The Great Game of Let’s Pretend

Jeffrey A. Tucker @ Epoch Times

Last Wednesday, August 23, was supposed to be a night of reckoning and truth. The intrepid and independent journalist Tucker Carlson was to grill Donald Trump, who skipped the GOP debates because he is already the hands-down frontrunner and doesn’t want anything to do with conventional politics.

Tucker had spent the last three years on Fox correctly denouncing lockdowns, censorship, vaccine mandates, and medical segregation, plus the attacks on American liberty. He certainly knows what’s what. One might have supposed that the issues that tanked the Trump presidency and nearly the whole of American society and liberty would be front and center. Now was the time!

Oddly, none of it came up in his interview with Trump. The interview answered none of our questions about why Trump did what he did, which not only wrecked the American economy but arguably lost him the election. Even if you think the election was stolen, it was only through the mail-in ballots that the COVID controls unleashed. Tucker drilled down into none of this. It was as if 2020 did not happen at all.

The simultaneous GOP debate was even worse. Ron DeSantis started with a bang and spoke about lockdowns but the topic fizzled quickly. Following a flurry of pharma ads—indeed the entire event was funded by FDA-approved drug sales—the moderators briefly asked former vice president Mike Pence if he thought his administration bore any responsibility for learning loss because the Trump administration urged school closures.

Pence—who spent 2020 running cover for Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx—wholly ignored the question and said something else. The topic was never revisited again.

There was not one word said about tech censorship, the millions displaced and harmed by vaccine mandates, the dictatorial reach of the administrative state, the vast flurry of litigation against everything and everybody, the mass loss of trust in government and media, the foundational attack on the Bill of Rights, or the very real threat that it could happen again.

On the same day as the debate, we already saw mask mandates being reimposed. But no one spoke about it.

You surely see what’s going on here. The biggest issues in American life, which everyone experienced with vast tragedy and death all around, and about which everyone knows, are suddenly too sensitive to bring up. It’s something of which multitudes are aware but because all official institutions were involved, all official institutions are quiet about it. As a result, the great reckoning we need for renewal is farther off than ever.

Meanwhile, we’ve got Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., out there on countless public interviews, as a presidential candidate, saying remarkable things like 1) the CIA in 1963 killed his uncle who was president, 2) the intelligence community works with Big Pharma on gain-of-function research to create and cure new killer viruses, 3) they germ-gamed the lockdowns since 2001, 4) the lockdowns of March 2020 was a coup d’état against representative democracy, 5) right now we have industry-captured Deep-State agencies that are ruling America who have no regard whatsoever for the U.S. Constitution or the idea of freedom.

He says all of this without any shyness and with a great deal of knowledge and detail. He provides the receipts. Indeed, he has written several books on these themes. People listen and think “Oh that’s very interesting” and go hear him speak, without any presumption that he stands any chance to be President despite his wild popularity because, essentially, the fix is in.

Biden has already been selected to get the nomination, which rather demonstrates RFK’s point. Meanwhile, I’ve never once heard any reporter or read any article that challenges him on any of the facts. It’s as if everyone knows that what he is saying is true but we cannot do anything about it anyway. So he is tolerated as a wayward eccentric from a noble lineage but best ignored if we know what’s good for us.

It’s a very strange time in American political history, no doubt. We have one line of thinking sweeping through the population—which is based on mass incredulity and fury—and then another which is a veneer of normalcy that is slathered on top of our anger by all official institutions, which work hard to keep all these topics out of respectable conversations. Meanwhile, the whole of academic, mainstream social media, major mainstream media, and all of government seems to agree that all these obvious topics are too incendiary to be raised in polite company.

So everyone in the top layer of this manufactured consent is glad to play along with this great game of pretend. Meanwhile, people are fully aware now that the intelligence community is deeply involved in areas of life we previously thought were independent. And we suspect this is true even of organizations and publications we once thought were more-or-less trustworthy. How else to explain their silence and/or lies on all the crucial issues of our time?

As regards all the institutions that locked down the population just a few years ago, nothing has changed. Sure, there are a few court decisions extant that said they went too far but those are all being challenged and await appeals to the Supreme Court. But while these grueling processes play themselves out, Google, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and all the rest of our formerly free social-media platforms are more brutally censorial than ever. YouTube even announced that it will tolerate no content that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO), which only three years ago recommended to the entire world the lockdowns pioneered by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Wuhan.

In the last few days, my own phone has blown up with people terrified of a new lockdown. They worry about leaving the country for fear of new travel restrictions. They worry about new vaccine mandates for their kids in school. They are thinking of moving to Florida and away from the big cities on the coasts where crime worsens by the day and skyscrapers are still mostly empty because workers won’t come back. And the #1 song in the world wails about the cruelty of this new world and how it is sending people to an early death.

Who would have imagined that a collapse on this level would happen in plain sight and everyone would see it and yet the entirety of the culture planners would in effect impose a fatwa on anyone who speaks about it?

Certainly I never imagined this scenario. Our whole lives we’ve sung about the “land of the free and the home of the brave” but here we are unfree and not brave. Because of facial-recognition technology, we cannot even hit the streets anymore. That was the real point of the post-January 6 crackdown: to serve as a lesson that if we resist in person, we will be recognized and dealt with severely.

The silence about the truth is utterly deafening. It’s not just that we aren’t getting answers to our questions; we aren’t even getting questions outside a handful of venues including this one.

Meanwhile, the highest hopes for saving the country from ruin are being placed in the hands of the very chief executive under whom all this began. And why? Because people believe that he was tricked and betrayed into greenlighting this wreckage even though he has never actually said anything like this. It’s the only hope people have. It’s a thin hope indeed.

When I first read Orwell’s “1984,” it seemed like a dark and implausible fantasy and warning. I never imagined that it was really a reductio ad absurdum of a reality that he saw unfolding before him in the rising totalitarianism of his time. It turns out that he was a prophet of just how corrupt a highly politicized society with overweening bureaucracy can be in practice when careerism trumps courage and the cash nexus spreads the coercive mindset throughout all the commanding heights of the social order.

We are finding out now. The soundtrack of the end times is not Mahler or Wagner. It is gaming music with dance numbers on TikTok, with darkly distant echoes of a simple country singer in Virginia decrying the rich men north of Richmond.

Jeffrey A. Tucker

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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

First GOP Debate for Election 2024 and What's Being Said

By Rich Kozlovich 

Okay, for transparency's sake, I almost never watch these "gong show" debates, including this one. The last debate I watched in full was the New City mayoral debate which included Weiner and DeBlasio, and believe it or not, Weiner was the sanest of the all, except DeBlasio won.  Why?  He won by answering every question and saying nothing.  

However, I do read all the commentaries afterward, and it's a bit amazing how so many people can see the same thing and come away with such different views.  And whether I agree or disagree with them, I really do have to congratulate them for their fortitude.

As far as I can tell, there wasn't one question regarding the fraudulent election of 2020, why?  The answer to that question is in my view the shibboleth for a conservative candidate.  And as far as I can tell, there was  only one question about these banana republic indictments, and that was:

“If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party’s choice? Please raise your hand if you would?”  

Four candidates immediately raised their hands, DeSantis and Pence hesitated, and Hutchinson refused.  Vivek Ramaswamy made big points with that audience, saying “President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century. It’s a fact." Which makes one wonder why he's running against Trump if he believes that.  During the debate both Pence and Christie were booed.  

I've searched out and gathered as much information as I can, linking those articles for my benefit as well as that of my readers. Invariably I find a pattern emerges from such a collective effort, and I get a clear vision of what actually transpired. 

Andrea Widburg thought the questions were shallow, and compared it to a  junior high school debate , complete with the cool kids asking stupid questions and the geeks fighting on the stage", and was even less impressed with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

I've decided Monica Showalter, who is a consistently conservative writer, must be among the kindest people in the world.  She loved it all, "intelligent, lively, not too destructively argumentative, and well-controlled in content. Bret Baier and Martha McCallum at Fox News did a terrific job".  Really?  That must be why Bret Baier had to tell the audience to stop booing Christie. 

Newt Gingrich thought everyone was wonderful, the candidates and the moderators.  Of course this is the same guy who sat down with Nancy Pelosi and touted all this climate change nonsense, later claiming that was the biggest mistake in his life.  Really?  If he believed it, why was it a mistake?  If he didn't believe it, why did he promote it?  If you look up integrity in the dictionary, Newt's picture won't be beside the definition.  He has zero credibility with me.  

Jack Hellner claimed, and I think this is all one needs to take away from this dog and pony show, no one matched the man who wasn't there, Donald Trump. He does go on to say:

Republicans should first stop giving in to the media and other Democrats by calling limits on abortion a "ban" on abortion. Six-, 13-, 15-, or 20-week limits on abortions are not bans any more than moving pornographic books out of children’s sections in libraries is a "ban."  It appears that many people are giving Nikki Haley high marks for the debate because she appeared moderate and reasonable and willing to work with Democrats.

Hellner wasn't impressed. He felt Haley is a Vichy Republican, weak on abortion and will break under leftist pressure. No guts, no brains.  Chris Christie fails in logic, history, values, and integrity, and continues to look like a fool, which I predicted.  He's a class act, only it's all low class.  

Many found Vivek Ramaswamy impressive with his views on climate and social dysfunction.  DeSantis came off well, but Pence has nothing to offer different than Trump, and that he's not Trump. All the while trying to take credit for what Trump initiated, and it seems Carlson Tucker's claim he's "creepy" may be coming to the fore.  

One of the problems with Republicans who claim to be conservative is they seem to have problem defining conservatism.  With the exception of Vivek, they all took a position big government has its place if only "it's done right".  That was Ted Kennedy, and Bernie Sanders position.  Which shouldn't surprise us, since even DeSantis has been waffling on this kind of thinking willing to be more "moderate".    

Haley was a shrill harridan, and for a former UN Ambassador, it appears she's a clueless globalist militarist, kind of like John Bolton.  As for Christie, it's clear he has the Ick Factor down pat.  Hutchinson wants Trump in prison, and Burgum did passingly well, but who cares?

On global warming, only Ramaswamy got it right.  Haley is as slippery as an eel.  She hedged on climate change, weak on abortion and has claimed, we have to humanize abortion, and stop demonizing it.  In a recent interview she states:

I mean, Ainsley, that’s the answer from my heart,”........ You know, I am surrounded by blessings, and God has blessed me with an amazing husband and two wonderful children. But having said that, I think it’s really important that all of us remember everybody has a personal story. So while I’m unapologetically pro-life, I don’t judge anyone for being pro-choice. I think that we have to humanize this issue. We’ve got to stop demonizing this issue.

What kind of answer is that?  It's simple, it isn't an answer, it's a logical fallacy evasion.  Like DeBlasio, she talks a lot and says nothing, so let me help her.  Calling the murder of the innocent unborn murder isn't demonization, it's the truth.   She wants to humanize this issue? Fine, then call it what it is: Infanticide!

Clearly, she's not a conservative, and you have to wonder why these GOP political hacks are so cripplingly desirous of playing this game of appeasement to the left.  Do they really think anyone on the left is going to vote for them? Maybe they do it because they're gutless losers?  Yet, one commentator thought Haley came off as classy and presidential, and would be a great VP for Trump.  Given her backstabbing history, just how cognitively dissonant is that?  

Tim Scott did very well, and his "disdain for Wokedom" is very real, but he's not going anywhere.   Pence again offers nothing, except to say he's not Trump, yet attempting to take credit for what Trump initiated.  And he thinks that's really gonna work?  Sure, with MSNBC. It seems Carlson Tucker's claim he's "creepy" may be coming to the fore.  And again, Christie now owns the Ick Factor, and his "rule of law rants" ring hollow given he's famous for his bridge closure to get back at a political rival.  

There's been some resentment that Larry Elder wasn't allowed in on the debate, and while I've always felt he was a good man with a good mind, the fact is he simply didn't have sufficient support to qualify.  

 

But that brings up what I think is an important point.  

 

Why is it a well know writer and thinker like Larry Elder, who's widely respected, wasn't able to get sufficient support to be in on the debate, and yet a virtual unknown, Vivek Ramaswamy, come out of nowhere, soar in the polls and met the qualifications to be on that stage?

Based on how they all attacked him, he's the one they're all really afraid of, even implying the rest of the candidates are bought and paid for.  He didn't win any friends, but that may be the pot calling the kettle black, and their fear may not be justified.

His presentation at the debate was impressive, and he's adept at saying all the things conservatives want to hear:  End the war, secure the order, drain the swamp, even vowing to release Jeffery Epstein’s client list if he's elected, and he's been saying all this stuff all over the media.  Why hasn't he been banned or blocked?  Given how everyone else is censored when spouting anything the establishment doesn't like, you must wonder why he isn't censored?     

This video is profound.  A video by a man who says he's not a financial analysis, nor an investigative reporter, yet found all this publicly available information in a few hours.    He notes that all these media outlets are in fact mouthpieces of the establishment, so why aren't they censoring Vivek?  How can someone be anti-establishment when they’re being supported by the establishment media?

His business expertise must be seriously questioned, including where he got the money for his campaign.  According to the video, his company has never been profitable and never produced a single product.  So, why did Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street investment companies, all ESG promoting firms, the most powerful cartel in history pour millions into a company that lost a billion dollars making Vivek very rich.  In fact it's been claimed he made a billion dollars by tricking investors pushing an Alzheimer drug that didn’t work.

He says he’s going after the teacher's unions, yet the California teachers union was one of the investors in this losing company.  Why?   His connection with Soros and the covid mandates are truly troubling, and this business about being named a young global leader by the WEF didn't bother him for two years as he used that to generate investment money,  then claimed he never agreed to that and sued WEF and got them to remove him from the list and sent him a letter of apology, all in three months. 

He claims he will challenge China, and yet he has business ties to China.  He's even open to pardoning Biden family for all these crimes they've committed, claiming they're nothing more than 'politically motivated persecution'.  Amazing!  He claims to be anti-establishment but is he really, or is he a mole for the establishment?

There's talk he isn't a "natural born" citizen as required by the Constitution, but those who say this use the "three legged" stool argument.  Either the father is an American citizen, or the mother is an American citizen when born in the USA.  But the Constitution doesn't define what a natural born citizen is, and the Supreme Court has declared anyone born in the United States is a natural born citizen, irrespective of the citizenship of their parents.   

So, as far as I can tell, by law, this argument against Ramaswamy isn't going to go anywhere, but neither is he.  He soared after the debate, but now I think as more information comes out about him, his numbers have dropped to less than double digits, and DeSantis is now in the double digits.  the others have come up also, but no one really cares.  

It would appear the real winner of those on the stage turned out to be DeSantis, not Ramaswamy, and while Trump dropped six points, he's still 38 points ahead of DeSantis, and after the "mug shot seen around the world" appeared, contributions to Trump's campaign soared.  Trump drew  200 million,....that's ...200 million viewers in his Trucker Carlson interview, and Steve Bannon claims the The Old Republican Party ended in Milwaukee that night.   

Final real conclusion?  In spite of all the blather from the talking heads like Sununu, here and here, Sen. Cassidy insisting Trump should drop out of the race, Al Sharpton's keen understanding of history, and Karl Rove's whine:  Trump won!

Friends Who Stand The Test of Time Are Priceless

By Rich Kozlovich

For the long time readers of P&D it's known I was an exterminator for 40 years, and I owned a pest control company for 30 of them.  I was also heavily involved in the affairs of my industry through our trade associations defending those who are pesticide and fertilizer users, along with manufacturers and sellers of those products in Ohio.   

A good friend, who was the CEO of a pesticide distribution company, once told me the real benefit for me being an active member of our trade organizations was, I “prevented other people from being talked about!”  It appears I’m amazingly good at that, and with almost no effort on my part.  

Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart, and for decades I was the heterodox to the structural pest control industry in defense of pesticides, especially DDT, and challenged all the health concerns and lies perpetrated by environmentalists    Even in an industry that's so intrinsically involved with pesticides, that offended a lot of people in our industry, including those involved in selling products to the industry. I viewed that as a betrayal to the nation, and said so. 

But, that's no big deal, since offending people seems to be my stock in trade since over the course of my life I’ve managed to offend an inordinate number of people. I seem to have a genetic propensity for it.  Some were offended the minute they met me, which always confused me.  I didn’t mind so much being scorned, I just thought they should allow me the opportunity to be obnoxious before rendering their judgement and receiving their contempt. 

As a result, no matter what I achieved (and those who were my friends, or at least fair minded, felt I achieved a lot) it was never quite as good as what others had not achieved.  Many of whom were lauded and ended up receiving awards for their lack of achievement.  Ya just gotta see the humor in that.

While I’ve just chuckled, shook my head, and rolled my eyes, I have to admit, I always thought that was remarkable how people are so easily gulled.   However, it’s not inexplicable.  It’s been my experience that very often prominent people are only good at being prominent, and that especially applies to the go along to get along people, who are often rewarded for not getting anything done other than going along to get along. 

Often times getting things done means having to fix things, and usually that requires change.  People hate change, especially since they view those changes as a condemnation of what they’ve been doing, irrespective of their failures.  And they really don’t like those who promote that change.   

I've manage to fit very nicely in that group.   

Definition leads to clarity, and unfortunately people fail to, or refuse to, define things properly, and resent anyone who can, especially when that definition is in opposition to their preconceived, or failed notions. 

The world's leaders, government and industry, are made up of Winston Churchills, Neville Chamberlains, and Vidkun Quislings.  The Neville Chamberlain types are always finding a third way to get along and go along.   Everyone likes them, everyone applauds them and everyone hates the Winston Churchill types who are always difficult, always demanding, always insisting there’s only one right way, and insist everyone recognize the right way, which of course is their way.   Finally, there are the Quislings of the world who will betray everyone for their own benefit. 

But when the Chamberlains foul up everything who do they turn to?  The Winston Churchills of the world.  Of course, once they’ve fixed the mess the Chamberlains created, people can’t wait to kick them to the curb.  Why?  Because ... they ... just.... won’t .... go.... along ... to ... get ... along.    That’s people, and people will always be people.   

Finally, there are the traitors like Vidkun Quisling, who was shot after WWII.   However, that type is very often rewarded for their betrayal, and we’re seeing a lot of that going on right now in the Deep State bureaucracies. 

I’ve lost decades long friends over my views.  It was their choice.  I've been scorned by prominent people with big egos, bad attitudes, endured back biters and whisperers in what can only be called character assassination, criticized for my articles by small minds over my positions, and accused of making false statements.  When that happens, I always demand that they name one, just one.  I get crickets.  I’ve openly challenged anyone from my industry, irrespective of position or education, to publicly debate me.  Crickets, it never happened.

I'm retired now, and I no longer interact officially with my former industry, and the folly the "leaders" of the industry foists on the membership.  But I wouldn't have missed all that controversy for a million dollars.  It was worth every minute of it!  Why?  Because I’m left with a few exceptionally good friends who’ve stood the test of time.   

And that’s priceless!

 

Ignorance Breeds Complacency. Complacency Breeds Tyranny - Or - Time and Truth Are on the Same Side, and Conspiracies Are Real

By Rich Kozlovich 

Biden is an idiot, his family is steeped in crime right up to their eyeballs, and the more Trump is attacked, the better he looks.  Another indictment and the nation may just anoint him as King Donald the First.  For a start, here's an excellent thought for the day.  I don’t remember who said this, but it’s a goodie. 

"Anyone who believes that politicians and bureaucrats who can't define what a woman is, who can't control the border, can't tell the truth about COVID, who can't teach children to read and do math at grade level, and who lied continuously about Obamacare can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity should make sure they never have to debate a five-year-old."

I've been a history buff for all of my life, and I concluded decades ago, everything is cyclical!  I read George Friedman's book,  "Storm Before Calm", which deals with this very well.   Currently I've been reading, "The Fourth Turning", which also deals with historical cycles.  Complicated book, complicated verbiage, entirely too long, way too wordy, which seem to me fails in “coherence through connectives”, a fundamental when it comes to writing and speaking if you really want people to understand what you’re saying. 

I’m not all that far into the book, and truthfully, reading it is a challenge.  At this point it seems to be as much mystical as historical in its projections, yet, the book has some interesting insights claiming among other things, we're in what he calls the Fourth Turning of the current cycle.  Actually, I agree with that.  While I do question his time lines, which seems to do some cherry picking, however, in his analyses every cycle has what he calls a Fourth Turning, and each of those “turnings” were crisis periods, and historically, his fourth turnings have always been conclusively violent.  I fear this is going to happen with or in America within the next ten years.  

China's military buildup has been financed by American trade, and now as a result, there are ten ways the US is falling behind China in national security.  That build up is intended to destroy America.  Hypersonic missiles, fleet size, air defense, manufacturing, technology, much of which they've stolen, mining for rare earths, gray zone altercations.  Gray zone altercations are non-shooting military intimidation tactics they regularly play with their neighbors.  In short, they're bullies, and don't care if anyone likes it or not. Then there’s their excursions into space, cyber operations, and artificial intelligence. 

But America's military is not to be outdone.  America’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, a man of incredible vision, has clearly identified the military’s real problems undermining America's military readiness and capability.   The twin crises of white supremacy and gender.  And outlined an agenda to fix them.

We can't keep our subs repaired, recruitment is in the toilet, many combat aircraft are permanently on the ground, and the generals and admirals are all members of the Church of Wokeness. But hey, we gotta have our priorities.  Right?

The unending political persecution of  Donald Trump by the corrupt Deep State and the Democrat party is blatantly Stalinist.   While I can acknowledge the contributions of Thomas Jefferson, I'm not a big fan.  But he was brilliant as he once observed:

All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one. 

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them.

They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people…. Jefferson warned that relatively soon, “corruption” will have seized the heads of government” and “spread by them” through the “body of the people” — also known as…Congress.

How was Jefferson able to see this so clearly?   He read a history book or two, and there's nothing new under the sun. 

The fact is, what he warned about started happening not too long after the Constitution was ratified with the Whiskey Tax of 1791.  A tax which was clearly unequal, unfair, violated states’ rights, culminating with a greater violation of states’ rights with Washington leading an army into Pennsylvania to put down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.   It all merely expanded to what we're seeing. We now call it Crony Capitalism. 

This tax was promoted by then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and was directly beneficial to the whiskey distillers in the major metropolitan areas.  The Constitution had just been ratified in 1787, a mere four years before, and Hamilton wanted to solidify support for the Constitution from the business community.   Hamilton was strong advocate of strong centralized federal power over republicanism and states’ rights, and Washington never made any effort to thwart this.  Washington was lauded by Congress for this action, and those who supported his venture claimed he once again saved the nation, and this time from a challenge to federal authority by the people. 

Jefferson rightly recognized if for what it was.  Washington's call for troops to put down this rebellion was in point of fact an abuse of Presidential power and authority, a veiled threat to the citizens of the nation, and a threat to republican ideals. While I do think Washington deserves praise as the Father of Our Nation because of his personal courage, amazing leadership skills, and his willingness to walk away from power after two terms, I also think he's overrated, most certainly as a general, but also as a President.

Jefferson's administration repealed the Whiskey Tax.

Banks are cancelling the accounts of people who hold political views they don't like, investment companies are ignoring their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors in order to support ESG and DEI conceptualized companies, many of which are either under performing or outright failing.  But they have no problem with the insane leftist radicals that are destroying western culture and ultimately civilization.  

Heresy is rampant at the highest levels of "Christian" churches. Biden can't afford to build a border wall, yet he really wants to give Ukraine another unaccountable, untraceable 20 billion dollars, to one of, if not the most, corrupt governments in Europe, and the Deep State and an international elite are creating what's being called "a new normal".  An international tyranny that you had better like or else. A tyranny determined to destroy all Constitutional guarantees.

All of that has now become obvious.

In years gone by there was a lot of laughing and friendly banter between me and my friends over my claims about conspiracies.  Well, whaddayaknow. There really is such a thing as a conspiracy after all, and they're not laughing any longer. 

Just like Jefferson, I read a history book or two, and there's nothing new under the sun.