Lakeside Joe pithily welcomes you to Paradise Here Below.
Welcome to Florida — where the sun is loud, the water is everywhere, and the wildlife thinks it owns the place.
Yep, that’s been pretty much the entirety of my personal experience of the place. Well, that and the giant cockroaches.
From what I like to call the Crackpot Right.
“Better be at the front of the etc”? DUDE, hate to have to tell ya and all, but as the primary and preferred target of fanatical Mooselimb murderers everywhere, the Jews have been at the front of your notional “line” ever since the genesis of Pisslam in the late 6th century (!!)—nonstop, without hope of surcease, unless and until the Muzzrats are finally, firmly, and irrevocably brought to heel.
Now go toddle on off someplace else and boohoohoo about the loss of your beloved Ayatollah Khamenei, whydon’tcha.
You remember, this guy:
Well, Katya Sedgwick posted an excellent follow-up.
Democrats immediately threatened to censure the lawmaker citing Islamophobia. The combative MAGA Zionist might have been serious, but he did a variation on the old “the more I learn about people, the more I love my dog” joke—or was it a joke? Kiswani, on the other hand, claimed that she was joking in her original post about the canines, but was she?
Islamic cultures view dogs as unclean, and bar them from entering homes. Stray dogs are treated terribly. For instance, in 2022, the majority Arab city of Hebron in Judea offered 20 Israeli shekels for every slaughtered stray dog. Moreover, ahead of the 2030 World Cup, it was recently announced that the host nation of Morocco is planning on culling three million unsheltered pooches. An ordinary American naturally shudders just thinking about such a travesty.
There is something about this trusty animal that fills our hearts with emotion. It’s like a child, but even more so—a child who is simultaneously very useful and utterly dependent. But it will never grow up to fulfill the natural lifecycle by taking care of aging parents. In any event, a failure to defend such a vulnerable soul is felt deeply and personally.
To an American, the choice between dogs and Muslims—or Jews for that matter—is an easy one. We lived without Islam within our borders for nearly a quarter millennium. To live without dogs, on the other hand, would require a major adjustment for many American households—and an utter nightmare for the lonely and the widowed. It would require a massive rethinking of the family formation and our current standard living arrangements.
Socialist politicians argue that Americans should care for their neighbors regardless of their ethnicity, religion, immigration status, or criminal history. There is an argument to be made about that, yet the most intimate bonds are not between neighbors, but between members of a household, and those include the very first specie to be domesticated—dogs.
PREACH it, sister. Me, I’ll just content myself with a quick recap of what I already said on the topic: jihadi goat-humpers contribute nothing whatsoever of value to our country. We dont NEED them here, we don’t WANT them here, there is no place for them here, let alone in the kind of insane numbers baglapping D卐M☭CRAT scum have been forcing on us the last cpl-three decades.
Their irrational hatred for Man’s Best Friend aside, revanchist Moslems do not ennoble us, enlighten us, elevate us, or even so much as amuse us. What they DO do is curse our names for being hellbound infidels; gang rape our wives, sisters, and daughters to death; skin our beloved cats, dogs, ferrets, guinea pigs, et al, slap ‘em on the backyard Weber, and plate em up and eat em when they’re cooked through.
At some point, you can be sure that these cretinous yayhoos will visit your church, slash the pastor’s throat, bugger every male member of the Youth Choir under the age of 13 right there on the altar, make a bonfire with all the Bibles, copies of the church’s Weekly Bulletin, and hymnals, closing out the festivities by torching the building after the congregation has been securely locked inside. Once our Moslem Partners In Peace are done with the work of Allah and are starting to get restless and/or out of sorts again, they’ll blow us up, shoot our schoolkids, and drive Ryder trucks up onto crowded sidewalks and crush Grampa under its oversize wheels.
These yodelling, dress-wearing savages simply do not fit in here—never have done, never will do. They’ll patiently explain, to anyone with ears to hear, that they have no interest whatever in assimilating, in making adjustments to their own attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors so they might become better citizens in our country. Quite the contrary, actually: the plan is to convert us to the Religion Of Pieces—or failing that, subjugate and oppress us heathen dogs till we understand our proper place/. And if THAT doesn’t persuade us, maybe they’ll just say to heck with the whole hassle and put us all to the sword. Their primitive, tribal culture is not merely different from our own, it’s antithetical to it—actively, unalterably hostile to it.
Cliff’s Notes version: they hate us, our country, our way of life, and absolutely everything we stand for with a passion that burns with the heat of a thousand suns. This, they consider to be our fault and our problem, not theirs. You could try to work out this fundamental disagreement by “dialoguing” if you like, assuming you don’t mind wasting your time, breath, and energy. See, trouble with that approach is, they aren’t listening, having no interest whatsoever in any ideas they didn’t come up with.
Fine, can’t honestly say I really give a fiddler’s fuck anyhow. For all me, you Muzzie asswarts can go huddle together in some nightmarish Middle Eastern or sub-Saharan hellscape, sweltering in the stupefying desert heat, where you rightfully belong. Pick yourselves a good spot to pitch the tent, stake the family camel beside it, build a nice fire to sear the rancid meat of whatever pestiferous rodent you and your seventeen cousins captured yesterday, and y’all smelly sand niggers go have yourselves a real nice life, aiight? Just leave us dog-loving Unbelievers the fucking fuck alone. Next time you fleabitten somewhat-sentients get to thinking it might be a swell idea to start messing with us again, I strongly suggest that y’all inquire of the Iranian Mad Mullahs as to how well that worked out for them.
If you can find one who hasn’t as yet had a Tomahawk or Blue Sparrow slammed so far up his ass he can taste metal, trinitrotoluene, and solid-fuel rocket propellant on his tonsils, that is.
One of the truly great ones, performed by one of the truly great singers.
Ahh, Nat King Cole. People aways go on and on about Sinatra’s marvelous gift for phrasing, and they’re right to. But for my money, Nat King Cole could go blow-for-blow with Sinatra—hell, with anybody, actually—on any stage you’d care to name and walk out of the venue with his head held high and his self-esteem intact.
Every serious singer knows about phrasing, even those that haven’t been formally schooled in the art and just came by the ability honest, so to speak. In fact, after many long years of paying close attention to this stuff my own bad self it eventually dawned on me that the better at phrasing a singer is, the more likely it is that non-musicians will THINK he’s a good singer. In fact, even if the poor schmuck can’t carry a tune in a bucket, provided he just works a little on his breathing, his pronunciation, how the words come out of his mouth, how to best fit each word together, and I guar-on-tee you he’ll have every paying customer in the joint eating out of the palm of his hand by tthe end of the set.
Especially the hot chicks, natch.
Speaking as a trained vocalist myself, I assure you Cole’s phrasing is nothing short of doggone miraculous. In fact, listening to the man sing just about anything, really, amounts to a PhD-level course in phrasing: why it matters; the vital importance of phrasing when it comes to putting the song across; how to keep your cool and do it properly without going off the rails, etc.
Not “a foolish consistency,” as Emerson would have it, but good old-fashioned cognitive dissonance.
THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES
I am a science teacher. In science, I teach my students that a hypothesis that contradicts itself is invalid.So I made a list.
THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES
Buckle up. This one is going to take a minute.
- “My body, my choice”… but you MUST get a vaccine or lose your job, your ability to travel, and your right to eat inside a restaurant. Both things. At the same time.
- “Believe all women”… unless the woman is Tara Reade, Juanita Broaddrick, or Paula Jones. Those women apparently came with an asterisk nobody mentioned.
- “Tax the rich”… said by a woman worth $120 million (Pelosi), a man worth $9 million (Schumer), and a senator who owns three houses (Bernie) — all while their stock portfolios grow on insider access the rest of us will never have.
- They are outraged — OUTRAGED — about billionaires having too much power… and then accept $1.6 billion from George Soros without blinking. Quinn’s Law #7: it is different when you are a Democrat.
- “Defund the police”… and then hire private security for themselves. I am not making that up. Multiple city council members who voted to defund their police departments had private, taxpayer-funded security at the same time. You literally cannot invent this.
- “No one is above the law”… until a federal judge in Wisconsin helped a criminal evade ICE agents and half the party defended her. Judge Hannah Dugan. Look it up. Suddenly “no one is above the law” had an exemption for people who agree with them.
- “Science is real”… but a biological male who identifies as a woman is medically, biologically, and athletically identical to a biological female. Just go ahead and ignore the entire fields of endocrinology, genetics, and sports medicine while you are at it.
- “We support the working class”… and then they vote AGAINST no tax on tips. And no tax on overtime. Every. Single. Democrat. Voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill. The party of workers apparently does not want workers keeping their own money.
- “We need more gun control to stop violence”… but releasing violent criminals back onto the street with zero bail is compassion. The criminal is not the problem. The gun on the shelf of the law-abiding citizen is the problem. I need someone to explain that logic to me using small words.
- They want a $20 minimum wage to help the poor worker… and then they celebrate the illegal immigration system that lets employers pay $6 an hour in cash with zero benefits to people who cannot say anything without being deported. That is not progressive. That is the economic model of the antebellum South with extra steps.
Yep, “Extra steps” for sure…all of which of necessity will involve more government, less freedom, and higher taxes.
Lots, lots, LOTS more to this one yet. Go ye and read of it, for IT. IS. GOOD.
(Via Ed Driscoll)
Welcome to this week’s installment of our Wednesday meme feature, folks. Links to the “found via” sources will be attached to the specific MiQ’s (Memes in Question) whenever I can remember them, which likely won’t be very often. Only the first two memes will appear above the fold to save on bandwidth usage, since I assume not everybody who shows up at this here websty will want to see all of them. This intro will appear at the top of each week’s Memezapoppin’! post. Enjoy, funny-pitcher lovers.
As predictable as yesterday’s sunrise, these twatwaffles.
Punk Fail? Rockers Cancel Festival Over Trump
Jello Biafra leads wave of rockers pulling out of tour over tepid Trump tiesTolerance is the new counter-culture. And it’s in short supply in the current punk scene.
Now, a gaggle of punk bands planning to tour the country is calling it quits. The reason why is so very, very 2026.
It’s all about Trump Derangement Syndrome.
No, we can’t all get along, apparently, and the Punk in the Park tour’s demise has little to do with the bands in question.
Denver’s far-Left Westword shared the ugly reason for the cancellation – “continued fallout over the organizer’s recently exposed political leanings, particularly financially supporting Trump’s second presidential campaign…”
Cameron Collins is the owner of the tour’s parent company, the Dallas-based Brew Ha Ha Productions. Collins contributed to President Trump’s most recent presidential campaign.
That was enough to stop the tour cold.
Dropkick Murphys was among the acts to bail on the tour. The group’s anti-Trump bona fides are clear, and the members are planning to play an anti-ICE concert in Minneapolis on March 6.
The Dead Kennedys planned to keep some of its earlier tour commitments for fans who already bought tickets. They still vowed not to perform at future shows due to Collins’ contributions.
That wasn’t enough for its former lead signer, Jello Biafra. The punk rocker slammed his former bandmates for not dropping out of every tour event.
Period.
Gee, how very moral of these über-sanctimonious twerps. I’m quite impressed with their courageous, selfless stand against blackest E-ville™.
Via Stephen Green, who quips: GET OVER YOURSELVES.
The legendary Yogi Berra gives us all a demonstration of what greatness really is.
More than a decade after New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra passed away, his family has announced a deeply moving decision: fulfilling his last wish – auctioning off his entire Hall of Fame collection, estimated to be worth around $8 million, to raise money for charity.
This news immediately stunned the MLB community. Not because of the $8 million figure, but because of the meaning behind it. According to family representatives, Yogi Berra clearly instructed in his will that his awards, championship rings, Hall of Fame medals, and other memorabilia associated with his illustrious career should not be kept as family property, but should be used to “help those in need of opportunity.” A family member shared in a statement: “He always said that the rings and trophies didn’t belong to him alone. They belonged to his teammates, his fans, and his community. He wanted them to continue creating value.”
Initial estimates suggest the total auction value could reach or exceed $8 million. All proceeds will be distributed to various charities, including veterans’ support, youth education, and medical research.
As Lakeside Joe notes, in addition to the fame he earned on the baseball diamond during his illustrious career behind the plate as catcher for the gottdamned Yankees (gag), Yogi was perhaps even better known for his malapropisms, self-contradictory sayings, and random nonsensical gibberish. To wit:
Here is a sampling of some of the most famous sayings that have been attributed to the Yankees icon.
Perhaps his most famous of all: “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
On posterity: “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
About a St. Louis restaurant: “No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
About the effect of the sun in left field in the old Yankee Stadium during late-season games: “It gets late early out there.”
About Bill Dickey: “He learned me all his experience.”
“If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“Pie a la mode, with ice cream.”
“I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question.”
“You tell the stupidest questions.”
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
On the great Sandy Koufax: “I can see how he won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
On lining up for a Spring Training drill: “Pair ’em up in threes.”
On the 1973 Mets: “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
The recording heard on the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center’s phone: “This message won’t be over ’til it’s done.”
“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
On his hitting approach: “I can’t think and hit at the same time.”
“He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
On economics: “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
“Always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
And last but certainly not least: “It’s deja vu all over again.”
Heh. THAT’S telling ’em, Yogi!
Just gotta append this great pic of Yogi from his Yankee days:
Taken during spring training in 1957, that one was. God bless you, Yogi Berra.
This right here.
Milei wants Argentina’s US ‘strategic alliance’ to be ‘state policy’
President Milei says “South Atlantic is the strategic battleground of the coming decades” and that Argentina will be in tune with the United States.President Javier Milei says he wants to make the “strategic alliance” with the United States led by ally President Donald Trump a “state policy.”
In a state of the nation address to Congress on Sunday night, the La Libertad Avanza leader said “the South Atlantic is the strategic battleground of the coming decades,” arguing Argentina must be a “player” in the region.
“Trade routes, natural resources, maritime sovereignty and the growing presence of actors who do not share our values. Whoever controls it will control a key part of global trade. Argentina has to be that actor,” he argued.
“We must create the century of the Americas: Make Americas Great Again, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego,” declared Milei.
“We have the critical minerals that the West needs. We have the energy – gas, oil, nuclear power and renewable energy – to supply large-scale production chains.”
He talked up Argentina’s location at the southern tip of the Americas, noting it has “access to two oceans and a presence in Antarctica.”
On his alliance with the US and Trump, Milei’s government backed Washington’s strikes on Iran that began on Saturday and put Argentina on high alert.
To hell with Not-Great Britainistan, France, Churrmany, Spain, et al ad nauseum. Who needs those treacherous, back-stabbing Euroweenies, anyhow? They haven’t really been allies of this nation since WW2 ended, perhaps even longer. Time to give them the old heave-ho, then, and make way for what Milei aptly calls the Century of the Americas.
In which I will cheerfully eat every nasty, insulting word I ever said about Big John Fetterman.
Fetterman Chooses Country Over Party After Iran Operation
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) backed the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran without hesitation, calling Operation Epic Fury entirely appropriate, and said eliminating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the un-alived supreme leader of Iran, removed one of the most dangerous figures in modern history.
Well, whaddya know about that. Turns out, there IS one last sane, sensible, patriotic Democrat after all. Good on ya, John.
President Donald Trump confirmed the mission targeted senior regime leadership gathered in Tehran, with early reports stating roughly 40 to 50 of the top Iranian officials were killed in the attack’s early wave. Fetterman didn’t hedge, asking why anybody would grieve leaders of a regime tied to terror networks and decades of repression. He said that Americans should recognize the strategic impact of removing the head of a government that funds violence across the world.
Fetterman’s stance again puts him at odds with several Democratic colleagues who questioned the legality and timing of the strikes. He described their reactions as bizarre. He pointed to the regime’s record, including the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners that killed an estimated 30,000 dissidents under orders tied to regime leadership, making clear the target wasn’t the Iranian people, just the regime.
Vice President JD Vance stated that the administration’s objectives remain preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Fetterman said he’d oppose efforts to restrict the president’s authority under the War Powers Resolution.
Because Fetterman’s policy beliefs keep him planted firmly on the left, Fetterman won’t switch parties. But when national security comes into focus, he regularly breaks from progressive orthodoxy and takes a position rooted in deterrence and strength. In a chamber full of Congresscritters using scripted responses, his statements read as uncommon steadiness.
Don’t they just.
Praise, newfound respect, sincere thanks, unstinting acknowledgement from Real American Normals of the man’s plainspoken common sense—with the above well-reasoned, intelligent remarks, Big John Fetterman has earned every last plaudit Our Side can lavish upon him, even if we don’t necessarily agree with him on much else.
The esteemed (and usually estoned and esdrunked, to swipe one of my old friend Pfouts’ most memorable lines) Matt Margolis asks one of the silliest—no, make that the stupidest—questions of all time.
Oh, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt! To ask it is to answer it, I’m afraid. And while we’re on the subject…
Claude is down, so I had to make use of Grok to estimate how long it will take for US and Israeli air defense systems to run out of interceptors. No precise calculation is possible, especially since the in-theater total is a subset of the entire US stock, but it appears obvious that both the USA and Israel will be effectively unable to defend against missile barrages by this time next week at the latest.
…Claude is back up and here are its estimates:
Estimated total: roughly 1,400-1,500+ projectiles launched by Iran across all theaters in ~36-48 hours, with the vast majority intercepted but a significant number — perhaps 70-100+ — making impact. At least 14 people killed outside Iran (10 in Israel, 3 in UAE, 1 in Kuwait, 1 in Bahrain) plus 4 US service members, with hundreds injured.
Pretty gosh-darn scary, I suppose—provided everything carries on exactly as it has so far, with no changes, disruptions, or unlooked-for situational shifts either great or small coming to bollix everything up. Which, as we all know very well, has never been the case, and is never going to be, wartime or no.
It’s the exact same thought-pattern that gullible types and/or shitlibs have been tripped up by for many years, one of the most seductive intellectual traps there is: just because this is the way things are NOW, things will keep on just like this forever and ever, amen. T’ain’t so, McGee.
I just can NOT resist bringing this superb comment out to the front page.
SteveP says:
March 3, 2026 at 3:44 pmPeople either don’t know, don’t remember, or don’t want to say, that the Iranian regime formally declared war on the US and Israel in 1979 shortly after the embassy takeover. They have committed countless acts of war in the decades since. The US has never acknowleged this war declaration but it still exists. Pursuant to the prosecution of this war, the president has the legal authority to do pretty much anything he wants.
Nailed it, clean and tight. Well done, Steve, old son.
DuToit, as is his usual wont, knows what’s up.
Frankly, I’m uneasy with the entire concept of “regime change” as a foreign policy goal, because if history has taught us anything — especially in the Middle East — it’s that most of these noble efforts are pretty much doomed to failure, because the entire premise is faulty. Changing a regime is no guarantee that the next regime will be any better than the previous one.
Here’s the unalterable fact: democratic capitalism, as a concept and guiding socio-political principle, doesn’t work outside the confines of Western civilization, and by “Western civilization” I mean pretty much the United States. This is because Western civilization cannot coexist within a nation along with lunatic and highly-flawed political systems like Marxism and/or lunatic medieval social systems like Islam.
One only has to see how the UK, to use but one example, has been undermined by the baleful effects of both the above — Marxism as a home-grown poison (hello, Labour Party) and Islam as an imported poison (hello, untrammeled Muslim immigration).
And that’s within a nation which pretty much gave birth to democratic capitalism. (They did, too; we just perfected it.) Now try to see how well democratic capitalism has worked in other countries which have never had that system as a bedrock principle — Iraq, Syria, Egypt, China, the whole of Africa etc. — and all you’ll find is a constant and comprehensive list of failures. You can change regimes, by all means: but the plain fact of the matter is that democratic capitalism is probably going to fail as the “new” regime will pretty much be just a (watered-down at best) copy of earlier regimes, none of which have espoused democratic capitalism. They’ll be kleptocracies like all the African shitholes, or neo-Communist like Vietnam, or military juntas like [insert South American country of choice here]. (Augusto Pinochet’s Chilean junta, by the way, was very much the exception.)
So I’m simply regarding the destruction of the current Iranian Islamic regime as a side-benefit of the whole exercise.
What we should be stating, in no uncertain terms, is that any regime which exports terrorism or socio-political poisons like Islam or Marxism are on notice that the United States may, at our own discretion, pound these regimes back into rubble rather than allow them to subvert peace and prosperity — the two are very much linked — in the names of their respective ideologies. “Regime change” is very much a subset of that goal, and not its primary purpose. (SecWar Pete Hegseth, at least, has the right of it.)
Not surprising in the least, that last; as I’ve indirectly as well as directly stated here ever since he first signed on as SecWar, he pretty much always does. Sec Hegseth is a lot like DuToit himself in that regard.
Satire worthy of the Babylon Bee. Extremely high praise, I know. Nevertheless, I shit you not, sports fans.
Rest in Pieces: Ali Khamenei, Demure Progressive Stalwart and ‘Black Lives Matter’ Ally Who Inspired Democrats and Academics, Bombed to Death at 86
Ali Khamenei, the “Black Lives Matter” advocate and long-serving supreme leader of Iran, was a guiding light to Democratic lawmakers, Ivy League professors, and other progressive ideologues who endorsed his intellectual appraisal of America’s evil and the treachery of Jews.The ayatollah died like a dog Saturday when his “secure” compound in central Tehran was caved in by several dozen of the biggest, most beautiful bombs ever made. Khamenei’s body, so austere and worldly, torn to shreds. His mangled face adorned with one of history’s most distinguished beards. His agile mind—inquisitive and playful—literally blown amidst the ashes of scholarly texts and quirky beach reads. A name crossed off the top of Uncle Sam’s list. The emphatic ring of Mother Freedom’s bell. It must have felt as if the whole wide world was raining down. Because it was.
The Iranian people cheered a tyrant’s demise and hoped for what could be. You could tell their joy was real and not the Kamala Harris kind. The ayatollah’s left-wing comrades sobbed like sloppy seventh graders. They shook their fists at mushroom clouds and wept for what had been. The revolution. The hostages. The oil nonsense. Decades of degenerate behavior and the targeting of American soldiers. The homespun hipster in his button-down shirt (also killed). The slow death of the Iranian economy, which even the Obama nuclear shake-down couldn’t stop.
They had to hand it to the supreme leader. Fans commended him for dying honorably—on his own terms, mid-resistance, cowering in a bunker, surrounded by his closest friends and military commanders. They touted his progressive bona fides—he understood that decolonization was more than vibes and essays. In May 2020, he penned an eloquent clapback against white supremacy after the death of George Floyd. He never took Trump’s calls or laughed at a misogynistic joke, which in some ways made him even more of a winner than the USA men’s hockey team. He inspired a generation of Ivy League losers to hate Jews even more than they hate themselves.
Khamenei’s death was a crippling blow to America’s elite institutions, many of which had presumably shortlisted the supreme leader in their search for a commencement speaker. It was basically the last remaining option to forestall a shrieking walkout. Now what? The students and faculty who supported Iran’s proxy, Hamas, and its “anti-colonial insurgency,” are naturally devastated. Their terrorist allies have been crushed. They must endure the moral indignity of mourning a tyrant who murdered thousands and repressed millions. It remains to be seen which campus chapters of Feminist Fatties for Palestine will issue statements denouncing Iranian women for burning their hijabs. One can only marvel at the magnitude of self-absorption required to exist this way.
I don’t even have to tell y’uns to read the rest of it, do I? The closing ‘graphs are absolutely priceless, trust me.
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—John Adams
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—Bertrand de Jouvenel
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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To put it simply, the Left is the stupid and the insane, led by the evil. You can’t persuade the stupid or the insane and you had damn well better fight the evil."
—Skeptic
"There is no better way to stamp your power on people than through the dead hand of bureaucracy. You cannot reason with paperwork."
—David Black, from Turn Left For Gibraltar
"If the laws of God and men, are therefore of no effect, when the magistracy is left at liberty to break them; and if the lusts of those who are too strong for the tribunals of justice, cannot be otherwise restrained than by sedition, tumults and war, those seditions, tumults and wars, are justified by the laws of God and man."
—John Adams
"The limits of tyranny are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
—Frederick Douglass
"Give me the media and I will make of any nation a herd of swine."
—Joseph Goebbels
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
—Ronald Reagan
"Ain't no misunderstanding this war. They want to rule us and aim to do it. We aim not to allow it. All there is to it."
—NC Reed, from Parno's Peril
"I just want a government that fits in the box it originally came in."
—Bill Whittle
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