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Christmas Eve already?!? It snuck up on me, as usual.
Bill Whittle's "Tribes". On pjmedia...
There will come "A Time for Choosing", and if that may seem familiar, it certainly is. It is Ronald Reagan's famous
speech. I draw some ideas from that, and a few more from Whittle's essay.
Bill Whittle's piece came out after the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Shucks, I thought it came out after 9-11. This is how one's memories can trick you over time. The remarkable thing about that time is that President George W. Bush's reaction to the Democrats was rather pitiful.
Imo, it is important enough of an essay to memorialize it, because we are in a time in which
it will become necessary to choose sides in the Culture War.
"The Culture War", as Pat Buchanan coined it in 1992, is a thing, whether or not you acknowledge it.
You are going to have to choose sides in that, because the outcome of that war is how the future will enfold. One side or the other
will win this war. The denial of its existence is a guarantee of defeat.
There are those who would rather do anything other than to confront the evil, and then there
are the "sheep dogs", who will confront the "wolf". The left is the "wolf". You have to choose to
be just another one of the sheep, who do nothing but complain, but the wolf won't hear the complaints,
but will feed upon the sheep without mercy. Such is the future ahead of us if we fail.
I don't necessarily agree with everything that Whittle says. In particular, about having to
choose to be a sheep-dog. In times of war, all able-bodied men were called upon to defend the country. In
that case, the choice is either to run off to "safety", or join the fight.
Once again, the fight is already upon us. Either we rise to meet the threat, or we WILL be
subjugated. Denial is not an option, here.
How accurate is this depiction of the Amish?
There are folks who would much prefer the Amish way. The Amish way will keep the peace. However, will it keep your freedom?
Let's dissect this scene. The Amish were getting harassed by a few thugs, who thought it funny to make fun of, and abuse people who were fundamentally passive and non-violent. The Amish Way was to do nothing about the harassment. But John Book, being a Philadelphia detective, was accustomed to using violence when he thought it necessary.
So, when John Book was asked to stand down, because it wasn't the Amish way, he refused. Book went over to the guy, who proceeded to act in a provocative way towards someone who he took to be non-violent. Instead of being non-violent, he got a punch in the nose. That was John Book's way. It is easily contrasted here in this scene.
There are many folks who think the Amish way is the better way. But what do YOU think?
Let's take a situation in which a thug is harassing an elderly person, who cannot fight back. This is a scene that you'll see repeated often these days. It happens all the time in the "blue" cities. The police do nothing. But what happens to the helpless ones? Aren't the police supposed to protect the helpless? Well, in blue cities, it doesn't happen anymore.
In my opinion, I'm more in line with Book's way, than the Amish way. People who will abuse the helpless need an ass kicking. That's plain and simple common-sense. How else are you going to protect the innocent, but to intervene forcefully when something wrong is occuring? If the police won't do it, then somebody else MUST.
The thug faction, particularly in the Democrat commie party, is acting this way towards the helpless. Yet, they have the gall to call you violent if you oppose them. Bullshit.
The Democrats, whether they know it or not, are acting EXACTLY the way the Nazis and Communists did in Europe prior to WW II, in Germany. You see, that is what the Amish type fear. They seem to believe that if you wish it all to go away, then it will. But the only way to stop Hitler was to kill him. The only way to stop the commies, was to be armed to the teeth, and be prepared to fight them on their own terms AT ANY TIME.
The so-called "free" world won the Cold War, only to the lose the peace. The Amish faction has taken hold, and is demanded of the citizenry to be still, and take the abuse from the political left. So, we "won" the Cold War only to surrender to the left in order to keep the peace with them? Screw that!
The commies want your guns so that they can abuse "WE THE PEOPLE" at their leisure. I sure hope that there are enough patriots who can see through this shell game, and call it out. If need be, to kick their asses once and for all. If there isn't, we will be subjugated by them. There IS NO OTHER WAY. The Amish way will not result in keeping our freedom. It will invariably lead to the loss of our freedom. You can take that to the bank. It is what the commies tried to do during the Cold War, and they are at it again.
Something most unusual just happened.
Well, it is not like me to let things go by without having something to say about it.Not exactly "new" News, eh?
Well, there's not much to discuss lately. Maybe football. But who cares about that? Obviously, I do. But will that get eyeballs on this blog? Probably not. But there's nothing else.
Since I spend most of my NFL time on the Texans, that narrows it down even further. The three hottest teams in the AFC put their winning streaks on the line, and two of them kept their streaks alive. The Jags and the Texans are in the same division though. Bad break for the Texans. I was hoping the Broncos could keep THEIR winning streak going, but they fell to the Jags, who kept their winning streak alive instead.
The Jags now have the inside lane towards the division championship. Even if the Texans win their last two games, and go 12-5 for the year, it may not be enough to win the division if the Jags win their last two. But those games should be relatively easy for the Jags, and more difficult for the Texans.
A long way down in the seeding that could be. The Texans could end up as the 7th seed, which means no home games in the playoffs.
The Broncos really screwed the Texans by losing that game. The Broncos could afford to lose, but the Jags could not.
Now that I've bored the crap out of everyone, I'll shut up for now. Time to do other stuff.
When it comes to politics, how do you even know? You've got polls, but polls can be manipulated. Once upon a time, it seemed like elections could tell you something, but how can you tell anymore? The political left has managed to make the ballot box meaningless as all get out. How can you know anything about the public will when so much is being done to obscure it?
The legacy news media? Forget it. The legacy news media is controlled by a small number of corporations. They'll tell you only what they want you to know. Chances are, what you hear from the talking heads is just what somebody wants you to believe, and has little to do with the truth.
Politicians? Bureaucrats? Academia? None of these sources seem trustworthy, either. Well, it seems we are like the former Soviet Union. A dissident there once said to trust only your own crooked eye. What a world. If America is really any different from that place, I'm an astronaut.
Comment:
He seems to be both upbeat and downbeat at the same time. How can that be?
His analysis about the old-guard GOP is dead on target, however. If the old-guard get their way, the 2026 mid-terms will be a disaster.
Many things to keep in mind about, which seem to have been forgotten already.
1) The lack of convictions from Pam Bondi as AG. But remember how Trump nominated Gaetz, and his nomination was shot down? Who did that? Was it not the old Guard GOP who did that?
2) The fact is that Trump has to work with what he's got to work with. On the Democrat side, there are those who want to jail him, and for no other reason than to oppose them; impeach him, even though he didn't do anything that the Democrats said he did; and 3) when the Democrats try to prove anything, they have no evidence because they IS NO EVIDENCE.
3) The old-Guard GOP want do not want to govern, they only want to keep the opposition under control. So to reward them for their disloyalty to the people who elected them, this would be a grave error on the part of true blue MAGA. It would be an error because it's not Trump to blame, but the old-Guard GOP, who never wanted him, never supported him, and only tolerated him because the base DID. In summary, he's dealing with FAKE everything, which is all around him. MTG is just a part of the fake support he has. She could not have been serious about MAGA, and do what she did. She is FAKE. She was only interested in what it could do for her, and now that it hasn't she has flipped.
Bannon says there needs to be a lot of work. Unfortunately, there is little time left. We are getting rope-a-doped. That was the strategy that Muhammad Ali used in his fights. If you get the other guy to punch himself out, he can be beaten. The ones doing the rope-a-dope on us are the Democrats AND the old Guard GOP. Why else play into the Democrat hands by refusing to do the things that will insure victory? The old Guard GOP continues to do this time-and-again. They play loyal, but they deliver NOTHING. Rope-a-dope.
The old Guard must get in line, or be shown the door. End the filibuster, and pass the Trump agenda, and watch it work. But they won't. So MAGA must do what we must, or all will be lost. The old Guard must go.
The voters must be persuaded to buy-in on MAGA, because the old Guard will CASH US OUT. It will time to eat bugs, because that the kind of thing that we will forced into. Like the phony assed COVID JAB, the lockdowns, and riots. All of this will be coming to a place near you, because that is what we will be getting from the Dems commies. The old Guard MUST know this, but they do NOTHING.
