Appalachia wishes it were the Ukraine

This is a government which has lost the mandate of heaven. It is no longer fit to rule.

An overview of what has happened – and not happened – in North Carolina. Grim reading!

Hurricane Helene and the Lost Mandate of Heaven (substack.com)

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That Unspeakable Thing In DC has more important things to do:

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It is now “Unspeakable” in both meanings of the word. It has been “unspeakable” in the sense of “abominable” for some time now; we could say so, then. To be exquisitely clear, what I mean, now it is “unspeakable” also in the sense that severe penalties attach to speaking/writing of it (The Thing in DC) in unapproved ways. Now, mere characterization of your words as “mis-” or “dis-” - information and you become ipso facto “a terrorist”. Who woulda thunk it even a few short years ago? The zealous apparatchiks seem to be hosting a running a Stalin or Mao look-alike contest in the District (soon to be a state with two senators) and not just at Halloween.

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“Trump was, in fact, on the ground in Georgia almost immediately, acting as a president should, to rally the people and raise their morale, while working with Elon Musk to make StarLink available throughout the affected region, regardless of ability to pay. Musk bought a lot of good will with that”

Good will?

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