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Originally posted by PASig:
I really hope none of these stupid woketards in our area don't do anything stupid, but I half expect someone to vandalize the place or try to burn it down.

If he is wise, he is very well insured.

With a multi-camera security system.

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Originally posted by Fenris:

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Originally posted by PASig:
I really hope none of these stupid woketards in our area don't do anything stupid, but I half expect someone to vandalize the place or try to burn it down.

If he is wise, he is very well insured.

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“The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of Vladimir Lenin.”

Father’s interest in Gramsci was more than a mild, “academic” one:

“[Joseph] Buttigieg was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society, an organization that aims to ‘facilitate communication and the exchange of information among the very large number of individuals from all over the world who are interested in Antonio Gramsci’s life and work and in the presence of his thought in contemporary culture.’”

There’s plenty more in that article that was, not surprisingly, largely ignored by the mainstream media. Part of that may be due to Gramsci’s relative obscurity to the American public, even though his ideas have permeated our society to a remarkable extent. There are few political thinkers more important in our time.

So just who was Antonio Gramsci? The Italian Marxist was among those Leninists who were frustrated by the slow pace the recalcitrant “workers of the world” were taking in “throwing off their chains.” He theorized the better approach to revolution, to an ideal communist society, was through the careful organization and efforts of what we now call “elites.” Revolution should be top down.

Gramsci called his system “the march through the institutions”—that is, the media, entertainment, the bureaucracies, the academy, and so forth

Sound familiar? Anything like the United States in 2020?

Returning to Buttigieg (the son), ask yourself this: If you wanted to change today’s America, to bend it inexorably to socialism, scientific or not, would you choose Bernie Sanders’ conventional, in-your-face, “workers of the world unite” method or a more subtle approach that involved slowly co-opting the institutions of our country, from the educational system to, sadly, religion?

I don’t think it takes a genius to say that the latter would be more effective—and ultimately scarier—given the way our advanced and affluent society functions. Bernie, even if he wins the nomination, would be too easily rejected with his fusty Eugene V. Debs style by the larger electorate, possibly disastrously.

The Democrats know this, as most of us do, and so are preparing to select a leader of the moderate lane. As of now that’s between Bloomberg, Klobuchar and Mayor Pete, Biden having faded quickly.

But no one seems to be asking seriously whether Buttigieg—who wrote an essay in praise of Sanders when Pete was still in high school— is indeed moderate, let alone whether he is a Gramscian like his dad.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Roger L Simon, writing in Epoch Times, raises the question of whether Mayor Pete may not be scarier than Bernie.

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“The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of Vladimir Lenin.”

Father’s interest in Gramsci was more than a mild, “academic” one:

“[Joseph] Buttigieg was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society, an organization that aims to ‘facilitate communication and the exchange of information among the very large number of individuals from all over the world who are interested in Antonio Gramsci’s life and work and in the presence of his thought in contemporary culture.’”

There’s plenty more in that article that was, not surprisingly, largely ignored by the mainstream media. Part of that may be due to Gramsci’s relative obscurity to the American public, even though his ideas have permeated our society to a remarkable extent. There are few political thinkers more important in our time.

So just who was Antonio Gramsci? The Italian Marxist was among those Leninists who were frustrated by the slow pace the recalcitrant “workers of the world” were taking in “throwing off their chains.” He theorized the better approach to revolution, to an ideal communist society, was through the careful organization and efforts of what we now call “elites.” Revolution should be top down.

Gramsci called his system “the march through the institutions”—that is, the media, entertainment, the bureaucracies, the academy, and so forth

Sound familiar? Anything like the United States in 2020?

Returning to Buttigieg (the son), ask yourself this: If you wanted to change today’s America, to bend it inexorably to socialism, scientific or not, would you choose Bernie Sanders’ conventional, in-your-face, “workers of the world unite” method or a more subtle approach that involved slowly co-opting the institutions of our country, from the educational system to, sadly, religion?

I don’t think it takes a genius to say that the latter would be more effective—and ultimately scarier—given the way our advanced and affluent society functions. Bernie, even if he wins the nomination, would be too easily rejected with his fusty Eugene V. Debs style by the larger electorate, possibly disastrously.

The Democrats know this, as most of us do, and so are preparing to select a leader of the moderate lane. As of now that’s between Bloomberg, Klobuchar and Mayor Pete, Biden having faded quickly.

But no one seems to be asking seriously whether Buttigieg—who wrote an essay in praise of Sanders when Pete was still in high school— is indeed moderate, let alone whether he is a Gramscian like his dad.

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Buttigieg and Sanders together?

Butt Bern?

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Originally posted by PASig:
Once again the Prez is 100% correct here:

This was utter BULLSHIT and I hope he's got his pardon pen ready for Stone and Flynn:

'Murderers and drug addicts don't get nine years': Furious Trump demands prosecutors 'APOLOGIZE' for treating Roger Stone 'horribly' over his 'disgraceful' sentence recommendation

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Originally posted by PASig:
Once again the Prez is 100% correct here:

This was utter BULLSHIT and I hope he's got his pardon pen ready for Stone and Flynn:

'Murderers and drug addicts don't get nine years': Furious Trump demands prosecutors 'APOLOGIZE' for treating Roger Stone 'horribly' over his 'disgraceful' sentence recommendation

Absolutely right - Roger Stone needs to be pardoned. Tucker Carlson nailed it tonight when he said that not doing so would give legitimacy to their Russia collusion hoax.

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Trump not only allowed actress Jennifer Hudson, who is black, and her family to stay free at his Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago after her mother and brother were murdered in 2008, he apparently increased security for them.

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Democrats know that the more voters learn about Trump, the slimmer their chances are in 2020. There’s a reason they look so desperate.