I suppose some choose it for love of community or country and others for power and grift. It looks like very few can go into that swamp and come out not stained and smelling bad. Sad, really, as we need good leadership.

I could never understand the left swooning over the Clintons. My assessment of him the first time I heard him speak was sleazy. As for her, nasty megalomaniac. Many still swoon.

Billions swindled? Our land invaded? Voter fraud? There will be no cleanup until the guilty are perp walked to prison. I'll not hold my breath.

Sober set this week, OUC. Thank you!

Like them all. Plan to watch the halftime TPUSA special on OAN at 1900. I heard that they were going to have true American performers performing in our national language. Goodell needs to move on. Woke is so yesterday.

More and more I'm thinkin politics is an incurable disease.

Bound to be a dud due to the Super bowl. Maybe check out the memes while bad bunny gets iced.
Predicted by the Babylon Bee

Plato said it best: Democracies become Mob Rule and or (as said else where in the old world) People figure out how to vote for more bread and circus.

Either way, they go south quick

There are other considerations like active/dormant volcanoes, large local bodies of water, local plate tectonics etc but 4950 is a good number.
I'm 280, I need something that floats like my old sailboat and a wife that would get behind a move from here.
Now, listen to the science, posted after this one.

Thank you. I would love to be in your group of friends. I invite you to sign up on libertypen.com for a free subscription to all of my essays and daily links. I will be posting "The Story of Your Enslavement" in the coming days as my video of the day. Also, you might be interested in the LibertyPen YouTube channel. Thanks again

My house sits at 4950'. I love it here. I wanted more land but made the mistake of listening to my wife, again. We're right under where the pines start.

I really appreciate this piece! Very well written and to the point.

This part..."These policies raise a fundamental question: Who owns your life? If you need permission to plant a garden, catch a fish, teach a skill, or camp in the woods, then the answer is clearly not you." reminds me of a short video that really changed how I look at all this. It's a video you can find if you look hard for it (no surprise) called "The Story of Your Enslavement", by Stefan Molyneux. It describes this so well. We're the livestock and the government is the farmer. I think this paradigm must at least be studied, as it explains a lot.

Well done, LibertyPen. I looked at your picture and thought, "Yeah...This guy would fit right in with my group of friends." Haha...

I can only hope that our constitutional republic can withstand slipping into "complacency to apathy to dependence, and back to bondage."
I am not prophet but currently it appears to me that lunacy of the left is only waking up the ire of the Silent Majority (or those with any common sense intact.)

Laughing, still laughing at water cannons and VanGogh. Woke up to MORE snow this morning. I wonder if the Boss would let me borrow his polar bear to go shopping...

The scary thing is the amendment bringing on the income tax is basically a one-liner, but it gave birth to 80 thousand pages of tax code and a giant standing army to enforce all that gobble-de-goop. Not to mention sucking up nearly a trillion dollars annually for the nations people and businesses to comply to the behemoth.

Good point, BornSovereign. The Constitution was never meant to be used against itself like a national suicide pact.

White male - evil supremacist oppressor

Oh, the book title: "The Politically Incorrect Guide To Woke". Go, Thor, Go!

Nice. Is this your wesite?

DON'T LOOK HERE!!!!!!!!!!
The current generation of stupid could care less how to retore the Republic. Spoiler -- solution is a Convention of the states and the Amendment process.
If you are not stupid, have an attention span longer than a woke teen, can actually spend time reading without distraction and are not a spammer who takes five seconds to find an email to spam to, go here: https://www.TheSocietyProject.org It will test your patience and how much you are willing to do for restoration.

The income tax is flat out unconstitutional. The sooner we all know, the sooner we can starve the deepstate.

Yes! We certainly have our challenges. Those in the Constitution I like to call “graffiti” and, as you point out, they're found several places in the Document (and Amendments). Few may result from imprecise word choice or a consequence of word meaning shift. Others are glaring. But, in all cases, the meaning must be consistent with the document's purpose (stated in the Preamble) otherwise ignored as graffiti.

I was just in Vegas and caught the local news on this. Yep, next to a water delivery canal. You know…they’ve been discovering similar unlicensed, undocumented labs like this in California - mainly Chinese and working w Covid. Nobody in the government cares and Gavey’s CDPH told the authorities in Fresno after one was found there to quit talking about it. Hey. This is where we’re at now. Some factions absolutely LOVE what happened during Covid, apparently, and would like to see more of it. But, don’t worry. The government loves you, and wants to keep you safe.

Reverse science: Picking a question to suit a list of conclusions:

LGBTQ - good
Trump - bad
Christian - bad
Islam - victim
Black - victim
Hispanic - victim, unless conservative
Asian - Exception to victim rule. Ignore unless they also support all other victims
Guns - bad
ICE - bad
Law Enforcement - bad if admin is conservative, good if admin is progressive
Totalitarianism - Great, if government is progressive.
...

We could write a book!

Hmmmmm, somebody should come up with a meme expressing that, LOL! (Sorry, Thor, as true as your post is, the thought struck me as humorous and I couldn't help myself.)

Wasn't the US border a "sensitive place" violated by these ILLEGAL aliens in the first place? There are NO "sensitive places" for law enforcement not to do it's duty and its job.

Our forefathers studied the classics and logic. The present world studies memes and practices cognitive dissonance.

Regarding this, as an independent little peon I'm doing the only things I can do: I don't watch their programming, I don't attend their functions, and I don't buy any of their crap. Even when programs I do like tangent off into the sports politics garbage I switch stations or shut it off and find something else to do with what's left of my time here on earth.

Nice article, LibertyPen. Thanks for posting it in the Gulch.