“…the equivalent of the Borg.”

I am Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.

(Not original)

If we conservatives adopt narrow one-size fits all approaches, how are we anything but birds of another feather? If we stop listening to “others,” how is that liberty?

I realize being a moderate these days is considered a scarlet sin by many on the right (and maybe many here), but I’ll continue to think for myself and defend the right of all to participate.

Oh, me and my fellow LOCAL citizens look after our schools just fine! We don’t need California or Florida, Texas or New York to show us, nor tell us the way.

It is a bit like raising children. They must be closely watched as they slowly learn the realities of the world. In this case, the Democrats are the children, and they are ever so slowly learning the reality that their policies are fallacious. Letting boys pretend to be girls and then compete against girls does nothing but destroy the progress made with Title IX. The transgender movement has angered the gay and lesbian communities, because they have gone way too far and are now the discriminators.

Democrats and progressives thought they knew better healthcare, but Obamacare is a disaster and the recent Wuhan flu fiasco is being exposed for the cluster bleep that it was. They also think that they know more about running businesses than the businessmen, and now we have inflation, shortages, and still have ships offshore waiting to come into our undermanned ports. And the bad guys are still robbing trains in Los Angeles.

California’s railroads are so poorly run (undermanned?) that last month there was an emergency shipment of feed grain to Foster Farms to save the lives of tens of millions of chickens and turkeys, as well as tens of thousands of dairy cattle. This is what all that central-controlled governmental interference is doing to our formerly free-market system.

Democrats and progressives think that giveaway programs were the cat’s meow, but it only makes everyone dependent upon an ever-expanding, ever-more-expensive government, and it allows the lazy to be drags on the economy rather than contributors to the economy.

They think that wealth is the problem and must be distributed, but wealth — or more correctly: prosperity — is the solution. Prosperity does not come from gifts but from being productive for yourself and especially for others. When I make two spears for hunting and trade one with someone who made two baskets for gathering, then we are both better off, each with a spear and a basket, and each with a hunted rabbit and some gathered berries. But if the other guy can’t be bothered to make a basket, he probably won’t run out to hunt with the second spear, either, so I will probably have to share half the rabbit that I caught with my spear, and then we would each have half a rabbit and no berries (no basket to hold them). With the other guy being productive, we were both more prosperous, but with him living on my welfare, we are both poorer and suffering from shortages.

Somehow, we let the children (Democrats) play house and play businessman, but they have no idea what they are doing. When they play house they believe that if it feels good then do it and don’t worry about the consequences (which should be aborted anyway). When they play businessman they believe that business is for the sake of the employee, not the customer. The rest of us know better.

What is that famous quote? Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty? When and how did we stop being vigilant? Maybe it was when people started saying that “it can’t happen here in America.” Yet it is happening.

Unlike the war to end all wars, we can’t win just once, but we have to keep vigilant and make sure that we win all the following ones, too.

Therefore, it is my humble opinion that the repeated attempts at SWAT-ing at the residence of a member of Congress is an assassination attempt.

The left will not just break a few eggs to make an omelet. They will break 10-20-50.. throw in the hen, melt the frying pan, while setting fire to the kitchen and burning down the house.

A house divided cannot stand, you say. The left accepts those terms. They will rebuild a new shack in its place, all while dancing on your graves.

They’re evil but they’re not stupid. We’re stupid.

As a rather wise philosopher once observed:

1. In any conflict between two men (or two groups) who hold the same basic principles, it is the more consistent one who wins.

2. In any collaboration between two men (or two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins.

So who’s more consistent with their ideology – the Left or the Right? Who nominates Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton – AND also nominate Lisa Murkowski, Mehmet Oz, Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham?

Who collaborates with the other side – the Left or the Right? Say, for starters, which side leapt at the chance to contribute to helping to craft that new anti-2A bill that passed into law a few weeks ago – the Left or the Right? How’d that work out?

The Right’s fundamental error is that they think that they’re not responsible for this mess. The Right spews on about the “dangers” of socialism to whip up the base but they’re the ones that collaborate with the socialist state, if not outright endorse and contribute to its upkeep. In the past 100 years, the Right has united against one – just one – political crusade: Obamacare. Yet when they had the Congress and the presidency afterwards, they did NOTHING to repeal it — nothing. In ’94, they ran on term limits, won for the Congress for first time in over 40 years and failed to enact term limits. Since Nixon, federal spending typically increases MORE during Republican administrations than Democratic. Who’s more consistent? Which side collaborates with the other?

So, we “just fire” all of the “bad” principals, superintendents and teachers. Sure! Why hasn’t anyone thought of that before? Does the word “unions” mean anything to you, as in federal, state and local? Oh, so we just get rid of all public sector unions, you might reply. I agree. But HOW do the Republicans do it if they can’t muster enough support for term limits or to repeal Obamacare?

My point is: you can’t REFORM your way out of this. You can’t compromise your way to freedom. The Right can’t continue to participate in what it thinks of as “manageable” socialism with its attendant welfare state. This goes back to the first observation: what’s more consistent – partial socialism (i.e., I’m only going to give you some freebies) or total socialism (i.e., I’m going to give you everything for free)?

We have to strip it all down to the studs. There’s no way to make socialism “manageable”, Republicans. Once the State controls business, it controls YOU.

-Ronaldus Magnus.

(This must clearly be ended by the voters in November)

https://twitter.com/georgejoseph94/status/1562261221780463616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1562261221780463616%7Ctwgr%5E4f0cabddb741cd8b53f59e8a98c967b044571ff9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2022%2F08%2Fny-state-senate-democrat-primary-winner-kristen-gonzalez-really-proved-socialism-wins-video%2F

“We really proved that socialism wins! We are not going anywhere, and we will not stop until we see a socialist slate across this city!” Gonzalez shouted.

Gonzalez is a former intern for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

And why it that she lives in America and not in Peru? (That is a rhetorical question)

They are the equivalent of the Borg.

The “Inflation Reduction Act”? = The Democrat party machine 10 year finance fund as the public relieves them of their political power for a while.

https://youtu.be/FaIYPs7CPhk

Dave Ramsey: https://youtu.be/rMk7CKwJ8OM

This is an example of what is driving the bus in government administration.

FWIW:
Sean Carroll: Actual theoretician
Neil Degraded Tyson: Mike’s less articulate brother
Bill Nye: Carnival barker

That is failure from the perspective of an American that is. From the perspective of a philosophical Marist insurgent, he has done well. DeBlasio, who in all fairness was elected twice has in major ways destroyed the icon of America and capitalism, NYC.

He will profess at Harvard and finish the indoctrination of the young “Progressive” minds that the Democrat party machine needs to administer the corporations and the government in America to drag it down even further to “EQUALITY”.

Big picture success all depends on your perspective.

“Einstein married his 1st cousin.”

“So THAT’S why relativity and quantum mechanics produce weird results!!”

Thank you for the laugh. I’ve needed it.

Reality and probability have an uncertain relationship.

The Universe’s software engineers are totally failing us.

We’re not supposed to see the glitches.

“…dislike Tyson…”,
“… bill nye”…
“Sean Carroll…”

I actually respect Sean Carroll. I’ve trolled him relentlessly over the years. Just because he thinks too much of himself doesn’t mean he’s actually wrong.

I’m an a-hole. It’s what I do.

A-holes don’t deserve respect.

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Or ends it. Not there yet, by a long shot, but perhaps The People are agitated enough to consider alternatives. Like, well, you ever hear of a place called ‘America’?

So THAT’S why relativity and quantum mechanics produce weird results!!

Get a free pass.

I think what we’re both saying is that really smart people are not smart in everything they do. Einstein married his 1st cousin.

RZ allows comments.

Sagan was good at it, and I suspect he is more of a formal scientist. Kaku is good at it, and I suspect he is more of a formal scientist.

Kaku has a habit of putting everyone in their proper place when he professes and “explicates”, he slips in the distinction, “We Physisists” and exalts himself and his collogues. He cannot help himself, every time you see him.

But they are generally good at what they find themselves doing as Ricky Ricardo would say “Splaining things” to people :)

And while Tyson is probably just as Liberal (?) I really don’t know, I would never put him in the same company as the entirely useless Leftist, *X* hole DeBlasio. You know he decided to go in a different direction and find a way new to serve.

He will Teach. Oy.

“Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In his PhD dissertation, his second attempt, he surveyed stellar population types along the vertical axis of the Milky Way’s bulge. He observed and recorded stellar populations that differed by distance from the bulge’s center.

To my knowledge, he has published no other scholarly treatise. I haven’t really investigated such an assumption.

I do know that he has for many years been Hayden Planetarium’s Director. Having been a planetarium director myself, Mr. Tyson hasn’t actually been a professional astrophysicist for quite some time, if ever.

He is by profession a science explicator. He has made much more money for himself and his family than he would ever have made as a professional astrophysicist.

When asked, he claims he is by profession an astrophysicist. I’ve always wondered why he has always chosen not to define himself to others as a much more successful science explicator.

The ego is a harsh mistress.

GWG: You are correct. And you express exactly why Trump-endorsed candidates nationwide are doing so well. The public doesn’t want a go-along-to-get-along Republican Party any longer. In the past it might have naively looked the other way, or tolerated that childish gamesmanship, but today the public is quite sick and tired of it.

However, the new Trump candidates cannot be trusted. They must be watched incessantly, and dumped the second they begin to play the Washington game. There is no room any longer for that crap.

With one major flaw.
We allow our enemies to work from inside our boarders by law.
If we do not watch and work against them actively daily and just as vigorously as they work against us we eventually let them take power and take over.

Freedom of speech is a two edged sword. We must always use it to fight against the speech that threatens to bring us down.

We are far to powerful to fall to enemies from outside our nation but we must always watch and fight against enemies from within our boarders.