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  1. #301
    Quote Originally Posted by Krugminator2 View Post
    The courts settled it. That's it.
    Actually, thats not it.

    The courts have upheld everything from slavery and Jim Crow laws to Japanese American concentration camps and gun control.
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  3. #302
    Quote Originally Posted by westkyle View Post
    Cause he's a Trump supporter, duh. What the hell happened to RPF? I didn't agree with everyone here on everything, but so many are behind Donald "Wish Ghislaine Well" Trump.
    I'd say that there are definitely die-hard Trump supporters on the forum, but I think a lot of what people are happy about is that any kind of action against perceived corruption was taken. Trump has definitely perpetuated his fair share of corruption, but that still doesn't mean that there wasn't a concerted effort to suppress him in the election.

    You can argue both ways whether or not election fraud happened on a scale that flipped the results in Biden's favor, but the nature of society today seems to be one not of discourse, but of screaming about canceling, conspiracy theorists, Russians, triggers, no-platforming, and that words are literal violence; so it's not like there's going to be an open space to look at what happened. This kind of environment is a perfect storm. People who feel cheated have no recourse, and the people who dislike them are bound and determined to not let them speak, either in the MSM or on social media.

    Usually, people are content to wage an Internet war over opinions and facts before retreating into their echo chambers to reinforce to one another why they feel right, but what happened yesterday (and, arguably, all throughout the summer, whether you agree the police are out of control or that black people have it worse that white people) showed that Americans aren't quite yet a people ready to be an army of keyboard warriors who never face corruption outside of creating new hashtags for Twitter.

    The country is at a breaking point, and a group of people who felt that they had been cheated and that the corruption ran too deep decided to do something about it. Was it effective? Probably not. Were there plants there? Definitely. But I think some of us are just encouraged that some decided to say something in a way that the media couldn't ignore.

    Granted, now they'll likely be branded as terrorists (yet Antifa and BLM are considered peaceful...), and their actions may even turn out counterproductive, but it was definitely a change of pace.

    As for your larger question, "What happened to RPF?" After the 2016 election, it forgot that it was a libertarian-leaning site where people believed in small government and no one cared if you were liberal or conservative on most social positions. Now I'm not on nearly as much as I used to be because it's definitely turned into a conservative-only site where everything is about suppressing the libs and dems.

  4. #303
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptUSA View Post
    Some of them also stormed British vessels and destroyed property over a 3 cent tax on a pound of tea.

    And let's not forget the Boston Massacre. Unsavory things are bound to happen when governance is unresponsive.
    Those were important events. But the details of how they fit into the events of the American Revolution matter, and in turn so does the question of how reflective they are of any of the men we would typically consider "founding fathers."

    No founding fathers participated directly in the Boston Massacre. And in the aftermath of it, founding father John Adams defended the British soldiers in court for having acted reasonably in response to agitators who I think we could compare to the Antifa stormers of the Capitol.

    Did any founding fathers participate in the Boston Tea Party itself? As far as I know (and I'm no expert) history is unclear about Sam Adams' role in it. There's a popular story that has him as a major instigator who gave the signal to invade the ship. But its historicity is very suspect. It seems to me that the proper way to see the Boston Tea Party in the context of the Revolution is as an incitement for Britain to pass the Intolerable Acts, which in turn incentivized further rebellion in the colonies, but not as an act of the founding fathers.

  5. #304
    Quote Originally Posted by Invisible Man View Post
    I have seen zero instances of this kind of eye opening here.

    I do see a lot of deeper entrenchment in the divisions that already existed between the staunch supporters and staunch opponents of Trump. But no changing of any minds or opening of eyes.

    The result I've seen that could conceivably be framed as opening of eyes is the opposite of what I think you may have dreamed up
    , which is that people who supported Trump, not as enthusiastic rally-going Trumpers, but as ordinary conservatives and Republicans who tolerated him as the lesser evil, which made up the majority of his voters, have had their eyes opened to how much worse he and his more zealous supporters were than they already thought, and are now more ashamed of the votes they cast for him than they already were.

    But the crowd who stormed the Capitol (whoever they were, whether Antifa or not) haven't won people over to their cause (if they even have one) who weren't already in it.
    No simpleton,

    The people of whom I speak don't generally engage in politics, they have tended to leave politics to those with a vested interest.

    Surely you've heard of the 40-50% of the population that doesn't vote.

    Stop trying to pigeonhole me into a political faction, you'll fail miserably.

    Government is broken and the people yesterday just pulled the veil back a little further.

    Eyes were opened whether you realize it or not.



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  7. #305
    https://www.mom-at-arms.com/post/how...-in-4-pictures

    Well to me some good came from yesterday.


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  8. #306
    Quote Originally Posted by Krugminator2 View Post
    Trump lost. When you lose, you leave. The end. Only baboons disagree.

    And I can see why you like Trump so much that you think it worth completely destroying the country over. He is a semi-socialist who panders to protectionist theocrats like you.

    Feel free not to call me anti-American in future neg reps. The Founding Fathers were pro-reason educated elites. They would hate you.
    You are anti american. You support open borders (White genocide!), International Free Trade deals & you support americans dying for israel.
    I'm not a Theocrat but I support restoring christian values.

  9. #307
    Quote Originally Posted by A. Havnes View Post
    I'd say that there are definitely die-hard Trump supporters on the forum, but I think a lot of what people are happy about is that any kind of action against perceived corruption was taken.

    In order to frame this as any kind of action against perceived corruption, there has to be some connection between the action and the perceived corruption that goes deeper than that the perceived corruption merely caused the emotions that welled up in this action.

    If I get unjustly fired and then get upset about it and punch a wall and break my fingers, that punching of the wall is not in any sense an action against my unjust firing.

    This storming of the Capitol is no better.

    In fact, look at how it actually related to actions that really did have to do with the perceived corruption. This happened on the very day that Congress was supposed to debate the merits of objections to slates of electors from several states. Those debates at least stood the chance of exposing corruption. The effects that storming the Capitol had on those more substantive actions that actually did relate to the perceived corruption were fourfold: it interrupted them, it forestalled them, it shortened them, and it drew away any attention that would have been paid to them. Meanwhile, the storming of the Capitol itself didn't address the perceived corruption in any way whatsoever.

  10. #308
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    No simpleton,

    The people of whom I speak don't generally engage in politics, they have tended to leave politics to those with a vested interest.

    Surely you've heard of the 40-50% of the population that doesn't vote.

    Stop trying to pigeonhole me into a political faction, you'll fail miserably.

    Government is broken and the people yesterday just pulled the veil back a little further.

    Eyes were opened whether you realize it or not.
    I belong to that 40-50%. The only opening of eyes that has happened to people in this group is the increased awareness of how bad Trump and his more zealous followers are.

    Your assertion about eyes being opened is just baseless dreaming on your part. Even your response to me betrays that. You haven't actually seen any eyes getting opened to anything by this. You just believe it because you wish it to be so.

    I don't know where you got the idea that I was pigeon holing you into a political faction. But you won't find any basis for that inference in anything I actually said.
    Last edited by Invisible Man; 01-07-2021 at 09:23 AM.

  11. #309
    Quote Originally Posted by A. Havnes View Post
    I'd say that there are definitely die-hard Trump supporters on the forum, but I think a lot of what people are happy about is that any kind of action against perceived corruption was taken. Trump has definitely perpetuated his fair share of corruption, but that still doesn't mean that there wasn't a concerted effort to suppress him in the election.

    You can argue both ways whether or not election fraud happened on a scale that flipped the results in Biden's favor, but the nature of society today seems to be one not of discourse, but of screaming about canceling, conspiracy theorists, Russians, triggers, no-platforming, and that words are literal violence; so it's not like there's going to be an open space to look at what happened. This kind of environment is a perfect storm. People who feel cheated have no recourse, and the people who dislike them are bound and determined to not let them speak, either in the MSM or on social media.

    Usually, people are content to wage an Internet war over opinions and facts before retreating into their echo chambers to reinforce to one another why they feel right, but what happened yesterday (and, arguably, all throughout the summer, whether you agree the police are out of control or that black people have it worse that white people) showed that Americans aren't quite yet a people ready to be an army of keyboard warriors who never face corruption outside of creating new hashtags for Twitter.

    The country is at a breaking point, and a group of people who felt that they had been cheated and that the corruption ran too deep decided to do something about it. Was it effective? Probably not. Were there plants there? Definitely. But I think some of us are just encouraged that some decided to say something in a way that the media couldn't ignore.

    Granted, now they'll likely be branded as terrorists (yet Antifa and BLM are considered peaceful...), and their actions may even turn out counterproductive, but it was definitely a change of pace.

    As for your larger question, "What happened to RPF?" After the 2016 election, it forgot that it was a libertarian-leaning site where people believed in small government and no one cared if you were liberal or conservative on most social positions. Now I'm not on nearly as much as I used to be because it's definitely turned into a conservative-only site where everything is about suppressing the libs and dems.
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    On bringing the troops home
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    They are coming home, all the naysayers said they would never leave Syria and then they said they were going to stay in Iraq forever.

    It won't take very long to get them home but it won't be overnight either but Iraq says they can't stay and they are coming home just like Trump said.

    On fighting corruption:
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Trump had to donate the "right way" and hang out with the "right people" in order to do business in NYC and Hollyweird and in order to investigate and expose them.
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  12. #310
    Quote Originally Posted by A Son of Liberty View Post
    They SHOULD have IGNORED Washington, D.C., and instead stormed their state capitols and demanded that their assemblies begin drafting articles of secession.

    There was NO evidence displayed yesterday of any thoughtful opposition to Washington, D.C. Again, for as much as I can appreciate some element of their frustration, this was little more than an artless, mindless, impotent and juvenile outburst of anger.

    Be glad you had nothing to do with it. The MAGA crowd is an untamed stallion, much like the rabble that made up the majority of the Revolutionary generation. You're a very bright and articulate man, AF. You should be spending your energies taming those of them within your reach, and herding them in the right direction. Not encouraging on their self-destructive behavior.
    I appreciate the kind words, and I wish I could do that.

    But it first takes action before action can be guided into something more positive, in cases like this.

    I agree about the state capitols as well...I would love to see that, and at cop shops, and at citadels of government power everywhere.

    Imagine a 1000 Bundy ranches every day.
    Last edited by Anti Federalist; 01-07-2021 at 10:50 AM.
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    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  14. #312
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    People who don't agree with either the right or the left have been forced to admit that Big-Gov only serves itself and will never represent them.
    What's more, the U.S. federal government cannot "represent" them, even if it sincerely wanted to. (It doesn't want to, of course, but even if it did ...)

    It is simply not possible for a continent-spanning populace of a third of a billion people to be "represented" in any significant and meaningful way.

    At best, democracy on such a scale merely conjures the illusion of "representation" as a facade for the executive plantation that actually runs things.

    Over time, it can produce only an increasingly ridiculous farce that is as increasingly obvious as it is increasingly absurd.

    And when the farce of democracy can no longer be maintained under the weight of its own absurdity, it is apt to be replaced by something even more illiberal and nakedly authoritarian.
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  16. #313
    Quote Originally Posted by kpitcher View Post
    Appears the girl shot was a vet and staunch Trump supporter. I would assume with so much video evidence they will be rounding up everyone they can and at that point we can see what organizations these people are from. I'd bet money Trump supporters outnumber all other groups combined.
    Some Trump Supporters followed the Provocateurs.. angry Mob.
    many shouted for them to stop when the Violent actors started..

    The show inside was staged and the actors should all be charged for the Girls Death. They got her killed.
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  17. #314
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    What's more, the U.S. federal government cannot "represent" them, even if it sincerely wanted to. (It doesn't want to, of course, but even if it did ...)

    It is simply not possible for a continent-spanning populace of a third of a billion people to be "represented" in any significant and meaningful way.

    At best, democracy on such a scale merely conjures the illusion of "representation" as a facade for the executive plantation that actually runs things.

    Over time, it can produce only an increasingly ridiculous farce that is as increasingly obvious as it is increasingly absurd.

    And when the farce of democracy can no longer be maintained under the weight of its own absurdity, it is apt to be replaced by something even more illiberal and nakedly authoritarian.


    ETA: I posted this and a few other subversive, secessionist videos/thoughts on FedBook. I'm seeking to harness the energy.
    Last edited by A Son of Liberty; 01-07-2021 at 10:46 AM.

  18. #315
    Quote Originally Posted by A Son of Liberty View Post
    You cannot give Reputation to the same post twice.

  19. #316
    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Liberals pressure has forced Senior White House advisor and FDOTUS to delete her tweet using the word "Patriots".
    .
    Wrong.

    antifa provocateurs are NOT Patriots.

    she was correct in removing it.
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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  20. #317
    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    Wrong.

    antifa provocateurs are NOT Patriots.

    she was correct in removing it.
    Agreed.

    I'm still hoping this thread title gets changed.

  21. #318
    Quote Originally Posted by Invisible Man View Post
    1. Can you point to a specific example?
    2. If so, do you actually side with the state department and MSM in that coverage?
    Sure thing.

    1: Google, of course, is acting funny for me. My search results appear to be skewed (particularly when I select their "News" category as everything listed is articles from yesterday's events despite my queries...), and I had to dig several pages in to bring up items that I know are covered elsewhere (RT, Al Jazeera in some cases, alternative news, etc.). I should also clarify when I said state department, what I really should have said was U.S. gov't and related institutions in general.

    https://www.state.gov/supporting-iranian-voices/

    https://www.state.gov/condemning-sha...stern-ukraine/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ko-ncna1237472


    I pulled up more sources than that stemming from the white house website when Obama/Biden were "running" things, particularly with regards to Ukraine, Russia, etc. and how the U.S. "stood with the people" blah, blah, blah. But, this should be a start, right? Otherwise, I would highly encourage you to partake the journey of seeking these things out yourself. After all, I don't need convincing, I know what I've heard and seen. If you need help, start with Belarus and their color revolution. That should be easy considering many of the MSM outlets were on board with it.


    2: No, I do not. Barring the fact that I am here and have quite a history here and with the liberty movement, no, I don't support regime changes, color revolutions, U.S. military expeditions abroad, etc. It was simply an example of the utter hypocrisy and propaganda we undergo in this country.
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  22. #319
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    What's more, the U.S. federal government cannot "represent" them, even if it sincerely wanted to. (It doesn't want to, of course, but even if it did ...)

    It is simply not possible for a continent-spanning populace of a third of a billion people to be "represented" in any significant and meaningful way.

    At best, democracy on such a scale merely conjures the illusion of "representation" as a facade for the executive plantation that actually runs things.

    Over time, it can produce only an increasingly ridiculous farce that is as increasingly obvious as it is increasingly absurd.

    And when the farce of democracy can no longer be maintained under the weight of its own absurdity, it is apt to be replaced by something even more illiberal and nakedly authoritarian.
    Glory Hallelujah!

    There you have it.

    I owe you both rep.
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  23. #320
    Quote Originally Posted by westkyle View Post
    Cause he's a Trump supporter, duh. What the hell happened to RPF? I didn't agree with everyone here on everything, but so many are behind Donald "Wish Ghislaine Well" Trump.
    Uh, because most of us here clearly don't believe the fake news media like you do.

    Trump wished Ghislaine well because he wanted her to stay alive, unlike Epstein, so she can testify against the deep state people she had blackmailed - although it is very possible, and many believe that Epstein is alive in witness protection, his death being a false flaggy kinda joke against the Clintons.
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  25. #321
    Quote Originally Posted by A Son of Liberty View Post


    ETA: I posted this and a few other subversive, secessionist videos/thoughts on FedBook. I'm seeking to harness the energy.
    No need to convince me here, but I'm also trying to start instituting this idea with family and friends.
    Tucker Carlson (I do not watch Fox News, I only watched a snippit of his segment from last night) said America is made up of twins who can't be separated unless one kills the other. I'm not sure this is true and we can debate it until we're blue in the face but I do believe a few things in regard to secession and the U.S. today.

    -We are not as homogenous as we used to be.
    -We are not as religious/spiritual as we used to be.
    -The common language of English has been de-prioritized on many fronts (I'm not arguing the merits of this, just stating something I believe has happened).
    -We are a country of 330 million people ruled by two parties (really one in the grand scheme of things).
    -The House of Representatives hasn't been appropriately expanded to accommodate population growth. (EDIT: just got to the argument in the video about this and it may now be a moot point)

    I could go on, but I think that sums it up. Did you start a thread for this? Probably best to take this greater conversation to its own dedicated thread.
    Last edited by Okie RP fan; 01-07-2021 at 11:00 AM.
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  26. #322
    It is simply not possible for a continent-spanning populace of a third of a billion people to be "represented" in any significant and meaningful way.
    It is not...I could not say it better.

    That statement trebles in truth when you add to that the fact that the third of a billion people in question, are now, through deliberate treachery designed to end exactly as stated, with a collapse of "liberal democracy" into authoritarianism and absolute despotism, have become so disparate and utterly at odds with each other, the founding vision of the nation and it's history, so as to be, literally, at war with herself.

    Separate or Die.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  27. #323
    Quote Originally Posted by Okie RP fan View Post
    No need to convince me here, but I'm also trying to start instituting this idea with family and friends.
    Tucker Carlson (I do not watch Fox News, I only watched a snippit of his segment from last night) said America is made up of twins who can't be separated unless one kills the other. I'm not sure this is true and we can debate it until we're blue in the face but I do believe a few things in regard to secession and the U.S. today.

    -We are not as homogenous as we used to be.
    -We are not as religious/spiritual as we used to be.
    -The common language of English has been de-prioritized on many fronts (I'm not arguing the merits of this, just stating something I believe has happened).
    -We are a country of 330 million people ruled by two parties (really one in the grand scheme of things).
    -The House of Representatives hasn't been appropriately expanded to accommodate population growth.

    I could go on, but I think that sums it up. Did you start a thread for this? Probably best to take this greater conversation to its own dedicated thread.
    I watched his monologue last night.

    My response was: "bull$#@!".
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  28. #324
    Quote Originally Posted by Invisible Man View Post
    Agreed.

    I'm still hoping this thread title gets changed.
    Leave it just the way it is.
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  29. #325
    Quote Originally Posted by Invisible Man View Post
    I belong to that 40-50%. The only opening of eyes that has happened to people in this group is the increased awareness of how bad Trump and his more zealous followers are.

    Your assertion about eyes being opened is just baseless dreaming on your part. Even your response to me betrays that. You haven't actually seen any eyes getting opened to anything by this. You just believe it because you wish it to be so.

    I don't know where you got the idea that I was pigeon holing you into a political faction. But you won't find any basis for that inference in anything I actually said.
    Conversations with friends-n-family that span the continent, actual telephone conversations, have lead me to make my assertion.

    Granted the cross-section is small but the geographical and socioeconomic breadth is wide.

    "People" are looking at government and media in a new light, at least as far as I can tell once I'm away from the 'puter.....

  30. #326
    What happened today will be used by the people taking power to justify stripping you of the rights were born with as an American. Your right to speak without being censored, your right to assemble, to not be spied upon, to make a living, to defend your family, most critically. These are the most basic and ancient freedoms that we have. They are why we live here in the first place. They’re why we are proud to be Americans. They are what make us different, and they are all now in peril. When thousands of your countrymen storm the Capitol building, you don’t have to like it. We don’t. - Tucker Carlson 6 Jan 2021
    That's one point where Carlson goes off the rails.

    Every one of those rights has now been suppressed or nullified...including crucial rights supposedly protected by the bill of rights. We now regularly witness wholesale bans on speech, assembly and worship. Government surveillance is ubiquitous and constant and at levels never even conceived of by the very worst of tyrannical regimes of the past. Your right to defend yourself is dependent on Marxist prosecutors reading your mind, your right to earn a living does not exist, as government can shut it down whenever it feels like it.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  31. #327
    Quote Originally Posted by Okie RP fan View Post
    No need to convince me here, but I'm also trying to start instituting this idea with family and friends.
    Tucker Carlson (I do not watch Fox News, I only watched a snippit of his segment from last night) said America is made up of twins who can't be separated unless one kills the other. I'm not sure this is true and we can debate it until we're blue in the face but I do believe a few things in regard to secession and the U.S. today.

    -We are not as homogenous as we used to be.
    -We are not as religious/spiritual as we used to be.
    -The common language of English has been de-prioritized on many fronts (I'm not arguing the merits of this, just stating something I believe has happened).
    -We are a country of 330 million people ruled by two parties (really one in the grand scheme of things).
    -The House of Representatives hasn't been appropriately expanded to accommodate population growth. (EDIT: just got to the argument in the video about this and it may now be a moot point)

    I could go on, but I think that sums it up. Did you start a thread for this? Probably best to take this greater conversation to its own dedicated thread.
    Just posted it in the Philosophy/Policy Subforum, sir, per your suggestion.

  32. #328
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    That's one point where Carlson goes off the rails.

    Every one of those rights has now been suppressed or nullified...including crucial rights supposedly protected by the bill of rights. We now regularly witness wholesale bans on speech, assembly and worship. Government surveillance is ubiquitous and constant and at levels never even conceived of by the very worst of tyrannical regimes of the past. Your right to defend yourself is dependent on Marxist prosecutors reading your mind, your right to earn a living does not exist, as government can shut it down whenever it feels like it.
    I think they'll use it as a pretext to drop the pussyfooting around. You're 100% right, but they still find themselves having to justify their actions, and still face some popular opposition here and there.

    This, especially in the short run, will do away with all of that theater.



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  34. #329
    You may have nothing in common with the people on the other side of the country (increasingly, you probably don't), but you're stuck with them. The idea that groups of Americans will somehow break off into separate peaceful nations of like-minded citizens is a fantasy. The two hemispheres of this country are inseparably intertwined, like conjoined twins. Neither can leave without killing the other. As horrifying as this moment is, we have no option but to make it better, to gut it out. - Tucker Carlson 6 Jan 2021
    No, we are NOT.

    This idea that we are immutably and forever bound to roughly 130 - 200 million people that quite literally want us dead, is suicidal insanity, and it should be rejected at every turn and the people advocating the same, dismissed as dangerous cranks and lunatics.

    Or in other words:

    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

    That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

    But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  35. #330
    Quote Originally Posted by Invisible Man View Post
    I belong to that 40-50%. The only opening of eyes that has happened to people in this group is the increased awareness of how bad Trump and his more zealous followers are.
    Mission accomplished.

    How to solve a problem, Deep State style.

    The Problem:
    Dems lost seats to GOP challengers, riding you-know-who's coattails.
    Half of the country is convinced the presidential election is fraudulent.
    The GOP cannot return to swamp business as usual, without capitulating to MAGA supporters,
    or risk splintering the party.
    How to remove the ghost of Orange Man from politics?

    The Solution:
    Introduce crisis actors into a peaceful protest to "storm" the Capitol building, knowing full well the POTUS would put his foot in his mouth.
    Have the media and yipping congressmen yip about how DJT incites domestic terrorism, stifling any of the "reasonable" Trump voters
    (who wants to show support for the most heinous act in the history of American heinousity?), thereby killing any faint whiff of MAGA forever.
    Watch today, as Republicans scramble to distance themselves from him.
    As of 1/6/21, any support of non-RINO or DEM candidates is treason.

    Will it work? IDK.
    All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
    -Albert Camus

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