In an amazing display of cognitive dissonance, the Biden administration proposes imposing limits on the movement of American citizens while encouraging the flood of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. His actions are allegedly intended to mitigate the spread of the Chinese Covid virus.
Per the Miami Herald:
The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.
Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.
Early last year, I personally witnessed what happens when every car on I-95 is stopped at the Florida border and non-Florida residents are refused entry. This was an early panicky reaction to the virus by Florida leaders. It led to mass disruption, confusion, and a line of cars at least ten miles long stopped dead on the southbound expressway.
The extent of travel restrictions and modes of transportation to potentially be restricted are not defined at this point. Florida is the primary focus for possible travel lockdowns, as a third of US cases of the UK Covid variant have been identified in Florida.
Cases of variants are also surging in California and 34 other states, according to the Hearld.
The Democrat logic, at least to me, is indecipherable. Rather than potentially throw the country into massive chaos, wouldn’t the best course of action to protect America from foreign Covid mutations be to restrict travel from the countries that are importing them?
Apparently, to Biden and the Dems, it is more desirable to limit the freedoms of American citizens.
Andrew Thomas
as published in American Thinker
It was exciting while it lasted. We all wanted to believe in a Zorro who comes to the rescue with the sign of a "Q" rather than a "Z". Our hero apparently has feet of clay.
He didn’t ride on a black stallion with his cape, mask and righteous sword to save us from corruption and evil. But it doesn't matter whether Q is real or not.
The power of Q exists.
The left is scared to death of Q
and its followers. The power of the federal government and its
agencies under leftist control are being aligned against the Q
"conspiracy" and its "dangerous" members. Q is
their boogeyman. His followers are their worst nightmares.
Being identified as a Q supporter is now an existential threat. The UK Guardian refers to them as “antisemitic” followers who have engaged in violence (posited “evidence-free”, as is their favorite mantra concerning accusations from the right).
The FBI has identified followers as “potential domestic terror threats”. They have erected giant billboards across the country asking people to turn in fellow citizens suspected of crimes protesting against the government. I can’t imagine that leftists would take advantage of this tip line to harass conservatives, can you?
What has happened to America where no federal agency will investigate allegations of widespread election fraud or violent destruction across the country by known subversive organizations, but will actively hunt down individual conservatives who allegedly act out? The answer is that Obama made sure all government agencies were manned and controlled by hard left ideologues.
Soon, it is likely you will need to commit to one of two choices: Live quietly in poverty as a lowly, powerless serf under an oppressive socialist/communist regime (as hundreds of millions of others have done throughout human history), or become an “insurrectionist” as the left now calls conservatives who dare to speak out.
Do nothing overtly illegal (although it is pretty much impossible to not violate some law or statute when resisting those in power, and it is about to get much harder). Don’t make yourself a target. Stay under the radar and off the grid as much as possible. Pay for everything with cash, and stay off of Twitter and Facebook.
Keep putting up Q posters and other messages and signs.
Anything with the letter "Q" on it. Keep the "dark
conspiracy" of Q alive. That’s still legal free speech, at
least for the time being. It will drive them insane. And it may cause
them to make some monumental mistakes that will create distraction
and confusion, and reduce their power and influence.
This
is the true power of Q’s “Great Awakening”. Not a reliance on a
mythical Zorro, but a powerful force in which we can all contribute.
The underground organization is in place. Anonymity and massive
numbers are its strengths. The lines of communication are active.
There will be many opportunities for effective non-violent resistance
and action.
Remember. all of this is protected by our God-given rights under the
U.S. Constitution, just as it has been protecting leftist
“insurrectionists” for the past 245 years. Even as the left
tries to eliminate these rights and nullify the Constitution, we need
to stand strong in the knowledge that our rights come from our
Creator and cannot be legitimately removed. If we are weak and give
up to the left, it is only because we allowed it to happen.
We
are the QAnons who are now highly motivated to take back America and
protect our individual freedoms and liberty from a government
controlled by corrupocrats and anti-Constitutional radicals. We are
ghosts who appear and disappear into the night, driving fear into the
dark hearts of evil. Viva Q forever!
Angel
Starting about the age of ten, I used to love to read the Sunday newspaper funny pages. At that time, in the 1960’s, every comic strip strongly expressed conservative values. I guess that influence, along with my very conservative parents, factored in the development of my political thinking.
Today, I have a collection of cartoon artists’ works hanging in my den.
I have an original self-portrait of Rube Goldberg. His name is synonymous with insane, overly-complicated systems that accomplish nothing worthwhile. For example, Obamacare. A Rube Goldberg contraption if there ever was one. Some other amazing examples are here on Youtube.
One of my favorites is a daily comic strip from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat in 1940. The ongoing Krazy Kat saga was about a female cat who loves a mouse who continually punishes her by throwing bricks at her head. The more he hurts her, the more she loves him. I was so fascinated by the underlying themes and Herriman’s surreal imagery that I wrote a college thesis on it. I think Krazy is an archetypal Democrat.
Another favorite on my wall is a daily strip from Walt Kelly’s Pogo, whose characters resided in the Okefenokee Swamp (which I thought was a fictitious place until I moved to Florida). “We have met the enemy and he is us”, is Pogo’s iconic phrase, so apropos today. My favorite character was LBJ doing a cameo as a masked man with the rear end of a horse, known as “The Loan Arranger”. That cracked me up. Even back then at my tender age I realized he was the most criminally corrupt president America had ever endured, pre-Barry Soetoro Obama of course.
Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie was a dark vision of America threatened by insidious domestic communist forces. Now we see Gray’s vision coming to life. If only we had Daddy Warbucks’ bodyguards, Punjab and the mysterious Asp, who disposed of deadly communists quickly and quietly.
But the pièce de résistance is the huge Sunday comic hanging by my desk. I look at it all the time, but I didn’t make the connection with modern-day events until recently. It is a Li’l Abner by Al Capp. I remember seeing this particular comic when it was published in a Sunday newspaper on October 23, 1967.
The background on this cartoon is that two characters, Lonesome Polecat and his sidekick, cro-magnon man Hairless Joe produce a powerful brew called Kickapoo Joy Juice. Drinking it can cause paralysis, among other nasty side effects.
Polecat reads that the Science Park is commissioning a million dollar statue of two cave men fighting over a woman. He gets Hairless Joe, a woman, and another cro-magnon type to drink the Kickapoo Joy Juice and freezes them in position to look like the statue. He then sells it to the Science Park for a hundred dollars.
Before the unveiling, a gang of Antifa/BLM-type youths vandalize the statue with red paint, saying if they’re caught they will claim to be “underprivileged” so everyone will “blame society”.
Unfortunately for them, the red paint soaks up the Kickapoo Joy Juice and the statue comes back to life. They are beaten to a pulp by Hairless Joe and his cohort, and put on display in place of the statue. The crowd gathered to see the statue cheers, and one man in the crowd yells, “Every city should have a monument like that!”
Over fifty years later and nothing has changed, except that there aren’t enough Hairless Joes on our side to protect statues, businesses and citizens from “underprivileged” youths and grownups.
First let me say that I am not advocating for the crime of murder. I am sardonically criticizing the logic of author Vicky Osterweil’s new book, In Defense of Looting.
In an interview with NPR, she says of looting: “You're mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people.”
Nobody gets hurt. At least, nobody "Ms." (tranny) Osterweil cares about. Like the shop owners with no insurance because they can’t afford it. And shop owners whose insurance rates skyrocket or have their coverage dropped because of the increased risk. How about the law-abiding residents of the community, who now have lost their stores and restaurants as well as their jobs when the owners move away and don’t rebuild.
But no looters are harmed, unless they are cut by broken glass when they step through a shattered store window while carrying an armful of Gucci purses. It’s just grassroots-level wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor, per the logic of leftists. But it is the honest middle class and poor who end up suffering the most.
I also suppose Ms. Osterweil doesn’t consider the death of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn to be of consequence, even though he was killed defending a friend’s store from looters during the George Floyd riots. It was cold-blooded murder, but the left and their media downplayed it because a criminal killing a black cop does not support The Cause.
The Cause is radical collectivist revolution, where free-market capitalism is destroyed, along with our American heritage, our Constitution, and Judeo-Christian culture and religion. There is no Utopia there, and never will be. The radical leaders will never be satisfied, or reach a state of equilibrium. Demands on their subjects will be ever-increasingly burdensome, irrational and endless.
There are no principles or ethics that supersede The Cause. The law does not supersede it. Like the concept of Islamic “taqiyya”, lying in support of The Cause is no sin, but rather it is encouraged. Everything and everyone else is expendable and dangerous if they threaten The Cause, and must be eliminated.
As the saying goes, “The issue is not the issue. The issue is the revolution.” For the left, everything is political, and politics is war. Power and control are the spoils. They are a formidable enemy to the America we cherish and those of us who defend it.
Unfortunately, it is now obvious we have a divided country. Nothing is going to put it back together again. The left is too far radicalized, a fate they imposed on themselves. This radical faction has taken over the Democrat party, the news media, the education systems, and even the major global corporations. One side must completely defeat the other and relegate them to a state of irrelevance.
Right now, the left is actively fighting this war. They are using every trick and advantage at their disposal. They intend to win by any means necessary. In that environment, anything can be defended and rationalized.
The leaders of the revolution do not care about equality. Racism is only a tool for The Cause to be used as a weapon for power when needed. Leftist black leaders are elevated to sainthood status, above criticism despite any past criminal or ethical misdeeds.
Conservative black leaders on the other hand, like those who spoke at the Republican National Convention, i.e., US Senator Tim Scott, football star Herschel Walker, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron, are reviled and smeared by the left with the most vile racist epithets imaginable.
If the left truly believed in racial justice and equality, would they allow this treatment of black conservatives without loudly denouncing it? But no objection has been made, and none is likely forthcoming.
The leaders of the revolution do not care about sexism. It’s just another arrow in the leftist quiver to shoot into the heart of their latest enemy. Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh felt the relentless onslaught of charges of sexism from the leftist mob, with no credible witnesses to support them.
Yet when a very believable witness comes forward with credible charges of serious sexual assault against Joe Biden, suddenly the #BelieveAllWomen / #MeToo crowd goes crickets. Women’s Rights groups order radio silence. Kamala Harris said she believed her. Now as the Vice Presidential candidate, she does not.
BLM rioters staged a mock murder of a policeman by running over an innocent raccoon twice, and then beat it to death with baseball bats. So far we have heard no statement of protest from PETA.
Something tells me that if the left determined that killing every animal on Earth would bring The Cause into reality, PETA would be handing out the baseball bats.
Climate change environmentalism and the Green New Deal are false fronts for the righteous revolutionary Cause. If they thought they could achieve it by destroying the environment, they would erect their own dirty smokestacks and coal plants.
BLM openly calls for the murder of cops. Nancy Pelosi calls Trump supporters “enemies of the state”. Five days later, Trump supporter Jay Bishop is shot and killed in cold blood during a Trump rally in Portland. The protesters cheer and celebrate his murder. The leftist mainstream media covers it up by calling it a “clash”.
What it all ultimately comes down to is that the left will justify and defend anything necessary to achieve its ultimate goal, including rioting, looting and even cold-blooded murder.
Andrew Thomas
edited version published in American Thinker
