A year ago, anyone who predicted that an American city would be under what amounts to (para)military occupation would be accused of TDS.
Now, it's happening.
A year ago I would have found the line from Billy Jack "When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law. Just a fight for survival" to be overly simplistic.
Yep. That's really important. All of this really is worst case scenario from what people predicted when Trump took office. I remember on election day the way the Free Press guys were saying "it's fine, it'll all be fine" - like scoffing at anyone who was worried about creeping Fascism. I wrote a piece saying that Trump was basically Warren Harding - and would be like the first libertarian president - which hasn't held up so well. We're already deeply in uncharted territory - like two Kent States in a month and all for absolutely no good reason. As the unlicensed boxing cashier puts it to the hapless armed robbers in Snatch, "All bets are off."
The difference between Trump's first and second terms is like the difference between living with an abuser where the people around him try to talk him down and living with an abuser where the people around him are cheering him on.
Agreed, but the Free Press wasn’t predicting; they were guiding their audience into a slow descent into fascism by gaslighting their audience; justifying the unjustifiable, and making excuses for Trump’s most demonic policies: immigration.
As well as his most asinine policies: tariffs, but China will pay for it. And by the way, it’s not a tax, but a tool that will expand the economy briskly! 🤪
Two deaths is a tragedy. So is refusal to cooperate with federal law, the WSJ had a recent editorial on the legality of detainers, warrants, et al, that are being used to detain or arrest. Both incidents are under investigation by the FBI, which is the appropriate organization considering the animosity of state and local governments. If agents broke the law I am confident they will be convicted.
The policies of the previous administration allowed 1 million or so people to enter as "getaways" and millions more as "Asylum" seekers. The crimes committed by those folks, including murders, sexual assault, etc. would not have been committed if the border was "secure" as the Homeland secretary so incredulously affirmed.
Let's let the process run itself out on the two tragedies. Let's protest peacefully and not confront ICE or CBP. Let's hope local police will be told to do their job and control the situation.
Actually the only difference between what happened from 1861 to 1865 and what is happening now is the number of weapons and deaths. While that is certainly a very major difference, it is one of instance only, not of kind.
Abraham Lincoln in the shortest and most telling speech in American political history noted that “now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure”. If the endurance of our nation is not at stake now, it never was. The nature of the battlefield itself is not the issue, only ‘the great task remaining before us’.
One has to wonder why liberals are so hell-bent on importing masses of non-whites into their countries. This phenomenon is not new nor oonfined to the US.
Oikophobia:
An extreme and immoderate aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West appears to be the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of Hellenic Christianity by another coherent system of belief. The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is "significantly more parochial, exclusivist, patriarchal, and ethnocentric". (Mark Dooley, Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach (Continuum 2009), p. 78.)
"One has to wonder why liberals are so hell-bent on importing masses of non-whites into their countries. This phenomenon is not new nor oonfined to the US.”
Actually one has to wonder how one could so fail to understand the promise of America, and how it might appear as a magnet to others.
I'd be curious to know how diverse your neighborhood is.
In ultra liberal DC, a house in Upper Caucasia (northwest quadrant) is twice as expensive as a similar house in middle class affirmative action Anacostia (southeast quadrant). If non-whites need whites for “opportunities” they cannot provide for themselves (in their own countries) isn't this by definition racism?
I am offended by this essay. The author seems to think Walz is somehow less credible because he respects deaf people. We all know that Trump makes fun of handicapped people. Somehow the author was trying to strike some balance where there is none to be struck.
A year ago, anyone who predicted that an American city would be under what amounts to (para)military occupation would be accused of TDS.
Now, it's happening.
A year ago I would have found the line from Billy Jack "When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law. Just a fight for survival" to be overly simplistic.
Now, not so much.
Yep. That's really important. All of this really is worst case scenario from what people predicted when Trump took office. I remember on election day the way the Free Press guys were saying "it's fine, it'll all be fine" - like scoffing at anyone who was worried about creeping Fascism. I wrote a piece saying that Trump was basically Warren Harding - and would be like the first libertarian president - which hasn't held up so well. We're already deeply in uncharted territory - like two Kent States in a month and all for absolutely no good reason. As the unlicensed boxing cashier puts it to the hapless armed robbers in Snatch, "All bets are off."
The difference between Trump's first and second terms is like the difference between living with an abuser where the people around him try to talk him down and living with an abuser where the people around him are cheering him on.
Agreed, but the Free Press wasn’t predicting; they were guiding their audience into a slow descent into fascism by gaslighting their audience; justifying the unjustifiable, and making excuses for Trump’s most demonic policies: immigration.
As well as his most asinine policies: tariffs, but China will pay for it. And by the way, it’s not a tax, but a tool that will expand the economy briskly! 🤪
Two deaths is a tragedy. So is refusal to cooperate with federal law, the WSJ had a recent editorial on the legality of detainers, warrants, et al, that are being used to detain or arrest. Both incidents are under investigation by the FBI, which is the appropriate organization considering the animosity of state and local governments. If agents broke the law I am confident they will be convicted.
The policies of the previous administration allowed 1 million or so people to enter as "getaways" and millions more as "Asylum" seekers. The crimes committed by those folks, including murders, sexual assault, etc. would not have been committed if the border was "secure" as the Homeland secretary so incredulously affirmed.
Let's let the process run itself out on the two tragedies. Let's protest peacefully and not confront ICE or CBP. Let's hope local police will be told to do their job and control the situation.
Both sides have a lot to be ashamed of here.
Actually the only difference between what happened from 1861 to 1865 and what is happening now is the number of weapons and deaths. While that is certainly a very major difference, it is one of instance only, not of kind.
Abraham Lincoln in the shortest and most telling speech in American political history noted that “now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure”. If the endurance of our nation is not at stake now, it never was. The nature of the battlefield itself is not the issue, only ‘the great task remaining before us’.
The "great task" meaning the Great Replacement?
Oh please.
One has to wonder why liberals are so hell-bent on importing masses of non-whites into their countries. This phenomenon is not new nor oonfined to the US.
Oikophobia:
An extreme and immoderate aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West appears to be the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of Hellenic Christianity by another coherent system of belief. The paradox of the oikophobe seems to be that any opposition directed at the theological and cultural tradition of the West is to be encouraged even if it is "significantly more parochial, exclusivist, patriarchal, and ethnocentric". (Mark Dooley, Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach (Continuum 2009), p. 78.)
"One has to wonder why liberals are so hell-bent on importing masses of non-whites into their countries. This phenomenon is not new nor oonfined to the US.”
Actually one has to wonder how one could so fail to understand the promise of America, and how it might appear as a magnet to others.
I'd be curious to know how diverse your neighborhood is.
In ultra liberal DC, a house in Upper Caucasia (northwest quadrant) is twice as expensive as a similar house in middle class affirmative action Anacostia (southeast quadrant). If non-whites need whites for “opportunities” they cannot provide for themselves (in their own countries) isn't this by definition racism?
I am offended by this essay. The author seems to think Walz is somehow less credible because he respects deaf people. We all know that Trump makes fun of handicapped people. Somehow the author was trying to strike some balance where there is none to be struck.
Homeland Security is an oxymoron