Government in Exile

Was the Election Count Accurate?

"Peter" as some thoughts about the election.

It isn’t the voters that count; it’s the civil servants who count the votes.

Were the democrats just smart enough to find the polling place to cast their vote, while many Republicans were just lazy enough to not bother with voting? Maybe, but the democrats have been seducing the unions for a hundred years. The Deep State is made up of civil service union members. It’s not hard to figure out how they keep getting these “too close to call” elections tipping in their favor so often. Look at how often large blocks of votes are “found” at the last minute and every one of them a vote for the democrats. What are the odds of that happening, time after time?

It’s a difficult situation because the democrats promise the unions increased pay and benefits, passing the cost on to the tax payers. All the Republicans promise is austerity, lower taxes (which benefits everyone) and increased law enforcement resulting in lower crime rates.

Since lower taxes benefits everyone and increased law enforcement benefits everyone except criminals, shouldn’t that be the message of the GOP? Shouldn’t we be shouting that from the rooftops?

This is not rocket science. The Deep State is real; it’s controlling our elections and eroding our Constitution.

 

An Empire in Decline

 

By Don Feder

Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?

In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.

Nations too have seasons. Imagine a Roman of the 2^nd. century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever.

Forever was about 500 years, give or take.

France was the thing in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. Now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19^th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire. Now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population is aging so rapidly, that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1946, almost at the midpoint of the 20^th century – the American century.  America’s prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks to the Greatest Generation, we won a World War fought over most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.

It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity. We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world.

We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and COVID.  We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA, the blueprint  of life.

But where is the glory that once was Rome?

America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well nowhere in the world. We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year.

Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, Dr. Jill had to lead him like a child.

In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble  nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.

We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds.

We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5^th graders could pass a generation ago.

Crime rates soar and we blame the 2^nd. Amendment and slash police budgets.

Our culture is certifiably insane. We have men who marry men. Men who think they’re women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.”

We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year.

Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality.

Our “entertainment” is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.

Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.

A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.

We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.

How meekly most submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks and hand sanitizers) shows the death of the American spirit.

How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?

• Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win
• Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay
• Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde
• Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
• Allowing indoctrination of the young
• Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy
• Losing national identity
• Indulging indolence
• Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks social order.

In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.

Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?

I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.

This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.

During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, “Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.”

The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?

While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.

 

 

A Warning from Dubai

"Peter" has some thoughts on the U.S. relationship to the Arab world.

The founder of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid, was asked about the future of America.

 He replied, "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again."Why is that, he was asked? And his reply was, "Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men, weak men create difficult times.

 

 Many will not understand it, but you have to raise warriors, not parasites."Add to that the historical reality that all great empires...the Persians, the Trojans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and in later years, the British...all rose and perished within 240 years. They were not conquered by external enemies; they rotted from within.

 

America and Canada have now passed that 240-year mark, and the rot is starting to be visible and is accelerating. We are past the Mercedes and Land Rover years….the camels are on the horizon.

 

 

 

Why Joe Biden can't Resign, or be Removed — or Die

"Peter" passed this article on from the American Thinker

By Clayton Spann

See also: Can the Biden presidency last much longer?

In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, demands have arisen in Congress for President Biden to resign or to be removed via the 25th Amendment.  Elements of the formerly pro-Biden media have joined in the condemnation.

Many silent Democrat office-holders likely want Biden out, as they fear that the systemic incompetence of his administration will bring them down come 2022.

But Joe cannot resign or be fired.  The Democrat high command will not let either happen, no matter the short-term political cost.

On the surface, that makes little sense.  Joe's resignation or removal would not alter Democrat control of the presidency and Congress.  If Joe leaves, Kamala Harris becomes president.  She is incompetent, too, but no more so than Joe, and is on board with the administration's radical agenda.

So.  Why can't Joe quit the office or be removed? 

Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states: "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided."  The current Senate is equally divided with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans.

As soon as Kamala Harris takes the presidential oath, the vice presidency is left vacant.  In that case, a tie vote means that the legislation, resolution, or confirmation under consideration fails.

A Senate chamber without a vice president puts Mitch McConnell in the catbird seat.  He can kill all Democrat initiatives, including any nomination to refill the vice presidency.

The Democrat agenda goes up in smoke.  The 3.5-trillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill is blocked.  The For the People bill is blocked.  The Green New Deal is blocked.  Packing the Supreme Court is dead.  As is any attempt to scuttle the filibuster or grab guns.

Therefore, the Democrats will keep Joe in office.  Even if he's reduced to talking gibberish and eating Jell-O.  Kamala also stays where she is, and the Democrat dream of fundamental transformation remains alive.

OK.  But what if Joe Biden dies?  This 78-year-old man is certainly at risk.  When Joe was three decades younger, in 1988, he suffered two brain aneurysms.  Doctors at the time gave him a 50-50 chance of surviving.

"He's not a healthy guy," said Dr. David Scheiner in 2020.  Dr. Scheiner was concerned about Biden's potential for a stroke.  Biden receives treatment for an irregular heartbeat and high cholesterol.  Joe has also undergone surgeries for gallbladder and partial prostate removal, and on his sinus and nasal passages to treat sleep apnea.

If Joe dies, Kamala automatically vacates the vice presidency.  The Democrats again face the throttling of their agenda.  Mitch again rules.

The Democrat high command are not stupid.  Indeed, as they proved during the last presidential election, they are quite willing to do whatever needs to be done.  We must assume they have contingency plans in place.

If Joe were to expire while addressing the United Nations or during a live press conference, that would be one thing.  His death must be acknowledged and the consequences accepted.

If Joe passes while out of sight of the public, that is something else.  The something else would probably go like this:

His body is secretly transported to Camp David or the family compound in Delaware.  His sudden disappearance is explained by announcing that an assassination plot (by Islamic terrorists, or better, by white supremacists) has just been discovered.  The president will remain at an undisclosed location until the threat is neutralized.

Biden's existence and whereabouts can be easily faked, so the pretense could be kept up a while.  Also remember that a president need not actually sign a bill for it to become law (if Congress remains in session ten days after passage).

With Joe presumably alive and Kamala able to break Senate tie votes, the Democrats have a window of about sixteen months to enact their agenda.  Only recalcitrants Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema stand in the way.  The party that plays the hardest ball ever seen will go to work hard on those two.

The window ends Jan. 3, 2023, when the new Congress convenes.  Almost certainly the GOP will control the next House, and the Republicans stand an increasingly good chance to take back the Senate.  If not passed, the Democrat agenda is truly dead as of that date.

While the window remains open, Joseph Robinette Biden must remain president.  Whether he serves honorably or dishonorably, whether coherently or incoherently, whether alive or dead. 

 

Goodbye Afghanistan

"Peter" has some thoughts about the Afghanistan debacle.

In 1989 Mark Milley decided to leave his position as front man for the much maligned group Milli Vanilli. He enlisted in the U.S. Army to ensure he would have a pension in his elder years.

 

Milley is now in his elder years and is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. He has bragged about being “woke” and reading books on white rage and white supremacy instead of tactics, strategy and planning. While supervising his infiltration of wokeness into the U.S. Military, the Taliban overran the entire nation of Afghanistan, catching the U.S. Military and the Biden administration asleep at their posts (except for Biden, who was asleep on vacation).

 

The scene at Kabul airport was reminiscent of the siege of Saigon that had fleeing diplomats and Vietnamese employees boarding helicopters from rooftops; something Biden said would NEVER happen in Afghanistan. It happened! There are thousands of U.S. employees of Afghan descent, along with diplomats from several allied Western nations, now at the Kabul airport desperately trying to get a flight out before the Taliban catch up with them.

 

The Taliban have a history of butchering “infidels” and their traitorous lackeys. The lackeys at the airport are so terrified that some of them were seen clinging to the side moldings on a C-17 as it took off. They plunged to their deaths as horrified lackeys watched and became even more terrified. This is an intelligence failure of the first magnitude.

 

Responsibility for the unmitigated disaster occurring at Kabul airport rests on many shoulders, not least of which is Mark Milley. In addition to Milley, the Directors of National Security, CIA, NSA, and DIA must all be fired. No resignations, FIRED! Biden and Harris must both resign. No, wait.... Who would be worse as POTUS, Harris or Pelosi? Damn, what a choice to have to make.

 

All in all, we’re s*&#wed!

Is the Sun Setting on America?

 "Peter" found this interesting article.  Unfortunately, we don't know the name of the author.

Men, like nations, think they’re eternal.  What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?  In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons.   As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.
 
Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever….  Forever was about 500 years, give or take.
 
France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.
 
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in perpetual twilight.   Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
 
In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world.  Business schools taught Japanese management techniques.  Today, its birth rate is so low and its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.
 
I was born in 1942, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century – the American century.   America’s prestige and influence were never greater.  Thanks to the ‘Greatest Generation,’ we won a World War fought throughout most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific.  We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.   It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity.  
 
We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought international terrorism.  We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world.   We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon.  We conquered Polio and perhaps COVID.   We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA…the blueprint of life.
 
But where is the glory that once was Rome?  America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well NOWHERE in the world.
 
We’ve gone from a constitutional republic government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites.  We have less freedom with each passing year.  Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere.  We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.
 
The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers.  At the G-7 Summit, ‘Dr.  Jill’ had to lead him like a child.  In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too.  Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.
 
We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets.  Our cities have become  anarchist playgrounds.  We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity.  Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.
 
The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence (‘You know — The Thing’) correctly.  Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago.   Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd.  Amendment and slash police budgets.
 
Our culture is certifiably insane.  Men who think they’re women.  People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims.  A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about ‘unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.’
 
We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year.   Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day.  It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality.  Our ‘entertainment’ is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash.  Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.
 
Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.   A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.   We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.
 
How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, lockdowns  and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American spirit.
 
How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
 
Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win • Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay • Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde • Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule • Allowing indoctrination of the young • Moving from a constitutional republic form of government to an oligarchy • Losing national identity • Indulging indolence • Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks of social order.
 
In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.
 
Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?  I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.
 
This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War.  I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.
 
During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, ‘Nations that go down fighting rise again and those that surrender tamely are finished.’
 
The same might be said of causes.  If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?
 
While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.”

Author unknown

 

In Defense of Religion

"Ernie" has some thought about religion.

I will start by saying my purpose in writing this is not to try and convert anyone to my chosen faith.  In fact I’m not even going to tell you which religion that is.  I just want to make a case for why religion has always been, and always will be a much needed part of the human experience.

 

  I have a very good friend who claims he’s agnostic, when in realty he an atheist.  He’s prone to occasionally mocking all religion in general.  For example following a disaster, natural or man made,  he’ll say something like “I guess your God was on vacation that day”? 

 

  Not wishing to debate religion I finally asked him a few simple questions.  For example:

•  If Moses had been an atheist would he and the Jews have made a successful escape to the holy land; or would they still be Egyptian slaves?

 

•. If King David had been an atheist would he have slain the giant?  Would he have written Psalms, Ecclesiastes and become the greatest King ever of Judea?

 

•. If St Paul had been an atheist would there be a world wide Christian religion today?

 

•. If Jesus had been an atheist would we know anything about his magnificent achievements?

 

•. If Reagan had been an atheist would he have become one of our most beloved presidents?

 

•. If Hitler had been a Christian would he have murdered millions of Germans, Russians, Poles and numerous other non-Nazis?

 

•. If Stalin had been a Catholic would he have murdered even more people than did Hitler?

 

•. If Mother Teresa had been an atheist would she have brought peace, hope, comfort and healing to thousands of people worldwide?

 

•. If our founding fathers had been atheists would we have a freedom based constitution; and the greatest country ever in the history of mankind?

 

  I could go on but I think even atheists get the message;  even those who claim that none of these events have anything to do with Jesus, Buddha, Jehovah, God or any other deserving religious icon/leader.

 

  It’s time for all Americans to stand up and fight for religious freedom.  No matter which faith you honor.  (Islam possibly being an exception).

 

 

 

¡BREAKING NEWS AT 11!

"Manx" has some thoughts on immigration.

Remember kids – the current shite show at our southern border that has evolved since 12:01 PM 20 Jan 2021 is because of:

Trump

Global Warming

Trump

Old white men

Trump

QANON

 

Trump

 

Etc, etc, etc….

Senator Cotton is once again spot on – FEMA is responding to the border because it’s a disaster.

When I was a kid we called them “wetbacks”. For that I should now have my tongue torn out and my parents’ graves ripped from the ground and defiled for creating me…..

Creating Royalty

"Peter" has some thoughts about money and government.

In the Dark Ages English and French speaking peoples developed a hierarchy of governance for organizing self defense, trade and social interaction. The land was divided into areas of control that were managed by Dukes, Earls, Barons and other similarly entitled Lords, or royalty, who ruled over the people in their area of influence. The serfs were the worker bees who farmed or fished or performed a service, such as blacksmithing or driving horse drawn wagons to deliver trade goods. Each Royal imposed taxes on everyone below, raised and supported his own army. But, they all pledged allegiance to the King.

 

The King was at the top of the chain of command and all the royals obeyed his commands. Failure to do so resulted in imprisonment or death. Becoming King was a birth right, there were no elections or democratic processes to contend with. The Royals all cooperated with each other to maintain control over the people and to bolster trade. They banded their armies together to fight a common enemy, whether foreign or domestic. That is the system which we fought our way out of with the Revolutionary War. We evolved into a democratic republic and became the mightiest nation the world has ever seen.

 

Now there are indications that we are devolving back into a monarchy. We have our own Dukes, Earls and Barons pretending to be Lords overseeing the people once again. The billionaire oligarchs of Big Tech and the Media have begun telling us what we can or can’t say publicly. If you don’t obey their wishes, you are banned from communicating at all. Like the Royals of Old, they band together for THEIR common good. Patriotic or conservative views are unacceptable, because they can more easily maintain control over the people, you, through a Democrat administration bolstered by the Deep State. The government is controlled by money given to politicians. The Oligarchs have more money than the government and they hand it out by the millions to individual politicians. They get it all back tenfold, from us, by manipulating the stock markets and trade agreements.

 

The Oligarchs were making billions from China until Trump came along. They were making billions by manipulating the stock markets until Trump came along. They were exerting more and more control over content on social media until Trump threatened to take away their immunity from being sued (a gift from Obama).

 

The Oligarchs argue that they are private enterprise and can do whatever they wish with their empires. But, in reality they are a shadow government. They are operating no different from the Royalty of Old. They want to be the Royalty of today and only THEY may decide who the King shall be.

 

The state of education today has left the majority of millenials and young people ignorant about the Revolutionary War and the issues that led up to it. They are ignorant of who the Founding Fathers were or what they fought for. They are ignorant of what made America the mightiest nation on Earth. It was the people who answered the call of patriotism in time of war. It was the citizen soldiers who stood up against the strongest army of its time, English soldiers. It was the citizen soldiers who stood up against the Oligarchs of the Southern states to save the Union, the Fascists of both world wars and the communists of the Cold War.

 

Ignorance is allowing the freedoms we have fought for to slip away. Free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, the right of a citizen, and only a citizen, to vote.

 

But the bottom line is, it’s always about the money.

 

Peaceful Transition?

"Manx" has some thoughts about the presidential transition.

Peaceful Transition?

My Aunt Fanny!

The party of Lincoln and Reagan has finally come together. They now stand locked arms weepy-eyed, wringing hands and groveling with apologies as they indicate responsibility for the Jan 06 Capitol Hill debacle. At the same time the party of Wilson and Obama is screaming Impeachment! - 25th Amendment! - Resign!

Impeachment? Pelosi can keep beating that dead horse and very well muster enough from her confederacy of dunces to hold court in the house. A court right out of “A Tale Of Two Cities” with Pelosi playing the lead role as the crone Madame Defarge -  and like Defarge right there in the front. As Pelosi lives out her fantasy her elected minions, most of the media and a dubious section of the public drool and claw like my cat when I tease her with a dead fish.

Shouts of “IMPEACHMENT!” and “Watch what we do Monday!” resonate this Friday night like howling primates at a zoo. OK, file the damn articles and vote on it in the House. Then what? It goes to Senate and where are those reprobates? Vacation - don’t return until Jan 20 - Inauguration Day. That would require one speedy trial for sure.

We’re witnessing a disaster in the making that will play out at least for the next two years. At the same time we just witnessed what amounted to the first shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter redux when Ashli Babbitt was murdered in cold blood.

And as things boil and fester the president elect along with his blind and lame screech “Peaceful transition” as Donald Trump is forced to run a gauntlet lined with savages - a gauntlet in part his own making.