“I Am Richard II”

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“No matter where. Of comfort no man speak;/Let’s talk of graves, and worms and epitaphs;/Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes/Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth./Let’s choose executors and talk of wills:/And yet not so, for what can we bequeath/Save our deposéd bodies to the ground?/ …And nothing can we call our own but death,/ And that small model of the barren earth/Which serves as paste and cover to our bones./ For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground/And tell sad stories of the death of kings..”

__Richard II, Act 3, scene 2

Queen Elizabeth I reportedly spoke the line in the title of this post. Of course, she was a succcessful, beloved monarch who died in bed after a long reign. So what did she mean? Perhaps she felt vulnerable because she had no heirs. She died with plenty to bequeath, and had to bestow it upon the son of the cousin she had beheaded.

In this speech, Richard knows he has lost everything. Nothing awaits except graves, dust, deliquescence. A king, to “sit upon the ground” and face the mortal fact that soon, it will cover him!
He doesn’t want comfort, he won’t have it. It could only be a veil of illusion , which must be rent in its turn, exposing -again- the face of despair…no thank you, once is enough and once is for all. King Richard can still countermand that eventuality, thought it be all that remains of his monarchical power.

And there “upon the ground”, my dear interlocutors, is where I sit this morning, in the aftermath of the Dems’ complete conquest of the executive and the legislative.

I am Richard II.

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  1. Fortunately, conquest of the legislative arm does not correspond with or indicate conquest of the country or its citizens, without whose approval nothing of lasting import is accomplished by government.

    The executive ain’t over yet; don’t misunderestimate Trump. At worst, and certainly possible, he loses his rightfully won 2nd term, but even in that case he has fully exposed the Left in their criminality and base motivations. At best, we enjoy the looks of disbelief and despondency of the Left as he is inaugurated again. In any case, it is revealed that our current state of mischief is not a political issue but rather a justice issue; ours is not a political battle but rather an attempt to thwart a criminal enterprise. The Silent Majority morthed into the Tea Party which in turn morphed into the populist MAGA movement. The first hadn’t ID’d the enemy so their energy dissipated, the second was killed by the uni-party but at least started figuring out who their real enemy was, and the third is now a majority in the democratic sense and knows damned good and well who the enemy is, which by the grace of God, becomes Trump’s singular achievement. Hope he gets to serve his second term, and if he doesn’t, the Left can go straight to hell because we are done being patsies. The “new rules” are in effect.

    Our dilemna is not about people, as were most issues faced by Richard II and his ilk. Ours is the conservation and saving of our great experiment, a just task. A good summary by Bill Whittle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JS4Qr0Gjhg. Dear Hypatia, may be more stuck within the mindset of his video shown just previously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZFGoAxNiXM&t=611s.

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    1. TW, Unleashed is not down with a bunch of links to other articles; even more so if there is no what for or why in one’s comment. We want to know what you think. Please understand.

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  3. “At worst, and certainly possible, he loses his rightfully won 2nd term, but even in that case he has fully exposed the Left in their criminality and base motivations.”

    Now for the pessimist’s point de vue: The Don may have exposed many things but nobody on the left and even many on the right don’t care ONE IOTA. Biden is a CYA win and they’re sighing with relief because he will do as he’s told.

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    1. Ya, ya ya. The citizenry has the real power, though. So, we’ll see…we deplorables are highly pissed off and have moved completely beyond the Left’s happy days with the Silent Majority and the Tea Party.

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      1. “…we deplorables are highly pissed off and have moved completely beyond the Left’s happy days with the Silent Majority and the Tea Party.”

        I wish I could share your optimism. To be frank, I do not see much backbone in the ‘country class.’ The Left is dismantling the Proud Boys and y’all do nothing.

        People sleep peacefully in their beds at night due to whom?

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    1. DO WHAT’S RIGHT! Exactly. I’m glad they’re there. This could nit go on, with everybody knowing the.vote was fraudulent.. I mean CTFO, 205k more votes than voters? And that’s just PA.

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      3. I think my one rule is to please let us know why you think we should be looking at something if they are not your own words. Is that a bridge too far?

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    4. I would argue that we have no way of knowing whether or not some of those ‘storming the grounds of the Capitol Building and tearing down fencing’ were not leftist posing as Trump supporters. antifa has had four years to fine tune their destructive tactics. Might they have not learned a few things along the way?

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      1. I’m sure they were Antifa , but we’ll never be allowed to prove it. It will be called a “baseless” assertion. Even if we had confessions signed by those individuals.

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      2. Because only Trump supporters go full ape-shit. Oh wait, didn’t some Prog shoot and disable a Republican congressman while he was at softball practice in DC?

        Speaking of which, didn’t another lefty recently shoot an AZ Representative leading to her astronaut husband being martyred into her seat?

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  5. Ya, ya ya right back at ya. I have long been a deplorable but you don’t realize that we are out-numbered. Americans like Big Govt and a significant majority have no desire whatsoever to exercise their rights to change policy.

    As a nation, we’re lazy and self-absorbed. Don’t think you or I represent any significant numbers and as the Millennial generation comes of age and influence, we’re at a significant disadvantage.

    Donald Trump won in 2016 because of Hillary. He won MI, WI, and PA mainly because the black vote (especially Wayne County in Detroit) stayed home. They didn’t this year because they voted for BHO’s VP and Kamala Harris.

    Don’t you get it? Minorities rule and more importantly they have a heavy influence upon the “woke” majority.

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    1. In 2016, the Left wasn’t ready to cheat on the scale necessary to assure Hildabeast’s ascension. They believed their own bullshit, cheated some anyway as they always do, but were surprised and consequently angry over Trump’s win. How can minorities rule? When a true vote occurs, we’ll see how the country is truly divided. Careful about invoking “wokeness” as that snake has begun it’s circular diet.

      Fun times in DC today! The capitol police are overwhelmed by MAGA. The national zeitgeist is changing as we confer here.

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  7. “How can minorities rule?”

    As I mentioned previously, they invoke a heavy PC influence on the majority of liberals who didn’t used to be liberal but want to be fashionable and that is the most powerful authority of all.

    I should know because I’ve lost countless friends because I didn’t tow the “hipster” line. And on a more humorous note, I am hip so this irritates more than you know!

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  8. Per Don Surber:

    In fact, I hope all the Republican office holders have soft landing places because now that they have turned over voting to Democrats with the mail-in scam, there won’t be very many Republican officeholders left.

    This was not the outcome we wanted, but it is the outcome we have.

    The Republican Establishment opposed a president 94% of Republican voters supported.

    Companies that go against the wishes of 94% of their customers go out of business.

    And so it is with the Republican Establishment.

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  9. America is a country of over 325 million people. It is always a mistake to assume that we can gauge what is going on with most Americans based on our own personal experiences with the people we know-the people we know are often weird, lol 🙂 There really isn’t any way to justify either optimism or pessimism on the basis of anecdotal experiences we have with people we know. I am optimistic because I believe in God, and I believe in America. My optimism is based on faith. With some exceptions, my experiences with those whom I know personally have also been very different from what Liz describes.

    One thing that isn’t based on faith, that is a fact: this election was stolen. Biden didn’t win, the election was stolen. The voters did not let us down: voters elected President Trump in record numbers. The ruling class has turned on us. It is very important to correctly identify the enemy.

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  10. Every syllable is accurate and consonant with my experience. My confidence and sometimes too-sunny optimism isn’t based on mankind.

    I’ve started capitalizing “Left” thusly since its members are legion and diverse, yet predictably so. Their binding and blinding ideology is godless, collectivist, arrogant, ineffective, and misguided enough to invite Nemesis, for sure. History teaches us.

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  11. And now, the powers that be are all upset because the Capitol is being stormed. They say that it’s despicable. Funny, they seemed to be totally ok with it when small businesses were being destroyed and other people’s neighborhoods were being burned down. They are the ones who are despicable.

    I am not condoning violence, and I would bet anything that those storming the Capitol right now are not our people anyway: they are almost definitely Antifa, wearing Maga hats. Be that as it may, our ruling class has shown its true colors once again. They are totally cool with middle America burning to the ground, as long as they think it doesn’t affect them, but the minute they are effected, watch out. The ruling class is scum.

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  12. “One thing that isn’t based on faith, that is a fact: this election was stolen. Biden didn’t win, the election was stolen. The voters did not let us down: voters elected President Trump in record numbers. The ruling class has turned on us. It is very important to correctly identify the enemy.”

    This is the truth but the “ruling class” still attracts all the MSM attention and were able to influence and manipulate the vote. What does that say about the power wielded by the rest of us?

    Are we stupid/naive/ignorant? I’m angrier at MAGA for failing to do their job. No pass, dudes.

    I am MAGA and don’t think I am guilt-free for failing to deliver.

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  13. “Are we stupid/naive/ignorant?”

    Yes. Or at least, we were, past tense, until recently. I am speaking here for and about myself, but I used to think that the people at National Review, for instance, were on our side and looking out for the best interests of America. Was I being naive, or is National Review evil? Both, I would say. Most Americans are incredibly decent people, and they just cannot conceive of the evil that so many in our ruling class are perpetrating. My father was always so smart and so conservative; he died over a year ago, but if he had heard me talking this way about the ruling class, he would have sat me down and had a serious talk with me about paranoia. I am hard pressed to think of anything my Dad was ever wrong about, except for this: he was far too charitable with the ruling class, and he gave them far too much credit, but then, so did almost everybody.

    Most Americans are decent people. They assume that those who rule us are basically decent too. They are wrong about that. Yes, they-we-whoever, are stupid, naive and ignorant, but less so all of the time. Stupid, naive and ignorant can be cured a lot more easily than the outright evil that exists in the ruling class.

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  14. “Stupid, naive and ignorant can be cured a lot more easily than the outright evil that exists in the ruling class.”

    Totally agree but the Alinskyites have succeeded in brainwashing our youth by controlling academia for decades and it is now all coming to fruition.

    I admit I’m not strategic enough to fight this (the Don certainly was) but he lost and I am choosing to back off and focus upon protecting myself and my hard-earned assets.

    I’m just tired of and disappointed in this country.

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  15. “Totally agree but the Alinskyites have succeeded in brainwashing our youth by controlling academia for decades and it is now all coming to fruition.”

    We allowed them to brainwash our youth in a million different ways. I totally agree with Simon: everybody with half a brain cell should pull their children out of school and homeschool instead, but in most cases, that would require one parent to stay home. It would require most couples to give up a second income. It would also require many or most to live in more modest neighborhoods.

    I have said it before 🙂 I blame feminism. Any movement which wants us to turn our children over to other people to be raised is, at best, highly suspect. Many would call me paranoid for saying that, but the results speak for themselves. What is happening now is exactly the outcome that leftists wanted.

    Homeschooling and guns. Mostly guns, but homeschooling is a close second: those are the two most important things.

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    1. Some will say that private schools are the answer: as someone who attended a private school, I disagree. No one will ever care about your children more than you do. No one is more qualified to educate your children than you are.

      I am seriously beginning to wonder if freedom is possible long term without stay home mothers.

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    2. I am Life Member of the NRA. I was at the next to highest level last time I checked within the multiple Life Member categories.

      I am recommending everyone join the NRA regardless of one’s stance on firearms, explosives, artillery, and the LAV 25’s chain gun with both explosive and piercing rounds. The gunner had a switch to select which type of round he was going to send downrange. Awesomeness!

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      1. I joined the NRA immediately when you first suggested it, and am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my membership card 🙂

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  16. “I totally agree with Simon: everybody with half a brain cell should pull their children out of school and homeschool instead, but in most cases, that would require one parent to stay home.”

    My bad because I think the parents are the real problem!

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  17. “My bad because I think the parents are the real problem!”

    I agree. Conservative parents who send their kids off to be educated by leftists and then are surprised when the kids become leftists are the real problem 🙂

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  19. The FBI can track down and arrest* Proud Boys for some made-up misdemeanor but cannot find anyone in antifa who has even jaywalked. Things that make you go hmm.

    *Not that the FBI has done that, as far as I know.

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    1. Word is that the powers that be on Capitol Hill allowed what happened today to happen, because they knew it was Antifa, and they knew it would reflect badly on Trump. I can’t prove that, but I can’t find another explanation for why it was so incredibly easy for the Capitol to be stormed. They let it happen.

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  20. “King Richard can still countermand that eventuality, thought it be all that remains of his monarchical power.”

    You lost me here. Could you help a brother out, please?

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    1. I meant, all he could still control, all he had absolute power over, was whether or not to entertain any hope, to be comforted about his situation. The line right before this speech is by one of his retinue who expects help. He says,”Where is the duke my father with his power?” “No matter where” says Richard, meaning, no one can help us now. Richard can at least avoid setting himself up for more disappointment.

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      1. It has been a long time since I read Shakespeare, could you elaborate a little bit on this? Did the man just lay down and die in order to avoid being disappointed? Because if he did, that is the most stupid thing I have ever heard in my life, but I am hoping that isn’t what happened. 🙂

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      2. A friend said to me just the other day about a lady friend who had to be admitted into a local hospital, “She died easy.”

        I think people can give up the will to live.

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      3. That is true, and it isn’t always a bad thing: I hope that when my time comes, that I can be gracious about it, assuming that I am given prior warning-I don’t believe in death, though. I believe that we have eternal souls, and there really isn’t a way to stop living. Now you have me thinking about all kinds of off topic things 🙂

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  22. I can’t believe this: they’re making a much bigger deal over this mere property damage than they made over the attempted assassination of the entire GOP leadership!! Anybody remember that?

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      1. People are stupid. They think that because things have been good for as long as they have been alive, that things will always be good: how stupid do you have to be to think that Donald Trump is the worst threat America faces? Sooner or later, if things get bad enough, they will wake up. I just hope they wake up before it’s too late.

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      3. We have to live. We are not just some podunk king who can give up: we are the only hope of mankind. We have to somehow live, even as dumb as we are.

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  23. My mother was watching Catholic tv the other day, and I overheard people on one of their shows talking about how the early Christians were underground and being persecuted for longer than America has existed. They eventually prevailed, but it wasn’t easy and it took a very long time.

    We cannot control all circumstances, and we cannot control other people. But we can’t ever give up, either. Even if we are driven underground and persecuted, we can never give up on America, we can never stop teaching our children what it means to be American.

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    1. This is why it drives me insane when far too many conservatives throw their hands up and say “Well, we had a good run.” I don’t understand how they can give up so easily, especially when doing so means throwing future generations to the wolves. All I can think, is that these conservatives have no idea how bad things can get and will get if we give up.

      My father went through total hell in Peleliu. I will be damned if I will give up: I will never give up. I don’t know what to do at this moment in time, but I will never give up. To do so is an insult to the men who suffered and in some cases died so that we could be free.

      Much is expected from those to whom much has been given. Being an American is an incredible privilege. It is also a crushing responsibility. We owe it to both those who came before us and to those who come after us to prevail or to die trying. That is what it costs to be an American.

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