  In most cases other countries are unsatisfactory to Americans because of economic and cultural concerns.  And in fact, few places provide even the freedoms we still seem to enjoy here.  Places like Hungary or the Czech Republic seem promising.  There are signs that they value freedom and traditional culture.  But it would still be making yourself a stranger in a strange land.

And finally, you can do nothing and hope that the country will somehow free itself from this subjugation we find ourselves living under.  There are no historical precedents for this.  But there are some circumstances that might provide some hope.  Poor management and incompetent leaders are contributing to a relative weakening of the United States with respect to the other larger powers in the world.  If America’s economic position should seriously deteriorate then it is very possible that the coalition that keeps the oligarchy in power could disintegrate and that would leave open the possibility that a different coalition could gain power and restore the freedoms that made the United States a desirable place to live.

Of course, this weakening could just as easily destabilize the country just as the military weakness of Rome destabilized that empire’s borders and allowed the Germanic tribes to overrun the western half of the empire.  Our ruling elites have flooded the country with tens of millions of refugees and by delegitimating their police forces they have reduced the big cities to free-fire zones, where chaos reigns supreme.  This environment may make it impossible to restore competent authority in large swaths of the country.  If that happens leaving these areas for safer locales or even different countries may not be a choice but necessity.

It’s pretty hard to know which choice to take.  Maybe the best advice is, keep your options open and wait for a tipping point to know which way to turn.  But one thing for sure, don’t depend too much on any government.  Have some good friends who have your back in an emergency.  You’ll need them.

So, we may be living through another laboratory experiment in the devolution of a democratic society.  Aristotle would not have recognized the trappings of our system as related to the Athenian experiment (although the Greek columns standing in front of our federal buildings would have looked familiar) but he would understand the transition from republic to oligarchy.  Maybe he would have blamed it on giving women the vote.  He mentioned that they shouldn’t be allowed to do that.  Apparently, he was ahead of our time.

Moral Superiority

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From my youngest political memories, I was always made acutely aware of the differences between the way of life in the United States versus the rest of the world.  And not just comparing it to the Soviet Union or China or the banana republics in Latin America or the tribal societies of Africa and the Middle East or even the democracies in Europe.  Even Western Europe, even England lacked our freedom of speech, our right to bear arms.  We were the freest people on Earth.  We could say whatever the hell we wanted and the if the President himself didn’t like what we said, well he could go pound sand.

And the system we had held our leaders accountable.  Truman’s phrase, “The buck stops here,” signified that the President was held responsible for the actions of his administration and he was answerable to the American people.  Our leaders knew that the American people were proud of being the freest people on the face of the Earth and any leader who trampled on that freedom would be handed his walking papers at the next election.

And it went without saying that the Russian leaders; Brezhnev, Khrushchev and of course Stalin were lying, murderous thugs that Americans wouldn’t tolerate living under for a minute.  The idea that there could be a moral equivalence between these criminals and even your least favorite American president was absurd.  Our leaders were public servants and honorable men, even the ones from the opposing party.  They obeyed the law and respected the Constitution.

But what about today?  What if I compared Joe Biden with Vladimir Putin?  Would it still be night and day?  Let’s see.

Vladimir Putin is a former KGB colonel and a ruthless despot who would destroy anyone who tried to cross him.  I also think he is a Russian patriot who loves his country and people.  He also seems to be culturally, a traditionalist.  I would be afraid to live in his modern-day Russia.  The country lacks a fair justice system and governmental corruption is systemic.  But one thing that Russia lacks is a woke revolution.  No rainbow flags festoon the fronts of government buildings or schools.  No one talks about their pronouns.  You won’t find any men wearing dresses.  No doctors are sexually mutilating children.  So, in that one dimension, Putin’s Russia is morally superior to Biden’s America.

Now let’s look at Joe Biden.  He is a pathological liar.  He doesn’t just lie when he needs to.  He lies in the same way as everyone else breathes, that is, continuously.  He’s a chronic influence peddler whose “take” has grown to the point where it has reached the billion-dollar range.  And as far as honoring the rights of Americans, Biden’s Justice Department currently has scores of Americans illegally rotting in prison cells for the misdemeanor of trespassing in the Capitol Building on January 6th 2021.  Personally, he’s been accused of sexual assault on the streets of Washington D.C. during daylight hours.  He has a creepy habit of sidling up behind women and girls and holding them by the shoulders while sniffing their hair.  His family is made up of broken people with crack cocaine smoking bagman Hunter as the poster child for parental failure.  And as the COVID crisis proved Biden is more than willing to use an excuse to assume dictatorial control over the lives of Americans.

And even ignoring the men in charge, let’s look at the governments in Russia and the United States.  Russia is a corrupt oligarchic kleptocracy where those in charge use their positions to enrich themselves at the expense of the general population.  It’s obviously true.  And at this point how does that differ from the American oligarchs who run the banks and the financial mega-corporations that dictate the policies of the Federal Reserve so that they always make money even while we’re bankrupted by the swings of the economy?  And finally, unlike Russia, our elite has conjured up the woke revolution that brainwashes our children into hating their ancestors, their families and even their own bodies.  These monsters are reinforcing a cult that has as its endgame the end of normal human life on the planet in favor of sexually depraved, sterile zombies that want no progeny and no future beyond playing videogames and tweeting into empty space.

Putin is no saint.  He’s a megalomaniacal despot.  But as it turns out he is an improvement over what has happened to our country.  Anyone who claims that somehow the West has moral superiority over Russia or China or Iran will have a hard time convincing me.  And we have a long road to get back to where we were when we did.