An Utterly Laughable Hypocrisy

Greetings, everyone, and unhappy Tax Day; today is the day we send our hard-earned dollars to a federal government that cannot balance its checkbook. We are constantly berated about paying a fair share and incessantly pummeled with rhetoric about government investments, truly an oxymoronic reference—emphasis on moron. Now, I could go on and on about the insidious hypocrisy of sending our resources to a federal government that wastes it on ideological boondoggles, but that is not the point of this missive. There will be many others who will cover this absurd situation where we find the net interest on our debt now surpasses the amount we spend on our national security and defense.

And that is what I seek to discuss in this week’s offering.

Recently, some 19 retired military Generals and Admirals, along with former top civilian defense officials, filed an Amicus (Friends of the Court) Brief with the US Supreme Court. Their brief outlines their opposition to former President Donald Trump’s plea for immunity from prosecution for actions taken during his tenure as president. Now, get this: they believe that the SCOTUS granting of such poses a significant threat to national security. The SCOTUS will hear this case on April 25th. This group is warning that there will be threats to our national security and democratic principles if former President Trump’s claims of presidential immunity for official acts were to be accepted. Now, I just had to repeat the assertion of this group because you have to understand the sheer and utterly laughable hypocrisy they present. The money quote from their 38-page brief is, “Should the theory of absolute immunity prevail, it will risk jeopardizing America’s standing as a guardian of democracy in the world and further feeding the spread of authoritarianism, thereby threatening the national security of the United States and democracies around the world.”

Ha! 

No, you cannot make this stuff up. Here are folks, including some who were on the original laughable hypocrisy of the 51 intelligence officials who declared Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, saying that Trump is a threat to our national security.

How about Joe Biden selling off our Strategic Petroleum Reserves to our No. 1 geopolitical foe, China? Or how about undermining our very own oil and gas industry and reversing the path of our energy independence and dominance? Now we are begging hat in hand once again to those who seek the demise of our country. And just months ago, Biden signed an order to freeze our export of liquified natural gas (LNG), which forces more of our global allies to seek that resource from another geopolitical foe, Vladimir Putin and Russia.

I ponder if they would consider this to be a threat to our national security. Or the fact that Joe Biden abandoned over $80B of US military equipment to the Taliban in Afghanistan in a complete strategic, operational, and tactical debacle he praised as a success…to include the deaths of American Marines, Soldiers, and Sailors. How about the fact that Afghanistan is now, once again, a thriving base of operations for Islamic terrorist groups, namely ISIS-K, who just enacted a brutal terrorist attack in Russia? Any threat to our national and global security?

I wonder if these 19 retired Generals, Admirals, and senior civilian defense officials think opening up our borders to millions of illegal immigrants, including single military-age males, poses no threat to our national security? Heck, FBI Director Christopher Wray just testified to such not too long ago before Congress. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their lives due to the chemical warfare agent fentanyl—which emanates from China. There can be no debate that it was Joe Biden and his unconstitutional 90+ executive orders that opened our border to invasion that’s a threat to our national security. I guess these delusional individuals just do not see it that way.

Biden has continued the decimation of our military readiness, capability, and capacity. Our force cannot meet recruiting and retention objectives…but hey, our Armed Forces know their proper pronouns, accept mentally disturbed gender dysphoric individuals and embrace cultural Marxism.

And authoritarianism?

What do you call it when you mandate what type of appliances, vehicles, and amount of water in toilets Americans can have? What do you call it when you weaponize the federal government agencies against your ideological opponents, like parents who want better educational opportunities, not indoctrination, of their children? What do you call it when you seek to designate said parents as “domestic terrorists,” kick in the doors of pro-life activists in the middle of the night and infiltrate the Catholic Church? But you say and do nothing when supporters of an Islamic terrorist group that killed and took Americans hostage on October 7th, 2023, take to our streets and chant “Death to America”?

I wonder if these 19 Generals, Admirals, and senior civilian defense officials agree with Joe Biden that no amendment to the US Constitution is absolute? Hey, those of you who signed onto this letter and took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, speak up, please! Or how about using the federal government in coordination with private sector tech information companies to censor the freedom of speech and expression of Americans? Is that not a threat to our democratic principles and Constitutional rights? I suppose the signatories of this Amicus Brief think it is perfectly fine to have illegals voting in our elections and count them in our census?

I think y’all reading this piece have now gotten the point. Once again, this is an utterly laughable hypocrisy that evidences the two-tiered system of justice, basically altering right and wrong in our Republic. These people who signed their names to this Amicus Brief are no friends of our Constitutional Republic, nor the TRUE American people. They are nothing more than politicized hacks, puppets, cymbal clanging monkeys who are the ones who pose a threat to the very existence of our country. They are the friends of the progressive socialist leftists and Marxists and shamefully have exposed themselves as such. Every one of them should be condemned.

But hey, I am a forgiving fella, and I will allow you, the treasonous and delusional 19, to withdraw your support for this Amicus Brief; you have 24 hours after the publishing of this piece. If you refuse to do so, then your names will go right there with Benedict Arnold, who was once a revered hero of our Revolutionary War…until his personal feelings became more important than our national interest.

Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, is the greatest threat to our national security and representative democracy. He is our biggest measure of authoritarianism. His fecklessness and weakness have brought the world to this point of global chaos and calamity. Anyone believing otherwise is in denial of facts and is aiding and abetting the assault on the foundations of our republic.

No parliament means no democracy in United States

No parliament means no democracy in United States. It’s a representative republic. Democracies don’t have the electoral college and US does. Renegadeviking (talk) 01:58, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Do you have reliable sources that verify this claim? Because if this is just your opinion of what a democracy is, we can’t act on that, and even with reliable sources per WP:EXTRAORDINARY they’d need to be very good and compelling sources, because that’s quite a claim. – Aoidh (talk) 02:01, 4 September 2022 (UTC) https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/abouthttps://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracyhttps://www.govinfo.gov/features/us-electoral-collegehttps://www.govinfo.gov/features/us-electoral-college — Preceding unsigned comment added by Renegadeviking (talk • contribs) 02:04, 4 September 2022 (UTC) None of these support what you’re saying, that “democracies don’t have the electoral college.” It may not be the exact type of whatever democracy you’re thinking of, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t one itself. – Aoidh (talk) 02:10, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

• The Heritage foundation is a think tank with a clear bias when it comes to American politics. They’re not a reliable source for facts. And the other sources don’t say what you’re asserting. —Aquillion (talk) 03:40, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Democracies don’t have 435 Congressmen in House of Representatives with who knows how many districts that are supposed to be loyal to voters. Then USA has without any vote of no confidence like in parliament so that’s not democracies. 3 branches of government. In US there is impeachment. Democracies come from Ancient Greece. Ancient Romans have Senators or Senates. No other constitutional republics have God in the writing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Renegadeviking (talk • contribs) 03:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC) First, please sign your comments so we know who is saying what is being said. Second, that you personally feel that it is not a democracy because of whatever criteria is ultimately irrelevant; we go by what reliable sources say, not with what we feel is true. – Aoidh (talk) 04:37, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Except USA has http://keywiki.org. Democrats are trying to erase servers and history. We need the Wayback machine more these days. https://bensguide.gpo.gov/m-constitutionRenegadeviking (talk • contribs) 03:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Whatever that website is, and I feel like we’re getting into conspiracy theory territory here, but it’s irrelevant to the point you’re trying to make and does not change why your assertion about democracy and the United States is inaccurate. But we’re getting off track. Do you have an issue with anything in the article, do you have a proposal for an alternate wording or removal of a specific wording, and do you have reliable sources to back up that proposed change? Anything short of that and this discussion should honestly be closed as it’s getting off-topic. – Aoidh (talk) 04:59, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Sorry, that isn’t correct, and doesn’t really make sense. The US is a representative democracy, or a republic. It’s not a direct democracy. But there is a legislature elected by popular election, similar to parliament. And we don’t have a monarchy, unlike the UK, which has a fossilized vestige that could still technically dissolve parliament. Andre🚐 02:08, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

The british have a nice encyclopedia saying its a constitutional republic. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States Renegadeviking (talk • contribs) 03:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Democratic Centralism in Marxism-Leninism doesn’t make sense either and that’s not democracy either. Democratic German Republic (east germany) doesn’t make sense as a title, because it’s a dictatorship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Renegadeviking (talk • contribs) 02:13, 4 September 2022 (UTC)A constitutional republic is a type of democracy. And apparently you’re coming here making statements from Kari Lake[4]. Andre🚐 06:22, 4 September 2022 (UTC) liar. liar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)Renegadeviking (talk) 21:30, 4 September 2022 (UTC) America is a republic, not a democracy, is a frequent slogan of some elements of the U.S. radical right, such as the John Birch Society. In the end however it comes down to semantics. The way they define it, the U.S. is not a democracy although it is according to how the term is normally understood today. While the discussion is worthy of coverage in Wikipedia, this is not the article to do that. TFD (talk) 13:50, 4 September 2022 (UTC) liar. liar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(SeattleRenegadeviking (talk) 21:31, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Will the Democrats Let Donald Trump Be President If He Wins?

The Supreme Court will not throw Donald Trump off the ballot through some sort of deus ex MSNBCmachina, and Trump’s polls are improving while President Crusty’s are getting worse, so we face the real possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidency. Obviously, it’s not a done deal, but it is a bigger possibility than it used to be. Well, the Democrats are facing it, and now they’re trying to figure out how to stop him from taking office if and when he wins the election.

This is a really bad idea.

But of course, the Democrat Party is the Party of Bad Ideas, and the Party of Nanny Fascism. And it is also remarkably free of any recognition of its own hypocrisy. It’s become popular to say that the issue is not hypocrisy but hierarchy, and that the Democrats feel entitled to do whatever they want. They don’t want Trump to be president, so what are they going to do about it?

Whatever they have to do to hold power.

They’re very sensitive about us talking about this. I was onstage at CPAC with Townhall’s own Larry O’Connor and, at one point, I was talking about how Joe Biden was not going to leave office early voluntarily at the behest of Barack Obama and some cabal of Democrat poobahs concerned about him blowing the election. Then, of course, goofy pinko Aaron Rupar converted that into me saying that Joe Biden will refuse to leave office if he loses the election. I didn’t say that then, but I’m going to say it now. He already told us he won’t allow Donald Trump to take office. He couches that in terms of not letting Trump win the election, but are we sure that’s what he means? This is a guy well-known for talking about turning F-16s on American dissidents. After all, we’re treasonous traitors and MAGA extremists and such. Isn’t he justified in doing whatever he must to stop us?

So, if Donald Trump wins, do they let him take office again?

Well, they didn’t really let him take it over last time. They framed him with a fake Russiagate scandal. They impeached him for nonsense two times. They had the whole deep state doing everything it could to undercut the will of the people who elected him. And they just spent the last three years hyping up how he’s a danger to Our Democracy™ and an authoritarian, and if they don’t stop him, he’s going to start doing to them exactly what they’ve been doing to him and us. It’s right and proper that they be scared of that, but the fact that they are scared means they’re likely to do stupid things.

Imagine if Donald Trump is elected by a very narrow margin, which is a possibility, and you get a Democrat majority in the House of Representatives, which many Republicans think is likely. Maybe the Democrats look at each other and say, “Wait a minute, we can pull some shenanigans with the counting of the electoral college ballots!” Why wouldn’t they? And don’t say that they just spent three years screaming about the Republicans attempting to do that because, again, they are immune to hypocrisy. It literally doesn’t matter to them. They’ll do exactly what they accused Donald Trump and the January 6 people of doing, and they will explain to you that it’s a good thing that they’re doing it.

We already know part of the game plan will be encouraging civil unrest, which we will see a lot of over the summer and leading up to the election. That’s their subtle version of intimidation, but as Inauguration Day approaches, they are certain to amp it up. January 6 was a minor brawl, a joke as far as civil disturbances go – I was in Los Angeles during the Democrat-sponsored Los Angeles riots, so I have a rational perspective on this stuff. But does anyone think they won’t convene their radical Antifa, BLM, and other scumbag Democrat shock troopers in Washington, DC, to disrupt the transfer of power? And it won’t be old ladies taking selfies in the rotunda. These people will be violent and dangerous and probably armed. Who’s going to stop them? Will Joe Biden call out the Washington National Guard or 82nd Airborne to do it? I think we know who will get prosecuted for the violence – no one.

Now, they’ll have some sort of excuse. Donald Trump is an insurrectionist, or democracy is in danger, or reasons and because. Just don’t put it beyond possibility that they will not allow a peaceful transfer of power to Donald Trump. These people are not committed to democracy. They don’t care about freedom. They care about power, so much so that they allow a desiccated old husk to be the guy with his quivering finger hovering over the big red button. If you believe that there’s some sort of guardrail or norm that would stop them from retaining power if they could get away with it, you are hallucinating. You haven’t been paying attention. Wake up.

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What do we do about it? Step one is to win the election, and we should try to do decisively. There are a lot of problems that come with slipping through the skin of our teeth. A decisive win makes it harder to cheat, and harder to negate. Regardless, we’ll see lawsuits and all sorts of other stunts in every close state. Remember how 2020 was decided by something like 40,000 votes over three states? Of course, it being Democrats bringing these suits, they’ll get much more consideration than Trump’s did. We could have some state court judge in Wisconsin disrupting the entire election by announcing that none of the Republicans’ ballots count for some nonsense reason, but again, you don’t really need a reason when you’re just seizing power.

Democrats protest every single Republican election as illegitimate, and they will certainly protest this one should Trump win. We have got to be ready. Right now, we are not.

The Hysterical Style in American Politics

The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism.

But far more common, especially in the 21st century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for political advantage.

Or, in the immortal words of former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

The 2008 economic emergency crested on Sept. 7, with the near collapse of the home mortgage industry.

Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, more than four months after the meltdown. In that interim, the officials had finally restored financial confidence and plotted a course of economic recovery.

No matter. The Obama administration never stopped hyping the financial meltdown as if it had just occurred. That way, it rammed through Obamacare, massive deficit spending, and the vast expansion of the federal government. All that stymied economic growth and recovery for years.

In 2016, then-President Donald Trump was declared Hitler-like and an existential threat to democracy.

Amid this derangement syndrome, any means necessary to stop him were justified: the Russian collusion hoax, impeachment over a phone call, or the Hunter Biden laptop “disinformation” farce.

Eventually, the Left sought to normalize the once-unthinkable: Removing the leading presidential candidate from state ballots and indicting him in state and local courts.

Nothing was off-limits—not forging a federal court document, calling for a military coup, rioting on Inauguration Day, or radically changing the way Americans voted in presidential elections.

In October 2017, allegations surfaced about serial sexual predation by liberal cinema icon Harvey Weinstein.

The #MeToo furor immediately followed.

At first, accusers properly outed dozens of mostly liberal celebrities, actors, authors, and CEOs for their prior and mostly covered-up sexual harassment and often assault.

But soon, the once-legitimate movement had morphed into general hysteria. Thousands of men (and women) were persecuted for alleged offenses, often sexual banter or rude repartee, committed decades prior.

#MeToo jumped the shark with the left-wing effort to take down conservative Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Would-be accusers surfaced from his high school days, 35 years earlier, but without any supporting evidence or witnesses for their wild, lurid charges.

#MeToo hysteria ended when too many liberal grandees were endangered. Most dramatically, former Joe Biden senatorial aide Tara Reade came forward during the 2020 campaign cycle with charges that front-runner Biden had once sexually assaulted her—and was trashed by the liberal media.

The outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States during the winter of 2020 prompted an even greater hysteria.

Without scientific evidence, federal health czars Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins were able to persuade the Trump administration to shut down the economy in the country’s first national quarantine.

Suddenly, it became a thought crime to question the wisdom of 6-foot social distancing, of mandatory mask-wearing, of the Wuhan virology lab’s origin of the COVID-19 virus, or of off-label use of prescription drugs.

Left-wing politicians and celebrities, from Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gavin Newsom to Jane Fonda, all blurted out the political advantages that the lockdowns offered—from recalibrating capitalism and health care to ensuring the 2020 defeat of Trump.

The COVID-19 hysteria magically ended when Biden won the 2020 election. Suddenly, the explanations about the bat or pangolin origins of the virus faded. The damage from the quarantines could no longer be repressed. And herd immunity gradually mitigated the epidemic.

The lockdown caused untold economic chaos, suicides, and health crises.

One result was the 120 days of looting, arson, death, destruction, and violence spawned by Antifa and Black Lives Matter in the aftermath of the tragic death of George Floyd while in police custody in May 2020.

Suddenly, a hysterical lie took hold: American police were waging war against black males.

The details around Floyd’s sudden death—he was in the act of committing a felony, resisting arrest, suffering from coronary artery disease and the after-effects of COVID-19, and being high on dangerous drugs—were off limits.

The riot toll reached $2 billion in property damage, more than 35 deaths, and 1,500 injured law enforcement officers. A federal courthouse, a police precinct, and a historic church were torched.

Police forces were defunded. Emboldened left-wing prosecutors nullified existing laws.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion commissars spread throughout American higher education as meritocracy came under assault.

Racial essentialism triumphed. Racially segregated dorms, campus spaces, and graduations were normalized.

Everything from destroying the southern border to dropping SAT requirements for college admission followed.

Sometimes real, sometimes hyped crises led to these contrived left-wing hysterias—like the Jan. 6 violent “armed insurrection” or the “fascist,” “ultra-MAGA” threat.

Otherwise, the progressive movement cannot enact its unpopular agendas. So, it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.