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Because we are still a nation that allows certain personal liberties we must endure a lot of nonsense. This memo is devoted to what is happening that is basically insane and we owe this lunacy to liberal thinking.
The problem is, the nuts are winning because of apathy and/or ignorance on the part of the supposed rational society. If we "deplorables" allow it to persist this republic is doomed. Now that Rush has passed away I truly mean it when I say America is at greater risk because he was a voice that cannot be replaced. Perhaps Newt could try but I doubt he will.
To make matters worse we have a captain who is asleep at the helm and a second mate who is even more incompetent trying to steer. The USS America has become the Good Ship Lollypop.
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The McConnell story:
Why does Kentucky keep electing Mitch
McConnell?
By Joe Strader
There’s a complicated reason behind Sen. Mitch
McConnell’s continued success in Kentucky but it boils down to three things:
McConnell controls lots of money, he is willing to destroy any opposition
including Republicans, and the local Republican political machine backs him.
Money is the main source of McConnell’s power,
and this breaks down into three parts: First, he gets donations from the
Chamber of Commerce wing of the Republican party. They use his power in the
Senate to further their interests. The Chamber is invested in foreign trade and
foreign trade means mostly China. These donations are used to fund the
campaigns of like-minded Republicans for seats in Congress.
Second, he is adept at promoting foreign
investments that bring business to the Chamber members who provide products and
services. Kentucky is particularly involved in securing foreign investment and
McConnell helps. It started with Japanese investments in the Toyota facility in
Georgetown which showed how large manufacturing facilities can build local businesses.
Because American automotive manufacturing is huge in Kentucky, foreign
investment is also large. These smaller facilities feed parts to the large
assembly plants.
Third, his power in the Senate gives him a
special ability to bring good-paying jobs to Kentucky and the donors contribute
to maintain the process. McConnell makes it known that he is the reason this
happens in Kentucky and that this will end if he’s gone. That’s why employees
in the factories and supplier businesses support him.
The second part of McConnell’s success is that
he willingly destroys his political opposition. All candidates daring to run
for a powerful political office in Kentucky must get McConnell’s approval or
they will experience his wrath.
Theoretically, a nationalist Republican in the
Trump mold would do well in Kentucky but overcoming the piles of
McConnell-directed cash is a daunting task. The Kentucky Republican machine
does what McConnell says because it wants to win. The machine will not support
candidates whom McConnell does not support. Occasionally a good one like
Senator Paul gets by, but they are the exception that proves the rule, and
candidates outside of the McConnell sphere (think Matt Bevin) struggle.
McConnell also controls a lot of money for
senatorial campaigns. The advertising that his group runs is brutal and often
dishonest. They spend a lot of money to defeat candidates attempting to defeat
a McConnell ally in the Republican primary.
The third aspect of McConnell’s success is the
local Republican machine, although it’s also McConnell’s Achilles heel because
it will abandon him if he stops delivering. The Republican machine has only one
goal, winning, and they want wins throughout the state from magistrates to
governor. They also want to win Senate and House seats and McConnell delivers
those wins. Because of this success, the machine does what McConnell wants.
They back his candidates and they shun the ones he shuns. In return, McConnell
sends a bit of cash their way for local races.
The machine is the most important part of any
political organization. It has the people on the ground getting out the vote,
passing out yard signs, and getting small donations for local candidates. These
people drive voter turnout and, in counties with a strong Republican machine,
the candidates win. The machine’s drivers are your friends and neighbors on the
committees and working phones.
The Republican machine’s workers are the
backbone of the party and it is they who are the primary reason that the
Republican party should not be abandoned. This infrastructure is critical to
winning. It is in place and ready to go. The party can be rebuilt from the
bottom.
This is an important time for Kentucky politics.
This local Republican base wants victories, and they do not care who delivers
the victories. This is why the local base is the weak link in McConnell’s
stranglehold on Kentucky politics. They will abandon McConnell if he proves to
be weak and other leaders can deliver a winning formula that carries local and
state Republicans to victory.
McConnell knows that his ability to get money
takes place in national politics that are dominated by global interests. That
interests Kentucky’s rank-and-file voters when we get jobs as a result. Show us
a national leader who can build employment in the state without bowing to the
international business interests, and the local Republican machine will be
behind him.
When it comes to the recent public spat between
McConnell and Trump, Trump’s brand of nationalist politics directly opposes the
McConnell internationalist brand. The fight is particularly dangerous for the
people that McConnell has propped up.
If the Republican base starts to support Trump
candidates, then McConnell loses power. The Republican base will support
winners, and Trump and his candidates will be winners. McConnell will lose the
base and the whole thing falls apart. Trump is winning this battle for the base
and McConnell knows it.
And:
The Manchin story:
Want to know where Manchin is on everything? I got this. Our interview on his impact on all of us
By Salena Zito
In the interview, Manchin says he will not budge on the Byrd Rule, details what does not belong in the COVID-19 relief bill, and explained his belief that Congress should raise taxes to pass a large infrastructure bill. He also addressed if he’s offered the president some of his legendary moonshine and whether or not he will seek a third term in 2024.
Click here for the full story.
Finally:
The Booker story and that of other radicals:
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One of my favorite- and
absolutely funniest!- conservative commentator get’s it right about the ideologic
purges in the military. Wait til you read the new “Navy Pledge”. It actually
contains the words “intersectional identities”. The Left is aggressively
dismantling our Nation. The blowback will be fierce. I hope.
At my last duty station, Tripler Army Medical Center, we already spent more time in mandatory lectures on customer service and sexual harassment than on NBC warfare or disaster response. Some Army. And that was over 20 years ago. To echo the author of this article, COL Kurt Schlichter USAR (Ret.), I can tell you that as a Ranger, as an NCO, as a medical platoon leader and as a practicing surgeon on active duty for over 20 years I never had a care about a soldier’s race, religion or gender. The tasks that faced us and our units were serious and difficult. I cared only for competence, integrity and commitment as did my peers at every level. The notion that the military is somehow widely or deeply infected with white supremacists is a lie of the first order, drummed up by our leftist leaders in national power to weaken our nation. The PRC must be gleeful. While they are trying to create genetically modified super soldiers- I kid you not- we are trying to get grown adults to cry in therapy sessions designed to put them in touch with their weaker selves. Uggh! The Generals and Admirals that put up with this crap for fear being forced into early retirement are a disgrace to their respective uniforms. When is it time to “fall on your sword”? When you are a 51 y/o two/three/four-star flag officer who is ordered by inimical forces in government to weaken the force that he/she is committed to grow and strengthen. SJWs, my ass. We need the ghosts of Chesty Puller, Thomas Jackson and George Patton to kick some ass at the Pentagon and Capitol Hill.
Subject: Our Military’s SJW-Driven Abandonment of Warfighting Is Going to Get Troops Killedhttps://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/02/18/our-militarys-sjwdriven-abandonment-of-warfighting-is-going-to-get-troops-killed-n2584883
And:
It doesn't just end with the military this dangerous liberal nonsense pervades society and particularly education:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
And:
It Isn’t Only Math
I wrote here about the “Math is racist” movement in the public schools. Because trying to get the right answer to a math problem is “white.” In other words, America’s education establishment is officially pro-ignorance.
But of course, it doesn’t stop with math and physics. Literature is an even easier target for the know-nothing Left. Thus, Woke teachers want Shakespeare cut from curriculum: ‘This is about White supremacy.’ Naturally. Isn’t everything?
The anti-Shakespeare teachers say fans of the plays ignore the author’s problematic worldview. They say readers of Shakespeare should be required to address the “Whiteness” of their thinking.
If Shakespeare must be taught, these educators say, then it should be presented with watered-down versions of the original or supplemental texts focused on equality issues.
I’m sure those supplemental texts will be riveting.
Elizabeth Nelson, who teaches English at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, told School Library Journal she gives her students Marxist theory when reading Shakespeare’s tragedy “Coriolanus” about the Roman leader.
Apparently she is unaware that Marx was a vicious racist. All references to Marx should be banned from school curricula–although not, to be fair, for that reason.
Sarah Mulhern Gross told the journal that she delivered “toxic masculinity analysis” to her students reading “Romeo and Juliet” at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey.
Toxic masculinity? Romeo? OK, Tybalt might be in that category. But Romeo? Ridiculous!
What we see here, obviously, is 21st century know-nothingism. A great many “educators” lack the intelligence to understand, let alone enjoy, Shakespeare. Under their sub-par tutelage, most young Americans are growing up without the experience or the cultural literacy needed to appreciate one of life’s great pleasures: English literature. This is one of many ways in which America’s terrible school system is causing irreversible damage.
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Hanson has it right:
Our Descent Into Collective Madness
These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine; to self-induced recession; to riot, arson, and looting; to a contested election; and to a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the virus attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets?
Or are we descending into a sort of madness?
It might have been understandable that trillions of dollars had to be borrowed to keep a suffocating economy breathing.
But it makes little sense to keep borrowing $2 trillion a year to prime an economy now set to roar back with herd-like immunity on the horizon.
Trillions of dollars in stimulus are already priming the economy.
Cabin-feverish Americans are poised to get out of their homes to travel, eat out and socialize as never before.
Meanwhile, the United States will have to start paying down nearly $30 trillion in debt. But we seem more fixated on raising rather than reducing that astronomical obligation.
We are told man-made, worldwide climate change -- as in the now discarded term "global warming" -- can best be addressed by massive dislocations in the U.S. economy.
The Biden administration plans to shut down coal plants. It will halt even nearly completed new gas and oil pipelines. It will cut back on fracking to embrace the multitrillion-dollar "Green New Deal."
Americans should pause and examine the utter disaster that unfolded recently in Texas and its environs.
Parts of the American Southwest were covered in ice and snow for days. Nighttime temperatures crashed to near zero in some places.
The state, under pressure, had been transitioning from its near-limitless and cheap reservoirs of natural gas and other fossil fuels to generating power through wind and solar.
But what happens to millions of Texans when wind turbines freeze up while storm clouds extinguish solar power?
We are witnessing the answer in oil- and gas-rich but energy-poor Texas that is all but shut down.
Millions are shivering without electricity and affordable heating. Some may die or become ill by this self-induced disaster -- one fueled by man-made ideological rigidity.
Texas' use of natural gas in power generation has helped the United States curb carbon emissions. Ignoring it for unreliable wind and solar alternatives was bound to have catastrophic consequences whenever a politically incorrect nature did not follow the global warming script.
In 2019, a special counsel wrapped up a 22-month, $35 million investigation into then-President Donald Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia in the 2016 election. Robert Mueller and his team searched long and hard for a crime and came up empty.
Then, Trump was impeached in December 2019 and acquitted in the Senate in early 2020. His purported crime was warning the Ukrainians about the Biden family's quid pro quo racketeering.
After the revelations concerning Hunter Biden's shenanigans not only in Ukraine but also in Kazakhstan and China, Trump's admonitions now seem prescient rather than impeachable.
Trump had been threatened with removal from office under the 25th Amendment. He was accused of violating the Logan Act and the Constitution's emoluments clause. His executive orders were often declared unconstitutional if not seditious.
All these oppositional measures predictably failed to receive either public or congressional support.
Finally, an exasperated left decided to flog the presidential corpse of now private citizen Trump. It did so without a Supreme Court chief justice to oversee an impeachment trial in the Senate. The targeted president was no longer president.
There was no special prosecutor, little debate and even less cross-examination. In the end, the second impeachment was sillier than the first. But, like the first, the show trial wasted precious time and resources in the midst of a pandemic.
But the height of our collective madness is the current cancel culture. Its subtexts are "unearned white privilege" and "white supremacy."
In the name of those abominations, mobs tear down statues, destroy careers, censor speech, require veritable oaths and conduct reeducation training.
Stranger still, those alleging "white privilege" are usually themselves quite wealthy, liberal -- and white. These elites count on their incestuous networking, silver-spoon upbringings and tony degrees to leverage status, influence and money in a way undreamed of by the white working class.
Affluent and privileged minorities likewise join the chorus to call for everything from reparations to "reprogramming" Trump voters.
The most elite in America are the most likely to damn the privilege of those who lack it. Perhaps this illogic squares the psychological circle of feeling guilty about things they never have any intention of giving up.
If blaming those without advantages does not satisfy the unhappy liberal elite, then there is always warring against the mute dead: changing their eponymous names, destroying their statues, slandering their memories and denying their achievements.
The common denominator with all these absurdities? An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don't have it.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump.
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Can America's Neville withstand the pressure?
https://www.algemeiner.com/
And:
If true probably just as well:
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And: The shills in the mass media seem to be napping with our fearless leader but that was always expected: You Wont Believe What the Media is Saying About Joe
Biden Okay, maybe it is believable, especially after we witnessed how beautifully the Media treated President Trump over the past 5 years. The answer is, the media’s special treatment of the Biden Presidency comes as no surprise at all. Over the past several weeks, there has been no investigative
journalism that one would expect with stories like the Hunter Biden laptop
scandal wafting around. Make no mistake, if you replaced Hunter Biden with Don
Trump Jr, it would be a different story. In fact, the media has treated Biden with such grace, it is becoming a joke. Recently we were all startled by a fantastic bit of investigative journalism by CNN. An in-depth, hard look at the Biden Whitehouse and a fantastic headline titled: ‘Inside the new President’s routine: Oval Office fires and early bedtimes’ “He has expressed a preference for a fire built in the Oval
Office fireplace, and sometimes adds a log himself to keep it going. His dogs,
two German Shepherds called Major and Champ, sometimes join him.” Isn’t it just glorious. It’s almost as if they are trying to
portray old Biden as an English nobleman, spending quiet winter evenings in his
manor house, sitting in a wingback chair in front of a log fire with a dog
curled up at his feet. How lovely. “The White
House blanketed in snow” by U.S. Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia is marked with CC
PDM 1.0 Trump of course would be an evil polluter for burning a log
fire, what with global warming and all. Newsweek added their hit piece on the President, an in-depth
review of Bidens Presidents Day vacation to Camp David; ‘Joe Biden, Playing as
Luigi, Wins in Mario Kart Race Against Granddaughter at Camp David.’ “Biden sat on the right as Luigi, and Naomi is Princess Peach
on the left, GameRant noted. Despite not being at the same gaming level as his
granddaughter, the commander-in-chief came out victorious.” The hypocrisy is clear as day here. When Trump would play
golf, we were bombarded with Covid death stats, accusations, and hit piece
after hit piece. Of course, presidents are allowed to take a weekend off, but
the media has done so much buttering up to the administration, it is giving me
high cholesterol. ‘Kamala Harris jogs stairs at Lincoln Memorial in viral clip.’ The Hill is responsible for this Politzer award-winning style of article. The public would love to know about Kamala’s fitness routine, rather than the fact that she has been taking calls on behalf of Biden. No hint about his fitness to hold office to be found here… “Vice President Kamala Harris is the star of a viral video
after being spotted jogging the stairs at the Lincoln Memorial as a Secret
Service agent was seen trying to catch up with her,” the piece began. “In the short clip, Harris jogs down and then up the steps at
the national memorial. And during her jog, a man in a suit identified by local
media as a Secret Service agent could be seen apparently trying to keep up with
the vice president, who was noticeably moving faster than him.” Of course! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Now it is time for some humor and something that should make you cry and/or swell with pride: Sen. John Kennedy from Louisiana is a real character - maybe the new Will Rogers. This apparent "country boy" is actually a very smart cookie. He graduated Magna cum Laude from Vanderbilt, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, has a Law degree from University of Virginia, and a degree from Oxford University (Magdalen College) in England. He's no country bumpkin, he's very insightful and funny as hell. Here are some examples: Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi : "She can strut sitting down!"
Here's another one of his one liners; "He has more screws loose than a 1942 Studebaker". Cry or be prideful: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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