Thoughts on yesterday
As I think about what happened yesterday new thoughts keep coming to mind.
Consider what it says about how half this country views private property rights when rioters who loot and burn private property are given a pass do you more than $2 billion in damage to mostly people’s homes and businesses – the Left literally occupied city blocks and owned two autonomous zones around homes and businesses – but when a government building that is the seat of power was infiltrated and occupied, that is the worst day in modern history.
Leftist rioters attempted to burn down a Federal building in Portland, many times. Leftist rioters vandalized statues and Federal monuments. They even wrote snuff porn about destroying the Washington Monument.
When Trump deployed law enforcement to protect the Lincoln Memorial and Portland Federal Courthouse, that made him literally Hitler.
When the right breaks into the Capitol, and doesn’t set one fire or throw one Molotov cocktail, spray paint one slogan, or destroy one priceless statue, the call is unanimous to arrest and prosecute to the end of the earth and back again.
We cannot have two sets of laws and two codes of behavior in this country. It didn’t work in France in the 1790s, Russia in the 1910s, or Bosnia in the 1990s.
We have to return to one standard or this will happen again.
Also, the Left needs to end their use of race or racism in every argument.
They claim to be bastions of empathy and compassion, well they need to direct some of that at the Right.
I’ve spent time in Oneida and Herkimer counties in New York. There is a reason they went 57% to 68% for Trump.
Not because of race. But because when you drive through there it is empty rusting factory after empty rusting factory next to dilapidated or boarded up homes.
These people wanted help and to be heard and to have the factories run again. They wanted someone to stop holding companies and Wall Street from stop shipping their jobs overseas.
The Left dismissed these people as racists.
What we say yesterday was as much of a peasants revolt as anything else.
If you want to stop a peasants revolt, you have to stop treating these people like peasants, and the first step there is to listen to them and not just dismiss them as bigots.
Those talks about invoking the 25th Amendment…
I believe they will happen, but not to Trump. Even the biggest idiot has to realize tempers are too hot to do such thing and the transition will happen anyway. But then again, they are really big idiots.
But since it was brought up, I may as well announce something I have been thinking about for a while now. It is a Blog Pool much like an office pools and you need to guess a date.
The date when the 25th Amendment will be applied to Joe Biden to be removed from office.Â
I am thinking give everybody a first and a second choice of dates just to increase the chances of winning. As for the prize, I have nothing valuable unless a kind soul donates something. About the only thing I can offer yet is a full sized poster of John Ross’ Unintended Consequences.
I will keep things simple: I’ll have you send me an email with your dates and name (nickname acceptable) and I will have a page dedicated to list all dates. It will be one person per date and it is going to be first come – first served.
More details as I think this thing through. The pool starts after Pedo Joe swears in.
The latest Social Media trend: Official Notice of Surrendering
I have seen this posted in several places.
Biden is my president elect.
I don’t like it. I don’t want it. I didn’t vote for it. But he is my president.
I respect the office of the presidency of the United States of America and the man or woman who is elected to serve in that position. I will conduct myself accordingly and teach my children to do the same.
If I have an issue with the actions of him or any of my elected officials I will use any and all of the legal means available to me to make my voice heard and have my say in my local, state, and federal government.
What I will NOT do is disrupt or otherwise try to sabotage my government in any way. I will also not burn, break, loot or destroy any property public or private. I want to teach my children respect for a system that they will have to learn to use in order to make their way through this republic government and the ways I do that is through my example of disagreement without dissension.
I am disappointed in every man or woman (regardless of their political affiliation) who chooses to use unlawful and unjust violence as a means to make their voice heard.
This isn’t 1776. It isn’t 1933, either.
Act accordingly.
Whomever came up with that shit there, is a cowardly asshole. And I am gonna say the same things for those who are reposting it in their social media accounts.
The mentioning of 1776 by the author is noticeable because we have forgotten about it and apparently some do not want us to remember it. The Founding Fathers did not sign a document accepting King George and promising to stand up to him by pusillanimous means, but they signed this:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
If we forgot this and accept the version on top, then we are truly done as Country.
Yesterday, the first shots were fired in the Third Battle of Fort Sumter – Bayou Renaissance Man
I urge you to go read the whole thing.
Whether or not you do, dear reader, I suggest that conflict is now upon us. It can no longer be avoided. Each and every one of us will be forced to take a stand, whether we want to or not. We’ll have to go with the vision of our Founding Fathers, and defend our constitutional republic and individual rights; or we’ll have to abandon their vision, and instead work for political correctness, socialism and the domination of the individual by the group.
Whether or not our choice involves violence, we have to make it. It’s no longer possible to stand idly by and let others do their thing. We’re all involved now. The Uniparty made its choice clear yesterday. What is our – your – response?
Yesterday, the first shots were fired in the Third Battle of Fort Sumter
Peter saved me work by writing this excellent post.
I am only going to say that we either embrace the opportunity and sent the country back to the Constitutional path or let it go to waste and accept we will be living in the new Socialism in which we will be lucky if we die fast and not from hunger or wasted away in some gulag.