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The Border Wall is indeed coming.

Just not the one Trump wanted.

The wall to prevent you from leaving. Not even for tourism without a mandatory government injection of... something, and you won't know exactly what.

Frank LaureanoJan 19
Just wait until PedoJoe is put out of office due to his dementia and being corrupt any compromised by China. I suspect that the videos of Hunter B raping crying Asian girl, smoking crac

With his naked niece and the rest will finally be used by the democrat propagandists aka the Media. If not enough then his crooked dealings will be exposed. Enter Heels Up Harris, VP KamalaToe. She is a committed leftist.

Her only tool for dealing with China (like every other work situation in her life ) will be to fellate their Winnie The Pooh leader.

A war on terror against the country’s majority population when that’s the bulk of the police, military and really the Professional Managerial class will not go far or end well.
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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122Jan 20
Well, if the Authoritarians/Statists LOSE that war, at least that part end's well and would go far. Of course, avoiding the blood would require finding an exit to the Alexander Tytler cycle.

So I did a search on SwissCows.com for "Alexander Tytler cycle"

Alexander Tytler was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian who served as Professor of Universal History, and Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh. Tyler lived at the same time as the American founding fathers and described a repeating cycle in history. Tyler found that democratic societies went through this same cycle again and again and that the cycle lasted roughly 200 years each time.

The idea states that democracy is temporary in nature. It is difficult to exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

Tytler said the repeating cycle starts out with a society in bondage (see feature framework chart). Then it goes in the following sequence:

Bondage – a point of degeneration and despair where no change will help – centralized control.
Spiritual – people oppose the conditions and search for some unity in a common cause.
Courage – the fight for freedom.
Liberty – success, the formation of codified freedom with the promise of opportunity.
Abundance – maturing of government, material growth, and prosperity.
Selfishness – the greed of material gain creates corrupt special interest groups, often using the levers of government.
Complacency – the sense of entitlement of legacy groups, with whining and complaining of the developing conflicting interests.
Apathy – accept no responsibility for problems and blames everyone else for a system of corruption.
Dependency – control of independence to control corruption and the centralization of freedom, leading back into bondage.
The cycle is long and requires that generations pass so they can forget how they got where they are in their present phase of the cycle. The cycle rarely reverses, though mini-cycles can appear within the larger cycle. Note that this cycle is mostly referring to the masses, one would have to superimpose the dynamics of how other axes (economic, political, and social to name a few) intersect with this framework model. The other thing would be that different people can be at different points in the framework model – phases could somewhat overlap at a single point in time.

Given this framework model, RFS1 asks, where are we at in this model? For sure some of us are still in the Selfish and Complacency phase of the framework model. But along about 2010, the birth of the cultural war going mainstream, we have moved into the Apathy phase.

Many sense that something has changed and something is wrong with the ways things are going. We are in the midst of a generational political divide where we are blaming the “other.” Most are sitting back and letting it happen, but you don’t have to – join Strike Force and take a stand.

And if you go to the "Strike Force" link you get... guess what? Yup:

This site can’t be reachedwww.realfreespeechone.com’s server IP address could not be found.

The cycles sounds very much like Ibn Khaldun's theory of history, or the "pickup artist" mantra of:

Hard men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create bad times.
Bad times create hard men.

People are not going to wake up tomorrow and be like "Being Left or Right is OK, just don't be a psychopath about it." No, we'll continue down the path to complete balkanization and a police state. Inconsistency of thought or action with the desires of the ruling elite will be punishable by law.

China has a social credit system which is used to rate citizens. Things like criticizing the governments gets you a low score but ratting out your neighbor gets you a high score. Those with low scores are blacklisted from travelling, jobs and education. Too low and it's into the concentration camp for "reducation" or organ harvesting. With the amount of tracking of consumers by social media, I think it's safe to assume they are keeping score on us too. I bet AOC would like to get her hands on that data - oh too late the government already has full access to that stuff.

You life depends on NOT USING GOOGLE FOR ANYTHING, EVER.

No Google Search. No Gmail. No Google maps. No Android phones (not that Apple is much better). No YouTube.

Tell every website infested with Google spyware that you object. Of course you'll probably HAVE to use Gmail for that.

8GJan 19
30 years of political correctness (self-censorship) prepared people to accept the authoritarian censorship we are getting now. Some people can't live without censorship, they have zero tolerance for the opinions of others and now those opinions will be illegal. Yay! /s Eventually all opinions which dissent from ruling class directives will be illegal. The left will have about 6 months of what they want and then they will be silenced too. Divide and conquer.

ChanJan 19
What Democrat doing right now is EXACTLY what Chinese Communist Party (CPP) is doing in China & HK now. CCP wants to get rid of HK protestors' right to run for an office in future. In USA, Democrat wants to get rid of the right of Trump to run for Presidency in future. CCP is implementing totalitarian rule in the name of terrorism. Democrat too. Democrat is trying to implement totalitarian rule in USA in the name of terrorism. On Jan 6, we saw protestors were "fighting" with the police. We saw people were breaking windows. After that, I don't see anything more violence than that. I don't see Trump supporters set fire every where. I don't see Trump supporters pull down statue in Congress Building. Fighting with police is NOT terrorism. Breaking window is NOT terrorism. BLM fought more violence with police. BLM broke a lot more window than Trump supporters. IF WHAT TRUMP SUPPORTERS DID IS TERRORISM, THERE IS NOTHING TO BE SCARED OF TERRORISM. If Jan 6 is the act of terrorism, what word should we use to describe all the damages done by BLM last year? If comparing Trump supporters with BLM, I can only conclude - TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE PEACEFUL PROTESTORS, BLM ARE TERRORISTS. If you let me choose between Trump supporters and BLM to protest around my house, I would definitely choose Trump supporters. TURMP SUPPORTERS ARE CIVILIZED WAY TO PROTEST, BLM ARE TERRORIST WAY TO PROTEST. THE ONLY DOMESTIC TERRORIST IN USA IS "BLACK LIFE MATTER" (BLM)

Anrold DJan 19
A charade of the highest order. The flag flying half mast at Iwo Jima the last few days. For me, signaling the death of democracy.

Yes, Biden is the death of democracy.

NoSuchCommentatorJan 19
The question, 'What actions need to be criminalized under the upcoming anti-terrorist legislation?' is a good one. Overly broad and ambiguous legislation may be subject to abuse and produce unforeseen consequences. Therefore I would propose the following specific measures.

Encrypt all existing copies of the US Constitution. Where government officials, such as Supreme Court Justices, have a legitimate need to access it, they could be issued with a temporary decryption key. Anyone who used the key without proper authorization would be sentenced to a terrorist re-education facility.

Second, require all citizens to obtain a wokeness certificate in order to participate in social media. Abusing this access would result in the revocation of the privilege to engage in online activity.

Third, implant an electronic chip in every citizen that identifies their location to the authorities. Identifying people by their smart phone is too unreliable. Facial recognition technology seemed promising, but can be defeated by mask wearing.

I'm sure that others have considered this subject in greater detail, so my modest proposal is only for discussion purposes. If anyone has better proposals to curb domestic terrorism, please share them, since the present situation provides an opportunity for real reforms that enhance general security and freedom.