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A Toxic Brand and it's Baneful Disciples

"The reality is, they have no vision, no policy. They have nothing to sell but hate, and Americans are not buying it. – Governor Greg Abbott of Texas. 

Governor Abbott, whatever you think about him, is right on both counts. Democrats are selling their own brand of toxic hate in the streets and in the nation's capital, but sensible citizens aren't buying. We're talking about real, visceral hate here. Not dislike or disapproval, but active hate democrats have become so good at. Generally, when people talk about hate, they mean dislike. If someone says they hate broccoli, they usually mean they dislike it and do not want to eat it. They see broccoli, they leave it on their plate, and forget about it. They do not obsess over broccoli, keeping their hatred for it burning in their minds 24/7.

Real hate is an active emotion, one whose energy consumes those engaging in it. It is the type of thing that leads individuals to obsess over the object of their hatred. Eventually, if kept up long enough, it consumes the hater. We see it here among most Never-Trumpers and the vicious anti-Israel crowd. It leads to compulsive behavior, like daily anti-Trump screeds over trivial (and occasionally nonexistent) failings puffed up to DefCon 1 status. It is an energy sink. It is tedious and boring. Everyone else either tunes it out or points and laughs.

The energy wasted on hate is a major reason Christianity stresses forgiveness. You cannot simultaneously hate and forgive. Forgiveness requires you to put the hate behind you. It frees that energy for use elsewhere. You may dislike what those you love do, but you do not expend effort hating them.

Look at Gaza. The inhabitants have a piece of territory they could turn into a resort that Monaco could envy. They could be rich, peaceful, and healthy, the jewel of the Middle East. Instead, they pour all their resources into destroying their hated neighbor, Israel. As a result, their home is an impoverished rubble heap. Humans almost instinctively know hatred is bad.  Not that we are not capable of it: the whole Lost Cause movement was a product of post-Civil War Confederate hatred of the North.  Hatred consumed the South and left it well behind the rest of the United States. The South did not rise to the prominence it now holds in the US economy until it was willing to put the hatreds engendered by the Civil War behind it.

Nowadays a small Southern town is a far more tolerant place than a Northern university town. I personally can attest to that. 

 Yet hate is what the Democrats are selling. Hope is what Americans want. Whether you like Trump or dislike him, hope is what Trump is selling, not hate. He cannot be defeated by hating him, only by selling a superior version of hope. But to today's' democrat, Hope is just a worn out campaign slogan.

🚨Deranged James Carville compares companies working with the Trump administration to N*zi collaborators after the liberation of Paris in 1944:

"Do you know what's going to happen? Do you know how this ends?"

"Do you know what the country is going to feel toward collaborators… pic.twitter.com/xFat1erweW

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 4, 2025

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They Used To Plan an Overthrow in Dark Secret Places

I really don't know where the ideas came to me from. The idea that if you intend to strike the King you best finish him off, else your life could become terribly uncomfortable, at least as long as you had a breath to take. I guess I maybe picked up that silly notion from reading Willie Shakespeare or something.  Another notion is that plotting against the kingdom was usually done in secret.....like commies......by dim candle light. Guess that idea came from watching old film noir spy movies, half awake late at night or something.

Today there is this King, who was under constant coordinated attack from the shadows. They struck at the King unceasingly. The assassins failed. But just made him stronger. The King became embolden, and his enemies are now exposed. Their creepy minions, along with their evil constipated conspirators of the media now stand in the light. Disgraced, unapologetic and with no shame whatsoever.

They now threaten the King once more. Themselves wounded and disliked, they intend to strike again, and make no secret of their intentions. There is no more loyal opposition with them. They only see enemies. Enemies they are willing to take out. Publicly. 

The second ugliest person in congress, the foreign born far left, Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa) on MSNBC’s “Ricky Maddow Show” said she was training Americans to help take down a potential “dictatorship” of President Donald Trump.

“It appears that the Trump administration is willing to ignore judicial decisions and so that brings us to you in this room. It brings us to the people that is really, the bulwark, the wall against the crumbling of democracy. We’ve developed a curriculum where we help people understand, how do you go after the pillars of support? 

Not necessarily the person at the top but the pillars of support that allow that person to continue to have power? And how do you shift allies from being sort of passive opponents to being active supporters of taking down a dictatorship?”

Well that's an easy question to answer. You lie, project, gaslight, smear, swat and disrupt. The same shit you did anonymously through taxpayer funded NGOs and corrupt judges. But now exposed as the slimy corrupt party you champion, with your back against the wall, your party in shambles, you might take care. 

The King has broken no laws, only tested their legality, and when necessary appealed as is his right. And unlike his predecessor, who thumbed his nose at the courts with not a peep from you self proclaimed saviors of Democracy. Strike again at the power and beware he is now stronger than ever. 

Shakespeare's royal intrigues served as lessons to some. Tales of film noir commie spies intent on destroying America from within, didn't fare as well.  

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 The International Association of  Professional People Who Stare at Paintings: 

 

The IAPPWSP has announced the discovery and authentication of the centuries' old rumor of an alternate version, egg tempera on wood, of the famous "Last Supper" fresco by Leo Da Vinci. The rumors from after Da Vinci's death had the mysterious painting titled  "The Last Get Together". 

People Who Stare at Paintings found written in De Vinci's own hand on the back of the wood panel the title; "Jack sono Wild e non leccatevi le cianfrusaglie al tavolo, ragazzi"  Roughly translated to english reads "Jacks are are Wild and No Licking your junk at the table, boys."

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