As Is The Feeling,
So Is The Result.
Okay, let me just spell this out a bit more: The typical thing to do — and what critics would have expected Trump to do — is return hate for hate. All the white-people bashing at the DNC, with the platform mentioning white people 15 times, all negative, returned in kind, more or less. Throw the divisiveness back at them. That’s the natural reflex.
Instead he brought up all these positive, successful pro-Trump minority people and told his followers “look, these are our kind of people and we’re glad to have them.” And he reached out to others. Instead of meeting hate with hate, he met hate with . . . love. You might almost say ‘love trumps hate.’ Or maybe ‘Trump trumps hate, with love.’ And he did it without being smarmy or rolling over with some kind of sad ‘Republicans can be woke too’ carnival. He crushed the Democrats on this, and he did it with positivity and inclusion. I don’t think there’s another political figure today who could have done that, and only a few who might have tried. And it’s the only response that could have pulled the rug out from under the race war the Democrats seem unaccountably to want.
Full Statement By Rush
A corollary of this is: one only knowns one one loves.
Another: fill your heart with love and you will have justice, you will have unity, you will have peace, and you will lose the appetite to harm the world in order to punish her for your disappointment in life.
And finally: Only the eyes of love know what is happening.
Related: What is not seen through the eyes of love — spiritual understanding — cannot be understood.
Fret not. Truth, as a lion, takes care of himself. He depends on no one else, least of all corporate media, political parties, litigators, or minions of a judicial system.
Decades ago a dear friend — he of Andover, Bastogne (Arty), Yale, Harvard Law, Perkins Coie — argued over who has more power in human affairs. He argued for lawyers. I pointed out that teachers, and behind them theologians, enable lawyers.
When truth is ready to clear the saloon, truth clears the saloon, and that is that. The rest is histrionics. Be not afraid, fear not, abide the day of truth.
Pointing out the justification for RICO and other actions against Ford and a huge cloud of co-conspirator NGOs is a service of long-standing, yet, although the actions indicated are deserved, they remain dormant.
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Barr should be arresting, and charging under RICO for sedition and treason, the entire Soros/Democracy Alliance/CCP coven. They are such a massive target one could throw bricks at them from fifteen miles away whilst blindfolded, trussed up, and locked in a casket two miles beneath an ocean’s waves without missing one of them at least. Barr is crickets. Compared to the Democracy Alliance/CCP Bolsheviks, The Five Families and their Latin American counterparts are Vienna Choir Boys.
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No, just a peripatetic amateur theatricals company doing road shows, audience compelled to attend and company sponsored by coy oligarchs.
Memory is not keen on this, but I think the deaths at nursing homes from this forced housing of Wuhan patients in them are in the 10s of thousands. Whatever, it is severely higher than ordinary. Basically, it was a political decision for elder-cide driven by hypochondria and, I’m sure, mainly by the ideology of population eliminationism masquerading as enlightened budgeting.
For the same reason — population eliminationism — CCP engineered the GOF (gain of function) of base COVID virus Fauci gave them from US Army stocks — themselves possibly US-GOF’d from Saudi base MERS stocks — after Obama people decided against US GOF work in biologics. Let others (CCP) do the dirty stuff, we’ll just use it on the sly if we can, to divert or nullify assignment of agency, especially ours.
CCP GOF’d Fauci/US Army’s MERS/COVID sample to target their elderly and then allowed it to spread world-wide without notification of its human-to-human transmission. These east coast governors decided to use CCP’s GOF’d COVID virus strain to accomplish the same purpose for which CCP developed it: reduce costs generally by killing off the major consumers of medical time, talent, and budgets: elders.
Well, it has worked pretty well. Except it is illegal in the USA. DOJ and everyone else knows forcing Wuhan patients into elder care facilities is deliberate elder abuse, which is illegal. We’ll see what happens.
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No PL writer has discussed the recent encyclical signed by the ever-empathetic NeverTrump noblesse, Republicans Mike Hayden, Chuck Hagel, William Webster, and a coven of third-and fourth-tier Staters. To this day, at least two PL writers cultivate sentiments of revulsion against the vulgar expressed therein.
I am all for vulgar, using the word in its classical sense: common, sympathetic, beloved of the ordinary, non-pretentious, deliberately not of the noblesse, whom we disallow in this country anyway, thankfully. The noblesse condemned Jesus because he went among the vulgar.
MORE VULGAR. Vulgar at last, vulgar at last, thank God Almighty we are vulgar at last!
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There is no pleasing the Reason / Free Beacon crowd. Given a box of Swiss chocolates, they would find fault with each piece of it. Even the same piece would have too much and too little of the same ingredient at the same time. The chief characteristic of libertarians is cussedness.
They are trying to overthrow a culture, not a government. But government (politics) is downstream from culture. So a political minority, unpopular or not, cannot overthrow a culture, only a government. Ditto a political majority. Politics cannot lay a finger on culture. Only religion and race can make or change a culture. Leftism is not a religion and race supremacy ideology is not a race. Do the math logic. Stephen! a little less vodka and a little more pundit, please.
Related: The profoundly concerned #NeverTrump Republican noblesse.
I would not want to get into the Twin Cities/Minnesota power structure. Best I can see, they have none or nearly none. What is to get into?
One nice thing about Americans is we are our own power structure. We make our own way. We do not need to get in a power structure. We are one. Also, we do not let go of being that.
We are not a melting pot. We are a mixture, and a spicy one, too.
Mixture, not melting pot. The many retain their singularities even as they participate in and enrich the one mixture. The melting pot metaphor implies a result that is of one nature only. That is not America. America is a mixture, a spicy one at that, with one loyalty.
Dragblacker to David R. Graham
The melting pot is a pre-existing recipe with some small variations thrown in to give unique flavors. It’s not something where you dump in random ingredients and expect the product to be edible. Nor can you vary the recipe too much, else you’ll wind up with a completely different dish than the original.
Also remember that America was born out of the unification of thirteen, then more, separate “countries”. But the meaning has been warped to what I mentioned above: the “random ingredients dumped into the pot expecting the dish to be edible”. Even by some on the Right.
David R. Graham to Dragblacker
The random ingredients, as you call them, did not get dumped into a pot, implying by someone else, as well as implying that someone else is preparing to eat what is in the pot. The ingredients — persons, races, cultures — joined the mixture voluntarily, seasoning it, or they tried to force their way into it (criminals), and sometimes they tried to force the mixture to be what it is not (Moslems. Communists).
The American mixture is so redundant it resists both cataloguing and conforming. Its unity is pre-politics, in movements of spirit, of the dramatic and dynamic mixing of power and meaning.
The mixture does not have externally-applied boundaries such as does a concoction in a pot, namely, the walls of the pot. A culture’s boundaries, American culture’s boundaries are intrinsic to Americans’ loyalty to the free-flowing confluence of power and meaning. Our Constitution blesses a massively redundant drama of spiritual freedom, and our politics emerges from the phenomenology of that freedom in action.
Dragblacker to David R. Graham
You’re arguing the semantics of my analogy. Focus on the point I’m making. America was founded by people of largely British (British Isles, thus including Ireland) and some German stock who crossed the ocean and founded thirteen separate colonies, later states, all of which at one point considered themselves their own “countries”. What makes America America, the Constitution, the spirit that spawned the Declaration and Revolution, the religious character, was first established by these settlers and their descendants. They’re not just abstractions thought up by some random group of people in a vacuum.
Other people have come over the centuries and added their “flavor”, or “twist” to the recipe, but alter the recipe too much and America ceases to be America.
Did the idea of the melting pot start before or after the waves of immigration in the 20th century? I can imagine the argument could also apply to Cajuns in Louisiana, Amish in Pennsylvania, the Indian tribes, American blacks, and German-speakers in the Midwest and Dakotas as much as they could people off the boat.
David R. Graham to Dragblacker
Quite true I am arguing semantics. If metaphors and statements are imprecise or ill-suited or self-contradictory, then what are those phenomena if not semantical matters of signal consequence? And your orders are tiresome because you have no authority to issue them at me. I take that to mean that your facility with language and clarity therein are exceeded in this exchange.
Dragblacker to David R. Graham
I reject the notion that my analogy was incorrect to begin with. You just want to argue for the sake of arguing.
Liberal education is impossible outside a base of strength which holds the consciousness bound to truth. Truth is present whether one wants it to be or not. However, truth does no good for one and is un-findable unless one’s mind is calmed by selfless service, repetition of a Name of God, cultivation of equal love for all, limiting desires, removing attachment to things and to persons, and like spiritual and religious exercises. When the mind is calm, the consciousness can be held steadily bound to truth, and from that strength education can proceed, and not otherwise. You want a liberal education? First calm your mind by engaging in spiritual exercises. Otherwise, ideas are merely bullets flying at targets to harm them, which means you.
Kerry has family connections inside the mullahcracy.
More than that, the Foreign Policy Establishment’s (Deep State’s) central thesis is still kicking about in their teak-filled alumni clubs: keep your friends close and your enemies closer and soon you will have only friends, because your enemies will become like you, because you are so very, very awesome they cannot resist wanting to be like you and be counted among the friends you deign to have, because you are awesome!
The short name for this delusion is being full of yourself. Scaled to nation-state proportions, it is treason because now you are causing palpable and wide-area harm to others.
The ramifications of the Wolfe case are stunning. Had the prosecution continued it’s very likely a seditious conspiracy would have surfaced.
I often field a question: If you know this; if all of this information is in the public sphere; then why didn’t any member of the media cover it?
Here’s the answer: They couldn’t…. At least they couldn’t cover it and still retain all of the claims they had been making since March 2017 when journalist Ali Watkins gained a fully non-redacted copy of the Carter Page FISA application.
Politico, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and The Washington Post are all implicated in the James Wolfe leak to Ali Watkins. They had the FISA information since March 2017, yet those media outlets were disingenuously falsifying their reporting on the actual content of the FISA application despite their knowledge.
Remember all of the media denials about what Devin Nunes wrote in the “Nunes memo”? Remember the media proclaiming the Steele Dossier was not part of the FISA application?
How was the media fifteen months later (June 2018) going to report on the Wolfe leak to Watkins without admitting they had been manufacturing stories about its content for the past year-and-a-half?
It was in the media’s interest NOT to cover, or dig into, the Wolfe story.
I am amused that a political party sectarians driven by professors and politicians wants to put a nation of engineers and technologists in thrall to descendants of two races, African and Amerind, who, on their own, never invented the wheel.
Conservatives make calls to action without themselves taking courses of action. Angelo Codevilla is free of that conceit. What are you prepared to do? Better yet: what are you doing?
A succinct way to observe Leftists‘ Sectarians’ tricks and tantrums is as demands to introduce titles of nobility for themselves. Be it for a sex, a race, a class, a whatever, the demand distills out as self-donning a title of nobility. Little else spikes Americans’ allergy meter more than that demand does.
There was the first impeachment effort,
the Beltway punditry in early 2017 calling for his removal by coup if necessary,
the voting machine suits,
the Clinton-Obama-Steele subversion of the Trump campaign and transition,
the Hollywood assassination chic,
the effort to take out former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn,
the farce of the 25th Amendment that included the bathos of high federal officials contemplating wearing wires in private conservations with the president to the psychodrama of Professor Bandy Lee testifying before Congress about Trump’s mental state,
the silly Emolument Clause gambit (Trump has lost over $1 billion while in office and taking no salary),
the subversion of the FISA courts,
the Russian hoax, Robert Mueller’s two-year long and $35 million witch hunt,
the fabricated Steele dossier implanted in the bowels of the Obama government and media,
the one-phone-call impeachment circus,
the revolt of the retired generals,
and what has rightly lately been called “coup porn,” the hysteria over Ukraine and the caricaturing of Trump in 2020 as Typhoid Mary, Herbert Hoover, and Bull Connor as the Left weaponized the contagion, quarantine, and rioting.
What happens when Democratic Party/RINO sectarian leaders decide they can no longer be a party of gangsters (Clinton, Obama, Biden, Romney, Soros Bang, Infotainment Corporations) and remain a viable political party?
Parents and professoriate made Antifa/BLM to drive the Democratic Party/RINOs sectarians and to be also their proteges. Those precious are in train now of teaching the Democratic Party/RINOs sectarians the lesson of political viability.
This happened before: Democratic Party/RINO sectarian leaders realized they could not countenance the KKK — another parent/professoriate concoction — and also be a viable political party.
The Civil War Between The States decided the question as to whether USA as founded can be fundamentally transformed: No. We have no titles of nobility and tolerate none put on us.
Democratic Party/RINO Sectarian leaders are realizing they are betrayed by their own parents and professors.
DNC/RINOs Sectarians are learning a lesson. Observe developments. They are in train of realizing they cannot remain a viable political party and countenance fundamentally transforming America. That debate was settled in 1865 with no appeal available because no court supersedes the decision of mortal combat.
Once before DNC/RINOs sectarians faced this condition and reverted to patriotism: when they detached from the KKK.
The force of history (Dharma) and historical precedent (decision by combat at arms) compel DNC/RINOs sectarians this time as before, to choose against the latest KKK-type concoction, namely, Antifa/BLM, they of the infliction of harm on nations by Bolsheviks, Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, Romneys, US IC, Soros Bangs, parents, professors, and other gangsters.
The D-R UniParty = The Administrative State — Democrats/RINOs — Sectarians know they cannot win elections relying on moderates, such as themselves. The press = professoriate Sectarians run the D-R UniParty more than the D-R UniParty runs the press = professoriate sectarians. The press is the professoriate at scale, and the professoriate is the clerical pulpit at scale. Instapundit himself — The Blogfather — illustrates the phenomenon. When the professoriate goes viral and shriek-y, that is because the clerical pulpit has gone venal and hinky.
Thomas Taylor
As someone who has spent his entire adult life either in the military or working for the military, I consider Edward Snowden to be a patriot. Did he violate national security laws? Yes, he did. He protected and defended the US Constitution also, which I consider to be more important any national security law. The United States government has been systematically violating its citizens 4th Amendment rights, that’s a fact. Just because there is a law against disclosing that fact is irrelevant.
Check out Joe Rogan’s 3 hour conversation with Edward Snowden, on U-Tube, before believing anything about him.
David R. Graham to Thomas Taylor
Exactly right! National security does not nullify national consciousness. Everything is stronger in the light of day.
As you say, yes, he broke laws. No doubt his intentions and actions are anything but blameless. However, laws used to prevent scrutiny of lawbreaking by law enforcers are not laws. They are species of violence.
To fix and prevent harm inflicted by such laws is a job for courageous men and women. Would that worriers, especially legally-trained ones, set aside their worry and invite their own resources of courageous action to replace it.
We cannot fathom your infinite love for us, O loving God.
How can we ever love you so much in return?
We give you our hearts and trust that you
will feel the love we have for you.
Amen.
The Moravian Church
Every experience is a lesson,
every loss is a gain.
Sathya Sai Baba
Remember that Ravana set a female guarding the gate of Lanka — on the assumption that no soldier would hurt a woman. He, too, used the human shield and even the female shield in battle. And how did Hanuman treat this appearance? He gave her a lethal wallop and proceeded in. He did not get taken in by the appearance of noncombatant or female status. The female was a combatant and so he treated her as such. He did not fall for Ravana’s ruse, his pretense, his appeal to suppression of the soldierly duty to discern (Sanskrit, viveka) the truth.
There is not going to be a Palestinian State. That is the answer to this lengthy fret. The fret reasons inside a fantastic nostalgia, not geo-political power vectors. Virtually the entire Arab MENA, and especially the most monied tribes/states, will align with Israel/UAE against Iran/Turkey/Moslem Brotherhood. Look at the facts on the ground, not the habits in the head.
This fret reclines on obsolete mental habits rather than engaging to exploit obvious opportunities. The loser from this development is the Moslem Brotherhood, as should be. Even the French are coming at their Turkish embodiment now, French patience subdued.
From this confluence of interest events will emerge into view something already extant but not so visible: USA-Russia alliance contra Salafi-Shiite Jihad and Red China.
No, Austin, you are allowing the evidence of eyes to be swept away by old habits of mind! V Corps in Poland is to enhance Three Seas Initiative as successor to NATO, protecting the Three Seas Initiative nations plus USA and Russia from Germany. USA in Poland faces west, not east. Germany, not Russia, is the dangerous hegemon between Europe and The Heartland (MacKinder). Strong Intermarium (now Three Seas Initiative) nations preclude another Germanic march east to control The Heartland. Attend the strong north-south infrastructure Intermarium nations are building through the Celto-Slav nations of so-called Eastern Europe. That is the front, and it faces west from the Baltic to the Black and Adriatic Seas.
A strategic masterstroke at this time would be to help the Russians own European Constantinople and Turkey.
Kurt’s indulgence in name-calling beclouds his exposition. His exposition is accurate at all points, even pulls a punch or two.
Unmentioned is that the moral cowardice — PC/SJW is really that — at 06 grade and up precludes accurate reads of strategics and therefore of tactics.
Moral cowardice amongst the topmost military leaders is why GWOT to this day is at best a drawn fight, ongoing, and definitely not a win.
David R. Graham
If we do not share that contempt, history shows we have no choice but to treat the millennialist mob as the enemies they are.
Circumspect and coy. He means this, which he wrote earlier: killing them was the only way of stopping them.
Conservatives make calls to action without themselves taking courses of action. Angelo Codevilla is free of that conceit. What are you prepared to do? Better yet: what are you doing?
The D-R UniParty is Sectarians are defunct, senile, beyond help, skidding down to Hades. Perhaps Kanye can make a second American political party to oppose the Trump-led Freedom Party, or whatever one calls it, which is a reality. Two parties is good for both so long as both are devoted to American sovereignty and freedom.
Bryon Grosz to David R. Graham
The mob lawlessness isn’t happening in Republican run areas.
I’m not happy with the general fecklessness of Republican’s, but there is still a major difference between R’s and D’s.
David R. Graham to Bryon Grosz
You are thinking of a major difference between the D-R UniParty sectarians and the Freedom Party (pick the name you prefer). Freedom Party representatives still carry the name Republican, but Republican as in GOPe — Bushes, CJ Roberts, SSCI Chair Burr, Bill Kristol, and the so-called US Foreign Policy Establishment, who runs D.C., or did — they are not. George Wallace observed in the 60s that there is not a dimes’ worth of difference between the D and R parties. Since then they have merged into one sect comprising a major (D) and a minor (R) partner.
POTUS Trump, as he consistently says, represents a movement, and this movement is not what the R party historically is: Episcopalians, Farmers, Industrialists, and Entrepreneurs (small business owners).
That R party was overrun by managers, college graduates, and druggies, and so joined Ds decades ago in a grand alliance comprising, as many have observed, a senior (D) and a junior (R) partner. POTUS Trump saw the want Americans have for a second party and gave it to us.
Now the D-R UniParty is sectartians are in such decrepitude, in every way and especially spiritually — which drives the others — that a new second party is indicated and wanted by Americans. Kanye has seen that want Americans have and is moving to give it to them. Wise man that he is, POTUS Trump welcomed the effort. One party governance is lethal to the country.
Tillich has a takeaway addendum-like to Angelo’s regarding Joachim of Fiore (Gioacchino da Fiore). I will try to exposit that fairly.
Although he abjures Joachim’s millenarianism, Tillich appreciates that Joachim introduced a view of history which was unique at the time, or mostly so, and customary now: namely, that history is both developmental and teleological, thus linear, although curved forward and upward, rather than, as in antiquity, and as to which some now would retreat, repetitive and pointless, thus circular.
Additionally, Tillich takes Joachim’s three-part historiography as grounded in actual Christian piety rather than in politics, which is to say, ambition, implying cause for considering some kernel of truth — or two — in any millenarian movement. Angelo himself identifies that kernel in this phrase from his study: . . . satisfy the congenital human desire to transcend the human condition . . . .
Maintain your essential unity with God
by accepting into that unity
all experience of existential estrangement.
Modernity is the same as antiquityonly less honest about it.
— White Cloud
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All are in you; you are in all. You have to get this conviction fixed in your consciousness by means of analysis, discrimination, and intellectual exploration. You have to isolate and dismiss from the consciousness the impressions of the senses, mind, intelligence, etc. These have nothing to do with the Atma, which you really are. The Atma is unaffected by any subject or object. Even if the senses, mind, intellect, etc. are inactive, that inactivity will not affect the Atma! To know the Atma as such an entity, unaffected and unattached, is the secret of spiritual wisdom. Every single act of yours must be carried out with this wisdom as its background. That awareness of the Atma will guide you in both the out-moving and in-drawing paths; it will not block action but fill it with purpose and meaning; it will build up faith and moral life; it will take you to the realm of deliverance along the road of renunciation of the fruit of action, and not renunciation of action itself.
- Sathya Sai Baba – Gita Vahini, Chapter 6 / Daily Email, Sai Inspires: Subscription
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