In the age of Trump, “Leading from behind”, like one very Leftist former anti American president is now famous for promoting and actually attempting to put out into the world is just not cutting it. It was ridiculous and dangerous then and its just as ridiculous and dangerous now, all in the name of political correctness and fulfilling Leftist political agenda.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/14/ted-wheeler-portland-mayor-stands-decision-allow-a/

Just like in Chicago when the mayor allows the unstable anti American and radical Left and street thugs to run the streets and disrupt and kill at will that is when things must be dealt with in a more serious way. What message are the mayors of Chicago and Portland sending to the radicals and thugs and more importantly to the tax paying citizens of their cities?

“Its a good thing to allow the inmates to run the asylum and you tax paying citizens do not count at all, you are all just collateral damage waiting to be counted as a statistic”.

The likes of these empowered politicians from the former president on down to these mayors very badly need to be replaced with actual pro American people who actually have their priorities in the proper order regarding basic law and order fundamental to their citizens being safe to live in reasonable peace.

Everyone understands the rules so we must reasonably ask: What purpose does this allowing radical and lawless chaos to rule the good and law abiding and tax paying citizens of these communities?

One person who I asked this question recently seriously reasoned that the monetary liability to the cities would be too high to take the streets back from these thugs and political radicals. Really, no kidding. And when you hear logic like that seriously coming out of an allegedly educated persons mouth you understand that things are way out of whack. Things have gone much too far and they are no longer reasonable.

Lets us be hopeful that in the age of Trump this kind of ridiculous and radical thinking and logic is in time discarded as the people choose to empower the politicians that need to take care of business and restore some semblance of law and order in these bastions of radical political chaos empowerment.

MAGA

pivoting….

ST: DS-9
Garak; the boy who cried Wolf
https://youtu.be/cl66ilQCCNs
1:17

Thank you.

I would have included this trimmed up clip in my post.

Yes, the absolute good.

I am Landru: https://youtu.be/5Bhueml6MqI

This is what the Left proposes (but they mean well)

Star Trek Supercut:
Landru!
https://youtu.be/nZMuBIJxmnA
3:26

I have come to the conclusion that you are similar to the likes of Noam Chomsky and other Liberals and now Leftist “Intellectuals” who are always looking for an ideal that is never attainable in governance or human relations. They understand the depravity of the human animal related to politics and power and that is what drives them to their “Perfect” governance model. This is what makes you and them so dangerous.

This is where your favorite word that you point at others like a weapon, “Fascism”, is born and flourishes (I know you would disagree with that but in my experience and understanding it is exactly on point)

Life, and the Constitution for that matter, both a dirty business at times, are structures within which the intellectual and conceptual human animal exists, as imperfect as both can be. Your extreme and growing more extreme position and your inability to see some wiggle room is going in only one direction, and that is to the gates of hell.

Governance, especially at this level that we find ourselves in America is always a messy proposition when it is working properly. Governance is corrupt, as we will soon see through evidence that will not be able to be unseen and it is perverted and it will be abused, as we will also soon see through evidence that will not be able to be unseen.

Your extreme position where the president, this particular president, “Must be removed at any cost”, is like I have said a very dangerous position to adopt. It is emotional and it is irrational, which is the signature of your brand of now Leftist oriented politics. You propose the tearing up of the document that you say you understand and love so well. That is an unsupportable position to me.

This particular unique and extreme political warfare that we find ourselves in is a long time in coming and is necessary for the health of our country and the world. We too long have been dragged too far to the Left and the Left has gotten comfortable with their domination of the cultural and the political conversation and the control of power and we can all see their / your desperation and panic in the things that they are willing to say and do. While I understand your hatred for the country as it operates in the real world you propose that it be thrown away because it is not “Perfect” in your estimation. To be replaced by what?

To be replaced by your favorite word and “your” ability to control it all and make it all “Perfect”? You and your kind in the end will turn out to be the real “Fascists”, and that is not going to be acceptable to anyone.

This too will pass. MAGA

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebook-has-begun-to-rank-news-organizations-by-trust?utm_term=.xcpVj7WDR#.xsDaRKzpg

We have already established that these people, masters of the internet universe, who control the internet are, like Zukerberg himself has stated, “Where we come from, California leans Left to say the least”.

How might they be tuning their systems to “rank” the many different “News” organizations, right down the middle? Could happen, right?

Zukerberg and most of the many other internet providers tend to be Left leaning to say the least and when they attempt to choose what is acceptable and what is not acceptable and will now tend to shut out the Free Speech of half of the population that is the real edge of actual functional Fascism in America and the world.

Who decides what is “acceptable” and what is not?

https://youtu.be/vxiTxSUgi34 10 min.

All you are left with is ever growing taxation and the very poor living and crapping in the street and the very rich who essentially live in another dimension, for the moment anyway. As one of these interviewees from California says: “We are happy to lose our middle class in order to make room for our immigrants (Illegal immigrants of course because that is now who the Democrats exclusively represent).

Is this what and how the average Democrat in America really thinks? If you are a Democrat do you agree with this alleged “advanced” political thinking? This is not theory this is actually going on right now in California and other Democrat lead states.

This day after the Mueller special council investigation invades the offices of the presidents personal lawyer we see a more important news item. And we can all plainly see that Mr. Muellers investigation is focused on Russian collusion, apparently the Russians were hiding in Stormy Daniels brazier? (Thats where I would hide)

https://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/news/economy/2018/04/10/chinas-xi-jinping-blinks-lower-tariffs-us-imports/

President Trumps ACTIONS and strategies trumps Muellers invasions of privacy and politically driven investigation. The Chinese apparently see that they are more vulnerable than we are and have apparently acquiesced to president Trump’s threats of tariffs.

“China’s Xi Jinping Blinks, Vows to Lower Tariffs on U.S. Imports”
These illogical economic structures that have allowed China immense trading advantage that have built their country and economy and their military over the last 30 or more years that today militarily threatens the U.S. and the world is coming to an end. Thanks to all four of the last four American presidents who have essentially sold us all out over that period. IMO traitors all for their willful turning of their heads and shirking of their responsibilities. I would love to take a look at their bank accounts and holdings both before and post presidency for doing so. And I would include with that look all of the Congressional and Senate leaderships accounts also, Democrat and Republican.

And on another counter intuitive subject, apparently a Russian oligarch gave $150K to the Trump Foundation! This must be it, they must have him, right? Not really, everyone from all over the world attempts to buy influence and access to power, take the Clinton Foundation for instance. This same Oligarch funneled $13 MILLION DOLLARS into the Clinton Foundation to do the same, gain access to power with the next president of the United States. Except the Clinton’s “donation” structure to do so was on steroids and includes multiple BILLIONS of dollars “donated”.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/mueller-trump-pinchuk/

Now what does this tell us? Oligharch Victor Pinchuk when he was making his bets on who would become the next American president was much more confident that Hillary Clinton would be the next American president rather than Mr. Trump, by a factor of 86 times! But you have to cover your bets and his paltry $150K was a small, I have to assume legal, offering indeed.

But Trump is the president and not Hillary, thank God, but I am willing to wait for when the investigation into the Clinton Foundation is switched on. It must in time happen. Right?

Many who support leftist politicians agree with the right on their principles. The problem is that the left lies in order to hide the actual leftist fundamental philosophic principles. Jonathan Gruber pointed out this technique when he said that the left depends upon the stupidity of the American voter (meaning the Democratic voter, as he was not trying to convince Republicans or conservatives, as they were steadfast in their principles).

When asked about specific policies, most people tend to choose the conservative position, but when names, political parties, or left/right labels are associated with these policies, many people choose the leftist position, because they have been successfully Grubered. They have been trained to reject the very rightist principles that they believe in. Thus, it seems that the left has successfully made some people as stupid as Gruber needs in order to turn America into a leftist paradise.

Gruber has identified this part of the problem. Now it needs to be corrected.

In addition, and mildly off topic, it was acceptable for the Obama and Clinton campaigns to use data mined from social media sites (e.g. Facebook) and to brag about it in public speeches, but once it was discovered that the Trump campaign used the very same techniques to obtained the very same data from the very same sources it became a huge scandal, complete with Congressional inquisitions and Zuckerberg testimony.

Data supplied to the left: rightthink. Data supplied to the right: wrongthink.

The Left insists on creating a scenario that does not exist through just throwing it out there, and is highly unlikely to exist.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/04/08/msnbc_joy_reid_what_if_trump_refuses_to_be_arrested_by_federal_marshals.html

Now I know Democrats who would be right on board with this discussion just because they need Trump removed from the presidency and they do not care how that gets accomplished, legal, Constitutitonally or otherwise. But this just goes way, way over board.

Joy Reid attempts to manifest, at least in the minds of some of the public a scenario that keeps them satiated for the moment and hopeful while a lot of nothing in the form of actual evidence accumulates against Trump.

Mr. Horowitz, make your move.

I keep thinking, we’ve seen this before…
The best methods of state craft, are the old ones that work. Introduced with proper timing after the population has been conditioned for its exceptence.
I watched schools all over the country, kidnapping our children/students out on a second amendment protest march. Then I remembered where I saw it happen before.

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/hitlers-children/

The methods are too similar to be a coincidence. When you see the teachers taken down for teaching substance over emotion. When you see blind hatred act without cause to destroy. When you see children bullying churches, synagogues, businesses, or any institution that stands in the way. When the freedom to speak is forbidden, censored even though you paid the advertising costs. Then the time will be ripe, an entire generation of useful idiots. The most dangerous weapon the world could never purchase. Socially crafted and educated human suicide bombers to take out our constitution, freedoms, American way of life. A weapon you can’t argue with or reason with. The thinking has been done, the consensus is in, blind action is all that is required.

I hope it’s not too late to stop this.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5998367/fire-erupts-in-trump-tower-as-50th-floor-blaze-is-spotted-for-miles-around-new-york/

I wonder, is the building at risk of falling?

There are few among us who have such a unique command of the English, very few indeed. I know of only one other who, 1. has such a unique command and, 2. Such a knowledge of the subject at hand, and he is very busy interpreting and doing a patriots work for the cause in the renegade media.

And that cause is some reasonable measure of actual tangible justice, undiluted by politics and corruption where the people of America can plainly see that there are times when those who conspire to destroy our founding for the cause of “Globalization” and the incremental surrendering of our sovereignty and Constitution are brought before the law to account.

This problem has been 30 years in development, the solution will not take as long to solve under the direction of a true and proper leader.

ITS COMING.

I have been putting some thought into this problem, how can the internet be leveraged to counter Democrat controlled media?

At a national level, we see all kinds of YouTube channels, blogs, and other publications that wear their ideology on their shirtsleeves. National issues draw a national audience, which means it is easier to attract an audience large enough to support the effort.

What is needed though, are local media outlets to inform and provide perspectives other than what the local powers want to provide the populace. For me, all of the local media is dominated by Democrats. One tv station even ran a weekly segment on information feed them by a Democrat activist group. They pump up every single Democrat issue and event. While the in the closet bias is annoying, the bigger problem is that legislation at the state and local level is not covered in any depth.

For a local person to set up a media outlet to cover local issues it is extremely tough. It takes a lot of time to do research and sit in meetings. To be successful, it also needs to include topics other than politics. Because it would be a local outlet, the potential audience is much smaller and so is the potential revenue.

I see a few challenges:
– Time
– Expertise
– Funding
– Staff
– Training

Democrats use an extensive network of organizations that provide funding and training. It is time for those of us to the right to do the same thing. Instapundit always talks about wealthy donors buying a women’s magazine instead of giving money to a candidate. Helping local publications get off the ground can have a lot of impact too.

It could be that there are existing funding available through grant programs, I haven’t looked into it, which would be a really subversive way to get funding considering these programs are usually focused on media left of progressive.

We think three things will do this rabble in. First, outside their self-selected institutional precincts, they are by no means a majority– probably three-eighths at most, more likely 20 – 25%. Second, for obvious reasons, everything they touch is doomed to fail; while some few ineffably corrupt charlatans and knaves will feather nests, despite vast self-esteem most lumpen adherents will live selfish, squalid, louche and unrequited lives. And finally, third: Where everything from blighted academia to flat-out lying media; treacherously malfeasant corporations, censorious publishers; soulless churches and radical-extremist partisan-political poseurs, seek safety by suppressing all dissent– behold Goliath, shambling to a fall.

“We do not think the house will fall, but we do think it will cease to be divided” (Lincoln). Let’s face it: For all their jejeune posturing, PCBS types are notoriously ignorant, incurious, incapable of dealing with reality. Having failed, failed miserably, in November 2016, the country’s Deep State subversives, depraved popcult, reigning clerisy will enter self-exile, rendered terminally irrelevant by the very asininities they so fulsomely profess.

“[Today] is a moment that demands courage in the face of the braying of Social Justice Warriors on the internet and within your own offices. But that is in short supply.”

This is apparently cited as a conclusion based upon your earlier observation in your column:

“The real problem is with the inability of Americans, both on the left and the right, to come to grips with this hateful subculture and its intolerant ways. People simple (sic) do not wish to believe that this subculture really and sincerely plans to do harm to its political opponents. They continue to view them as nothing more than another political movement expressing its opinions.”

Why?

Why is this so difficult to comprehend? Domenech lists in his column the institutions that the left long ago sought to dominate – academia (which he neglects to point out includes all of grade school, K-12), the entire spectrum of public media (movies, television, radio, the internet, print media) and culture (art, music, literature), the legal profession and pretty much the entire public bureaucracy – local, state and federal.

Since they have, indeed, succeeded, please take a moment to consider the totality of their political and cultural power.

And every single one of these institutions that has been won by the left is deliberately used to either program or force the common folks to conform to leftist principles. This has been the leftist plan for close to 100 years and its success is well within sight. The only thing mildly surprising about it all is that – like Victor von Doom’s blurting out of his plans for world domination right before he tries to kill off a team of superheroes – the election of Trump has prompted the left to strip off its mask of alleged benevolence and has begun to openly reveal its real plans for the world to the world.

And while the left’s insidious corruption of our nation’s institutions has proceeded apace over the last several decades, the only action that the right as a whole has taken it upon itself is to screech impotently about the excesses of the institutions – but never to challenge their existence from First Principles.

This is why courage is in short supply, Mr. Domenech. You have a much harder job than you think: the People cannot, from a fundamental, foundational standpoint, morally justify rebelling against the rules and the laws that the leftist Establishment have created when the right has tacitly accepted them.

Why?

Courage, per se, is not the issue – that is, the courage to confront our intellectual enemies on a tangible or an intellectual battlefield. No, the “courage” that the right needs is a different kind. The courage the right needs is not the conviction of its arguments; the left is wrong but it has conviction in spades. So this isn’t about how passionately one holds an idea; it’s about whether the ideas are just – or not.

Indeed, the right needs to understand what ethical values it should be fighting for. It needs to understand what was the political and the ethical justification for America as it was originally (and correctly) conceived, how leftism is acting to destroy these values and why the values of the Founders are a moral good that every American should strive to embrace.

But the right hasn’t understood its own ethics or politics for decades – as in 80 to 100 years. Indeed, the political right long ago accepted the fundamentals of leftist ethics as a legitimate moral goal. And since then, basically, the conflicts of the right vis-a-vis the left have merely been disagreements with some of the left’s particular applications of those ethics via politics (e.g., using public funds for abortions.)

You name the change in founding political principles and the right has had a great big helping hand in it: creation of the Federal Reserve, trust-busting, publicly funded education, the establishment of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, public-sector unions, etc. The right has never been morally opposed these programs. Rather, the right has seen them fundamentally as has the left: morally necessary, although for slightly different – but similar – reasons.

Ultimately though, the right’s answer to “Who can morally be against universal healthcare, public education, giving dignity and economic independence to the poor and the elderly, public safety, the regulation of entrenched economic powers, etc.?” is “Not us!”, which is an overt capitulation to leftist ethics. Despite the unprecedented economic success during the first 125 years of America’s existence, the right failed to understand the importance of the left’s argument from a moral perspective and not only lost to their ethical inferiors but, invariably, they embraced their ideals. Unfortunately, the GOPe has been around for a lot longer than people realize.

By accepting the moral goals of the left, the right also accepted the moral justification for the State being a master that should necessarily “take care of” its citizens – from public education to publicly subsidized healthcare to public pensions to “regulation” of every aspect of their economic lives. As such, one shouldn’t wonder why the political right cannot stop deficit spending any more than will the left. And this is why you never see the right, when it has the rare political opportunity, repeal allegedly “unjust” laws (e.g., Obamacare) rammed through by the left or attempt to dismantle the organs of the State.

From a modern rightist’s standpoint on socialist America, what’s the point of going to war with the left if you agree with them on fundamental philosophic principles? Why would a rightist invest moral, political or economic capital in an endeavor that challenges… what, exactly? What is the right allegedly fighting for that is fundamentally different than the left, politically? A smaller welfare state is still a welfare state – and make no mistake: the vast majority of the folks on the right, quite emphatically, stands for a substantial welfare state of some kind.

This is why the right cannot – and will not – believe that the left will do them harm. I mean, we all basically agree on the same things, so they can’t really be a threat, eh? They don’t really mean “us”, right? Yet they think this despite the right’s allegedly dogmatic belief – as typified by Kevin Williamson – that abortion is the murder of helpless innocents.

But they won’t do us harm. Of course not. Right?

Talk about your “cognitive dissonance”.

Until the right rejects the ethics of the left – i.e., socialism – that they, in fact, currently embrace, they’ll never have the ability to fight it. The courage that they need, Mr. Domenech, is the courage to admit that they were wrong. I will believe that the right is finally rejecting leftism when they begin to see the left for what it is: the enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Nlb_qRoeg

Blogs and websites are free or very inexpensive.

Rivers flow from raindrops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html

” “You cannot possibly imagine the size of this,” said a Q dispatch last month. “Trust the plan. Trust there are more good than bad.” Q almost certainly doesn’t know any state secrets, but he, she, or they understand that some fervent Trump supporters require more reassurance than they’re willing to admit.

Their desperate conviction that they will be proven right about Trump betrays a secret fear that they will be proven wrong.”

This “Q” narrative is an interesting twist to this entire very complex and well known by all reading this about this story that has played out in the last 30 years in American politics and society.

Why is the NYT’s paying attention to this “Q” narrative? Are they just as needy and scared as they accuse the Right of being? A little unsure of themselves because they know and understand that much of the corruption and perversion is true and they fear it being revealed and dealt with?

Time will tell the tale.

Scaramouche: My answer to applying Newton’s Second Law, as you put it, was to create this webpage. Here, I no longer have to beg an editor to publish my work. Here, I no longer have to search for a venue that would even consider it. Here, I no longer have to fight with editors who don’t like my perspective and try to force me to write their opinions instead.

And here, I can publish anything, even items that I know are interesting, such as the cool space images I periodically post, that no other publication would bother with.

The feeling of freedom I felt the first week after I established BtB was incredible. More conservatives should do it. And more conservatives should act to support every conservative who does.

I agree. Look at brave Lindsay Shepard’s description of having thought of herself as a Leftist and her leaving the Left – https://ace.mu.nu/archives/374650.php.

I like to think this drama can, and should, fall under Newton’s Second Law of Motion, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” I say, “Can, and should, fall,” as the conservatives and Republicans have not always allowed the Second Law to come into play. They played nice and didn’t want to fight.

But now it is largely out of the hands of the elite. Look at the Never Trumpers losing their hold. The Left has taken a brutal loss with the exposure of Fake News. True, they always fight all the harder when they are out of power. And it appears their hold over many institutions is firm.

What we conservatives need to explore and offer are the ways Newton’s Second Law of Motion can be applied. Prager U is one huge avenue (and not just cheering on the YouTube lawsuit). What are other “Prager Universities” that can be developed for other institutions.

I would be curious to learn what other readers think.

Eventually, a response must take a form other than talk.

This is why I say that the problem is that people are stupid, and their stupidity is off the charts, and what we need are much bigger charts.

I did not know what McConnel said, if true then he perfectly supports my contention that the Senate will not allow just anyone to judge / prosecute them or a former member of their most powerful, most exclusive club. Sessions is not in his position for no reason.

McConnel through his wife’s family is heavily connected to the Chinese government, I suspect that connection made him a very rich man.

Remember, its S.O.M., all night and day long in the leadership of the Congress and the Senate. They only want the people think think they are at some level Pedestrian, but in reality they exist in the gray Political realm.

Thank you, I forgot to add the resolution that must take place if #1 is not so, Sessions must be fired and replaced with a patriot. (Good luck getting a true patriot installed as Attorney General if Sessions refuses to do what must be done. The most exclusive club on the planet, the Senate, where many of the strings of guilt and double dealing will lead right to their office doors will be very particular in who they allow to judge them. Ah, Politics, the dirtiest, filthiest most corrupt game humans play.)

While this Horowitz / Huber investigation remains under cover and in the more gray political arena we can not quite see how or when it reverts to the Pedestrian realm where law, consequence and reconciliation must at some level rule. I suspect that in about 2 to 3 weeks we should know a bit more? But that is just a guess on my part.

But as we all know, while the Mueller investigation continues this may all be an issue.

I think there is a possibly a #3 as well: The Dems have something on Sessions, or someone he cares about, that is bad enough that he has to follow their orders to the point of not being able to resign. The PTB(power that be) want Trump to fire him.

Those of us to the right tend to get an eyeful of all of the marxist craziness and can see not only the historical associations but the connections between various incidents. Does the average Democrat know what is going on in college, on the streets, and in the halls of power? Do they rationalize it all away as isolated incidents? Are they ignorant of the ideological foundations of the Democrat base? Do they not understand that capitalism, our natural rights, and individualism have lifted humanity up out of the mud?

Most people don’t care about politics and don’t have time to keep up on everything. On top of that, one really needs to go out of their way to find what the media keeps hidden when it comes to Democrat activism.

My personal experience is that many Democrats don’t like a lot of the policies or views put forward by their base but they totally buy into the identity politics. They view Democrats as being cool and want to be cool themselves. They view Democrats as fighting injustice, which not only gives them purpose in a life without religion but also creates the view point that because they are against something that the other must be for it. And when the cultural marxism jumps from the campus into daily life, they just go along without thinking.

They hold a lot of stereotypes and have rewritten history to create false narratives. Many are ignorant of who freed the slaves and started the KKK and the ones that do know go through mental gymnastics to claim everyone switched sides. They think quoting a bible verse means slavery was Christian doctrine while ignoring that Christians freed the slaves and that progressive moral busy bodies banning alcohol was really Christian doctrine.

At every turn they change objective history in order to support their modern narrative and when they do this they always hold their modern political opponents as responsible for things their own party did in the past. Then the scapegoating leads to collective punishment.