“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be...
Nobody wants to hear it but the fundamentalist church I grew up in actually offered the solution to the Crisis in Reading (force kids to read the King James Bible)
The establishment only discovers an allergy to billions when the money funds free speech instead of their own preferred left-wing operations. They quietly celebrated decades of partisan funding from Soros and corporate tech oligarchs. Romney's sudden panic over mathematical scale reveals a deep fear of losing institutional control. True conservatives recognize this fake virtue signaling for exactly what it is: a desperate defense mechanism to block actual disruption.
🚨 DID YOU KNOW: Dwight D. Eisenhower's January 1954 State of the Union address proposed legislation to REVOKE U.S. Citizenship from Communists, calling their activities "TREASON".
“We should recognize by law a fact that is plain to all thoughtful citizens - that we are dealing here with actions akin to treason - that when a citizen knowingly participates in the Communist conspiracy he no longer holds allegiance to the United States.
I recommend that Congress enact legislation to provide that a citizen of the United States who is convicted in the courts of hereafter conspiring to advocate the overthrow of this government by force or violence be treated as having, by such act, renounced his allegiance to the United States and forfeited his United States citizenship.” - Eisenhower
DO YOU THINK @realDonaldTrump SHOULD DO THIS?
From the Introduction to his dissent - Justice Thomas summarizes why children born to people passing through the USA (like someone on a birth tourism trip) are not citizens:
Crete was insane. More I read about it crazier it gets.
Kiwi infantry having breakfast and then shooting tommy guns at German paras landing literally on top of them.
Cretan peasants with rocks, kitchen knives and muskets bashing in the heads of any Fallschirmjager they could get their hands on.
Germans landing with just a pistol and a knife and having to fight their way through to their own supply crates to unlock a precious rifle and ammo.
Captain Upham - who liked a scrap - saying there was far more "bayonet work" here than he had ever seen.
Just absolutely savage close combat across an entire island for days on end, with like 400 Stukas bombing the shit out of everything that moves.
The Germans won because British generals just had no idea what was going on and panicked and left.
In his 1938 work The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc devoted a chapter to Islam:
"Millions of modern people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization of Europe and America—have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past."
The trick is commitment
Be an empire or reject it entirely
Be a republic or abandon it entirely
The worst possible path is the one we’ve chosen where America tries to split the difference