Here We Go – 10 Executive Orders To Federally Weaponize COVID Against Us

posted by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse

One of the bigger issues never fully grasped by many Americans was President Donald Trump’s restraint in relation to the power of the federal government under the guise of COVID-19 action.  No president in our lifetime was ever more reluctant to weaponize the opportunity to expand government; Donald Trump stood the gap.

CTH warned since last summer of the ramifications if a leftist group used COVID-19 to expand federal power over peoples lives and livelihoods.  Today, JoeBama’s team has unleashed a series of TEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS fully weaponizing the opportunity.

(1) Executive order on COVID worker Safety, weaponized Dept of Labor, OSHA.  Literally word-for-word what CTH predicted.   [Predictions HERE and HERE]

(2) Executive order on COVID school safety, weaponized the Dept of Education. Leverages federal funds, grants.  Supports the education labor union effort. Exactly as expected.

(3) Executive order creating COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.  Weaponizing the HHS takeover; the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Education, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.  Again, exactly as predicted.

(4) Executive order using National Health Crisis as a security threat.  Weaponizing the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

(5) Executive order taking over National Guard.  The domestic terrorists need a category within the health emergency.  The isolation and detainment camps need security. “Support of Operations or Missions to Prevent and Respond to the Spread of COVID-19. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall, to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with mission requirements (including geographic proximity), request pursuant to 32 U.S.C. 502(f) that all State and territorial governors order National Guard forces to perform duty to fulfill mission assignments.”

(6) Executive order taking control of travel.  “The Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of Transportation (including through the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)), the Secretary of Homeland Security (including through the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard).

You can read the rest HERE.

Here’s the earlier warning:

There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate.  [Usefulness As A Narrative]

Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype?… That is the key question.

The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon, and we are about to discover exactly what the purpose of the hype is all about. What follows will help understand; and when you encounter the fear it will help to reconcile what people cannot figure out.

Joe Biden is an avatar; a political pawn; a cognitively declining guy who has no idea what is happening around him. The people behind the Biden campaign, those in real control of what this is about, have not hidden their goals and aspirations. These are not stupid people. They are scheming, conniving, ever-planning, ever-manipulating & Machiavellian types within the political system; lusting for power, influence and affluence.

What they are planning to do is weaponize COVID-19 to attain ideological objectives. This is why they hyped the fear within it for almost a year. Nothing within their plan requires the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC. COVID is the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.

On October 23rd, those behind the Biden campaign dropped all pretense, openly having their candidate state publicly his intention to control the lives of all Americans using the authority of a weaponized federal government to advance national COVID-19 regulations.

As you watch this video from Biden’s campaign it is important to remember state government officials have already moved to define “essential businesses” and “essential workers” during the forced shut-downs. That is going to become a bigger issue downstream; however, for now just watch closely what Joe Biden is saying here:

The Dept of Transportation would be the agency enforcing a national interstate transit mask requirement. However, don’t focus on the DoT part of what he was saying… that’s only one creek… Instead focus on the downstream use of all federal regulatory agencies and how they align within a Federal COVID compliance network… that’s the river.

Think about the Dept of Agriculture (SNAP/food stamps), the Dept. of Labor, the Dept of Education, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Dept of Labor, Dept of Energy and how they would join with the DoT to create the aggregate raging river of regulation.

Think about the federal government using mandates for enforced national COVID-19 compliance rules. Think about USDA (Dept of Agriculture) and OSHA federal inspections for social distancing (etc) in all businesses, not just restaurants.

Think about the COVID-19 regulatory and compliance system and what political beneficiaries stand to gain.

Think about the Dept of Education using COVID to restructure the way education is taught and the downstream regulations on charter schools and non-compliant educational systems that do not meet the ideological objectives of the master control plan.

Think about how the Dept. of Labor (complaint division) can be weaponized against political opposition based on arbitrary inspections under the guise of employee health and safety…. using federal COVID compliance rules.

Think about required days off for the entire employee base if a single infection is identified in the workplace. Paid days off…. funded by Federal Government. Think about how that changes the income dependency dynamic.

Think about the larger Green New Deal (goals and objectives), and then contrast those objectives while aligning an overlay map of how federal COVID mitigation rules can be applied as a back door to the EXACT SAME objective.

Far beyond masks…. Workspaces being forced to be redesigned. New rules on labor density. New rules on labor/manufacturing and office proximity. New rules on uniforms. New rules on hand-washing stations. New rules on sick pay, shift hours, time-off when a COVID infection is detected in the workplace.

Think about everything from rules on surfaces, to rules on packaging, to rules on ALL business operations as an outcome of federal regulatory policy under the guise of CVOID-19 mitigation. OSHA, Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Education, Housing, Health and Human Services, and even federal building permits… the entire regulatory system and compliance network.

Think about Housing and Urban Development (HUD) having new rules about dwellings and complexes for housing grants. Population density; the need to move into the suburbs and the confiscation of private property to “ensure the common safety” of the citizens.

If you think this is fear-mongering, I want to to evaluate that cynicism while contemplating this recent example from California:

Think about those types of business regulations applied on a National level…. and then, as seen in prior Democrat administrations with IRS etc, think about them also being enforced through the prism of political affiliation.

Think about how states that refuse to participate will be cut off from federal grants and funding for college tuition, Medicare and/or medicaid reimbursement, etc. etc.

Think about what happens to Main Street USA?

Think about companies on the NASDAQ or national companies on the stock-market?

Think about how those USA-specific federal COVID compliance regulations apply when considering U.S. business operations -vs- just taking operations overseas without those worries.

Think about who in Washington DC then takes control of what types of business interests are allowed to operation…. who determines the winning and losing.

Think about how Federal COVID-19 regulations can be used to put the multinational corporate world back (the globalists) on their former financial pathways, even without TPP and TTIP trade deals.

[Every domestic regulation weaponized against Main Street USA is a win for the Wall Street multinationals.]

Think about how much China and Europe would love to see our economy knee-capped in a Biden regulatory stranglehold; essentially achieving the same objectives as the Paris Climate Treaty.

Think long and hard about how far the tentacles of achieving the Green New Deal can extend under the auspices of federal COVID-19 mitigation.

Remember, those who are working on this don’t care about the middle-class and they have not for decades. The visibility of the ‘rust belt’ is the reference. This is about government bureaucrats using their DC power-base to control trillions in economic value and sell their ability to influence the winners and losers to the highest foreign bidder.

Look at what blue states have already done to seize power and control. Now think about that same manipulative intent spread throughout the entire country by weaponizing federal agencies with advanced regulation.

That should start to frame the reference point going forward. Remember, within totalitarian states religion is a risk… the assembly for religious worship is always considered a risk to by those who demand control over free-thought and lives.

The national legislative priority will be entirely focused on retention of that power system by generating an entirely new form of congressional representation. New states, new senators, new election systems, and funding for the needs of the executive…. that will be the focus of the facilitating legislative branch.

Those behind the executive branch; those controlling Joe Biden; will harness and weaponize the power. The legislative leftists will attempt to ensure the new systems they create under the guise of COVID-19 are never in a position to be withdrawn.

Why? – Why all of this effort?… why such extremes?… Follow the money, it’s always about the money.  The globalist ideology is worthless without money.   Wall Street’s Rick Santelli knows, he’s watching the second deployment of an identical playbook.

So when your friends ask why, talk about ‘why‘.  The weaponization of COVID is the ongoing crisis that will facilitate government solutions. As the American people resist the bait represented by the COVID crisis, those who need to weaponize it will keep turning up the pressure until they have full totalitarian control…

How Joe Biden Misunderstands Unity

In Biden's speech, St. Augustine's deep warning about misdirected unity in love of the wrong thing becomes the spiritual equivalent of “c’mon, man.”

Ben Domenech for The Federalist

Yesterday’s remarks from Joe Biden were what we thought they would be: a lot of talk about unity, and a lot of condemnations of other Americans along the way. The unity talk went over just as expected, with Republicans rolling their eyes. Of course there was unity on that dais in Washington, with a thousand of America’s elites — nearly all of them already vaccinated, but wearing masks to send a message — guarded by tens of thousands of troops against the dire threat of revolt that we are told came this close to toppling our democracy. The mixed message of what you were being told and what you saw on screen was obvious. The Bidens feel temporary, the government feels fragile, and the media’s attempts at spin and fluff feel irritating but obvious — as John Cleese would say, like setting Julie Andrews on fire.

The speech itself was uninteresting and workmanlike, but it contained an interesting misunderstanding that was unintentionally revealing. Midway through the speech, Biden said: “Many centuries ago, Saint Augustine, a saint of my church, wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we love that define us as Americans?” He went on to list several bits of normal political pablum: opportunity, security, decency, etc. 

The construction sounded odd and incomplete to my ear. A quick search of the exact phrasing revealed the likely source: frequent Biden collaborator Jon Meacham. Politico initially reported he hadn’t worked on the speech, but they later ran a correction. Here’s Meacham a few years ago speaking at Middlebury: “In his address he referred to St. Augustine, who defined a nation as ‘a multitude of rational beings united by the common objects of our love.’ Meacham repeated that phrase, the common objects of our love, and asked the question for our nation, ‘What do we love in common?’”

The actual quote comes from Augustine’s “City of God,” Book XIX, Chapter 24. You’ll find it here, and you’ll see it means something quite different than both Meacham and Biden seem to think it means:

But if we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love. Yet whatever it loves, if only it is an assemblage of reasonable beings and not of beasts, and is bound together by an agreement as to the objects of love, it is reasonably called a people; and it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.

 

According to this definition of ours, the Roman people is a people, and its good is without doubt a commonwealth or republic. But what its tastes were in its early and subsequent days, and how it declined into sanguinary seditions and then to social and civil wars, and so burst asunder or rotted off the bond of concord in which the health of a people consists, history shows, and in the preceding books I have related at large. And yet I would not on this account say either that it was not a people, or that its administration was not a republic, so long as there remains an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of love.

 

But what I say of this people and of this republic I must be understood to think and say of the Athenians or any Greek state, of the Egyptians, of the early Assyrian Babylon, and of every other nation, great or small, which had a public government. For, in general, the city of the ungodly, which did not obey the command of God that it should offer no sacrifice save to Him alone, and which, therefore, could not give to the soul its proper command over the body, nor to the reason its just authority over the vices, is void of true justice.”

Now this is very appropriate for the moment. As you can see, what Augustine is saying here is that the objects of our love indicate the nature of our people, and that love must be directed toward God, or all will collapse. What Biden and Boomer Democrats interpret it as is that unity of any kind, unity around anything at all, will be redeemed by our good intentions. Thus, a deep warning about misdirected unity in love of the wrong thing becomes the spiritual equivalent of “c’mon, man.”

To quote with emphasis a saint of your church while almost entirely misconstruing the deep meaning of the quote is a perfect encapsulation of the flawed nature of Biden and the Boomer generation’s views on national unity. The milquetoast version of Christianity that views it through the lens of politeness and civic religion is at the core of the Biden brand. It’s not Hillary Clinton getting the story of the Prodigal Son completely backward, but it’s close. 

In this as in so many ways, Biden represents the post-Vatican II strain of American Catholicism. On election night, he quoted the 1976 Catholic hymn “On Eagle’s Wings.” If you haven’t heard it, it’s a load of theological mush, bad as music and as liturgy. But Joe Biden loves it, so Lana del Ray Instagrams it! Therapeutic moralistic deism wins again, and government is just the things we do together.

So Biden can talk of unity, and insist he’ll fire you if you aren’t decent to people, while at the same time sign an order demanding every federally funded educational institution allow boys in girls’ locker rooms. His press secretary can insist he’s a devout Catholic the same week he erases the Mexico City policy and plans to roll back the Hyde Amendment, ensuring taxpayer funding of abortions. And the corrupt sycophantic press corp will go along dutifully with this unity fiction, and express astonishment as the culture war it attempts to disguise continues to tear the country apart.

As American saint Atticus Finch understood, polite fictions are fine so far as they go, but they are not worth the expense of human life.

Iran's supreme leader tweets attack threat to golfing Trump

 

A Twitter account linked to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has posted what appears to be a call for an attack on Donald Trump in revenge for last year's killing of its top military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani.

The post features a depiction of a man resembling the former US president playing golf in the shadow of a warplane or large drone.

"Vengeance is inevitable," it reads.

The social media giant has now suspended the account - @khamenei_site.

Twitter said the account had violated its rules and it directed readers to a list of prohibited acts, including threatening violence.

Twitter closed President Trump's hugely influential account earlier this month after he published posts that were widely considered to have encouraged violence that gripped the US Capitol.

 

 

The tweet from the Iranian account refers to Gen Soleimani, who was assassinated by a US drone in Baghdad a year ago.

Under Soleimani's leadership, Iran had bolstered pro-Iranian militant groups, expanded its military presence in Iraq and Syria and orchestrated Syria's offensive against rebel groups in its long-running civil war. 

 

 

Mr Trump said at the time the general was "directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of people".

Iran responded by launching a barrage of missiles at an Iraqi airbase housing US troops and warned of further attacks, with Ayatollah Khamenei saying at the time that "severe revenge awaits the criminals".

In the latest tweet, written in Farsi, the word "vengeance" is in red and the rest of the post says: "Soleimani's murderer and he who ordered it will have to pay".

The image resembling Mr Trump was also displayed prominently on Ayatollah Khamenei's official website.

Twitter took action after several calls for it to suspend the account.

"How come this atrocious psychopath can openly call for the assassination of a former US president, and not be kicked out of Twitter?" one user wrote in English.

"Trump's banned but this is perfectly ok. Is this a joke?" another user wrote.

Twitter banned a tweet from the ayatollah's account - which is unverified but is generally considered to be associated with him - earlier this month that described coronavirus vaccines developed in the UK and the US as "untrustworthy".

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55765516 

 

 

 

Interagency consensus is back in charge 🪳

Under Biden, US policy will again be determined by the army of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that skitter through the Executive Branch like cockroaches.

posted by Dianny at Patriot Retort

President Biden’s first task after being sworn in was to sign a gigantic stack of executive orders that were already waiting for him on his desk. In other words, interagency consensus is back to running the country again.

You remember why President Trump was impeached last year, right?

Because the unelected bureaucrats that make up the Executive Branch were miffed that the President and Commander-in-Chief was the one determining foreign policy.

The complaint from these unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats was simple. They determined policy, not the President. And the very last thing a duly elected President should dare to do is defy the interagency consensus of the unelected bureaucrats.

That was at the heart of tubby Alexander Vindman’s complaint. He even said as much during his testimony before the House.

Well, hurrah for the Bureaucracy! The defeat of Trump means the days of a duly-elected President deciding policy are over. Once again, with Biden in the White House, interagency consensus is back in charge.

Under Biden, US policy will again be determined by the army of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that skitter through the Executive Branch like cockroaches.

They write the executive orders, and the only role President Biden plays is signing his name on the dotted line.

As I said in my March 2020 column “Joe is just the vessel:”

These guys want back in. They want their power back.

And Joe Biden is their vessel. He’s their empty barrel to control and maneuver to get their agenda implemented.

Keep in mind. This lot believe that they, and not the president, control policy.

[SNIP]

Joe’s policies will actually be their policies. His agenda, their agenda.

Trust me on this one. President Biden doesn’t know the details of any of those executive orders he signed yesterday. But to those interagency consensus people’s way of thinking, he doesn’t need to know. It isn’t his job to know. His only job is to sign his name to their work.

This is the thing the permanent bureaucracy hated most about Trump. Trump, unlike Obama before him, actually believed the President determined policy and the only job of the unelected bureaucrats was to implement it.

Biden will go back to the Obama way. He will outsource US foreign and domestic policy to nameless, faceless drones completely unaccountable to the voters. They will once again determine US policy. Biden’s only job is to sit down at his desk and sign his name to everything they place before him.

And the interagency consensus of the Biden Administration is being determined by people steeped in identity politics, “social justice” causes, and the Climate Cult.

These pitiful people wasted no time getting to work. From big things like overturning the travel ban from terror states and overturning Trump’s ban on critical race theory in the Federal Government to little things like … adding “preferred pronouns” to the White House website contact form.

Yeah, really.

The interagency consensus crowd even changed the Twitter handle for the Ambassador to Israel to reflect their anti-Israel consensus.

This particular move by the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats was met with instant outrage. Within hours, that petty, passive-aggressive slam at Israel was hastily changed back to “U.S. Ambassador to Israel.”

But trust me. They’re just testing their boundaries. What they can get away with, they will.

After all, changing a Twitter handle is a tiny thing. They’re more than happy to cave on tiny things.

But the big things? Oh, honey. They will ram those down our throats no matter how much outrage comes their way.

I mean, what are we going to do? Vote them out?

We never voted them in.

Since the interagency consensus is American children should be taught to hate their country and despise white people, it probably isn’t surprising that one of the first things these unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats did was shut down President Trump’s 1776 Commission. Heaven forbid America’s public schools teach American history that doesn’t instruct children to hate their country.

By the way, a lot of people have been saying the 1776 Report has been “scrubbed” from the White House website. This isn’t exactly true. Every new administration gets to launch their own White House website. The previous Administration’s website is archived, but still available online. If you haven’t yet read the 1776 Report, you can still find the PDF in the archive of President Trump’s White House website HERE.

Anyroad.

The fact is, every promise Biden made during the campaign is moot. From his assurances that he wouldn’t ban fracking to his vow to grow our economy – none of those promises will translate into action because he isn’t the one taking action. Joe Biden was never going to be the one taking action. That was never part of the plan.

President Biden is merely the figurehead.

The real power is once again in the hands of people we never heard of, whose jobs are guaranteed, and who are not in any way answerable to the American people.

We didn’t vote for them.

We never would have voted for them.

For all Biden’s crowing at his Inauguration that “Democracy has prevailed,” as of noon yesterday, these nameless bureaucrats we didn’t democratically elect are now the ones in charge.

But, hey. At least Biden’s tweets won’t be mean.

Here Is A Terrifying List Of Biden's First Executive Orders As President

Babylon Bee🐝

We knew it was coming, but it still stings. From his very first minute in office, Biden wasted no time in undoing American greatness with a stroke of his pen. We still have 4 years left. God help us all. Here is a list of the executive orders Biden signed on day 1: 

• Canceling the Keystone XL pipeline - From now on, all our oil must be purchased from ISIS.
• All jobs that Trump created are now illegal - We can't have our jobs tainted with white supremacy. Don't worry, you'll get your stimulus check. 
• Every family home must now have a transgender bathroom - Also, every family will be required to have at least one transgender child.
• Tear down the entire border wall - Everyone can now come and go whenever they want. The kids in the cages have to stay though. Pure evil. 
• Arrest Donald Trump on one count of being Donald Trump - Also calls for the arrest of 75 million people for accessory to being Donald Trump. 
• Homeschooling now outlawed - All children must now be indoctrinated from 6 months old by a professional Marxist.
• Anyone who mispronounces "Kamala" will be thrown in prison - Like a common pot smoker.
• All guns must be converted to shoot only NERF bullets - Much safer that way. Could save millions of lives. 
• Metamucil is now a human right - As is prune juice and naptime. 
• Gyms must now encourage body positivity and serve free pizza - Just like Planet Fitness.
• Extra stimulus check to whoever reports a Trump donor - Do your duty!
• Emergency federal aid to all people whose first name is "Hunter" and whose last name is "Biden" - Doesn't seem fair. 
• Misgendering someone will now be punished with death by firing squad - Deadnaming someone will get you an even worse punishment.
• Calling an unnecessary meeting at work now punishable by 15 years in Gitmo - Actually, we're OK with this one. Come to think of it, maybe Biden is the greatest president ever. 

Either way, it looks like we're in for a long 4 years. 

A ‘Restoration Caucus’ for Resisting the Globalist Occupation Regime

A place to start the purification of the Republican Party as a vehicle for national restoration is by creating a caucus that relentlessly primaries globalists and pushes an America First agenda. 

Hezekiah Kantor for American Greatness

The James Buchanan presidency is now upon us. I hoped that things would work out differently, that somehow President Trump—despite his many faults—would carry the day. The final outcome, however, did not surprise me. Now is a time for choosing. 

I have accepted the fact that I can no longer remain in my chosen profession of public education. I can no longer work for an institution that is in the hands of a globalist occupation regime, a regime whose only unifying characteristic is its implicit hostility to the historical American nation and its descendants. I am changing careers and moving to Red America.

Why “globalist occupation regime?” Because it sums up the essence of our situation.

It is globalist. It sees the world—nations, cultures, localities, religions, and people as replaceable Legos. The globalist is a “citizen of the world,” which is to say a citizen of nowhere. The globalist is just as likely to be a capitalist as he is to be a Communist. 

Not understanding this fact is perhaps the greatest oversight made by right-leaning thinkers for at least a half-century. They believed that international Communism was the greatest threat to the United States. They did not understand that international capitalism—with its love for dual citizenship, transnational elites, its predatory and exploitative view of national economies, and its relentless drive for profit over local economies was as great a threat as the revolutionary communist menace. 

As the most powerful international corporations conspire to stifle and destroy populism in the Republican Party or drive it back into submission as the permanent outer party, this will become more and more clear.

What Is American Citizenship Today?

It is an “occupation” because the constituent parts of the globalist project are unelected, unaccountable, and united by a common set of woke beliefs. It is a leviathan that includes a kaleidoscope of seemingly unrelated industries: most S&P 100 corporations, universities, K-12 schools, Big Tech, mainstream print and online media, sporting and music entertainment, Hollywood, and most of the federal bureaucracy. They are both related and working independently toward the same globalist vision. They do not need coordination.

Research the political donations of any one of the hundreds of institutions at Open Secrets. Are they mostly staffed by friends or foes? Did you, I, or anyone else who loves America consent to their rule, their regulations, and their view of the world? No. We were never asked. The language of occupation is the only appropriate language to use for such institutions.

It is a regime because its various parts have all flagrantly shown their disregard for the bedrock upon which our civic culture is founded: citizenship-based popular sovereignty. What is citizenship in this country today? 

It is diluted by the fraud of dual citizenship. How many leaders within the leviathan are dual citizens with multiple loyalties? It is difficult to know since the U.S. government doesn’t even track it. Likewise, it is diluted by the ability of our increasingly globalist corporate leadership to buy, sell, and use the U.S. government regardless of whether or not such actions help the prosperity of the American nation. It is cheapened by the insane practice of birthright citizenship bestowed even to even alien trespassers on American soil (almost 500,000 per year). 

Are we citizens, or mere subjects? Does this government deserve the legitimacy of a word like “administration”?

Thwarting Woke Imperialism

What is the way out? In the short term, I am not optimistic at the national level. The larger the scale, the more likely legitimate resistance will be derailed and rendered toothless by “Republican” plutocrats. The last thing America needs is another reboot of populism characterized by tax cuts and laissez-faire for the leviathan. 

A place to start the purification of the Republican Party as a vehicle for national restoration and salvation is by creating a caucus that relentlessly primaries globalists and pushes an America-First agenda. Call it the “Restoration Caucus.” It ought to have at least five or six non-negotiables: a total halt to immigration to the United States of at least a decade, tariffs to bring manufacturing back to the United States, an end to both birthright and dual-citizenship, the abolition of infanticide, higher taxes on predatory international corporations, and a total rebuild of the administrative state to replace globalists with nationalists.

Whether such an endeavor would reap immediate results is unclear. Change at the state and local level may be a different story, however. 

Red state legislatures and governors needed to begin something similar to Committees of Correspondence yesterday to coordinate their response to the coming woke tyranny that aims to force Catholic doctors to perform abortions and evangelical Christians to bake objectional cakes. They must band together to defy the globalist occupation regime. They need to devise methods to punish globalist companies with more onerous regulations, higher taxes, and less amenable government. And they should reward allies with lower taxes, more contracts, and more patronage. 

It is not enough simply to write laws that are designed to thwart woke imperialism and blue colonialism in the red heartland. What is needed are red-state politicians at every level of government—from the city to the county to the state level—who are willing to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to defending America, the real, historical America, from subjugation.

Thucydides said the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Is red America strong or weak? There are still tens of millions of us. Let us believe we are strong and act on it. I am acting on it by moving to red America, and I’m not moving to be “left alone” while waiting to become a dhimmi in my own country once again. I’m doing it to fight alongside others so that my children and grandchildren never have to become a refugee in their own homeland like I have become in my home state. Freedom is too valuable and being able to hold one’s head in pride at our patrimony is too precious for us to just let it go.