Does everybody know my name? If not, why am I here?

Gary:  Malone!  What are you doing?

Sam:  I was going to ask you the same thing.

Gary:  You're supposed to be competing against the Old Town Tavern!

Norm:  Some of us can do two things at one time.  I can do three if Sammy gives me another beer.

Sam:  We'll all celebrate "Boston Bar Days," no problem.  What is Phase Two?

(Frasier storms in)
Frasier:  Phase Two is one of us moves to Seattle for a spin-off.  Sorry, Sam, I actually know how to read.

Gary:  Dr. Crane, I had nothing to do with this.

Sam:  Wow, I've had girlfriends that were better at lying than that.

Frasier:  I was wrong.  Some bars are better than others.

Norm:  (to Carla)  Did you know about this?

Carla:  Maybe it's time you should be going home.

Norm:  If I left, I'd just head over to Gary's for another drink.

Carla:  You don't hang out here because we have a nice pool room.

Norm:  And I'm not giving up my barstool.  I'd like to know who's watching us when we're here, and why are they doing it?

Gary:  Because of him!  (points)

Cliff:  Well, as a loyal member of the US Postal Service, I am a quite interesting person.  It's a little-known fact that -

Gary:  Last year I went to New York and I had to pay a ticket in court.  But the judge that night was none other than Harry the Hat.  I learned that we are all being moved around from one place to another and being observed by everyone!

Cliff:  Then why are you blaming me?

Gary:  Because you people are the ones that deliver the messages and pass the orders on what happens to whom.

Frasier:  Like the plans for a spin-off?

Cliff:  The people at your bar are just less important to things.  We obviously matter more to the public.

Gary:  That's why we need to compete with you.  We can't just take orders.

Sam:  That's what the customers are here for.  That's why we're in business.

Gary:  I thought you were just here for your waitresses, Sam.

Frasier:  Yes, Sam has a shall-we-say intimate relationship with certain intelligent blonde waitresses he employs here.

Sam:  You're a lot more obsessed with her than I ever was.

Frasier:  And now you think you're a psychiatrist?

Cliff:  This is why there's no better woman to love than your own mother.

Gary:  Cliff, that's a really disturbing way to put it.

Cliff:  And that's why you're watching me!

Gary:  We don't want to watch you!

Carla:  Well you should!  You gotta find out who the real threats are.

Norm:  Cheers is a threat?

Carla:  Have you ever met my kids?

[Cut to Woody travelling]
Woody:  Oh boy!  There's the big city up there!  This is gonna be great!

[back at Cheers]
Cliff:  You claim to have your own lives but you're all centered around ours.

Norm:  At least we're here every day.  Every part of our lives revolves around being at Cheers.

Gary:  Maybe you should step away.

Sam:  Why shouldn't he come in for a drink every now and again?

Frasier:  You know perfectly well why not so stop pushing it.

Sam:  You gonna make me?

Frasier:  I think I can, with my education and experience.  Without this bar, what are you?

Sam:  Tall, handsome, athletic, a businessman and property owner with a head of hair that women want attached to their bodies.
(Carla nods)

Frasier:  But I have much more to offer.  I saw films of your career.  You're just a washed-up baseball player who was never very good at it on his best day.  You're not the kind of person people really want to follow.

Sam:  You're only here because of my antics.

Frasier:  Yes, your love life.  You may not be a threat but you make innocent people like me into your victims.

Sam:  A victim?  Like you?  You're a blank slate, Frasier.  Nobody knows or cares where you came from.  We don't even know if you have a family.

[Cut to Woody, getting closer]

[back at Cheers]
Frasier:  Let's have a debate.  We'll see who wins.

Cliff:  What would a bar be without a worthless fight?

Norm:  Yeah, this is a real danger.

Gary:  Carla, could you please shut this bar down and send everybody home?

Norm:  Where?  I live here.

Gary:  Don't be sarcastic.

Norm:  It's not sarcasm.  Yeah, I have a job and I have a wife but all I know is to be here at Cheers as much as possible.  There's no way to end this.  Carla, you want to know why I'm here?  You want to know what makes it all worthwhile?  Why I have to live at a place where everybody knows my name?

Frasier:  Norm.  Put down the beer.

[pause]

Norm:  Well, the last time I saw Vera while sober was the day I married her, maybe I can give that another try.

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□ [“Anti-Migrant Protests Pick-up Momentum and Mobilize 30 Cities Across Britain"]

Good start, definitely glad to know they keep going.  Hopefully they are increasing.  The listed cities include Scotland and Wales.  They are carrying national flags, especially the St. George, which is the national flag of England.  George was a crusader so there are certainly several motivations for this, but I think the most important reason is that it's English.  They're not even pretending to be part of Great Britain, they're cutting out everything.

Britain was probably one of the models for the EU, as separate countries tied together.  One can argue how well that actually worked, i.e. the Irish, and there's also the fact that it was inspired by the Roman Empire.  But Rome had been long gone, Britain was born in the early days of the modern era and was still there as the EU started being created.  Technically, it's still here now, but the elites have done everything they can to destroy it.  And then there's still the Irish.

As far as western Europe goes, I want France and Spain to be as close behind as possible.  If enough people in those nations can protest and overthrow their rulers, Europe might be saved.  Of course I want the rest of it to be restored as well, but Belgium has always been a lost cause no matter what.  Italy and Greece are probably too buried in history for my predictions to be relevant, and Germany is also a problem.

Also the fact that they're having problems with Eastern Europe shows that the EU cracks are growing wider.  You can pretend to unify the continent but that's all you can do.  These nations were forged over centuries and cannot be interchangeable.  Not for the first time, Britain and England are the most crucial places to fight tyranny.  If they lose, it's all over.  If they win, it will be inspiring people for centuries, just as George has done.  He was a Roman soldier under Diocletian, so it's safe to say he understood war and religion.

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□ [“Strategists List 45 Woke Words to Avoid In Desperate Effort to Stop Trump and MAGA"]

They put together a long list of words their supporters can no longer use.  These words show off their “superior, haughty, and arrogant language” and are even divided into several categories, Therapy-Speak, Seminar Room Language, Organizer Jargon, Gender/Orientation Correctness, The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs, and Explaining Away Crime.  I will give them credit for seeing part of the problem although this still comes off as elites trying to figure out how to pretend they're the same as the lower-class majority of people.

I'm curious which problem will be bigger, that so many people are automatically willing to massively change the way that they talk because they were given orders, or that a lot of them won't understand this, or will question it, or will argue about which words need to be censored.  What are they supposed to say if they can't use these words?  Both issues could be a big problem for the party, and this is just an attempt to slow the bleeding.

Leaving aside that this comes off as a modern version of 1984, the nature of liberalism and the *woke* left is to be able to tell everyone what to do because they know best.  The best way to do that is by using fancy words, whether or not they really mean anything.  Most of the people using these words probably have college degrees, so they were properly brainwashed and will be very offended at being told to stop doing that.

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□ [“Justice Neil Gorsuch Delivers a Message to the Black-Robed Tyrants Who Defy Court Rulings"]

I am aware that judges are supposed to be as minimal as possible.  To a large extent, that is their job.  One reason we oppose these leftist judges is because they impose themselves on the law and make it into whatever they want.  Right-wing judges should not be doing the same thing, no matter how good it might look at the moment.  That said, I really wish the Supreme Court would speak out more loudly once in a while to shut down these activist judges.

At least Gorsuch is pointing out that lower courts do not have the right to defy the Supremes, and cites three times they've done that just in the last few weeks.  From our perspective, it's not like he's calling out through a megaphone, but I think it is still giving out orders, or at least guidance.  This court is the only one authorized by the Constitution, the rest are all created by Congress and can be removed.  Better start doing it right.

I don't think these judges to listen.  I expect them to get worse just to prove they can.  That's just the situation we're in now.  The judges are about the only weapon the left has at the moment.  They really want to believe we're at war now although they aren't willing to act like it, so they need to twist the laws to get what they want.  And even that is more and more doomed to failure.

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□ [“CNN Continues to Beclown Themselves in Their Ongoing Quest to ‘Get’ Trump"]

This is another aspect where I think the left has clearly 'turned a corner' but that doesn't mean they're heading in the right direction yet.  At least some of them are starting to realize that this obsession with going after Trump all the time is just a bad idea.  The problem is these people are in the minority of the party so it's unlikely that they'll be listened to any time soon.  And that continues damaging the party.

In this example, Trump had made some comment about being the 'chief law enforcement officer,' so this chick on CNN was all hot and bothered by that.  She insisted that he was overriding the Attorney General.  Who, by the way, was appointed by Trump who is in charge of him.  But leaving that aside, the Constitution specifically states that one job of the POTUS is to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."  In other words, enforce the law.  She wastes CNN's time and money to demonstrate that she can't be bothered to know what she's talking about, and that's not Trump's fault.

They've been obsessed with him for ten years and have barely defeated him at all.  All they've done is give a lot more people a lot more reasons to oppose the left all across the world.  Who would watch this chick on CNN or any of the hundreds of other examples they show regularly and suddenly decide they were opposed to Trump?  Their own side is getting tired, perhaps because they don't have the experience of having to go to work every day as a normal part of life.

Maybe the way to describe this is "deeper."  Instead of the leftist slogans and whining about this or that detail, the Trump 2.0 administration is actually reaching parts of human experience that matters to everyone.  By opposing it, the left is showing how affective it is.  They could be shrugging and going to work every day and living their lives while still opposing Trump, but that would mean he wasn't the latest hitler that they must fight at all costs.  That would mean there's more to the world than politicians they don't like.  That would save time and energy for things that they enjoy, productive and useful activities with friends and family.  Hell, lying in the corner with a shot of heroin would bring more peace and tranquility than obsessing over the Orange Man.

I do think some Democrats are starting to realize this problem but they still have no way to deal with it.  Just bringing up anything that isn't Trump-related could get them purged.  That's what I mean about going "deeper," Trump 2.0 is crossing across many more aspects of life to show that there is more.  This is hardly a new concept.  As a dead white man once wrote, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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