Re #5: totally agree.
Our side is bereft of leadership. Tens of millions of people who are just fish in a barrel, no place to go, churning as they are “landed” and destroyed, a little at a time.
I love our real President. He was re-elected overwhelmingly. And what he did with the opposition he had makes him one of the greatest presidents in history.
But he had two problems he never solved.
1) He could not get around the absolute barrier of McConnell, who obstructed him at every step, and forced traitors on him. McConnell led the “Republican” opposition against Trump nationally, greased by buckets of money, prestige and power. McConnel led the bribery and blackmail which assured that Trump was blocked at every step. And in all fairness, it is hard to imagine what Trump could have done except what he is doing now, belatedly, getting politicians on his side.
2) We all knew the election was going to be stolen. We ALL knew. The media announced it every day for a year, and each unfolding step was obvious. Obvious not in hindsight, but as it was happening.
I felt, and many people felt, that Trump had the theft in hand, that the perpetrators would be caught in real time and exposed, and the theft prevented.
It now appears that Trump was relying on his huge victory and did nothing or not enough. He knew he was going to win beyond the margin of fraud, or thought so. Consequently, he did nothing, or not enough, to prevent the theft, or to document the theft conclusively.
DeSantis looks like a genuine leader. There is nobody else that I can tell. That is a dangerous situation. Taking out one man is child’s play, and that is what will happen. Who else can step up?
But more significant is that our side has no one outside of politics to lead. We get a lot of phonies and empty suits, and a lot of our time is wasted on people who have done nothing except get us excited to no end. I am going to cite one person in that category, and expect a lot of hysterical response, but he is the perfect example.
Whatever else he may actually be, and to my mind it is dubious, Mike Flynn throws out stuff to great cheers and admiration, but what has he done? Besides siphoning off energy and attention?
There are many other Flynns out there. We can cheer, but get nothing, let alone leadership.
Add to the lack of leadership the abject cluelessness on our side, where people think we need Socratic dialogues and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, refusing to recognize that our government has been overtaken, the coup is complete, and the kulaks are in the process of elimination.
That is very true. McConnell was a disaster, and unfortunately he was joined by so many others (Barr, for example) that it’s really a wonder that Trump got anything done. He was under attack from all sides from the moment he started - not only the press and the Dems, expressing their contempt in the most juvenile ways (Nancy Pelosi ripping up the SOTU address comes to mind), but Republicans and even supposedly professionally neutral people. Remember Milley’s refusal to support him? That was pretty scandalous and Milley should have been removed right then, even though it was at the end of Trump’s term. But Trump got no support from the very people who should have supported him.
I have always been surprised that he didn’t try to resist the blatant attempts at “legal” election cheating through these special covid provisions. But then, that would have required the support of the AG, Congress, the courts, etc….and he had none of these. By all rights he should have won, so maybe he was complacent, but he campaigned really hard (against somebody who never emerged from the basement because he knew he didn’t need to).
Maybe Trump underestimated the evil and the plotting of the left, not being able to conceive of anybody being so dishonorable and so filled with hatred of their own country and their fellow Americans.
As for supporters, such as Flynn, yes, you’re right, they’re not leaders and sometimes have been just noise and distraction. Of course, the Dem-controlled media and legal establishment, not to mention the FBI, were very effective at destroying any Trump supporters who might go public.
The forces arrayed against freedom just seem overwhelming. Dialogue works only if the other party actually cares what you say, and obviously in this case, the left doesn’t give a darn. And as you say, the kulaks are being eliminated.
You are correct on so many levels, yet you are not...
Allow me to explain...
President Trump was and is a great leader. He has one weakness. I call it CEO syndrome.
As a CEO in the private sector, your orders are expected to be carried out, blindly. As such, the absolute power actually blinds you to what is happening right in front of your face. You actually believe what your staff is telling you, while they plot to overthrow you. This has been happening since the dawn of civilization.
I believe Trump knew what was happening, and how it was going to happen in this past election. He made a battle plan and gave the orders to carry it out. His staff torpedoed this action, and here we sit today.
The only thing these people understand is power. They thirst for it. They lust after it. And once they have it, they will never voluntarily relinquish it.
We must take it from them. Period. What happened in this past election was a simple act. Those in power got together and told us that we do not have the power over them. They stole the election ( this includes conservative house and senate candidates ) and literally threw it back in our faces. The goal here is to demoralize. Screw ‘em.
We need to fire every bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’T on the ballot. Period.
Ensure that you are not taking your vacation during the primary season ( that is how these people get on the main ballot ). Take a day off from work, call in sick, just get yourself to the polls on primary day.
And fire them all. Every stinkin’ one of them. The whole lot. There are none worth saving.
The ones that manage to get through must be defeated in November. Don’t vote for the democommie, but don’t vote for the republiCAN’T either.
Please don’t stay home. There may be genuine good people down the ticket that need our support.
Anyway, I expect the “vote for the republican no matter what” crowd to show up any minute now...