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The insurgency, led by Donald Trump, is an existential threat to the professional political class and every entity who lives in/around the professional political class. The entire political industry is threatened by the insurgency. The entire political industry is threatened by Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump’s supporters are angry“, or “uneducated”, or “unenlightened”, or (Fill_In_The_Blank). This was clear in the latest round of sunlight upon how officials within the Senate Democrats, United States Department of Justice and FBI leadership feel about a nation of citizens beneath their authority.
The corporate media narrative controllers are fully engaged.
The gaslighting is extreme as the same entities utilize their microphones in a brutal attempt to create a self fulfilling prophecy. In essence, what they are really trying to save is themselves. However, the reality disconnect only solidifies their irrelevance.
At this point, anyone still trying to convince us this entire assembly of our union is headed in the right direction, well, they might want to revisit their proximity to the 2018 election ballpark. Because they’re not just out of the city – they’re also out of the same state the election ballpark is located in….. But then again, the media know that.
David Mamet had a famous saying, essentially: …‘in order for genuine liberals to continue their illogical belief systems they have to pretend not to know a lot of things’… By pretending ‘not to know’ there is no guilt, no actual connection to conscience, denial of truth allows easier trespass. The Democrat ideology depends on your unwillingness to accept their presentations; and your reconciliation. Do not look away.
There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior, it’s called Cold Anger.
Cold Anger does not need to go to violence. For those who carry it, no conversation is needed when we meet. You cannot poll or measure it specifically because most who carry it avoid discussion. And that decision has nothing whatsoever to do with any form of correctness.
We watched the passage of Obamacare at 1:38am on the day before Christmas Eve in 2009. We watched the Senate, then the House attempt passing Amnesty in 2014. We know exactly how it passed, and we know exactly why it passed. We don’t need to stand around talking about it….
We know what lies hidden behind “cloture” and the UniParty schemes.
We watch the 2009 $900+ billion Stimulus Bill being spent each year, every year, for seven consecutive years. Omnibus, Porkulous, QE1, QE2, Bailouts, Crony-Capitalism. We know exactly how this works, and we know exactly why this ruse is maintained. We don’t need to stand around talking about it…. We’re beyond talking.
We accept that the entire Senate voted to block President Trump’s ability to use recess appointments in 2017. Every.Single.Democrat.And.Republican.
Cold Anger absorbs betrayal silently, often prudently.
We’ve waited each year, every year, for ten years, to see a federal budget, only to be given another Omnibus spending bill by Speaker Ryan.
We’ve watched the ridiculing of cops, the riots, and the lack of support for laws, or their enforcement. We’ve been absorbing all that. We’ve been exposed to violence upon us by paid operatives of the organized DNC machine. We know; the media trying to hide it doesn’t change our level of information.
Cold Anger is not hatred, it is far more purposeful.
Cold Anger takes notice of the liars, even from a great distance – seemingly invisible to the mob. Cold Anger will still hold open the door for the riot goer. Mannerly.
We’ve watched our borders being intentionally unsecured.
We’ve watched Islamic Terrorists slaughter Americans as our politicians proclaim their uncertainty of motive. We know exactly who they are and why they are doing it. We do not need to stand around discussing it…. we’re clear eyed.
Cold Anger evidenced is more severe because it is more strategic, and more purposeful. Eric Cantor’s defeat, Matt Bevin’s victory, Brexit, Donald Trump’s highest vote tally in the history of presidential primaries or Mark Sanford’s dispatch might aide your understanding.
Cold Anger does not gloat; it absorbs consistent vilification and ridicule as fuel. This sensibility does not want to exist, it is forced to exist in otherwise unwilling hosts – we also refuse to be destabilized by it.
Transgender bathrooms are more important than border security.
Trade deals, employment and the standard of living in Vietnam and Southeast Asia are more important to Wall Street and DC lobbyists, than the financial security of Youngstown Ohio. We get it. We didn’t create that reality, we are simply responding to it.
Deliberate intent and prudence ensures we avoid failure. The course, is thoughtful vigilance; it’s a strategy devoid of emotion. The media can call us anything they want, it really doesn’t matter…. we’re far beyond that.
Foolishness and betrayal of our nation have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. We know exactly who Donald Trump is, and we also know what he’s not. He is exactly what we need at this moment. He is a necessary glorious bastard.
Cold Anger is not driven to act in spite of itself; it drives a reckoning.
When the well attired lady leaves the checkout line carrying steaks and shrimp using an EBT card, the door is still held open for her; yet notations necessarily embed.
When the U.S. flags lay gleefully undefended, they do not lay unnoticed. When the stars and stripes are controversial, yet the Mexican flag is honored – we are paying attention.
When millionaire football players kneel down rather than honor our fallen soldiers and stand proud of our country, we see that. Check the NFL TV ratings – take note.
When a school community cannot openly pray, it does not mean the prayerful were absent.
When a liar seems to win, it is not without observation. Many – more than the minority would like to admit – know the difference between science, clocks and political agendas.
Cold Anger perceives deception the way a long-term battered spouse absorbs the blow in the hours prior to the pre-planned exit; with purpose.
A shield, or cry of micro-aggression will provide no benefit, nor quarter. Delicate sensibilities are dispatched like a feather in a hurricane. Pushed far enough, decisions are reached.
[…] On the drive to and from Chicago, I paid attention to the billboards and bumper-stickers. Folks, the people in “Fly over” country are PISSED, from the guy that guides hunters, to the mayors of towns and cities, to state senators congressmen and Governors who are voting to arrest and imprison federal law enforcement officials for enforcing federal gun laws that don’t agree with state law … The political pendulum has never, in the history of humanity, stayed on one side of a swing. The back lash from over reach has always been proportionate to how far off center it went before coming back … right now we’re staring at a whole hell of a lot of the country (about 80-90% of the land mass, as well as about 50+% of the population) that is FED UP. You really don’t want those guys to decide that the only way to fix it is to burn it down and start over… (more)
It’s too late…
DC has ONE option:
Remember, this is an insurgency. You must modify your mindset to think like an insurgent. Insurgencies have nothing to lose. If insurgents are not victorious the system, which controls the dynamic, wins. However, if insurgents do nothing, the same system, which controls the dynamic, also wins.
Do nothing and you lose. Go to the mattresses, and you might win. The choice is yours.
Right now, every day is Saint Crispins day.
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian.’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.’
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
The insurgency, led by Donald Trump, is an existential threat to the professional political class and every entity who lives in/around the professional political class. The entire political industry is threatened by the insurgency. The entire political industry is threatened by Donald Trump.
Decision time.
You know why the entire apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why the entire Wall Street apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why every institutional department, every lobbyist, every K-Street dweller, every career legislative member, staffer, and the various downstream economic benefactors, including the corporate media, all of it – all the above, are united against Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is an existential threat to the very existence of the UniParty. Donald Trump is an existential threat to every entity who benefits from the UniParty.
Multi-billion dollar contracts at stake. Trillion dollar multi-national trade deals at stake. The fundamental construct of decades of their united efforts to tear away at the very fabric of the U.S.A is at stake. They too have nothing to lose, and they’re damn sure acting like it.
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But make no doubt about it, the object of chess is ALWAYS to capture the opponent’s King and placing the King into check is a powerful offensive move that limits the opponents choices, they Must move out of check, no other choice.
FROM A FORUM I FREQUENT:
” How To Play Trump 5-D Chess…..Rules of the Game!
I think many people who support President Trump are aware he is playing “5 D Chess”, however they do not understand how this sophisticated game is actually played. They just know it is complicated.
I play chess; so allow me to explain a few key principles.
1. You have to understand the mind of your opponent. How they think, act and behave.
In this case, the typical liberal-Democrat is a highly emotional person, easily “triggered” and while “triggered” they act foolishly and make stupid mistakes. Plus, these Dems have no moral/ethical code of conduct, so lying and cheating comes very naturally to them. In fact it is an essential aspect of their character. They are easily “triggered” and behave in predictable ways once in this state of mind (which is often).
2. The entire swamp we know as D.C. has been a happy home for Dems and Republican traitors for a very long time.
They have become very accustomed to their corrupt environment which suits them very well. But now the swamp is being drained (and that takes time) but their happy/filthy environment is changing rapidly…and they don’t know how to adjust. In fact, they cannot adjust. They are not designed to function in clean, dry environments. And as we see in the animal kingdom, when the environment changes rapidly (forest fires, swamp draining) the animals panic, and flee for any cover they can find. Combine this with being “triggered” and the Dem is in complete panic while making stupid mistakes.
3. The Dems in D.C have also acted like squirrels, collecting nuts and burying them in secret stashes to be retrieved at a later date.
Of course, the Dems (like squirrels) are deeply concerned someone will find their stashes and take what they have hidden. But when points 1 & 2 from above are happening, the squirrel is now preoccupied and essentially forgets about the nuts. Big mistake. Because the 5D chess player wants to find and capture all those hidden stashes, therefore removing the contents from the playing field (think: bank accounts, weapons, drugs, contraband).
4. Dems are very good at pulling scams, because that is what they have been free to do, without any resistance, for a very long time.
The Dem, has not had to play against a chess master…ever! They are like the intermediate chess player who enjoys winning against amateurs and beginners who have little skill and no experience. Only the bully-type personality actually enjoys such a game (con-game) but Dems have enjoyed this advantage, and don’t know what losing really feels like. They are unaccustomed to not getting their way. When this happens, take the points from above and multiple the effect by a factor of 2x.
5. Finally [here we will limit the lesson to 5 points]
The chess master understands how the game is played, has years of experience playing the game, has the intellectual capacity for thinking multiple moves ahead, has studied the game and opponent and therefore knows the history, and the master takes the game seriously, professionally, and with confidence. The master does not display emotions, is not effected by unforeseen events and moves, and has had to play the game from a losing or weak position yet in the end manages to overcome these obstacles and challenges to win the game.
If you are familiar with chess, you recognize that games can take a long time to play. This is why a chess clock is often used, forcing each side to play within their allotted time. If the clock runs out, that player automatically loses, because they are out of time! In this way, as the clock ticks down, there is less-and- less time to think, strategize, and make the tactical moves necessary (rush rush rush = missing opportunities, and coming threats). This is when a sudden, unexpected, move (by the master) can throw any well laid plans to waste. But, the clock is still ticking, and the strategy that had been working is now useless or needs to be revised drastically.
Many players with experience will simply quit (in chess called resign) by knocking over their own King and surrender. Why continue to play a futile game that you can see will finally end in defeat? But Dems don’t think this way; they don’t know how. They can’t imagine losing. They fail to see that if they were to resign this game, they will save their energy. Because a difficult chess match requires intense concentration and is actually very tiring {the brain burns vast amounts of fuel when thinking hard} and over many hours, it continues to become more difficult to concentrate…leading to more mistakes.
And this is where we are now.
In chess, the opening moves are very standard and well established. Not much exciting happens in the opening, and there are many pieces cluttering up the playing field, and key pieces which require more room to operate have not been activated yet. Then the game begins to transition into the mid-game.
The mid-game is when the first exchange of pieces start taking places, normally even trades {Pawn for Pawn…Bishop vs. Knight) and the field opens up for the activation of Rooks and the deadly Queen. Now the game starts to really get exciting, and plans change quickly requiring constant focus and thinking many moves ahead. If this happens, that will happen, and then this is next, and they will be forced to do that, and then I do this, and they will probably do that, and then I gain an advantage with a this! Bang. In chess pieces are captured {not killed}. But in real life it is kill and capture. By necessity of the game, both sides will lose pieces, it is part of the game. Hence, soldiers will die.
When the End Game starts is a bit blurry. At some point, the playing field has thinned out enough, and out come the power pieces. Also by now, the King has been Castled, a special move that significantly protects the King from open attack, as well as activating a rook.
Trump has had enough time to open with a slow, and predictable opening. Some people are impatient, wanting to see the “good stuff” start happening. Trump has had the time to Castle (he needs a solid protective service of loyal guards and outfit his location with defenses) and that is done. The U.S. Marines have the Presidents back. And the mid game is going to go hot…right about now {Oct. 3rd EWS test?}. The End Game will not start anytime soon, unless the Dems make a Massive mistake, and they might. But that should not be expected. This will play out most likely.
But make no doubt about it, the object of chess is ALWAYS to capture the opponent’s King and placing the King into check is a powerful offensive move that limits the opponents choices, they Must move out of check, no other choice. But checks only start happening in the mid game and later.
How this translates into politics? The Supreme Court placements by President Trump will be the first powerful check in this game. It will suddenly prevent the Dems (and traitor Repubs) from doing anything they want. They will be forced to limit their moves until the checking stops. The Dems are highly emotional (but they are book smart) and they can see this is what is about to happen to them, and they can’t do anything about it except attempt to stall the inevitable. Once the Supreme Court is filled, it will no longer be an option for Dems to manipulate to their advantage and thwart Presidential actions. They are ****ed, and they know it, but they can’t quit, they won’t resign until CHECKMATE!
P.S. When the Republican Senator was asking Kavanaugh about U.S. Military Law, and Constitutional protections for U.S. citizens abroad…wasn’t that curious? And 9/11 was brought up in that SAME line of questions. This folks, signals we are moving into the mid game. Now, it gets exciting!
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I think if you’re honest, you will see movements like Antifa, and Black Lives Matter, along with white racialist groups and Islamist organizations as nothing more than violent cults. And they have a lot in common.
They want our minds narrowed. Focused. Stripped down, purged, blinkered and honed to obsession. Punished, bribed, and conditioned to perfect obedience.
REPOSTED FROM PJ MEDIA
There’s an old expression, we’ve all used it: “It’s a free country!” Now, sometimes people abuse it. If you catch somebody spraying graffiti on the side of your house, he might just say that. Which, of course, is stupid.
But people only hijack an expression because it’s powerful and true. This is a free country, that’s what defines it. It’s what made America great.
But will America stay free? Or are powerful forces eating away at our freedoms? I won’t say nibbling, because they’re tearing off great big chunks of it at a time. Our freedom of speech, of religion, our right to back political candidates and stand up for what we believe in. All that’s now threatened. I think you know that.
Would you feel comfortable wearing a MAGA hat? Or would you worry you might get assaulted? That happened to 16-year-old Hunter Richard in Austin, Texas, last month. An adult man confronted him, ripped the hat off his head, screamed profanity at him, and threw a drink in his face.
But don’t worry, Austin is on it. They’re getting ready to change the name of the city because Stephen Austin owned slaves. I wonder how long it will be until the Washington, D.C., city council gets around to renaming our capital. Seriously, I think we should start a pool. Ten years? Five? Maybe two? That slope’s getting pretty slippery. If you ever want to see Mount Rushmore while it’s still intact… I think you should book your tickets now. Be sure to take lots of pictures, so you can show your children. The same with the Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, and most of the statues in Richmond. They’re on the List. You know they are.
The Democrats are now embracing “democratic socialism.” Their activists are dressing up in hoods and masks and terrorizing citizens. Assaulting cops and reporters. Trashing government buildings in Portland and occupying them for weeks. Lawmakers are actually having to use old anti-Klan laws to stop the violent radicals of Antifa from terrorizing Americans.
But we’re not supposed to complain about it. It’s getting dangerous to speak your mind. Dangerous to your career, and even to your safety.
What’s fueling outrages like that? Maybe it’s statements like the one from Rep. Maxine Waters. Just three days before the mob harassment of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ family she told an angry crowd of Democrats:
Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.
Violent mobs of hooded extremists can storm the offices of ICE in Portland. Can stop their crucial work of arresting drug dealers, human traffickers, child smugglers, and killers. And the Democrats treat them like heroes, like members of the Resistance. And those faithful, blue-collar Americans of every race just trying to do their jobs? Well, by this logic they’re the Nazis. One leftist hacker even published the names and addresses of ICE employees so that members of MS-13 and other cartels could find them and target them. Would you still want to work for ICE after that? That’s okay, because the leaders of the Democratic Party want to abolish that agency. To leave all of us defenseless, and our borders open.
I worry about how free America still will be in six years because the Democrats … they’ve got an agenda. They want to narrow the range of acceptable opinions. To cow us, restrict us, make us scared to speak. From day to day, Americans are getting bullied, browbeaten, and herded like sheep. The Democrats are driving us into the narrow, reeking pen of political correctness. Its fences are constantly moving, and in only one direction. They are closing in on us.
Questions that were open to free debate ten years ago, or five years, or even one year ago? Now they’re suddenly “settled” for us by tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg. Or the opinion police at Google. Did you know that YouTube has purged hundreds of straight-ahead Christian videos by pastors? Just for teaching traditional Christianity. It has purged or demonetized dozens of mainstream conservative videos by Dennis Prager.
Harry Reid and Dianne Feinstein once defended national borders. Now they play along as their party increasingly pretends that controlling our borders is “racist.” Or “hateful.” Is that what they always secretly believed?
The fences keep closing in.
Billion-dollar tech corporations collude with dubious civil rights organizations to blacklist people. Look at the Southern Poverty Law Center. It once did valuable work forty years ago. Now it’s a fundraising scam that goes around libeling people. In fact, it had to settle several cases with innocent people it smeared, including a Muslim reformer it labeled as a hatemonger.
But Amazon still uses that organization to report on which churches or conservative policy thinktanks to smear as “hate groups.” So the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom get lumped in with deranged and hateful extremists. And banned. And silenced. And banished from “neutral” platforms. You know who used to do things like that? The Apartheid regime in South Africa. They’d smear their mainstream opponents as communists and try to silence them.
The fences keep closing in.
Born as free Americans, you are being treated as sheep.
Raised as proud Americans, you are learning the lessons of shame.
Schooled as thinking Americans, now you’re told to abandon open debate, objective truth, even the scientific method and mathematics. They are somehow “racist.” They’re the products of “privilege.”
What do the brilliant minds in the Democrat Party want to replace them with? A set of stern, angry dogmas that have taken over our colleges and our corporate human resource departments. And dogmas like “intersectionalism,” which demonize whole groups of people such as Christians and conservatives. They want to say that their voices shouldn’t be heard and they shouldn’t be protected from hate and discrimination. You should be able to spew hate about them for years, as tech reporter Sarah Jeong did and then still get hired for the editorial page of the New York Times. Andrew Sullivan, a liberal gay writer, warned us in New York magazine that the Democrats have been hijacked by a new, puritanical cult, and it’s already running witch hunts. So Sarah Jeong called him a racist and tried to get him fired. If that can happen to famous, liberal, gay writers, what do you think they’re planning for your pastor? For conservatives who teach school? For you and your children?
The witch hunters can’t afford to let you question them because their excuses will fall apart. So they impose them instead by legal action, by harassment, by collusion and blacklisting. Unable to defend their new creed with reason, these ideologues instead forbid our questions. They isolate, target, and try to destroy dissenters. They spray them with social and professional plutonium as “an example to the others.” That tactic is straight from the playbook of totalitarian movements. We have seen all this before.
Historians remind us how Stalin would give a speech and the first person who stopped clapping went to the Gulag. Or they just shot him in the back of the head. So the Party members applauded, sometimes for more than an hour, till their palms cracked and bled. I think anyone who writes off the extremism that’s being unleashed should try that some time. Stand up, set a timer, and try to clap for one whole hour.
That is the level of compliance expected of Americans today. If you don’t believe me, look at what happened to singer Kanye West. He said that he was open-minded about President Trump. He recognized the explosion of jobs in minority communities and the record-low unemployment numbers for black and Latino Americans. The outrage mob went wild. The media, filled up with denunciations, calls for boycotts of his albums — with racist abuse, in fact. To Mr. West’s credit, he stood strong. And his next album broke sales records. But how many of us have the resources of Kanye West?
Not Candace Owens. She’s a young, brilliant black conservative who’s a leader in Turning Point USA. She tried to have breakfast with her colleague, Charlie Kirk, and a flash mob of angry white men linked to the hood-wearing thugs of Antifa surrounded her. They dumped water over Kirk’s head and the pair had to flee the restaurant. Who protected them? Mostly black policemen. Then Antifa came after them, and sprayed the cops with racist abuse.
The fences are closing in.
Do you want to protect unborn children? Stop Planned Parenthood from cutting them up and selling them as baby parts? To save viable infants from abortion, right up to the moment of birth? Then you are bigoted against women.
Do you want to offer women and girls privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms? Then you are a “transphobic” bigot. Deny that men menstruate, or women have penises? You are just another hater. The Southern Poverty Law Center will lump you in with Holocaust deniers and white supremacist cranks. In 2016, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) denounced Vice President Pence as a bigot for supporting normal safe spaces for women. Even the ladies’ room isn’t safe anymore.
The fences keep closing in.
Maybe you’re worried when you hear that 147 million adults want to immigrate into America. That’s what they told the Gallup poll. You realize that we don’t have jobs to offer them, that our machine for assimilation is broken. Then you, too, are a hate-monger. Our new high priests will teach you what you should really be afraid of: The annihilating wrath which they will bring down on your head. The fear of Facebook is the beginning of wisdom.
The fences keep closing in.
Do you still love your country? Do you consider America as an exceptional nation, one with an imperfect, and all-too-human history, but nevertheless quite special? Are you proud of our nation’s Founding? Attached to the symbols and monuments of men who struggled, disagreed, and made mistakes, but who nevertheless made AMERICA? Do you think that we should preserve the markers of that history, including those mistakes, so the next generation can learn from them and argue about them?
That is what I believe. And that is why I defended and will continue to defend the historic monuments that grace so many Virginia cities and towns. I won’t let this deranged and self-righteous generation do to our history what Hillary Clinton did to her email server. Doing so doesn’t help anyone, and in fact, it makes things worse. Instead of confronting history, we sanitize it.
All across America lovely historic statues of men who fought bravely in a partly misguided cause still stand. Should we tear them all down? Let angry mobs deface them, behead them?
Absolutely not. Instead, we should make room nearby for equally prominent, beautiful statues of civil rights workers, African-American war heroes, and others whose real achievements were once obscured by racism.
Let those monuments complement each other. Let them stand in tension. We should look at all sides of the history. We should learn that good and great men, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee, could also do wicked things like owning slaves. That should remind us that we in our modern righteousness are also quite imperfect. What will our descendants be ashamed of us for allowing?
How about the abortion clinics run by the racist-founded organization Planned Parenthood? Its founder, Margaret Sanger, boasted about speaking to the Ku Klux Klan. Those who carry on her legacy now target African-American babies. But Sanger’s statue still stands at the Smithsonian Institution. I don’t want to tear that down. I don’t want to tear anything down. But I want us to learn from it.
The angry activists and elitists who drive the Democrat agenda? They don’t want us to learn from history. Like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, they want to hit the “reset” button. To start the calendar again at Year Zero. To paint the past as a dark and appalling void from which we can learn absolutely nothing, except the pre-cooked and pre-packaged mini-lessons that our new masters distribute to us. They’ve read their George Orwell. They know that to control the past is to dominate the future.
They want to shove the past, the entire past, into the memory hole. To delete it. To leave the pedestals empty, the statues beheaded or wrecked, the inscriptions sandblasted and vacant. In that bleak empty space where history once stood, they’ll scrawl instead the crude and easily memorized slogans they would force us to live by.
Tradition is the “democracy of the dead.” It calls on us to learn from our ancestors and to take thought for our descendants. The power-hungry zealots, the puritanical witch-hunters … they know that. And they hate it. They won’t allow any locus of loyalty outside their movement. They’re like cult leaders.
I think if you’re honest, you will see movements like Antifa, and Black Lives Matter, along with white racialist groups and Islamist organizations as nothing more than violent cults. And they have a lot in common.
They want our minds narrowed. Focused. Stripped down, purged, blinkered and honed to obsession. Punished, bribed, and conditioned to perfect obedience.
In the end, if they have their way, it will be like Winston Smith at the end of 1984. We really will “love” Big Brother.
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And so it came to pass that in the late days of empire, both Rome and America waged remote control wars through vassal states and provincial “citizens”, wars…
There are people, (I would refer to them as idiots, but that would be an insult to idiots) who are not only predicting a second civil war, but are beating the drums saying; “Bring it on!” That is not only unfortunate, it is terminally stupid.
We are all Tony Soprano today. We’ve tried to reason with Phil Leotardo. We’ve tried to compromise. We’ve tried to maintain the cooperative institutions of Our Thing. But the guy won’t take “yes” for an answer. He wants it ALL.
Do we settle with the guy we hate? Do we voluntarily pay the heavy price for breaking the “norms” of conflict with a guy who we suspect wouldn’t hesitate to break any norm at all? We are at the precipice of an enormous crossroad in American politics.
But what if it’s not a choice at all? What if the choice has already been made for us? What if we are immersed in a competitive equilibrium of a competitive game, where the only rational choice is to go to the mattresses? To do unto others as they would do unto you … but to do it first. What then? You know what’s like a civil war?
Go to Wikipedia and look up Biafra, look up Kosovo, look up South Africa. Consider the following narrative:
“And so it came to pass that in the late days of empire, both Rome and America waged remote control wars through vassal states and provincial “citizens”, wars that were no longer debated by the Senate but were announced by administrative fiat alongside a schedule of entertaining games and pleasing economic distributions, wars that could last for decades in farther and farther flung corners of the empire, wars that were all about naked commercial interest even as they were gussied up with strong words of patriotism.
It took the Romans about four centuries to officially exhaust themselves.
Four centuries of mostly ridiculousness. Four centuries of profitable revenge. Four centuries of a competitive equilibrium in a competitive game.
Has this happened before in American history? Hard to say for sure but I think yes. The first time in the lead-up to the first Civil War over the issue of slavery and States Rights. Then again in the period leading up to World War II over the issue of the Great Depression. I really don’t think it was an accident that both of these widening differences of belief in American politics ended in a big war.
I think that’s how this widening difference in political beliefs ultimately resolves itself, too. In a big war, on American soil, neighbor against neighbor and brother against brother.
There will be no winning centrist politician bringing us together. There will be no consensus policies around which the entire body politic can coalesce. We have been played, programmed and polarized into an “Us” vs “Them” and it will come down to needing to vanquish “THEM”.
We’ll need a big war with an Other to get out of this.
So one way or another, that’s what we’re gonna get. It’s no longer “if” but “when”.
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Activists have already shown a proclivity toward mob rule and violence. That will continue, and increase, as the process moves on.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
¯ W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” (1919)
Following the hearing on Brett Kavanaugh, word started trickling out that the Republicans in the Senate had the votes to confirm him.
Despite everything that has gone on since his initial public hearings had concluded, Kavanaugh is set to become the next Supreme Court Justice, and the second one nominated by Donald Trump. If that is the case, then conservatives can rejoice.
Given the tactics, the outrage, the threats, and the insanity that we’ve seen, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh is going to cause a lot of public protesting… and worse.
Activists have already shown a proclivity toward mob rule and violence. That will continue, and increase, as the process moves on. There will be another scheduled “Women’s March” in protest of his swearing in. There will be people in the streets targeting anyone who wears an American flag or has a MAGA hat. There will be violence.
I don’t like what’s happened, and I don’t like what’s going to happen. But you know it’s going to happen. The plans are likely already underway.
As I said before, this whole process has been a tragedy. I am very worried, however, that it’s only going to get uglier.
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When I published on 8/26/18, it was my intention to immediately start on Book 2.
Funny thing is I sat at the computer and stared at a blank screen with no words coming. It was as if I mentally couldn’t let go of the first story.
I was asked a question on a message board that I frequent that I believe is worth a blog post.
[quote=10-22Plinker;19077498]When is book two being published?[/quote]
First off, thank you for what I consider a compliment. I am flattered.
I gave some thought to the question and have a couple of thoughts.
“A Wake of Vultures” is a story that I lived with for over a year. There were a couple of times that I hit a wall as to where the story was going. Once was almost 8 weeks which was when I wrote “A Republic, if you can keep it” (Available as a Kindle e-book now), as a blog series. I had also outlined a number of other stories as a follow up in the series.
When I published on 8/26/18, it was my intention to immediately start on Book 2.
Funny thing is I sat at the computer and stared at a blank screen with no words coming. It was as if I mentally couldn’t let go of the first story. As of this morning, 9/29/2018, the muse is speaking to me again and I need to decide which of the remaining five stories goes into the hopper next. I have started roughing out character biographies that are currently generic enough to go into either one.
Secondly, I have found out that this book business is not like “Field of Dreams”. You can build it, but if you don’t market it, your story sits out there in the cold, lonely and ignored. So I need to figure out a better marketing plan for “A Wake of Vultures”.
So, to answer your question, hopefully, I have learned something by writing the first two books and the plan is to have book two written, polished, edited and published around 4/1/2019. Depending on which one I go with, the title will be “C. Auris” or “Chaos Warhammer”.
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…in this case, broad daylight was the setting and it seems pretty clear that this wasn’t a Department of Defense affair. Instead, it looks like a federal operation:
I’m sure there is nothing to this… no connection to any of the past week’s events or anything. Nothing to see here…move along citizen.
Black Hawk Flying Around Chicago Was Just Training
Commandos fast-roped from helicopters to many Chicago rooftops this week, and some were worried, but they were just training.
It’s unclear which agency the commando team is with. Rogoway said such sightings in Chicago often the 160th Special Operations Air Regiment, or the Night Stalkers.
…in this case, broad daylight was the setting and it seems pretty clear that this wasn’t a
Department of Defense affair. Instead, it looks like a federal operation:
The UH-60M Black Hawk photographed and filmed all over Chicago does not appear to belong to the United States Army. The configuration of its antennas is unique and it does not have any Army titles or serials on it.
Over the last decade, a number of UH-60s of various sub-types have been transferred from the DoD to federal agencies like the Department of Justice. The DOJ has also bought UH-60Ms by piggybacking the Army’s buys. This appears to be one of those aircraft.
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his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
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Threatening or intimidating public officials is a terrorist threat.
Threatening government officials of the United States is a felony under federal law.
Threatening the President of the United States is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871, punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment, that is investigated by the United States Secret Service.
Threatening other officials is a Class C or D felony, usually carrying maximum penalties of 5 or 10 years under 18 U.S.C. § 875, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and other statutes, that is investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Threatening or intimidating public officials is a terrorist threat.
By definition that makes Maxine Waters a domestic terrorist.
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