Author: Tamquam

In David Samuels’ well worth the read article in Tablet, The Codevilla Tapes, Mr. Samuels makes the following observation in his opening remarks:

Every student of history has their own theory about how and why empires fall. My theory is this: The wealth of any empire flows disproportionately to the capital, where it nourishes the growth, wealth, and power of the ruling elite. As the elite grows richer and more powerful, the gulf between the rulers and the ruled widens, until the beliefs and manners of the elite bear little connection to those of their countrymen, whom they increasingly think of as their clients or subjects. That distance creates resentment and friction, in response to which the elite takes measures to protect itself. The more wealth and power the elite controls, the more insulation it must purchase. Disastrous mistakes are hailed as victories or are made to appear to have no consequences at all, in order to protect the aura of collective infallibility that protects ruling class power and privilege.

What happens next is pretty much inevitable in every time and place—Spain, France, Great Britain, Moghul India, you name it: Freed from the laws of gravity, the elite turns from the hard work of correct strategizing and wise policymaking to the much less time-consuming and much more pleasant work of perpetuating its own privileges forever, in the course of which endeavor the ruling elite is revealed to be a bunch of idiots and perverts who spend their time prancing around half naked while setting the territories they rule on fire. The few remaining decent and competent people flee this revolting spectacle, while the elite compounds its mistakes in an orgy of failure. The empire then collapses.

It is precisely because the self appointed elites have been wrecking the country while enriching themselves at the expense of the commoners that Donald Trump was elected.  Ordinary Americans have seen their dreams founded on the promise of America as it was established fade decided that it would be better to pull the Party of Government down rather than have it collapse on them.  Only thus could they see any possibility of restoring their freedom.

For decades we tried to correct the system using the system’s own tools, elections, only to find that the tools were bent and broken.  As soon as we passed an initiative into law it was invalidated.  As soon as we elected someone that represented our values they were either co-opted or islolated and rendered powerless.  When any spokesman rose to speak, or we ourselves rose to speak our minds we were attacked, deplatformed and destroyed.

Not content to silence us with speech codes, to bamboozle us with endless lies, to make us torpid with endless vapid propaganda, to weaken us with outright theft, the self appointed nomenklatura now fosters outright violence and demographic replacement.  All this to drive ordinary Americans to comply with the new world order where we are their vassals and they our venerated overlords.

Ain’t gonna happen.  Like it or not, regardless of what happens next, by electing Donald Trump Americans have kicked down the door to the elite’s china shop.  If they could restrain themselves and return to Constitutional forms and practice not much damage would be done.  My prediction is that they won’t be able to.  That china shop is going to be a mess and all will suffer as a result.

Be prepared.  Stock up on ammo and food.  Stay away from crowds.

He Fights

by Evan Sayet

Town Hall 7/13/2017

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum.

They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”

Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity.

There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.

This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.

I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.

I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.

Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s.

To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale..

It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war.

While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end.

Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors.

Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was vulgar-talking. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank.

But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting,

“You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting,

he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.

That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis.

It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.

First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri —
Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”… Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position ..

They need to respond.

This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.

The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.

Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.

Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.

So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”?

Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war.

And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president –

I get it – he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times.

I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!

Pass it on!

My friend and worthy adversary James Wright recorded this exchange with a scammer.  It is instructive so pay attention and be careful.

Suck it up, you failed Marxist loving, America hating, Christ fearing Progressives of whatever stripe.  You pack of weepy losers, kiss my privilege.

Subject: Special Screening NO Safe Spaces

NO SAFE SPACES is coming to Burbank AMC 16 on the weekend of November 15th.

Would you please help by contacting your group and asking them to support the film? It’s important we have an excellent weekend so that we can get this in more theaters and therefore getting those who really need to see this film see it!

The film opens on Friday, November 15th in Burbank. We need to sell as many tickets as we can that weekend. Folks can purchase them in blocks of 50, 100 or 150 at $15 per. Jackie Papier (jackiepapier@hotmail.com) is the person to connect to anyone that wants to buy in blocks. Jackie can help coordinate ticket purchases.

We are targeting Saturday afternoon/early evening the 16th as Adam Carolla will be there for both afternoon and evening shows to introduce the film, take questions and pictures. Tickets are normally $20 but we got discount for $15.00

Here’s a link to our website: https://nosafespaces.com/

Hope to see you there and let me know if you can get your groups there!

Best

Deanne

714-308-4060

p.s. If anyone you speak to would rather donate the money for blocks of tickets, we can connect them with the 501c3 who is handling that on our behalf.

According to Sen. Mike Morrell speaking last night at the Glendale Burbank Republican Assembly monthly meeting the answer is a resounding YES!  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that it is going to take time and a lot of work.  Worse, the work we do cannot be a simple repetition of what we’ve been doing.  Sorry, kids, no immediate gratification, it is going to take long term planning and consistent work.

He said that he had been pressing Republicans for years for some kind of plan, which idea had been resisted until recently.  It was not immediately clear to this observer what that plan is, perhaps those higher in the Party structure might be able to enlighten us.

He pointed out that there many grass roots movements springing up in opposition to the Democrats’ insane progressive initiatives.  He mentioned several, among them: the school choice initiative (we had two representatives from School Choice in California with us last night), the antivax (vaccination hesitancy) movement, strong grass roots movements against California’s new sex education curriculum, and opposition to the new California law outlawing most independent contractors.  To increase the influence of Republican ideas it will be necessary for us to join with these kinds of groups and work with them to achieve their goals.  [Not as was done with the Tea Party, simply leverage them for funds, campaign workers and votes. Ed.]

Further, the planning process will have to involve assessing what is needed to grow the Party’s influence in a variety of categories: outreach, fundraising, retention, communications, social media, etc.  Republicans will have to put time and effort into these areas intentionally and consistently as individuals, contributing to whatever best suits their abilities and temperament.  [These activities will have to be planned, organized and prioritized, cannot be ad hoc or when nothing else is going on. Ed.]

The Democrats, he says, are organized, determined and playing to win.  For them winning is all important and they will do anything to insure victory.  The fact that their policies are neither good nor related in any way to common sense is not an obstacle to their determination to implement them.

He said that they are guided and protected by dark, spiritual powers against which normal human effort cannot avail.  That in fact we need to turn to our Creator for guidance and aid if we are to wrest control of California back on to a sane Constitutional path.  Therefore he has been making appeals to churches and educating groups of Pastors as to the nature of the issues we confront.  The churches, he says, must be approached and activated by education and persuasion.

He made two final points.  First, we cannot expect the youth to come to us, we must go to them.  Once they have been instructed in what the Constitution means and how it works they, by logical necessity, come on board.  We must find ways to approach the youth and pass our knowledge on because the schools won’t and if we don’t it will be lost.

Finally, he said, me must no longer be silent.  We are a polite, courteous people who prefer not to argue or make our views known in the presence of those who disagree.  Because we want peace and civility we don’t challenge the false narratives circulated by the Democrats.  If we expect victory without a fight we delude ourselves and are bound to fail.  We must speak out even when doing so is uncomfortable and risky.  At this point a member of the audience raised the objection that “we don’t know what to say, we need someone to give us talking points.”

On this point the meeting broke up.  Your correspondent accepts the challenge, and intends to use this space to provide information which members can use to argue the Republican view of what a sane, Constitutional polity can be.  The American Revolution can succeed when Americans do three things: 1. educate themselves; 2. pray; 3. speak.

Let’s be about it, then.

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Modern education has become a tragic joke.  One hundred years ago our grandparents and great grandparents were required to learn Latin in school to serve as one of the basics for transmitting Western Civilization.  What education inflicts on kids today is designed not only to undermine Western Civ but make it impossible for young people to receive the culture that made Americans a moral people and America the greatest nation the world has ever known.

It is necessary but insufficient to curse the darkness that our schools have become.  It is even more necessary to kindle a light.  Our young people’s minds must be fed with the intellectual and moral values that will make of them freedom loving Americans in a way that is not ham fistedly propagandistic.  I will suggest to you that they need to read classic stories as presented to earlier generations that will inspire, inform and enlighten.

These classics of literature for young people have become hard to find as they have been long out of print.  The late Jerry Pournelle published one such volume, the California Sixth Grade Reader, unfortunately only available in Amazon Kindle.

The 1914 California Sixth Grade Reader with classical stories and poems that every high school student studied in that era. The same stories were read in most states, and the American culture of that era was profoundly affected by these stories. They remain relevant to those who care about civilization and are part of our cultural heritage. They’re also good stories. The poems were once as popular as any TV series, and learning to read and enjoy great poetry, while hardly taught in schools now, was once another great part of our cultural heritage. The small amount of work invested in learning to enjoy poetry will last the rest of your life.

Now a new and better alternative is on the way.  The Junior Classics are being reprinted!  Please note that you will not be able to find this by searching the intenet, you will only find it at the link in the button above.  I very strongly urge parents to invest in this wonderful opportunity to shape your young peoples minds.  These are suitable gifts for kids whether attending public schools or being home schooled.  I warmly recommend them.  There is nothing better you can do for the youth of our nation that give them the mind of an American.

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. The boy or girl who becomes familiar with the charming tales and poems in this collection will have gained a knowledge of literature and history that will be of high value in other school and home work. Here are the real elements of imaginative narration, poetry, and ethics, which should enter into the education of every child.

This collection, carefully used by parents and teachers with due reference to individual tastes and needs, will help many children enjoy good literature. It will inspire them with a love of good reading, which is the best possible result of any elementary education. The child himself should be encouraged to make his own selections from this large and varied collection, the child’s enjoyment being the object in view. A real and lasting interest in literature or in scholarship is only to be developed through the individual’s enjoyment of his mental occupations.

CHARLES ELIOT
PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1918

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