[HAPPY DEAD LINCOLN DAY-4/14/1865!]
Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:
"Just as the Roman Empire fell to invaders who crossed the frontiers of the empire, so is Washington’s empire falling. Europe, the crown jewel of the empire, is now overrun with millions of unassimilable peoples to the extent that Europe is no longer European. The President of the US has so far been powerless to defend the borders of the United States. Indeed, the Democratic Party and the presstitute media are totally opposed to any defense of American borders. Why does a government unwilling to defend its borders spend $1,000 billion annually on defense?"
Paul Craig Roberts
"What really is the real driving force behind the socialist movement for equalization? Envy and covetousness. Leftists simply cannot stand the fact that some people have more money than they do. Even if forced equalization through the power of the state to tax the rich makes everyone, including the poor, worse off, that’s okay with socialists. All that matters is that the rich no longer are rich."
Jacob Hornberger
"The current wave of extreme progressivism has a far more nefarious goal than simply higher taxes on the super-rich or carbon taxes to scrub down the environment. Indeed, the long-run objective of the new socialists and the gang of social justice warriors (SJW) is to gradually delegitimize the very foundations of modern capitalism by obliterating conventional notions of property rights, fairness and justice. If this sounds far-fetched you have not really been paying attention."
Dominick Armentano
"What factors work in favor of socialism’s side? An important one is that on every front, favored people and groups win privileges, get money and get power. They therefore favor and promote socialism. Socialism is unjust, not only in trampling on people’s rights, but in rewarding particular people with goodies that they don’t get through merit or work that supplies people’s wants through voluntary and peaceful exchanges. The rewards come through power and favoritism. Socialism has an Iron Law of Privilege.Socialism pretends to attack the privileged, but it creates them. Socialism attacks wealth earned by capitalists and entrepreneurs who have earned what they have by supplying consumers with affordable goods. The battle lines tend to become unclear when we look at any given company or wealthy person, because the source of their wealth may be capitalism or socialism or both. Consequently, the clearest strategy in this war is to recognize and eliminate every source of government control that we can, while allowing markets to work. Keep making institutional changes at the margin that we know for sure are wiping government aggression off the books."
Michael Rozeff
"Any way you slice it, America’s coming war with the God of the Climate will end in disaster, and it most certainly signifies what can only be described as the end of the imperialist monolith the world has grown accustomed to.
One has only hope beyond hope that the further division these ideas provide may usher in ample pressure to begin the Balkanization of this massive nation, and give birth to a reinvigorated freedom movement; one impervious to the tools of propaganda that persist, one burning so hot it may never be extinguished, one of such peace and prosperity none need resist, one erupting with such liberty and courage no government dare exist."
Tommy Salmons
"What has happened to the psychological makeup of Americans? When did the populace become so sensitive as to not be able to deal with any adversity whatsoever? When did people become so weak and whiny? When did it become normal for entire groups of people to become offended by everything? This began with the emasculation of men, and will not end until all men, especially white men, are nothing more than cowardly, apathetic sissies. It seems this outcome is already well in progress."
Gary D. Barnett
"The organized church teaches us to love all people, all things and all evil. Well, this love syndrome is not Christianity. It arises out of an esoteric philosophy intended to subdue us into docility. We are taught to see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil. This is a seduction to get us to love evil. The more we love evil, the greater the capacity of evil to destroy us. And the more we love evil, the less our capacity of discernment, not knowing good from evil. The more we love evil, the more we pursue evil things. This is our state of mind now. We do not know good from evil, contrary to the plain teaching of scripture. 'Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.' III John verse 11.
Bob Livingston
"If a man kills a lot of people, then his legacy is that of a mass murderer. There is nothing else anyone could possibly accomplish in their lifetime which could eclipse the significance of the act of violently ripping the life out of thousands of human bodies. I don’t care if you started a charity, if you gave a graduation speech, or if you loved your wife very much. If you committed war crimes, knowingly targeted civilian shelters, and deliberately targeted a nation’s civilian infrastructure to gain a strategic advantage after the conclusion of a war based on lies, then you are a mass murderer who may have also done some other far less significant things during the rest of your time on this planet. That is who you are."
Caitlin Johnstone
"'The economy' is more than just money passing from hand to hand in exchange for consumer goods. To say that 'consumption' needs artificial stimulus is a morally and economically arbitrary value judgment. Only the voluntary decisions of all market actors, based on their own preferences and coupled with a market price system, can give rise to a structure of production that balances our desires to consume with the enormously complex latticework of capital and stages of production that make our preferred level of consumption possible in the first place."
Tom Woods
"Now that the rabid left wing of the Demopublican Party controls the House, expect a flood of destructive proposals. There’s going to be more legislation that is pro-women, pro-colored people, pro-people with psychological or sexual aberrations, and pro-people of whatever the current meme is."
Doug Casey
"Absent coercion and terrorism, no government in the history of man could last a month.
They must threaten violence to the population.
They must indoctrinate the young in the learned helplessness that is state obedience (why do you think they call it civics?) in the government mind laundries.
They must initiate violence.
They must employ a vast army of badged Orcs supported by a pet judiciary of robed cross-dressers that lovingly protects its uniformed thugs in all their atrocities.
They must actively stop dissent.
In other words, they must do everyday what they punish you for in every aspect of behavior. Absent hitting and stealing, how could the state flourish? Let that sink in."
Bill Buppert
"Disposable income has been declining because of taxes. Under Marxism, we pay between 300 and 800 times more than previous historical periods of taxes. The Roman Empire had taxes that would rise from 1% to 7% — not 50%+. ALL Republics collapse into oligarchies because once one person pretends to represent many, they will NEVER put the interests of the many before themselves. The lack of term limits means these politicians need money to sustain their position and therein allows the oligarchy to grow with power and influence."
Martin Armstrong
"You have no moral obligation to be offended about anything.
Emotions ≠ Ethics
Moods ≠ Morality
Indignation ≠ Integrity
Your contribution to society is about what you do, not how you claim to feel.
You have the RIGHT to feel whatever YOU wish, but beware the machinations of those who claim you have the RESPONSIBILITY to feel whatever THEY wish."
T.K. Coleman
