Hold On

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Like you I want the SAVE act to pass, and I do think we should be making sure the GOP leadership hears from us.

But if it doesn’t pass, does it mean all is lost? Not even close. It means we will go through some narrow and unpleasant places, and that our children, probably extending to our grandchildren, will have their work cut out to make this country half as glorious as it will be otherwise. But this has happened before in our history. In fact the last 100 years, with brief, glorious intervals (Salutes Reagan’s shade) was one such period of waste and destruction, which is why recovering is so difficult. We’re trying to repair problems that started before most of us were even born.

I also think Trump is trying very hard not to leave uncompleted work for his followers, even those of his own party. Yesterday he said he had to take Iran because if he didn’t, he couldn’t be sure his successor would have the courage. I think he feels the same way — perhaps rightly — about the SAVE act.

But the fact remains that our majority is thread-thin and that the act might not pass. That is not the end of the country. We might still win the midterms without it. And we might very well win the presidential in 28.

Look, the problem is that you’re underestimating the amount of fraud. No, seriously. And that the amount of fraud should give you a reason to hope.

I saw immense, massive fraud in Colorado in 12, but the win for the democrats — which they then use to install vote-by-fraud — was razor thin. What does that mean? It means that Colorado at least back then was not a purple state at all — that was the fraud — but an almost bizarrely red state.

And I think we are a bizarrely, solidly conservative (for American ways of being conservative) country. Not at all half and half.

Every time I say this, some of you try to come back with “oh, now, the fraud is just on the margins.” Poppycock.

Of course we can’t be absolutely sure. We can’t be sure of anything. One of the results of pervasive fraud everywhere is that you can’t precisely KNOW everything. Which is why we’re all unsure of everything from scientific fact on down. It’s okay. Look, for years we were sure of things we shouldn’t have been. Turns out COVID is not the first time the US left conned the rest of the world into a jump scare. I cant’ find the link anymore, but apparently the study on eggs and cholesterol didn’t show that eating eggs was bad for your cholesterol. But the results were published that way, because FDR wanted to lower the demand for eggs, so as to bring down the price of eggs. (WHAT IS IT WITH DEMOCRATS AND EGGS!) But people believed it the world over and for most of his life my father didn’t have eggs for breakfast — which he loves — because they were unhealthy.

So it’s best that we’ve finally realized we can’t trust the experts, we can’t trust “studies” and we definitely can’t trust polls.

So how do I know that everything isn’t lost? Well, there are ways to tell. If you ever take an art class, they will tell you the way to know the real shape of the object is to examine the “hole” it makes in the background.

Like that.

If everything were truly lost, they wouldn’t need so many means of cheating. If the cheating were only “on the margins” Moter Voter would have done it. They wouldn’t need to keep piling on so much nonsense, from crazy redistricting for decades to finally “Vote by Mail.” And now, trying to agitate to voting by email, because that’s secure or sane. Or the crooked machines would have done it. Or the fact they still control all the media would have done it.

No Republican would ever have won an election, except as a way to make it seem we were still free.

And how do I know it’s not that? Oh, please.

Yes, the first Reagan maybe they would have given it way (but even by then they wouldn’t. They hated him as a Governor.) But the second? And the same with Trump. The first election they might have let him have it — but didn’t. No, seriously. They didn’t. They thought they had it under control — but the third? They would never have allowed it.

And the second? It took SHUTTING DOWN THE WORLD with a bioscare and then — even then — last minute cheating of all kinds to put their chosen corpse in place.

They don’t have this sewn up. If they did they wouldn’t have needed that.

For that matter, yes, they won the midterms in Trump’s first term. Am I the only one who remembers the votes that were counted for days and weeks to achieve that? DESPITE all their other means of cheating.

Look, judging by all the cheating they deploy and how desperately they’re fighting to preserve ALL OF IT? They are at most — and I’m saying at the very most — 25% of the population.

Yes, yes, women, the young, the…. does anyone else notice they have the groups that are prone to preference falsification and not wanting to stand out with an “unpopular” opinion? How many people are undercover, with more or less degrees of success.

I want the SAVE act to pass, because I have this idea that we’ll see a map like Reagan’s wins again.

But if we don’t pass it? We’ll still get it eventually. It will just involve a lot more blood, sweat and tears getting there.

In the meantime, I mean this very seriously STOP HELPING THEM.

When you act blackpilled. When you talk about being afraid of “backlash” against Trump? When you say “if this isn’t perfect by the midterms, the GOP is done?” You’re doing the donkeys work for them.

You see, all of that is battle space preparation that makes their outrageous fraud and election stealing plausible.

Please, I beg you, don’t help them with their battle space preparation. Don’t aid and abet the enemy.

No, you can’t help your feelings, but you can help what you show.

Game face on. Perception is half the battle. Keep exposing them for the ridiculous, insane people they are.

And give them not an inch.

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!

144 thoughts on “Hold On”

  1. Bless you for still having hope. I can’t understand how you still support Cheeto Jesus, but I aspire to have the same positive attitude you do.

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    1. Wow. What a way to make her point via concern trolling. We support Trump because he is destroying the enemies of the USA, foreign and domestic. With Orange gusto. Bigly. We will continue to support him as he continues to bulldoze the folks who so very much need bulldozed.

      Hope? She has certainty. And she is quite correct.

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      2. Well, you see, if you don’t hate the Bad Orange Man (Oh sorry, “Cheeto Jesus”) with sufficient fervor then the voices in Joey’s tiny overheated head insist that means that person absolutely loves the Bad Orange Man. *eyeroll*

        It’s Science… or something.

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    2. “Cheeto Jesus”. SERIOUSLY??????

      Donald Trump is the only President in my lifetime who has actually shrunk the damn government, who has actually gotten them out of my life, and who has tried to enforce the laws evenly. The fact that our legal system is so corrupted and broken that he hasn’t been able to fully succeed isn’t on him….. unless you want him to actually be the fascist he’s called.

      Personally, I wish he’d give you a demonstration of what that would actually look like. Sarah is much nicer than I am.

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    3. My dude.

      We’ve always had pseudo-intellectuals and henwits. My lived experience is that some of them at the universities have beclowned themselves to the degree that the only other explanation is that most faculty are narrow specialists, and either do not fight outside of their specialty, or do not think outside of their specialty in any verifiable way.

      Trump ran against social status for university people, and in particular against the people who are proud of reciting the ten dollar words by rote. It offended a lot of people, including some of the ones who apparently did all of their secondary and tertiary education by rote, and stopped learning anything once they got the piece of paper.

      A major testable claim of the public intellectuals against Trump was the legal theory of the prosecutions. The problem with it is that valid American common law would be expected to make sense to a broad number of American layman, and it is not simply whatever a narrow elite proclaim subject to only their own audit. A disturbing amount of what we have had people tell us is valid legal theory would either a) require Lincoln to be a criminal (1) whose actions can all be overturned by narrow legal fiat (2) or b) do violate things that the legal elites have previously told us were correct. This was rhetorically a mistake, and is one element of the universities having a major industrial disaster, which they have not remediated the causes of.

      (Rhetoric is one of the traditional skillsets for university training, and modern universities are maybe a little noticeably terrible.)

      There is an objective reality to test academic claims against. There are decades of past claims by academics to compare to current claims in the same field. Academics need to succeed in persuading the public, or the public case for funding them is weak.

      This might well still be intractable, except that the ignorant lunatics have documented their claims. Thus, we will continue to have many options to remove them, no matter what.

      You can go frustrate yourself.

      (1) Lincoln can be criminal without allowing (2) random judges to overturn the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

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      1. “the only other explanation is that most faculty are narrow specialists, and either do not fight outside of their specialty, or do not think outside of their specialty in any verifiable way.”

        Also: Most faculty are conformists in a subculture that rewards conformity and punishes genuine dissent from The Current Truth. By the time they finished grad school, they had spent so many years carefully saying only what would please their school teachers and professors that they were no longer able to speak up in dissent, even if they were able to see reasons to dissent.

        And: Academia systematically filters out those who do not support fashionable leftist garbage: Some departments even make conformity an official requirement for a degree program. But unofficial methods of more quietly excluding dissenters are nearly universal. And there’s always shunning and the day-to-day incivilities that make life among the “woke” very unpleasant.

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        1. Word.

          When I was a teenager, I wanted to get a Ph.D. because of all the Absent-Minded Professors out there in popular media. I figured they were allowed to be socially awkward, I was socially awkward, therefore a degree would let me finally “blend in”.

          …Boy howdy was that wrong. The academics I dealt with were even nastier than the general population about the status games. Oy.

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          1. Absolutely. I went in for a PhD 25 years ago and noped out with my master’s instead for that very reason. Academia has always had problems with mean-girl games, but add the Marxist takeover and DIE wokery, and it’s…well… ugliness and poison are just the tip of the iceberg.

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            1. I should have clued in when I worked as a contractor for one place and the head Ph.D. biologist asked me why I wanted to be a biologist. I tried to answer honestly, thinking wow, here was my chance….

              His reply to that involved condescension, profanity, sneering, and left me so utterly shocked I did my best to avoid that guy for the rest of my contract.

              OTOH he also worked with my mother and the good Lord only knows what she told him.

              On the third hand, no other bio Ph.D.s have really done anything to improve my opinion of them since, either….

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      2. A good test of the integrity of academia is the amount of utter bullsh*t and lies that are not just tolerated by academia but actually made mandatory.

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    6. I don’t actually like Trump very much, but I do like what he’s DOING. I like it a lot. And one of my favorite things to watch him do is give morons like Joe Blow here a big, orange-colored case of the sadz.

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      1. I actually rather like him, at the end of the day he’s still just Donnie from Queens and, well, I’m just BGE from Brooklyn. I really like what he’s doing and just wish he’d be ever so slightly more careful with his speech but I suppose it’s all part of the package.

        In other news, DataRepublican, who should get a Presidential Medal of Freedom, might have caused Thune to fold. Interesting, if true. Hope it is.

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          1. “for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” good thought for Lent. 😜

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              1. I’m agnostic. No god at the moment and not interested in worshipping another mortal either.

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              2. I noticed in 2021 that the people who’d idolized Trump the most for the previous four years were the quickest to turn against him when he made that lonely walk to Marine One on January 20. They couldn’t bear to see that the man they’d turned into a god was just a human being, so they had to tear him down.

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                  1. A significant chunk of first-round insider support of Trump was meant as sabotage of the GOP.

                    The local Student Soviet called upon its members to re-register so they could vote Trump in the primaries.

                    oops….

                    Many RINOs intend to punish MAGA for daring to reject tge wise rule by their betters.

                    Not hardly, you chumps. You ain’t better than the stuff I just flushed. And you are much more difficult to finish removing.

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          2. May seem to translate better from Russian or Chinese.

            Chinese have that ‘sit on the throne being virtuous’ model of leaders.

            Russians have that perfect Czar being surrounded by Princes who are very good but flawed in comparison to the Czar model.

            I’m not sure that baseball teams are that good a comparison for our fundamental group psychology trend, but I am sure it does not translate perfectly out from American English.

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        3. I like Trump more and more as time goes on. Some aspects of his personality will always irritate me (I really hated him at first), but I’ve gotten used to his style and actually come to appreciate it in many ways.

          Sometimes I overstate the “I don’t like the guy” aspect to hammer the point that likeability *isn’t* the point. There are things the president needs to do and things the president needs to *not* do, and being a likeable guy doesn’t get the hard things done. He either does the right thing or he doesn’t. And Donald J. Trump has done far, far, FAR more of the right things than I dared to hope.

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          1. I’ve seen quite a few people railing against Hegseth because they hate him, and I keep thinking of that Abraham Lincoln quote: “I cannot spare the man; he fights.”

            You shouldn’t have to like someone to know they’re effective. And my goodness, the Dept. of War is being very effective lately.

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      2. I’d never bring him home to meet the folks but I like how he makes the left froth at the mouth with rage.

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    7. I assume your hatred for Jesus is based on abortion.

      We wouldn’t want one of your victims to actually have your child, would we? You might have to pay some money, and pretend to treat another human being as something other than a set of holes to place your junk in.

      I haven’t forgotten the way you hedonistic parasites called for Sarah Palin to be raped for not aborting her baby.

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    8. See, guys, this is exactly the reading that negative space thing.
      EVERY TIME I do one of these posts they attempt to DOS me and send the bots over to leave dumb comments.
      At least I assume it’s a bot, since it’s stupid as f*ck. I refuse to believe a human would be that stupid.
      Apparently it doesn’t realize we can like what a president (our employee) is doing without worshiping him.
      Oh, wait. He might ALSO be a democrat, poor dumb bastard.
      So, do I block him or leave him around to be a negative indicator?

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      1. I refuse to believe a human would be that stupid.

        Looks at Sarah, looks at Congress You’re such a generous soul…..

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          1. Well, 1/2 the people are below average IQ.

            So sheer numbers alone would suggest that people are that stupid.

            But I, myself, don’t find IQ a reliable indicator of political intelligence. Common sense quotient seems to fit that purpose better. However, that doesn’t have a measurable test so far as I know.

            You have to let them open their yaps and out themselves.

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      3. “I refuse to believe a human would be that stupid.”

        That’s why I like you, Sarah. You’re so optimistic.

        (I work in IT, I lost all illusions of that long ago…)

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        2. “I work in IT, I lost all illusions of that long ago…“

          –

          Unfortunately … the quote I kept in mind for every line of code, for sanity’s sake: “Nothing is idiot, or fool, proof. Because they are so ingenious on figuring out how to prove you wrong that they know better than to do whatever.” (Or words to that effect. Might have evolved over 33+ years of experience.)

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          1. It’s not that the idiots are particularly ingenious; it’s just that there are so damn many idiots, the Infinite Number Of Monkeys principle dictates that they will do every stupid thing possible.

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            1. Ultimately results in the same. Do not be surprised when you discover you left a mine for you to fix later. What is worse, is some mines are difficult to plug. If you plug it, something else legit breaks. Sometimes you have to break an algorithm that is correct and works, so it works for a legit condition, on a limited resource. Do not have an example for the former (been too long). Do have an example for the latter because, while 20+ years ago, it was a doozy. With tech advances should not affect coders unless the limited device does not have access to backend servers with more resources, which is still possible. Solution I’ve seen, as a user, is an app that will not run unless there is a connection, either Wi-Fi or mobile.

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  3. Sarah, truer words were never written! Those of us who understand what went on, and how to spot trolls, need to keep reminding people why THE RIGHT THING is the right thing to do. I hit TruthSocial from time to time and the number of trolls on there is astonishing. Massive trolling about Epstein until the big bunch of file dropped, now not so much. No it’s more Forever War!!! Just like Masks, Jabs, Unvaxed!! Kind of obvious after a while.

    Not everyone has the ability to run toward the fire. Those of us who do must keep on running!

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    1. Solitudinum faciunt.

      Pacem appellant.

      Warfare is an enduring fact of human behavior. We should not expect parts of the world run by tribal endemic warfare cultures to be peaceful for extended periods of time.

      Communists by their own words establish themselves as dissenters from peace. Many of them are savages.

      We should not expect domestic peace with communists.

      We should not expect foreign peace with savage barbarians.

      ‘Forever war’ is a rhetorical label that is a less persuasive way of talking about whether I want to trust current generals and colonels not to screw over the troops if we given them months with troops deployed in fairly dangerous environments. I don’t want to trust.

      Air power on its own is a weak reed, but for all of these thigns, we shall see.

      I regret not feeling entirely confident of the political reliability of US officers, because otherwise Russia has shown itself very weak, and the possibility now of removing them from the board forever is almost too attractive to refrain from acting.

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      1. “Russia has shown itself very weak, and the possibility now of removing them from the board forever is almost too attractive to refrain from acting.”

        The difference between fighting a government and fighting a people is large. In Iran right now, the USA is fighting the government while the people of Iran are in the streets cheering for the USA and beating up the cops.

        Fighting Russia would mean fighting every Russian. It’s different. You can still do it, but you can’t just sink a few ships and call it good.

        Basically the difference between a raid and a decade-long slog. Iran is a raid. Fighting China would be a raid, because the Commies are not popular. Russia? Slog. For years and years.

        The thing to do with Russia is arrange for them to punch themselves in the face. That’s Ukraine. Russia, punching itself in the face, since 2022.

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        1. Correct.

          Part of not being a savage is not deluding yourself about actual costs, and not just jumping onto strategic ‘opportunities’ that feel like they should work.

          I am feeling more conservative about US risks. But we still have more cards than pessimist me or ignorant me are aware of.

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        2. Never interrupt an enemy that is making a great mistake.

          Vlad the Mad is busy removing Russia from world power status, and soon about to remove them from having enough males to sustain their own society and culture. At the rate he is going, Russia won’t exist in 50 years, except for a few city-states with alleged Nukes. Its going to fall apart is a truly hideous Russian calamity. He wont let go of the failure of his Ukraine gambit, and the Ukies wont quit because they can -see- they have already won and just need to not quit to win.

          Trump just has to keep oil cheap long term, and Vlad cant buy his way out. Knocking off Iran is a risk, but if the rest of the world can take up the oil slack, Russia is effed, hard. A year at high price wont save Russia. Not with them bleeding out in Ukraine.

          Russians seem to like Vlad. Until that changes, no sense being anything more than the usual opposition. In Iran, we do, however, have a lifetime opportunity to remove the Mullah-ocracy, at least that one particular band of them. We and the IDF need to stay very-very target selective, and very helpful when the average Persian runs out of water. No invasion, but -maybe- invited teams of SF or engineers to pump fresh water.

          Because as the current Iranian government fails, so will the water supply.

          Lifetime opportunities to crush enemies, or to let them self-destruct. Foreign and Domestic. (grin)

          Pass the Cheetos

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          1. This. They were on the demographic cliff edge with a downward vector before sending millions of men into the trench warfare meatgrinder while simultaneously nuking their own economy to de-incentivize Russian women from having babies, and now I am pretty sure they are past the point of no return.

            And they’ve eaten all the Soviet equipment seed corn, so there’s not even a the shadow cast by the Formerly Red Army anymore with only Chinese ATVs to ride on the attack.

            Does that mean they collapse like the USSR or the Tsar’s Empire? Predictions are hard, especially about the future. But one thing is for sure, the Russians who are most emphatically demographically collapsing, the Moscow-St. Petersburg urban elite ruling class, really do not like the ones still reproducing a bit, the still-captive provincials, and that is not a recipe for stability or any military capability on a more than regional scale.

            And I maintain if Xi does slip in the shower so that the obsession with Taiwan loses a bit more of it’s power over Middle Kingdom strategic priorities, the PLA might notice all those resources which they can walk to in Siberia, which would be very sad for the Kremlin.

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            1. It’s been a couple of decades since I saw that Russian women had more abortions than they had children. That demographic cliff is looking more like a black hole now.

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        3. Also see, “Gulf states suddenly mass-buying anti-drone drones from the Ukraine” because of the similarity (or actual identity) of Ayatollist Regime-made drones to the ones coming over the Ukraine’s border from Russia.

          So, pounding the mullah-ocracy lured them into attacking their (very) oil rich neighbors, many of whom were neutral or quasi-friendly. So now, lots of said oil money flows into the “interceptor” drone factories in the Ukraine, funding lots more of same to bog down Russia’s “short victorious war” (cough!) even further, and burden their (faltering) economy even worse. Or, attack drones to blow up more Russian oil refineries or railroads, or…

          That’s Russia’s “ally” Regimist Iran, punching Russia via the Arab (etc.) oil states and the Ukraine. And that’s just one of the many, many gleefully wonderful side-effects of this (Persian) war.

          (I surely did not have “Gulf states help fund the Ukraine’s war effort” on my 2026 card for 2020s Hold My Beer Bingo. But sometimes, the surprises are good ones.)

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        4. The Reader believes that Russia has punched itself in the face enough with the Ukraine war that, regardless of the war’s outcome, Russia is going to come apart. He makes no prediction as to timeframe, but is convinced it will happen. And all around Russia’s periphery the bad actors are going to attempt to grab a chunk. This is one of the geopolitical reasons to settle Iran’s hash now, so that they are not a major bad actor in the oncoming ‘What Happened to Russia’ play.

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          1. Regarding Russia and falling apart, there is a little fact which was pointed out in 2022 and is still true today, 4 years later. Russia doesn’t have containerized shipping internally.

            They have container handlers at ports, but after that everything is rail boxcars and box trucks, all loaded by hand/forklift.

            This is an issue on the battlefield, particularly with missiles, but for their economy it is much bigger. And they have not changed anything about their land shipping that I’ve heard, even though they’re getting ground away by attrition, and losing men by the tens of thousands.

            To miss out on implementing something that every other country uses, that seems to indicate they’re dying, not growing.

            And if freight movement requires -men- to shift it, women are not going to be able to do it when men are in short supply. When it comes to moving heavy objects, what one man can do alone requires 2 women, on average. That’s a basic mathy thing that determines how an economy is going to go.

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            1. For military supply it’s not even palletized for forklifts, which they also do not have – everything is in boxes moved by mobik hand labor. Trent Telenko has been harping on this for years now, how U.S. logistics capabilities got subconsciously mis-copy-pasted by U.S. military intelligence to Russian logistics chains, vastly overestimating their throughput as a result.

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                2. Which? The “freight handling machinery is expensive, comrade, but conscript labor costs nothing” Soviet-legacy military logistics, which means everything is in boxes sized for that, or “I am too lazy to figure out the new basis of an intelligence assessment that greatly differs from past assessments for reasons that I will have to justify in detail to my skeptical boss, so I’ll just copy throughput numbers from NATO mechanized logistics and go out to play golf”?

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        5. Yeah.

          My one concern with this year’s military stuff (so far) is that a future administration will see how easy the current leadership made it look, and decide they can do it, too. But without the organizational prep work that went on behind the scenes, and without some of the key elements that make Venezuela, and particularly Iran, ununsual circumstances. And a lot of good people will end up dead largely because a future president’s ego.

          But that’s not a reason to stay our hand in either of these cases. It’s merely a reminder that this is all much harder than it looks, and that military force should not be applied casually.

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        6. Iran arguably is a case of a salvageable society ruled by a vile minority. Russian history is pretty empty of reasons to hope you can fix Russia by removing Putin. They alternate between periods of rule by a strong man and periods of rule by corrupt oligarchs with a weak figurehead. That has been true going way way back. Containment seems the best choice.

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        7. Iran arguably is a case of a salvageable society ruled by a vile minority. Russian history is pretty empty of reasons to hope you can fix Russia by removing Putin. They alternate between periods of rule by a strong man and periods of rule by corrupt oligarchs with a weak figurehead. That has been true going way way back. Containment seems the best choice.

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        8. A lot of Russia misses the position of power they held as the USSR.

          They fail to realize that was the result of latching onto world communism, and draining it dry as they used it to puff up their position.

          You might as well fondly remember the days when you ate well because you ate your seed corn.

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      2. Sharing much of your comment as its own post over on FB, credited to “Bob the registered fool.”

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      3. Many Communists are savages?

        I think you’re a little optimistic there. I think the correct term would be “All”

        If you support a barbaric world view, you are a barbarian, no matter how many degrees you have or how erudite your speech.

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        1. I might quibble that this case might be more charity or ‘not proven’ than optimism. Dunno.

          Though, I explicitly meant that degreed erudite folks were among the savages.

          I feel that barbarians are culture, and savage is a combination of behavior and convictions.

          IE, a savage includes those deeply convinced that cannibalism will let them acquire magical power from victims, regardless of whether they feel they have a good opportunity to act on that belief.

          I think Bundy was such an erudite savage, but I don’t recall for sure, and never studied him anyway.

          Some but not all of the folks with outward traits of communists also have the unhinged internal emotional states such that they will do X, Y, Z. Something like that.

          Footnote:(Barbarians are alien, but they might make a non-savage civilization that we merely do not have mutual understanding with. The Germans of 1901 were barbarians, but not savage. The Germans of 1941 were barbarians who also exhibited a lot of savagery. NSDAP was savage, but it did not have the binding power to make all continuations of German culture savage forever.)

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        2. “If you support a barbaric world view, you are a barbarian, no matter how many degrees you have or how erudite your speech.”

          Now I want to create an erudite version of Conan’s “What Is Best In Life” answer.

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          1. Really? No one has given it a whirl?

            To constrain the ability of those in opposition to respond, to encourage retrograde motion, and to engage in schadenfreude over the reactions of their significant others.

            Although “lamentations” is fairly erudite, imho.

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          2. I prefer the Laconic “Victory.”

            (grin)

            Conan gave us the erudite version. Wordy enough for an Athenian.

            Victory.

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    2. LBJ stole his senate seat. LBJ and Mayor Daley stole the 1960 presidential election. Algore nearly stole the 2000 election. Biden stole 2020 blatantly.

      The battle of Athens in 1946 had to be fought because the Democrats in Nashville and Washington refused to stop local Democrats from stealing elections at gunpoint. Democrats were stealing local elections by gunpoint all over the country. Read Caro bio on LBJ.

      Boss Crump’s vote fraud in Memphis allowed him to choose every senator and governor in Tennessee over four decades. Only after and because of the Battle of Athens was Estes Kefauver able to overcome Crump’s fraud to become senator.

      Btw, five different Philadelphia election judges were named in federal criminal indictments for taking bribes in the year 2020. It’s what they do. It’s who they are.

      In Chicago, the Democrats openly partner with drug gangs in elections. See Chicagomag article from 2012 or 2013.

      With honest elections, presidential results would look like Reagan over Mondale in1984.

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  5. “When you talk about being afraid of “backlash” against Trump?”

    The “backlash” is all on Twitter, which just suspended 800 MILLION accounts because they’re being subject to Foreign-State manipulation campaigns. So gee whiz, guess what that “backlash” is! Propaganda. Foreign propaganda at that.

    Kind of like #JoeBlow there at the first comment. Mr. Blow is either a bot or a sockpuppet, meaning a slave working in a comment-farm in Russia, India, the Middle East or China.

    Twitter only has 300 million users. But they just suspended 800 million accounts.

    Then there’s the entire rest of the social media universe, which hasn’t suspended 800 million bot accounts and is therefore much more suspect.

    Did y’all know that a couple of grand will get you 50,000 fake followers/viewers/reviews/whatever on Youtube, Twitch, Goodreads, Amazon etc.? It’s an industry.

    Then there’s the dinosaur media, just flat out lying in your face all day every day.

    Lying liars lie, at never before seen volume and pace. “It’s not called ‘the net of a million lies’ for nothing.” Vernor Vinge.

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    1. I’ve been modded.

      Organized crime apparently has some of the slave labor call centers in Myanmar/Burma.

      Possibly Mr. Blow is neither dishonest nor foreign. If so, his talking point was not well selected to persuade this audience. Who can at times do the reading comprehension thing, and note the oddities of choice in those two sentences.

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      1. “Organized crime apparently has some of the slave labor call centers in Myanmar/Burma.”

        I recall those were in the news recently. Given nearly limitless money and the same type of coercive power, imagine what China has. Entire slave-labor cities, enough for 800 million fake Twitter accounts.

        “Possibly Mr. Blow is neither dishonest nor foreign.”

        Given Heisenberg, I suppose I must grant that in principle. But I put the possibility at 0.0001%. The comment reads like clamps. That a guy with “Joe Blow” for a handle can say “cheeto Jesus” and he’s not a dishonest troll? Unlikely. I’d believe in military intelligence before I’d believe that.

        Interesting thing, DuckDuckGo refuses to search for “clamps the internet troll” or even my own post “The Iron Finger of Deletion” from 2015. My post is still up, so the search engine should find it, but it won’t.

        I shall dig a little more.

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        1. Surprisingly, it appears that Google can be made to dig up a text string “The Iron Finger of Deletion” if you work at it a little.

          The AI resists such efforts, important safety tip if you’re using the AI to research something.

          The little trip down Memory Lane was instructive though, I chanced to re-read some old posts circa Sad Puppies, and the -f-ing- lying from the WorldCon crowd, omg.

          If you want to see why Covid was such a s- show, just wander back to 2015 or 2016 and review some of that. The mental gymnastics and outright lying, wow.

          Now of course we see those same people covering themselves in glory, rooting for the Mullahs.

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        2. Fascinating. My DDG obediently ran the search, but just delivered a bunch of articles on trolling in general, leaving out the “clamps” part.

          The Iron Finger search returned a Bond movie parody from 1965, Shaolin Iron Finger, and some articles about fingernails. Hmmm.

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            1. OK, tried to follow a link on PhantomSoapBox, and got told XOJane is now PeopleInc. Say what? Guess I missed all the fun.

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              1. The über-Woke XOJane is toast? My little hobby-blog outlived the “Professional Magazine of Quality!!!11!” is this what you’re telling me?

                I guess it just goes to show that if you want to preserve internet stupidity and the self-beclownment of the Left, you better take screenshots and keep them on your own hardware.

                As I recall the exchange at a ten-year distance, mostly what you missed was Clamps posting what he always posts and me having my comments deleted by officious little minions.

                Look who’s laughing now. ~:D

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                  1. I looked it up just now, and it seems that XOJane collapsed in 2016 in a cloud of scandal and recriminations.

                    Which makes sense given they left Clamps comments and deleted anybody who called him on his fruitbattery.

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                2. But speaking of laughing, there is a certain camel flop that is reviewing Starfleet Academy episode by episode as if it was an actual show, and not a bad tiktok that costs millions of dollars.

                  I prefer the Nerdrotic reviews, because clowning on Disney never gets old. According to the Nerdy One, the latest installment has “Bad Guys” surrounding all of Federation space with mines.

                  Yes. All of Federation territory, surrounded by mines.

                  Because that could be a thing, I guess? Somehow?

                  Or maybe because nobody in the writer’s room knows what a light year is. It’s only fair I guess, George Lucas didn’t know what a friggin’ parsec was in the 1970s, and it isn’t like Hollyweird has getten any smarter in the decades since.

                  But there’s good ol’ floppy, pretending as hard as he can that SA isn’t the stupidest thing that’s ever disgraced a television screen. Because “QUALITY!!!!11!”.

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        4. I just looked up the phrase you mentioned, and AI came up with an interesting word choice.

          “Based on the search results, the phrase “iron finger of deletion” does not appear in a prominent 2015 blog post.”

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  6. Very accurate post Sarah! I keep seeing these doom & gloom types spreading fear and think WTF is wrong with them! Bad enough there are dyed in the wool lefties spreading their own lies, we don’t need people who are claim to be on our side contributing their own share of stupidity. Trolls, liars, and traitors to freedom who don’t want the US to be the bastion of freedom it is meant to be!

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  7. You are definitely on the right track with this. I suspect it’s fraud all the way down. But, my big hope for the midterms is that SAVE and preventing Vote by Mail fraud is not the only weapon in our arsenal. I am still anticipating a significant drop in funding for the Ds due to either a loud or quiet smacking down of their donation streams. I suspect that the change of ownership for the voting software company will have a massive effect on their ability or desire to fraud electronically and for DoJ to show proof of said fraud for convictions. We’ll see. I’ve not lost hope yet.

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    1. The thing that I note, is Trump’s schedule on Iran, versus what the Israeli newspapers are saying about Israel’s original schedule.

      Why not just start later this year, and faff around for however long, instead of doing other things as well?

      Well, the elections are roughly eight months out.

      /IF/ there were a task that once completed, could influence the result of an election after several months, it might be desirable to finish enough in advance.

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      1. Dude, if Trump succeeds in dethroning the Mullas of Iran, without an invasion or multi-year fracas? OMG the average grunt vet will try to crown him. Folks will be chanting “Aye! Aye! Imperator!”

        For 47 years those (lenghty ugly profane obscene description omitted) “Mullahs” have been slaughtering our fellow service peeps and the civilians we thought we could protect.

        Just for the “explosively formed projectile” so called “IEDs” alone (a major killer of US forces in Iraq), I would -happily- stick a bayonet up their asses one at a time on pay per view. Most of us would pay good money for the privilege.

        The Marines will likely petition the Pope to Saint him. (1983!)

        Trump could have enjoyed a long, highly profitable, and fun retirement. He had enough money to live in ostentatious splendor and comfort for the rest of his days. Instead, he ran for President, gave up -billions- in financial opportunities, and spends his days un-effing things that should have been done decades ago, while dealign with the septic-tank sludge that poses as our Left, and sometimes our Right.. And not only is he getting shit -done-, but he is -wrecking- folks that have been wrecking the USA. And he -isnt- going “king” on us, much as enemy actors try to slander him with that. (If he -was- going Caesar, you fools would all be in camps, dying of shovel work and bad food, you idiots. That you are free to walk around spewing stupid is proof enough you are wrong. Idiots.)

        Sure, flaws. Human. His Ego needs a double-wide door installed in the Oval Office. Call the carpenters. We need what goes with it.

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        1. All true, as long as “dethroning” used here includes composting. If the practice of naming dead people as Ayatollah has to continue because that’s the entire candidate field, that would be what’s called “a good start”.

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        2. Obama, on the other hand, ruled like a king, quite happy to let a corrupt bureaucracy fester and grow beneath his throne.

          And the Clintons were the princes of the double-wide.

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      2. I suspect we might have waited a bit longer except for the protests. Not letting the protestors feel abandoned was seen as important by the administration, and likely rushed up the timetable. What I suspect would have been a brief pause after Maduro’s capture instead saw a quick turnaround with a spate of units rapidly positioning for operations against Iran.

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        1. There’s a hypothetical argument, that leads to a line of speculation that would make the elections unrelated to the timing of anything involving Iran.

          What if the BLM ‘helter skelter’ domestic terrorism was not a matter of hiring idiots?

          We’ve generally been speculating that the terrorism (such as BLM and ‘pro Palestine’), the activism, and the election efforts are mostly downstream of funding being there to pay people.

          One hypothesis is that the funding scenario is true, and the other hypothesis is that it is untrue.

          If it is true, and if the funding is interdicted, we would expect a decrease in terrorism, activism, and election efforts.

          USAID may have been interdicted last year. If so, and if the key funding source, then a decline would be expected.

          People have said many times that Qatar is the money pump for the collaboration with Palestine activism in US academia.

          We can speculate about two different possible worlds. In one we are correct about the funding, and cutting the funding will make the terrorism disappear.

          If we are in the other one, then we are delusional, and moving goal posts in terms of ‘maybe the next funding cut will make the terrorism go away’.

          Doing Iran now should cut funding for mideast terrorism. Iran funding was predictable. It may have also accidently and potentially see a cut of Qatar funding.

          Maduro, government cooperation in south and central America, narcotraffickers, and narcotrafficker funding for US politics.

          Basically, people say a lot of things about Data Republican, but there are also ways to estimate international funds transfers, and stuff. Which maybe Data Republican has stayed away from?

          Iran probably funded terrorism in the mid east, but could it have also funded Democrat politics in the US?

          There’s a basic question, which I will not attempt to answer in this comment, whether there are any other terrorist sponsor nations that we are also at war with, and have not attacked yet, that are bankrolling a significant chunk of Democrat congressional election efforts.

          But, if the Democrat campaign coffers are purely domestic, and purely non-criminal, and not tied to the terrorist financier networks of nations we are at war with, then the domestic political effect of the Iranian war would purely be how it plays to American voters.

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  8. Eh, not so hard to find debunking of the “eggs = death from high cholesterol” fraud. Quick search found several articles from Harvard Health and The Mayo Clinic.

    Of course, those articles ALSO pushed the latest fraud – “meat = death from high cholesterol” from the Green (Watermelon) Industrial Complex.

    Generally, unless it is tied to a psychological problem such as anxiety disorder or clinical depression – what you are HUNGRY for is what is HEALTHY for you. (Although you may have to substitute alternative sources if some of the foods also contain things that are not good for you specifically.)

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  9. But Sarah, if Trump doesn’t magically fix all problems in the world perfectly to the satisfaction of everybody in MAGA in the next few months, we have to vote for the gay race communists! There’s no other choice! There’s no other choice!

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    2. No, he has to fix all world problems to the complete and uncontested satisfaction of ex-R defectors of the country-club “not our kind of people, Muffy” Bulwark flavor. Anything less is obviously falling short triggering a MAGA civil war and the permanent D majority à la California.

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    3. I first saw this attitude shown by some toward abortion. Trump put enough justices onto the Supreme Court to get Roe v. Wade finally overturned, and now states can figure out on their own how to handle abortion.

      But that’s not good enough, and Trump failed us all because the court didn’t ban it across the country!

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      1. Now we’re seeing the accusation that Trump is “caving to transgenders” because after stopping the Feds from paying for underage trans surgery, he won’t issue an executive order to make it illegal nationwide, but is letting the states decide while Congress makes the law.

        Same pattern he did with abortion.

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  10. One thing with the SAVE Act tantrums, I know who I will be voting for in the Texas run-off later this spring.

    I’m amazed at how the media and others assume that everything lasts forever. “Oil prices will send voters running from Trump!” and “Security lines at airports will doom MAGA come the midterms!” and so on.

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    1. There is a decision process that can explain such silliness.

      Decision One: assorted stupid emotional investments in political hypotheticals
      Decision Two: didn’t happen, stressing over it now
      Decision Three: wishful thinking, clutching at straws for proposing a correction factor

      Sometimes stuff doesn’t happen. Sometimes you need to detox from the thinking that helped you into the mess. Sometimes one is still in the business of spinning mental wheels over stuff, and might delay any change and recovery.

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    2. While I support Donald Trump, his endorsement here won’t matter. I’m voting Paxton in the runoff just like I did in the primary. Why? Because most of the legal charges sound like the lawfare BS the UniParty has always cooked up against its’ enemies, INCLUDING TRUMP. As for the personal stuff? If that was a dealbreaker, I couldn’t support Trump either.

      If Cornyn is the candidate in the general, then I will vote for him.

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  11. Qom go boom. Something really big went off there today. Lots of speculation about what it was, I hope that Qom is pronounced coom, by narrativium it should be, but I’ve never actually heard it said.

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    1. I am led to believe it sort of rhymes with “home”, with the “Q” sound made way back in the throat.

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      1. Hchome go bome. nah. Narrativium it is. Coom go boom. They’re saying it was a proper bunker buster, but it might just have been an ammo dump, Hope it was the first since the mad mullahs hang out in bunkers in Qom and it’s nice to think they are now in bits and pieces. IM not usually blood thirsty and try very hard not to wish harm on anyone, but these people disgust me,

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        2. Those theocratic despots do vile things for vile reasons, and they won’t stop until we kill all of them. Trump has made a good start, but we MUST push this through to the bitter end. If we don’t, if any part of that regime remains, all the killing and horror will have been for nothing.

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  12. Yes, yes, women, the young, the…. does anyone else notice they have the groups that are prone to preference falsification and not wanting to stand out with an “unpopular” opinion? How many people are undercover, with more or less degrees of success.

    I’ll be a bit more blunt-

    they’re all people who are much more likely to die if they are identified with Bad Think.

    Oh, gosh, no kidding they don’t announce “Hey, yeah, I am a prime target for personal violence, yeahboy!”

    As opposed to flat avoiding the survey folks.

    And that’s before the various “curated” things that they never even see the folks they’re supposedly polling, so it’s a trust me bro on their demographics.

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    1. This.

      For example, you may have heard scary statistics out there on teen sexual activity. Except those statistics are wrong.

      How wrong are they? I don’t know, but I know they are. Teens who have never had sex will lie on those surveys, “confidential” or not, and claim one or multiple partners. Because you want to know one of the scariest things that can happen to you when you’re young and in high school? Having the other kids find out you’re not interested in dating.

      Not that you’re gay, bi, or what have you. Just Not Interested.

      The consequences can be deadly.

      Preference falsification is a Thing for those sane enough to realize they’re in danger.

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      1. “Oh, what are kids going to do?”

        :Gets a long detailed list of first hand observed actions, or worse ones that happened to you specifically:

        “That can’t be right, it’s just kids being kids! You must have done something to set them off.”

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    2. It doesn’t even have to be that dire. If you’re in a group where you will lose your friend group if you say the wrong thing, you’ll say what you need to in order to keep it. Those of us that have a stronger definition of “friend” don’t have that worry, but the millions of years of evolution that equate “losing your friends” to “going to die without support” exert great pressure.

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      1. Even given physical strength and relative independence from the leftist social networks, the pressure is immense. As a guy who spent 15+ years in higher-ed, I can testify. Just the effort of staying silent to perserve the peace (and your working relationships and your income) does a number on your nerves and peace of mind. Getting out of there 6 years ago was one of the best things that ever happened to me — right behind getting married and the births of my children.

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      2. Even if it’s “just” that folks will pick you as the safe target for “jokes,” because you’re a Bad Person?

        That is a really big deal.

        A horrifying percent of those graduating from public school will see no reason other than fear of punishment to not put others at deadly risk.

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        1. A few years ago, I read an article on primate bullying. Specifically, it was high-status females bullying lower-status females to stress them out enough that they’d stop ovulating. So it’s literally a breeding strategy.

          Bullies are evolutionary throwbacks. I doubt that telling them this would help.

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    3. This makes a lot of sense. I couldn’t blend in with the herd even when I tried (and God knows I tried), so I can’t exactly blame those who can. Being a pink monkey is not fun.

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      1. Even for us there’s all kinds of layers of not fun– I’ve got a glass face, I CAN’T lie. Finding ways to avoid being asked where it’ll tell folks what I’m not going to say can be a challenge.

        And if someone demands the truth, I will generally give it to them– even what they want is submission.

        Nothing quite like admitting to a truth you know is going to cause problems, and then getting accused of your entire worldview being a farce to get attention and cause others distress. Took me AGES to figure out that was projection of a conclusion on to a safe target!

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  13. Who benefits? Always, always ask this. If there be fraud, and we’re seeing evidence popping up like toadstools, who has benefited the mostest in the last, oh generation or two? Where is it happening, that we know of, have evidence of, and very very strong suspicions but they’ve hidden their tracks rather well?

    All the silly buggers saying if you’re a tried-and-true, dyed-in-the-wool wolf in sheep’s clo- I mean, really Red Rethug- I mean Republican like me, then you’ll vote all those Republicans out in the midterms for not being Republican enough, ‘cuz that’ll teach ’em! Seriously, who do you think they’re doing this for? Who benefits?

    It’s not like it’s rocket surgery. Democrats want the Republican alliance splitskies. They want the bas fractured and fractious. News flash, foolish Dems: we’ve always been fractious! We’re individualists that love freedom and hate authoritarianism like a bad rash. We want lower taxes, safer cities and towns, rule of law and no stupidity from our elected representatives. Okay, maybe that last one’s a wish on the level of “I want to drive a tank down Broad Street and scare the bejayzus out of the hippies down there” kind of thing, but hey, as long as we’re wishing…

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  15. I have sat a silent and unnoticed witness to democrats laughing and boasting about how they, personally, cheat in elections. Understanding that my experience may be far from universal, the democrats I know do cheat, condistently and knowingly. Also taking into consideration that some of what I have heard may have been projection for an audience, if what I have overheard is true you’re talking about minimum 25% fraud, particularly in primaries.

    Voting multiple times

    Changing parties to vote for the least viable candidate

    Preventing others from voting

    Collecting unused ballots, etc.

    They seem to consider this behavior to be not only acceptable, but necessary. And in these conversations, even those who weren’t participating were nodding like bobbleheads.

    And no, I make no pretense that this is everyone in the D party. However, if even 10% share these attitudes, our elections are full of fraud. Fraud perpetrated by individuals.

    The funny part to me is how they get all confused about why their efforts don’t cement the D party in power for all time.

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      1. I was first exposed to “the ends justify the means” in this sense when my paternal grandparents were trying to convince an 8 year old me that Republicans were Eevul. Apparently rigging ballot boxes, bribing people to vote D, and physical intimidation were perfectly reasonable tactics to make sure D always won.

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        1. Whatever the original definitive acts of the Republicans were, and however they are analyzed, the stuff that people have chosen to do inside the last sixty years is a bit relevant.

          Aztec Triple Alliance was evil, the NSDAP’s Third Reich was evil, etc.

          Taking any of those regimes as a blank check for ‘any means necessary’ on a continuing basis results in various choices. Those choices of tactics and of strategies decades later create a regime that can maybe be judged on its own merits.

          Its basicalyl about how regimes transform. Cosmetics and symbolism cannot, if badly done, instantly create the worst possible alternative regime. Thus, cosmetics cannot be a justification for the costs of corrupt tactics.

          Corrupt tactics and corrupt strategies incrementally create worse regimes.

          But, cosmetics are sports team logic, and sports team logic seems to be a natural resting state for much of human group psychology.

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      2. I’ve seen a really good phrasing to counter that. “The means create the ends.” A newer variant of “as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” Or hey, “you become what you pretend to be.”

        You cannot get virtue out of non-virtuous acts. “But what if we stop and the other guy does horrible things?” “Couldn’t be worse. You’re already there.”

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        1. Weirdly, discussed this with my kids last night.

          One of them piped up that the point of protesting is to inconvenience people.

          I told her that is hurting people.

          And if they start out with “our purpose is hurting people,” run away, fast. Because they’re only going to get worse, they’re only going to look for more targets, and they always find a reason that you deserve to be hurt.

          Once the goal is “hurt people in a way I don’t get in too much trouble for” it’s going to stay that way.

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            1. There’s also that old saw, DARVO. Deny Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Classic D party tool in the whole box of filthy, disreputable, and downright evil tricks of the trade.

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      3. This. A thousand times this.

        I have lost track of the number of liberals of my acquaintance who were entirely comfortable with any unethical or illegal act if it advanced the “progressive” agenda. Even even allying with proud Stalinists was not beyond the pale.

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    3. Openly bragging about how they’re registered three times– or complaining because the county clerk in the “conservative” area sent them jury summons that they then had to get out of by saying they didn’t live in the area, and thus they couldn’t vote by mail in as many places that year.

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    4. Their public venue conversations need to be recorded, turned in anonymously to whomever can investigate it. If nothing else create a trail of boasting. Anyone who does sign up in an area where they can’t vote, either residency or non-citizen needs to be ticketed to create a public record. Not actually prosecutable if not acted on. But a public record, where names can be listed, as “this happens, these ballots were sent on these dates to this residence and individual, returned on these dates”. Both are public records. Not reporting how voted, that would be illegal. Just ballot out and ballot returned. Same with names and address of the locations where number of people who exceed residency allowed.

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