Our Descent Into Collective Madness!
Feb 21, 2021 19:54:15 #
"An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it threatens to d**g us to the depths of unreason."
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 17, 2021
"These are crazy times. A p******c led to national quarantine, to self-induced recession, to r**t, arson, and l**ting, to a contested e******n, and to a r**t at the Capitol.
In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily v******tion rate?
Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the v***s attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets?
Or are we descending into a sort of madness?
It might have been understandable that trillions of dollars had to be borrowed to keep a suffocating economy breathing.
But it makes little sense to keep borrowing $2 trillion a year to prime an economy now set to roar back with herd-like immunity on the horizon.
Trillions of dollars in stimulus are already priming the economy.
Cabin-feverish Americans are poised to get out of their homes to travel, eat out, and socialize as never before.
Meanwhile, the United States will have to start paying down $30 trillion in debt. But we seem more fixated on raising rather than reducing that astronomical obligation.
We are told man-made, worldwide c*****e c****e—as in the now discarded term “g****l w*****g”—can best be addressed by massive dislocations in the U.S. economy.
The Biden Administration plans to shut down coal plants. It will halt even nearly completed new gas and oil pipelines. It cuts back on fracking to embrace the multitrillion-dollar “Green New Deal.”
Americans should pause and examine the utter disaster that unfolded recently in Texas and its environs.
Parts of the American southwest were covered in ice and snow for days. Nighttime temperatures crashed to near zero in some places.
The state, under pressure, had been t***sitioning from its near limitless and cheap reservoirs of natural gas and other f****l f**ls to generating power through wind and solar.
But what happens to millions of Texans when wind turbines freeze up while storm clouds extinguish solar power?
We are witnessing the answer in oil-and-gas rich, but energy-poor Texas that is all but shut down.
Millions are shivering without electricity and affordable heating. Some may die or become ill by this self-induced disaster—one fueled by man-made ideological rigidity.
Texas’ use of natural gas in power generation has helped the United States to curb carbon emissions. Ignoring it for unreliable wind and solar alternatives was bound to have catastrophic consequences whenever a politically incorrect nature did not follow the g****l w*****g script.
In 2019, a special counsel wrapped up a 22-month, $35 million investigation into President Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Russia in the 2016 e******n. Robert Mueller and his team searched long and hard for a crime and came up empty.
Then Trump in December 2019 was impeached and acquitted in the Senate in early 2020. His purported crime was warning the Ukrainians about the Biden family’s quid pro quo racketeering.
After the revelations concerning H****r B***n’s shenanigans not only in Ukraine but also in Kazakhstan and China, Trump’s admonitions now seem prescient rather than impeachable.
Trump had been threatened with removal from office under the 25th Amendment. He was accused variously of violating the Logan Act and the Constitution’s emoluments clause. His executive orders were often declared unconstitutional if not s******nary.
All these oppositional measures predictably failed to receive either public or even congressional support.
Finally, an exasperated Left decided to flog the p**********l corpse of a now private citizen Trump.
It did so without a constitutionally mandated chief justice to oversee an impeachment trial in the Senate. The targeted president was no longer president.
There was no special prosecutor, little debate, and even less cross-examination. In the end, the second impeachment was sillier than the first. But, like the first, the show trial also wasted precious time and resources in the midst of a p******c.
But the height of our collective madness is the current cancel culture. Its subtexts are “unearned white privilege” and “w***e s*******y.”
In the name of those supposed a*********ns, mobs tear down statues, destroy careers, censor speech, require veritable oaths, and conduct reeducation training.
Stranger still, those alleging “white privilege” are usually themselves quite wealthy, liberal—and white. These elites count on their incestuous networking, silver-spoon upbringings, and their tony degrees to leverage status, influence and money—in a way undreamed of by the white working class.
Quite affluent and privileged minorities likewise join the chorus to call for everything from r********ns to “reprogramming” Trump v**ers.
The most elite in America are the most likely to damn the privilege of those who lack it. Perhaps this illogic squares the psychological circle of feeling guilty about what they never have any intention of giving up.
If blaming those without advantages does not satisfy the unhappy liberal elite, then there is always warring against the mute dead: changing their eponymous names, destroying their statues, slandering their memories, and denying their achievements.
The common denominator with all these absurdities? An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it."
Victor Davis Hanson, Distinguished Fellow, Center for American Greatness, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 17, 2021
"These are crazy times. A p******c led to national quarantine, to self-induced recession, to r**t, arson, and l**ting, to a contested e******n, and to a r**t at the Capitol.
In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily v******tion rate?
Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the v***s attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets?
Or are we descending into a sort of madness?
It might have been understandable that trillions of dollars had to be borrowed to keep a suffocating economy breathing.
But it makes little sense to keep borrowing $2 trillion a year to prime an economy now set to roar back with herd-like immunity on the horizon.
Trillions of dollars in stimulus are already priming the economy.
Cabin-feverish Americans are poised to get out of their homes to travel, eat out, and socialize as never before.
Meanwhile, the United States will have to start paying down $30 trillion in debt. But we seem more fixated on raising rather than reducing that astronomical obligation.
We are told man-made, worldwide c*****e c****e—as in the now discarded term “g****l w*****g”—can best be addressed by massive dislocations in the U.S. economy.
The Biden Administration plans to shut down coal plants. It will halt even nearly completed new gas and oil pipelines. It cuts back on fracking to embrace the multitrillion-dollar “Green New Deal.”
Americans should pause and examine the utter disaster that unfolded recently in Texas and its environs.
Parts of the American southwest were covered in ice and snow for days. Nighttime temperatures crashed to near zero in some places.
The state, under pressure, had been t***sitioning from its near limitless and cheap reservoirs of natural gas and other f****l f**ls to generating power through wind and solar.
But what happens to millions of Texans when wind turbines freeze up while storm clouds extinguish solar power?
We are witnessing the answer in oil-and-gas rich, but energy-poor Texas that is all but shut down.
Millions are shivering without electricity and affordable heating. Some may die or become ill by this self-induced disaster—one fueled by man-made ideological rigidity.
Texas’ use of natural gas in power generation has helped the United States to curb carbon emissions. Ignoring it for unreliable wind and solar alternatives was bound to have catastrophic consequences whenever a politically incorrect nature did not follow the g****l w*****g script.
In 2019, a special counsel wrapped up a 22-month, $35 million investigation into President Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Russia in the 2016 e******n. Robert Mueller and his team searched long and hard for a crime and came up empty.
Then Trump in December 2019 was impeached and acquitted in the Senate in early 2020. His purported crime was warning the Ukrainians about the Biden family’s quid pro quo racketeering.
After the revelations concerning H****r B***n’s shenanigans not only in Ukraine but also in Kazakhstan and China, Trump’s admonitions now seem prescient rather than impeachable.
Trump had been threatened with removal from office under the 25th Amendment. He was accused variously of violating the Logan Act and the Constitution’s emoluments clause. His executive orders were often declared unconstitutional if not s******nary.
All these oppositional measures predictably failed to receive either public or even congressional support.
Finally, an exasperated Left decided to flog the p**********l corpse of a now private citizen Trump.
It did so without a constitutionally mandated chief justice to oversee an impeachment trial in the Senate. The targeted president was no longer president.
There was no special prosecutor, little debate, and even less cross-examination. In the end, the second impeachment was sillier than the first. But, like the first, the show trial also wasted precious time and resources in the midst of a p******c.
But the height of our collective madness is the current cancel culture. Its subtexts are “unearned white privilege” and “w***e s*******y.”
In the name of those supposed a*********ns, mobs tear down statues, destroy careers, censor speech, require veritable oaths, and conduct reeducation training.
Stranger still, those alleging “white privilege” are usually themselves quite wealthy, liberal—and white. These elites count on their incestuous networking, silver-spoon upbringings, and their tony degrees to leverage status, influence and money—in a way undreamed of by the white working class.
Quite affluent and privileged minorities likewise join the chorus to call for everything from r********ns to “reprogramming” Trump v**ers.
The most elite in America are the most likely to damn the privilege of those who lack it. Perhaps this illogic squares the psychological circle of feeling guilty about what they never have any intention of giving up.
If blaming those without advantages does not satisfy the unhappy liberal elite, then there is always warring against the mute dead: changing their eponymous names, destroying their statues, slandering their memories, and denying their achievements.
The common denominator with all these absurdities? An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it."
Victor Davis Hanson, Distinguished Fellow, Center for American Greatness, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
Feb 21, 2021 20:37:48 #
Zemirah wrote:
"An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgm... (show quote)
The ones who will listen will and those who won't, won't no matter what, which may be the reason we're going through this. Some people in the world can't resist.
Feb 21, 2021 20:54:02 #
This is the only explanation I've been able to find:Evil in the Last Days
1 "But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
4 t*****rous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!"
(2nd Timothy 3:1-5)
BigMike wrote:
The ones who will listen will and those who won't, won't no matter what, which may be the reason we're going through this. Some people in the world can't resist.
Feb 21, 2021 22:10:20 #
Zemirah wrote:
"An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgm... (show quote)
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The P*******c is F**e !
It’s a conspiracy for the NWO
Why does Victor dance around the source ?
Feb 21, 2021 23:34:38 #
Zemirah wrote:
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Dear Zemirah
My father read these very same scriptures to us more than a few times.
More than twenty years ago he warned us not to expect our country to remain the land of the free.
He urged us to begin preparing for the coming tribulations.
He warned us again a couple of years ago when he saw our enthusiasm in regard to President Trump.
One of dad's favorite sayings is, "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably isn't true ".
He recently reminded me that when Jesus returns it ain't gonna be pretty.
I immediately thought of the scripture where Jesus said, " I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
So I have honed my swords to razor sharpness and I have prepared my stonghold for the long run.
No man knows when the day of God's wrath will consume the earth.
But I'm thinking, God ought to be about fed up with our shenanigans by now.
Feb 22, 2021 01:33:22 #
In the final analysis, you'd have to ask Victor,
but, I suspect that Victor took one course too many in a manmade Institute of Higher Learning, Sicilian.
One course in the humanities too many, one advanced university degree too far.
The more one is filled with his own sense of worth,
the less usable he becomes to God,
for he hears only the sound of his own voice.
I admire Victor Davis Hanson.
He sees and hears more clearly than most.
Not everyone can be a firebrand or a Paul Revere.
It's a miracle Victor can still dance at all.
but, I suspect that Victor took one course too many in a manmade Institute of Higher Learning, Sicilian.
One course in the humanities too many, one advanced university degree too far.
The more one is filled with his own sense of worth,
the less usable he becomes to God,
for he hears only the sound of his own voice.
I admire Victor Davis Hanson.
He sees and hears more clearly than most.
Not everyone can be a firebrand or a Paul Revere.
It's a miracle Victor can still dance at all.
Sicilianthing wrote:
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The P*******c is F**e !
It’s a conspiracy for the NWO
Why does Victor dance around the source ?
The P*******c is F**e !
It’s a conspiracy for the NWO
Why does Victor dance around the source ?
Feb 22, 2021 03:37:37 #
Your father was a wise man, Wolf, and he raised a wise son (1st Timothy 5:8) 0.
You were blessed to have such a father.
My father also foresaw the plague of evil settling upon this land.
Not because God wills that we suffer evil, but because He is a just God and He has foreseen the choices each nation will make, collectively and individually, in spite of His Scriptural forewarning to us.
God blessed this land with more wealth, natural resources and power than any nation in the history of the earth, and we have, through the leaders we have chosen to represent us, squandered it, and turned it on its head.
My father incorporated the subject of Bible prophecy into his studying, teaching and preaching most of his adult life.
God took him from us, to his permanent home, 29 years ago, where, in accordance with God's promise, he has seen Jesus face to face (1st John 3:2).
Through His own love and goodness, God led us to this nation "into a good land."
Four years ago, God raised up a leader for this nation, who set our elected leaders of both political parties teeth on edge because he actually wanted to serve, not the cause of Globalism or Environmentalism or Collectivism, but the needs, safety and well being of the American people.
Everything Donald J. Trump accomplished was in spite of our self-serving, self-enriching elected and appointed government leaders, not because of them.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
They represented us. Now, we face the whirlwind.
I live in a two story red brick home with many windows. To make of it a fortress would require steel shutters fashioned after those wooden shutters the early settlers used to foil their enemies assault.
More is required. That would be the hand of God.
Psalm 127:1-3
1 "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so He giveth His beloved sleep.
3 "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward."
http://www.numberofa******ns.com/
This nation's stolen leadership has announced they are preparing to exponentially increase the slaughter and desecration of our children and force the American taxpayers to pay for it.
As they expedite the murder and sale of the tiny body parts of those who are the heritage of the Lord, taking the number of souls since 1973, far above the sixty two million, six hundred twenty four thousand, five hundred ninety two (62, 624,592) figure, currently showing on the A******n Clock; who can argue with God's judgment against us?
You were blessed to have such a father.
My father also foresaw the plague of evil settling upon this land.
Not because God wills that we suffer evil, but because He is a just God and He has foreseen the choices each nation will make, collectively and individually, in spite of His Scriptural forewarning to us.
God blessed this land with more wealth, natural resources and power than any nation in the history of the earth, and we have, through the leaders we have chosen to represent us, squandered it, and turned it on its head.
My father incorporated the subject of Bible prophecy into his studying, teaching and preaching most of his adult life.
God took him from us, to his permanent home, 29 years ago, where, in accordance with God's promise, he has seen Jesus face to face (1st John 3:2).
Through His own love and goodness, God led us to this nation "into a good land."
Four years ago, God raised up a leader for this nation, who set our elected leaders of both political parties teeth on edge because he actually wanted to serve, not the cause of Globalism or Environmentalism or Collectivism, but the needs, safety and well being of the American people.
Everything Donald J. Trump accomplished was in spite of our self-serving, self-enriching elected and appointed government leaders, not because of them.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
They represented us. Now, we face the whirlwind.
I live in a two story red brick home with many windows. To make of it a fortress would require steel shutters fashioned after those wooden shutters the early settlers used to foil their enemies assault.
More is required. That would be the hand of God.
Psalm 127:1-3
1 "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so He giveth His beloved sleep.
3 "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward."
http://www.numberofa******ns.com/
This nation's stolen leadership has announced they are preparing to exponentially increase the slaughter and desecration of our children and force the American taxpayers to pay for it.
As they expedite the murder and sale of the tiny body parts of those who are the heritage of the Lord, taking the number of souls since 1973, far above the sixty two million, six hundred twenty four thousand, five hundred ninety two (62, 624,592) figure, currently showing on the A******n Clock; who can argue with God's judgment against us?
Wolf counselor wrote:
Dear Zemirah. br br My father read these very sam... (show quote)
Feb 22, 2021 09:32:23 #
Feb 22, 2021 12:45:13 #
Zemirah wrote:
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“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death."
Sounds like the worldwide color revolution we're involved in.
Mao did this. Look up "Young Wolves".
There's a whole lot more prophetic passages in the Bible that fit.
Feb 22, 2021 12:47:32 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
>>>
The P*******c is F**e !
It’s a conspiracy for the NWO
Why does Victor dance around the source ?
The P*******c is F**e !
It’s a conspiracy for the NWO
Why does Victor dance around the source ?
Dunno. Because he works at Stanford, maybe?
If he didn't choose his words carefully they'd just censor him anyway and no one would hear him anyway.
Feb 22, 2021 12:58:06 #
Zemirah wrote:
In the final analysis, you'd have to ask Victor, b... (show quote)
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Noted and valid points, I do think he’s rare but he’s afraid to hit the Nail on the Head or do full disclosures about the perpetrators.
He’s possibly c*********d by the very academia he serves, of course they sign his check yes ?
Feb 22, 2021 12:58:53 #
BigMike wrote:
Dunno. Because he works at Stanford, maybe?
If he didn't choose his words carefully they'd just censor him anyway and no one would hear him anyway.
If he didn't choose his words carefully they'd just censor him anyway and no one would hear him anyway.
>>>
Yep they sign his check so he can never directly speak out against the Jesuits.
Feb 22, 2021 19:11:20 #
There is a lot of that going around, Sicilian.
Good men and women with knowledge they would like to impart are being twisted like pretzels...
Fear of losing their paycheck, their career, their reputation, their TV show, their ability to post their videos on YouTube, on and on and on.
At times, the threats go further, harm to a child, to a spouse, to a parent, even to a pet.
A mere decade ago, this would have been unthought of, nonbelieved and NOT STOOD FOR.
Good men and women with knowledge they would like to impart are being twisted like pretzels...
Fear of losing their paycheck, their career, their reputation, their TV show, their ability to post their videos on YouTube, on and on and on.
At times, the threats go further, harm to a child, to a spouse, to a parent, even to a pet.
A mere decade ago, this would have been unthought of, nonbelieved and NOT STOOD FOR.
Sicilianthing wrote:
>>>
Noted and valid points, I do think he’s rare but he’s afraid to hit the Nail on the Head or do full disclosures about the perpetrators.
He’s possibly c*********d by the very academia he serves, of course they sign his check yes ?
Noted and valid points, I do think he’s rare but he’s afraid to hit the Nail on the Head or do full disclosures about the perpetrators.
He’s possibly c*********d by the very academia he serves, of course they sign his check yes ?
Feb 22, 2021 19:49:14 #
Zemirah wrote:
There is a lot of that going around, Sicilian.
Good men and women with knowledge they would like to impart are being twisted like pretzels...
Fear of losing their paycheck, their career, their reputation, their TV show, their ability to post their videos on YouTube, on and on and on.
At times, the threats go further, harm to a child, to a spouse, to a parent, even to a pet.
A mere decade ago, this would have been unthought of, nonbelieved and NOT STOOD FOR.
Good men and women with knowledge they would like to impart are being twisted like pretzels...
Fear of losing their paycheck, their career, their reputation, their TV show, their ability to post their videos on YouTube, on and on and on.
At times, the threats go further, harm to a child, to a spouse, to a parent, even to a pet.
A mere decade ago, this would have been unthought of, nonbelieved and NOT STOOD FOR.
>>>
Yep
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