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Preparing as in organizing the riots.

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I predict the opposite.
You know there will be protests and groups trying to get attention. After all, the democrat party has spent many many decades cultivating grievance groups, making them feel important.

However, I think most of them are ‘team players’, and don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them.

Secondly, remember that the democrats are primarily in power of the federal government and the deep state. They will do everything they can to prevent anything overshadowing the show they put on inside. It will be the exact opposite of January6 which was not only negligently unprepared for, it was intentional, and all the evidence supports it.

Despite having a run-in with a bear, Gallacher is still better off than she would be with many men.
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What’s that supposed to mean????
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The kind of woman who thinks a bear just wants to make friends probably has zero wits about bad men either, and is probably a magnet for them.

“...he was extended credit markers totalling $3.5 million and was allowed to continue playing. “

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What did he expect, a blood test and breathalyzer for everyone requesting markers? There are a lot of odd people in Vegas and people under the influence or generally acting strange.

3.5 mill may or may not be anything for him to sneeze at, but I wonder if someone is bitter about having a bad day.

I said that wrong. I meant blue states.
Gah!

It’s not really ironic that liberal states will protect renters from being evicted while they will penalize property owners for not paying taxes, but it just goes to show that no one truly owns property except the government.

In fact, I will raise the stakes on my point;

In the post covid era, particularly in red states, you are more likely to lose your place to live if you don’t pay your taxes than you are to be evicted if you don’t play your rent.

at the end of 30 years, you DO generally have a PLACE TO LIVE.

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You got me there. Not bad. But to my point, how long will you have that place to live if you don’t pay your taxes?

When you say you get equity by owning, that’s the exact same thing as saying “you own the home when the mortgage payments end.”

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Not the same thing.
Because you don’t own your home even when the mortgage payments end, you just own a deed or title. As I said.

What is more, you can have equity in your home even when you are not done making mortgage payments. So yes, you own some equity in the deed, as long as you can resell the title /deed that you own, but the property belongs to the government. The title (and it’s equity) will be yours as long as you keep making the tax payments.

Trump Jr. doesn’t qualify for Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5. His mother wasn’t a naturalized American Citizen when he was born.

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Hopefully his birth certificate was filed in Hawaii.

Let’s see. At the end of 30 years of mortgage payments, you OWN your own home.

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I disagree.

After xx years of mortage payments, you own a title/deed that guarantees you will pay property taxes, which is effectively RENT PAYMENTS to the government, because if you fail to pay them, your property will be foreclosed upon by the government in order to get what they are owed.

The only real difference between renting and owning is equity.

Michael Flynn. The Deep State may be more afraid of him than even Trump.

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Yes.
Or Trump Jr.

Cernovich makes a great point.

But if your VP pick hurts the ticket enough that Trump doesn’t get elected, then the point is moot.

he received unsolicited advice Can anyone explain what this really means for us non-lawyer people?
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It means this is meaningless.
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I’m not a lawyer but I play one on TV, and I have to agree with you.

It means the judge didn’t solicit the advice, so he likely isn’t in an jeopardy at all.
The only thing I would image they are investigating is whether there there were any clandestine communications (solicitation) or a previous relationship.

That may be changing for politically active people such as those on freerepublic...

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Oh I can see that coming, if the current course doesn’t change.

That’s what a lot of people fail to do. Look ahead.

I was reading about data aggregation and the lack of privacy (particularly by silicon valley) and actually mentioning it to people long before it started to enter the public consciousness, although it’s debatable that it has yet actually that pervasively known. It was easy to predict then the things that are happening now, and the future looks a lot worse with biometrics, and again, it’s probably not ‘big brother’ that your average person should really be worried about. The private sector exploitation of people’s everyday activity has only just begun.

So speaking for myself, I would take the stand and defend anything I’ve posted on FR, at least in the context of the article and/or the conversation, but that doesn’t mean that people wont still get railroaded by lawfare in the future if this political climate heating up.

There is a reason your bank (and most others) wont email you your password after you lose it. It’s not secure. That’s why most lost password protocols send you a link to reset it or a PIN or code, both of which only verify that you are the owner (or at least someone with access too) your email account. Sending a reset code or link to your email is NOT ironclad secure method, but it mostly absolves the bank of their liability, because it’s a reasonable legal assumption that the owner of the email address assigned to their authentication system is the one receiving the email messages. But the point is, they wont just email you your password, because it’s not a reasonable assumption that it will be safe either in transit or in storage.

Although there are still some second rate websites that will email passwords, but I guess that’s just a long-winded example demonstrating how it is assumed that email communication is not safe for private data.

Two factor authentication will actually use a second method to verify your identity, like texting a separate PIN.

Having strong passwords and two factor authentication is rather tiresome for the average Joe, but sadly it is necessary. Big brother isn’t the biggest threat to most people, although it might be for “crypto users” I suppose.

What about a lot of the non-profit NGOs that I have read are in source and intermediate locations encouraging and assisting the movement/migration of illegals for the specific purpose of crossing the boarder as illegals "asylum seekers"? Names you have heard, like Doctors without Borders, who you would think would be there to help render health & medical aid.

Uh huh, so much for protecting data

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People need to understand something. No data is safe.

In most cases, like email, most platforms and providers make no pretense about privacy. Even if you use a VPN, your data is not safe. You should treat mail as public, and never transmit anything you consider private.

Just because you operate under the delusion that the world respects your privacy doesn’t make it so.

I’m just writing this to wake up anyone here who may have this misunderstandings. I’m not saying it for shock value.

If you mail a parcel out, you should have a reasonable expectation that it will be delivered without inspection, but “should” is a subjective mistake.

“Climate Change” doesn’t just make energy artificially scarce, it also adds artificial scarcity to food supplies and other necessities.

Artificial scarcity, or restricting supply as well as controlling distribution, was perfected by capitalists primarily on non-essential commodities, particularly intellectual property, which otherwise would be difficult to control the spread of without laws forcing consumers to go through specific providers.

While I would say that controlling access to something of value is not new, and would go as far back as hunter gatherers giving up nomadic life to protect a food supply or natural resource and forcing others to trade with them for it, but now it’s the marxist/globalists who seem to be in on this game. They realize that restriction of access to LIFE ESSENTIAL commodities is POWER to a level much much more efficient than violent oppression, because it cows the masses into submission without the need to administer distributed means of force.

That’s because they weren’t real scientists!

Sure, many of them had science degrees, but the people who caused all that were bureaucrats a part of the administrative (power) state, as well as their cohorts in the private sector who were married to the bureaucrats for, guess what? Power and money.

There were a LOT of differing and descenting scientists who were intimidated and silenced!

That is a an even scarier proposition to our illusions about being a free country than censoring Joe sixpack for posting a rant on twitter.

You’re probably right about moving away. It would probably be better to be living right on top of the caldera than 50 or 100 miles away.... but then again, you can’t live on top of the caldera unless you have a really good bullwinkle costume. A møøse once bit my sister