The joke continues

Posted on 2021-02-16 by TPOL Nathan

A friend reminded me of this little tidbit from nine months ago.

Thanks to fine people like Tom Woods and many others, we know that this statement, in the esteemed publication, continues to prove to be TRUE.

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Are we there yet? 2020 election farce over?

Posted on 2021-02-14 by TPOL Nathan

Heard it from Fox News later this afternoon, after a day of teaching safety and health for miners: “Former President Trump was acquitted in an unprecedented second impeachment trial on the charge of inciting an insurrection for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, making him the first and only president to be impeached and acquitted twice in history.

“A majority of senators found Trump guilty on Saturday in a 57-43 vote, but the number fell short of the supermajority needed to convict the president. Had Trump been convicted, the Senate would have moved to bar the 45th president from holding federal office ever again.

“The seven GOP senators who joined with all Democrats in finding Trump guilty were: Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.”

So, are we there yet? Is this most irritating and troublesome election in (at least recent) US history now able to be sent to the pressroom or even the historians? Is it done?

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The coup is not done yet!

Posted on 2021-02-10 by TPOL Nathan

With the beginning of the show trial impeachment in the Senate, it seems that the coup continues.

I’m reading more and more people writing about the way in which the electorate and the election system has been manipulated to “save the nation” and the world from the evils of The Donald and all the rest. Others claim that Trump intentionally threw the election, making appointments and actions intended to result in his defeat. Still others claim that there are multiple factions, in and out of factions. Playing “4D chess” as they expand their control – or cut the pie a bit differently.

Generally with a coup, you have some idea of who and what is behind it. And who gains from it. Even if they try to conceal themselves. That may not be the case this time – certainly there is reason to believe that Biden is just as much a tool as anyone else. And while we may think we see his puppet strings, who is pulling them?

A reader shared this article from Time with me – The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time 

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Peak oil or Peak stupidity? Concluded

Posted on 2021-02-09 by TPOL Nathan

In the last commentary, we discussed how various people are claiming that we are at or past “Peak Oil” – when the world can no longer produce more oil and meet energy needs because oil is more and more scarce and more and more expensive to produce and use. Read that commentary here. Let us continue that discussion today.

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Peak oil or peak stupidity?

Posted on 2021-02-08 by TPOL Nathan

A few weeks ago, an apparently popular survivalist website, oriented towards city-dwellers, told its readers that “Peak Oil Is Already Here: What It Means for Civilization (urbansurvivalsite.com)” In part they claimed: “peak oil isn’t about running out of oil. It’s about that point in time when oil becomes scarce enough that its price makes it an unacceptable source of energy.”

So supposedly, we can’t afford to pump any more oil out of the ground. Indeed, it is claimed from some corners that the only reason we can afford to pump oil is because government subsidizes the majors (major oil companies) and the entire network.

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Unity? If they can…

Posted on 2021-02-07 by TPOL Nathan

There is a lot of talk these days about Unity here in the Fifty States. Mr. Biden preaches it constantly. A lot of people say that they don’t understand this, because they don’t think his decrees and appointments and other actions support unity in our nations.

Maybe that is because they don’t understand what is necessary for unity. We’ve talked about the critical (and immediate) need for more government power and control – a Baker’s Dozen reasons, in fact.

The only way Mr. Biden can accomplish unity as defined by him, his handlers, his bosses (no, NOT the American people), and his supporters?

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Baker’s Dozen™ Reasons to expand government control

Posted on 2021-02-05 by TPOL Nathan

Now 10 days into the new era of “restoring democracy” after the fascist (Republican) regime of The Donald, are we seeing better just what the reasons to reset the Fifty States are?

Some ideas of why it is essential to expand government controls (and therefore, power):

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The 24-hour hate

Posted on 2021-02-01 by TPOL Nathan

In the novel 1984, George Orwell explained the politico-religious ritual in Oceania called “The Two-Minute Hate.” In this, the entire people: Inner Party, Outer Party, and Proles, were involved. The object of their hatred, expressed in vile, coarse terms, was one Emmanuel Goldstein. Goldstein had once been a high-ranking member of the Party, but had betrayed them. Now he was THE Enemy of the People. Even while the great empire of Oceania was at war with one or both other world-empires, Goldstein was the Number One domestic enemy.

Today, in this rapidly decaying and ever-sicker society, there is a new Emmanuel Goldstein.

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Who are the stupid ones? New gun bill in Congress

Posted on 2021-01-31 by TPOL Nathan

The Democratic Caucus – and their staff – indicate just how stupid they are in some of the recent legislation filed by the magnificent members of the US House of Representatives. Well, in this case, one specificant member, and her staff. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas introduced House Bill 127, the “Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act” way back on 4 JAN 2021.

This little hot potato is designed to impact more than 150 million households in the Fifty States. In some very strange ways. It is designed to make as many gunowners as possible into felons. But WE would be the stupid ones if we just ignore it. It would (if it did pass) be impossible to enforce, but that would not stop them from trying to do so.

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Sticks and stones may…

Posted on 2021-01-29 by TPOL Nathan

… break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Or so the old maxim once went.

Today, of course, there are millions of social justice warriors, parasites of various sorts (including politicians), and of course, children, who claim exactly the opposite.

Which is leading to more and more demands to censor the First Amendment itself, claiming that government must take action to end/prevent/punish offensive speech and anything else that can hurt someone. Government, not just social media companies.

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