[Thread] 1: In the Progressive "Mind" [sic]: States being able to make their own decisions about gun laws is good if they want to be stricter than the feds but unthinkable if they want to be looser than the feds. 2: States being able to make their own decisions about abortion laws is good if they want to make them looser than the feds but bad if they want to make them stricter than the feds.

1: This thread contains extensive excerpts from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, in a chapter titled "What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear." It's among the most prescient & eloquent parts of what is an extremely prescient & eloquent book. 2: "It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character [than ancient despotisms]; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them…..

1: So the Democrats are already laying the groundwork for a massive propaganda campaign to explain why they're gonna get destroyed in the 2022 midterms, and it's - shock of all shocks! - Russia, Russia, Russia! 2: It definitely can't be the horrific economy that's destroying whatever remnants of the American middle class remain after the economic bludgeoning caused by the lockdowns.

1: "[A] passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, 2: "...betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions

1:Some people know this is an early flag of the American Revolution. It was first unfurled in July 1775 over the American militia who, after winning the Battle of Lexington & Concord in April, laid siege against the Redcoats in Boston until the Brits abandoned the city in Mar '76 2: Lots of people don't recognize this flag. But even amongst those who know it came out of the Am. Rev., few of them know where the quote on it comes from.

Overwhelming majorities in the legislature of the Imperial Federal Government, who've already racked up $30 TRILLION in national debt, & whose policies are making food & gas unaffordable, just voted to hand $40 BILLION over to their sock puppet regime in Ukraine... ...and in practice, of course, much of that $40 BILLION to the Ukrainian regime is just (as any intelligent, informed person knows) going to end up in the coffers of the US military-industrial complex.

After the sinking of the Lusitania, Sen. Robert La Follette claimed that the ship had actually been carrying large amounts of ammunition for the UK govt. The US & UK govts claimed this was false-even though both knew it wasn’t-& their respective medias dutifully repeated the lie. A campaign (ultimately unsuccessful) was launched to remove La Follette from the Senate, & a big part of their charges was that he’d been spreading what would in today’s Orwellian lingo be called #misinformation.