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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...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: audiencehall; bibleprophecy; biden; bidenadmin; bidencatastrophe; bidenreich; faceofserpent; faceofsnake; lastdays; paulvi; paulviaudiencehall; prophecy; serpentface; snakeface; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4246311/posts?page=36#36


61 posted on 06/24/2024 7:37:02 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: Erik Latranyi
They are setting America up for a collapse that can be blamed on Trump and the GOP.

Well, for what it’s worth, I have been suspecting, since the 70s, that something was dreadfully wrong in America, though I couldn’t put my finger on it. Now, I see things much more clearly. I think these skanks have been setting America up for a collapse, for decades. Maybe they are now in the final stages of planning for the collapse.

62 posted on 06/24/2024 7:49:53 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: Justa

Let’s ignore Biden’s and Nuland’s promise to destroy it.


63 posted on 06/24/2024 7:57:29 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: SaveFerris

That awful thing is in the Vatican.


64 posted on 06/24/2024 8:15:44 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Yes. Inside the walls of Vatican City, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_VI_Audience_Hall

It shows the dot on the map (lower right) but if you open the map you don’t get the red dot


65 posted on 06/24/2024 8:18:52 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: SaveFerris

OBAMA GIVEAWAYS--GOVT FRAUD AT ITS FINEST---a Muslim get-rich-quick plan.

Obama's Muslim giveaways of our tax dollars (that we know of). Priming the pumps of the Chicago-based Obama foundations: giveaway tax dollars now--collect donations later:

<> $150 billion to Muslim Iran in the nuclear deal...plus the latest handout

<> $2 billion to help half-brother advance Malik's organization---"the Muslim Brotherhood,"

<> $50 million to Malik/Barack's tax-exempt "foundation" in their father's name, in the form of "foreign aid" to Muslim Kenya.

<> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes. Payback is coming due.

<> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African countries.

<>and there's the missing billions attached to Obamacare.

<> Obama gave Michelle $73 million tax dollars "to teach" Muslim girls in Qatar

<> Obama gave Michelle $100 million tax dollars "to teach" Muslim girls in Morocco....the 100 mill is being held in Chicago by the Obama Foundation until "needed" (cue laugh machine here).

======================================

The BIG question is how much these recipients gave back to Obama----foundation donations, high-paid speeches, business deals, jobs to Obama alumni, etc etc etc.

At an Obama Foundation meeting, Obama said he WILL NOT reveal big-buck donors to the tax-exempt foundation.

66 posted on 06/24/2024 8:28:14 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: 9YearLurker

But he lives somewhere between Fresno and Earlimart...and is a peach farmer.

Right in the bowels of hell.


67 posted on 06/24/2024 8:28:25 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Brian Griffin; All

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

The debt must be repudiated.


68 posted on 06/24/2024 8:29:31 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

He’s long been at the Hoover.


69 posted on 06/24/2024 8:31:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Liz

How much longer do ne have to grip our ankles.


70 posted on 06/24/2024 8:48:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Keep on gripping.


71 posted on 06/24/2024 8:55:28 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: OKSooner

Further reading

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/europes-messy-russian-gas-divorce/

Bottom line: Russia made more money from its gas exports after the destruction of NS2. Cui Bono?

Putin just didn’t expect Europe to adjust as quickly as it did. So the advantage was fleeting.


72 posted on 06/24/2024 8:57:46 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Liz

I’ll need another bullet to bite.


73 posted on 06/24/2024 9:07:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SaveFerris

If you go to the coordinates at the top right of the website and go to Google satellite, it shows up with it’s gray-blue roof.


74 posted on 06/24/2024 9:16:08 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Oh, thanks.

I should correct that - it is just OUTSIDE the walls of Vatican City if I’m seeing it up closer now - THANKS!!!!


75 posted on 06/24/2024 9:19:37 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

the LEFTIST legacy media props it all up

cut the cable tv


76 posted on 06/24/2024 9:37:57 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: MtnClimber

WHY?
.
Destruction by Cloward-Piven policies...?


77 posted on 06/24/2024 9:57:30 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: SaveFerris

No, it is inside. Go to “layers” map and it shows the Vatican walls as a black line.


78 posted on 06/24/2024 10:01:15 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Darn - I’ll have to get a nice aerial shot - can you post one please? (max width 600) - thanks!


79 posted on 06/24/2024 10:02:59 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: SaveFerris

Creppy....


80 posted on 06/24/2024 10:03:07 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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