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The World Goes On While America Sleeps
National Review ^ | 2/10/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/11/2021 8:17:10 AM PST by Onthebrink

Yet few of our leaders are very worried about the existential crises left unaddressed by their obsessions with the ghost of Trump.

Take the debt. It is now nearly $28 trillion, and it is growing by almost $2 trillion a year. No one in D.C. talks about reducing the annual budget deficit. Nor do officials find ways to balance the budget. The idea of paying off the monstrous debt remains a fantasy.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: debt; economy; joebiden; vdh
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1 posted on 02/11/2021 8:17:10 AM PST by Onthebrink
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2 posted on 02/11/2021 8:18:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Onthebrink
The World Goes On While America Sleeps ....

Sleeping... obsessed with identity politics, shutting down our hard-won energy independence, turning the military inside out, and sham impeachment proceedings. Ugh...

3 posted on 02/11/2021 8:21:38 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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The elite masters of the universe are doing just fine.

The middle class, meanwhile, is dutifully allowing itself to be herded into the abyss.


4 posted on 02/11/2021 8:27:39 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: Onthebrink

Some kids break into the county courthouse one night.

They decide to have a trial against Mrs. Smith, their teacher.

They call her and tell her to come to the trial.

She hangs up on them.

Is it real because the children want it to be real?

They’re having their trial in a real government building.

They call the judge to have him come to their trial.

The judge refuses.

What should the judge do now?

He should tell the little dirtbags to knock it off and go home.

What did Justice Robert’s do?

He allowed the Democrats to make a mockery of the entire American justice system.

Roberts is a coward.


5 posted on 02/11/2021 8:31:49 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Debt is soaring, jobs are ending, cancel culture is spreading like a virus, and China is laughing....

That's about the size of it.

6 posted on 02/11/2021 8:36:16 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Right. They have given up holding their breath.

I think that pretty soon, the rest of the world will revert to type. That means they will re align themselves respective to one another and to what the US has become, since the coup.

They have been doing that with each other for centuries and now, the US is just another obstacle to their security and prosperity, which ever means more to them and depending on their proximity to either Communism or Terrorism.

They will all have to reassess their priorities and assume another posture toward us. We are surely perceived as unstable and unreliable. Worse too, as the current administration goes forward.

Now we are just another unprincipled thug in the world of unprincipled thugs they have been forced to endure and deal with for so long.

All bets are off right now.


7 posted on 02/11/2021 8:37:18 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: BrexitBen
The elite masters of the universe are doing just fine.

Safe behind the walls of their mansions, getting richer day by day. A reckoning is coming.

8 posted on 02/11/2021 8:37:26 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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“Roberts is a coward.”

Roberts is an owned pawn and a collusionist in treason against POTUS, COTUS and We the People.


9 posted on 02/11/2021 8:37:59 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Onthebrink

Obtaining information is very difficult. Foreign news is also sanitized even in their own papers in German and French.

Weirdly enough, the Spanish news channels seem to cover more than the nets.


10 posted on 02/11/2021 8:42:24 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Onthebrink

How can they talk like this when BIPOC trans persons of color are being offended by perceived microaggressions of inequity against their agency?


11 posted on 02/11/2021 8:43:54 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: blueunicorn6

I don’t understand this. John Roberts is not there. He refused to be part of a sham impeachment. How then are you critical of his not playing along with Democrats on this?


12 posted on 02/11/2021 8:45:46 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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In our nation, one person is seen as representing our entire system of justice.....

The Chief Justice of The US Supreme Court.

Justice Roberts.

It was his responsibility to try and stop this mockery of our justice system.

He should not have taken the job if he can’t do the hard stuff.

He should walk in to the impeachment farce and tell them all to leave.

That is what he should do.

Would it be hard?

Yep.

Doing the right thing can be hard, but necessary.


13 posted on 02/11/2021 8:53:15 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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It is now nearly $28 trillion...

Plus $125+ trillion in unfunded liabilities.

It no longer matters. Congress could spend $500T. They could do a Covid lockdown, and just pay Americans $2000 per person per month, while they eventually die from The vaccine.

This money is coming, ultimately, from DS bankers. It will never be paid back, thus, no matter if they print another $1T or $10T or $100T.

One of the many consequences of not having the money supply tied to Gold.

14 posted on 02/11/2021 8:54:28 AM PST by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: blueunicorn6

That would have been great to see him say this is an illegal proceeding. Liberal heads would have exploded.


15 posted on 02/11/2021 8:55:27 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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It is not enough for him to merely grab his glove and go home.

He is in this game.

It truly is his game.

He needs to stand up and represent American justice and the American people.

Instead, he walked away from his responsibilities.

He is worse than a coward.


16 posted on 02/11/2021 8:57:10 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Absolutely correct!


17 posted on 02/11/2021 9:04:04 AM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: Rummyfan

As a result of this stolen election a war is coming. One where we tangle with China and will probably agree to an armistice like France in 1940 in regards to the Pacific and the world. We will withdraw and the dollar will no longer be the reserve currency of the world destroying whats left of our economy. Our leaders in government are traitors and the US military at the senior staff couldn’t fight their way out of a burning outhouse if trapped inside. They are too busy playing politics to be warriors.

The result of this war will be a civil war in America when the elites try to explain their 30 years of disastrous decisions and why they got tens of thousands of the sons and daughters slaughtered in their losing war with China. If that happens then lookout for a French Revolution chasm where the elites are truly made to pay because the middle class will be provoked to utter fury.


18 posted on 02/11/2021 9:17:15 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Onthebrink

“No one in D.C. talks about reducing the annual budget deficit. Nor do officials find ways to balance the budget.”

Yes, because anyone with a brain who does the math will soon realize that short of a miracle, we’re never going to pay down the debt. We had a window to do it but the Republicans putzed around as usual until that window closed.

Now we might as well enjoy the easy money until we go bankrupt.


19 posted on 02/11/2021 9:26:35 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: SMARTY

I think we’re going to see Russia as the big winner in this shake up, because compared to the pseudocommies in control of China and the US, the ex-commies in control of Russia seem at least predictable, consistent and somewhat reasonable in their demands.

It’s like having to pick between 3 criminal syndicates to pay extortion to. If you have to pick one, you pick the one who is going to screw around with your business the least and not shoot up the whole neighborhood and turn it into a war zone.


20 posted on 02/11/2021 9:33:05 AM PST by Boogieman
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