At some point you almost have to feel bad for the people
who work for Joe Biden. Every single day, they go to work not know what
they’re going to have to clean up today; what mess he’s going to create,
or what stupid thing is going to come out of his mouth. Or whether or
not what comes out of his mouth is even words at all. Then you realize
those people are enabling this senile old fool in his quest to destroy
the country and whatever thought you’d had to feel badly is replaced
with contempt.
I’ve
known lot of people who could, at any given moment, say something for
which a lot of clean up would be necessary. Some were friends, others
colleagues, and still some bosses.
The friends “having a
Biden moment” would just cause a rolling of the eyes, creating wonder
over how someone seemingly intelligent could have a moment of abject
stupidity, in public no less. All you can do in that situation is laugh
and hope to be free of the splatter range should the stupidity lead to
any drink being thrown.
If they were colleague, the eye
roll remains and is coupled with a sense of amazement that someone,
unusually highly educated and accomplished, could be so obtuse on
occasion.
When they were my boss, my heart started
racing a bit every time they’d approach a microphone or reporter…or
constituent. While I wasn’t responsible for cleaning up after my friends
or co-workers, it is your job (sometimes) to clean up after your boss.
My bosses for whom I was responsible for some level
of clean up were, thankfully, pretty good, with only a few times between
them when I had to try to repair anything they’d done. Working for Joe
Biden has to be a bit like working for Mr. Magoo – drunk, during an
earthquake – the sheer volume of destruction in his wake has no
limitations.
Joe Biden is the worst kind of disastrous boss – the type who doesn’t realize how bad they really are.
When
most people, people with their mental abilities under their control,
say something wrong, like calling someone the wrong name, we correct it
almost immediately. “Hey, Bob, er, Tom, come here for a second,” for
example. The President gets names, dates, events, or details of his own
life wrong all the time and seems blissfully unaware of them much of the
time.
He regularly gets the rank of his late son Beau
in the Army wrong, and has not gotten the number of grandchildren he has
right in at least the last year, alternating between claiming 5 or 6
when the real number is 7.
You can almost forgive that
last one, he is a very old man and Hunter did father 2 kids inside of a
year with 2 different women (while dating his sister-in-law), so some
confusion can be understood. But blanking on people he nominated to
Cabinet posts? Not acceptable.
More often than not, when confronted with his
failing mental capacity, Biden does what other dementia sufferers do:
become angry. Joe has always had a short and nasty temper, add to that
the forgetfulness of dementia and you have the perfect recipe for a
dramatic scene every time he speaks.
Under those circumstances you see why his staff chooses not
to correct him, and wouldn't want to set him off. That’s why advisor
and former Congressman from Louisiana Cedric Richmond sat silently as
Biden referred to him with the racist term “boy” during a recent
conference call about hurricane Ida.
“We’re waiting for a few more people to get on, but we’re going to get started, if that’s OK with you all,” Biden started.
“I’m here with my senior adviser and, um, boy who knows Louisiana very
well, man. And New Orleans. Cedric Richmond.” If a national Republican
had called a black man “boy,” there would non-stop riots until they
resigned. You haven’t seen that because no national Republican is that
stupid. The President of the United States is.
Were this a one-off, we could write it off as a simple mistake. But Joe Biden has several careers worth of causal racist comments and cracks
in his wake, what’s one more? Richmond knew who he was taking a job
with, just like everyone in the White House knew what they were signing
up for. So when I said you “almost” feel bad for them, I meant not at
all. They, almost more than Joe himself, are inflicting this damage on
the country. Anything that makes them miserable is just karma.
President Biden said he would bring America back. No, the Taliban is
back. In little more than seven months, he seems to be doing everything
he can to bring America down.
A
guest on Dan Bongino’s radio show asked a question that demands an
answer—If Biden wanted to destroy this country, would he do anything
differently than what he has been doing? By looking at some of his
policies and decisions in his first seven months, it could be argued
that President Biden and his administration seem committed to destroying
America as a beacon of freedom, law and order, and opportunity! The
list of evidence keeps growing:
If you want to destroy America, open our Southern border to all who want to come in.Instead
of continuing the work of his predecessor to secure our Southern
border, Biden has opened America to unprecedented numbers of illegal
aliens, M13 gang members, drug dealers, and potential terrorists from
around the world. Even illegal immigrants with COVID have been welcomed
and transported to states throughout the country at American taxpayer
expense. Thankfully, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has revived Trump’s
“Stay in Mexico” policy, but implementation requires Mexico’s
cooperation and that’s far from sure.
If you want to destroy America, do everything you can to end our energy independence.While
giving his stamp of approval to Russia’s oil pipeline to
Europe,President Biden has sabotaged President Trump’s progress in
securing energy independence, He has halted construction on the Keystone
XL Pipeline, closed drilling on federal lands, and is working to revive
our support for the Paris Climate Accord that promises to dampen our
country’s economic growth for years to come. He has called for electric
cars without adequate plans to establish charging stations that can
sustain the mass use of such vehicles.
If you want to destroy America, stoke the fires of racial hatred in an already divided country.President
Biden has legitimized and supported the teaching of critical race
theory and white privilege. Instead of unifying our country, he’s
fueling a new racism that sees every white citizen as a privileged
racist. We need another Martin Luther King Jr., not a Black Lives Matter
movement that feeds racial hatred, demands reparations, encourages
racial segregation, and fuels racial mistrust. The progress America has
made in civil rights is in danger of being reversed while fracturing our
country across racial lines.
If you want to destroy America, allow crime on the streets to go unpunished.President Biden and his Democratic colleagues continue to rail about Trump’s supposed January 6th ‘insurrection”
even when the FBI has found no evidence supporting such allegations of a
planned breach. At the same time, he remains silent about the real
“insurrection” on the streets of many of our major cities. Democratic
district attorneys are failing to prosecute low level looting,
destructive rioting, and even arson. When you do not hold criminals
responsible and set them free, crime is rewarded. Even worse, President
Biden wants to take guns away from responsible citizens while not
protecting citizens from crime on the streets.
If you want to destroy America, keep calling for lockdowns and strict mask guidelines. Under
the guise of protecting Americans from COVID-19, President Biden has
defended economic lockdowns, unproven mask requirements, and restrictive
requirements that have closed many small businesses forever and cost
Americans jobs. What’s worse is some Democratic leaders don’t even
consistently follow the very requirements they institute. Such hypocrisy
undermines respect for leaders and the laws they create.
If
you want to destroy America, allow congress to pass reckless deficit
spending creating government dependence and rampant Inflation.
President Biden is supporting drastic increases in government spending.
Inflation rate has already increased to 5%, hitting the citizens who are
already struggling to make ends meet. No wonder they are demanding more
support from government and limits on evictions. There are jobs
available, but the costs for housing, food, and gas for their cars is
going up beyond what they can afford with the jobs available. Biden is
doing all he can to make socialism appear the only answer possible.
If you want to destroy America, establish the federal control of elections.At
a time trust in our elections is at an all-time low, President Biden
has fully supported the federal takeover of our elections from the
states. Biden’s supported “reforms” literally outlaw states from
requiring verification of citizenship. By expanding the times and ways
you can vote without increasing necessary controls will just ensure
further opportunities for cheating and creating more distrust in our
elections.
If you want to destroy America, project military weakness and failed leadership in times of crisis.President
Biden’s poorly planned military withdrawal from Afghanistan has
resulted in unnecessary deaths of our soldiers, citizens, and Afghan
allies. By going it alone, he earned the criticism and condemnation of
some of our best allies. By failing to expedite withdrawals before
initiating the military departure, many have been left stranded at the
mercy of Taliban rule. His failure to get critical military systems and
equipment out has equipped potential enemies. The strengthened Taliban
rule has once again provided a haven for and emboldened terrorists eager
to attack America. The death of 13 American soldiers by two ISIS
suicide bombers is but a foretaste of terrorist attacks to come.
In
short, those of you who voted for President Biden, this is all on you.
Yes, you may not have liked President Trump’s brash attacks and
egotistical tweets. But by voting for Joe Biden, you took down a
President who projected no-nonsense strength and resolve in making
America strong. He unleashed the economy to record levels curtailed only
by the pandemic. He was quick to free big pharma to produce vaccines to
counter the COVID threat. Instead of begging for oil, he created energy
independence. He lowered taxes on all Americans and small businesses.
You traded an amazing future for weak leadership, uncertainty, and
growing chaos for our country and our world. New elections cannot come
soon enough to stop the downward American spiral Biden’s presidency has
unleashed.
The debacle in Afghanistan is still unfolding, but it is already one
of the signal disasters of American history. It’s usually premature to
assess contemporary events in history’s light, so it’s a sign of just
how bad things are in Kabul that I — a historian — am ready to put it
alongside the Bay of Pigs, the Fall of Saigon, the Black Hawk Down
incident, and 9/11 itself in the list of era-defining American
humiliations. It’s bad enough that it’s happening – what’s worse is that
we chose it.
And it’s not an aberration for our unmoored American federal
government regardless of who occupies the White House or controls
Congress. Confronted with a whole summer of insurrectionary violence in
American cities, it can’t seem to bring itself to guarantee public
order. Confronted with angry citizens overrunning the very seat of its
rule on Capitol Hill, it can’t seem to defend itself. Confronted with a
metastasizing narco-state threat in Mexico, and a historic crisis of
human trafficking overwhelming national borders, it can’t seem to do
much but watch.
Yet when confronted with states organizing in blocs to execute tasks
reserved to itself — the so-called “Western States Pact” comes to mind,
as do the various states sending forces to the U.S.-Mexico border — the
federal government seems strangely passive and inert. Perhaps that’s to
the good.
It’s tempting to look at unforced errors like this in isolation, just
one episode among many. We shouldn’t. The truth is that Afghanistan is
part of a larger pattern. Pull the camera back a bit, and the picture
becomes more disturbing than even the grim images from Kabul’s
beleaguered airport. The incompetence on display in that country is just
the latest episode of blundering from a federal government that
increasingly cannot do anything it should.
The national government as envisioned and established by the American
Founders has just one purpose, succinctly set forth in the Declaration
of Independence: “to secure these rights.” Since then, Americans have
come to expect federal governance in Washington, D.C., to fulfill an
array of roles. For most of American history, it did a credible job of
meeting those expectations. Americans of my parents’ generation, for
example, reasonably expected the federal government to successfully
defend them from enemies abroad and secure law and order at home. They
expected it to meet the challenge of public health crises, and run an
efficient immigration system. They expected it to assert a monopoly on
national authority, and to promote and defend a common American civic
narrative.
They expected these things because it routinely delivered on those
expectations. No longer. Suddenly, catastrophically, the recent past
reveals that the federal government in Washington D.C. cannot be relied
upon to do any of these things.
It’s a shocking realization for Americans who grew up secure in the
promise of American governance. It’s less shocking for those of us who
have been watching the erosion of civic order for some time. For the
past half-century, the defining phenomenon of American civics has been
the collapse of institutional trust. Americans who used to believe in
the mediating institutions of society, from the presidency to the Elks
Club to the U.S. Postal Service to organized religion and beyond, no
longer do. That isn’t because the people have failed the institutions.
It’s the other way around. The only institution that survived the
generational collapse in popular trust was the military. It remains to
be seen whether the blundering end to the Afghanistan war changes that.
My guess is Americans will continue to respect and admire the men and
women who choose to serve — and cast an increasingly skeptical eye on a
class of generals and admirals who haven’t delivered a definitive
American wartime victory in over 30 years.
In the 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway has Bill Gorton ask
Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” comes the answer,
“Gradually and then suddenly.” The diminishment to impotence of the
federal government is like that. We’re in the “suddenly” phase now. One
moment you’re a citizen of a well-running republic. The next moment you
see that the federal government seems unable to fulfill its most basic
responsibilities. Confronted with aggressive attacks on the common civic
narrative that is the prerequisite for any national existence, it can’t
seem to do anything but capitulate to the attackers. Confronted with
the very same people who attacked America on 9/11, it can’t seem to
figure out how to avoid yet another humiliation at their hands.
If the federal government can’t win a war, can’t preserve law and
order, can’t secure its own seat of governance, can’t control the
border, and can’t defend the idea of America, then what can it do? Well,
it can collect taxes. It can also guarantee lucrative employment for a
class of elite mediocrities who will never endure consequences for their
growing list of failures. As I write this, the president is reported to
have refused to fire anyone for the Afghanistan disaster. That isn’t
because the buck stops with him; sacking someone would just be, as Axios
reports, “tantamount to admitting a mistake.”
Beyond Calls to Resign, Republican Members Are Also Aiming to Censure Joe BidenIt’s hard to blame President Biden. If the administration admits one
mistake, where will it end? Its list of mistakes is long, and
acknowledging them all would constitute an existential threat.
The most serious mistake we Americans now confront is our toleration
of them. It’s time to stop. We as a society long ago lost confidence in
these institutions, and the institutions are at fault for it. When we
see thousands of Americans trapped in Kabul by fanatical tribesmen, and
the Chief Executive of the United States asserting his powerlessness on
national television, we know something has gone profoundly wrong. We
also know this is a culmination, and it’s up to us to determine what
comes next.
Yet now is no time for despair. As Chesterton reminds us, “Despair
does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy.”
The bad news is the crisis in America’s federal government. The good
news is we have plenty of working and responsible governments in our
states. In that light, the way forward isn’t to wait for Washington D.C.
to be fixed, or to hope that President Biden develops the personal
maturity to admit error. Our hope is in turning to the states, and
demanding they step up where the federal government has stood down.
It’s a tall order. But, to paraphrase Thatcher, there is no
alternative. As Washington D.C. abdicates its duties, governors must
take the helm. What this looks like in the specifics varies from state
to state. No state will be able to set Afghanistan right, for example.
But are states able, singly and in concert, to do things like control
the border? Can they guarantee law and order? Can they bring common
sense to public health? Can they defend our common civic faith and
narrative? Can they “secure these rights”?
They can — if they choose to. The time for choosing is here. For
Austin, and Tallahassee, and 48 other state capitols, the paralysis of
D.C. is a call to act.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki failed to address a question
posed by a reporter on Friday about how Americans can have faith in the
administration regarding Afghanistan when it has lied about less
pressing matters such as the number of times President Joe Biden’s dog,
Major, has bitten someone.
After pointing out that Judicial Watch
reported that Major had bitten secret service agents every day for
eight days earlier this year, despite Psaki saying in March that the
canine was only involved in one biting incident, the reporter questioned
the press secretary about how Americans can trust the information
provided by the Biden administration.”We expect honest information even
for minor stories,” the reporter told Psaki during a press
briefing. “And if we can’t get honest information about minor stories,
why should we have faith in the administration’s account for larger
issues like Afghanistan?” he asked.
“If we can’t get honest
information about minor stories, why should we have faith in the
Administration’s account for larger issues like Afghanistan?”
Psaki responded by thanking the reporter for keeping “the dog in the
news in the briefing room” before solely addressing Major’s behavioral
incidents that were reported earlier this year.
“As we’ve stated previously, Major has had some challenges adjusting
to life in the White House,” Psaki said. “He has been receiving
additional training. As well as spending some time in Delaware where the
environment is more familiar to him and he is more comfortable.”
“I don’t have any additional specifics, but I think that speaks to
where Major is located to be fully transparent in your ongoing interest
in the dog,” she continued.
However, the press was notified of only a few of those. On March 10, CNN
reported the dog had bit two people. Psaki later confirmed that the
dog, Major, “did in fact bite someone at the White House” and labeled it
a “minor injury.” On March 30, 2021, the White House once again
confirmed the president’s dog had “bit another employee, who then required medical attention.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson explained to The Blaze’s Glenn Beck why
he hates modern-day journalists despite growing around the profession
since his father and his father’s friends worked in the media.
Carlson’s main beef with today’s crop of journalists is most of them
are not brave and would rather sit at home or in the office to act as
some glorified hall monitor with large platforms.
“It’s a personal offense. It’s just the worst people have gone into
it. Technocratic, dishonest, careerist, stupid, cowards. I mean, you’re
supposed to be brave. When I was a kid, my Dad worked for ABC News and
he would have his cameramen and the sound guy and they were always over
dinner…telling stories about women and places they went, stories they
did,” Carlson said.
He noted the crew had covered the Watts riots in Los Angeles and
“they were tough and cool. They’ve been places, done things,” unlike
today where many journalists “are just like such wuss bags, I hate
them.”
“I grew up around journalists.
That’s one of the reasons why I hate them so much … They’re supposed to
be BRAVE!” This week on the Glenn Beck Podcast, you’ve NEVER seen @TuckerCarlson like this. pic.twitter.com/pptt4UyT25— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 23, 2021
Indeed such old-fashioned, shoe-leather journalism is hard to find
these days among the big city media bubbles. While that is not to say
there is no hard work involved when working on a story in an office, but
there is something different when you chew the dirt and go out and
cover events like riots. What makes it worse is it feels many people in
the mainstream media today have their biases blind them to what is
occurring in certain locations or for events while sitting in the
comfort of their makeshift home offices.
In all my lifetime, I have never witnessed such an unparalleled,
shameful, disgraceful, embarrassing, and reckless foreign policy
disaster as the execution of President Biden’s evacuation from
Afghanistan. There are not enough superlatives to express how damaging
and awful this situation is. In President Biden’s press conference
today, he mumbled through his opening minutes, told several blatant
lies, appeared distracted and mentally exhausted, and was unconvincing
when reassuring America that every American would be brought home, no
matter what the cost. As a former Marine, the last week’s complete and
utter lack of leadership and horrendous decision-making have reinforced
two things: 1) President Biden is unfit both physically and mentally to
serve as president; and 2) President Biden is undeserving to lead as
commander-in-chief.
Unless you live in the State of Denial, don’t watch TV, and don’t
have the internet (in which case, you’re probably not reading this
column), there is something obviously wrong with President Biden.
Whether it’s his age, an undisclosed medical condition, or exhaustion
(although I doubt this, as he only works a few hours a day), I have no
idea. I’m not a doctor, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last
night. But I do know that if I were a reporter, I’d be pressing the
White House as to whether there is something wrong with the president
that they aren’t telling us because it is not normal to fumble answers
regularly, forget things said weeks ago, appear this agitated and
discombobulated, and freeze mid-sentence. Apparently, his interview with
ABC was so bad that they won’t run the entire thing. One word-salad
answer he gave made Donald Trump seem like Winston Churchill when it
came to oration. What makes it worse and adds fuel to the conspiracy
theory fires is that the White House seems to be hiding him from the
public at all costs. And when he does emerge from his safe space, he
doesn’t answer questions and shuffles away faster than a zombie in The
Walking Dead. And if he does answer questions, they’re scripted and
written on cue cards for him to try and utilize, which doesn’t seem to
help. All of this is behavior unbecoming of a president in the middle of
the greatest foreign policy disaster in decades, maybe even modern
times.
But what’s even worse than his physical and mental condition is his
apparent abrogation of the single most important responsibility any
president has – protecting American citizens, both at home and abroad.
The fact that it took this long for President Biden to state he would
bring home every American is stunning in itself, but it’s even harder to
believe him as he uttered several blatant lies in the same press
conference (e.g., no presence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, no instances
of Americans not making it through Taliban checkpoints to the airport).
There is one fundamental principle every nation on this earth knows –
America leaves no one behind. It’s been that way for decades. It’s
emblazoned on my soul as a former Marine officer. US servicemen and
women died in Iraq because of it, often while trying to help another
wounded soldier, sailor, airmen, or Marine. And yet in the last week,
President Biden has taken that principle and thrown it in the trash,
emboldening our enemies and angering our allies (another lie he told
today). Thousands of Americans are hiding in fear as I write this,
justifiably unsure if they’re going to make it to the airport safely.
The feckless State Department, the agency responsible for tracking US
citizens abroad, has failed them, and they have every right to be
concerned.
The situation in Kabul and larger Afghanistan is horrific, but it
doesn’t have to be this way. We are the most powerful nation on the
planet. Our military has the will to fight and do its job when called
upon, but our leaders have to have the will to act decisively. And that
is something they have all failed to do this week, from the president to
the secretary of defense to the secretary of state, and Americans are
in danger because of it. We could take Bagram back and also go into the
city of Kabul – the way our allies have – to rescue Americans if they so
ordered it, but whether they have the will remains the question.
Leading any group of servicemembers is a privilege. I had that
privilege once. I made mistakes, and I learned from them, often harshly.
But when you are the president of the United States and you refuse to
learn from those mistakes and you continue to make decisions that put
American lives at risk, you should no longer be the commander-in-chief.
It’s a privilege that comes with being elected to office, but it’s not a
right that can be taken for granted. Our American citizens are still in
peril, but there is still time to save them. Do your job, Mr.
President, or step aside.
On Tuesday, former Secretary of State and former National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice penned an op-ed tearing the Biden
administration’s hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and countered the
implication put forth by President Biden that the Afghan people chose
their fate.
In the op-ed,
published by the Washington Post, Rice rebutted Biden’s comments in his
address on Monday, where he stated “[w]e gave them every chance to
determine their own future.”
“In the wake of Kabul’s
fall, though, a corrosive and deeply unfair narrative is emerging: to
blame the Afghans for how it all ended. The Afghan security forces
failed. The Afghan government failed. The Afghan people failed. ‘We gave
them every chance to determine their own future,’ President Biden said
in his address Monday – as if the Afghans had somehow chosen the
Taliban,” Rice states in the article. “No — they didn’t choose the
Taliban. They fought and died alongside us, helping us degrade
al-Qaeda.”
Rice added on, noting that the Afghans
“seized the chance to create a modern society” where women and girls
could attend school and have their human rights respected. These rights
are likely to be retracted from women following the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan.
Rice
argued that the United States could have followed our strategy in South
Korea in Afghanistan. “We have understood this before. Technically, our
longest war is not Afghanistan: It is Korea. That war didn’t end in
victory; it ended in a stalemate — an armistice,” she stated in the
article. “Here’s what we achieved: a stable equilibrium on the Korean
Peninsula, a valuable South Korean ally and a strong presence in the
Indo-Pacific.”
While Rice acknowledges that “Afghanistan
is not South Korea,” she thinks “we might have achieved a reasonable
outcome with a far smaller commitment.”
In the op-ed,
Rice also claimed that the past four presidential administrations (one
of which she worked for) are responsible for the “mistakes” that led to
the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan. “The past years in Afghanistan
have been difficult for every president, our armed forces, our allies
and our country,” Rice states in the article.“Each of us who held
positions of authority over those years made mistakes – not because we
didn’t try or were heedless of the challenges. But the United States
could not afford to ignore the rogue state that harbored those who
attacked us on 9/11. The time will come to assess where we failed — and
what we achieved.”
However, Rice did not let this notion let President Biden
off the hook. Like many lawmakers and other government-affiliated
individuals, she drew a comparison between Afghanistan and Saigon, and
said our administration’s credibility is not intact.
“The
pictures of the past few days will emblazon an image of America in
retreat,” Rice states in the article. “It didn’t have to happen this
way.”
When you think of places like Australia, you think they’re
just like us – they speak English and love freedom. Well, they do speak
English, that much is true, but do they really love freedom like we do?
Considering Democrats have control of government, it makes me wonder if
we really love freedom all that much.
Putting
that aside, the way governments all across Australia are conducting
themselves during this pandemic should make everyone realize that the
similarities may well just end at language. More importantly to us, what
is happening in Australia is what Democrats would love to do here, so
it’s important to keep an eye on.
The state of New South
Wales is an extremely large state on Australia’s southeast coast. You
probably haven’t heard of it before, but it’s the state Sydney is in.
It’s under complete lockdown due to COVID-19.
Upon
hearing that you’d think COVID is running rampant, out of control, and
extreme house arrest for everyone is the only way to prevent genocide.
It’s not, not even close.
The population of New South
Wales is 8.2 million. The number of COVID cases in those 8.2 million
people is 13,503. Not currently, but throughout the entire pandemic.
There have been 102 deaths – again, not this week or month, but over the
last year and half.
Don’t get me wrong, each case is
scary and every death is tragic, but some perspective is important. It’s
important because the state is still currently on lockdown, and has
been for the last 7 weeks. The lockdown is complete and total, with
police actively pursuing anyone who leaves their house for any reason.
On its Facebook page, the NSW police put up a lengthy post
reading, in part, “The NSW Police Force will launch Operation STAY AT
HOME from 12.01am Monday 16 August 2021, in a significant boost to
public health order enforcement efforts across the state.”
It
continues, “1400 officers attached to Traffic and Highway Patrol
Command will be dedicated to both static and mobile COVID-19 compliance
operations on the state’s roads. A further 500 Australian Defence Force
troops, in addition to the 300 already deployed, will assist with
compliance checks and patrols.” It sounds more Soviet than anything
else.
Further, the post quotes Deputy Commissioner of
Police Mal Lanyon, saying, “The level of non-compliance by some members
of the community is unacceptable and we will be doubling down with
compliance and enforcement to make sure we get ahead of the Delta
strain. It only takes one person to do the wrong thing to facilitate
considerable spread of the virus.”
To that end, Lanyon
informs the public that there will be a steep price to pay if you
disobey government and leave your house for unauthorized purposes. “We
will be issuing $5,000 fines to people and closing any businesses which
continue to breach the health orders, and will not apologise (sic) for
these increased enforcement efforts going forward,” he said.
At the current exchange rate, 5,000 Australian
dollars is $3,684 USD, nothing to sniff at for leaving your house to
visit family in another. “There will be nowhere to hide if you are doing
the wrong thing. If you travel anywhere beyond your LGA (government
approved area of travel based on where you live) at the moment, you are
putting everyone else in NSW at considerable risk,” the police
conclude.
They then ask for citizens to call police to report anyone
who dare travel unnecessarily or beyond the area they’re allowed to for
health care or food shopping.
The responses to the post are what you’d expect in tone,
but perhaps not in quantity. There are always people ready to obey
authority, it’s how totalitarian regimes maintain power even though they
are a distinct minority. What’s disturbing is how completely those
people bow to power, out of fear or whatever. How they chastise their
fellow citizens for daring to question authority is unsettling, to say
the least.
Australia and the United States are both
English-speaking countries what are ostensibly free. The similarities
between the two counties end there. Australia was founded as a penal
colony, it appears to be reverting back into one. It’s nothing like the
United States, but it’s everything Democrats would love to force this
country to become.
Early in the fifth century, a masterpiece of literature was produced. Entitled The City of God,
the now classic consolation was composed by a man destined to become
the foremost scholar of the early Christian Church. Saint Augustine
wrote his renowned work under terrible conditions though, for the age he
lived through was one nothing short of utter chaos and upheaval. Only a
few short years had passed since Visigoth armies had taken the city of
Rome by force—ransacking the symbolic headquarters of the civilized
world in an earthshattering feat that no barbarian tribe had dared
undertake for some eight centuries. Thus, by Augustine’s day, the Roman
Empire was collapsing—and with it, many of the principles that had laid
the groundwork for what we moderns call the Rule of Law.
One profound remark from Saint Augustine’s extensive work can
illustrate the crux of a dire condition our modern society now finds for
itself: “Without justice, what is government but organized robbery?”
In other words, if the State ceases to reflect the very essence of its
social function—the honest pursuit of Justice—Augustine correctly
reasoned that no real way is left to distinguish such an organization
from a common band of thieves and criminals.
Although the Roman way of life perished not long after Saint
Augustine’s death, the Catholic bishop’s influential treatment of this
crisis survives to this day. Unfortunately, several of the lessons
within his treatise may be going the way of the ancient order they were
written under, for by no means is it an exaggeration to say that Western
civilization is once again on the brink of ruin—not from external
forces such as barbarian tribes, but from an inner corrosion of honest
character.
We do not have to look far to see this barbaric internal decline.
Underneath the rubric of the coronavirus pandemic, for the last year and
a half, practically every state across the country has been subjected
to arbitrary one-man rule, whereby nearly all state governments
throughout the union—red or blue—have been wholly subsumed beneath
apparent wannabe dictatorships. Even in my own backyard of West
Virginia, where Mountaineers are supposedly always free, the current
Governor’s administration—whose proper job is restricted to merely
enforcing the law—illicitly usurped this very limited authority.
Seemingly taking their cue from one another, governors across the
country took it upon themselves to systematically reshape the very
underpinnings of American government. Going far beyond slight violations
like small alterations to the laws by their own accord, this abuse of
power was so pervasive, it extended to the creation of entire new laws
on a whim, decreeing them at will, and repealing any of them altogether.
To restate the fundamental transgression: In state by state throughout
this country, all these radical actions have been carried out—and
continue to be threatened—solely at the haphazard discretion of one
solitary person. With few exceptions, the Chief Executive of your state
has become the law. Even the most fixed and long-standing protections
from the Bill of Rights have not fully withstood these messy tirades of
one-man rule.
This is no tiny problem, for in our own era, one of the key means to
reference the classic principle of Justice that Saint Augustine
described can be found within our written Constitution. This document,
which all our elected leaders swear to uphold, expresses immutable
ideals—First Principles that demand fidelity, which in turn help to
serve as an objective standard that can determine the Just from the
Unjust. Although the full-fledged departure from instantiating the Form
of Justice within American government began many years ago, today, the
brazen effort of forsaking this essential virtue is shamelessly paraded
on full display through the blatant rejection of the spirit of
constitutional law.
For starters, anyone who can recall their basic lessons from
8th-grade civics class knows that only the Legislative branch has the
rightful ability to make the laws—not the Executive. What’s more, these
new-fangled illicit executive commands are not harmless prescriptions
that tweak minor regulations. To the contrary, these wide-sweeping
edicts are more reflective of totalitarian decrees that are not merely
different by degree, but different entirely by kind.
Of these come the inability to leave your own home under the threat of
arrest and jail, the total prohibition of engaging in commerce under the
roof of your very own business, sanctions against working and
producing—if only to earn enough to put food on your table—along with
severe restrictions against the most rudimentary means of travel and the
constant disruption of your children’s education.
Perhaps most staggering, in direct violation of the First Amendment,
last year these newly-styled regimes, occupying state capitals
throughout the nation, shuttered the most basic American rights to
peacefully assemble, directly restricting—and even outright banning—the
ability to worship as you see fit. In a majority of states, many of
these unlawful orders were carried out, while some were implied. But
almost as important to note—even in my home of rural West Virginia—no
hard limits to these newfound powers have been conceded by the novel
regimes headed by these would-be despots.
Of course, with the Covid-19 pandemic acting as a sort of catalyst
behind this continued perversion of power, the reasons for the rejection
of Saint Augustine’s Justice—or what Thomas Aquinas would later call
the natural law—can, at best, be reduced to the worn-out utilitarian
maxim of “the greatest good for the greatest number”—an
intellectually-bankrupt ethic which can typically attack the dignity of
the individual, leading towards a view where individuals have no
intrinsic value in themselves. Once this is accepted, people can be used
as mere instruments toward the accomplishment of some vague and
undefinable value whereby the ends will always tend to justify the
means. Because of this highly subjective nature of the utilitarian
creed, it should come as no surprise that such an ambiguous idea has
been very useful to validate the actions of virtually every tyrant
throughout history.
But charges of grounding judgment within a utilitarian approach is
rather charitable treatment, because at worst, the regimes that have
overtaken so many states may have no real ethical framework driving
their actions at all. In this regard—which I suspect could be the actual
case—all that is really considered amounts to what Friedrich Nietzsche
termed The Will to Power—a fanatical understanding that denies
the existence of ethical universals altogether. In fact, under this
Nietzschean method, morality itself is seen as a measly human invention.
Therefore, if moral codes flimsily stand as only man-made constructs,
then ethical obligations can be dismissed, while all of morality can be
wholly dismantled—so long as it’s convenient and self-serving to do so.
Underneath this dark light, the only thing left to discuss then is the
sustained realization of raw power for its own sake. Insofar as they are
successful in assisting with this unadulterated pursuit of power, all
political actions, however atrocious they may be, can easily earn
vindication from regimes which quietly cling to such brute beliefs.
Irrespective of this, many of these governors, who seem to care more
about their appearance on television than the duty to uphold the Rule of
Law, are not the only office-holders responsible for this systematic
abuse of power. In fact, my own experience in the Statehouse has
demonstrated that while some lawmakers have genuinely pushed back
against this depravity, they are the exception to the rule. Many
Delegates and Senators who have served for years in the state
Legislature—all the while preaching against the overreach of government
and the dire need for strict limitations—have stood idly by and
tolerated this defilement of constitutional order.
Even worse, in direct opposition to their solemn oaths of office,
many state legislators have also actively aided and abetted the decay of
proper law—and in so doing, reaped the rewards of political patronage
with appointments to new cabinet positions and the six-figure salaries
that typically accompany them. These legislators too then must also
share in the blame for the gross violations of lawful political
authority, for this pattern is likely not limited to my home in West
Virginia.
The decadence of these regimes overtaking our states have brought
back the radical idea of one-man rule—and now stand more akin to
monarchy than anything which might resemble the republican
check-and-balance system once conceived by the Baron de Montesquieu. If
we are to curtail the social damage, strong efforts must be undertaken
to avert this warped notion from becoming more legitimized. After all,
one-man rule has been so foreign and egregious to the American way of
life that our ancestors once fought and died to eradicate it.
Little logic is required to realize the outright danger that such
“new world orders” can bring to our present society. That they have
continued for so long though stands as a menace to the future of our
traditional political system. In the end, the maintenance of a free
republic can often rest on the virtue of its citizens. It is with hope
then that many Americans can find solace by remembering—they are not
descended from men and women who were lacking in character.
How much can lack of election integrity cost you? It’s $4 trillion
and rising, and it’s all that stands between you and the socialist
takeover of America. Unsecure elections are the gateway to socialism.
Setting aside controversies over the presidential race, post-election
audits in Georgia show that at minimum Republican David Purdue should
not have lost his Senate race, with ultra-left Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
ultimately won by a fraction of a point.
Perdue won in November, but with 49.73 percent in a three-way race.
But in Georgia, a candidate must break 50 percent to win outright.
Otherwise it goes to a runoff election. A libertarian acted as a spoiler
in the race, garnering 2.3 percent. It was a safe bet that those votes
would flow to Perdue and he would keep that seat in Republican hands.
But with all the shenanigans surrounding the vote in Georgia, several
activists told the Republican base that Georgia’s elections are rigged
and so their vote would not count. They were given high profile
treatment and huge platforms, GOP base turnout predictably dropped, and
Ossoff managed to grab the seat in the January runoff. Between Ossoff
and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), now center-right Georgia is represented
by two hardline socialist Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
Setting aside for space reasons all sorts of issues with the race
between Warnock and his opponent Kelly Loeffler, Perdue should not have
lost his seat. If he had not, Republicans would narrowly control the
U.S. Senate today.
Purdue’s team did not contest the November result, with national
operatives advising him to take the high road and just clean up in the
January runoff. That turned out to be a fatal mistake during the
extraordinary political turmoil of the intervening two months.
Because we now know that there were grounds for contest. Set aside
the movie-thriller conspiracy theories. Old-fashioned irregularities
over boring details. Like signature verification of the original
registration file, which should have accounted for thousands of
additional ballots being rejected, a group that was heavily Democratic.
Rejecting ballots from voters who moved out or state, or to another
Georgia home but never re-registered, or listed P.O. Boxes, government
addressed or businesses as their residential address. Again, thousands
of ballots.
The list goes on of categories of illegal ballots. Together, these
far exceeded the margin needed to change the result of the Senate race.
If the election integrity measures recently enacted in Georgia’s SB
202 had been in place in November, Perdue would have exceeded 50 percent
and that election would have been over. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would not
control the Senate floor, and Republicans would chair every Senate
committee with a majority on each committee. America’s future would not
hang on every word uttered by Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema
(D-AZ).
Just imagine how different this year would look. President Biden’s
$1.9 trillion dollar leftist spending bill, the American Rescue Plan,
would never have passed, because a majority in one chamber of Congress
would have known this had nothing to do with stimulating the economy to
recover from COVID and everything to do with a Democrat policy agenda.
Only 9 percent of that bill was economic stimulus. Nor would the $1.2
trillion infrastructure disaster have passed, as Republicans would have
waited until 2022 to take the House and written a conservative
infrastructure package.
But this is just a taste of what is in store if we don’t get election
integrity right. Without it, Democrats could keep control of the House
and pick up a couple seats in the 2022. That would result in two years
of true socialist control of Congress, sending bills to Biden to
fundamentally transform the United States.
Right now so much hangs on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package
being written on Capitol Hill. Manchin has sounded the alarm, and I am
hopeful that the man I’ve known for years will stand by his principles
and say that this ultra-left socialist monstrosity, with amnesty for 11
million illegal aliens, massive taxes, horrifying spending levels, its
Green New Deal with a corps of 300,000 climate activists added to the
federal workforce, and 87,000 new IRS agents to hunt down small
businesses and ordinary Americans, will not pass.
I also think that the rapidly rising inflation that I warned about a
few days ago, and which July’s newly released economic CPI and PPI
reports show is happening, will help give Joe and Sinema additional
resolve not to cave to the Radical Left.
But without election integrity, Schumer will not need their votes to
pass anything in the Senate. He can ram through this $3.5 trillion, and
then follow it with the H.R. 1 federal takeover of elections, granting
full citizenship to all 11 to 25 million illegals in the country, and
packing the Supreme Court by adding additional seats to fill with
radical leftists to rubberstamp this assault on the Constitution.
America as we know it would end.
The American people are a center-right people. They will not vote for
the destruction of the greatest source of national blessing that the
world has ever seen. But those votes will translate to correct election
results only if we have election integrity.
That is why I agreed to be chairman of the new Center for Election
Integrity at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) in addition to my
other affiliations. I am grateful to work with great patriots alongside
allied groups to help tackle this existential threat to our freedom.
Patriotic Americans must be willing to engage in this fight
regardless of the lies of the Left. For example they say that requiring
voter ID is racist voter suppression, despite the fact that over 60
percent of black voters support it.
We cannot succumb to intimidation tactics and the cancel culture. As
someone who has fought for decades for civil rights, I assure you that
when you back down they never back off. Instead they become more
aggressive.
Now is the time to fight back. The socialist dream of Joe Biden,
Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer is not the American Dream.
The American people are with us on the big issues, and as Democrats
make clear their socialist plans for this nation we can beat them at the
ballot box, but only if every legal ballot is counted and every illegal
ballot is rejected.
Election integrity makes it easy to vote, but hard to cheat. Now let’s get to it.
The Great Reset is upon us…or at least the powers that be are trying
to bring it out. What was once a fringe “conspiracy theory” is now on
display plain as day for everyone to see. The economic, political,
academic, and media elites around the world are leveraging the chaos,
confusion, and restrictions on liberty from the COVID-19 lockdowns and using them to radically alter society around the world.
What will this change look like? The global elites want to create a society of renters who own nothing,
while also pushing a social agenda that would be unpopular with the
unwashed masses and difficult to implement in a society with a broad,
ownership-based middle class. What this means is that you would rent not
just your home, but also your phone, computer, car (though you probably
will “carshare,” the term for renting a car when you need one for an
extended period and summoning one when you need it for a ride), and even
the pots and pans you cook with.
The flip side of this will be a radical transformation of the world
economy. No longer will you have a job in the sense that it has
traditionally been understood. Instead, you will work various and sundry “gigs,” all
of which place you in a precarious position at any given time. You will
receive a fee for services performed, with no benefits, paid time off,
healthcare, or anything else that the middle class in the West has
become accustomed to.
To facilitate the Great Reset, rural populations will have to be coerced into more concentrated population centers since dispersed populations have too high a “carbon footprint.” The suburbs will be a thing of the past as suburbs and exurbs become more like cities. Mixed-use housing,
where you and 500 other people live in a mid-rise condo hive with shops
and “workshare” spaces (the new version of an office – on your dime,
not your employer’s) in the same area.
The short version is that it’s a total end to the American way of
life, specifically the way of life of most of the Western middle class.
The specifics, including the why, are a longer story that you’re going
to want to read if you want to be ready to fight against the Great
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Knowing what the Great Reset is
can be difficult because official sources on the matter – World
Economic Forum, the primary mover behind the Great Reset, and its
affiliated organizations and individuals – cloak their aims in vague
euphemisms like the main slogan for the Great Reset, “build back
better.”
We have discussed in our articles on Cultural Marxism, Critical Race Theory in public schools, and, George Soros how
the enemies of freedom often use vague, non-specifically positive
language for their projects. These are generally words that, when taken
at face value, no one could possibly disagree with. Who would be against
building back better?
These words mean something else and one should not accept at face
value the idea that the Great Reset is simply “building back better” any
more than one should accept at face value the claim that four out of five doctors smoke Camels.
So what is the Great Reset?
At its core, the Great Reset is an attempt to enforce socialism
through private companies rather than only through the government. Think
of it as “socialism with Amazon Prime characteristics.” That being
said, the government will certainly play a role in the Great Reset by
angling for higher taxes, which the wealthy will be able to avoid using
armies of lawyers and accountants; adding additional bureaucratic red
tape, which the wealthy will avoid using the same armies of lawyers,
connections, and special carveouts; and growing big government social
programs a la the New Deal, which will disproportionately benefit the
wealthy and preferred underclass who will be weaponized against the
broad middle class. An excellent example of a Great Reset program in the
United States is the proposed Green New Deal, which we will discuss in
greater detail later.
Here is a glimpse of how the Great Reset will look:
“Sharing Economy:” everything is rented and nothing is owned
Digital media: it will be easier to ban and suppress books and videos that run contrary to prevailing narratives
Social Media Restrictions: the de facto public square, will be restricted to those who tout the latest version of elite narratives.
A de facto social
credit system: those who deviate from the narrative will be financially
blacklisted, including loss of their dubious “benefits” which will
increasingly become necessary for ordinary life and even survival
Centralization of Housing and Land: fewer and fewer Americans will own the property they live in and on
“Racial
Equity”: some races will be more equal than others, with preferred
groups becoming the recipients of generous benefits programs funded by
the less preferred groups, who increasingly become tax slaves
Climate
Change: protection of the environment will be used as an excuse to
reduce the standard of living for the middle class, increase
restrictions on freedom of movement, and even access to food
Ground-level
goons will operate with impunity to attack enemies of the system in
coordinated outbreaks of violence and intimidation
Concentrated
Wealth: wealth will be concentrated in the hands of the regime and its
allies which will be used as economic leverage to control political
discourse and personal freedom
Is The Great Reset Real?
This might all sound a little far-fetched; however, unlike other
alleged “conspiracy theories” which require a great amount of research
to prove are true, the Great Reset is right out there in the open for
everyone to see. The people pushing it brag about it, speak of it
openly, craft propaganda campaigns around it, refer to it explicitly by name, and get publicly frustrated and angry when the “dog isn’t going to eat the dog food.”
A video of Klaus Schwab,
Founder, and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, the primary global
elite institution pushing for the Great Reset, went viral. It is only
about 40 seconds and well worth the time it takes to watch. You’ll see
the Great Reset logo right behind Schwab in the same font as the World
Economic Forum logo. Additionally, Schwab explicitly speaks of the Great
Reset and his frustration with the COVID-19 pandemic in that it has not been as effective as he would like in pushing the Great Reset.
Klaus Schwab isn’t
some random guy on Twitter or a blogger with a couple of dozen readers,
he is an extremely powerful man and head of one of the most important
elite globalist organizations in the world, the World Economic Forum.
Alarmingly, the BBC and others are
running articles encouraging you not to believe your own lying eyes,
insisting that this is a conspiracy theory not rooted in fact.
Additionally, Wikipedia includes an entire section assuring you that
the “conspiracy theory” of the Great Reset bears no relation to the pure, noble intentions of people like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair.
The Great Reset is clearly real, but how do the powers that be intend to force it on the world?
Grooming for a Police State
Whether one thinks that the COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions were a
good-faith response to a public health emergency or not is irrelevant.
The fact of the matter is that it accustomed Americans and Westerners to
significant restrictions on their freedoms, including freedom of
movement. More than that, it showed those in power that people that if
you created enough fear, Americans would tolerate the restrictions.
Thus, consciously or not, global elites were grooming the world
population for a police state. Fortunately, there has been some pushback
and vaccine passports are encountering stiff resistance from both
elected officials and the general population at large. For most of 2020
and 2021, the most freedom-loving people on earth – Americans – were walking around with dirty, useless masks on to comply with a government mandate.
A mandate that after further scrutiny, made no sense. Americans even
allowed their children to be subjected to this as a condition of
attending school.
The COVID-19 lockdowns were not the first time that Americans were groomed for police state – TSA is the biggest example of this, however, we also see examples of this in our public schools with metal detectors and warrantless searches.
If nothing else, the elites learned that there is just about nothing
that America and the world will not tolerate provided that you scare
them enough. The burning question now is how will Americans be scared
into further erosions of their liberties?
The Sky Is Falling: Climate Austerity and the Great Reset
The most likely answer is through climate austerity. There have
already been musings among the COVID-19 lockdown warriors that one of
the best things about the lockdowns is that they significantly reduced carbon emissions, thus saving the planet during the period when people were locked down. The natural conclusion is that climate lockdowns are a viable solution to climate change.
Whether or not one believes that climate change exists and is caused
by humans is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not the burden
of fixing the planet – if such a thing is necessary and possible – ought
to be borne by individual consumers and the common man. Perhaps not
surprisingly, billionaire plutocrats like Bill Gates (a big booster of
COVID-19 lockdowns and the Great Reset) think that it ought to be.
This is the real meaning of “we’re all in this together.” Does anyone
honestly believe that Davos attendees like Bill Gates will be living in
dense, mixed-use communities or eating cricket patties as their primary
source of protein? Of course not. They will continue to live the
affluent lifestyles that they currently live in while the rest of us
suffer.
The idea that you and I ought to bear the burden of climate change is
called “climate austerity.” It is the belief that the average man must
tighten his belt and lower his standard of living in what might well be a
totally Quixotic attempt to save the planet. It is a concept closely
tied to the Great Reset and an example of how something other than
another pandemic might be used to get Americans and the rest of the
world to radically change their notion of what they’re “allowed” to do.
We should all recall back that poorly aged phrase “14 days to stop
the spread.” How many times did the goalposts move? Where are we with
that as you read this? First, we were told that we needed to “flatten
the curve.” Then there needed to be a vaccine. Then the vaccine wasn’t
enough. The point is, that COVID-19 became a perpetual excuse for the
elites to enact whatever “emergency” measures they wanted – all for your
own safety, of course.
An integral part of climate austerity is the war on private transportation, commercial flights, and freedom of travel. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg floated a mileage tax and
many measures advanced by the Green New Deal that would effectively ban
private transportation, due to the high cost – again, you will
be impacted by this but the elites will not. It seems that there is
almost a weekly outrage against pickup trucks on Twitter.
The real reason for this is to control the free movement of people.
The agenda here has nothing to do with stated goals and everything to do
with locking you down, reducing your standard of living, abolishing
your way of life, and subjecting every aspect of your life to control by
powerful elites.
The Great Reset in Action: Blackrock Creates a Nation of Renters
BlackRock is
a private equity firm that has been offering absurd prices for
residential homes in the suburbs. They don’t plan to flip them and turn a
profit. Rather, the plan is to buy homes at 50 percent above asking with the purpose of transforming these homes into rental properties.
BlackRock’s acquisition of the suburbs is part of a larger issue that
grew out of COVID-19 but is closely related to the Great Reset – the
increased centralization of the American economy.
While isolated conservatives such as Ben Shapiro took
to Twitter to defend the “free market” principles of venture capital
speculating on the market using free money from the Federal Reserve
(with full knowledge that they will be bailed out if things go south),
most recognized BlackRock’s attempt to corner the housing market for
what it is. It was a transparent move to transform America into a
society of modern serfs. Renters who own nothing can be moved around at
the whims of Big Money or financially blacklisted if they step out of
line.
BlackRock is certainly villainous, but they represent a broader trend
not just limited to the housing market, the concentration of wealth as a
weapon. The Bernie Sanders left focuses on “wealth inequality,” which
is simply a fact of life that cannot be done away with. “The poor,”
Christ told us, “you will always have with you.” People having more than
other people isn’t a social problem, but a few people owning everything is
because it is simply socialism (centralized control) by other means. It
also dramatically reduces the number of people with skin in the game
making the economic and social atmosphere extremely volatile.
One company, or a handful of them, who dominate the housing market
are dangerous for a variety of reasons. Chief among these reasons is the
ability to weaponize this control over housing against critics of the
regime. Who needs the government to enact a social credit system when
the national landlord has one? Of course, the usual dummies will defend
this because it’s being done by a private corporation.
It is worth briefly noting that the eviction moratorium favors large
landlords who can go months or years without an income over smaller
ones, who cannot. The moratorium was enacted by the CDC, which apparently now has the authority to control rental properties in the United States.
The Great Reset in Action: Social Credit
The Great Reset is all in on “racial equity,” a term that appeared
almost out of nowhere around the 2020 election and has been used
unrelentingly since in the mainstream press as if it were a word
everyone always used. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
“Equity” effectively means, not to lean quite too heavily on Orwell,
that all races are equal but some races are more equal than others. This
is a key goal of the Great Reset. The argument basically goes that the
only way to address racial disparities in the United States is by
extended special benefits and privileges to allegedly “oppressed”
groups.
Because government benefit programs are a zero-sum game, these
assistance programs, and special privileges will have to be paid for by
someone else. For every dollar of benefit money doled out, a dollar of
income is lost by someone else. For every job or university position
reserved for a protected class, something is lost by someone else.
A key part of the push for “equity” is attacks on people who oppose
it. Equity as an ideology is tied up with a bundle of other ideas pushed
by Cultural Marxists and the extremely similar but unrelated phenomenon
of George Soros “Open Society” types.
The important part, as far as we are concerned, is that concentrated
wealth is better able to enforce the prevailing diktats of ideology.
When small business evaporates, it is easier to enforce social programs
using the private sector. Similarly, when ownership becomes increasingly
concentrated, it is easier to enforce a de facto social credit system. The value system of corporate elites is well known.
Conservatives are already being denied bank accounts because
of their beliefs, and the beliefs that warrant financial blacklisting
are increasingly expanded. It is not too much to imagine that in the
very near future, financial blacklisting and social ostracism, enforced
by Big Tech and Big Finance, will come to include any critics of
so-called racial equity or any other aspect of regime ideology.
In general, what you’re looking at is a system where there are far
fewer poles of financial and social attraction, and that these few
remaining poles are increasingly inseparable from the state. This is the
essence of fascism in its definition not as anyone’s set of ideological
or political principles, but as the system of governance where there is
little to no daylight between the corporate sector and the
administrative state.
Why the Great Reset?
We cannot speculate as to the internal motives of any man. What we
can do is talk about the tangible effects that policies have here in the
real world. The primary tangible effect of the Great Reset is an
increased amount of power and wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer
people, all of whom are hostile toward you, your values, and your way of
life.
It might have been a happy accident that the greatest wealth transfer in human history happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns,
or it might have been by design. Regardless, the upward wealth transfer
happened. Success rarely satiates, rather it fuels a hunger for more
success. We should see this wealth transfer as a prelude to an even
larger wealth transfer that is forthcoming.
Additionally, the Western middle class sits on an enormous reserve of wealth in
the form of homeownership and retirement funds. These are the white
whales of the global elite. One would be a fool, given all of the
evidence, to believe that they would stop at anything to acquire this
massive reserve of wealth.
To the extent that it is possible, we must make ourselves more
resilient. This means owning land, having your own well, a supply of
food to weather the storm, adequate supplies of ammunition,
useful skills, and close community bonds. It also means sounding the
alarm bells about elite propaganda campaigns, legislative maneuvers, and
bureaucratic fiats designed to destroy you.
The Senate passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package on Tuesday
morning after months of debate over the price tag and language in the
package. The vote was 69 to 30, and Democrats only needed 51 votes to
pass the hefty bill. GOP Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) was absent, but said
that he would have opposed the package. The passage represents a major
win for the Biden administration.
Passed, 69-30: Cal. #100, H.R.3684, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as amended.
Senate
Republican leadership split on the vote; the package was supported by
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate GOP Policy
Committee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO), but opposed by Senate GOP Chairman
John Barrasso (R-WY), GOP Whip John Thune (R-SD), and Senate GOP
Conference Vice Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA). Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) also
opposed the bill.
McConnell votes YES on final passage of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“After
reviewing the CBO’s analysis, which estimates the bill will increase
the deficit by a quarter trillion dollars, and because of the failure to
include my bipartisan amendment, I cannot support the final bill.” https://t.co/lvwzzDA61H
Senate Majority Chuck Schumer (D-NY) praised the package that was passed on a "bipartisan basis."
Sen. Chuck
Schumer: "President Biden has been in office for only seven months and
already the Senate is about to pass the first major infrastructure
package in over a decade on a bipartisan basis with his complete and
total involvement." pic.twitter.com/DvTbVxkzXN
Suddenly, Sunday, a riveting report came over cable news.
The U.S. embassy was urging all Americans to "leave Afghanistan as soon as possible." Message: Get out while you can.
Adding
urgency was news that three northern provincial capitals, including
Kunduz, had fallen to the Taliban, making it five provincial capitals
overrun since Friday.
The huge investment in blood and treasure by
the United States over two decades to remake Afghanistan appears about
to be wiped out, whole and entire, and we appear about to sustain our
worst diplomatic and political defeat since the fall of Saigon.
Not
once in this century has the U.S. decisively won one of the wars it
launched — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen or Libya. And the sole
superpower status we enjoyed as the 21st century began is gone with the
wind.
Yet America's hawks are urging us to give a new war
guarantee to Taiwan, should Beijing exercise its claim, though former
President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
assented in 1972 that Taiwan is "a part of China."
Before we issue
any war guarantee to Taipei, we might consider the Pentagon's
evaluation of the results of a recent war game in which the U.S.
confronted China over Taiwan.
How did it go? Says vice chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten, "Without overstating the
issue, it failed miserably.
"An aggressive red team that had been
studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around
us... They knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it, and
they took advantage of it."
Are we Americans prepared, in any way, for an
air-sea-and-missile war in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific over
islands they claim as their historic national territory but we have
never claimed as ours?
Here at home, the COVID-19 pandemic, now in
a fourth wave, is infecting 100,000 Americans every day, with
hospitalizations rising commensurately. For that third of a nation still
unvaccinated, the delta variant is a potential death sentence.
Despite
this medical crisis that is common to us all, our political divide is
manifesting itself in savage battles over vaccinations, masks and
mandates.
And while COVID-19 continues to infect, hospitalize and
kill, scores of thousands of Americans are being annually lost to drug
overdoses and opioids. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 93,000 overdose deaths occurred across the country in 2020,
and 3 in 4 fatal overdoses can be attributed to opioids.
More Americans are dying yearly from overdoses and opioids than all the Americans dead during the war in Vietnam.
The
U.S. trade deficit numbers just came in for June, where the deficit in
goods alone increased to $91 billion for the month. This translates into
$1 trillion a year.
The largest component of that trade deficit
is with China — an extraordinary level of U.S. dependency on a foreign
nation for the vital necessities of its national life, let alone on an
adversary like China.
On our southern border, an invasion of our country is taking place.
Every
month President Joe Biden has been in office, illegal border crossings
have increased. In June, Border Patrol recorded 178,000 border arrests —
a 571% jump from June 2020. Border arrests have already reached their
highest since 2000 and are on track to reach 1.8 million this year.
Biden
is failing in his first constitutional duty: to defend the United
States from foreign invasion. We Americans no longer decide who comes
into our national home and whom we shall adopt as new citizens. Others
decide, others determine our future, for us.
We defend the borders
of scores of nations; we cannot, or Biden will not, defend our own.
And, as former President Ronald Reagan reminded us, a country that can't
or won't defend its borders isn't really a country anymore.
In our great cities, public shootings and killings have begun to
exceed those of previous years. Police, under attack and abuse from the
elites and people they protect, are resigning and retiring in record
numbers.
Consider.
America is unable to win the wars she
chooses to fight. She cannot or will not control and defend her borders
from a mass migrant invasion. She cannot halt an outbreak of criminality
and killing in her great cities. She has not run a trade surplus in
four decades. Her dependency upon foreign producers is unprecedented.
And her budget deficits continue to break records every year, as does
her soaring national debt.
Is that not the description of a failed or failing state?
Asked
by a despondent young friend if the defeat at Saratoga and potential
loss of the American colonies meant the ruin of Britain, Adam Smith
assured him, "There is a great deal of ruin in a nation."
Britain would go on from the loss of her 13 colonies to create the greatest empire since Rome.
Yet if there is "a great deal of ruin in a nation," we Americans certainly appear to be testing those limits.
Writing in The Atlantic last week, former Obama Homeland Security
Assistant Secretary Juliette Kayyem demanded Americans who choose not to
take the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine be placed on the federal
government's no-fly list.
"The
White House has rejected a nationwide vaccine mandate—a sweeping
suggestion that the Biden administration could not easily enact if it
wanted to—but a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step
that the federal government should take," Kayyem argued.
Republican
Senator Rand Paul is blasting the suggestion, especially coming from a
former federal government official who once had a lot of power over
people's lives.
"Obscene. If we now disagree in our personal
medical decisions with the left, they're going to declare that we're
terrorists and can't fly? But even on the practicality of it, even if
you said 'okay, we're going to do this,' even the CDC says you're not
supposed to get vaccinated if you've been infected within three months.
So what are you going to do? Tell people they can't fly for three months
according to the CDC," Paul said during an interview with Fox News. "I
and other doctors actually think the your immunity from being infected
is going to last a lot longer...I do believe natural immunity should be
taken into account. But even according to the CDC this idiot would have
us not flying for three months so it makes no sense. It is complete
collectivism."
"These are the same people who hooted and hollered and said, 'Trump
is leading us to authoritarianism.' What could be more authoritarian
than the no-fly list for people who disagree with you?" he continued.
Watch:
What could be more authoritarian than the no-fly list for people who disagree with you? pic.twitter.com/R7sv9imMkJ
On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed yet another executive order,
this one to do with what the White House in a fact-sheet describes as an
“ambitious target” when it comes to making 50 percent of all new
vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles. This includes battery
electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles.
It is being touted as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda:
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President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal invest in the infrastructure, manufacturing, and incentives that we need to grow good-paying, union jobs at home, lead on electric vehicles around the world, and save American consumers money. Today, the President will announce a set of new actions aimed at advancing these goals and increasing the impact of his proposed Build Back Better investments – positioning America to drive the electric vehicle future forward, outcompete China, and tackle the climate crisis.
Similarly, the executive order noted that “It is the policy of my
Administration to advance these objectives in order to improve our
economy and public health, boost energy security, secure consumer
savings, advance environmental justice, and address the climate crisis.”
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Today, I am following through with a campaign commitment to reverse the previous administration’s short-sighted rollback of vehicle emissions and efficiency standards.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 5, 2021
Biden also touted it as a campaign promise. The fact-sheet also read:
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Consistent with the President’s Day One Executive Order, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will announce how they are addressing the previous administration’s harmful rollbacks of near-term fuel efficiency and emissions standards.
The White House also released a joint statement from Ford, GM, and Stellantis:
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“Today, Ford, GM and Stellantis announce their shared aspiration to achieve sales of 40-50% of annual U.S. volumes of electric vehicles (battery electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles) by 2030 in order to move the nation closer to a zero-emissions future consistent with Paris climate goals. Our recent product, technology, and investment announcements highlight our collective commitment to be leaders in the U.S. transition to electric vehicles. This represents a dramatic shift from the U.S. market today that can be achieved only with the timely deployment of the full suite of electrification policies committed to by the Administration in the Build Back Better Plan, including purchase incentives, a comprehensive charging network of sufficient density to support the millions of vehicles these targets represent, investments in R&D, and incentives to expand the electric vehicle manufacturing and supply chains in the United States. With the UAW at our side in transforming the workforce and partnering with us on this journey, we believe we can strengthen continued American leadership in clean transportation technology through electric vehicle innovation and manufacturing. We look forward to working with the Biden Administration, Congress and state and local governments to enact policies that will enable these ambitious objectives.”
Further, the fact-sheet referenced competition with China:
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Seeing this shift, countries are sprinting to lead. For example, China is increasingly cornering the global supply chain for electric vehicles and batteries with its fast-growing electric vehicle market. By setting clear targets for electric vehicle sale trajectories, these countries are becoming magnets for private investment into their manufacturing sectors – from parts and materials to final assembly.
And, as Josh Siegal reported for The Washington Examiner: Recommended Impeachable: Biden Admits He’s Buying Time With Latest Attack on Private Property Rights Katie Pavlich
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Those other policies will require cooperation by Congress as part of infrastructure legislation negotiations. To make his case, Biden warned about the lost opportunity cost of ceding the electric vehicle market to China.
The U.S. market share of electric vehicle sales is only one-third of China's, which has dedicated generous subsidies to spur purchases while dominating the global supply chain for the cars and their batteries.
“The question is whether we will lead or fall behind,” Biden said. “It’s whether we will build these vehicles or batteries in the United States or rely on other countries. Right now, China is leading the race. We are in competition with China.”
The Biden administration has a preoccupation with what it calls a
“climate crisis.” It is on this issue where it has chosen to engage with
China. In April, climate czar John Kerry traveled there to meet his
Chinese counterpart. While there, Kerry said he wanted to focus on
climate change and that “It’s very important for us to try to keep those
other things away, because climate is a life-or-death issue in so many
different parts of the world,” with “those other things” referring to
the human rights abuses China is committing.
