Sunrise or sunset? Dawn of a new day or farewell to the past. There is a lot of poetry in this picture.
AnneNovember 16, 2024, 10:09 AM
Sunrise–both real and political!
Roll-aidNovember 16, 2024, 4:54 PM
My books arrived today. One each hardcover and paperback. I immediately read the introduction and notes and skimmed the contents. I will read the essays in reverse order, so to finish my journey with the keynote essay. I have long maintained that the “Name” essay is the single best piece of writing I have encountered in my journeys through the Internet.
May his soul rest in peace, forever and ever.
ghostsniperNovember 16, 2024, 5:03 PM
Thanks for the heads up. Haven’t received mine yet, maybe in the next coupla days.
Casey KlahnNovember 17, 2024, 9:14 AM
I’m trying to think of the salient events during the 2024 presidential campaign that led to, or caused, the great Trump victory. Please add your own in the comments.
Biden losing the debate decisively. Biden getting “couped out”. Kamala replacing Biden in the latter part of the campaign (that is an insane move. She was decisively defeated in the dem convention vote, and up until she was selected to run, she was actively being prepared to be replaced as Veep running mate). Kamal runs and has a really bad personality. Kamal runs without pressers, and essentially runs “from the basement”. Trump is shot and triumphantly poses for the greatest photo of our lifetime, save maybe the ones from the moon: “FIGHT!” USSS is discovered to be corrupt; second attempt on Trump’s life that we know of. Peanut, cats on Haitian menus. Katrina debacle and the corruption at FEMA. Kennedy encamps with Trump. Rogan encamps with Trump. Musk encamps with Trump, and social media takes a decisive turn to the right. Ongoing egregious border problems with heinous murders and the fentanyl crisis; also the apartment take-overs in Denver. The economy sucked asz but the media said everything was fine.
There were smaller events and campaign moves as well, but not as dramatic as the ones I wrote above. The garbage truck wrap, The McDonald’s window shots of Trump serving fries, lots of foolish and stunning mis-moves by leftist personalities, to include Diddy, all shot holes through the Left’s agenda. People were disgusted by the trans athletes and trans Biden administration characters. The military got weaker and weaker as far as personnel and morale were concerned. Wars raged and threatened to expand into a shooting war for America, not to mention the specter of Civil War. Actually, put those last two war threats up in the first paragraph.
What are your thoughts, readers?
Daniel K DayNovember 17, 2024, 10:07 AM
The video of Kama chortling at the prospect of a single mother, Cheree Peoples, hauled to the police station for the “truancy” of her daughter, who had missed 2 months of junior high school while hospitalized for sickle cell anemia. Peoples had properly reported the reason for her daughter’s absence to her school, but was arrested in spite of that.
azlibertarianNovember 17, 2024, 3:27 PM
“…the salient events during the 2024 presidential campaign that led to, or caused, the great Trump victory….”
By no means a complete list, but in addition to the moments you listed, here are a couple that stick out for me…..
* The “trans” lunacy, of which Biden, Harris, the D’s, and the progressive Left have embraced completely as some sort of new civil rights campaign, was dealt what I think was a fatal blow at the Olympics when that boxer from Algeria was awarded (which is different from “winning”) a gold medal in women’s boxing. The guy is complete with a penis and XY chromosomes, but because he was born with undecended testicles, that was enough for the IOC to allow him to box as a woman. No one wants to see a man beating on a woman, but that is exactly what the Paris Olympics gave us. [Related: Am I the only guy who thinks that it is unbecoming for women to compete in combative sports?]
* If you were a voter who cares about the use of our military to further our foreign policy aims, you had to be sulking in shame this summer. The Houthi in Yemen decided to close access to the Red Sea at the Bab al-Mandab, and after a flurry of a response from the US, British and French navies, we largely abandoned the Red Sea. Apparently, keeping the shipping lanes free from attacks by Seventh Century Savages was too expensive, time-consuming, or just generally too hard to do. This is another military embarrassment that the Biden administration wishes that we not remember or speak of.
* You mentioned that “Musk encamped with Trump”, but I think that it goes back further than just Elon’s political endorsement. Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the removal of 80% of it’s staff, and the re-opening of mostly uncensored speech at Twitter/X was crucial to defeating the D’s.
Prolly others, but that’s it for now. This is a good discussion.
AnneNovember 17, 2024, 10:16 AM
Oh boy. There are so many reasons. Someone posted something called “I did not vote for trump, I voted for my country . . . .” I have copied some of it. Hope I can get it posted here:
Fundamental transformation of the US is the linchpin for the WEF 2030 Agenda.
I’m not voting for Trump today. What I am voting for, though, is a secure border and respect for our national sovereignty.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting to prevent the federal government’s normalization of “gender” policies that harm both sexes by denying them their differences.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to keep imported gangs and drug cartels out of our country.
I am not voting for Trump. I am voting to keep drugs outside of our borders and away from our kids.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to keep men out of girls’ locker rooms, and out of girls’ sports.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against $10 cartons of eggs.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for a way out of healthcare premiums that have quadrupled for us.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting for federalism — for bringing power back to state and local government, to match the voters’ will.
I’m not voting for Trump today. What I am voting for, however, are lower interest rates
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against Chamber of Commerce Republicans and corporate globalists who use cheap imported labor to keep domestic wages artificially low, harming American workers.
I’m not voting for Trump today. What I am voting for is peace through strength and not the enrichment of the defense industry and foreign oligarchs.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for stability and peace in the middle east and an Iran that poses no nuclear threat.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against “equity,” DEI, queer theory, postcolonial studies, white fragility, critical race theory, American Maoism, and every other flavor of Marxism
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m instead voting for a strong America that demands its allies be allies and not foreign dependents; that they pay their share of the burden of defending the Western World from its global enemies.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to protect my First Amendment right to free speech and free thought and free expression.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting instead to maintain my natural right of self defense
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against the Deep State and career politicians whose only accomplishments have been securing and maintaining power.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to fend off the globalist’s desire for a permanent surveillance state.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting against the specter of a social credit score tied to my bank accounts and my access to the market economy.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against a Ministry of Truth and its aims to define “hate” and “misinformation” in ways that would stifle speech and grant the government unimaginable cultural and legal power.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting instead to remove the millions of criminal illegals who have been imported to replace those born in freedom with those who are too often dependent on government and will vote those interests.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against a military that cares more about inclusion for vamps and drag queens than it does about winning wars and keeping us safe.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for the political movement that doesn’t believe blacks too infantile to secure ID and use it to keep our elections free from fraud.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for classical liberalism, the Enlightenment, a Constitutional order, and a thorough rejection of the invasive, unassimilable ideas of Marxism, Maoism, communism, and national socialism.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against fascism — which is a movement entwined with leftist thought and ideology, and is inherent in its speech codes, its cancellation projects, and its desire to jail or eliminate its political enemies.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for America. And Americans. And for putting our needs first.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for free markets, fair trade, and a robust economy.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for American workers.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting to protect this country’s future, so that my kids can grow up free.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against the petty tyrants, the nameless bureaucrats, the permanent ruling class, the dishonest media, the captured institutions, and the brainwashed leftists caught up in a cult of hatred against their own country.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting for meritocracy, and the desire to achieve excellence.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for the proper and coherent use of pronouns as parts of speech.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against those who believe it is my role to do as they say, think as they desire, react as they command, and serve them as they think they deserve to be served.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against school boards an an educational bureaucracy that believes I’m an impediment to their ownership of my children.
I’m not voting for Trump today. But I am voting against those who would cast me as a Nazi, a fascist, a racist, a xenophobe, a homophobe, a misogynist, filled with white rage, fueled by toxic masculinity.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to save this republic from those whose express desire is its “fundamental transformation.”
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting instead for the maintenance of a Supreme Court that doesn’t write law, but instead interprets the will of the legislature and protects the Constitutional order.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to spite those people who so hate Trump that they’ve made his destruction their entire reason for living.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against myself and my family being replaced by more compliant, more government-dependent illegal immigrants who will be issued a “pathway to citizenship” meant to make my vote irrelevant in the long term.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for the United States. And to make it great again.
I would also add that voted against the WEF ! Having watched that group develop since the year 2000–I know who they are and how they have been working against my country!
Hope this helps to answer your question!
John A. FlemingNovember 17, 2024, 10:24 AM
They grabbed that guy because they learned he had компромат on everybody, a la Epstein, and if there is компромат to be had, the Fibbies want it all. It’s what they do, it’s their crown jewels, their Precious. They were hoping they’d catch T and take him down. No such luck. But then there were all those curious rushed endorsements by Hollywood creatures, almost as if somebody made them offers they couldn’t refuse.
There was some weird stuff going on that last month, the somebodies were desperate.
Another thing was the “herding” of polls. Everybody got it wrong, wrong more than they ever have. They were all screaming “It’s going to be tight, 50%/50% tight, could go any way”. Which means that when the Fraudulent reportedly dipped 8 and 10 points below T in July after he flamed out in Vegas, they really really wanted him gone. Pollsters are a proud and loyal archipelago in the Empire of Lies. And now everybody knows it.
ghostsniperNovember 17, 2024, 11:57 AM
Our son is taking part in a social experiment.
He has to wear a “GO VEGAN” t-shirt for 2 weeks and see how people react.
So far he has been spit on, punched and kicked and had a bottle thrown at him.
I’m curious to see what happens when he goes outside of the house.
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
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Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
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Sunrise or sunset? Dawn of a new day or farewell to the past. There is a lot of poetry in this picture.
Sunrise–both real and political!
My books arrived today. One each hardcover and paperback. I immediately read the introduction and notes and skimmed the contents. I will read the essays in reverse order, so to finish my journey with the keynote essay. I have long maintained that the “Name” essay is the single best piece of writing I have encountered in my journeys through the Internet.
May his soul rest in peace, forever and ever.
Thanks for the heads up. Haven’t received mine yet, maybe in the next coupla days.
I’m trying to think of the salient events during the 2024 presidential campaign that led to, or caused, the great Trump victory. Please add your own in the comments.
Biden losing the debate decisively. Biden getting “couped out”. Kamala replacing Biden in the latter part of the campaign (that is an insane move. She was decisively defeated in the dem convention vote, and up until she was selected to run, she was actively being prepared to be replaced as Veep running mate). Kamal runs and has a really bad personality. Kamal runs without pressers, and essentially runs “from the basement”. Trump is shot and triumphantly poses for the greatest photo of our lifetime, save maybe the ones from the moon: “FIGHT!” USSS is discovered to be corrupt; second attempt on Trump’s life that we know of. Peanut, cats on Haitian menus. Katrina debacle and the corruption at FEMA. Kennedy encamps with Trump. Rogan encamps with Trump. Musk encamps with Trump, and social media takes a decisive turn to the right. Ongoing egregious border problems with heinous murders and the fentanyl crisis; also the apartment take-overs in Denver. The economy sucked asz but the media said everything was fine.
There were smaller events and campaign moves as well, but not as dramatic as the ones I wrote above. The garbage truck wrap, The McDonald’s window shots of Trump serving fries, lots of foolish and stunning mis-moves by leftist personalities, to include Diddy, all shot holes through the Left’s agenda. People were disgusted by the trans athletes and trans Biden administration characters. The military got weaker and weaker as far as personnel and morale were concerned. Wars raged and threatened to expand into a shooting war for America, not to mention the specter of Civil War. Actually, put those last two war threats up in the first paragraph.
What are your thoughts, readers?
The video of Kama chortling at the prospect of a single mother, Cheree Peoples, hauled to the police station for the “truancy” of her daughter, who had missed 2 months of junior high school while hospitalized for sickle cell anemia. Peoples had properly reported the reason for her daughter’s absence to her school, but was arrested in spite of that.
“…the salient events during the 2024 presidential campaign that led to, or caused, the great Trump victory….”
By no means a complete list, but in addition to the moments you listed, here are a couple that stick out for me…..
* The “trans” lunacy, of which Biden, Harris, the D’s, and the progressive Left have embraced completely as some sort of new civil rights campaign, was dealt what I think was a fatal blow at the Olympics when that boxer from Algeria was awarded (which is different from “winning”) a gold medal in women’s boxing. The guy is complete with a penis and XY chromosomes, but because he was born with undecended testicles, that was enough for the IOC to allow him to box as a woman. No one wants to see a man beating on a woman, but that is exactly what the Paris Olympics gave us. [Related: Am I the only guy who thinks that it is unbecoming for women to compete in combative sports?]
* If you were a voter who cares about the use of our military to further our foreign policy aims, you had to be sulking in shame this summer. The Houthi in Yemen decided to close access to the Red Sea at the Bab al-Mandab, and after a flurry of a response from the US, British and French navies, we largely abandoned the Red Sea. Apparently, keeping the shipping lanes free from attacks by Seventh Century Savages was too expensive, time-consuming, or just generally too hard to do. This is another military embarrassment that the Biden administration wishes that we not remember or speak of.
* You mentioned that “Musk encamped with Trump”, but I think that it goes back further than just Elon’s political endorsement. Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the removal of 80% of it’s staff, and the re-opening of mostly uncensored speech at Twitter/X was crucial to defeating the D’s.
Prolly others, but that’s it for now. This is a good discussion.
Oh boy. There are so many reasons. Someone posted something called “I did not vote for trump, I voted for my country . . . .” I have copied some of it. Hope I can get it posted here:
Fundamental transformation of the US is the linchpin for the WEF 2030 Agenda.
I’m not voting for Trump today. What I am voting for, though, is a secure border and respect for our national sovereignty.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting to prevent the federal government’s normalization of “gender” policies that harm both sexes by denying them their differences.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to keep imported gangs and drug cartels out of our country.
I am not voting for Trump. I am voting to keep drugs outside of our borders and away from our kids.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to keep men out of girls’ locker rooms, and out of girls’ sports.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against $10 cartons of eggs.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for a way out of healthcare premiums that have quadrupled for us.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting for federalism — for bringing power back to state and local government, to match the voters’ will.
I’m not voting for Trump today. What I am voting for, however, are lower interest rates
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against Chamber of Commerce Republicans and corporate globalists who use cheap imported labor to keep domestic wages artificially low, harming American workers.
I’m not voting for Trump today. What I am voting for is peace through strength and not the enrichment of the defense industry and foreign oligarchs.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for stability and peace in the middle east and an Iran that poses no nuclear threat.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against “equity,” DEI, queer theory, postcolonial studies, white fragility, critical race theory, American Maoism, and every other flavor of Marxism
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m instead voting for a strong America that demands its allies be allies and not foreign dependents; that they pay their share of the burden of defending the Western World from its global enemies.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to protect my First Amendment right to free speech and free thought and free expression.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting instead to maintain my natural right of self defense
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against the Deep State and career politicians whose only accomplishments have been securing and maintaining power.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to fend off the globalist’s desire for a permanent surveillance state.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting against the specter of a social credit score tied to my bank accounts and my access to the market economy.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against a Ministry of Truth and its aims to define “hate” and “misinformation” in ways that would stifle speech and grant the government unimaginable cultural and legal power.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting instead to remove the millions of criminal illegals who have been imported to replace those born in freedom with those who are too often dependent on government and will vote those interests.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against a military that cares more about inclusion for vamps and drag queens than it does about winning wars and keeping us safe.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for the political movement that doesn’t believe blacks too infantile to secure ID and use it to keep our elections free from fraud.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for classical liberalism, the Enlightenment, a Constitutional order, and a thorough rejection of the invasive, unassimilable ideas of Marxism, Maoism, communism, and national socialism.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against fascism — which is a movement entwined with leftist thought and ideology, and is inherent in its speech codes, its cancellation projects, and its desire to jail or eliminate its political enemies.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for America. And Americans. And for putting our needs first.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for free markets, fair trade, and a robust economy.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for American workers.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting to protect this country’s future, so that my kids can grow up free.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against the petty tyrants, the nameless bureaucrats, the permanent ruling class, the dishonest media, the captured institutions, and the brainwashed leftists caught up in a cult of hatred against their own country.
I’m not voting for Trump today. Instead, I’m voting for meritocracy, and the desire to achieve excellence.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for the proper and coherent use of pronouns as parts of speech.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against those who believe it is my role to do as they say, think as they desire, react as they command, and serve them as they think they deserve to be served.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against school boards an an educational bureaucracy that believes I’m an impediment to their ownership of my children.
I’m not voting for Trump today. But I am voting against those who would cast me as a Nazi, a fascist, a racist, a xenophobe, a homophobe, a misogynist, filled with white rage, fueled by toxic masculinity.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to save this republic from those whose express desire is its “fundamental transformation.”
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting instead for the maintenance of a Supreme Court that doesn’t write law, but instead interprets the will of the legislature and protects the Constitutional order.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting to spite those people who so hate Trump that they’ve made his destruction their entire reason for living.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting against myself and my family being replaced by more compliant, more government-dependent illegal immigrants who will be issued a “pathway to citizenship” meant to make my vote irrelevant in the long term.
I’m not voting for Trump today. I’m voting for the United States. And to make it great again.
I would also add that voted against the WEF ! Having watched that group develop since the year 2000–I know who they are and how they have been working against my country!
Hope this helps to answer your question!
They grabbed that guy because they learned he had компромат on everybody, a la Epstein, and if there is компромат to be had, the Fibbies want it all. It’s what they do, it’s their crown jewels, their Precious. They were hoping they’d catch T and take him down. No such luck. But then there were all those curious rushed endorsements by Hollywood creatures, almost as if somebody made them offers they couldn’t refuse.
There was some weird stuff going on that last month, the somebodies were desperate.
Another thing was the “herding” of polls. Everybody got it wrong, wrong more than they ever have. They were all screaming “It’s going to be tight, 50%/50% tight, could go any way”. Which means that when the Fraudulent reportedly dipped 8 and 10 points below T in July after he flamed out in Vegas, they really really wanted him gone. Pollsters are a proud and loyal archipelago in the Empire of Lies. And now everybody knows it.
Our son is taking part in a social experiment.
He has to wear a “GO VEGAN” t-shirt for 2 weeks and see how people react.
So far he has been spit on, punched and kicked and had a bottle thrown at him.
I’m curious to see what happens when he goes outside of the house.
That’s funny, Ghost.
You got my DH to laugh–that’s a wonderful thing!