Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 333.

My name is Douglas Wilson, and I'm very glad you decided to take time out of your day to join us on this journey.

So I want to talk about a particular aspect of the tumultuous times we are in.

All governments want to have it their own way.

All governments are interested in getting their way keeping power.

You know, that's sort of standard operating procedure.

But there are times when the government wants to look legit.

They want everybody to think that all is,

everything's swell, everything's good,

democracy is working, our courts are operational, there's equal justice for everybody, etc.

And there have been a lot of times where governments have been guilty of all sorts of dirty deeds that they have hidden, they tuck away.

They don't, it may be an open secret among the operatives, but it's not acknowledged by the the

general populace, things that in the main everything makes sense.

But when things start to deteriorate and they sort of start tumbling into disarray,

there will come times where the authorities move into what you might call naked oppression,

naked overt exercise, raw exercises of power with them not caring how it looks.

So an example of this would be the lawfare being conducted against Donald Trump.

Let's go back to 2016 when Trump first won the presidency, much to everyone's astonishment,

I think including his.

Because nobody was expecting him to win, the apparatus for cheating was not in place beforehand,

which was a mistake the Left didn't make in 2020, but they weren't, they were just

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