How a lot of folks are feeling

[Crepitus]

Conservatives Remember What Can Happen When You Lose - Orthodox Reflections

A republic depends on all sides feeling secure enough in their rights to accept a political loss. Winners must follow the rules.

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Conservatives Remember What Can Happen When You Lose
DECEMBER 22, 2020
American Life, Corona Virus / CoVID-19, Protests

Right after chow one morning, we had a lecture that I dimly recall was on the topic of “Urban Warfare.” I remember the major teaching the class had a last name resembling a line on an eye chart. I was only 19 back then. Officers and NCO’s in those days always used some kind of “hook” at the beginning of their lectures to engage the audience. Jokes were common. Some used film clips. Others read book passages or newspaper articles.
This major read us a story written by an eyewitness to the Sack of Constantinople. For a few minutes that morning, we listened as blood ran in the streets and children were slaughtered in front of their parents. Shrieking mothers were gang raped alongside their daughters before all of them were brutally decapitated. Old men were drug down the streets by their white beards for sport. Books representing thousands of years of accumulated knowledge were burned. Some of the greatest art in the world was despoiled in a frenzy of hate and violence.
When he finished reading, the major asked us what the moral of the story was. Marines in the audience ventured various guesses. The major seemed increasingly annoyed by their efforts. Finally, he closed the book sharply and said, “The moral of the story is – don’t f**king lose.”
Over thirty years later, I still remember the moral of that story. In the meantime, I’ve learned a lot, gotten old, and become Orthodox. Now I recognize that many of those Greeks died as martyrs for Christ. They are in a place of peace as they await the resurrection and their everlasting reward. But as a father and husband, I also recognize that if they had had a choice, few of them would have voluntarily watched helplessly as their loved-ones suffered such horrible deaths.
So yeah. Don’t f**cking lose. Once you do, whatever happens next is completely out of your control. And historically speaking, what comes next can be really, really bad if the winners hate your guts.

Tens of millions of us are looking out over the landscape of contemporary America and feeling besieged. This year, we’ve watched BLM / Antifa rioters allowed to pillage and burn with impunity. Police stood down in the face of violent disorder, and refused to protect innocent civilians. Citizens who tried to protect themselves and their property were vilified and some have even been charged with crimes. Not even senior public officials such as senators and congressmen were safe from the fury of the mobs. The riots have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses causing billions in damages. Churches have not been spared, some even being attacked while worshippers prayed inside. Statues of Jesus, the saints, and American heroes have been pulled down and desecrated.
The media and the politicians have made excuses for all this or intentionally downplayed it. The words “mostly peaceful” have entered our lexicon now, along with “flatten the curve” and the “new normal.”

The mobs were also active on social media. As a result of pressure campaigns, historical place names are being changed. Books are being banned. Beloved authors are being consigned to the memory hole because they were the wrong color or because they wrote about the wrong topics. As the old American culture is erased bit-by-bit, a new one arises that none of us can even recognize.
Truly the barbarians have breached the gates. Only this time, the rulers invited them in.
But it’s not just the violence in the streets and the pressure of woke Twitter mobs that are changing our nation. We’ve watched with concern for decades as executive power has grown unchecked, only to discover in 2020 that the situation is even worse than we could have possibly imagined. Mayors, health officials, and governors can lock us in our homes, shut down our businesses, close our churches, close our schools, and even change the rules for how we vote. Police around the country enforce these clearly unconstitutional orders as if they were the law of the land. City councils, state legislatures, Congress and courts have all proven ineffectual in reigning in executive overreach. On the off chance a court declares one arbitrary rule or another unconstitutional, the executives seem to always find a way to keep their boots on our necks.
If the fear of a virus with a 99.7% survival rate can be leveraged to transform our entire society, are there any limits on what government can do in a “crisis”?
Throughout this nightmare of a year, we consoled ourselves with one thought – at least we can vote the bastards out. Or, maybe not…

According to the official narrative, COVID-19 is going to kill millions any day now and Joe Biden campaigning from his basement, after 47 lackluster years in politics including two failed presidential bids, was able to win 81 million votes. There is so much evidence of fraud in this election that a blind squirrel could find it. And that leaves Red State voters asking each other, “If they can steal an election this brazenly, does it matter if we vote ever again?”
Despite all the evidence, the courts are not interested in even hearing the cases brought before them. The state legislatures appear uninterested in exercising their constitutional duty to oversee the selection of electors in a fair manner. The old guard of the Republican Party can’t seem to surrender fast enough.
But Trump is refusing to concede. In court challenges and through other Constitutional means, Trump is not giving up. And in his fight to stay in office against the powerful forces of tech, media, academia, religion, and the Deep State, his supporters are largely there with him. They are willing to fight for Trump, to turn out at rallies a month after the election, because they feel Trump is willing to fight for them. For decades, the Republican Party’s only use was to negotiate slightly better terms of surrender. The old joke was, “The Democrats propose burning down the country. The Republicans want to phase it in over 5 years!” Trump is by no means perfect, but at least he has shown the courage to withstand vicious attacks that would have cowed most any other Republican into submission. His intestinal fortitude has seeped into the Republican Party as a whole, and the post-Trump party is stronger as a result.
Conservatives are angry at what they perceive as having their votes stolen. And they do love The Fighting Orange Man. But there is another, extremely important reason that conservatives refuse to accept the results of this election. They are terrified that the last year has only been a dress-rehearsal for what comes next.

Conservative Americans realize they are facing the very real threat of being governed by politicians that absolutely hate us and who have no meaningful restraints on their power.
We started out as “deplorables” and have now progressed to “f**kers.” We are even being dehumanized by some writers and cartoonists as “rats.” In the current storm of insults, Trump supporters are even being cast as traitors. At least one Democratic congressman has called for attorneys representing the president in legal challenges to be disbarred and to strip House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court of their seats in Congress. One of the defendants in that case described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) went on CNN with this accusation, “These senators and members of Congress who have refused to acknowledge that we had a free and fair election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by over 7 million votes, are bordering on sedition and treason.” Not only can we not get our day in court, even asking for one is tantamount to treason.
These are not necessarily just empty words. In 1918, at a time when our constitutional order was much more robust than today, the Democrats gave us the Sedition Act which made it a felony to criticize the government. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act before Republicans, victorious in both houses of Congress in the mid-terms, could repeal it. That is just one example of criminalizing dissent. There are many more marring our 240+ year experiment in self-rule. Not only can such things happen in America, they have happened in America.
To cement their power, the Democrats openly discuss transforming our system of government by abolishing the Electoral College, admitting new states to the union to gain permanent control of the Senate, and packing the Supreme Court with reliably liberal votes to rubber stamp everything. Conservatives also hear calls for retribution from progressives that include “re-education,” “truth and reconciliation commissions,” and nationalizing the lockdowns and mask mandates (see ya’ free state of Florida). Those proposals are just for starters, as the in-coming Biden Administration also keeps discussing executive orders to “deal” with gun violence, forgive student loans, and further “reform” the criminal justice system. And the granddaddy of them all – climate change, of course.
Climate activists are chomping at the bit to use the “COVID” model of economic lock downs by executive fiat to combat “climate change.” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in a Washington Post op-ed wrote, “The climate crisis is an emergency, and President-elect Joe Biden needs to treat it that way. That means using every tool available to him, including declaring a national climate emergency and using emergency powers to take unilateral executive action.”

Combatting climate change is central to the The Great Reset, the latest project by very intelligent people to remake the world into a centrally-planned Utopia. The plan started with COVID, but will be completed during the next crisis. The slogan of the project appears to be “Build Back Better,” a line parroted by politicians around the globe. The goal of “building back better” appears to be herding regular people into urban techno-prisons, while the world reverts to an idyllic greenspace for billionaires and their minions to enjoy. Sort of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on a global scale, but without the annoying lines as the average people will all be locked up at home.
Whatever is left of our economy after fighting COVID will surely be finished off fighting climate change.
Conservatives fear they are facing a string of emergency orders that will destroy our economy and rob us of our freedoms. These orders will be issued by politicians with unchecked power, supported by rampaging street mobs, who hate conservatives passionately and consider them sub-humans with no rights. The politicians will be protected from electoral accountability by an intricate system of election rigging hidden in plain sight. This is a nightmare scenario conservatives will be powerless to resist by any legal or constitutional means.
Such fears tend to bring out fanatical tendencies in even the most even-tempered of people."


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Thoughts?

I think your copy and paste took too big a bite...I'd have left it at the don't lose parable..cause that's the truth...the rest is tired agit/prop..polished though...I'll give it that!

I also think that whoever wrote this needs to get out a bit more..breath the air...that world he is describing is fictional...it only exists in his mind..and when he acts on his fiction...bad things can happen.

I'm just curious, but have you ever seen what happens when someone loses a war? The immediate aftermath, I mean? You ever seen what that first year after losing actually looks like? Even when it's losing to someone like the US, where you're probably not going to be raped or put against a wall and executed, it still looks pretty sucky.

Do you not see the polished propaganda in that article? The weighted words..the crafted conclusions?

I think that the idea of war on that scale happening here..in the foreseeable future...to be a remote possibility.
I also think that people are making money off of the idea...and various interests like having that buzz out there.

BTW...USN 1975...I have seen the fall of a country...at a distance...it was pretty..up close it smelled like mud. I love my country...and i hate those that sell fear to make a buck....like the NRA.

I've been various places where the kind of fighting these people seem to want has actually happened.

I will do anything to prevent that from happening to my country.

If that was a sincere statement you wouldn’t be on USMB calling conservatives tRumplings and telling them to take their meds.

You are full of shit.

Nope.

I've stated over and over again that I'd stop the childish nicknames when your orange idol does, and I think "tRumpling" is a whole lot less derogatory than the words that actually spring to mind when dealing with these dickless, shit-eating, cowardly, sad excuses for treasonous brainwashing victims.

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Conservatives Remember What Can Happen When You Lose - Orthodox Reflections

A republic depends on all sides feeling secure enough in their rights to accept a political loss. Winners must follow the rules.

orthodoxreflections.com

From the link;
Conservatives Remember What Can Happen When You Lose
DECEMBER 22, 2020
American Life, Corona Virus / CoVID-19, Protests

Right after chow one morning, we had a lecture that I dimly recall was on the topic of “Urban Warfare.” I remember the major teaching the class had a last name resembling a line on an eye chart. I was only 19 back then. Officers and NCO’s in those days always used some kind of “hook” at the beginning of their lectures to engage the audience. Jokes were common. Some used film clips. Others read book passages or newspaper articles.
This major read us a story written by an eyewitness to the Sack of Constantinople. For a few minutes that morning, we listened as blood ran in the streets and children were slaughtered in front of their parents. Shrieking mothers were gang raped alongside their daughters before all of them were brutally decapitated. Old men were drug down the streets by their white beards for sport. Books representing thousands of years of accumulated knowledge were burned. Some of the greatest art in the world was despoiled in a frenzy of hate and violence.
When he finished reading, the major asked us what the moral of the story was. Marines in the audience ventured various guesses. The major seemed increasingly annoyed by their efforts. Finally, he closed the book sharply and said, “The moral of the story is – don’t f**king lose.”
Over thirty years later, I still remember the moral of that story. In the meantime, I’ve learned a lot, gotten old, and become Orthodox. Now I recognize that many of those Greeks died as martyrs for Christ. They are in a place of peace as they await the resurrection and their everlasting reward. But as a father and husband, I also recognize that if they had had a choice, few of them would have voluntarily watched helplessly as their loved-ones suffered such horrible deaths.
So yeah. Don’t f**cking lose. Once you do, whatever happens next is completely out of your control. And historically speaking, what comes next can be really, really bad if the winners hate your guts.

Tens of millions of us are looking out over the landscape of contemporary America and feeling besieged. This year, we’ve watched BLM / Antifa rioters allowed to pillage and burn with impunity. Police stood down in the face of violent disorder, and refused to protect innocent civilians. Citizens who tried to protect themselves and their property were vilified and some have even been charged with crimes. Not even senior public officials such as senators and congressmen were safe from the fury of the mobs. The riots have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses causing billions in damages. Churches have not been spared, some even being attacked while worshippers prayed inside. Statues of Jesus, the saints, and American heroes have been pulled down and desecrated.
The media and the politicians have made excuses for all this or intentionally downplayed it. The words “mostly peaceful” have entered our lexicon now, along with “flatten the curve” and the “new normal.”

The mobs were also active on social media. As a result of pressure campaigns, historical place names are being changed. Books are being banned. Beloved authors are being consigned to the memory hole because they were the wrong color or because they wrote about the wrong topics. As the old American culture is erased bit-by-bit, a new one arises that none of us can even recognize.
Truly the barbarians have breached the gates. Only this time, the rulers invited them in.
But it’s not just the violence in the streets and the pressure of woke Twitter mobs that are changing our nation. We’ve watched with concern for decades as executive power has grown unchecked, only to discover in 2020 that the situation is even worse than we could have possibly imagined. Mayors, health officials, and governors can lock us in our homes, shut down our businesses, close our churches, close our schools, and even change the rules for how we vote. Police around the country enforce these clearly unconstitutional orders as if they were the law of the land. City councils, state legislatures, Congress and courts have all proven ineffectual in reigning in executive overreach. On the off chance a court declares one arbitrary rule or another unconstitutional, the executives seem to always find a way to keep their boots on our necks.
If the fear of a virus with a 99.7% survival rate can be leveraged to transform our entire society, are there any limits on what government can do in a “crisis”?
Throughout this nightmare of a year, we consoled ourselves with one thought – at least we can vote the bastards out. Or, maybe not…

According to the official narrative, COVID-19 is going to kill millions any day now and Joe Biden campaigning from his basement, after 47 lackluster years in politics including two failed presidential bids, was able to win 81 million votes. There is so much evidence of fraud in this election that a blind squirrel could find it. And that leaves Red State voters asking each other, “If they can steal an election this brazenly, does it matter if we vote ever again?”
Despite all the evidence, the courts are not interested in even hearing the cases brought before them. The state legislatures appear uninterested in exercising their constitutional duty to oversee the selection of electors in a fair manner. The old guard of the Republican Party can’t seem to surrender fast enough.
But Trump is refusing to concede. In court challenges and through other Constitutional means, Trump is not giving up. And in his fight to stay in office against the powerful forces of tech, media, academia, religion, and the Deep State, his supporters are largely there with him. They are willing to fight for Trump, to turn out at rallies a month after the election, because they feel Trump is willing to fight for them. For decades, the Republican Party’s only use was to negotiate slightly better terms of surrender. The old joke was, “The Democrats propose burning down the country. The Republicans want to phase it in over 5 years!” Trump is by no means perfect, but at least he has shown the courage to withstand vicious attacks that would have cowed most any other Republican into submission. His intestinal fortitude has seeped into the Republican Party as a whole, and the post-Trump party is stronger as a result.
Conservatives are angry at what they perceive as having their votes stolen. And they do love The Fighting Orange Man. But there is another, extremely important reason that conservatives refuse to accept the results of this election. They are terrified that the last year has only been a dress-rehearsal for what comes next.

Conservative Americans realize they are facing the very real threat of being governed by politicians that absolutely hate us and who have no meaningful restraints on their power.
We started out as “deplorables” and have now progressed to “f**kers.” We are even being dehumanized by some writers and cartoonists as “rats.” In the current storm of insults, Trump supporters are even being cast as traitors. At least one Democratic congressman has called for attorneys representing the president in legal challenges to be disbarred and to strip House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court of their seats in Congress. One of the defendants in that case described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) went on CNN with this accusation, “These senators and members of Congress who have refused to acknowledge that we had a free and fair election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by over 7 million votes, are bordering on sedition and treason.” Not only can we not get our day in court, even asking for one is tantamount to treason.
These are not necessarily just empty words. In 1918, at a time when our constitutional order was much more robust than today, the Democrats gave us the Sedition Act which made it a felony to criticize the government. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act before Republicans, victorious in both houses of Congress in the mid-terms, could repeal it. That is just one example of criminalizing dissent. There are many more marring our 240+ year experiment in self-rule. Not only can such things happen in America, they have happened in America.
To cement their power, the Democrats openly discuss transforming our system of government by abolishing the Electoral College, admitting new states to the union to gain permanent control of the Senate, and packing the Supreme Court with reliably liberal votes to rubber stamp everything. Conservatives also hear calls for retribution from progressives that include “re-education,” “truth and reconciliation commissions,” and nationalizing the lockdowns and mask mandates (see ya’ free state of Florida). Those proposals are just for starters, as the in-coming Biden Administration also keeps discussing executive orders to “deal” with gun violence, forgive student loans, and further “reform” the criminal justice system. And the granddaddy of them all – climate change, of course.
Climate activists are chomping at the bit to use the “COVID” model of economic lock downs by executive fiat to combat “climate change.” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in a Washington Post op-ed wrote, “The climate crisis is an emergency, and President-elect Joe Biden needs to treat it that way. That means using every tool available to him, including declaring a national climate emergency and using emergency powers to take unilateral executive action.”

Combatting climate change is central to the The Great Reset, the latest project by very intelligent people to remake the world into a centrally-planned Utopia. The plan started with COVID, but will be completed during the next crisis. The slogan of the project appears to be “Build Back Better,” a line parroted by politicians around the globe. The goal of “building back better” appears to be herding regular people into urban techno-prisons, while the world reverts to an idyllic greenspace for billionaires and their minions to enjoy. Sort of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on a global scale, but without the annoying lines as the average people will all be locked up at home.
Whatever is left of our economy after fighting COVID will surely be finished off fighting climate change.
Conservatives fear they are facing a string of emergency orders that will destroy our economy and rob us of our freedoms. These orders will be issued by politicians with unchecked power, supported by rampaging street mobs, who hate conservatives passionately and consider them sub-humans with no rights. The politicians will be protected from electoral accountability by an intricate system of election rigging hidden in plain sight. This is a nightmare scenario conservatives will be powerless to resist by any legal or constitutional means.
Such fears tend to bring out fanatical tendencies in even the most even-tempered of people."


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Thoughts?

Thoughts?

WTF?
That is some convoluted, paranoid thinking.

You shriek as if the US has never had a summer of protest and rioting before. As if there has never been widespread civil discontent before. As if this would actually lead to a scene you described from Constantinople.

You are deranged.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

How a lot of folks are feeling

Fuck your feelings.

You lost and there’s nothing you’re going to do about it.

You’re OK with cheating? That means there are no winners or losers. Just a forced result.
Are you that stupid that you don’t care about liberty?

Prove to the courts that there was cheating and you will actually have an argument.

Until then, you’re just a crybaby and you’re upset that you lost. Nothing more.

The numbers are too conspicuous. Only a dishonest person would deny that. Or a judge who fears shakedown violence.

Those are your feelings. Let me know when you have evidence.

Because the courts don’t think you have evidence. Just idiotic conspiracy theories from a bunch of man-babies throwing a temper tantrum.

Sucks for you, huh?

You treat this is as though it’s a matter of rooting for a team or a jersey. This is about the survival of a system that offers liberty and choice. You should be just as incensed at these numbers. They undermine the entire system. You take your freedom for granted.

No, I’m looking at this as a matter of reality.

When the courts think you have no case, including conservative judges, then what does that tell you?

You’re too brainwashed to believe it’s anything other than an elaborate conspiracy theory because you’re a man-baby retard, but the rest of us understand that it CLEARLY means you’re wrong and you’re just upset that you lost.

This isn’t complicated.

It simply means that the entire system has been co-opted that simple. It's no different than a Chinese court system now. The courts will do the bidding of those who can hire and fire them...they are no longer courts.

JO

It simply means that the entire system has been co-opted that simple. It's no different than a Chinese court system now. The courts will do the bidding of those who can hire and fire them...they are no longer courts.

JO

Or....You’re simply a lunatic dupe.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

 

[freyasman]

Conservatives Remember What Can Happen When You Lose - Orthodox Reflections

A republic depends on all sides feeling secure enough in their rights to accept a political loss. Winners must follow the rules.

orthodoxreflections.com

From the link;
Conservatives Remember What Can Happen When You Lose
DECEMBER 22, 2020
American Life, Corona Virus / CoVID-19, Protests

Right after chow one morning, we had a lecture that I dimly recall was on the topic of “Urban Warfare.” I remember the major teaching the class had a last name resembling a line on an eye chart. I was only 19 back then. Officers and NCO’s in those days always used some kind of “hook” at the beginning of their lectures to engage the audience. Jokes were common. Some used film clips. Others read book passages or newspaper articles.
This major read us a story written by an eyewitness to the Sack of Constantinople. For a few minutes that morning, we listened as blood ran in the streets and children were slaughtered in front of their parents. Shrieking mothers were gang raped alongside their daughters before all of them were brutally decapitated. Old men were drug down the streets by their white beards for sport. Books representing thousands of years of accumulated knowledge were burned. Some of the greatest art in the world was despoiled in a frenzy of hate and violence.
When he finished reading, the major asked us what the moral of the story was. Marines in the audience ventured various guesses. The major seemed increasingly annoyed by their efforts. Finally, he closed the book sharply and said, “The moral of the story is – don’t f**king lose.”
Over thirty years later, I still remember the moral of that story. In the meantime, I’ve learned a lot, gotten old, and become Orthodox. Now I recognize that many of those Greeks died as martyrs for Christ. They are in a place of peace as they await the resurrection and their everlasting reward. But as a father and husband, I also recognize that if they had had a choice, few of them would have voluntarily watched helplessly as their loved-ones suffered such horrible deaths.
So yeah. Don’t f**cking lose. Once you do, whatever happens next is completely out of your control. And historically speaking, what comes next can be really, really bad if the winners hate your guts.

Tens of millions of us are looking out over the landscape of contemporary America and feeling besieged. This year, we’ve watched BLM / Antifa rioters allowed to pillage and burn with impunity. Police stood down in the face of violent disorder, and refused to protect innocent civilians. Citizens who tried to protect themselves and their property were vilified and some have even been charged with crimes. Not even senior public officials such as senators and congressmen were safe from the fury of the mobs. The riots have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses causing billions in damages. Churches have not been spared, some even being attacked while worshippers prayed inside. Statues of Jesus, the saints, and American heroes have been pulled down and desecrated.
The media and the politicians have made excuses for all this or intentionally downplayed it. The words “mostly peaceful” have entered our lexicon now, along with “flatten the curve” and the “new normal.”

The mobs were also active on social media. As a result of pressure campaigns, historical place names are being changed. Books are being banned. Beloved authors are being consigned to the memory hole because they were the wrong color or because they wrote about the wrong topics. As the old American culture is erased bit-by-bit, a new one arises that none of us can even recognize.
Truly the barbarians have breached the gates. Only this time, the rulers invited them in.
But it’s not just the violence in the streets and the pressure of woke Twitter mobs that are changing our nation. We’ve watched with concern for decades as executive power has grown unchecked, only to discover in 2020 that the situation is even worse than we could have possibly imagined. Mayors, health officials, and governors can lock us in our homes, shut down our businesses, close our churches, close our schools, and even change the rules for how we vote. Police around the country enforce these clearly unconstitutional orders as if they were the law of the land. City councils, state legislatures, Congress and courts have all proven ineffectual in reigning in executive overreach. On the off chance a court declares one arbitrary rule or another unconstitutional, the executives seem to always find a way to keep their boots on our necks.
If the fear of a virus with a 99.7% survival rate can be leveraged to transform our entire society, are there any limits on what government can do in a “crisis”?
Throughout this nightmare of a year, we consoled ourselves with one thought – at least we can vote the bastards out. Or, maybe not…

According to the official narrative, COVID-19 is going to kill millions any day now and Joe Biden campaigning from his basement, after 47 lackluster years in politics including two failed presidential bids, was able to win 81 million votes. There is so much evidence of fraud in this election that a blind squirrel could find it. And that leaves Red State voters asking each other, “If they can steal an election this brazenly, does it matter if we vote ever again?”
Despite all the evidence, the courts are not interested in even hearing the cases brought before them. The state legislatures appear uninterested in exercising their constitutional duty to oversee the selection of electors in a fair manner. The old guard of the Republican Party can’t seem to surrender fast enough.
But Trump is refusing to concede. In court challenges and through other Constitutional means, Trump is not giving up. And in his fight to stay in office against the powerful forces of tech, media, academia, religion, and the Deep State, his supporters are largely there with him. They are willing to fight for Trump, to turn out at rallies a month after the election, because they feel Trump is willing to fight for them. For decades, the Republican Party’s only use was to negotiate slightly better terms of surrender. The old joke was, “The Democrats propose burning down the country. The Republicans want to phase it in over 5 years!” Trump is by no means perfect, but at least he has shown the courage to withstand vicious attacks that would have cowed most any other Republican into submission. His intestinal fortitude has seeped into the Republican Party as a whole, and the post-Trump party is stronger as a result.
Conservatives are angry at what they perceive as having their votes stolen. And they do love The Fighting Orange Man. But there is another, extremely important reason that conservatives refuse to accept the results of this election. They are terrified that the last year has only been a dress-rehearsal for what comes next.

Conservative Americans realize they are facing the very real threat of being governed by politicians that absolutely hate us and who have no meaningful restraints on their power.
We started out as “deplorables” and have now progressed to “f**kers.” We are even being dehumanized by some writers and cartoonists as “rats.” In the current storm of insults, Trump supporters are even being cast as traitors. At least one Democratic congressman has called for attorneys representing the president in legal challenges to be disbarred and to strip House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court of their seats in Congress. One of the defendants in that case described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) went on CNN with this accusation, “These senators and members of Congress who have refused to acknowledge that we had a free and fair election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by over 7 million votes, are bordering on sedition and treason.” Not only can we not get our day in court, even asking for one is tantamount to treason.
These are not necessarily just empty words. In 1918, at a time when our constitutional order was much more robust than today, the Democrats gave us the Sedition Act which made it a felony to criticize the government. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act before Republicans, victorious in both houses of Congress in the mid-terms, could repeal it. That is just one example of criminalizing dissent. There are many more marring our 240+ year experiment in self-rule. Not only can such things happen in America, they have happened in America.
To cement their power, the Democrats openly discuss transforming our system of government by abolishing the Electoral College, admitting new states to the union to gain permanent control of the Senate, and packing the Supreme Court with reliably liberal votes to rubber stamp everything. Conservatives also hear calls for retribution from progressives that include “re-education,” “truth and reconciliation commissions,” and nationalizing the lockdowns and mask mandates (see ya’ free state of Florida). Those proposals are just for starters, as the in-coming Biden Administration also keeps discussing executive orders to “deal” with gun violence, forgive student loans, and further “reform” the criminal justice system. And the granddaddy of them all – climate change, of course.
Climate activists are chomping at the bit to use the “COVID” model of economic lock downs by executive fiat to combat “climate change.” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in a Washington Post op-ed wrote, “The climate crisis is an emergency, and President-elect Joe Biden needs to treat it that way. That means using every tool available to him, including declaring a national climate emergency and using emergency powers to take unilateral executive action.”

Combatting climate change is central to the The Great Reset, the latest project by very intelligent people to remake the world into a centrally-planned Utopia. The plan started with COVID, but will be completed during the next crisis. The slogan of the project appears to be “Build Back Better,” a line parroted by politicians around the globe. The goal of “building back better” appears to be herding regular people into urban techno-prisons, while the world reverts to an idyllic greenspace for billionaires and their minions to enjoy. Sort of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on a global scale, but without the annoying lines as the average people will all be locked up at home.
Whatever is left of our economy after fighting COVID will surely be finished off fighting climate change.
Conservatives fear they are facing a string of emergency orders that will destroy our economy and rob us of our freedoms. These orders will be issued by politicians with unchecked power, supported by rampaging street mobs, who hate conservatives passionately and consider them sub-humans with no rights. The politicians will be protected from electoral accountability by an intricate system of election rigging hidden in plain sight. This is a nightmare scenario conservatives will be powerless to resist by any legal or constitutional means.
Such fears tend to bring out fanatical tendencies in even the most even-tempered of people."


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Thoughts?

Thoughts?

WTF?
That is some convoluted, paranoid thinking.

You shriek as if the US has never had a summer of protest and rioting before. As if there has never been widespread civil discontent before. As if this would actually lead to a scene you described from Constantinople.

You are deranged.

It's always hard for people to consider that maybe their actions will have consequences, I guess.
You picked a side, and that side hates freedom, and it hates what America is about. You lie to yourselves about that, but it's true. Those of us left who value freedom, who care about the principles our Constitution are based on, well..... we're going to stop you. And we're going to do whatever it takes to do so.

All you had to do was be honest and play fair; you refuse to. So now, whatever happens is on you.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

I feel ... that you love your anger and grievances and fantasies far more than you love ... freedom.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

 

[freyasman]

I feel ... that you love your anger and grievances and fantasies far more than you love ... freedom.

If people aren't free to vote, because there is no honest election to vote in, if people have no say in how their government is run, but keeps being expected to fund it all, then how free are they?


It's very telling that you dismiss legitimate grievances instead of addressing them honestly, it shows a lot about you. None of it good, though.

You want us all to submit to being nothing more than tax cattle; we're not going to do that.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I feel ... that you love your anger and grievances and fantasies far more than you love ... freedom.

I really don't give a flying fuck about your feelings

 

[freyasman]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

He hasn't paid his dues.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I feel ... that you love your anger and grievances and fantasies far more than you love ... freedom.

If people aren't free to vote, because there is no honest election to vote in, if people have no say in how their government is run, but keeps being expected to fund it all, then how free are they?


It's very telling that you dismiss legitimate grievances instead of addressing them honestly, it shows a lot about you. None of it good, though.

You want us all to submit to being nothing more than tax cattle; we're not going to do that.

Just tell HIM you don't give a fuck about his feelings because he doesn't give a shit about yours

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

He hasn't paid his dues.

As I sit here sipping on my aged Leadslinger whiskey and smoking my hand-rolled Flor De American Manduro I chuckle at these little snits FREEDOM NEVER GIVE IT UP

 

[freyasman]

Others who feel the same are equally harmless.

I wrote a very long post here...and deleted it. I don't want to be responsible for giving people ideas.

Suffice it to say... society and civilization are fragile. An intelligent person takes all threats seriously.

Terrorism as a response to electoral fraud? It's far from impossible

I've said on more than one occasion that if our electoral process is corrupted beyond redemption, extremists may well turn to "kinetic mea...

bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com

and;

It's scary how blind some people are to reality

Following my post on " Terrorism as a response to electoral fraud " two days ago, I've had a few e-mail conversations with readers about t...

bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com

 

[XponentialChaos]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

Oh it's a club now. That's interesting.

And I'm not interested in joining.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

Oh it's a club now. That's interesting.

And I'm not interested in joining.

Great because you weren't invited

 

[XponentialChaos]

Others who feel the same are equally harmless.

I wrote a very long post here...and deleted it. I don't want to be responsible for giving people ideas.

Suffice it to say... society and civilization are fragile. An intelligent person takes all threats seriously.

Terrorism as a response to electoral fraud? It's far from impossible

I've said on more than one occasion that if our electoral process is corrupted beyond redemption, extremists may well turn to "kinetic mea...

bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com

and;

It's scary how blind some people are to reality

Following my post on " Terrorism as a response to electoral fraud " two days ago, I've had a few e-mail conversations with readers about t...

bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com

Sorry, but I don't think we'll see much terrorism from conservatives.

Whatever you think you're going to do isn't going to be much. Biden will still be your president.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

Oh it's a club now. That's interesting.

And I'm not interested in joining.

Great because you weren't invited

I think we're all good with that. You two have fun in your club.

 

[freyasman]

Others who feel the same are equally harmless.

I wrote a very long post here...and deleted it. I don't want to be responsible for giving people ideas.

Suffice it to say... society and civilization are fragile. An intelligent person takes all threats seriously.

Terrorism as a response to electoral fraud? It's far from impossible

I've said on more than one occasion that if our electoral process is corrupted beyond redemption, extremists may well turn to "kinetic mea...

bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com

and;

It's scary how blind some people are to reality

Following my post on " Terrorism as a response to electoral fraud " two days ago, I've had a few e-mail conversations with readers about t...

bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com

Sorry, but I don't think we'll see much terrorism from conservatives.

Whatever you think you're going to do isn't going to be much. Biden will still be your president.

What are you gonna do when we treat them the way you all have treated Trump for the last few years?

What are you going to do when we simply ignore all their bullshit, and set up our own governments?

 

[freyasman]

Sounds to me like you enjoy taunting people from behind a keyboard.
I don't believe you would speak that way to me in person.

You wouldn't talk the way you do in person, so I wouldn't need to. That's the point.

People like you say ridiculous things in message boards, but we both know you wouldn't actually DO any of those things. You're all talk, no action. We call you keyboard warriors.

Okay.
Sunday afternoon, I'll be at a place called West of the Brazos on 36, near Damon.

Bring your ass.

I have better things to do than go halfway across the country to meet some idiot on the internet, sorry.

Any jackass can say "Meet me at X" but it never actually happens.

I'll be there anyway.

Because I do what I say I will.

again this guy doesn't know you like I know you lol

You two know each other well huh?

Sure do

And how do you two know each other?

That's for you to investigate

It’s fine if you want to be secretive about it.

So you’re two men bragging about knowing each other well but don’t want to discuss how you know each other. Gotcha.

Don't be depressed because we will not allow you in the club

Oh it's a club now. That's interesting.

And I'm not interested in joining.

Great because you weren't invited

I think we're all good with that. You two have fun in your club.

There are a lot more than just 2 of us.

 

[XponentialChaos]

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That's cute. You guys love your bumper sticker slogans.