This month, we witnessed another assault on a public figure by an increasingly aggressive element of American politics. The book signing event was disrupted and Steve Forbes was assaulted by protesters who did not want others to be able to speak with or hear him. The fact that this was a literary event is particularly fitting given the effort of many to prevent free expression in our society. Ironically, the book is titled “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.”
Forbes was present at a book signing for the new book written by authors Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz. Protesters disrupted the event by throwing drinks and books at him and toppling over a display. Forbes reportedly identified two of the protesters as Black Lives Matter activists who were yelling when they came into the event.
Mandel, a mother of six and CEO of Forbes, says that her newborn baby was also struck in the assault.
The attack came after years of pandering to the mob by politicians, writers, and academics. Political figures like Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Cal.) have called for activists to harass conservatives in public places and “push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Law professors like Georgetown Law Professor Josh Chafetz declared that “when the mob is right, some (but not all!) more aggressive tactics are justified.”
Blocking others from speaking is not the exercise of free speech. It is the very antithesis of free speech. Nevertheless, faculty have supported such claims. CUNY Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek showed how far this trend has gone. When conservative law professor Josh Blackman was stopped from speaking about “the importance of free speech,” Bilek insisted that disrupting the speech on free speech was free speech. (Bilek later cancelled herself and resigned).
This dangerous trend in academia is discussed in my law review article, Jonathan Turley, “Harm and Hegemony: The Decline of Free Speech in the United States”, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Someone is going to be hurt as politicians, professors, and pundits fuel this rage. Forbes is 75 years old and, while he appears in good health, this type of assault can easily trigger a medical emergency for many individuals due to age or preexisting conditions. It is incredibly irresponsible and reprehensible to encourage such public confrontations.
The judge should throw the book at them.
Comeuppance
I tell you what–If you are not interested in the speaker, you won’t spend your hard earned money that person’s book–then don’t bother the people who do want to meet/hear the author and who may want to spend their money on the person’s book. If a person comes on campus to speak and you don’t want to hear him/her–Don’t go. Let the people who do want to hear him/her enjoy themselves. How’s that for a simple idea. Then no one has to be disturbed. And maybe people will be much happier. They won’t be going around like they are sucking lemons all the time.
The violence directed to Steve Forbes is far from an aberration. It has become the norm.
Exhibit A – yesterday’s shocking mob action at Stanford Law School. Actively supported by Tirien Steinbach, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
How do we stop the madness? By holding Steinbach, those who hired and supervise her, and those in position of authority who failed to prevent this appalling spectacle – including Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez – personally accountable.
Steinbach and Martinez are responsible for far more than censorship. They have failed in their duty to educate a generation of law students.
End a few of them and that stuff will stop.
The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes.
-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
A broad – and profoundly dangerous – principle indeed.
Indeed and it turns out Carrie Buck was not, in fact, an “imbecile” after all. She was a woman of at least average intelligence and well read. She should have been permitted to have children.
You’re absolutely right.
Atrocities justified by the certainty of ‘science’ – in Buck’s case, the science of eugenics – are far too often employed against the powerless.
Another example? Egas Moniz, who was awarded with the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine as the developer of the frontal lobotomy. A barbaric yet easy to perform procedure that mutilated the frontal cortex of its victims, the lobotomy was for many years the standard of care for treating ‘nervous’ women.
Today, we celebrate mastectomies and genital mutilations carried out on vulnerable young women in the name of ‘gender science.’ We will soon be looking at the transgender craze the same way we look back on the horror of the frontal lobotomy.
In one horrifying respect, Holmes was 100% correct. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is indeed broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Even more horrifying? Holmes was speaking for the majority.
And to date Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) has not been overruled.
OH, MY! WHATEVER SHALL WE DO NOW, NOW THAT WE HAVE ABROGATED THE BRILLIANCE OF THE FOUNDERS?
Now you know who the racists are; they identify themselves in their name, Black Lies Matter.
Indubitably, they are eminently deserving of race-based, artificially redistributed education, employment, wealth, social status, etc., ad infinitum, aka unconstitutional political emulsifiers.
The American Founders and Framers conclusively precluded this eventuality but that preclusion was erased by the unconstitutional and criminal seizure and exercise of power in 1860 by Lincoln – the “cure” that was the curse – the curse that illicitly persists.
The Founders’ prescience averted them from attempting the impossible mixture of oil and water, which is now accomplished through the forcible imposition of unconstitutional political emulsifiers.
They were fully aware of the imperative to avoid “…an injurious tendency.”
That “injury” persists in the absence of remedy now, or so some expound.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four iterations – they meant it)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
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“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Olly – you’re doing the Lord’s work man, keep it up and thank you.
These threats are going to increase. It’s like Hamas shooting rockets at civilian areas in Israel. The Iron dome can catch most but some get through and kill civilians.
Certain indicators make it easy to read the tea leaves that the violence will get worse before it gets better. People the leftist soldiers look to for leadership, like Maxine Waters, urged leftists to “get up in their faces” and commit violence, but such violence is relatively mild in the scheme of things. The slope is slippery as evidenced by Jane Fonda now calling for the “murder” of pro-life conservatives. The View hosts tried to clarify she was not speaking literally, but Fonda shot back a look on her face to the effect of: what are you talking about, I was too speaking literally. Here’s the video:
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/jane-fonda-murder-clip-blows-up-twitter/
Amen brother! This is an ancient calling and we take our oaths seriously. The evil that inspires the likes of Waters and Fonda is only spreading in our culture. If we don’t deal with it right now with peaceful measures, it will eventually be something all of us will have to deal with violently.
The Armor of God
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
-Attributed to George Orwell
It’s the good guys with guns, without which evil would have a free hand. Amen to you brother.
Day after Day; same old same old. These uneducated fools inserting foot in mouth is both humorous and appalling. Appalling that these fools think their behavior is an acceptable format, squelching opposing views. Humorous thinking this type of behavior will end positively.
Though not particularly a fan of Hoover his words are apropos for today’s divides.
Herbert Hoover’s speech “The Meaning of America” August 10, 1948, in part:
“…The meaning of our word “America” floes from one pure source. Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world…”
“…At the time our ancestor were proclaiming that the Creator had endowed all mankind with right of freedom as the children of God, with a free will, there was proclaimed by Hegel, and later by Karl Marx, a satanic philosophy of agnosticism and that the rights of man came from the State…”
“…There are today fuzzy-minded people in our country who would compromise in these fundamental concepts. They scoff at these tested qualities in men. They never have understood and never will understand what the word America means. They explain that these qualities were good while there was a continent to conquer, and a nation to build. They say that time has passed…”
“…And it is those moral and spiritual qualities which arise alone in free men which will fulfill the meaning of the word America…”
Inaugural Address March 4, 1929
“…as our numbers increase and as our life expands with science and invention, we must discover more and more leaders from every walk of life. We cannot hope to succeed in directing this increasingly complex civilization unless we can draw all the talent of leadership from the whole people. One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class….”
The only real deterrent for these thug protestors is for a person to have private security to counter the thugs and severely beat the thugs.
Unfortunately, the left wing extremist Democrats have pushed this to the limit where substantial physical force is the only thing that will be persuasive to them.
I like that idea.
Progressives clowns are proud of their activist clown children.
Will someone get killed – maybe not.
People like Forbes or Murray, or Hoff, or Haidt, or …. will cease writing books, cease speaking in public.
That is the point.
That is the goal.
Forbes is plenty well off. He need not write a book or go to book signings.
If I were him at 75 I would stop.
Without being insulting – it is not his world anyway. His time has passed. He had his chance, he did well,
He has wisdom to pass on,
But of those younger than him do not wish to listen – that is their loss.
This is not about attacking old people.
It is about using threats and violence to suppress ideas.
I would be outraged if those on the right did this to Kendi.
The real problem is that support for free speech is NOT reciprocated.
Those on the left are perfectly happy to see voices they do not like silenced.
I want Kendi destroyed by the excellent arguments against his views.
I do not want him silenced.
I hope Forbes never stops writing truth. The MSM are afraid of the truth, and facts.
Forbes did not write the book. He wa present at a book signing event. Apparently, the Forbes CEO was a co-author of the book.
Thank you for the correction.
My mistake does not change my point.
Guilt by association. That should be sufficient to shut Maxine down.
Don’t rub, hold steady. Lt Gen Flynn
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On this live Saturday emergency transmission, Alex Jones is joined by former Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to break down how a financial collapse may be imminent following the multi-billion dollar bank run on Silicon Valley Bank. We’ll also discuss why Joe Biden and the globalists are taking the world down a path toward World War III as people begin waking up to the scam that is the New World Order.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/saturday-emergency-broadcast-banking-collapse-has-begun-next-phase-in-new-world-order-takeover/
Later 24/7 repeat on Banned.Video
Oops:
Don’t Run… Not Don’t Rub
He can rub one out if he wants.
I do not think that SVB is the straw that leads to a major collapse.
That does not mean it is good or that there will not be serious consequences.
Absent a govenrment bailout SVB depositors are in deep trouble.
The money lost likely greatly exceeds FDIC insurance.
Mostly these are not individuals banking with SVB – these are Silicon Vallue entrepeneurs and businesses with Millions in accounts.
This could be very hard on Silicon Valley.
We have many other storm clouds throughout the world and the US.
First – the cost of US debt is increasing rapidly – this is a result of higher interest rates and too much US debt short term financed.
And this is only going to get worse. The cost of the debt could soon exceed the cost of the department of defense.
At the same time – the US position as the Worlds reserve currency combined with the fact that for ALL us problems we are still the strongest economy of any scale in the world means that we have massive capitol inflows.
That is actually making the Feds efforts to wind down inflation harder.
Money is pouring into the US from accross the world.
That is not changing anytime soon – like anytime in the next decade.
There are significant long term and short term problems in China.
We have no clue how large the short term problems are.
The long term problems in China – as well as Japan, Russia, and much of Europe are catastrophic.
They will not destroy these countries overnight, But they will do so slowly and do not appear to be reversable at this time.
About 1/3 of the world will have significantly declining populations over the next couple of decades.
We have no model EVER for sustained standard of living and production concurrent with population collapse.
Even in the US we need 2-4M immigrants per year to avoid the problems of declining population.
Our issues are tiny compared to they nations mentioned, but they will STILL be troublesome.
We can decide WHO we wish to accept as 2-4M immigrants, We can take people from growing asian countries – like India, or people fleeing China and Russia. Or we can take those fleeing economic problems in South America.
Aside from unique issues with Mexico – which is both the US’s largest trading partner and has a massively successful mid skill production capability that the US greatly benefits from. Mexico is also a failing Narco state.
The rest of South and Central America has the same problems it has had for 100 years.
Decades of bad government, and the periodic but constant return to failed socialism.
Regardless, the US is with near certainty likely to withdraw from its involvement with much of the world, focusing on The Anglosphere, Japan and South america as trading partners.
John I agree with the main aim of your well written post, there’s a few minor points.
As assets flee foreign nations to the $USD it results in defaults in foreign nations/Co’s who’s debt is based on $USD. IE: I think Argentina 2001.
I haven’t in recent years been keeping track CDO/CDS/MBS/ swaps & other such leveraged financial instruments. Around 2008 during the last banking collapse,ie: Merrill, Bear Sterns, Lehmen, etc., much of all that old leveraged debt obligations have just been being rolled over even to through today. Back then thought be around $ 2.25 quadrillion. Some say it’s 1/2 that now.
I didn’t think the FRS would be able to cover & reinflate the balloon again in 2008-09 yet they did, maybe they can do so again even with these much large numbers?
What I do know about the crooked Global Banking Trash is after 2008 they felt & did install the banking mechanism to do Banking customer’s money Bailins because they didn’t think they could get away with bailouts this next time. And that’s the big Bum Rush now to attempt to bring in Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) where they complete the financial prison intended for us. Former Fen Chasirman Paul Volker said his greatest regret was that he should have just Bk’d/Shut them down back at his time at the FED.
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At the same time – the US position as the Worlds reserve currency combined with the fact that for ALL us problems we are still the strongest economy of any scale in the world means that we have massive capitol inflows. ***
That’s why the Central Banks/FRS will burn the US, it’s People/Biz & some other EU nations to the ground protecting the $USD.
But then there’s the BRICS nations trading in their own currencies, that’s said to be at 47% of the world’s economy. But that’s why the commies took over the head of Brazil, currency Mandatory Vazzes or Prison, Approved GMO Wheat, energy so far & moving on India’s gov.
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They will not destroy these countries overnight, But they will do so slowly and do not appear to be reversible at this time.
About 1/3 of the world will have significantly declining populations over the next couple of decades.
We have no model EVER for sustained standard of living and production concurrent with population collapse.
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How good is anyone’s supply chain for everything they need have to have? Just one small part that is unavailable for a farm or factory& it could be shut down. Just in time inventory wasn’t as good as they claimed. It’s made the US Weaker.
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We have no model EVER for sustained standard of living and production concurrent with population collapse.
Even in the US we need 2-4M immigrants per year to avoid the problems of declining population.
Our issues are tiny compared to they nations mentioned, but they will STILL be troublesome.
We can decide WHO we wish to accept as 2-4M immigrants, We can take people from growing asian countries – like India, or people fleeing China and Russia. Or we can take those fleeing economic problems in South America.
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Why couldn’t the Billionaire class manage a reduction in Gen Pop reduction? The Demographics issues have been known since I was a young boomer. It’s clear they want the higher IQ WASP to stop breeding & die off & bring in lower IQ 3rd world’ers. IE: Indians can write code but most are not as good as European WASP/Catholics with a far different culture then the US’ Con-Democracy. That said those Japs are pretty sharp.
It isn’t like they don’t know how to increase IQ’s in future offspring by better choices in a mate. That also means not inbreeding like the Royals & the wealthy, like those woke college students Prof Turley posted yesterday. Just like in Biz one just increases or decrease biz activity depending on biz conditions as they present themselves. But that never was the billonaire class’s goal. Some of them like Bill Gates think he/they can wipe out the worlds Gen Pop with Vazzes, Healthcare, Food or Nukes & the Billionaires can survive in the Bunkers. They’re out of their mind Nuts. LOL:) IE: The show Highlanders.
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Mexico is also a failing Narco state.
The rest of South and Central America has the same problems it has had for 100 years.
Decades of bad government, and the periodic but constant return to failed socialism.
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Ck out the new San Salavdor’s president work’s . Lil doubt the Globalist hitmen will be attempt to stop him. IE: Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
I have some points of disagreement, but a great deal of your points are accurate.
I may revise my view that SVB is not the tip of the iceberg – though this is significantly different from 2008.
The risk to banks – and aparently far more than SVB is that higher interest rates – which are necescary to bring inflation under control means that interest rates on govenrment debt are higher than that offered by banks – by a great deal.
From what I am able to tell so far SVB is probably not “insolvent”, They are just cash poor – illiquid, that is the same as 2008.
They have massive amounts of investment that are paying about 1% interest. Investors are pulling cash out as fast as they can – because Treasuries are offering 4.5% interest.
Given that appears to be the mechanism here – it is likely that many many banks beyond SVB are vulnerable.
This resembles a bit what you are discussing regarding foreign investment.
The disparity in risk between investiment in the US – whether in govenrment bonds, or stocks or real estate or pretty much anything has gotten so great that increasingly everyone else in the world that can move their capitol to the US is doing so.
To some extent that has been true for a long time – but it is getting worse as us interest rates rise.
When the US bonds were running 1% – foreign countries could still attract some capitol but paying higher interest to compensate for the higher risk. But the higher the risk premium a country must offer the more difficult it is to pay that premium. People may invest in Turkey or pakistan at 10% interest, but not at 15% – there is just no way those places can credibly repay a loan at 15% or higher interest.
While I am using the extreme cases – the problem is the same even for Europe. Capitol is flowing from everywhere to the US.
That also makes it harder for the Fed to bring down inflation. The higher they raise US interest rates the more capital flows into the US. And not just to Treasuries.
And the higher the Fed makes interest rates the more vulnerable Banks (in the US and the world) become that have large amounts of investment at low interest rates.
I do not think that 2008 is the appropriate model.
I think the chain of financial crises that occured in the late 90’s and early 2000’s as massive amounts of capital were sloshing arround the globe trying to find safe havens is a better model. We had the asian bubble and crash, the Russian bubble and crash, the tech bubble and crash all one after the other. And mostly it was the same money trying to find a safe place to be with a decent return.
I am very concerned. I think the global economy is in deep trouble. I think the US economy is also in trouble.
But our problems are somewhat different from the world.
I said above I do nto think this is like 2008. But the Truth is that there are elements of almost every economic disaster of the past 40 years.
US inflation is causing very serious problems globally. Whatever inflation – particularly in things like food you see here is much worse in countries that are closer to subsistance. The 2008 crisis – and the US response lead to violence and unrest throughout the mideast as food prices rose. We will likely see similar problems – only on a larger scale.
We are already seeing the return of a scourge that had been eliminated – famine and starvation.
For decades no one anywhere in the world died of starvation as a result of actual global food shortage. Only because of local political problems.
But global food prices are high enough that people in some countries can not afford enough food.
Further the Ukraine war is negatively impacting the worlds largest areas of grain production, as well as radically reducing available fertilizer.
Again – the US can deal with that – Northern Africa can not.
We have a confluence of many many issues at the moment that can have large scale global consequences.
We have population collapse issues in significant parts of asia, Russia and Europe.
These are a huge deal. These mean that those countries – about 1/3 of the world geographically, and probably 2/3 of the words production. Can not continue to grow production year over year, and inevitably MUST see production decline.
We have never seen that before, and certainly not on this scale, and we have no idea how to deal with it.
There may be no way to deal with it.
And the worse the world gets – the more attractive the US becomes – no matter how badly we manage our economy or government.
The Fed is having a great deal of difficulty bringing inflation down. I strongly suspect that is because of massive capital flows into the US.
Our economy is a mess – We have serious problems if we do not being inflation down. But so many keep forgeting that we bring inflation down by causing a recession.
Broadly speaking – that is not happening. We are seeing recession in SOME areas of the economy – even pretty bad recession in some areas of the economy. At the same time as the massive inflow of global capitol – attracted by higher US interests and far lower risk than the rest of the world is pushing inflation back up.
This has the potential to cause earthquakes throughout the economy.
Increasingly I am suspicious that SVB is just a cannary. They were badly run, and there funds were badly invested – so they are toppling first. but the problems will occur in more and more banks over time.
The only good news is that like 2008 – this is a cashflow issue – not an actual insolvency issue.
And that is one of the p;oints of disagreement I have with you. You note that CDO’s and CDS’s are still arround in large amounts. Of course they are – that was another false narative sold by those in power.
AIG had by far the largest exposure in 2008 – They were the guarantor for almost half of all the “insolvent” MBS’s.
They received a Tarp Loan that dwarfed all others.
They also repayed it quickly – and according to the prior CEO and major AIG investor never needed the bailout money.
And he is likely correct. 2008 was not ACTUAL insolvency. Banks had plenty of money. Most were profiting handsomely.
The problem was that they were regulatorially insolvent.
Do not get me wrong – a recession was going to occur no matter what.
TARP was a failure for the same reason that no one ever tried to collect on CDS’s and CDO’s.
Because although the market value of some MBS’s dropped to 25% of face value absolutely everyone in Banking KNEW they would fully recover in time. No bank was willing to part with the MBS’s they held at market value – or anything close to it.
Once they accepted that they had taken a loss, that inherently meant the MBS’s were GOLDEN. They were holding investments that from their current market value were guaranteed to have a 25% Y2Y return for several years.
AIG was never at risk because a CDS requires the bank to trade the MBS to AIG for cash that is a fraction of face value.
No one was going to do that – and if they did – AIG was not going to have trouble getting investors to provide capitol.
The Bank problem – like the current one at SVB was that they did not have sufficient cash reserves, and they could not sell MBS’s to meet reserve requirments.
The FED can step in now – as they did in 2008 and flood the banks with capital. Which is what actually “saved” the system in 2008. But they can not do so AND control inflation.
I am increasingly suspicious that the US will not have a recession – or that it will be very mild – though we will have parts of the economy in serious problems. But that we also will not be able to control inflation. And we will see 7-9% inflation for several years.
But that is just a guess. I do not think the FED has the power or resources to bring inflation under control anymore.
Even in 2008 there were signs that alternate forms of money were so massive that the FED was at the edges of being able to control money supply. I do not mean Crypto. All those MBS’s and CDS’s and CDO’s that you were talking about – in addition to stocks and bonds – there are all forms of money. And they are to a large extent outside of control of the FED.
While I am using the extreme cases – the problem is the same even for Europe. Capitol is flowing from everywhere to the US.
That also makes it harder for the Fed to bring down inflation. The higher they raise US interest rates the more capital flows into the US. And not just to Treasuries.
And the higher the Fed makes interest rates the more vulnerable Banks (in the US and the world) become that have large amounts of investment at low interest rates.
I do not think that 2008 is the appropriate model.
I think the chain of financial crises that occured in the late 90’s and early 2000’s as massive amounts of capital were sloshing arround the globe trying to find safe havens is a better model. We had the asian bubble and crash, the Russian bubble and crash, the tech bubble and crash all one after the other. And mostly it was the same money trying to find a safe place to be with a decent return.
I am very concerned. I think the global economy is in deep trouble. I think the US economy is also in trouble.
But our problems are somewhat different from the world.
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It’s worst then we think. This time it’s Global not just National. The Inter Nat’l Banking trash has been running this consolidation of power scam here, USA, since 1913, FRS, Income Tax, Direct elected Senators & now we are at the end of this type fiat money system & they are attempting to move us to CBDC, ( Digital Currency). I’m a strong Nein!
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That also makes it harder for the Fed to bring down inflation. The higher they raise US interest rates the more capital flows into the US. And not just to Treasuries.
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That’s the old line of reasoning that will not work in this case. I think the best case for the next few weeks is drop the Fed’s fund rate one time 25-50 base points the End the FRS & move everything back to the Treasury with some sort of market float commodity back currency. Plenty of stuff & let the honest market name the price instead
of crooked aholes. Then move onto Firing Biden,Pelois, Schumer, McConnell, Lindsay Graham, Willard Romney, Yellan, Powell, Lawrence Summers, Robert Reich, Victoria Nuland, John Bolton, etc., down to Jim Cramer, Bank & Corporate Board members, squeeze the hell out of Bond Holders & move to seizing most all the assets of NGO/Foundations to pay for their Ph’kin Mess & restore/refresh the SSRI/pension funds they’ve being Looting for decades. F Bill Gates, Warren Buffet,Charlie Munger & his Trash. Hurry, give them a rifle, backpack full of MREs & ship their Anti-American Trash asses to the Russian Front in Ukraine before anyone can end the US’s War there.
Suck it Up Charlie!!! LOL;)
BTW: Again they’re people like me that have remained on the other side this trade & of their Bets. Pay Up this time you Ph’in Deadbeats or get to running.
Regardless we can rest assured that Congress & their corporate overlords are scheming as speak.
They need to get Congress/Corporate’s Laffer Curve & Regulatory Boot off non corporate 500 companies & people & that allows smaller outfits things like manageable liability cost & ease market entry access to markets as what have now is just stagnation & already into a hyperinflation depression.
Why should all usBiz Owners & Citizens Subsidize the roads/infrastruction for companies like Walmart, Amazon, etc., that have been selling us out to enemies like China for Decades?
Like Dr King, I too have a Dream;)
More at sometime.
Oky1;
I have said here repeatedly – I am libertarian – not conservative.
While I share some of the same concerns you have regarding “globalization” – where globalization refers to the efforts to the powerful to construct a framework of global governance – that is pure evil and must be thwarted.
The problem is ONCE AGAIN govenrment. I remain a fervent advocate of global free markets.
While I beleive that current global economic conditions are likely to result in massive re shoring over the next decade – and I am perfectly okay with that so long as it is market driven, whether global or local government has no place at all in free markets.
Americans should trade with China or NOT based on our own individual and personal interests.
Just as we should Trade with California or NOT on the same basis.
I do not have a problem with America First – in the sense that EVERY nation must put the interests of its own people first and foremost, with all others far behind.
Nor do I have a problem with American exceptionalism. This country is a unique light unto the world.
We should be proud of that and the rest of the world should look to us as an example, and frankly strive to do better.
One of the core features of free markets is competition – it is not the only one, but it is important.
People benefit from competition, companies benefit from competition, nations benefit from competition.
Regardless, I am absolutely a globalist – in the real sense of the word – so many words keep getting mangled today.
Often what was said years ago means something completely different today.
I am a globalist – I support global free markets.
I support INDIVIDUALS making the choices as to what they will buy and sell and where they will buy and sell.
Not governments, not oligarch’s not NGO’s
I am OK with the likely coming changes that will reverse alot of globalism. But I fully expect it will return after recovery.
It is in everyone’s interest. The economic law of comparative advantage means we should all seek to do what we are best at.
We are not Robinson Crusoe trapped on a deserted island and of necessity making everything for ourselves.
Our standard of living – the global standard of living are both higher when we seek to produce the most value we can,
rather than every necessity.
“whether global or local government has no place at all in free markets.
Americans should trade with China or NOT based on our own individual and personal interests.”
What does one do when government becomes a part of the so-called free market?
Get government out.
I will cede but a small amount of ground to you.
China – Under Xi – and not at all prior poses a threat beyond trade, and there is a limited value beyond trade of government intervention.
Though I would note that for the most part even the political is best handled by the free market.
Russia has been crippled – it is claimed by Sanctions. But the fact is that Capitol flight as well as the departure of western businesses has gone FAR beyond what western government have mandated.
McDonalds did not need to leave Russia – it Did, The oil companies did not need to leave russia. But they did.
Nearly all western businesses left Russia, leaving beyond Billions in assets. And they did so on their own.
And though it is more preliminary we have been seeing some of the same with China for a long time.
China could not survive the exodus of the west for even a few months without mass starvation.
Free people voluntarily work with draconian regimes.
“I will cede but a small amount of ground to you. … China – Under Xi… even the political is best handled by the free market.”
Thank you. For the most part, even when our government intervenes significantly, the marketplace is where most of the action occurs.
Globalism, as seen by our leaders and many billion-dollar corporations, is not synonymous with unrestricted trade. Therefore one can object to what is seen as globalism today, yet still desire free trade globally.
“McDonalds did not need to leave Russia – … But they did.”
I don’t know what to make of this comment, but the actions were largely political and not representative of a free market absent from politics.
What gave you the idea that free markets are divorced from politics ?
Every decision in the Free market has myriads of political factors potentially effecting it.
Many on the right rant – “Go Woke Go Broke” – while at the very same time – businesses try to figure out how to appeal to – and often broaden their customer base – without offending anyone.
The My Pillow guy has transformed himself from a mass market entrepeneur to a Niche market.
That CAN be successful for Some. It can also be disaster.
I do not care if Disney choses to be the content producer for the LGBTQ+ community – but that is not likely to be several hundred billion dollar company. That is what they are and they are learning that parents are not looking for LGBTQ+ friendly content for their 8 year olds.
McDonalds and many many other companies decided to take a financial hit and get out of Russia, to avoid pissing off customers – and investors in the US and Europe. That is political, it is also good business.
I am sure some russian oligarch is taking over McD’s stores and trying to make them work.
And when this is all over there will be a legal battle to get them back.
If I was Russian and could figure out how to take them over and make money I would.
Even knowing I am likely to have to give them back in a few years.
Again – what is bad business for some companies is good business for others.
Generally mass market businesses should avoid pissing anyone off. That can be really hard – especially with todays obnoxious left that demands everyone KowTow.
Are you put off because very few TV adds contain white people anymore ?
I do not personally notice most of the time.
But start pushing felatio to 8yr olds and your banned.
Politics and values are part of everything – and I am perfectly OK with that so long as the markets remain Free.
Which means – Government has no thumb on the scale.
I will decide whether I want to boycott Barilla or Chick-a-Filet
Or whether I want to favor their business.
Conversely Disney has got to decide how much it can afford to pander to one group before it risks alienating a larger one.
I do not care is someone forms an All LGBTQ+ streaming service chock full of things I find deeply offensive(or maybe not) – so long as it is my choice to pay for it or watch it.
I deliberately keep my buisinesses as far from politics as I possibly can.
John Say is not my name.
Someone with a small amount of skills can figure out who I am. But my ordinary clients are never connecting the two,
and today I am not attractive enough for skilled left wing nuts to out me to my clients.
Who knows – most of them are likely conservative.
Regardless, I do not bring politics into my business.
But you can go on Twitter and Parlor and Truth and … and find small businesses specifically targing the right wing crowd or the left wing crowd or the LGBTQ+ crowd.
Again I am fully on board with that – so long as Government stays OUT. COMPLETELY.
I have repeatedly said here – that the Biden Campaign, the DNC trying to get SM to censor is IMMORAL.
I have not once said it was Illegal – it is not, and should not be.
The DNC and Biden campaign should be Judged by voters for their actions. Of course their actions should be brought into the sunlight.
But Congressional Democrats, and the FBI and Alphabet agencies censoring – that is IMMORAL, ILLEGAL, and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
“What gave you the idea that free markets are divorced from politics ?”
John, that is something you manufactured. The free market and politics exist in the same field, impacting one another, but one is not part of the other.
Of course free markets include politics.
Part of the problem is the Free market choices are fundimentally about values. ALWAYS.
Free markets are the most accurate way to measure peoples relative values.
People make choices – they determine of what they want what specific things they will spend what they have produced on.
They also decide how much they will produce – determining what they can consume.
Government is supposed to be divorced from that. Yet, the core value of the left is that government can better distribute what people should have.
Therefore so long as their is a left in politics there will always be politics in markets.
At the same time – even if you moved government entirely to its legitimate domain – people are not going to make purchases from an invader in the midst of militarily defending themselves from that invader.
So politics is always part of markets.
“Of course free markets include politics.”
John, I am having a hard time trying to figure out what you are trying to say. Does that statement mean you agree or disagree with my former statement? If you disagree, how?
“John, that is something you manufactured. The free market and politics exist in the same field, impacting one another, but one is not part of the other.”
The Globalism vs. Globalism thing is just more of left wing word game nonsense.
And I am going to “fight you” on this.
It is WRONG, immoral, a form of censorship and right out of the 1984 handbook to constantly redefine words.
Through the 19th and 20th century globalism meant Global Free trade.
Hayek and myriads of other economics advocated for globalism.
When the violent antifa precursor WTO protests occured in Seattle – they were about Global Free Trade.
It was actually quite weird because just about every third world and under developed country at the time was all in for globalism – because virtually everyone understands the great win win that global free trade is.
But a bunch of masked violent affluent anarchist american teens F’d everything up for the people they claimed to be trying to help.
SEPARATELY – the “Davos” crowd, has been moving in and trying to capture “globalism” and convert it into a sort of Global Governance that they control. This is not Globalism. This is not Global Free Trade.
While I accept the national security benefits of some of what Trump did regarding China.
At the same time he has further empowered the Davos crowd.
One of the problems is that we form organizations – like WTO to foster truly free trade – and they get coopted by governmets and the affluent to become instruments of global power over trade.
I forget exactly how this came about – but we are increasingly dealing with global efforts to normalize Banking rules and tax rules.
The impossible to crack Swiss bank of 40 years ago no longer exists.
If the US government wants to know about your swiss bank acount – they are going to get what they want.
And they can seize it.
A major force for good for less developed countries has always been low tax rates.
That is a fantastic way of attracting capitol to countries with higher risk.
Low or no taxes completely mitigates a risk premium. But there have been fairly effective efforts to globalize minim tax rates.
Leaving us with only a few essentially rogue nations outside the fold.
We see the same thing with money. Crypto currencies in some form are the future. There are a large number of libertarians and austrians who are just completely wrong on this.
There are several very very important features which are incredible in the undeveloped world and profitable elsewhere.
Clearing credit is a HUGE one. About 2 trillion dollars of credit are tied up everyday in credit (and debit) transactions.
Debit cards take often hours to clear, and credit cards typically take weeks and sometimes months.
Crypto currency clear credit in seconds.
That is very very very important – Money supply is volume times velocity. Clear credit quicker and there is 2 Trillion in credit available globally that was not there before.
Of course Debit and Credit card companies are going to fight this tooth and nail – because they make money clearing credit.
LOTS of it.
Ultimately that is irrelevant – if they get forced out of clearing credit for transactions by Crypto – that 2T in credit will go somewhere else and they will still make money – though likely less.
And that is the perfect example of how standard of living RISES – deliver the Same value for less cost.
That means we all spend a little less for everything, and we are all richer – 2T richer.
And Credt card companies can take that credit and use it somewhere else – which will ALSO make us richer.
The next big deal about Crypto is that it provides global proof of ownership of everything that has ever transacted via crypto.
It is hard to get a handle on, but at the same time as crypto can be completely anonymous – it is also completely traceable and proveable – IF YOU HAVE THE KEY.
In the developed world this in theory eliminates car titles and protery titles.
Again we will see a holy war, because people make money off those.
But more importantly these do not exist in the developing world.
Try to prove you own your own home in Egypt or Brazil.
The overwhelming majority of people CANT’
That is not USUALLY a big deal – they have been there for ever, and everyone “knows” who owns what.
But you can not take that to the bank. You can not borrow against your home to start a business.
In the long run Crypto adds a MASSIVE amount of secure credit to the world.
Today it is very difficult to invest and get capitol in the developing world.
This completely solves that.
Right now with interest rates rising – we are seeing capitol from all over the world flowing into the US.
That is in many ways very good for the US. Biden should thank god that the rest of the world is a far more risky investment than the US. Because even though he has negatively impacted the creditworthyness of the US – it still dwarfs the rest of the world.
The Bad news is that massive inflows of capital are thwarting everything the Fed is trying to do to fight inflation.
Causing them to raise interest, causing even more capitol to head for the US.
I am still trying to get a grip on the real risk to the US of the SVB and other Bank collapses.
REAL Insolvancy – i.e. SVB actually LOST billions of dollars – like SBF/FTX would be a HUGE problem.
But what I am getting so far is though the cause is different SVB is really just the victim of poor low interest investing, and rising interest rates causing people to pull their money.
This is absolutely going to hit ALOT of US banks.
There is likely trillions of dollars invested at 1-2% interest rates that is headed for the door. With Treasuries at 4.5% and rising – who wants 1-2% ?
Basically the Fed raising interest is triggering a run on solvent but poorly invested banks.
They would all have been fine 4 years ago.
I am not saying they were managed well. But regulatory insovency is NOT the same as “We lots a trillion dollars”.
If SVB and other weak banks actually lost money – as upposed to are losing cash because there are better investments elsewhere – we are in Deep $hit.
I am very worried about the former, but so far it does not seem to be the problem – though the information is poor so far.
I do not support Fed bailouts – but the harm is actually quite small unless the issue is larger than cash leaving low interest investments.
But SBF actually Blew the money – might as well have burned it.
And if too many banks did that – we have a HUGE problem.
Anyway – Crypto will eventually become less volatile.
But Government – especially the US government – as well as all the vested interests that Crypto can replace hate it.
So it faces huge enemies.
And for those who think regulation is the answer – the odds of regulation not neutering crypto to uselessness are Zero.
I would further note that the design of crypto currencies and systems is extremely sophisticated.
We have 2+ decades of experience now and we KNOW they have gotten the core features right.
Absent a massive mathematics breakthrough that makes all modern cryptography easily crack able
tinkering with the design of crypto is very dangerous.
I will pretty much guarantee you that regulation will not merely destroy the key features of crypto, but it will make it orders of magnitude less secure.
We saw a version of this fight play out at Apple years ago when Comey wanted Apple to give them a back door into IOS.
It is not possible in technology to give governments the powers they want – even if you could trust government, without making whatever you are dealing with far less secure.
Today the Feds have the ability to listen to Cell phone exchanges in real time.
The technology to do so actually came FIRST from Black hat hackers in Europe.
A company I was with sold them some resources in the process.
The ability to hack existing systems is worth Billions – Trillions possibly.
There is no tech problem too hard for someone to invest massive effort to crack – when Billions of dollars on the prize.
Crypto currency depends on Bulletproof crpto. Without that it is worthless.
There is pretty much no way government can change Crypto to get what it wants without making it more vulnerable.
Bitcoin’s market cap – total market value today is about 1/2 Trillion dollars.
If it was insecure – it would have been hacked.
“The Globalism vs. Globalism thing is just more of left wing word game nonsense. And I am going to “fight you” on this. ”
John, there is no need to fight, as I agree with your point. Where we may differ is when there is disagreement over a term, I prefer to let the other person define it if they used it first. That means I am more interested in the discussion than the semantics involving the definition.
“It is WRONG, immoral, a form of censorship and right out of the 1984 handbook to constantly redefine words.”
You are probably correct, but I note the stink of a rose has also changed its meaning, and politics is not involved. Of course, that leads to the question of providing definitions.
“Hayek and myriads of other economics advocated for globalism.”
I do too, but more recently, we have learned that circumstances and meanings have changed, so it requires some effort to ensure one is on the same page when discussing these things. That requires definitional agreement.
“While I accept the national security benefits of some of what Trump did regarding China.
At the same time he has further empowered the Davos crowd. ”
Most agreements of this type represent a two-edged sword, but in Trump’s case, the negative empowerment was the dull side.
I am cautious about a cryptosystem because it can add to government power.
The first uses of globalism were in the late 19th century and in that context it meant global free trade.
While the british comonwealth was not litterally a global free trade pact.
It was within that commonwelath – which spanned the globe.
Free trade between Singapore, Hong Kong (most of china at one time) India, parts of Africa, Austrailia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK.
That was 19th/early 20th century globalism and free trade.
Nor was Britian alone. The US was heavily involved in pushing global free trade.
A long period of prosperity – both in the US, the anglo sphere and the globe from just after the US civil war through the start of WWI was the first heyday of globalism.
It was beleived in 1916 that War was no longer possible because of the global entanglements and dependence on Trade.
We do know that free trade is a powerful force for peace. But we also now know it alone is not sufficient.
Regardless, the transformation of the meaning of globalism to global government by the elites started very late in the 20th century.
I would further note – that though Today the meaning is radically different,
Even those speaking of globalism in the late 20th century – as they were transforming it.
Mostly really meant Global Free trade.
Pres. Clinton was a major advocate for Globalism.
And while he is definitely a member of the Davos crowd. I do not think that in the 90’s he really meant
global governance by the elites.
The initial purpose of most of the global institutions that have been coopted into global governances was to advance free trade. Not to govern the world.
WTO was created with laudable goals. Today it is the problem not the cure.
Many many global bodies were created for good purposes. But have been coopted by the elite and the left.
1984
John, I sometimes note a lack of focus preventing me from fully understanding what you are saying. Was British mercantilism involved in free global trade? I think your answer will be no, or at the least, not complete.
“The first uses of globalism were in the late 19th century and in that context it meant global free trade.”
Here you agree that definitions are necessary to get one’s point across. I agree with you. Meanings change, and such changes are not always due to left-wing US politics.
You still do not get that definitions are nothing more than documenting use.
I cited context – not really defintion.
The core of my argument is that the use of globalism meant one thing for more than a century
but now means another.
Yes it was defined differently.
It was defined differently – because when we USED the word we meant something different than we do now.
Absent constant efforts to redefine words – I should rarely if ever have to define anything.
Because the meaning of words is determined by our use.
The first dictionaries are barely 300 years old,, but words have been arround for probably 500,000 years or more, and written language for several thousand.
I an not trying to say dictionaries are not useful.
Just that they are not authoritative.
That is important – because like many institutions – the left has gained control of definitions – dictionaries.
And they use that right out of Orwells playbook to manipulate thought and communications.
We are debating censorship right now.
Word mangling is an even more dangerous and insidious form of censorship.
Again read 1984 (or several other dystopia’s) or look at what socialist countries have done to language,
or what the left does.
Control the meaning of words and you control speech and to a large extent even thought.
No, I am not ceding significance to dictionaries.
“You still do not get that definitions are nothing more than documenting use.
I cited context – not really defintion.”
John, you can play semantic games all you want but definition = “the action or the power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear”
Context helps to define things. As I have said before, I will frequently accept the definitions of others to simplify a discussion, even if they are incorrect.
“The core of my argument is that the use of globalism meant one thing for more than a century
but now means another.
Yes it was defined differently.”
That’s right!
“Because the meaning of words is determined by our use.”
That’s right!
“That is important – because like many institutions – the left has gained control of definitions – dictionaries.”
That’s right, and another reason why one asks another to define words that can mean different things to different people.
“No, I am not ceding significance to dictionaries.”
As I indicated time and time before, I don’t have to accept the definitions of others, but I do need to know what their words mean.
“definition = “the action or the power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear””
nope.
Cart before Horse
“Cart before Horse”
What does that mean in the context of what we are discussing? If I don’t understand what your words mean, you might as well speak Chinese.
I do not think it could be clearer.
“I do not think it could be clearer.”
What you think matters little since your intent was for your words to convey meaning. If not, you could have remained silent.
You my have noticed I’ve not be in top shape with this vertigo stuff. I must need to switch out the aluminum foil for silver foil with a couple of copper fan belts to block out all the RF from the new 5g towers & Musk’s 5G satellites he’s been sitting up every 6.5 feet apart around the planet. 😉
I don’t know yet but its warming up & that might help & finish the Dr appointments?
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John Say says:
March 14, 2023 at 7:05 PM
The Globalism vs. Globalism thing is just more of left wing word game nonsense.
And I am going to “fight you” on this.
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Of the assets you hold recently/year notice what went up down our held, I think it’s a good clue as to where one might think about being later.
You can call it whatever you wish but Globalism isn’t a Unicorns crapping gold bars & p*issin skittles.
The Globalism I speak of is a Luciferin’s wet dream of at least around 2 centuries for their New World Order, The Great Reset, Global governance & complete re-enslavement feudalism of all humans left & as the heads of it, About 300 psychopaths.. Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, etc…, attempt to move to a complete merger of man & machines in their dreams of being a Gods.
I reject that them out of hand.
But I believe the Real God will have a vote in that matter.
IE: Jones@ The Great Reset.
As far as your definition of Globalism it happened just as Ross Perot forecasted, the Clintons & the Bush’s, ABC bureaucracies Raped us Americans in the Azz with wire brush.
Much the same as a multi-millionaire explained to me 45 years ago. Can the USA still even make a pencil or a shovel today?
I noticed yesterday only some media reports suggest people were leave small/regional banks & moving to the Total Corrupt Wallst type banks, good luck with that Foolish Move, I think. LOL;)
For a different view:
Below is a 46 minute video explaining a small bit of the current derivatives problem the banks, corpses’ & all of us are facing.
The 2nd is a video about 6 minutes I think , with a brief on the offshore Eurodollar currency laundering. That’s just another currency vector know about, how many more?
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https://usawatchdog.com/save-dollar-or-financial-system-not-both-bill-holter/
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What is The Eurodollar System?
Wealthion Shorts
You make my point that the word games that the left engage in have muddled out thought.
The “globalism” of the 19th and much of the 20th century, is NOT the same thing at all as that of the late 20th and 21st centuries.
You are railing at the latter.
I would strongly recomend for many reasons “The commanding heights: the battle for the world economy” it is a book, that is pretty good, but it is also a BBC/PBS 3+hr documentary that is excellent.
Globalism is used constantly throughout to refer to the economics of Hayek and the Austrians, as opposed to that of Keynes.
Keynes is the epitomy of “globalism” in the way that YOU are using the term.
Hayek in the way I use the term
And those are complete opposites.
It is in the interests of every nation in the world to protect the USD and frankly even if they did not want to – it will happen anyway. If China allowed capital outflows the PRC would collapse within hours.
Just look at things right now. Pick anywhere in the world that you would invest your money – besides the US ?
You can’t.
I think the FRS is a giant mistake. But I also think that global markets have grown beyond their ability to control.
One of the areas that I am likely at odds with you – and certainly with Trump and MAGA is regarding big business.
Do not get me wrong – big business is corrupt. But they are NOT the cause of our problems – nor were they in 2008.
Government did absolutely nothing in 2008 to directly addressed what they claimed were the causes of the 2008 financial crisis – because none of those things caused the 2008 financial crisis. The cause was government – not big business.
Absolutely – big business will find a way to benefit from and influence what government does.
But systemic problems ALWAYS require government.
“Absolutely – big business will find a way to benefit from and influence what government does.
But systemic problems ALWAYS require government. ”
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Adjust for current reality the ole phase: What is Government if it’s not the Trilateral Commission, CFR, US Chamber of Commerce, GHWBush’s dream of a New World Order & Run out of Anti-American Terrorist Outfits like the Un-USC UN/WHO/WEF, Rockefeller/Ford/Carnegie, Mellon, NGO’s etc., Evergreen XYZ Foundations?
(Staring to see the old long term problem yet?)
Look at this old funny but still so true today.
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BTW:
https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CSGN:SW
Again I ask, why hasn’t the usual complement of lefty commenters shown up today to defend this type of violence?
oldmanfromkansas – because they are trying to figure out a way to blame Donald Trump.
This has to be a difficult time for Professor Turley. After being a Democrat for so long he now must witness the complete deterioration of the party. It must be difficult pointing out the danger being fomented by the party that he was once a part of. Courage may be scarce but thankfully it’s not dead. Professor, I present my gratitude.
You know who else was a Democrat. Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Barri Weiss. Also Naomi Wolf and I am assuming millions and millions of others.
And Sasha Stone: https://sashastone.substack.com/p/how-the-left-was-lost#details
Don’t forget Tulsi Gabbard. One of my favorites.
The left is alienating its brightest lights.
I was a lifelong Democrat till they pushed forced vax for school children in California. Almost every one who voted Yes was a Democrat; they were paid handsomely; the Sacramento Bee, a liberal rag, actually reported on this at the time. I can’t imagine ever voting for one again.
TiT,
I think that is one of the reasons why the good professor’s article are focused as they are.
The old Democrat party is dead. It has been replaced with the insanity we are seeing. The new fascists of the left are in control and want only more control, more power. They desire to lord over all, to bring about their version of a new American society.
A dystopian hell for all those who believe in freedom, liberty.
I fear this is going to go badly.
Oh yes oh yes. The left is always screaming about the banning of books and here they are trying to ban speaking about a book. They like the books that depict child pornography in Jr. High Schools but they want the books that point out that they are radicals to be banned. These people are not just a fringe group and their positions are the positions of the Democratic Party. If you doubt this take on things I refer you to the “get up in their faces” encouragement by Maxine Waters. They get their orders from the top of the party. They are not a fringe group but are an important arm of the infrastructure of the leftist party and they are well paid for their efforts.
These are the Bolsheviks of 1917 — The Wokeshevks
Elizabeth Gregory,
The Wokeshevks.
That is awesome!
Two thumb up!
And the 1789 Jacobins of our modern era. In time they will consider this type of violence too mild and will call Madame Guillotine up from the grave.
It is further sign of the death of our civilization.
Done in by the scheming leftists.
Were our DOJ still intact and not governed by a lefty political hack, an investigation and trial of those who organized this crime would quickly be done.
But it won’t.
America has been setup by leftists for a quick take down by our external enemies.
Tucker Carlson recently noted that the Democratic Party (including the MSM) use violent mobs to advance its political position. His example was the BLM riots in 2020 which were designed to defeat Donald Trump. But he could have also pointed to the anti-Wall Street riots in 2012, intended to defeat Willard Romney. In 2024, we can on another riot campaign, designed to undermine the Republican candidate that year. Smaller acts of violence, like the subtle like the subject of this blog, are designed to quash the dangerous spread of conservative ideas.
See here for broader gloss on this troubling dynamic, looking to what lies ahead: https://youtu.be/UKIvzy7ORQ0
It’s Democrat party, not democratic party. May sound trivial, but important to differentiate.
I believe that the official name is The Democratic Party of America.
Edwardmalh;
You can go back to the KKK. Democrat Party enforcers.