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Home Front: Politix
VDH - Did Someone or Something Seize Control of the United States?
2023-01-05
[PJ] What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?

Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?

When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent to dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America’s wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?

Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas — furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices’ homes, with placards declaring "Off with their d—s"?

Since when did Americans create a government Ministry of Truth? And on whose orders did the FBI contract private news organizations to censor stories it did not like and writers whom it feared?

How did we wake up one morning to new customs of impeaching a president over a phone call? Of the speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national television? Of barring congressional members from serving on their assigned congressional committees?

When did we assume the FBI had the right to subvert the campaign of a candidate it disliked? Was it legal suddenly for one presidential candidate to hire a foreign ex-spy to subvert the campaign of her rival?
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  The People don't really know who runs the place. More and more of da People are becoming aware that they themselves have no say in the matter.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342   2023-01-05 14:52  

#17  If We the People know who runs the place also means We the People know who to target.
Posted by: ruprecht   2023-01-05 14:47  

#16  I do not believe the left ever loved the US, the US was a roadblock n their grand future plans. Now they have infested the institutions and are able to remove the roadblock.
Posted by: ruprecht   2023-01-05 14:35  

#15   ^ I was never sure it was Kalorama. I always got the feeling that his strings were being pulled too. I believe the American people have a right to know who is really running the country but that right is being abrogated.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-05 14:21  

#14  What I've been saying for some time. We clearly lost a war of some sort but it's clear we came out on the short end and are now being dictated to. The question is, by whom? I'm not so sure it's Kalorama anymore.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-01-05 13:38  

#13  A rich country can afford to be frivolous. And the richer, the more frivolous. And we are, and we are.
Posted by: Tom   2023-01-05 13:36  

#12  Can't be Biden's fault as long as we have Putin to serve as a whipping boy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-05 13:25  

#11  But since January 2021 nobody talks about this anymore:

Biden’s orders direct the secretary of the Interior Department to halt new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters, and begin a thorough review of existing permits for fossil fuel development.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-05 13:22  

#10  My November SouthWest Gas bill was $468, over twice the previous November bill for roughly the same periods of cold weather.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-01-05 13:22  

#9  When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent to dirty coal?

SDG&E Bills to Rise Sharply in January After U.S. Natural Gas Prices Double
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-01-05 13:16  

#8  "We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew."

Beginning?
Posted by: mossomo   2023-01-05 12:57  

#7  They have prepped the coming conflict by creating the "right-wing extremist, white-supremacist" threat strawman to justify their planned response.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-01-05 12:34  

#6  Been this way for a long time. They just did it with a thin veneer of legality to it. Now they are just discarding the fig leaf for us to see because they know nothing will change it short of war.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-01-05 09:38  

#5  America's crime problem is real. Tackling it requires respect for cops
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-05 07:34  

#4  Phase-1: The great American 'kill off' (Plandemic) was not as successful as anticipated.

Phase-2: The influx of foreign replacement people continues as previously planned.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-01-05 07:14  

#3  "bank accounts over borders"
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-05 07:04  

#2  The seeds of socialism, Marxism, communism,,,, finally bloomed as the institutions were corrupted beyond repair. No need to have a leader as the rot knows what to do. No need to tell the Census bureau to fudge the numbers to favor Blue states; it is just BAU.
Posted by: Airandee   2023-01-05 06:56  

#1  When you decided 'principles' were more important than power. When you became too comfortable to throw off old rituals that no longer provide honest government. When you decided to bury that document issued on 4 July 1776.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-01-05 06:27  

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