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No Matter Who Wins On Tuesday, There Will Be No ‘Return To Normalcy’
October 30, 2020
John Daniel Davidson
Excerpt:
Packing the U.S. Supreme Court is not normal. Creating new states as a way to pack the Senate is not normal. Abolishing the Electoral College is not normal. Establishing a South African-style “Truth and Reconciliation Commission†is not normal. Codifying Roe v. Wade into law and forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions is not normal. A ban on fracking—or, as Biden likes to put it, “transitioning out of fossil fuelsâ€â€”is not normal. Passing any version of the Green New Deal is not normal. Raising the top income tax rate to a level not seen since the Carter administration is not normal.
These things are radical, and Democrats broadly support all of them. Biden has been disingenuously cagey about some of his plans, like whether he would try to pack the Supreme Court, but often he has been candid about going along with the leftward lurch of his party, like his abrupt about-face on taxpayer funding for abortions.
Part of Biden’s schtick has been to style himself a pragmatist and a moderate—a working-class Catholic kid from Scranton, Obama’s steady right-hand man, no malarkey! His defensiveness about the riots this summer is a case in point. In a speech back in August, after months of widespread rioting with hardly a peep from Democratic leaders, Biden said, “Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?â€
It was a weak attempt to hide the plain truth: Biden and Democrats were hesitant to criticize anything about the protests or the Black Lives Matter movement because that is their party’s base now. Any law-and-order posturing on Biden’s part was a feeble attempt to hide a radical agenda espoused by BLM and left-wing Democrats, far to the left of Biden’s old boss and alien to whatever moderate pragmatism Biden once espoused. You Can’t Repeat the Past
More at URL above...
Poster's note:
You may read the following phrase elsewhere in the days to come.
But I was the first one to use it, some months ago:
"After Trump... the deluge."
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Why do they keep saying that? I disagree. Most people have a routine. ARE THEY ALL GOING TO CHANGE THAT? NO.
We will get back to 'normal'. With a TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
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No Matter Who Wins On Tuesday, There Will Be No ‘Return To Normalcy’
October 30, 2020
John Daniel Davidson Excerpt:
Packing the U.S. Supreme Court is not normal. Creating new states as a way to pack the Senate is not normal. Abolishing the Electoral College is not normal. Establishing a South African-style “Truth and Reconciliation Commission†is not normal. Codifying Roe v. Wade into law and forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions is not normal. A ban on fracking—or, as Biden likes to put it, “transitioning out of fossil fuelsâ€â€”is not normal. Passing any version of the Green New Deal is not normal. Raising the top income tax rate to a level not seen since the Carter administration is not normal.
These things are radical, and Democrats broadly support all of them. Biden has been disingenuously cagey about some of his plans, like whether he would try to pack the Supreme Court, but often he has been candid about going along with the leftward lurch of his party, like his abrupt about-face on taxpayer funding for abortions.
Part of Biden’s schtick has been to style himself a pragmatist and a moderate—a working-class Catholic kid from Scranton, Obama’s steady right-hand man, no malarkey! His defensiveness about the riots this summer is a case in point. In a speech back in August, after months of widespread rioting with hardly a peep from Democratic leaders, Biden said, “Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?â€
It was a weak attempt to hide the plain truth: Biden and Democrats were hesitant to criticize anything about the protests or the Black Lives Matter movement because that is their party’s base now. Any law-and-order posturing on Biden’s part was a feeble attempt to hide a radical agenda espoused by BLM and left-wing Democrats, far to the left of Biden’s old boss and alien to whatever moderate pragmatism Biden once espoused. You Can’t Repeat the Past
You may read the following phrase elsewhere in the days to come.
But I was the first one to use it, some months ago:
"AFTER TRUMP, THE DELUGE.'
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A demurral, as you most certainly were NOT the first to coin this phrase.
Following a disastrous Defeat at Rossbach in 1757, Louis XV of France,
one of its last Bourbon Monarch's, uttered the phrase:
"After me, the deluge."
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Behold a Pale Blue Horse…
They who ride on it are socialists—and America as we know it is in jeopardy.
ByBrent Hamachek
on November 3, 2020The hour is not just late; it is upon us.
By the end of Tuesday, November 3, 2020, we are supposed to know who the next President of the United States will be. By January 20, 2021, we will know who that next President will be. And while much has been written about the possibilities of what might happen between those two dates, it is worthwhile to take a moment to be specific as to what will happen, should it be Biden/Harris (or, if you prefer, Harris/Biden) who take the oath of office in January.
In such unsettling times as these, it is a temptation that calls us to want to accept any promise of a better place. The outstretched hand of Biden/Harris might seem appealing to the uninformed and frightened—please do not be fooled. Their outstretched hands are the cold hands of death, death to our Republic, and death to the vision of our founding fathers.
I will go on record here with 20 fairly specific predictions as to what will happen during the next four years should the American electorate choose to embrace the most openly collectivist ticket in American political history. ...
1. Institute a national Chinese coronavirus lockdown using whatever power the federal government can muster—either legitimately or through fiat. They will openly encourage states to exercise any and all powers, without fear of Justice Department intervention. This will help large companies (the accomplice of big governments) consolidate power, and make citizens more generally dependent upon government relief.
2. Initiate the process to make Puerto Rico and Washington D. C. States, with full Senate representation, in the hopes that these will become permanent blue states.
3. Attempt to eliminate the electoral college. ...
Read the rest - all 20 predictions - at Human Events (https://humanevents.com/2020/11/03/behold-a-pale-blue-horse/).
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Back to normal? What the hell is that exactly?
In Georgia, our lives are somewhat normal. We dine out as often as we did before the virus. We live our lives as we did before with one exception. My wife is working from home, and spending most of her time on COVID. Prior to COVID, she spent her time on three bacteria that if you get it, you die. All her efforts for those bacteria are still underway, so there is no collapse of the programs she created to deal with these bacteria.
We are living our life exactly as before.
Now that I think of it, there is one exception. Cruise lines are shut down. We took our first cruise in February, and liked it so much, we decided to take two cruises each year, but alas, they are shut down. So there is that change.
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Now that I think of it, there is one exception. Cruise lines are shut down. We took our first cruise in February, and liked it so much, we decided to take two cruises each year, but alas, they are shut down. So there is that change.
Cruise liners are being decommisioned and scraped by the dozens because of COVID.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2F1s%2F2020%2F10%2F02%2F16%2F33908556-8798957-image-a-37_1601652551020.jpg)
Cruise liner graveyard
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We are living our life exactly as before.
Now that I think of it, there is one exception. Cruise lines are shut down. We took our first cruise in February, and liked it so much, we decided to take two cruises each year, but alas, they are shut down. So there is that change.
Now that we're back to attending church in person, we're almost to normal (still no choir practice for me, but we should resume soon). We had great plans of a driving tour to several Civil War battlefields this year, but the visitor centers are all shut down. Whenever they're reopened, we'll do that.
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Why do they keep saying that? I disagree. Most people have a routine. ARE THEY ALL GOING TO CHANGE THAT? NO.
We will get back to 'normal'. With a TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
Yeah, well, he can do that now, but he won't. He could do all the things he promises, but he hasn't.
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Yeah, well, he can do that now, but he won't. He could do all the things he promises, but he hasn't.
Well @jmyrlefuller you can continue to beat that drum, but like him or not (and I have issues with him as well) he's between us and socialism.
He has done some good for this country and he needs to be given some credit - I gave him credit by voting for him.
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Yeah, well, he can do that now, but he won't. He could do all the things he promises, but he hasn't.
What are you talking about? Did you mix me up with someone else? This does not make any sense to me. See, my list of accomplishments below. POTUS has done more than promised. HE NOW HAS 18 NOBLE PEACE PRIZE NOMINATIONS.
Do think we have a dictator ? We are a republic. It takes congress to work with POTUS. What are you upset about?
POTUS is also, not an attorney.
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Cruise liners are being decommisioned and scraped by the dozens because of COVID.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2F1s%2F2020%2F10%2F02%2F16%2F33908556-8798957-image-a-37_1601652551020.jpg)
Cruise liner graveyard
Just as well. Those have been death boats anyway. Legionaries disease. Mold and all kind of yuk.
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Back to normal? What the hell is that exactly?
In Georgia, our lives are somewhat normal. We dine out as often as we did before the virus. We live our lives as we did before with one exception. My wife is working from home, and spending most of her time on COVID. Prior to COVID, she spent her time on three bacteria that if you get it, you die. All her efforts for those bacteria are still underway, so there is no collapse of the programs she created to deal with these bacteria.
We are living our life exactly as before.
Now that I think of it, there is one exception. Cruise lines are shut down. We took our first cruise in February, and liked it so much, we decided to take two cruises each year, but alas, they are shut down. So there is that change.
:thumbsup: