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Two short items from today’s perusing of the news stick out as "tells" of just how intellectually dishonest the purveyors and enablers of Progressive forced-narrative mass delusional hysteria really are. First, this from a Powerline with THE POST ON THE TWITTER FILES regarding the planted false narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian misinformation …
Continue reading Two Signs – Clarity Finds a Way to Those Willing to See
The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. – Victor Davis Hanson, December 4, 2022 As a follow-up to the post earlier this morning, I offer the following video of a Munk Debate from November 30, 2022 on: …
Continue reading The Anti-Narrative – Page One of the Corrupt Media Playbook (ADDENDUM)
The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. - Victor Davis Hanson, December 4, 2022 Well, at least a growing portion of "the public" anyway. Far too many stubbornly choose to remain comfortable in the superficial calm …
Continue reading The Anti-Narrative – Page One of the Corrupt Media Playbook
Some greatness from Levon Helm: https://youtu.be/w8_jpjQXUyA Yeah. The world ain't what it seems, is it, Gunnie? ... You keep that in mind. The moment you think you got it figured, you're wrong. Far too many are cocksure they have got it figured. For two weeks now, most of those demonstrable tools and liars have been …
Continue reading American History and November 22: ‘Still got the shovel.’
CBS News tacitly admits that they wouldn't know journalism even if it bit them in the Dan Rather: "Two years after anyone with a functional brain realized the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% real @CBSNews has finally gotten around to reporting the Hunter Biden laptop is 100% real." Efffing clowns. (Classic Reference to the great …
...The problem now facing liberty is a new form of tyranny, a “social tyranny” exercised by the populace itself over the individual. – Pages 76 That is a portion of one of my favorite passages from On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb. It may be strange that …
“[A] significant and growing portion of the American population [has lost] the virtues required to be functioning members of a free society.” – Charles Murray in Coming Apart (Page 289), 2012 The slightly bastardized (for the selfish purposes of my own agenda) and entirely overused quote above is the most succinct characterization of the state …
Continue reading Midterm Postmortem – Dead Dogma, Brain-Dead Voters, and Plate Tectonics
Not that I believe the accurate and proper history of our times will ever be written…the institutions and talents required for such a thing have long since been corrupted and rendered useless for the task. Witness the soft acknowledgement by corporate media types today of the clear corruption of the Biden family that was completely …
The story has been mentioned before. Almost a year ago I used it in the introduction to a post titled The Worst Economy in Eighty Years over at the legacy site: I’m sure there were signs much earlier but, with respect to my political awareness, it was three decades ago that I first witnessed the …
Hot on the heels of my earlier post, this is really just a convenient addendum from today's headlines (via Althouse): The same group of Radical Left Democrats who utilized their Majority position in Congress to create the fiction of Russia, Russia, Russia, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, the $48 Million Mueller Report (which ended …
Continue reading The ‘Long History’ of January 6, 2021 has been Completely Knowable All Along
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