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A quote from Keith's post. "This was actually confirmed minutes earlier, as Trump was being sworn in, and the announcement popped up that Biden had added to the last day pardons of Dr. Fauci, Gen. Milley, Liz Cheney, and the entire Jan. 6th Committee, and made last minute pardons of several members of his own crime family."
In a way he screwed them by pardoning them because now if they are called upon to be asked about someone that have to answer and cannot plead the 5h Amendment, now are liable for jail. Which I hope happens.
God Bless America.
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Tim in Pa
“Prosperity creates a strange, self-destructive corrupting effect on people. If you live in a prosperous country, you learn self-loathing. Intellectualism, unmoors itself from reality and becomes stupidity. Progressivism may be the worst ism. It ignores the reality that almost everything can only progress to a certain point, after that you're regressing.”
This is one of the most cogent comments I’ve seen on the internet.
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"Cogent" doesn't do it justice. Tim in Pa, where did you come up with this?
If this is your own analysis then... I stand in complete awe of it (as it answers questions that I've never been given a good answer-to).
My take on it all is that "unearned prosperity" is at the core of it. I have known for years that we all "stand on the shoulders of giants" (not my phrase, Sir Isaac Newton's BTW) and that if we were ignorant of that history then we were ill-equipped to maintain it's gifts. Both "technology" and "liberty" is great stuff until the children of the men who created it become too-stupid or "addled" to understand it or maintain it, thus the source of another phrase "in the end, the barbarians win".
Maybe "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" really was a communist plot to destroy western civilization?
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Thank you both for kind words. Some of it is a distillation of other's thoughts, some original to me. Or it could be Divine inspiration, and I'm just too dull to know when He's talking to me.
But I do believe progressivism to be our biggest threat today. Constantly changing, moving on to something else, simply for the sake of progress, regardless of whether or not things improve, and especially if they don't, which you can almost count on. And there is no end to it. Someone writing for the American Spectator, in an article about the gay revolution, said when these things start, no one ever says, we go this far and stop, there's never a stopping point. And so it is with progressivism. Change until everything is destroyed.
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Rational self interest says that individually, every person will desire to do what they view as best for them. In aggregate (as a society) that sum isn’t necessarily good for the group. Nor other individuals within the group. That continuous striving by individuals (often times working cooperatively) is what “you” view as progressivism. It is aggregate self interest. Others might just view it more generically as “change”. Adam Smith described it as “the invisible hand”.
Not that it matters, but I view it all as a big Rugby scrum, with a whole bunch of muscle pushing the mass all over the place, for eternity. There is no stasis. Sometimes it squishes in a direction I find favorable, other times not.
Just have to keep my pot of beans full in the face of it.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Rational self interest says that individually, every person will desire to do what they view as best for them. In aggregate (as a society) that sum isn’t necessarily good for the group. Nor other individuals within the group. That continuous striving by individuals (often times working cooperatively) is what “you” view as progressivism. It is aggregate self interest. Others might just view it more generically as “change”. Adam Smith described it as “the invisible hand”.
Not that it matters, but I view it all as a big Rugby scrum, with a whole bunch of muscle pushing the mass all over the place, for eternity. There is no stasis. Sometimes it squishes in a direction I find favorable, other times not.
Just have to keep my pot of beans full in the face of it. Wisdom and truth are discernible and revealing. Truth is unchanging. All actions can be verified by wisdom and truth, freely given to us by God and His Word. It is innate and irrefutable. It is stasis personified in Jesus. JR
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Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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no one ever says, we go this far and stop, there's never a stopping point. And so it is with progressivism. Change until everything is destroyed.
A few years back I read somewhere about the path to Marxism and how to accomplish it. Controlling the schools. Controlling the media. Spend an insane amount. Normalize gays. They have accomplished all. The next thing was promote transsexuals . At that time I thought there's so few of them that I doubt that would happen. Then came Obama and his bathroom edict. Look where we are today. Whoever wrote that was right on the money.
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no one ever says, we go this far and stop, there's never a stopping point. And so it is with progressivism. Change until everything is destroyed.
A few years back I read somewhere about the path to Marxism and how to accomplish it. Controlling the schools. Controlling the media. Spend an insane amount. Normalize gays. They have accomplished all. The next thing was promote transsexuals . At that time I thought there's so few of them that I doubt that would happen. Then came Obama and his bathroom edict. Look where we are today. Whoever wrote that was right on the money. Of course it goes exactly the same way in the other direction of extremism such as fascist hyper conservatism, as we are seeing now and have seen before in eastern Europe, South American, and many other places. Controlling the schools and the media has already become part of this administrations agenda - well it was part of the platform before they even got elected. We are watching the nazification of American today, and for the next 4+ years. And so it is, in these "interesting times". Get your blinders tight, boys.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/
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![[Linked Image from i.ibb.co]](https://i.ibb.co/YhgbkQw/IMG-0416.jpg) The people who wanted mandatory vaccinations, camps for the unvaccinated, wanted to deny medical care and social security to the unvaccinated, have left the building. The handlers of Joe Biden saw that they were pardoned before he left. Along with Biden’s family, for whatever crimes they may have committed. Only a complete fool would believe Joe Biden had anything to do with this. January 20 was truly the high water mark in the history of the democrat party, higher than Jim Crow, higher than the KKK, higher than the internment of US citizens of Japanese decent during WWII, higher than any of their many accomplishments through history. Wonder how many of them realize it? Few, I’m guessing. Best, Ted
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It is indeed a great day for America. I have not watched the evening news for years because it just sickened me. I am now watching it again (Newsmax). 'Scuse me, it's almost 5 o'clock. 
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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