VDH

Yours truly suspected this would happen/was happening several years ago. It takes no Einstein to deduce this. I don't think this deterioration started with Biden. I believe the entire fucktacular bizarre enterprise of fighting in the Middle East based on some notion that Islam was a "religion of peace" shifted a lot of perceptions of the military. The rules of engagement often deployed made the micro-management of Vietnam seem small beans in comparison. We were not asking our soldiers to be soldiers. We were asking them to be social workers while being shot at, and with a limited ability to shoot back.

Now add in the "woke" indoctrination factor and, yeah, the U.S. military is not currently the place you'd want to send your son. Your daughter? Sure. What difference would it make for women. Arguable this "wokeness" and turning the military into a social experiment started with the political desire to have lots of women in uniform. So, you go, girl. But you likely won't have competent males to have your back anymore.



Fairly.

The failure of Donald Trump was having no ideological core, other than his Kindergarten-level view of "winners and losers." But his success was not playing by the Left's (or RINO's) rules and instead taking it to them, breaking out of the box that the media (and RINOs) would put you into.

We need to take it to them. We need to play by our rules. We need to set the agenda. This is the official statement paper offered by Kung, Arlter, and Nelson offered free of charge.

About forty years back, I made some comment along the lines that something serious was "just a game" in the end. My Singaporean Chinese business colleague strongly disagreed with that, what I am sure he considered flippant, observation. He earnestly tried to impress on me that life was deadly serious, it was a constant struggle, and I needed to get my mind right if I wanted to survive. 

Of course, he was correct. As we have discussed before, modern Americans have had it unbelievably good for decades now and do not know or recall how tough the struggle has been throughout history and still is for others around the world. Playing for keeps is the common rule. Somehow the Demonrats understand this and the RINOs, don't.

We all, at one time or another, find ourselves in a position that may or may not be life threatening. Most of the time we survive and go on a little wiser and more cautious. We may take a grave injury or just a bad scare but we do learn, sometimes the loss is a friend or companion and that is taken harder. 

For those under 50 Americans life has been very good the last 50 years. The threats we knew as kids were largely gone as they became adults, or at least put on the back where they have matured into full-blown enemies. Islam is but one of these enemies as is fascists and communists of every stripe. In a world functioning a normal way they would be put down and kept down, perhaps festering underground but not a part of the larger society. 

But, something happened along the road. The potholes of oppression grow larger daily in little things and big. Government which we used to take as a necessary evil has now become pure evil and the nameless, faceless drone who serve it are for all practical purposes the enemy of sense, common and otherwise. It has been said that there are 400 million guns in this country. I don't doubt that my question is not the 400 million but why so few? I believe life is going to get deadly serious very soon. 

VDH and Dennis Prager on vary much on the vanguard of this issue.



It's perhaps not fair to chide him. He seems like a good kid and comes form a fairly conservative Christian familly. But I remember the 17-year-old or so son of a friend of my brothers who told me, to the answer to my question "What are you doing these days?", that he is using some acreage on his parents property to engage in "sustainable farming."

You can bet that I inquired no further, not trusting myself not to deluge this otherwise fine fellow with sarcasm. Another dumb yute falling for another dumb fad. You don't stop the presses to report that, but there are enough people engaged in stupid that it is having that Sri Lanka affect.

People stress over nitrogen fertilizers. Well, nitrogen is (wait for it) a completely natural element that occurs in abundance in our atmosphere, and most plants couldn't live without it.

That's not to say tat due caution isn't required regarding whatever Monsanto ("Beelzebub" to these hippy types) is offering up as the latest and the greatest. But perhaps never has a generation been so unscientifically-minded when they got off on the fad of the "natural." As I often tell these kinds of people, I can name a dozen "natural" plants that will kill you within minutes. And most of the life-saving medicines and devices we take for granted are completely "unnatural" going by the definitions of the wacky tie-die hippy-smelling dumbbells.



Well, I'm not so sure that's the case. I think 75% or more of the people have had their own knowledge warped...by these experts or their own irrational inclinations. Forest Gump's mom said it best: "Stupid is as stupid does." And there's a whole lot of that going around, right or left.

By far the most efficient and skilled organic farmers in the world are American and can be found driving buggies down the highways of western and central Pennsylvania. The Amish regularly produce good crops using only horse power and bull crap. However, their crops are about 30% smaller than similar farms that use machinery, pesticides  and modern fertilizers. They make their money charging higher prices for "certified organic" produce and selling it to health nuts who would not know winter from summer wheat or what efforts go into their delusion of health. Slap a tag of a head of lettuce that regularly sell for $1.00, call it organic grown and charge $4.00 for it. Brilliant marketing but mostly to the delusional leftists who think it will make them live longer. I wonder, why do they wish to live longer when so many of them are depressed and unhappy? 

VDHon civil war, and other subjects. The civil war comments starts about 25 min in, but all is interesting. 

victorhanson.com/civil-war-and-all-that/

This article in AT fits in with what VDH is saying

www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/thoughts_on_the_new_civil_war.html

Bits from Mark Ross' article:



I hope this fellow knows that the battle has been going on a lot longer than that.



Yep, that's exactly it. But by "hurt" we should understand that "hurting" the feelings of the hair-trigger feminists, Nervous Karens, or the Pajama Boys constitutes real harm in their mind.



I'm more on the Ann Coulter side of things. Sending out mean Tweets is not the same things as "smashing the idols of authority." When he had a chance to rally smash things, he didn't.



As one who doesn't have his nose halfway up Trump's butt, we'll wait to see on that but it sounds like wishful thinking.



Please say the word "feminism" or at least "safetyism" and I'll start to get excited.



Obviously another guy who thinks the War of Northern Aggression isn't over yet.



Yes, this is true. And it's been mostly ignored because the public school system (and higher government-funded education) is mostly a vehicle to babysit children so that women can join the workplace. For economic advantage, we have sold the soul of this country.

VDH election analys 

amgreatness.com/2022/11/09/tuesday-takeaways/

Democratic opposition to a flawed and impaired Joe Biden running again in 2024 will recede. Republican loyalty to the unpredictable Trump could fade.

And both those realities will empower Ron DeSaantis