"And we rededicate ourselves to being a nation as big, bold, noble, and as great as these American giants. And that's not easy to do, but we're going to do it. These men could only have been made in the USA. Their faces are engraved on these bluffs, not only because of what they did, but to remind us forever who we are. These heroes exemplify what is timeless, enduring, and eternal about the American character. And in the end, it has always been that character, our distinct and unique identity. It is a truly unique identity and it'll never change.... Liberty has prevailed here because of the culture and character of the people who declared it, defended it, and preserved it.... The identity of a nation is the destiny of a nation. And America has a destiny like no other because we are a people like no other. For whatever reason, that's just the way it is. Here, the old world sent its bravest, boldest, and most resilient, its fiercest, most faithful, and freedom loving. These men and women brought values, traditions, and customs transmitted over the centuries in Britain and stretching back even further to Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. The United States of America is where the greatest civilization in human history became greater than ever before.... For generations, it was understood that the core of patriotic duty of every American was to pass this culture on to our children and to preserve the nation for centuries and centuries to come. But in recent years, there's been an undeniable attempt to change this exceptional character, to beat the American spirit out of us, alienate us from our history, and to make it impossible to even answer the question, what does it mean to be an American?... So tonight, let us say clearly and proudly what makes Americans so unique and extraordinary. We're going to give our country its identity back...."
The challenge to our identity is — in Trump's rhetoric — COMMUNISM:
There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11.
Okay, it's not Muslim terrorists anymore. It's the communists!
Because communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world. Never works. It's the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it's the enemy of July 4th, 1776. It is the enemy indeed. Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of communism itself because it never worked. Under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried. It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil. The godless communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions. They don't want good. They don't love God and they don't want God. They don't love religion and they don't want religion and they won't have it....
These are things you couldn't say when the enemy was Muslim terrorists: They don't want God, they don't love religion. They wanted God too much, loved religion too much. But now that the Enemy is the communists, the we-want-God rhetoric works for our side.
[Communism is] an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder. Such doctrines can be given no quarter in a democracy, because the first thing they do when they get into power is turn around and destroy it. Very simply, communism represents the worst ideas and abuses in history by the worst people. The American founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people like you. You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors. They're doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are slandering and attacking our future. They're trying to tear down the great American character to destroy the people who declared independence, who crossed the Delaware, who settled the West and conquered the skies.... We are the nation that dreamed and created the modern world... We beat Venezuela in one day, and we knocked the hell out of Iran.... And today, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.
It has been very hot.
Everybody respects us like no nation.
Except, to be fair, about half of the American people. We're loaded with self esteem or completely lacking. But still...
The best is yet to come.... This is only the beginning of the golden age of America.
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There's a lot of tension in Mamdani's Communism. His wife is a full blown Hamas supporter. He's a godless Communist who worships the state (a.k.a. himself). Islamic Communism makes about as much sense as gay Hamas.
But they do have a common point of similarity. Both ideologies are completely bankrupt. They preach against greed, and want to make it illegal to engage in banking, or loan money for interest, or sell food for profit. They want to use the state to punish the spiritual sin of greed. And then they wonder why they are so bankrupt.
Look for Mamdami to find rich Jews in New York, and to attack them for their greed and their evil. He went after Ken Griffin, who's a Presbyterian. But as his economy begins to constrict and the pressure starts to ratchet up, that's when you'll start seeing an anti-Semitic flair to his hatred of the rich.
That's the other thing that's notable about Islamic terrorism and Communism. We don't see a lot of love from their followers. You'd think Commies would love the poor. They do not. But do they hate the rich? Oh yes they do. And that label "the rich" gets applied to a wider and wider class of people. And before you know it, millions of people are dead.
Imagine the nerve of opposing a genocide.
Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11.
He's suggesting that internal threats are more dangerous to the USA right now than external threats. (Obviously, the UK would be the most dangerous threat to American liberty over the last 250 years).
Followed by the slave trade.
Opposition to American Liberty
1. UK (18th century)
2. Civil War (19th century)
3. Communism (20th century)
4. Pearl Harbor (20th century)
5. Islamic terrorism and 9/11 (21st century)
If Iran or its proxies get nukes, this list gets shuffled around in a hurry.
Communism is an ancient evil, a lifeless stupid zombie that has been resurrected by awful people in the academy. And these socialists hate the Jews as well. If Donald Trump was Bill Maher, he'd be talking about the rise of Nazism on the left. Because that's another name for what we're seeing in the socialist class.
Everyone who uses the word “genocide” in current discourse should be required to define it.
Trump always needs a dragon to slay and the Democrats are always accommodating him, teeing up fat, juicy targets and low-hanging fruit.
"Trump always needs a dragon to slay""
That's probably true, but of what political leader is it not?
Communism is arrogance on steroids. Believing you can harness human nature is tantamount to believing you can harness nature itself. The reason capitalism works as well as it does, though imperfectly, is because it incentivizes free thinking humans to work for tangible gains. It puts natural human greed to good use. No other system comes close to its success.
God Bless America. Happy Independence Day!
The small man amongst the giants.
Except, to be fair, about half of the American people
..that whole ‘divided nation’ rhetoric, the idea half of the American people are whatever the Democrats are supposed to be at the moment? We’re not going to allow you to fall back on that as an excuse forever…or anymore…
…to be fair, recent data points to a different conclusion…
I disagree. Wilbur. A dragon is symbology for an existential threat. Most politicians play small ball. The closest thing that the Dems have to a dragon is global warming, which everybody pretty much sees as a paper Tiger.
Jaq said...
Imagine the nerve of opposing a genocide.
7/4/26, 5:10 AM
Right??? I can never understand why the left want to murder babies.
Communism is arrogance on steroids
…especially from this current batch of trust fund, us treasury supported bunch. The irony….anyways, the system fails wherever, whenever it is attempted and humanity is smaller, more miserable for it, but yah let’s give it another go because Trump is yukky…
It seems to me that Trump is the dragon for the Democrats. They certainly regard him as an existential threat. And he certainly accommodes them, teeing up what they see as fat, juicy targets and low-hanging fruit.
…if you can’t find anything constructive to cling to in his speech I suggest a constructive long walk on a short pier to celebrate the day…
Yeah the whole country is divided thing is a bullshit meme being forced down our throats by the algorithmic manipulations.. Most people don't give politics that much space inside their heads.
Have a happy 4th, people. For me personally, I am extremely grateful to have been born in the United States of America in the middle of the 20th century at the dawn of the space age.
How did I get so lucky, I have no idea. I imagine that the rest of my future lives are going to be spent as bugs that gets squashed and eaten.
Brilliant speech by Trump.
He set it up: Good v. Evil. America v. Communism. USA v. China. American citizens v. Illegal aliens. Republicans v. Democrats.
That’s right. Red v. Blue.
The Dems handed Trump a gift. A golden ticket. How the GOP retains the Congress. The Dems elected as mayor of NYC a real communist. And then elected more.
The mask has been dropped. The Dems are the party of communists.
We also have the news that illegal aliens have stolen billions from US taxpayers. SCOTUS handed Trump another gift with that legally wrong birthright citizenship decision. The Dems celebrated that decision. That’s what the 14th meant all along! Ignore those four dissenting opinions. The people know that an amendment to fix it would never get through Congress. Heck, Congress can’t even pass the SAVE Act.
Trump has ripped off the mask of the Dems. Our politics are not about marginal tax rates. We are in a struggle for the future of our country. If voters want to fundamentally change America into a communist country, then vote Dem in November.
Yeah Wilbur, that's a good point. The problem with the Democrats approach, therefore, is nobody really believes Trump is an existential threat to the United States. He's just an existential threat to the status quo of the DNC.
We also have the news that illegal aliens have stolen billions from US taxpayers
…since we’re being fair this morning, hundreds of billions, to be fair…
It seems to be zinger-free, which is a mistake. A large part of Trump's support comes from zinger-lovers.
Marx zingers back, an unanswered zinger:
Of the writings dealing with the same subject at approximately the same time as mine, only two deserve notice: Victor Hugo's Napoleon le Petit and Proudhon's Coup d'Etat. Victor Hugo confines himself to bitter and witty invective against the responsible producer of the coup d'etat. The event itself appears in his work like a bolt from the blue. He sees in it only the violent act of a single individual. He does not notice that he makes this individual great instead of little by ascribing to him a personal power of initiative unparalleled in world history. Proudhon, for his part, seeks to represent the coup d'etat as the result of an antecedent historical development. Inadvertently, however, his historical construction of the coup d'etat becomes a historical apologia for its hero. Thus he falls into the error of our so-called objective historians. I, on the contrary, demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part.
(2nd preface to the 18th Brumiad, used by the left to mock Reagan and now Trump (last line))
…every year…
He's just an existential threat to the status quo of the DNC.
…to be fair, it is obvious a meaningful number of congressional individuals not publicly aligned with the DNC feel threatened, too, for some reason…
** Jaq said...Imagine the nerve of opposing a genocide.**
Imagine the nerve of trying to sanitize “genocide” by carelessly using it to describe whatever you don’t like. People who actually care about stopping genocide are more careful about undermining the moral outrage the term was created to harness.
But that’s who you are; it’s what you do.
It’s the Muslims & The Communists. Mamdani is both. He’s a Super Villain.
No disputing that on Petri dish Earth the unique American Experiment is going strong and still a beacon of hope and freedom that sets us apart.
** These are things you couldn't say when the enemy was Muslim terrorists… But now that the Enemy is the communists…,**
Islamists have made common cause with communists as a matter of convenience; ultimately, they will destroy the communists as surely as they will destroy the rest of us.
Trump is driving a wedge between these two groups by highlighting their one irreconcilable difference.
nobody really believes Trump is an existential threat to the United States.
People believed it in 2016. I signed Marco Rubio's "Never Trump" pledge. And after he was elected, I was like, "Oh shit, I can't believe I put my name on that." I was hopeful that Marco Rubio would keep his master list of Never Trumpers to himself. And I wondered if the IRS would maybe audit my taxes that year.
It dawned on me, sometime in 2017, that the USA hardly changed at all. My day-to-day life was pretty much exactly how it was in 2016. All the internet histrionics had zero to do with my reality. And after a while I was like, "Oh, he's just another Republican." So I had the Trump panic, but I never had TDS.
I'm not a doctor -- I just play one on the internet -- but if I had to diagnose TDS, it's primary symptom is cognitive dissonance. It's a person unwilling to veer from the narrative ("He's Hitler! We just elected Hitler!") and accept the factual reality that 2016-2020 was not the Nazi times.
After 01/06, I saw something I had never seen before. The TDS did not go away. Usually, when somebody loses an election, all the hate disappears and finds a different target.
Instead, I saw this insane obsession, this fear, of somebody who lost an election. So the TDS panic continued, which was super-weird. It even escalated in 2024. I've never seen powerful people so afraid of a man who had no political power whatsoever. And the Democrats went batshit crazy, trying to keep him from running again.
The 2024 election broke the Democrat fever, in my opinion. The Joe Biden years were so bad, now Democrats just want to forget about them and change the subject.
After that election, the Democrat party is no longer delirious about Trump. They still hate him, of course. But they're no longer in a panic.
The alternative experiment, communism, has utterly failed everywhere else in spectacular fashion and the only thing that helped China was embracing the free market to pull its economy out of the giant hole Maoism created. Only independently wealthy theatre kids can pretend to be “Socialist” in America. The pretense is of course a lie, as all of them are highly dependent on free market economics for their wealth creation and our laws to protect their hoard once accumulated. None of which is possible under communism where only the top insiders of the Party have wealth.
Stolen wealth. Stolen law and order. Stolen identities. Socialists are thieves through and through.
Trump should have played X's Fourth of July as his walk-off music instead of YMCA. Or The Best Is Yet To Come. That would have been Reaganesque. CC, JSM
Classic:
**Imagine the nerve of opposing a genocide**
That’s the nut of the rhetorical game, “a genocide.” Note Jaq doesn’t oppose genocide in general but only one specific “genocide”?he is especially proud of opposing. I use scare quotes because out of all the wars targeting ethnic groups my hunch is that Jaq is once again trying to spin the fastest growing population on Earth as somehow suffering mass death and destruction.
The 2024 election broke the Democrat fever
…I think it only broke a few people who rely on a reputation for thinking. It simply became to difficult to talk your way out of being a supporter of stupid. Not that many stopped trying. ‘All in’ is a problem, too. When you go all in on NYT being the paper of record, that lack of coverage from NYT is ‘proof’ of something not happening, it’s impossible to earn your reputation back…
“ In all the chronicles of the ages, never before has any nation celebrated so magnificent a triumph as this one... At 250 Years, America is the oldest Republic on earth. We are the freest people on earth. We have the most righteous and enduring Constitution on earth. We are the strongest and most powerful country on earth. And by the grace of God, the United States of America is the most successful, most accomplished, most exceptional nation ever to exist in human history."
Reaganesqe. But course the Left prefers the pointless blather of Obama.
Okay, it's not Muslim terrorists anymore. It's the communists!
…go back and read what he wrote. Communism is ‘a’ threat. It is possible to have more than one…
It wasn’t that long ago that Obama and Clyburn orchestrated Sanders off the Dem presidential nomination. Why they’d do that? He is DSA and can’t win in USA. Alot can happen in 7 years….
..Bernie had his nomination stolen from Hillary! in the cycle before. Superdelegates took care of him in August…
Right vs. Left. Patriots vs. Commie Dems. One group highlights our country’s attributes, but still recognizes our deficiencies. The other group sees no virtues to recognize, wants the country dismantled down to its foundation. Why? They have better idea. Unfortunately we’ve seen their handiwork. Visualize Castro, Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin. And let’s not forget the Ayatollahs.
Happy Birthday America!
Trump should have played X's Fourth of July as his walk-off music instead of YMCA.
The Village Fucking People, by God. The way I kept my sanity in the first administration is that I quit listening to Trump. And I damn well didn't listen to his music. Holy shit.
But it is funny how Trump does what he likes and he doesn't give a damn what you or I think about it. His tastes are horrible, but he's true to them.
60 Minutes ought to do an investigative special on the Village People and how they feel about Donald Trump.
Construction Worker: "He's stealing our music, man."
Cop: "He's trying to bring us back, single-handedly."
And that's when the Village People get in a fight in 60 Minutes headquarters. That's probably why 60 Minutes has ignored this story.
And so I googled it. And when I typed up, "How does the Village People feel..." the damn internet finished my question for me.
Anyway, the UK newspapers are all over the Village People civil war.
This Rolling Stones article on the fracas is pretty good, with a lot more detail and musical history.
Somebody ought to do a story about Trump and his ties to that devil band. You could definitely pick a Stones song for everything that happened in the Trump administration.
You Can't Always Get What You Want (the Republican primary)
19th Nervous Breakdown (for the DNC, 2016-2026)
Brown Sugar (for Al Sharpton)
Sympathy for the Devil (for the media)
It's still Islam, Ann. And communists.
But don't take my word for it. They are all around the country telling all of us this regularly now. There is no hiding it, no shame, no one needs to be careful anymore because so many Americans refuse to believe what is happening in front of their own eyes.
The state of the nation is at play now. A huge majority of people on the left are not proud to be American, do not like our country.This is not my opinion, this is what the national polling tells us.
Now...as a random commenter on an isolated blog, I can say that Islam, married out of convenience to socialism/communism, is the greatest danger to our nation. But our President cannot. At least not yet. He still has to work with Muslim nations. But he can call out communism because Democrats, except for John Fetterman, seem unable to do so.
I bet the speech sounded much better in the original German.
“ Saint Croix said...
Trump should have played X's Fourth of July as his walk-off music instead of YMCA.
The Village Fucking People, by God. The way I kept my sanity in the first administration …”
You failed.
“But it is funny how Trump does what he likes and he doesn't give a damn what you or I think about it.”
We’ll be doesn’t care what YOU think about it, that’s for sure. Look, if you want a President who does exactly the things you want him to do, and to do them exactly the way you’d do them, you need to run for President yourself.
I can say that Islam, married out of convenience to socialism/communism, is the greatest danger to our nation. But our President cannot. At least not yet. He still has to work with Muslim nations.
Yeah, who else is going to bribe him with $400 million planes, tungsten mines, golf leagues, and $2 billion for his son-in-law.
…I guess they’re going with Trump’s an evil genius businessman today. By tomorrow he’ll be back to bankrupt bumbling businessman…
Don’t spend the 4th with your head up your ass or in the sand, Fredo. Get well soon.
I'm still basking in gratitude for the 1,000% increase in the Code of Federal Regulations in my lifetime. Glistening drops of the nectar of freedom on each page. The Commies and Islamists can't touch that level of freedom.
"I bet the speech sounded much better in the original German."
Freder could at least have credited Molly Ivins for that remark.
Hey Freder, didja see where Turkey refused to allow an LGBT cruise ship to come into port because the gay “conflicts with their shared values and culture”? I don’t know if that’s an accurate translation from the original German.
From my Catholic daily prayer book this morning: “With the gift of a land and a nation comes responsibility to the Giver. As Christians, let us never forget that our nation’s vision of liberty, peace, and justice for all can only be realized through the reign of Christ in our hearts and our society. God will bless us as a nation if we give him his due.”
I begin each day with gratitude. It’s habit forming.
Happy birthday 🥳🎆🎇
"Saint Croix said...
I'm not a doctor -- I just play one on the internet -- but if I had to diagnose TDS, it's primary symptom is cognitive dissonance. It's a person unwilling to veer from the narrative ("He's Hitler! We just elected Hitler!") and accept the factual reality that 2016-2020 was not the Nazi times."
and then
"Freder Frederson said...
I bet the speech sounded much better in the original German."
Sigh.
Trump is right that a country needs to have a positive view of itself. A nation can’t thrive if it constantly tells its citizens that its history is mostly about oppression, theft, and hypocrisy. And, communism’s past is indeed dark.
However, labeling every socialist, progressive, Democrat, Muslim activist, or critic of American history as a “communist” is more about political branding than history or analysis. Mamdani might be quite left-leaning compared to American liberalism, and his policies deserve some criticism, but free buses, rent control, and government grocery stores aren’t the first steps to the Gulag.
Trump’s language often mixes things up: socialist becomes communist, communist becomes Stalinist, pro-Palestinian becomes Hamas supporter, Muslim becomes Islamist, and Democrat becomes an enemy of America. Ordinary elections become like an all-out battle between Good and Evil.
The left does this too. Trump becomes Hitler, immigration enforcement becomes fascism, and any controversial police encounters are seen as proof of systemic white supremacy. Both sides are increasingly confusing “bad policy” with “existential threat.”
Trump’s main point is that Americans should know their country’s good qualities: a constitutional government, individual liberty, religious tolerance, scientific and commercial success, and the ability to correct its mistakes. His weakest point is suggesting that acknowledging broken treaties, slavery, or oppression is a “Marxist lie.” Saying that discussions about stolen land are propaganda at Mount Rushmore is a bit awkward historically.
A mature patriotism of a 250 year old democratic republic should recognize America’s unique qualities while also acknowledging its many times when it hasn’t lived up to its principles. In fact, American exceptionalism is actually made stronger by the principles that have repeatedly given us the language and constitutional tools to fix these mistakes.
I liked the speech’s confidence, but I’m not as convinced about the need to create a domestic Red Army to support it.
…always keep in mind your tastes are not all that great either…
rhhardin quoting Marx: "I, on the contrary, demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part."
Sounds more like Obama than Reagan or Trump.
(I’m wondering if the phrase democratic socialist is now a thing, what would be the harm in saying democratic nationalist? You can call Trump a Nazi but maybe you should at least acknowledge he was an elected Nazi.)
I’m grateful for the freedom this country gives. The bigger question is what do we do with that freedom.
"Freder could at least have credited Molly Ivins for that remark."
Everyone knows, or should know, where the original quote is from.
Another statement of Trump’s “Power of Positive Thinking” philosophy. Exactly what we need as we move into the Age of Abundance.
Communism HAS worked, if we're being honest about what communism is. Although they want you to believe that the seizure of wealth and control is a means to an end -- a caring, egalitarian society -- the seizing of wealth and control is itself the goal of the commie cabal that takes power. These movements succeed by convincing a lot of useful idiots that they'll get their "fair share" of rich people's assets, which obviously has become a dominant theme in dem party rhetoric in the last few years.
Althouse--you imply that Trump has created a "communist" bogeyman to replace the "Muslim" bogeyman. That seems to be a strawman argument. While Trump has taken strong steps to oppose terrorism*, he has hardly singled out Muslims or Islam as a religious or even ideological movement, and has worked very closely with Muslim nations on the Abraham Accords, Iran and elsewhere.
*Trump's "Muslim Travel Ban" simply took the various countries that were on Obama's State Department's list of states most likely to harbor terrorists and tightened the travel restrictions on them. The top 7 just happened to be predominantly Muslim.
…yah, it was a lazy attempt at a pithy comment. Fell flat…
Nonsense from the most corrupt president in US history..
Presidents come and go.
So do republics.
Happy 4th!
So, the GOP is going with communism as their 2026 election talking point?
Trump traveled all the way to South Dakota to read a half-baked red scare speech straight out of 1950.The "idea" part of the speech, read from script, is extended, Joe McCarthy-toned denunciation of Communism as the era's greatest threat.
All the evidence suggests he wants to control the means of production of state fairs, reflecting pools and interior decorating.
Trump:
"Everybody respects us like no nation."
Althouse:
"Except, to be fair, about half of the American people. We're loaded with self esteem or completely lacking. But still..."
You overstate the case. I don't believe it's even near half of the American people. The noisy radicals dominate all the media, they're in everyone's face, and intimidate anyone who isn't on board with their pronouncements. But even the Never Trumpers are coming around, realizing that despite their dislike for the man, on the issue of the survival of our Nation, he's right. Dave Blaska is one example, but I expect there are many others. I think it's coming to the tipping point where we're not going to take it anymore.
“Nonsense from the most corrupt president in US history..”
Why do you bother? People look at this nonsense and laugh at you.
Comment seen on X: “Democrats think they’re using Muslims to usher in socialism [communism lite, i.e]. The truth is Muslims are using Democrats to usher in Islam.” Happy birthday to us. I think.
Actually, Freder, I didn’t know that corny Nazi joke came from that nasty old Texan “lady”.
"However, labeling every socialist, progressive, Democrat, Muslim activist, or critic of American history as a “communist” is more about political branding than history or analysis. Mamdani might be quite left-leaning compared to American liberalism, and his policies deserve some criticism, but free buses, rent control, and government grocery stores aren’t the first steps to the Gulag."
Peaceful Warrior--you seem to have learned nothing from the last 100 years of "socialism."
Mamdami and the "democratic socialists" who are winning Dem primaries make no secret of their ideologies. Do they not deserve to be called out?
And there is not a word in the quoted portions of Trump's speech about Muslims, Islam, Palestinians or Israel.
"For whatever reason, that's just the way it is." Probably an impromptu line, but a firing offense if a speechwriter wrote it.
Yeah, it’s too damn hot. But I don’t think Trump is feeling the warmth of collectivism. Nor am I. Nor is anyone.
Is Trump going to bling-gild it
IEE--All the evidence suggests that Joe McCarthy was right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
All leftists should remove their wretched selves to Somalia.
Kak-A-Bich (D) running out of lies and stupid stuff.
Democrats in Colorado have installed 550 new laws in one year! Freedom! Ketchup packets ..
Looking for success stories on Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism”. One would think with as many Commie Dems we have posting here they would overflowing with examples. Help me out here lefty commenters. I teed it up for you. I’m This should be an easy one.
The Republicans are going to settle on the unholy alliance of Muslim and Communists as the next great threat. These people see the Jews and the West as the common enemy. And the ultimate success of jihad and revolution will be measured in their ability to destroy political Judaism (Zionism), to commit genocide against the Jews and to destroy classical liberalism in the West. I think that's what we're up against. (We're probably going to destroy these suckers, but it's going to be a rough fight.)
Kak-a-bot's democrats demand the following.
- Open borders
- Tax payer funded illegal alien non-citizens, voting in elections
- De-fund POLICE and ICE
- Close the prisons
- Pro-Criminal. 100% allowance of all crime.
- Punitive taxes and the end of private enterprise
- Government run health care for all! and the long wait lines to die that come with it.
Good job, Kak-a-bot.
Typo above: delete “I’m “.
Kurt Schuler--""For whatever reason, that's just the way it is." Probably an impromptu line, but a firing offense if a speechwriter wrote it."
"Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
The communists are using the Muslims and the Muslims are using the communists. I am hoping that we never have to see which of them "wins."
"...should recognize America’s unique qualities while also acknowledging its many times when it hasn’t lived up to its principles. ..."
That's some fancy footwork, right there. Why not name all those politicians and public figures that don't acknowledge these things? Because the count would equal 'zero', that's why.
There's a big distinction between (a) acknowledging the flaws in your governing systems and recognizing historical wrongs and injustices, and (b) making these imperfections the central theme in your political plank.
We've been listening to that theme for the past 20 years or so.
Today is a good day to (re-)read Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
Go on. It isn't that long.
Gettysburg Address
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19th 1863.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Democrats have creates a no-ID to vote system.
This is the definition of corruption.
And the GOP are fine with it.
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Vote to keep the corrupt Republican oligarchy in power enriching themselves at your expense -- they will protect you from the bad commies who are EVERYWHERE plotting!
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Kak-a-bot's democrats demand the following.
- Open borders (worth mentioning each time)
- A 97% of all media - Democrat media elite focus on reflecting pools and ignore massive fraud on team D.
ie: CA, MN, Medicare fraud, antifa thuggery, arson, Soros funded terrorism. etc...
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It's not the poor who are always with us. It's the communists. The poorest person in America now lives better than the richest person on earth when Jesus was distributing those fish and loaves. This abundance came about not not as a by-product of man's most generous impulses but rather of his greediest......That fact sucks, but that's the way it is. The slave owners of North America were able to fashion a more equitable and enduring government than the formerly enslaved people of Haiti. I wish the world were more consistent with elevated rhetoric, but, demonstrably, that's never the way things work out. ..
Extortion and bribes in the same breath.
"Intel came in. They had a problem. I said, 'I can solve your problem, but I want 10% of the company' ... somebody said that's not very American. I said, 'No, I think it's very American, actually.' And I've done that with other deals." ~ Donald Trump CNBC
The Gettysburg Address was, famously, written by the first Republican president, who sacrificed his life in the struggle to end slavery.
The mystery of self-interest being the most humane and compassionate organizing principle of human communities seems unsolvable to a lot of people.
An inconvenient truth about Trump’s “Muslim ban”: Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, India, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf emirates weren’t on the list. It wasn’t a Muslim ban. It was a failed states ban.
KAK-a Bitch - are you saying Bibles should be illegal?
Kak-a-bitch uses the same language as the hive.
The Oligarchy is Newsum. Assassination Walz. Bernie.
AOC. The growing socialist rage fueled Jew haters.
"Everyone knows, or should know, where the original quote is from."
They teach it at the Learing Center.
Leftist bots like Kak-a-bitch have nothing but SPLC bullshit.
Leftists adore failed states, and want to become one.
That'll show everyone.
IEE—Lincoln at Gettysburg gave the greatest funeral oration in history, topping even Pericles.
Here’s the context within which to view Trump’s “Power of Positive Thinking” message:
The next two years will blow your mind, to borrow an old hippie saying.
Musk will ramp up production of the Optimus humanoid robot to a million per year or more. This will produce an exponential change in everything.
Communism? I dunno. Are the NYTs and Wapo Communists? Are the Big Donors who control our Congress communists? Are the open borders warmongering globalists "Communists"?
Are Roberts and the 3 Leftists Judges on the SCOTUS Communists?
All these people certainly hate America 1.0 and the native born working and middle class. And they're doing a good job of destroying it.
I don't see the relevance of Karl Marx. I approve the message, but not sure about the details.
I suppose if the left can call everyone they dislike "Nazis" and "fascists" when they aren't. I don't see why Trump and the Right cant call the Left "Communists".
Certainly identifying them and labeling them is preferable to the usual Rightwing tactic of saying the Left are just average people who are "Stupid" or "Confused".
I’m very concerned that Donald Trump’s behavior could bring the FIFA World Peace Prize into disrepute .
I can’t wait to see Platt's ad team’s output for the midterms.
We need to start using the Government to get some income equality. If that's why Trump is using the word "Communist" then he'll lose in November.
One way to solve the problem would be to ban foreigners and corporations from buying family homes. Another would be in big cities like NY, for the city government to "nationalize" apartment buildings. Lets take the profit and greed out of housing.
Islam and Communism: both deny causal chain from thought to material production: in the name of GOD/STATE. Allah Wills/State Commands OBEDIENCE
American Experiment = Pursuit of Happiness on Earth - Value chosen freely
Peaceful warrior said...
Trump is right that a country needs to have a positive view of itself. A nation can’t thrive if it constantly tells its citizens that its history is mostly about oppression, theft, and hypocrisy. And, communism’s past is indeed dark.
However, labeling every socialist, progressive, Democrat, Muslim activist, or critic of American history as a “communist” is more about political branding than history or analysis. Mamdani might be quite left-leaning compared to American liberalism, and his policies deserve some criticism, but free buses, rent control, and government grocery stores aren’t the first steps to the Gulag.
LOL!
He is right. They are more like the 4th, 5th and 6th steps.
WRT Communism : Are Americans touring or fellow traveling?
"Freder Frederson said...
I bet the speech sounded much better in the original German."
Sigh.
Yeah, Jamie, but he's actually proving my point.
There's no panic from FF that Trump will turn out to be Hitler. That's gone. It's not fear of Hitler, it's Hitler jokes.
As others have mentioned, he's recycling a joke told by Molly Ivins. In 1992. About Patrick Buchanan.
They've veered from treating Trump as a lone psychopath who will destroy the republic (actual Hitler) to just another Republican (Hitler name-calling).
These are the same people who called Mitt Romney a Nazi.
For years, the Democrats believed all the shit they say about Trump. Now, they don't believe it. They're still saying it, out of habit and childishness. But nobody believes them. Their credibility is shot. Soon they will regroup and start attacking other Republicans (Vance and Rubio, I suspect).
"Another would be in big cities like NY, for the city government to "nationalize" apartment buildings. Lets take the profit and greed out of housing."
Because "Public Housing" has worked out so well, absolutely nowhere. Or maybe it's never been done properly. Or something. Sheesh.
What percentage of dems are communists? What percentage of republicans are nazis. The numbers are roughly the same in my opinion.
Can’t blame the Dem establishment folks for getting hysterical about the left’s latest love affair with communism.it’s already having an impact on their hopes to take the Senate. Should be interesting to see how successful they are at damage control before the midterms.
"What percentage of dems are communists? What percentage of republicans are nazis. The numbers are roughly the same in my opinion."
Name some nazis who have been elected recently.
I can name one; Graham Platner.
It's a big world out there, haters. Grow a set and leave your misery behind.
“[T]he 250th anniversary of the 4th of July”?
There’ve been a lot more 4ths of July than that.
Happy 250th anniversary of America’s Independence Day, everyone.
;)
It's the communists!
I think Althouse is trying to suggest that this is a Joe McCarthy move by Trump. Just a slander of innocent liberals.
Darializa Avila Chevalier is a flat-out Commie.
Who Is Darializa Avila Chevalier?
Some of Ms. Avila Chevalier’s views may be considered too extreme for mainstream politics, and should she be chosen to represent Upper Manhattan in Congress, her views could pose a challenge for the greater Democratic Party. In an interview last week with The New York Editorial Board, a substack, Ms. Avila Chevalier repeatedly avoided answering whether she would send a man who randomly killed another man to prison.
IN the UK - the "police" are all woke rage-fueled angry lesbians - arresting native British boys after these brit boys are thoroughly beat up by roaming gang immigrants.
I’m wondering if God sanctions anyone calling their fellow man ‘godless’ as a pejorative. I suspect not.
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"Communism isn't popular. Never has been.
Hence all Communist revolutions are spearheaded by a small number of academic elites, while the underlings—the ones who invariably perish in such a revolt—must be manipulated into participating with some other pet issue."
Mamdamni(D) - won because no one showed up to vote.
Probably because the choices were so bleak.
With all the genocide going on how can global warming still be a problem, and vise versa.
The small man amongst the giants.
That "small man" is already the most consequential and transformative President of the 21st Century, and has almost 3 years left to become one of the all-time greats. His name will be better known than most of the Roman Emperors ten thousand years from now.
I'm quite on board with a revival of vigorous McCarthyism and the extirpation of the collectivist menace. I want him to use every power and resource the government possesses to destroy enemy scum like Sanders, Mamdani, and Omar.
The only nazis I’m aware of on the right are the ones paid for by leftist organizations. If they do exist, however, none are running for congress as Republicans and none would have popular support. Can’t say the same about what’s going on with Democrats though.
Breezy said...
“The reason capitalism works as well as it does, though imperfectly, is because it incentivizes free thinking humans to work for tangible gains. It puts natural human greed to good use. No other system comes close to its success.”
Amen.
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms were a bunch of socialist garbage.
Freedom from want?
I’ll keep my freedom *to* want, thank you very much.
The only way any government can give you freedom from want is to limit what you are allowed to want.
“Freder Frederson said…
Everyone knows, or should know, where the original quote is from.”
When he isn’t whining to Althouse that conservative commentators are picking on him, Fredo sure does a great job of showing off one Hell of a lot of arrogance.
It wasn’t what government did that made America great; it was what government was prevented from doing that made the difference,
What set America apart from all other lands was freedom - for the individual. Freedom to work, to produce, to succeed and, especially, to keep the fruits of one’s labor.
America became great precisely because the stifling effects of too much government had been prevented.
However freedom in America was not totally unrestrained. Americans overwhelming chose to limit their actions with moral codes such as the Ten Commandments. Personal morality and limited government is the combination that characterized America and made it the envy of the world.
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When our Founding Fathers decided they had enough of British oppression they broke away and declared independence. They stated as self-evident truth in the Declaration of Independence that men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. In other words, God gave man his rights. And that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And in the very next sentence, the Founders defined the proper role of government when they stated that to secure these rights governments are instituted.
Partial text of Overview of America, by John McManus. Available online.
A big chunk of our problems: Too Much Government.
"I’m wondering if God sanctions anyone calling their fellow man ‘godless’ as a pejorative."
The word "sanctions" is so ambiguous that you've got to wonder if God sanctions anyone for being confusing.
According to scriptures, God is a fussbudget, so I recommend taking great care.
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Whenever I see a new Socialist pop up on the political scene, the first thing I do is check their bio. About 90% of the time, I find that the 'Socialist' actually comes from quite a starkly bourgeoisie background, most of them quite wealthy and well-educated well-connected to what is now called 'the elite'.
Mamdani is a great example of this, so is Platner. Although Platner at least had some callouses to show. But the smarter ones, like Mamdani always eventually fail to hide their disdain for the very proletariat that they like to place somewhere adjacent to sainthood in their public statements. They'll use them for useful symbolism, to cultivate support. But their brand of Socialism, read 'Communism', always seems to conclude with a modern shortcut to the new feudalism - with them unsurprisingly at the top of the structure. What used to take generations and actual blood, sweat, and conquest to achieve, can now be accomplished in a few years with some careful psychology and some sympathetic funding, and no need to marry your ugly cousin.
Too many here have lost the plot. We are a nation of laws, not men. Yet you would have us reduce our discussion to men - one man in particular. I’ve read your arguments for some time now. With all due respect (and for some writers here there isn’t much respect due ) I want to say on this day that you have not persuaded me.
This is a nation of laws, not men for as long as we the people will uphold the law and the process by which our laws are formed. This is all much much bigger than Donald Trump. This our constitution is sustained by millions and millions of people who understand the core principles that were articulated 250 years ago and that were enshrined in it, and we’re willing to live - I’m willing to live with that process no matter where it takes us. But don’t tell me that one man is capable of destroying and had destroyed our constitutional foundation and processes. I don’t believe it. And I have too many good friends and good neighbors all over this country that don’t believe it. It isn’t about him. He will come and he will go as you and I will. We are a republic of laws not men.
Today is a celebration of a glorious event in the history of mankind. We hold these truths….
One way to solve the problem would be to ban foreigners and corporations from buying family homes.
How about mass deportations to reduce pressure on our limited housing stock? Plus some vigorous enforcement of zoning restrictions on single-family homes. Prices on mansions are going down, but starter homes are still expensive as hell because unrelated Indian and Mexican immigrants are living four to a bedroom in lower middle class neighborhoods and paying rent to what are effectively slumlords of the same nationality.
Another would be in big cities like NY, for the city government to "nationalize" apartment buildings. Lets take the profit and greed out of housing.
Few actions would do more to reduce the remaining quality of life in the big cities. There is no more certain pathway to squalor, crime and generalized decay than government ownership of housing. Didn't we already figure this out fifty years ago? Ever heard of Pruitt-Igoe?
Javier Milei abolished all rent control in Argentina two years ago. Rents are DOWN 40% and housing supply is UP 170%. We should make it a nationwide rule that no housing built with Federal dollars can ever be subjected to rent control.
Instead of making a graceful, modest and uplifting speech about our history and the great things we have accomplished, in an effort to try to unite the country, he rants for an hour or more about how great he is and how the evil Godless Democrats nearly destroyed America before he came to the rescue. Again.
Can’t wait until the midterms.
I’m wondering if God sanctions anyone calling their fellow man ‘godless’ as a pejorative.
God is with us all (even the godless), and he loves us all (even the godless).
It was a speech by a President who loves the United States and isn’t afraid to say so.
It had some pointed parts designed to push some policy and poke at the disloyal opposition, but that was limited.
I’ve seen some of the louder voices make it a point to trash the country today with their “concern.”
It’s all so tedious and unoriginal.
If you suffer from a virulent case of TDS (as does one of my long ago high school friends) you send out an e-mail with a "warning" that viewing a video of Air Force One flying over Mt. Rushmore will cause you to lose your lunch.
There is no cure for that level of stupidity.
Donald Trump’s supporters have collectively lost billions buying his sham cryptocurrencies. But Trump himself has made billions selling his sham cryptocurrencies. It ends up a net neutral among the people who love Trump the most.
Graham Platner hasn’t been elected to anything…yet
“I can say that Islam, married out of convenience to socialism/communism, is the greatest danger to our nation.”
What the socialist and communists don’t realize is that it’s the Islamist that are driving the bus. Reference: the U.K. or Minnesota politics. The other two are just fulfilling their historic role as useful fools.
Yesterday a friend, who leans left and hates Trump emailed me a Happy 4th message. I replied in kind and told him I'd just finished hanging out my flag. He asked if I'd hung it upside down. I hadn't, of course, but it got me wondering.
Hanging the flag upside is a distress signal. Who are you signaling?
If America hangs it's flag upside down on the 4th of July, who is coming to help? There is no one. When America is in trouble, there is no rescue party. We have only ourselves, only one another. And a signal of distress can also bring enemies who perceive opportunity.
Fly your flag high this day.
Happy America's birthday.
Anyone who uses the word "fussbudget" should be anathematized or at a minimum amerced.
"Where else would you rather be than right here [USA], right now?"
Have a great 4th everyone!
Take a moment to reflect on all the sacrifices our ancestors made so that we could be here today.
Is this Althouse realizing that Trump's brand of bullshit politics as entertainment is a dead end for the future of our nation?
"Graham Platner hasn’t been elected to anything…yet"
He won his primary.
steve hasn't offered up any names of nazis yet. I'm not holding my breath.
God is a fussbudget
God is Lucy Van Pelt?
Although I grant you that sometimes I feel like God has yanked the football away, yet again.
Charles Schulz is famous for putting Christianity into his comic strip. A Charlie Brown Christmas
If Lucy had come out on stage and said, "God is a fussbudget," I think that would have wrecked it.
I believe the NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time in history declaring an attack on US is an attack on all 28 member nations.Our allies,then, initiated direct military and strategic assistance and coalition forces. Seems to me someone came to help? Do people not remember that or just never knew? It was news? Maybe only news in certain reporting centers, as US for the first time in history received much help. Didn't have to hang flag upside down in was written. Look up ARTICLE 5 and you can read it if never heard of it. (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY)
Yes. I made a poor choice of words. I’ll point to the scripture and let it speak for itself.
“ He causes his sun to shine on evil people and good people. He sends rain on those who do right and those who don’t.”
It I must ask: is that the trait of a fussbudget?
"Our allies, then, initiated direct military and strategic assistance and coalition forces."
Much appreciated, but what did they do?
I thought Platner was just the Dem nominee. I didn't know he was elected.
Trump's economy is doing so well that even the President --one of the busiest men in the world-- has been able to clear a solid $2.2 billion.
I asked my MAGA focus group if they were angry about Trump using the presidency to make $2.2 billion in a year-and-a-half. Most stared at me blankly, and one asked if any of this had to do with trans.
"Too many here have lost the plot. We are a nation of laws, not men."
LOL. As shown by BIden's DOJ and behavior of the Leftwing District court judges we are the exact opposite. The engage in lawfare and use their power to enforce their political beliefs. And help their freinds and punish their enemies. As long as the 3 Democrats and Roberts are on the Court - we are a nation of men not laws.
What are the NATO countries willing and able to do to help the US with the troubles we have today?
If you want to hang your flag upside down because your party isn't in power, go ahead, but realize it's not a distress signal, it's a virtue signal.
Calvin Coolidge in 1926...
“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."
too much government? No too much of the wrong kind of Government. Talking about "Smaller Government" is just a vague meaningless phrase used by "Conservatives" to hamstring the Right whenever it gets power. Nobody believes in "smaller Government" and it certainly didn't make the USA great. We won every war up till 1945 because we had a big Government.
We also had 90 percent top tax income rate in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I.e. the period of the USA's greatest economic prosperity.
Government spending (state, local, Federal) is almost 40 percent of GDP. Talking about "Smaller Government" or "Muh Free Enterprise" is absurd.
“Okay, it's not Muslim terrorists anymore. It's the communists!” Trump knows what we all know - well many of us anyway - that communists align with anybody they think will further their cause: Muslim terrorists, BLM, Antifa, Democrats, etc. It’s all the same until the beheadings and stonings start.
Somebody did need to remind us that we live in a special time and place that is far different from the hell we are often told it is. The shift from blessedness to power is always jarring though. I remember that from Gerry Ford's bicentennial speech 50 years ago. My impression then (not really accurate) was that Ford shifted from chatter about values to boasting about how many ships and planes we had.
If we have been and are great again, it would have to have more to do with values than with the ability to kick @ss around the world. Fifty years ago and today we've had to face up to the fact that there are limits to our global power.
Also, is it really true that the American character will never change? It's changed a lot. Making America great again relies on recovering something of the virtues of an earlier America, but that recovery can only be partial.
Trump should start calling them “dumunists.” You just take that first “com” out and replace them. You can leave out the “b.” A lot of people don’t know “dumb” has a “b,” and it doesn’t need it. Anyway, the dumunists don’t sound so scary anymore, do they?
Mamdani and his ilk are the direct consequences of the Federal Reserve every bit as much as Dow Industrials 52,000 is. The Fed favored the big Wall Street banks heavily in their early actions during and after the 2007-08 financial reversal, at the direct expense of smaller community banks. This preference continued as the Fed rigged the bond markets via Fed fund "policy" and asset purchases. At one point, the Fed was buying 70-100% of the Treasury issuance, according to analysts at the time. That is the kind of market control that manipulators like the Hunt Brothers were bankrupted and prosecuted for.
Rigging the bond market gave the Fed the leverage to rig the stock market -- less inexorably, but still effectively through repeated jaw-boning, the many announcements of even more Quantitative Easing, and an unmistakable stance that the Fed would take steps when the stock market pulled back too far. No wildfires would be allowed to burn themselves out on their own; the Fed hose was always nearby and its spigot turned on.
But not everyone participated. Big was always favored, in banking, in brokerage, and in political influence. And there's the rub. Someone else was always getting richer than me. And all those someone elses were highly visible and reported on widely, creating a tremendous amount of envy among the left-behinds. (Oohh, the left-behinds of the Great Society....)
All the extremes being registered over the past 20-30 years, and especially in these last 6 years since the brief pandemic pullback of 2020, have put the majority of Americans in one class or another of those Left-Behinds. And all that envy is the fuel for communism, socialism, as well as the ISIS-level hatred of the Islamists.
The one good part here is that Fed policy may be changing with the new chairman Trump nominated. But, in any event, the extremes of wealth, of income, of stock valuations, and of market sentiment as a whole (extreme bullishness beyond most if not all other eras) eventually get corrected. So history shows and history has not ended. It is not usually pretty, but how that correction unfolds, how our leadership reacts, and how our educational system performs, will go a long way toward making the Mamdanis a passing phenomenon, or an increasingly influential and dangerous one.
It's "communism" with a small "c," because the CPUSA, CPSU and all of the offshoots and successor parties are so weak now: communism presents itself in the guise of "democratic socialism." The talk about communism was understandable given last weeks NY primaries, but it still threw me for a loop. What threatens us is more amorphous and not likely to be summed up in a single word. The speech wasn't just boasting and self-celebration though.
Lucy the "fussbudget" wasn't the Lucy who confidently snatched the football away from Charlie Brown. A fussbudget is "a fussy, nervous, or overly particular person who complains about minor, unimportant details. The word combines "fuss" and "budget" and is frequently associated with fastidious, hard-to-please complainers." That doesn't sum up all of Lucy's character and it doesn't sound very much like God. I suspect Charles Schulz heard the word growing up and liked its strange, old-fashioned sound and its comic potential.
"Dating back to American English in the late 19th century, the term suggests a person who harbors a "budget" (from an old word for a small purse or pouch) full of little complaints."
I think Trump is probably speaking about the Commies in New York City, who just dumped various high-ranking Democrats. They're talking about this openly on MS NOW. So it's not just the Republicans who have noticed this.
"Mamdani and his ilk are the direct consequences of the Federal Reserve every bit as much as Dow Industrials 52,000 is."
There are always commies.
"I thought Platner was just the Dem nominee. I didn't know he was elected."
There was an election between him and a "traditional" democrat and the democrats elected him. Yes, he doesn't hold an office yet, but to say the result of this election is meaningless is whistling past the graveyard.
The Althouse lefties will never get over the fact that Trump beat the self-described most qualified candidate to ever run for President - the warm and wonderful Hillary Clinton.
“And we rededicate ourselves to being a nation as big, bold, noble, and as great as these American giants. And that's not easy to do, but we're going to do it. These men could only have been made in the USA. Their faces are engraved on these bluffs, not only because of what they did, but to remind us forever who we are.”
Teddy’s only there because he was a friend of the sculptor.
---- There are always commies.
Yes. Insert the words "the political success of" before Mamdani. Fussbudgetry satisfied?
“There are always commies.“
That old chestnut.
Be ready for the new mantra in every speech: communism. Playing into the ignorance of the electorate who has no ability to discern between a socialist, a communist, a marxist. The recent election in Colorado gives impetus for Trump to have a soundbite that historically has a been perceived as an impediment to capitalist progress. Communism is the new Immigration mantra.
If your strongest campaign message is warning voters about imaginary communists instead of pointing to measurable achievements, that says more about your record than your opponents.
We also had 90 percent top tax income rate in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I.e. the period of the USA's greatest economic prosperity.
You're no more knowledgeable about history or economics than AOC the bar wench or Mamdani the foreign communist jihadi, if you take this at face value and think we should go back to those rates.
In those days, there were endless loopholes that have since been closed, especially at the time of the Reagan tax cuts. Earned income could be offset by phantom passive losses, and there was a large industry devoted to farming tax losses in horse racing, oil drilling, boat and aircraft leasebacks, cattle breeding, movie production, real estate ventures, and more. There was no Alternative Minimum Tax or Generation-Skipping Tax. All interest paid for any purpose was deductible from income. There were no restrictions on deductibility of meals and entertainment in the days of the "three-martini lunch." Depreciation schedules were accelerated much faster than the actual physical decline of the underlying asset, especially in real estate and oil and gas depletion. Long-term capital gains rates were much lower than income tax rates, with a large exclusion that no longer exists, so accountants went to considerable trouble to convert income into "investments" via complicated partnership structures, stock options, and installment sales. Gifts of appreciated assets were taxed at acquisition price rather than market value. Various income-splitting trusts, family partnerships, and other elaborate vehicles were used by wealthy families to move income from high-tax earners to low-tax relatives or strawman partners.
The bottom line is that no one with a decent accountant paid more than about 25% of their income in overall taxes, not all that different from today's 21% or so for the top quintile.
If the proposals being made for 90 percent income tax rates, removing the cap on Social Security, and taxing unrealized capital gains come to fruition, it would trigger a worse economic crisis than the Great Depression. Many Americans would die.
Don't fall for the stupidity and destructiveness of the communist Left. Support action by the Trump Administration to remove the scum from all positions of power and influence by any means necessary. This is a matter of national survival.
Fantastic.
Happy Fourth! Ignore the naysayers.
"The bottom line is that no one with a decent accountant paid more than about 25% of their income in overall taxes, not all that different from today's 21% or so for the top quintile."
What nonsense. If it was so easy to pay 25 percent instead of 90, why did they spend 50 years trying to drop the rate down to what it is today? Or cheer and say that reducing the top rate gave us all this propseritity?
And why not let it go back to 90 percent again? They scream like stuck pigs when you try to raise the Cp Gains tax to more than 15 percent, and those billionaire hedge fund managers aren't paying 25 percent.
Raise the top rate to 50 percent, say I, and limit total deductations of 20 percent of AGI.
All rich people want to do is...not pay taxes. And rig the labor markets so they pay as little as possible in wages. Nice for them, but there's no reason for other 95 percent of us to go along with it.
"If it was so easy to pay 25 percent instead of 90, why did they spend 50 years trying to drop the rate down to what it is today? Or cheer and say that reducing the top rate gave us all this propseritity?"
Because jumping through those loopholes was economically unproductive.
Of course they're merely socialists. My librul friends are concerned, however. No promising youthful leadership on deck. Further away from moderate working class Democrats. Doesn't look good nationally.
"Raise the top rate to 50 percent, say I..."
Your communist comrades want more than that.
""Raise the top rate to 50 percent, say I..."
Throw in state, local, and fica and it already is.
Earlier this year I read "The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939," by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. This was real communism.
Trump is turning into a cartoon character of Senator Joe McCarthy. Trump knows absolutely nothing about true communism.
“Trump knows absolutely nothing about true communism.“
It’s not hard lonejustice. By their fruits you shall know them.
RCOCEAN II said...
"All rich people want to do is...not pay taxes. And rig the labor markets so they pay as little as possible in wages. Nice for them, but there's no reason for other 95 percent of us to go along with it."
(sigh)The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of the income taxes. The bottom 50% of income earners pay,(wait for it.) 1%.
“All rich people want to do is...not pay taxes“
I’m not rich and I don’t want to pay taxes. I know poor don’t want to pay taxes. I suspect RCO does not want to pay taxes. Tell me I’m wrong RCO if you have emptied you bank account.
What percentage of dems are communists? What percentage of republicans are nazis. The numbers are roughly the same in my opinion.
Please list how many Nazis the Republican voters have recently elected to public office.
He ran away, Jim at.
11:30 - Saint Croix - spot on! Thanks, Calvin.
"Please name the Nazis that Republican voters have recently elected to public office" might be a more interesting question.
It's almost like they don't think through their comments before posting.
You could have left off the last five words of your comment and still be accurate.
The socialists now agree with RCOcean II
(The Jews got to go!)
So now RCOcean ii agrees with the socialists
(The rich owe me money!)
That is a sad, soppy romance right there. You don't have to do it in public, do you? You and Mamdani, get a room.
it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years.
That's why they hide their face. So their name isn't written in book for the next 100+ years embarrassing their family.
“A commuter sits as members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026.”
https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/fourth-of-july-celebrations-in-washington/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX1JDMjE3TUE4WkcyQg
We also had 90 percent top tax income rate in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I.e. the period of the USA's greatest economic prosperity.
RCOcean II, Play this song backwards. Maybe you'll find Satan.
RCOCEAN II said...
"The bottom line is that no one with a decent accountant paid more than about 25% of their income in overall taxes, not all that different from today's 21% or so for the top quintile."
What nonsense. If it was so easy to pay 25 percent instead of 90, why did they spend 50 years trying to drop the rate down to what it is today? Or cheer and say that reducing the top rate gave us all this propseritity?
And why not let it go back to 90 percent again? They scream like stuck pigs when you try to raise the Cp Gains tax to more than 15 percent, and those billionaire hedge fund managers aren't paying 25 percent.
Raise the top rate to 50 percent, say I, and limit total deductations of 20 percent of AGI.
How is it that no matter what the tax rates are every society in the world has the same wealth distribution?
This kind of sophistry is for low IQ mewlings who don't understand how the Pareto Distribution works.
There is no question whether or not there will be unevenly distributed wealth. That will never change.
The only thing that will change is who determines where capital is applied.
The United States decided to let entrepreneurs and builders apply capital. Yeah it is uneven.
It also raised billions out of poverty.
The alternative is to let government shitheads apply capital. Only a fucking retard thinks the government is better at applying capital efficiently compared to builders and entrepreneurs.
Just got word that multimillionaire Ro Kohanna’s children, owner of three golf courses, considered voluntarily doubling their federal tax, but since they paid zero it was an easy calculation. Ro nodded.
"There is no question whether or not there will be unevenly distributed wealth."
I believe he's talking about income, not wealth. And income is earned, not distributed.
After Intentionally Importing 50 million Migrants, Europe Declares a “Housing Crisis”
These are the masters of the universe who think they can run an economy.
The people who bitch the most about America refuse to leave.
—Iowahawk
That is truly the answer right there. Bitch and moan and say America is evil all you want, but until you do then you are a boring ingrate.
The big news today is that Trump ripped off almost 1 million people for more than $3.8 billion investing in the president's memecoin, $Trump. The coin's value dipped 97 percent from its highest price, dropping from $75.35 to just $1.76 as of Friday,
He leveraged the power of being president to launch currencies when he seemed trustworthy in the public’s eyes. “It is kind of incredible. It was obviously a legal scam because he regulates the crypto markets and always makes money on transactions.
‘fly has the freedom to seek a new turd to homestead.
I think the answer gad is to impeach the guy. Isn’t that the Lefty strategy? Can’t beat him on policy or the ballot box (thrice).
"I think the answer gad is to impeach the guy. Isn’t that the Lefty strategy?"
They certainly don't think that what the people want as disclosed through election results should matter.
At least, when they're not able to cheat enough to win, anyway.
God is a fussbudget
“God is a fussbudget…”
That's certainly what Muslims say and believe—such as the late Iranian theocrat dictator Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who famously said: {quoting…}
Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.
(Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Meeting in Qom “Broadcast by radio Iran from Qom on 20 August 1979,” quoted in Amir Taheri, The Spirit of Allah [1985], p. 259)
One of Chevalier's go-to moves is to not answer the question. So, in an interview, when she was was asked if a murderer ought to go to prison, she refused to answer the question. Four times she was asked. And every time, she just dodged the question.
So, when she was asked if she was a Communist, what did she say? Nothing!. The ol' "no comment." With a lot more verbiage. "I don't respond to your framing." And she was really proud of her non-response.
That was June 25. CNN then found some of her old Commie tweets.
A further review of Avila Chevalier’s archived Twitter account from 2020-2022 found repeated references to communism and Marxist ideology. The account, “Darializabonet,” appears to have been deleted in June 2022.
The account’s bio read in 2020, “how communist of you.” Archived posts and retweets during this timeframe included a recommendation that Karl Marx’s Capital was an “essential must-read,” a complaint that public libraries did not carry enough Marxist literature by Lenin and other revolutionary writers, and a retweet from a Communist-identifying account lamenting that bookstore “banned books” displays did not include The Complete Works of J. V. Stalin.
"I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hands on the American flag behind me."
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