The American Dream, where once upon a time, was when a parent saved to raise their children to have a perpetual better life than they had. Parents would save for their college education and they pushed their children to achieve. My father began saving the day I was born for my college education and law school.
Americans, no matter the circumstances of their birth, all shared freedom, opportunity, the right to build private businesses and enterprises, and a republic – “Representative Democracy.” We raised our children believing that they had a legitimate opportunity to live a better life than we did predicated upon their own skills and intelligence. We tried to instill a good work ethic, and that would provide good fortune for the future ahead.
But in today’s world, our politicians have sought to replace parents all under the guise of socialism. Individualism, we are now told from the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is evil and we are now to become just part of the collective hive. The ruling elite has stolen the wealth of the nation and its citizens while pretending this is somehow for our benefit. This was not an accident, but a plan implemented over many decades in the dark corners of the mind of Klaus Schwab.
In the ’80s when I bought a home in New Jersey, I simply had my children’s names added to the title with no questions asked. When I bought a place in Florida in 2016 and simply said add my children to the deed, I was told I could not unless they would then have to pay taxes as a gift. This thirst for socialism has impacted our way of life creeping into every aspect and suddenly they demand their share of everything we ever had and we are greedy as well as evil for even objecting to their demands. The Founding Fathers knew this was the danger and had prohibited direct taxation. But the politicians were seduced by Marx and created Socialism in 1913 with the income tax they swore was ONLY for the rich.
Socialism has destroyed the country. Nobody can do anything without the approval of the government and they have their hand in everyone’s pocket. Now with COVID, lockdowns, restrictions, demands for vaccines when this is by no means as serious as most over diseases, everything from our right to free speech and to assembly has been stripped of us and pro-left judges look the other way with the same mantra – the government cares. They even banned going to church in many states – so much for the freedom of religion. Nothing matters to these people other than their raw power.
These politicians have destroyed sanity. There were people who sprayed anything they bought at a store to clean the packages living in fear of COVID. When they introduced the vaccines, we were told that they would also return us to normal but they were handing out immunity to Big-Pharms like candy on Holloween. Suddenly, government-mandated safeguards were abolished and we were told just mix and match whatever vaccines but bottles of Tylenol warn you should not take it in combination with other drugs. So much for really caring about the people.
We have reached the point of never-ending COVID restrictions and there is no longer talk of any timetable for a return to normal. Teenagers are committing suicide because they can no longer see a future. We have been told that Fauci’s mere opinion is a science with nothing to back that up. Fauci cannot even keep all his lies straight and the media helps to cover it all up.
We are now told cloth masks do not do anything but when this all began Fauci even said that masks did not work. They went from “useless” to mandatory and now back to useless. They demand like the Nazis that you must show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and wear masks in New York, while some hospitals have refused to provide services if someone is not vaccinated. I even had a friend whose wife was pregnant and got COVID and the doctor at a major hospital in Philadelphia told her to have an abortion because the child would probably be deformed. They went to a real doctor and the child was fine. My next-door neighbor got COVID, was pregnant, and the baby was fine. That is not the case for some pregnant women who got the vaccine which has caused birth defects.
The psychological damage to children is monumental. What we have yet to confront is that this fear campaign is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime. These insane politicians and questionable doctors who surrendered all medical integrity and joined the government’s propaganda instead of defending the people against tyranny will be remembered as today’s Nazis. Honestly, I hear even from the left who now quietly agreed this has all gone too far. They are afraid that speaking up they are immediately labeled a Trumper and white supremacy in this new age of demonizing any opposition. Meanwhile, Biden calls people a son-of-a-bitch for asking relative questions as his polls plummet to the lowest of any president in history.
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The truckers have shown what to do; STOP everything. Make people get off their asses and take to the streets. Demand an end to this. This is probably our last chance before we actually have to be in a life and death violent fight just to live.
Armstrong you fail to mentioned that pesky little thing that happened in 1913. Here’s a video for you to clear things up.
The American Dream is a socially constructed hierarchy and is CLEARLY racist, according to the (recently changed) definition….
The old definition was somehow inconvenient….
ADL Changes Definition Of Racism So Only Whites Can Be Labeled As Racist
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62846
Is this in their literature or on their website somewhere?
Yes, it seems as though it is….
https://www.adl.org/racism
“Wake up white people.”
— Daniel Carver
Yes, let’s blame the politicians. God, we sound like toddlers.
It is the politicians who passed the income tax, created the Federal Reserve, and entered WW1, all contrary to the wishes of the People of America..,.
Oh, FFS. Go cry to someone else.
they were the tools…. -not- the genesis
If wishes was Trojan horses…oh, wait….(some beggars would be sold a ride, while other beggars would hide?)
(((politicians and bankers)))
OMG, Berenson posted this about two months ago…Vaxxed ages 10-60 are dying in UK at twice the rate of unvaxxed…https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60
Maybe Denninger was right in suggesting that the labor shortage was significantly caused by deaths in the labor force…
Seriously, this is why I rarely come to TBP anymore. That ridiculous chart is posted as gospel. The chart says 52 per 100,000 all causes unvaxxed will die each year. The real number is more like 250. How do you people believe anything posted as facts that even a retarded amoeba can clearly see is bullshit.
If you pick 100,000 ten year olds, know how many will be alive at age 60? 88,000 of them. On average, 250 of them will die each and every year over the next 50 years. And the chart says 52. Seriously? Only off 5 times the real number.
You can look this up easily. Or you can use your noodle and think about it – the chart is saying only 2500 people out of 100,000 who are aged 10 will die by age 60. Is there any universe where that is true? Or seems true?
Are you fucking stupid?
The chart Berenson posted shows numbers per week obviously, and you can easily put the average number [of unvaxxed + vaxxed deaths per week] at 3, so linear extension gives us ~150 per year.
But the chart shows summer half year, so they will be higher [weekly] values in the other half of the year, also obviously.
Another idiot. The unvaxxed rate on that chart is 1/week. That is 52 a year. Summer vs winter has almost zero to do with it. That is idiotic. Deaths do not markedly spike for the overall population by season.
Oh, so exactly none of the vaxxed (2/3rds of the UK population age 10-59?) would have died if they hadn’t been vaxxed, according to your “logic.”
And influenza etc. doesn’t occur mostly in the colder half of the year –
stop it you’re killing me!
Look, moron, that chart says that 52 people per year die out of 100,000 unvaxxed ages 10-59. That is what it says. And it is self evidently not true, it is actuarial not true, and 10 times more people do not die in winter than in summer, which it would need to be to make it balance at an average of 5/week for the whole year, which is the true average for that cohort.
Let me spell it out for the slow-witted:
“The chart” in Berenson’s post goes from 19/o3/2021 to 19/09/2021, noted in UK date format.
To get to any statements about “per year“, you need to make assumptions. And if I call you out on those, you need to detail why you made them, not hand-wave me away.
Even worse, you still haven’t explained how you can take only the unvaxxed death number [per week], and ignore all else.
And TBP would be a better place if you never came back at all.
I have a hard time relating to stories like these. TN never had a mask mandate or mandatory lockdowns. Some of the towns and counties did and it was quite easy to avoid them and go where freedom reigned. The only time I realized how much people had been cowed was when we flew to Denver and had to put up with the mask mania for several hours and then to have people demand I wear one just to walk through a restaurant to a table, where convid was not allowed to infect anyone. I guess things are just that much difference in liberal havens.
“I guess things are just that much difference in liberal havens.“
Yes, yes it is. 17 teenage suicides in the area I used to work. 17!! Not a typo.
And the problem is, I’m in TX now and see the same damn shit happening to lose this state as well. It’ll happen. And I try to tell people to be aware of what’s happening, but then I come across as a crazy extremist. Most just want to wait on a Trump re-election. It gets really old being surrounded by dumbasses.
you should have moved to Wisconsin… We have low expectations – almost never disappointed.
and snow…. and 20 below (keeps the riffraff out)
Ha! Yes, maybe so. My expectations are too high, I guess. Very idealistic…tends to cause problems.
high blood pressure
Only if you’d stay well clear of Madison and Milwaukee, I’d say (from visit experiences.)
I’m east of where Madison would be…. if it weren’t in its own universe – regrettably still too close an orbit. Dane county is still under a mask mandate.
May the alligator forever eat you last.
Well I just saw Montana is in the top 5 for immigration from SAN FRANCISCO.
I almost want to start a site that concentrates on MT being the freest state (which we are not, though it is freer than a lot). Getting rid of property tax etc. (we don’t have sales tax) however I would probably be assassinated, and also I’m busy already. It would be relatively hard to kill me on many counts.
I’ve thought of running for governor every year with the basic being i will never go to Helena and get rid of as many laws (and rules) as possible. Remember we only have a million people here. My husband is totally against this idea.
What do you think?
If you get rid of real estate taxes… I’m all in … also a little concerned about the San Fran wave. You don’t have as many sidewalks though, that should help.
Sanfran shitheels, other Ca’s. are moving into the prettiest parts – again with the destruction of the pretty boy in fight club – but probably not so much into the Big Empty east (which would be more aligned, but these people mainly ain’t poets…they’s mainly spoliates).
Passing thru Whitefish, fall before last, seemed like there were many more Ca’s than MT’s packing that town, & I spoke to more than a few who already lived there, along with the others that were making plans.
In Bozeman ran into the term Boz Angeles, & spoke to an older couple, whose family had roots several generations deep, who were feeling displaced & seriously considering pulling stakes.
But in Polson, also Ca-booming real estate sales, the waitress, a native, said lots of MT’s figure the winters would do the job, run the trash back out.
Time will tell. But to me it looked like Ca’s just might turn the prettiest parts of MT into what the prettiest parts of CO were turned into.
Corona ain’t the virus, according to Agent Smith.
I’d vote for you.
I don’t live in MT, but I suppose that doesn’t matter much these days. I’ll mail in my vote.
Visited eastern TN (Pigeon Forge) last January. Sign at the entrance of town mandating masks. I suspect it was all about the concerns over “Karen” tourists bashing them on Farcebook, etc. and hurting business overall. A couple of great, sanity-minded business owners however who we had great conversations with, and didn’t care one bit whether you wore a mask or not. Made sure to give them good sales. Indeed, the ONLY place in E. TN that we found any mask requirements (except our national chain hotel).
The kids/grandkids will be asking why the elders allowed this to happen. Once, in 1919 Russia….and again in 1938 in Germany. The little ones will wonder if their elders never read a lick of history. One can only hope that the Robespierre of the current times meets up with a similar end.
History is written by the victors. Reading just the “approved” stuff in government schools, is how you can read history and not learn a damn thing.
The country I grew up in no longer exists. ….
Nevada, “You can never go home again.” Tom Wolfe said it long ago.
Sleep-eating, walking, driving. Narcolepsy. Anybody still California Dreaming? (My family left that nightmare in ’65, after Watts…part incandescent 100’s, part coincidence-timing, tho it was always just a matter of time.)
At least part of the trouble with dreams, dreaming, is that quantum mechanical matter/antimatter magic is fair in that fare the well wishing well. Then dreamers try & do those non-euclidean geometry moves in the linear wide awake…& all hell breaks loose.
Looks like Oscar did his own singin’ & at least some of the strummin’ in this (good) dreamscapegoat flick…If I had wings like Daedalus’s dove head-first from on high… :
Trouble With the Curved spacetime:
You have to look behind the curtain, Martin.
The American Dream was always based on materialism; in the best case the required morality was assumed to be “just there”, i.e a given. Tocqueville saw through it right away – as I also only learned recently.
Media mouthpieces need canceled. Shame them, protest them, disrupt them ,
Then people realized that with socialism they could get something for nothing. Not the dream, but enough so they didn’t have to work or think. And here we are.