“On a second iconic occasion on May 7, 1940, Amery voiced even stronger views — again, widely held by the public, but rarely voiced by the timid political class.
The inept Chamberlain government had just lost a winnable Norway campaign to Germany.
Amery responded with a blistering attack on the incompetence of the conservative Chamberlain administration by quoting Oliver Cromwell’s hallmark 1653 order to the Long Parliament: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
Three days later after Amery’s speech and the invasion of France, an ill Chamberlain and most of his advisors resigned. Churchill became prime minister. The rest is history.
We need a voice like Amery’s. Like Britain from 1939 to 1940, America is in existential danger.
The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.
Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.
China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.
President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.
In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.
Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.
Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.
The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.
Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.
The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.
The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.
They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.
To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.
The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.
Most know what must be done, but few will tell the truth: Balance the budget. Return to legal only immigration. Restore a well-funded, but unwoke Pentagon.
Insist on racial unity. Curb the overweening administrative state. Enforce the rule of law.
Produce more gas and oil. Reestablish civic education. Insist universities protect free speech and due process — and stop proselytizing.
In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world. And quit undoing all the great good that eight generations of prior Americans bequeathed to us.
Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infuriated over what is being done to America.
And if he finally stands up like Amery to call out our bankrupt political class, the American people will echo his famous order to this disastrous government:
“Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of G od, go.”
“The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag.
“If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday of the now crisis-level illegal immigrants who continue to flow into the Big Apple.
According to The New York Times, over 100,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022.
Politico explained what these numbers mean for New York:
The $12 billion is the estimate by summer of 2025 if the flow of migrants continues apace with current numbers, Adams said. Administration officials had previously forecast that the cost would reach more than $4 billion by next summer. The new estimation of $4 billion annually for three years is a significant portion of the city’s budget that is currently $107 billion. By comparison, the NYPD’s annual budget this year is $5.8 billion.
Oof.
That’s looking like a serious fiscal crisis. I’d say the problem is a lot bigger than ice cream trucks.
New York is hardly the only big blue sanctuary city now getting hit hard by the tidal wave coming from the border.
The Wall Street Journal labeled this unfolding fiasco the “blue state migrant crisis.”
The Journal cataloged how sanctuary cities and states, from New York to Chicago to the District of Columbia, are now feeling the economic and governmental pressure that’s been a fact of life on the border.
“The political stunt of claiming to be ‘sanctuary’ cities and states that Democrats pulled during the Trump years isn’t fun anymore,” the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote. “They’re learning how Texas and Florida feel. If they want relief, they’ll have to start putting more pressure on the Biden administration by being honest about its immigration failures.”
According to a July report from NBC News4, the D.C. Office of Migrant Services has spent more than $20 million dealing with the illegal immigrant influx, including “$11.8 million on hotel rooms that served as temporary housing for migrants.”
The city stopped this housing program because it ran out of money.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, has declared a state of emergency. She put out a call for Massachusetts residents to house thousands of illegal immigrant families seeking shelter. According to Boston 25 News, Healey said her state is spending “around $45 million a month to help assist these families.”
Massachusetts doesn’t have a sanctuary law, but its courts have effectively made it a sanctuary state, and many of its cities are sanctuary cities.
No surprise, Healey’s asking for federal aid.
San Francisco has an escalating fentanyl problem in large part due to Hondurans making the city a central business hub, thanks to their generous sanctuary city laws.
“In San Francisco, it’s like you’re here in Honduras,” an anonymous drug dealer told the San Francisco Chronicle in July. “The law, because they don’t deport, that’s the problem … Many look for San Francisco because it’s a sanctuary city. You go to jail and you come out.”
This only adds to the increasing misery of a city flush with tech money and little excuse for failure. The illegal immigration crisis has simply magnified its heart of darkness.
“Democratic governors and mayors, mayors in Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, here in New York, El Paso, Brownsville, all of the mayors have been saying that this is a national problem and we need national leadership,” Adams said in solidarity with other blue state leaders. To that, I say: “womp, womp.”
This is a mess of their own creation exacerbated by a White House that has shown no interest in getting serious about its border policies.
Honestly, it’s good to see these Democrat politicians squirm.
The reality is that the Biden administration’s border strategy revolves around keeping the widest door open for illegal entry into the United States on our southern border while saying over and over again that the border is “secure.”
President Joe Biden’s media allies have done their best to dismiss the problem and explain away why the historic numbers of people illegally coming across the border starting almost the minute he became president really isn’t his fault.
Remember the “seasonal surge” theory?
The latest media spin is that Biden magically fixed the border problem after the administration abandoned Title 42 a few months ago and that this was never a crisis at all. Of course, that doesn’t account for the millions of illegal immigrants who have already crossed our border with little consequence in the past few years.
The declaration of victory also seems extremely premature. After a few weeks of diminishing illegal border crossings (during which time the administration just waved in asylum-seekers), the numbers began going right back up.”
“The capital of the most powerful and prosperous country to ever grace Earth is an unpleasant — even unlivable — place to call home.
Over the past decade, Washington, DC, has transformed from a beautiful, bustling and vibrant metropolis into a city that often feels like a ripoff of Batman’s Gotham.
Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.
In the three full years since, it’s recorded 198, 223 and 203 murders.
This year, it’s on pace to bear witness to 256.
All this has been accompanied by skyrocketing crime rates across the board.
The capital has already far eclipsed the staggering number of carjackings that took place there last year.
Worse yet, only 80 arrests have been made in connection with 2023’s 606 carjackings so far.
Prospects are so bleak that Trayon White Sr., a Democratic city councilman who originally voted to lower the criminal penalties for a number of serious infractions — including carjacking and armed carjacking — is calling for the National Guard’s intervention in the carnage.
Imagine telling someone in June 2020, amid the gnashing of teeth that accompanied Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for the National Guard’s use then, that a little over three years later, Democrats would be pining for the same.
“I am tired of burying our children,” White told the press this week.
“We are too comfortable with the state of our city. We must take action to gain control and protect our residents.”
The violence and liberal backlash to it are hardly contained to the capital.
Oakland is on track to double the number of assaults and triple the number of carjacking cases in the city from 2019.
Its NAACP chapter has minced no words in assigning blame for this sorry state of affairs.
“Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals,” asserted the progressive group in a letter.
“People are moving out of Oakland in droves. They are afraid to venture out of their homes to go to work, shop, or dine.””
“FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Allegedly Used Over $100 Million in Customer Funds Towards Political Donations
“He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow.”
“The prosecutors at the U.S. District Court – Southern District of New York allege FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried used $100 million in customer funds towards political donations.
The prosecutors write that Bankman-Fried spent millions “in campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans to seek to influence cryptocurrency regulation.”
The new indictment against Bankman-Fried charges him with seven counts of conspiracy and fraud (Almeda Research is the cryptocurrency trading firm Bankman-Fried also founded):
As noted above, SAMUEL BANK.MAN-FRIED, a/k/a “SBF,” the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money to help fund over $100 million in political contributions in advance of the 2022 election. At BANKMAN-FRIED’s direction, and to conceal the source of the funds used for the contributions, some of the political contributions were made in the names of FTX executives, including Nishad Singh. To conceal the fact that the Alameda account containing FTX customer deposits was a source of the donations, BANK.MAN-FRIED directed that money from the Alameda account be wired to these executives’ personal bank accounts, and that these executives then make donations in their own names. By directing donations through Singh and another FTX executive, BANK.MAN-FRIED was able to evade restrictions on certain types of political contributions, and thereby maximize FTX’s political influence. He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow, which would, in turn, allow the misappropriation scheme to continue. BANK.MAN-FRIED also used these connections with politicians and government officials to falsely burnish the public image of FTX as a legitimate exchange.
The seven counts are:
Wire Fraud on Customers of FTX
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud on Customers of FTX
Wire Fraud on Lenders to Alameda Research
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud on Lenders to Alameda Research
Conspiracy to Commit Securities Fraud on Investors in FTX
Conspiracy to Commit Commodities Fraud on Customers of FTX in Connection with Purchases and Sales of Cryptocurrency and Swaps
Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
Bankman-Fried mostly donated to Democrats and their causes.”
“Tuesday’s election in Ohio was widely portrayed as a victory for the cause of “reproductive freedom.” But more than that, it was a victory for out-of-state special interests.
With the defeat of Issue 1, which would have increased the vote threshold for future state constitutional amendments by ballot to 60 percent, our state remains vulnerable to wealthy out-of-state special interest groups that intend to make Ohio their latest left-wing pet project.
Since Tuesday’s election, the pro-abortion lobby and its media allies have claimed that Issue 1 failed because Ohioans oppose any effort to limit abortion and favor a November ballot measure that would enshrine so-called “reproductive freedom” in our state constitution.
While it is true that the November ballot measure, drafted by the ACLU and other pro-abortion giants, would have been more difficult to pass had Issue 1 prevailed, Issue 1’s failure does not indicate that Ohio voters support abortion until birth—something the November ballot measure would guarantee.
Polling conducted by Harvard-Harris at the height of reaction to the Dobbs v Jackson Supreme Court decision showed that only one in 10 Americans support what the November ballot initiative allows. Marist has surveyed Americans for over a decade and this year, just as in previous ones, a majority of Americans said they support limiting abortion to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy.
Contrary to claims by Issue 1 opponents and the abortion lobby, the November amendment would turn Ohio into a radical pro-abortion regime that is wildly out of step with the views of its residents. With substantial input from the ACLU, an organization with a long and troubling history of targeting parental rights and pushing for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, this amendment would undo parental consent and notification laws in our state and permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including up until the moment of birth.
The amendment does not once mention the word “women,” nor does it contain any age-related language that would distinguish between a minor and adult. It prevents any limits on abortion when the procedure is determined to be “necessary” for the woman’s health. And while proponents erroneously claim the amendment leaves the door open for restrictions on abortion once an unborn child is able to survive outside the womb, they conveniently fail to mention that it is the abortionist who gets to decide whether protecting a woman’s “health” should override any limitations on the procedure. And courts across the country have ruled that “health” can be defined as emotional health, mental health—even financial health—nearly guaranteeing unfettered access to abortion until birth if this amendment passes.
Because of Tuesday’s loss, Ohioans will see wealthy special interest groups flood our state over the next three months with out-of-state money as they aim to pass an anti-parent and anti-woman amendment that would otherwise never make it through the state legislature.
Over $12.5 million of the reported $14.8 million raised by Issue 1 opponents came from outside of Ohio—primarily from liberal strongholds like New York, California, and Washington, D.C—and we should expect more of the same between now and November as dark money groups and coastal elites prepare to pour millions into our state to impose their unpopular agenda.”
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Dems are always fine with dark money groups, as long as they benefit from it.
“The Democrat hacktivist media seems to be actively looking for ways to plumb new depths of shameless hackery in the name of propping up the failed and corrupt Democrat president, his corrupt family, and the hordes of corrupt deep staters working equally feverishly to stifle dissent.
This would get around the clock coverage on all the alphabet channels . . . if it involved the FBI lying under oath about a Republican president’s son.
New York Post: “FBI agent lied under oath about knowledge of Hunter Biden laptop, talks with Facebook, document reveals”
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“Remember how the media covered Nancy Pelosi’s clown show witch hunt of former president Donald Trump? Around the clock coverage of that (literally) made-for-tv kangaroo court in which evidence was tampered with or outright ignored (while Trump was permitted no defense at all)? Well, it was worse than we all thought (and that is truly saying something).
Not that the corrupt Democrat hactivist media will cover this.”
Was the January 6th committee just caught orchestrating a massive illegal cover-up? pic.twitter.com/7mAuVV7wIb
Speaking of media hacktivists, French gets roasted, and other whiners get called out.
A huge percentage of newspaper columns are now thinly disguised complaints about the mean things people say to the columnist on Twitter, dressed up as something more important.
Same is true of this Jamelle Bouie column: all about what his Twitter friends say on Twitter, what his Twitter enemies say about trivial-outside-of-Twitter controversies. As pundits spend their days on Twitter, that's all they can/want to write about:https://t.co/xDuN71k3H3
“Republicans did nothing about Bill Clinton flying to islands with minors
Republicans did nothing about Hillary Clinton smashing devices
Republicans did nothing about James Comey brazenly lying
Republicans did nothing about Andy McCabe plotting a silent coup against a sitting President
Republicans did nothing about BLM raising $100 million and breaking charitable giving laws
Republicans in Florida did nothing about James Biden’s alleged fraud scheme involving a hospital system
Republicans in Arkansas did nothing about Hunter Biden’s myriad crimes
Republicans have done nothing against ANTIFA and their interstate RICO operations
Republicans have done nothing against Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance, or the other fake scientists who promoted lies about Covid’s origins to hide their own culpability
Why would Democrats be afraid of us? They run the country while Republican AGs and DAs quiver in fear and run for the hills.”
Ruling regime is *TERRIFYING* right now, whether it's calls for violence, calls to remove people from ballots, efforts to imprison political opponents, violations of Constitutional protections. Absolute nightmare. And too much of GOP establishment is sleeping/dead/in a coma.
– illegal migration went up after Covid and matched Bush Jr rates. It has started to decline to 3000 per month as opposed to 7000 per month last year. It appears Biden has created programs of legal immigration – Cuba and Venezuela work permits, immigration apps to down load in Mexico to set up appointments and start the paper work early, and family reunification programs. All of which make illegal migration unnecessary.
– the US has/had the lowest inflation in the OECD; inflation was caused by a post Covid supply shock not excess money. Currently inflation is just above 2%, take away shelter costs and its around 1.8% well within the central bank range. Ironically inflation caused by rise in shelter costs is in turned caused by the rise in interest rates, the very thing that is used to lower inflation. Central bankers are overlooking an obvious problem to their solution
– the munitions sent to Ukraine were nearly expired. The military would’ve destroyed them within six months but let the Ukrainians use them instead. This put the US military with a small gap in the supply chain which has probably been fixed.
– Russia is on the move yet Hanson and others criticise Ukraine aid the very place where Russians are moving. China is looking at the US reaction as it looks to Taiwan. The firm stance has led to Xi backing off and he is now pressuring Russia to finish the war.
– Both Russia and China have serious economic problems. Sanctions have caused some problems but the main problem is the inability to export gas which is only getting worse as Ukraine is using marine drones to blockade Black Sea ports. China has a massive housing crisis …whole cities built on state funds sit empty with no buyers and the prices are beginning to drop which in turn will bankrupt both private and state enterprises. In comparison Bidenomics is working.
– the weaponization meme is funny; first DOJ, FBI, and CIA have always been political organisations. There’s over 100 years of harassing leftist, blacks, gays, and other minorities to demonstrate this. Second, sometimes people do commit criminal acts even ones you like.
– People don’t necessarily leave cities for reasons he cites. The cost of living especially housing is what motivates many to move to cheaper places. I’ll retire in a year and shortly after I plan to move to a four season cottage on a lake. By selling my overpriced urban home and buying far enough from the Toronto region, I can live mortgage free. And pay less property tax and insurance in the bargain. I’m not leaving because I live in the poorest district in Canada filled with homeless, petty crime and drug addicts; I’ll leaving because its cheaper to live outside the urban area and with no need for a job, why pay extra.
His solutions are also amusing;
– balance the budget – only a Democrat has done that in my lifetime. And its not necessary
– insists on racial unity? – insist and poof it happens?? Some people’s idea of racial unity is for minorities not to complain.
– enforce rule of law – I think the last few months have demonstrated that nobody is above the law.
– legal immigration – see above for Biden’s new programs
– produce more gas and oil ? The US is the largest producer in the world and is self sufficient
– establish civic education? What does that mean? like Florida?….
The violent crime rate including homicide is actually dropping this year. Obviously still not at its 2019 rate but nowhere near violence of the early 90s. The US is far safer than it was in the 90s. For example NYC had over 2500 murders per year in the early 90s; it now has below 500 while its population has remained relatively stable. Even Chicago has had its per capita rate decline (it lost a million people so per capita is a better comparison)
As for petty crime , it rarely gets reported. I don’t report theft if I’m dumb enough to leave my car doors open at night nor do I report the open consumption of hard drugs I see, our police don’t bother. This along with general infrastructure and service decline is a bigger issue than violent crime. Once a city has outlived its usefulness to capital, it will decay and its tax base will shrink starting a circle of decay and less taxes. Gary, Indiana is a really good example. Sometimes a city will reinvent itself for example Pittsburgh but the tax base and the gov’t support has to be there.
The Ohio opinion piece was written by a Republican lawyer and she misrepresents Issue One and the abortion referendum. First, both sides campaigned on Issue One as a referendum on abortion. The intent was to prevent the passage of the abortion referendum in November by 50+1%. Prior to the special August election, polls indicated that a pro choice victory was more likely than a pro life vote. The 53 to 47 vote will likely be repeated.
Second she misrepresents the amendment. Although its quite vague, those campaign on the pro-choice constantly campaign on “viability” ie 20-22 weeks with very rare exceptions. Living in a country with no abortion restrictions, pro choice groups have stated its virtually impossible to get an abortion past the second trimester…..OB/GYN liability insurance premiums won’t cover doctor and his clinic in those cases. I can see the same thing happening anywhere in the US which is far more prone to litigation than Canada.
The Republican denial to address how abortion is affecting the vote and especially voter turnout will continue to affect them.
I was wondering when a prosecutor would level a RICO charge. A law designed to convict leaders of organised crime without actually directly tying them to a crime. Hence, those complaints about phone calls, texts, messages, meeting don’t understand in a RICO case you need to develop a conspiracy case through what appears to be insignificant events and construct a narrative that leads to a conviction. The irony here is that Trump like most real estate developers especially in the 80s and 90s was guilty of RICO back 40 some years ago.
There’s quite a few “conspiracy” charges which I would classify as filler. However, there’s a number of false statements, attempts to influence witnesses, soliciting a violation of public oath etc that may get interesting. The big problem for Trump will be the phone call where he asked the Secretary of state to finds ballots.
Kirk’s list of Republicans did nothing when …… is very similar to lists of Democrats that did nothing when …… that those left of centre constantly complain about.
McConnell is reaping what he sowed. He’s trying to keep the party as Reagan Republican but that time has passed. He could’ve easily cut Trump out during the second impeachment but he stayed faithful and now that he finally sees where its heading, he starts to assert himself. And now with less power he will be treated just like Pence and others who thought they could use Trump but then became too nervous to jump ship in time.
All of those things you mentioned, texts, phone calls, messages reveal no crimes by any of the participants. Or are conversations the left doesn’t like crimes now too? Apparently, yes.
None mentioned any activity that is illegal. Not one.
Weird. Greg Price’s tweets are no longer available
However, you misread me. I actually find RICO and most conspiracy charges legally suspect. The evidence often consists of proof of mere association. RICO, remember, was devised as a means to convict leaders of organised crime with indirect association with criminal acts.
With 18 co-conspirators, the 98 page indictment will contain a lot of “association” evidence as they need to connect the people. But with some of that, there is evidence of attempted fraud, false statements etc.
I doubt Trump can top a 98 page indictment. I also suspect some of the other 18 conspirators will start to roll.
He’s not wrong….smoke and mirrors in the hands of a wannabe dictator….
Days before I announced my 2024 presidential campaign, Crooked Joe declared on national TV that serious efforts would be taken to stop me from being able to “take power” again.
We’re watching those efforts unfold as yet another one of Crooked Joe’s rogue prosecutors has INDICTED me despite having committed NO CRIME.
This marks the FOURTH ACT of Election Interference in an attempt to keep the White House under Crooked Joe’s control and JAIL his single greatest opponent of the 2024 election.
Even as I face the threat of multiple LIFETIMES in prison as an innocent man, I will NEVER SURRENDER our mission to save America, because the fate of our entire nation hangs in the balance in this election.
AJ – re: the quote that DJ shared yesterday (“If your faith has not pulled you away from your political party in multiple ways, your politics might be shaping your faith more than your faith is shaping your politics.”)
You may not like Erickson, but what about the meat of his words?
This is one of those quotes that those on one side will be tempted to assume should apply to those on the other side, and vice versa. (I’ve already seen that with one friend on Facebook.)
Contrary to the popular belief, most on the actual left like this guy. He’s not much different than Cash or Woody Gutherie (although not as good). Disregard the urban liberals who don’t appreciate actual country music.
Wandering Views 
VDH has a question…..
“Who will say ‘No more!’ to the current madness?”
https://jewishworldreview.com/0823/hanson081123.php
“On a second iconic occasion on May 7, 1940, Amery voiced even stronger views — again, widely held by the public, but rarely voiced by the timid political class.
The inept Chamberlain government had just lost a winnable Norway campaign to Germany.
Amery responded with a blistering attack on the incompetence of the conservative Chamberlain administration by quoting Oliver Cromwell’s hallmark 1653 order to the Long Parliament: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
Three days later after Amery’s speech and the invasion of France, an ill Chamberlain and most of his advisors resigned. Churchill became prime minister. The rest is history.
We need a voice like Amery’s. Like Britain from 1939 to 1940, America is in existential danger.
The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.
Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.
China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.
President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.
In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.
Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.
Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.
The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.
Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.
The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.
The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.
They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.
To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.
The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.
Most know what must be done, but few will tell the truth: Balance the budget. Return to legal only immigration. Restore a well-funded, but unwoke Pentagon.
Insist on racial unity. Curb the overweening administrative state. Enforce the rule of law.
Produce more gas and oil. Reestablish civic education. Insist universities protect free speech and due process — and stop proselytizing.
In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world. And quit undoing all the great good that eight generations of prior Americans bequeathed to us.
Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infuriated over what is being done to America.
And if he finally stands up like Amery to call out our bankrupt political class, the American people will echo his famous order to this disastrous government:
“Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of G od, go.”
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“The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/14/the-bill-comes-due-for-blue-sanctuary-cities/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bill-comes-due-for-blue-sanctuary-cities
“The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag.
“If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday of the now crisis-level illegal immigrants who continue to flow into the Big Apple.
According to The New York Times, over 100,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022.
Politico explained what these numbers mean for New York:
The $12 billion is the estimate by summer of 2025 if the flow of migrants continues apace with current numbers, Adams said. Administration officials had previously forecast that the cost would reach more than $4 billion by next summer. The new estimation of $4 billion annually for three years is a significant portion of the city’s budget that is currently $107 billion. By comparison, the NYPD’s annual budget this year is $5.8 billion.
Oof.
That’s looking like a serious fiscal crisis. I’d say the problem is a lot bigger than ice cream trucks.
New York is hardly the only big blue sanctuary city now getting hit hard by the tidal wave coming from the border.
The Wall Street Journal labeled this unfolding fiasco the “blue state migrant crisis.”
The Journal cataloged how sanctuary cities and states, from New York to Chicago to the District of Columbia, are now feeling the economic and governmental pressure that’s been a fact of life on the border.
“The political stunt of claiming to be ‘sanctuary’ cities and states that Democrats pulled during the Trump years isn’t fun anymore,” the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote. “They’re learning how Texas and Florida feel. If they want relief, they’ll have to start putting more pressure on the Biden administration by being honest about its immigration failures.”
According to a July report from NBC News4, the D.C. Office of Migrant Services has spent more than $20 million dealing with the illegal immigrant influx, including “$11.8 million on hotel rooms that served as temporary housing for migrants.”
The city stopped this housing program because it ran out of money.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, has declared a state of emergency. She put out a call for Massachusetts residents to house thousands of illegal immigrant families seeking shelter. According to Boston 25 News, Healey said her state is spending “around $45 million a month to help assist these families.”
Massachusetts doesn’t have a sanctuary law, but its courts have effectively made it a sanctuary state, and many of its cities are sanctuary cities.
No surprise, Healey’s asking for federal aid.
San Francisco has an escalating fentanyl problem in large part due to Hondurans making the city a central business hub, thanks to their generous sanctuary city laws.
“In San Francisco, it’s like you’re here in Honduras,” an anonymous drug dealer told the San Francisco Chronicle in July. “The law, because they don’t deport, that’s the problem … Many look for San Francisco because it’s a sanctuary city. You go to jail and you come out.”
This only adds to the increasing misery of a city flush with tech money and little excuse for failure. The illegal immigration crisis has simply magnified its heart of darkness.
“Democratic governors and mayors, mayors in Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, here in New York, El Paso, Brownsville, all of the mayors have been saying that this is a national problem and we need national leadership,” Adams said in solidarity with other blue state leaders. To that, I say: “womp, womp.”
This is a mess of their own creation exacerbated by a White House that has shown no interest in getting serious about its border policies.
Honestly, it’s good to see these Democrat politicians squirm.
The reality is that the Biden administration’s border strategy revolves around keeping the widest door open for illegal entry into the United States on our southern border while saying over and over again that the border is “secure.”
President Joe Biden’s media allies have done their best to dismiss the problem and explain away why the historic numbers of people illegally coming across the border starting almost the minute he became president really isn’t his fault.
Remember the “seasonal surge” theory?
The latest media spin is that Biden magically fixed the border problem after the administration abandoned Title 42 a few months ago and that this was never a crisis at all. Of course, that doesn’t account for the millions of illegal immigrants who have already crossed our border with little consequence in the past few years.
The declaration of victory also seems extremely premature. After a few weeks of diminishing illegal border crossings (during which time the administration just waved in asylum-seekers), the numbers began going right back up.”
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“Urban progressives blast the unsafe cities that they created”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/13/urban-progressives-blast-the-unsafe-cities-they-created/
“The capital of the most powerful and prosperous country to ever grace Earth is an unpleasant — even unlivable — place to call home.
Over the past decade, Washington, DC, has transformed from a beautiful, bustling and vibrant metropolis into a city that often feels like a ripoff of Batman’s Gotham.
Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.
In the three full years since, it’s recorded 198, 223 and 203 murders.
This year, it’s on pace to bear witness to 256.
All this has been accompanied by skyrocketing crime rates across the board.
The capital has already far eclipsed the staggering number of carjackings that took place there last year.
Worse yet, only 80 arrests have been made in connection with 2023’s 606 carjackings so far.
Prospects are so bleak that Trayon White Sr., a Democratic city councilman who originally voted to lower the criminal penalties for a number of serious infractions — including carjacking and armed carjacking — is calling for the National Guard’s intervention in the carnage.
Imagine telling someone in June 2020, amid the gnashing of teeth that accompanied Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for the National Guard’s use then, that a little over three years later, Democrats would be pining for the same.
“I am tired of burying our children,” White told the press this week.
“We are too comfortable with the state of our city. We must take action to gain control and protect our residents.”
The violence and liberal backlash to it are hardly contained to the capital.
Oakland is on track to double the number of assaults and triple the number of carjacking cases in the city from 2019.
Its NAACP chapter has minced no words in assigning blame for this sorry state of affairs.
“Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals,” asserted the progressive group in a letter.
“People are moving out of Oakland in droves. They are afraid to venture out of their homes to go to work, shop, or dine.””
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And the corruptocrats in DC lapped it up.
“FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Allegedly Used Over $100 Million in Customer Funds Towards Political Donations
“He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/ftx-founder-bankman-fried-allegedly-used-over-100-million-in-customer-funds-towards-political-donations/
“The prosecutors at the U.S. District Court – Southern District of New York allege FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried used $100 million in customer funds towards political donations.
The prosecutors write that Bankman-Fried spent millions “in campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans to seek to influence cryptocurrency regulation.”
The new indictment against Bankman-Fried charges him with seven counts of conspiracy and fraud (Almeda Research is the cryptocurrency trading firm Bankman-Fried also founded):
As noted above, SAMUEL BANK.MAN-FRIED, a/k/a “SBF,” the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money to help fund over $100 million in political contributions in advance of the 2022 election. At BANKMAN-FRIED’s direction, and to conceal the source of the funds used for the contributions, some of the political contributions were made in the names of FTX executives, including Nishad Singh. To conceal the fact that the Alameda account containing FTX customer deposits was a source of the donations, BANK.MAN-FRIED directed that money from the Alameda account be wired to these executives’ personal bank accounts, and that these executives then make donations in their own names. By directing donations through Singh and another FTX executive, BANK.MAN-FRIED was able to evade restrictions on certain types of political contributions, and thereby maximize FTX’s political influence. He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow, which would, in turn, allow the misappropriation scheme to continue. BANK.MAN-FRIED also used these connections with politicians and government officials to falsely burnish the public image of FTX as a legitimate exchange.
The seven counts are:
Wire Fraud on Customers of FTX
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud on Customers of FTX
Wire Fraud on Lenders to Alameda Research
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud on Lenders to Alameda Research
Conspiracy to Commit Securities Fraud on Investors in FTX
Conspiracy to Commit Commodities Fraud on Customers of FTX in Connection with Purchases and Sales of Cryptocurrency and Swaps
Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
Bankman-Fried mostly donated to Democrats and their causes.”
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“Special Interests Won in Ohio Last Week ”
https://www.newsweek.com/special-interests-won-ohio-last-week-opinion-1819213
“Tuesday’s election in Ohio was widely portrayed as a victory for the cause of “reproductive freedom.” But more than that, it was a victory for out-of-state special interests.
With the defeat of Issue 1, which would have increased the vote threshold for future state constitutional amendments by ballot to 60 percent, our state remains vulnerable to wealthy out-of-state special interest groups that intend to make Ohio their latest left-wing pet project.
Since Tuesday’s election, the pro-abortion lobby and its media allies have claimed that Issue 1 failed because Ohioans oppose any effort to limit abortion and favor a November ballot measure that would enshrine so-called “reproductive freedom” in our state constitution.
While it is true that the November ballot measure, drafted by the ACLU and other pro-abortion giants, would have been more difficult to pass had Issue 1 prevailed, Issue 1’s failure does not indicate that Ohio voters support abortion until birth—something the November ballot measure would guarantee.
Polling conducted by Harvard-Harris at the height of reaction to the Dobbs v Jackson Supreme Court decision showed that only one in 10 Americans support what the November ballot initiative allows. Marist has surveyed Americans for over a decade and this year, just as in previous ones, a majority of Americans said they support limiting abortion to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy.
Contrary to claims by Issue 1 opponents and the abortion lobby, the November amendment would turn Ohio into a radical pro-abortion regime that is wildly out of step with the views of its residents. With substantial input from the ACLU, an organization with a long and troubling history of targeting parental rights and pushing for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, this amendment would undo parental consent and notification laws in our state and permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including up until the moment of birth.
The amendment does not once mention the word “women,” nor does it contain any age-related language that would distinguish between a minor and adult. It prevents any limits on abortion when the procedure is determined to be “necessary” for the woman’s health. And while proponents erroneously claim the amendment leaves the door open for restrictions on abortion once an unborn child is able to survive outside the womb, they conveniently fail to mention that it is the abortionist who gets to decide whether protecting a woman’s “health” should override any limitations on the procedure. And courts across the country have ruled that “health” can be defined as emotional health, mental health—even financial health—nearly guaranteeing unfettered access to abortion until birth if this amendment passes.
Because of Tuesday’s loss, Ohioans will see wealthy special interest groups flood our state over the next three months with out-of-state money as they aim to pass an anti-parent and anti-woman amendment that would otherwise never make it through the state legislature.
Over $12.5 million of the reported $14.8 million raised by Issue 1 opponents came from outside of Ohio—primarily from liberal strongholds like New York, California, and Washington, D.C—and we should expect more of the same between now and November as dark money groups and coastal elites prepare to pour millions into our state to impose their unpopular agenda.”
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Dems are always fine with dark money groups, as long as they benefit from it.
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“Nothing To See Here: Sketchy FBI, J6 Committee Misdeeds, and Fake Science, Oh My!
And other things the media under-reported last week.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/nothing-to-see-here-sketchy-fbi-and-j6-committee-misdeeds-and-fake-science-oh-my/
“The Democrat hacktivist media seems to be actively looking for ways to plumb new depths of shameless hackery in the name of propping up the failed and corrupt Democrat president, his corrupt family, and the hordes of corrupt deep staters working equally feverishly to stifle dissent.
This would get around the clock coverage on all the alphabet channels . . . if it involved the FBI lying under oath about a Republican president’s son.
New York Post: “FBI agent lied under oath about knowledge of Hunter Biden laptop, talks with Facebook, document reveals”
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“Remember how the media covered Nancy Pelosi’s clown show witch hunt of former president Donald Trump? Around the clock coverage of that (literally) made-for-tv kangaroo court in which evidence was tampered with or outright ignored (while Trump was permitted no defense at all)? Well, it was worse than we all thought (and that is truly saying something).
Not that the corrupt Democrat hactivist media will cover this.”
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Tons more at the link.
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Speaking of media hacktivists, French gets roasted, and other whiners get called out.
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Destroying even more norms, because Orange Man Bad……
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Swamps are slimy, Dems are slimy, DC is slimy, so is Mitch.
It’s not just Dems, the R party has a slime problem too.
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#USELESS GOP
“Republicans did nothing about Bill Clinton flying to islands with minors
Republicans did nothing about Hillary Clinton smashing devices
Republicans did nothing about James Comey brazenly lying
Republicans did nothing about Andy McCabe plotting a silent coup against a sitting President
Republicans did nothing about BLM raising $100 million and breaking charitable giving laws
Republicans in Florida did nothing about James Biden’s alleged fraud scheme involving a hospital system
Republicans in Arkansas did nothing about Hunter Biden’s myriad crimes
Republicans have done nothing against ANTIFA and their interstate RICO operations
Republicans have done nothing against Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance, or the other fake scientists who promoted lies about Covid’s origins to hide their own culpability
Why would Democrats be afraid of us? They run the country while Republican AGs and DAs quiver in fear and run for the hills.”
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So according to corrupt Dem DAs, and our corrupt DoJ, everything is criminal now, if a Republican does it.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1691294207682453504
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1691304175894757376
Or complicit….
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Hanson has a myopic view of America
– illegal migration went up after Covid and matched Bush Jr rates. It has started to decline to 3000 per month as opposed to 7000 per month last year. It appears Biden has created programs of legal immigration – Cuba and Venezuela work permits, immigration apps to down load in Mexico to set up appointments and start the paper work early, and family reunification programs. All of which make illegal migration unnecessary.
– the US has/had the lowest inflation in the OECD; inflation was caused by a post Covid supply shock not excess money. Currently inflation is just above 2%, take away shelter costs and its around 1.8% well within the central bank range. Ironically inflation caused by rise in shelter costs is in turned caused by the rise in interest rates, the very thing that is used to lower inflation. Central bankers are overlooking an obvious problem to their solution
– the munitions sent to Ukraine were nearly expired. The military would’ve destroyed them within six months but let the Ukrainians use them instead. This put the US military with a small gap in the supply chain which has probably been fixed.
– Russia is on the move yet Hanson and others criticise Ukraine aid the very place where Russians are moving. China is looking at the US reaction as it looks to Taiwan. The firm stance has led to Xi backing off and he is now pressuring Russia to finish the war.
– Both Russia and China have serious economic problems. Sanctions have caused some problems but the main problem is the inability to export gas which is only getting worse as Ukraine is using marine drones to blockade Black Sea ports. China has a massive housing crisis …whole cities built on state funds sit empty with no buyers and the prices are beginning to drop which in turn will bankrupt both private and state enterprises. In comparison Bidenomics is working.
– the weaponization meme is funny; first DOJ, FBI, and CIA have always been political organisations. There’s over 100 years of harassing leftist, blacks, gays, and other minorities to demonstrate this. Second, sometimes people do commit criminal acts even ones you like.
– People don’t necessarily leave cities for reasons he cites. The cost of living especially housing is what motivates many to move to cheaper places. I’ll retire in a year and shortly after I plan to move to a four season cottage on a lake. By selling my overpriced urban home and buying far enough from the Toronto region, I can live mortgage free. And pay less property tax and insurance in the bargain. I’m not leaving because I live in the poorest district in Canada filled with homeless, petty crime and drug addicts; I’ll leaving because its cheaper to live outside the urban area and with no need for a job, why pay extra.
His solutions are also amusing;
– balance the budget – only a Democrat has done that in my lifetime. And its not necessary
– insists on racial unity? – insist and poof it happens?? Some people’s idea of racial unity is for minorities not to complain.
– enforce rule of law – I think the last few months have demonstrated that nobody is above the law.
– legal immigration – see above for Biden’s new programs
– produce more gas and oil ? The US is the largest producer in the world and is self sufficient
– establish civic education? What does that mean? like Florida?….
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The violent crime rate including homicide is actually dropping this year. Obviously still not at its 2019 rate but nowhere near violence of the early 90s. The US is far safer than it was in the 90s. For example NYC had over 2500 murders per year in the early 90s; it now has below 500 while its population has remained relatively stable. Even Chicago has had its per capita rate decline (it lost a million people so per capita is a better comparison)
As for petty crime , it rarely gets reported. I don’t report theft if I’m dumb enough to leave my car doors open at night nor do I report the open consumption of hard drugs I see, our police don’t bother. This along with general infrastructure and service decline is a bigger issue than violent crime. Once a city has outlived its usefulness to capital, it will decay and its tax base will shrink starting a circle of decay and less taxes. Gary, Indiana is a really good example. Sometimes a city will reinvent itself for example Pittsburgh but the tax base and the gov’t support has to be there.
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The Ohio opinion piece was written by a Republican lawyer and she misrepresents Issue One and the abortion referendum. First, both sides campaigned on Issue One as a referendum on abortion. The intent was to prevent the passage of the abortion referendum in November by 50+1%. Prior to the special August election, polls indicated that a pro choice victory was more likely than a pro life vote. The 53 to 47 vote will likely be repeated.
Second she misrepresents the amendment. Although its quite vague, those campaign on the pro-choice constantly campaign on “viability” ie 20-22 weeks with very rare exceptions. Living in a country with no abortion restrictions, pro choice groups have stated its virtually impossible to get an abortion past the second trimester…..OB/GYN liability insurance premiums won’t cover doctor and his clinic in those cases. I can see the same thing happening anywhere in the US which is far more prone to litigation than Canada.
The Republican denial to address how abortion is affecting the vote and especially voter turnout will continue to affect them.
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I was wondering when a prosecutor would level a RICO charge. A law designed to convict leaders of organised crime without actually directly tying them to a crime. Hence, those complaints about phone calls, texts, messages, meeting don’t understand in a RICO case you need to develop a conspiracy case through what appears to be insignificant events and construct a narrative that leads to a conviction. The irony here is that Trump like most real estate developers especially in the 80s and 90s was guilty of RICO back 40 some years ago.
There’s quite a few “conspiracy” charges which I would classify as filler. However, there’s a number of false statements, attempts to influence witnesses, soliciting a violation of public oath etc that may get interesting. The big problem for Trump will be the phone call where he asked the Secretary of state to finds ballots.
Kirk’s list of Republicans did nothing when …… is very similar to lists of Democrats that did nothing when …… that those left of centre constantly complain about.
McConnell is reaping what he sowed. He’s trying to keep the party as Reagan Republican but that time has passed. He could’ve easily cut Trump out during the second impeachment but he stayed faithful and now that he finally sees where its heading, he starts to assert himself. And now with less power he will be treated just like Pence and others who thought they could use Trump but then became too nervous to jump ship in time.
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All of those things you mentioned, texts, phone calls, messages reveal no crimes by any of the participants. Or are conversations the left doesn’t like crimes now too? Apparently, yes.
None mentioned any activity that is illegal. Not one.
It’s a joke, as is your attempted defense of it.
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On Monday, President Trump promises to unveil a “conclusive” report proving election fraud in Georgia.
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Weird. Greg Price’s tweets are no longer available
However, you misread me. I actually find RICO and most conspiracy charges legally suspect. The evidence often consists of proof of mere association. RICO, remember, was devised as a means to convict leaders of organised crime with indirect association with criminal acts.
With 18 co-conspirators, the 98 page indictment will contain a lot of “association” evidence as they need to connect the people. But with some of that, there is evidence of attempted fraud, false statements etc.
I doubt Trump can top a 98 page indictment. I also suspect some of the other 18 conspirators will start to roll.
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He’s not wrong….smoke and mirrors in the hands of a wannabe dictator….
Days before I announced my 2024 presidential campaign, Crooked Joe declared on national TV that serious efforts would be taken to stop me from being able to “take power” again.
We’re watching those efforts unfold as yet another one of Crooked Joe’s rogue prosecutors has INDICTED me despite having committed NO CRIME.
This marks the FOURTH ACT of Election Interference in an attempt to keep the White House under Crooked Joe’s control and JAIL his single greatest opponent of the 2024 election.
Even as I face the threat of multiple LIFETIMES in prison as an innocent man, I will NEVER SURRENDER our mission to save America, because the fate of our entire nation hangs in the balance in this election.
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AJ – re: the quote that DJ shared yesterday (“If your faith has not pulled you away from your political party in multiple ways, your politics might be shaping your faith more than your faith is shaping your politics.”)
You may not like Erickson, but what about the meat of his words?
This is one of those quotes that those on one side will be tempted to assume should apply to those on the other side, and vice versa. (I’ve already seen that with one friend on Facebook.)
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I was amused
https://babylonbee.com/news/country-music-industry-confused-by-man-from-actual-country-making-actual-music
Contrary to the popular belief, most on the actual left like this guy. He’s not much different than Cash or Woody Gutherie (although not as good). Disregard the urban liberals who don’t appreciate actual country music.
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