Posted on 03/01/2023 1:54:58 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Mass media is in its death throes. CNN is likely insolvent by now, and certainly not profitable. Facebook is passe. Tiktok might be taken off American devices soon by bi-partisan action. There is at last a consensus that China is the enemy, even in Congress. Twitter is likely going to go broke, too. Musk did the world a favor by blowing their grift wide open, but that won’t make it solvent with no advertisement and no marketing of personal info. It’s corporate dead weight.
So who’ll be bombarding people?
I never have bought into that lily livered GOP argument “but we can’t do anything with just the House/Senate/Presidency.”(fill in the blank)
Stonewalling is do-able at present and highly advisable.
Chip Roy is amazing . WTH is wrong with the rest of the Republican’s in the House?
Thanks for the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIY8YTjf2s
[What can be done with only one house, is block hair-brained and evil legislation and appropriations. And investigate.]
What some people can’t get their heads around is the fact that this is a country where people decide things through elected representatives decided more or less (thanks to some influence from crooked votes) at the ballot box. Fact is - things haven’t gotten quite bad enough for voters to completely turf the Dems. But that day will come - sooner than anyone thinks.
“Chip is great!” wrote Eleutheria5.
Yup, he’s great, alright. But, he’s also a bit on the stupid side if he doesn’t see the RINO’s for what they are...dhimmicrap lite.
I love his theatrics, certainly. But, let’s get real. The GOPe to whom he was talking were not listening...just as they have not listented for the last 45+ years.
[You are a complete idiot. Tell us you moron who you think the truth tellers are in the Senate or the House?????????????]
GOP….the God Awful Party
This scenario is basically a one-way ticket to a Supermax prison.
Not if it’s done right. Read Revolt in the Holy Land by Menachem Begin, Anarchist’s Cookbook, and other literature about underground action. If Chip did that kind of work himself (doubtful at his age or mine [I can talk about it, and they can’t extradite me from Israel]), nobody who didn’t need to know should ever find out who did what and when. Just that it was done.
[Not if it’s done right. Read Revolt in the Holy Land by Menachem Begin, Anarchist’s Cookbook, and other literature about underground action. If Chip did that kind of work himself (doubtful at his age or mine [I can talk about it, and they can’t extradite me from Israel]), nobody who didn’t need to know should ever find out who did what and when. Just that it was done.]
All politics goes through a dialectical process. There is action, reaction, then synthesis. The Dems are overplaying their hand. We are swinging back. Groot lost her re-election bid in Chicago - the first Chicago mayor to do so in 40 years. That’s a sign.
GO CHIP!!! The REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE NOTHING!!!! NOTHING!!
Chip Roy is my congressman-his district is mostly rural areas-like this one-and small towns/cities-all bright red-ranchers, farmers, gone Galt types and small business/tourist trap owners. He may be rude, but he is well liked for doing what he was hired for, and his take-no-bulls***/ in your face attitude-most of us voters are very much the same...
“You have to treat it as a long-term, multi-front to bring people back to theirs senses.”
Fine, just don’t ask me to pretend one speech on the floor of Congress that only people who are already political junkies might hear is going to have any effect. It won’t.
“Or we could just fold up shop and retreat to our few and shrinking safe spaces.”
Well, there are only a zillion other alternative strategies available between “rail ineffectually on the floor of Congress” and “give up entirely”. Don’t blame me if you can’t imagine any.
“What can be done with only one house, is block hair-brained and evil legislation and appropriations. And investigate.”
Well, yes we can do “gridlock”, if they have the guts to take the blame for it. Which they probably won’t when the going gets rough. But on a lot of things, sure. But investigations are just play acting, because they won’t lead anywhere at all.
“Chip, I think, with his references to the Rangers and the Alamo, was hinting at just that, though he da’sn’t say so explicitly.”
Maybe Chip can use what power he has, which is more than most people, to help that rancher who is currently being prosecuted for doing just what he might have been suggesting. Not likely many others will take him up on the suggestion when they see people who do it hung out to dry.
“I watched Democrat-controlled HORs stonewall the plans of Republican presidents for years.”
All it takes is passion and determination—hard to find with Republicans these days.
Alinsky’s “Rule for Radicals” works.
If the Republicans used them the Democrat Congress-critters would be retiring in droves.
” if they have the guts to take the blame for it.”
You are only playing defense if you are not playing offense.
The minute the Republicans stop attacking the Democrats they lose the edge.
“Mass media is in its death throes.”
I have to disagree. Maybe “mass media in its current form” is in its death throes. But we are in the midst of the information age, with people demanding and consuming information in amounts never before seen in history. And they aren’t consuming, by and large, the classics of western literature, or academic treatises. They are demanding and being served up entertainment, and “infotainment”, by the same type of people who run the “traditional” mass media, even if they are operating under 1000 different “media aggregator” companies on the internet now.
right idea wrong target...aim higher
Spark, spark, spark. All the sudden
you forgot the manual “ unintended consequences “ by Jphn Ross.........
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