A very merry Christmas to you all!
Well, maybe not to the heathen communists. They don't celebrate Christmas, anyways.
'Normal' is a statistical average. There may be such a thing as a normal person, but I haven't met him yet.
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A very merry Christmas to you all!
Well, maybe not to the heathen communists. They don't celebrate Christmas, anyways.
O’Brien was looking down at him speculatively. More than ever he had the air of a teacher taking pains with a wayward but promising child.
‘There is a Party slogan dealing with the control of the past,’ he said. ‘Repeat it, if you please.’
‘”Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,”‘ repeated Winston obediently.
‘”Who controls the present controls the past,”‘ said O’Brien, nodding his head with slow approval. ‘Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?’
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O'Brien smiled slightly. 'You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out. Did I not tell you just now that we are different from the persecutors of the past? We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out. The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art". No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against us. Everyone is washed clean. Even those three miserable traitors in whose innocence you once believed -- Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford -- in the end we broke them down. I took part in their interrogation myself. I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, grovelling, weeping -- and in the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence. By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother. It was touching to see how they loved him. They begged to be shot quickly, so that they could die while their minds were still clean.'
- 1984, George Orwell
We have abandoned hill after hill on the cultural battleground to maintain civility. Now we stand upon the final dunes, our backs to the sea. Shall we choose to walk into the sea and end this great nation, merely because our enemies demand that we do so else they call us rude names, or shall we stand and fight for what is rightfully ours?
I swore an oath. "This we'll defend" is not merely an empty slogan, but a promise.
I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
If the enemy blatantly stealing a Presidential election and gloating about what they'll do to us all when they gain power isn't worth fighting for, then nothing ever will be.
Now is the time to prepare your mind and your soul. Now is the time to bond with your neighbors. We will not survive the storm by each defending his own home from the waves. As Ben Franklin said, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Let us not forget that the Pilgrims were celebrating the first successful harvest after they abandoned communism. They were literally thanking God for teaching them that harsh lesson in a way they would not forget for many generations.
Finally, some Republicans are growing spines and giving the press what for. In addition to proving massive, organized election fraud by the Democrats across the country.
https://youtu.be/buQCdCSDWQQ?t=3514
Summary can be found here: https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/19/9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results/
Oh, and here is Joe Biden saying ""We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics," back in October.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-voter-fraud-organization-video-gaffe
Trump got more votes than he did in 2016 everywhere in the entire country except those few battleground cities where Democrats are known to cheat regularly on elections. Where votes for Trump appear to have been shredded in the middle of the night, digitally or physically.
Biden got fewer votes than Hillary did in 2016 everywhere in the entire country except those few battleground cities where Democrats are known to cheat regularly on elections. Where votes for Biden appear to have been artificially created in the middle of the night, digitally or physically.
And now the boss of the Philly Mob is allegedly crowing about the windfall he made selling pallets of pre-filled ballots to the Democrats. Money is good, influence is better.
Democrats have ruled with not one whit of care for existing law or the Constitution since before any of us were born. Hillary is walking around free. Epstein didn’t kill himself. Elections don't matter since the Democrats will just cheat harder to win. Tyrants in black robes hand down decrees from on high. 70% of the news is lies, while the remainder is merely wrong. Democrats encourage and enable migrants to invade our country and replace We the People.
There is no law, only Zuul.
There will be war.
This is my hill to die on. I can do no other.
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated” (T. Paine)
“Our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the media, the courts and the legislature… we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!”
“The war is already begun! The next gale that sweeps from the coasts will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” (I believe P. Henry would understand and forgive the slight alterations.)
This is for you, Pennsylvania. All Democrat run states, really. Want proof? "Senator" Al Franken, Minnesota, 2008. Votes were counted, recounted, re-recounted, "found" in car trunks and closets, while an entire Republican county's votes were "lost". Ultimately, Al Franken was declared the winner, despite losing on election night.
Exercise your right to power. Go vote today, if you already haven't. And if you live in a Democrat controlled area, you need to go to the polls today, because the mail-in ballot that you never saw may have been filled out and returned in your name already.
Choose the form of the destructor!
D) The senile, anti-American, corrupt pedophile in the pockets of both Russia and China.
R) That jerk Trump.
But know that no matter who wins, civil war 2.0 begins in earnest next year. The Left will make sure we are never again allowed to elect the wrong candidate. So who do you want to be in charge of the military and federal police forces when the balloon goes up?
No shit, there I was...
I once had a Magic 8 Ball that never lied. It was correct 100% of the time, over scores of queries about the past, present, and future. It was the creepiest thing I have ever encountered. I slowly became afraid of the horrible thing at war in Iraq, but it had become a tradition to consult it before every mission. I wouldn’t let the children touch it after I got back home. Thank goodness it eventually bled out, so I could finally dispose of it safely. The blue ichor permanently stained the shelf, of course.
Adapt, improvise, and overcome all obstacles. If the news won't broadcast the story, then we must.
This is a reposting of a story that you should have seen and heard every hour of every day for the last week. But you probably didn't. No names have been changed to protect the guilty.
In my 2019 book, The Social Media Upheaval, I warned that the Big Tech companies — especially social media giants like Facebook and Twitter — had grown into powerful monopolists, who were using their power over the national conversation to not only sell ads, but also to promote a political agenda. That was pretty obvious last year, but it was even more obvious last week, when Facebook and Twitter tried to black out the New York Post’s blockbuster report about emails found on a laptop abandoned by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
The emails, some of which have been confirmed as genuine with their recipients, show substantial evidence that Hunter Biden used his position as Vice President Joe Biden’s son to extract substantial payments from “clients” in other countries. There are also photos of Hunter with a crack pipe, and engaging in various other unsavory activities. And they demolished the elder Biden’s claim that he never discussed business with his son.
That’s a big election-year news story. Some people doubted its genuineness, and of course it’s always fair to question a big election-year news story, especially one that comes out shortly before the election. (Remember CBS newsman Dan Rather’s promotion of what turned out to be forged memos about George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service?)
But the way you debate whether a story is accurate or not is by debating. (In the case of the Rather memos, it turned out the font was from Microsoft Word, which of course didn’t exist back during the Vietnam War era.) Big Tech could have tried an approach that fostered such a debate. But instead of debate, they went for a blackout: Both services actually blocked links to the New York Post story. That’s right: They blocked readers from discussing a major news story by a major paper, one so old that it was founded by none other than Alexander Hamilton.
I wasn’t advising them — they tend not to ask me for my opinion — but I would have advised against such a blackout. There’s a longstanding Internet term called “the Streisand effect,” going back to when Barbara Streisand demanded that people stop sharing pictures of her beach house. Unsurprisingly, the result was a massive increase in the number of people posting pictures of her beach house. The Big Tech Blackout produced the same result: Now even people who didn’t care so much about Hunter Biden’s racket nonetheless became angry, and started talking about the story.
As lefty journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Intercept, Twitter and Facebook crossed a line far more dangerous than what they censored. Greenwald writes: “Just two hours after the story was online, Facebook intervened. The company dispatched a life-long Democratic Party operative who now works for Facebook — Andy Stone, previously a communications operative for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, among other D.C. Democratic jobs — to announce that Facebook was ‘reducing [the article’s] distribution on our platform’: in other words, tinkering with its own algorithms to suppress the ability of users to discuss or share the news article. The long-time Democratic Party official did not try to hide his contempt for the article, beginning his censorship announcement by snidely noting: ‘I will intentionally not link to the New York Post.’”
“Twitter’s suppression efforts went far beyond Facebook’s. They banned entirely all users’ ability to share the Post article — not just on their public timeline but even using the platform’s private Direct Messaging feature.”
“Early in the day, users who attempted to link to the New York Post story either publicly or privately received a cryptic message rejecting the attempt as an ‘error.’ Later in the afternoon, Twitter changed the message, advising users that they could not post that link because the company judged its contents to be ‘potentially harmful.’ Even more astonishing still, Twitter locked the account of the New York Post, banning the paper from posting any content all day and, evidently, into Thursday morning.”
This went badly. The heads Facebook and of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, are now facing Senate subpoenas,the RNC has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that Twitter’s action in blacking out a damaging story constituted an illegal in-kind donation to the Biden Campaign, and most significantly, everyone is talking about the story now, with many understandably assuming that if the story were false, it would have been debunked rather than blacked out.
CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted: ”Congrats to Twitter on its Streisand Effect award!!!” Big Tech shot itself in the foot, and it didn’t stop the signal.
Regardless of who wins in November, it’s likely that there will be substantial efforts to rein in Big Tech. As Greenwald writes, “State censorship is not the only kind of censorship. Private-sector repression of speech and thought, particularly in the internet era, can be as dangerous and consequential. Imagine, for instance, if these two Silicon Valley giants united with Google to declare: henceforth we will ban all content that is critical of President Trump and/or the Republican Party, but will actively promote criticisms of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
“Would anyone encounter difficulty understanding why such a decree would constitute dangerous corporate censorship? Would Democrats respond to such a policy by simply shrugging it off on the radical libertarian ground that private corporations have the right to do whatever they want? To ask that question is to answer it.”
“To begin with, Twitter and particularly Facebook are no ordinary companies. Facebook, as the owner not just of its massive social media platform but also other key communication services it has gobbled up such as Instagram and WhatsApp, is one of the most powerful companies ever to exist, if not the most powerful.”
He’s right. And while this heavyhanded censorship effort failed, there’s no reason to assume that other such efforts won’t work in the future. Not many stories are as hard to squash as a major newspaper’s front page expose during an presidential election.
As I wrote in The Social Media Upheaval, the best solution is probably to apply antitrust law to break up these monopolies: Competing companies would police each other, and if they colluded could be prosecuted under antitrust law. There are also moves to strip them of their immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects them from being sued for things posted or linked on their sites on the theory that they are platforms, not publishers who make publication decisions. And Justice Clarence Thomas has recently called for the Supreme Court to revisit the lower courts’ interpretation of Section 230, which he argues has been overbroad. A decade ago there would have been much more resistance to such proposals, but Big Tech has tarnished its own image since then.
Had Facebook and Twitter approached this story neutrally, as they would have a decade ago, it would probably already be old news to a degree — as Greenwald notes, Hunter’s pay-for-play efforts were already well known, if not in such detail — but instead the story is still hot. More importantly, their heavy handed action has brought home just how much power they wield, and how crudely they’re willing to wield it. They shouldn’t be surprised at the consequences.
What deadly pandemic? Here are the facts from the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
2017 total all-cause deaths: 2,813,503
2018 total all-cause deaths: 2,839,205
As of 10/19/2020: 2,246,171 (Only 6,729 flu deaths? Really?)
Multiplying by 1.25 (day 293/366 = 1.2491) gets us to: 2,807,713
To put us on track for 3,000,000 deaths (that's only an extra 160,000 due to COVID), we'd have to already be at: 2,400,000 deaths.
Let's look at it another way. We're averaging 7,666 deaths per day so far. To add another 160,000 deaths, the CDC's reporting would have to be off by 21 days. Three whole weeks. This is in a time when the news broadcasts daily death totals by state and as a whole for the nation.
Of course, the CDC says there have been 206,172 COVID deaths. Assuming there isn't a single new death blamed on COVID for the rest of the year (hah!), our death toll should be approximately 3,045,000. So we should be at an all-cause total of 2,436,000 as of October 19. We're only 189,829 deaths short of that number. That's 25 days of deaths. Is the CDC really three and a half weeks behind in their reporting? I seriously doubt that.
Way back around the turn of the century, an international military exhibition was held in Kazakhstan. All the regional militaries, plus the US, sent a company of paratroopers to drop, assemble, move to their starting line, and assault an objective. The troops dropped in front of bleachers full of senior officers from their respective militaries.
The US troops dropped last in the formation. They assembled, formed up, assaulted the objective, consolidated, dug in, and requested follow on orders before the next nation's company made it to the line of demarcation.
After that very impressive display, the foreign officers asked to meet the American officers in charge. They were quite surprised to discover that every single officer of that company, being a Captain and three Lieutenants, were in the bleachers with them. The Airborne (Ranger) company had conducted the entire mission with its NCOs in charge, from initial planning to final execution.
On a day to day basis, the entire US military would work much, much better if there were no officers to interfere. The average officer does little but interfere with the efficient functioning of his own unit. The poor officer manages his unit into destruction while actively disrupting any nearby units. The good officer protects his unit from other predators officers.
According to doctrine and lore, the NCOs take care of today. Company grade officers plan for tomorrow. Field grade officers plan for next week. Flag officers plan for next month. The general staff plan for next year.
It's high time we went on the offensive. Please sign this White House petition to charge the DA in the Kyle Rittenhouse case with federal civil rights crimes.
18 USC § 242 provides for the punishment of "Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States..."
The district attorneys in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, despite clear evidence of lawful self-defense, filed murder charges against Rittenhouse. This not only subjects Rittenhouse to unlawful deprivation of rights it creates a chilling effect on others who wish to exercise their specific enumerate right to keep and bear arms in defense of self and others.
The district attorneys and others involved in this unlawful activity should be prosecuted.
An anthology is out by several good authors. The setting is the next global war, with China and Russia stirring up trouble everywhere, while the Marxist traitors spread throughout the globe cause trouble at home everywhere. Governments dither, when they aren't actively siding with the traitors against the patriots.
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A few common issues to keep in mind:
Nonviolent resistance only works against those with a conscience and moral principles. People whom you can shame. Imagine how China or Russia would have responded to Gandhi’s campaign.
That’s why you can’t argue moral principles with a Leftist. They have no shame. Their only guiding principle is power.
All their arguments devolve to "Because I said so!" And it works, for the same reason that King Louis XIV had his cannon inscribed with "Ultima Ratio Regum" - the final argument of kings. "Shut up!" they explained.