All Democrats do is lie. They have always lied. They will always lie. Communist’s lie and kill millions to enforce their lies the total so far is over 100 million people. It’s natural that the Democrats and Communists would become one.
As you know, the Preamble to the 1776 Declaration of Independence illuminates that all “governments receive their just powers from the consent of the governed”. Thus the controversy of voting, (or not), in the 2026 mid-term election has its roots in our founding document. And by voting you are giving consent to be governed by those who are consented by the majority of the voters, to assume the powers of government.
That said, do you remember that time in 2016 when Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided she would take a private meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane as it was parked on the tarmac in Phoenix? – While Bill’s wife, Hillary Clinton (when she was Obama’s Secretary of State), was under federal investigation for using a secret and unlawful private email server at her New York home, to receive thousands of top secret and classified government emails?
With the obvious corruption of the Phoenix tarmac meeting in mind; it is my humble opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election cycle on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey ignored the rule of law and “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in American history, the “rule of law” in the USA began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (think FISA Court - “Crossfire Hurricane”) of James Comey, (et al) were never pursued while Bill Barr was Attorney General; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable…... and the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago along with the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump and the “Bragg show trial in New York”, and the two failed assisination attempts is my proof We the People now live in a banana republic.
Please be cognizant: The Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to a July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia. According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, (the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and manager of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane”), delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussion.
Therefore as We the People encounter the 2026 election cycle, it is wise to conduct yourselves as living is a “Post-Constitutional Republic”. I compare it to living in Roman occupied Jerusalem at the time of Jesus Christ.
Yes, Rush repeatedly told us the whole sordid tale of the Russia collusion hoax on his radio show. But it’s easy to let this revelation slip into the memory hole. So thank you for bringing younger voters or others who are just now noticing something wasn’t right up to speed. It will NEVER be taught in schools.
Thank you for bringing that back to life. It was all so dirty. I agree, that era was the beginning of our downfall. And here we are, trying to stave off communism, again. God speed America!!🇺🇸
For todays problems with Iran, we need to go back further than 1979 and all those presidents.
Operation Ajax, brought to us by the president who warned us of the military industrial complex that created so many other industrial complexes, that morphed into corporatism, as a result of an uneducated electorate - whom the Greeks warned was the end of any democracy.
So, what we do? We need to admit that we failed bigly with "it's a republic - if you can keep it." We didn't keep it, but some of us want to FIGHT for it now.
We need an educated electorate, for starters.
Maybe there is a way of out of this mess that would be relatively simple in theory?
In practice, it might not be as simple, but why not at least have a discussion about it?
We could require that every voter must pass a civics test, or at least mirror the citizenship test, in order to vote. I’ll bet that alone could weed out at least 50% of the conformist types who don’t care to ask why 2 + 2 does not make 5. It might be hard at first, but maybe there will be relief from much of the public who feels like they should vote to be a good person and now, they simply can’t vote…unless they study for the test!
Although all states have jurisdiction in their elections, and I could never advocate a national law out of the first principles of federalism, and it would not happen in this dysfunctional congress anyway, but we could try for a petition for the redress of grievances that we need an educated electorate in order to restore the constitutional republic back to our founders’ vision of federalism.
Yes, cries of discrimination will be made and the test could be hacked or cheated, but at least the voter is looking for an answer to the test in order to get a voting card.
Tears will be shed by the “victims” unable to vote and the answer is easy. Study. If you can’t pass after studying, then no voto. But you can always try, try again. That’s the American way!
"an uneducated electorate - whom the Greeks warned was the end of any democracy." Socialism fails in every generation. Then it gets repackaged and resold to a new generation of the invincibly naïve. Here we go again!
The fly in that ointment, R H, is capital migration. When foreign investment in domestic assets reaches a certain point, sovereignty disappears. Globalization has closed the door to asset ownership as eligibility. If we take a dispassionate look at the required steps, it looks very much like there's no going back to the landholder/citizen model.
I agree, but I hear the cries of discrimination - especially in this market of inflated home prices. In my county, renters can vote to increase school taxes - how is that fair and not a conflict of interest?
But, what about anyone who is on any type of welfare being ineligible to vote? How is taking any type of welfare not a conflict of interest?
I agree with everything that you wrote but if we truly become a banana republic in 2016, how did Trump win in 2020? And how did we learn about everything you wrote? In a true banana republic ruled by the left, there is no way either one of those things would have happened.
A "Banana Republic" can be described as: “A highly stratified, politically unstable socioeconomic structure, with a small ruling class that controls access to the national banks, government institutions/courts & vaults, universities and natural resources.” Banana republics often have weak governance structures, leading to widespread corruption. Poverty is common, and the government or upper class controls all resources, resulting in high social and economic inequality. Lower classes are marginalized, making these republics prone to civil unrest, insurgencies, or coups. The term originated in the late 19th century with American corporations exploiting land and workers for banana plantations in Central and South America.
My initial reaction is "What a ridiculous comment!" but instead I'll ask "How has Abraham Lincoln jettison the rule of law, and how was his manner of doing so far, far worse than any since"?
Lincoln's character can best be summed up as being the highest paid lawyer of his day, let that sink in. Rather than smooth over disputes he used military force, One wonders which president since has mobilized the entire military against a state over a tarriff/tax dispute that esculated? Worse Lincoln rejected all efforts to moderate disputes that the South made rejecting tem out of hand. He made the outrageous claim that any property in states were federal property guaranteeing a
war. Please explain what other president waged war that killed a million Americans over an issue his party before hostilities had broken out had proposed be guaranteed to remain forever in the constitution? No president ever destroyed a third of the country in the name of liberty for all, except maybe Biden and Obama.
That's Lincoln's profession and successfulness; it has nothing whatsoever to do with his character. Then there's the fact that the South attacked first, yet you blame LINCOLN for "using force". Finally, the Civil War was the only sizeable rebellion we've ever had, so to ask what other President waged war like that is a little silly.
You ignore the fact that Lincoln forced the war. The South had every legal right to leave the Union and Lincol refused to recognize it and forced a confrontation. Further you ignore numerous uses of federal forces starting with the whiskey rebelleion. So your education is showing. Let's end it there. We might also state New England threated to leave the Union during the war of 1812.
Wasn’t a rebellion since nothing in the agreement between the states as set out in the Constitution, explicit or inferred, suggested the union of STATES was permanent. Which is why the predecessor administration failed to find a rationale to invade. The war started when the Union invaded the territory of Virginia with an army. South Carolina had every right to expel a foreign army from its territory.
Adam, thanks for asking. Words have meanings and if one isn’t in the business of regime legitimization, which is the job of most every academic historian in the US today outside of the South and in the recent era, the words embedded in the records creating the Union need to be examined for their historical meaning. The present constitution declared its ratification to be creating a ‘more PERFECT Union’ not a perfect union or even a perpetual union. And there was precedent for a more explicit declaration of permanence had the delegates intended it. Great Britain’s union between Scotland and Britain spells out that anti-union legislation is void. The US constitution contains no comparable claim. There is nothing inherent in the word ‘Union’ suggesting permanence nor was its previous treatment in the Articles of Confederation treated by the states as permanent. And, of course, Lincoln, ever the lawyer, knew not to suggest that the Constitution was permanent choosing, wisely, to rely on poetic descriptions as opposed to straight forward legal declarations that would subject him to ridicule. Houses divided not standing is poetics not law. That’s Lincoln, a shady railroad lawyer through and through; never say something you can’t defend and he knew he couldn’t defend as law the notion that unions can’t be dissolved. After all, the states already did it once.
Here’s the language present in the Articles of Confederation that was repealed by the states and not renewed in the constitution
“Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and PERPETUAL UNION between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia . . . .
Replaced with,
We the People of the United States, in Order to form A MORE PERFECT UNION, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Not only is reference to the duration of the Union discarded from the Articles of Confederation but any reference to duration has been excised from the prior delegation of state authority to the Union. Nor is there any language whatsoever duplicating that accompanying the British law authorizing their Union where laws that would dissolve the Union by either side are declared inoperable.
In other words, by historic precedent preceding Lincoln’s arbitrary actions, there existed no barrier to dissolution of the Union on either a state by state basis or collectively. This, of course, is consistent with the legal opinions of both the seceding states but also the preceding administration which did not endorse the idea that the remnant states could force matters by arms.
The South attacked Fort Sumter first. In any case, do you think it would have been a better outcome for the world, the U.S. and history if the Confederate states had successfully seceded?
You’re complaining that the Confederacy defended the rights of its members vis-a-vis a foreign power occupying territory without authority? The foreign power was directed to leave territory not within their jurisdiction and they didn’t do so. Perhaps you want to make the argument the North avoided making; an articulation of their perpetual right to occupy the territory of another state no longer in union with the United States? It returns to the underlying legal question Lincoln chose to avoid; whether the Union was intended to be perpetual despite failing to explicate such a claim in the constitution and to even retract the scope of delegated powers in the superseded Articles of Confederation.
You insist on being dense to the reality that Lincoln was winging it. He was an early adopter of fake it till you make it. Bullshit was his skill set.
Lincoln was a tryant in the fullest sense of the word. The approval of the constitution required the approval of three states demands that they be allowed to leave the union at any time, for any reason, without any approval. This was approved and the Constitution was passed, their mistake was not insuring this was in the Constitution as an amendment but because they did it it insured no one could be charged with treason, although radical Yankees tried they knew they couldn't without trampling on the Constituion after killing a million Americans. History has been re written, the war was never about slavery it was about power, especially money. Doubt it, the Republicans doubled tarriffs in 1860 and before in the late 1850s. They also proposed an amendment guaranteeing slavery forever. Victors write history but time always allows the truth to be revealed.
Did you know that Woodward was in the Navy intel service before he worked for the Washington Post and that he had only 1 year of newspaper experience when he got hired at the WP and then magically was given the scoop of a lifetime by another person in the Intel world. Nixon got played by the intel agencies because he was getting out of Vietnam
It’s interesting reading the responses to your post, which is excellent, btw.
I like the idea of having to have basic knowledge of our founding documents and being able to pass a test on it. Don’t know if such a thing could happen or if it’s already too late for remedies like that, but I could see a grassroots movement of this idea as a possibility.
I’ve read so much about our situation (what once was is coming round again) over these past 11 years, and the one scenario I’ve seen discussed a number of times that sticks like a burr under my saddle is the idea of a “benevolent dictator” arising. I honestly don’t want that to happen, yet my gut feels like it is the most likely event to occur if the collapse into unfettered evil and madness continues.
Our country is so very fractured and it may not be possible to mend the divides.
Coffee & Covid’s post today was saying just the finished gathering of evidence to build cases may be at least another 5 years away. I’m not at all assured we’ve got that much time. If the Dems/Communists/Islamic infiltrators are successful in continuing to gain power, words won’t be enough to stop them. They are pretty bald-faced in telling us how they will dish out retribution to all who supported the Orange bad man.
May the grace of the Lord extend above and beyond what my heart fears.
For the Biblically literate, we, (humanity), were forewarned in Biblical prophecy these current events would come to pass centuries before we began seeing them on a daily basis. For those who still believe "we can fix this" through politics, no, we can't; because it's not a temporal battle. It's an on-going spiritual war that began long before any of us existed, coming to its climax in our time - right here on planet earth. Therefore, we can only choose a "side" to support and work with in this final battle. Satan is on a fast-track to the Bottomless Pit and the Beast of Revelation and the False Prophet will burn for eternity in the Lake of Fire.
But there is no "fence sitting" now or “do-overs” later. We must each actively choose the side of light and good, of YHVH/God and Jesus Christ; or we default to the other side of darkness and evil and Satan. Accordingly, if you haven't actively chosen Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God...then you are automatically in default. For each of us, today, there are no other options; I have made my choice and His name is Jesus (Yeshua); I pray each of you who read my Sasha Stone comment will make the correct choice. Eternity is a very long time to regret a wrong choice.
There is no God but YHVH - and - Yeshua is His Messiah:
FYI: There are two (2) sins Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) will not forgive: (1) Denial (blasphemy) against the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 12:31] and; (2) Receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. [Revelation 14:9]
There is much in what you say. I would only add that this was a discernable, ordinary stage within the Long March. The corruption that allowed power to be focused at that level, did not appear overnight.
clinton totally set lynch up to look compromised. i have no doubt they really did talk about their grandchildren but..... She was a fool to ever allow him on that plane!
The democrats are going to find out that their treasonous fever dreams of another maoist revolution unfolding here in the USA won’t go so well for them with a well armed and trained population ready and willing to do whatever it takes to not be murdered and enslaved by them. Sorry commies and fans and employees of the CCP here in the US but the patriots of this great nation are never going to disarm nor let you destroy our republic in order to murder and imprison our fellow citizens. You are quite literally making a fatal mistake to think otherwise.
The very nature of the Left is deception. They know they CANNOT be transparent or people would run way from them as any SANE person would… Democrats are simply in denial of their own ideology. They think that Communism is COMPLETELY different from Socialism. In fact many, if not most on the Left think a “Nazi” is a “far-right” extremist when we on the right all know that Nazis were SOCIALISTS, The National Socialist Workers Party…
For the Biblically literate, we, (humanity), were forewarned in Biblical prophecy these current events would come to pass centuries before we began seeing them on a daily basis. For those who still believe "we can fix this" through politics, no, we can't; because it's not a temporal battle. It's an on-going spiritual war that began long before any of us existed, coming to its climax in our time - right here on planet earth. Therefore, we can only choose a "side" to support and work with in this final battle. Satan is on a fast-track to the Bottomless Pit and the Beast of Revelation and the False Prophet will burn for eternity in the Lake of Fire.
But there is no "fence sitting" now or “do-overs” later. We must each actively choose the side of light and good, of YHVH/God and Jesus Christ; or we default to the other side of darkness and evil and Satan. Accordingly, if you haven't actively chosen Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God...then you are automatically in default. For each of us, today, there are no other options; I have made my choice and His name is Jesus (Yeshua); I pray each of you who read my Sasha Stone comment will make the correct choice. Eternity is a very long time to regret a wrong choice.
There is no God but YHVH - and - Yeshua is His Messiah:
FYI: There are two (2) sins Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) will not forgive: (1) Denial (blasphemy) against the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 12:31] and; (2) Receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. [Revelation 14:9]
Trump was fabricating conversations with dead soldiers today to promote his talking points. He flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this morning to attend the dignified transfer of the latest service members who were killed in his war. Speaking to reporters at Andrews on his way there, Trump absurdly claimed that the fallen troops “said, and ALL of them said very strongly, ‘We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon. They won’t have a nuclear weapon.’”
Hasan Piker is the “new shining star” of the Democratic party the same way that NICK FUENTES and the TATE BROTHERS are shining stars of the Republican party. Some progressive and youth groups engage with Piker, while moderate leaders and centrist organizations strongly CONDEMN him as an extremist. The three candidates Piker pushed in his home state of CA all lost their races, showing his limitations. Stone says Piker has 2 millions subscribers to his you tube channel while Andrew Tate has 9.1 million followers on X. https://x.com/abcnews/status/1784017303501263102
The Tates arrived in the U.S. in Feb 2025, two years after they were arrested in Romania for human trafficking & forming a criminal group to sexually exploit women. They have strongly aligned themselves with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, gaining vocal support from right-wing figures such as Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson. They have a large following among young white males and white supremacists. MAGA reportedly pressured Romania to ease travel restrictions on Andrew Tate who has repeatedly praised Trump posting comments such as “All Trump does is win” and stating those who oppose him should be “expelled from the country.” They were arrested in Miami 3 days ago as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges.
Trump had lunch with Fuentes & Ye, & Tucker Carlson interviewed him on a 2025 podcast. Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, defended Carlson for interviewing Fuentes when he said: “We are joined at the hip with Tucker Carlson.” Trump has repeatedly declined to criticize or disavow Fuentes directly, stating that the public should decide on listening to such figures. Fuentes also has a large following among young white males and white nationalists.
Trump is trying to rile up his followers ahead of the midterms by calling Democrats “communists, Mike Johnson says Republicans are "fighting communism on our own shores” & Steve Scalise is warning of a "Bolshevik takeover.” Communism aims to establish a classless, stateless society based on the state ownership & management of the means of production. Under the Trump admin, the US govt has acquired a specialized equity stake or "golden share" in U.S. Steel Corp, which allows federal oversight on national security grounds. It has similar federal equity interventions, stakes, or investment options into other domestic firms like Intel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, and Trilogy Metals. Do you think Trump will continue taking over corporations? Sounds like communism to me!
Nick Fuentes is a Democrat. Furthermore, Hasan is the most watched leftist streamer in the world. Lastly, whataboutism is extremely unconvincing, especially when you try to defend someone who says capitalists should be murdered, we deserved 9-11, and Mao was one of history's greatest leaders.
Absurd. No one is blaming the Left for Jan. 6th, and Democrats deserve blame for the bad things they do. Also false, Nick Fuentes is a democrat and has admitted it, saying he thinks people should vote Democratic. Finally, way to deflect and avoid admitting the fact that 1. Hassan Piker is the most popular leftist streamer and 2. He said all of those things.
Did it ever occur to you that Fuentes is trolling you? Fuentes (& Alex Jones) have turned on Trump because he is not extreme enough. Fuentes has stated on his stream that his ultimate problem with Trump is that "he is not Hitler" and does not place white identity or radical Christian nationalism at the core of his policies. Fuentes is against Israel & a holocaust denier and has attacked trump for his handling of the Epstein files. Fuentes may say he is a "democrat" but that means nothing since he is "a white supremacist leader, organizer and podcaster who seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream GOP." He may advise people to vote Democrat just to remove Trump. He broadcasts on Rumble which often draws over 1 million views & has approximately 1.3 million followers on X and over 110,000 followers on Rumble. Andrew Tate has over 10 MILLION followers on X, comparable to Piker who as about 11M followers on various platforms.
Piker's has walked back his 2019 remark that “America deserved 9/11”,saying it was a hyperbolic critique of US foreign policy. When did I ever defend Piker? Stone condemned Fuentes in her article and I want nothing to do with Piker. Like Fuentes, his main followers are young white males.
Are you kidding? There are all sorts of right wing conspiracy theories blaming the left for Jan 6.
Don't be ridiculous. An influencer telling people to vote Democratic is not trolling; it's someone showing their true colors. Fuentes being against Israel only makes him more likely to be on the Left, since Israel hatred has become rabid there. Piker was lying especially after he just praised Mao and has told people to murder capitalists, among many other statements making it incredibly clear about how much he hates the United States and loves Communism and Islam. What does it matter that Piker's main followers are white males, unless you hate white males?
Fuentes is a nobody that the left wants to make the face of the Republican party. He and Candance Owens are both Whores who will say anything to anybody as long as it gets them $'s
"...Bah baa black sheep" is how that nursery rhyme is told. "Blah blah" is only one inventory of sputtering sounds the MAGAt party will cough up with spittle, because they are acutely aware that their Tate-supporting Epstein associate, Donald tRump is getting impeached again & effectively neutered politically when the Democrats win a majority in the US House of Reps. tRump is 80, obese & visually falling apart, decaying, snoozing in front of the whole world. He will face multiple, grueling Impeachment wounds throughout 2027. The incidental side benefit of a Dem-Led Impeachment would be the boon of causing tRump to resign ignominously for "health reasons" like a cheap, broke down & bloated orange Temu version of Nixon. #VoteBlue26 🗳
steel production is vital for national defense- for munitions which were very low due to Ukraine Hamas and now Iran.
The industry was sold out to China and elsewhere as long ago as the 70s. The steel plant in my hometown in the Midwest was shut down, many lost their jobs without other industries to fill the void. Take my town by the thousands and we as a country are dependent on China or others to produce what we use. They named it the rust belt for a reason. I watched a you tube video last year where a guy did a travel blog through dying or dead towns throughout the flyover states. It was devastating. I cried.
One town nearly evacuated has a beautiful huge Catholic Church abandoned, crumbling looking like a ruin castle from Europe. Trump is trying to revitalize our security of what we need to be self sufficient and create jobs.🤷🏼♀️
I worked for US Steel In Pittsburg in the late 70s. They have gone down hill dramatically since then. Maybe they could bail out the steel industry like Obama did with the auto industry in 2009 instead of “owning” it.
Very few posters to this article know what the hell they’re talking about, regardless the “side” they’re taking. Do they even realize there are more than two “sides?”
you have to be kidding. Using the Washington Post as a source of facts? They have no clue as to what a fact is. Their reputation was destroyed in the lies they pushed during the Russian Collusion lies. The Washington Post is nothing but Pravda for the DNC and the CIA. The fact that you believe them shows that you have no idea of truth.
The man in question has the dubious honor of having his own Wikipedia page dedicated to lies and deception. But you are right; search for "lies" and "Trump," and you will surely find a news outlet you *do* trust that lists them for you. I cannot help you any better than that.
And then you cite another example of a source that is well documented that it’s filled with lies and misinformation. You don’t have a clue do you? Does Trump tell stories to illustrate a point? Sure he does. Does Trump lie? Every politician alive and dead lies. But Trump tells us more truth than anyone else has. Just listen to him speak off the cuff to people who asks legitimate questions not the gotcha lies from the MSM like Jake Tapper did. He is a transparent as glass. He will tell you he is not going to answer that question vs making up some BS
Sure, politicians lie. But what about when they spout so much nonsense that newsrooms have to work overtime just to fact-check it? You do have a point that Trump is a good storyteller; I genuinely think many politicians have lost that knack. For now, I wish you all the best with the next never-ending war (was Iran actually defeated, or was Trump just pretending?) and more expensive groceries.
The Iran war is a massive mistake and I can guarantee one thing. We will never ever know the truth coming out of there. The Middle East culture is based upon lying and the deep state Neo Con swamp dwellers will lie with no remorse to the American people to keep their forever wars going
Gene was the senator from MN who knocked LBJ out the the ‘68 primary in NH. Joe was senator from WI who rode the red scare. Joe was pilloried in the press but later vindicated with the release of internal KGB files after the soviet state fell.
I have made that same mistake. How can there be two such notorious politicians both with the last name McCarthy within 15 years of each other?! That said, we are living Eugene McCarthy's nightmare as well. He was far left (a "collectivist" who wanted socialism and guaranteed income and healthcare) and close to winning the Presidency in 1968, another wackie Left Minnesotan, by the way. The primary battle (the famous Chicago Convention where the Left fought with each other) was between McCarthy and Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey, more centrist than McCarthy. This was very similar to the battle we see today for the soul of the Democrat party between the center left and the far left. For that matter, Richard Nixon was a centrist Californian GOP, not too far politically from Trump
Nixon knew what he was talking about and wasn’t lining his pockets while in the White House. He volunteered and served in WW2, unlike that draft dodging Bone Spurred tennis player Kamala saddled us with.
Trump's immutable 2nd victory had everything to do with a string of really poor and scrambling choices (either stupid or deliberate in their destructiveness) by the D team during the US-sabotaging Biden years.
Was about to make the same correction. Reading "It’s Eugene McCarthy’s ultimate nightmare finally realized. Maybe it wasn’t true that the military was infested with Commies. . ." made me shake my head.
I think the past couple of years show just how close America was to being overtaken by a subversive Left and given over to China (China is funding much of the subversion and has established "military bases" in America). It is still a fight, but at least America now has a chance.
Not all that far left . He was a serious, devout Catholic and later in life , at times, expressed libertarian sentiments . I don’t think he had much time for Maoists.
I’m curious, does this new generation of Islamic Maoists, have anything to say about the ongoing destruction of Uighur and Hui - Islamic cultures in China? Do they know or care?
Note : while not my cup of tea DSA didn’t used to be like what it is now. It used to actually be a democratic socialist organization. Now it’s apparently neo Communist.
Yes. It does seem as if the Islamists and Communists should be killing each other. No doubt they have postponed that reckoning until America is out of their way.
It’s fascinating to watch the Chinese pursuing what could at least be called cultural genocide against the Uighurs and the Hui . Yet, not a peep out of our new left Islamic radicals .
Radical Muslims play the long game, just like Xi and China. Iran and China could never be long term allies. They both want the same thing, world dominance, and from the same corner of the planet. They will be allies so long as they each find benefits, which is to defeat America
No prescription other than pushing back against China and Iran. I don't want to live under the control of either. I am very happy being an American. You?
Eugene McCarthy was a moderate, anti-communist Democrat who realized earlier than most that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable which was the only sense in which he might have been considered "far left".
Aside from Fetterman and, likely, 10-15 other more-or-less sane, moderate Lefties one can name, disabuse yourself of the idea that a "Democratic" Party still exists. It is a revolutionary, Communist party and should be treated as such.
Force is the only thing they understand.
P.S. to Stone. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Fetterman is BLUE MAGA. Most working class traditional Democrats are. BLUE MAGA loves their country, while these pretentious yahoos hate it with a passion unlike any other blaming us for all that wrong in their pathetic little lives.
Yes, that's true. But it's hard to locate them inside the progressive hive mind. They want to be good Democrats, which means 95% of their time will be focused on hating everybody who isn't them.
I was naive. Hurray for Communism! Not the stone-your-parents-to-death kind of Communism. No, this is socialism, like in Sweden, with Mayor Alfred E. Neuman at the helm.
Henry Cuellar is another with a lot more in common with the current GOP than with his own party. If Mark Kelly were not so set on getting a Presidential nomination and so playing to the Marxist crowd and virulent anti-Trump, he would be a centrist. But like many Democrats, his personal political ambitions are much greater than personal honesty
There is a confluence of arrogance, entitlement, propaganda and decades of bad education that is meeting here and now in this country. That it is being manipulated by three muslims to make it appear as inevitably transcendent is quite interesting. I believe it is going to fail badly but it is forcing me to admit that there is no way Islam and my United States - the land of my birth - can proceed in harmony. The religion and the nation are incompatible and we probably need to begin expelling it from our society.
Mamdani really does think his position as Mayor of NYC provides him the bully pulpit (irony intended) to admonish the rest of the nation and it's citizens. He defiles George Washington's desk and denigrates us. And then he tries to use his office to involve himself in world affairs. I'm boycotting the whole city. I won't go there and I won't purchase a thing it sells.
Who do we blame? When Sasha brings up the "Manson girls", who raised them to be so susceptible to a cult that that would kill people in cold blood, including a pregnant mother, for their leader? All these "Mangione girls" have parents who obviously did not raise them with a conscience and raised them full of hatred. I think the parents should be held accountable and punished for what they have done to create such vile creatures.
It’s not the parents. Sometimes they are just crazy. We have one in the family. A real drama queen. She actually stated at a family gathering that Luigi Mangione was right to cowardly shoot the health care executive. I hollered out WHAT?!?!
Her parents are wonderful people. A Navy veteran and an RN. I don’t understand what happened to her. I feel awful for her parents. They looked embarrassed.
It may be possible to teach your children well, as we were ironically instructed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and still have them go awry. But what of those parents who completely ignore their kids, giving them no love or direction? Those kids are almost guaranteed to go bad. What legal responsibility should parents have for the behavior of their kids? There is a trend to pass laws to hold parents accountable. Many states have done so. If the parents tried and failed, they have the chance to explain that in court. https://www.mheducation.com/highered/blog/2025/09/holding-parents-responsible-their-kids-crimes.html
I can see holding parents responsible if the kid is under 18. Like the neighborhood take overs we’ve seen lately. But if they are legally adults, they take responsibility for their actions.
At what age would we stop punishing the parents. My son is 40, should I be in prison if he committed a crime? That doesn’t make sense to me. Can you make me change my mind? I’m interested.
Obviously there are bad parents. Luck of the draw in life. But kids from marginally bad to horrible households can & do do very well in life. There may be extreme circumstances where a parent can be legally liable for their child’s actions. But in general no.
I didn’t say all. I know there are some kids who beat the odds, with help (JD Vance for example). This does not absolve parents from their primary responsibility in life. In most states the liability does not require some extreme
That might be a step too far. But adults having children need to be held to account for how they raise their children. One cannot have a child and then leave them to raise themselves in the street to become soulless gang members and criminals, or spoon feed a child radicalism and give them big trust funds to subvert their own country in retribution for parents who offered no love, just money
You're making wild assumptions about the parents and giving victim status to the children. My premise is that many factors in our society are leading to the current state of affairs.
we can agree to disagree; parents are the primary influence in the making of a person, their attitudes and morality. If they aren't providing that guidance early in life, like I said, they have abdicated their primary responsibility as parents
I’m not disagreeing with anything you said. It’s true though that almost anyone can be susceptible to a cult leader. And dropping acid every day didn’t exactly help the girls clarity. None of them should ever have been eligible for parole.
Murdering a pregnant woman takes the depravity to another level. That’s just pure evil.
The Democrat Party is an odd collection of disparate interest groups. Having abandoned patriotism, that is, love of country, Democrat constituencies have devolved to parasitism. Takers not makers. Theirs is a recipe for abject squalor.
From my perch here in Scottsdale, the Marxist advance was at least temporarily halted last night when Kai Newkirk, a good looking, well spoken and well-funded candidate, was soundly beaten in the Dem Congressional Primary by incumbent Greg Stanton. Part of me wants the DSA to win throughout the United States this cycle to force centrist Democrats back to the middle, where most of the GOP stands today. Populist conservativism is very Centrist if not even left-leaning (look at JD Vance's positions which even progressive Bill Maher said he could vote for). But the other part of me wants DSA to crash and burn badly so that any idea of America becoming Marxist is put deep into a grave.
Aug 4 is the next big primary date. Will incumbent Beyer (VA-8) be able to beat back his 4 challengers, which include one Hamas-loving Communist? When I voted last weekend, I noticed that the incumbent had zero signs outside the government center. That's right - nothing. All his rivals had signs. I haven't seen any mailers or other ads either.
This is a Democratic Party civil war that is partly their own fault, but also partly the result of Trump trolling them and “heightening the contradictions.” Now they face an impossible dilemma. If they embrace the DSA/Mamdani/Piker/Muslim left, they lose swing voters and give Trump and MAGA a juicy target in the midterms and beyond. But if they reject them, they fracture the party. The activists, youths, and many donors will flee, and even then, the new “moderate” Democrats would struggle to define themselves in any way beyond “We hate Trump but we aren’t commies, we swear!”
Trump has a huge campaign war chest and the DOJ is no doubt preparing many indictments for fraud. I think Democrats will be crushed in the midterms in an “unexpected” blowout.
Just remember that Trump is one of them. He was a centrist New York Democrat. It should be no surprise he plays the political game just like his once good friends Chuck Schumer and Bill / Hilary Clinton. They are cut from the same cloth. This was a big reason Trump was initially shunned by the GOP Establishment
To me it’s the only logical conclusion based on Trump’s large ego, his positive thinking background (Norman Vincent Peale), and his actions since the beginning of his second term. He’s thinking big and not bluffing about a Golden Age.
The problem is that the Dems have no grasp of reality. What does it mean to fight Trump? Especially when winning is not defined. That leads to problem two, no leaders.
"Fight Trump" is like punching at a shadow. They don't even know what they are trying to hit and they have no idea what the thing they are trying to hit even stands for. Trump has been called "far right". By who's definition?! Everything about Trump in the past and present is Centrist Democrat. But that is what the Far Left hates so that current Centrist Democrats try to gain support from Marxists by saying they too are against the exact same policies they supported last week. Joe Biden is a great example. So is Chuck Schumer. They were in exactly the same political position on the spectrum as Trump until he was elected on the GOP ticket.
The leadership of DSA may wear the trappings of socialism, but make no mistake, at its core it is an islamo-fascist infiltration of the DNC. There is not a one of them that is a builder or a maker. They are all takers. It wasn't that long ago that Democrats were fiercely anti-communist. How I long for JFK's Democratic Party! MAGA (with some TP) is closer to JFK Democrats than they are the GOP.
Saw this elsewhere on the intertubes this morning: "The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year college degrees who are rich." -- Chris Hayes
Maybe the leaders in JFK's party were anti-communist, but the Democratic Party has been filled with Communists for a century. People were lionizing Che for 60 years. The only difference now is the Communist youth don't have to hide anymore. The diminished mainstream media has gone over to the Communist side, and the most popular leaders in you tube are Communists like Hasan The Piker.
According to Harriet Clark, daughter of Judith Clark, who spent 30-plus years in prison for the Brinks triple-murder fiasco, the WU is still active but of course has insinuated itself into mainstream American life. (I accidentally heard her drone on during "Fresh Air" the other day.)
Understand that Bill Ayers has had outsized influence in shaping pubic school curriculum throughout the U.S.. His wife, Bernadine Dohrn, was loved and highly influential in Chicago social work circles. Activism lives, and they live to turn all of our children into (Maoist) activists in their image. Do not let children you love go to public schools!
If and when push comes to shove, there will be another civil war in America, a hot war with many, many casualties. The haves, including the blue collar working man, will NOT voluntarily allow their property to be confiscated by the have-nots and they will have the Constitution behind them. Now it becomes clearly evident why the founding fathers insisted on the second amendment and an armed populace.
There in lies the problem. Felons cannot own or purchase, that’s tracked. There has to be a way. I don’t have the answer to that. It just makes sense to me that you should be of sound mind to own a gun.
Mamdani uses the Constitution to advance his agenda. Personally, I think he and those like him, should be deported post haste. He and they will continue to preach division. We can't wait until they have the authority to impose their agendas.
They do not deserve our rights; they came here to advantage themselves since they did not have them in their former countries.
Our rights infer obligations none of them possess. Or ever will.
This unmasking of their Marxist philosophy is a good thing. Best to have your enemy out in the open where he is seen for what he is. Without the "Save Act", blue states like California will continue to be blue because of voter fraud. CA automatically registers anyone getting a drivers license to vote and then sends a mail in ballot to the listed address to be harvested for fraud.
However, that unhidden scam doesn't exist in all the purple States where middle of the road Democratcs are being asked to vote for Communism. Like Bill Maher, I doubt many will. No matter how many times or how loud you shout Facist, it won't drown out the reality of these people pushing communism. The indoctrinated college youth may fall for the lie, the rest of the country won. November midterms are not the same as likes on social media (probably bot generated).
...I think you are probably right ... there is, a majority of people (I hope) who are coming around to the idea that no matter what the left, DSA or democrats call them selves this week ... they still believe six impossible things before breakfast ... on Friday, march with a sign that says *No Human Being is Illegal* and Saturday, march in a pro-abortion rally ... the religion is the opiate of the masses people wearing keffiyeh to support radical Islam ... maybe I will refer to them as the AliceW party ...
...California is very much a contradiction ... the Eid is being considered a state holiday...AB2017 ...
Don’t be so sure. Mamdani was elected as were his clones across the country. The indoctrinated youth is reaching the voting age. Add to them incorrigible liberal boomers suffering from TDS, and you have a force that can take our country in the wrong direction.
The voter turn out overall was high in 2025 NYC mayor's race because of the youthful enthusiasm of the indoctrinated useful idiots. However, looking deeper the data (from Grok) has only 32% of all eligible democratic voters participated. Most likely because they didn't like either Mamdani or Cuomo. You may be right but as the DSA candidates unveil their radicalism the choice becomes more stark.
Yeah, but the radicalism is all the rage now, again.
A few factors I find alarming:
1. Mamdani’s election is not an aberration. Similar Islamic communist ideologues are being elected across the country multiplying like poisonous mushrooms after the rain.
2. A wide rage of people are becoming helplessly infatuated with socialist ideas. Blend short attention span of TikTok brains with ignorance of history lessons, and you have DSA popularity growing fast.
3. Older generation of so-called classical liberals and moderate conservatives is dying out while fringes on both left and right are becoming the norm. “Indoctrinated useful idiots” will soon constitute the majority of voters.
Nicely stated. You are spot on that the mainstream Democrats planted the seeds now they can’t “pull the weeds”. Give credit to the Marxist long march through the institutions, especially education where students no longer learn civics and other subjects that teach American VALUES! Please continue your wonderful work. Some of us need it desperately.
Funny how the Mamdanis and Pikers come from the upper class and want communism for the “proletariat” (that is, regular Americans) who they despise. It is hard to believe these narcissistic phonies got elected, but here we are, with more of the same coming our way in Michigan, Minnesota, and California. I wonder how many Mamdani voters are aware that his “warm embrace of collectivism” has elsewhere, in the last hundred and twenty years, resulted in more than a hundred million human bodies assuming room temperature, not to mention the gulags, bread lines, and police-state terror.
Oh, troll, comrade, Trump and his billionaire buddies provide the "proletariat" with the jobs that make the "proletariat" wealthy. I don't think you're smart enough to understand that.
"Tax breaks for the rich"...you never fail to spew out the tropes from the likes of wealthy dems who take every tax advantage they can. Their wealth mostly comes from being do-nothing parasites. The hypocrisy is, as always, amazing. Your density is no less amazing. I don't think your lack of a job will be disrupted by robotics and AI.
Correct. Musk employs almost 200K people who are paid well. And his companies buy materials and products from other companies that together provide jobs to a huge number of people. Mamdani and his ilk have servants.
Employees at Elon Musk’s companies generally receive competitive base pay paired with stock options, though base salaries are often lower than at peer tech giants. Median employee compensation at Tesla sits around $62,786 per year, with average factory hourly wages climbing over $41 in Texas.
The pay gap between Elon Musk's stock-tied CEO compensation packages and median workers is exceptionally wide, exceeding 2.5 million-to-one in corporate filings.
Trump’s tax legislation, including the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and subsequent laws like the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," provides over $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1% of earners, reduces the top marginal income tax rate to 37%, and raises the estate tax exemption to $15 million per person.
I used to work in software which is in the process of being taken over by AI. When I was in college I used punch card machines to store my programs on card decks which were then read and run on computers.
From AI: "The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through progressive ideas and strong leadership. Founded in 2003, it aims to address various social and economic issues while promoting a liberal viewpoint...Neera Tanden serves as the president and CEO of CAP."
All Democrats do is lie. They have always lied. They will always lie. Communist’s lie and kill millions to enforce their lies the total so far is over 100 million people. It’s natural that the Democrats and Communists would become one.
As you know, the Preamble to the 1776 Declaration of Independence illuminates that all “governments receive their just powers from the consent of the governed”. Thus the controversy of voting, (or not), in the 2026 mid-term election has its roots in our founding document. And by voting you are giving consent to be governed by those who are consented by the majority of the voters, to assume the powers of government.
That said, do you remember that time in 2016 when Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided she would take a private meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane as it was parked on the tarmac in Phoenix? – While Bill’s wife, Hillary Clinton (when she was Obama’s Secretary of State), was under federal investigation for using a secret and unlawful private email server at her New York home, to receive thousands of top secret and classified government emails?
With the obvious corruption of the Phoenix tarmac meeting in mind; it is my humble opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election cycle on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey ignored the rule of law and “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in American history, the “rule of law” in the USA began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (think FISA Court - “Crossfire Hurricane”) of James Comey, (et al) were never pursued while Bill Barr was Attorney General; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable…... and the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago along with the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump and the “Bragg show trial in New York”, and the two failed assisination attempts is my proof We the People now live in a banana republic.
Please be cognizant: The Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to a July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia. According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, (the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and manager of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane”), delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussion.
Therefore as We the People encounter the 2026 election cycle, it is wise to conduct yourselves as living is a “Post-Constitutional Republic”. I compare it to living in Roman occupied Jerusalem at the time of Jesus Christ.
Yes, Rush repeatedly told us the whole sordid tale of the Russia collusion hoax on his radio show. But it’s easy to let this revelation slip into the memory hole. So thank you for bringing younger voters or others who are just now noticing something wasn’t right up to speed. It will NEVER be taught in schools.
I miss the truth teller there is no one else to replace him.
Thank you for bringing that back to life. It was all so dirty. I agree, that era was the beginning of our downfall. And here we are, trying to stave off communism, again. God speed America!!🇺🇸
For todays problems with Iran, we need to go back further than 1979 and all those presidents.
Operation Ajax, brought to us by the president who warned us of the military industrial complex that created so many other industrial complexes, that morphed into corporatism, as a result of an uneducated electorate - whom the Greeks warned was the end of any democracy.
So, what we do? We need to admit that we failed bigly with "it's a republic - if you can keep it." We didn't keep it, but some of us want to FIGHT for it now.
We need an educated electorate, for starters.
Maybe there is a way of out of this mess that would be relatively simple in theory?
In practice, it might not be as simple, but why not at least have a discussion about it?
We could require that every voter must pass a civics test, or at least mirror the citizenship test, in order to vote. I’ll bet that alone could weed out at least 50% of the conformist types who don’t care to ask why 2 + 2 does not make 5. It might be hard at first, but maybe there will be relief from much of the public who feels like they should vote to be a good person and now, they simply can’t vote…unless they study for the test!
Although all states have jurisdiction in their elections, and I could never advocate a national law out of the first principles of federalism, and it would not happen in this dysfunctional congress anyway, but we could try for a petition for the redress of grievances that we need an educated electorate in order to restore the constitutional republic back to our founders’ vision of federalism.
Yes, cries of discrimination will be made and the test could be hacked or cheated, but at least the voter is looking for an answer to the test in order to get a voting card.
Tears will be shed by the “victims” unable to vote and the answer is easy. Study. If you can’t pass after studying, then no voto. But you can always try, try again. That’s the American way!
"an uneducated electorate - whom the Greeks warned was the end of any democracy." Socialism fails in every generation. Then it gets repackaged and resold to a new generation of the invincibly naïve. Here we go again!
Just go back to only allowing those that own property to vote. If you're not invested in America you have no say in selecting who governs it.
The fly in that ointment, R H, is capital migration. When foreign investment in domestic assets reaches a certain point, sovereignty disappears. Globalization has closed the door to asset ownership as eligibility. If we take a dispassionate look at the required steps, it looks very much like there's no going back to the landholder/citizen model.
I agree, but I hear the cries of discrimination - especially in this market of inflated home prices. In my county, renters can vote to increase school taxes - how is that fair and not a conflict of interest?
But, what about anyone who is on any type of welfare being ineligible to vote? How is taking any type of welfare not a conflict of interest?
I agree with everything that you wrote but if we truly become a banana republic in 2016, how did Trump win in 2020? And how did we learn about everything you wrote? In a true banana republic ruled by the left, there is no way either one of those things would have happened.
They believed their own polling and did not feel the need to fire up their cheating machine because Hilary was going to win in a landslide.
See O'Keefe's latest vid - tons of D.C. employees in the Exec. Branch are slow walking or actually thwarting Trump's agenda.
A "Banana Republic" can be described as: “A highly stratified, politically unstable socioeconomic structure, with a small ruling class that controls access to the national banks, government institutions/courts & vaults, universities and natural resources.” Banana republics often have weak governance structures, leading to widespread corruption. Poverty is common, and the government or upper class controls all resources, resulting in high social and economic inequality. Lower classes are marginalized, making these republics prone to civil unrest, insurgencies, or coups. The term originated in the late 19th century with American corporations exploiting land and workers for banana plantations in Central and South America.
Trump probably won in 2020 as you state but was not sworn in as president in 2020. Biden was sworn in as the president of the 2020 election
Hate to break it to you but Lincoln jettisoned the rule of law long ago and in a manner far, far worse than any since.
My initial reaction is "What a ridiculous comment!" but instead I'll ask "How has Abraham Lincoln jettison the rule of law, and how was his manner of doing so far, far worse than any since"?
Lincoln's character can best be summed up as being the highest paid lawyer of his day, let that sink in. Rather than smooth over disputes he used military force, One wonders which president since has mobilized the entire military against a state over a tarriff/tax dispute that esculated? Worse Lincoln rejected all efforts to moderate disputes that the South made rejecting tem out of hand. He made the outrageous claim that any property in states were federal property guaranteeing a
war. Please explain what other president waged war that killed a million Americans over an issue his party before hostilities had broken out had proposed be guaranteed to remain forever in the constitution? No president ever destroyed a third of the country in the name of liberty for all, except maybe Biden and Obama.
That's Lincoln's profession and successfulness; it has nothing whatsoever to do with his character. Then there's the fact that the South attacked first, yet you blame LINCOLN for "using force". Finally, the Civil War was the only sizeable rebellion we've ever had, so to ask what other President waged war like that is a little silly.
You ignore the fact that Lincoln forced the war. The South had every legal right to leave the Union and Lincol refused to recognize it and forced a confrontation. Further you ignore numerous uses of federal forces starting with the whiskey rebelleion. So your education is showing. Let's end it there. We might also state New England threated to leave the Union during the war of 1812.
Wasn’t a rebellion since nothing in the agreement between the states as set out in the Constitution, explicit or inferred, suggested the union of STATES was permanent. Which is why the predecessor administration failed to find a rationale to invade. The war started when the Union invaded the territory of Virginia with an army. South Carolina had every right to expel a foreign army from its territory.
Adam, thanks for asking. Words have meanings and if one isn’t in the business of regime legitimization, which is the job of most every academic historian in the US today outside of the South and in the recent era, the words embedded in the records creating the Union need to be examined for their historical meaning. The present constitution declared its ratification to be creating a ‘more PERFECT Union’ not a perfect union or even a perpetual union. And there was precedent for a more explicit declaration of permanence had the delegates intended it. Great Britain’s union between Scotland and Britain spells out that anti-union legislation is void. The US constitution contains no comparable claim. There is nothing inherent in the word ‘Union’ suggesting permanence nor was its previous treatment in the Articles of Confederation treated by the states as permanent. And, of course, Lincoln, ever the lawyer, knew not to suggest that the Constitution was permanent choosing, wisely, to rely on poetic descriptions as opposed to straight forward legal declarations that would subject him to ridicule. Houses divided not standing is poetics not law. That’s Lincoln, a shady railroad lawyer through and through; never say something you can’t defend and he knew he couldn’t defend as law the notion that unions can’t be dissolved. After all, the states already did it once.
Here’s the language present in the Articles of Confederation that was repealed by the states and not renewed in the constitution
“Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and PERPETUAL UNION between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia . . . .
Replaced with,
We the People of the United States, in Order to form A MORE PERFECT UNION, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Not only is reference to the duration of the Union discarded from the Articles of Confederation but any reference to duration has been excised from the prior delegation of state authority to the Union. Nor is there any language whatsoever duplicating that accompanying the British law authorizing their Union where laws that would dissolve the Union by either side are declared inoperable.
In other words, by historic precedent preceding Lincoln’s arbitrary actions, there existed no barrier to dissolution of the Union on either a state by state basis or collectively. This, of course, is consistent with the legal opinions of both the seceding states but also the preceding administration which did not endorse the idea that the remnant states could force matters by arms.
The South attacked Fort Sumter first. In any case, do you think it would have been a better outcome for the world, the U.S. and history if the Confederate states had successfully seceded?
Pathetic. Deflection. The issues is whether Lincoln had the right to use armed force against the South.
“The South attacked Fort Sumter first.”
You’re complaining that the Confederacy defended the rights of its members vis-a-vis a foreign power occupying territory without authority? The foreign power was directed to leave territory not within their jurisdiction and they didn’t do so. Perhaps you want to make the argument the North avoided making; an articulation of their perpetual right to occupy the territory of another state no longer in union with the United States? It returns to the underlying legal question Lincoln chose to avoid; whether the Union was intended to be perpetual despite failing to explicate such a claim in the constitution and to even retract the scope of delegated powers in the superseded Articles of Confederation.
You insist on being dense to the reality that Lincoln was winging it. He was an early adopter of fake it till you make it. Bullshit was his skill set.
Lincoln was a tryant in the fullest sense of the word. The approval of the constitution required the approval of three states demands that they be allowed to leave the union at any time, for any reason, without any approval. This was approved and the Constitution was passed, their mistake was not insuring this was in the Constitution as an amendment but because they did it it insured no one could be charged with treason, although radical Yankees tried they knew they couldn't without trampling on the Constituion after killing a million Americans. History has been re written, the war was never about slavery it was about power, especially money. Doubt it, the Republicans doubled tarriffs in 1860 and before in the late 1850s. They also proposed an amendment guaranteeing slavery forever. Victors write history but time always allows the truth to be revealed.
It makes Nixon look like an amateur, some say he was innocent.
Did you know that Woodward was in the Navy intel service before he worked for the Washington Post and that he had only 1 year of newspaper experience when he got hired at the WP and then magically was given the scoop of a lifetime by another person in the Intel world. Nixon got played by the intel agencies because he was getting out of Vietnam
Yes!
Nixon only got caught doing what other presidents had done -- in spades!
It’s interesting reading the responses to your post, which is excellent, btw.
I like the idea of having to have basic knowledge of our founding documents and being able to pass a test on it. Don’t know if such a thing could happen or if it’s already too late for remedies like that, but I could see a grassroots movement of this idea as a possibility.
I’ve read so much about our situation (what once was is coming round again) over these past 11 years, and the one scenario I’ve seen discussed a number of times that sticks like a burr under my saddle is the idea of a “benevolent dictator” arising. I honestly don’t want that to happen, yet my gut feels like it is the most likely event to occur if the collapse into unfettered evil and madness continues.
Our country is so very fractured and it may not be possible to mend the divides.
Coffee & Covid’s post today was saying just the finished gathering of evidence to build cases may be at least another 5 years away. I’m not at all assured we’ve got that much time. If the Dems/Communists/Islamic infiltrators are successful in continuing to gain power, words won’t be enough to stop them. They are pretty bald-faced in telling us how they will dish out retribution to all who supported the Orange bad man.
May the grace of the Lord extend above and beyond what my heart fears.
For the Biblically literate, we, (humanity), were forewarned in Biblical prophecy these current events would come to pass centuries before we began seeing them on a daily basis. For those who still believe "we can fix this" through politics, no, we can't; because it's not a temporal battle. It's an on-going spiritual war that began long before any of us existed, coming to its climax in our time - right here on planet earth. Therefore, we can only choose a "side" to support and work with in this final battle. Satan is on a fast-track to the Bottomless Pit and the Beast of Revelation and the False Prophet will burn for eternity in the Lake of Fire.
But there is no "fence sitting" now or “do-overs” later. We must each actively choose the side of light and good, of YHVH/God and Jesus Christ; or we default to the other side of darkness and evil and Satan. Accordingly, if you haven't actively chosen Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God...then you are automatically in default. For each of us, today, there are no other options; I have made my choice and His name is Jesus (Yeshua); I pray each of you who read my Sasha Stone comment will make the correct choice. Eternity is a very long time to regret a wrong choice.
There is no God but YHVH - and - Yeshua is His Messiah:
FYI: There are two (2) sins Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) will not forgive: (1) Denial (blasphemy) against the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 12:31] and; (2) Receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. [Revelation 14:9]
There is much in what you say. I would only add that this was a discernable, ordinary stage within the Long March. The corruption that allowed power to be focused at that level, did not appear overnight.
clinton totally set lynch up to look compromised. i have no doubt they really did talk about their grandchildren but..... She was a fool to ever allow him on that plane!
Hey I have a great deal for you. For just a couple hundred bucks I will sell you a bridge in Manhattan.
The democrats are going to find out that their treasonous fever dreams of another maoist revolution unfolding here in the USA won’t go so well for them with a well armed and trained population ready and willing to do whatever it takes to not be murdered and enslaved by them. Sorry commies and fans and employees of the CCP here in the US but the patriots of this great nation are never going to disarm nor let you destroy our republic in order to murder and imprison our fellow citizens. You are quite literally making a fatal mistake to think otherwise.
I pray you are correct, sir, because I think it is coming to that.
As I read this about Piker I could keep my mind from wondering does he have more or less bodyguards than Charlie Kirk had? Or JFK or RFK or MLK.
Amen. We're keeping the powder dry, waiting for "go time".
All they have to do is deploy drones against us, they are using them now to start suspicious fires with malatov cocktails.
Drones can't kill 74 million people.
The very nature of the Left is deception. They know they CANNOT be transparent or people would run way from them as any SANE person would… Democrats are simply in denial of their own ideology. They think that Communism is COMPLETELY different from Socialism. In fact many, if not most on the Left think a “Nazi” is a “far-right” extremist when we on the right all know that Nazis were SOCIALISTS, The National Socialist Workers Party…
For the Biblically literate, we, (humanity), were forewarned in Biblical prophecy these current events would come to pass centuries before we began seeing them on a daily basis. For those who still believe "we can fix this" through politics, no, we can't; because it's not a temporal battle. It's an on-going spiritual war that began long before any of us existed, coming to its climax in our time - right here on planet earth. Therefore, we can only choose a "side" to support and work with in this final battle. Satan is on a fast-track to the Bottomless Pit and the Beast of Revelation and the False Prophet will burn for eternity in the Lake of Fire.
But there is no "fence sitting" now or “do-overs” later. We must each actively choose the side of light and good, of YHVH/God and Jesus Christ; or we default to the other side of darkness and evil and Satan. Accordingly, if you haven't actively chosen Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God...then you are automatically in default. For each of us, today, there are no other options; I have made my choice and His name is Jesus (Yeshua); I pray each of you who read my Sasha Stone comment will make the correct choice. Eternity is a very long time to regret a wrong choice.
There is no God but YHVH - and - Yeshua is His Messiah:
FYI: There are two (2) sins Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) will not forgive: (1) Denial (blasphemy) against the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 12:31] and; (2) Receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. [Revelation 14:9]
I wonder how Sasha Stone will react to election night in November? 🤔 #VoteBlue26 #ImpeachmentStress4Trump2Resign #midterms 🗳
^ Look, a domestic enemy of the United States. Guarantee she is ugly, homely and looks like a freak.
Trump was fabricating conversations with dead soldiers today to promote his talking points. He flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this morning to attend the dignified transfer of the latest service members who were killed in his war. Speaking to reporters at Andrews on his way there, Trump absurdly claimed that the fallen troops “said, and ALL of them said very strongly, ‘We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon. They won’t have a nuclear weapon.’”
You obviously do not understand political rhetorical language. I suggest you goggle the word rhetoric and rhetorical.
I understand that Trump is attributing opinions to dead soldiers. He doesn’t know them or their beliefs.
Irrelevant.
They adopt The Costanza Doctrine: "It's not a lie if YOU believe it."
Hasan Piker is the “new shining star” of the Democratic party the same way that NICK FUENTES and the TATE BROTHERS are shining stars of the Republican party. Some progressive and youth groups engage with Piker, while moderate leaders and centrist organizations strongly CONDEMN him as an extremist. The three candidates Piker pushed in his home state of CA all lost their races, showing his limitations. Stone says Piker has 2 millions subscribers to his you tube channel while Andrew Tate has 9.1 million followers on X. https://x.com/abcnews/status/1784017303501263102
The Tates arrived in the U.S. in Feb 2025, two years after they were arrested in Romania for human trafficking & forming a criminal group to sexually exploit women. They have strongly aligned themselves with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, gaining vocal support from right-wing figures such as Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson. They have a large following among young white males and white supremacists. MAGA reportedly pressured Romania to ease travel restrictions on Andrew Tate who has repeatedly praised Trump posting comments such as “All Trump does is win” and stating those who oppose him should be “expelled from the country.” They were arrested in Miami 3 days ago as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges.
Trump had lunch with Fuentes & Ye, & Tucker Carlson interviewed him on a 2025 podcast. Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, defended Carlson for interviewing Fuentes when he said: “We are joined at the hip with Tucker Carlson.” Trump has repeatedly declined to criticize or disavow Fuentes directly, stating that the public should decide on listening to such figures. Fuentes also has a large following among young white males and white nationalists.
Trump is trying to rile up his followers ahead of the midterms by calling Democrats “communists, Mike Johnson says Republicans are "fighting communism on our own shores” & Steve Scalise is warning of a "Bolshevik takeover.” Communism aims to establish a classless, stateless society based on the state ownership & management of the means of production. Under the Trump admin, the US govt has acquired a specialized equity stake or "golden share" in U.S. Steel Corp, which allows federal oversight on national security grounds. It has similar federal equity interventions, stakes, or investment options into other domestic firms like Intel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, and Trilogy Metals. Do you think Trump will continue taking over corporations? Sounds like communism to me!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-now-holds-stakes-023008085.html
thanks for letting the world know just how out of touch with reality you are.
Thanks for letting the world know that you have nothing to back up your statement.
Your false premise?
Nick Fuentes is a Democrat. Furthermore, Hasan is the most watched leftist streamer in the world. Lastly, whataboutism is extremely unconvincing, especially when you try to defend someone who says capitalists should be murdered, we deserved 9-11, and Mao was one of history's greatest leaders.
Usual MAGA strategy - blame the left for things they do m(Like Jan 6) or don't like.
He is a far-right, white nationalist political commentator and activist.
Stone apparently thinks he's on the right:
"I think Feuntes is a loathsome slime creature who should be purged, canceled, and disowned by the Right."
"They’re platforming Fuentes because they want to make him the face of MAGA and not Charlie Kirk."
https://www.sashastone.com/p/the-nyt-glorifies-nick-fuentes
Absurd. No one is blaming the Left for Jan. 6th, and Democrats deserve blame for the bad things they do. Also false, Nick Fuentes is a democrat and has admitted it, saying he thinks people should vote Democratic. Finally, way to deflect and avoid admitting the fact that 1. Hassan Piker is the most popular leftist streamer and 2. He said all of those things.
Did it ever occur to you that Fuentes is trolling you? Fuentes (& Alex Jones) have turned on Trump because he is not extreme enough. Fuentes has stated on his stream that his ultimate problem with Trump is that "he is not Hitler" and does not place white identity or radical Christian nationalism at the core of his policies. Fuentes is against Israel & a holocaust denier and has attacked trump for his handling of the Epstein files. Fuentes may say he is a "democrat" but that means nothing since he is "a white supremacist leader, organizer and podcaster who seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream GOP." He may advise people to vote Democrat just to remove Trump. He broadcasts on Rumble which often draws over 1 million views & has approximately 1.3 million followers on X and over 110,000 followers on Rumble. Andrew Tate has over 10 MILLION followers on X, comparable to Piker who as about 11M followers on various platforms.
Piker's has walked back his 2019 remark that “America deserved 9/11”,saying it was a hyperbolic critique of US foreign policy. When did I ever defend Piker? Stone condemned Fuentes in her article and I want nothing to do with Piker. Like Fuentes, his main followers are young white males.
Are you kidding? There are all sorts of right wing conspiracy theories blaming the left for Jan 6.
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/hjc-dems-jan-6-myth-vs-fact.pdf MYTHS VS. FACTS: JANUARY 6TH: "Myth #3: January 6th was a “false flag” operation in which left-wing Antifa agitators goaded and deceived protesters into attacking the Capitol and its police officers"
Don't be ridiculous. An influencer telling people to vote Democratic is not trolling; it's someone showing their true colors. Fuentes being against Israel only makes him more likely to be on the Left, since Israel hatred has become rabid there. Piker was lying especially after he just praised Mao and has told people to murder capitalists, among many other statements making it incredibly clear about how much he hates the United States and loves Communism and Islam. What does it matter that Piker's main followers are white males, unless you hate white males?
Fuentes is a nobody that the left wants to make the face of the Republican party. He and Candance Owens are both Whores who will say anything to anybody as long as it gets them $'s
blah blah blah, black sheep
"...Bah baa black sheep" is how that nursery rhyme is told. "Blah blah" is only one inventory of sputtering sounds the MAGAt party will cough up with spittle, because they are acutely aware that their Tate-supporting Epstein associate, Donald tRump is getting impeached again & effectively neutered politically when the Democrats win a majority in the US House of Reps. tRump is 80, obese & visually falling apart, decaying, snoozing in front of the whole world. He will face multiple, grueling Impeachment wounds throughout 2027. The incidental side benefit of a Dem-Led Impeachment would be the boon of causing tRump to resign ignominously for "health reasons" like a cheap, broke down & bloated orange Temu version of Nixon. #VoteBlue26 🗳
Soooooo, we have a new TDS racist troll on these pages.
MSNOW comment section too busy for you, pumpkin?
You can't tolerate any opposing opinions and prefer a page where everyone gushes over Stone?
gushing?
steel production is vital for national defense- for munitions which were very low due to Ukraine Hamas and now Iran.
The industry was sold out to China and elsewhere as long ago as the 70s. The steel plant in my hometown in the Midwest was shut down, many lost their jobs without other industries to fill the void. Take my town by the thousands and we as a country are dependent on China or others to produce what we use. They named it the rust belt for a reason. I watched a you tube video last year where a guy did a travel blog through dying or dead towns throughout the flyover states. It was devastating. I cried.
One town nearly evacuated has a beautiful huge Catholic Church abandoned, crumbling looking like a ruin castle from Europe. Trump is trying to revitalize our security of what we need to be self sufficient and create jobs.🤷🏼♀️
I worked for US Steel In Pittsburg in the late 70s. They have gone down hill dramatically since then. Maybe they could bail out the steel industry like Obama did with the auto industry in 2009 instead of “owning” it.
Very few posters to this article know what the hell they’re talking about, regardless the “side” they’re taking. Do they even realize there are more than two “sides?”
The Washington Post
Trump's false or misleading claims total 30573 over 4 years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/
you have to be kidding. Using the Washington Post as a source of facts? They have no clue as to what a fact is. Their reputation was destroyed in the lies they pushed during the Russian Collusion lies. The Washington Post is nothing but Pravda for the DNC and the CIA. The fact that you believe them shows that you have no idea of truth.
The man in question has the dubious honor of having his own Wikipedia page dedicated to lies and deception. But you are right; search for "lies" and "Trump," and you will surely find a news outlet you *do* trust that lists them for you. I cannot help you any better than that.
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
The Whoppers of 2025
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/12/the-whoppers-of-2025/
And then you cite another example of a source that is well documented that it’s filled with lies and misinformation. You don’t have a clue do you? Does Trump tell stories to illustrate a point? Sure he does. Does Trump lie? Every politician alive and dead lies. But Trump tells us more truth than anyone else has. Just listen to him speak off the cuff to people who asks legitimate questions not the gotcha lies from the MSM like Jake Tapper did. He is a transparent as glass. He will tell you he is not going to answer that question vs making up some BS
Sure, politicians lie. But what about when they spout so much nonsense that newsrooms have to work overtime just to fact-check it? You do have a point that Trump is a good storyteller; I genuinely think many politicians have lost that knack. For now, I wish you all the best with the next never-ending war (was Iran actually defeated, or was Trump just pretending?) and more expensive groceries.
The Iran war is a massive mistake and I can guarantee one thing. We will never ever know the truth coming out of there. The Middle East culture is based upon lying and the deep state Neo Con swamp dwellers will lie with no remorse to the American people to keep their forever wars going
Good article.
Joe McCarthy not Eugene. Eugene was pretty far along the left spectrum himself.
Gene was the senator from MN who knocked LBJ out the the ‘68 primary in NH. Joe was senator from WI who rode the red scare. Joe was pilloried in the press but later vindicated with the release of internal KGB files after the soviet state fell.
Good catch. C'mon, Stone.
I have made that same mistake. How can there be two such notorious politicians both with the last name McCarthy within 15 years of each other?! That said, we are living Eugene McCarthy's nightmare as well. He was far left (a "collectivist" who wanted socialism and guaranteed income and healthcare) and close to winning the Presidency in 1968, another wackie Left Minnesotan, by the way. The primary battle (the famous Chicago Convention where the Left fought with each other) was between McCarthy and Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey, more centrist than McCarthy. This was very similar to the battle we see today for the soul of the Democrat party between the center left and the far left. For that matter, Richard Nixon was a centrist Californian GOP, not too far politically from Trump
Nixon knew what he was talking about and wasn’t lining his pockets while in the White House. He volunteered and served in WW2, unlike that draft dodging Bone Spurred tennis player Kamala saddled us with.
Ya mean like Draft dodgers Clinton, Obama, and Biden???
Ohh did Kamala saddle us with something?
Who saddled us with Kamala, then?
Trump's immutable 2nd victory had everything to do with a string of really poor and scrambling choices (either stupid or deliberate in their destructiveness) by the D team during the US-sabotaging Biden years.
That is one of the points I was trying clumsily to make
Was about to make the same correction. Reading "It’s Eugene McCarthy’s ultimate nightmare finally realized. Maybe it wasn’t true that the military was infested with Commies. . ." made me shake my head.
I think the past couple of years show just how close America was to being overtaken by a subversive Left and given over to China (China is funding much of the subversion and has established "military bases" in America). It is still a fight, but at least America now has a chance.
Not all that far left . He was a serious, devout Catholic and later in life , at times, expressed libertarian sentiments . I don’t think he had much time for Maoists.
I’m curious, does this new generation of Islamic Maoists, have anything to say about the ongoing destruction of Uighur and Hui - Islamic cultures in China? Do they know or care?
Note : while not my cup of tea DSA didn’t used to be like what it is now. It used to actually be a democratic socialist organization. Now it’s apparently neo Communist.
"Islamic Maoists" even though tongue-in-cheek, a complete oxymoron; lets ask the Uyghurs what it is like to be Islamic and live in China.
Yes. It does seem as if the Islamists and Communists should be killing each other. No doubt they have postponed that reckoning until America is out of their way.
It’s fascinating to watch the Chinese pursuing what could at least be called cultural genocide against the Uighurs and the Hui . Yet, not a peep out of our new left Islamic radicals .
Radical Muslims play the long game, just like Xi and China. Iran and China could never be long term allies. They both want the same thing, world dominance, and from the same corner of the planet. They will be allies so long as they each find benefits, which is to defeat America
I’ll bite. And, then, what?
No prescription other than pushing back against China and Iran. I don't want to live under the control of either. I am very happy being an American. You?
Eugene McCarthy was a moderate, anti-communist Democrat who realized earlier than most that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable which was the only sense in which he might have been considered "far left".
Autocorrupt?
Tailgunner Joe.
Aside from Fetterman and, likely, 10-15 other more-or-less sane, moderate Lefties one can name, disabuse yourself of the idea that a "Democratic" Party still exists. It is a revolutionary, Communist party and should be treated as such.
Force is the only thing they understand.
P.S. to Stone. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Fetterman is BLUE MAGA. Most working class traditional Democrats are. BLUE MAGA loves their country, while these pretentious yahoos hate it with a passion unlike any other blaming us for all that wrong in their pathetic little lives.
BLUE MAGA. An updated nickname for what used to be called 'Reagan Democrats'? Good term!
Or previously "Blue Dog (southern) Democrats"
They’d probably prefer Blue Dog over Blue MAGA. All dems seem to have an aversion to Make America Great Again.
Yes, that's true. But it's hard to locate them inside the progressive hive mind. They want to be good Democrats, which means 95% of their time will be focused on hating everybody who isn't them.
I was naive. Hurray for Communism! Not the stone-your-parents-to-death kind of Communism. No, this is socialism, like in Sweden, with Mayor Alfred E. Neuman at the helm.
Henry Cuellar is another with a lot more in common with the current GOP than with his own party. If Mark Kelly were not so set on getting a Presidential nomination and so playing to the Marxist crowd and virulent anti-Trump, he would be a centrist. But like many Democrats, his personal political ambitions are much greater than personal honesty
Mark Kelly — if, if, if. He basically encouraged military members to refuse orders. He is a disgrace.
Agreed. At the minimum his backside should have tried and convicted under Article 88 of the UCMJ.
... and there was a time in America not that long ago when the fact of ambition > honesty would have disqualified a candidate.
There is a confluence of arrogance, entitlement, propaganda and decades of bad education that is meeting here and now in this country. That it is being manipulated by three muslims to make it appear as inevitably transcendent is quite interesting. I believe it is going to fail badly but it is forcing me to admit that there is no way Islam and my United States - the land of my birth - can proceed in harmony. The religion and the nation are incompatible and we probably need to begin expelling it from our society.
Mamdani really does think his position as Mayor of NYC provides him the bully pulpit (irony intended) to admonish the rest of the nation and it's citizens. He defiles George Washington's desk and denigrates us. And then he tries to use his office to involve himself in world affairs. I'm boycotting the whole city. I won't go there and I won't purchase a thing it sells.
Who do we blame? When Sasha brings up the "Manson girls", who raised them to be so susceptible to a cult that that would kill people in cold blood, including a pregnant mother, for their leader? All these "Mangione girls" have parents who obviously did not raise them with a conscience and raised them full of hatred. I think the parents should be held accountable and punished for what they have done to create such vile creatures.
You cannot always blame the parents. Plenty of well raised kids are susceptible to the devil’s wiles. Plenty of heartbroken parents as a result.
It’s not the parents. Sometimes they are just crazy. We have one in the family. A real drama queen. She actually stated at a family gathering that Luigi Mangione was right to cowardly shoot the health care executive. I hollered out WHAT?!?!
Her parents are wonderful people. A Navy veteran and an RN. I don’t understand what happened to her. I feel awful for her parents. They looked embarrassed.
It may be possible to teach your children well, as we were ironically instructed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and still have them go awry. But what of those parents who completely ignore their kids, giving them no love or direction? Those kids are almost guaranteed to go bad. What legal responsibility should parents have for the behavior of their kids? There is a trend to pass laws to hold parents accountable. Many states have done so. If the parents tried and failed, they have the chance to explain that in court. https://www.mheducation.com/highered/blog/2025/09/holding-parents-responsible-their-kids-crimes.html
I can see holding parents responsible if the kid is under 18. Like the neighborhood take overs we’ve seen lately. But if they are legally adults, they take responsibility for their actions.
At what age would we stop punishing the parents. My son is 40, should I be in prison if he committed a crime? That doesn’t make sense to me. Can you make me change my mind? I’m interested.
Yes, once legal adults it is hard to hold parents legally responsible even if their negligence probably contributed to a delinquent adult
Obviously there are bad parents. Luck of the draw in life. But kids from marginally bad to horrible households can & do do very well in life. There may be extreme circumstances where a parent can be legally liable for their child’s actions. But in general no.
I didn’t say all. I know there are some kids who beat the odds, with help (JD Vance for example). This does not absolve parents from their primary responsibility in life. In most states the liability does not require some extreme
That is nonsense. Punish the parents? Do we execute them?
That might be a step too far. But adults having children need to be held to account for how they raise their children. One cannot have a child and then leave them to raise themselves in the street to become soulless gang members and criminals, or spoon feed a child radicalism and give them big trust funds to subvert their own country in retribution for parents who offered no love, just money
You're making wild assumptions about the parents and giving victim status to the children. My premise is that many factors in our society are leading to the current state of affairs.
Like public schools and universities...
we can agree to disagree; parents are the primary influence in the making of a person, their attitudes and morality. If they aren't providing that guidance early in life, like I said, they have abdicated their primary responsibility as parents
I’m not disagreeing with anything you said. It’s true though that almost anyone can be susceptible to a cult leader. And dropping acid every day didn’t exactly help the girls clarity. None of them should ever have been eligible for parole.
Murdering a pregnant woman takes the depravity to another level. That’s just pure evil.
The Democrat Party is an odd collection of disparate interest groups. Having abandoned patriotism, that is, love of country, Democrat constituencies have devolved to parasitism. Takers not makers. Theirs is a recipe for abject squalor.
"Takers not makers" Great description!
"Trenton Makes. The World Takes."
I remember seeing that sign when I was a kid.
I enjoyed that too!
From my perch here in Scottsdale, the Marxist advance was at least temporarily halted last night when Kai Newkirk, a good looking, well spoken and well-funded candidate, was soundly beaten in the Dem Congressional Primary by incumbent Greg Stanton. Part of me wants the DSA to win throughout the United States this cycle to force centrist Democrats back to the middle, where most of the GOP stands today. Populist conservativism is very Centrist if not even left-leaning (look at JD Vance's positions which even progressive Bill Maher said he could vote for). But the other part of me wants DSA to crash and burn badly so that any idea of America becoming Marxist is put deep into a grave.
Go with the second option!!
I'm afraid of the damage that would result if your first option happened. They would do things that couldn't be easily (if at all) reversed.
Aug 4 is the next big primary date. Will incumbent Beyer (VA-8) be able to beat back his 4 challengers, which include one Hamas-loving Communist? When I voted last weekend, I noticed that the incumbent had zero signs outside the government center. That's right - nothing. All his rivals had signs. I haven't seen any mailers or other ads either.
vance/rubio 2028!
This is a Democratic Party civil war that is partly their own fault, but also partly the result of Trump trolling them and “heightening the contradictions.” Now they face an impossible dilemma. If they embrace the DSA/Mamdani/Piker/Muslim left, they lose swing voters and give Trump and MAGA a juicy target in the midterms and beyond. But if they reject them, they fracture the party. The activists, youths, and many donors will flee, and even then, the new “moderate” Democrats would struggle to define themselves in any way beyond “We hate Trump but we aren’t commies, we swear!”
Trump has a huge campaign war chest and the DOJ is no doubt preparing many indictments for fraud. I think Democrats will be crushed in the midterms in an “unexpected” blowout.
Just remember that Trump is one of them. He was a centrist New York Democrat. It should be no surprise he plays the political game just like his once good friends Chuck Schumer and Bill / Hilary Clinton. They are cut from the same cloth. This was a big reason Trump was initially shunned by the GOP Establishment
Lots of Republicans started out as Democrats and then left the party when it went left. Reagan was a famous example.
Good analysis. Let us hope you are correct.
To me it’s the only logical conclusion based on Trump’s large ego, his positive thinking background (Norman Vincent Peale), and his actions since the beginning of his second term. He’s thinking big and not bluffing about a Golden Age.
I hope so.
The problem is that the Dems have no grasp of reality. What does it mean to fight Trump? Especially when winning is not defined. That leads to problem two, no leaders.
"Fight Trump" is like punching at a shadow. They don't even know what they are trying to hit and they have no idea what the thing they are trying to hit even stands for. Trump has been called "far right". By who's definition?! Everything about Trump in the past and present is Centrist Democrat. But that is what the Far Left hates so that current Centrist Democrats try to gain support from Marxists by saying they too are against the exact same policies they supported last week. Joe Biden is a great example. So is Chuck Schumer. They were in exactly the same political position on the spectrum as Trump until he was elected on the GOP ticket.
Well put!
The leadership of DSA may wear the trappings of socialism, but make no mistake, at its core it is an islamo-fascist infiltration of the DNC. There is not a one of them that is a builder or a maker. They are all takers. It wasn't that long ago that Democrats were fiercely anti-communist. How I long for JFK's Democratic Party! MAGA (with some TP) is closer to JFK Democrats than they are the GOP.
Saw this elsewhere on the intertubes this morning: "The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year college degrees who are rich." -- Chris Hayes
Maybe the leaders in JFK's party were anti-communist, but the Democratic Party has been filled with Communists for a century. People were lionizing Che for 60 years. The only difference now is the Communist youth don't have to hide anymore. The diminished mainstream media has gone over to the Communist side, and the most popular leaders in you tube are Communists like Hasan The Piker.
How long have you been hearing voices?
Democrats to the right of DSA don’t realize they’re the Mensheviks in this new play.
I would translate "mensheviks" as "useful idiots".
What happened to the Weather Underground? They became professors, including those that had been in jail.
According to Harriet Clark, daughter of Judith Clark, who spent 30-plus years in prison for the Brinks triple-murder fiasco, the WU is still active but of course has insinuated itself into mainstream American life. (I accidentally heard her drone on during "Fresh Air" the other day.)
Understand that Bill Ayers has had outsized influence in shaping pubic school curriculum throughout the U.S.. His wife, Bernadine Dohrn, was loved and highly influential in Chicago social work circles. Activism lives, and they live to turn all of our children into (Maoist) activists in their image. Do not let children you love go to public schools!
Obama was mentored by the WU.
Yes, Bill Ayers. Son of a millionaire who got away with some serious crimes.
If and when push comes to shove, there will be another civil war in America, a hot war with many, many casualties. The haves, including the blue collar working man, will NOT voluntarily allow their property to be confiscated by the have-nots and they will have the Constitution behind them. Now it becomes clearly evident why the founding fathers insisted on the second amendment and an armed populace.
Every LEGAL person in the country who isn’t psychologically damaged should get a permit and learn to shoot!!
Exercise your right to bear arms!
Bear arms?
🤣
who decides who is "psychologically damaged"?
There in lies the problem. Felons cannot own or purchase, that’s tracked. There has to be a way. I don’t have the answer to that. It just makes sense to me that you should be of sound mind to own a gun.
Mamdani uses the Constitution to advance his agenda. Personally, I think he and those like him, should be deported post haste. He and they will continue to preach division. We can't wait until they have the authority to impose their agendas.
They do not deserve our rights; they came here to advantage themselves since they did not have them in their former countries.
Our rights infer obligations none of them possess. Or ever will.
This unmasking of their Marxist philosophy is a good thing. Best to have your enemy out in the open where he is seen for what he is. Without the "Save Act", blue states like California will continue to be blue because of voter fraud. CA automatically registers anyone getting a drivers license to vote and then sends a mail in ballot to the listed address to be harvested for fraud.
However, that unhidden scam doesn't exist in all the purple States where middle of the road Democratcs are being asked to vote for Communism. Like Bill Maher, I doubt many will. No matter how many times or how loud you shout Facist, it won't drown out the reality of these people pushing communism. The indoctrinated college youth may fall for the lie, the rest of the country won. November midterms are not the same as likes on social media (probably bot generated).
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
...I think you are probably right ... there is, a majority of people (I hope) who are coming around to the idea that no matter what the left, DSA or democrats call them selves this week ... they still believe six impossible things before breakfast ... on Friday, march with a sign that says *No Human Being is Illegal* and Saturday, march in a pro-abortion rally ... the religion is the opiate of the masses people wearing keffiyeh to support radical Islam ... maybe I will refer to them as the AliceW party ...
...California is very much a contradiction ... the Eid is being considered a state holiday...AB2017 ...
Don’t be so sure. Mamdani was elected as were his clones across the country. The indoctrinated youth is reaching the voting age. Add to them incorrigible liberal boomers suffering from TDS, and you have a force that can take our country in the wrong direction.
The voter turn out overall was high in 2025 NYC mayor's race because of the youthful enthusiasm of the indoctrinated useful idiots. However, looking deeper the data (from Grok) has only 32% of all eligible democratic voters participated. Most likely because they didn't like either Mamdani or Cuomo. You may be right but as the DSA candidates unveil their radicalism the choice becomes more stark.
Yeah, but the radicalism is all the rage now, again.
A few factors I find alarming:
1. Mamdani’s election is not an aberration. Similar Islamic communist ideologues are being elected across the country multiplying like poisonous mushrooms after the rain.
2. A wide rage of people are becoming helplessly infatuated with socialist ideas. Blend short attention span of TikTok brains with ignorance of history lessons, and you have DSA popularity growing fast.
3. Older generation of so-called classical liberals and moderate conservatives is dying out while fringes on both left and right are becoming the norm. “Indoctrinated useful idiots” will soon constitute the majority of voters.
Nicely stated. You are spot on that the mainstream Democrats planted the seeds now they can’t “pull the weeds”. Give credit to the Marxist long march through the institutions, especially education where students no longer learn civics and other subjects that teach American VALUES! Please continue your wonderful work. Some of us need it desperately.
Funny how the Mamdanis and Pikers come from the upper class and want communism for the “proletariat” (that is, regular Americans) who they despise. It is hard to believe these narcissistic phonies got elected, but here we are, with more of the same coming our way in Michigan, Minnesota, and California. I wonder how many Mamdani voters are aware that his “warm embrace of collectivism” has elsewhere, in the last hundred and twenty years, resulted in more than a hundred million human bodies assuming room temperature, not to mention the gulags, bread lines, and police-state terror.
You think Trump's billionaire buddies who party at Mar-a-lala love the "protelariat"?
Oh, troll, comrade, Trump and his billionaire buddies provide the "proletariat" with the jobs that make the "proletariat" wealthy. I don't think you're smart enough to understand that.
Sure, who they are going to replace with robotics & AI. They love trump for his tax breaks for the rich.
"Tax breaks for the rich"...you never fail to spew out the tropes from the likes of wealthy dems who take every tax advantage they can. Their wealth mostly comes from being do-nothing parasites. The hypocrisy is, as always, amazing. Your density is no less amazing. I don't think your lack of a job will be disrupted by robotics and AI.
Correct. Musk employs almost 200K people who are paid well. And his companies buy materials and products from other companies that together provide jobs to a huge number of people. Mamdani and his ilk have servants.
Employees at Elon Musk’s companies generally receive competitive base pay paired with stock options, though base salaries are often lower than at peer tech giants. Median employee compensation at Tesla sits around $62,786 per year, with average factory hourly wages climbing over $41 in Texas.
The pay gap between Elon Musk's stock-tied CEO compensation packages and median workers is exceptionally wide, exceeding 2.5 million-to-one in corporate filings.
Trump’s tax legislation, including the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and subsequent laws like the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," provides over $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1% of earners, reduces the top marginal income tax rate to 37%, and raises the estate tax exemption to $15 million per person.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/7-ways-the-big-beautiful-bill-cuts-taxes-for-the-rich/
I used to work in software which is in the process of being taken over by AI. When I was in college I used punch card machines to store my programs on card decks which were then read and run on computers.
Hard pass on your propaganda.
From AI: "The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through progressive ideas and strong leadership. Founded in 2003, it aims to address various social and economic issues while promoting a liberal viewpoint...Neera Tanden serves as the president and CEO of CAP."
Who is Neera Tanden? Lady autopen and general handmaiden for the dem deep state. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-neera-tanden-controversial-dem-operative-testified-bidens-mental-acuity
Learn to be a coal miner.
oh for goodness sake! Could you, just once, stay on topic??