I wish I could argue with TL on this, any of it. Alas, I cannot.
We find ourselves under more tyrannical oppression than at the time of the Revolutionary War. I’d say that we’re under more oppression than the Soviet population during Stalin. American citizens don’t readily recognize it, because a lot of it’s going on in the background. Whereas Stalin had to send troops to a person’s door, the federal government comes right in, taps into SMART phones, refrigerators, electric meters, Wi-Fi connections and home speakers, which are actually microphones. This is equivalent to having British troops quartering with every family in America and the British didn’t even do that. Instead they recognized people for their opinions toward independence or resistance and quartered troops in their homes. Now, the Feds invade every home, every phone, everything posted or even written on Wi-Fi connected computers, like this one.
Free speech is dead, though many continue to verbalize their opinions, they’re forced to recognize the possible consequences. The wrong words can lead to unemployment and increasingly, with ESG and DEI, outcast, literally exiled from public interactions. It worked during the pandemic and that set up the model for the future of government interactions with the serfs, aided wholeheartedly by compromised corporations, who eagerly sign on to these discriminatory measures in order to receive government grants and positive representations in their increasingly hostile regulatory environment.
Like many readers, I knew somehow McCarthy would cave. I thought that fear of losing the Speaker of the House role through a motion to vacate the chair would deter him from making it too bad, but my understanding is that not only did he give Biden everything he could have wanted from the debt deal, he also agreed to align openly as the uniparty by requesting Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat Leader, to join him in passing the deal in the House where more Democrats voted for it than Republicans. For those 73 Republicans who voted no, well I’d say good job, but that’s the only thing they were sent there to do and they did it. I hate telling someone “good job” for doing what is expected. I usually save that for someone who outperforms.
People like Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene surprisingly voted for the bill. Intellectually, I know they did so for assurances that they would be able to expose the January 6th videos or to be able to bring impeachment charges to the floor for several members of the Biden Administration, but Steve Bannon made a good point when he acknowledged that if they voted for the debt limit increase bill, they don’t have the stomach to fully prosecute anything else; they won’t be able to hold the DOJ or FBI accountable, because they gave away the purse strings to Biden and Jeffries.
When it comes to vacating the chair, McCarthy doesn’t have to worry. Sure, some Republican will call that to a vote, but now we know that a significant part of the Democrats in Congress will vote to retain him. What would be interesting is if they betrayed him on that promise and got enough RINOs to go along and they elected Hakeem Jeffries Speaker of the House in a Republican congress. While that would destroy the purpose of having a majority in the House, who cares at this point when the people have been so thoroughly betrayed?
Not me, for one. God, how I would LOVE to see ’em do precisely that. At that point, even the pretense of a sham of a Kabuki of a fraud would be well and truly finished, beyond any possibility of further debate—even on the part of the most adamant “but muh DEMUHCRACY!!” reality-denialist.
Not just Republicans, either. The House bill that McCarthy went into negotiations with was supported by 75% of the people, including Democrats and Independents. If this were a vaunted “democracy” as they claim, they just proved that it’s not even that.
Most of what is going on in our country is illegal, unethical, or in violation of some operating principle. You just have to find your niche and dig into it. If enough of us who feel betrayed and daily insulted by the woke/DEI/green agenda would do that we would find some means of pushing back that would be effective and could be repeated.
There’s always a workaround, and humans will always find it eventually. It’s bringing enough of them around to wanting to, to finally admitting to themselves that they really need to, that’s tough.
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Hard to argue with much of it. OTOH, there is this nugget of ignorance: “I’d say that we’re under more oppression than the Soviet population during Stalin.“.
Most people have no understanding of living in the Soviet Union. We are not even close to that level for the vast majority. Some, like the jailed J6 folks could argue with that, but that is a few if an unacceptable number.
And Monday I’ll get on a plane and leave the country, no problem. No iron curtain.
Nope, not even close.
Once again, Bernie’s campaign claimed the gulags “paid a living wage.”
Anyone that believes the conditions we are living under is worse then the Stalin Soviet Union is an idiot and should be ignored.
The poorest people in this country are among the wealthiest in the world and free to move about to this day. Just get in a car, in a bus, in a train, or in an airplane and go. Or walk away for that matter.
Did the slaves of Stalin have firearms? No.
Ain’t gettin’ in no airplane if they have you on a “no fly” list, bro!
I, along with everyone else that says “Fuck Joe Biden” are not on that list.
In the Stalin era, you wouldn’t be on a list for saying “Fuck Joe Stalin”, you would be dead. 100% dead. Deader than a door nail. Dead, dead, dead.
Can you see the difference or do you insist upon being “…an idiot and should be ignored“?
You can claim within reason that we are on the road to Stalinism, or worse. You cannot seriously claim we now live in a worse situation than the soviet citizens did under Stalin.
Hell, just go to a grocery store and look around.