ICON Lecture Series

ICON - Issues Confronting Our Nation

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Inspector general of Social Security Administration: 6.5 million Social Security cards active of people > 112 years. http://t.co/d94XX041jv

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

The cheap green lie

You are told that solar and wind are cheap

But cramming in more solar and wind just makes power more and more costly

because solar and wind are worthless when not sunny and windy

https://t.co/NmD8QooxYM
WSJ: https://t.co/pIDoaT28iw

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

The National Nightmare Is Ending

Après Biden, “L'audace, l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace”!

To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: after Biden, follows not the deluge, but now daring, and still more daring, and always more daring.

Why?

A combination of two self-evident truths.

Joe Biden’s inept administration proved an ungodly disaster, not just for America but for the West as well, who looked abroad for a stronger America but found it weaker.

And second, Trump Invictus is now liberated—“In the fell clutch of circumstance/I have not winced nor cried aloud,/Under the bludgeonings of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

He is without worry over another election, or a discredited and defanged media (“so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons”), much less a third Nancy-Pelosi contrived impeachment.

Instead, he stalks indomitable, after failed de-balloting capers, failed lawfare vendettas, and failed two assassination attempts. To quote Shakespeare of his recent visit to Notre Dame and the once hostile Euro crowd who now mobbed him, “He doth bestride the narrow world /Like a Colossus, and we petty men /Walk under his huge legs and peep about /To find ourselves dishonorable graves”.

In sum, our weakest president is to be followed by our most audacious.

Biden’s bumbling arrogance nearly destroyed the American military in Kabul. It ruined Western deterrence. It showered the creepy Taliban with a multibillion-dollar new windfall arsenal.

His lies, his incompetence, and, yes, his narcissism demoralized Americans and our allies, but at least ensured he would never reach 50 percent approval again.

What immediately followed from the Kabul nightmare was as bad or indeed worse: two theater-wide wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, appeasement of Iran, hammering of Israel, a nonexistent US border, 12 million illegal aliens, the hyperinflation of staples, the weaponization of the executive branch, Third-World lawfare, looting and shoplifting legitimized, spiking crime contextualized, and printing trillions of debased dollars normalized.

Biden sought to turn the once preeminent US military into a cruel cultural woke joke.

The trainwreck of the last four years was force-multiplied by Biden’s own feebleness, masked by the most scandalous media-politico conspiracy of suppresson of it in US history.

But now there is a giddy sense that restoration and normalization are not just possible but on the horizon.

The truth now is set free, and it smothers the old lying denials about the origins of COVID, about the truth of diversity/equity/inclusion, about the naked greed of the Biden family syndicate, about the dementia of Joe, about the chauvinism of three sexes, and about the joy and momentum of the fracking, gun-toting, MacDonald’s veteran and border hawk Kamala Harris.

No one fears or listens to the now defenestrated frauds and tiring dissimulators: the Bidens, a Fauci, Mayorkas, Garland, Milley, Austin, Jean-Pierre, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, or McCabe—and their old lies that Hunter is brilliant, Biden is fit as a field, no gain-in-function viruses, a bat caused COVID, the border is secure, Chinese army generals are more trustworthy than Trump, the laptop was Russian, Trump is a Putin puppet, and always their nauseating “I can’t recall”, “ I don’t remember”,  “I have no recollection”, and “I am not at liberty to say”.

Our allies are feeling more confident, our enemies scared.

The idea of an impending deterrent and reliable Trump administration has terrified Iran and helped collapse Syria. Israelis buoyant. Not so Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.

In anticipation, the dollar reigns, the stock market stays strong.

Even Trump’s traditional enemies, whether on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, or in corporate board rooms are whispering that they secretly are delighted with their old nemesis’s dream of more and cheaper energy, less government regulation and taxation, and confidence again that everything is now possible when a government says an exhilarant yes to dreams rather than a crabby no to them.

Suddenly the woke bullies are on the run. The porous border really can be closed; illegal alien gangs and criminals will be sent packing.

The Left now invokes no Logan Act. They are instead relieved that the President-elect is now the virtual President—and their guy is gone.

Biden yelps now that his sins were not doubling down on them and sinning even more when he had the chance.

In other words, the recently impossible is not just possible again, but likely!

Each of us, at least for this brief window of opportunity, again feels, “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”

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@MeghanMcCain Was your father really BFFs with the treasonous snake you helped put in WH?

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@LisaMarieBoothe #MeToo

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@mattgaetz It's COLLARDS, not SPINACH.

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@TrumpRealDaily YES

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@AntonioSabatoJr Harris' suit is the color of poop. Michelle's background color is the same. Unbelievable UGLY clothes.

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@realTrumpNewsX A

[Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG]

It’s b/c of govts’ covid lies/propaganda that those of us who were compelled by our conscience to speak the truth are still being persecuted. Because in acknowledging the truth we speak, govts must in turn acknowledge their own harmful lies/propaganda.

@DrJBhattacharya’s 💥🧵

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BINGO - inquiring minds want to know

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

One big mystery after the Bret Baier interview:

Has Harris always been this stupid or was there some recent change in her health?

Did she get all the way to candidate for president on DEI alone? It's entirely possible, but seems hard to believe.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

ABC News Argues 9/11 Overblown As It Was 'Only A Handful Of Buildings' https://t.co/c7ji42om4Q

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

That Kamala ever held a job as local prosecutor- never mind Vice President- is a stunning indictment of how stupid and preposterous the system has become

[Andy McCarthy @AndrewCMcCarthy]

The "Harris should have been doing tough interviews all along" point is tunnel-vision on the now. If she had done them, she'd have been awful. By the time she got better, it mightn't have mattered. The point is to nominate someone who's ready. This isn't a training exercise.

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@mrddmia Did anyone tell David Muir?

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@RepMTG So a long slog through winter for those poor people .....

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

The only headline worth discussing from the Bret Baier interview of Harris is that she is too dumb for the job.

I can’t recall ever thinking that about a presidential candidate. This is special.

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@IvankaNews_ YES!!!!!

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@jackunheard It's their new talking point .... pretend Trump is Biden.

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

Take cat and dog eating out of the equation but ask yourself this: How do you get so many illegal immigrants moving to small cities like Aurora Colorado or Springfield Ohio? My guess there’s a network of progressive NGOs which aid illegals to game the LEGAL immigration system and then how they can find cheap housing is places outside where the media isn’t big enough to chronicle this mass migration ie small town America. The tragedy is, of course, that the American citizens in these places have been deprived of their say in all of this, they have no say how this impacts social and economic policy and a lot more

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly