For US, Gradual Ruin Is About to
Become Sudden
Posted By: earlybird, 3/16/2021 3:18:12 PM
I am not a particular fan of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.” But there is one exchange between two of the characters, Bill Gorton and Mike Campbell, that has stuck with me. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That passage has been running through my head a lot recently. I thought of it last week when I learned that Dr. Seuss Enterprises had decided to stop selling six books by the famous children’s author because—according to the bureaucrats at the concession—they depict various ethnic groups in ways that are “hurtful and wrong.”
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Poison, Mutilate, and Sterilize
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Nothing exemplifies the madness of our times more than the fervent push since 2013 by therapists, educators, social workers, and journalists to poison, mutilate, and sterilize girls who have self-diagnosed themselves with the novel social-media-transmitted hysteria now known as rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD).
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Until Lambs Become Lions
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Who needs ten days notice for a presser?…
Steve Holland@steveholland1 Per WH's Psaki: President Biden will hold a formal press conference on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25. Greg Kelly@gregkellyusa MEMO FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS OFFICE: please submit to us your questions for @joebiden's first press conference. @PressSec JEN PSAKI will get back to you about whether or not your questions was approved. Thank you "reporters"!!!
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I am not a particular fan of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.”
But there is one exchange between two of the characters, Bill Gorton and Mike Campbell, that has stuck with me.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
That passage has been running through my head a lot recently.
I thought of it last week when I learned that Dr. Seuss Enterprises had decided to stop selling six books by the famous children’s author because—according to the bureaucrats at the concession—they depict various ethnic groups in ways that are “hurtful and wrong.”
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Jordan Fuchs, deputy secretary of state, relayed details of the conversation to The Washington Post, an official with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed to The Epoch Times.
Fuchs was not on the call herself. She was told about the conversation by Frances Watson, the investigator.
A recording of the call recently emerged from a records request, showing that the Post and a slew of other outlets had falsely reported Trump uttering several phrases.
Trump supporters need to play hardball
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Rebel News reported, "President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to increase the federal tax — the first major hike in almost 30 years — to help pay for the economic program that is set to follow the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package passed last week."
That's interesting. Clinton raised them in 1993. Bush II and Donald Trump lowered them.
.(Snip) I am sorely tempted to play hardball with the rich. After what they did to conservatives in America, I want to make them pay. I am tempted to say soak the rich and tax the hell out of them.
None of these companies showed even an ounce of gratitude for
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Lawmakers Move to Block Private Funds
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And Disney (Dumbo, Peter Pan, etc.) and Amazon and on and on…. Kimball always has something worthwhile to say and says it well.