P&D and the Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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By Rich Kozlovich 

Well, for the time being, Thursday ends my P&D week, and another week has flown by.  There's so much going on it's hard to track it all, but this Cartoon Roundup is a great place to start.  Biden is an idiot, his family is steeped in crime right up to their eyeballs, and the more Trump is attacked, the better he looks.  Another indictment and the nation may just anoint him as King Donald I.  Here's an excellent Thought For the Day to start your voyage of discovery: 

"Anyone who believes that politicians and bureaucrats who can't define what a woman is, who can't control the border, can't tell the truth about COVID, who can't teach children to read and do math at grade level, and who lied continuously about Obamacare can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity should make sure they never have to debate a five-year-old."

I've tagged the commentaries dealing with energy/climate issues with a red asterisk.  

I've been a history buff for all of my life, and I concluded decades ago....everything is cyclical!  I read George Friedman's book, "Storm Before Calm", which deals with this, and I've been reading, "The Fourth Turning", which also deals with historical cycles.  The author claims we're in the Fourth Turning of the current cycle, and I agree with him.  The Fourth Turning, is a crisis period.  We're facing that period, and historically, fourth turnings are always conclusively violent.  I fear this is going to happen in America within the next ten years.  

China's military buildup has been financed by American trade, and now as a result, in ten ways the US is falling behind China in national security, and that build up is intended to destroy America.  Hypersonic missiles, fleet size, air defense, manufacturing and technology, much of which they've stolen, mining for rare earths, gray zone altercations.  China plays a lot of military intimidation tactics with their neighbors, in short, they're bullies, and don't care if anyone likes it or not. Space activity, cyber operations and artificial intelligence.  But America's military has fixed the crisis of white supremacy, and gender issues.  Can't keep our subs repaired, recruitment is in the toilet, and the generals and admirals are all member of the Church of Woke, but hey, we gotta have our priorities.  Right?

The unending political persecution of Donald Trump by the corrupt Deep State and the Democrat party is blatantly Stalinist.   While I can acknowledge the contributions of Thomas Jefferson, I'm not a big fan.  But he was brilliant as he once observed:

All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one. 

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them.

They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people…. Jefferson warned that relatively soon, “corruption” will have seized the heads of government” and “spread by them” through the “body of the people” — also known as…Congress.

Jefferson was truly prescient.  How was Jefferson able to see that was going to be an issue?  He read a history book or two.

The fact is, that started happening not too long after the Constitution was ratified with the Whiskey Tax of 1791.  A tax which was clearly unequal, unfair, violated states rights, culminating with a greater violation of states rights with Washington leading an army into Pennsylvania to put down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.   It all merely expanded to what we're seeing now.  

The real reason behind this tax wasn't the national debt or the need to pay the governmental bills.  If that was the case they could have found a tax on something that impacted all the states. 

This tax was promoted by Alexander Hamilton, and was directly beneficial to the whiskey brewers in the major metropolitan areas.   The Constitution had just been ratified in 1787, a mere four years before, and Hamilton wanted to solidify support for the Constitution from the business community.   Hamilton was strong advocate of centralized federal power versus republicanism.

Washington was lauded by Congress and those who supported this venture claimed: "Under the eye of President Washington, the nascent United States survived the first true challenge to federal authority."  Jefferson rightly recognized if for what it was.  Washington's call for troops to put down this rebellion was in point of fact an abuse of Presidential power and authority, a veiled threat to the citizens of the nation, and a threat to republican ideals.   

Jefferson's administration repealed the Whiskey Tax.

Banks are cancelling the accounts of people who hold political views they don't like, but have no problem with the insane leftist radicals that are destroy civilization.   Heresy is rampant at the highest levels of "Christian" churches.  Biden can't afford to build a border wall, yet he really wants to give Ukraine another unaccountable, untraceable 20 billion dollars, to one of, if not the most, corrupt governments in Europe.  The Deep State and an international elite are creating what's being called "a new normal" and you will like it or else, totally destroying all Constitutional guarantees, and it's now become obvious.  

In years gone by there was a lot of laughing and friendly banter between me and my friends over my claims about conspiracies.  Well, whaddayaknow. There really is such a thing as a conspiracy after all, and they're not laughing any longer.  Just like Jefferson, I read a history book or two. 

Commentaries

1. Crime in America's Cities: You Just Can't Fix Stupid By Rich Kozlovich
2. Runners, Joggers and, Vocal Spectators: Election 2024, Part IV By Rich Kozlovich
3. Academic Corruption, Intellectual Decadence and Depravity on Display By Rich Kozlovich
4. Ohio's Issue 1 rope-a-dope By American on Fire
5. Ohio Voters Killed Issue 1 – Is That a Win for Abortion?  By James Fite
6. Your Business in China May Be Uninsurable By Elisabeth Braw
7. * The Great Wind and Solar Land Grab By Steve Goreham
8. China Recruits BLM to Protest for Slavery By Daniel Greenfield
9. Biden Discovers Most Black People Aren’t Really Black  By Daniel Greenfield
10. Study Shows Gun Laws Don’t Matter, Race Does  By Daniel Greenfield
11. The State of Loneliness By Daniel Greenfield
12. * The Real World Costs Of Backing Up Weather-Dependent Electricity Generation With Battery Storage By Francis Menton
13. * Costs Beginning To Change The Net Zero Debate In The UK  By Francis Menton
14. The Bidens: "Stone Cold Crooked" (7) -- How Is It Even Possible To Keep Spinning This? By Francis Menton
15. Caught-Red-Handed’: Scientists Call for Full Retraction of Nature’s Proximal Origin Paper, as Fraud Accusations Mount By John Miltimore
16. Bidenomics Producing Disaster in Argentina By Dan Mitchell
17. More Evidence of FDR’s Awful Approach to Economic Policy  By Dan Mitchell
18. Great Moments in Human Rights By Dan Mitchell
19. * CFACT to American Cancer Society: Reject EPA’s politicized emissions standards By Craig Rucker
20. * Without a replacement, abandoning fossil fuels, supports China By Ronald Stein
21. A New Day, a New Type of Election Fraud By Jay Valentine

Links

Culture

1. With Conservatives Like These Who Needs Enemies? Armando Simón
2. The problem with intellectuals
3. A Century of Impotency: Conservative Failure and the Administrative State

Global Warming is an International Scam

1. Solar Panels Produce Massive Emissions, Data Says
2. Scottish government axes 16 million trees to clear the way for ‘greener’ solutions
3. Global Warming Hoax: Now We Know And They Can’t Stop Us From Knowing
4. Democrats Are Dancing the Totalitarian Two-Step

Real Racism

South African Leader Doubles Down on Chants Calling for the Genocide of Whites, Attacks Elon Musk And “His White Skin”

Voter Fraud is Real, and It’s Not Going To Die Easily

READ IT FOR YOURSELF! Massive evidence of election failures posted online

   

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