There are many issues where we may disagree with Robert Kennedy Jr., the weaponization of COVID fear is not one of them. In this short video Robert Kennedy Jr, a passionate advocate against forced vaccinations of all types, talks about how professional politicians will lie to create the underlying source of their power, dependency. WATCH:
[Transcript] “My father told me when I was a child: people in authority lie. If we are going to continue to live in a democracy we need to understand that people in authority lie.
People in authority will abuse every power that we relinquish to them and right now we are giving them the power to micro-manage every bit of our lives, 24 hours a day.
They’re going to know where we are, they’re going to know the money that we spend, they’re going to have access to our children. They’re going to have the right to compel unwanted medical interventions on us.
You know, the NAZI’s did that in the camps, in World War 2—they tested the vaccines on Gypsies and Jews. And the world was so horrified after the war that we signed the Nuremburg Charter and we all pledged when we do that, we would never again impose unwanted medical interventions on human beings without informed consent. And yet in two years all of that conviction has suddenly disappeared, and people are walking around in masks where the science has not been explained to them—they are doing what they’re told.
These government agencies are orchestrating obedience and it is not democratic—it’s not the product of democracy. It’s the product of a pharmaceutical-driven, bio-security agenda that will enslave the entire human race and plunge us into a dystopian nightmare where the apocalyptical forces of ignorance and greed will be running our lives and ruining our children and destroying all the dreams and dignity that we hope to give to our children.”
Re-Posted from the Canada Free Post by By Ray DiLorenzo Bio and Archives—December 19, 2020
As Thomas Paine said in 1776, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” And so it is today. There is a ghostly silence in every corner of the country as the nation waits to see what will come about as a result of how this election was conducted. Too many questions, too many occurrences of foul play, too many people coming forward with horror stories, too many alienated voters, too many states that went their own way. All from six states that just happen to be battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin.
A new report on the election was just released, The Navarro Report. It’s a comprehensive report that found that six states engaged in most, if not all, of the irregularities. They detected clear cases of outright fraud, ballot mishandling, contestable process fouls, equal protection clause violations, voting machine irregularities, and significant statistic anomalies. Included in the account are reports in all six states of excessive voter turnout, at times exceeding 100%.
“This was theft by a thousand cuts across six dimensions and six battleground states rather than any single ‘silver bullet’ election irregularity.”
The report contends that the patterns of election irregularities observed “…are so consistent across the six battleground states that they suggest a coordinated strategy to, if not steal the election, then to strategically game the election process in such a way as to unfairly tilt the playing field in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket.”
As the report states, “This was theft by a thousand cuts across six dimensions and six battleground states rather than any single ‘silver bullet’ election irregularity.”
The one dimension not mentioned in the report was what allowed so much of the fraud to take place…a manufactured pandemic. Democrats are luxuriating in this pandemic, exploiting it to the full. They seem to love the diversion, the chaos, the tyranny and control they are engaging in, watching millions of people’s livelihoods disappear, the middle class being destroyed. And they keep it alive, announcing no changes even after the vaccine is introduced. They regularly ignore their very own directives, knowing the flimflam they created for over 99.8% of the people. Oh, how intoxicating is the power they are exercising. They used it to fight for and get millions of mail-in ballots that ended up being floated around in every direction. The Democrats probably can’t believe their luck, and how stupid their opposition is, allowing such a scheme, especially when every state already had a mail-in absentee ballot system.
It has become obvious to many of us, probably to the majority of this nation, that even before this report was released, that this election was stolen, and with foreign influence. It was corrupted by an establishment with total disregard for ‘We The People’, and the Constitution of the United States. They want what they want, have skin and rice bowls in the game and are determined to have the election their way. The people be damned.
Except for the majority of legal voters, President Trump has few institutions on his side. That is to be expected since so many of those same institutions are so thoroughly corrupt. The perpetrators, the traitors, are presently in deep cover in the media, the bureaucracy, Big Tech, and the Democrat Party, hiding in the swamp, or is it a polluted ocean? They will propagandize 24/7 against Donald Trump as they have done every day of his candidacy and presidency, never giving him a moments peace. To them, Trump is a man who presumed too much. The established order will never recognize an outsider, a man who owes no favors. President Trump must ignore their gauntlet of indignation. And now the Democrats, with their legendary audacity, are calling for unity, and for us to forget their thievery. It’s akin to the most vicious kind of political melodrama, as we wait for the traitors to get their comeuppance, a divine frenzy.
The Democrats have also shown that their accomplices, Antifa and BLM, will burn cities down if any court or congressional action attempts to reverse the election
As is typical of Democrat political moves, they frequently go too far. This time they have gone over the cliff in their determination to be rid of Trump. In their zeal to remove this president, they have planned and executed a coup d’etat, thereby committing treason. They made complicit the naive people below them in the same capital crime. The Democrats have also shown that their accomplices, Antifa and BLM, will burn cities down if any court or congressional action attempts to reverse the election. For a party accustomed to implementing shakedowns, this will be the most outrageous act of extortion in U.S. history.
Our founders prepared us for such an event. It’s called the Insurrection Act and Martial Law. If the counting of the electoral votes on January 6 does not amend what has been so wrongly done to the American people, if there is no honor to be found, we will call for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare Martial Law. We will also ask that all patriots stand behind him. This will have little effect on the common citizen, but it will remove the cloak the traitors are hiding behind. Once arrests ensue, these conspirators will sing like birds and it will go to the very top.
The people will be protected. In fact, this action will protect the people of this nation against an active domestic enemy determined to destroy our nation as founded. We cannot allow a corrupt, unethical, debauched group of political operatives to take control of this nation. No amount of reporting of a Biden win from the news media will make it right. Corruption has gone mainstream. The cancer has metastasized. Ronald Reagan said, “The price of freedom is high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom.”
To all the public servants ready to purchase our slavery for their safety, we say, Go To Hell.
he title above is wishful thinking without which it would read “America’s 21st Century Demise”.
The choice between the road leading to awaking v. demise is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
It alone is the last hope for justice in a Presidential election that was thoroughly corrupted by a political party whose hatred for President Trump, based solely on what he’s been trying to do, has led to extremes only short of assassination.
The mayors of many Big Blue Cities have, by their inaction, become the facilitators of that economic destruction
The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1824 and 1876, post-12th Amendment, were dicey, but 2020 eclipses both and is the new standard for election corruption.
If left to stand, the Biden-Harris administration will usher in a dark age to the land of the once free and brave.
The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag will no longer align with “the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all”. That will be exposed as a complete lie.
If the division within the nation matched the geographical alignment of the 1861-1865 American Civil War, the shooting would have already started. But because it doesn’t, this is, to date, an unarmed division.
The focus of hostility has been centered in the downtown commercial centers of several Big Blue Cities where the windows of high-end national chain stores have been smashed, along with many small businesses—the biggest losers in the economic carnage to date.
The mayors of many Big Blue Cities have, by their inaction, become the facilitators of that economic destruction. And, their citizens have, to date, shown little interest in their mayoral and city council negligence. Their police back away from law enforcement, not because they want to, but because they are so ordered.
In the midst of a pandemic of clear origin but unidentified motive, 2020 will be the year when the unity of America, already seriously damaged by four years of constant hatred toward what Trump has done, driven by the Democratic Party and the legacy liberal media, kept the anger pot boiling.
America at the intersection of freedom and tyranny
Then came the desperate, long-planned operation to rig the 2020 election. Which brings the nation to a critical intersection.
One path, where the fraudulent election of Biden-Harris (with the eventual elevation of Harris as POTUS) stands, will take America to its Demise, with a sudden slide into increased federal government intrusion into the lives and freedoms of American citizens.
As that happens, the nation will become increasingly vulnerable to its international enemies—as the new administration tells us those enemies are imaginary. Ironically, those words will come out of the mouths of the same people who, for four years, screamed that Russia helped Trump steal the 2016 election.
Those same people now say there was no international interference in the 2020 election. Meanwhile, many literate Democrat voters echo that claim, and call for unity. As if calling for it will bring it.
All that, and more, awaits America down one of the roads at the intersection of freedom and tyranny.
The other path continues America’s 21st Century Awakening.
Before there was a President Trump, we seldom considered the insidious and corruptive influence of “the Swamp.” If mentioned at all, it was pooh-poohed by the left and its useful idiots—the “independents”.
In a nation based on the freedom of the individual, “independents” who align with the enemies of a democrat republic are merely tyrannists-lite.
Both the Swamp and the Deep State are now recognized realities to tens of millions
The “Deep State,” once a term discredited by those employed in it, is now acknowledged by roughly half the nation as accurately descriptive.
Both the Swamp and the Deep State are now recognized realities to tens of millions.
One is a metaphor for the quagmire of corruption where those who leach a living off of federal taxes swim in the darkness of government bureaucracies and institutions too deep for many elected officials, and all average citizens, to know and influence.
Awareness has come in the last four years, thanks to Donald Trump. He was unafraid to out America’s internal enemies. After Dwight David Eisenhower, all the U.S. President’s before Trump were complicit by their silence. Ike warned the nation of the “military industrial complex” on his way out of the White House. He knew the danger of the Deep State.
Trump awakened a significant part of the American citizenry to the level of corruption most Americans could not see, because they had not been shown.
That genie of awareness cannot be put back into the bottle. Not now—not ever.
The days of children wanting to grow up to be “G-men” (G-people for the PC crowd) are over.
If the Court fails to validate that pledge, then will come the Demise of America into some form of Civil War
The general respect for the “intelligence community,” as though it was a collection of fearless truth seekers who met together for seasonal pot-luck dinners at the local park to play softball and take a break from safe-guarding Americans from foreign attacks (like 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing) has evaporated.
Now we know that elections—one person one vote—offer a technological free-fire zone for corruption. There’s nothing and no one to stop it.
All that remains to retain credibility to the pledge of “liberty and justice for all,” and the legitimacy of elections, is the Supreme Court of the United States.
If the Court fails to validate that pledge, then will come the Demise of America into some form of Civil War.
A report has come out from a clerk in the Supreme Court describing what took place when the Texas case came up. Chief Justice Roberts said he did not give a “f–k” about precedent. He refused to accept the case claiming “we have riots” which in fact the entire Black Lives Matter movement has been protesting the very immunity police have been given not by Congress, but by the Supreme Court. It is the Court that has blood on its hands for creating immunity that was complained of in the Declaration of Independence.
Chief Justice Roberts swore an oath to defend the Constitution. He has abandoned that oath and is a disgrace to the nation. He has condemned the country to the rise in civil unrest that may even rise to the level of breaking the country apart. Civilization = rule of law. He has abandoned countless centuries of precedent which distinguishes tyranny from civilization.
More than 2000 years ago, Thrasymachus warned Socrates that there is no justice. It is always the will of those in power regardless if it is a democracy, aristocracy, or a tyrannical form of government. Justice Roberts is a disgrace to the entire Western Civilization. He should step down. He has violated his oath of office and is no longer qualified to sit in that court! He should go down as the second Justice to be impeached. The only Justice to be impeached was Associate Justice Samuel Chase in 1805. The House of Representatives passed Articles of Impeachment against him; however, he was acquitted by the Senate. He acted like a prosecutor rather than a judge. Nonetheless, the impeachment raised important constitutional questions over the nature of the judiciary. It was the termination of a series of efforts to expand judicial independence under the Constitution. The dispute also defined the limits of the impeachment power. What Chief Justice Roberts has violated was clearly the prohibition of the judiciary from engaging in partisan politics and confined judicial independence which Roberts has ignored.
Sidney Powell’s filings at the Supreme Court for Georgia and Michigan were given a response date of January 14th which means they then claim it is untimely and Biden will be sworn in on the 20th. Once again they are using procedures to avoid the issues raised and are now protecting the Deep State.
Meanwhile, Arizona and Wisconsin were immediately rejected by the clerk without explanation. This is really now treason against the United States. This is time that the Judiciary Act of 1925 MUST be presented as unconstitutional. Every Supreme Court Justice takes two oaths and they MUST defend the constitution. Claiming they have “discretion” means they no longer need to defend the constitution and they have left the country in the same position as for the civil war. Instead of ruling for or against which would at least raise the hope of claiming the storm, they have left the people to sort this out by nothing but violence which our computer has been projecting.
In an internet poll asking did Biden win, the responses are so skewed to “NO” it is indicative of what we will face. This is an international disgrace and the Supreme Court has shown it no longer can be trusted to defend the Constitution. If Trump is wrong, then just rule that way and end the rising hostility. Avoiding this issue that confirms we even have a real right to vote is a confirmation that the Supreme Court is no longer valid.
It was the Supreme Court that created immunity for police, politicians, and prosecutors along with judges out of thin air claiming they could not do their job if they could be sued. The Entire Black Lives Matter movement has been played for fools. The Democrats could have passed a law removing that immunity in 15 minutes. Instead, they have exploited the racial tension for political purposes and allowed the defunding of police to take place instead of correcting the wrong created by the Supreme Court.
Civilization cannot exist without the rule of law. The Supreme Court could have easily ruled it was insufficient evidence to show there was a fraud and this the election thus stands. Avoiding the issue indicates that they did not want the evidence to surface and are thus also conspiring against the people to end our liberty which was granted by the Founding Fathers. Refusing to rule can no only be seen as not wanting to address the evidence because it is serious. For the left press and the Democrats to even claim there was no fraud is a blatant lie. EVERY election has fraud. Dead people have been voting all the time. The honest thing to say is that the fraud DID NOT rise to the level of changing the outcome. That would at least be an argument. Claiming this is no fraud is a cover-up.
History will mark this decision, like Dread Scott, that in the absence of the rule of law, there is no government remaining and we are not the “people” but just the Great Unwashed. They are ruling against democracy just as John Kerry said. Trump appealed to “populism” and Kerry expressed it best for how the elite thinks of us:
“It’s really dangerous to play to the lowest common denominator of American, of global political life.” (Source: Yahoo)
What’s next? The Supreme Court will rule against the Second Amendment claiming the Founding Fathers were drunk and never intended to allow the Great Unwashed to possess any guns to prevent a revolution? After these maneuvers, the Supreme Court has lost all its integrity. The courts in America have become part of the Deep State.
The New York lawsuit against the Trump administration -over disqualification of unlawful aliens in the 2020 election- was dismissed today by the Supreme Court [full pdf here] under procedural grounds.
However, that said, there is a clear indication where the outcome is likely to end-up once the court takes up the case next year.
The high court noted no harm currently exists because the census report hasn’t been delivered to congress to begin the representative apportionment.
The ruling was 6-3 on process, with justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer signing a dissent on the case. Justice Breyer wanted to fire a shot into the administration by outlining a liberal opinion/perspective of the issue:
…”The plain meaning of the governing statutes, decades of historical practice, and uniform interpretations from all three branches of Government demonstrate that aliens without lawful status cannot be excluded from the decennial census solely on account of that status,” Breyer wrote. “The Government’s effort to remove them from the apportionment base is unlawful, and I believe this Court should say so.”
Beyond the liberal argument this majority part should alarm everyone:
[…] “Everyone agrees by now that the Government cannot feasibly implement the memorandum by excluding the estimated 10.5 million aliens without lawful status,” the opinion later said. “Yet the only evidence speaking to the predicted change in apportionment unrealistically assumes that the President will exclude the entire undocumented population.” (read more)
In essence what the court is saying is they will not support unlawful aliens being excluded from the census and, as a consequence, congressional representation. It is just too early for them to decide because the harm has not been incurred.
This is an alarming position when cast against the recent SCOTUS decisions on 2020 election. Texas has no standing to file suit based on harm from election fraud, the voices of Texas voters are moot to the court; and now the same court is saying any unlawful alien residing in the United States should be granted a voice in government.
The Democrats certainly appear to have a compromising situation with Chinese spies inside their political network that extends well beyond Representative Eric Swalwell and Senator Dianne Fienstein. The California delegation of Democrats most certainly has the biggest exposure to having been infiltrated with Chinese operatives. It is all sketchy.
Think carefully about this part….. As noted in this interview segment Nancy Pelosi is claiming she was briefed on the Chinese spy compromise around Swalwell with McCarthy. However, simultaneously House Leader Kevin McCarthy states he found out through the media. Keep in mind McCarthy has only been part of the ‘Gang of Eight’ since Jan 2019 (he as minority leader and Pelosi taking over from Paul Ryan as House Speaker).
A Pelosi briefing prior to 2019 was in her role as Minority leader with Ryan as speaker (Nunes/Schiff as Chair/Ranking on HPSCI). Therefore either Pelosi was briefed outside the Go8 structure, or she is lying about briefing with McCarthy. While Pelosi is a notorious liar, the former explanation of a defensive briefing seems more likely.
That means U.S. intelligence officials during the Obama administration kept the Swalwell compromise secret and outside the Gang-of-Eight. Accepting that reality is further evidence the U.S. intel apparatus -writ large- was operating through the prism of politics.
I respect Dinesh D’Souza. However, on this issue I also disagree intensely.
The foundation of D’Souza’s reason for why he does not support a new political party, a MAGA or Patriot or (__fill in blank__) party, appears flawed. By saying a new party would only split the GOP, D’Souza is actually making the argument that creates Battered Conservative Syndrome; the DeceptiCon argument that protects the GOP wing. WATCH:
When the Tea Party rose to power and primaried a host of GOP politicians, it was the Republican party that attacked the conservative base and attempted to destroy the rebellion. McCain called us “hobbits” and McConnell called us “jihadists.” The threat from the Tea Party was felt amid the GOP. The GOP was *not* going to adjust.
Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama destroyed the center of their political party called the Blue Dog coalition, represented by Bart Stupak. The Blue Dogs were wiped out in 2010 because Democrats forced them into radical left-wing agenda items.
A new party, ie. ‘THE’ new party, would not be a carve out within the Republican club. A new party would be a coalition party of Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Need proof of the scale, look at the 2020 election for Trump. That’s the (fill__blank) party.
A new party would be a SECOND party to the UniParty occupants currently pushing more big government in Washington DC. The fact that we have decades worth of evidence (Patriot Act, Wall Street Lobbyists, K-St. etc.), and specifically the past ten years (omnibus spending bills, limitless debt ceiling, massive wasted stimulus, political bailouts, QE1/QE2, Obamacare, college tuition takeover etc.) shows that both Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same big government bird.
The fear of “splitting the GOP” is the weaponized talking point of the GOP leadership who use that fear as a weapon to remain in power. Those who listen to that threat are suffering from battered conservative syndrome.
There is nothing conservative about expanding government, spending into oblivion, allowing open borders and simultaneously removing liberty and freedom. What exactly is being “conserved”? CTH has been making this argument for years.
2015 – A few days ago I took the time to read Jonah Goldberg’s expressed concerns about the support for Donald Trump and the state of current conservative opinion.
Toward that end I have also noted additional GOP media present a similar argument, and I took the time to consider.
While we are of far lesser significance and influence, I hope you will consider this retort with the same level of consideration afforded toward your position.
The challenging aspect to your expressed opinion, and perhaps why there is a chasm between us, is you appear to stand in defense of a Washington DC conservatism that no longer exists.
I hope you will indulge these considerations and correct me where I’m wrong.
On December 23rd 2009 Harry Reid passed a version of Obamacare through forced vote at 1:30am. The Senators could not leave, and for the two weeks previous were kept in a prolonged legislative session barred returning to their home-state constituencies. It was, by all measures and reality, a vicious display of forced ideological manipulation of the upper chamber. I share this reminder only to set the stage for what was to follow.
Riddled with anxiety we watched the Machiavellian manipulations unfold, seemingly unable to stop the visible usurpation. Desperate for a tool to stop the construct we found Scott Brown and rallied to deliver $7 million in funding, and a “Kennedy Seat” victory on January 19th 2010.
Unfortunately, the trickery of Majority Leader Harry Reid would not be deterred. Upon legislative return he stripped a House Budgetary bill, and replaced it with the Democrat Senate version of Obamacare through a process of “reconciliation”. Thereby avoiding the 3/5ths vote rule (60) and instead using only a simple majority, 51 votes.
Angered, we rallied to the next election (November 2010) and handed the usurping Democrats the single largest electoral defeat in the prior 100 years. The House returned to Republican control, and one-half of the needed Senate seats reversed. Within the next two election cycles (’12 and ’14) we again removed the Democrats from control of the Senate.
Within each of those three elections we were told Repealing Obamacare would be job #1. It was not an optional part of our representative agreement to do otherwise. From your own writing:
[…] If you want a really good sense of the damage Donald Trump is doing to conservatism, consider the fact that for the last five years no issue has united the Right more than opposition to Obamacare. Opposition to socialized medicine in general has been a core tenet of American conservatism from Day One. Yet, when Republicans were told that Donald Trump favors single-payer health care, support for single-payer health care jumped from 16 percent to 44 percent. (link)
With control of the House and Senate did Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or House Speaker John Boehner use the same level of severity expressed by Harry Reid to put a repeal bill on the desk of Obama for veto? Simply, NO.
Why not? According to you it’s the “core tenet of American conservatism”.
If for nothing but to accept and follow the will of the people. Despite the probability of an Obama veto, this was not a matter of option. While the method might have been “symbolic”, due to the almost guaranteed veto, it would have stood as a promise fulfilled.
Yet you speak of “core tenets” and question our “trust” of Donald Trump?
We are not blind to the maneuverings of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and President Tom Donohue. We are fully aware the repeal vote did not take place because the U.S. CoC demanded the retention of Obamacare.
Leader McConnell followed the legislative priority of Tom Donohue as opposed to the will of the people. This was again exemplified with the passage of TPPA, another Republican construct which insured the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal could pass the Senate with 51 votes instead of 3/5ths.
We are not blind to the reality that when McConnell chooses to change the required voting threshold he is apt to do so. Not coincidentally, the TPP trade deal is another legislative priority of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Yet you question the “trustworthiness” of Donald Trump’s conservatism?
Another bill, the Iran “agreement”, reportedly and conveniently not considered a “treaty”, again we are not blind. Nor are we blind to Republican Bob Corker’s amendment (Corker/Cardin Amendment) changing ratification to a 67-vote-threshold for denial, as opposed to a customary 67 vote threshold for passage. A profound difference.
Yet you question the “ideological conservative principle” of Donald Trump?
Perhaps your emphasis is on the wrong syllable. Perhaps you should be questioning the “ideological conservative principle” of Mitch McConnell, or Bob Corker; both of whom apparently working to deny the will of the electorate within the party they are supposed to represent. Of course, this would force you to face some uncomfortable realities. I digress.
Another example – How “conservative” is Lisa Murkowski?
A senator who can lose her Republican primary bid, yet run as a write-in candidate, and return to the Senate with full seniority and committee responsibilities?
Did Reince Preibus (then RNC Chair), or a republican member of leadership meet the returning Murkowski and demand a Pledge of Allegiance to the principles within the Republican party?
Yet you question the “allegiances” of Donald Trump?
Perhaps within your purity testing you need to forget minority leader Mitch McConnell working to re-elect Senator Thad Cochran, fundraising on his behalf in the spring/summer of 2014, even after Cochran lost the first Mississippi primary?
Perhaps you forget the NRSC spending money on racist attack ads? Perhaps you forget the GOP paying Democrats to vote in the second primary to defeat Republican Chris McDaniel. The “R” in NRSC is “Republican”.
Perhaps you forget. We do not.
Yet you question the “principle” of those who have had enough, and are willing to support candidate Donald Trump.
You describe yourself as filled with anxiety because such supporters do not pass some qualified “principle” test? Tell that to the majority of Republicans who supported Chris McDaniel and found their own party actively working against them.
Principle? You claim “character matters” as part of this consideration. Where is the “character” in the fact-based exhibitions outlined above?
Remember Virginia 2012, 2013? When the conservative principle-driven electorate changed the method of candidate selection to a convention and removed the party stranglehold on their “chosen candidates”. Remember that? We do.
What did McConnell, the RNC and the GOP do in response with Ken Cuccinelli, they actively spited him and removed funding from his campaign. To teach us a lesson? Well it worked, we learned that lesson.
Representative David Brat was part of that lesson learned and answer delivered. Donald Trump is part of that lesson learned and answer forthcoming – yet you speak of “character”.
You speak of being concerned about Donald Trump’s hinted tax proposals. Well, who cut the tax rates on lower margins by 50% thereby removing any tax liability from the bottom 20% wage earners? While simultaneously expanding the role of government dependency programs?
That would be the GOP (“Bush Tax Cuts”)
What? How dare you argue against tax cuts, you say. The “Bush Tax Cuts” removed tax liability from the bottom 20 to 40% of income earners completely. Leaving the entirety of tax burden on the upper 60% wage earners. Currently, thanks to those cuts, 49% of tax filers pay ZERO federal income tax.
But long term it’s much worse. The “Bush Tax Cuts” were, in essence, created to stop the post 9/11/01 recession – and they contained a “sunset provision” which ended ten years later specifically because the tax cuts were unsustainable.
The expiration of the lower margin tax cuts then became an argument in the election cycle of 2012. And as usual, the GOP, McConnell and Boehner were insufferably inept during this process.
The GOP (2002) removed tax liability from the lower income levels, and President Obama then (2009) lowered the income threshold for economic subsidy (welfare, food stamps, ebt, medicaid, etc) this was brutally predictable.
This lower revenue higher spending approach means – lower tax revenues and increased pressure on the top tax rates (wage earners) with the increased demand for tax spending created within the welfare programs. Republicans focus on the “spending” without ever admitting they, not the Democrats, lowered rates and set themselves up to be played with the increased need for social program spending, simultaneously.
Is this reality/outcome not ultimately a “tax the rich” program?
As a consequence what’s the difference between the Republicans and Democrats on taxes?
All of a sudden Republicans are arguing to “broaden the tax base”. Meaning, reverse the tax cuts they created on the lower income filers? This is a conservative position now? A need to “tax the poor”? Nice of the Republicans to insure the Democrats have an atomic sledgehammer to use against them.
This is a winning strategy? This is the “conservatism” you are defending because you are worried about Donald Trump’s principles, character or trustworthiness.
Here’s a list of those modern conservative “small(er) government” principles:
• Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
• Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
• Who gave us the TSA? The GOP
• Who gave us the Patriot Act? The GOP
• Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage? The GOP
• Who created the precursor of “Common Core” in “Race To the Top”? The GOP
• Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochran? The GOP
• Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary? The GOP
• Who refused to support Ken Cuccinnelli in Virginia? The GOP
• Who supported Charlie Crist? The GOP
• Who supported Arlen Spector? The GOP
• Who supported Bob Bennett? The GOP
• Who worked against Marco Rubio? The GOP
• Who worked against Rand Paul? The GOP
• Who worked against Ted Cruz? The GOP
• Who worked against Mike Lee? The GOP
• Who worked against Jim DeMint? The GOP
• Who worked against Ronald Reagan? The GOP
• Who said “I think we are going to crush [the Tea Party] everywhere.”? The GOP (McConnell)
• Who worked against Donald Trump? The GOP
And, you wonder why we’re frustrated, desperate for a person who can actually articulate some kind of push-back? Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are what the GOP give us?
SERIOUSLY?
Which leads to the next of your GOP talking points. Where you opine on Fox:
“Politics is a game where you don’t get everything you want”
Fair enough. But considering we of questionable judgment have simply been demanding common sense, ie. fiscal discipline, a BUDGET would be nice.
The last federal budget was passed in September of 2007, and EVERY FLIPPING INSUFFERABLE YEAR we have to go through the predictable fiasco of a Government Shutdown Standoff and/or a Debt Ceiling increase specifically because there is NO BUDGET!
That’s a strategy?
That’s the GOP strategy? Essentially: Lets plan for an annual battle against articulate Democrats and Presidential charm, using a creepy guy who cries and another old mumbling fool who dodders, knowing full well the MSM is on the side of the other guy to begin with?
THAT’S YOUR GOP STRATEGY? Don’t tell me it’s not, because if it wasn’t there’d be something else being done – there isn’t.
And don’t think we don’t know the 2009 “stimulus” became embedded in the baseline of the federal spending, and absent of an actual budget it just gets spent and added to the deficit each year, every year. Yet this is somehow smaller fiscal government?
On February 28, 2018, at Convocation, North America’s largest weekly gathering of Christian students, director, and actor Jim Caviezel shared in convocation how through the Passion of the Christ, and Paul: Apostle of Christ, he wants people to meet Jesus.
Within the session Mr. Caviezel took a moment to share his perspectives on the political challenges we face as a nation. Remembering back to President Ronald Reagan Caviezel had some thoughts for the audience that ring a particular resonance today: “Set yourselves apart from this corrupt generation”….
Prompted to 24:08 just hit play:
Borrowing from Mike Vanderboegh – “This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.
But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.
And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.”
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