Two hours after I posted this essay, only 12 of my (now) 8,000 subscribers have made a comment. Of these comments, only one got 3 "likes" (and one of those was from me).
My thought: Hardly anybody is reading the Reader Comments, which is a major change from my articles of my first two-plus years on Substack.
I'm not reaching the number of people I used to. I wonder if this is by design.
Im in New Zealand, it took a while for this to hit my inbox notification , and I was home all day yesterday on the computer so would have seen it as it came in
I may have lived a sheltered life but most people I have met in over seven decades have been reasonably good people. My personal family, wife's family, and friends are very good people. However, I still believe that those who rise to positions of prominence are, all too often, not very nice people, who have the chameleon like ability to appear nice, albeit inconsistently. We call these people "scumbags." I apologize for the technical jargon.
I'm reading but have nothing to say. If Trump is facing a machine with thousands of gears and he does something to impact one gear, it impacts the whole machine. It's too big for me to watch. I cannot even win at regular chess.
Bill- great post but when you say that the “citizens share a measure of culpability that we allow our democratically-elected “leaders” to conduct a never-ending series of nefarious, freedom-eviscerating activities..” i take issue with that. It seems that whoever we vote for seems to allow these nefarious activities😞. What is an average voter to do? I am 70 years old and only know of politicians who lie to get into power and then seem to forget about the people who put him into power😫. I know people who have personally tried to fight back against the blob and end up poorer and stressed out. The system is rigged against us “regular people”.
Hard to argue with your points, Kate. I actually blame the Fourth Estate, the "watchdog" press, more than any other organization for abdicating their most important job.
Still, more "adults in the room" could have presumably done something to stop these people and organizations from taking total control. We outnumber these people millions to one. None of the right "leaders" ever really emerged.
Or, maybe, some tried (like Ron Paul), but they really didn't have a chance to prevail in such a rigged system.
Regarding the watchdog press. I think they felll afoul of capitalism, and concluded that profit was their most important product - not a well-informed electorate. This has created an opportunity for the likes of Substack - where amateur writers can address the truth.
This was brought on by the massive consolidation of media companies. Newspapers, local tv and radio stations went from independent operations to conglomerates. All they care about is the bottom line, and there’s no competition. They shut down all the international and local news desks and just use AP wire services and social media as there news sources. All spewing out the same exact news, no matter where you are at. Combine that with an industry 98% captured by 1 perspective and you have a useless mouth piece that lives in an echo chamber.
Another solid one, Bill. You nailed the disconnect—America the ideal vs. America the institution. Too many people wrap themselves in the flag without understanding the values it’s supposed to represent. Loved the reminder that questioning the people running the show isn’t anti-American… it’s exactly what being American is supposed to mean. Appreciate the clarity you bring to messy topics like this.
Before Epstein got the sweet heart deal in Florida, it was reported that an Israeli government official visited him in jail multiple times! Just a coincidence!
Bill - Trump is proof that no individual is going to save our nation. He will have helped tremendously especially by setting the example that the non-Democrats among us have to stopped being afraid of what the media and the Left will label us as and do what we know should be done. I can see it now as their attempts to shame people over supporting Trumps deportation efforts fail. Reply after reply makes it very clear that no amount of shaming is going to work any more. Shaming was a significant tool for those trying to control things. Israel makes heavy usage of it via "antisemitism" and "antisemite". Previously they could rely on that label to coerce someone into silence/compliance but not any more.
The ONLY way I see of any possible hope of turning things around, of retaking our nation/government, is via grass roots local to state level push back. Thankfully America's system is structured such that this is possible but we will have to be diligent for multiple generations. Currently it's not realistic to control via $$ all in power so they target key people/positions like the 2 house leaders and each parties leadership. Of the rest you can usually bribe them or coerce them into towing the party leadership line.
We have to stop just complaining and shouting about the problem and step up. I have started investigating running for office on my area as we need more every day average and non-0wealthy people in governance. i mean no disrespect to those who are wealthy as many have rightly earned what they have but the problem is we have too many of wealth and status in government as it is and not enough every day avg people. Even the wealthy who earned what they have may not fully appreciate the need to properly budget as the avg citizen must. We must re-take local/state governments and that means the rest of us NOT running for some office have to help educated the rest and promote these avg people who don't have millions to back their campaign. We must stop voting for whoever the party leadership[p is promoting as that person is more likely to be who they want and not who you'd want in office. Doing this at the local level and moving up will also make it difficult to stop us for at first we will seem like nothing but an annoyance and then one election we will make that big step to where they no longer can afford to ignore us but due to our numbers they also can't use standard tactics to shut us down and or buy us off.
1a) Take over local boards, councils, anyone at the city/county level. One of our goals must be to end property taxation for it is a means of nullifying real property rights. In this day/age there is absolutely no reason other than corruption and laziness for making people pay a percentage of their homes value for local services that should be budgeted for in advance and that costs then divided amongst those who live in the areas those services cover. There also should be some cap where once you have paid for services after X years you are no tax free for those; I'm thinking on retirement. if you are over 65 and have been paying for local services for 20+ years you deserve a break. I think those who make more use of a service like schools should carry a larger share of those costs.
1b) Re-take Mayoral positions. This will be hard with the # of entitled people living in these cities but it has to be done
2a) Re-take state legislatures voting only for those who have no political connections and who's net worth is <8 figures. I would say <7 but with enough time and investment it's not hard to obtain a net worth of 1 million US.
2b) Re-take governors offices.
Once we have enough control of the local and state governments, we can then be a force to be reckoned with and there's no reason that the reasonable on each side of politics cannot work together to achieve this. With enough power a Constitutional convention can be called for with pre-arranged agreements as to what will be reviewed so as to prevent any unwanted surprises, and we can then work on adding a few like term limits for both feder4al houses b/c those in these offices will never do it on their own; it will have to be done to them!
AMMENDMENT IDEAS: Just some thoughts on what is needed to course-correct a few of which will be unpopular like no longer allowing everyone to vote.
28 - Term limits/ Election Requirements. Three 6 year terms for the Senate; Eight 2 year terms for the house with a total cap between the 2 of no more than 25 years. I know this may seem high still but if we shoot for too low a number it could fail. Anyone serving in the Senate or House must be a natural born US citizen, must have been born on American soil to a mother and father who are both legal residents of America
29 - Amend the 19th. VOTER AGE Minimum of 26 years of age (science shows the mind does not mature until around 35-28 years so no one w/o a fully mature mind should be voting). I believe you should also either own property and or pay some amount of Income taxes to vote because too many dependent on wealth redistribution are able to vote for someone whop will redistribute wealth. Must be registered with selective services. Being able to vote without having any duties at all is an entitlement and not really a right. Why should those who have zero risk with ever being drafted for war get to vote for someone who will send others to war via draft?
30 – Anti-Constitutional Acts: Any elected members of the Federal government who seeks to enact legislation that curtails or attempts to reduce any constitutionally protected right is subject to immediate dismissal and possible trial by their peers for the crime of betraying one’s oath. We have to put an end to corrupt politicians attempts to do run-arounds to our rights. Currently neither side has any fear of doing this and both have tried. Just as the Left has tried to curtail 2A in the past so to did the Right when in the 80’s they tried to censor artistic expression. No side should be able to use any justification to reduce any rights.
31 – National Court Review: Each state legislature shall appoint a set of judges who when called upon will review any/all SCOTUS rulings. If the consensus amongst these 50 courts is that SCOTUS has made a bad ruling, then the ruling will be null and void. The entire premise of our system was to put most power in the hands of the states and SCOTUS has enabled the Federal Government to abusively expand it’s powers like with numerous rulings using the commerce clause as a “I can do anything” type of clause. If you can get the majority of a multi- judge court from 50 states (let’s ay around 150-200 judges) to agree that a ruling is bad then I’d say that’s justification enough to nullify a ruling by SCOTUS.
I agree with you. It's going to have to be grassroots LOCAL leadership and action. Start at your school board or city council level and hope you can get some great state legislators and governors elected.
It would also help our cause if there wasn't a massive Censorship Industrial Complex that was doing all it can to suppress the speech of true dissidents.
The right leader(s) could make a difference, but the entire system is created to thwart these leaders from ever emerging on any scale that would be significant.
To put it mildly, those who want to see America operate the way it was supposed to operate face hurdles everywhere.
It is going to take multi-generational dedication to do this but there is hope. I can only speak for my own state, the Great Lone Star state of Texas, but here homeschooling is VERY popular and that is step 1; removing the public school indoctrination. I can not emphasize enough how much better it is to homeschool. I have 2 girls and one is in her fist year at Texas A&M and she got in as a homeschooler with no problems. I expect the youngest to do the same. We also planed for this and we're not going into debt to pay for college.
EVERYONE:
I hope this will inspire others. We are a household of 4 on a single income. For the first 5 years of our marriage, I (as a database admin /analyst) and my wife (Public school teacher) worked to pay off everything so that she could be a stay at home mother/wife which she did. It takes dedication and willingness to not have the best of the latest and greatest but it does pay of in the end. If you are young and want kids do yourself a favor and FIND A WAY to do it on the husbands income alone so your wife can stay at home to not only lovingly raise your kids like no government agency every could but to teach them your values along with actual education! It's not as hard as they say but it does require effort and dedication!
If we can create a generation of homeschooled kids we can re-take our government!
A good study would be to give home-schooled students aptitude and basic knowledge tests and compare those results to students who were educated via government schools.
I, the king of the verbose article (trailing only A Midwestern Doctor), am never going to criticize anyone for making an occasional verbose post. I actually read some of the verbose posts ... or at least skim them.
I wouldn't begrudge anyone who didn't read it b/c it is lengthy. When I start in about politics and our government I get intense. I am a constitutional originalist. I believe we follow it as written and not re-interpreting any of it or trying to extract from it powers and authority the Fed Gov is NOT constitutionally supposed to have and that includes our courts that have helped the government expand and abuse it's powers. SCDOTUS has not been the check ion the Executive and legislative branch its supposed to be. Things like the National Firearms Act , passed in 1934, is an obvious violation of the 2nd amendment. The commerce clause was not written to be a "do anything you want" clause for the Fed Gov yet they use it that way and the courts let them.
If we could go back to running the government exactly as limited by our founding documents America would be a utopia; at least for those not a part of the #WokeAuthoriktarianLeft
Here is the problem: 1) the law of the land is the Constitution - it is a covenant in nature (actually written on an animal's hide); 2) It begins with "We the people"; 3) That beginning holds everyone of the "we" responsible; 4) the self-same we are guilty for what is done in their name.
A young woman sits down in her therapist's office and starts to tell him about all the hostile behaviors her boyfriend is directing towards her. The therapist stops her after a few examples and remarks, "Sounds like he might be a narcissist." She replies, "Oh no, that's impossible! He's a pillar of the community." To which the therapist says, "I've heard that line so many times, I'm beginning to think that "pillar of the community" is a red flag for narcissism!"
From Ben Franklin and George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, every great leader of the American people tried to make the point that citizens will have to remain “forever vigilant’ as the forces of tyranny will never stop working to obtain greater control, a result that always produces less freedom for “We the people.”
They did not care about the citizens (I could make exception for few like Jefferson, and other anti-fedrealists, but they failed miserably).
The "forever vigilant" is lip service, a rhetorical bullshit, it is like telling a prisoner: you have to be "forever vigilant", while your only freedom is to vote for prison guards.
Even if those past political "leaders" didn't really mean it, the statements were still true. I mean it and I'm saying it in 2025. Someone has to vigilantly try to protect basic human liberties.
I think George Orwell was serious and sincere when he wrote his warnings about totalitarians. Heck, for decades, every high school and college in America taught this book for some reason. The book sold millions of copies and is considered a classic.
If citizens weren't vigilant enough in 1780, 1880 or 1980, let's get vigilant today.
The one thing I remember that the anti federalists said is that a political/oligarch ruling class would emerge. That has happened. Those men, Franklin et al may have meant what they said but it was barnum speak.
this video explains barnum speak very well as good or better than anything I've ever seen on the freedom non sheep side.
Lets make it clear: Most of the participants in the creation of the Federal government have been part of the elite/oligarch rulling class! They crafted the system for themselves. People's input was never solicited.
I could tear down the federal constituion apart in a way no constitutional scholars can even imagine. Federal constitution is abomination on so many levels; a complete betrayal of articles of confederations; and congress itself betrayed the purpose they were sent: to fix the articles, not to invent the contral government.
So if I tell you that eating healthy and exercise are the best course for prolonging your life but I don't really mean it does that then mean that its not true?
What they believed matters less than what they said and or did. We don't all do the same thing for the same reasons yet if what is done is a good thing then I don't care what the individuals motivation for doing it was only that it got done.
LOL, it does not matter what you say, it only matters wht you do.
If YOU tell ME that eating healthy and exercise are the best course for prolonging MY life but YOU don't really mean it does that then mean that its not true?
You are not putting it into context, while the statement by itself is TRUE.
The context in which this is going to be executed is where you redefine what is "heathly" to be junk, processed food.
That is pretty much where we are, it is not the matter if the statement is true by itself, it is that everything about it has been redefined or ill-defined making it impossible to be true.
I woke up to shingles on Saturday with my eye swollen shut. Through it was a reaction to another bee sting. Drove 65 miles to the ER in Waxhaw NC, inside the urban area of Charlotte, North Carolina. Drs., said yes, and the nurse told me before doctor got there. I never had chickenpox? A follow up with my personal physician and he said that I had to have chickenpox. Before COVID 1984 no big deal. WTF now? Took meds and it got better. Dr. V, my personal physician, is also a contrarian. The one person I know that we relate in a sea of folks so unaware. I never wore a mask and have an exemption card to flash. Also relate with your work and know you are a Brownstone writer. That’s great.
The political system is rigged in favor of the sociopaths. When you don't care about anyone else but yourself, when you are a ruthless prick and have no compassion or empathy for others, and have a charisma that you can use to charm the public, when you don't play by the rules and you can lie without hesitation or remorse, you'll crush the honest souls who try to be nice, play fair and follow the rules. This holds true in most corporate environments as well. It's the sociopaths that rise to the top. Embracing this fact will explain a lot about why our leaders do the things they do. The ones at the top are overwhelmingly SOCIOPATHS.
Pardon my ignorance, but I still really don't see HOW you arrived at the conclusion (and your seemingly unwavering conviction) that Mossad is to blame for Epstein's sex trafficking operation. What evidence??
I agree with your comments, Victoria. I have yet to see ANYONE, especially Tucker (who I’m afraid to say I followed almost religiously on TCN for over a year) and his buddy, fake “historian,” Darryl Cooper, truly give any real proof that the “Israeli Gov. /Mossad” was behind this pedophile/deviant sex extortion ring for (demonic) globalist elites (WHO WILL ALL ONE DAY FACE THEIR MAKER AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR EVIL ACTIONS).
In spite of Tucker claiming he separates the Jewish citizens from their gov. it seems with him and Darryl “it’s always the Jews”…a satanic doctrine straight from hell.
Bill, can you help us out here? Where is the evidence—even circumstantial—that Mossad was behind Epstein? There IS evidence that Epstein was groomed as a tool of the CIA—starting with his first “career” as a “math teacher” (at a CIA training facility, by the father of Bill Barr, if I remember correctly). And I have read that there are a multitude of other connections to OUR Gov, though sadly I don’t have them memorized. One thing we do all know now is that Bill Barr is deep state…so what might he have perpetuated in all this during his term as the head of the CIA, hmmm?
Would love to have you research this and bring the goods, so to speak.
Btw, I must admit I’ve skimmed and ignored this when it’s come up on your Substack, Bill, so I guess I didn’t realize you actually hold this belief.
Looking forward to hearing your side and researched reasoning. Sorry if I missed it before.
TU for your dedicated research and written analysis of so many important topics!
Two hours after I posted this essay, only 12 of my (now) 8,000 subscribers have made a comment. Of these comments, only one got 3 "likes" (and one of those was from me).
My thought: Hardly anybody is reading the Reader Comments, which is a major change from my articles of my first two-plus years on Substack.
I'm not reaching the number of people I used to. I wonder if this is by design.
I always read the comments. I've learned some useful things here.
Me too!
Im in New Zealand, it took a while for this to hit my inbox notification , and I was home all day yesterday on the computer so would have seen it as it came in
Thanks for the first-hand intelligence in New Zealand.
Every thing is by design. The wicked are very patient.
I may have lived a sheltered life but most people I have met in over seven decades have been reasonably good people. My personal family, wife's family, and friends are very good people. However, I still believe that those who rise to positions of prominence are, all too often, not very nice people, who have the chameleon like ability to appear nice, albeit inconsistently. We call these people "scumbags." I apologize for the technical jargon.
Good column Mr Rice.
I'm reading but have nothing to say. If Trump is facing a machine with thousands of gears and he does something to impact one gear, it impacts the whole machine. It's too big for me to watch. I cannot even win at regular chess.
I'm such a goomba and put my comment under the wrong post. It goes under Bill's reader comments note.
Bill- great post but when you say that the “citizens share a measure of culpability that we allow our democratically-elected “leaders” to conduct a never-ending series of nefarious, freedom-eviscerating activities..” i take issue with that. It seems that whoever we vote for seems to allow these nefarious activities😞. What is an average voter to do? I am 70 years old and only know of politicians who lie to get into power and then seem to forget about the people who put him into power😫. I know people who have personally tried to fight back against the blob and end up poorer and stressed out. The system is rigged against us “regular people”.
Hard to argue with your points, Kate. I actually blame the Fourth Estate, the "watchdog" press, more than any other organization for abdicating their most important job.
Still, more "adults in the room" could have presumably done something to stop these people and organizations from taking total control. We outnumber these people millions to one. None of the right "leaders" ever really emerged.
Or, maybe, some tried (like Ron Paul), but they really didn't have a chance to prevail in such a rigged system.
Regarding the watchdog press. I think they felll afoul of capitalism, and concluded that profit was their most important product - not a well-informed electorate. This has created an opportunity for the likes of Substack - where amateur writers can address the truth.
Right! The citizen journalist!
This was brought on by the massive consolidation of media companies. Newspapers, local tv and radio stations went from independent operations to conglomerates. All they care about is the bottom line, and there’s no competition. They shut down all the international and local news desks and just use AP wire services and social media as there news sources. All spewing out the same exact news, no matter where you are at. Combine that with an industry 98% captured by 1 perspective and you have a useless mouth piece that lives in an echo chamber.
Well said!
What if NO ONE showed up to vote????
That’s me.
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Yes indeed! Great post.
Another solid one, Bill. You nailed the disconnect—America the ideal vs. America the institution. Too many people wrap themselves in the flag without understanding the values it’s supposed to represent. Loved the reminder that questioning the people running the show isn’t anti-American… it’s exactly what being American is supposed to mean. Appreciate the clarity you bring to messy topics like this.
Your posts are far clearer than my essays. Thank you for adding value to my reader comments section.
Before Epstein got the sweet heart deal in Florida, it was reported that an Israeli government official visited him in jail multiple times! Just a coincidence!
Bill - Trump is proof that no individual is going to save our nation. He will have helped tremendously especially by setting the example that the non-Democrats among us have to stopped being afraid of what the media and the Left will label us as and do what we know should be done. I can see it now as their attempts to shame people over supporting Trumps deportation efforts fail. Reply after reply makes it very clear that no amount of shaming is going to work any more. Shaming was a significant tool for those trying to control things. Israel makes heavy usage of it via "antisemitism" and "antisemite". Previously they could rely on that label to coerce someone into silence/compliance but not any more.
The ONLY way I see of any possible hope of turning things around, of retaking our nation/government, is via grass roots local to state level push back. Thankfully America's system is structured such that this is possible but we will have to be diligent for multiple generations. Currently it's not realistic to control via $$ all in power so they target key people/positions like the 2 house leaders and each parties leadership. Of the rest you can usually bribe them or coerce them into towing the party leadership line.
We have to stop just complaining and shouting about the problem and step up. I have started investigating running for office on my area as we need more every day average and non-0wealthy people in governance. i mean no disrespect to those who are wealthy as many have rightly earned what they have but the problem is we have too many of wealth and status in government as it is and not enough every day avg people. Even the wealthy who earned what they have may not fully appreciate the need to properly budget as the avg citizen must. We must re-take local/state governments and that means the rest of us NOT running for some office have to help educated the rest and promote these avg people who don't have millions to back their campaign. We must stop voting for whoever the party leadership[p is promoting as that person is more likely to be who they want and not who you'd want in office. Doing this at the local level and moving up will also make it difficult to stop us for at first we will seem like nothing but an annoyance and then one election we will make that big step to where they no longer can afford to ignore us but due to our numbers they also can't use standard tactics to shut us down and or buy us off.
1a) Take over local boards, councils, anyone at the city/county level. One of our goals must be to end property taxation for it is a means of nullifying real property rights. In this day/age there is absolutely no reason other than corruption and laziness for making people pay a percentage of their homes value for local services that should be budgeted for in advance and that costs then divided amongst those who live in the areas those services cover. There also should be some cap where once you have paid for services after X years you are no tax free for those; I'm thinking on retirement. if you are over 65 and have been paying for local services for 20+ years you deserve a break. I think those who make more use of a service like schools should carry a larger share of those costs.
1b) Re-take Mayoral positions. This will be hard with the # of entitled people living in these cities but it has to be done
2a) Re-take state legislatures voting only for those who have no political connections and who's net worth is <8 figures. I would say <7 but with enough time and investment it's not hard to obtain a net worth of 1 million US.
2b) Re-take governors offices.
Once we have enough control of the local and state governments, we can then be a force to be reckoned with and there's no reason that the reasonable on each side of politics cannot work together to achieve this. With enough power a Constitutional convention can be called for with pre-arranged agreements as to what will be reviewed so as to prevent any unwanted surprises, and we can then work on adding a few like term limits for both feder4al houses b/c those in these offices will never do it on their own; it will have to be done to them!
AMMENDMENT IDEAS: Just some thoughts on what is needed to course-correct a few of which will be unpopular like no longer allowing everyone to vote.
28 - Term limits/ Election Requirements. Three 6 year terms for the Senate; Eight 2 year terms for the house with a total cap between the 2 of no more than 25 years. I know this may seem high still but if we shoot for too low a number it could fail. Anyone serving in the Senate or House must be a natural born US citizen, must have been born on American soil to a mother and father who are both legal residents of America
29 - Amend the 19th. VOTER AGE Minimum of 26 years of age (science shows the mind does not mature until around 35-28 years so no one w/o a fully mature mind should be voting). I believe you should also either own property and or pay some amount of Income taxes to vote because too many dependent on wealth redistribution are able to vote for someone whop will redistribute wealth. Must be registered with selective services. Being able to vote without having any duties at all is an entitlement and not really a right. Why should those who have zero risk with ever being drafted for war get to vote for someone who will send others to war via draft?
30 – Anti-Constitutional Acts: Any elected members of the Federal government who seeks to enact legislation that curtails or attempts to reduce any constitutionally protected right is subject to immediate dismissal and possible trial by their peers for the crime of betraying one’s oath. We have to put an end to corrupt politicians attempts to do run-arounds to our rights. Currently neither side has any fear of doing this and both have tried. Just as the Left has tried to curtail 2A in the past so to did the Right when in the 80’s they tried to censor artistic expression. No side should be able to use any justification to reduce any rights.
31 – National Court Review: Each state legislature shall appoint a set of judges who when called upon will review any/all SCOTUS rulings. If the consensus amongst these 50 courts is that SCOTUS has made a bad ruling, then the ruling will be null and void. The entire premise of our system was to put most power in the hands of the states and SCOTUS has enabled the Federal Government to abusively expand it’s powers like with numerous rulings using the commerce clause as a “I can do anything” type of clause. If you can get the majority of a multi- judge court from 50 states (let’s ay around 150-200 judges) to agree that a ruling is bad then I’d say that’s justification enough to nullify a ruling by SCOTUS.
I agree with you. It's going to have to be grassroots LOCAL leadership and action. Start at your school board or city council level and hope you can get some great state legislators and governors elected.
It would also help our cause if there wasn't a massive Censorship Industrial Complex that was doing all it can to suppress the speech of true dissidents.
The right leader(s) could make a difference, but the entire system is created to thwart these leaders from ever emerging on any scale that would be significant.
To put it mildly, those who want to see America operate the way it was supposed to operate face hurdles everywhere.
It is going to take multi-generational dedication to do this but there is hope. I can only speak for my own state, the Great Lone Star state of Texas, but here homeschooling is VERY popular and that is step 1; removing the public school indoctrination. I can not emphasize enough how much better it is to homeschool. I have 2 girls and one is in her fist year at Texas A&M and she got in as a homeschooler with no problems. I expect the youngest to do the same. We also planed for this and we're not going into debt to pay for college.
EVERYONE:
I hope this will inspire others. We are a household of 4 on a single income. For the first 5 years of our marriage, I (as a database admin /analyst) and my wife (Public school teacher) worked to pay off everything so that she could be a stay at home mother/wife which she did. It takes dedication and willingness to not have the best of the latest and greatest but it does pay of in the end. If you are young and want kids do yourself a favor and FIND A WAY to do it on the husbands income alone so your wife can stay at home to not only lovingly raise your kids like no government agency every could but to teach them your values along with actual education! It's not as hard as they say but it does require effort and dedication!
If we can create a generation of homeschooled kids we can re-take our government!
A good study would be to give home-schooled students aptitude and basic knowledge tests and compare those results to students who were educated via government schools.
Agreed with one small correction.
Instead of:
"and compare those results to students who were educated via government schools"
it should be:
"and compare those results to students who were indoctrinated via government schools"
😁
I just want to say Thank You for those who took time to read my diatribe and like it. I know it was VERBOSE . 😁
I, the king of the verbose article (trailing only A Midwestern Doctor), am never going to criticize anyone for making an occasional verbose post. I actually read some of the verbose posts ... or at least skim them.
I wouldn't begrudge anyone who didn't read it b/c it is lengthy. When I start in about politics and our government I get intense. I am a constitutional originalist. I believe we follow it as written and not re-interpreting any of it or trying to extract from it powers and authority the Fed Gov is NOT constitutionally supposed to have and that includes our courts that have helped the government expand and abuse it's powers. SCDOTUS has not been the check ion the Executive and legislative branch its supposed to be. Things like the National Firearms Act , passed in 1934, is an obvious violation of the 2nd amendment. The commerce clause was not written to be a "do anything you want" clause for the Fed Gov yet they use it that way and the courts let them.
If we could go back to running the government exactly as limited by our founding documents America would be a utopia; at least for those not a part of the #WokeAuthoriktarianLeft
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Powerful article - blessings & gratitude to you BR. In God we Trust ...
Here is the problem: 1) the law of the land is the Constitution - it is a covenant in nature (actually written on an animal's hide); 2) It begins with "We the people"; 3) That beginning holds everyone of the "we" responsible; 4) the self-same we are guilty for what is done in their name.
The "freedom" vs. "tyranny" issue is a big one and a real thing.
Of course, the captive govt does not represent Americans. Can America still be saved?
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/whats-the-most-important-thing-to
If it's going to be saved, it's going to take the detonation of, perhaps, the world's first real "thermo-nuclear truth bomb."
It will take a Great Purge of all captured organizations.
A young woman sits down in her therapist's office and starts to tell him about all the hostile behaviors her boyfriend is directing towards her. The therapist stops her after a few examples and remarks, "Sounds like he might be a narcissist." She replies, "Oh no, that's impossible! He's a pillar of the community." To which the therapist says, "I've heard that line so many times, I'm beginning to think that "pillar of the community" is a red flag for narcissism!"
You are starting from a false premise:
From Ben Franklin and George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, every great leader of the American people tried to make the point that citizens will have to remain “forever vigilant’ as the forces of tyranny will never stop working to obtain greater control, a result that always produces less freedom for “We the people.”
They did not care about the citizens (I could make exception for few like Jefferson, and other anti-fedrealists, but they failed miserably).
The "forever vigilant" is lip service, a rhetorical bullshit, it is like telling a prisoner: you have to be "forever vigilant", while your only freedom is to vote for prison guards.
Even if those past political "leaders" didn't really mean it, the statements were still true. I mean it and I'm saying it in 2025. Someone has to vigilantly try to protect basic human liberties.
I think George Orwell was serious and sincere when he wrote his warnings about totalitarians. Heck, for decades, every high school and college in America taught this book for some reason. The book sold millions of copies and is considered a classic.
If citizens weren't vigilant enough in 1780, 1880 or 1980, let's get vigilant today.
"Human Liberties" are nowhere properly defined either.
You can dream about being vigilant "today".. the time for being vigilant is long gone, it is survival time now.
I think they meant it.
The one thing I remember that the anti federalists said is that a political/oligarch ruling class would emerge. That has happened. Those men, Franklin et al may have meant what they said but it was barnum speak.
this video explains barnum speak very well as good or better than anything I've ever seen on the freedom non sheep side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cp-fo4nv5I
there is no way of being forever vigilant when half the country votes for communism and the other half votes for communism lite.
Lets make it clear: Most of the participants in the creation of the Federal government have been part of the elite/oligarch rulling class! They crafted the system for themselves. People's input was never solicited.
I read this - Hologram of Liberty: The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government years ago. Not to mention Spooner.
I could tear down the federal constituion apart in a way no constitutional scholars can even imagine. Federal constitution is abomination on so many levels; a complete betrayal of articles of confederations; and congress itself betrayed the purpose they were sent: to fix the articles, not to invent the contral government.
So if I tell you that eating healthy and exercise are the best course for prolonging your life but I don't really mean it does that then mean that its not true?
What they believed matters less than what they said and or did. We don't all do the same thing for the same reasons yet if what is done is a good thing then I don't care what the individuals motivation for doing it was only that it got done.
LOL, it does not matter what you say, it only matters wht you do.
If YOU tell ME that eating healthy and exercise are the best course for prolonging MY life but YOU don't really mean it does that then mean that its not true?
You are not putting it into context, while the statement by itself is TRUE.
The context in which this is going to be executed is where you redefine what is "heathly" to be junk, processed food.
That is pretty much where we are, it is not the matter if the statement is true by itself, it is that everything about it has been redefined or ill-defined making it impossible to be true.
I woke up to shingles on Saturday with my eye swollen shut. Through it was a reaction to another bee sting. Drove 65 miles to the ER in Waxhaw NC, inside the urban area of Charlotte, North Carolina. Drs., said yes, and the nurse told me before doctor got there. I never had chickenpox? A follow up with my personal physician and he said that I had to have chickenpox. Before COVID 1984 no big deal. WTF now? Took meds and it got better. Dr. V, my personal physician, is also a contrarian. The one person I know that we relate in a sea of folks so unaware. I never wore a mask and have an exemption card to flash. Also relate with your work and know you are a Brownstone writer. That’s great.
The political system is rigged in favor of the sociopaths. When you don't care about anyone else but yourself, when you are a ruthless prick and have no compassion or empathy for others, and have a charisma that you can use to charm the public, when you don't play by the rules and you can lie without hesitation or remorse, you'll crush the honest souls who try to be nice, play fair and follow the rules. This holds true in most corporate environments as well. It's the sociopaths that rise to the top. Embracing this fact will explain a lot about why our leaders do the things they do. The ones at the top are overwhelmingly SOCIOPATHS.
Pardon my ignorance, but I still really don't see HOW you arrived at the conclusion (and your seemingly unwavering conviction) that Mossad is to blame for Epstein's sex trafficking operation. What evidence??
I agree with your comments, Victoria. I have yet to see ANYONE, especially Tucker (who I’m afraid to say I followed almost religiously on TCN for over a year) and his buddy, fake “historian,” Darryl Cooper, truly give any real proof that the “Israeli Gov. /Mossad” was behind this pedophile/deviant sex extortion ring for (demonic) globalist elites (WHO WILL ALL ONE DAY FACE THEIR MAKER AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR EVIL ACTIONS).
In spite of Tucker claiming he separates the Jewish citizens from their gov. it seems with him and Darryl “it’s always the Jews”…a satanic doctrine straight from hell.
Bill, can you help us out here? Where is the evidence—even circumstantial—that Mossad was behind Epstein? There IS evidence that Epstein was groomed as a tool of the CIA—starting with his first “career” as a “math teacher” (at a CIA training facility, by the father of Bill Barr, if I remember correctly). And I have read that there are a multitude of other connections to OUR Gov, though sadly I don’t have them memorized. One thing we do all know now is that Bill Barr is deep state…so what might he have perpetuated in all this during his term as the head of the CIA, hmmm?
Would love to have you research this and bring the goods, so to speak.
Btw, I must admit I’ve skimmed and ignored this when it’s come up on your Substack, Bill, so I guess I didn’t realize you actually hold this belief.
Looking forward to hearing your side and researched reasoning. Sorry if I missed it before.
TU for your dedicated research and written analysis of so many important topics!
Correction of my own error in memory: Bill Barr was NOT a CIA director (I confused him with Pompeo),
though he was in the CIA as well as the US Attorney General under HW Bush and again under Trump.