Perhaps President Trump can go to NPR HQ and proudly say Ich bin ein Berliner as should all good people who believe in the freedom of the press should say.
Unfortunately, the second Trump administration will be little more than the Trump Revenge tour, which he will of course fumble, because he can't have people not liking him.
Because the FBI was aligned with Trump's political opponents. The bureaucracy hindered Trump's attempts to secure the border, Trump opened lethal aid to Ukraine, and let's not talk about his disastrous handling of the COVID hoax.
"COVID hoax" are you serious? You can disagree with how it was handled but it was certainly a real infectious disease. Whatever you say about how COVID deaths were counted there were over a million excess deaths. That should be enough to tell you that it was real.
The real policy question is whether saving a few million more old and feeble people was worth the tremendous cost to school age children, or why we shut down schools when there was evidence suggesting that they don't spread it and won't get sick. Calling the whole thing a hoax only convinces people you are a quack, and makes them feel like they have to defend every public health decision ever made from your (perceived) idiocy.
The cleaning will be limited as appointed positions are unable to fire/dismiss employed positions without cause, ergo the worker bee's, mid-tier and upper-tier managers who have been hired and inculcated because of their 'cultural alignment' will have to leave on their own or, violate some policy resulting in their dismissal.
Well, I for one like the sound of a "Trump Revenge tour," if for no other reason than it means Biden and his cabal are gone and the Overton Window gets a badly needed adjustment.
Really, how many people on this forum, 30+ years ago, found themselves saying internally "F- 'em, let it burn" about our government and institutions? I'd wager the number is very small if not zero.
I'd also wager today it's 20% or higher that have the thought at least from time to time.
They destroyed the Republic, they treat the Constitution like toilet paper and punish those who appear to support it, and they expect people to continue to rally around the flag. It's not happening.
Between Cloward-Piven, Alinsky, Gramsci the goal has been "burn it to the ground" in order that from the ashes they can grow a socialist utopia...but do it right this time because they have a unique singular inerrant vision of what is best for people, Gaia and themselves and have steeled themselves not to be shy or overly cautious about the making of this omelet.
Agreed. That's one of the most frustrating things. Whenever we start to think "let it fall; it's irrevocably broken" we have to remember that was the goal of those that nurtured the useful idiots.
It's going to be a slog and there are no easy answers. I'll at least try to defer to truth and reason, while no longer being "reasonable" with those who hate individual freedom
The Navy will lower standards to obtain more recruits. Who needs a good quartermaster on the bridge anyway now that paper charts and sextants have been removed.
I spent 42 years in the Coast Guard. This diversity tripe really took off with the Obama administration. We had to endure indoctrination as part of our general military training and like it. I was cancelled three times in a year, by the Commandant's office, an instructor at the Academy, and a now two-star admiral for contrary views expressed publicly. I am so glad we are finally ending this crapola and even happier I'm retired.
Here is the statement by the new CEO over at NPR in regards to Uri Berliner’s post;
"We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories," she wrote. "We believe that inclusion — among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage — is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world."
Note that she never directly denies his allegations. And in the name of the inclusion she oh so strongly supports.........suspended him.
She is a committed cultural Marxist and social justice warrior. I'm tempted to ask if anyone ever met her, or if she is a construct of OpenAI based on what they think a good leader should be.
Another quote from her exposed today: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."
I hope she enjoys what comes after this "white male westernized construct" goes away, as it soon will.
I don't think she was able to accomplish very much (by her lights) in her Wikipedia tenure; an encyclopedia is too solidly (white-male-Western) constructed to be seriously damaged by her airbursts. She's gone and it's still there. Sure, it's a creature of its times, but so were the classic Britannica editions.
I'm sure not everything she wanted. Still, there are a lot of pages now labeled "right wing conspiracy theories" that in the past were legitimate discussion
Safety in numbers...if sufficient numbers still exist in the services to execute "Irish Democracy".
If regular democracy isn’t doing so well, maybe it’s time to fall back on “Irish Democracy.”
QUOTE: That’s what Yale political scientist James Scott calls the passive resistance of a society that doesn’t like what its rulers are doing to it. In his book “Two Cheers for Anarchy,” he writes, “One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.” END QUOTE
Not sure enough is left of normal people to make this work iin DoD.
There aren't. There is a reason those running things try to increase distribution of every mind altering substance that comes by and guarantee access to visual and audible propaganda at all times
More than an "Irish Democracy", people need to have a plan:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Someone posted on X yesterday this Orwell quote from "1984":
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."
This sort of woman is guaranteed to the Party when she is wealthy, over-credentialed, and under-educated. Insufferable.
I hope she enjoys the absence of the "white male Westernized construct" and "living into the intentionality of what openness can be" when the free Western Civilization that allowed every aspect of her non-sensical being to develop is gone, as it soon will be.
Right you are, Orwell. She evidently needs to believe that the fall of Western Civilization will be vindication of these preposterous screeds. I have never spoken to this woman but her words are telling; have you ever spoken to someone who was truly radicalized? She is. Formally educated in the northeast by marxists, then her university days in Cairo, and internships in Syria. A wannabe jihadi running a transparent misinformation and psyops operation with our tax dollars known as NPR.
John Ringo had a commentary piece on his website many many years ago. It was titled Chivalry and the commentary was about the mass attack by male youths against a woman in Central Park. Unfortunately, I can not find it even using the Wayback Machine or I would post it here.
Salamander's column today directs us all to proper domestic policy: Believe in Equal Opportunity, but REJECT Equal Outcomes!
Equal outcomes pulls cultural and economic progress, NATIONAL DEFENSE - not to mention individual sense of worth - to its lowest common denominator. It subsidizes poor individual decisions about their future and penalizes those with potential.
Any other argument is self-serving bull poop. DEI = Didn't Earn It.
The lowest common denominator reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut short story I read in 7th grade called Harrison Bergeron. In the story, there is a constitutional amendment that says that everyone has to be equal in ability, and the result is people literally wearing ankle weights and headphones playing piercing screams into their ears so they can't think better than the LCD person. The story is incredibly chilling, and well worth the read. (it's only 6 pages.)
Oddly, enough, it was assigned by my wicked-smart openly Lesbian English teacher - a reminder that we (the people in opposition) need to make sure we don't stick others in arbitrary boxes based on random characteristic like the DEI machine does.
Almost calling for passive resistance? Well, maybe that's all that's left to us. As an aside, we here in Hampton Roads have two NPR radio stations. One carries the usual beltway propaganda, but the other is all classical music. I support the latter. but warn the minions that if they start slipping lefty crap into the programming I will cease doing so forthwith, and likewise encourage all that I know.
The problem, is often the people who raise the money for Classical are the same as those who raise the money for Beltway Propaganda. The only public media I’ve listened to is the jazz station run by a school district and Department of Transportation because of traffic reports.
To pull a quote from Gandhi's speech at Nadiad during his march to the sea for salt.
"I wish all Government servants to give up their jobs. What is Government service worth after all? A Government job gives you the power to tyrannize over others."
I am afraid that second sentence in the quote would induce many to seek government employment now. A modern day Sturmabteilung wouldn't even need to require a GED, physical or mental fitness, or a credible resume. Set up booths at job fairs and they'd have a 100K new employees pronto. 100,000 new jobs created...make a great SOTU talking point.
I used to listen to the local NPR stations for the classical music and the entertaining, amusing weekend talk shows. Used to be so soothing and peaceful while driving. Donated money, wore the T-shirts. Noticed the leftward creep. Tuned out, spent the donation money on cheeseburgers.
I gave up on Wisconsin Public Radio after they cancelled the three hours of Old Time Radio on Saturday and Sunday nights, because of it's racism. It was replaced with " more diverse " programming.
Maybe Amazon music, YouTube Music, Spotify or Pirate Bay? Wait, do any of the old farts around here remember something called a CD? I think those played music....
One wonders, firstly, at the concern over our military’s ability to win a war. We haven’t tried to do so since 1945, so it seems odd to think that recruitment, budgets, training (including ship driving or putting out fires) and weapons systems would be devoted to that.
Secondly, and as everyone here knows, seeing that “racism” is using race as a qualifier in any decision, the only “systemic racism” in America since the 1964 CRA is Affirmative Action & its bastard child, Didn’t Earn It.
The legal structures that enable progs to exist must be torn down. Then we must have the strength to allow the progs to destroy themselves. Mercy will be punished.
Perhaps President Trump can go to NPR HQ and proudly say Ich bin ein Berliner as should all good people who believe in the freedom of the press should say.
Unfortunately, the second Trump administration will be little more than the Trump Revenge tour, which he will of course fumble, because he can't have people not liking him.
Can you imagine what a second Biden term would be in terms of abusing power endless wars open borders and DEI?
So a little worse than a Trump one.
Does who the President is even matter anymore? Go along with the Deep State, reap the rewards; don't, get what Trump is getting.
A lot worse. I don’t remember the DOJ and FBI going after Trumps political opponents. I don’t remember an open border, inflation or wars under Trump.
You may be right about the Deep State but I don’t want to surrender our country just yet.
Because the FBI was aligned with Trump's political opponents. The bureaucracy hindered Trump's attempts to secure the border, Trump opened lethal aid to Ukraine, and let's not talk about his disastrous handling of the COVID hoax.
America deserves better candidates, or maybe not.
"COVID hoax" are you serious? You can disagree with how it was handled but it was certainly a real infectious disease. Whatever you say about how COVID deaths were counted there were over a million excess deaths. That should be enough to tell you that it was real.
The real policy question is whether saving a few million more old and feeble people was worth the tremendous cost to school age children, or why we shut down schools when there was evidence suggesting that they don't spread it and won't get sick. Calling the whole thing a hoax only convinces people you are a quack, and makes them feel like they have to defend every public health decision ever made from your (perceived) idiocy.
Yes we saw it in China 50 years ago
It would be Cuba.
I can only wish it is a revenge tour, but I fear you are right. Still, he might slow the decline for a bit longer
there is a difference. In a Biden Admin, the entire deep state will be free to remake America, increase control, and stamp out freedom.
In a Trump Admin the deep state will be in a battle of wills with its notional bosses and have no time to act downward
So a delaying action for 4 years?
Exactly. A delay!
"Revenge tour"? More like "cleansing" ala Musk & X.
I wish that were true, but without Congress, there's little he can do.
The cleaning will be limited as appointed positions are unable to fire/dismiss employed positions without cause, ergo the worker bee's, mid-tier and upper-tier managers who have been hired and inculcated because of their 'cultural alignment' will have to leave on their own or, violate some policy resulting in their dismissal.
Well, I for one like the sound of a "Trump Revenge tour," if for no other reason than it means Biden and his cabal are gone and the Overton Window gets a badly needed adjustment.
I like the sound of it too, Deep Staters prosecuted and convicted, State & DOD purged, 100 million deported, etc...
But, we didn't get the wall. So i'm not holding my breath.
With emphasis on “diversity” vice war fighting you loose the support of conservative Americans who provide the bulk of today’s fighting force.
https://news.usni.org/2024/04/17/navy-set-to-miss-recruiting-goals-by-6700-chief-of-naval-personnel-tells-house#:~:text=The%20projected%20miss%20in%20recruiting,recapping%20some%20of%20the%20gap.
Really, how many people on this forum, 30+ years ago, found themselves saying internally "F- 'em, let it burn" about our government and institutions? I'd wager the number is very small if not zero.
I'd also wager today it's 20% or higher that have the thought at least from time to time.
They destroyed the Republic, they treat the Constitution like toilet paper and punish those who appear to support it, and they expect people to continue to rally around the flag. It's not happening.
Between Cloward-Piven, Alinsky, Gramsci the goal has been "burn it to the ground" in order that from the ashes they can grow a socialist utopia...but do it right this time because they have a unique singular inerrant vision of what is best for people, Gaia and themselves and have steeled themselves not to be shy or overly cautious about the making of this omelet.
Agreed. That's one of the most frustrating things. Whenever we start to think "let it fall; it's irrevocably broken" we have to remember that was the goal of those that nurtured the useful idiots.
It's going to be a slog and there are no easy answers. I'll at least try to defer to truth and reason, while no longer being "reasonable" with those who hate individual freedom
Agree. I’ve moved into the “I just want to be left the fuck alone” camp.
There is a meme floating around about the men who wanted to be left alone ...
The Navy will lower standards to obtain more recruits. Who needs a good quartermaster on the bridge anyway now that paper charts and sextants have been removed.
I spent 42 years in the Coast Guard. This diversity tripe really took off with the Obama administration. We had to endure indoctrination as part of our general military training and like it. I was cancelled three times in a year, by the Commandant's office, an instructor at the Academy, and a now two-star admiral for contrary views expressed publicly. I am so glad we are finally ending this crapola and even happier I'm retired.
I agree Pat, but I don' think we are ending it. We've reached the point where the enemy feels string enough not to bother hiding it.
Thank you for your service over so many years and through such trying times. Sad day when you turned in your spurs/star/6-shooter...
Here is the statement by the new CEO over at NPR in regards to Uri Berliner’s post;
"We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories," she wrote. "We believe that inclusion — among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage — is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world."
Note that she never directly denies his allegations. And in the name of the inclusion she oh so strongly supports.........suspended him.
The jokes write themselves.
She is a committed cultural Marxist and social justice warrior. I'm tempted to ask if anyone ever met her, or if she is a construct of OpenAI based on what they think a good leader should be.
Another quote from her exposed today: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."
I hope she enjoys what comes after this "white male westernized construct" goes away, as it soon will.
Years ago that could have been seen as a parody......
"Grandfather, what did the ancients do to light the darkness before candles?"
"'Twas a magick they called 'Lectricity', my boy."
Sounds like a very unhappy woman who wants to share her pain with everyone else.
I don't think she was able to accomplish very much (by her lights) in her Wikipedia tenure; an encyclopedia is too solidly (white-male-Western) constructed to be seriously damaged by her airbursts. She's gone and it's still there. Sure, it's a creature of its times, but so were the classic Britannica editions.
I'm sure not everything she wanted. Still, there are a lot of pages now labeled "right wing conspiracy theories" that in the past were legitimate discussion
If she’s so inclusive why is she excluding URI?
Some animals are more inclusive than others.
Well said.
Just don't listen to NPR. . . .
"only care about the diversity their metrics track."
Because if these are achieved, everything will magically work. That's what their religion preaches.
Anyway, recently learned what DEI really stands for, Didn't Earn It.
Defund NPR and PBS. DEI = Didn't Earn It
Elmo is pushing 30, time he stop leaching of the taxpayers and get a job.
Bert and Ernie just got their AARP cards.
Divisity, Extortion and Intrusion.
Equity means Payback and you aren’t included.
"When we live in a world of deceit, speaking the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Concur
Safety in numbers...if sufficient numbers still exist in the services to execute "Irish Democracy".
If regular democracy isn’t doing so well, maybe it’s time to fall back on “Irish Democracy.”
QUOTE: That’s what Yale political scientist James Scott calls the passive resistance of a society that doesn’t like what its rulers are doing to it. In his book “Two Cheers for Anarchy,” he writes, “One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.” END QUOTE
Not sure enough is left of normal people to make this work iin DoD.
Which is why the Deep State is in constant vigilance against "White Nationalists"
There aren't. There is a reason those running things try to increase distribution of every mind altering substance that comes by and guarantee access to visual and audible propaganda at all times
More than an "Irish Democracy", people need to have a plan:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
All That LGBTQFRVP and DEI will fly out the window with a good war.
That’s why the Deep State only wants bad endless wars.
Or when the power goes out for a couple weeks plus
Calling DEI "Didn't Earn It" is a form of Irish Democracy, I would say...
Someone posted on X yesterday this Orwell quote from "1984":
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."
This sort of woman is guaranteed to the Party when she is wealthy, over-credentialed, and under-educated. Insufferable.
I hope she enjoys the absence of the "white male Westernized construct" and "living into the intentionality of what openness can be" when the free Western Civilization that allowed every aspect of her non-sensical being to develop is gone, as it soon will be.
Right you are, Orwell. She evidently needs to believe that the fall of Western Civilization will be vindication of these preposterous screeds. I have never spoken to this woman but her words are telling; have you ever spoken to someone who was truly radicalized? She is. Formally educated in the northeast by marxists, then her university days in Cairo, and internships in Syria. A wannabe jihadi running a transparent misinformation and psyops operation with our tax dollars known as NPR.
John Ringo had a commentary piece on his website many many years ago. It was titled Chivalry and the commentary was about the mass attack by male youths against a woman in Central Park. Unfortunately, I can not find it even using the Wayback Machine or I would post it here.
Thanks; I'll see if I can find it someplace when I get the chance
Hence, my fear of Taylor Swift. She tells her fans to vote for PedoJoe, say goodbye to the republic.
She comes up with a new album every time a boyfriend runs away from her.
Salamander's column today directs us all to proper domestic policy: Believe in Equal Opportunity, but REJECT Equal Outcomes!
Equal outcomes pulls cultural and economic progress, NATIONAL DEFENSE - not to mention individual sense of worth - to its lowest common denominator. It subsidizes poor individual decisions about their future and penalizes those with potential.
Any other argument is self-serving bull poop. DEI = Didn't Earn It.
The lowest common denominator reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut short story I read in 7th grade called Harrison Bergeron. In the story, there is a constitutional amendment that says that everyone has to be equal in ability, and the result is people literally wearing ankle weights and headphones playing piercing screams into their ears so they can't think better than the LCD person. The story is incredibly chilling, and well worth the read. (it's only 6 pages.)
Oddly, enough, it was assigned by my wicked-smart openly Lesbian English teacher - a reminder that we (the people in opposition) need to make sure we don't stick others in arbitrary boxes based on random characteristic like the DEI machine does.
Edited for grammar/spelling
Hadn’t thought of that story for decades! Its teaching stuck with me though.
I remember that story. At the time, I thought it really amusing, but that it of course couldn't ever happen. And here we are....
If Hillary had won, I expected Diana Moon Glompers to be appointed to her position. I am pretty sure she will get it in Biden II.
For those interested: https://involarium.org/story/harrison-bergeron/
One of my favorites
Almost calling for passive resistance? Well, maybe that's all that's left to us. As an aside, we here in Hampton Roads have two NPR radio stations. One carries the usual beltway propaganda, but the other is all classical music. I support the latter. but warn the minions that if they start slipping lefty crap into the programming I will cease doing so forthwith, and likewise encourage all that I know.
The problem, is often the people who raise the money for Classical are the same as those who raise the money for Beltway Propaganda. The only public media I’ve listened to is the jazz station run by a school district and Department of Transportation because of traffic reports.
They assure me that my designated money goes where I earmarked it to. But then...
I don't think that is ever ALL that is left, but our distracted, ignorant, and brainwashed populace is unlikely to do even that much
To pull a quote from Gandhi's speech at Nadiad during his march to the sea for salt.
"I wish all Government servants to give up their jobs. What is Government service worth after all? A Government job gives you the power to tyrannize over others."
I am afraid that second sentence in the quote would induce many to seek government employment now. A modern day Sturmabteilung wouldn't even need to require a GED, physical or mental fitness, or a credible resume. Set up booths at job fairs and they'd have a 100K new employees pronto. 100,000 new jobs created...make a great SOTU talking point.
I used to listen to the local NPR stations for the classical music and the entertaining, amusing weekend talk shows. Used to be so soothing and peaceful while driving. Donated money, wore the T-shirts. Noticed the leftward creep. Tuned out, spent the donation money on cheeseburgers.
I gave up on Wisconsin Public Radio after they cancelled the three hours of Old Time Radio on Saturday and Sunday nights, because of it's racism. It was replaced with " more diverse " programming.
skimming reply, thought you spent the money on cheerleaders ... Either way a win
Apple music will let you stream all the classic music you want.
Thanks. I do have an aversion to all things Apple.
Maybe Amazon music, YouTube Music, Spotify or Pirate Bay? Wait, do any of the old farts around here remember something called a CD? I think those played music....
/s
I try to get hard copy (or at least burn my own) of everything I like.
1. It won't change or be removed
2. Home-generated power will continue to allow me to listen to it
There is always country music.
Which I also like. I do have Sirius satellite when en extremis
I bet you walk the line.
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine!
One wonders, firstly, at the concern over our military’s ability to win a war. We haven’t tried to do so since 1945, so it seems odd to think that recruitment, budgets, training (including ship driving or putting out fires) and weapons systems would be devoted to that.
Secondly, and as everyone here knows, seeing that “racism” is using race as a qualifier in any decision, the only “systemic racism” in America since the 1964 CRA is Affirmative Action & its bastard child, Didn’t Earn It.
100 years of progressivism need to be reversed.
We could start with 16,17 Amendments and disbanding the federal security apparatus enabled by 18, but we won't.
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexanderscipio/p/will-our-future-be-free-or-progressive?r=ownpk&utm_medium=ios
The legal structures that enable progs to exist must be torn down. Then we must have the strength to allow the progs to destroy themselves. Mercy will be punished.
"Admiral Nelson, his vision obscured."