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2024-05-17 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-17 03:29|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11151 views ] Top

#1 The judge who sentenced this man said "There is no Second Amendment in my court room."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-17 06:38|| 2024-05-17 06:38|| Front Page Top

#2 His appeal would have to go all the way up outside of NY. That will take a long time and lots of cash.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-17 10:19|| 2024-05-17 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 The system devotes so much effort to framing innocent people, that they may no longer be capable of convicting truly guilty ones.

A money quote from the article.

Posted by JohnQC 2024-05-17 11:42|| 2024-05-17 11:42|| Front Page Top

#4 The cascading failures of formerly reliable, trusted systems of commerce, science, education and government and our most basic cultural institutions is well underway. But a nation as rich and enormous as ours when collapsing into itself will retain vestiges and areas of resiliance for years to come. But we are not what we were before Obama/Biden, or before Covid, or even before 9/11.

The promise of the Post Cold-War World was all too brief and quickly squandered in sloth, and excessive tolerance for corruption and corrosive ideas, and the final abandonment of meritocracy to the false pretense of DEI.

Trump et al may well halt the most aggressive bleeding and reverse some of the insanity, but we are no longer one people, far too many have stopped believing in our heritage and national character, especially the coastal elites and political classes, and it shows everywhere.

As the third stage of the adage goes, "Weak Men have created hard times"...and what follows I fear won't be much like what was as the "Hard Times... " shape those that follow.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-05-17 18:09|| 2024-05-17 18:09|| Front Page Top

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-17 18:19|| 2024-05-17 18:19|| Front Page Top

#6 ^MM your comment only appeared as a black screen until I clicked to comment. I thought you were saying that our future was like the album cover art of Smell The Glove.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-17 18:37|| 2024-05-17 18:37|| Front Page Top

#7 The still shot from the embed shows up on my desktop and phone. From many comments here there are a lot of different browsers in use by Rantburg Nation, so it's not surprising everyone's mileage (or presentation, or rendering) varies.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-17 18:39|| 2024-05-17 18:39|| Front Page Top

#8 The system devotes so much effort to framing innocent people, that they may no longer be capable of convicting truly guilty ones.

A money quote from the article.

Indeed.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-17 19:20|| 2024-05-17 19:20|| Front Page Top

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