[WIRE] There’s a documentary called "Behind the Curve" in which a group of people who think the Earth is flat decided to test their hypothesis. They spend something like $20,000 on a laser gyroscope, and run some tests, and lo and behold, they learn that the Earth, contrary to their assumptions, is in fact round. Their response was exactly what you’d expect. At first they didn’t want to believe it, they started rationalizing away the experiment. "We were taken aback by that," one of the men said. He added: "We obviously were not willing to accept that."
That documentary came out a few years ago. It was an interesting look at human psychology and how people respond when their own actions debunk their whole worldview (literally their worldview, in the case of the flat-earthers). It’s not an easy thing to experience. It’s one thing for someone else to prove you wrong. It’s something else entirely to disprove your own ideology, and to reveal how bankrupt and nonsensical it is.
It’s easy to point and laugh at flat-earthers, but this is a phenomenon we’re seeing more often these days. In fact, it’s been playing out for the whole country over the past few weeks, as proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, have witnessed the complete implosion of the president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay.
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Those of us with some connection to Harvard got the first communication from Alan Garber, the interim president. It is a hoot! Among the funny parts is the description of Claudine. Just reading his letter, she continues to be the love child of Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa, and you are left wondering why in the world she resigned.
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[ZERO] In the last six months, we have borne witness to many iconic moments evidencing the collapse of American culture.
The signs are everywhere and cover the gamut of politics, the economy, education, social life, popular culture, foreign policy, and the military. These symptoms of decay share common themes.
Our descent is self-induced; it is not a symptom of a foreign attack or subterfuge. Our erosion is not the result of poverty and want, but of leisure and excess. We are not suffering from existential crises of famine, plague, or the collapse of our grid and fuel sources. Prior, far poorer, and war-torn generations now seem far better off than what we are becoming.
What is happening to us is not due to an adherence to a too strict conservative tradition but is almost exclusively the wage of the progressive project.
In short, we are seeing fissures that America has not experienced in our cultural history since the Civil War. The radical Left apparently feels such chaos, anarchy, and nihilism are necessary to topple past norms and customs and thereby adhere to a socialist, equity agenda that no one in normal times would stomach.
Some of the decay is existential and fundamental; some anecdotal and illustrative. But either way, while decline came about gradually over decades, its sudden and abrupt chaos during the three years of Biden’s presidency has shocked Americans.
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After being dragged screaming and howling into two European wars in the first half of the last century, we should have had an educated class who would have seriously questioned anything social/political that came out of there.
[FoxNews] WSJ columnist says the crisis of fatherlessness in America isn't spoken about enough
A new academic study is suggesting the presence of two parents in a household may play a crucial role in ensuring safer communities.
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley, who recently wrote about this topic, argued on "Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy" that the biggest root of crime is fatherlessness.
Riley referenced the book "The Two-Parent Privilege" by economist Melissa Kearney in emphasizing the significant impact of family structure on social inequality and the lack of discussion on this issue within academia and in this country.
"I think the bigger problem here is fatherlessness. It is one of the true root causes of this. We know that the correlation between a child coming from a fatherless home and ending up in prison or on drugs, or a single parent himself are much, strongly, more strongly correlated with whether that child came from a fatherless home than it is with race, than it is with ethnicity, than it is from poverty and income level," Riley said. "So the bigger factor is, in fact, fatherlessness and we don't talk about that enough."
The FBI's 2022 Crime in the Nation data report, released in Oct. 2023, revealed nearly a million vehicles – worth more than $20 billion – were stolen throughout the United States as the rate of motor vehicle thefts increased by more than 8% nationwide.
The rate of property crimes per 100,000 citizens also increased 7.1% from 2021 to 2022, per FBI data, with a total of 6,513,829 related charges filed by police. Larcenies, the agency said, increased by 7.8%. The rate of burglaries, however, remained unchanged.
Gowdy pointed to Riley's recent column and referenced his argument that "the best way to avoid poverty, is to finish high school, get a job, and wait until you're married to have children."
Riley emphasized that such a statement isn't meant to victimize teen moms, but instead shed light on statistics to encourage children to make the "right decisions."
"In New York City, some years back, they were putting up billboards under Mayor Bloomberg on subways and trains and buses, and so forth, and he got a lot of pushback from liberals who say… this is victimizing teen moms and blaming them for their circumstances, and we don't want to do that, but it's not about that." Riley stated. "We all know heroic single parents, Trey. Some of us are related to them even, they do a great job, but we know that the statistics tell us that they have their work cut out. That is the harder way to go and our goal here is to encourage kids to make the right decisions going forward so they don't end up in that situation. It's not about moralizing and blaming people."
When asked about the importance of a father's presence in a child's life, Riley said, "They're role models, they're simply role models. They teach their sons how to behave, how to carry themselves, how to treat women and that is what fathers have done throughout civilization."
Amid the increase in property crimes, the FBI statistics showed violent crimes were trending downward, decreasing collectively by 1.7% last year. Homicides dropped by 6.1%, the agency estimated, and rapes dipped by 5.4% from 2021. Aggravated assaults saw a lesser decrease with 1.1% fewer incidents.
How much of that decrease is due to “Soros prosecutors” refusing to charge criminals, or if forced to it to charge them with a lessor crime?
[KhaamaPress] Following the collapse of the republic and the rise of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... regime, Afghanistan has not been a battleground for direct confrontations, but security is still considered a critical issue. Key security concerns in 2023 include activities of some terrorist groups, extrajudicial killings, targeting civilians, targeted liquidations, and arbitrary arrests.
The activity and attacks of ISIS and other terrorist groups in Afghanistan, particularly targeting Afghan Shiites, have been a major concern for organizations and regional countries over the past year. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the Taliban has consistently denied the presence of ISIS in Afghanistan and assured their complete suppression. The UN Security Council convened in August this year to assess ISIS threats globally, including Afghanistan, expressing concern over the presence and activities of ISIS there.
According to a UN Security Council report, around 20 terrorist groups are active in Afghanistan, with estimates indicating that the number of ISIS fighters in the country ranges between four to six thousand. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and the rotating President of the Security Council, noted that ISIS has grabbed credit for deadly attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistain. She emphasized that Afghanistan must not become a safe haven for terrorists, including al-Qaeda and the Khorasan branch of ISIS.
It is noteworthy that in the past year, ethnic and religious minorities such as Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... s, Shiites, and religious scholars in mosques, sports venues, and public places have been targeted by ISIS attacks. Reports indicate that attacks throughout the past year have resulted in 39 deaths and 87 injuries on specific dates in different locations across Afghanistan. Additionally, 11 other civilians, including four Shia religious scholars, were murdered in November 2023, prompting widespread international reactions.
Taliban administration, including Dawood Muzammil from Balkh, Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi from Badakhshan, and Safiullah Samim from Baghlan, have been targeted and killed by ISIS in 2023. A global research center on the responsibility to protect indicates that from August 15, 2021, to May 2023, there have been casualties due to ISIS attacks in Afghanistan.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... UN statistics show that from November 14, 2022, to November 2023, there have been 40 ISIS attacks, including three unclaimed incidents. While the Taliban has denied claims of extrajudicial killings and violence against former military personnel, UNAMA has documented hundreds of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations, including murder, torture, threats, and arrests of previous government officials and military personnel from August 15, 2021, to June 30, 2023.
A human rights organization named "Rawadari" reported that in the first six months of 2023, approximately 355 people (299 men, 33 women, and 10 children), mostly opposed to the ruling government in Afghanistan, were killed and 161 others injured in various incidents. The report reveals that 220 people were mysteriously murdered, 85 were maimed, 222, including 23 women across sixteen provinces, were arbitrarily arrested, and over 10 others were forcibly disappeared during this period.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... Mullah Yaqoob Mujahid, acting Minister of Defense of the Taliban government, claimed in a presser in Kabul that foreigners, including nationals of Tajikistan and Pakistain, are involved in attacks on mosques, shrines, religious scholars, and public gatherings in Afghanistan.
While the Taliban has assured internal security in Afghanistan and the security of its borders, Pak security forces reported conducting over 18,000 intelligence operations in 2023, resulting in the killing of at least 566 terrorists, with most attacks organized from within Afghanistan.
Border tensions between Afghanistan and neighboring countries have been a significant security concern over the past year, prompting authorities from neighboring countries to engage in discussions with Afghanistan. While the chief of the Taliban’s army reported the establishment of 600 border checkpoints with neighboring countries, authorities from neighboring countries have also emphasized border security with Afghanistan. Several border conflicts between Iranian and Pak border guards have been reported in the past year.
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[REGNUM] Quite a lot of time has passed since December 20, the day when the so-called “naked” party died down at the Mutabor club, even a year has changed, but the passions around this event and the people who took part in it do not subside.
The majority are throwing thunder at the participants in this party and demanding that they be expelled from everywhere and excommunicated from everything, since these “social elements” do not understand the urgency of the moment, continue to be ostracized and fatten in the Western manner (Ibid. LGBT (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) is not prohibited, but, on the contrary, sets the mainstream and nudity at all kinds of events is in the order of things).
Sponsors and all sorts of agencies (advertising, promotion, etc.) significantly broke their contracts with the participants of this frank get-together, or, in modern language, party, they were cut out of New Year's programs, tax officials came to check their financial affairs and collect arrears, and there was a stream of negative publications in the media. and a wave of angry comments from social network users.
There were also those who began to look for a conspiracy theory in everything that happened and support “the guilty without guilt.” “Journalistic investigations” on the topic “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” began to appear on a number of Internet portals. Namely, who actually came up with all this and paid for it? Who needs all this right now and why? The participants themselves are silent on this topic. But others are thinking about it.
There is a version floating around the Internet that all this fuss around the “naked” party is nothing more than a carefully planned action with the goal of thinning out the top of the domestic show business, namely, removing Kirkorov, Lolita, and at the same time Anna Asti, who began to occupy “too much space” in the cramped world of show business, where today there is a need for slightly different creativity. Ivleeva’s dad, in particular, sees the hand of Ksenia Sobchak in all this. Someone else's.
What is happening gives the impression of a theater of the absurd. Moreover, it is an objective and natural absurdity, and not cleverly invented and inspired by someone. Why?
First, let's ask ourselves a question: what exactly is today's Russian show business and the surrounding cultural space? Where does it all grow from and in what form, what does it live and breathe? The Soviet stage, as we know, virtually ceased to exist with the disappearance of the country. Soviet requirements for everything have disappeared, state funding has disappeared, but a general trend has emerged: it should be like in the West, and in this direction almost anything is possible.
Remember what followed. Modest young men Philip Kirkorov and Valera Leontyev, who once sang soulful songs of Soviet composers in white classic three-piece suits, suddenly became icons of kitsch overnight. They rushed to declare everything Soviet “soviet” and “mothballs.” “Singing cowards” and songs about nothing quickly began to come into fashion. In 1997, Alexey Balabanov’s cult film “Brother” was released, in which Danila Bagrov asks his friend: “What are they singing about?”, and she eloquently answers: “Aren’t you the same horseradish?”
It became “one hell” to shout from the stage, any nonsense under any cacophony, as long as there was a show, busty half-naked girls, a lot of smoke, a lot of noise, a lot of light and tinsel. If the Soviet stage was part of the state cultural and ideological product, which was intended to teach, educate, participate in the formation of the Soviet man and citizen, then the show business that replaced it was, firstly, to entertain and amuse, and -secondly, to Westernize the population, to make it, albeit peripheral, but still part of a world globalized according to the Western model.
This was successfully implemented. Over time, those who were previously called pop performers turned into freaks, that is, people who differ from the rest primarily in their bright, unusual, extravagant appearance and defiant behavior. To cover the lives of these freaks, a whole host of media has been formed in the form of the so-called yellow press, specialized television programs, the Internet and network resources. What do they illuminate? No, not concert activities, but mainly parties, such naked, foamy and all sorts of other parties, divorces, scandals, who drank “Mole” to clean toilets instead of juice, and so on. And the songs themselves, which in Soviet times were written as full-fledged works of art, and the manner of performance was built in the form of a dialogue with the audience, have faded into the background.
A striking illustration of this state of affairs was a scandalous story that occurred 20 years ago. Then, in 2004, at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don, journalist Irina Aroyan asked Philip Kirkorov why so many remakes appeared in his repertoire? Is there really nothing new to expect? To which Philip Bedrosovich responded with a series of personal insults addressed to the confused journalist who was doing her job, and kicked that very “pink blouse” out of the hall. That is, already 20 years ago, the question of new high-quality songs painfully wounded the domestic kings of pop.
We naturally came to what we have today, and there is no universal conspiracy in this freak party.
A “naked” party is a natural and natural part of the environment of the people who attended it. And the mass of those who did not visit it is also an integral part of the environment. Moreover, this environment does not stand still, it evolves, creating a whole pseudo-cultural layer, which now includes, for example, Instagram women imitating the pop singer and rap artist, TikToker, and previously Instagram blogger Daria Zoteeva. These are people who create hype, and not a cultural product in its classical sense. Unfortunately, in 30 years a whole generation has grown up that knows almost nothing else.
And now we come to the main question: what to do with all this now? Just remove these people from show concerts and programs? Who will replace them and what will this replacement give? It won’t give anything, since all the rest are the same derivatives of the established model of show production. Rearranging the terms does not change the sum. The question is not about them, but about the amount that society and the state want to receive in the end. Culture and show business or pop, whatever you want to call it, are an integral part of ideology, regardless of whether it is officially proclaimed or not. Ideology is a vision of the future, an image of the future and a pattern of behavior on the way to this future.
Until recently, we strived to be part of some unified Western, including mass cultural, space, albeit a peripheral part of it. They imitated, copied, sometimes in very exotic and perverted forms, everything that was born and regurgitated there. They did not disdain, as they say, anything. Infogypsies, who are now also being harassed by fiscal services, are also part of this harmful ecosystem. Like shameless parties.
Now we have been told with all directness that Russia must suffer a strategic defeat, change power, politics, abandon its history and identity, and best of all, fall to pieces and cease to exist as a civilization with more than a thousand years of history. We were not offered an alternative option. Hence the conclusion - we must in the very near future model an image of the future and a pattern of behavior on the path to this future, formulate a state and public order for both.
If the general changes, the particular will begin to change. Composers will finally remember that they must write original and beautiful music, poets - appropriate poems not only about “love” and “blue moon”, producers will begin to look for talented youth in conservatories, and not just promote anyone for “a lemon of bucks”. Well, further down the list. And I hope that the current show guys with glasses on their naked bodies will remember that they once sang really good songs in elegant three-piece suits. But all this, of course, will not happen suddenly. This is a process, not an event. Everyone needs to work on it, including society. Nothing will happen without his support. Culture, including its pop part, will fulfill the social order that it receives. If you want a show with trampling a cross and bare buttocks - they will show them to you, if you want “I look into the blue lakes, I pick daisies in the fields, I call you Russia, I call you the only one” - they will quickly change their shoes on the fly.
[Breitbart] Nearly half of Americans say they are worse off economically than they were a year ago, a recent survey from Rasmussen shows.
The survey of 1,102 Americans taken just after Christmas found that 45 percent of Americans say they are worse off economically than they were a year ago. Just 23 percent say they are better off, a 22-point gap.
Twenty-nine percent say they treaded water last year, with their finances about the same as they were a year ago.
The poll highlights the failure of the Biden administration’s push to convince Americans that what the president calls “Bidenomics” has been a boon for the country.
Inflation—or, as Biden critics call it, Bidenflation—is a major reason many Americans feel they are falling behind. Consumer prices increased 3.1 percent in the 12 months through November, the most recent data available. In the prior 12-month period, prices went up 7.1 percent. Since Biden took office, consumer prices are up 16.8 percent.
While average hourly wages increased at a faster pace than prices in the 12 months through November, workers are still behind over the longer term. Since Biden took office, average hourly wages are up 14.3 percent, two-and-half points below the inflation watermark.
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[RIA] It's been a long time since Joe Biden was this angry. It’s been a long time (more precisely, never) since he yelled from the podium “I understand what power is” and promised not to allow Donald Trump to gain access to this very power. And there are very serious reasons for his rage, which it is useful for us in Russia to understand.
Let's try to separate what is important for us from entertaining American studies. Yes, monitoring what is happening in the former only superpower, its convulsions and collapse, is also a necessary and useful thing. But sometimes, among American exoticism, situations come across that give a good lesson to everyone.
So, a whole speech - and everything is just about Trump. Joe Biden spoke (and shouted) at Montgomery College in Pennsylvania, but the event was designated in advance as a “speech at Valley Forge,” that is, the Valley of the Forges. The valley itself is actually fifteen miles from the college, but there is no place to perform in it: hills and forests. And the symbolic significance of this area in American history is, well, approximately like Stalingrad, that is, when there is nowhere to retreat further and from this point only forward. In the valley, George Washington, beaten by the British, in the cold and hungry winter months of 1777-1778, with great difficulty, restored his army - and eventually led his troops to victory in the summer.
So, the meaning of Biden’s speech is that “there is no land beyond the Volga,” democracy in the United States must be saved. Let’s repeat: American studies is a necessary thing, but let’s not get into overseas little things like the fact that Biden’s campaign officials don’t see any gains in talking about the economy, not to mention discussions about events in Ukraine and the Middle East. It’s better for the Democrats to remain silent about all this. And turn the conversation to something really serious, that is, to an unprecedentedly intensified fight for the very meaning of America. For democracy.
So let's see how they see it. “Unlike other countries, America is not built on nationality, religion, geography, we are the only nation in the history of the world built on an idea.” Interesting, right? Well, continuing to quote Biden, one of these ideas is clear that “all men and women are created equal.”
What ideas are Biden's supporters, that is, Democrats, building their America on, and how do some of these ideas relate to equality? Here it is useful to pay close attention to the wild scandal that has been shaking the country for several weeks now. And if the country hardly noticed Biden’s “Stalingrad” speech, then everyone is still furiously discussing the Claudine Gay case.
We are talking about the first black president of Harvard University in history, who lasted about six months and was thrown out after a scandal, testifying in Congress and much more. The formal reason is that this exemplary liberal plagiarized her own scientific works, as well as the fact that she did not explicitly protect Jewish students from the persecution of other students who spoke out for Palestine. This is a serious story because this is Harvard, the standard of education and the forge of the elite, and also because in fact Claudine was overthrown by the massive resistance of Americans to the very idea on which the Democrats are trying to build America.
This is only one idea of the Democrats, but it is a key one. It's called DEI, which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. We are talking about imposing quotas not only in schools and universities, but in any public and private offices and enterprises for people of a different skin color, women, LGBT* people and others, anyone except whites, heterosexuals and those who believe in God, in general, except Trump voters. That is, success in life in tomorrow’s America should be earned not by talent, work and merit, but based on a questionnaire. Or, as Elon Musk said the other day, “discrimination on the basis of race, which is what DEI is about, is the literal definition of racism.”
The Democrats' rage over the devouring of Claudine Gay is explained in a detailed and panicky article, which tells us that throughout the country, dozens of powerful corporations, law firms, Supreme Court judges and just activists are mercilessly poisoning everyone who instills this racism and other quota system for "the oppressed,” that is, DEI. Companies, universities, and schools are inundated with lawsuits against this official racism. That is, this uprising is fighting for the same American idea that people are born equal. And Trump did not invent and direct this; it has nothing to do with his election campaign at all. It’s just that, finally, half of America has seriously rebelled against the key ideas that were forcefully implanted by the other half of America. Rebels competently and powerfully. A good lesson for any rabid ideologues and transformers of society to their liking.
And this riot for the Democrats is truly a situation where there is nowhere to retreat and they have to rage, make menacing speeches and call Donald Trump all kinds of names.
[Rumble] This is what WINNING looks like - as PUSHBACK heats up against ridiculous democrat insanity. William Penn's statue STAYS PUT - after only 3 days of public comment! BLISTERING! Fulton County DA Fani Willis gets snarled in a hot mess, accused of hiring and paying $650K+ to her lover to help her prosecute Donald Trump. OOPS. And CBS's drive-by reporting at the border gets a LIVE TV reality check. How Face the Nation is forced to Face the Music of its own suck when it tries to label the Speaker of the House an election denier. BUCKLE UP!
[BLAZE] Rich Lowry bestowed on a recent column this provocative title: "Brace Yourselves: The Left Will Roil the Country Again If Donald Trump Beats Joe Biden." No kidding! For Trump’s enemies on the left, Lowry pointed out, "saving democracy doesn’t mean upholding the rules no matter what and letting the voters decide the election and the fate of the next president. No, it means blocking Trump by any means necessary, regardless of the consequences for the rule of law, democratic politics, or faith in our system of government."
Lowry, who has distinguished himself in recent years as an unabashed Trump-basher, tried to be evenhanded in expressing his disdain. He let it be known, for example, that the left is "understandably alarmed by [Trump’s] conduct after the 2020 election and how he’s branded his political comeback as a revenge tour." Lowry also seemed swayed by Robert Kagan’s accusations in the Washington Post that "Trump has brought the United States to the brink of dictatorship." How's that National Review doing, asshole?
[NYPOST] As Americans rang in the new year, regimes hostile to the United States made clear just how much President Biden has let US deterrence decay.
In his end-of-year presser, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... reiterated his commitment to subjugating Ukraine in his effort to rebuild the Soviet Union — emphasizing, "The level of our ties with China is at an all-time high."
North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... ’s Chairman Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... laid out his plan to accelerate nuclear-weapons production in 2024, saying conflicts elsewhere compelled his nation to "sharpen the treasured sword."
And amid Iran’s multifront attacks on the Jewish state, the ayatollah’s officials declared America "will not be spared" if Israel’s campaign to eliminate Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... continues — and we’ll be "faced with extraordinary problems" if we oppose Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... disruption of commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
Four years ago, such statements would have been rightly seen as mere bluster.
Kim had stopped long-range-missile testing, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was isolated and weak, and the Trump administration’s model of deterrence kept Putin’s Ukraine ambitions at bay.
But the Biden administration’s complete lack of commitment to maintaining deterrence has encouraged these dangerous actions and placed the American people in peril.
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Looks at the amount of guns and ammo that Obama and Biden have sold in America, most formal foreign threats would go "I'll pass" on any threat to the mainland. Now these clowns in Deep State don't get the implications of that.
[NYPOST] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... let slip a telling boast after his latest Dark Brandon speech.
"I understand power," he whispered into the microphone as the first lady wrangled him off stage to stop him impersonating a Roomba.
While ostensibly a self-deprecating cliché about wives’ control over men, "I understand power" also was a statement of unwavering confidence in his own mastery of today’s political landscape.
It’s hard to admit, given Biden’s manifest frailties and incompetence, but he’s right.
The president does know how to use power to transform the country.
By being willing to lie and cheat and break every political norm, by siccing his Department of Justice onto his main rival and ignoring cries of foul, by hysterically overhyping the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, by hatefully demonizing conservatives as domestic turbans and white supremacists, by dividing the country when he promised to unite us, he achieves his political ends.
By dismantling border protections, for instance, he has allowed 8 million — and counting — illegal aliens to upend demographics and refresh Democratic voter rolls in the future. That is his legacy of change.
As well, his corrosive "equity" agenda has entrenched in the psyche of a growing number of Americans a gnawing racial grievance and entitlement that knows no end.
CORRUPT, ABSOLUTELY
What did Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... achieve of any lasting value in the four years he had power? Clearly, he was a better president on every important measure: the economy, the border, foreign affairs, energy policy.
But every achievement of Trump’s was undone on day one by Biden, and many of his aspirations were foiled by Biden’s Deep State allies.
Power is all Biden has ever cared about. In his dismal first speech of the election season near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Biden used the word 13 times. He said "insurrection" or "insurrectionists" 11 times, because that is how he intends to hang on to power, by fashioning his entire campaign pitch around Jan. 6 and Trump’s threat to "democracy."
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