The Dem party may well split over this loss and the fallout, as moderates left in their party see that they have no place and the extreme liberals go even more overboard.
Higg was talking about a potential mental health crisis if Trump won. But really they've all drank so much Kool-Aid that it's going to be a hard hangover for them to recover from the madness. Let's hope there's not desperate moves to drag the indoctrinated back down the rabbit hole.
The mandate in the election seems to be leading us into peak crisis. We'll either resolve our issues or fall prey to the 250 year imperial average lifetime. What we've seen up to now are ripples before the real waves of history wash over. Buckle up
We'll either resolve our issues or fall prey to the 250 year imperial average lifetime. What we've seen up to now are ripples before the real waves of history wash over. Buckle up
I don't know that history has previously seen a nation drawn up from scratch, with a founding document created through the collaborative efforts of learned and wise people with the express intent of preventing tyranny. I must admit, last week after the election my respect for the Constitution was pretty profound. I don't think we yet know the limits of its endurance.
The Dem party may well split over this loss and the fallout, as moderates left in their party see that they have no place and the extreme liberals go even more overboard.
Higg was talking about a potential mental health crisis if Trump won. But really they've all drank so much Kool-Aid that it's going to be a hard hangover for them to recover from the madness. Let's hope there's not desperate moves to drag the indoctrinated back down the rabbit hole.
The mandate in the election seems to be leading us into peak crisis. We'll either resolve our issues or fall prey to the 250 year imperial average lifetime. What we've seen up to now are ripples before the real waves of history wash over. Buckle up
I don't know whether a Trump win will cause the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country. I think not actually, but Halperin is probably in a better position to have an opinion on that than I am.
What seems possible to me, though, is that if Trump gets in and deportations are started, the half of the population that has been stomped on for 50 years by the managerial elite class won't be satisfied with just deportations of illegal aliens once they get a small taste of revenge; they are going to want more. Or let's just say there is a good possibility they will want more. The logic could be something like, "It's not the illegal aliens who were out to get us, it was the corrupt cronies who enabled the border to be overrun. Let's get them out of the country too."
The most disgusting part of the post election has been to watch the big tech sycophants like Bezos and Pichai congratulate Trump after they spent 8 years trying to cut his legs out from under him.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
I don't know that history has previously seen a nation drawn up from scratch, with a founding document created through the collaborative efforts of learned and wise people with the express intent of preventing tyranny. I must admit, last week after the election my respect for the Constitution was pretty profound. I don't think we yet know the limits of its endurance.
The US Constitution (the world's first) is the greatest governmental foundation document ever written. It is unfortunate that so few understand the depth of protections it provides.
While the Dems were saying that Trump was a Nazi dictator and would end freedom, there are just way too many constitutional limits on his power for him to get anywhere close to that. He cannot just "round people up" or set up "re-education camps" or whatever other cataclysmic scenario they were coming up with.
Trump has to operate as President within the limits of the Constitution. He can't summarily suspend or end it. BTW, the closest anybody got to doing this was FDR, and he was a Democrat.
The most disgusting part of the post election has been to watch the big tech sycophants like Bezos and Pichai congratulate Trump after they spent 8 years trying to cut his legs out from under him.
Both Amazon (Bezos) and Google (Pichai) are running monopolies (or near monopolies), and both are engaging in conduct as bad or worse than Standard Oil (Rockefeller) did more than a century ago. Both are terrified that their monopolies are going to get limited or broken up.
To me, Google is by far the worst, as they are actually attempting to control all access to information, and to slant it. Hopefully Trump and the Republican Congress will go after them the way Teddy Roosevelt went after Standard Oil.
Same goes for Amazon, who are destroying small businesses, and who are just waiting for them to die off so they can be a sole source and jack up prices.
I was very encouraged by Trump's pick for Chief of Staff and ICE head.
I am only somewhat OK with Rubio as Sec State, and then only because he has experience on the Foreign Relations Committee. We will see how he is at negotiating things with foreign countries. Right now I am not convinced he's the guy.
The Gabbard role, and his picks for UN and Homeland Security should be fine.
Gaetz as AG would only be there until his confirmation hearings start. Then he is toast. No way he gets confirmed. I think that both he and Trump are thinking that he could operate as a recess appointment until then. And his selection by Trump means that he is out to get his "enemies". This is a very petty, and in the end, extremely bad move by Trump, as it will play into his enemies' hands. Gaetz is tainted by his own significant scandalous actions to begin with, and God only knows what he has been plotting with Trump.
The Sec Def choice would be fine for VA, but he has no understanding of weapon system acquisition (Sec Def's main job) nor of handling a massive bureaucracy. He is, unfortunately, the kind of crony that I figured Trump would pick for important posts.
RFK at HHS would certainly shake things up, but the guy is kind of nuts, plus is a quack without a medical degree.
Fetterman just said Trump picked Gaetz to troll, to see democrat heads explode. It may also mean that he has someone else somewhat controversial in mind, who may be viewed as more palatable after a failed Gaetz confirmation.
We shall see.
Read the article. Other than painting Trump as a religious guy, I agree.
Obama has been the worst US President since LBJ. He set back race relations 40 years. His operatives were definitely running the Biden administration. I believe he fundamentally hates the US, and all that the Constitution stands for.
I was personally involved in the situation that led up to the 2009 Ft. Hood shootings and dealing with the aftermath. This was the incident where the active duty Army doctor shot up the soldiers assigned to the unit he was to deploy with overseas, killing 13 and wounding at least 30 others. The wounded who were in the Reserves could not get proper medical care nor benefits provided wounded soldiers because Obama classified the whole thing as "workplace violence" rather than the terrorist incident it was. This is because it didn't fit his narrative of "now that I am President, there is no longer any reason for terrorism". Oblivious of the fact that the gunman was a radicalized Islamist. So I personally loath Barack Obama due to his actions.
I wish Trump all the best in getting rid of as many Obama loyalists as he can.
no, I'm the charlatan who took their work and built generational dynamics and modern generational theory on top of it. their books were quite brilliant, and came out in the 80s and '90s. to my knowledge, nobody seriously recognized the 80-year cycle until they did. furthermore, absolutely nobody recognized the four generational eras until they did , although they're very contains some serious errors. Strauss was definitely the brains of the out fit, but he's passed away. today, the brains of the fourth turning theory are in the far left Democrat. David Kaiser.
David Kaiser on the election. Which he says is the most important post he has ever done in his 20 years of the blog.
Thursday, November 07, 2024
Thirty years later, the answer emerges
In 2001 and again in 2009, two presidents--George W. Bush and Barack Obama--had the opportunity to step into the role of the "Gray Champion," the generic term Bill and Neil used for history's Lincolns and FDRs.
And so it was that just eighteen months into the Obama presidency, on July 5, 2011, I wrote what was until now the most important post that I have ever done here. I could see that Obama was not going to undertake another New Deal, and that the era of corporate supremacy would continue into the High that would follow the crisis. It was clear by then that he was about to lose the House of Representatives because he, unlike FDR, and failed to provide real relief to the American people in the first year and a half of the crisis. And so he did, and he never regained it.
Thursday, January 5th, 2023.