If You Really Wanted to Destroy the U.S., Then...
Townhall,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
12/1/2022 7:49:42 AM
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence.
Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand.
Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage.
Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line.
Overregulate and demonize frackers and horizontal drillers. Ensure there is less investment in their exploration and production.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 12/1/2022 8:14:20 AM (No. 1346443)
Yeah buddy, Biden hits all points, biggly! FJB MAGA
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TCloud 12/1/2022 8:32:19 AM (No. 1346464)
It will be MAGA or BUST!
26 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/1/2022 8:42:04 AM (No. 1346473)
Had Biden decided that he
Would do it deliberately
To kill our great nation
With rampant inflation
What would he have done differently?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 12/1/2022 9:07:13 AM (No. 1346496)
First of all, Joe Biden is not acting alone. He has a LOT of help, from the top on down to bamboozled voters.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 12/1/2022 9:15:36 AM (No. 1346504)
VDH makes a comprehensive list of the evils committed by the Biden administration of which I fully agree. Now, what is the solution? We have a totally corrupt and lawless government, a weak ineffective Republican opposition, and biased media spewing democrat talking points. Please point me in the direction of a real solution. Elections are joke. The judiciary has abandoned the law. Criminals roam the streets unimpeded. Where does the American people go to right this horrific wrong? If any of the wizards of smart can answer that question, I welcome their response. Or has the country been lost through thievery and corruption and no one is honest enough to say it?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/1/2022 9:35:59 AM (No. 1346521)
Thanks Victor. We here knew all this for the past almost 2 years. Unfortunately, GOP leadership is clueless and thinks that the Biden Administration just doesn't know what it is doing so of course they want to reach across the aisle to help them "help" us.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 12/1/2022 10:10:45 AM (No. 1346581)
In order to rule the USA , it has to be destroyed as founded and that's what the uniparty has been tirelessly working at for the last 2 years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/1/2022 10:14:33 AM (No. 1346583)
He left one off: erect and support an indoctrination establishment that is called Public Education & University. Turn out ill-educated leaders who demand the destruction of individual liberty.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
uforabin 12/1/2022 10:15:23 AM (No. 1346584)
And those are just ten things off the top of his head.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/1/2022 10:50:10 AM (No. 1346613)
That a doddering imbecile like President Vegetable and a brain damaged half man like Senator Turnip can be elected points to the corruption of the left and the increasing idiocy of the leftist electorate.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/1/2022 10:57:12 AM (No. 1346615)
Nobody is helping Biden, they are guiding him. Every time one of his little circle of perverts, girlie men, transwhatevers and lunatics opens his or her mouth, you can feel the crazy come out. Joe is just going along with the left and thinking he's doing a great job and is the best president ever. Where has Ron Klain been? He hasn't come out of his cage in a while. A lowlife, sleazy grifter like him needs the publicity to stay relevant.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SilkCity 12/1/2022 11:13:59 AM (No. 1346630)
"If"?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/1/2022 11:19:54 AM (No. 1346632)
FTA: "Leave behind thousands of loyal Afghan allies..."
Newsflash, VDH...the AFGHANS were supposedly (after 20 years of American support) creating their own wonderland in their HOME country. They were not American "allies" but Afghan "patriots". And the US owes them NOTHING. They had their opportunity and tossed it aside when trouble came their way, regardless of the Americans. Did France stick around after the British ceded the colonies? Did France do any nation building? Did the French have any moral obligation to fight Britain as our "ally" in the War of 1812? The Afghans, like others in the "Stans", don't have the slightest idea of Western liberty or freedom. It's not their culture. It will likely never be their culture as mountain people living in the 10th Century. Enough pity for the poor Afghans, who meekly stood by as the Taliban moved in. (Any exceptions one might cite only prove the rule.)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 12/1/2022 12:37:41 PM (No. 1346693)
Half of America wants all of it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
thomthomp 12/1/2022 1:01:19 PM (No. 1346704)
VDH channeling the late Paul Harvey's "If I were the Devil"
https://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2012/03/paul-harvey-if-i-were-the-devil-radio-audio-and-transcript/
There IS evil in the world and it doesn't matter what name it goes by. In this country in this age its name is "Democrat" - not all of them, perhaps, but those in power. And there can be no compromise with evil.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
columba 12/1/2022 2:54:50 PM (No. 1346751)
It all adds up to the phony citizen recently amed Barak Obama.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 12/2/2022 7:14:39 AM (No. 1347156)
...and so, what are we doing about this?....talk, talk,talk...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 12/2/2022 8:25:43 AM (No. 1347206)
When the strategic oil reserve is finally emptied for China and all inventories, not just diesel fuel and home heating oil, are atba few weeks supply the Democrat voters and the vote riggers are going to remember when Biden's handlers $5.50/gallon at the pump as a bargain. Unfortunately the braindead guy residing on Pennsylvania Avenue and his braindead manipulators are making us poorer with them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/2/2022 9:02:43 AM (No. 1347233)
FTA, VDH's last sentence - "We have done all of the above. It would be hard to imagine any planned agenda to destroy America that would have been as injurious as what we already suffered the last two years."
But, VDH missed one very important point - belief in God, our Creator, has been replaced with obeyance to the deep state.
Meanwhile, the war to destroy what's left of America's soul rages on. And it will keep happening until we finally fight back or are finally beaten. 300 million guns in this country and we may be beaten into submission without a single shot being fired.
Why? Because of complacency. We have had it too good too long and haven't had to fight for our freedom in over 75 years. With all the modern conveniences remaining at our fingertips - social media where we can seek constant approval from our "friends", credit cards, cell phones, ipads, laptops, internet, aps available for practically anything, housing galore, cheap air travel, banks that are open 6 days a week, plentiful jobs everywhere, fully stocked grocery stores, beer pubs on every street corner, weekends full of football, 24/7 sports, abortion clinics for all, lots of gasoline, natural gas and electricity, and vacations on demand to anywhere in the world.
So, silly us. Why get worked up over the loss of our Constitutional Republic.
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This is all written in the Rules for Radicals by that Luciferian, Saul Alinsky. It is the "Gospel" of the despotic left, It has been implemented by the Demoncrats for years. They have no constituency but themselves, and they are smooth talking snakes, just like the Asp in the Garden of Eden. Who fights back? Very few with any power. This is what has to change and change soon, or we are doomed.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/2/2022 11:40:01 AM (No. 1347379)
This country is being torn apart by the new world order dudes headed by schwab and run by soros...the fools in Washington are addicted to his money and will do nothing to stop him...except President Trump got four years to undo some of their damage and is set to do it again in 2024...no matter how much huff and puff comes from desantis and the bushes and chennys...WE the people will not be convinced to desert President Trump...he never deserted US...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
The Remnants 12/2/2022 11:59:42 AM (No. 1347407)
Just continue what "they" (whoever THEY are) are doing! When evil moves - without any boundaries - you are left with nothing,
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Penney 12/2/2022 4:41:34 PM (No. 1347588)
America didn't suddenly slip into this dangerous predicament during the past 2 years. No, we have just noticed that because it is impossible to ignore. It has been a long slide away from the foundational principles which have made this country the best place to live on earth and the most benevolent historically. But now the woke gang is sweeping aside our magnificent historical quest for the best lives for all as carefully recorded throughout our American history and along with that history goes the lessons learned, good and bad. It is stupid to try to erase history for reality goes away with it! Lessons learned are lost! Many events now politically occurring seem unrealistic because the movers & shakers are off in la-la land, ignoring reality and Truth already discovered by others throughout history.
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