Posted on 10/16/2021 4:38:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s not until you leave the United States that you realize how angry Americans are.
Earlier this month my wife the travel agent and I took a cruise in the Mediterranean from Athens to Barcelona by way of stops on the Greek island of Santorini and in Sicily.
It was the first trip Colleen has been able to book since February 2020, right before the global pandemic lockdowns sank 80 percent of the cruise ship industry and put her out of a job.
For me, who got to tag along, it was the best kind of getaway vacation, mainly because I saw and heard virtually nothing about American politics.
I never turned on the TV in my room, so I was never up to date on the status of the Democrats’ zillion-dollar spending packages or the latest wave of illegal immigrants flooding our southern border.
The global pandemic and its precautions and annoyances traveled onboard with us, of course.
We had to be vaccinated and wear masks when we were not eating, drinking or sunning by the pool.
Plus, we were tested for COVID on our trip four times before we got on the plane to Athens, twice on the cruise ship and before we flew home.
The strict COVID-19 policies were the small price we had to pay to escape Joe Biden’s “Angry America,” where it seems everyone is always griping and bitching about what’s going on – as I admit I do.
My vacation was a great way to hang out with friendly, happy people from around the world who weren’t angry all the time or never shut up about politics.
Best of all, it got me away from the TV and made me forget the political troubles in America.
Cruising the Mediterranean for seven days, I never saw Kamala Harris’ face. I never saw Joe Biden’s or Nancy Pelosi’s, either.
I was so out of America’s news loop, I had no idea that angry parents across the country who’ve been protesting the actions of their liberal school boards had been branded by Biden people as “domestic terrorists” worthy of the FBI’s attention.
As soon as we arrived back in the U.S. earlier this week, I saw that Americans were as angry as ever – and had some new good reasons to be.
The Biden administration was talking about using the IRS to monitor the bank accounts of every American who makes a transaction of $600 or more.
Talk about government snooping.
Nancy Pelosi said something about it being part of a campaign to make sure every taxpayer, including the rich, pays their fair share, but that’s a ridiculous excuse for a dangerous federal power grab.
Everything the Biden administration has come up with so far is just as idiotic as that idea:
Its perverse energy policies, its harmful immigration policies, its proposed tax hikes, its covid vaccine mandates for larger companies, its bloated spending bills, its inflationary monetary policies … And let’s not forget the fiasco in Kabul.
Liberal Democrats used to get their kicks by making fun of the values and life styles of Americans in Red States. Now they’re using the power of the federal government to torture them in new ways and make them mad.
While we were vacationing, Gov. Gavin Newsom got in on the act.
He signed a new California law banning the sale of gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers and other small equipment. Those tools – used by thousands of landscape workers – will have to become battery-powered only.
It’s really sad to watch the damage Biden, Newsom and company are doing with their leftwing ideas, stupidity and arrogance.
The only thing that will save the country is when the voters they’ve made so angry return the House and Senate to Republican control in the 2022 midterm elections.
Meanwhile, Collen and I are already thinking of going on another cruise tomorrow.
Two potential problems:
1) Democrats know how to steal elections and there is no evidence that the Establishment will step in and stop it.
2) If the Democrats decide that stealing is too risky, they will run Assistant Democrats in the mold of John McCain or Mitt Romney and fill government seats with "Republicans" who will 100% push the Biden/Harris Progressive agenda.
My conclusion: We're not voting our way out of this.
The last time we gave them control, they suddenly decided to ban bump stocks, allow in unvented Syrians and tell the world Obamacare is here to stay and o look wear a mask and stay away from each other because of the magnitude of death if we do not obey the “science”, “experts”.
They are no different except they claim their acts are American.
When the establishment Republicans in red states lose to Democrats, they will start to wise up about election fraud, but by then there will be no more R’s in office to fight. So R’s will lose and lose, and say, “oh, maybe there was rampant fraud like Trump said.”
They are a bunch of panty-waisted nincompoops.
Here's the thing...Once any new "social" program starts...it's forever. So they'll pick and choose where the most votes are...and that leans toward children.
It really amounts to CUTTING OUT the most ridiculousand/or dangerous programs...like 2 years Free College, looking at your bank accounts...all kinds of cr** in the bill. They never planned on $3.5...who are they kidding.
But let's look at the grand total. $1.2 tril in the first bill and say $2 tril in the second makes $3.2 which is what they originally asked for before they came up with the second SEPARATE bill. They're clever and getting what they want.
The republicans were in on the Kenyanesian usurpation, the 2020 steal and masks and mandates.
The republicans refuse to be anything but assistant democrats but if the house and senate flip and there isn’t an immediate impeachment of Biden - even the still asleep will know for sure
Maybe the author should move permanently to a “ happy place”
What drivel
We had to be vaccinated and wear masks when we were not eating, drinking or sunning by the pool.
Plus, we were tested for COVID on our trip four times before we got on the plane to Athens, twice on the cruise ship and before we flew home.
Vaxxed, wearing a mask and tested 6 times... What an idiot.
Given the present situation, I would have to agree. I've heard it said that the Founders gave us two boxes, voting and cartridge. It does appear that the first has failed.
> My conclusion: We’re not voting our way out of this. <
I have to agree. And so I see three possible paths going forward (from most probable to least probable):
1. We devolve into a one-party system, with Sweden-like socialism.
2. We devolve into a one-party system, with Venezuela-like socialism.
3. Violence.
So the best we can hope for is 1. But it could be a continuum, 1 then 2 then 3.
Remember that party?
Do you know who's Michael Reagan's dad was? I would not be surprised if you don't. You seem to be that ignorant.
You can lick his boots...I don’t care who he is.
Still drivel
I have a question: Can you get the virus if you are in quarantine, and if how?
“...allow in unvented Syrians...”
I fully support vented Syrians. ;=)
Shut up Michael. He was attacking Trump in his columns, and the Tea Party, and talk radio a few years before Trump.
The only way out is to get the money out of DC.....red states should collect IRS forms and money band only send to D.C. money for a few things...take no money for education for example and do not follow any of there rules..same for other departments...
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