Burn The Boats

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I would like to give you an anti-blackpill, but I’m having serious issues with depression partly because I’m having post-viral syndrome, which always comes with depression. I’m also very afraid because I remember how seamless the fraud was in 22 and how many people believed that election was clean.

I don’t believe that election was clean, because I don’t believe we’ve had clean elections… possibly ever. But I do believe the fraud has been overwhelming since at least 2012. (I mean, it might have been overwhelming in 2008, except the Obama campaign was seamless enough and they sold his image as super smart and black — did I mention black? — well enough that a lot of brainless and young and gullible voted for him. So while the fraud was enormous, I don’t think it was as bad as in 12 and subsequent.) I think the only reason we got 2016 is because they weren’t expecting Trump to have any real support and so they didn’t fraud enough. But their confidence that her Shrilliness would win definitely means they thought they had enough fraud.

This year… well, they have the opposite of that certainty, and the polls have been giving them bad news, and they’ve been keeping the polls close and…. GAH. Because they have so many ways of committing fraud, and now ALSO illegal aliens voting. And so many illegal aliens. And this.

So, I’m depressed and not sleeping well, and at this point I find it hard to have hope.

Others don’t have that problem.

And they might be right. There are a lot of indications they might very well be right. Like, for instance Tulsi Gabbard shifting. And the various non-endorsements. And– But people like Tulsi most of all, because the woman doesn’t have a disinterested or idealistic bone in her body and is a consummate politician.

Of course, she could be wrong.

And note I’m not putting much faith in the fact that Trump says this time he’ll fight the fraud. I think our Yugely popular president is still naive when it comes to how bad the fraud is. Good men have a big problem understanding the actions of very bad men. And unfortunately and shockingly, given the lack of the left finding anything real on him after all this, we must conclude that Trump is a good man. (Sigh.)

So, I’m having serious trouble believing we’ll beat the steal. REAL trouble. Because it’s endemic and entrenched. I just believe it will be sneakier than in 2020. More like 2022.

I think the panic we’re seeing is because the left is PARANOID about Trump. He defeated the steal once. And his people didn’t believe in PRESIDENTLOLEIGHTYMILLION’s victory, pretty much ever. So they’re snakebit and think that Trump has magical powers. Hence the panic.

OTOH they seem to have grown massively more incompetent in four years and have fully acquired Obama’s Mierdas touch. Everything they touch turns to shit. So, it’s possible. It’s quite possible they’ll do something so utterly stupid the steal will be obvious even to the blind. OR it will fail utterly.

However, don’t assume that. Assume they steal it once more.

Yes, it’s going to be bad. It’s going to be very very very bad. I’ve seen what population replacement looks like in a Portugal where everyone speaks with an accent and BUSINESS OWNERS sometimes don’t speak Portuguese at all. (This was a problem as the person also didn’t speak English.) And it’s horrifying. That whole thing that the left spend the nineties nattering about, the “anomie of modern life”? Yeah, disparate populations with no common culture or roots and all living together in landscapes they have no tie to is the closest realization of that I’ve ever seen. And that’s not counting the third-worldization of the US, the complete unrepentant allowing of the worst elements in, etc etc, all while throttling our energy, corrupting our information and generally doing everything they can to hurt us, going as far as they can to the “now we shoot” tripwire without tripping it.

This year is already going to be very lean for most of us for Christmas. Four more years is almost unthinkable.

But– and this is an important but — they can’t win long term. They can cause untold destruction because they control the institutions, but they don’t control the information, not any more. And all their attempts at doing so bounce hard against them.

Which means they’ll be losing as they’ve been losing for the last four years, in rear guard action. And it’s entirely possible that by 2028 further steal is impossible. Or the world has collapsed. Six of one half a dozen of the other.

Keep in mind that if it gets bad for the US it gets unimaginably worse for the rest of the world. The US is the engine of the world economy. When we ache, the world explodes in pain. The sort of pain I expect here means the world coming apart at the hinges. Which in turn, yes, also affects us. (It also means your ideas of refuge abroad are … inadvisable. Remember in 2012 people talking of Brazil and Australia as refuges? Yeah. Here we have the 1st and the 2nd amendment. They give us advantages.)

Our biggest danger here is the illegal immigrant dilution of culture, identity and belief. BUT please keep in mind we’re a big and spread out country. It’s hard to flood us in the same way Europe has been flooded. And also that when things get hard enough here, the flow starts the other way. It did under Obama and there are indications it already has (and how) here. Because people who come here don’t come here for the same conditions as back home.

We are winning the cultural war, and politics is downstream from culture. Cleaning the fraudulent mess that passes for elections here is also downstream from culture. Because people need to get angry enough. And yes, there are indications.

However, even assuming they steal the elections yet again, there are things to remember:

Vote. Almost every voice telling you not to bother is on the other side. (The rest are pudding heads.) Because it would make their hiding the fraud much much easier if our side just walks away. Vote. Vote like you mean it.

If we lose, I don’t want to hear a peep about Trump. NOT ONE PEEP.

Yes, I’m talking to you, DeSantis maniacs. Though not just you.
If DeSantis maniacs are still hurting from some things Trump said during the primary, they haven’t even thought about the things DeSantis would get hurled at him in the general.
And if you think DeSantis could have “beat the steal” you don’t get the magnitude of the steal. The only one who could “beat the steal” is a wholly owned republican, one who could give the illusion of a win while governing as close to the way the left wants as he can get away with. And I’m not convinced the first Trump assassination attempt wasn’t designed to do just that, by putting Nikki Haley on top of the ticket.

So I don’t want to hear a peep. Trump doesn’t have less chance against the tide of fraud than anyone else. Arguably he has more.

Yes, yes, mean tweets and unforced errors, and you’re going to hold your breath till you’re purple. That’s cute. Adorable, even.

In 2020 Trump got more votes than in 2016. Which was unprecedented. Unheard of. And the election still got stolen. It just got stolen at the last minute and obviously because they weren’t counting on his doing that. Ultimately that’s the biggest take away. Under unprecedented attack and under lockdown, more Americans voted for Trump than in 2016. No one gives a hanging damn about mean tweets is what I’m telling you. And unforced errors are human. When the left stands ready to turn anything you say into one of those this will happen.

Consider, perhaps that no candidate could ever match your delicate sensibilities and pure feelings. Become a trappist monk or something. BUT DO NOT RUN TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND LEND FORCE TOT HE STEAL BY CLAIMING TRUMP IS A HORRIBLE CANDIDATE. He never was that, and he never will be. AND what’s more he knows if he loses he (and possibly all his family) will be bankrupted and dead. I think that’s the reason he’s running at all this time.

So for him, he’s all in. He’s like the pig who contributes the bacon to your breakfast. He’s giving it his all.

Not the ideal candidate? You’re right, he’s not. Because that doesn’t exist, particularly for us libertarians. But that’s not why he is at risk of losing.

He’s at risk of losing because the democrats have built a rube-goldberg fraud machine.

And the only way for us to go against it and win is to NEVER STOP POINTING OUT IT EXISTS. Never engage in a circular firing squad pointing our we coulda shoulda, etc. Sure, we coulda shoulda. But the only republican the fraud wouldn’t defeat is one that is on their side.

Don’t close your eyes. Don’t avert them from the horrendous fraud taking place.

The Greeks before the walls of Troy burned their boats so they couldn’t leave until the war was won.

This is me, I’m running with a torch. There is no backing up.

Burn the boats. Win or lose, we’re all in.

126 thoughts on “Burn The Boats”

  1. Just remember “they haven’t locked us in prison, they’ve locked themselves in with us”. [Twisted Evil Grin]

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      2. That was the best scene in the movie.

        “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”

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  2. A quibbling point. (I’m unfortunately good at these.) They can’t win in the sense of “build the glorious socialist utopia on the ashes of the past.” They can definitely win in the sense of “destroy the civilization they hate so much, then squat atop the ashes, gloating over their enemies’ bones.” In my darker moments, I conclude that they have already accomplished this … but if the nation cares to prove me wrong, starting in five days or so, I am willing to be corrected.

    Anybody care to take me up on that?

    Republica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.

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    1. Of course they can fail at that.

      Succeeding at compelling barbarism everywhere requires either locally powerful support everywhere (ha), or force projection. And they are sufficiently rubbish at force projection.

      The trick is to reject their words, and leave them the option of acting.

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      3. Worse they can do is false flag into a nuclear war. Which would leave the southern hemisphere intact.

        Not worried about that yet until I see large numbers of private jets flights.

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      4. They can knock us back a few steps. But they can’t destroy us. The USA is based on a concept more than anything, and that concept won’t ever die out completely until humanity itself does everywhere . Plus, the land we do currently sit on is quite special in ways most people can’t even comprehend. Just a couple of examples: North American has half of the world’s natural deep water ports. Another is about half the arable land is within easy traveling distances to natural water transportation to those ports. Being surrounded by natural barriers means invasion is, while not impossible, unlikely. Enemies from abroad either have to cross the breadth of oceans from our east and west, a frozen wasteland of unbelievable ice to the north, or the choke point of central America to the south.

        They can rock us back on our heels, but I don’t believe they can ever destroy us. And as Sarah points out, if the injure the US they destroy much of the rest of the world.

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        1. As terrible as the hurricane in the Carolina’s was, the reaction from Americans, made me realize that someday soon, all the Americans will just stop listening to the pudding heads in DC and get on with doing what needs done. America is still here we are just being occupied by pudding heads in DC.

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    3. There are too many groups and pockets of culture that they’ll miss. The VileProgs forget that a lot of networks are not visible, and don’t broadcast on social media or other places. It doesn’t occur to them that the gay couple up the street, or the black family that owns the quaint cafe might also be fans of the Second Amendment, being ready for power outages, and just want to be left alone.

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  3. They may control the institutions, but they do not yet control the people. If they fraud their way to another victory there is an answer. I offered it in a comment on another blog:

    A General Strike! We collectively stop working for them. They are killing the working and middle classes, small businesses and independent entrepreneurs. We just stop working – no work no tax revenue. Truckers stop trucking; blue collar workers stop blue collaring – except for allies and barter. Flyover country stops shipping food and energy to the coastal enclaves.

    It will entail preparation and hardship, but Americans have a proven genius for spontaneous organization and self help.

    What can they do? Call out the Army – the sons and daughters of the strikers? Mobilize the police – the very people they have been vilifying and defunding? Even in blue states, this is not a smart move and could lead to a confrontation on Lexington Green – and event that could mobilize even the undecided.

    Despite their brags about nuclear weapons and F-16s, once they lose their legitimacy, they lose their power.

    They may resort to violence in a desperate effort to maintain power, but to paraphrase the words of H. L. Mencken: Imaging if you will a nation of cowboys, blue collar workers, a well armed and truculent middle class at war with a nation of professors, deans, bureaucrats, non-profit grifters, and demonstrably incompetent and corrupt politicians, which would be the most courageous, resourceful, and enterprising?

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  4. I’m cautiously optimistic, myself. That doesn’t mean that I’ve deleted the entry on my task list for November 4th: “Inspect and load all magazines.”

    Because there is going to be violence, probably not in my area (but “probably” means “still a chance”). If they lose, the Leftist PTB will be calling for it. If they win, their supporters will know that they won’t pay any consequences.

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  5. 2012 – Yes, the fraud was huge, but different. The Donks presented a candidate that we weren’t allowed to vet, no college info, no birth certificate, his own book said he was born in Kenya, all sorts of shenanigans that should have come to light that were totally covered up.

    Not saying he wasn’t a US citizen with an exemplary college transcript, but we weren’t allowed to know.

    Even though several of his supposed professors had no recollection of him. And he said he was basically wasted all through college on pot and booze.

    But we weren’t allowed to question him.

    Now, fast forward to 2024. We aren’t allowed to question the rather positively empty and actually fully downright negative past of the Donk candidate. A most loathsome and troubling candidate, who never was ‘democratically’ selected, instead installed by a cabal of unknowns and powers-behind-the-throne types.

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  6. As belligerent as Biden was towards the Republicans during the State of the union address, it’s painfully obvious they already have their fix in place. Until Biden publicly flubbed the debate there was no sign worry or panic in the progressive socialist lefts’ machine.

    Right now the Socialist Spectrum Disorder is on full display.

    Stolen elections.

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    1. I’m hoping that some adults in the Democratic party realize that trying to fraud Harris into power is going to end with Heads-On-Pikes, namely theirs if they tried. And while local groups might try to get some fraud numbers in, the poll and betting numbers are saying pretty much the same thing, a pretty big Trump win.

      Not getting cocky until Harris concedes, but my biggest concern now is the nearly one hundred million sufferers of TDS that are going to lose their minds when the election finishes.

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      1. again, get yer lawn chair, a cool one and some snacks and enjoy the entertainment,

        well, unless of course you live front and center to some urban dump loaded with them folks, but hey, no plan is perfect.

        i could actually use a break, so everything on the continent may bring it about

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        1. The problem is, I’m a third of a household of two other people that have bought the Harris FlavorAide to varying degrees, and I’m more-or-less a “guest” (family member, but not my house) here.

          Any schadenfreude that I might enjoy as people lose their minds is going to be counterbalanced by watching family members in close proximity losing their minds. And being unable to go near any large city for at least six months.

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          1. I expected two things from Trump’s first term. That he would not be Clinton, and he would make leftists go spare in amusing ways. I have to grant him both, though I underestimated the extent to which leftists would go spare in unamusing ways.

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        2. One hundred million-plus sufferers of TDS out there, and even if only one percent decide to go kinetic after the election, it’s going to be an incredibly messy time.

          Especially if the election takes a while to resolve in any way, shape, or form.

          There’s a reason why I’m not going anywhere near any major cities until after the inauguration if I can help it.

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          1. If there really are a hundred-million TDS sufferers out there, that’s enough to legitimately cost Trump the election, no cheat required. So the TDS contingent is noisy but can’t be anywhere near that numerous. 50 million, tops, and maybe as few as 10 million. Which is lots in absolute terms, but not as a proportion to the total number of actual voting-age citizens.

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              1. So true.

                Most of the opposition to Trump is not screaming-nutcase TDS, it’s dems who don’t want to lose power, GOPe (ditto), and ordinary, “reasonable” people who don’t follow politics but are afraid of appearing “not nice.”

                The first two groups are unreachable, the third are the independents, the undecided, the infrequent voters. Those who arent political junkies have been having their cage rattled pretty constantly since July.

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        3. I’m actually more concerned about what they might do if they win. I worry that if they fraud even more openly than they did in ‘20 it moves to kinetic, and that will be bloodier than 160 years ago. They’ll send Trump to jail if they don’t outright kill him, and they’ll stifle Musk to the point he doesn’t get buried on Mars.

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        4. Well, right now the plan is that Congress won’t certify if the Democrats have effective control of the House / Senate, Based on 14th Amendment. I have a hunch SCOTUS would step back.

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  7. I have a hard time seeing how the fraud could be stopped, given universal mail-in voting and no chain-of-custody procedures in place for boxes of ballots brought in to the counting sites.

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  8. It’s not time to burn our boats. We’ll need them for tactical and operational mobility and logistics.

    Burning their boats, on the other hand…burning every harbor that can build boats, burning their cities, their crops, and driving their women before us…yea, let’s get to doing that now.

    (And if any of ours decide to run or retreat…well, there’s a reason why MPs have pistols.)

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  9. Off topic but fun.

    I read Watchmen as it came out in the 80s. As such things go, it was very very good.

    What is hilarious however, is that Moore did not understand America or Americans. He has Kennedy refuse to send Dr. Manhatten into Cuba. He has Vietnam become the 51st State which really really wouldnt happen because America not British Empire. He has Nixon as the permanemt President, ….ok maybe.

    Where he really shows his misunderstanding was in Rosharch. He was supposed to be a lampoon of the gritty hyperviolent noir character.

    He was racist, sexist, homophobic, terrified of women and a sociopathic murderer who hide it behind a hero’s mask.

    The readers embraced him. Moore had no idea why. I still.dont think he does.

    Because Rosharch is what happens when it is a switch or a trip wire, not a rheostat. Once triggered, there is no going back.

    Veitch was supposed to be the real hero. After all he set up a New World Order.

    30 years later DC wrote a sequal arc and a prequal arc for Watchmen. Rosharch and the others were the heros, Veitch was the villain, and it fixed most of the errors of misunderstanding that Moore made.

    Rosharch was the hero because he saw what was truely happening, did not flinch in the face of it though it consumed him….and did stop it.

    The cost really is your life, your fortune and your Sacred Honor

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    1. This.

      Morally speaking, Rorschach is the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. In a world where everyone is apathetic, psychopathic, or megalomaniacal, he’s the only one who steps forward to do something about it.

      It’s the same reason movies like John Wick work. He’s a bad guy, but the people he’s fighting are even worse. Moore didn’t get this, but his readers did.

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    2. Alan Moore objecting to alternative interpretations of a character named Rorschach still remains hilarious to me. The only familiarity with Moore’s work that I have watching V for Vendetta once though.

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  10. I’m still pretty sure that Trump was a result of their fraud.

    Which makes him getting into the Whitehouse, and doing a good job, and running again, freaking awesome. ^.^

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    1. To riff a white pill on your comment–

      What would Trump’s second term have looked like without the 2020 steal?

      How much more knowledgeable and effective do you think he will be if he wins this year? How much more resolute to not only drain the swamp but divert water away?

      Oft evil will doth evil mar.

      My prayers are ongoing.

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    2. To riff a white pill on your comment–

      What would Trump’s second term have looked like without the 2020 steal?

      How much more knowledgeable and effective do you think he will be if he wins this year? How much more resolute to not only drain the swamp but divert water away?

      Oft evil will doth evil mar.

      My prayers are ongoing.

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    3. Trump is a result of the GOPe rigging the primaries.
      The Republican primaries are deliberately set up for the squish with the highest name recognition and largest war chest to win. There’s a reason that most of the early primaries are in blue or purple states. So when Trump, with YUGE name recognition, a self-funding billionaire, and up until recently a moderate Democrat, threw his hat in the ring, their very cleverly engineered system broke down.

      And those of us who had been fighting the system for decades loved every minute of it. Shoving Trump down their throats was an absolute delight.

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      1. This does not play well with seeing, and hearing, and watching, long-term Democrats who crashed the Republican caucuses to get Trump in.

        Giggling all the way on how he could never possibly win.

        Nor does it play well with my experience with those “fighting the system” who seemed mostly interested in rigging it in their favor; yeah, we want folks who appeal to the most folks possible; yeah, having the money to afford to tell people what you think is important; yeah, folks knowing who the heck you even are is important.

        That doesn’t make it rigging the system, it’s just how advertising works. The battle for the soul of the party has been very frustrating for those ‘fighting the system’ when a lot of folks forgot that the voters get an option, too.

        One of Trump’s biggest steps?

        Actually pro-life. Not preachy, not flashy, not sorry, and not just waiting to stab us in the back the second we considered him.

        That is where most of the “the system is rigged, we’re fighting the system” guys lost, and bad. Because these johnny-come-latelies decided that “real” conservatives are fiscal only, and respecting each human’s individual rights was not Republican enough. And when the stupid god-botherers didn’t fall all over themselves to support the baby killing but with lower taxes, it was just more proof that they were not really conservatives.

        And then he went and got us something that I’ve been assured is completely impossible, for my entire life– removing an incredibly bad decision that enforced the dehumanization of an entire segment of the nation.

        Without having the civil war most of us were sure would come first.

        Isn’t it odd, how that Democrat managed what all the rest of the forced-out-of-the-party folks hadn’t?

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  11. I’m spending at least some time before the election in ‘autistic mode’, hiding from the information war.

    The vote is a gamble on something, and would be worth doing for spite, if nothing else.

    We have not fixed election integrity.

    Possibly the idjits in the DNC and the whitehouse have thrown the game with all the various ways they have broken faith with some of the ones who fraud them in.

    I was not expecting their insanity to take the form of sabotaging each other, and so forth, but I did anticipate that their basic instability would shape things in an unpredictable way.

    Schadenboners at a few of the many people who are expecting something from this election that it cannot provide might be nice. Yet, there remains much work to do, and the joys or excitement of a moment may still leave much of it unchanged.

    Do I have anything else to say that could be useful. Maybe. I should, but I am not thinking of it.

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    1. We did take a week off. Joys of being out of cell service and away from the TV (for most the day). Surprises when we came back online, so to speak.

      • Biden said what?
      • Who is not endorsing anyone?
      • Democrats are endorsing Trump?
      • Mark Cuban said what? (Um, stick to basketball and business investments.)

      etc.

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  12. I do not believe Haley had a chance in hell of replacing an assassinated Trump at the top of the ticket. Or of winning election, had she been. MAGA would have stayed home, IMHO.

    No, we dodged a big one when Trump dodged that bullet. And if something of that magnitude happened now, Vance would head the ticket. And MAGA would vote for him.

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    2. IIRC, she was the only other person still in the Primary at that point (she dropped out right afterwards), so yes, she might have taken the top of the ticket if Trump had died.

      She would have lost in the General – assuming that the convulsions resulting from Trump’s assassination didn’t stop the General Election from taking place.

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      1. She would have been unprepared for the vitriol the Party would have thrown at her. “She’s not a Real Woman!” “She’s a Slave of the Patriarchy!” “Traitor!” They would probably have called her MAGA filth no matter what she said. And so on.

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  13. The God Emperor Cheeto does have the best chance to win because he is pulling in folks from crazy places. People don’t realize the he is not a candidate so much as the chosen weapon of very pissed off populus. The next step past him is one no one wants.

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    4. A lot of liberals just don’t get that many who are voting for Trump want a fighter. They may not like all his policies, his behavior, or past shenanigans but they believe he will injure the Deep State. That alone is a good reason.

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  14. In 2016 they left the fraud to the machine already in place. That machine is made up of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of useful idiots who believe in the righteousness of the Steal as well as the inevitability of their ideology.

    In 2020 they created an Enemy, and their useful idiots cheated so hard it was visible to everyone. Hundreds of little actions, uncoordinated but piling up toward the same goal.

    Since 2020 they have turned that Enemy into Literally Satan (Hitler being a stand-in for those who claim they don’t believe in spiritual evil) and their minions are champing at the bit to get their turn at toppling the King of Hell.

    There are two possibilities here. Either all the minions go into action and the levels of cheating are amped up to eleventy, absolutely unmistakable and impossible to explain away (such as K getting 400 million votes) or they’ll go for cheat-from-the-top.

    But as has been pointed out, that level of coordination relies on a level of actual competence, which they ain’t got.

    These people (with the possible exception of the Clintons) have never had to rely on their organization for cheating. It’s always been done on the local level, by those on the ground. If the controllers stick their chubby little fingers in the pie, they don’t have the experience to know what works, and why, and they’ll end up with a burned out oven, burned fingers, and a stink the whole world will notice.

    If these people were smart, they would rein in the minions just enough to make the steal realistic. But they don’t know who is a minion, or what those minions have planned, or how the minions do what they do. They have no idea.

    Yes, incompetence can make an unholy mess, and we would have to live through the aftermath. I don’t like to think about what’s coming, but I think if they were able to handle a conspiracy on this level we would already be subjugated under a single party system with an unbreakable hold.

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    1. And Trump, who DOES learn from his mistakes, put together a heck of a legal operation under Lara. That’s why they detected the shennanigans in MI and PA. A judge in PA just ruled the counties had to extend early voting by 3 days, and no one could be forced to leave the line.

      They will steal it. But they can’t hide it.

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    2. “. . . their useful idiots cheated so hard it was visible to everyone. Hundreds of little actions, uncoordinated but piling up toward the same goal.”

      The same now. “Uncoordinated, [yes] but piling up toward the same goal” this time with more machines, black boxes, and front-loaded time on their hands, i.e. Election Day has become a quaint memory. The contagion has seeped into red regions within the blue-see NY and CO for examples. Their two biggest mistakes were 1) allowing JRB as their candidate and 2) overplaying the race-gender card with a horribly and laughably grotesque replacement. Those, offset by a miraculously tenacious, willing-to-lose everything DJT.

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      1. But we must note that those thousands of independent/organizations are staring down the barrel of The Prisoner’s Dilemma. Trump has declared Kanly against election fraud. If they attempt to fraud, and fail, they’re faqed.
        Further, they’re no longer operating in the high trust environment of 2020. A large chunk of the population is actively watching, with video cameras, with a dedicated channel on X to broadcast what they’ve witnessed.
        Moreover, there is not the unity of purpose there was in 2020 when all the Powers That Be were all in on the steal. Now prominent Democrats and donors are hedging their bets, or ratting the sinking ship entirely.
        The machine is on the verge of a preference cascade. And Trump opening up an unprecedented lead in early voting (not to mention reliable Dem demographics not showing up) might be enough to kick it off.

        I expect a major effort to shore up the firewalls this weekend. I’m also more than half expecting it to backfire. (With most of the rest of the chances being some flavor of not working.)

        I mean, have you seen the lines for early voting? The 2016 and 2020 turnouts were high, but the line for early voting on a random weekday afternoon was longer than the lines for Election Day either year. And nearly everyone in line obviously supported Trump. (I’m still voting on Election Day, I just had to return things to the library. The line stretched out the door and halfway around the building.) It’s too early to say for sure, but this looks seismic. (And those putting their butts on the line to commit election fraud have a better view of what’s happening than we do. It’s got to be making an impact.

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        1. Can’t prove it, not being on the ground and all. But what are the odds that those who showed up on election day last time only to be told they’d already voted are this time voting early? If I was one of them, I sure would be. Guarantied.

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    1. That is one of the scariest movie monsters every. Because hopelessness will destroy almost any hero or well intentioned soul, and nothingness is worse than embodied evil.

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  17. Don’t forget to nail 95 arguments to your door, so the angels will know to leave a small catechism and mug of beer when they pass by. ;)

    Yes, I have been helping grade religion class essays. How could you tell?

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  18. I hate to quibble with a good line, but as I recall the Trojans tried to burn the Greek’s boats and the Greeks fought like crazy to prevent that.

    And when the Greeks left the horse, they sailed away out of sight until the Trojans took the horse into Troy.

    So, when did the Greeks burn their own boats? Did I miss that part?

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      1. Which may have been Tolkien’s inspiration for Feanor burning the sea-elves’ boats upon arriving in Beleriand, leaving his half-brothers and their followers stuck making a trek across the Grinding Ice.

        And in history, Cortez did burn the boats after landing at Veracruz so his followers couldn’t turn back.

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      2. Hernán Cortés ordered the ships which transported him and his men from Spanish Cuba to the shores of what is now Mexico burned, both to make obvious to his men they had no choice but victory, and incidentally so he could proceed inland without having to protect his logistical tail to the sea. Plus he drafted all the sailors as infantry.

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    2. Cortez landed at Santa Cruz, and burned his ships. The conquistadors would conquer, or die.
      Patroclus rallying the Greeks played no part.

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    3. She might be confusing Troy with Alexander’s invasion of the Persian Empire. In 334 BC, his army crossed Dardanelles Straits and landed in what is now Turkey. When he reached the shore, Alexander ordered his men to burn the ships telling them, “We will return home in Persian ships or we will die here.”

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  20. I’ve got the delights of living in a family that’s drank the Koolade big time. Reasoned argument is simply dismissed as being based on false information. I’ve taken to just laughing and tossing out a few stock phrases in hope of looking like I agree so I can live in peace, and keeping my own counsel.

    At least they do anticipate trouble, even if they’re pegging the wrong side as the probable culprits. So I’m able to spend money on certain preparations that might’ve gotten me some ohms otherwise.

    And keeping my own counsel has another advantage — less temptation to say “I told you so” when they discover certain things the hard way. I’ve been trying to fix the phrase “I’m sorry you had to find out this way” in my mind and hoping it’ll come smoothly to my tongue in the weeks to come.

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  21. When the Ballot fails, all that is left is the Bullet. I sincerely hope they remember that. Nobody wants that, at least no one sane. Thoughts and prayers, keep your powder dry and close in the dark.

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      1. Stress does that.

        I picked up a crud at Archon at the beginning of the month. By midmonth, when we went to Planet Anime Kansas City, I was pretty well over it — but I’m having a lingering sinus drainage that leads to a cough. I’m pretty sure this is allergies — but exacerbated by this feeling of suspension, of not knowing whether Grand Rapids Comic Con will happen next month, or the country will be in such turmoil that fun events are Just Not Possible and we’re here at home trying to hold things more or less together.

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        1. On one hand hated to be away from home where son and mom are. OTOH we were in Wyoming and Montana. Did not see a single Harris/Waltz sign, until back in Eugene.

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    1. A large riot is being planned for a Trump inauguration, to be worse than 2017. Don’t forget Biden’s inauguration had fences, razor wire and the National Guard because the Democrats weren’t certain their Antifa/BLM riot dogs would stand down. We will see what happens if we beat the fraud.

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        1. That – and giving the outgoing administration less time to spike the guns and put sugar in the gas tank – is probably the only good reason to not have Election Day right around Tax Day.

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  25. Black pilling, despair, hopelessness are at best useless, at worst in service of the barbarians.

    Spend less time obsessing over what the opposition wants to do to us, and more mental and emotional energy on planning what you can do to thwart them and defend the Constitution.

    Preps are as ready as they are going to be by Tuesday. So until it’s launch (i.e. time to vote) time on Tuesday, sit back, relax, and be calm, rested and ready if the klaxon goes off.

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  26. Sarah,

    I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now, but never commented before now. You’re very good at this blogging thing. If a new reader was wanting to start with your books, which book would you recommend?

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    1. Depends if it’s Fantasy try Shifters. If it’s Science Fiction with Heinlein overtones try Darkship Thieves. Mystery, contemporary try the Dyce Dare books. If historical try the Musketeer mysteries.

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  27. Bit of good news today, Boeing is killing off its DEI department. External pressure, meaning people simply talking about what the Boeing DEI department actually says and does, has convinced the new CEO to jettison the whole works out the airlock.

    And that’s why #HeelsUp loses even if they steal it. The life is going out of their campaign, their donors are fleeing, their friends are being fired from big companies. Nobody is going to play along.

    The head of the dinosaur has not yet received the message that it has been fatally shot in the @$$.

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  28. Trump and Eric Trump have already said Trump will NOT go after McCabe and the other evil doers.

    Personally, that is a stab in my back of epic proportions.

    No vengance? Then there is no reason for Trump to be elected.

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  29. To some extent, we all might treat the current anticipated Unsettled Times the same way folks in snowy areas prepare for driving in bad weather.

    Drive the top half of your tank (refill at the halfway mark); no need to be really punctilious here, if you are not actually in snow country, but have enough fuel to drive away from some problems.

    Have a first aid kit in your car.

    If you believe in firearms (clap your hands! No, that’s Tinkerbell) be sure some or all of them are usable, including ammunition. (Even barely-acceptable ammo is pretty expensive, and high-quality self defense stuff is painful. Lasts pretty much forever if kept dry, though.)

    Avoid Farnam’s Four Stupids: Don’t

    1. Go to stupid places
    2. With stupid people (or where stupid people congregate)
    3. At stupid times
    4. To do stupid things.

    Pray to whatever Higher Power(s) you think may listen.

    Vote.

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  30. Thanks for posting this. You’re one of the few bloggers talking about fraud without slipping over into paralyzing despair. I’ve had to taper off others because I can’t stand the doom and gloom, even if they eventually turn out to be right.

    That said, I really, really hope you’re wrong about this one. ESR’s tweet and Tom Simon’s comments are just plausible enough to give me hope, but I have no clue how this is all going to shake out.

    One last thought: You said that, back on Election Night 2022, Son #2 (?) was running the numbers in real time and concluding they were bogus. Is that the kind of analysis that’s easy to replicate? It might help fight the narrative if the watchdogs on X/Twitter know what to look for as it’s going down, especially if the fraud is otherwise smoother than 2020.

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  31. Please get you some N-acetyl cysteine. Just an amino acid but the rate limiting component in the formation of glutathione, the bodies master anti-inflamatory. Helpful in respiratory issues. Pray Psalm 16.

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  32. Were they smart – and quite obviously, they are not – The Left would either accept the loss and plan for another day or seek to minimze the impact of a loss by shifting their aim on some things this time. Things run in cycles and the cycle is changing whether they like it or not.

    Instead, they’re All In, so if they lose, and I dearly hope they lose and lose completely and resoundingly, and that We The People start demonstrating What One Does When One Wins instead of the usual Babbling Incompetence of Standard Republican Governance.

    Anyway, should it come to pass that They win this time, I suspect there will be more than enough of We The People who insist that She Is Not My President and This Is Not My Country that it becomes impossible for The Left to not only not be able to get anything done but that everything that they depend on to operate fails miserably. Not open violence but merely pleasant but obstinate refusal to cooperate, rendering everything largely moot.

    Make John Galt a verb.

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  33. watch them blame Trump for this, but win or lose we’re heading into recession. Private Payrolls plunged and July and August were revised down, in size. It’s all so tiresome.

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    1. Saw an item from Epoch Times that a number of provincial governors had been offed in China. It so, that strikes me as a bad sign.

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    2. What do you expect, with the government’s long-running war on small business?

      The ‘giant soulless mega-corporations’ can afford to hire extra accountants and ‘compliance officers’, and pay massive bribes — err, ‘contributions’, yeah, that’s it; small businesses can’t.

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      1. Just locally:

        • Sheri’s Diner is gone PNW region wide, all location.
        • Locally Dutch Bros Coffee Kiosks have disappeared. IDK about rest of the state or other states.
        • We stopped at 4 Denny’s Diners before we found one that was a franchise and was open. Then learned the Denny’s in Nampa (where we stayed last night) was permanently closed. Was closed in Bend too. Don’t know about the one in Eugene, it was not on our route.
        • Read that Wendy’s was shutting down X many locations (guessing CA), and reopening elsewhere.

        Signs are not good. OTOH they can’t blame Trump for numbers and shutdowns that happened before the election, or before he even takes office (Yes, they will try). It will get worse before it gets better because they sure haven’t done their worst yet. Because their current results weren’t intended.

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        1. When the Cackler responded to questions about the current economy … Trump’s fault. When braced on why she didn’t get the things accomplished in her first 3 1/2 years, “Trump has been running.”

          And people swallow this.

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          1. I laughed when Clackler said “Trump has been in charge for the last 10 years!” If nothing else this should tell everyone she is an idiot. (Nothing we don’t know but …) He didn’t even start running for President sometime late-mid-2016, just soon enough to qualify for the (R) primaries. Last time I checked (senor moments don’t you know, kidding, but …) it is still 2024 (a bit short of 10 years).

            Trump has been out of office since Jan 2020, cutoff from social media until he started TruthSocial and Musk bought X/twitter, and under court gag orders. The only reason Trump has been in the news for the last 3 1/2 years is because of MSM TDS and the lawfare that the opposition (Biden/Harris, Dems, and GOPlite) have been pulling … Dang wanna be Soviets. Anyway, by my math (yes, I know, racist or is it privileged now?) he was only in charge for 4 years, and only running maybe a total of 18 months over the 3 election cycles.

            Too logical but — Clacker is an idiot (and I’m insulting idiots).

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    3. If he wins, I wonder if he will do something a la Ronaldus Maximus, and warn people that things will get hard before they improve. I seem to call 1981-82 were a bit of a system shock, and things took off. (FWIW, I was in Nebraska, and ag took some hard hits before things steadied. The grain embargo had not helped.)

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    4. I expect a big crash Jan, but not surprised if before.
      I keep getting promptings to buy two turkeys and a ham to see us through the holidays just in case. you know what…. I should.

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  34. Good news: Trump is already winning judgements against voter suppression. That means the judiciary is being dragged in against their unwritten policy. That increases the chances that they will step in against fraud, starting with the undeniable and progressing to the merely outrageous. And Trump has an army of attorneys who know how to make the arguments.

    The problems with the Dominion machines are now a matter of public record. (Some of them, anyway.) That makes impossible results harder to defend. And Trump has an army of attorneys …

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    1. That army of attorneys deserve recognition, because they all realize that working in favor of Trump will mean the end of their legal career in many states.

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  35. I love DeSantis and I was disappointed that he lost the primary. However at this time I have to say that I’m glad he lost the primary and this is why. If we are going to be able to outvote the fraud we absolutely need the rockstar superhero that Hulk Hogan would rip his shirt off for. We NEED the swagger, the braggadocio and the razzle dazzle. And I hope he arrives to the inauguration in a garbage truck. Because #$%^ them.

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