There Is No Going Back Home

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Three things to point out before I start the post:

First, the left is acting as though it could lose this coming election. Maybe it’s just their fear and their guilty conscience and they really have it sewn up anyway. This is possible.

Second, if DeSantis were nominated I would of course vote for him over Biden. Yes, I have very profound doubts about him, mostly proceeding from the reason people desperately want him. No, not the reason they say. The reason they REALLY want him, with desperate longing to get him in the presidency. Because he can’t do what they need him to. It’s not in the power of any human. And if he tries, he’s not even going to be a caretaker president. He’s going to be a cork rammed down over the national problems which will keep growing behind it. And the blow up will be epic. (For the record, I’ll vote for anyone against Biden, except Pence and Christie, because we already have Biden. I mean having someone with an R after his name do everything the left wants doesn’t benefit anyone.)

Third: I don’t think anyone but Trump has a chance in h*ll. It’s the name recognition. That was the main reason Trump won in 16. And now he has more.

It’s all very well for us political wonks to whine and b*tch that this one does this, that one does that, but 90% of the time, the reason the incumbent wins is that the people who only think of the election ten days before the vote go with the name they know. That’s it. Yes, it’s a deranged way to vote. Were you under the impression most humans were sensible?

I also want you to rid yourself of the “but Trump is unelectable.” I don’t normally quote Razor Fist, but you really need to watch this, because what you’re saying is literally insane. It is equally insane and laugh out loud stupid the idea the left is going after Trump with everything they have because they want him to be nominated because “he’ll lose.”

He might very well lose. Again, it’s quite possible, not to say probable the fraud is unbeatable, since no one would run the campaign they did in 2020 if they didn’t KNOW that on the basis of fraud alone, they had more votes than Trump got in 2016. I want you to contemplate that. It has to be true, because there’s no way they’d leave that to chance.

Now, that’s a “margin of fraud” no one could beat. And yet Trump did. He got more votes the second time around. Which meant they had to fraud at the last minute, in front of everyone.

Which brings us to: Yeah, could happen again. But if it does, it was going to happen to anyone else. (I want you to write that inside your eyelids so you see it every night when you close them. Because it’s the truth.)

“But he has changed.” “He wasn’t an ideal president” “He– He– He–” You can’t tell me more people have doubts about him than they did in 16 when some of us decided to vote for him hours before, and some never did, because we had no idea what or who he was as a president. He’s much more of a known quantity and less scary.

“But he let them lock us down” “He endorsed the vaccines” “He made horrible choices in people to serve in his administration.” Ah. Yes. Now spin it for anyone else in that position.

The thing about our administration is that it runs on credentials and “experts”. That’s the legacy of FDR. Anyone remember the screaming when Bush fired some people? Yeah. Do you think Trump could have FIRED THEM ALL? Well, he might this time. But not back then. Even he didn’t know the full extent of what he was up against. And if he did, he would not be able to hire new, functional ones. Why not? Because they have to have the right credentials and be approved of or they’ll be “got” on procedure (Steve Bannon has entered the chat.)

As for letting them lock us and the vaccines…. yeah. I know people on the right with Phds who fell for both and the masks too. Heck, I know people who are MDs. And don’t you go pretending a lot of you didn’t come to the comments to scream at me, crazed with COVID fear.

And even then, Trump didn’t lock us down, and he didn’t make the vaccine mandatory. Instead he forbore to tell the governors what to do, which, yes, allowed some of them to go full Hugo Boss uniform and shiny boots (Jared Polis really is too fat for the look. But he would do it, what can one do except advise him?) But that was perhaps more than anything a witness to Trump’s respect for the constitution. He is not, after all, as we all feared he would be, a democrat.

Anyway, so, no, I don’t think Trump rendered himself unelectable for doing what any other president would have done.

Now is he what I would want? Is he the perfect choice?

Are you kidding me? I mean, what are the chances he’ll cut 9/10ths of the federal government and have the worst offenders whipped through the streets till the blood runs freely? What are the chances he’ll disband the FBI and salt the Earth where the Hoover building is?

Not high. No, he’s not the perfect, ideal candidate. Much less is he — as the left amusingly seems to think — some kind of Svengali that holds us spellbound.

In the boundary of possible, I’d prefer Rand Paul, frankly.

But that’s not in the realm of choice. Of the choices offered? Trump will do. I hope he will do. I hope he’s learned something of the treachery of the deep state and the rest of the so called GOP. I hope he goes in prepared to do everything he can to lift our tyranny of bureaucrats.

But that’s all we can do. Hope. If anyone has a chance, it’s him. The rest doesn’t matter much, because we’re not making a presidential candidate to order. As always, we will hope G-d have mercy on the United States of America, because we’re going to need it. But we would under any administration.

Trump has the best chance of winning, and there is the barest of possibilities he has seen the elephant and is ready to shoot it if it goes mad again.

Which brings us back to why a good number of people, even good, reasonable people desperately want someone else, anyone else. Preferably someone with “a different style.”

I find it somewhere between understandable and pitiable.

It always boils down to “Someone else will be more presidential” Or “Someone else will not get the democrats so riled up.” Or the equivalent.

As the people who came here to yell at me that I wasn’t taking Covid seriously enough (Pfui) because we were all going to die, these people think that if only they can elect someone else, the someone else will make the democrats go back to “acting nice” and to behaving as the person speaking perceived them to be before Trump.

The pitiable part about this is twofold: First they have completely forgotten, apparently, that Pierre Delecto, practically a democrat, was called Hitler, and the most appalling things said about him. And that George W. Bush, a “Christian socialist” by his own admission, was attacked and slandered and brought the Democrats to the verge of an apoplexy at least as much as Trump. Oh, sure, the Democrats hadn’t started the lawfare two step. They learned that trick to attack, cause to resign and destroy the life of Sarah Palin, herself, lest we forget it, no party woman, but one who crossed the isle and shook hands which is why she was selected by McCain.

Trump is not the cause for the Democrats going unhinged. They’ve been going more and more unhinged and desperate since the Soviet Union fell.

The truth is most of them were for a kinder, gentler communism. They really thought that “communism with an American face” would be the perfect system, and everyone would love it. No? Read the old science fiction. That’s what all the writers — most leftists — were depicting.

But the fall of the Soviet Union removed the star they were tacking towards. Also a lot of their pocket cash. And Clinton’s fast patch on it, to make it more like China’s frankly fascist regime is breaking apart. And the kids they carefully indoctrinate eventually find out communism hasn’t worked anywhere. Also, a lot of them probably know exactly or close to how much fraud they’ve been committing. The “luminaries” they attract are either insane or dumb as rocks. The control they exert over things like social media keeps having to be stronger and crazier. And everything they try to do slips through their hands.

They thought they had it all sewn up for Al Gore, and then W won. And it wasn’t supposed to happen. They were supposed to rule forever. (Which also tells you how amazing the fraud was back then.) They got back in the saddle with Obama, though I still wonder how legitimate his wins were. To be fair, at least he looked plausible.

Then Hillary…. They’d been waiting so long for Hillary. I mean, I remember a cottery of writers and editors back in 2000 at the Nebulas talking about how long they’d need to wait for Hillary. And Trump — brash, not even a politician Trump — took it from her, when they were so sure that they’d already arranged for the transition with her. (That too speaks to the vast amount of fraud.)

So, now? Maybe they have it sewn up, but they’re scared, jumping at shadows, convinced that Trump — frankly shoved to the head of an existing movement — is some kind of Svengali, and if they only destroy him, they will rule forever.

Frankly, the shakiness of China is making them even crazier. There’s a lot of money they might not get, not to mention other kinds of help. What kinds of help? I don’t know. I know that when the Soviet Union fell, the left got mighty shaky until China replaced it (but not as well.)

And here we are. The left — the true left, which cannot be more than 25% of the population, judging by how much they need to fraud, and how sure they are of wins — is unhinged. And a lot of them still have a lot of power.

They will stop at nothing to enact revenge on everything and every area they control. Look at what they’re doing to cities in their power. They will stop at nothing. Only they know how little they are wanted and the extent of fraud. And judging by their ravening hatred and destruction, it must be fraud all the way down.

They’re going to get worse. They’re going to hurt us very badly before things can be set right. And note I’m not counting on Trump making much difference one way or another, whether he’s elected or not. He might. There is a tiny chance he might. But it’s highly unlikely.

Mostly, the die is cast. The machinery is in motion. The left, having lost its messianic certainty is desperate. Desperate cults will kill their adherents and their perceived enemies in batch lots.

We can all feel it coming, except those who are very clueless or very stupid. Even the optimists feel it, they just refuse to believe it.

Meanwhile, there is a loud group of otherwise sane people who just “want it to go back to normal.”

It’s not going to happen. Or rather, it’s not going to happen till the other side of this.

No president elected will get us to the other side dry-shod. We haven’t been given a Moses who can part these waters of fire.

Not a single one of them will make the Democrats sane as they appeared to be before.

Part of this is that they were never sane. They were simply in control of the media and could make themselves appear as the reasonable, sane ones. Don’t believe me? Read Amity Shlaes The Forgotten Man. FDR would be perfectly at home in today’s Democratic party. He just could hide it, because the mass media was by and large democrat. Not a conspiracy but a prospiracy.

Now Trump has finished removing their masks. Love him or hate him, it would have happened anyway, the next time they were thwarted.

And no one can save us from what’s to come, no matter how “presidential” and “calm” he is. Nothing will make the democrats sane again. Not until they are deprogrammed from their cult, and the scales fall from their eyes. Or they die, which given the age of their leadership is not so far distant.

Until then, we’re stuck in here with them. Then again, they’re stuck in here with us.

Lying to ourselves about their intent and beliefs, their tactics and ideas will do nothing but well…. lie to ourselves and leave us unprepared for the sheer storm of crazy they’re about to unleash.

We don’t need to add to it with delusion and wishful thinking.

The only way out is through.. Let us get through this clear eyed. It’s going to suck like a mother. But there might be hope on the other side, for those who see it.

331 thoughts on “There Is No Going Back Home”

  2. I agree Trump is the only one who could or would clean out the Augean stable. That’s why they’ll kill Trump before he has a chance to do it. Between the trillions of stolen dollars, the pedophilia, and the other corruption on both sides of government and throughout the ruling class generally, they’ll have no choice. Either he dies, or they do.

    Sorry, I try very hard to avoid the black pill, but that’s how I see it.

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          2. Oh, they’re gonna revoke his bail and Epstein him in prison. That’ll go really really bad. I picture the left having parades to celebrate that will end up meeting “resistance”.

            Our only hope if they kill him is Rand picking up the flag and everyone rallying around him.

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          3. Oh, they’re gonna revoke his bail and Epstein him in prison. That’ll go really really bad. I picture the left having parades to celebrate that will end up meeting “resistance”.

            Our only hope if they kill him is Rand picking up the flag and everyone rallying around him.

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          2. If he gets elected, he needs to have his own private doctor, not trust anyone from the current military. Same with security, wouldn’t trust the Secret Service right now. Same with his own chefs, own housekeepers, own drivers, hell, stay off of AF1 until his own people had a chance to go over it with a fine-toothed comb.

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    2. Killing Trump at this stage would effectively create a martyr. What’s odd is that Trump is no messiah, and even his biggest supporters realize that. But that wouldn’t stop them from turning him into the cause célèbre of a revolution, quite possibly one with a considerable amount of violence. Yeah, I know. Never underestimate the power of stupid.

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        2. I remember Santa Anna’s generals telling him to just send them home. They’d been so badly lead they’d go home and tell all of the volunteers how pointless and incompetent the revolt was and it would be over.

          But no, Santa Anna had to execute them all in a fit of spite and turned the Alamo and Goliad into martyrs, to no benefit to himself, and much loss.

          Funny thing is, he wrote an autobiography. It sounds like it would make a good template for a villain. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a public domain translation of it into English, and the only copies I’ve been able to find for sale are hard copies for about $50-$100…

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        3. Well they are dumb AND blind, so they have no idea.

          They’ll have parades if Trump dies, and be very perplexed at the mass of people coming to meet them with torches and pitchforks….

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      2. Remember the Alamo. Remember Goliad.
        Remember San Jacinto … where the Texian Army turned and fought with such anger and ferocity after two crushing defeats and a demoralizing retreat almost all the way across Texas that they demolished Santa Anna’s portion of the Mexican Army in eighteen minutes flat.

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          1. People in general are slow to anger. Yeah, I know, road rage and all that aside, but they will reach a tipping point where the gates of hell become a revolving door, and then the rules do change.
            Case in point with another manifestation of the left’s insanity, the enviro weenies and their ridiculous hissy fits against carbon based energy with road blockages and destructive attacks against precious works of art. Both here and in Western Europe folks seem to have had enough and their “peaceful, non-violent” protests are being met with what the general public seems to believe is appropriate forceful reactions.
            The left is gobsmacked at the support shown to that reservation Ranger who dealt with the blockage at Burning Man that had vehicles backed up for an estimated ten miles on a two lane road. Seems their barricade was no match for a pickup truck bumper.
            Or Germans fed up with similar protests dragging them off the street by their hair.
            I’ve been impressed by the restraint shown so far as I have yet to see any protester corpses lying alongside the roadways, but I have a hunch that day is not far off.
            And on a slightly related note, I am waiting with some anticipation for the first time the media reports with great outrage of some trans male being viciously attacked and probably damaged in a sensitive area by a pack of healthy teenage girls. Time and past time something like that has not become the default. When our institutions fail to protect us we all must become our own first responders after all.

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            1. Hear! Hear!
              It didn’t get traction on Twitter, but I enjoyed asking the climate activists group whining about their experience with police brutality if they were abusing their privilege by not respecting the Paiute police and Tribal territory.

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              1. Links? Please. That had to be gold!

                support shown to that reservation Ranger
                …………

                I didn’t realize it had taken place on a reservation and the ranger was a reservation ranger. That is sovereign native territory. Wonder how long it’ll take them (lefties/woke) to sink in, and whole thing gets lost into the “didn’t happen” either?

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            2. Yup there are several sports (e.g. volleyball, fencing, lacrosse, softball) where if the alleged female has not taken the proper protective procedures (and why would they, they’re a Girl :-) ) they are vulnerable to some immense pain. Imagine being brushed off the plate by a 70 mph softball pitch to the crotch or a volleyball spike or a sabre, epee or foil to the (allegedly non existent) family jewels. Tae Kwan Do and Judo also provide options :-). I expect to see this happen in the near future as the actual female participants say “oh so sorry…” very sweetly,

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              1. I am waiting for the attempted rape where it takes multiple female teammates to protect the one being attacked and the resulting pile on to stop it. It will happen. These predators are big. The ones they are targeting, while healthy and in shape, aren’t a match just because of sheer size. It will take multiple to stop the predator.

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                1. Yes certainly one on one no match, but that’s a major portion of the whole issue ain’t it?
                  But a team of healthy young ladies used to acting in concert against a single faux girlie girl, that’s a match waiting to happen.
                  It has also long been a practice in certain parts of the country for daddy to send little missy off to college with a physical manifestation of their Second Amendment Right to self protection. Do not want to open that can of worms for fear of what our “trusted” media would turn it into, but bound to happen sooner or later.

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                  1. I believe the term is, “grudge match.”
                    Story from just north of you, on the TN border…cheerleader home alone when guy breaks in. Police arrived to find the guy on his face on the floor, hands behind his head, begging the cops to deliver him from a 16-year-old with Daddy’s gun.

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                  2. Do not want to open that can of worms for fear of what our “trusted” media would turn it into, but bound to happen sooner or later.
                    …………………

                    Unfortunately, I think you are correct. Almost would be better if daddy’s little princess has her female bodyguard with her and is willing to take the “heat”, knowing full well what the consequences are going to be.

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              2. Epee is best applied to the knee, though you better be ready to catch a riposte or stop hit in the face if you try it.

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                1. I fenced Epee. The ultimate you’re being an asshole warning was a balestra/lunge with the epee hitting the mask just above eye level. This caused the head to jerk back hard and was quite disconcerting. Did this once to a jerk who had breen recruited from the UMASS sabre team as 2 of their three epeeists had slept in. He was coming out of the en garde with a fleche and a swiping strike (akin to an attack in high line with the sabre). I was last to fence him and he’d put marks on two of my teammates through his clumsiness. He tried this on me twice and I just let him run into me blocking hs strike (and getting him a warning for corps a corps). Third time he did the same stupid thing I did the balestra/lunge and planted the epee on his mask. His neck (or maybe his teeth) made an audible click. And he got a third corps a corps and forfeited the bout.

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                  1. Good.
                    I preferred sabre to epee, but I was no great shakes with either of them. And then I had to drop out a quarter for medical reasons and when I got back, they’d lost the instructor.
                    I also tended to get the half jacket, and go home with bruises from clumsy classmates on my unpadded arm.

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                    2. Alas. I haven’t been back to competing in epee, or even training since covid, for multiple reasons. The club owner was a covid mask fanatic, and the US Fencing Association was just as bad. The owner had pushed the annual club fee to over $1600; so it was cheaper to pay for a night when and if I do go. I was getting better training by doing bouts than any “lessons”. And I was getting distressing e-mails from the national organization showing just how gender woke they were getting. Crying shame, since there were a lot of good people I enjoyed fencing with.

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        2. Remember the Battle of King’s Mountain, where a group of Rednecks took on the ‘unbeatable’ British, defeated them, and were so pi$$ed off at previous orders of “no quarter” (not permitting those surrendering to live), that they killed them ALL.
          Then went home, their consciences clear, to their families. It was the battle that broke the British, stopping their further advance into North Carolina. Just a year later, they surrendered at Yorktown.
          I was just checking on the battles of the Revolutionary War – the FIRST one. There was continual fighting through mid-1783, long after the treaty was signed. In one sense, the fight for independence was to continue through the War of 1812.

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      3. Read the lives of all the saints. Fundamentally flawed, major sinners even, but every one chose at a critical moment, to change.

        Trump is like that. Flawed, but he’s had a critical change from who he was before Obama and who he is, and he’s continually changing.

        Fundamentally flawed. Thus a human.

        But the best person for the job.

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    4. Tucker Carlson also thinks they’ll try to kill Trump if they think he’ll become the next president – https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/08/ominous-warnings-from-tucker-carlson.html

      I agree with Sarah & others that if they do that then the US is in for a period of domestic instability and that is not going to go well with the current woke elites.

      Note that Trump’s mugshot is apparently a big hit in the inner city gangs of the sort who were allowed to riot for BLM. Assuming even a modicum of coordination between those sorts and the more rural Trump supporters with weaponry then things get very nasty for the suburban people in the middle.

      Take, as a thought experiment, Chicago.

      The outer burbs and surrounding country area is MAGA land. The gangs are already carjacking etc. in the downtown area. There are known areas where the anti-trump progressive sorts like (near the university, some of the other suburbs). Those areas are likely to get burned out, literally. And the cops won’t help them because they shat all over the cops during BLM

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      1. Fourteen months until the election, and I’m not at all sure that Old Joe is going to make it. His cognitive decline seems to be escalating of late. They might just have to invoke 25A and leave Commiela in place which would be a disaster for the Dems.
        Unless of course they were to set up a false flag hit on Joe ostensibly perpetrated by a Trump supporter which might just give Harris enough sympathy votes (along with massive fraud naturally) to ease her into her proper role as the new figurehead for the real powers behind the throne. Perhaps with Michele O. as her new VP.
        Hey, can’t help myself. Why should I keep my worst nightmares to myself when y’all are here to share in the wealth?

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        1. Wall Street Journal (Heminger’s) take:
          The general public doesn’t want Biden or Trump. Both parties seem hellbent on ignoring that. However, in Heminger’s view, the Democrats are more likely to “persuade,” Joe to not run and then tap a successful governor- he suggested Whitmer, Newsom or, sorry Sarah, Polis. That person wouldn’t have to get a landslide, because the Party is focused on its agenda and any win will do. He, she or whatever would also give independents and folks who hate Joe but hate Trump more, an out.
          Meanwhile, the Republicans are not focused on an agenda, they are incandescently angry over the indictments and will nominate Trump in pure fury…and lose, bigly, if Biden has been replaced.
          Heminger follows the party line that fraud wasn’t a deciding factor in 2020, but I’ll add that the Dems might not need so much of it to put Anybody But Joe in. And if they did, the media/pundit class would find it easy to believe that the win wasn’t fraud, it was Trump’s inability to win the vital Suburban Women’s vote.
          I wouldn’t be surprised at anything right now, including both of them having “accidents,” or otherwise dropping out of the race.

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      2. Chicago is an interesting test case, actually, as BLM went down differently here than the rest of the major cities that got hit. BLM protesters actually got chased out of a couple of neighborhoods… both black and Hispanic. The BLM leadership did not “feel safe” in at least one very black but gang ridden part of Chicago. There was some looting, but that was more the local gangs coordinating on social media and getting opportunitistic in connection with some primarily upper end shopping spots. Bottom line, interesting times, but no were nearly as bad as some other cities.

        Of course, the Soros=funded prosecutor is not helping matters on a longer term basis, but I am hearing that she is maybe not running for re-election…

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    5. The Left (and a couple of alleged “conservative” fellow travelers) is already pushing for Trump to be banned from all ballots based on a unique interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. They even claim the section is “self enforcing” and no judicial finding is necessary.

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      1. Unique in this case meaning, horrendous bad take utterly unfair interpretation.

        I really despise these people.

        Everyone says “national divorce, bad, nooooo”. But Jordan Peterson says that the sign of impending divorce is contempt between the two sides and we have tons of that.

        I keep thinking that the shredrip (my name for the chaos) is coming and it’s gonna be real real bad, but it’s gonna be that or ending up enslaved.

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        2. “Unique in this case meaning, horrendous bad take utterly unfair interpretation.”

          Pretty much. Back in college my Business Law professor told us that the word “unique’ in reference to a legal theory or interpretation is very often a euphemism for “bat guano insane!”

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          1. The other word in law cases for “bat guano insane” is “novel”. When a judge says your interpretation of the law is “novel,” it’s time to fold up your tent and sneak out the side door.

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      2. Unique in this case meaning, horrendous bad take utterly unfair interpretation.

        I really despise these people.

        Everyone says “national divorce, bad, nooooo”. But Jordan Peterson says that the sign of impending divorce is contempt between the two sides and we have tons of that.

        I keep thinking that the shredrip (my name for the chaos) is coming and it’s gonna be real real bad, but it’s gonna be that or ending up enslaved.

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        1. I have bad news for you Mr. Alger the post Modern view is that NO text has an absolute meaning. They do not accept that there even IS an intended meaning from the author. This is why their Law and Theology is so bat feces insane. So they will read the part and you quote and say it means something utterly different. It is somewhere between the Statements of Humpty Dumpty

          “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

          and calvinball. Words Do mean things, but to the Brahmandarins those words mean what they want them to mean and they will pay no attention to any reasoning otherwise. This is a large part of the mess we’re in.

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      4. They don’t need “all”, just enough to make 270 difficult.

        It’s donkey-doo, but that never stops donkeys.

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      5. Which is stupid for any number of reasons, primary among them that there was no “insurrection”.

        No, really. Leftists may call it that whenever they get a chance (or even when they don’t) but legally speaking* it requires a formal declaration of a state of insurrection by either the President or in a joint resolution (meaning both houses of Congress have to agree). No formal declaration, no insurrection.

        IANAL, nor did I spend last night at a Holiday Inn Express. YMMV, no warranties either express or implied, etc, etc.

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    6. What if they try to kill Trump, and fail? Like what happened to Ronald Reagan back in 1981. I mean, they’re incompetent at everything, why not that, too? I could see them going with a Transgender Diversity Assassin Of Color, never mind if the gomer has ever picked up a gun before.
      ———————————
      There is nothing so f*ked up the government can’t make it worse.

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      1. The reason so many USSS do not make it to retirement is the understanding that the lone crazy and the turncoat bodyguard are responsible for about 99% of successful assassinations.

        Which is why, as we converse, some Special Agent is reviewing this thread for Crazies. (Hi, Fred! Just us loyal sane citizens here!)

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      3. All that transgender, diversity, inclusiveness, equity, POC, etc crap is just cookies and milk to keep the respective interest groups in line. The Left’s God is Power and their religion is how to get it.

        I suspect if some Leftists decide they need to kill Trump to keep him from the Presidency, they will hire someone with a good chance of success regardless of how many diversity boxes get checked off. They have a lot of big money backers so can certainly afford it.

        OTOH, they will, almost certainly, arrange for some useful idiots to get the credit. Throw in a rambling, barely comprehensible manifesto for the complacent media to masturbate over and the conspiritards will provide all the cover the real perpetrators need.

        OTGH, that sounds kind of like a straight to streaming movie plot doesn’t it?

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        1. It is almost impossible to stop an assassin if they don’t care if they escape afterwards. That’s why kamikaze’s and other suicide bombers are like a magnitude more effective.

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        1. It is convenient when the assassin gets immediately offed, isn’t it?
          BTW, I’m almost expecting Hunter to tragically “overdose,” just before his indictment (even if it’s clearly symbolic). He may be hitting the category of, “no longer useful.” At least, to whoever is really running this *&$@show.

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          1. I’m not sure of that. I suspect Joe has transferred a lot of what for him passes as affection from his son Beau to Hunter. Which is kind of sad since Beau was apparently worth something as a person, in spite of being a Biden.

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            1. He’s a potted plant. He calls zero shots.

              Agree with you on the spawn of #Brandon. Consider the imaginable shambles that guy is, using all that leverage and money on nothing but hookers and crack. All the political and financial pull in the world, and he has to -rent- women so he can play the big man.

              That’s who’s running the country. Guys like that.

              In Canada of course, Spawn of #Brandon would be a step up.

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          2. You know what bothers me in all this? The strong possibility that “they’ll do Trump in jail” is not merely a cynical, sour jest.

            We’re sitting here thinking that a convenient overdose may well await “LetsGoBrandon’s inconvenient spawn, and it doesn’t seem far fetched.

            That’s a pretty far distance from JFK or Ronald Regan. I mean, the Left hated Regan, but the general public didn’t all think the Left did it.

            But now? Now we’re speculating ahead of the event. That’s a profound shift in public morality and the expectations we have of government. If anything happens to Trump or Spawn of #Brandon, nobody is going to be thinking “lone gunman.” All the fingers will be pointing.

            I feel bad for our kids. They’ve been brought up in this poisoned environment.

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            1. With JFK, the most common theory that I’ve heard from folks at the time was that the Mob did it, because JFK cheated them after they got him elected. The assumption that of course he had the Mob working with him is… well, notable.

              And folks who know who the justices are have been suspicious about Scalia’s passing, mostly because of how quick it was ignored.

              The Clintons have been well known for their association with Arkancide for thirty years, now. (Note, this doesn’t require that the Clintons be masterminds. All it requires is that they be dirty, and then YES their associates are more likely to show up dead with don’t-look-too-hard situations. Hiding remove-fellow-criminals events by making it look like a suicide and/or overdose is bog standard.)

              Biggest thing is that there’s the internet, so we can have folks notice these things all across the country and/or world, rather than it only being somewhat regional and mostly word of mouth.

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              1. I 100% agree that they haven’t changed. They were dirty then, and they’re dirty now.

                I do think that -we- have changed though, and I do not feel it is for the better. JFK, RFK, Regan, these attacks came as a shock to the public. They were unthinkable (to us) as being a part of public life. Such things simply were not done. (And I was alive at the time, I remember all three.)

                But now they -are- thinkable, and we all believe it. Many are lusting for it. Absolute proof that witchcraft and wishing death on people doesn’t work has been achieved, proven by Twittler and the Internet. Otherwise, Donald would have been struck by lightning and an asteroid by now.

                This has soiled something in our culture, IMHO. If one recalls far enough, President Lincoln barely had a security detail, even in wartime. Presidents didn’t. It wasn’t a thing. Now there’s a whole branch of government that does nothing else. (Hi Fred!)

                Not an improvement, whatever the proximate cause.

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                  1. For some of us, yes.

                    Unfortunately, the more people know, the more likely they are to become black-pilled. That’s an unfortunate side-effect.

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                3. Otherwise, Donald would have been struck by lightning and an asteroid by now.
                  ……………………

                  At the same time, plus a black vortex sucking him in to H3LL.

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                4. points at the relevant point in how he knows it’s around now

                  Twitter, and the internet, just let you know about it.

                  There are some videos of folks doing horrible things– it’s not like the spitting on soldiers coming back from ‘nam or chanting babykiller was from nowhere and disconnected from the rest of the shrieker’s lives– but now we can see it.

                  It’s no different than the “Rules for Radicals” tactics, BUT they can’t gaslight folks when “Libs of TikTok” is re-sharing their stuff.

                  They were able to control the narrative, and hold to what was “done.” Some had the brains to realize they’d face the same thing they dished out… although the flatly insane have been getting more power on the left….

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  3. Were you under the impression most humans were sensible?

    If humans were sensible, the Fall Wouldn’t Have Happened. :wink:

    Very good Sarah.

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  4. Honestly, we need to start telling the old Communist jokes about the Democrats. Humor gets through in ways that telling facts don’t.

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  5. Well said Sarah – while all you’ve covered I can’t and won’t disagree with I’ve still got a small hot coal of hope – but it is for the local arena. When (not if) the destructive fall starts the federal level will be a nightmare.

    In some states however, and the breakdown may be to county units and small communities, there will be a strong enough local control and sanity that these pockets will survive and be the foundation or building blocks to reconstruct the failed parts. There will never be a “home” to go back to yet these local spots will provide a place to begin anew.

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  7. I have been wondering if the ‘PLAN’ is to keep the economy patched together until the next election, let Trump win after a bruising fight that puts most people on one side or the other, then let the Greater Depression begin. The idea would be to make Trump into Herbert Hoover and his opponents into FDRs.
    Anyone paying attention must realize the present situation can’t continue. If you are riding high with lots of assets and power as a result of the financialization of the economy, you have to be worried about what will become of you when all those paper assets valued in dollars go pfft.
    Blame it on freedom. Blame it on free markets. Blame it on people not accepting the commands of their betters.
    I worry that covid was just a trial run.

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    1. Covid was a trial run, and Trump didn’t see it. The Left is always harping about civil disobedience, so if they try the lockdown stunt again we know what to do (or not do). PEACEFULLY, of course – this is for the Glowies.

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        1. Contest? After what Trump….. and any lawyers who took his cases…. are going through? That’s a major reason for all the indictments.

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            1. Act IV, Scene II of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II

              JACK CADE: Valiant I am.

              SMITH [aside]: A must needs; for beggary is valiant.

              JACK CADE: I am able to endure much.

              DICK [aside]: No question of that; for I have seen him whipp’d three market-days together.

              JACK CADE: I fear neither sword nor fire.

              SMITH [aside]: He need not fear the sword; for his coat is of proof.

              DICK [aside]: But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i’ th’ hand for stealing of sheep.

              JACK CADE: Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hoop’d pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass: and when I am king,– as king I will be,–

              ALL. God save your majesty!

              JACK CADE: I thank you, good people:– there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.

              DICK: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

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            2. “There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” — Winston Churchill

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      2. But I disagree with you. COVID wasn’t a TRIAL run. It was THE RUN. they still don’t understand WHY it failed,a nd are going to try it again, by the numbers. You see, it worked on THEM. They really don’t get us.

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        2. If I were an evil overlord, I’d be releasing Son of Covid fairly soon…the one that spreads fast and easy but actually has a 30% or larger death rate. Let’s hope nobody’s quite that evil.

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          1. No. It’s more that it’s not that easy to do. Or should I say “biologist friend LAUGHED at me when I suggested that.” They don’t have that kind of control.
            Also, the easier to spread the less virulent seems to be an immutable property of viruses.

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            1. I think the ease of spread merely increases the number of recombinations per period of time, which mutates the virus into a different form faster. MOST of the time, that ends up reducing the virulence. But that does not mean that you can’t get a critical hit for ease of spread AND virulence once in a great while.

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          2. Not going to happen. Diseases are of two major types:
            – Highly fatal, but very limited in spread. Burns out quickly. Ebola is an example of this type.
            – More infectious, but not very lethal – mostly kills the old and/or sick (which, despite the media coverage that tried to spread the idea that Covid was Ebola-like, was). Diseases, when they mutate, tend to become LESS lethal.
            But, but, but…What about the Killer Flu Epidemic of WWII and just after?
            That was an anomaly. The massive death rate, where the victims were leaking from all cells, was likely mostly due to overuse of the newly discovered aspirin. Aspirin is heavily implicated in cell breakage, which leads to leaking out.
            In an effort to keep people on the battlefield, the doctors prescribed aspirin, which brought their fevers down. Most died due to the side effects, or, later, due to Reyes Syndrome (that problem was uncovered in the 1970s). The remainder of the deaths would be pneumonia (you feel tired, but, thanks to the aspirin, able to semi-function). Without antibiotics, sufferers were able to walk around, until they collapsed; death would come shortly after.

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            1. Agree with all of you. I did say if I were an Evil Overlord, which assumes either exceptional competence or unholy luck.
              OTOH, when and if we do get something that is truly serious, a lot of us aren’t going to believe a word the “experts” tell us, and that could have nasty consequences for everyone.(Right now, if the Incumbents told me the sun was rising in the east I’d have to check to make sure).

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              1. Right now, if the Incumbents told me the sun was rising in the east I’d have to check to make sure
                ………………

                Given we are headed into the “gray months” in Oregon, I’d have to reserve judgement (because we can’t see the sun to tell if it is rising in the east to insure they weren’t pulling facts out of the standard location, their asses). In response to the “sun came up”, my check would be “well it is lighter than last night, so must have”. But what direction it came up? Not taking their word for it.

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            2. Are you talking about the 1918 flu epidemic? The one the ‘Experts!’ were bleating about to raise panic over COVID19? If so, you’ve got the wrong war.

              I think a major factor in the 1918 flu’s spread was all those soldiers going home from World War 1, carrying diseases they’d picked up in the trenches.

              It was studies conducted after the 1918 flu that proved cloth and paper masks were useless in reducing the spread of viruses. Masks or no masks, people caught the flu and died just about the same. There was some evidence that masks led to increased deaths, but the difference was too small to be considered statistically significant.
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              They’re the Experts! They only sound stupid to you because you’re not as Educated! as they are.

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                1. Yup, that 1920 report is the main one I was thinking about.

                  I read that Dr. Kellogg started the study convinced that masks had to be effective, he just meant to quantify how effective. The results he found surprised him.

                  But he was an honest scientist; he reported the facts, even though they weren’t the ones he expected.

                  Now we know that the particles that carry viruses are so infinitesimally small, trying to filter them out with a cloth or paper mask is like trying to stop fog with a barbed wire fence.

                  It’s easy to demonstrate. Find a smoker, or somebody that uses a ‘vape’ device, have them take a big drag, blow the smoke/vapor through a mask, and observe that the mask has hardly any effect at all.

                  Then consider that the smoke/vapor particles are 100 times bigger than the virus-carrying particles they tell us the masks will protect us from.

                  They lied about everything. They knew they were lying, or should have. Whether they are liars, or merely incompetent, they have no business dictating public health policy. They should have been fired, and most of them should have been prosecuted for malfeasance.

                  It has now been 4 years since an artificially modified bat virus escaped from a communist Chinese bio-warfare lab in Wuhan and they’re still on with the same scare-mongering. Worse, idiots are still paying attention to them.
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                  A good Zombie Apocalypse novel is at least as believable as anything we’ve heard out of the ‘Publick Health Authoriteez’ over the last 3 1/2 years.

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                  1. He did a lot of studies– I believe the one I linked is the one where he basically used a pneumatic setup to show exactly what you describe with the vaping. (I am traveling, so internet is… not.)

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    3. Trial run implies they are capable of learning. The usual MO is to latch onto $CURRENT_THING and ride hard for as much power and fear as they can seize from it.

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    4. No, the “plan” is to destroy Trump by any means necessary, up to and yes, including, assassinating him.

      If Trump beats the odds and wins election anyway, that’s the point they crash the economy. Assuming it hasn’t collapsed under its own weight before the election; I figure there’s a fifty-fifty chance.

      We already have the 2008 economic crisis – which Chucky Schumer kicked off by publicly questioning the solvency of IndyMac (IIRC Schumer was also one of the coterie of investors, led by George Soros, who divvied up IndyMac’s stripped carcass after the bank collapsed) – and how Kung Flu was similarly exploited to, again, crash the economy and crush the middle/working classes right before an election.

      Not to mention the usual election-year riots across the land.

      Wouldn’t do any good for them to crash the economy beforehand; too much chance of people turning even more against the Democrats than they already are. But as spiteful as the elites are? As contemptuous as they are of us?

      Oh yes, if they end up losing in 2024 – to any Republican, but especially to Trump – then they’ll grunt and strain and bring the temple down on all our heads. They’ve been openly acting – and openly saying, as often as not – for years that if they can’t rule America then nobody will. Why would they change their minds now?

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      1. A lot of my co-workers in 2008 were former IndyMac employees, and still had a lot of friends who worked at the bank. They were pretty pissed off with Schumer after that little stunt.

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    5. There’s no plan to hand a failing economy to Trump. For that to happen, they would have to believe that it’s possible for the economy to get worse on their watch. They don’t believe that. And they’re most likely in denial about just how bad things are. They might acknowledge that there are still a few issues with the economy. But they know that pretty quick – any day, now, really – those problems will finally be resolved, and the economy will take off so fast it’ll make the Reagan economy look like a recession.

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        1. And when their theory fails when confronting with reality, it isn’t the fault of the theory. Clearly it was action by fascists. Fascists being anyone who opposed the theory or said it couldn’t work.

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    6. I have been wondering if the ‘PLAN’ is to keep the economy patched together[…]

      Don’t need to read anymore, it fails the “could a 5yo find a problem?” test.

      You can’t make plans for the economy when your entire economic theory is utterly incoherent in every possible way.

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    7. Too high a risk for their stomachs.

      Trump often makes himself look good standing in a turd-pile. They can’t risk it.

      And they can’t believe, down deep, that they can’t control the economy. Too alien! They are the right people, after all.

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      2. If they’re controlling the economy they’re doing a shit job of it. They need to be sacked.

        If they could control the economy, but they’re letting it swirl down the crapper anyway, they need to be sacked.

        If they’re too F-ing incompetent to control the economy, they need to be sacked.

        If it’s fundamentally impossible for some dictatorial central authority to control the economy, but they’re pretending they can do it anyway, they need to be sacked.
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        Governments can’t create prosperity; at best, they can refrain from destroying it.

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  8. “Again, it’s quite possible, not to say probable the fraud is unbeatable, since no one would run the campaign they did in 2020 if they didn’t KNOW that on the basis of fraud alone, they had more votes than Trump got in 2016.”

    Let us pause for one moment in our contemplations to recall that little #LetsGoBrandon’s son left his laptop, the one with allllll the proof of the #LetsGoBrandon family criminal conspiracy on it, at a random repair shop in 2019.

    Lately we have come to know that the laptop, far from being fake, contains a whole extravaganza of smoking guns, both literal and figurative, and furthermore proves that #LetsGoBrandon was personally involved. Part of the October Surprise in 2020.

    So for most of 2019 and all of 2020, the #LetsGoBrandon team KNEW that the proof of their criminal conspiracy was out there, hanging fire, waiting to fall on them like the very thunderbolts of Jove, and if they didn’t win they would all be going to jail.

    And knowing all that, look at the fricking campaign they ran. “Here’s your beloved candidate #LetsGoBrandon, coming to you on Zoom from his 1970s era basement rec room!”

    I would say, based on that alone, they knew they had it in the bag from the start.

    Watching them panic and indite Trump all over the USA right now, it doesn’t really look like they’re as confident this time. So if Trump continues on as the rock star he is right now until October 2024, he might beat the steal. They’d be a lot cockier if it was in the bag.

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          1. Mr. Fleming I’m not sure they imagine Ceausescu or pitchfork and torches. They don’t get consequences. I sometimes wonder if their non comprehension of consequences is because Mommy and Daddy padded everything for them and told them how good they were. It’s why they want Daddy government to save them and do things for them and Mommy government to praise them. It’s also why one of the basics of the Christian faith (that ALL have fallen short of the mark and all are sinners) is anathema to them.

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              1. I suppose, even a planarian flinches if you poke it, though it is not clear to me if our alleged intellectual betters would fare well in a competition vs a planarian.

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          2. I believe leftist views are divided on this point. Some believe their own propaganda about the overwhelming power of Government Almighty and its ability to effortlessly crush any boog. They want to bring it on.

            Others are terrified of the Cold Civil War going hot and are desperately trying to finesse things so that it doesn’t happen, or at worst so that any uprisings go off half-cocked and can be defeated in detail.

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            1. The mortal hysteria over the “insurrection” that happened without any weapons says that NONE of them believe Government Almighty can crush much of anything.

              Those in power hid under their desks and ran from their offices at the first hint of resistance. These are not people confident in their position.

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    2. They are going to run the presses until pulpwood trees are endangered species. Funny how 150+ million people vote the same straight party ticket.

      They are going to do whatever it takes, absolutely whatever, to prevent Trump getting 270 uncontested votes in 2024.

      My favorite prediction is that around late October 2024 they announce “Trump was right!” And declare him the winner of 2020, thus he is Constitutionally ineligible for a “third” term. The wrangling over “No he didn’t! Yes he did!”, and the resultant lawfare backflips, runs out the clock to Inauguration Day 2025. On the off chance he gets sworn in before January (careful what youvwish, donks), the ‘crats will go on strike, trying to prevent any significant actions.

      Can’t appear on the ballot if not eligible.

      Can’t get sworn in if he wins 270 if not eligible.

      Can’t get to 270 if key states melt down and certify no one.

      No mechanism to handle it! No controlling legal authority to punish it! Sorry, you got ripped off. Life sucks.

      Et cetera.

      There are enough “Never trump” fools who would go along to make this scenario possible. Yes, they would. Why would they not?

      And anyone taking up arms is thus the one “violating the Constitution” and an Insurrectionist”. (With resultant noisy outcome). It might not quite fly in flyover, but it’s enough fig-leaf where much of the armed forces will back it.

      Elegant, yes?

      I hope not. If it does, the wheels come off with elan. -No one- could control the resultant Charlie Foxtrot.

      But somewhere, some policywonker is thinking …….

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    3. The Hunter laptop was the same kind of smoking gun the Oliver North hard drive was. And again, who jumped all over Irangate, and who did their best to discredit and ignore the Hunter computer?

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  10. Jordan Peterson has said that one of the problems with social media (and online interaction in general) is that the social mechanisms we have in real life to protect against sociopaths and psychopaths simply are not there, and that in fact everything seems geared to reward psychopathy.

    And I think he has a blind spot glaring him right in the face, because his government has ordered him into reeducation because he hasn’t toed their psychopathic line.

    Through the left, the psychopaths have infested every professional organization, every level of government, and turned the mechanisms of everything in their favor. The rules no longer matter. What matters is if you are with the psychopaths, or against them.

    Don’t believe me? Alex Jones was fined one billion dollars for not toeing the line, against all rules, after a show trial in which he was forbidden to defend himself.

    Donald Trump’s latest indictment in Georgia is for a list of things that are not illegal, including asking a lawyer how to do something legally.

    No, seriously. “Act 156” reads:

    On or about the 17th day of September 2021, DONALD JOHN TRUMP committed the felony offense of SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER, in Violation of O.C.G.A.§§16-4-7 and 16-10-1, in Fulton County, Georgia, by unlawfully soliciting, requesting, and importuning Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a public officer, to engage in conduct constituting the felony offense of Violation of Oath by Public Officer, O.C.G.A.§16-10-1, by unlawfully “decertifying the Election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is, and announce the true winner,” in willful and intentional Violation of the terms of the oath of said person as prescribed by law, with intent that said person engage in said conduct. This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

    They are rubbing your nose in the fact that they are prosecuting him for asking for “whatever the correct legal remedy is” by calling it unlawful.

    The J6 “conspirators” are being treated worse than terrorists in Guantanamo.

    The rule of law itself has been skinsuited by the very worst of humanity, seemingly around the world.

    “Playing nice” will only play into their hands.

    This is why they’re mortally terrified of Trump. Because he will not play nice, especially now that he knows what he’s up against. And nobody else scares them like that. (I remain convinced they are playing relatively nice with deSantis because they have something on him.)

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    1. Re: the left playing relatively nice (at the moment) with DeSantis, it’s for a far simpler reason. They no longer think he’s got a realistic chance of being the nominee, so they don’t need to attack him any more; they’ve re-focused on Trump. But remember what they were doing back when he was polling at 30% of the Republican primary. They were going into absolute hysterics about the “don’t groom our kids in school” bill, lying not just about its content but even about its name, falsely claiming it was a “don’t say gay” bill.

      Then DeSantis started sinking in the polls again, and the attacks tapered off. But for a while there, they were just as hysterical about DeSantis as they were about Trump. You’re allowing recent events to cover over your memory of last year.

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  11. Many on our side find Trump troubling because he will never admit his mistakes. Maybe that’s driven by the tendency those who hate you to pounce on any admission of guilt, or maybe just by ego, a trait he has in spades. Yes, he made many mistakes from minor (Omarossa) to major (Fauci). My question is, did he learn from his mistakes in trusting the bureaucracy? And has he figured out how to dismantle it and replace it? His since repealed Civil Service rules were a very good start. I have faith in his inventiveness to get the right things done, (see the Abraham Accords, the Border Wall–although I know it was too late to be completely finished). Did everyone who’s yelled that, “He’s a dictator! Literally Hitler!” Never Stalin or Mao or even Pol Pot of course forget that he deferred to the rule of law on almost every occasion? No, they just lie about it. How many absurd rulings from lower court judges were issued with national injunctions? He always waited until the appeals court or Supreme Court set them straight. Hardly a dictator.

    He can be a creative bulldozer when he recognizes what needs to be done, but the presidency is not something one can do on one’s own. Reagan had staff that had been vetted and he had used for years to help carry out his vision. Trump only had Jared in his first term. Does he have a real team now? There are almost 2 million members of the Civil Service, and the likelihood of any of them being freedom-promoting, limited government types is probably about the same as the percentage of those types on college faculties and administrations.

    DeSantis has proved he can bend the bureaucracy to do good things. Trump has proved he can go around the bureaucracy to do good things. Who is better to have as President in 2025? YMMV as they say. I only hope that all the best politicians are not railroaded into attacking him because then he’ll never let them work for him.

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        1. He deals with the same uniparty in the Florida Legislature, just a different hand of cards from the same deck

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            1. The parties are the same. Politics is similar.

              Business is very little like the political, however the lust for power, prestige, and plunder is the same.

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              1. Processes aren’t. No single state Senator is allowed to stop a nominee via “blue-slip”. US Senator can and HAS in the case of Trump. Most FL state nominees aren’t background checked by the same three letter agencies organizing the coup. The full list of differences would break the blog.

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                2. Watching Tuberville right now is a thing of beauty. The screaming and ugly name-calling is getting loud but so far he’s hanging in there. Mind you, since he’s from Alabama he may figure they’re going to trash him anyway, so why not go for the gusto?

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                  1. Precisely. Get one person with principles in there and the monkey wrenches are obvious. One reason they hate Trump is that he was able to use some of the ones they set up for themselves.

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      2. If you are against the left, they will invent mistakes and then demand you explain when exactly you stopped beating your wife.

        Recall the pathetic reporters hounding Mitt Romney “but what about your gaaaaaaafffes!?!!?!?!?!?!?”

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          1. Which they had to dig back twenty or thirty years to get. Everything else was purely invented, and they mocked him for saying Russia was a threat, four years before Bad Orange Man was bad because Russia Russia Russia!

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      3. Maybe not, but then I think Trump is the only realistic choice. I just hope Trump ends up with allies, not enemies among the GOP. If any of the other candidates come after him, he’ll bring a gun to a knife fight as he’s already shown. I thin Ramaswamy would be a good addition to a Trump cabinet, and maybe DeSantis as VP. We need people who share the vision of freedom on the team, not carping and pouting on the sidelines.

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        2. Both Ramaswamy and DeSantis are owned by the Uniparty.

          Ramaswamy is Pro-Pharma and anti-2nd amendment. DeSantis is controlled/funded by the pro-Jeb crew.

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        3. For wrecking marxprogs, I much prefer an inscrutable strategist handy with both word and rapier, to an angry vengeful gorilla with a concertina- wrapped club.

          But I will cheer and applaud the gorilla, and keep it well supplied with suitable blunt objects.

          Gengis Apeshit 2024!

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      4. DeSantis better understands how to work with, or around, such. He is also a much better team player. That is why Florida is doing so well.

        Dropped the campaigning to deal with the hurricane. Sure, good political move. Trump looks like an ass cheapshotting during the storm. Which shows just how bad he is at team play.

        Which is why a 2nd Trump term is going to accomplish less than the first. He may temporarily wreck things needing wrecked. But in the absence of team play, he can’t build the team that follows him. Thus the opposition just goes for more sabotage, lawfare, and clock-running.

        They just have to get past 2028. Because Trump blew any chance of a good follow-on by picking a fight with DeSantis. They should have been allies.

        Trumps ego is his biggest handicap. I am looking forward to him wrecking donk plans. I weep that he won’t leave any meaningful legacy of change, unless we get yet another black swan.

        I am sure the opposition is doing everything it can to keep those two fighting, and the rest of us choosing sides.

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              1. I recognize that my vision is limited, but DeSantis strikes me as a good-to-excellent state governor. As you point out, there’s a very large world of difference between “state” and federal”.

                I think of him as a very good Maintenance Director within an area of defined scope; his experience in three terms in the House, and now two terms (well,1.5, actually, at the moment) as Florida’s governor . It is possible he may be capable of political knife fighting, but I question how much enthusiasm he would bring to such a critically necessary task, and there’s a huge difference between having some blade skills and the proverbial knife fight in a phone booth.

                However it goes there will be one, and only one, winner (for various values of “winning”), and we need to make sure it’s us. That will not be the slightest bit easy and we need to be Prepared In All Things, and that includes whom we choose to lead the battle.

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                  1. Only once, and since I could find a replacement it probably couldn’t be called “losing my last ditch insurance” – it took several months but I was able to find a lesser coverage homeowner’s insurance policy for 40% more. Which is why when I retired 3 years later I moved out of Florida. I figured the insurance debacle in Florida was only going to get worse, and it has.

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            2. Utterly false assumption.

              It’s whomever wins republican versus whomever wins Democrat. You choose one of them.

              Not voting is -actively- supporting the opposition.

              You may not like it, but “none of the above” isn’t on the ballot.

              Choose wisely.

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          2. Proving my point for me, with an example of effective team play.

            As much as Trump has a chance to win, and hopefully appoint another SCOTUS judge or two, and maybe thin the ‘crat herd a bit, he will be replaced by either a donk or a rino.

            Unless we replace the typical lower level GOPe types, with different sorts of players.

            Trump isn’t building a future Republican party because he does not build anything that doesn’t need him, or might rival him.

            One must realize that the main reason he won in 2016 was his opponent. She scared the crap out of both sides, driving votes to him on the “hold your nose” platform. He then earned much re-voting from the left on classic democrat blue-collar issues, such as fixing shit that screwed US manufacturing, thus screwed Joe Sixpack.

            Free trade is a worthy goal. The current situation is “who screws?” In no case is the USA served by “bottom”. Trump made that explicit by saying “top only in that game”.

            Trump will always be an amature, with all the resultant problems. He gets one more term, then he is out. He has zero political future beyond 2029. DeSantis is playing the long pro game, and will be in the pro game for decades.

            I can’t imagine the donks continuing their Jonestown Joe game plan through next November. They will switch to Newsome at some point, and -that- slick bastard is popular with Donks. Likely they buy Jivin Joe off, as they did Bernie, but with a pardon “to heal the nation” and keeping the proceeds, plus a nice bonus. It may all be under the table, but I sense the Kabuki is already on stage.

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            1. Trump isn’t building anything. That’s not his job. If he gets in, because he can’t run again and he’s done, his job is to be a wrecking ball. We don’t need anyone to build bridges. Plenty of that already there.
              We need somone to weed out the deep state. The building comes after.

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                1. At the nationwide level, yes, there’s a lot of swamp draining before our types would find something solid to build on and trust.
                  Locally? Perhaps up to state? Build away. Build mobile and flexible and redundant. We’ll need swamp draining logistics in place – the Potomac is not enough to wash out DC on its own. Work on ways to break the FedGov to lefty non-profit pipeline, and alternatives for states and localities that may depend on federal money, and thus the strings that come with.

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                  1. “Work on ways to break the FedGov to lefty non-profit pipeline…”

                    This! We also need to work at the state and local level to eliminate any ‘push’ of non-profit money back into state and local governmental functions. Make sure your local government can have no interaction with any non-profit’s money.

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    2. “DeSantis has proved he can bend the bureaucracy to do good things.”

      Yes…. because there are provisions in the FL Constitution that allow him to.

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  12. I’m always a contrarian, but I don’t think he “has it in the bag.” None of my friends or relatives who voted for Trump in the last elections are voting for him in the primaries. If he’s the nominee, then yes, but otherwise, no.

    For myself, of those who participated in the debate, it’s either Burgum or DeSantis.

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    1. The reason Trump has it sewn up and in the bag is that he has cornered people who would never vote Republican, but who are sick unto death of Washington. Pollster Rich Barris has laid it out very well. Working class whites, various demographics that Dems consider “theirs”, are all anti-Republican, but strongly pro-Trump. These are generally people in the rust belt, and southern urban areas, rather than New England.

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    2. To paraphrase E.E. Smith, Bergum doesn’t have the chance of the nitrocelluose dog chasing the asbestos cat in Hell. And I like North Dakota; it seems to be well-run under his watch.

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  13. I have to say that the single worst thing I’ve heard about Trump since 2020 was his recent statement that he thought of Vivek Ramaswami as a possible vice president. Ramaswami’s views on economic policy appear to be outright socialist; having him in any position to influence new laws strikes me as a profoundly bad idea, comparable to the badness of having Pence as running mate in 2016.

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    1. VPs don’t influence laws.
      Might be the best way to defang him. OTOH you know, a lot of libertarians like VR. No, I don’t get why either. (i.e. I agree with you.)

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      1. The vice president presides over the (perhaps evenly divided!) Senate. And there is always the chance that Trump will die (or be killed) in office and put Ramaswami into the White House. I would not want to see that.
        I think one of Trump’s weaknesses is that he doesn’t examine people’s principles critically; he’s willing to trust people whose actual principles are destructive. His favorable view of VR is consistent with that.

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        1. Yeah. And I’m not saying I’m “for” Trump so much as I think he’s happening regardless, and he’s not unlectable, so I’ve made my peace.
          Now, if I had my choice….
          But it would be unlikely to be DeSantis. And It hink most of the support for DeSantis, and the others for that matter, is based on “We don’t want to upset the dems.”

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            2. I will support whomever thwarts the donks, thus thwarts the overthrow of the republic.

              Then we can work on how to unfuck our “allies”. We can’t salvage anything via politics if the donks keep winning. If they get to replace two conservatives on SCOTUS with flaming idiots, the political game is … poor.

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        2. Tee VP only has influence in the Senate as a tie-breaker. Yes, he or she can talk to the senators and pass on the desires/ideas of the POTUS, but only if there’s a 50/50 tie does the VP get to vote. He’s supposed to preside over the Senate, but most of the time he turfs it to the President Pro Tem of the senate, who turfs it to a junior senator or two. (Per several civics textbooks. Apparently most people don’t love doing the parliamentarian-type stuff.)

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  14. My two great fears are first that the Left will manage to cling bitterly to power for decades even as things get worse and worse, or will otherwise manage to do so much damage that the time to recover will be measured in centuries rather than years or even decades.

    My second great fear is that the Right will win – and become an authoritarian Right that’s no friend to libertarians like myself. That the need to purge the Left and the craving for “Law ‘n’ Order!” will result in a great many human-rights babies being thrown out with the bath water. (Or to use another metaphor, cut in half in Solomonic compromises.)

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      2. Me too. I’m certainly no Republican and knowing something of the continental right not really comfortable on the right. Throne and altar is still throne and altar
        Though God’s altar is entirely superior to Moloch’s, which is what the left wants

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    2. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
      – Sinclair Lewis

      The Reader notes Lewis was wrong then, and is wrong now. He suspects you and your fellow liberatarians (small or large L) will be just fine.

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          1. The Reader isn’t sure either. However his novels all looked down on and mocked the folks the Left now calls ‘deplorables’ and his 1935 novel ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ is a bible for for the Left’s professed fear of fascism. However this quote from his Nobel acceptance speech in 1930 points to someone who likes being a contrarian.

            “in America most of us—not readers alone, but even writers—are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues,” and that America is “the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today.”

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            1. He opposed commercialism and materialism in his novels, but that doesn’t make him a socialist. It’s certainly easier to view him as an American contrarian than anything else, in the vein of H.L. Mencken (whom he was friends with at least for a time).

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  15. Just before reading this I saw the Proud Boy was sentenced to 17 years in the slammer (Only thing good one can say about that, it’s about the only place you’re never have to deal with any Antifa.). Rule of law? Guffaw.

    Yes, of course, if I’ve the choice President Trump has my vote.

    First, as the president of Hungary recently noted, President Trump is probably the only one that can halt the quick step march to WW III, & I feel such would be rather nice to avoid.

    Second I’m not hiring him to govern. I want to elect him to wreck, rage at, rattle, destroy the swamp denizens. Not likely to be able to do so? Actually I agree but I hope he’ll give it his best try and I think he can expose the rot and rubbish, make the sight and smell so blatant, that We The People do what we should have done generations ago.

    Third if President Trump is not nominated and elected, I see no others in the field with the slightest chance of slowing, let alone halting, the fall of the Republic.

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    1. Actually, what may be the best Trump card is for him to cause the Statists to go into overt action against the conservatives and Constitutionalists. This would result in a rather violent reaction, like dropping a brick of sodium into a bucket of water.

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      1. Which is precisely why they are railroading him. Remember, they think they will certainly win, because they are smarter and more ruthless than flyover hicks.

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  17. Thank you Sarah,,, I needed this. My last post, not just about the ‘Fall’, but several other things, had me going for that black pill,,,,
    Serendiptous the way your postive posts align with my funks,,,,,

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  18. It seems that few see or discuss the potential for Trump being elected, at the direction of the Left, then the Globalists and Fed dropping the financial ceiling in on America… like RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!

    That would stop Trump from trying to roll back or stop the momentum of the nonsense that the Left, through this administration (BObama and crew), have put in motion.

    Trump may be an accomplished businessman and manager… I speak with inside knowledge as his former private security director is a friend of mine and knows Trump intimately… but I doubt anyone will be able to deal with the financial Tsunami headed our way.

    It would also cause the “Deplorables,” who I define as anyone with Traditional Values who believes in Individual Rights, to be hated and loathed by the MAJORITY of remaining “Americans.”

    Throw in the resulting food disruption and shortages or everything, hyper-inflation, WWIII, martial law and a pandemic or two. I’ve lived in this atmosphere… few Americans will be able to tolerate it.

    RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! Conspiracy Theory or saying attributed to Zeus!? The Kraken is loose now… just read about the financial avalanche that has built up… that at the push of a button or the spoken word by those of power… and the ceiling will come down on America’s house.

    Whether we slide fully into Communism or this engineered mess is rectified, EACH of you must become Self-Reliant. NOW!

    Jack Lawson

    Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada
    Author of the “Civil Defense Manual,” “The Slaver’s Wheel,” “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil” and “In Defense.”

    “When an animal calls out a warning of danger unseen to other animals, the others don’t question the motive as their instincts are still intact. When a human tries to warn his kind, they laugh and call him a conspiracy theorist, because their instincts have been rendered useless.”

    “Any species that does not have the instinct of survival, that cannot or will not defend themselves, is doomed to extinction… as time has shown.” Author Jack Lawson

    From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1976-79

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    1. “It seems that few see or discuss the potential for Trump being elected, at the direction of the Left, ”
      Few see this potential, because the left isn’t trying to get Trump elected. That’s crazy cakes.
      And it’s used by the same people who say that when the left yells at DeSantis “it’s telling us who they’re afraid of.”
      The left is terrified of Trump being elected period.
      If you think they have that kind of control over the country, you really need to get in touch with reality.

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      1. Hello Sarah,

        Crazy Cakes sounds like good eating.

        I’ve been up to my eyeballs as a tool of these ABC, XYZ agencies. They have a term for their upside down, inside out and backwards schemes… Psychological Operations.

        If you took one of their training programs as I have, you’d see dimensions that most people wouldn’t comprehend.

        That’s reality.

        Jack Lawson
        Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada

        Author of the “Civil Defense Manual,” “The Slaver’s Wheel,” “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil” and “In Defense.”

        “When the lies become commonplace, people believe them as fact… and when that “fact” is what is printed and known by most people it becomes “The Legend” …the real truth is gone forever… and what is left is ONLY “The Legend.” Such is the case of enthusiastic Communist Ernesto “Che” Guevara, whose capabilities and record were a total fabrication and who was a failure as a human, a soldier and leader.”

        Not my words… these words are from the guy in my SF Chapter who helped train the Bolivians to hunt down and kill this God-less evil human being. Any person who personally executes 12-year-old children has no soul. What Ideology does a 12-year-old have that condemns them to death at the hand of a freak like Guevara? Author Jack Lawson

        From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1976-79

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          1. Sarah, look at the background he’s so proud of. He’s been marinated in their shibboleths until his brain is running out his ears.

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        2. If you took one of their training programs as I have, you’d see dimensions that most people wouldn’t comprehend.

          That’s reality.

          …. please go back to Hollywood, I’m pretty sure the script writer’s strike is still ongoing.

          They wish that their stuff worked half way, one tenth of the time.

          Take this part:
          …the real truth is gone forever…

          That’s defeatist bullshit; it is false.

          Very famous example, the “Hitler’s Pope” lie, which was generally accepted– and now you’ve got Jews and anti-theists who will fight the lie, because it is a lie.

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            1. That’s probably a good thing with the BS you were spinning. And yes, I’m very familiar with Psychological Operations and No Such Agency types. Which makes me even more unimpressed with your BS.

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                1. People keep forgetting we’re not your typical right wing blog. we’re more of a written knife fight, to begin with. And we’re the least likely assembly of expertise and thought on the net to go on with.

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                  2. I think he’s just hoping to push his product. Bet he’s got a “best-selling book,” which will let us all in on the “secrets,” we need to know to survive THE KRAKEN!

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                2. Oh indeed. On the other hand, I think this is the guy who’s been sending the weird political analysis books to Sarah’s Book Promo. If so… he’s probably not a fed, but he’s one of the guys where the feds have planted extra rats in his brain.

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                1. Or anyone who read about WWII. Heck, Psyops goes back to things like cossacks spinning their swords for intimidation value. (and momentum, but also intimidation.) Most battle cries and bagpipes paying warsongs on the battlefields. “convince your enemy to give up” has LONG been viewed as a valid tactic.

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                    1. I think the point was to inspire “If we go away and never set foot here again we’ll never have to hear THAT again.” or possibly “ghosts are coming for our souls!”

                      But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a miscalculation involved.

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                    2. “Look, if we lose here they’ll be free to go on playing those things forever! 😀
                      ……………..

                      I’d argue Scotland did lose. The bagpipes were never banned. Not like they can be practiced quietly.

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  19. Build little Islands of sanity with your family, friends, and neighbors. ‘E Pluribus Unum’ If we have to start over again, we can from build from those Islands.
    That is after the lefties have killed themselves and their follows off. They are living in Metropolitan Jonestowns after all. And sorry Sarah, it has already begun, look at Cali, the only hope people have is to get out to where it is reasonably sane now. Chicago just had two reporters, TV types, robbed in broad daylight in less than a week. San Fransisco is becoming a ghost/Zombie town in areas. The Zombies being those so drugged out they are little more than animals hunting for their next victim, that or the insane. Because the Rich liberals who voted for the insanity won’t even go there anymore, they were also the first to flee. Chicago’s Mayor is a laughing stock every time he opens his mouth. This is just two examples of how far the Leftist Metropolitan cities are into the fall. Even then, there are still islands of sanity in those cities trying to fight back against a corrupt system. If you must pray, pray for us all, we are going to need it. And build an Island of sanity. E Pluribus Unum.

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  20. Anytime there’s a quote by Razorfist… God F’n Speed! Great points as usual Sarah. Thanks for the bit of sanity today.

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  21. If they were smart they’d realize that being fired/losing power is better than facing the lamppost. But they are not smart, they will cling to power in the face of all reason because something deep and broken inside their limbic system says that to lose power is worse than death.

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    1. For them, it effectively is. Look at Hillary. It wasn’t all that long ago that she was riding high, raking in big bucks through CGI.

      And then the 2016 election happened, and she became a nobody almost overnight.

      Pelosi finally stepped down. Even assuming that she’s all mentally there (and there’s plenty of indications that she’s not), who cares what she thinks anymore? She doesn’t wield the gavel, and she’s not in the House anymore. If she says something nowadays, does the press report it?

      Elected office, and the potential to hold it, is the only reason why anyone cares about many of these people. It’s the only reason why most of them have any sway.

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        1. Is this the place where we order the tee-shirts and stickers that say, “Vote for Vlad Tepes – He Has His Good Points” ? #Askingforafriend

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  22. Before all the lawfare, I was hoping for DeSantis to get the nomination. But as of now, I’d gladly fill the circle for Trump just to poke a stick in the eyes of everyone trying to “make sure” he won’t be President again.

    And as for any convictions that would supposedly disqualify him? Can’t happen. No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. They can impeach and elect to remove him after, but there’s nothing in the qualifications that precludes electing him.

    At this point, with how the Deep State is acting, it’s just a vote out of spite.

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    1. They’re supposedly using the post-Civil War amendments that bar Confederate government officials and officers from serving in federal office. “Insurrectionists” is the word that’s been kicked around. I have some major doubts about that working.

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      1. The fourteenth Amendment was clearly and contextually applicable only to Confederate officials. Not that these psychos, now that they’ve found a rationalization, will ever acknowledge that.

        But if convicted seditionist (and open socialist) Eugene V. Debbs could get on the ballot from prison there is no actual legal bar to Trump getting on the ballot.

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      2. I suspect it will work pretty well. Based on the court rulings, clear up to SCOTUS, in 2020 and 2022, this is how it will go once Trump is the nominee:

        Democrat / RINO secretaries of state say they are going to do this. Donald Trump’s legal team files suit to prevent it. (Assuming he still has one; that’s a whole nother rant.)

        Courts: You have no standing, and because the election hasn’t happened, the case fails laches (it hasn’t “ripened” enough to be adjudicated).

        Once the election has happened:

        Courts: “Even if you prove fraud, we won’t undo the results.”

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        1. You may be right. I’m not even an amateur court watcher, but I suspect courts may be less sympathetic to attempts to keep someone off the ballot.

          Of course, nothing prevents them running the vote fraud machine again. But it seems to me that has a better fig leaf, state and local control of how elections are administered, which the high court tends to defer to. 14th amendment stuff they seem more eager to claim as their own jurisdiction.

          On the gripping hand, offer not valid if they pack the court, impeach a justice, etc.

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    2. Yes, but the idiots who think that’s how the left is herding us, should be aware the left has no idea we’re different from them. Except they think we’re both dumber than they are and more conformist. They think we’ll be horrified at “voting for a felon”

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          1. I think that was a reference to a specific campaign in Louisiana where the guy that just got out of jail for corruption was actually LESS corrupt than his replacement.

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            2. Louisiana – the only state I know of to have a Museum of State Politics. And for good reason. (It was actually pretty neat, although the animatronic Huey P. Long was a bit disconcerting.)

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      1. The one thing I’ll give it, is that instead of a pile of easily reversed executive orders, Schedule F would allow a President Trump to fire vast swathes of the executive otherwise insulated from that. Enough fired bureaucrats is pretty permanent and effective.

        But first we need a Nov ’24 project to make sure the ballots counted match the voters’ intentions.

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  24. If Trump genuinely lost in 2020 and if Democrats thought they could genuinely beat him in 2024 he would not have been indicted 4 times now, nor would they be trying to get him off the ballot with the absurd argument that he is barred by the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause”, even though that would make J6 the first unarmed insurrection where the alleged “insurrectionists” were specifically asked to march peacefully, in world history.

    Only people trying to rig and steal elections go to these lengths. Period.

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  25. Sarah, I’m going to disagree with you on this one. At least in part.

    First, I believe that any successful political movement has to be bigger than any one man. If I were the nominee (and I firmly think you cannot do better for the Presidency), it would not matter. Not unless I left a successor and a doctrine from which policy would spring.

    Second, Trump is easy pickings…the Dems will get him the nomination, then their Propaganda Press will “discover” the panicked response to COVID, the fraud and waste, and the “vaccines” that were neither safe nor effective. Yes, the Dems will try to smear the Republican nominee…but Trump makes it EASY.

    Third, the Great Big Problem is that the conservative movement lacks a doctrine. There’s no theoretical underpinning other than a vaguely small-l Libertarian philosophy. I’ve been giving some thought to what I’m calling Muscular Conservatism. But I’ll guarantee that a lot of people on the Right will NOT like it, because one of the primary tenets is that we do NOT abandon one square inch of soil to the Left, do not consign one decent American to Leftist oppression. Too many people are willing to Let The Cities Rot, with no consideration that the rot will spread or concern for the decent people trapped in them.

    Under Muscular Conservatism, state and local governments will either maintain order, or be considered part of the criminal insurrection. Which will be put down by force.

    Now, let’s ditch the defeatism. Fill your hearts with the joy of battle.

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    1. First, I believe that any successful political movement has to be bigger than any one man. If I were the nominee (and I firmly think you cannot do better for the Presidency), it would not matter. Not unless I left a successor and a doctrine from which policy would spring.

      You make the mistake of thinking that Trump is the movement, rather than the one person on the national stage who in any way represents the movement. This is exactly the same mistake the left is making, thinking they can shatter the whole spirit of resistance to their totalitarian projects if they can Just Get One Thing Against Trump. (The fact that each Just One Thing has failed, up to and including the mug shot, and they don’t learn, should serve as a warning.)

      And worrying about successors and doctrines shows that you fail to understand what people are seeing in Trump to begin with.

      Second, Trump is easy pickings…the Dems will get him the nomination, then their Propaganda Press will “discover” the panicked response to COVID, the fraud and waste, and the “vaccines” that were neither safe nor effective.

      Everybody who supports Trump now knows about his response to COVID and his involvement with the vaccines. In fact, that was a major reason his support was as low as it was until the Deep State started trying to take him down this cycle. The moment the regime went after him dirty, his poll numbers got solid, in all the places that count (and that the left are taking for granted), because you know what? Everybody knows the regime was all-in on Covid and lockdowns and total control. That they are going so absolutely apeshit in trying to destroy Trump now is proof to anyone who is even a little bit hesitant about Trump because of Covid that they don’t trust him to get snookered again. (Also, the announcements of the vaccines were delayed to deliberately hurt Trump in the last election.)

      Yes, the Dems will try to smear the Republican nominee…but Trump makes it EASY.

      The Dems have been trying to smear Trump for most of a decade. They have tried literally everything that worked on every Republican before, and it failed. They made up shit, elaborate conspiracies they tried to will into existence through sheer wish-power, and they failed.

      Nothing has stuck to date. What makes you think Thing That Is Already Widely Known will stick any more than anything else has? Apart from wishful thinking, I mean.

      Third, the Great Big Problem is that the conservative movement lacks a doctrine. There’s no theoretical underpinning other than a vaguely small-l Libertarian philosophy.

      Your analytical acumen is not impressive, here. Had you been paying attention for the last eighty years or so, you would know that the overculture, run by the left, has targeted and utterly annihilated every person who has offered coherent doctrine. Libertarian thinkers like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, hell, throw the John Birchers into the list if you want. They were marginalized and, if possible, turned into cultural punchlines, for the specific reason of dissuading as many people as possible from even considering their doctrines. Long before Saul Alinsky made his playbook, the left was following it as if by instinct.

      If you think you’re bigger brained than any of those (I’ll spot you the Birchers, I mean the others), you are going to have to do a lot better than what you have evinced so far.

      Under Muscular Conservatism, state and local governments will either maintain order, or be considered part of the criminal insurrection. Which will be put down by force.

      It’s interesting how quickly you went from zero to jackboots. And yet you still fail to take into account how every institution has been infested by like-minded psychopathic totalitarians, or indicate what you would do to remove that infestation from the national apparatuses in order to put down by force the local ones.

      Or, perhaps, you did not fail to take it into account at all.

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      1. Everybody who supports Trump now knows about his response to COVID and his involvement with the vaccines.

        Even before that — before he was even in office — he pissed off a lot of his base with his 2A stances.

        This is all priced into it, and the balance still comes out as Trump or Nothing.

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      2. Honestly, this. TRUMP IS NOT THE MOVEMENT. Stop buying the left’s idea. Trump is the current spear point. We’ll grab bigger and worse if he goes down.
        And yes, “worse” as in more likely to hurt the left. No, DeSantis ain’t it. He’s not nearly scary enough.
        As for “Trump makes it easy?” HOW? I mean, dude, we all thought he’d be way dirtier, but they can’t get ANYTHING REAL to stick. Nothing.

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      1. If there were aliens they’d take one look at the D.C. shit-show and conclude that there is no intelligent life on this planet — look at the leaders we elected! Maybe check back in a thousand years or so and see if we’ve learned anything.
        ———————————
        There is but one greater sin than to be right when those in power are wrong — proving it.

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          1. If that were the case they never would have gotten off their planet. Their version of the Green/Left would have torn down their industry and left them grubbing for roots in the wilderness.

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      2. If there are aliens, the “get humanity to cripple itself” faction is in charge right now. That doesn’t mean they are the only faction. :)

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  28. Hello again, Sarah,

    I would NEVER take such a haughty attitude to those I don’t know such as you and your readers have. But since I now have a familiarity with the mentality of you and most of your “followers” I say the following them and you….

    I question your motivation for engaging in and moderating a forum such as this, Sarah. Go back to doing what you do best… writing stories. Of course, the left and those who control the left… are two different things, Sarah. Too much to comprehend the control powerful people can have, because you are probably of the “Democrat and Republican run Murica Mentality.” Holy shytte, did I step out of line again saying that!? But, Wow! Amazing! Reality!? Quite humorous… and quite sad… to read some of your forum statements.

    What an intellectual lot some of your commenters are… snide and condescending! Not the basic courtesy of manners… or is that due to the communication medium you have between yourself and those you criticize that protects you from getting punched in the nose? “Know it all people” who probably haven’t lived 500 miles from their home and computer.

    Look at yourselves through what you write! The cartoon becomes more and more fitting to me… “A dog can be anyone on the internet” as one dog at the computer says to another in the cartoon.

    I mean… truly look at what you write to someone you don’t know but choose to not have civility to from the get go… for an opinion that seems too far out for you to consider. I’ve seen the effects of Cholera in Africa running out the rear ends of the afflicted that had more substance than what some of you say.

    I bet the lot of you don’t have one week’s worth of food or water in your homes… and as an American, whatever is coming… you need to be Self-Reliant… or is that Schizophrenia? Maybe MK Ultra? I call it concern for the future of the people of this country to be prepared, which I know your lot is not. Tough times will sort you out.

    Go back to your keyboards Girls and Boys… make some more “intellectual statements” like jealous “arm chair commandos” who have done little in life spew. Most of you need to get out in the world and find something less acidic in thought that constructs and constitutes what you consider “your life.”

    I sincerely mean this… step back and objectively look at your responses to me… and the others!

    Jack Lawson

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    1. You come in here and tell us we’re all mind-controlled by the government, as if psyops were were something we’d never heard of before, and follow it with all your gobbledygook government credentials and expect us to bow and scrape and gaze in wonder at your brilliance…

      You really have no idea what kind of place you’ve stumbled into. We’ve got people in here that consume credentialed pretenders like you as a refreshing aperitif. So I tell you this with only kindness in my heart: Fuck off. Please. For your own good, and ours, too.

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    3. I would NEVER take such a haughty attitude to those I don’t know such as you and your readers have.

      Oreally? Are you not the guy who said:

      I’ve been up to my eyeballs as a tool of these ABC, XYZ agencies. They have a term for their upside down, inside out and backwards schemes… Psychological Operations.

      If you took one of their training programs as I have, you’d see dimensions that most people wouldn’t comprehend.

      This was condescending, patronizing, self-inflating and, therefore, the very definition of haughty. You know better, you condescend to inform us of obvious, elementary terms, and you brag that you’ve taken their training programs (and we have not).

      You got smacked for it, as you deserved and practically begged for. Pull on your big boy pants and learn how to communicate without sneering.

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    4. Sir, you have been answered in the manner to which you came. You come to someone else’s space and peddle doom and despair. You insult the intelligence of all and sundry. You are correct, you are not haughty. How you have come in to someone else place is nothing short of rank arrogance and raw hubris. That we have responded as such an presumptuous breech of the basic civility you now hid behind as is fitting. If you do not like it you are free to take yourself elsewhere. If you do not like how our hostess runs her site, that she has built by the work of her hands.

      If you are truly insane or genuinely demented may you find the help you need. Otherwise you are a lying curr and cad, a havering jackanapes who has done nothing here but beclown himself and sully any honor or integrity that he once possessed.

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    5. I remember reading the reports on you. Normally I frown on the eggheads testing to destruction on valuable raw material, but in some cases there isn’t anything to waste by doing so.

      — Regional Commander, North America Implementation Testing Division, retired.

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    6. I would NEVER take such a haughty attitude to those I don’t know such as you and your readers have.

      Haughty: : blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior.

      You walked in with really bad assumptions and smacked them down like someone tossing out a base exchange Challenge coin in a veterans’ bar.

      It’s not like you were being subtle about it.

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    7. LOL. Jack, I don’t think you have the foggiest idea what most of us have in our homes. I can tell you that there’s a significant number of preppers in this group. There’s very little mind control by the government in this group. And a whole lot of skeptical critical thinkers.

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    8. I bet the lot of you don’t have one week’s worth of food or water in your homes… and as an American, whatever is coming… you need to be Self-Reliant… or is that Schizophrenia? Maybe MK Ultra? I call it concern for the future of the people of this country to be prepared, which I know your lot is not. Tough times will sort you out.

      Of course; no one’s got nothin’, and no one’s seen nothin’ either. How could it be otherwise?

      Anyway, you’re doing a lot of Very Important things, it’s best you stick to that and not waste any more time on us lowlifes. I’m sure you’ll find great results in the proper field, best find it!

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    9. I question your motivation for engaging in and moderating a forum such as this, Sarah. Go back to doing what you do best… writing stories.

      (Let’s see if I got this quoting command right.)

      You see, we don’t want Sarah to explode. Nor ourselves. And should we (God forbid) get to the point of exploding, be far, far, away.

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  29. Funny… one of the first pleasant words… PLEASE.

    Consume ING? You don’t know credentialed… and you don’t know consume.

    You’ve heard the last from me… but, sincerely… read what you’ve written. Acidic, like my response is becoming and why I’m gone for my own good… and you can remain as an elitist dickhead.

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    1. Why, thank you. Acidic is exactly what I was going for…so I got that going for me, which is nice. I’m also glad to hear that you’ll be taking my advice.
      Sincerely, Consume-Ing

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    2. “You’ve heard the last from me”

      And the betting is now open.

      Odds of Jack continuing to lurk on the site (hard to verify if he remains quiet.)
      Odds of Jack coming back as himself.
      Odds of Jack coming back under another pseudonymn and spoofing a new IP address.

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            1. Possibly. I didn’t notice the name, but someone else posting yesterday was doing the same thing. You’d be better able to determine if other telltale are there.

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    2. Ooh. You don’t think it could possibly have anything to do with the police not being willing to prosecute, do you? Surely not. That’s into conspiracy territory there. Ththththt

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  31. Someone pointed out that a lot of WEF documents have a 2030 date listed as an important goal.

    Which means 2024 would be a very important election to them as if a disruptor is elected, it would completely set back their plans (as the next 2028 election wouldn’t be enough time).

    So ponder a moment that it won’t just be a political party and the usual world government trying to fortify the election next year, but almost every NGO and billionaire and other people you haven’t even heard of.

    It’s going to make the Atlantic conspiracy look like a pipsqueak.

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  33. OK, “Jack Lawson ” has an Amazon biography and it is a pseudonym. Says he was a missile technician and a “SAFO nuclear weapons arming technician.”
    He then did a “Foreign Legion,” stint in Africa, was trained by SAS and Israeli commandos and bobbed around several African conflicts, per the bio. (My beloved’s, former AF, comment: “so he went merc for a while.”)
    The books he mentions are listed in the bio, including one on “the failure of civility.”
    To be honest, he’s rubbing me the wrong way too, but it’s mostly the feeling that while his bio may be absolutely correct, aspects of it feel “enhanced,” to me. And he feels like a salesman, FWIW.

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      1. I’ve seen that, the salesman version of negging for pickup artists.

        I don’t get why insulting someone will make them want to chase after your approval, but I see it WORKS sometimes.

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        1. OTOH I’ll point out the “fed” vibe was kind of strong (Well, I just found out two things that disturbed me in 21 happened to a few other people, and, well…. “fed” let’s say) and building a profile could involve amazon books, etc.

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