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I think you hit on something very important here. How we are all essentially on parole, subject to recall at any time. Step out of line and your freedoms will be taken from you. Which obviously means they are not really freedoms, just the illusion of freedom, granted to us at the pleasure of our masters. Scary stuff.

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You’re right, and I think many are beginning to awaken to this frightening reality. It’s a complete inversion of everything we were told about our country’s founding principles—but then, that country no longer exists, and hasn’t for some time. All this that’s happened in the past few years, including Trump’s indictment, is unmistakable evidence that we’re living now in a rapidly coalescing left-totalitarian state. I guess we’d better get used to it.

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Yes. But it’s not just the USA. I’m in England, but it all rings true here. We’re currently a little less polarised as a society than the Red vs Blue US. But not by much.

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That is true, it certainly isn’t just the US. I would be much more hopeful if it were; unfortunately, the madness has spread to all the English-speaking countries. But I think recognizing and naming the evil is half the battle, and I hope that’s where the (formerly) robust traditions of dissent and just plain fractiousness in our countries will stand us in good stead.

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Not just English-speaking countries. The whole West is infected with the liberal disease. That is why the future of Europe lies further east. The West is done. The ship has sailed.

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Unfortunately, I think you’re right, and the liberal disease seems to be terminal. I think the West died more or less in 1914, and has been shambling on in a kind of living death ever since. But all things have their allotted span, I suppose, and it’ll be fascinating to see what comes next…

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Germany is no better. In Germany, judges are being tried for having - based on expert witness documentation - ruled against non medical interventions. In Germany, banks are cancelling dissident accounts. In Germany, for the second time after Merkel did it the first time, preparations are being made to cancel the very successful voting into office of a representative of the only party in Germany that is not part of the uni-party resetter bloc. UK banks are cancelling bank accounts too, latest well-known victim, Nigel Farage. Also the EU is currently moving forward a big step with regard to CBDC. They are dropping the pretense of law and freedom as they are approaching the final stage. What they are doing currently in regard of banks, is a clumsy, very visible anticipation of what will run smoothly, undetected and undiscussed in the background once the IHR (God forbid) enter into force at end October of this year.

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It is, frankly, a terrifying feeling. The noose is slowly but surely being fitted about our necks, and there’s nowhere we can flee to escape it—the West, the countries our ancestors built, are in ideological lockstep.

Our backs are to the wall, and at some point we’ll have to fight. The odds don’t seem to be in our favor, but I wouldn’t count us out yet…

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Yes, and to achieve that feeling in you, they chose such a type of accusation where it can be made clear and unequivocal in several distinct ways how this is arbitrary. Biden having done same but in more attackable way (Trump it seems respected conditions under which Presidents may appropriate and safely store stuff while unindicted Biden did not respect these conditions).

So, firstly choosing a small thing over something bigger. Secondly, choosing a thing that is not really a thing. Thirdly, doing so in context of someone else not being indicted for same accusation. Fourth, not indicting that same someone else despite the thing in that person's case actually _being_ a thing, unlike in the case of the indicted one. So many small little messages packed into one.

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Excellent article! I agree with every single thing you stated. I shall share this piece widely. I don't understand why Trump was hoarding those documents in the first place. Why did he take them with him to his place and put them next to his toilet? It's very strange to me.

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Thanks—glad you enjoyed it! The whole thing is very strange. Who knows? Maybe he just wanted some interesting reading material when he was on the john.

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Don't be afraid to say that Epstein was sex trafficking girls for political blackmail, and murdered by the government.

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