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James Goodrich's avatar

The police state isn’t coming it’s here… most people have no idea.

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Cheryl B.'s avatar

It’s been here for awhile now. They really truly don’t. That’s also what is frightening! If anyone hasn’t watched the film “Police State” yet, I highly recommend it. Should be able to find on Dinesh D’ Souza’s website

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Mark Miller's avatar

Even D'Souza says it's not completely here, but is definitely forming. It's long past time to stop it.

One of the most perceptive comments I've heard of late is, "People wonder how Germany fell to the Nazis. We're watching how it happened in real time," and people don't even realize it. That's the point.

The answer we should take away from this is that the population was sufficiently inured to dictatorial power, such that giving it over seemed like the right thing to do, and anyone opposing it was a threat to Germany.

Something that Glenn Beck was perceptive enough to talk about more than 10 years ago was that widespread nihilism in the culture was a key ingredient which allowed this to happen. He saw a worrying trend then that this was developing in our culture.

Historians who have reflected on the psychology of the German people at the time have said that inside, people were so uncertain about what was true, what mattered, that they were drawn like moths to a flame to people, Hitler in particular, who were infused with absolute certainty about their own rightness. A consequence of this with Hitler was that he always blamed others for what were really his own failings, even in private meetings, claiming that *they* were the ones who'd failed, or betrayed him.

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Jean's avatar

3/25 Good News - appeared in Federalist today

Substack Payment Processor Backs Off Demand For Bank Data From mRNA Scientist

BY: JOY PULLMANN

MARCH 25, 2024

6 MIN READ

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James Goodrich's avatar

That is great news!! A win is a win is a win. Thanks Jean I needed that.

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Pat Orsban's avatar

this is why I will not take the wife into Asheville, the leftist rodents that ruin the police dept will arrest me if I have to shoot some democrat vermin trying to rape my wife,

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James Goodrich's avatar

Pat how is North Carolina? My wife and I talk about moving out of Mass. all the time and talk about the Carolina’s but I know little about N and S Carolina. I know anywhere is better than here!!!

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Pat Orsban's avatar

flee while you can.

I moved to Asheville area in 1976, from Fla (I am known to locals as a "half back", born up north, raised in Fla, moved half way back)

and figured out then this was where I wanted to retire.

Weather keeps getting better (so far so good, love global warming)

Asheville is a putrid little leftist cesspool, I try to avoid it, but the rest of Western NC is great. Very little crime outside of the plantation.

Property taxes, Ok, if you get about ten miles outside of Asheville, house prices not to bad.

A decent hosp (I worked there for over 20 years, and still do some part time at a back clinic office) but HCA Mission is still a little woke. Staff cuts leads to patient dissatisfaction.

Lots of doctors in community though. A couple of tech schools, one UNC college.

So, Western NC, good, Eastern Tenn also good (I am remodeling at the house on Lake Douglas) We may be getting our first black Gov for NC (leftist vermin hate him, he is a repub) so NC looking more like a free state, and Tenn is a free state with a couple of democrat cesspools.

Asheville nice and central. 4 hours to Atlanta. 5 hours to Charleston, 6 hours to Savannah, 8 hours to Gulf Coast. We have a regional airport, with bigger ones at Knoxville and Charlotte (both about 3 hours away. A few play houses (I used to do Shakespeare with the Montford Park Players years ago. Big playhouse in Flat Rock.

Biltmore House in Asheville. Blue Ridge Parkway. Smokey Mtns. Woohoo!

Minutes from the mountains. And, there is wild ginseng growing all over the place here.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thank you I tell my wife we have to go there to see where to live if we want to move there eventually. We have a place on a lake in NH which is nice but the state has changed a lot and NH is surrounded by leftest wackoes in Mass., Vermont and Maine. The weathers tough also, yesterday was a great example snow ice a real shit storm, but still beautiful there. https://share.icloud.com/photos/065QLNbx_vpaw0FqZ7hvOuBlQ

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Louise Vogel's avatar

James I moved out of Mass. in 2020 after enjoying it for decades. My reasoning re NH was the same as yours. Since you like being on a lake, you might ck out Tellico Village in TN south of Knoxville.. 10,000 pop., geared towards retired people but there’s no age restriction for living/owning there.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Thank you Louise looked it up quick looks beautiful!! My wife has nephews that live in Tennessee, I think cook county, if I remember correct.

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Pat Orsban's avatar

Yep, Lake Douglas and Cherokee Lake are near Knoxville.

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Jennifer Beebe's avatar

It is most definitely here! 👿

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