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Omnibus shows Congress’s Priorities: Authoritarianism and War

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Those hoping for a Christmastime government shutdown were once again disappointed when Congress passed a 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that few, if any, Representatives and Senators read before voting on. The Republican leadership celebrated this bloated monstrosity because it spends $858 billion on warfare while “only” spending $772.5 billion on welfare.

No one should think Republican insistence on more warfare than welfare spending means Democrats oppose the warfare state. Under President Biden and a Democrat-controlled Congress, “defense” spending has increased by 4.3 percent over the last two years. Similarly, every Republican President in recent years—including two who had a Republican-controlled Congress for at least part of their term—supported huge increases in welfare state spending. Most Democrats only pretend to oppose warfare and most Republicans only pretend to oppose welfare to appease their parties’ respective bases.

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Trump’s Poison Pen: The 2020 Omnibus Bill

Submitted by David E.

Guest Post by Eric Buss

IMPEACHMENT!

(noun) Definition:

Distraction. Diversionary tactic of subterfuge meant to enhance partisanship while having no real impact on the day to day affairs of governance.

This current administration, the Democrat House Majority and Republican Senate Majority have developed the angst necessary for this scheme to work. They have built up tensions, drawn the reluctant back in to the fold and created a false dichotomy in the minds of “their people.” It is false because from the perspective of life, liberty and property, both sides have revealed only the desire to take these things giving nothing in return.

While we ponder who is less detrimental to our own interests; the familiar “Lesser of Two Evils” trope, we are only enabling them to take more from others. At some point, on some distant horizon, I genuinely hope the people begin to recognize what is detrimental to some may in fact be detrimental to all of US. We have become far too casual in our approach to elections. Many have come to look at them as if politicians were draft picks, a race horse to bet on or the boxer we favor to win the fight. It is certainly presented to us that way but I have a serious question. Where is the fight?

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Doom Porn Pimps Watching Movies Projected On Prison Walls

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

Paradoxically, some of the most difficult questions are quite simple to ask. Examples might include:  Who do we think we are? Who are we really? What are we doing? Why do we do what we do? Is there something better we should be doing? What does winning look like? How would we define success in our current and future circumstances? What must be done to get where we want to be?

Formulating and phrasing those inquiries is easy enough- even if the answers take some more time and consideration. Yet the real irony is that the questions are rarely asked, let alone answered.  And even if we were to internally canvass those queries, any resolutions would ultimately be guided by ideology, or intellectual constructs, and tempered by circumstance.

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Keep Going. This Too Shall Pass.

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

Like the weather when a storm approaches, or as the seasons turn, or waves pounding on a shoreline, any deviations are measured and compared by speed and intensity.  The same can be said for headlines:  Omnibus, discouraged Deplorables, rumors of war, prospects of peace, economic bubbles, fluctuating markets, and political intrigue.  Round and round it goes; when it ends, nobody knows. It’s a time of transition; and when traveling over mountaintops, through valleys, and on rough seas, no one has all of the answers.

Even when looking at maps.

The books, “Generations” (1992) and “The Fourth Turning“ (1997), were written by the historians William Strauss and Neil Howe. These recent explorers identified recorded cycles of history and categorized them across multiple cultures and eras.  In both books, historical timelines were analyzed and populations were correlated to specific life-cycles labeled as generational types.  Strauss and Howe additionally addressed the concept of time in the context of both circular and linear perspectives and defined what is called a “saeculum” as a “long human life” measuring roughly 80 to 90 years.  Every saeculum is comprised of four turnings, each lasting around 20 years.

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If This Is “Representation” Give Me Rebellion

Guest Post by Justin O. Smith

As I listen to President Trump on his action of signing the current Omnibus bill, I am left with no other conclusion than he is really not as strong a leader as many seem to believe him to be. He signed this terrible $1.3 trillion bill for all the wrong reasons and lamented its exclusion of terrible other items, like DACA, but nowhere did he castigate these do-nothing “leaders” for adding a bad gun control act called “NICS”; this Omnibus bill is all smoke and mirrors and the 33 miles of added funding for border fencing is just that – a fence [barely], not a wall.

This bill continues to fund Planned Parenthood too. — Oh — And Sanctuary Cities Too. Really? What happened to all Trump’s talk about “defunding” sanctuary cities?

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