Lee Smith is the only DC regional journalist I would ever recommend anyone trusting (the ONLY one), and Victor Davis Hanson always has an eloquent way of explaining the bizarre world that surrounds everything political. Lee Smith having a roundtable discussion with VDH is a must watch:
https://youtu.be/mlX-wKvQ1E8
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VDH is the greatest historian and classist of our time. He is a national treasure.
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A classic classy classicist indeed.
VDH is one of keenest conservative minds in the country and he has an exceptional way of expressing his thoughts. When he speaks I always listen.
Agreed.
And he is optimistic on the American people.
VDH I love all he does. He truly speaks the truth of what is happening in our country/and world today
I really like Victor Davis Hanson. He has come a long way since he declared David Petreaus a Savior General.
VDH was likely right about Petreaus , why else would they have given him the original FLYNN treatment?
second guessing points in time is PETTY- I respect VDH understanding of times, context and history way more than “of course nation”?
You can certainly have your own opinion about Petraus, but I can tell you, his nick name among many, many people serving under him in Central Command was BetrayUs. That was a while before he got in trouble for screwing his “biographer”.
But I guess, Time heals all wounds, or something.
Victor Davis Hanson: “Often Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness. He is in a far more dire mental state than a physically failing FDR was in his 1944 campaign for a fourth term.
The earlier career of a healthy Biden illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in control of most of his faculties. We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama, and the sane/insane Corn Pop stories. All are the trademark of a once fool Joe Biden, who was at least alert when compared with his current catalepsy. If Donald Trump can be ungrammatical, Biden is agrammatical — he simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely.
The captions couldn’t keep up with the conversation. The algorithm rendered itself illiterate with many incorrect words.
However, an excellent discussion, none the less.
It appeared that the computer might have had dementia too. So much for Gates computers.
That’s what dementia does. Plus what has already been highlighted – Bidet has never been the sharpest or brightest tool in the tool box. Our country is in dire trouble.
Biden is not making any decisions. He is reading what he is given to read. Obama’s friends are running the show
I never thought Obama was running things when he was in office. He was more the paid spokesmodel.
I think you’re right. I always considered Soros the shadow leader using Obama and now probably Biden. His fingerprints are everywhere then and now. I use to have hope he is an old man but now I believe his son is ready to take his place. He is destroying us within and our representatives are eager for each payday.
His teleprompter speeches were soaring. But take it away and he just fumbled all over the place. He was just another controlled meat puppet, like out current meat puppet president.
“If the corpse-man just took a breathalyzer to the 57 out of 60 states I visited he could see some of the people in the audience today who have given the ultimate sacrifice.”
You can see his glazed black eyes darting to read the Teleprompter.
And sign what he is told to sign!
Xiden may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, his heart is Evil and that makes him dangerous for the survival of this Nation.
The Biden campaign staff cooked up his “lifelong stutter” as cover for his mental decline. As in, “how dare you criticize someone with a speech impediment.” It’s evil genius, playing on the current climate of victim as someone to be championed, inoculated against any honest scrutiny. Up until a few years ago, the doddering fool was a slick, if not stupid, utterer.
I always knew what Trump meant because my mind works similarly. I’m a fast talker but my mouth can’t keep up with my brain and I’ll leave a sentence incomplete as I dash to the next thought.
I call it hyper-energetic intellect.
Bidet* is just plain NOT THERE.
Thank you for posting this. Lee Smith is a true treasure; and of course, to have an historian of VDH’s stature is a resource we can learn from to navigate through this mess.
Lee Smith ask the important questions. ‘How are we going to survive this?’ We say No. Thank you Sundance and team. Really good interview.
The one word VDH left out is Marxism. I’m optimistic that the people will push back but we’re running out of time. China has invested heavily in their arsenal,along with Russia. At present we neglect our aging nuclear arsenal. Don’t count out the element of surprise attack from either China or Russia. The American military will fight with great valor but the top brass is more focused on flashy uniforms for pregnant Fighter pilots.
Given the complete partnership between Big Business and The Swamp, the result is Facism rather than Marxism. There is an ugly treacherous collusion between the globalist multinational corporations and the federal government, and several state governments as well. Academia and the Media are actually part of the corporate side.
I think the Globalist Cabal ultimately wants total control over the world population’s entire existence from politics to all matter of business which will be more Marxist than at present.
The final battle will be between the European centered Marxists and the CCP. Who will triumph in the end and take over the globe…?
Dunno, GB. The CCP is described as “mercantalist Conmunism”; look at how they have attacked us; dumping, IP theft, co-opting corporate boards,…
It IS a slightly different form, of an enemy we have seen before.
A relatively small group of people, bent on World domination, and pursueing their goal thru “might makes right”.
Ultimately, the CCP thinks THEY will come out on top, and in the meantime they are willing to partner with or support/corrupt any who are stupid enough to go along.
From multinational corporations, to the mullahs in Iran, dc pols to BLM, and yes, all these useful idiots will be discarded, the second they are no longer useful.
Its the classic “deal with the devil”, and nobody reads the fine print.
I always look for you insightful posts and have missed them!!
Great seeing you commenting again.
Miss Grandma C. ✝️
Welcome back!
Yes, that’s classic totalitarian communism – taking over control of all industry. Notice that no industry in China or associated with China is permitted to operate independently. Apple, Disney, and Google are prime examples. They either satisfy China’s demands (despite those demands being unconstitutional here) or they are denied access to the 1.5 billion person market.
Those companies’ managers are “selling China the rope with which China will eventually hang them.”
“Those companies’ managers are “selling China the rope with which China will eventually hang them.”
So right you are. The unbridled greed of those corporate CEOs is driving ALL of this. None of them have the cajones to tell their shareholders:
“We have a MORAL responsibility to turn our backs on the Chinese marketplace because they victimize and exploit people in order to produce artificially low priced goods.
AND we have a duty to OUR people that requires us to WALK AWAY from any deal that requires us to compromise AMERICAN VALUES AND PRINCIPLES.”
But they WON’T.
They won’t because they KNOW that all it takes is one wrong statement and China will respond by excluding them from their vast marketplace with 1.5 BILLION consumers, meaning an instant decline in revenues and profits, and a freshly unemployed CEO.
I once said that the best thing Richard Nixon ever did was to normalize US relations with China.
I was wrong.
That was the WORST THING he ever did.
Nixon and a whole lot of politicians were extremely naive and had obviously not studied the Chinese Communist culture very well.
Of course hindsight is almost always 20/20, but Mao had already illustrated his methods. It is always men’s hubris that convinces them they can “tame the Beast.”
Nixon was naive about a lot of stuff. I still
despisecannot forgive him for giving us the most job killing anti American worker political machine in US history, the EP friggin A.Not to forget OSHA and putting the most divisive policy of our lifetime on steroids, legal discrimination (Affirmative Action).
Thank you!
I agree. The EPA overlords in DC have another Squid like arm in all 50 states with as much power as the DC head. The EPA is just as corrupt and redundant as the NIH and the CDC.
We have a duty not to enable or enrich an entity which is out to destroy us.
I just wonder if those who must steal technology because they can’t develop it, can they successfully run the world???
Sure they can. Who needs technological advancement when you have unlimited slave labor.
Just ask the ancient Egyptians., Greeks and Romans.
They are training their stem workforce in the USA and EU. Soon they will return to China has the best trained technologist in the world.
China will soon become an originator and innovator after having leapfrogged on our backs.
Me too, glad to see you Dutch. Always look forward to reading your posts. Missed you there for a while, hope you are well
I believe the ChiComs are more interested in world replacement than “domination”. They want to move their “people” into the countries they dominate eventually replacing those “indigenous people” with known compliant communist Chinese from the mainland thereby reducing the population in China. Shades of the third reich racial theory of the “master race”! IMHO
Jesus Christ.
Ultimately true!
However I was referring to the earthly battle between those earthly entities vying for total control.
The corporations are used to control that which the government cannot legally control. There appears to be a merging of government and corporations, which I believe was the original definition of fascism. They have with genius bridged the gap to tyranny by cannily using corporations who can do anything based on their constitutional freedom.
Exactly. Brief but accurately stated.
I agree that the ‘Globalist Cabal’ does seek and believe that they are entitled to and deserving of total control of the world. They are the self-appointed ‘elite’ destined to impose their understanding of what is good for everyone ELSE on those of us that do not understand what is good for us.
I believe that their ideology of what is good for us is essentially communal Marxism under their ‘benevolent’ permanent leadership.
I believe this ‘cabal’ consists of two primary globalist groups who have for the moment formed a coalition to advance their common goals. We currently have the ‘Statist Globalists’ and the ‘Corporatist Globalists’ holding hands and marching forward together as allies. At some point there will be a violent falling out because the Statists believe the State should have control of the Corporations and the Corporatists believe the Corporations should have control of the State. It will be an interesting contest to watch should they ever advance that far.
I hope and pray that day will never come although the ‘Cabal’ believes we are close. They just need America and the American people to submit.
A handful of established powerful international banks are at the core of the cabal. I believe they led the effort.
The statists align with them but the mega rich heads of the global multinational corporations are right alongside the mega banks as well.
I haven’t yet read any substantive analysis of exactly who holds the upper hand, but my bet would be the banks.
Joy Gresham – who later married CS Lewis – tells the story of her early life and how she abandoned the Marxism of the 1930s in the US. The videos, “Draw My Life” part 1 & 2 (CS Lewis Doodle) are well worth watching and sharing.
That was uplifting, thanks Sundance!
Except for institutionalized vote fraud, we would have had Trump for another four years. How can we hope to win at the ballot box now?
Interesting. Even more interesting is that neither will say “color revolution”.
The most troubling is the thing that no one wants to talk about. WHO in the government made the decision to allow those votes to be switched and why would everyone follow those orders and not come forward.
tax2much, an important point that was “kind of answered” when VDH said all the government institutions are broken. No one can stand up alone against them. President Trump stood alone against these institutions and you see what happened.
The only hope we have is for state legislatures to tighten up the election laws so we can vote in overwhelming measures again and get control of a federal congress that can do something about the broken institutions.
The people must start at the local level, the county republican party, school boards, board of supervisors and elect mayors and governors who will not allow protestors to run amok in their states. Elect state officials who will enforce the election laws.
The people who are to blame for the mess we are in are the ones who elected President Donald J. Trump and expected him to fix all of the things wrong in D.C. He has shown us it can’t be done.
The states have the power, elect state officials who will use it. A U.S. senator or representative who will vote against what their state’s Legislative Branch wants will have big problems come the next election, and they know it.
Once we take control of enough State Legislatures, we need to proceed with an Article V Convention of the States.
Sh*t’s gotta be changed!
The sates have the power which why Soros has a blueprint to control every state. He has captured nearly every single state in the Union with help from the Democrat Party. The Clinton Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the George Soros Open Society Foundation pretty much control the whole world.
They HAVE come forward, to Mike Lindell & Team, to Sidney Powell & Team. Dr Franks said he sat across the table from the person and they have spilt ALL the beans.. They do not want to go to jail.
WATCH HERE.
That was great TwoLaine. Surprised more here haven’t watched it……
And who in the GOP did the same?
Just listened to https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/05/08/lee-smith-and-victor-davis-hanson-discussion-during-freedom-festival/ right now!
Why are we importing foreigners to fill seats in American colleges/universities? I disagree with VDH 100%. Universities want $$ from rich foreigners and allow foreign students to take seats in universities that American students need.
Please, please, please bring to light the fact that too many student VISAs are given to foreigners who study here and take their knowledge back to their home countries. These seats must
be given to American citizens who will staying right here in our beloved country and who will use this knowledge to benefit America.
For those making bequests to universities and collegers, scholarships, donations, funding chairs, please consider a stipulation that your bequest/monies go to American citizens. We fund way too many foreigners, expensive training (tuition never pays for the cost of buildings, equipment, infrastructure, nor does it fund actual cost of teaching, overhead). Think of medical training and its cost, STEM programs, for starters.
Sorry, but at this point, anyone making bequests to Universities or colleges needs to have their head examined.
3 students were just suspended from Amhearst, and the University is keeping their tuition.
Their crime?
They took selfies, off campus,….not wearing masks!
Frankly, anyone sending their children to College is insane. WHY in the world would you DO something so bone headed?
Just my humble opinion,…
Having sat on a University board, with the University President asking for a tuition hike – and the board saying no, make spending cuts. He went around us by entering more out of state and foreigners instead of the in-state kids. So he defacto got his tuition raise. It’s sort of the dirty secret with the State schools – allow more out of state students – who pay the higher tuition rate.
Another interesting segment: Listening to this audio podcast will forever dash any dreams one may have of the US Military swooping in and rescuing us from the mire of corruption and the Unrestricted Warfare that is strafing us. Douglas Gabriel at AIM4Truth and Michael McKibben at Americans4Innovation drop the bombshell that CENTCOM orchestrated the theft of the 2020 Election.
It’s all been a set-up of our Department of Defense. That is shocking to me. I was always hoping that there were good guys within our Department of Defense, but now that we see CENTCOM is behind this…”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/no_author/the-big-lie-revealed/
Heidi, you weren’t paying attention if you thought President Trump ever had control of the bemouth DOD. They obstificated, slow-walked and the SecDef publically criticized his policies.
The DOD has its own agenda and it doesn’t necessarily align with what the people or even a president wants. Wars or good for their agenda, and Trump made it clear he wasn’t going to start one to affect regime change. Biden is more malleable to their agenda.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some of this were true, but it would take more than this article to convince me.
I enjoyed the obvious reasoning in this discussion. I wish they would have put the spotlight more on Cloward-Piven and Alynski and their diabolical plans for America. The CIA and Intelligence behind the “Color Revolution” of America should also be admitted.
Norm Risen was heavily involved, color revolutions are his specialty.
Issy, I never bought into the Q thing to begin with. I knew full well 0bama had 8 years to continue the Bush “uniparty” destruction of our country from within and instinctively felt much of what Q was was simply distraction & some of it outright lies (rumors of JFK Jr still being alive for ex.). I saw an interview on OANN of the originator of Q who said he started it during 2016 election cycle to give patriots hopeful reminders of a patriot military, but dropped it when Trump was elected and had no idea who took over & began sending what were called “Q drops”, purportedly from some high ranking intel insider. No doubt there are patriots in the military, they just wouldn’t be allowed to rise through the ranks if they were discovered & likely would even be fired like they’re now doing with so called, ‘right wing extremists’. I simply posted the article bc I still come across patriots who think the military will swoop in to save US from this coup, which may lull some into being unproductive (what the Deep State wants).
A good article on some of what will be productive moving forward ICYMI:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-new-zealanders-9-starter-steps-to-save-america-from-socialism_3718917.html
The Marxists play the long game. B. Hussein Obama was very effective in purging the officer corps of patriots with fealty to the Constitution, replacing them with Progressive believers and yes men.
Wow, thank you for that information.
All during the Trump admin I was a fan of Dr Hansen; he spoke the truth. And his views and, really, all the views at AnericanGreatness had precisely zero impact.
When the election was over and nobody, including AG, had any practical response to the cheat, to our lost democracy, I was astonished and I felt like AG was just NationalReview all over again. I love every word Hansen writes, but what value is there if the only consequence of his ideas is a big shrug. “Yeah, it’s pretty clear, American democracy is really burning up, no longer recognizable. Such a shame.”
Reminds me so much of NR puffing up their chest on issues we cared about and then saying, ” oh well, lost again by one vote from a Sen in a safe seat. Oh well. It’s a shame.”
Now, we find ourselves in a country where all three branches of gov are controlled by the f***ing CIA who uses the FBI thugs to carry out their dirty work against Americans? And nobody has the courage to express outrage or to propose any response? We are Americans for crying out loud. We solve big problems. We don’t give up. We sacrifice for our country. We believe in the principles that made this country great and we confront these bastards. This is our country.
Right now we need everyone to understand the reality of our situation. The security state has taken over. And we desperately need a path forward.
Take voting for example. Why would anyone vote for another republican except Trump or Nunes? Why? Every last person at EVERY level of govt betrayed us in the election. Why send them back?
Is taking the time to vote even sensible? If a race really matters, wont they just cheat again? Of course they will.
There is no good guy and bad guy situation. They’re ALL bad guys. So, knowing that, what sense does it make to play along? We are clinging to the status quo hoping sanity will prevail. It won’t. The most likely scenario is that a lot of people are going to die.
Tonight, more than 200 people are sitting in jail, in solitary confinement, for doing exactly the same thing as protesters at the Kavenaugh conformation hearing. The same thing dem protesters have done more than dozen times.
In China, 71 million perished in the cultural revolution. 71 million. Think that can’t happen here?
I love Hanson, but how do we get out of this mess?
We should have a very simple agenda: End the CIA/NSA/FBI and destroy the NSA database and all CIA files. End mass surveillance. This is the cancer and it’s time to hit with chemo, radiation, and surgery.
And where are all the “so called” Trump republicans standing up for the audit in Maricopa. Democrats fight hard to destroy the country and republicans disappear when it’s time to defend it.
At the end of the video, VDH says he is optimistic because the people of this country are not going to give up their country. He also says people will be shocked at the outcome of the midterm elections and the next Presidential election. I wish I shared that optimism, but your comments correctly point out the scary reality, especially the people sitting in jail for exercising their free speech rights on January 6.
As to your suggested agenda, as radical and impossible as it sounds, it really does need to happen. 9/11 produced the fear which let to the massive surveillance state and Covid produced the fear which has led to the massive totalitarian state. What a coincidence.
How to get out of this mess?
Women.
Men got us into this by granting women the vote and full status equal to men. That’s a noble thing, respectable, right, and so on. Except, women are not the same as men, equality aside. They don’t think, emote, work, play, fight, make amends, drop a grudge, etc. like men do. PC, and now wokeness, is the end result of being stupidly oversensitive about life generally. Spoiled generations exist because of this softening of society.
So, why are women key to getting out? Because, they are the only class of citizen which can stand up to the lawlessness run rife through the countryside. Men doing such are extremists, whackos, readily locked up and shelved permanently for practically any offense now–real or imagined. Women are naturally inclined to be harpies when they are agitated, and when their agitation can be pointed and focused–as has been displayed in school and municipal board meetings–they verbalize their grievances quite well. Let’s face it, no one wants to deal with a gaggle of harpies…that’s when you leave through the back door to get the heck away. There is no rational discussion or debate (but there never was).
Women organized, disorganized, singly, or in gaggles are an intimidating force against anyone, for you can’t reason nicely or deal harshly–there just is no dealing with it. Sent everywhere to make their gripes known, it would really get messy quickly. And, if harsh consequences were to be their fate, that would only induce women to step up their aggression. Behind women would be the men, but only as followers and not as leaders. This totalitarian movement is primed to roll up men as soon as they are identifiable, singly, administratively, with the paper jam-up that removes rights and neuters them, disemploys them, if not placing them in indefinite custody.
No, this is for women to solve.
Put five women in a room and before long they become socialists. Leave them long enough and they will be scratching each other’s eyes out.
Now this is the kind of BRAVERY we need to see from Republican men!!
Not saying you are right or wrong, but you either live alone or are OK with having your junk cut off tonight.
And on Mothers Day. Whooweee.
You are on your own. I will be cowering in the corner waiting for the CTH Lionesses to finish licking your bones.
I will give you credit for your balls. Not sure the brain is OK, but thems balls be hanging proud! For a little bit anyway.
It’s not tongue in cheek; it happens to be a straight call.
Society is full of righteous activists who wouldn’t last a week without electricity and fresh water. Nor would they survive in a 3rd world hellhole where hard-living people would skin them alive and not think twice about it. Here, they rule because the law abiding would the ones held to account if ever they scrapped.
Your comment, “you’re on your own” is indicative of where we are. Republicans say, “where is everyone” as they wonder aloud why no one has stepped up to counter the strong armed tactics being deployed. Well, the movers and shakers are standing still because “you are on your own” is the Republican internal thought process for the bystanders. They won’t rally to support the movers and shakers, and the movers and shakers know this. So, practically nothing of consequence gets done.
That is why I say it falls to women to fix this stasis. Women are getting fed up with society’s odd ways, they despise limp men, and when reality lands on their doorstep, they chafe…publicly.
When women finally reach their harpy point, they will act–but not before. When that happens, all sorts of unpredictable outcomes ensue. I can’t predict, the powers that be can’t predict, women themselves can’t predict. It’s just that when things become unpredictable they become unplannable, so the powers that be lose their game-plan strategy. Right now, it’s all easy for them: they implement ever tightening restrictions while everyone stands around and gripes. When women throw a wench into that, the situation becomes fluid enough that top-down coercion is not really possible anymore. Out of that state of unknowing, hopefully organic rebirth of freedoms ensue. Think of freedom as a weed in a well-manicured lawn…but in which the gardener can’t get out to spray the grass anymore. Weeds blossom. That’s how freedom will reblossom.
Again, not saying you are right or wrong, but, huge but, where were all the men when the women were taking over?
Women weren’t taking over. They agitated, but they were granted power and standing by men as a class.
Contrast that with other societies where women are lower-rung citizens. If they had it in the DNA to take their rightful place, then biology says they would–that would be the natural state of things. They are weaker, though, and that isn’t a trivial factoid. If they can’t muscle their way to equality or superiority, then they stay 2nd class until such time as they are liberated.
That was the past. The future is whether they can muster their anger and channel it into haranguing the establishment to the point of disarray. If they can do that, then the less forward women, and men in general, can provide the cheering section to keep them rolling.
Basically it boils down to we have met the enemy and it is us. As VDH suggests all of our institutions are dysfunctional and irredeemable We have allowed China, muti-national corporations, big tech and leftist not for profits to infiltrate our institutions and hijack our culture and Constitution. Apathy, greed and tolerance for big government all contributed to the erosion of our founding principles.
President Trump began the movement to take it back. It shocked and terrified the perpetrators and they are now on an all out assault to destroy the populist movement worldwide, with the USA being the biggest prize. I believe the 2020 election heist will go down in history to be the event or catalyst that will define whether our constitutional Republic survives the assault. As the United States of America goes, the world goes. It is a world war, preferably cold, between the globalist and the populists, the fascists and patriots. We have a lot of lost ground to retake. Our greatest weapons are our faith in God and Country and our patriotic spirit. We have populist allies worldwide who will join once we show our courage and commitment. May the force be with us.
joebkonobi, the key is the takeover of local, county and state governments. Why do states elect republican legislatures who make election laws the voters want and then either elect a democrat or rino governor who ignores them?
Civics 101, the legislature makes laws, the governor enforces them. If more people understood how government works, maybe they would make better choices.
To all those encouraging we get involved locally, I totally agree. But the KEYS to local power are to become election COMMISIONERS, School board chairs, and election auditors.
BTW – Keep your kids out of college – all they offer is a lifetime of crippling debt, low-pay jobs (big money positions go to big money donors, and “imports”) and away from indoctrination devices -video games, ALL social media platforms, and TV. Get them outdoors and breathing fresh air!
I was a lifelong boomer liberal when 9/11 happened. The next day, scouring the internet, I found an article by Victor Davis Hanson, who became my first reliable guide to the truth of what and where we were, leading to my political conversion in the fall of 2002. I’ve never stopped reading him since. Indefatigable, brilliant, humble, determined, articulate, courageous and wise; a man of integrity. And more worried than I’ve ever seen him.
I love him because he is not only academically and intellectually gifted, but he is a working businessman as well. I believe he is an almond grower or something along those lines.
Congrats on your eyes wide open moment.
Love the plan of action:
“Did you see what was on twitter?” Twitter who?
” Racist” I know you are but, what am I?
“Nightly news said” Sorry I live in a small town that has never once been visited by the reporters and I don’t subscribe to the propaganda.
Could not agree more we all need to back our mouth with our actions of zero participation in the woke world. Do you hear me Coke?
I do like Lee Smith. I have stepped back from trusting Victor D Hanson after the things he said about president Trump after the Nov. 3rd selection. Wherever those comments are they have been swept down into the rabbit hole. I cannot disremember some things.
I do not trust the double-minded swing of opinions from fallible and supposedly “learned” men like VDH. The person on Faux News who stayed true to Donald Trump was Lou Dobbs. Hanson is still plays the part of a hired hand on Faux news.
I miss Lou too.
Sane voices – we need to hear more of them.
Plus, record gun and ammo sales, again, in the first quarter of 2021. LOL.
Yes, come and take it, and may the best people win.
I stopped watching football when the St Louis team dissed the cops during the Ferguson b.s., long before the little Nazi Obama 2.0 got on his knees because they wouldn’t let him play. Baseball not long after. Don’t watch NASCAR anymore and I was a big fan. None of that stuff interests me. Concerts. No thanks there too.
They do not respect the people who pay for their stadiums, tracks, and their highly overpriced tickets, parking passes, food, and apparel made 3rd world internment camps.
They don’t respect the “average American” at all. Maybe never did; just pretended to when they needed our sons to go where they dared not go to try to pacify some hellish shithole their policies had made.
Their concentration in areas of power and influence in America is testament to their tenacity and our inattention.
But, now more and more of us know every day, as their open lying and cruel and cynical indifference to hundreds of millions of us is exposed. They will fall. Hard.
VDH is EXCELLENT!
Dark times ahead, but should play well in 2022 and 2024.
VDH = Charles Krauthammer (r.i.p.)…2 of the wisest men of my lifetime
I loved VDH’s I don’t give a whit anymore attitude about woke racism or PC or even audience applause. The way he walked off after the interview was classic drop-mic attitude.
Often there’s a question here about what can we do so I loved what VDH said about each of us according to our station can act.
So, everyone can ‘chose and/or not chose’ who or where to watch (TV), shop, fly, find recreation.
His comments concerning Trump always troubled me and from that time forward I never much cared to hear what VDH had to say.
Oh sure he’s smart with insightful conclusions but he soiled himself in my eyes.
Victor Davis Hanson is very sane. I personally like him a lot. He speaks the truth and he is a calming person. Thank you, Victor.
Still, we are faced with the certainty that The Coup will not allow free and fair elections, ever.
I have great respect for people who are comfortable within thier thoughts. Living example of the right of self expression.
Thanks for posting this discussion, Sundance.
I have followed the opinions and writings of VDH for almost 30 thirty years. I wish I could pattern myself after his clear eyed approach to history, but I only get about as far as to read almost everything he writes.
I never even knew who Lee Smith was until I wanted to find out what Devin Nunez knew and when did he know it. I gobbled up two of Lee Smith’s books in one week. I hope he will publish more of his straight talk in the near future because I know I will be reading at least his honest effort to explain the things he discovers in his work.
Lauren Boebert is my Representative and I am very proud to say so because she will fight for me on any issue that comes to Congress. That is all I ask from my Representative.
I also hold the opinion that there are still many great Americans working in Washington DC and Devin Nunez is the first example I cite when I express that opinion. I admit that if I could have any Representative in Congress it would be Nunez.
All of these people help to restore my hope for a better future for our Country.
‘The Chinese students are studying geography, the American students are studying wokeness’.
That’s paraphrased, of course, but VDH said it while talking about hegemony and how to control the global economy.
I was disappointed, this just sounds to me like week cheer leader ship. I heard nothing about the stolen election, the immigration crisis, do conspiratorial treasonous sedition in our intelligence community!
This sounds just like a GOP ignoring a huge elephant in the room.
Correction: sounds like weak cheerleadership.
Okay, come clean. Have you people been sinning? God seems very pissed and it hasn’t been me, so spill!
For those who are swooning over VDH:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/08/donald-trump-republican-popularity/
There were those of us who saw Trump realistically. There are those who denounced him, rejected him, waffled and undercut him…and then reversed course when their telltales started working.
Hanson is a smart guy. He is also long time National Review, which, once its signatories signed their anti-Trump pledge magazine cover, left port and sailed over the edge of the earth, never to return.
Krauthammer was a smart guy who just never got it. People thought he was sharper than old cheddar, but he was lib and never graduated to full awareness. VHD is much smarter than Krauthammer, but even he had a learning curve in his mature professional prime. That says a lot.
But, we’ll take all the team we can muster–fast, slow, former misguided opponents. Nice to keep things in perspective for historical accuracy, however, so that the full measure can be applied to inform present and future commentary.
Getting to this post late (early) Monday now and I loved it. Still have Lee Smith’s book “The Plot Against the President,” gathering dust. Never have heard of Victor D. Hanson what a great presentation re “the state of our union,” sans ANY shrieking. Beautiful.
I learned a lot from Mr. Hanson: the percentage of American’s who have a college degree; his views on Russia and China, and the wealthy mindset. IT feels good to have confirmation that I don’t have to wonder about whether I am “woke” about anything.
I get up, and after my daily hygiene, I put my pants on one leg at a time, like most humans do. I am so grateful I am not disabled (after caring for one for 10 years) that I can still do this for myself. Much like millions of others in America.
Emulate the wealthy ? Just because they have a TV show and a microphone and probably don’t remember how to pull their own pants on? NO THANKS TO THAT.