Victor Davis Hanson: Our Razor’s Edge

American Greatness ^ | 28 Dec, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MtnClimber]

For weeks, the American people have been relatively silent as they digested these ongoing catastrophes. But at some point, their patience will run out.

At the end of the year, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up.

Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial untruths of some eight years that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s various get-rich-quick schemes.

All were predicated on the perception of foreign interests purchasing from the Biden family the influence of then-senator, vice president, and possibly soon-to-be President Joe Biden.

The Bidens now risk exposure to criminal charges of multimillion-dollar tax fraud, perjury, influence selling, and bribery as congressional committees and a special prosecutor unravel years of tangled-up quid pro quos.

A newly indicted Hunter remains reckless and unpredictable. He continues to publicly blame his mounting legal problems on everyone and everything other than his own selfish excesses.

Hunter deliberately involves his family and may even bring down his own father. His tax lawyers have previously threatened to call President Joe Biden to testify on his behalf under oath.

He continues to court public scandal by hawking amateurish “representational” paintings to the quid-pro-quo wealthy and wannabes wishing clout with the White House.

His laptop messages reveal a prodigal son angry that his bagman services were never fully appreciated by his familial beneficiaries.

Hunter’s wayward laptop is a felonious trove of drug-addled, illicit Petronian excess and sex, interspliced with his self-incriminating family communications on the distributions of pay-for-play payoffs.

Hunter’s business aides will be called back to elaborate on their already incriminating testimonies.

The contents of Joe Biden’s various alias emails will soon see new scrutiny.

Given Biden’s physical and ethical frailties, age, and bad polling, the left-wing media and Democratic hierarchy may cease circling the wagons around him.

[MtnClimber]

Why isn’t everyone disgusted by all of this?

[MtnClimber]

VDH ping

[mewzilla]

Because the POTATUS and his family are stooges.

The people we should be hunting are the cabal that installed the POTATUS.

[KC Burke]

I love VDH but Vic does not realize that the Democrat voters don’t care about the Biden criminality.

[ballplayer]

The freaking aholes in in the media! They have been anti American for decades

[Chickensoup]

I listen to his podcasts.

He seems to still have faith in that GOOD LIBERAL.

There is no more GOOD LIBRRAL.

They are all leftists. They all will kill. They may not know it yet. But they will kill.

[COBOL2Java]

For weeks, the American people have been relatively silent as they digested these ongoing catastrophes. But at some point, their patience will run out.

I doubt it. The vast majority of Americans have a talent for self-deception.

We're living in a new Gulag Archipelago

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[eyeamok]

Many of the loudest and most violent anti-Jewish protestors in the U.S. are immigrants, green card holders, or on student visas.

And they should all be deported on the spot.

[Twotone]

Everyone is disgusted. But what do we do about it when we know that even if impeached, the Dems won’t convict & remove him from office. And I was just thinking that people have said the president can actually pardon himself (Trump or Biden). So neither Biden nor Hunter will likely ever face prison time or lose their ill-gotten gains. He’ll pardon himself & his entire family & that will be the end of it.

This one is up to God to punish.

[Phoenix8]

PING

I was getting ready to say something very close. Hansen is WRONG on 1 assertion but it’s KEY.

We Americans are like the proverbial frog in the kettle. We will never awaken to the danger until we are cooked.

Why? because the left won their war of propoganda, Americans now think we are not worthy of defending our identity or someone else will do it when it gets bad enough. Too much devotion on TV and schools to slavery, excessive of capitalism, wars etc and no to very little mention of our greatness.

[combat_boots]

Biden is at the tail end of the end stage.

[TTFlyer]

“Razor’s edge”? What razor’s edge. Fire up the grill, who do you like in the playoffs, I love my new iPhone, coexist!

[Carriage Hill]

“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” — Chris Plante, WMAL, DC.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Hanson is a very smart guy, but he seems to overestimate the moral integrity of the nation.

By now, it should be clear that the majority of Americans are not concerned with things like altruism, statesmanship, or civic pride. Sadly, far too many want the ability to indulge their personal passions, want acceptance of others for those weaknesses, and to freely anounce their prejudices, while those they oppose are silenced.

And in exchange for those, the Democrat party is willing to accomodate them for the power to control the government. Barring an unforeseen catastrophe of gigantic proportions, greater than the pandemic even, this will not be undone.

Fortunately, there are enclaves of responsible people, and so far, we can navigate through the ongoing wreck of society.

[subterfuge]

You seem to be implying Trump stole something.

[Liz]

“The migrant issue is going to intensify” in 2024,
says Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
as the border is overwhelmed w/ global invaders.

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Course the lamebrain Biden is too stupid to figure out
<><>Obrador is colluding with drug cartels to control the ebb and flow of illegals
<><>Biden’s open border policy is facilitating the coming violence
<><>the big plan to takeover America is in progress.

But Biden’s “surviving” son’s got troubles. He’s got no time for anything else like protecting Americans.

[Twotone]

I’m implying nothing of the kind. There certainly has been talk of a president being able to pardon himself, including Trump. Which is why the left is set on blocking him from taking the presidency again. As far as I’m concerned, Trump has done nothing illegal that I know of. But he’s certainly being accused of lots of stuff.

[Lurker]

“His tax lawyers have previously threatened to call President Joe Biden to testify on his behalf under oath.”

Please, Dear Lord, let this come to pass.

L

[Noumenon]

Biden was installed. Like a toilet.