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The Coup We Never Knew
Townhall.com ^ | 01/05/2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/05/2023 11:54:56 AM PST by Bonemaker

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To: SecondAmendment

Bush 1. NWO/Gulf war/spend spend spend.


21 posted on 01/05/2023 1:19:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: subterfuge

<>I hate articles that are just questions. You learn nothing.<>

It’s called the Socratic Method.

It is for people who think.


22 posted on 01/05/2023 1:24:17 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: enumerated; LibertyWoman

I know it’s rhetoric but as a FReeper none of this new to me. My problem I guess and I hope the VDH column does wake up some people.


23 posted on 01/05/2023 1:26:41 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: GingisK

“You hit the very reason that conservatives will never be able to turn the country back around. They can’t work together. In fact, they are openly hostile toward each other most of the time.”

With true liberty and freedom comes independent thinking and action. True conservatives value the ability to think, speak, and act as an individual, not simply participate in group think, group speak, and enforced group actions.

Progressives can present a unified front because in their philosophy the individual is subservient to the group. Progressives must “submit” in order to belong. By submitting they accept the role of slave to the lifestyle requirement of the group. True conservative lovers of liberty relish the ability to be independent actors. Hence they exercise their freedom to disagree, no matter who they disagree with. They have the will and fortitude to reject slavery and chart their own paths. Therefore it is difficult to engage them in group efforts. Developing a consensus among for cooperative action among free people is difficult, messy, and often not possible.


24 posted on 01/05/2023 1:47:04 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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To: Soul of the South
Developing a consensus among for cooperative action among free people is difficult, messy, and often not possible.

That is why I have always dreamed of a Congress that went to Washington DC and did absolutely nothing year after year in perpetuity.   Instead each member arrives newly minted with a desire to make their mark by each new hair-brained scheme they can come up with to the determent of us all.

George Washington's cabinet included four original members: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
Every other Governmental Department should never have existed.
25 posted on 01/05/2023 2:00:45 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: subterfuge

I get it.. to you and me it’s obvious what’s wrong and what needs to be done. I do appreciate people who are good at articulating it - and VDH is one of them.

Reagan was great at boiling things down - I miss that guy.

I’m sure I’d get a lot of disagreement here, but I actually think Trump is good at articulating the problem - and cutting through the fake news narratives.


26 posted on 01/05/2023 2:06:10 PM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: enumerated
I’m sure I’d get a lot of disagreement here, but I actually think Trump is good at articulating the problem - and cutting through the fake news narratives.

It's working with people, who all have big egos, and nefarious motives, that's the hard part. A lot easier to handle that in the private sector, than it is in DC.

27 posted on 01/05/2023 2:07:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: doorgunner69

I’m on the IFFY side with you, as it’s damn difficult to move much more than a platoon-size element without secure commo (hypothetically). And the simplest of games can’t be won playing defense either.


28 posted on 01/05/2023 2:11:42 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: Bonemaker

bump


29 posted on 01/05/2023 4:10:03 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: oldguy1776
Oh, what an Opus! Best of 2023!!


30 posted on 01/05/2023 4:10:11 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Bonemaker; anyone
Someone mentioned the when? I’m going to steal from another post I saw on FR or somewhere else on the question. The real, practical turning point was the Occupy Wall Street protests in and around 2011. It was unlike most earlier protests I guess since the 60s in that the protestors essentially gave a middle finger at the very foundations of our systems; Capitalism and western concepts associated with it. The reaction from Obama and his administration was almost a tacit approval. Just consider those ramifications…. I think that gave the radical left the green light and recall the overt attacks on the symbols of our systems—monuments, statues etc began shortly after Trump took office only 4 years or so after Occupy Wall street. If we would have acted with authority and used “patty wagons” to haul the hundreds of thousands of miscreants away to jail, even better yet busted a few heads like a majority of nation states do when their existence is threatened we wouldn’t be in this mess today. 2-D833-D95-205-E-496-C-BE8-D-E5-FE7-C485704 00409892-DF3-B-401-C-A510-2-E9-A41-DA9116
31 posted on 01/05/2023 4:41:45 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

I think you mean paddy wagons.

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32 posted on 01/05/2023 4:45:26 PM PST by Mears (.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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33 posted on 01/05/2023 4:46:04 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Bonemaker

1963

1975

2020


34 posted on 01/05/2023 4:48:02 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Mears

Yes…


35 posted on 01/05/2023 4:51:37 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8
The real, practical turning point was


36 posted on 01/05/2023 4:52:08 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Bonemaker
Here ya go, Victor...a solution to your questions.

The following 388 Respondents (many are sitting in office now/after Jan. 3) are a party to this action as defendants in the trial court:

Brunson v Adams
... and JOHN and JANE DOES 1-100

I can think of a few names to go there.

Write 2 letters...CALL TO ACTION
Too late for that now unless you use express mail/overnight delivery.

A video from the lady who started this...
BRUNSON v. ALMA S. ADAMS Letter & Video Compilation (27:13...with your morning coffee or evening beverage)

Removal from office from broken oath of office for not investigating
the claims of election fraud by 100 members of Congress.
A mere 9 pages to read. What have you got to lose?
At least go look to see all of them in a Rogues' Gallery listing!

37 posted on 01/05/2023 5:01:43 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Bonemaker

When did up become down, light become darkness, and most importantly, when did sin become acceptable behavior?


38 posted on 01/05/2023 11:50:16 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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The minute Biden was sworn in I decided America is finished. We’re done. It was a nice experiment. She was God’s last hope.


39 posted on 01/06/2023 4:26:53 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

I’m not sanguine about the country’s future....at this point.


40 posted on 01/06/2023 6:39:47 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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