A Week Away

[Axe]

In the mountains.. Very little tv, interweb or phone.. Can't recommend it highly enough..

[calfoxwc]

Awesome !

[TexasAg1969]

14 hours ago, Axe said:

In the mountains.. Very little tv, interweb or phone.. Can't recommend it highly enough..

Great to hear! Which mountains?😁

[Gorka]

17 hours ago, Axe said:

In the mountains.. Very little tv, interweb or phone, no liberals.. Can't recommend it highly enough..

Didn't you forget something?

[Axe]

9 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said:

Great to hear! Which mountains?😁

We rented a cabin back in the Smokey's between Gatlinburg and and Cherokee..  Wish we could have stayed for ever..

6 hours ago, Gorka said:

Didn't you forget something?

Y'know? one day we went down into the tourist trap known as Gatlinburg.  T shirt shops galore. I did not see one Biden/Harris T shirt,  pin, cup, poster, etc etc, NADA! Zero Dem paraphernalia anywhere.. Tons of Trump stuff in the streets on people and in the shops.. That really surprised me. Gatlinburg is essentially a crossroad middle US destination this yr. I talked to people from everywhere.. North AND South. Shop owners sell what sells...........

[TexasAg1969]

13 hours ago, Axe said:

We rented a cabin back in the Smokey's between Gatlinburg and and Cherokee..  Wish we could have stayed for ever..

Every time we visit my brother in Estes Park I ask my wife, "And we decided not to buy here why exactly?" 😱

The answer was that she belonged to a bridge group, a reading group, had multiple retired teacher friends to go out with and the two of us were in a couples bridge group once a month while I had daily racquetball. And now of course all that is totally out the window until we get a viable vaccine on board. Sure wish now we had bought up there.😥

[Axe]

4 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said:

Every time we visit my brother in Estes Park I ask my wife, "And we decided not to buy here why exactly?" 😱

The answer was that she belonged to a bridge group, a reading group, had multiple retired teacher friends to go out with and the two of us were in a couples bridge group once a month while I had daily racquetball. And now of course all that is totally out the window until we get a viable vaccine on board. Sure wish now we had bought up there.😥

[TexasAg1969]

I believe nothing from the CDC now. It is run by trump to disprove the pandemic.

[Axe]

3 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said:

I believe nothing from the CDC now. It is run by trump to disprove the pandemic.

Then why did they do it quietly? And better yet, why would a Trump controlled CDC  count 150,000 Covid deaths in the first place? 🙄

 

Yer trippin Tex, trippin hard 🤪

[DieHardBrownsFan]

31 minutes ago, TexasAg1969 said:

I believe nothing from the CDC now. It is run by trump to disprove the pandemic.

So when the CDC was telling us to do this and that, you approved.  Now you don't approve?  Because you think Trump is calling the shots?  

[Axe]

I missed both conventions..

 

I'm sorry I missed this

 

[TexasAg1969]

12 hours ago, DieHardBrownsFan said:

So when the CDC was telling us to do this and that, you approved.  Now you don't approve?  Because you think Trump is calling the shots?  

33 states are now ignoring the CDC once he made them change standards "from the top down". The top they referred to was obvious. So yes, from that point on last week, it's time to ignore them. They are now another compromised entity of the trump dictatorship. I have a nice T-shirt with the map of Venezuela on it that reads, "Estamos contigo!", which reads, "We are with you!", when translated to English using the transitory verb "estar" for "to be". I think I should change it to, "Somos ustedes!" which mean "We are you!" using the permanent verb "Ser" which is also the word "to be". We are a Nazi dictatorship of one person who has taken over nearly all government agencies for his own selfish purposes, just exactly like Venezuela. All that remains is to steal the election through killing of votes by mail. Then you have a true "Chavezism" running the country. He's already pushing Ivanka (think Maduro) as his successor in 2025. That assures him of never being held accountable for any of the lies, the financial criminality, etc.

All we will need is another William L. Shirer to search through the documents after the nightmare ends for the next great history book, "The Rise and Fall of the Trump Reich".😂

It should be a comparative history of course. Now who would be closest, Chavez or some other guy?😁

 

SHOOT FIRST, AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER,
AND DON'T WORRY, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS,
I WILL PROTECT YOU!
HERMAN GOERING, NAZI LEADER

SOUND FAMILIAR???  MAYBE WITH A PARDON?
 

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." --Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, 1918, in his essay "Lincoln and Free Speech". (The whole essay is available in his collected works, published in 1926 by Scribner.)
 

Franklin quotes

1. "The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes, the greater the need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance and enable him to plunder at pleasure." 
2. "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech." 
3. "Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates." 

"Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."

 Goering: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in American, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship."

Gilbert: "There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
Goering: "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Nazi leader Hermann Goering, iterviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 18 April 1946, quoted in Gilbert's book Nuremberg Diary

https://www.facinghistory.org/sites/default/files/hhb_ch4.pdf

OVERVIEW Within weeks of taking office, Adolf Hitler was altering German life. Within a year, Joseph Goebbels, one of his top aides, could boast: The revolution that we have made is a total revolution. It encompasses every aspect of public life from the bottom up… We have replaced individuality with collective racial consciousness and the individual with the community… We must develop the organizations in which every individual’s entire life will be regulated by the Volk community, as represented by the Party. There is no longer arbitrary will. There are no longer any free realms in which the individual belongs to himself… The time of personal happiness is over.1 How did Hitler do it? How did he destroy the Weimar Republic and replace it with a totalitarian government – one that controls every part of a person’s life? Many people have pointed out that he did not destroy democracy all at once. Instead, he moved gradually, with one seemingly small compromise leading to another and yet another. By the time many were aware of the danger, they were isolated and alone. This chapter details those steps. It also explores why few Germans protested the loss of their freedom and many even applauded the changes the Nazis brought to the nation. Historian Fritz Stern offers one answer. “The great appeal of National Socialism – and perhaps of every totalitarian dictatorship in this century – was the promise of absolute authority. Here was clarity, simplicity.” To achieve that clarity, the German people gave up “what for so long they had taken for granted: the formal rule of law, a free press, freedom of expression, and the elementary protection of habeas corpus.”2 The Nazis Take Power 155 British historian A. J. P. Taylor answers the question by focusing on a unique quality in Adolf Hitler: “the gift of translating commonplace thoughts into action. He took seriously what was to others mere talk. The driving force in him was a terrifying literalism. Writers had been running down democracy for half a century. It took Hitler to create a totalitarian dictatorship… Again, there was nothing new in anti-Semitism… Everything which Hitler did against the Jews followed logically from the racial doctrines in which most Germans vaguely believed. It was the same with foreign policy... Hitler took [the Germans] at their word. He made the Germans live up to their professions, or down to them – much to their regret.”3 Other scholars note that upon taking office, Hitler stirred up a whirlwind of promises and demands, terrorizing opponents and dividing the German people. There was, as one man recalled, “no time to think... The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway.”4 Hannah Arendt, a scholar who left Germany in the 1930s, spent years reflecting on totalitarian regimes. She concluded, “Of all the forms of political organization that do not permit freedom, only totalitarianism consciously seeks to crowd out the ability to think. Man cannot be silenced, he can only be crowded into not speaking. Under all other conditions, even within the racing noise of our time, thinking is possible.”5 READING 1 The Democrat and the Dictator In the early 1930s, a severe depression threatened nations around the world. As unemployment mounted, a number of people came to believe that it was not just their leaders that had failed but government itself. Virtually every election around the world brought to power new leaders. Many of them, like Adolf Hitler, were enemies of democracy. Three years before Hitler came to power, he publicly declared, “We National Socialists have never claimed to be representatives of a democratic point of view, we have openly declared that we would deploy democratic means only to attain power, and after our assumption of power we would deny our enemies all those means which are allowed to us while in opposition... For us, parliament is not an end in itself but a means to an end.” Few chose to take Hitler at his word. Many preferred to “overlook and excuse what was ominous and radically evil in National Socialism. They clutched at the pseudo-religious aspect of it, the promise of salvation held out so cleverly and on so many levels.”6
 

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