BloggeRhythms

Today’s items when combined present a frustrating dilemma for those paying attention to happenings in the world around them. Upstanding, decent citizens have been maneuvered into untenable, unaffordable positions, primarily because Americans all across the nation play by the rules.

Newsmax.com reported on Sunday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenburg said, "We are concerned about the energy situation in Europe because it demonstrates the vulnerability of being too dependent on one supplier of natural gas and that's the reason why NATO allies agree that we need to work and focus on diversification of supplies,".

At the same time, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told BBC television. “The Center for American Progress, a U.S. think tank, [says] Britain would face a challenge uprooting wealthy Russians with Kremlin links from London given close ties "between Russian money and the United Kingdom’s ruling conservative party, the press, and its real estate and financial industry."

Asked about this, Truss said: "There's a real threat here to freedom and democracy in Europe. And that is more important than short term economic gains, both for the United Kingdom but also for our European allies."

So, here we have issues between wealthy Russians, British Conservatives as well as other “free, democratic” European nations affecting the cost and availability of fuel here in the United States, because we too now depend on foreign supply. When only one short year ago, it mattered not one iota what happened anywhere but here as we supplied ourselves.

On the same day, Eric Mack wrote @Newsmax.com: Former President Donald Trump returned to Texas on Saturday, vowing the largest Republican-led state in the U.S. "will never, ever turn blue."

"Our country is angry and our country wants to be respected again," Trump told his latest Save America rally in Conroe, Texas. "Hello, Texas, it's great to be back in this great, wonderful, beautiful state with thousands of proud American patriots who believe in family and freedom, God and country.

"And by the way, oil and guns – unlike the Democrats."

Trump’s turnout was “the largest political rally crowd in the history of Texas, throwing out hats reading "Save America" in the same red of the hats that read "Make America Great Again.”

"Our MAGA movement is by far the greatest political movement in the history of our country, and I say it all the time, and they never even – the fake news – they never even questioned it because there's never been anything like it," Trump said.

"And you know what it really stands for? Loving our country, that's all it is.

Coming to today’s point, Trump said: “Our nation belongs to you. This is your home. This is your heritage. And our American liberty is your God-given right."

"Everyone in Washington is obsessing over how to protect Ukraine's border, but the most important border in the world right now for us is not Ukraine's border; it's America's border," Trump said. "And we do nothing about it, but let people come in, and we have no idea who they are.

"The first duty of the American president is to defend the American border. Before our leaders talk about invasions of other countries, they need to stop the invasion of this country.

"It's being invaded. It's being invaded by people that should not be allowed to. You know we had the safest border, the strongest border that we've ever had just one year ago."

Confirming the ridiculousness of the Democrat party’s leftward trend, and the conundrum described above, Fox News reported: “HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher on Friday railed against the "woke" tsunami currently defining the Democratic Party and challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to appear on a future show after she dismissed wokeness critics.

Another posting said: “"Real Time" host Bill Maher is taking on Democrats for pushing too many regulations and abandoning traditional values.

In a tweet following his Friday comment, “Maher blasted a “small contingent” of Democrats who’ve “gone mental” and a majority of the party “who refuse to call them out.”

“He kicked off the argument by highlighting Fox News' Dana Perino’s query suggesting Democrats recruit the HBO star to run for president for his refusal to alienate those who support former President Donald Trump.

"Now, some people think this means I've changed,” Maher said. “I assure you, I have not. I am still the same unmarried, childless, pot-smoking libertine I always was.”

"Let's get this straight,” he said. “It's not me who's changed, it's the left who is now made up of a small contingent who've gone mental and a large contingent who refuse to call them out for it, but I will."

"That's why I'm a hero at Fox these days, which shows just how much liberals have their head up their a** because if they really thought about it, they would have made me a hero on their media," Maher argued.

"But that can't happen in this ridiculous new era of mind-numbing partisanship, where if I keep it real about the nonsense in the Democratic Party, it makes me an instant hero to Republicans."

So, coming back to today’s premise, there is currently a self-created combination of dependency on others for oil and natural gas, along with politically motivated open borders, too many regulations and abandonment of traditional values all because of a “small contingent” of Democrats who’ve “gone mental” and a majority of the party “who refuse to call them out.”

Consideration of how this very small political tail is wagging a huge free and law abiding dog brings this writer back once more to Rush’s theoretical premise of December 10, 2020, when he said:  “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York? What is there that makes us believe that there is enough of us there to even have a chance at winning New York, especially if you’re talking about votes.

“A lot of bloggers have written extensively about how distant and separated and how much more separated our culture is becoming politically and that it can’t go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.

“I know that there’s a sizable and growing sentiment for people who believe that that is where we’re headed whether we want to or not. Whether we want to go there or not. I, myself, haven’t made up my mind. I still haven’t given up the idea that we are the majority and that all we have to do is find a way to unite and win.”

This writer’s conclusion at the time seems quite appropriate again: “Thus, it seems predictions are occurring more frequently regarding rising probability of a cultural rift in the nation which should be paid close attention by leftist leadership. Whereas if they take a step back and face reality, even they can grasp the fact that without the intellectual, financial, and commercial support of Republicans, they have no means of real-life survival as individuals."

That’s it for today folks.

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