“How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism. To illustrate the state’s alleged swerve toward neo-fascist theocratic rule”
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That thing where your spouse who is cheating is suspicious that you are cheating because it’s what they are doing.
Some gym teacher just got arrested for praying and a bakery had to go to court to preserve their right to not worship Moloch. The fascism is obviously only going in the precise opposite direction. DC is 95% Democrat and 5% Bill Kristol. If you are worried about Lauren Boebert forcing you to read Proverbs it is because you are a moron who is possessed by Satan.
I have issues wrapping my head around this whole balloon story. China probably has countless satellites monitoring large parts of US, that can probably provide images of same quality as this alleged balloon and from safety of space, and no hassle to get discovered by some "random" observers in Montana.
Thus I find it very strange, that this balloon has occupied so much national media attention, especially in week where Project Veritas, has published alleged Pfizer executive who discussed experiments the company is running on the virus and the vaccine’s effect on women’s reproductive health.
It might just be coincidence, but if last decade or so thought me anything is to not believe in coincidences.
Love this article, but probably for a different reason than most. I love it because of how it subtly acknowledges how I and many feel--Outnumbered, ignored yet disdained by the self-centered, self-serving, so-important “elites” of the coasts and their infamous newspapers that never got the memo that we see them for the naked ‘emperors’ they are. If I were ever to subscribe, it would be to use ‘em to wash my windows. Alas, a bucket of water and vinegar and a squeegee do a faster, better job and don’t mark up my trim.
The US has a national security problem originating at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the current administration would seem to be diametrically opposed to it. Especially when the actions (or lack thereof) could just as easily have been taken by the administration in Beijing.
The balloon should have been shot down when it entered our airspace over the Aleutians, before it completed its spying mission for imagery and for mapping US electronic surveillance and electronic warfare signals. And let there be no doubt about adversaries using such incursions as a test of US resolve. Will we defend our interests when we will not even defend our territory? It seems more likely that our leadership will don aviator glasses and pretense.
The timing of the downing of the invasion device also made me wonder if our illustrious leader (illustrious in his own mind, anyway) sought permission from Beijing before acting. Or maybe he's just petrified that our adversaries (foreign and domestic) might be offended if we place America's interests first. Hard to tell, but I'd say judge actions, and pretty much ignore the words coming out of DC.
Walter, I wouldn't pay attention to anything the NY Times says—A propaganda rag Andrew Klavan calls "a former newspaper".
The Liberals hate and ridicule anyone and anything they don’t a. Understand and b. The courage to be. So naturally they would hate people who live in an absolutely beautiful state and have the desire to shun and ignore the Liberal freaks that cry they are superior. Great to be proud of who you are and know if times get hard, you will eat and NY and the Liberals will eat each other.
Why am I not surprised that Le Pew in Cana da’ would not say anything. Add in slower Joe and Kackles you have the three stooges. Now the Liberals start the “what’s the big deal “ show. Yet a phone call to Ukrainian officials by Trump is a world class crime.
Again the newspaper shot at Christian’s in reference to Montana. Would they say the same about Muslims or Jews? Hell no. Why? Liberals are inherently nothing but Cowards who have no self respect and need to degrade others to feel better about their pathetic selves.
In our airspace, blast the crap out of it. Or get higher and bomb it by dropping Liberals on it.
Oh, I get to enjoy a second serving from Mr Kirn this week! Subscribe to Taibbi’s substack and you will get to hear him and Kirn do a podcast, America This Week, on Fridays. Hilarious, brilliant discussion. They went over the 26,000 word Columbia Journalism Review document that took down the media, detail by detail, for its Russiagate lies. And how a guy from Mother Jones tried to poo-poo it off.
On the balloon--just another opportunity to humiliate America, with idiot Joe standing around with his thumb up his a--. I can imagine the commies in Beijing holding their sides, laughing.
Is there anything that the NYT likes that is not in lock step (goose step) with the views it peddles and pushes every day (and requires strict conformity). Maybe all those Times readers who use terms like Christian or White Nationalism on a daily basis shoukd stay away from those beautiful red states and their ski slopes and beaches they flock to every winter (and summer). Guys like Walter who have wised up (Walter was an early bird) have chosen and will increasingly be choosing to live in parts of America that are free and safe, and still care about a word like "honor," something that is in very short supply these days
Somebody wants a war. Is it Xi or is it the defense industrial complex or both?
Fighting over trade is one thing, this crap with the South China Sea and Taiwan is another.
Why is it that the only period where we did not get into another war, even a proxy war, was when Trump was in office? We have been involved in one military adventure that costs billions, if not trillions of dollars going back to Bill Clinton and the ONLY time we did not find a new fight to get involved in was when Trump was in the White House.
Face it, we have a senile, corrupt imbecile as president who let the Chi Com balloon traverse our entire nation before he shot it down. Was it stupidity, fecklessness or the bundles of Chi Com cash he took that were laundered through the accounts of his addicted, perverted son? Where's there's smoke.....
And if you think that Biden's only beholden to the gangsters in Beijing, please read the following statement below by Taylor Force's parents that demonstrates Biden's support for the real terrorists in the world. And, no, not the white "supremacist terrorists" of his fevered, lying dementia, but real murdering terrorists. Your "tax dollars at work." This abomination needs to be removed like the cancer he is.
Statement from Stuart and Robbi Force:
“My wife and I continue to be very upset about the murderous actions by Palestinian terrorists in Israel, with the most recent victims being the death of seven innocent people and five injured as they were leaving synagogue this past Friday night in Jerusalem, followed by the attempted murder of a father and son by a 13-year-old Palestinian terrorist the next morning. The Taylor Force Act, named after our son, was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump to stop this Pay to Slay. Yet the Biden Administration has resumed payments to the PA notwithstanding its Pay to Slay program. Until the maiming and murder of innocents stops, there will be no hope for peace. And, until the Biden Administration stops facilitating Palestinian terrorism, the PA has no reason to stop its reprehensible behavior. For the sake of the thousands horrifically impacted now and in the future, Robbi and I call upon President Biden to stop sending fungible taxpayer dollars to the PA that will end up funding terrorism,” said Stuart Force.
This is the kind of writing that illustrates why Walter stands out as a writer and the kind of prose that made him famous. The best piece (by far) that I have read about this curious balloon.
Thanks Walter. I’m from a small cowtown on the eastern Colodado plains. My Great, Great Grandfather homesteaded in Ft Collins. I grew up near Bent’s Old Fort. Much of our complicated history is misunderstood. I can relate to your words. I spent 24 years, nine months and 29 days in the US Army, almost half of that time overseas.
There are very bad people in this world waiting for an opportunity to take our great nation away from us.
Two elements of the balloon I’ve seen little coverage on is that a balloon that low, allowed free flight, can gather a variety of data not possible from satellites.
More importantly, it is an ideal platform for an EMP attack.
And here is a question I asked elsewhere: what if China hit us with an EMP from a balloon like this, then launched a nuclear strike, and Joe Biden refused to authorize a counter-strike? Mutual Assured Destruction requires a rational and honest President. What if he is not honest, and his rationality depends on a purchased loyalty to China?
That then becomes a single and exploitable point of failure, doesn’t it?
We are decadent and stupid. That is obvious. But the sheer scale of this stupidity and naivete continues to astonish me.
This publication may now be The Free Press but Walter Kirn expresses the common sense most Americans possess. No reasonable person believes Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin and Anthony Blinken telling us we needed to allow the Chinese to complete their spy mission before destroying their balloon. Most of us rightly believe this invading craft should have been shot down as soon as it came over the sparsely inhabited Aleutian Islands, long before it reached Montana. But we and our sons haven't made millions from deals with the Chinese, so I guess we don't have the right frame of mind.
“How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism. To illustrate the state’s alleged swerve toward neo-fascist theocratic rule”
————————————————-
That thing where your spouse who is cheating is suspicious that you are cheating because it’s what they are doing.
Some gym teacher just got arrested for praying and a bakery had to go to court to preserve their right to not worship Moloch. The fascism is obviously only going in the precise opposite direction. DC is 95% Democrat and 5% Bill Kristol. If you are worried about Lauren Boebert forcing you to read Proverbs it is because you are a moron who is possessed by Satan.
I have issues wrapping my head around this whole balloon story. China probably has countless satellites monitoring large parts of US, that can probably provide images of same quality as this alleged balloon and from safety of space, and no hassle to get discovered by some "random" observers in Montana.
Thus I find it very strange, that this balloon has occupied so much national media attention, especially in week where Project Veritas, has published alleged Pfizer executive who discussed experiments the company is running on the virus and the vaccine’s effect on women’s reproductive health.
It might just be coincidence, but if last decade or so thought me anything is to not believe in coincidences.
Love this article, but probably for a different reason than most. I love it because of how it subtly acknowledges how I and many feel--Outnumbered, ignored yet disdained by the self-centered, self-serving, so-important “elites” of the coasts and their infamous newspapers that never got the memo that we see them for the naked ‘emperors’ they are. If I were ever to subscribe, it would be to use ‘em to wash my windows. Alas, a bucket of water and vinegar and a squeegee do a faster, better job and don’t mark up my trim.
The US has a national security problem originating at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the current administration would seem to be diametrically opposed to it. Especially when the actions (or lack thereof) could just as easily have been taken by the administration in Beijing.
The balloon should have been shot down when it entered our airspace over the Aleutians, before it completed its spying mission for imagery and for mapping US electronic surveillance and electronic warfare signals. And let there be no doubt about adversaries using such incursions as a test of US resolve. Will we defend our interests when we will not even defend our territory? It seems more likely that our leadership will don aviator glasses and pretense.
The timing of the downing of the invasion device also made me wonder if our illustrious leader (illustrious in his own mind, anyway) sought permission from Beijing before acting. Or maybe he's just petrified that our adversaries (foreign and domestic) might be offended if we place America's interests first. Hard to tell, but I'd say judge actions, and pretty much ignore the words coming out of DC.
Walter, I wouldn't pay attention to anything the NY Times says—A propaganda rag Andrew Klavan calls "a former newspaper".
The Liberals hate and ridicule anyone and anything they don’t a. Understand and b. The courage to be. So naturally they would hate people who live in an absolutely beautiful state and have the desire to shun and ignore the Liberal freaks that cry they are superior. Great to be proud of who you are and know if times get hard, you will eat and NY and the Liberals will eat each other.
Why am I not surprised that Le Pew in Cana da’ would not say anything. Add in slower Joe and Kackles you have the three stooges. Now the Liberals start the “what’s the big deal “ show. Yet a phone call to Ukrainian officials by Trump is a world class crime.
Again the newspaper shot at Christian’s in reference to Montana. Would they say the same about Muslims or Jews? Hell no. Why? Liberals are inherently nothing but Cowards who have no self respect and need to degrade others to feel better about their pathetic selves.
In our airspace, blast the crap out of it. Or get higher and bomb it by dropping Liberals on it.
Oh, I get to enjoy a second serving from Mr Kirn this week! Subscribe to Taibbi’s substack and you will get to hear him and Kirn do a podcast, America This Week, on Fridays. Hilarious, brilliant discussion. They went over the 26,000 word Columbia Journalism Review document that took down the media, detail by detail, for its Russiagate lies. And how a guy from Mother Jones tried to poo-poo it off.
On the balloon--just another opportunity to humiliate America, with idiot Joe standing around with his thumb up his a--. I can imagine the commies in Beijing holding their sides, laughing.
Walter Kirn writes beautiful sentences. Such a pleasure to read on this dark, cold morning in Massachusetts.
Is there anything that the NYT likes that is not in lock step (goose step) with the views it peddles and pushes every day (and requires strict conformity). Maybe all those Times readers who use terms like Christian or White Nationalism on a daily basis shoukd stay away from those beautiful red states and their ski slopes and beaches they flock to every winter (and summer). Guys like Walter who have wised up (Walter was an early bird) have chosen and will increasingly be choosing to live in parts of America that are free and safe, and still care about a word like "honor," something that is in very short supply these days
Somebody wants a war. Is it Xi or is it the defense industrial complex or both?
Fighting over trade is one thing, this crap with the South China Sea and Taiwan is another.
Why is it that the only period where we did not get into another war, even a proxy war, was when Trump was in office? We have been involved in one military adventure that costs billions, if not trillions of dollars going back to Bill Clinton and the ONLY time we did not find a new fight to get involved in was when Trump was in the White House.
When they shot it down did anyone scream
“Oh the Hunanity!!”
See, because Hunan is a province……never mind.
Face it, we have a senile, corrupt imbecile as president who let the Chi Com balloon traverse our entire nation before he shot it down. Was it stupidity, fecklessness or the bundles of Chi Com cash he took that were laundered through the accounts of his addicted, perverted son? Where's there's smoke.....
And if you think that Biden's only beholden to the gangsters in Beijing, please read the following statement below by Taylor Force's parents that demonstrates Biden's support for the real terrorists in the world. And, no, not the white "supremacist terrorists" of his fevered, lying dementia, but real murdering terrorists. Your "tax dollars at work." This abomination needs to be removed like the cancer he is.
Statement from Stuart and Robbi Force:
“My wife and I continue to be very upset about the murderous actions by Palestinian terrorists in Israel, with the most recent victims being the death of seven innocent people and five injured as they were leaving synagogue this past Friday night in Jerusalem, followed by the attempted murder of a father and son by a 13-year-old Palestinian terrorist the next morning. The Taylor Force Act, named after our son, was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump to stop this Pay to Slay. Yet the Biden Administration has resumed payments to the PA notwithstanding its Pay to Slay program. Until the maiming and murder of innocents stops, there will be no hope for peace. And, until the Biden Administration stops facilitating Palestinian terrorism, the PA has no reason to stop its reprehensible behavior. For the sake of the thousands horrifically impacted now and in the future, Robbi and I call upon President Biden to stop sending fungible taxpayer dollars to the PA that will end up funding terrorism,” said Stuart Force.
This is the kind of writing that illustrates why Walter stands out as a writer and the kind of prose that made him famous. The best piece (by far) that I have read about this curious balloon.
Thanks Walter. I’m from a small cowtown on the eastern Colodado plains. My Great, Great Grandfather homesteaded in Ft Collins. I grew up near Bent’s Old Fort. Much of our complicated history is misunderstood. I can relate to your words. I spent 24 years, nine months and 29 days in the US Army, almost half of that time overseas.
There are very bad people in this world waiting for an opportunity to take our great nation away from us.
Today we see only the tip of the iceberg.
Two elements of the balloon I’ve seen little coverage on is that a balloon that low, allowed free flight, can gather a variety of data not possible from satellites.
More importantly, it is an ideal platform for an EMP attack.
And here is a question I asked elsewhere: what if China hit us with an EMP from a balloon like this, then launched a nuclear strike, and Joe Biden refused to authorize a counter-strike? Mutual Assured Destruction requires a rational and honest President. What if he is not honest, and his rationality depends on a purchased loyalty to China?
That then becomes a single and exploitable point of failure, doesn’t it?
We are decadent and stupid. That is obvious. But the sheer scale of this stupidity and naivete continues to astonish me.
This publication may now be The Free Press but Walter Kirn expresses the common sense most Americans possess. No reasonable person believes Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin and Anthony Blinken telling us we needed to allow the Chinese to complete their spy mission before destroying their balloon. Most of us rightly believe this invading craft should have been shot down as soon as it came over the sparsely inhabited Aleutian Islands, long before it reached Montana. But we and our sons haven't made millions from deals with the Chinese, so I guess we don't have the right frame of mind.
They shot it down off the coast of South Carolina because people with iPhones don’t live in the Atlantic Ocean.
You use a ballon instead of a low-orbit satellite because you can’t release spores from a satellite.