Posted on 11/12/2022 2:41:27 PM PST by Lazamataz
It has been said before, by many people, that there are four boxes in politics: The Soap Box (or expressing yourself), the Ballot Box (voting), the Jury Box (legal challenges to bad voting or speech suppression), and the Cartridge Box (the use of firearms).
The Soap Box has been squelched by an unholy alliance between government and social media (and search engines), although Elon Musk may rescue Twitter. So, the Soap Box is mostly gone.
The Ballot Box has been diminished, almost to the point that it doesn't even matter any more. This has been done through a combination of Democrat voter fraud and superior tactics in ballot harvesting and early voting.
The Jury Box seems to be nearly impotent, inasmuch as the SCOTUS refuses to touch national elections, and won't interfere in government / business alliances to suppress free speech.
So we are left with the Cartridge Box. But even there, I don't see what we could do.
There is a longstanding Journalist premise that in any article, you should speak about WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE -- and if known, WHY. So let us speak to the WHAT. Yes, we all have guns. What do we do?
WHERE do we assemble? If we congregate at one location, weapons of area destruction ensure we are hamburger. If we go the anonymous resistance cell method, today's surveillance capabilities (and the infiltration that follows) renders us ineffective.
Besides, WHO do we attack? I feel going after individuals or institutions, even political types, makes martyrs of them and villains of us.
It’s not so much the HOW. Even if they took every gun away, the level of technology available to many people, makes everyone very dangerous. The problem is WHAT and WHO and WHERE.
There’s also a level of WHY. I know WHY. But in this context, the WHY refers to resolve and motivation. There is one fellow I know, a dead-eye shot. Very good. But when things went south in 2020, I contacted him, and he responded he was standing down. “If y’all can’t even vote right or stop the fraud, why should I stick my neck out?”
I think the WHY is the most important part: Motivation. Tanks could not stop the revolution during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The people had had enough. Those that were in the tanks, joined the side of freedom.
If you convince a critical mass people that ‘enough is enough’, and you convince them all to act, there is nothing that can stand before them. It’s like that old Conan movie, the “Riddle of Steel.” Steel is not strong. Flesh (and the willingness of the flesh to act) is STRONG.
That’s why the indoctrination of our youth is so dangerous. That’s why suppression of content and information is so dangerous. That is why our most important fights are to preserve free speech, to educate our young, and to continue to share ideas among ourselves.
Follow the money.
Conservatives have that in plentiful supply.
Before you spend one nickel, ask yourself who this benefits?
Starve the liberals.
I used to donate to the Republican Party, buy Girl Scout cookies in front of the supermarket, give generously at church, etc..
No more. It may have minimal impact, but I feel better. No more reaching across the aisle.
Does Taxed Enough Already mean anything to you?
I read Gina’s letter to Obama and Laz wants to Write ...
How about one
‘Declaration of Independence 2.0’ to
Obiden?
I Hope we All finish our days as free
People irregardless of the designs of
Our ‘Overgards’
Cheers
Silliest Saturday in a while
I'm an old man, Laz, so I am now just waiting on the rapture, to leave it all to Jesus to clean up. And He will clean it all up, eventually.
My Confederate ancestors are yelling at me from beyond, they shout “get out of that f’d up union!!!”
Just a thought Laz but Presstitutes & Polidiots profit from accusations ........ As well they don’t when asked as a question.
Did Mr X murder Mary Sue JoBeth ?
Or .... Mr X murdered Mary Sue JoBeth !
Did the Dog bite the cat ?
Or .... The dog did bite the cat !
Asking a question is legal . Posting an accusation or threat on social media empowers your target .
Flood the Socialist Democrats with questions not accusations in public forums.
I want to kill Hitler versus Does Hitler need to be killed per se.....
I like it.
Now We Are Talking!!!
I think many people who would like to run choose not too because they either have something embarrassing in their past that they are afraid will be revealed, or they don’t have a critical mass of intelligence, charisma, and determination to see a candidacy through.
= = =
Agree. That determination is a hard one. Who wants to put up with all the focused lies and evil that is rained down on a candidate (a non Deep State one).
I note that many politicians are raised like you suggest. Only this is done by the liberal elites or politician parents who can afford to buy their kid out of trouble and cover up any ‘embarrassments’ as they grow up. They are sent to schools of like mind so they have the ‘network’ of classmates to count on.
Romney did this, but leveraged Mormonism.
Meanwhile, good, conservative, logical, moral kids are just kids and grow up with a ‘vulnerable’ life. Hershel Walker - Georgia Hero with flaws, and look how he is characterized.
At this time, it appears that if GOD does not ‘call’ a person to run for office, it will be a disappointing failed vain exercise.
And even if He does, that does not mean the country will be rescued. Somewhere down the line (it seems close) is the end!
I think there will be regions that make it through. The trick will to be in that region when the food making and moving machine grinds to a halt.
Yes, it was! Thanks for the bright spot, Badger. We need a little merriment right now.
Lots of boxes left.
The local government box.
Elect conservatives and patriots to your village council, the schoolboard, the judgeships and the county board council. Control enough counties and eventually control the state.
The sheriff box.
Elect a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county. This sheriff has the legal and armed muscle to protect you against gestapo cops and politicians. Plus this sheriff has the investigative power to send thieving democrats to state prison.
The community box.
Live in an area populated by Christians and pro-2nd amendment individuals. By its nature, this community will protect its individual members.
The chocolate chip cookie box.
This represents a self-sufficient community that grows its own food, making it independent and strong.
I like your thoughts.
Wasn’t it Shakespeare that said; “Start with the lawyers”
I developed Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) on the left side of my face above and below the jaw bone after my swine flu shot.
I was vaccinated for swine flu in 1976. I still have the impact, when I am very tired in the evening or a night with minimum sleep.
A good night with my CPAP machine is the best relief.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about a year after my GBS.
Zero siblings nor children nor related Nieces/Nephews have sleep apnea nor had the GBS.
“Make sure you elect a good sheriff.”
That will fail if the sheriff and his/her deputies are not funded properly by the county’s so called stewards as per the California County:
CALIFORNIA Deputies will no longer patrol in daylight hours in this Northern California county/Tehama:
Daytime patrols by sheriff’s deputies are set to end Nov. 20 in Tehama County in Northern California as officials grapple with a “catastrophic” shortage of deputies. Officials are negotiating with the California Highway Patrol to respond to daytime emergency calls, Sheriff Dave Hencratt said in a Monday, Nov. 7, news release.
Deputies will continue to patrol and respond to emergencies at night, and also will try to respond to any daytime non-emergency calls, the release said. Tehama County, which contains the city of Red Bluff, straddles Interstate 5 south of Redding and Lake Shasta. It has a population of 65,000 people.
Hencratt blamed the decision on “a catastrophic staffing shortage throughout the agency.” Pay disparities have created a “drastic rise in attrition” and hindered efforts to recruit new deputies, he said in the release.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article268568552.html#storylink=cpy
Asking a question is legal.
Posting an accusation or threat on social media empowers your target.
I propose Irish Democracy. We vote with our feet and our wallets.
Per michaelmccurryphd
Robert Heinlein may have started the definition for Irish Democracy when he wrote “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) I don’t believe he intended to write a definition – but some of his quotations suggest that he wrote descriptions of the term we discovered long after his death.
Heinlein described the virtue of transparency in government: “I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to it’s subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked, contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” (Revolt in 2100)
Heinlein may have written a handbook for Irish Democracy in his many novels.
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