Posted on 10/05/2023 4:47:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After mid-terms, Biden resumed his attack on once bad, then good, and now bad again fossil fuels—at least until '24.
One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions.
Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border.
Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advantage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be new constituents.
Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more Joe Biden and his Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas flat out lie that “the border is secure.”
They both live in a world of make-believe, passed off to the American people as reality.
And the more the Americans are lied to that the border is secure, the more they poll—currently 77 percent—that it is not.
Biden apparently has reversed course and begun using the former pejorative “Bidenomics” as a term of pride.
He now praises this three-year effort to borrow $6-7 trillion, and spike interest rates threefold to 7% on home mortgages—even as prices on essentials like food and fuel have spiked 25-30% since he entered office.
The more that Biden brags about what he did to the economy, the more people poll—over 60%—dissatisfaction with his alternate reality of “Bidenomics.”
Do we remember the humiliation in August 2021 in Afghanistan?
The more Gen. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Joe Biden assured that the American military presence was stable, the more swiftly it crumbled and descended into the worst mass flight of an American army since Vietnam.
Consider natural gas and oil. The Biden administration waged war on both by canceling pipelines, drilling on federal lands...
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They will actually fight to deny truth and defend their fantasies.
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Did we think God’s judgement would be painless?
MUCH WORSE will come...
Reality — and truth — are foreign (and unacceptable) concepts (and values) to the Democrat/Communist Party Left. This is just a fact of life ... even beyond politics.
“”their descent into fantasies””
“Hey! You’re Victor Stanislav, the national weightlifter champion!”
“I’m a woman.”
“Really? That’s one heck of a big package you’ve got there.”
“I’m a woman.”
“Humm. That’s a pretty hairy chest.”
“I’m a woman. I have sensitive nipples.”
Flavius Josephus referred to it as “the madness of innovations.”
I heard it said that this was like the decline of Rome except for the Bread and Circuses.
I would argue they are still there but in the form of mental exercises.
Case in point- Abortion. This is the bread and circus dangled to women.
“Your Body, Your Choice”. Now dance to the tune of a superficial issue as Rome Burns. Turn off your brain and outrage over your choice!!! Then, a we force you to get vaccinated with poison since the choice for what you do to your body is limited to what we need you to care about that creates an issue that keeps us in power.
All the while Oz continues to make a mess behind that curtain. But if ya really need some old tune Bread and Circuses like in Rome, go buy some Starbucks and tune into the View.
All of that was pure fantasy. The alarm was clearly marked. A sign in front of the door warned not to enter. And the door itself was placarded with cautions that any attempt to open it would set off emergency alarms.
No matter. Bowman assumed by calling his critics “Nazis” and using the race card, he could invent a virtual reality.
Despite our epidemic of fantasy, there remains reality.
And we will soon rediscover it all too soon.
Another excellent article from Prof Hanson. This was written before the Xiden administration suddenly tossed aside all of the "laws" and regulations that they used to O Sanctimoniously, tie up Texas and the Trump administration from completing the border wall.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Food has gone up more like 70-100 percent.
ALL that should matter is that the current crop of Eight Million Illegal Immigrants GURANTEES that the DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD MACHINE will have sufficient votes to win any election at any time.
The fact that any of these Illegals have Govt ID should be proof enough that DEMS are spooling up VOTER FRAUD on a massive scale.
The big problem we have here is people simply parrot the same governments statistics
The US Governments inflations stats are a lie and have been since 1999. Real inflation in every day necessitates like food and energy are 100% or higher over prices in 2019
The US Gov keeps the real inflation rate hidden by picking a revolving “basket of goods” to project a fantasy number on inflation. They been doing this since 1999.
Why? Because the annual Soc Security Cost of living adjustment is codified by law. If the US Governments had to be honest about inflation the COLAs every year would take ever larger bites out of “discretionary spending” in the US Federal Budget.
Yes, it will. You are so right
There. Fixed it.
Now the traitors need to be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to publicly hang. And the illegal invaders need to rounded up and deported.
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Bowman. There are so many lunatics in the news I can’t keep up.
How much did eggs go up?
“ Now the traitors need to be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to publicly hang. And the illegal invaders need to rounded up and deported. ”
First, you need a very large, well-equipped army…because the traitors have complete, undisputed control of all the levers of government and society.
A faster solution, from a personal standpoint, is just leave it and kick the dust off your feet.
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