[BartSimpson]

DISCLAIMER: This essay from early 2018 is attributed to a Dr. Jack Minzey but I am unable to corroborate that attribution.

Still, it's a good essay.

$1:

Civil War

How do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country.

When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.

The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There's a pattern here.

What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That's a civil war.

There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government

This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election.

When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship .

The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war.

Our system of government is based on the Constitution, but that's not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.

If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything and I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator.

But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played That's how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular fight.

When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission but, under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.

The Constitution has something to say about that.

Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.

Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.

Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them, and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down. That's not a free country.

It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.

Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.

[xerxes]

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

Happy Asshole's Day to you, too!

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DISCLAIMER: This essay from early 2018 is attributed to a Dr. Jack Minzey but I am unable to corroborate that attribution.

https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2018/0 ... a-tea.html

It's a slimmed down version of this. It's from Daniel Greenfield.

[BeaverFever]

The simple fact is that for nearly 30 years Republicans have lost the support of the American people and with it, the ability to decisively win elections. The only exception was when they cooked up the Iraq war so they could hide behind the flag and scare voters with a fictitious boogeyman.

[MeganC]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

The simple fact is that for nearly 30 years Republicans have lost the support of the American people and with it, the ability to decisively win elections. The only exception was when they cooked up the Iraq war so they could hide behind the flag and scare voters with a fictitious boogeyman.

The Republicans right now hold more elected offices across the USA than Democrats do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political ... .S._states

[CDN_PATRIOT]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

The simple fact is that for nearly 30 years Republicans have lost the support of the American people and with it, the ability to decisively win elections. The only exception was when they cooked up the Iraq war so they could hide behind the flag and scare voters with a fictitious boogeyman elections aren't fair and the wrong person won and I hate democracy and this is all stupid and it made me wet my pants! WAH WAH WAH I HATE EVERYTHING!!! NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!! .

Fixed for accuracy.





-J.

[herbie]

xerxes xerxes:

Eat it up and try to convince us it's ice cream boys.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

herbie herbie:

xerxes xerxes:

Eat it up and try to convince us it's ice cream boys.

Yeah, like trying to convince the country that you attempted to obstruct justice in the name of "jobs".

Or like trying to convince the country they'll get back more in carbon tax rebates than they pay out in carbon taxes.

Or campaigning on budgets balancing themselves. Can't believe the idiots who still voted for him after he puked up that gem.

This civil war is not confined to the US. It's been going on in Europe for a bit now and we're seeing it right here in Canada, particularly from leftists. NOT actual real liberals but leftists. Fortunately the bulk of the provinces have shifted away from leftist trash govts.

But what's going on in the Western World is frighteningly similar to the same shit that happened in Eastern Europe after WW2, sans the naked aggression.

Brexit is the perfect example of that. One of the basic tenets of rights and freedoms is the right to self-determination. Yet the anti-Brexit fucks seem to have a real problem with that concept, even going so far as to suggest the entire Brexit movement are a bunch of white nationalist nazis. So apparently the right to self-determination is a nazi ideal.

Whiny leftist fuck-sticks constantly cry about fake news and yet they have no problem labeling all they oppose as some kind of right-wing extremist.

Talk about the world's shittiest ice cream.

[BeaverFever]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

The simple fact is that for nearly 30 years Republicans have lost the support of the American people and with it, the ability to decisively win elections. The only exception was when they cooked up the Iraq war so they could hide behind the flag and scare voters with a fictitious boogeyman elections aren't fair and the wrong person won and I hate democracy and this is all stupid and it made me wet my pants! WAH WAH WAH I HATE EVERYTHING!!! NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!! .

Fixed for accuracy.





-J.

*MOD EDIT* . Keep up the good work!

[Thanos]

Don't make it personal with shitty remarks like that, Beave. Not cool at all.

[BeaverFever]

I just think someone with that much free time on their hands could manage to contribute more than one-line troll posts all the time.

[Thanos]

I get your point. I disagree with a lot of what he posts too. It's just that having gone through the trauma of the career/financial collapse I know how he felt when it happened to him. It's open season on any opinion and the occasional bursts of calling each other shitheads is just par for the social media course, and I certainly won't hold back on Martin after one of his mean little snipes when I have my next go-round with him, but that one avenue of attack via personal circumstances is one I won't take. Just IMO but giving someone shit over their job/career/finances (when something beyond their control happened to them) is not too far off from saying "ha-ha, your mom died of cancer!" to someone.

[BeaverFever]

Yeah I’ve been between jobs twice in the last 10 years, once for 3 months and once for 5.5 months. It sucks. FWIW my understanding is that CP hasn’t ever held down a paying job for any significant period in his adult life and *MOD EDIT*, so it really pushes my buttons to be constantly trolled by him and his empty insults.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

*MOD EDIT*. Keep up the good work!

Actually, I currently work two jobs.

How's life in your parents' basement treating you?




-J.