Guest Posting – A view from the Great Plains on our current situation

I am providing, without significant comments, this lengthy column by Margaret Figert. Margaret is a retired weekly newspaper publisher and editor. Her paper was located in the Sicangu (Lakota) Nation on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota on the Nebraska border. Her weekly column, Smoke Signals, is published weekly on Facebook. Margaret is generally conservative with some libertarian leanings. I do not necessarily endorse her comments or links; I feel it is good for lovers of liberty to get some idea of what other people in Flyover Country are thinking.

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What gives? Cancel culture or pogrom? Political cleansing?

As the combined forces of mainstream media, the never-Trump branches of both old Parties, the deep state bureaucracy, multinational corporations, and big tech flex their muscles…

I guess I don’t really HAVE to ask what is going on. Part is so obvious, so clear. It is indeed political and cultural cleansing, with a touch of pogrom flavor added. Will a larger measure of holocaust soon follow?

Consider Ron Paul

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Press conference June 2023

(Susan Li is President Harris’ Press Secretary)
Today, President Harris signed a series of executive orders establishing restrictions on specific so-called political parties which have spewed racist hate speech and advocated violence, instigated uprisings, promoted vote suppression, and displayed extreme political partisanship which has damaged our nation for years.

Present in the Oval Office with President Harris for the signing was Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, who yesterday announced the formation of the new political party, the Loyal Progressive Conservative Party or LPCP. Senator Romney, like the other ten LPCP Senators and fifty-one LPCP representatives who left the now-restricted GOP, spoke highly of the initiative of President Harris in dealing with this “significant, immediate”threat to the unity, prosperity, and future of the United States and the world.”

The President urged the Democratic Party members of the Senate and House to quickly recognize the Loyal Progressive Conservative members of their houses as the minority party for purposes of committee assignments and other congressional activities.

The White House realizes that this important and critically necessary action will be criticized by many people on both sides of the aisle in Congress and across the nation.

Let me point out that the restrictions apply not just to actual political parties, but to recognizable and identifiable factions in political parties, including the Democratic Party itself. This action was taken only after careful coordination with Supreme Chancellor and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Charles Schumer. The President’s deputies were not able to speak to Senior Republican Member of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, as Mr. McConnell has been detained after being charged with sexual abuse of multiple minors at Under the Dome Pizza in Georgetown. They also were not able to speak with now-former Representative Kevin McCarthy, who has apparently fled to the Bahamas after his party was ban… restricted in Congress.

The Attorney General will be holding a press conference later today, in which I understand he will announce that the Department of Justice is requesting extradition from the Bahamas of Mr. McCarthy to face charges of child abuse, fomenting rebellion, and income tax evasion.

In a personal note on behalf of the President, she stated that she is glad to finally be able to take such action, and feels this is an important step in healing the nation. She is dedicating these executive orders to the memory of our beloved President Joe Biden, saying that it continues to correct the horrible events before his inauguration which was, she is convinced, a major factor in his onset of Alzheimer’s and his untimely death in a nursing home from COVID variant 23. Mrs. Jill Biden, present at the signing as well, embraced the President, lowering her mask long enough to kiss President Harris on the cheek.

Any questions?

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Outgunned

According to a friend, here in the Fifty States, 9 billion rounds of small-arms ammo are manufactured every year, of which 5 billion are centerfire and 4 billion are rimfire. The military has 1.5 billion rounds of small-arms ammo in military stocks for contingency. A LOT of ammo. No information on how much of that 5 billion is sold to police, armed federal and state agencies, and guvmint contractors. The military’s stash does include a bit of rimfire – .22-cal is good training ammo, civilian OR military. But clearly, civilians have a lot more than the military.

This, my friend suggests, is enough to demonstrate that gun control has no chance, whatever Biden, Harris, Schumer, and Pelosi dream of.

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What gives? Vaccination rates

This data is from the 5th – a few days old now, but it raises some serious questions.

Under Operation WARP SPEED, the military is responsible for delivering vaccines, but it is local, often private, health care providers that actually give people the vaccine, in accordance with each State’s “guidelines” (orders).

So it is interesting to see what percentage of the doses have been administered. According to the CDC, only 30.2% of the 15,418,500 doses have been administered. That is less than 5 million doses. Almost 70% are just sitting unused on a shelf. Incredible.

Here are some examples at the State level:

  • New York has administered only 33.5% of its vaccines
  • Pennsylvania has administered only 27.6% of its vaccines
  • California has administered only 24.3% of its vaccines
  • Virginia has administered only 23.2% of its vaccines
  • Arizona has administered only 19.5% of its vaccines

In fact, of all 50 states, only five States have administered more than 50% of the doses they’ve already received:

  • South Dakota – 62.2%
  • North Dakota – 58.7%
  • Tennessee – 50.8%
  • Connecticut – 50.7%
  • Maine – 50.5%

It is not just smaller States like the Dakotas. (Although there is some concern that the Dakotas were punished by CDC in the distribution because they did not lockdown.) It surely is not a shortage of qualified persons to give the shots.

Of course, it may be bureaucratic and political inertia and stupidity is causing this. They are playing games, or so they claim, with people’s lives. (Nothing new, of course.)

In fact, some of the recent games? I’ve mentioned Colorado’s insane prioritization of vaccines, giving members of the General Assembly, State agency heads, and “essential journalists” priority over those over eighty and in nursing homes. An example of stupidity in California is the State issuing orders that EMTs are NOT supposed to take “non-responsive” trauma and non-trauma patients, especially coronary patients to the hospital. Apparently (the article doesn’t say so) the EMTs are just to take them to the morgue! The excuse? The hospitals are overwhelmed.

The States have had six or seven months to get ready for the “second wave” everyone said was coming. We should also remember that States had more than half a year to prepare for the administration of the vaccines. So what’s going on?

All this just lends emphasis to the natural tendency of politicians, and especially the incoming administration, to take more and more FedGov actions and control over the prioritization and administration of the vaccination program. And more. Is this part of the thinking? Remember that Emperor Cuomo of New York had threatened – claimed – that he would not allow ANY vaccine developed under Trump’s watch to be administered in HIS State. (Anyone wanna bet Cuomo got his vaccine from the first batch delivered to NYS? Along with de Blasio and Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez?)

Maybe. But honestly, I don’t have the foggiest. Any ideas?

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The South African “solution” – coming to America?

What can government do to help people?

According to most, government can do anything and everything. It seems that many believe that the most important thing government can and should do to help people is to make every possible decision for them, give them everything they need (if not want), and especially keep them from doing anything the government considers to be bad. Especially people who own (or make) too much: too much money, too much success, too much noise, and… too much land.

Whether Uncle Joe and Waiting-for-the-White-House Kammie are truly Marxists or just run-of-the-mill socialist Democrats, it is clear that they believe government can and should do everything possible to “help.” Even if it means harming other people to do it. With their victory on 6 JAN 2021, elements of their “Great Reset” are closer to reality.

Again, consider land.

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“DC uprising?”

Before and after teaching class last night, I heard the news. Though not official until 0300 ET this morning, it was clear that The Donald’s defeat was certain. That creepy, sleepy Uncle Joe is now going to be Massa in another 13 days.

Even more creepy was the news of intrusion, fighting and more at the Capitol (and at least a dozen Statehouses).

But this morning, what do I find? I try to visit a half-dozen or more libertarian websites regularly, finding new information, new insights (better than mine, usually!), and new ideas and encouragement. This morning, I am surprised to find something odd. Virtually NONE of the usual sites even discuss the events of Wednesday.

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The first cyber-civil-war?

Merriam-Webster defines cyberwarfare as “the use of computer technology to disrupt the activities of a state or organization, especially the deliberate attacking of information systems for strategic or military purposes.”

We have seen that in the 2020 election cycle, and will in the aftermath: as Biden/Harris take control and their controllers push their agenda. It has been used before, in recent years: the 2016 and 2018 election cycles in the Fifty States. And in foreign elections – most probably in Ukraine, Venezuela, and France, and very likely in Israel and Canada. But it appears that it has achieved its greatest sophistication, success, and impact in the Fifty States. And there is more to come.

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The counter-revolution prepares to ramp up in 2021

Welcome to 2021 – although many are praying it will be better than the Annus Horribis that was 2021, many have their doubts. So hold on to your Happy New Year cheer: you are going to need it.

With just hours to go, the intended election of creepy Uncle Joe looms near, and the usual suspects are moving forward to make the most of it. And of his designated replacement. (I understand that the betting right now is whether or not Uncle Joe stays in office as long was William Henry Harrison. (Harrison (“Tippecanoe”) died of something he supposedly caught at his Inauguration just 31 days later, back in 1847.)

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Time to defy them MORE

In the Imperial Governorate of Santa Fe, formerly the State of New Mexico, the Empress is ticked. That’s good – great! But more is needed.

She is so ticked, in fact, that (according to KOAT-TV) she has issued a decree that two churches in Albuquerque have been fined $10,000 apiece for violating her Lockdown edicts.

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