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I really do not think that promise will be kept.

The Department of Education will survive Trump. They are actively making moves that are counter to the kinds of moves you would expect with an entity you want to kick to the curb.

Software QA engineers have been disappearing for years now because of Selenium and Eggplant and competing technologies just like this.

Eggplant is actually now getting even more advanced by .... integrating AI. Selenium will likely do the same.

Yeah, Andrew Breitbart’s influence isn’t as strong as it used to be.

Let’s not forget. Breitbart joined conservative protests and led conservative protests and spoke at them. There’s both videos and pictures of this. To state it plainly, a part of the Breitbart legacy has been explicitly and aggressively rejected.

These days everybody is back to their toxic old 1990s mindset that we should be uninvolved for 729 days until election day.

The Breitbart model is far superior. We need our Tea Parties back. We need an engaged populace.

When there is an engaged populace, there is pictures of it. There’s proof of it. You can see it and you can go join it.

The core problem with what you are saying is the myopia of what its rooted in.

There is no such thing as a non-hostile journalist. They’re all ideologues, all of them. Some of the deepest most hard core indoctrination in universities is in the journalism classes.

This makes up a core of progressivism, they are not going to skimp on making sure they can produce their false narratives and in order to do that the machine needs to be top notch here.

But its more than that. The pen is more powerful than the sword. That’s a simple enough fact, but the reality is that then makes the journalist more powerful than the politician.

You can fire the whole staff, but then you’re left with no new staff to hire on the other side. A paper without anybody at all working there is nothing.

It’s very helpful for understanding, in a short study of Journalism Will Irwin did a number about “the power of the press”

Here is the audio book of that study, and that section about the power of the press is a section that I recorded myself. It explains a lot about this.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4200003/posts

Its a long read and audio book but Public Opinion is really an expose from a Journalist’s point of view in regard to how he can manipulate public opinion through controlling the picture in people’s heads.
https://librivox.org/public-opinion-by-walter-lippmann/

It don’t matter.

Apple buyers will keep buying Apple and that includes people living on this forum.

All of the big tech companies but especially notably Google, Apple, and Microsoft will never be hit by GoWokeGoBroke. They have achieved exemption status.

And its going to continue.

Watch as Trump doesn’t endorse conservatives - he just went out there and endorsed Linda Graham.

A Trump endorsement of Graham perpetuates our long term Congressional problem. I might even go so far as to say another 6 years of Graham in the senate is an absolute disaster. That seat in South Carolina is utterly WASTED on what is otherwise realistically a very liberal republican senator.

It has always been congress, at least in the modern era of the last 100+ years.

This was the whole point of the progressive ideology to begin with was to remove the relevancy of our elected officials by making them choose to be irrelevant.

Congratulations, they are irrelevant.

Congress does not want to abolish any progressive agencies such as the Department of Education because then that would mean that congress would have to start doing the job of a congress again and they do not want to do that.

The biggest mistake we conservatives have made in the last 50 or more years was abandoning the Tea Party, which was mainly congress-focused. But nobody in the voting pool wants to fight. They want to watch football, and not be bothered by any of it until election day. Then they want 729 days off.

Freedom does not work that way. It requires constant involvement.

They promised to abolish the Department of Education altogether.

Instead, we’re just getting more entrenchment of the deep state.

Trump usually does not endorse conservatives.

He wants malleable people who are basically do-nothing.

Once Trump is gone in 3 years we’re screwed because we’re going to have a bunch of do-nothing republicans who are malleable and let the democrats do whatever democrats want to do.

Perhaps someone needs to say it:

The National Weather Service ought to be abolished. Why is this a government function at all? Private entities are capable of doing this.

Government doesn’t need to nationalize every last thing under the sun.

Not really, this line of commentary relies on a fallacy.

Britain, for example, is not a democracy. It is a monarchy. Constitutional monarchy, yes, it has elections yes, but ultimately it, is, a, monarchy. That is what it is.

Having elections does not make you a democracy.

Likewise, people on the left will give you everything you need to prove that the U.S. is not a democracy either. They will point to the undemocratic nature of the U.S. senate. Uh huh, that’s republic. The undemocratic nature of the electoral college. Uh huh, again.

At bottom there is only one answer. Is Britain a democracy or is Britain a monarchy? It is a monarchy. That is the answer - the answer. That is what is at the bottom. The same could be said for Cuba, China, and many others. Communist governments are neither “democracies” nor “republics”, they are somewhere in the range of oligarchies or simple plain dictatorships and yes many hold elections. They are not a democracy.

Likewise, the systemic thwarting of the will of the majority that exists not only in the U.S. constitution as well as in all 50 of the state constitutions is by design. That’s republicanism. You cannot have systemic thwarting of the will of the majority in a democracy.

At bottom the U.S. is every bit a republic as much as Britain is a monarchy. Neither is a democracy. Both “have a” democracy. “Having” and “being” are entirely different.

This puts on display everything that is wrong with the GOP.

They treat conservatives like our votes do not matter.

“Typical of moderate Republicans, Bush fiercely fought back any insurgence from the right (e.g., Buchanan). Dole also attacked his right.

Moderate Republicans always attack their right, then “reach across the aisles” to the left “in a spirit of bipartisanship.””

Yup. You nailed it.

And the greatest weapon the GOP Establishment has against us conservatives is the “any republican is better than any democrat” line.

It works every time. It’s been decades, DECADES, since Perot. We’ve never had more than 3 or 4 good solid Senators at one time in all of that time.

Lindsey Graham is just about to get re-elected, watch. It is going to work yet again.

The only way this is going to work is to do more heavy lifting to get rid of GOP Establishment operators like Thom Tillis and John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham, but.....

I know people are not going to like this but they should,

We need more Ken Paxtons and more Ted Cruzs and more Thomas Massies.

It shouldn’t be unpopular but it will be. So I guess, bring it.

If we have a party full of useless Romney people like we do right now then it doesn’t matter what trap Trump sets, when the Democrats step on it it will be useless since nobody will take advantage of it. The media will cover it up and do clean up and then it’s over with. A wasted good opportunity. We have seen dozens of them over the decades come and go.

There simply isn’t any reason why we have 50 senators and like 3 of them are reliably conservatives. It JuSt DoEsNt MaKe AnY sEnSe. Why don’t we have like 25 or 30 really good fire breathers out there?

Sadly, almost nobody has a thing to say about the wonderful life of Joseph Warren.

More, here: (one of our creations)
https://librivox.org/life-and-times-of-joseph-warren-by-richard-frothingham-jr/

The long game of creating open source Founder audio books we have engaged in is going to do more to restore American knowledge about the Founding Fathers than most other efforts.

PragerU will likely always be ahead of us to be sure, also Hillsdale. They are the only two I can think of. The schools stopped teaching about the Founders generations ago. I wasn’t taught about them.

But since today is Independence Day, here is an audio book we created, free and in the public domain, about every one of our Founding Fathers along with an in-depth analysis of the Declaration of Independence and what each of the 27 grievances stands for:

New audiobook release: Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4293433/posts

Abolish.

Do not replace.

Leave it to the states. 10th Amendment.

Yes, but the spigot still exists.

The spigot has not been abolished. Which means the spigot can simply be turned on again at a later time.

Yes, temporary fixes are wonderful. But let's be sober, not drunk, and keep in mind that it remains temporary.

“There’s a shock. Mr. “You Didn’t Build That” “We need to spread the wealth around” is opposing the Communist?????”

Not a shock. Progressives always supported redistribution but were the originators of the Red Scare.

Bouncing off of the comment I recently made to you: (This intended as a friendly ping, reply optional)

My personal frustrations with having no more TEA Parties led me down a path that ultimately ended here, audio books. I create them and I am not alone. This is one of our more popular ones having now been downloaded over 43000 times.

There are other works with this keyword: freeperbookclub
https://freerepublic.com/tag/freeperbookclub/index?tab=articles

This is a great way I teach people the life and importance of John Hancock.(rinse/repeat with respect to our other audio books)