Screwed.

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Did they cheat? Or do the American people really want President Biden? I’d like to believe it was fraud, but practically, it doesn’t make any difference.
Our government will now take away everything from me. Every. Fucking. Thing. They’ll micro-regulate my use of my land and water. They’ll prohibit me from using my fireplace. They’ll make it impossible for me to keep my horses. They’ll continue or make it illegal for us to assemble for religious, political and even social purposes. And there’s no prospect of travel, of leaving it all behind for awhile. The globalist hegemony has made one big convalescent hospital out of the whole world.
If this is what the young’ uns want, well I suppose they’da gotten it pretty soon anyway. I was hoping for another four years, but that woulda been just a dam holding back the tide. Still: here fall you and I, my countrymen.
It’s time to look about, to see what fragments if any I can shore up against my ruin, to plan for a future which doesn’t include me.

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  1. “Our government will now take away everything from me. Every. Fucking. Thing.”

    I feel that fear. The market is already getting skittish. My husband and I have started to cash out in specific high risk stocks and are ignoring opportunities to expand and grow. Great news for the economy!

    I don’t care how radical this sounds, but I am beginning to hate my country or whatever the fuck is left of it.

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    2. I’m gonna go find a “Philip Nolan” button…Cry, the beloved country. Thank Heaven I’m in a little bit of the midwest in the northeast – as a work colleague said about my moving up here, years ago. Glad my sister’s a land-girl and my brother’s a ‘prepper’.

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  2. Looks now like we’ll probably lose the Senate too. Maybe that’s why the market is “skittish” it liked the prospect of gridlock. But given the way the GOP senators have behaved, maybe that doesn’t make much difference.

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    1. Have you read “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”? DeQuincey is really someone I feel.like I could call on my cellphone. His paean to winter is something I quote every year, sometimes I use it on my Christmas party invitations. But about opium: At first, he saw splendid, expansive visions, huge ivory pagodas and temples. But of course the reality is he was just dozing in a stupor on his couch. Or—I don’t know: is the life of the mind any less real?

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      1. I have not read his work. Most of my reading for the last 30-years was military/ national defense related.

        I am reading fiction for the first time in a long time right now thnx to our intrepid Miss Lizzie.

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      2. If you have a Kindle, order up the DeQuincey. It’s probably free, as a lot of classics are, and I’d be thrilled to introduce the two of you! It’s not fiction, it’s his journal.

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      3. Will do. I have about 70 pages to finish the first of two Paul Theroux’s books ET sent to me here in paradise. It has opened my eyes to ways I can make my autobiography better.

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  5. I don’t know: is the life of the mind any less real?

    These discussions are best held in a college dorm room with a bong-pipe and/or while consuming case after case of red wine.

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    1. “if we shadows have offended/Think but this, and all is mended—/That you have but slumbered here/While these visions did appear./And this weak and idle theme/ No more yielding but a dream”….

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    2. “These discussions are best held in a college dorm room with a bong-pipe and/or while consuming case after case of red wine.”

      They can also be had around the Shabbos table, yes? (If you’re a Platonist, we’re already in the dream, right?)

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      1. “They can also be had around the Shabbos table, yes?”

        Yes of course but why would you say this?

        They can also be had by, with and through the barstools.

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      2. Only saying this because I’m thinking of how a mutual friend would respond to such musings – in rather surprising ways….I’ve no objections to barstools; I just don’t have the balance to sit on one – even without the wine. 😀

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      4. A recent blog post (on his own blog) of his talked about “as many truths as there are human beings”….

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  6. Reminds me of a college buddy who used to smuggle cocaine from South America in his platform shoes to MO, USA in the roaring 1970s. His nickname was “Dandy Don.” He saw the light, moved to Australia and married local.

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  7. Back to your post for a sec …

    I think there had to be some fraud but FIRMLY believe it wasn’t a pro- Biden vote but an anti-Trump backlash.
    Also, Trump didn’t have the ‘surprise factor’ he had in 2016. Big Blue had 3.5 yrs to study the Don’s playbook.

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    1. Yes, I am sure there was some Trump backlash, but this election has been stolen. There wasn’t just some voter fraud, it was fraud on a massive scale, which is why they boarded up the windows and wouldn’t allow observers in. It isnt over, and we cannot give up.

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    2. “I think there had to be some fraud but…”

      Not just some Liz. This election theft was perpetrated on a once free people at the Biblical level.

      America is too self-centered and cowardly to live.

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      1. Time will tell. Please don’t shoot America before she dies a natural death. However bad it is here, it is better than anywhere else.

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      4. Simon, I apologize. I know, and anyone who reads here knows, that you love America more than anyone ever has or ever will. We all know that you would never shoot America. I find it very upsetting when you say that America is too stupid, too cowardly, too whatever to live, because I am afraid that it will become a self fulfilling prophecy. I know that you mean it as a warning. I am sorry.

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  8. Addition because my edit function disappeared:

    I think this has to be the most complex election in my lifetime. Fraud, backlash, MSM influence, but I still think this was a chess match that the arrogant, all-knowing Democrats finally learned to play.

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      2. No, the electorate did not reject President Trump, we elected him and leftists are in the process of stealing this election from him and more importantly, from us. Hypatia and Liz, what the two of you believe is exactly what leftists want you to believe. I love both of you so much, but I disagree with your perspectives here.

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      5. Gosh, Jac, I hope you’re right but perhaps I’ve been too influenced by family and close friends. It’s not hard to disparage the electorate when your own mother begrudged voting for the Donald. 😦

        This did truly upset me: My own family members called him “tacky.” My brother had previously bundled for Obama.

        Argghh…

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      9. Isn’t this what we have always done – call in the adults when things are broken then kick them out just to put our crazy and drunk uncle in charge whenever we feel safe again?

        Problem is as Churchill might have said himself, you can’t always do the right thing after trying all other options once the tyrants gain critical mass of state-power.

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      10. Morning helper said that Jesse Watters on “The Five” commented that DJT has done “eight years’ work in four years’ time”. I wonder what’s next: TTVN?

        Our vision as Americans doesn’t span the continent, or conquer space. It stops at the tip of most folks’ noses – or maybe their navels.

        Does the WH have a basement? Maybe Joe can stay there – and DJT can condo the rest of it for self and fam for 4 more years. Only consolation – Kamala will live at Blair House – oh, goody!

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    2. No ma’am. Any idiot could have seen this coming and done stopped it from happening, but the GOP is RINO in name only. They are in bed with the enemy!

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      1. I will continue to beat the dead horse, I guess and blame the electorate for lo-info voting and complete ignorance of what their representatives are doing. We have the freedom to elect whomever we want (including election officials who oversee ballot counting) but we blithely go along our merry way assuming all is well because we’re too busy to check up on the kids in D.C. or in our state capitols.

        As my late father used to say, “Politics are taken as seriously as a beauty pageant.”

        We need a greater emphasis upon civics courses in schools and universities. Democracy is a fragile thing and needs to be tended carefully. I don’t care how busy you are with family and careers; neither will prosper if you ignore the actions of government.

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      2. I am not sure about this. How do you explain the fact that the best educated people were the ones most likely to vote for Biden? And those with only a high school diploma, or not even that, were among Trump’s most ardent supporters?

        Well educated people know what the Constitution says, they just don’t care. That isn’t a problem that can be solved by education.

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      3. I think you’d be surprised at how ignorant the intellectual elite truly is of the intentions and inflections of the Constitution. For example, they know what the First Amendment states, but have no clue how it applies to everyday life.

        My point is that one of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is to start the indoctrination at a young age in the schools. This is where it all starts and must end by teaching the facts not socialist propaganda. Parents are the only ones who can change how their kids are influenced but they too, have been affected by Alinsky.

        Vicious cycle and I have no idea how to end it. I only recognize that it exists and it just figures I don’t have any kids so I can’t bully the PTA!

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      4. Are they really ignorant, though? Or have they just decided that the Constitution doesn’t matter because it was written by racist white men, and more importantly, it will prevent them from getting what they want? Many well educated people seem to feel that anyone who will not immediately give them what they want is racist and sexist. This isn’t ignorance: it’s insanity.

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      5. I am sorry, Liz, I don’t mean to beat a dead horse. I hear what you are saying about indoctrination, and of course you are totally right.

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    1. No, Nanda, No. The enemy is not us. I really object to the way you use the word “We”. There are way too many in GOP leadership and the supposedly conservative media who are traitors. I am not a traitor, and I will not spend the next thousand years staring at my navel because somebody else sold the country out to China. Please, God, Nanda, use correct grammar. Please stop blaming us for what they have done. It isn’t right. I love you Nanda, but we are not the enemy. We will never accomplish anything unless we know who the enemy is, and it isn’t us.

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      1. It’s a quotation from a 1940s comic, Judy, Quit taking everything so *personally*. And, yes, we did our best, but it wasn’t quite enough; we often unknowingly sabotage ourselves – over and over again. That’s true. I know legal battles will commence – and they should – but we didn’t close the sale as well as we could’ve. In a conversation with a work colleague who’s in the belly of the beast today; there’s an informal series of parades – and “dancing in the streets”. How’s it going for the country so far?

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      2. I am not taking anything personally, Nanda. I am asking you to use correct grammar, and I guess you are saying No. Ok, that’s cool 🙂

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      4. Winston Churchill had shortcomings too, but he wasn’t Hitler, and I don’t think he ever referred to himself and Hitler as “we”.

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      5. To the extent that yes, I am irritated, it is because so many seem so willing to give up so quickly. The media has no power to call an election. Everything that is going on is totally illegitimate, and yet even many conservatives are accepting it. I pray to God that patriots come forward in the next few days, and I think they will, but if they don’t, then Simon is right: America is too stupid to live.

        And for all those ready to give up, now? Don’t come crying to me about anything ever again. If you want to be free, you have to fight for it. If you aren’t willing to fight for freedom, then you don’t deserve it.

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  11. No one is “crying” – except for sorrow and anger over the preborn and vulnerable lives this supposed “Catholic” and his henchwoman will take…The admitted progress that may be undone, on the economy and foreign policy, as well as life issues…I hope those dancing in DC wake up with massive hangovers, actually, that last until all this wends its way through runoffs and court cases….

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    1. Nanda, if we don’t fight this, there will probably never be a fair election in America again. Do you get that? Which means, this election would not just be a temporary setback, it would be the end. Do you get that?

      You may not be crying, Nanda, but I am-and there is no way in hell in I am giving up. I have always been pro-life, everyone knows that, but this election is about whether America survives or not.

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      1. The fight is certainly worth having; it’s also useful to recall that here we have no lasting city. Dewey and Truman and Bush v. Gore are precedents, of course. 🙂

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  13. I lost the love of my life and now I lost my president. The USA will now take on an appearance of a third world country. One heart break after another. It is totally impossible that old Joe made it. And very soon Harris will take over because old Joe will resign. I wish it was easier to get Canadian citizenship. I was thinking of Polish citizenship, I have an in there, but I must be fluent in Polish, and will they be strong enough without American support to hold back the inevitable Russian attempts to bring them back into the fold? This is totally the F’n end of the USA. Be strong, resist. Do not give up your arms. The demoncrats are not the answer, they are the omega.
    I’m ranting and rambling. I guess you can see I am upset. Listen all, God Bless you all and take care of your self. Hide your weapons, Stock up on ammunition, this may not get very pretty.

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  14. “Are they really ignorant, though? Or have they just decided that the Constitution doesn’t matter because it was written by racist white men, and more importantly, it will prevent them from getting what they want?”

    Jac, I have no idea where this comment will nestle, but I’ll make it anyway.

    I think you just aptly described ignorance. 🙂

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    1. Thank you, Liz 🙂 I don’t have kids either, but this is what I have experienced and observed: my father, who never graduated from high school, never attempted to shield us from people who disagreed with him-and in Massachusetts, there were a lot of them. But he taught us that people can be and usually are very good and very bad at the same time, very right about some things and very wrong about some things at the same time. He was very confident in his own ideas, and he welcomed those who disagreed with him-he welcomed free and open debate. He educated us. He didn’t indoctrinate us, or try to brainwash us. He educated us.

      I see a lot of parents, especially leftists, basically demanding blind obedience from their children. They don’t want their kids exposed to ideas that they disagree with, and it’s getting worse: there are grandparents who are being told that if they don’t take the Trump sign down, they won’t be allowed to see their grandchildren! That is where this ignorance and insanity is coming from: these are the parents who basically run the schools. I wish that homeschooling was totally the answer, and in some cases it is, but in other cases, it would just make the indoctrination worse!

      I have always been in awe of my father, because he was always open to being questioned. He made us behave, but he never demanded that we just blindly agree with him. Parents who demand blind agreement from their children are doing something terrible to their children. Of course, it goes the other way too: there are children who demand blind agreement from their parents, and parents who give it.

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  15. To the same effect as this is about, I just possibly banned myself from another online area by telling a British subject to shut the f#ck up about congratulations. The proverbial excrement has hit the impeller. There will be riots, those that exclaim that Biden is the winner, those that backed Trump will be silent. The truth is in what will happen. Pray, whether or not you have prayed before, get on your knees and pray for your selves and your children will survive and pray that the USA will not become a third world country…..

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  16. As an aside, this has been one of the most energizing Unleashed threads I’ve participated in thanks to the fact that Jac refused to back down. As ST said, “You go girl.”

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