The Coup We Never Knew
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: GustoGrabber,
1/5/2023 4:59:47 AM
Did someone or something seize control of the United States?
What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?
Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?
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It is all on Joe Biden, the fool on the hill and the worst president in our nation's history, and all of this is intentional.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissGrits 1/5/2023 6:26:22 AM (No. 1371182)
Long, long ago we lost our soul; individually at first, here and there we let things slide. Then collectively things picked up speed. Like a disease our schools and universities spread drivel to our homes and businesses and recreation and our politics … fostered thoughts and ideas and opinions … and now dictates that belittle and hold in disdain the very anchor of our souls! We have grown to hate what was good for us, Who is good to us, Who made us who and what we were!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/5/2023 7:14:49 AM (No. 1371197)
I sincerely hope there is a Part Two of this article which digs into who committed this coup. VDH asks the right questions but the one I want answered is who is running the show. I believe if the truth were ever told, it would be shocking to know who enabled, supported, and conducted this operation. We probably could guess a lot of the names, but I especially want to know the specific names of Republicans who aided and abetted the tornado of destruction that democrats released upon this nation.
Reading this article is terribly disheartening because the coup was a massive effort, conducted by the most elite people in this country, and carried out by the premiere law enforcement arm of the United States government with the intention of denying American citizens the right the right to choose their own government. This government was once the envy of the world but because a few power hungry tyrants decided to ambush an election, we are a laughingstock. Our enemies do not fear us and our friends do not trust us. Please explain to me how this is preferable to a government of, by, and for the people? Only the insane or evil could wish these past two years on anyone. We are literally experiencing the demise of this great nation and it appears there is not one thing short of rebellion that we can do to stop it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 1/5/2023 7:16:57 AM (No. 1371199)
It comes down to this: the Evil Left works tirelessly to destroy the American Ethos; to undermine the People's belief in both our greatness and our goodness; and to destroy our confidence that those we elect, will serve us with integrity and diligence. Once this plan is known, it becomes crystal clear why our Nation is being flooded with backward and inferior (sorry, but that is mostly the case) people...who have never known ANY of the features referenced in my first sentence. Sadly, the Evil Left has nearly reached their goal. When we become a majority minority State, we will be a majority serfs feudal kingdom.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/5/2023 7:45:27 AM (No. 1371217)
It may not be a coup but it is Smash & Grab on a grand scale, conducted against us who put these folks in office to represent us. Follow the money.....it’s always about the Benjamin’s.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
billa57 1/5/2023 7:50:18 AM (No. 1371221)
More like the 'Coup we all knew' but the truth is not allowed to emerge. Even Democrats know whats goingon. Now it's time for them to make a decision. Is it a good idea to have a socialist dictatorship or not. I am not confident they will choose wisely. We all need to ask them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
downnout 1/5/2023 7:54:14 AM (No. 1371222)
This is a call to arms, America. Wake up!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
raspberry 1/5/2023 7:57:39 AM (No. 1371225)
All this is incontrovertible evidence that America has lost its Christian soul, and some mainline churches have abetted this national tragedy.
This is also clear evidence that Democrats destroy everything they touch.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/5/2023 8:12:17 AM (No. 1371231)
This is a great compilation of the latest steps in the coup but the stage was set long ago by a series of massively transformative steps which we accepted with nary a whimper. The 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the 17th amendment, the "New Deal" with the preposterous notion that congress was granted the power to delegate their responsibilities to executive branch controlled agencies essentially rebranding laws as "regulations" circumventing the peoples representatives and pesky legislative process. The abuse of the tax code to serve as a mechanism for social engineering. And the coup de grace, the supreme court ruling that you only get to keep your earnings to spend as you see fit and it's up to the federal government to decide.
We missed the coup because as the constitutional guardrails have been gradually removed the ruling elites have used caution in exercising their new powers for fear of waking up the masses. Constitutional rule of law has been replaced by tactical caution.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/5/2023 8:47:16 AM (No. 1371254)
This should be a Must Read.
And some of us know others who will say to you, "There always were bad things going on in the world. It's no different from what is happening today."
NO - Not - Never. We live in a world where evil is overcoming the good just by the weight of it all. Got to remember, though, that good is stronger than evil. I don't know how it is overcome. It is exhausting.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/5/2023 8:51:50 AM (No. 1371258)
Who is to blame? The purposeful legacy Media.
The Oligarchs who own the outlets and the sychophants and idealists who work for them are guilty of favoritism and omissions which deprive citizens of the facts ("the truth" per the bidet). I am never surprised how uninformed my fellow Americans are. Panem et circenses - sports and entertainment provide distractions and allow the evil to advance in the background.
IMO the re-institution of conscription would awaken the country-bigly
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/5/2023 8:53:50 AM (No. 1371259)
I still don't think it is 0bama. He is too unintelligent, shallow and lazy to be the Machiavelli. It goes back to 2008. Who asked Bill and Hillary to sit down, shut up and make way for the Magic Mulatto? We still don't know.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jimincalif 1/5/2023 10:04:22 AM (No. 1371322)
This is something McCarthy, McConnell, McDaniel, and all other RINOs should read and internalize if they want to be leaders. But they won’t, not only because they don’t care, but because they played a part in so much of this. If not actively, at least by watching and doing nothing so they wouldn’t rock the boat and interrupt their cash flow.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/5/2023 10:10:36 AM (No. 1371331)
The human savage can be quite deadly and destructive.
This isn't exactly new. When did our nation start serious deficit spending? Guessing that goes back to at least LBJ. When was our government turned into an influence peddler? Think that goes back to at least the railroad barons of the 1800s. When did people decide to make a living by stealing? That is old as time itself. One thing VDH missed. When did our education system change? All the way down to the K-12 level. When did our nation start submitting to global influence and embrace Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and Fascism? When did we sacrifice our freedoms, rights, and values? Is there a spiritual component to this or we doing it to ourselves? If one believes humanity is a spiritual being as well as a physical being, perhaps the question is moot, and humanity requires spiritual discipline as well as physical discipline.
Our nation has been on a slow simmer for a long time, and it has now started to boil. We are the frog in the proverbial pot of boiling water. In the end, it may be on all of us regardless. Do we live or self-destruct?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/5/2023 11:22:12 AM (No. 1371409)
To the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrat portions of the DC “UniParty” especially including Biden, the five million mostly all poor and uneducated peoples from the third world who Biden has allowed to unlawfully gain entry to the USA, who fit within the minority categories of Democrat identity politics, are not considered by the leftist Democrats to be illegal aliens as they are defined in the immigration laws passed by Congress, but are considered to be future leftist Democrat supporters and voters, to be used as a part of the leftist Democrat strategic long-term plans to transform the USA into a minority-majority country, where a vast coalition of socialist oriented minority groups of both domestic and foreign origin effectively control future US politics and keep the leftist Democrats in permanent political power.
Look for Biden and the leftist Democrats to now push for Congress to change the current immigration laws by passing what the leftist Democrats will refer to as needed “comprehensive immigration reform” that will include a series of “immediate” Democrat designed “path to citizenship” amnesty programs that would grant just about all the over twenty million illegal alien population now in the USA a legal immigration status, then US citizenship, and most importantly to the leftist Democrats, US voting rights.
To get those amnesties passed the leftist Democrats will “promise” the wimpy Republicans that they will support “future” border security measures just as they falsely “promised” to gain previous wimpy Republican “bipartisan” support to pass prior amnesties. Promises that never kept, and is why there is such a massive illegal alien population is in the USA now. The reason that the leftist Democrats wholly support mass uncontrolled illegal immigration is that they believe that they can easily buy the future political support and votes of those would be former illegal aliens by promising them US Government provided financial benefits, services, and rights, “free” healthcare, and the ability to bring additional many millions of their foreign extended family members into the USA. A process that would further extend the future minority percentage of both the electoral and population demographics across the USA to what the leftist Democrats believe will be to their great favor in the years ahead. In addition common sense will tell you that when such massive amnesties are passed, those political actions alone will serve to encourage, invite, and lure millions of future prospective illegal aliens from all over the world to the US borderlines seeking unlawful entry to the USA.
That’s why Biden has allowed the borderline to rapidly go out of control to the great favor of the criminal Mexican illicit drug and illegal alien smuggling cartels. It’s all political and it does not appear that the wimpy Republicans really even have a clue!
The big question is just how fast the wimpy Congressional Republicans will bend to the leftist Democrat amnesty demands and essentially commit long-term political suicide.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/5/2023 9:34:21 PM (No. 1371875)
'Open' minds that accept crimes and perversions got us here. They are so desperate to appear virtuous they attack anyone who points out the obvious, The real secret power of evil.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Penney 1/5/2023 9:59:31 PM (No. 1371882)
Nearly all of the media has come under the control of the lefties who delight in lampooning the good and, instead, pushing the bad. Thus, people of faith are generally demeaned or ignored while every criminal's face & evil details are plastered across print media, movies and TV. That discrepancy of omission renders the media biased at it's core and somewhat responsible for false conclusions pushed upon the public. public. ...Thankfully, the goodness & faith in the hearts of most Americans shines through in times of need and even the media can't always hide that nor omit its reality.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/6/2023 6:41:18 AM (No. 1371981)
Two words - George Soros
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/6/2023 7:41:31 AM (No. 1372004)
It all began with a gay, racist, muslim, lying immigrant from Kenya whose fairytale idea to "fundamentally change America" was implemented. All intelligence agencies, the media and the IRS were weaponized and they all spoke to us with one voice, you are racist and dirty white pawns and you will become good little communists, like it or not.So far we have not mustered the will to fight back.
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Right to the point #18! Thank you.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/6/2023 9:45:21 AM (No. 1372130)
It started with the crooked elections. Halting the counting in the middle of the night in key states. Manufacturing voters and then ballotting from them.
Make no mistake.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/6/2023 10:29:24 AM (No. 1372162)
I refuse to take responsibility for all the mistakes made in Washington by biden and the democrats...they don't speak for the majority of Americans who wish for President Trump to take control again...all that has happened is on the shoulders of the democrats...WE didn't want any of their marxists planning...and the coup happened with help of obama...who hates US...and Susan rice and soros...so don't go blaming US...WE never asked for this mess they have created...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Trapper 1/6/2023 10:54:52 AM (No. 1372182)
When the insane have taken over and redifined sanity, are they still insane? When crackpoit charlatans have taken over, required everyone to pay homage to their crackpot beliefs, and punish all who question them, who is then the crackpot? In a land of the willfully blind, who will listen to the sighted man? Many of us still adhere to notions of objective truth, of truth beauty and goodness. Ugly art, poems that don't rhyme, and "music" with no melody. Strange times, these.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hope27 1/6/2023 12:04:36 PM (No. 1372246)
deep dive the great actor obama
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
KatieJo 1/6/2023 12:30:12 PM (No. 1372287)
Since when did it become a crime to protest legally and for the government to lock people up for over two years, while others can destroy cities with no consequences?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NotaBene 1/6/2023 12:56:27 PM (No. 1372303)
Could it possibly be the Rothschild Illuminati? Build Back Better, lockdowns, and Global Warming are being imposed worldwide. I thought our lazy Federal Employees, who do not work on Fridays, would slack off. However, the FBI, CIA and other pro-Communist agencies are not letting up now that they control election results by mail and machines. George Orwell’s 1984 came to pass in the cradle of freedom.
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Who staged the coup? It wasn’t “Joe,” he can’t button his shirt without the Inspector General. It was the Jihad Junta, Rice, Jarrett, Brennan, Wray, Garland, Obama, and McConnell, Pelosi, Schumer and finally, the Money, Soros, Kaiser Klaus, and all the rest of the WEF/UN/WHO, Smartmatic, Dominion, the enemedia, and the Fauxi-ites. It was a conspiracy of the zealots and they will never give power up without one hell of a fight. My question since “Joe” was selected: Who has the Nuclear Football?
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