Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

The Battle is Just Beginning

Walk the line. Don't back down.  It's going to be a long twilight struggle against the forces of darkness, my friends. (Wo)Man up, gear up, but be of good cheer. Long live the Republic!

JFK Inaugural Speech, 1961:

Now the trumpet summons us again–not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need — not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation'–a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

Of the four, tyranny is greatest threat at the present time, the tyranny of the deep state operatives who control the Democrat Party and pull the strings of the puppet-in-chief, Joe Biden, and who desperately tried, but failed, to replace him with the puppet Kamala Harris.  Despite the stinging rebuke visited upon the anti-democratic Dem cadre, they will not give up. Their nihilism has deep and mephitic sources.

I was hoping to uncover an etymological connection between mephitic and Mephistopheles, but I found no evidence of one.

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UPDATE (12/18).  Further political 'infusions' to 'get your blood up' in this season of peace and joy. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Why They Hate Kash Patel.  They hate a 'person of color'? What racists  they are!

After Penny.  Excerpt:

Instead, the left and the weaponized government institutions under its control used Penny’s race, gender, and courage to try to make him a national pariah and a living symbol of its twisted ideas of “white privilege” and “systemic racism.” He had to entertain daily the possibility that he could spend up to 20 years in prison for protecting himself and others, and then live out the remainder of his life as an ex-con whose alleged crimes were rooted in purported racism. He had to live in the knowledge that the elected judicial authorities of our country’s largest and supposedly greatest citywith the unreserved support of many civic leaders, criminal justice theorists, and major leaders of one of our country’s two major political parties—did everything in their power to impose just that outcome on him. He likely realized that if they succeeded—and even if they failed, as they did—they would be emboldened to  punish others with the same process.

Tucker versus Pompeo

Trump's Vengeance Tour?  

Last week, I noted with alarm that House Republicans were shrugging off—or even approving of—Donald Trump wanting to jail some of their past and current colleagues who served on the January 6th Committee. As it turns out, I underestimated their bloodthirstiness.

Apparently these embittered losers are incapable of distinguishing between revenge/vengeance and retributive justice. Are these two-bit Bulwark journos unaware that 'retribution' has two importantly different senses in English? 

Whence drones?

I am not able [not able, Rod, or not willing?] to tell you where this idea comes from, but I can assure you that, from my sources, it’s not idle speculation. Thesis: the drones are from China.

China is taunting us, showing us how advanced its technology is, and that it can violate US airspace with impunity. We don’t have the ability to detect these things before they arrive, and they can cloak themselves from our radar. I had wondered why China or any nation would reveal its advanced technology in this silly way. A possible answer: it could be a display of power in advance of an invasion of Taiwan, as a kind of “Are you sure you want to mess with us, Yanks?” way. Doing this could be a shrewd way of firing a warning shot.

Is Dreher suggesting that Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of Homeland (In?)Security, has been lying to us, along with the rest of the Dementocrat regime about the provenience of drones? Dreher's thesis is the most plausible explanation I can think of.  


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7 responses to “The Battle is Just Beginning”

  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    The stakes are every bit as big now as they were in the summer of 1940. Here is Winston Churchill for inspiration. And if we fail now, it will be every bit as bad as if we failed then.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9amZ8McoBA

  2. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Hi Brother bill
    This article. “A winning party, if you can keep it,” directly addresses the topic of your post:
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/a_winning_party_if_you_can_keep_it.html
    We must always remember that we are fighting evil directly from the pit of hell.
    Onward Christian Soldiers ! (With the Jews too.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJffio8ZeQ
    — Catacomb Joe

  3. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    People are rightly happy about Trump’s victory but man, does he (and we) have a big battle ahead.

  4. BV Avatar
    BV

    Indeed, Dave. I don’t want to have to die on the ramparts. I want to die in bed, with wife, and cats, and the Bible, and Plato.

  5. C Avatar
    C

    The Democrat apparatus is set up to ignore/shame/castigate normal people and to champion unhinged/criminal/lazy people.
    Encampments are more important than the interests of families in a public park; shooting up/access to needles is prioritized over public safety; lives of schizos are more important than MTA commuters; changing in a bathroom of your choosing trumps the interests of families.
    It’s opposite world, however, unlike how that comically played out for George on Seinfeld, the opposite world of the Dems leads to ruin.

  6. BV Avatar
    BV

    C,
    I agree. The lunacy of the Left beggars understanding. But with Trump in the saddle there is reasonable hope for a return to sanity.

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