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.
A pine box.
Since moving to Colorado, likely that. Or the wilderness version, Air Burial.
Twenty four years ago, predicted that this was the age of my passing. and Dear God, i am ready. I have Grace and Redemption, and my daughter is on a solid path to her future. My wife and mother-in-law will mourn my passing by complaining about cooking dinner, hauling trash, bringing water, and a multitude of ….all of the life inconveniences.
Death before Retirement!
Couldn’t we all get lobotomies and run for office as Democrats? Idiocy seems to guarantee election.
The Dems harm the country most with the Presidency, Senate and Congress, but they have that gamed and controlled. The key to success rests in changing election procedures at the state level to stop ballot harvesting, backfilling, etc., and infiltrating the election apparatus locally with honest people.
So the serious and tiresome truth is that we have to focus on State and local offices, as well as taking over political parties from the ground up, where commoners actually can have their way if enough show up. Because this is legal, the Gestapo has to be cautious. Unfortunately, this takes years of effort, with half the reformers working at cross purposes and undermining/discrediting the work of the other half.
State Secession. If it fails then we can start to butcher each other.
Thoughtful, yes. With the Ultimate Question of “who you gonna shoot?” As there is no single target.
Ignorance and Stupidity are contagious sheeple diseases.
I believe we need to breed a generation of kids that goes through life with no skeletons in their closets and are properly trained in the virtues to have what it takes to make it through the election process.
I also believe that those who decide to run will need to run on a populist platform rather than something more libertarian or socially conservative. This is where the votes of independents and moderate liberals/conservatives can be had.
I'm farther from a population concentration than I have ever been (at least in Georgia). However, I have a great bugout location. Great friend / semi-relative who has 14 acres in a semi-remote area.
I always come down to target selection.
You may not get that many, so got to make them count for more that just revenge.
For example, WWI started with a ruler being assassinated.
Coups and revolutions start with one small group strategically selecting their target.
Imho the cartridge box is still a viable alternative.
5.56mm
I’m glad you have peace.
There is no destiny, so nothing is over.
I also believe that those who decide to run will need to run on a populist platform
Interesting. The big money guy supporting DeSantis, Griffin, believes just the opposite. Says that Republicans need to break away from populism and go back to embracing big business. Maybe his definition of populism, yours and mine are different.
As for skeletons and living a “clean” life. Not sure about that one. I’d rather have someone that got themselves in trouble a little bit and dealt with adversities, than some Country Club, frat boy that has been groomed for politics. If you’d like to see some of that, feel free to venture down to the State House when the Georgia legislature is in session. You’ll see plenty of them. However, most of them aren’t living “clean” lives, their groomers are powerful and/or wealthy enough to sweep everything under every rug they can.
they don’t have a critical mass of intelligence, charisma, and determination to see a candidacy through....then they shouldn’t be running for anything and those traits will quickly reveal themselves. However, even that doesn’t matter at times as I think there were two Democrats elected on Tuesday that are DEAD. And have been for some time.
As for the embarrassing stuff, very good point. I think that’s what keeps alot of folks away and I think that’s what kept Pres Trump from putting together a better Cabinet. Some of his picks were going to get grilled and put under a microscope. Something they didn’t want or need. Either the incumbent they’re trying to unseat or the other opposing candidate is gonna dig. Have to be comfortable with what they find, because they will find something. Or just make it up like they did Judge Moore.
“Imagine if Russia had strongly embraced freedom. ~”
Russians have NEVER been free; it is an alien concept to them. Submission is as natural to Russians as vodka.
i’m not talking about eternal life/salvation. i’m talking about our journey on earth. and i know exactly what he’s talking about. so it’s good as far it goes, but it leaves out God and God is always the most important element in any choice, thought or action on heaven and on earth. i also know that the majority of humanity on earth has voluntarily taken themselves out of the God ‘box.’ of course, anyone whose taken him/herself out, i urge them get back in the God box.
so sorry to sound caviler, about the suffering that must happen to all of us and our loved ones in this ‘veil of tears,’ but i’ll answer you this way:
with that, what you say is irrelevant to a person who is really committed to being in the God box. you can do anything to my body, my mother’s, my child’s, my wife’s, my friend’s, my fellow church members, but once in the God box you can’t touch me in the spirit where i really live, and because of that the enemy literally has no leverage on me whatsoever, unless i give it. and with God, i don’t have to.
once you know that, you have no fear, you have complete moral freedom to act as God’s agent on earth with no vital consequence.
There is no destiny, so nothing is over.
I don’t pretend to know God’s plan. I have new tasks daily..
To paraphrase Woody Allen’s take on an old Yiddish saying:
Do you want to make God laugh? tell Him your plans.
“Do you want to make God laugh? tell Him your plans.”
I like that. :)
AMISH
in a good way
Yup !
The corrupt, deep-state (imo), post-17th Amendment ratification SCOTUS has been wrongly ignoring allegations of major constitutional problems (imo) with the official results of state elections.
To begin with, SCOTUS seems to ignore that the feds are constitutionally obligated to guarantee each state a republican form of government.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
So the feds shouldn't be ignoring allegations of voting problems imo.
Next, SCOTUS also seems to ignore that so-called state "winner take all laws" for electoral votes are unconstitutional imo.
More specifically, when the the states ratified the 12th Amendment (12A), they effectively prohibited themselves from making such laws imo.
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment:
"12th Amendment: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added], ..."
In fact, Justice Joseph Story had indicated that the overall effect of a state with divided electoral votes is that it weakens electoral votes for a single candidate.
"In case of any party divisions in a state, it may neutralize its whole vote, while all the other states give an unbroken electoral vote." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 2, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, Commentaries on the Constitution 3, 1833."
Regarding 12A, that amendment also indicates that the chain of custody for electoral votes is to be unbroken between electors and Vice President imo.
Regarding alleged vote-rigging, SCOTUS wrongly ignored (imo) in 2020 elections that Congress wrongly ignored not only ongoing problems with 12A, but also that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A) is a penalty for renegade states that rig elections.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Finally, let's not forget that desperate Democrats aren't afraid to challenge the results of any election that they don't win.
Democrats Have Objected to Electoral Vote Certification For the Last 3 GOP Presidents (1.1.21)
Corrections, insights welcome.
Right there proves we are doubly screwed because none of us even knows how to go about a “revolution” or civil war. We have been so conditioned to not resist that if we tried to resist we would know where to begin. This country is going down without much of a fight and those in power know it.
Ping...
The democrats have plenty of boxes. Pine boxes. They want us, their enemies, wearing them in the dirt.
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