You'll notice, please, that we weren't in a great all-fired hurry to trot out Christmas tunes, after the underwhelming response to the suggestion last year. And while we like the genre, we tend to be uber-traditionalist. Sadly, much of what we love has been played literally to death. So this week, we bring you two tunes: one you might remember, but probably haven't had played to death. The other you almost certainly haven't heard of until today.
The first one requires some prologue.
In planning the eventual Camp Snoopy, I was looking at alternative building techniques, and stumbled across a gem of a YouTube vlog. A family of six (yes, six!) somewhere in the southwest desert, who ditched town for the great nowhere, and who've been cranking out weekly video offerings documenting that such that they rival professional productions. I haven't missed one in about six years. Every Friday evening, they bring forth their weekly "what we've been up to this week", and they are YouTube all-stars. You should totally check out their weekly 20ish minute updates. They're as good as any show that you'll find on pay cable, and better than most.
But they do a lot more than endlessly build their home. Great parents and four kids who are multi-talented means that this week, oldest daughter Bree Whatever has the chops to drop a solid little Christmas song onto YouTube (and iTunes, etc.), which is not only radio-worthy, it's just plain good. And if you've ever spent Christmas someplace where anything like snow is a bit iffy, you'll get it.Take a look, and if you like it, share it.
The other one is an 80s quirky cult classic, from a time when bands played their instruments, and singers sang without autotune, and had to come up with a good song involving some creative lyrics and solid chops, instead of just a throbbing bass track, raunchy R-to-X-rated lyrics, and a music video with more skin than a porn shoot. Enjoy.
Seasons Greetings!
And starting today, we include some messages for friends:
If I go dark, y'all will know why. Especially since I've been
on a tear lately.
If I 'go dark' for over 5 days solid w/out anyone hitting this,
it means "watch the news, film at eleven"
Cos I'm That pissed now.
30 years service in defense of fuckwits and traitors
Time to get that time back by pounds of flesh."
Truer words...
Some people have too many years under their belts to get into things. I'm sincerely sorry for their predicament, and no blame attaches to those who cannot do what they would if they could. Praise a merciful God I'm not so old and brokedick as to be reduced to spectator status in what's coming.
But mark my words, it's coming.It's coming. That vague feling of unease you've been feeling, probably for months, has been telling you and warning you. The hairs standing up on the back of your neck tell you it's coming hard and fast. Like a runaway express freight train. Like a flaming meteor about to graduate to being a meteorite.
It doens't matter what we'd druther, it doesn't matter what we would have wished, we've gotten what we didn't want, what we didn't wish for, contrary to all common sense, logic, wisdom, and anything that's good and right and holy.
We won't be writing of these things any more. You're going to be living them.
For those still slow on the uptake, we'll probably be linking to some useful pdfs going forward.
"He who has ears, let him hear."
We expect we're already on a list or twelve, and won't be making a present of our darkest thoughts for future reference from here on out. The archives here are already a treasure trove of that.
There won't be any relocations coming from us. We were born here, and sooner or later, we'll die here, of our own free choice. Whether of old age, or in a pile of hot brass, it makes no nevermind, when it's time, it's time.
So if you want some historical observations, useful information, and some interesting choices of tunes, this is the place. At least for any time soon.
Trenchant and acerbic commentary? Not so much.
Free speech in this country, along with the rest of the Constitution, died yesterday. Because TPTB, and half the country, thinks that's a good idea, whose time has come.
We'll just see about that, won't we all?
"John has a long moustache. John has a long moustache."
ORDER IN PENDING CASE 155, ORIG. TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
The last time SCOTUS so short-sightedly and utterly foolishly decided a case was Dred Scot. We know how that turned out.
With this dismissal, the Supreme Court of the United States has just ruled that the Constitution of the United States no longer has jurisdiction over the United States. In so doing, they have also self-deligitimized any jurisdiction they formerly possessed.
The only answer to that has to start with gunfire, and end with nooses.
Conduct yourselves appropriately. The entire social contract is therefore dissolved.
If you swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that bill has just come due. The government of the United States has now entered into a state of war with its own people.
If there is no Constitution, there is no law, no republic, and no allegiance due to any authority constituted under it and subservient to it. That includes the national government, and every former US state and territory. At the stroke of a pen, they have all become pretenders.
The time for talking has ended. Come as you are.
May God have mercy on my enemies, for I shall have none.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is now in session.
GVDL shared comments and thoughts at his site about the prospects for the upcoming sportiness.
One commenter shared his thought on how that will go. Go to Gerard's site, and read the exchange, then come back.
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1) The idea that LE, the Notional Guard, and the .Mil will work in lockstep is twaddle.
Read up on retired Lt. Gen. Russell Honore's memoirs regarding how that went during and after Katrina, then tell the class we're better, after Obama, at doing that now.
2) LE, all by itself, can generally fuck up a crowbar in a sandbox, unassisted.
I can only point to 5,000 news stories just in the last decade if you need references.
3) Their resources for handling a SWAT incident are neither comprehensive nor resilient.
Two bank robbers tied up the LAPD for most of a day. One Dorner tied up ALL OF CALIFORNIA for a week. One shooter at LAX, despite being downed by the airport cops in about 90 seconds, had LAX shut down for an entire day, and jammed up ATC throughout the country for days afterwards. And those are just three incidents from Califrutopia in RECENT times, let alone what would happen in 49 other states. 10 incidents in 10 states in the same week would cripple the country even if totally uncoordinated and random.
4) The Notional Guard, God bless 'em, regularly deploy to combat. Nonetheless, they spent 250 years earning their reputation as second-tier only after long and frequent evidence of same. It's great when they show up to help after a tornado or hurricane. Not so much if you think they're going to be the cavalry riding to the rescue, most times and places. They'd be better than the Mexican Army, sure. But even a decent Canadian active duty armored brigade would probably work them over. 1000 or 10,000 random actors in 50 states? Pfffft. At that point, the Notional Guard becomes a resupply point, not an impediment.
3) Active forces: As if.
a) The tooth to tail ratio is legendary.
b) They would be starting in the Green Zone, and are behind enemy lines from the minute they come out to play. Including their wives and families. You're sending the 1st Armored after Joe Blow? Tell me how that's going to work when he bombs their kids' playground, and shoots up the mall their wives shop at. They won't get 20 yards from post before they'll turn their turrets around, and RTB. Then the CG orders all dependents onto post, and locks the division down UFN, and laagers up the entire command inside his own wire. Game Over.
Air power? It is to laugh. Most of their flight lines are within effective range of .50cal sniper fire before they even get off the ramp. Their supply lines are all in occupied enemy territory. Food, POL, spare parts. They could fly for maybe a week, tops. Then they'd be grounded, if they ever even took off. And I don't even need SA-7s nor Stingers to get to that point.
4) Reality: Any commander would know that over half his troops would side with the insurgency, and not just a few commanders, who would all defect wholesale, with all equipment. Hell, that even happened in the Russian coup attempt, when it was still the Soviet uUnion, under the iron grip of the CCCP. You think good old boys in Texas, Georgia, NC, etc. would be less inclined to start stringing up generals, or more???
It's even odds that the minute you tried going all posse commitatus on American soil, Marines from Quantico and Lejeune would have already seized the White House, and be holding the entire NCA under guard before anyone else had a chance to stop it, and they'd be reinforced by the 82d AB division and Special Forces before lunch time.
5) There are more hunting licenses just in PA than there are all troops in the US Army.
By 50%.
There are more hunting licenses in the US (nearly 37M, last I looked) than the number of all soldiers in all armies of the world, combined.
Let's spot you that 3M of those are every active and reserve military member, and every LEO in the U.S.
So that only leaves hunters outnumbering cops and military in the country at 10:1 odds.
That war is over by breakfast on Tuesday the Monday it starts, and 90% of them don't even get to fire a shot before Team Oppression is extinct.
The second and third volley wipes out every Democommunist in these United States, and that's less ammo than those hunters used to sight in last year.
Seriously, the idea that this would be hard is risible.
9 out of 10 hunters would be skunked, without anyone but civilians to shoot at, and that's the biggest tragedy in the whole scenario.
6) A couple of years before his untimely death, WeaponsMan estimated (with copious supporting records and documentation) that the oft-cited hoary statistic of "200M guns" in the US was off and understating things by a factor of 3, minimum. (Common Core grads, that means there were 600,000,000 guns.) That was several years ago, and recent events and sales lead one to the inevitable conclusion that there are probably circa 1 BILLION firearms in private hands in the U.S., and several trillions of rounds of ammunition for same.
7) The idea that we couldn't defeat Iraq and Afghanistan is ludicrous. Our military couldn't, certainly, under Marquess Of Queensbury ROE that required them to extend their pinky fingers, and wait to be shot at before returning fire. But if we simply turned hunters loose on those two countries, and issued bounties, you could move in lions and buffalo to restock the human deserts they'd become, if we'd taken that approach, and it wouldn't have taken more than about a month. And both former nations' populations would be as extinct as Carthaginians after the Third Punic War.
"But Aesop, we'd NEVER do that!!"
Perhaps not. More's the pity.
Now tell me the average hunter wouldn't decide that in a civil war, all bets were off, and human life was too precious to shed blood on behalf of liberty and freedom.
Bear well in mind, you'd be selling this to people who kill a deer every year, and already like guns.
I haven't even brought in the other 200M gun owners with no hunting license, who just want to be left alone. So please, tell me they're all going to sit this one out. I think it far likelier they'll settle that shit with one magazine expended apiece, and then go home in peace for the next 100 years, because they could at that point.
And some of them would take the time to mount the heads on pike poles at the city gates afterwards, pour encourager les autres.
8) I'm supposed to be afraid of Big Tech, and neighbors, because reasons.
a) Tech runs on power. If you forgot that, you're an amateur, and should get back on the porch. If you didn't know that because you never thought of it, shame on you. And kindly STFU. Adults are talking.
b) Neighbors run on food. Right now, "snitches get stiches". In civil war, snitches get body bags. And it's tough to tattle if you can't phone it out. Those Karens are going to learn to MYOFB, or they're going to be an endangered species in about a heartbeat. Some will figure it out after the first time they get cold-cocked like Moldylocks did. The ones who keep yapping after that will resemble Eddie Adams' portrait of a VC in Saigon, just as his mind was opened to a new way of thinking. Suture self.
Bug? Feature? Depends which side of the muzzle you're on.
c) How did big tech, a military machine, and snitches work for TPTB in Saigon, Beirut, or Sarajevo?
How about in Baghdad or Kabul? Are we winning there, or not? Show your work.
So yes, things will get sporty, then they'll get ugly.
But anyone that thinks this is going to be a losing proposition for Average Joe are trying to wargame army men against Indians, thinking the cavalry's carbines are insurmountable.
Tell that to Custer.
That's the correct paradigm to look at a civil (which will be anything but) conflict between the people and the .gov in this country.
Team Oppression can make an example out of the brave but stupid, certainly.
But in the end, they're going to be a dead elephant making a meal for jackals, buzzards, and ants.
And in case no one told you, this war - and that's what it is - kicked off at 8PM Hawaiian time, 11/3/2020. Much like WWII started for the US the day the Japanese carrier fleet sailed for Honolulu. Not on Dec. 7th.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- Bay Area nurses are expressing concern over an ICU training plan announced By Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday.
"We're looking at training RNs, this two-day, very effective, focused to training to speed up opportunities to bring nurses into the ICUs to help out patients that's being rolled out as well," Newsom said at Monday's press conference, detailing the state's strategy to prepare for surging COVID-19 numbers.
Subtitled:
"How To Convince 50,000 Doctors and 200,000 Nurses That You're So Dumb You Don't Know How Blisteringly Dumb You Are".
Apparently next week, CA Gov. Gabbin' Nuisance will also roll out his 5-minute EMT course, his 1 hour paramedic class, and his 5-day brain surgeon program. But this explains how he became governor by collecting enough soda cans and boxtops.
I'm also pretty sure that for going on 30 years, if you have an IQ over 80, you're not allowed to go into politics in this state.
FTR, as stated in the news report, (which amazingly contains actual news) it does, indeed, take a minimum of 6-12 months to train a nurse to function minimally in the ICU, and 2-3 years of practice there to be fully competent at that job.
Suggesting, even if one were high on crack and drunk as hell, that any nurse could be turned loose in any ICU after 2 days, even if they meant a full 48 hours of training, is so asinine as to be beyond even my encyclopedic command of profanity to adequately describe. (But in my defense, if I ever come face-to-face with this asshole, I'll give it a herculean effort.)
Gabbin' Nuisance, Alzheimer Nancy's obviously retarded nephew, demonstrates yet again that no amount of shit will adequately substitute for brains, and this is just the latest proof of concept.
I have an extensive and well-thumbed library of militaria, including guerrilla and unconventional warfare. So do many of you. But always remember some timeless concepts, as the chances for a quiet and orderly society are evaporating by the day.
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C-A-R-V-E-R. Google it. Learn it, live it, love it.
You can't get ballistics off of buckshot. You're also going to have a tough time getting fingerprints off of expended molotovs.
IEDs can be made out of anything. The VC used to put a bullet in a piece of bamboo over a nail in a board, and it worked just fine. Hollywood explosions are a modicum of black powder substitute in a baggie with an ignition source, sitting under a gallon of unleaded in a trashbag.
Indians used to cut telegraph lines, then ambush the wire repair party. Some ideas never get old. Except now we also have water mains, fiber optic cables, cable TV, cell repeaters, etc., ad infinitum.
If a few cubic yards of concrete accidentally get poured into an underground vault, you ain't repairing that for some time.
The same is true if you weld manhole covers and service plates to their rings.
If you shoot the boss, they can replace him in 15 minutes. If you hit the truck with the tools and supplies, that takes days to weeks to replace. But if you take out the guys who fix the stuff, they take months to years to replace. And the other ones don't want to show up for work either, afterwards.
BLM and Antifa already have a rep for burning things, and trying to derail trains. They should get 100% credit for anything like that going forward, forever.
If someone shoots a guy driving a truck, there's a body. But if someone drops a letter off with pictures of his kids at school, and he decides maybe he ought to call in sick, there's no body, and little to follow up on. (One might even have the envelope delivered at a truck stop, and suggest he uncouple, and return home without his load.) Same result.
A train track missing a rail on the outside of a medium curve will usually derail a train. (With modern rails, you have to bridge the contact between the section with wire or something, which BLM has figured out, per recent news reports.)
If that derailment happens to interfere with a major industrial plant, arterial roadway, etc., that's a two-fer.
This is the same reason military manuals recommend dropping tall objects (trees, towers, smokestacks) over roadways, bridges, and power transmission lines. Half the effort, twice the result.
Magnesium burns at 3100°. Thermite (which is equal parts rust dust and aluminum powder or flakes) burns at 4000°. Liquid and natural gas pipelines, cell towers, and telephone block boxes are rather fragile.
ATMs are nowhere near as robustly protected as banks.
You should have maps of solid blue areas, and the downtown hubs, which would essentially become free-fire areas in sporty times. No sense inconveniencing your own people or their neighborhoods if a precision attack would do a much better job.
If a HVT has a back-up generator, they probably don't have two generator back-ups.
Find single points of failure, and exploit them.
Backgammon depends on luck. Chess is for planners.
Going head-to-head against armored vehicles is bad.
Getting the guys inside when they come out to take a piss is much easier.
At modern ordnance counts, it would take hundreds of attacks to cripple a battalion.The same thing can be accomplished with bad food and bad water, and a few hundred cases of the trots.
Armies march on their stomachs. Logistics caravans are always more lightly defended than they ought to be.
Even Samson was defeated by first being weakened, blinded, and hobbled.
Achilles' strength, too, was legend, but the moral is the same: find Achilles' heel.
If you're asking questions of prisoners, remember the immortal words of Dennis Miller:
"Red is positive. Black is negative."
Also remember, it's not technically "waterboarding" if you use diesel.
It takes one bad election to make an insurgent; it takes 10+ years to make another communist. When in doubt, always remember, every dead communist is one less communist. Don't be squeamish or sentimental.
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These are by no means comprehensive nor exhaustive in nature; merely a few thoughts to keep me warm inside on a cold night.
I mention all this not to unleash havoc, but because evidently one side has clearly forgotten what a high-trust society this is, and thus has absolutely no f***ing idea what happens when you use any means available to undermine the most basic trust in the electoral system, and everything else disappears almost instantly as a consequence.
Read up on what happened in places like Beirut, Sarajevo, and Caracas.
Many, if not all of you, have probably seen part or all of this viral video:
It's justified distilled rage, and absolutely heartbreaking.
Some dimbulbs might even think this is the sort of fiat jackassery I approve of, but nothing could be further from the truth.
I said months ago, back in May, that the time to end blanket lockdowns was over. We've long since passed the time when that sort of extra-legal unconstitutional horseshit could be justified on the grounds of an "emergency".
Two days in? Sure. Even two weeks. Maybe even two months.
But ten months into this, it's not an "emergency".
FFS, we're already delivering the first wave of "COVID babies": the kids conceived when people were first stuck at home, with nothing to do but make babies.
So trying to claim "emergency" actions are justified at this date is pure undiluted rose fertilizer.
But, having a few decades in The Biz, I know how movie production locations work.
And those location tents for catering for the crew are usually watched by 2-3 unarmed rent-a-cop security guards. Ditto for the production trucks, with hundreds of thousands of $$$ worth of equipment needed to make a TV show, commercial, or movie.
Lighting, cables, wardrobe, camera and sound gear, etc.
And if I were losing my restaurant, business, livelihood, life savings, my very existence, due to the arbitrary, capricious, and wholly unjustified whims of the assholes who think they run the world, I might be inclined to think outside the box. Or, at least, outside the bottle.
"Hey, that's a nice movie you got there. Be a real shame if anything happened to it."
Just saying. Not advocating.
Hollywood, for all its talk, is run by pussies. If a couple of locations spontaneously combusted, that'd be it. They'd run and hide, or fold up.
They might even be shamed out of living separate lives, and maybe they'd contract with restaurants like the one in the video being run out of business, and buy their meals directly from them, instead of catering companies. Win-win.
But at any rate, the system of two sets of rules, one for the protected benighted Special Snowflake buddies of TPTB, and one for the little taxpaying peons, would end after the expenditure of less than $20 worth of Regular Unleaded and a few glass empties.
Artillery delivered by the fifth or by the beer bottle is pretty hard to stop, not just with Kung Flu injustices, but with certain electoral shenanigans.
"Hey, that's a nice banana republic you almost stole.Be a shame if anything happened to it."
Government is only legitimate if it derives its existence from the consent of the governed.
When that consent is stolen forcibly and non-consentually, one thing's for certain:
There are a lot of ways for the violated peons to be a real flaming pain in the ass.
No one's explained why a USPS truck driver was trucking 20-30 pallet-sized cartons of already-completed PA ballots into PA from NYFS.
No one's explained why all poll watchers and press were lied out of the Atlanta counting room.
No one's explained why after that happened, multiple cartons of ballots were pulled out of hiding and counted, God alone knows how many times.
No one's explained why the woman responsible for that explained on her social media page that she admitted to stuffing the Atlanta ballot boxes and throwing the election victory from Trump (when the rules were being followed) to Biden (once the ballot stuffing began).
No one's explained satisfactorily why Dominion voting machines are pre-loaded to count a single vote for Trump as .87 votes, and a vote for Biden as 1.13 votes (which was why you had the ridiculous fractions of votes showing up on live tallies all night).
No one's explained why all the key swing states all decided, independently, to stop counting votes after 2AM, nor why when they resumed there were magical swings in votes suddenly giving Biden just barely enough votes to win every single state.
No one's explained how, in states that were split 51/49, there suddenly appeared whale-choking gobs of ballots that were 98% Biden, and 2% Trump.
No one's explained why Republican poll watchers were systematically excluded from all the states where such obvious and massive shenanigans occurred, and why the windows were blocked, and why, when they were allowed to watch, it was from half a football field away, through binoculars, providing anything but an actual view of the proceedings.
None of this has been "debunked', no matter how many times the lying sonsofbitches at Communist News Network et al keep repeating The Big Lie, and trying to gaslight the entire country on the real score, when they talk about it at all.
Because there is no explanation, except to acknowledge that election fraud and stealing, not on an Industrial Age scale, but on an Information Age scale, took place in plain sight on Election Night, and for days afterwards, cheered on and abetted by an anti-Trump and pro-communist media, exactly as described by the president, and just as anyone with two brain cells has seen with their own lying eyes.
People were willing to shoot federal agents over one old thieving geezer's range land grazing fee thefts in Nevada. They were one wonky trigger spring from opening the ball, and that was years ago.
Everybody that thinks 70M people now - who know in their bones they've been cheated of a landslide election victory - are going to roll over for wholesale presidential election theft, and do nothing, signify that by standing on your head.
So let's forget that line of appeasement horseshit, and get down to the hog-killin'.
If TPTB try to brazen this out, and install an unlawfully selected leader over this country, they're going to get one helluva shocking surprise. And it's going to leave a mark.
And it's also going to spread faster than Kung Flu once it gets rolling, and make Team Commie wish for the good old days of just being content with their share of the graft.
I'm trying to see a downside to this, but it's getting harder every passing day to even care, and easier to just want to get down to it.
Theories of election fraud have all been debunked.
Global warming is real.
You can print money forever without consequence.
You can tax your way to prosperity.
To the Leftards, these and dozens more recockulous lunacies are all self-evident "truths".
They're as sure of them as they are that the sun will rise in the morning.
Their soothsayers at ABCNNBSeeBS all assure them of the immovably true truthiness of all of it, and ignore everything that doesn't fit that narrative.
Not content to merely exclude opposing views, they now try to eliminate all trace of them, and then go after their families.
And in about 7 weeks, if not sooner, this is what happens:
They're going to be stunned, gobsmacked, shocked, their flabber will be well and truly gasted, and they will have the unmistakable imprint of a cod on their faces when they get codwalloped.
And some of them are going to be the first ones on their block to be the guys prying that IED out of the ground.
Play stupid games: win stupid prizes.
But they really and truly live in an alternate reality, and have no idea exactly what they've been prying on this time, and won't until their minds are opened.
Generally, by pieces of steel and exploding Composition B, at about 4000fps.
Bog simple kick@$$ rock anthem from a mature band with nothing to prove, and got them their first charted single. I was never a fan of J.A. (because I didn't drop acid in the '60s), but this one from the re-organized J. Starship iteration is timeless, and sounds as good now as it did nearly 40 years ago. if anything, it underlines how humble and simply untalented most modern schlock rock is.
We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation....We purely and simply deserved EVERYTHING that happened afterward."
Those words ring down through all time. And they really do wound my heart with a monotonous languor. And yes, I chose that phrase a-purpose. Capice?
Sound familiar, people? You don't feel like you understand what's really happening?
You don't love freedom enough to stand up for it at the only chance you're ever going to get, consequences be damned? Burglars and despots rarely send out appointments. It's come-as-you-are. Ready or not. You think you're going to magic your way out of that date?
If so, you can expect to deserve the same EVERYTHING that Solzhenitsyn and his fellows received. In spades.
Too harsh? Try it in a lighter vein:
"We're afraid! We might get in trouble!"
Well you can just kiss my ass.
I don't care if you puss out. I don't care if Trump even throws in the towel. (And I don't think he will, but even if he did, it wouldn't matter.)This ain't about him, nor simple partisan shoving at the trough. It's about the entire idea of America. You're willing to wimp out on that?Enjoy your boxcar ride, and see what coloring inside the lines gets your Quisling ass down the road.
There isn't going to be another chance in 2022, 0r 2024. Or EVER.
This was the last election where you had a shot.
I repeat:
This was the last election where you had a shot.There will never be another.
There won't be another free election in your lifetime, for anyone who reads this, unless this gets addressed, and I mean butnow.
Not in a minute, next week, end of the month, nor 6 months, not in a year, not in NeverNeverLand fairytales somewhere down the road.
This month and next. By them. Or by you. Or, please God, by Us.
And the absolute final expiration date on that is Jan. 20, 2021. At noon, EST.
That's the absolute Go To Hell date.
If TPTB won't fix it before then, they have no reason to fix it, ever.
And they won't, nor show any sign of doing anything other than ignoring you, wholesale.
And if they don't do it RFN, what're you gonna do about it?
Vote at them?
That's risible, and derisible, simultaneously.
Any fucktard sumbitch talking about "regrouping" and "continuing on forward" for "next time" that hasn't factored in ropes, bullets, and napalm in their calculus is talking out their ass.
There isn't going to BE a "next time".
That outcome was the whole point of THIS time.
"Imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."
Absolutely god-damned right.
That's the message, delivered with precision, clarity, and finality.
If you don't get that, in your bones, you're self-selecting to be collateral damage.
And about you, if you wallow in that amidst your self-pity, IDGAF.
"This could never happen here. We're a democracy." - Venezuela, 1998
Nobody is coming to save you. This ain't the movies, and you ain't John Wayne.
Why? "Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us."
If you have a leader, follow them.
If you don't, BE one.
If TPTB go through with this, if they think they can brazen the theft of an election, a presidency, and an entire country, simply because they don't care about what it costs them, there's but one answer to that.
In the absence of orders or direction from higher authority, find someone or something Communist, and destroy it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
That's going to be the Prime Directive for some good time. Count on it.
*(FTR: Yes, I re-rendered the Biden meme with a bigger, crisper picture, and no annoying watermark, because I hate those. Sign 'em? Sure. In the corner somewhere. In the middle of the pic? Philistine.)
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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