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Category Archives: Politics
In Haiti Dining Options are Impressive
The tourist beach at Abaka Bay is featured in the image above. Haiti offers many fine beaches, as does the Dominican Republic — the country that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. But Haiti and the Dominican Republic have … Continue reading
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Organized Crime: It Gets Things Done
In most governments of the world, officials spend their time waiting around for better payoffs and bribes to come along. This is how government officials get rich, and everything else must take a back seat. There is nothing difficult or clever about … Continue reading
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Too Young to Vote, Too Young to Drink, But Not Too Young to Clean Up the Criminal Slime of Kenosha
Lifeguard At Your Service In the summer of 2020 Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17 year old youth working as a lifeguard in Kenosha, Wisconsin. One day he was living the peaceful existence of an American teen in a quiet town … Continue reading
The Republican Candidate for US President Who Frightens the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and the Council on Foreign Relations
I haven’t seen Jordan Peterson have so much fun in an interview in a long time. It is almost as if Peterson and Vivek Ramaswamy were philosophical soulmates. Ramaswamy is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard and a graduate … Continue reading
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Monumental Media-Political Scam Exposed; Corporate Media Silent, but Twitter Refuses to Overlook It
The 305 pp special counsel Durham Report that was released on Monday exposed a massive fraud perpetrated by corporate media, government officials, and private political operatives working for Hillary Clinton and her campaign. The Trump-Russia collusion story was a hoax … Continue reading
Existential Question: Competence vs. Expertise?
The future survival of modern societies is balanced on a razor’s edge. Those societies that learn to distinguish between competence and expertise are most likely to survive and prosper. It is not clear that most modern societies will make the … Continue reading
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Space Alien Ambassador Unimpressed by Joe Biden
Yes, judging by its political class and by its elites in media, academia, and corporate culture, the US is in serious trouble. It doesn’t take a space alien to see that. A number of the global cities with highest homicide … Continue reading
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Is Re-Electing President Trump the Only Alternative to the Unutterable Madness and Decay of Wokeism?
Wokeism has taken over the US Deep State and most large social institutions in the US. The slow release of the Twitter Files by the innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk, is gradually unwrapping the ugly truth behind the government and the … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Education, Elon Musk, Government, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Philosophy, Politics
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A Meeting of Titans
Around the time of the recent G20 summit, secret meetings between the world’s titans took place with consequences that could shake the world. Here is a brief edited transcript of the interchange between the two giants of the modern age: … Continue reading
A Catastrophic Moral Crime
More Bill Maher is a proper moron, but he occasionally has intelligent guests on his show. And like a broken clock, he is right two seconds out of every day. More from the above episode: It is important to remember … Continue reading
Paranoia: The Flip Side
It seems to me that we are living in an age of paranoia, which is likely to get worse with time. Too many people are mainlining their thinking and decision making directly from a 6.7 inch screen. Is that why … Continue reading
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Irony
Irony is the figurative term for the disconnect between what appears to happen or what is apparently being said and the actual truth or reality. __ Source The singer in the song above expresses one meaning in the lyrics, while it … Continue reading
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When Will We Ever Know What’s True?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The western world is in the middle of a year + game of playing the fool to governments, media, public health agencies, and the rest of the gang … Continue reading
Graphic Summary of 2020 US Election
They try to scrub the truth from most large media sources, but the corrupt and illegitimate government* and its media lackeys will find that the people do not forget so easily. Image Source Updated source for information documenting fraud in … Continue reading
If Biden Refers to Kamala as “President Harris,” What Does Kamala call Biden? “You Drooling Idiot?”
There Is No Biden Administration A basic problem with the Biden administration is that there really isn’t one. Like most journalists I use the term as a formality, but the White House site calls it the Biden-Harris Administration. It’s not … Continue reading
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What Would a Real Insurrection Look Like?
After months of insurrection theater combined with a fake impeachment trial, inquiring minds would like to know: If the fraudulent election of November 2020 were truly contested by armed insurrection, what would it look like? Consider the visual contrast between … Continue reading
They Cannot Help But Go Too Far
Over the years, Maher’s audiences have always been trained seals, reliably clapping at every hard left, anti-George Bush, anti-Trump, pro-Obama statement the host utters. But this time, he said that the BLM rap pushing Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) on American society … Continue reading
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Americans are Leaving California and New York in Favor of Florida and Texas
Americans who live in Democrat Party-run states such as New York, California, Illinois, and New Jersey, are experiencing economic hardship, high unemployment, and draconian regulations and taxes. The highest unemployment states are Hawaii, Nevada, California, Colorado, New York, New Mexico, … Continue reading
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Nobody Really Believes Biden Was Elected Fairly
Months before the election, top Democratic Party senators warned that Dominion Voting Systems machines could be easily hacked, with votes intentionally switched from one candidate to his opponent. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar were among the prominent elected Democrats to … Continue reading
When Overreaction is the Only Tactic Available
This whole business over the Capitol riots long ago passed the overreaction threshold and entered the realm of the absurd… MSNBC Host Proposes Drone Strikes Against Trump Supporters In the age of “rule by leftist extremists,” if you do not … Continue reading
How to Be a Good Leftist
It all starts with group thinking conformity. Leftism is an ideology, not a philosophy — a key difference. Maintaining group conformity is a major undertaking in a nonsensical ideology, particularly in the early stages. Here’s one way to do it: … Continue reading
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Witch Trial Against Citizen Trump Begins 8 Feb. 21
The US Senate has scheduled hearings in the impeachment trial against Citizen Trump beginning February 8th. The Senate does not have the constitutional authority to hold an “impeachment” trial against a private citizen, nor should it have. That simple limitation … Continue reading
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Why Election Fraud is So Easy in US Third World Cities
Rigged elections are routine in communist and third world countries. Election fraud has also become routine in US third world enclaves — such as the inner parts of Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Atlanta etc. In such broadly impoverished places the … Continue reading
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Election Fraud in Broad Daylight: There Will be Hell to Pay
There are plenty of people who hate President Trump, just look under any rock or log. Such people deny that election fraud could have happened — or that it could have made any difference in the outcome if it did. … Continue reading
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Only a Complete Idiot Takes These Pandemic Numbers Seriously
We have never kept count of any disease in quite this way. It makes comparisons impossible: “The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, … Continue reading
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