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Victor Davis Hanson: The Logic in All the Madness
American Greatness ^ | 24 Jun, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/24/2024 4:21:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Biden administration's agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as unpopular as the wreckage they wrought.

Most Americans believe it is unhinged to deliberately destroy the border and allow 10 million illegal aliens to enter the country without background audits, means of support, any claims to legal residency, and definable skills. And worse still, why would federal authorities be ordered to release repeat violent felons who have gone on to commit horrendous crimes against American citizens?

Equally perplexing to most Americans is borrowing $1 trillion every 90 days and paying 5-5.5% interest on the near $36 trillion in ballooning national debt. Serving that debt at current interest exceeds the size of the annual defense budget and may soon top $1 trillion in interest costs, or more than 13% of the budget.

Why would the United States suspend military aid to Israel as it tries to destroy the Hamas architects of the October 7 massacres? Why would it lift sanctions on a terrorist Iran? Why would it suppress Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack on the Jewish homeland? Why would it prevent Israel from stockpiling key munitions as it prepares to deal with the existential threats posed by Hezbollah?

Why would the Biden administration cancel key pipeline projects and put vast swaths of federal lands rich in oil and gas off limits to production, even as it further drains the strategic petroleum reserve? Why not pump rather than drain our own oil from strategic stockpiles?

Why would the Biden White House’s counsel’s office meet with Nathan Wade, the former paramour chief prosecutor in the Fani Willis Fulton County prosecution of Donald Trump? Why would the third-ranking prosecutor in the Biden Justice Department step down to lead Alvin...

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1 posted on 06/24/2024 4:21:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why would Biden have the Nordstream II pipeline to Germany blown up?


2 posted on 06/24/2024 4:21:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping.


3 posted on 06/24/2024 4:22:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Why? Because they can. Deceptive, irrational, life-destroying EVIL unchecked.


4 posted on 06/24/2024 4:25:08 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
If one is trying to destroy the sovereign United States of America for the coming New World Order, then it all makes sense.



See "Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama" for further understanding

All according to plan.



5 posted on 06/24/2024 4:25:22 AM PDT 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016:_Obama%27s_America

Dinesh D’ Souza goes to root of it in his Obama’s America film.


6 posted on 06/24/2024 4:37:11 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Don't sweat the small stuff refers to avoiding sweating small sailing lines cause they will break)
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To: MtnClimber

“Why would Biden have the Nordstream II pipeline to Germany blown up?”

Don’t believe he did.

Follow the money: Putin blew the pipeline to create a Force Majur to reset NG contracts so Russia could benefit from higher NG rates following the UKR invasion. It didn’t hurt Russia as Russia has many pipelines to countries which can trans ship to Europe. It just needed to create a lack of supply beyond contracted delivery agreements to spike the rates - which blowing the pipeline accomplished.


7 posted on 06/24/2024 4:37:13 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: MtnClimber
"Most Americans believe it is unhinged to deliberately destroy the border and allow 10 million illegal aliens to enter the country..."

"Unhinged"?!?!?!?

It's TREASON!!!!!

8 posted on 06/24/2024 4:42:09 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (The Constitution has a word for that.)
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To: MtnClimber

Victor still can’t bring himself to admit that global and domestic powers are united in bringing the US down.

There he is up in Palo Alto for decades—and he still can’t see the evil emanating from Silicon Valley.


9 posted on 06/24/2024 4:42:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SaveFerris
If one is trying to destroy the sovereign United States of America for the coming New World Order, then it all makes sense.

Yes, it makes sense. They ARE trying to destroy America.

10 posted on 06/24/2024 4:45:09 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MtnClimber

He correctly thinks the purpose is to fundamentally and irrevocably transform America. He’s right.

He says tax hikes and inflation to deal with the debt are possible options. What I suggest are tax caps.

Fighting now in Congress to send a middle-class income and property tax cap constitutional amendments to the states would add the electors of several deep blue states to Trump’s total and make Congress turn deep red come November.

[perhaps]
Federal income taxation shall be capped as follows, on personal income:
below the average yearly apartment rent in the District of Columbia, 10%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the average employee compensation of the 100,000 best paid federal full-time civilian employees, 30%,
below the average employee compensation of the 10,000 best paid federal full-time civilian employees, 40%.

[Note: All percentages to include employee FICA. They would not fully include self-employment tax, so people that pay SE tax might choose to voluntarily invest in the SS system or otherwise arrange for their own retirement funding.]

[Anything that the IRS would as of January 1, 2024 legally be able to collect income tax on if provided to any person would be considered compensation.]

Property tax on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished space shall be no higher the 2019 dollar amount on the property, or for a newer or since resold property what a similar property in the same area would have been taxed at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished living space.


11 posted on 06/24/2024 4:49:19 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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12 posted on 06/24/2024 4:49:38 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Mark17

I think it’s a “religion” for some of these people.

It comes off as if they want a “New World Order” - to hand it to a “messiah”

Even the United Nations has a statue - “Beating their swords into plowshares” - they don’t understand the timelines and events

In the end, they will hand a “New World Order” to Satan’s (anti)”messiah”

But you won’t be able to convince them otherwise.

Until then, the end justifies the means (in their minds)

That’s how I read it.


13 posted on 06/24/2024 4:50:32 AM PDT 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: RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...
From the United Nations website - it all sounds ... "biblical" - a Tower of Babel to "beat swords into plowshares" (the surprise will come)

The United Nations


14 posted on 06/24/2024 4:55:04 AM PDT 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: Mark17

“They ARE trying to destroy America.”

Some RINOs are trying to buy their way into heaven with your money.


15 posted on 06/24/2024 4:56:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Mark17
One guy I know was telling me about this last night - I had never heard of it before


16 posted on 06/24/2024 4:58:25 AM PDT 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
"For the love of money is the root of all evil..."

- 1 Timothy 6:10a KJV


17 posted on 06/24/2024 4:58:40 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: 9YearLurker
[admit that Global and Domestic powers are united in bringing the US down]

Yes. Yes they are indeed. I'd say "for the Beast's New World Order", but that would be crazy talk to say that. I'm sure the World Economic Forum has all of our best interests in the forefront of their minds. /s


18 posted on 06/24/2024 5:02:54 AM PDT 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: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

So the left believes that its new lawfare was well worth the destruction of the entire tradition of equality under the law: 1) Donald Trump has lost a half-billion dollars in fines and legal fees; 2) a court-bound Donald Trump was robbed of weeks of valuable campaign time; 3) Donald Trump can be forever now libeled as a “convicted felon”; and 4) the left has played chicken with the American Constitution and believes it has won, given conservatives would never enter into a destructive cycle of tit-for-tat.

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19 posted on 06/24/2024 5:03:41 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Who is John Galt?; Lady Jag
For LadyJag (gone)

Only this time, the Manchurian Candidate wasn't Liev Schreiber


20 posted on 06/24/2024 5:05:56 AM PDT 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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