{"id":11312,"date":"2024-01-06T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deepredpond.org\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2024-01-06T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:46:30","slug":"its-a-question-of-when-not-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/its-a-question-of-when-not-if\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a question of when…not if…"},"content":{"rendered":"

America revolts and saves itself, or submits with a whimper and “the last great hope of earth” extinguished forever.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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When the Bolsheviks<\/a> seized power in Russia in 1917, overthrowing the provisional government,\u00a0 one of their first order of business was to eliminate their erstwhile allies.\u00a0 The Mensheviks, <\/a>and the Socialist Revolutionaries.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

When the trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries <\/a><\/strong><\/em>concluded in 1922 the Soviet Union became the one-party state Lenin envisioned.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

In Vermont, the voters in their wisdom{?} have given the Democrats\/progressives\/socialists a supermajority in the legislature to push full speed ahead their environmental and woke agenders for the past few election cycles. They have made it a habit of overriding Governor Phil Scott’s vetoes.\u00a0 The Republican party of Vermont has nothing to do.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Of course, Vermont is not the only state in this situation, the rest of New England, New York, and any state that has large metropolitan areas will vote blue no matter who and overwhelm the red rural population of the state.\u00a0 And if their cities turn into deeper shitholes because of virtue signaling sanctuary cities overrun with illegal migrants, (courtesy of the brain-dead president they voted for)\u00a0 defunding their law enforcement leads to rising crime and voting in D.A’s that allow violent criminals right back on the street.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. They will continue to vote blue because it is their religion.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

California, of course, is in a class by itself.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

But just in case people who normally vote blue conclude that the present situation is just not working or sustainable, well the Democrats are trying to ensure that Orange Man is not even on the ballot.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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In a New York<\/strong><\/em> Post<\/em>\u00a0opinion piece,\u00a0 the effort to remove more Republicans from national and state ballots may be just getting started.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election<\/a>\u00a0work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same \u201cballot cleansing\u201d by barring Republican Rep. Scott Perry.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n
It\u2019s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to\u00a0bar opponents as \u201cinsurrectionists\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for questioning the election of President Biden.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n
We have become a nation of\u00a0Madame Defarges\u00a0\u2014 eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n
Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who\u2019s made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n
Using the 14th Amendment to\u00a0disqualify candidates<\/a>\u00a0like Perry is consistent with Stilp\u2019s\u00a0signature flag-burning stunts<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/h6>\n

I suppose we conservative MAGA people should\u00a0 consider ourselves fortunate that we haven’t reached the point where we worry about the nighttime knock on the door…yet. The 2nd admendment might have a little something to do with it.. But we presently have a “show trial” being conducted againt Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n
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A show trial is a public trial<\/a> in which the guilt<\/a> or innocence of the defendant<\/a> has already been determined. The purpose of holding a show trial is to present both accusation and verdict to the public, serving as an example and a warning<\/a> to other would-be dissidents<\/a> or transgressors.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Show trials tend to be retributive<\/a> rather than corrective<\/a>, and they are also conducted for propagandistic<\/a> purposes.[3]<\/a><\/sup> When aimed at individuals on the basis of protected classes<\/a> or characteristics, show trials are examples of political persecution<\/a>. The term was first recorded in 1928.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A similar concept is “kangaroo court<\/a>“.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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2024 will be a watershed year for America, as much if not more then in 1860.\u00a0 I hope for the best but preparing for the worse. And if the worse does come to past I will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that my lifetime incompassed the last era of freedom and sanity of this wonderful country.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte<\/a> for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio<\/a> or make a track on the Blue Ridge<\/a> in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide”\u00a0 A. Lincoln<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n

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