Libbys had better wake up and read this one.

"The Left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably finds itself all
too terrifying"

<https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/11/not-trump-the-dictator-again/>

"It is �Trump Will Destroy Democracy� season again. And predictably the
Left has gone hysterical, after experiencing a trifecta of frightening
2024 news.

One, current polls in the primaries and in a general election for now
show that Trump would win.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden�s popularity dives below 40 percent. His policies on
the economy, abroad, at the border, concerning crime, and about energy
poll even more feebly. Never has an American president utterly and
deliberately destroyed immigration law for the sole purpose of inviting
in millions of illegal aliens, to establish political constituencies
supportive of agendas that otherwise have scant public support.

Two, unequivocal evidence is mounting that the Bidens are one of the most
corrupt political families in American presidential history. Hunter, the
Leona Helmsley of our times, is now indicted for massive tax evasion,
despite his earlier, government-aided efforts of running out the statute
of limitations on the full array of his crimes.

When asked about his grifting, Biden angrily denies the undeniable. He
can only become animated these days, when asked to square his denials
about knowing what Hunter was up to with a multitude of facts and data to
the contrary. And so in exasperation he shouts, �Lies!,� �Lies!,� and
�Lies!�

There is now conclusive proof that Biden himself lied repeatedly when he
swore that he knew nothing about his wayward son Hunter�s grifting
business. He used several aliases to communicate directly with his son�s
grifting and quid pro quo partners.

Canceled checks show the president was paid substantial sums by family
members after they received money from foreign governments�for nothing
other than being related to the future president. The pay-offs were
hidden by �loan repayment� lies; no one expects ever to find any such
evidence that there were formal loan documents or agreements between
Biden and his family.

Former Hunter Biden associates, explicit messaging on his laptop, IRS
whistleblowers, and bank records all explain why an opulent Joe Biden
enjoyed a lifestyle impossible on either a senator�s or Vice President�s
salary. While Biden toured the country sermonizing that the rich must
�pay their fair share,� it is increasingly likely that he had received
huge amounts from foreign governments eager to purchase him as an
influencer�and never paid taxes on such occult income.

Three, Joe Biden�s cognitive decline and feebleness have reached a point
where he is one fall, one bad cold, or one long brain-freeze away from
incapacity. He clearly is not running the country. How could he be, when
he cannot finish a sentence without mangling the syntax, slurring the
vocabulary, and confusing his listeners?

So Biden�s blank stares lengthen. His disorientation and uncertainty
where to enter and exit occur hourly. And his bizarre, repulsive fixation
with young girls, and his desire to call them out, hug them, breathe on
their hair, or nuzzle their necks become all the more embarrassing. Had a
U.S. senator engaged in such reprehensible behavior he would long ago
have been censored.

Add all this news up that Biden is fading, Trump apparently is outpolling
him, and suddenly the Left has rebooted the tired �Trump will destroy
democracy� boilerplate.

Almost nightly now TV anchors warn of a dictatorship. Columnists predict
the �end of democracy.� Essayists vie to see who can become the most
absurd in predicting Trump�s planned takeover America.

There are several considerations, however, about these bankrupt and
discredited Nostradamuses that the American people should note�aside from
the fact the �democracy will die� mob is the same herd that assured us of
Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, and the integrity of the Biden
family.

First, ex-president Trump is now a known quantity. A comparison of his
four years with the first three years of Biden�s tenure is instructive.

Biden�s border is nonexistent�and by design.

Eight-million illegal aliens�unaudited, from all over the world, the vast
majority without legality, diversity, English, or skill sets�have swarmed
the country to the extent that even swamped leftwing blue-state governors
and mayors are opposed to the Biden nihilism.

Biden stopped catch-and-release, and phony refugee statuses, and
pressured Mexico to patrol their side of the border. He destroyed
immigration law as we knew it.

Biden�s flight from Afghanistan was the greatest foreign policy
humiliation in modern American history. It destroyed U.S. deterrence and
greenlighted Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, Hamas to craft an
intricate plan of slaughtering Israeli civilians, Iran to arm to the
teeth its terrorist surrogates, and China to send a spy balloon over the
U.S. and serially to threaten Taiwan. The common denominator abroad was a
correct appraisal that Biden�s controllers would talk tough, but always
equivocate.

There was zero inflation before Biden; 30-year mortgages were less than 2
percent. Now prices for staples like gas, food, power, health care and
housing have spiked well over 30 percent since Biden took office.
Mortgages are hitting 7 percent and the housing market is comatose. Real
wages have eroded.

It seems hard to accuse Trump of being a dangerous demagogue when his
four years saw effective government action on the economy, foreign
policy, energy, and crime.

Afterall, was the Trump Middle-East Policy (e.g., branding Houthis as
terrorists, the Abraham Accords, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, a non-
negotiable Israeli Golan Heights, cutting off aid to Hamas, junking the
Iran deal, slapping sanctions on Iranian oil, eliminating Soleimani,
etc.) or Biden�s antithesis (sending money to Hamas, lifting sanctions on
Iran, begging to reenter the Iran Deal, freeing the Houthis from their
terrorist classification, cutting back on oil production, maligning/then
courting Saudi Arabia, distancing from Israel, etc.) the more beneficial
to the U.S. and the Middle East at large?

Two, who exactly has weaponized the government in dictatorial fashion?

Who by fiat pandered illegally to cancel student loans before a midterm,
or suddenly drained the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices
before an election?

What do former FBI directors, former �intelligence authorities.� and the
former Directors of National Intelligence and the CIA all have in common?
They lied, often under oath, and always in service of weaponizing the
government for political agendas.

Who hired a foreign national Christopher Steele to concoct a silly file
of lies to destroy a political rival? Why did the FBI sequester the
Hunter laptop for a year? Who subcontracted out Twitter for $3 million to
suppress information deemed harmful to the Biden campaign? Who squashed
an IRS investigation of the Biden family?

It was not the would-be dictator Donald Trump who secretly routed money
to the Wuhan virology lab, and who then manipulated government agencies
to hide that fact�at the expense of the welfare of the American people.

Who called up a former CIA director to round up 51 intelligence retirees
to lie to sabotage an election? Did not the current national security
advisor Jake Sullivan try to concoct the Alfa Bank ping ruse to destroy
the Trump campaign and administration?

When a former Pentagon lawyer and military officers called for a military
coup to remove Trump, for which political agenda were they working?

Did Trump prompt the acting Attorney General and FBI Director to consider
in secret wearing a wire to entrap and remove a president through the
25th Amendment?

What was �Anonymous� about�if not to destroy an administration from
within through use of the deep state bureaucracy?

Who coordinated Pfizer executives to delay announcement of the vaccine
rollout until after the election to ensure Trump�s Operation Warp speed
received no prelection credit?

Liberal journalist Molly Ball, in her notorious Time essay, outlined what
she called a �cabal� and �conspiracy� to destroy the 2020 Trump
reelection campaign and indeed his presidency, through modulating
Antifa/BLM protests, suppression of the news, and huge infusions of
corporate money to augment or indeed absorb the work of the registrars in
key states.

Who exactly cooked up the phony Letitia James suit? Or the Alvin Bragg
joke of an indictment? Or the weaponized Fani Wallis vendetta? Or the
partisan and asymmetrical hunt of Jack Smith? Who impeached a president
twice and tried him as a private citizen, without a report of a special
counsel? Who revived the ossified Logan Act to destroy General Michael
Flynn?

And who is trying to strip Trump�s name off the 2024 ballot, convinced
that such a Third-world dictatorial effort can alone stop dictatorship?

In contrast, the supposed �dictator� Trump appointed a special counsel,
Comey pal and insider Robert Mueller, to run a witch hunt against him for
22 months.

Paul Ragna wrote:
> Libbys had better wake up and read this one.
>
>
> "The Left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably finds itself all
> too terrifying"
>
> <https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/11/not-trump-the-dictator-again/>
>
> "It is “Trump Will Destroy Democracy” season again. And predictably the
> Left has gone hysterical, after experiencing a trifecta of frightening
> 2024 news.
>
> One, current polls in the primaries and in a general election for now
> show that Trump would win.
>
> Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s popularity dives below 40 percent. His policies on
> the economy, abroad, at the border, concerning crime, and about energy
> poll even more feebly. Never has an American president utterly and
> deliberately destroyed immigration law for the sole purpose of inviting
> in millions of illegal aliens, to establish political constituencies
> supportive of agendas that otherwise have scant public support.
>
> Two, unequivocal evidence is mounting that the Bidens are one of the most
> corrupt political families in American presidential history. Hunter, the
> Leona Helmsley of our times, is now indicted for massive tax evasion,
> despite his earlier, government-aided efforts of running out the statute
> of limitations on the full array of his crimes.
>
> When asked about his grifting, Biden angrily denies the undeniable. He
> can only become animated these days, when asked to square his denials
> about knowing what Hunter was up to with a multitude of facts and data to
> the contrary. And so in exasperation he shouts, “Lies!,” “Lies!,” and
> “Lies!”
>
> There is now conclusive proof that Biden himself lied repeatedly when he
> swore that he knew nothing about his wayward son Hunter’s grifting
> business. He used several aliases to communicate directly with his son’s
> grifting and quid pro quo partners.
>
> Canceled checks show the president was paid substantial sums by family
> members after they received money from foreign governments—for nothing
> other than being related to the future president. The pay-offs were
> hidden by “loan repayment” lies; no one expects ever to find any such
> evidence that there were formal loan documents or agreements between
> Biden and his family.
>
> Former Hunter Biden associates, explicit messaging on his laptop, IRS
> whistleblowers, and bank records all explain why an opulent Joe Biden
> enjoyed a lifestyle impossible on either a senator’s or Vice President’s
> salary. While Biden toured the country sermonizing that the rich must
> “pay their fair share,” it is increasingly likely that he had received
> huge amounts from foreign governments eager to purchase him as an
> influencer—and never paid taxes on such occult income.
>
> Three, Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and feebleness have reached a point
> where he is one fall, one bad cold, or one long brain-freeze away from
> incapacity. He clearly is not running the country. How could he be, when
> he cannot finish a sentence without mangling the syntax, slurring the
> vocabulary, and confusing his listeners?
>
> So Biden’s blank stares lengthen. His disorientation and uncertainty
> where to enter and exit occur hourly. And his bizarre, repulsive fixation
> with young girls, and his desire to call them out, hug them, breathe on
> their hair, or nuzzle their necks become all the more embarrassing. Had a
> U.S. senator engaged in such reprehensible behavior he would long ago
> have been censored.
>
> Add all this news up that Biden is fading, Trump apparently is outpolling
> him, and suddenly the Left has rebooted the tired “Trump will destroy
> democracy” boilerplate.
>
> Almost nightly now TV anchors warn of a dictatorship. Columnists predict
> the “end of democracy.” Essayists vie to see who can become the most
> absurd in predicting Trump’s planned takeover America.
>
> There are several considerations, however, about these bankrupt and
> discredited Nostradamuses that the American people should note—aside from
> the fact the “democracy will die” mob is the same herd that assured us of
> Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, and the integrity of the Biden
> family.
>
> First, ex-president Trump is now a known quantity. A comparison of his
> four years with the first three years of Biden’s tenure is instructive.
>
> Biden’s border is nonexistent–and by design.
>
> Eight-million illegal aliens—unaudited, from all over the world, the vast
> majority without legality, diversity, English, or skill sets—have swarmed
> the country to the extent that even swamped leftwing blue-state governors
> and mayors are opposed to the Biden nihilism.
>
> Biden stopped catch-and-release, and phony refugee statuses, and
> pressured Mexico to patrol their side of the border. He destroyed
> immigration law as we knew it.
>
> Biden’s flight from Afghanistan was the greatest foreign policy
> humiliation in modern American history. It destroyed U.S. deterrence and
> greenlighted Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, Hamas to craft an
> intricate plan of slaughtering Israeli civilians, Iran to arm to the
> teeth its terrorist surrogates, and China to send a spy balloon over the
> U.S. and serially to threaten Taiwan. The common denominator abroad was a
> correct appraisal that Biden’s controllers would talk tough, but always
> equivocate.
>
> There was zero inflation before Biden; 30-year mortgages were less than 2
> percent. Now prices for staples like gas, food, power, health care and
> housing have spiked well over 30 percent since Biden took office.
> Mortgages are hitting 7 percent and the housing market is comatose. Real
> wages have eroded.
>
> It seems hard to accuse Trump of being a dangerous demagogue when his
> four years saw effective government action on the economy, foreign
> policy, energy, and crime.
>
> Afterall, was the Trump Middle-East Policy (e.g., branding Houthis as
> terrorists, the Abraham Accords, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, a non-
> negotiable Israeli Golan Heights, cutting off aid to Hamas, junking the
> Iran deal, slapping sanctions on Iranian oil, eliminating Soleimani,
> etc.) or Biden’s antithesis (sending money to Hamas, lifting sanctions on
> Iran, begging to reenter the Iran Deal, freeing the Houthis from their
> terrorist classification, cutting back on oil production, maligning/then
> courting Saudi Arabia, distancing from Israel, etc.) the more beneficial
> to the U.S. and the Middle East at large?
>
> Two, who exactly has weaponized the government in dictatorial fashion?
>
> Who by fiat pandered illegally to cancel student loans before a midterm,
> or suddenly drained the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices
> before an election?
>
> What do former FBI directors, former “intelligence authorities.” and the
> former Directors of National Intelligence and the CIA all have in common?
> They lied, often under oath, and always in service of weaponizing the
> government for political agendas.
>
> Who hired a foreign national Christopher Steele to concoct a silly file
> of lies to destroy a political rival? Why did the FBI sequester the
> Hunter laptop for a year? Who subcontracted out Twitter for $3 million to
> suppress information deemed harmful to the Biden campaign? Who squashed
> an IRS investigation of the Biden family?
>
> It was not the would-be dictator Donald Trump who secretly routed money
> to the Wuhan virology lab, and who then manipulated government agencies
> to hide that fact—at the expense of the welfare of the American people.
>
> Who called up a former CIA director to round up 51 intelligence retirees
> to lie to sabotage an election? Did not the current national security
> advisor Jake Sullivan try to concoct the Alfa Bank ping ruse to destroy
> the Trump campaign and administration?
>
> When a former Pentagon lawyer and military officers called for a military
> coup to remove Trump, for which political agenda were they working?
>
> Did Trump prompt the acting Attorney General and FBI Director to consider
> in secret wearing a wire to entrap and remove a president through the
> 25th Amendment?
>
> What was “Anonymous” about—if not to destroy an administration from
> within through use of the deep state bureaucracy?
>
> Who coordinated Pfizer executives to delay announcement of the vaccine
> rollout until after the election to ensure Trump’s Operation Warp speed
> received no prelection credit?
>
> Liberal journalist Molly Ball, in her notorious Time essay, outlined what
> she called a “cabal” and “conspiracy” to destroy the 2020 Trump
> reelection campaign and indeed his presidency, through modulating
> Antifa/BLM protests, suppression of the news, and huge infusions of
> corporate money to augment or indeed absorb the work of the registrars in
> key states.
>
> Who exactly cooked up the phony Letitia James suit? Or the Alvin Bragg
> joke of an indictment? Or the weaponized Fani Wallis vendetta? Or the
> partisan and asymmetrical hunt of Jack Smith? Who impeached a president
> twice and tried him as a private citizen, without a report of a special
> counsel? Who revived the ossified Logan Act to destroy General Michael
> Flynn?
>
> And who is trying to strip Trump’s name off the 2024 ballot, convinced
> that such a Third-world dictatorial effort can alone stop dictatorship?
>
> In contrast, the supposed “dictator” Trump appointed a special counsel,
> Comey pal and insider Robert Mueller, to run a witch hunt against him for
> 22 months.
>
> He did not fire Anthony Fauci who worked to undermine Trump at every
> turn, and used government monies to fund gain-of-function, dangerous
> viral research in China, while spending most of the Trump administration
> covering that fact up, most often by serially lying.
>
> Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley despised Donald Trump to
> such an extent that he called his Chinese communist counterpart to advise
> him that he, Milley himself, would not follow a Trump order, should he
> deem it too dangerous, without warning the Chinese in advance. Milley
> faced no repercussions.
>
> Nor did Trump fire immediately Comey when many called on him to go, given
> Comey’s effort to use the FBI in the 2016 election to undermine the Trump
> campaign and sabotage a FISA court.
>
> Why did retired generals and admirals with impunity violate Article 88 of
> the Uniform Code of Military Justice by smearing their Command-in-Chief
> as a liar, Mussolini, Hitler-like, and deserving of early removal? Were
> any even reminded that they were in violation of statutes? Is it a
> dangerous thing for the U.S. military to attack their civilian overseers
> and in private to negotiate with the communist Chinese military?
>
> Most of the Russian collusion hoax was discussed in the waning days of
> the Obama administration inside the Oval Office, as Obama greenlighted
> illegal CIA and FBI involvements.
>
> Who cooked up the idea that Mark Zuckerberg could infuse $419 million to
> warp balloting in key swing states?
>
> What did Lois Lerner do as an IRS adjudicator, as the 2012 Obama
> reelection loomed?
>
> Trump may well have at times trolled the Left wildly, but the Left
> seriously sought to undermine the government, cancel existing laws, lie
> under oath, deceive a federal judge, and enlist the FBI and CIA to
> conspire to destroy a presidential campaign. All that seems a bit
> dictatorial.
>
> Three, after nearly nine years of Trump demonization—celebrities vying
> publicly with each to dream up ways of killing Trump (incineration,
> decapitation, shooting, stabbing, dismemberment, explosives, etc),
> lawfare used to deny the American public the right to vote for or against
> Trump, a deranged media shouting pseudo-conspiracies of “collusion” and
> “disinformation” for years, and billionaires spending hundreds of
> millions of dollars to ensure Trump was never elected or reelected or
> even on the ballot—why have the American people still not bought into the
> “dictator” Trump meme?
>
> Is it because they have enough common sense to grasp that those who
> protest too much, do so for obvious reasons?
>
> In sum, we have seen a 24/7 effort of leftwing presidents, deep-state
> bureaucrats, and the media to break the law and weaponize the government.
> The only rationale for such illegality has been the sick notion that the
> ends of destroying the supposed “dictator” Trump justified any
> dictatorial means necessary to achieve them.
>
> So what else is behind the latest epidemic of DNC talking points that
> spin Trump as an existential threat to democracy?
>
> The Left knows that in dictatorial fashion it has turned a federal
> republic into a government run wild, lawless, and in service to partisan
> agendas. It again talks of what Trump will supposedly do only because the
> Left surely would do exactly what it accuses Trump of planning to do if
> it were Trump.
>
> In other words, the Left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably
> finds itself all too terrifying."
>
Excellent post and well written. All are reasons why polls show the
voters have had enough. You left out a couple of issues that matter as
well:

Paul Ragna <tpragna@gmail.com> wrote in
news:XnsB0D79D99B4D9F882000099222@135.181.20.170:

> Libbys had better wake up and read this one.
>
>
> "The Left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably finds itself
> all too terrifying"
>

Trump said he would assume "temporary"
dictatorial powers.

Do did Hitler.

On 12/11/2023 12:29 PM, Paul Ragna wrote:
> Libbys had better wake up and read this one.
>
>
> "The Left projects itself onto Trump, and

Bullshit.

"Charlie Glock" <tpragna1900O@gmail.corn> wrote in message
news:3ZRdN.24064$yEgf.8305@fx09.iad...
> On 12/11/2023 12:29 PM, Paul Ragna wrote:
>> Libbys had better wake up and read this one.
>>
>>
>> "The Left projects itself onto Trump, and
>
> Bullshit.

And why is it bullshit?

On 2023-12-12, Scout <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>
>
> "Charlie Glock" <tpragna1900O@gmail.corn> wrote in message
> news:3ZRdN.24064$yEgf.8305@fx09.iad...
>> On 12/11/2023 12:29 PM, Paul Ragna wrote:
>>> Libbys had better wake up and read this one.
>>>
>>>
>>> "The Left projects itself onto Trump, and
>>
>> Bullshit.
>
> And why is it bullshit?
>

It's not.
One example is the left/democrats spewed endless propaganda about Trump and Russian collusion
and it turns out that it was really them colluding with the Russian's via the dossier which turned
out to be fake.

--
pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024.
Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.
Impeach Joe Biden 2022.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:50:43 -0000 (UTC), pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:

>On 2023-12-12, Scout <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Charlie Glock" <tpragna1900O@gmail.corn> wrote in message
>> news:3ZRdN.24064$yEgf.8305@fx09.iad...
>>> On 12/11/2023 12:29 PM, Paul Ragna wrote:
>>>> Libbys had better wake up and read this one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "The Left projects itself onto Trump, and
>>>
>>> Bullshit.
>>
>> And why is it bullshit?
>>
>
>It's not.
>One example is the left/democrats spewed endless propaganda about Trump and Russian collusion
>and it turns out that it was really them colluding with the Russian's via the dossier which turned
>out to be fake.

Apparently you've forgotten the dossier was first contracted for by RNC operatives to use
against Trump, then later against Hillary. When Trump got the nom, Steele shopped it the
Democrats as oppo research.

It's not just one side of the aisle that plays dirty tricks.

Swill
--
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the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
- Paul Weyrich, co founder of Heritage Foundation and Moral Majority

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