Deborah K
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It's an "executive order protecting the second amendment" to the freaking Constitution. To say an XO has power to defend the very words of the Law of the Land is goofy. As a concept it's asinine. It's like a CFO being protected from his boss by a janitor.

All I know is you can't possibly know yet if you're right or not. That's not even an opinion. And that you're silly when you try to make me feel like a man alone without a herd, because I'm not the only person on this site, much less in the world, who knows that same thing. You honestly are just pissy that I rain on your irrational exuberance.

Thanks for the neg rep, Captain. You say I can't help myself, I have to make this thread about Trump. But you know you're the acolyte who brought the subject up here. Knowing about USAID doesn't do the citizenry much good if we do nothing about it. Is Trump the river of discontent, or the dam that tames it? It's way to early to tell. It's way to early to decide we don't want to be confused by facts any more, having made up our minds.

Why? And do you mean people in general, or us in particular? Like you said, these things aren't news to us (in particular), they're receipts. We (in particular) are way ahead of the curve. Why shouldn't people who are way ahead of the curve be already inquiring about whether any heads will roll? If something is to really be done about this, we have to strike while the iron's hot. Unlike most people, we already know how hot this iron is. Why shouldn't we have an adult conversation about whether Trump's going to fix it, and if not, what we can use on him as a political cattle prod? Some people treat him as a god. Well, if you want him to be godlike, somebody has to challenge him to do something besides posture and bathe in their adulation. You have to set goals for him. You have to arrange it so him idolators lose faith if he doesn't measure up. If you really want Trump to be Great Again (or for the first time really, his first term wasn't so hot) help us hold his feet to the fire. Otherwise he'll make his second term as mediocre as his first.

He's a lap dog, yapping in frustration at cats because he's not big enough to chase us up a tree somewhere. He thinks joining the MAGA Cult gives him the Authority of the Crowd, and he's trying to exercise that authoritay. That's what makes him think he's entitled (like a Karen) to have his wild flights of illogic slide by without challenge (like a Karen). Remember when Obamamessiah Cultists did the exact same thing? They didn't impress us either.

All you claim may in fact prove out, but only time will tell. So my question to you then is what would you see done? And here I ask not for pie in the sky things that were never going to happen, but actual things that one could do in the real world. Take up arms and start shooting? Say "fuck it, get me a beer woman" and sit and do nothing as you wait either for someone else to make things all better? The sorts of change we need in the context of an environment of unbridled tyranny cannot be had along "normal" avenues. So what, then, do we DO?

Not unless we get more than a study, and not unless we get more than some Soros-funded professional whiner giving us the pleasure of seeing their head explode on air. I, for one, am not that cheap, sailor. I'm not that easy. I said I'm keeping that at my leisure. Now that Trump whacked the USAID head, what other heads are going to pop out of the CIA Whack-A-Mole machine? Will any of the bad apples in the CIA take the buyout, or is this just a way for them to purge their ranks of good apples? Which of these departments is actually going to close? Which of these criminals is going to get snatched out of their golden parachutes and indicted? How much money will really be saved, and how much of that will escape this fate?

That's your problem, not mine. I can be patient. I'm keeping score at my leisure. And I'm not moving anything into the win column unless and until we get something more than another six million dollar, three year government study about it.

Good case in point. He commissioned a study? We've already done our homework. There's not a one of us who wouldn't be out to demolish the ATF. A government study is not my idea of substance.

And what does all this reveal? We are at war, literally. We are, and have been, in a civil war for decades. It is not a hot war. It is our own domestic roll of cold warfare, yet so few have been able to see it. It has only been since 9/11 that this truth has been coming progressively more apparent. Why Theye have chosen to reveal themselves, who can say? Seems a gross miscalculation to me. Perhaps Theye thought we'd been so thoroughly marinated in fear that we would do their bidding no matter what it might be? Or are Theye not really on the ropes as it now appears? We must bear in mind that while Theye do not likely have their hands directly on the silo captains' hands, they most likely have them on the hands of those who work in places like the Wuhan bioweapons facility. I would not be too fast to cheer Trump's reascension... not just yet. Time will tell. Foists of apocalyptic "if we can't have it, nobody can" plagues upon the world aside, we nonetheless are far from recovered from the ravages of the globalist cabal. The comments of that rageshrieking Democrat dreg the other day about being at war is actually true, only not in the sense she meant it. If you look at the major political movements of the past 100+ years through the lens of Quiet Wars†, everything begins to come into sensible focus. This is why though very wary of Trump's current wave of measures, I nonetheless welcome them in any event because up until now we've been doing the same political things over and over, decade over decade expecting different results. Given the direction in which things have been going, especially these past four years, we no longer have that much to lose, except our cheap and petty comforts and conveniences, given how whittled down as our rights and freedoms have become. I say throw the dice, come what may. Let us have courage for once and act like men. Nothing is worse than sitting in that pot as the water grows ever warmer.

Al Qaeda is the CIA, and everyone else here is well informed enough to know it. Al Qaeda is the CIA's way to throw a tantrum when we won't use up enough missiles to necessitate us buying more. You're saying brats should be rewarded for throwing deadly tantrums, whether you know it or not. The DS, which regularly kills Muslims by the thousands, because they want to spend our money on missiles, because some of them have petroleum, because many of us don't much like Arabs anyway so it's an easier sell than (f'rinstance) massacring cute little Thais, is on the same side as the Muslims they seem to be trying to genocide? Now there's some twisted "logic". Are you a man or a pretzel, cultist?

Heads are exploding and some find that entirely satisfactory. This is what someone who cares only about style looks like. And here is someone who knows substance when he sees it, and won't settle for less. See the difference, kiddies?

Oh no... a Democrat....

1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And that sort of outcome in a nation such as America manifest as a result of the failure of its people to be the government. When people pawn off their responsibility to be part of the governance of the nation, choosing to trust strangers with their freedoms, they effectively take to their knees in supplication to evil men to rape their rights in every orifice. We are the reason everything is shitty. We failed ourselves, our fellows, our children, and so on by not being the smartest, morally soundest, and most involved we can be for the sakes of all Americans. To defend your rights is to defend my own.

Mr. Rock, meet Mr. Hardplace. The problems here are manifold, but the essence of the root problem is that the nature of all American "government" has degenerated to such a degree that we can no longer rely on the so-called "system" to correct itself via the instrumentalities intended for such purposes. This has arisen largely due to the fact that the American people are not united in the fundamentals of what it is to be American. The schism between "left" and "right, "conservative" and "progressive" is so deeply radical, we see these yawning chasms between what Republican and Democrat agents of "government" want and do in terms of policy and the passage of legislation. Herein we see a very profound flaw in the architecture of "government" in America. Furthermore, the mission of the federal government has experienced vast scope creep. The intent of the Constitution was to limit the fedgov to a precious few tasks including the common defense and courts. That's it. But perversions of the Constitution have lead to welfare states, regulatory empire, promotional empire, military empire, and so on down a dreary list of powers that have been assumed in gross violation of the metes, bounds, and intent of our foundational document. Governmentally speaking, as things currently stand America is a failed nation. As such we are faced with the choice of how to proceed. We could allow things to continue as they have been for the past 150 years and more, or we could decide to make corrections. If we choose the latter, as is apparent with the reelection of Trump for a second term, then we face the question of how to proceed. Given our current state of political reality, it is quite unlikely that there exists any meaningful possibility for making the necessary adjustments working within the normal delimiters of the system. That is because the system is so very broken. This fact then narrows our choices to "do nothing" and "take extraordinary measures". The latter carries huge risk, but is the only way that holds any reasonable chances of succeeding. And so we can wring our hands and do nothing because of the grave risks associated with extraordinary action, in which case we as a nation are as good as dead, or we can take extraordinary action, and bear the risks like men rather as shrinking violets. The worst that can happen in the latter case is that we meet with failure and are doomed the same as in the case where we default. The fact that the extraordinary measures being taken by Trump are, for many, very scary is good. Not only should they be scary, they should be terrifying for everyone. It has been our collective failure to BE the "government" which has lead to our currently atrocious circumstance. Let it linger in the hearts of all that we don't ever allow ourselves to fail ourselves again.

Psalm 51:1-2 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

sounds alright to me

Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Point of order: shut it down, THEN audit. Then arrest, charge, try, convict, and imprison for life with no chance of pardon or parole all who violated the Public Trust. The time for tyranny to die is here, the only question remaining being whether we actually kill it.

I'm sure glad to see USAID go, because stuff is coming out that makes the Red Pill more potent. I'm not fooling myself into thinking this agency was made a scapegoat before three new replacements were created to carry on what it does. The CIA is a giant Whack-A-Mole machine. I love watching the heads of Biden loyalists roll. But are their seats being thrown out with them? Or are those seats being filled with Trump loyalists while they're still warm? One of these things is a cut, the other is just a changing of the guard. Which other agencies besides USAID are getting the axe? I, for one, am still waiting for an answer to that question.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

What section of Philly isn't shitty? I ask as a former resident.

^^^This^^^

Not that big a reach. The Hispanic/Indian cartels are nothing like the Italian mobs in that the latter held the families of their rivals sacrosanct. There was no retribution against uninvolved relatives. To do so was tantamount to suicide. You would be handled. The South of the Border types are animals, and i insult animals in so equating them. Back ca. 1978 I was driving into Manhattan to work at the Engineering Societies Library. I was in typical rush house bumper to bumper traffic on Grand Central Parkway and what did I spy but a silver Mercedes parked on the very broad shoulder, well off the roadway. Cannot tell you why, but something in me was just itching to see that that was about, but I had to get to work. That evening on the news, that Mercedes was center stage. Two adults shot dead in the front seats and an 11 month old infant shot dead in the back seat. There was $1MM in cash in the trunk. This was a Colombian drug hit - revenge for God only knows what and they murdered an infant. That is how the South of the Border sorts operate. They changed EVERYTHING because they are empty-headed, soulless simulacra who have no boundaries of which to make mention. They kill anyone and everyone they deem fit for killing. They have no self-control, nor morals; just the pure pragmatic drive to destroy all who get in their way or otherwise displease. And so it would not put it past them to have engineered this disaster for the sake of some retribution or the delivery of a message. Not saying it is the case, but that were it to prove so I would be in no way surprised.