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Are They Everywhere or Are We Paranoid?
Belmont Club ^ | February 4, 2019 | Richard Fernandez

Posted on 02/04/2019 3:42:45 PM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 02/04/2019 3:42:45 PM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
Or are people genuinely rising up against bloated incompetence?

WTH? People are rising up against the coming tyrannical overlords, the communist, marxist and socialist dictators would would destroy the Constitution, wipe out the last vestiges of our freedom and enslave us all. WHO CARES if they are incompetent or not? This is an existential war for the survival of the US as founded.

2 posted on 02/04/2019 3:47:19 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: billorites

petrels


From google...

The word petrel comes from the Latin name for the Christian Saint Peter, and refers to the habits of certain species to hover just above the ocean waves, with their feet barely touching the water, thus giving an appearance of walking on water, as St. Peter is said to have done.


3 posted on 02/04/2019 3:50:33 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: billorites

It works, so they keep using it! racism.

We should riot over obama and the left calling us toothless, dumb, deplorable, clinging to our guns and Bibles.....

Do any of you remember amos and andy? or the black guy on Margie? or...
the left has become unhinged over nothing.. except it seems to work...
I’m really weary with adults getting feelings hurt all day over something. It’s childish.


4 posted on 02/04/2019 3:52:02 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

WTH? People are rising up against the coming tyrannical overlords, the communist, marxist and socialist dictators would would destroy the Constitution, wipe out the last vestiges of our freedom and enslave us all. WHO CARES if they are incompetent or not? This is an existential war for the survival of the US as founded.

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You are absolutely on the mark!


5 posted on 02/04/2019 3:52:48 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Pro"lost 3 million people"gressives have diseased minds.)
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To: billorites

The dems are the kkk people... they fought losing their “workers”.


6 posted on 02/04/2019 3:53:35 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: frnewsjunkie

What ever happened to “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!”


7 posted on 02/04/2019 3:55:11 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: billorites
SOCIETY ISN'T THE PROBLEM, THE MEDIA IS THE PROBLEM!

THE MEDIA ARE THE EVIL DEEP STATERS, AND THEY DECIDE WHAT'S NEWSWORTHY. RINSE AND REPEAT!

Until the masses begin to realize that the media and the DEEP STATE GLOBAL CABAL are interchangeable terms, the shaping of a the ANTI-TRUMP REALITY continues..

8 posted on 02/04/2019 4:05:22 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...this can hardly be persuasive to true believers for whom gender, race, and sexual politics explain history. For them abortion, high taxes, and a giant state are articles of faith and challenging them is evil. Words, arguments, or symbolic proofs are largely useless against strongly held beliefs. Only experience can falsify -- and only temporarily -- cultic belief. In this respect, Venezuela is also instructive. It changed. For decades Venezuela's poor held loyal to the belief that the socialists were on "their side." Now they are fighting Maduro. How did this turnabout happen?

...The most telling indicator of socialism's fall in Venezuela is that forces have flipped. Now it is the poor who challenge Maduro and the Russian- and Cuban-supported military that props up the regime. One way to understand this is that the burn through moment in Venezuela occurred.

This might also throw light on why Hillary failed precisely at the very moment the dream seemed close enough to touch. At that instant it was clear enough to see.
Thanks billorites.

9 posted on 02/04/2019 4:07:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: billorites; Albion Wilde; lightman

I yearn for the return of a Larry Summers to the presidency of Harvard!!!!

In the most recent issue of “Colloquy” (from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) the featured article is about “gender fluidity”.

https://gsas.harvard.edu/colloquy-magazine/winter-2019

https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/colloquy/winter-2019/clear-identity

Then there is another article about a similar subject including “gender neutral” bathrooms in the Harvard Houses:

https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/colloquy/winter-2019/word-power

Also included are articles on what is essentially a new “dean for diversity”.

There is only ONE solid article featuring excellent scholarship—written about a woman, of course:

https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/colloquy/winter-2019/elevating-spirit

When I was at the Harvard GSAS, the focus was on hard work, research and scholarship! “Gays” were called Queers and were very seldom mentioned, and anything about “Transgenders” and “diversity” was not even conceived of!!!! That’s the way it should be!

Of course, once the “transgender” and “diversity” genie is out of the bottle, it is hard to put it back!!!

In any case, Harvard should refrain from sending their evil swill to old (and young) alumni who might even be conservative Christians who are trying to lead a moral life—sinners thought we are!!!!


10 posted on 02/04/2019 4:13:35 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: billorites

The whole racialist/sexist meme has become ludicrous and anti-rational. Clearly, many people don’t have enough to do.


11 posted on 02/04/2019 4:16:47 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: billorites

“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”

— Lt Gen Chesty Puller


12 posted on 02/04/2019 4:17:51 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: billorites
The last four baseball teams to allow black players were New York (Yankees), Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston. The Phillies were the last team really to use black players after allowing a few to stop for a cup of coffee.

So, are all those cities racist too? For what happened in the 1950's?

13 posted on 02/04/2019 4:37:15 PM PST by colorado tanker
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Clearly, many people don’t have enough to do.

I think the current generations have had it too soft -- no global devastation of World War or a decade-long Great Depression. People in the West are far too wealthy and have far too much free time which allows them time to pursue frivolous garbage. There's a real lack of seriousness afoot throughout the Western world.

I fear that sometime in the future we are going to pay dearly for this ridiculous lack of seriousness and attention to frivolous BS.

14 posted on 02/04/2019 4:46:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: frnewsjunkie
And now the SJW's are saying that Mary Poppins is racist because a picture showed Julie Andrews in full costume with some soot on her face.

That's right: soot.

This world has gone fully and dangerously stupid.

15 posted on 02/04/2019 4:52:48 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: sparklite2

Didn’t know the origin of the word `petrel’. Thanks.

Then there’s the Monty Python sketch about the theater snack vendor “Albatross, I’ve got this albatross!” Once it’s sold the vendor sings out,

“Stormy petrel on a stick! Gannet ripple!”


16 posted on 02/04/2019 4:53:04 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: billorites
In this respect, Venezuela is also instructive. It changed. For decades Venezuela's poor held loyal to the belief that the socialists were on "their side." Now they are fighting Maduro. How did this turnabout happen?

I'm so sorry I even read this article/post/whatever it is.

How did this happen? Anyone who's studied the different forms of government and economic systems knows the answer: Socialism came to its inevitable and natural end. Period.

Hungry people REVOLT in order to survive.

Duh.

17 posted on 02/04/2019 4:56:49 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: billorites
Now there are racists and Nazis everywhere...because those against whom the charges are thrown take them seriously instead of as gambits to shut them up and distract them from their own points - the best response to such charges should be a simple "Bullsh*t - now, as I was saying..." - not easy to do, especially with the MSM so overwhelmingly trying to make the pejoratives the focus of attention, but in the end a better path than apologizing, appeasing, and backing down...
18 posted on 02/04/2019 5:04:09 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: colorado tanker

Nobody remembers that the Bruins were the first NHL team with a Black player (1957) and the Celtics were one of the three NBA teams that took the first black players (1950) or that the Boston Braves had an African-American player in 1950, before many other MLB teams did.


19 posted on 02/04/2019 5:07:22 PM PST by x
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To: usconservative; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void

[ This world has gone fully and dangerously stupid. ]

Just the kind of world conditions needed for a one-world-government and the Antichrist. (and the religious false prophet)

Destroy tradition, destroy borders, rewrite everything, make everything an offense, stifle independent thought and speech, promote globalism, blame everything on “The Jews” and end national sovereignty.

And go cashless. How’s about a world currency? A one-world curency?


20 posted on 02/04/2019 5:11:09 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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