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THE LEFT HAS PUSHED THE ENVELOPE VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Victorhanson.com ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/29/2023 4:14:09 AM PDT by Chickensoup

The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.

The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.

The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely “Russian disinformation.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

The IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct and the agency fired its entire multiyear audit team responsible for investigating Hunter Biden’s purported tax irregularities.

The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden’s appointee Merrick Garland.

California is facing a crushing $32 billion deficit. Yet it flirts with an $800 billion-dollar “reparations” payout to the state’s black residents....

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


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; 2020; 2020election; biden; bidencriminalregime; bidenscandals; bidenvoters; corruptjoe; doj; fbi; hunterbiden; irs; lyingunderoath; perjury; vdh
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The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.

The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.

The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely “Russian disinformation.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

The IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct and the agency fired its entire multiyear audit team responsible for investigating Hunter Biden’s purported tax irregularities.

The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden’s appointee Merrick Garland.

California is facing a crushing $32 billion deficit. Yet it flirts with an $800 billion-dollar “reparations” payout to the state’s black residents....

1 posted on 05/29/2023 4:14:09 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

And do not forget that almoat 1/2 the population in this country supports some or all of the chaos mentioned in this article.


2 posted on 05/29/2023 4:18:52 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Chickensoup

Great googa-looga, can’t you hear me talking to you
Sayin’ ball of confusion
That’s what the world is today, hey, hey.....


3 posted on 05/29/2023 4:24:39 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Chickensoup
The Left has to go to the extreme because it is not based on a foundation of equilibrium or reality. The Left has no natural limits.

The Right OTOH is fundamentally a practical ideology. Its principles are "let's do what's right" (morally/theologically) and "let's do what makes the most sense" (i.e., what works and is most efficient). The Right rests on a foundation of equilibrium and balance.

The funny thing about the Righteousness of the Bible and God is that they are perfectly aligned with reality. Violate God's principles and you get sick and die (even if you are a business).

4 posted on 05/29/2023 4:31:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: Chickensoup

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left. Ecclesiastes 10:2


5 posted on 05/29/2023 4:42:38 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Chickensoup

BTTT


6 posted on 05/29/2023 4:45:36 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Chickensoup

VDH Is brilliant. He articulates the issues almost to perfection. Everybody just goes “ Ho, Hum” and next time…..it gets worse. I love VDH, but guys like him look like the play-by-play commentator who is broadcasting the demise of of Republic.


7 posted on 05/29/2023 5:05:23 AM PDT by Old Coach1 ( )
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To: Old Coach1

That is exactly what he is doing.


8 posted on 05/29/2023 5:23:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: RoosterRedux
So true.

It seems that nothing the Left does or proposes is workable, thinkable or efficient...and is NEVER ethical. Leap frogging protocols, breaking the rules and obstructing proper opposition is not government.

It's pretty amazing when you consider that the US is the home of William James’ ‘pragmatism’...the very unique and universally acclaimed American contribution to philosophy.

Doing things wrong and against the common good doesn't work for individuals, for any organization or government. That approach only creates more problems.

However, if you factor power, self aggrandizement and unlimited opportunities for personal gain into the equation...it works for the Liberals in their view of ‘government’.

9 posted on 05/29/2023 5:24:14 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: SMARTY
I think it might have happened (the Left going off the rails that is) when the Right positioned itself closer to all things practical, logical, and common-sensical.

When the Left saw that it couldn't compete on the promise of doing a better job, it decided to win by influencing the minority vote. It hates minorities so it pays lip service to the poor while doing its very best to lie, cheat, steal, and even kill to get and hold power (power that is only for power's sake).

10 posted on 05/29/2023 5:32:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: Chickensoup

So what? They are all still alive.

Having committed the crimes against the Republic they have forfeited their right to life. They are all still alive because Americans are cowards claiming to be civilized


11 posted on 05/29/2023 5:33:02 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: bert

True.


12 posted on 05/29/2023 5:41:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Chickensoup

It is more than a revolution pushing the envelope it is an outright takeover of not just our Nation but the whole world. We are under debt slavery with the Fed in charge. Rogue agencies seek to destroy those that do not agree with them. Kill, steal, destroy is the motto of the one that they worship.


13 posted on 05/29/2023 5:52:50 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: Chickensoup

Pastor announced yesterday our next series of sermons will be on ‘the end times’

That has special significance now.


14 posted on 05/29/2023 5:55:17 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Chickensoup

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15 posted on 05/29/2023 5:56:36 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Chickensoup

Victor Hanson is a keen observer.

Whatever he writes deserves serious attention.

This column demonizes the left with the FACTS.

Demonizing the left with the facts cannot be overdone, particularly when Elite Stream Media is doing the opposite by lionizing the left with lies.

IMHO there is one summary observation missing from this column.

That observation can be typified by Newt’s Gingrich claim that somehow the debt ceiling agreement was a “victory” which he posted on social media and followed up today with a column published on Fox News website.

Newt Gingrich may not be a leftist, but he might as well be as he has been and still is a collaborator in selling out the republic.

Hanson’s column should’ve have concluded with a question?

Where’s the ORGANIZED pushback from an opposition political party?

There is none.

Newt Gingrich takes a pay check from Fox News which is an arm of the Evil Media Empire of Rupert Murdoch.

Former speaker Paul Ryan may not sign Gingrich’s checks but he might as well as he sits prominently on the Evil Empire’s corporate board.

Hanson is perpetuating a myth that patriots are fighting the hard Marxist left.

They are the enemy, that is true.

But the taking down of this Republic is not solely being done by the Marxist left.

Europe fell in WW II not solely because the evil of Hitler but because of the “collaborators”.

History repeats itself.

This republic is in free fall because men like Gingrich are collaborating with evildoers and claiming victory when they do so.

Evil CANNOT be overcome unless it is first resisted.

Hanson’s brilliant insights beg the question.

Where is the organized resistance to evil?

I can absolutely state where it is not.

The organized resistance to the evils listed by Hanson will not be found on the Evil Media Empire of Rupert Murdoch.

Our GREATEST fight in the 2024 election will not be against the leftists but the Evil Media Empire of Rupert Murdoch which collaborates with evildoers and claims it is a victory.


16 posted on 05/29/2023 6:11:59 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Chickensoup

Make no mistake, (and I know I am preaching to the choir here) everything the Jihad Junta and it’s “useful idiots” are doing is part of the war waged against Christians, Morality, Patriotism, and Civilization. The objectives are clearly spelled out in Alinsky, Lenin, Mao and the other murdering despots of history. Of course now we have “our generation” of these tyrants, Kaiser Klaus, George Soros, Bill Gates, Yuval Harari, and other would be genocidists. There is a common theme around all of their “philosophies..” They want Christians and Patriots DEAD. They are doing their best to see to it that this happens.


17 posted on 05/29/2023 6:23:56 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: joma89

first term of trump he should have gotten rid of all department heads and underlings and replaced them all


18 posted on 05/29/2023 6:26:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Biblebelter
The problems we face are from the checks cashed decades ago. Newt and crew pushed the trade with china, nafta, amnesties, etc etc. Even VDH didn’t hold the line with the power grab for the WOT in the 2000’s. Patriot act, CIA, NSA and FBI expanded powers, growth of .gov at every level. Yet VDH and crew say vote gop, they offer something else. Nonsense.
19 posted on 05/29/2023 6:48:30 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Chickensoup; Lazamataz
As usual, Victor Davis Hanson speaks truth.

The moral, cultural, and political degeneration of the USA is due primarily to the decadence of Western Civilization.

Decadence afflicts all civilizations. Wise men knew it would come to America some day but did not expect it so soon.

In my youth, America was so strong and morally sound that I could not imagine how it could ever come about. Now I know.

The decadence is being pushed and exploited by America's enemies, both domestic and foreign.

There have always been opportunists salivating over the possibility of seizing America and her vast resources for themselves, but never before was it a real possibility. The decadence has weakened America to the extent that they now consider it possible.

Greedy American politicians and other opportunists have long watched for the chance to act.

So have ambitious opportunists of foreign countries.

How could the enormous power, resources, and riches of America not tempt greedy opportunists?

The cultural and moral rot of America has doomed her--unless the American People themselves seize control of their nation and reverse the decay.

Unless they come to their senses, establish America once again on a firm moral and political foundation, reject the rot and decay, and make the USA once again the bastion of strength it has always been, the United States will be destroyed and America and the American People will be conquered, by their enemies, domestic and foreign.

The American People have allowed America to be weakened enough to tempt her enemies to vanquish her. Unless the American People save her, they will.

"We dare not tempt them with our weakness."
John Kennedy

20 posted on 05/29/2023 7:00:50 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We have a choice: darkness and decadence or light and ascendancy. You deserve what you choose.)
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