{"id":12744,"date":"2020-12-01T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=12744"},"modified":"2020-12-01T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:01:25","slug":"what-do-you-call-a-country-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/what-do-you-call-a-country-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Call a Country Like This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is December 1st<\/sup> 2020 so I am fervently hoping that President Trump will be successful in forcing the courts and the legislatures to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence of wholesale fraud and assign him the election win.\u00a0 But regardless of the outcome of that effort we have to come to grips with the fact that the country we thought we lived in does not exist.<\/p>\n

Now that\u2019s a bold statement but I think it\u2019s undeniably true.\u00a0 The last election was not a squeaker that could have turned on the margin of error.\u00a0 Unlike 2016 President Trump had massive new support in the swing states that he needed to win.\u00a0 And that was obviously apparent right up until the switch was pulled in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.\u00a0 In each state President Trump was decisively ahead when the counting was shut down and the observers were sent home and the fake ballots were trucked in by the hundreds of thousands and the fake count was performed without honest witnesses to confirm that the ballots were legitimate.\u00a0 All the other jazz about the electronic systems in place may be as horrendous as they say.\u00a0 That\u2019s harder for me to know about.\u00a0 But the obvious fraud is what we\u2019re left with.<\/p>\n

Now what kind of country do these sorts of things happen in?\u00a0 Well, you can think of a whole bunch of names.\u00a0 Oligarchy is the sophisticated name.\u00a0 When I was growing up it would have been called a banana republic.\u00a0 The term that I think is appropriate is gangster state.\u00a0 Without a doubt we haven\u2019t reached the level of brutality that Saddam Hussein was famous for but it\u2019s really only a matter of degree or maybe a more sophisticated sense of taste.\u00a0 After all, the FBI, the Justice Department and the judiciary tortured General Flynn and others of the Trump team psychologically for more than four years with no evidence of a crime having been committed and the media has used concerted propaganda campaigns, supported by the social media companies against half the country for almost a decade.\u00a0 And now that the Left has made riot, looting and arson business as usual I can\u2019t see how anyone can claim that there is a qualitative difference between what goes on in the United States and what goes on in Venezuela or Syria.\u00a0 Say what you like, you can\u2019t call that kind of regime democratic or even legitimate.\u00a0 When the law is enforced selectively and based on partisan advantage then tyranny and dictatorship are perfectly accurate descriptions for that type of regime.<\/p>\n

And that is my whole point for this post.\u00a0 Things should be called by their right names.\u00a0 Words shouldn\u2019t hide reality.\u00a0 Calling a place, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is just making believe that the word democratic doesn\u2019t mean rule by the people.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s call the place we live in by what it truly is.\u00a0 Let\u2019s call it the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of America.\u00a0 I wonder if Kim Jong-Un could send one of those stylish outfits he wears to Creepy Uncle Joe.\u00a0 It would look just about right on the Dear Leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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