If you want to make a difference, you gotta be different.

> ...US democracy is so dysfunctional that courts thought the balance of powers had to be set aside. > ...a further step has been taken in the transition from democracy to autocracy. [Another Step on the Path to Autocracy](

Another Step on the Path to Autocracy |

The US #GovtIsTheProblem

> Western peoples naively believe that they live in democracies over which voting gives them some control. The facts are entirely different. There are numerous governmental and semi-governmental organizations at work creating tyranny of which the insouciant masses are unaware. > > As the tyranny creeps, each generation is born into more tyranny and less freedom. As time passes, tyranny becomes the norm, and no one understands or even is aware of the transformation into thought and behavior control that has been accomplished. - Paul Craig Roberts

Tyranny Is Creeping Upon Us and We Don’t Know It |

#GovtIsTheProblem

If you think that they think they are public "servants", you are deluded. Like Voltaire said, if you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize. View quoted note →

German police raid a libertarian’s home for the crime of calling civil servants “parasites”...

German police raid a libertarian's home for the crime of calling civil servants "parasites," advise him to "Think carefully about what you post in future"

A new insane German speech crime investigation just dropped.

#libertarian #GovtIsTheProblem

AI Is a Threat to All of Humanity...

AI Is a Threat to All of Humanity |

In reality, the government never did truly shutdown, there were just vulnerable federal employees who didn't get paid for a while. Trump and Congress and the Supreme Court were still meeting and working and getting paid. I'd love to see a REAL government shutdown where there's no federal government activity! Why should flights all over the country have been affected? To me that shows that too much is the under the control of the federal government. It's an over-centralization and is a major central point of failure. The US #GovtIsTheProblem

I wonder if all those Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court might take marriage back from federal government meddling and put it back in the hands of the state governments? But it doesn't even belong in state governments' hands because marriage is not a government issue. It should be back exclusively in the hands of the church, in my opinion. And, while I'm not a Roman Catholic, I believe they get it right by not permitting divorce. I believe that most aligns with Jesus' teachings on marriage. View quoted note →

The first session of this debate last night was great, so I'm looking forward to this today: https://www.youtube.com/live/1WooUVrdRB4 #Christian #Israel

Wow, I just now learned that Dick Cheney died, 4 days ago! Usually I learn such things right away. I guess I'm becoming quite detached from the news and social media. I am surprised I haven't even heard anyone mention it. Could that be a function of his irrelevance or loathesomeness?

LewRockwell

History Will Not Be Kind to Dick Cheney - LewRockwell

Dick Cheney died this week. He leaves behind a wretched legacy. Cheney reached the pinnacle of his influence as George W. Bush’s vice president, ...

> "Countries that once championed classical liberalism have traded freedoms for dependency and sacrificed liberty for the illusion of safety." https://tinyurl.com/56e8cp48

Are we at the point in which the American Republic morphs into a monarchy, as happened in Rome over 20 centuries ago? https://www.fff.org/2025/11/03/trump-doesnt-need-a-third-term-to-remain-as-president-in-2028/ The US #GovtIsTheProblem

"So ironically, the best reason to be a Jew is Jesus. Because we have good reason to believe in Jesus, we have good reason to believe in Yahweh."

Fountain

Reasonable Faith Podcast • Question of the Week #962: Why Think Yahweh is the True God? • Listen on Fountain

Read this Question of the Week Here: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/why-think-yahweh-is-the-true-god

> Only God in human flesh could predict the future of human history, much less utter the following sentence: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” This was perhaps our Lord’s strongest assertion of deity yet. His words will never pass away, though the heavens and earth will. The reason Jesus can speak of the future with such certainty is because his words are the words of God. -- Kim Riddlebarger, *A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times* (2003)

Steve Bannon says Trump WILL have, needs to have, a third term in 2028...

Democracy and voting, even in a republic, is IMMORAL, because it's based on majority rule, or the idea that might makes right. We outnumber you, therefore we can overpower you if need be, to FORCE you to do what we want. It's also based on the unjust idea that it is okay to steal people's stuff, without their consent, obviously (called "taxation", or "eminent domain", or "civil asset forfeiture", and "inflation"). These two intrinsic injustices are violations of people's fundamental property rights, thus their civil liberty. They violate libertarianism's non-aggression principle: don't initiate force against someone who has not initiated force or fraud against you. Don't hurt people and don't take their stuff. These are basic rules that people should have learned as toddlers! But when your system of governance is based on such fundamental violations of personal rights, the idea that COERCION is acceptable, the whole system becomes confused, violence trickles down and permeates throughout society, and rights and liberties are obscured and lost in the process. You wind up with socialism and eventually totalitarianism, whether it is of the communist or fascist variety. #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism

Another one. 🔥🥶🧊 #tunestr

https://globalgeopolitics.co.uk/2025/10/20/trumps-caribbean-war-claims-a-civilian-life-2/ The US #GovtIsTheProblem

Your thoughts become beliefs, Your beliefs become behaviors, Your behaviors become habits, Your habits become character. So be careful about your thoughts, what you entertain in your mind... #sermon-notes

> "While some elements of the state are necessary for providing basic security, maintaining critical infrastructure, and adjudicating conflict, the state invariably becomes way too big and parasitic, and ultimately cancerous." He said "some *elements* of the state are necessary, not that the state itself is necessary. These essential elements could be provided voluntarily, on the free market, if we can get "the state" a.k.a. "the government" out of the way. The alternative is to live with the cancer.

The End of Britain, France, and Germany

On the suicidal tendencies of the great nations of Europe.

#GovtIsTheProblem #EndTheState