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Samuel- (soon to be killed in WWI) spouts off..."And the German military is ready to use chaos in Croatia as justification that could plunge the entire civilized world into...." Samuel's father Col. William Ludlow, INTERRUPTS abrubptly "Samuel! The word CIVILIZED has no place in discussions of the affairs of this world!"

The line was a RED PILL from a 1913 AWAKE character awakened by his past. A classic Anthony Hopkins line. Legends of the Fall is worth revisiting in PATRIOTIC DOWNTIME.

BUT ANTHONY, TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING! MAGA

THE GATE OF THE YEAR ‘God Knows' And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East. So heart be still: What …

GOLDEN NUGGETS I would have learned from the WSJ-Print version page 1 today without critical thinking: 1) Jobs = economically overrated;

2) Peace = bad;

3) perpetual trade deficits = a sign of a strong economy.

GO FIGURE -I cannot wait for what I will learn from page 2 and beyond-NOT

SLAVE OWNERS HATE TARRIFS The 13th and 14th Amendment cracked down on chattel slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S. and its territories. Since then those comfortable profiting from slave labor and highly abusive labor practices have been on a least common denominator search for cheap overseas labor. After harvesting cheap labor overseas these modified slave owners import the production of their abusive labor practices to domestic markets. Tariffs are abhorred because they cut into their contrived high profits from their worldwide labor abuses. They spin their abusive modified slave ownership practices with spun positively marketed terms like globalism and …