Sunday, December 26, 2021

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Sunday Funnier

https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1475092730590031873?t=mnf8w18QP1iqYePDRld_Hg&s=19

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

And on it goes, dooming the reader with looming images of ravaged land and displaced populations from the ravages of nuclear weaponry. October. 

Not to forget Pres. Obama’s big thought: Rising oceans.*November’s strip of  an elderly couple on beach chairs as the  tide is up to their calves, and debris floats in the waters next to their feet, and the cartoon newspaper held by the bifocaled male, headlined: NEWS: Ocean levels rising; Ice Caps Melting.” Footnote warns that ice sheets and glaciers melting from warming makes the oceans rise, which lift “can disrupt and damage coastal communities and infrastructure in virtually every sea-bordering country in the world.:  

Bringing us to December ’22, where the black, white and green comic depicts three Chernobyl-like atomic reactors chugging schmutz into the air, and two backpackers seeing the smudge sky, remarking, “I kind of regret objecting so strongly to the wind farm they originally planned.”  

No comment on the fact that wind power is least efficient, most costly, and least dependable, everywhere it is ventured. And that nuclear power, used by France and Germany, is both cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable than solar or wind. 

Here their curdling milk note strays into suppositions unsupported by science thus far: “The ability to store energy [we don’t yet have such an ability]  and use it when most needed helps reduce demand generated by [sitting down?] dirty, inefficient fossil fuel power plants.” The Union is supposedly working on ‘deploying energy storage” in ways that “most benefit communities harmed by powerplant pollution…”—no word on cost, materials, time to fully develop this storage capacity, or the undeniable reliance of their electric whatchamacallits and charging stations on fossil fuels to get their electric power. 

Selling their racket every month to unsuspecting customers just turning the pages, buying the bridge they’re selling without countervailing argument, statistics, or positions by reputable real scientists. Every month, another Woke meme that’s not scientific, that trances the bounds of neutral and questioning science. Hardly accurate for them to call themselves “’concerned “scientists”  if truth is what they’re after.                                             

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

All we know is what’s on the internet.

Trump launched his political career by embracing a brand-new conspiracy theory twisted around two American taproots—fear and loathing of foreigners and of nonwhites. In 2011, he became the chief promoter of the fantasy that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, a fringe idea that he brought into the mainstream. Only in the fall of 2016 did he grudgingly admit that the president was indeed a native-born American—at the same moment a YouGov/Huffington Post survey found that a majority of Republicans still believed Obama probably or definitely had been born in Kenya. 
Conspiracies, conspiracies, still more conspiracies. On Fox & Friends Trump discussed, as if it were fact, the National Enquirer’s suggestion that Ted Cruz’s father was connected to JFK’s assassination: “What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, before the shooting? It’s horrible.” The Fox News anchors interviewing him didn’t challenge him or follow up. He revived the 1993 fantasy about the Clintons’ friend Vince Foster—his death, Trump said, was “very fishy,” because Foster “had intimate knowledge of what was going on. He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide … I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.” He has also promised to make sure that “you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.” And it has all worked for him, because so many Americans are eager to believe almost any conspiracy theory, no matter how implausible, as long as it jibes with their opinions and feelings.

Not all lies are fantasies and not all fantasies are lies; people who believe untrue things can pass lie-detector tests. For instance, Trump probably really believed that “the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years,” the total falsehood he told leaders of the National Sheriffs’ Association at the White House in early February. The fact-checking website PolitiFact looked at more than 400 of his statements as a candidate and as president and found that almost 50 percent were false and another 20 percent were mostly false.

He gets away with this as he wouldn’t have in the 1980s or ’90s, when he first talked about running for president, because now factual truth really is just one option. After Trump won the election, he began referring to all unflattering or inconvenient journalism as “fake news.” When his approval rating began declining, Trump simply refused to believe it: “Any negative polls” that may appear, the president tweeted at dawn one morning from Mar-a-Lago, “are fake news.”

The people who speak on Trump’s behalf to journalists and the rest of the reality-based world struggle to defend or explain his assertions. Asked about “the president’s statements that are … demonstrably not true,” the White House counselor Kellyanne Conway asked CNN’s Jake Tapper to please remember “the many things that he says that are true.” According to The New York Times, the people around Trump say his baseless certainty “that he was bugged in some way” by Obama in Trump Tower is driven by “a sense of persecution bordering on faith.” And indeed, their most honest defense of his false statements has been to cast them practically as matters of religious conviction—he deeply believes them, so … there. When White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked at a press conference about the millions of people who the president insists voted illegally, he earnestly reminded reporters that Trump “has believed that for a while” and “does believe that” and it’s “been a long-standing belief that he’s maintained” and “it’s a belief that he has maintained for a while.”

Which is why nearly half of Americans subscribe to that preposterous belief themselves. And in Trump’s view, that overrides any requirement for facts.

Myballs said...

Let's go Brandon, I agree
- our idiot, clueless president

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

More than a year after the election, reports of door-to-door brownshirts canvassing have surfaced across the country -- from battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, to solidly red Utah. An Ohio scientist popular in circles associated with former President Donald Trump recently told a Wisconsin legislative committee that he's already trained canvassing teams in 30 states.

Seig Heil Mr Trump

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

2024 Republican presidential candidates will be

Donald Trump and Doctor Oz

Anonymous said...

MyballsDecember 26, 2021 at 8:24 AM

Let's go Brandon, I agree
- our idiot, clueless president"

It is so funny to watch.

Anonymous said...

Roger, how are you?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If rrb was taught that his ancestors were slave owners he would be proud!

CRT would have taught him that!

Anonymous said...

Tell is on your own words what "bottom up Economics " means ?

anonymous said...

Why don't you tell us in your own words why you can't find a job and are a moron!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Good, honest pastor James said...

Quote of the Day
December 26, 2021 at 8:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard 195 Comments

“This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump. You are either completely ignorant… or you are one of the most evil men who ever lived… What you told Candace Owens is nothing but a raft of dirty lies.”

— Alex Jones, pushing back on former President Trump’s claim that the coronavirus vaccines work.

Truthful pastor James said...

That last was a Sunday funnier.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Republicans are against the reconciliation process in history. American Greatness.

Hard times are coming for vaccine fanatics, despite their leader Trump said get your injections.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Despite the President is saying that the country is recovering!!!

December 26, 2021

The Covid fear factory is trembling

By S.R. Piccoli

Hard times are coming for vaccine fanatics and fear-mongering lockdown enthusiasts, or at least that’s what we can reasonably expect after reading the news coming out of South Africa and the U.K. about the Omicron variant. As a matter of fact, the data out of South Africa after five weeks of Omicron spread and out of the U.K. in the first full week after Omicron hit the country suggest that the new Covid-19 variant should be a cause for celebration and relief, not fear and alarm—yet that’s not the direction in which the American media and many politicians are heading.

Lolololololololololol

This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump. You are either completely ignorant… or you are one of the most evil men who ever lived… What you told Candace Owens is nothing but a raft of dirty lies.”

— Alex Jones, pushing back on former President Trump’s claim that the coronavirus vaccines work




Truthful Pastor Jim said...

Continuing his practice of countering the childish and irresponsible, harmfully intentioned, misleading, libelous and Un-American attempt to overthrow Constitutional democracy in our land, good pastor Jim shows up here with truths rather than lies.

The Third Year of Covid
December 26, 2021 at 9:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard 230 Comments

“America’s third year of dealing with the pandemic is likely to start as bleak as ever, with a devastating Omicron surge for the first couple of months,” Axios reports.

“Experts are hopeful that once the wave of cases, hospitalizations and deaths caused by the Omicron variant ebbs, life will finally be able to more closely resemble normal.”

“The silver lining of a tough January and February is that most of the country could have some degree of immunity afterwards — either through vaccination, infection, or both — that helps protect them against severe COVID infections in the future.”

WE HOPE FOR THE SILVER LINING.


GOOD NEWS!!!!!
The Redistricting Turnround
December 26, 2021 at 8:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments

Paul Waldman: “It’s still too early to say how all this will turn out, and the 2022 elections are also an uncertainty. But the big picture, as Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report says, is that ‘redistricting is shaping up to be close to a wash.’

“And as Joel Wertheimer predicted at Data for Progress, ‘when redistricting is finished, more districts in 2022 will be to the left of Joe Biden’s 4.5-point national margin against Trump than in 2020.’ This is about as good an outcome as Democrats could have hoped for.”


Dr. Oz Has Long Given Dubious Medical Advice
December 26, 2021 at 8:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments

New York Times: “As Dr. Oz jumped last month into the Republican primary for Senate in Pennsylvania, where his celebrity gives him an important advantage in a crucial race, he tied his candidacy to the politics of the pandemic. He appealed to conservatives’ anger at mandates and shutdowns, and at the ‘people in charge’ who, he said, ‘took away our freedom.’

“But the entry into the race of the Cleveland-born heart surgeon, a son of Turkish immigrants who has been the host of The Dr. Oz Show since 2009, also brought renewed scrutiny to the blemishes on his record as one of America’s most famous doctors: his long history of dispensing dubious medical advice.

“In ebullient language, he has often made sweeping claims based on thin evidence, which in multiple cases, like that of hydroxychloroquine, unraveled when studies he relied on were shown to be flawed.”


GOOD NEWS!
Early Holiday Shopping Helps Offset Omicron Damper
December 26, 2021 at 7:59 am EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments

Wall Street Journal:
“American consumers spent at a brisk pace over the shopping season, as an early rush to stores amid worries about supply and delivery problems muted the effects of a Covid-19 surge that disrupted some businesses and crimped spending before Christmas.”


Too Early to Say Omicron Is ‘Mild’
December 26, 2021 at 7:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard 72 Comments

William Hanage:
“Time and again throughout this pandemic, TV talking heads, politicians and many others have gotten tripped up on the simple and immutable fact that hospitalizations lag infection. It can take weeks for an infection to progress to the point where the patient needs to be hospitalized. Omicron burst onto the scene only four weeks ago. Not enough time has passed for us to have a firm grip on disease severity.

“Again that’s because of math: When a variant spreads extremely rapidly, as omicron seems to do, it can send false signals of reassurance on disease severity.”

WE MAY STILL HOPE, HOWEVER, FOR THE SILVER LINING THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE MILD BY COMPARISON

Unknown said...

Desmond Tutu Is Dead
December 26, 2021 at 7:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments

“Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday,” the AP reports.

Washington Post: “A small, effervescent man with a crooked nose and infectious toothy grin, Archbishop Tutu served as Black South Africa’s informal ambassador to the world during the dark days of repression and as a crucial voice in the campaign for racial equality that culminated with Nelson Mandela’s election as the country’s first Black president in 1994.”

WE LOST A GOOD AND DECENT MAN.

rrb said...



Omi-CON.

Also known as the common fucking cold.

LMAO.

Run for your lives!!!

C.H. Truth said...

Trump launched his political career by embracing a brand-new conspiracy theory twisted around two American taproots—fear and loathing of foreigners and of nonwhites. In 2011, he became the chief promoter of the fantasy that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, a fringe idea that he brought into the mainstream. Only in the fall of 2016 did he grudgingly admit that the president was indeed a native-born American—at the same moment a YouGov/Huffington Post survey found that a majority of Republicans still believed Obama probably or definitely had been born in Kenya. 
Conspiracies, conspiracies, still more conspiracies. On Fox & Friends Trump discussed, as if it were fact, the National Enquirer’s suggestion that Ted Cruz’s father was connected to JFK’s assassination: “What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, before the shooting? It’s horrible.” The Fox News anchors interviewing him didn’t challenge him or follow up. He revived the 1993 fantasy about the Clintons’ friend Vince Foster—his death, Trump said, was “very fishy,” because Foster “had intimate knowledge of what was going on. He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide … I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder.” He has also promised to make sure that “you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.” And it has all worked for him, because so many Americans are eager to believe almost any conspiracy theory, no matter how implausible, as long as it jibes with their opinions and feelings.


Sure Rog...


Either that or he told Americans that they would make more money, have more secure jobs, and that not everyone needed to "learn to code"... and that it could all be done without having to be politically correct every time you turned around?


But then again.... what do I know. I am not a guy who didn't vote for Trump and hated his guts. Obviously people who hate Trump have a better understanding of why people voted for Trump than those who did, huh?

C.H. Truth said...

Btw...

The reason that people voted for Biden is because they love criminals, wanted more crime, love Covid, wanted another 400,000 people to die, they hate a stable economy, and wanted to see runaway inflation that will lead to a recession, and ultimately because they hate America and wanted someone much more negative than Trump about our Country.

Make America Great Again! Nope! Lower your expectations!



As someone who didn't vote for Biden, I am very qualified to talk about the motivations of those who did.

C.H. Truth said...

More than a year after the election, reports of door-to-door brownshirts canvassing have surfaced across the country -- from battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, to solidly red Utah. An Ohio scientist popular in circles associated with former President Donald Trump recently told a Wisconsin legislative committee that he's already trained canvassing teams in 30 states

It's actually called a "get out the vote drive" Roger...

Ever heard of it?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is why you want DeSantis to be the next Presidential candidate!

Florida’s second COVID Christmas marred by 320% infection hike

The contagious omicron variant is likely driving a surge of more than 17,800 infections a day.

The Rams and Vikings is the game of the day.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

His libertarian views get you excited!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I put brownshirts on it to trigger you!

Football

Go Rams

rrb said...

Florida’s second COVID Christmas marred by 320% infection hike

The contagious omicron variant is likely driving a surge of more than 17,800 infections a day.


LOL, sure alky.

40 times more likely!

29 times more likely!

11 times more likely!

ELEVENTY BILLION TIMES MORE LIKELY!

Forget it … WE’RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIE.

Guess the media are getting tired of getting laughed at?

Too bad we’re laughing more than ever.


Media seemingly COMPETING to see who can come up with the SCARIEST unvaccinated /Omicron headline

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/12/24/they-are-just-making-this-crap-up-media-seemingly-competing-to-see-who-can-come-up-with-the-scariest-unvaccinated-omicron-headline/



I believe it was Stalin himself who referred to guys like you as 'useful idiots' alky.

rrb said...


Obviously people who hate Trump have a better understanding of why people voted for Trump than those who did, huh?


They also tend to find themselves locked up in secure facilities, unable to leave without an orderly.


rrb said...



HO-LEE FARKING SHEET!!!:

New data from the Zoe symptom-tracker app suggests one in two people with new coldlike symptoms will have COVID-19 rather than the
common cold
.

Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and the study's lead author, said in a press release on Thursday that for most people, getting infected with Omicron would feel "much more like the common cold, starting with a sore throat, runny nose and a headache," rather than fevers, continuous cough, or loss of taste or smell.

To get to the 50% figure, Spector and his team compared the number of new cases of a coldlike illness with the number of new cases of COVID-19 confirmed by a lateral flow or lab test.

"We need to change public messaging urgently to save lives as half of people with cold-like symptoms now have COVID-19," Spector said.



https://www.businessinsider.com/cold-symptoms-headache-fatigue-sore-throat-sneeze-covid-omicron-study-2021-12


"We need to freak the fuck out URGENTLY to SAVE LIVES URGENTLY as the cold I have right now as in RIGHT FUCKING NOW has a 50/50 chance of being Covid and I really need the government to run my life for me so I don't DIE because without more and more government we're all gonna fucking DIE!"


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If the Los Angeles Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs play in the Super Bowl in Si Fi Stadium in Englewood, I might go to the game.

Kputz would have a heart attack.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Funniest Sunday Funny

December 26th
“This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump. You are either completely ignorant… or you are one of the most evil men who ever lived… What you told Candace Owens is nothing but a raft of dirty lies.”

— rrb, pushed back on former President Trump’s claim that the coronavirus vaccines work.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Funniest Sunday Sunday Funnies are still coming!


CRT in reverse.

For some on the left, their reaction to COVID is something of a religion. Promoting masks and boasting about being vaccinated as well as boosted on social media is an article of faith, even if the cloth masks don’t provide the full protection they think they do. The masks show the necessary virtue-signaling and the person’s ideological purity.

That’s how you get some folks like the lady who punched the man on a Delta flight for not wearing a mask — even though her mask was hanging around her chin. It doesn’t have to make sense — all it needs is the fervor and the devotion to the cause.

But every cult has its holy and revered figures. For the COVID-ists, that’s Saint Anthony Fauci, instead of Donald Trump, One must follow with slavish attention all he says, whether it makes sense or not… or whether it contradicts what he’s said before or not.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

But every cult has its holy and revered figures. For the COVID-ists, that’s of Donald Trump, One must follow with slavish attention all he says, whether it makes sense or not… or whether it contradicts what he’s said before or not.

You are the useful idiot.

Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin made millions of useful idiots like Scott and the racist rodent bastard

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

America’s third year of dealing with the pandemic is likely to start as bleak as ever, with a devastating Omicron surge for the first couple of months,” Axios reports.




But

“Experts are hopeful that once the wave of cases, hospitalizations and deaths caused by the Omicron variant ebbs, life will finally be able to more closely resemble normal.”

“The silver lining of a tough January and February is that most of the country could have some degree of immunity afterwards — either through vaccination, infection, or both — that helps protect them against severe COVID infections in the future.”

It will be like the former President Trump said, it going away

Two years later.

Anonymous said...

Roger excuse making for Biden is expected.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He inherited the longest medical crisis in history. He has done a pretty good job.

It's the economy stupid kputz

Anonymous said...

Roger, you don't know about the Economy.

You throw out meaningless terms.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.
The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.”


Donald Trump Jr. is both intensely unappealing and uninteresting. He combines in his person corruption, ineptitude, and banality. He is perpetually aggrieved; obsessed with trolling the left; a crude, one-dimensional figure who has done a remarkably good job of keeping from public view any redeeming qualities he might have.

There’s a case to be made that he’s worth ignoring, except for this: Don Jr. has been his father’s chief emissary to MAGA world; he’s one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party; and he’s influential with Republicans in positions of power. He’s also attuned to what appeals to the base of the GOP. So, from time to time, it is worth paying attention to what he has to say.


Trump spoke at a Turning Point USA gathering on December 19. He displayed seething, nearly pathological resentments; playground insults (he led the crowd in “Let’s Go, Brandon” chants); tough guy/average Joe shtick; and a pulsating sense of aggrieved victimhood and persecution, all of it coming from the elitist, extravagantly rich son of a former president.

But there was one short section of Trump’s speech that I thought was particularly revealing. Relatively early in the speech, he said, “If we get together, they cannot cancel us all. Okay? They won’t. And this will be contrary to a lot of our beliefs because—I’d love not to have to participate in cancel culture. I’d love that it didn’t exist. But as long as it does, folks, we better be playing the same game. Okay? We’ve been playing T-ball for half a century while they’re playing hardball and cheating. Right? We’ve turned the other cheek, and I understand, sort of, the biblical reference—I understand the mentality—but it’s gotten us nothing. Okay? It’s gotten us nothing while we’ve ceded ground in every major institution in our country.”


Throughout his speech, Don Jr. painted a scenario in which Trump supporters—Americans living in red America—are under relentless attack from a wicked and brutal enemy. He portrayed it as an existential battle between good and evil. One side must prevail; the other must be crushed. This in turn justifies any necessary means to win. And the former president’s son has a message for the tens of millions of evangelicals who form the energized base of the GOP: the scriptures are essentially a manual for suckers. The teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.” It’s worse than that, really; the ethic of Jesus has gotten in the way of successfully prosecuting the culture wars against the left. If the ethic of Jesus encourages sensibilities that might cause people in politics to act a little less brutally, a bit more civilly, with a touch more grace? Then it needs to go.


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Anonymous said...

Run Roger from "transitory inflation"
& the meaningless emotional " bottom up Economics ".

Your complete failures in economics continue .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Decency is for suckers.

Translating the teachings of Jesus into public life, and figuring out how they ought to influence the duties of the state, is a complicated matter. A decade ago, I wrote a book with Michael Gerson, City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era, in which we dealt with that issue, among others. But what we heard from Donald Trump Jr. was something very different. He believes, as his father does, that politics should be practiced ruthlessly, mercilessly, and vengefully. The ends justify the means. Norms and guardrails need to be smashed. Morality and lawfulness must always be subordinated to the pursuit of power and self-interest. That is the Trumpian ethic.

The problem is that the Trumpian ethic hasn’t been confined to the Trump family. We saw that not just in the enthusiastic and at times impassioned response of the Turning Point USA crowd to Don Jr.’s speech but nearly every day in the words and actions of Republicans in positions of power. Donald Trump and his oldest son have become evangelists of a different kind.


Their approach hasn’t been embraced by Republicans, of course. There are GOP governors and others in the Republican Party who embody a very different ethic, and for the sake of their party and their country, I hope they gain influence. But it would be naive and irresponsible to pretend that what we have seen since Donald Trump left office is the revivification of ethical standards and demands for moral excellence within the Republican Party.

Liz Cheney voted with President Trump more than 90 percent of the time but is now persona non grata in the GOP because she is willing to defend the Constitution and the rule of law and stand against a violent assault on the Capitol and an effort to overturn a free and fair election. When Liz Cheney is more despised in the party than the crazed Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, Madison Cawthorn, or Donald Trump Jr., you know that the GOP has lost its moral bearings.

I understand that many Americans, including some number of Republicans I know, would rather we move on from the Trump family. But the Trump family and MAGA world won’t let us. And they’re playing for keeps.

Anonymous said...

Roger is wrong , like it is his job.

"
He inherited the longest medical crisis in history"

Nope.

"1921-1925: Diphtheria epidemic"
4 years is longer .

Anonymous said...

Roger is a history illiterate.

"1916-1955: Polio"

Anonymous said...

Roger. Wrong , wrong and wrong.

"1981-1991: measles "

Ten years .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Sunday Fucking Twilight Zone

Americans have for a year sat peacefully at home and watched and listened to the unfounded ranting of Democrat politicians and their echo chamber in the mass and social media, accuse normal, moderate to conservative citizens of thought crimes and insurrectionary behavior because they do not share the current extreme Democrat political agenda.  

Our nation has become a sickening avatar of the perished Soviet Union, where Orwell's Ministry of Truth was the mother of all lies.  Our media, our Pravda (meaning Truth in Russian) of America sets the party line and propagates it throughout the information channels of our nation.  We are governed by a barely functioning cipher in the presidency, who each day vandalizes our precious heritage and undermines the proud bulwark for freedom that America has become for the world.  The Democrat party of Truman, Kennedy, Stevenson, and Jackson is dead, murdered by treasonous political hacks and ignorant Communists masquerading as politicians and leaders. 

In the Soviet Union, itself a Twilight Zone of unreality, nothing real was permitted.  Speaking truth got you sentenced to the Gulag.  In pained humor, Soviet citizens described their rotten, fake economy this way:  We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.  Thus, every sector of their nation had been hollowed out by decades of lies, until it collapsed.  Creative and destructive forces on the globe have been balanced now for a century because the United States has been powerful. We are not pure and unblemished, but warts and all, we have been the last best hope of humanity on earth.  

If we allow the false reality of the Twilight Zone to rule us, we will be living in the twilight of America:  The end of the American Era may be here if the American people do not take their fate and the fate of freedom and respect for individual liberty and dignity back into their own hands.

Patricia Henry is the pen name of a denizen of deep blue America.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trumpism without Trump has begun.


Trumpism without Trump: The Republican playbook for 2022?

Agence France-Presse

December 27, 2021

As US Republicans cheered impressive gains in state elections in the fall, their leader may not have been so delighted as he followed the results from his fiefdom in southern Florida.

For the results of the gubernatorial races -- victory in leftward-trending Virginia and an unexpectedly narrow defeat in deeply Democratic New Jersey -- proved one thing beyond doubt: Republicans can win without Donald Trump.

Whisper it, but five years after submitting entirely to the will of its mercurial leader, and one year ahead of the crucial midterm elections, the Republican Party is tentatively picturing life after Donald.

"At this stage, he would be the frontrunner if he chose to enter the 2024 presidential race," Matt Lacombe, an assistant professor of political science at New York liberal arts school Barnard College, told AFP.

"But it's also very possible that coordination among potential candidates and party officials... would be sufficient to prevent him from pursuing or succeeding in a second run."

After Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination in May 2016, the party abandoned its policy platform at its next two conventions, instead opting to simply declare fealty to its rambunctious chieftain.

The consensus remains that all paths to Congress go through Mar-a-Lago -- that to succeed in Washington you had to kiss the ring in Palm Beach, flattering Trump and his ultra-loyal base of tens of millions of ardent devotees.

Republican politicians who fail to toe the line know they risk a public dressing down and primary challenge at best and death threats to their families if his supporters were particularly inflamed.

"Despite losing his social media megaphone, his endorsements still energize grassroots supporters, drive donations, and in some cases clear away competitors and force retirements," Tommy Goodwin, a Washington-based political consultant and lobbyist, told AFP.

Some prominent Republicans are seizing on the recent governors' races to call for a course correction, however, navigating around Trump and his "big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen from him by the Democrats.