"Young, left-wing Americans will consider [impending violence and possible civil war] insane, but young left-wing Americans know little of the brutality of the non-democratic parts of the world and little about just why that brutality never encroached upon their decadent lives."> "[T]heir naïveté is dangerously unlike the pragmatism of revolutionaries in the brutal and undemocratic parts of the world who know full well that if they fail in their coup they will be killed and if they win they will do the killing." >>

“Why isn’t Trump taking control?!” A thread for those who don’t know what being an American citizen means, with practical suggestions for what a citizen can do him- or herself: >> The President is not a king or big parent, whose job is to rescue adults from situations of their own making. In our system of government, our citizens have privileges/benefits AND CIVIC DUTIES. >>

A thread, tying together delayed testing for the novel #coronavirus with our failure to follow our constitutional form of government. Please first read this outstanding article:

thedispatch.com/p/timeline-the… We've all heard bits and pieces of how and why the testing situation in the U.S. is what it is, but this article appears to collect all of that together into one coherent story and timeline.

My big question is this:

1) On today's discussion between @hughhewitt and @Hillsdale 's President Larry Arnn, @LarryArnn said the beginning of the current attempt to subvert the Constitution, by eliminating equal representation of states in the Senate 2) (though this notion is folly, unless we ignore the Constitution even more so than we do today, since "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage [representation, voting] in the Senate),