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-Great Cultural Revolution
No One Knew Where it Would Lead
[American Thinker] As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Over the past century, we’ve embarked on a number of noble initiatives to improve the world in which we live. But in the true spirit of "never let a crisis (or opportunity) go to waste," leftists have managed to subvert all these pursuits. Posing as benevolent government "servants" they have graciously offered to guide us through the complex social and scientific issues associated with each objective. We naively let them. We’re just now beginning to see that the course they’ve charted does not lead to the destination we were promised. It leads to a loss of self-governance -- also known as tyranny.

In the 1940s our government decided to get into the disease control business by stamping out malaria. That seemed innocent enough. The CDC was created to accomplish it. The NIH already existed but, apparently, one bureaucracy was not enough. But it turns out, eliminating malaria (at least in America) wasn’t enough. The NIH and the CDC have since expanded their missions (research for the former and disease prevention for the latter) to become two of the greatest threats to civil liberties in existence. They are calling for the suspension of our rights in the name of defeating a virus -- which the NIH admits to having helped create in funding gain of function research. Per their guidance, our rights to movement and assembly have been restricted. Our property rights have been put on hold (e.g., the eviction moratorium). It’s all being done in the name of the "public good." There is a term for letting the benefits of the many outweigh the rights of the individual -- mob rule. That’s a long way from the original mission to stamp out malaria.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 02:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When corporations/ big pharma conspire to bribe government officials and commit treason.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/30/2021 5:17 Comments || Top||


School takes elementary kids to gay bar
Even more offensive is the Twix video attached to the article.
[DonSurber] Satire about California became reality in Florida this week.

Todd Starnes reported, "Teachers at Wilton Manor Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale took their students to a gay bar and grill.

"Photographs show the boys and girls inside Rosie’s Bar and Grill – decked out in rainbow colors. The bar advertises itself as a place for LGBT diners and their allies.

"Among the items on the menu – naked sweaty lovin’ hot wings and the Ivana Hooker hamburger.

"Broward County School Board member Sarah Leonardi was invited to chaperone and she posted photos on Twitter."
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Enough. Take back our country from these disgusting freaks
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  They need to realize that not everyone gives a damn about the letter people. And are not going too.
Posted by: Chris || 10/30/2021 6:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The deadly word games that brought us 'Gain of Function'
BLUF:
[American Thinker] This is where Fauci's word magic comes in because in biology, the jargon term "Gain of Function" refers not to human health, but to the health of the bugs that can kill you.

So you thought the NIH was about YOUR health?

Well, most of the NIH is in fact dedicated to human health. But not in virology or bacteriology or parasitology, where scientific jargon is flipped on its head. This is molecular biology, where it makes a kind of sense to look at bugs from their own point of view. If the COVID virus learns to infect humans more lethally, it's a Gain of Function for the bug. Your illness and death, your Loss of Function, is their gain — if you get what I mean.

So if the United States pays for the Wuhan lab via a cutout corporation called EcoHealth, and you naturally assume it's all for a good purpose.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 02:47 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Wet market' advocates and Bio-Weapon research deniers, surely there must still be one or two ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't paying, funding an enemy's bio weapons program treason?

Well yes Virginia, it is. But no, if Gates and Bidens can't cash in.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/30/2021 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  More word games: gene therapy = "vaccine"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4 
As
Gay replaced Homosexual.
Gain of Function has replaced Germ Warfare.

But why?

Is it like a handful of Power Elitists are have hinted? That there are too many people and we have diminishing food and natural resources? Was the approaching 8 Billion population number the magic watermark for some type of artificially induced population trimmer, like the Covid-19?

Because with just 5,007,010 C-19 "claimed" deaths in 2 years they'll need another go at it.



BTW: Interesting how Hollywood's 1973 Soylent Green movie plot mimics some many current events.

"By the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing.... The homes of the elite are fortresses, with private security, bodyguards for their tenants...As a result of the weekly supply chain and distribution bottlenecks, the hungry masses regularly riot when supply runs out... "
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/30/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#5  NN2N1 - is that an actual quote from 'Soylent Green.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/30/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||

#6 
Where I come from "Gain of function" is a pseudonym for "Weaponization".
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/30/2021 22:52 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Excavations reveal fate of victims of Nazi forces from the Pskov concentration camp Moglino
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Employees of the Nazi concentration camp in Moglino, Pskov region, unlike their "colleagues" from Tin Gorka, Novgorod region, were partially punished for their crimes.

RIA Novosti was told about this by a leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Boris Kovalev, commenting on the new excavations in Moglino. The remains of another 188 people were found there, including several dozen children. In total, according to historians, in 1941-1944, Nazi punishers killed about 3 thousand people there.

"The results of the investigation of the war crimes of Moglino may become as resonant as the new data on the tragedy in Tin Gorka. But if the executioners of Tin Gorka escaped punishment for the most part, then according to the events in Moglino some of the criminals were brought to justice in 60-70 years," noted the scientist.

The camp was organized by the Nazis shortly after the occupation of Pskov in 1941. Initially, Soviet prisoners of war were kept in the Moghlin "factory of death", who, at the sight of German machine guns, repaired the Riga-Pskov road. According to the recollections of local residents, out of 280 soldiers, no more than 30 survived in a few months.

Since March 1942, civilians, including children, had also been brought here. The place became known as a transit camp for the unreliable and was under the direct control of the Pskov external department of the Estonian security police and the German SD.

As follows from the documents of the regional FSB, which RIA Novosti got acquainted with, Estonians worked in the protection of the concentration camp. According to the plans of the Nazi command, it was planned to transfer part of the region after the Second World War to Estonia.

In the course of recent excavations, they found, possibly, the place of the murder of dozens of orphans, in which a high-ranking SS official participated, Yuri Alekseev, director of the Trustworthy History Foundation, told RIA Novosti.

Meanwhile, last Tuesday, the Soletsky court of the Novgorod region, for the first time in the history of Russian legal proceedings, recognized the massacres of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War as genocide, in fact, the massacres in Tin Gorka . According to the court, they were part of Germany's plan to free the territories from civilians and their subsequent colonization.

Estonian punisher about the shootings in Pskov: "I didn't count how many I killed"

[RIA Novosti] They took the prisoners, took them to the pit, shot them, no one counted the corpses, then they drank vodka.

This is how the former Estonian punisher who served in the Great Patriotic War in Pskov and the region described his crimes so casually.

These and other facts from the life of the occupied territory can be learned from the archival materials declassified by the FSB Directorate for the Pskov Region, which were reviewed by RIA Novosti.

We are talking about the protocol of the interrogation of the Estonian Arnold Weedler, who served as a guard at the headquarters of the German SD security service, and then in the Moglino concentration camp, as well as a copy of the protocol of the inspection of the places of executions and the burning of the corpses of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war near the village of Androkhnovo.

Shooting "debut"
As Weedler said during interrogation, the first time he participated in the execution of prisoners in the fall of 1942, when he served in Pskov, occupied by the Nazis, in the protection of the SD headquarters.

"We took about fifteen prisoners from the basements, where the police department was located, put them in a car and went to the prison. There they also took 30 to 35 people. Tthey were also put in the car. There were two cars in total. The prisoners were all men, all civilians,." Weedler recalled.

According to him, at the place of execution, the prisoners were stripped, divided into five or six groups. "One group after another was brought to the pit and shot," said the punisher.

"All the guards accompanying the prisoner were shooting. None of the shot people escaped," he added.

Executions without counting
In the spring of 1943, Weedler, along with other Estonians, was transferred as a guard to the Moglin camp. There he also took part in mass executions.

"In the Moglin camp we already wore the German uniform, which we received in Pskov. The same emblem remained on the cap - the skull and bones, the letters SD on the sleeve," Weedler recalled. The camp guard was an Estonian Thorn.

"Around July-August 1943, I accompanied a large group of prisoners to be shot," Weedler said. "In July 1943, people from the Moglin camp were loaded into four or five cars, I don’t remember exactly. It was a large group, about a hundred, if not more. People were of different nationalities, among them were children, women. On the site of the prisoners, again they were divided into groups, stripped, brought to the pit and shot, including both adults and children," the punisher said.

The punishers did not bother counting the number of victims. "I also shot. How many I killed, I did not count. Everyone was shot, but no one counted," added Weedler.

After returning to the camp, the executioners received encouragement from the Nazi leaders.

"After the execution they buried everyone, returned to the camp, treated us to vodka," Weedler recalled.

According to him, all the camp guards took part in that execution. Among them, Weedler remembered the Estonians Luukas, Krispin, Purkuu. Some time later, a group of 50-60 people was taken away for execution, Weedler said.

"They said they were Jews. They brought them to the same place where they had been shot before. Everyone was shot," he added. Among those who participated in that execution, Weedler named the Estonians Lepmets and Oisel.

Like other punishers, Weedler was found by the KGB after the war. By the verdict of the court he was shot.

The general picture of the atrocities of Hitler's punishers and their accomplices in the Pskov region is complemented by the results of an examination of the places of executions and burning of the corpses of peaceful Soviet citizens and prisoners of war near the village of Androkhnovo, carried out in May 1945.

"During the inspection, the following was established: 20 meters (from) the southern side of the Androkhnovo village and 500 meters from the highway going (in the direction) Leningrad - Pskov and 800 meters from the leather warehouse in the forest, a site was discovered: a cemetery of buried executed Soviet prisoners of war . An area with a diameter of 50 meters, which is surrounded by a circle of barbed wire," said the protocol of the inspection of the place of this terrible find.

For the reliable burning of corpses, the punishers first doused them with a flammable liquid, tar. Tt is noted in the protocol.

Two more places of execution and burial of prisoners of war were found on the territory of the warehouse of leather raw materials, and nearby, on the side of a country road, three. In each of these three places, apparently, there were several dozen corpses.

In addition, further in the direction of Androkhnovo, ten more places of executions and burials of prisoners of war were found, and on the western side of the village: a lot of ashes from burnt corpses.

Earlier, RIA Novosti got acquainted with multi-page protocols of interrogation of Estonians Johannes Ohvril and Viktor Teinbas, who served as guards in the Moglin concentration camp, and also other witnesses, dated 1966-1967.

During interrogations, the criminals told how they contributed to the destruction of the civilians of the Pskov region, as well as named the names of other Estonian punishers and described in detail how the Nazis executed the prisoners of the concentration camp.

The Nazis organized the Moglino concentration camp shortly after the occupation of Pskov in 1941. Initially, Soviet prisoners of war were kept there, who at the sight of German machine guns, repaired the Riga-Pskov road.

According to the recollections of local residents, out of 280 soldiers, no more than 30 survived in a few months.

Since March 1942, civilians, including children, have also been brought to the camp. The place became known as a transit camp for unreliable persons and was under the direct control of the Pskov external department of the Estonian security police and SD. According to the plans of the Nazi command, part of the region after the Second World War was planned to be transferred to Estonia , and therefore the Estonian punitive forces were actively involved in the occupied Pskov region. Historians believe that about three thousand people could have died in this camp from 1941 to 1944.

After the discovery in Moglino of the burial place of civilians who died at the hands of the Nazis during the war, the Investigative Committee of Russia began a pre-investigation check. Now on the site of the former concentration camp, search engines of the Western Military District are working, they have already found the remains of 45 Red Army soldiers. The remains will be buried in the memorial cemetery.
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

But let's not forget the USSR Katyn Forrest massacre of nearly 22,000 Polish military soldiers.

Or USSR Nemmersdorf massacre of German towns people.

Or the NAZI St. Vith Belgium massacre of US troops.

All examples of National Socialism/Communism in action when it taking or trying to keep power.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/30/2021 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Or the massacre of 5 Millions by the China Virus?
Posted by: Bugs Huperong1639 || 10/30/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||


Winter War: Soviet Finnish 1939-1940 War
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  one name - Simo Hayha
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/30/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  one name - Simo Hayha

Tell me you didn't watch the video by not saying you didn't watch the video.
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not you, Bad, I just don't watch any vids.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/30/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy Pours Gasoline on Rising Gas Prices With Ridiculous Announcement
[RedState] I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s "almost" like Clueless Joe™ Biden and his equally clueless administration are trying to destroy everything from the demographics of America — that’s a given — to parents’ faith in their kids’ schools to the entire U.S. economy. Only this time it could not be more clear.

Amid soaring gas prices, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy on Thursday announced that the Biden administration is going to increase regulations on the oil industry: "There’s a place for" regulation and "We’re going to use it," McCarthy said during an appearance on MSNBC’s "Hallie Jackson Reports." Moreover, McCarthy told Jackson oil executives will soon face "a day of reckoning" on Capitol Hill.

Hold the bus.

So Biden kills the Keystone XL Pipeline ten seconds after he sits his clueless ass down at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, continues to disrupt oil prices, begs OPEC to increase production, cries to the oil companies, and now this nimrod announces on PMSNBC that the hapless administration is going to increase regulations and blister oil executives before deranged Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-controlled House.

See what I mean about doing this crap on purpose?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 03:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

I think even the DC Deep Swamp and Power Elite has had enough.

I see Biden passing away due to "Age & Medical issues".

But 1st they know they need to replace Pelosi.
So we are looking at some time after Nov. 2022?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/30/2021 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  No. Can't let Mad Hatter Harris assume the throne. Everyone knows that slut is off her rocker.

They'll rev up the animatronics, keep rolling out Joe in front of his prompters, and let Dr. Edith Wilson-Biden run things behind the scenes -- with direction and guidance from Kalorama
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  In a month they will blaming OPEC again for rising prices. Don't know about the rest of you but I saw a 40% increase in my home gas bill last month.
Posted by: Chris || 10/30/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Whatever happened to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Or do these idiots not even know of its existence?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Agree with #2. Biden is the perfect president for the bureaucracy. A mere figurehead going senile who will never, ever interfere with their pet projects.
Posted by: Tom || 10/30/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#6  I paid almost $80 to fill my tank yesterday. But I'm happy to pay it because Democrats will get clobbered in 2022.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/30/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Covid-19 origins may never be known, US intelligence agencies say
[BBC] US intelligence agencies say they may never be able to identify the origins of Covid-19, but they have concluded it was not created as a biological weapon.

In an updated assessment of where the virus began, the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said an animal-to-human transmission and a lab leak were both plausible hypotheses for how it spread.

But there was not enough information to reach a definitive conclusion.

China has criticised the report.

The findings were published in a declassified report which is an update of a 90-day review that President Joe Biden's administration released in August.

It said the intelligence community remains divided on the most likely origin of the virus. Four agencies assessed with "low confidence" it had originated with an infected animal or a related virus.

But one agency said it had "moderate confidence" that the first human infection most likely was the result of a laboratory accident, probably involving experimentation or animal handling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The report also said Chinese officials were unaware of the existence of the virus before the initial outbreak of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan, in late 2019. But it said China was continuing to hinder the global investigation and to resist sharing information.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 09:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The wheel wasn't invented with the Maserati Ghibli in mind either, but the Ghibli makes fairly effective use of them.

I'll just take a wild guess and say the intelligence community knows full well the origins of the virus, but has decided we have 'no need to know.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ The intelligence community would do something like that? I'm shocked at the suggestion, just plain shocked.
Posted by: Matt || 10/30/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Fog, arriving.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/30/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#4  47 year old CNN analyst dies after second jab.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/30/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Credibility is totally shot. My vote is no confidence.
Posted by: Dale || 10/30/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Just a bunch of traitors repeating what Giske told them to say. Giske whips our ass again.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/30/2021 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Pardon me. Giskes.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/30/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#8  When you can't trust your intel, you must trust your instincts. My instincts tell me that Covid-19 is a bio-weapon developed by the CCP with help from Dr. Fauci and deliberately released to help the Democrats cover their cheating in the 2020 election. No, I have no proof of this assertion. I do not have the vast resources of the US intel community. But my nose always tells me when something stinks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/30/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9  But it said China was continuing to hinder the global investigation and to resist sharing information.

This is the key sentence.

Why would the Chinese refuse to cooperate with an investigation unless they were guilty?

Why even bother with an investigation if you do not have access to the facts?

Why not just put Fauxi in jail for lying to Congress about it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/30/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#10  My sense is that the bioweapon was released in some accidental or preliminary and modest test form and the epidemic that ensued ws wholly of a scale beyond expectations. Once it blossomed, the CCP PLA decided to go all in and sought to spread it worldwide even more effectively. Unclear how many variants might have been additonal releases or if they are refining the virus to have demographic specific efficacy. But, it is clear that our own internal Marxists and their CCP allies have explored all the ways this enables the destabilization of the "Main Enemy". For the IC to not confirm the source and their refusal to do so shows how compromised they are and wholly in need of radical reformation/reduction/relocation/reeducation to again become the servants of the Republic.....and I want a pony!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/30/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#11  So we'll never know , but they're sure it's not (or was not intended to be) a biological weapon?

Did I get that right?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/30/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm with my man Bill aka William of Occam.

Bill would agree with NMBS #10, above.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||

#13  Or 'Covid-19 origins will never be known, if our security protocols work.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/30/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Bollocks. There are only 2 possibilities: man made, or natural. If it were natural there wouldn't be anything to hide or reason to hide it.
Posted by: Angstrom || 10/30/2021 20:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Liars.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/30/2021 22:43 Comments || Top||

#16  Deja vu for some of us
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 23:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Three Reasons to Start Taking Secession Seriously
[Mises Institute] Last month, the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia released a new study which showed that, at least among those polled, "roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it's time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union."

Moreover, majorities in both groups agreed there are "many radical, immoral people trying to ruin things" and that "it is the duty of every true citizen to help eliminate the evil that poisons our country from within."

On might conclude that people who think that things are generally going well in a country aren't so concerned with "the evil within" that they think it's time to "split the country."

It seems that President Biden has been unable to "unite" the country after all, in spite of his promises that it's "time to heal in America" and that he will "be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify." Rather, it appears the country embraces a hard divide over a variety of issues, with vaccine mandates and parental rights in public education being only the most current ones.

At this point, there's no reason to believe these divides are simply going to go away. Secession is likely to become even more mainstream, as has been occurring in recent years, and as the old "liberal consensus" of the mid-twentieth century recedes ever more into the distant past.

Rather, experience increasingly points toward separation, even if such events seem far off. In the real world, after all, major political changes can come suddenly and in unexpected ways. In 1987, most Soviets still assumed the USSR would continue to exist for many more decades—if not centuries. Because of this, now is the time to begin asking the difficult questions about secession and how military and financial questions can be addressed.

Considering all this, we see three main reasons why it is increasingly unwise to ignore secession as a serious possibility.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2021 02:28 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If we have learned anything as Americans during the last seven years, it's that we must remove from our thinking the phrase, It can't happen here.

It CAN happen here. It is happening.

Buckle your seatbelts
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 6:29 Comments || Top||

#2  While I don't see a "Conservative States of America" (CSA) ☺ in the near future.

I do see liberals openly circumventing our US Constitution. So have States start charging such persons/Politicians with violating Civil Rights.

I would welcome Laws and Amendments that:

LIMIT DC powers to what they were to have been to begin with.

3 elected term limitation with a 5 year prohibition before being allowed to run again.

Forbidding any elected official from association with any company that they received donations from and/or steered contracts for 10 years to include backdoor $$$$ via Family/Friends.

Limiting donations to $25 per voter and $5,000 per 501 #c registered SIG per election cycle.

Require all MEDIA to OPENLY declare their political position of support or neutrality.

Remove the current Civil Lawsuit immunity for Politicians who make threats and slanderous comments.

To name a few.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/30/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Require all MEDIA to OPENLY declare their political position of support or neutrality.

And treat their slanted coverage as in-kind campaign contributions, subject to the campaign finance laws
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  #2: its coming. When biden charges Abbott with usurpation of federal powers vis-a-vis the border. I don't see any way the current country can remain. Jefferson said that the tree of freedom must be watered with the blood of patriots. I do not want a 'civil war' but i do want a new constitution free of all 'penumbras' and equal justice applied to all. I don't see any way to get a conservative nation using the existing constitution. Yea, Greg Abbott.
Posted by: jim murray || 10/30/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Reason #4: these mofos are certifiably insane.

Can anyone make sense of today's fresh burst of lunacy?

Biden releases 'gender equity' plan that calls for eliminating cash bail
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  They have set the stage with the massive lies and partial truth about Jan 6, and the "white supremacist" meme, precisely as a predicate for what is coming. Is it possible these latest outrages on the border, Afghanistan, inflation, supply shortages, climate bullshit, and not this amazing stupidity, are all provocations to elicit a poorly organized, fragmented public reaction? One that can be the justification for massive military reaction, the demise of the 2A, and creation of the national police force? Inquiring minds wonder...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/30/2021 13:47 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Yes. Never could have imagined this, but the provocation thesis is becoming more and more plausible with each passing day. There is no other way to explain this swelling concatenation of idiocies
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/30/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  I'll accept secession only if it's based on a precinct-by-precinct basis. Anything else would be tyranny for far too many. Just because 20% of Colorado has 85% of the population does not justify forcing me to live to THEIR whims, especially since they're too stupid to think beyond their wish for "free stuff".
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/30/2021 17:39 Comments || Top||

#9  I agree. Its just the costal region of CA and WA (not sure abut Oregon) which are blue.

Besides - you'd want a port on the pacific coast outside of Alaska.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/30/2021 17:47 Comments || Top||


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Aircraft Carrier Sinking – The Only Known Photo of a US Navy Supercarrier Sinking
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So SEATTLE attack AMERICA even then? (1998)
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/30/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I spoke to a Navy Vet Nam Vet and he never heard of that carrier. His was a smaller carrier. Some he said carried six thousand souls.
Posted by: Dale || 10/30/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Just catch it in refit at dock. Now a proven method of neutralization.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/30/2021 16:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I fear the next few will not have a decommissioning ceremony.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/30/2021 19:43 Comments || Top||



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