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Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021!
American Greatness ^ | 10 Jan, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/11/2021 11:00:06 AM PST by MtnClimber

Hang on. It is going to be Mr. Toad’s wild scary ride for all of 2021.

The proper conservative response to last Wednesday’s violent entry into the Capitol and vandalism, as well as assaults on law-enforcement, is to identify the guilty parties and ensure they are arrested.

Such deterrence will prevent any future devolution from legal popular protests into thuggery. No constitutional republic can tolerate its iconic heart stormed, breached, and defiled.

Is Some Violence Worse than Others?

Of course, there is no such thing as “good” or “acceptable” violence of either Trump supporters or of the Antifa and BLM sort.

Yet the latter were largely exempt from any consequences for most of the summer—despite Joe Biden’s demagogic implication that the now multibillion-dollar funded BLM was treated harshly in comparison to the rogue Trump rioters.

Do we remember the authorities’ exemptions given to “warlord” Raz Simone and his armed thugs who, with absolute impunity, took over a Seattle “autonomous zone” known as CHOP or CHAZ, where four shootings and two deaths followed? Who exactly destroyed or vandalized thousands of state and federal public monuments—some in Washington, D.C.—and burned and looted hundreds of buildings with impunity?

Those who wrongly demanded to defund the police, now rightly deplore the lack of a Capitol police presence. Their only consistency is their own perceived political self-interest.

Biden himself rarely if ever, without exceptions, outright condemned the atrocious violence of Antifa and indeed contextualized it as an “idea”—a disincarnate entity that apparently could magically also burn and loot.

Again, his inaugural call for unity was quickly superseded by his surreal accusations that the police were racist in not quelling the violence. Yet the problem at the Capitol was not that security was racially selective, but that there was not much security at all.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; communism; insurrection; vdh
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1 posted on 01/11/2021 11:00:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How long until mention of election fraud or riot hoax is illegal?


2 posted on 01/11/2021 11:00:18 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Long Live Crazier 2021!

365 days is all it gets.

3 posted on 01/11/2021 11:02:31 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: MtnClimber

Where’s that dang asteroid?!

Can we hurry it up!?


4 posted on 01/11/2021 11:02:42 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: MtnClimber

I had the misfortune to hear 60 Minutes intro yesterday

All the standard DNC lies

Yet we know millions of fools believe their lies


5 posted on 01/11/2021 11:03:33 AM 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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To: MtnClimber

I’m in. Bring it on.


6 posted on 01/11/2021 11:04:16 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: MtnClimber; All

speaking of fraud- what in the world is going on in this video of kamamalaman supposedly getting the vaccination?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tC-pmg5W0Zc

IF this is true, then it looks like she didn’t get anything- IF it is true- Trump should play this video during a rally- and say “Everything about these people is phony, false, fraudulent”


7 posted on 01/11/2021 11:05:13 AM PST by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber
after my 2021 one week trial, i've decided i want my money back...
8 posted on 01/11/2021 11:05:36 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: Bob434; All

ok, they are saying it was just the ‘plastic safety cap’ that flips up over the needle- I’ve had hundreds of shots, blood taken etc- and never had a needle liek that- but meh- it coudl be i guess


9 posted on 01/11/2021 11:07:37 AM PST by Bob434
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To: mewzilla

“Where’s that dang asteroid?! Can we hurry it up!?”

I know, right? Some really good high end booze, good fat cigars and rare steak every night with good friends (and fun women) until...Look! Look! BLAMMO!!!

But, no, we’ll get it slow, dry and humorless...


10 posted on 01/11/2021 11:09:39 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: MtnClimber

“...Of course, there is no such thing as “good” or “acceptable” violence of either Trump supporters or of the Antifa and BLM sort...”

This is not true. There comes a point where we have to be willing to assemble on Lexington Green. And that means we are willing to engage in violence rather than submit to tyranny and dictatorship.


11 posted on 01/11/2021 11:10:37 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini. )
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To: Chode

I never bought in. I am still living in 2017.


12 posted on 01/11/2021 11:11:45 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

If the people of 1775 and 1776 had thought the way VDH does, we’d still be subjects.


13 posted on 01/11/2021 11:14:24 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You get it. Of course in 1775, there were a bunch of printing presses in the colonies and they all could not be shut down by a few zip wads. We may be pack to primitive presses before long for getting out info that is not acceptable to BIG BROTHER.


14 posted on 01/11/2021 11:20:01 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini. )
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To: MtnClimber

good choice


15 posted on 01/11/2021 11:21:05 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Actually, it seems hard to determine what he’s recommending. Nothing, I guess.

But in terms of the election, he’s missing the true problem: Trump and many people objected to the elections, had objections that were credible even to state legislators, and just wanted a chance to make these things public and examine them. In other words, their day in court, which was consistently denied to them. That’s what the anger is about.

The Dems have objected to every election that they have lost in the last 10 years, they’ve refused to accept the results...and they have gotten their day in court when they wanted to go there, which they usually did not because they knew they were lying. But the GOP objects and that’s a whole different matter.

Rather than telling Trump to drop it, Hanson should be urging the Dems to permit the claims to get a fair hearing; even if the GOP lost, at least people would feel that they’d gotten some respect. Although I’m afraid it’s too late for that now, and we’re on an irreversible route to major conflict.


16 posted on 01/11/2021 11:32:29 AM PST by livius ( )
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To: MtnClimber

What might be crazier, would be to read in a modern day ‘graphic novel’ ( aka over priced super artwork comic book) some mean super villian had their eyes on some earthen dam somewhere in the world, for the fun of it.


17 posted on 01/11/2021 11:58:09 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: MtnClimber

2121 may soon have us nostalgic for 2020


18 posted on 01/11/2021 12:04:29 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: The Great RJ

I’ve said basically the same thing to ppl around me for two weeks or so


19 posted on 01/11/2021 12:08:24 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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To: MtnClimber

“So Trump erred in pressing his unrealistic claims of winning the election and thereby giving his supporters expectations that the irregularities in the voting would translate into a Trump second term. Again, fairly or not, legally or illegally, rightly or wrongly, that simply was never going to happen. To insist that it would was to mislead his most loyal base. And the disconnect from the finality of November 3, may have contributed to a Republican Senate lost in Georgia, and, for now, has clouded his legacy of real achievement.”

Somebody had to say it.


20 posted on 01/11/2021 12:28:44 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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