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It is not a "palace coup" and you do not live in the Soviet Union

Posted by freedomforall 9 months, 2 weeks ago to Politics
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Excerpt:
"When you realize that your enemies are able to do some things that they’re not supposed to be allowed to do, it’s easy to conclude that they face no constraints at all.

But the most powerful people in the world did everything they could (which is to say, everything they could get away with) to make sure Trump died on July 13th. They would have succeeded — as Trump says, they should have succeeded — but for an act of Providence.

They did everything they could for years to conceal Joe Biden’s mental deterioration, and then watched helplessly as his brain liquefied on live television four months before the election.

They did everything they could for the last three weeks to hot-swap Biden for anyone but Kamala Harris, but they couldn’t make it work.

For exigent 2020 race-baiting reasons (and perhaps as an insurance policy, which the Biden family is now cashing in), they were stuck with a dramatically repellent and incompetent vice presidential candidate, who alone is legally entitled to the campaign funds and the party delegates.

Apparently this matters, because our enemies are making costly and complex maneuvers as if it matters.

None of these games would be necessary if they were actually in lawless, sovereign control of the system."

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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I would disagree. I'm sure that, if free market is allowed to exist and all the other prerequisites are met, professionals and organizations would emerge that would be able to do the job quite nicely.

    My grand thesis is that huge problems plague security/defense/policing/law in society for one specific reason: because this part of society has been captured by the cancerous parasite that is 'the state'. If it was to be cut out, the humanity would be lifted out of the dark ages into a bright future.
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  • Posted by term2 9 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I think we all will get a slowdown in the leftist march IF Trump is elected in Nov. The march to total control wont stop, but it will be slower. If Trump is NOT elected in November, things will continue to really deteriorate at a faster pace. I have made whatever money I can make, so I wont have to be tortured trying to run a business. I will probably stop listening to the garbage the pundits put out there trying to get me to do what they want. At this point, I pretty much make up my own mind as to whats going on based on the info I can accumulate, and act on that determination (If its wrong, so be it and I live with having been wrong)
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  • Posted by $ Commander 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    If that's the case I would defer to the principles expressed in The Day The Earth Stood Still.
    Gort: A robot programmed with empirical philosophical and lawful values to police.
    Some risk, yes, but not as much as leaving policing and law to the human interpretive.

    Humans, as a whole, suck, at learning philosophy and law. Just to be colloquial.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think that would work. This would need to be a rather large (possibly for profit) organization operating during peace time.
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  • Posted by $ Commander 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't need to hire that kind of protection. I've over 100 good friends local if SHTF.
    5 combat vets out of 8 military within literal shouting distance of the house, and all a wee bit perturbed over the conditions within the country.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    By protection I meant not just people with tongues but also people with guns. I was responding to your statement of 'I need a constitutional government to protect me from strategic usurpation of my natural rights'. I scoff at the idea that government is needed to protect rights. Technically speaking, it doesn't have to be a forceful monopolist, assuming you can define laws universally (a system which I am a proponent of).
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I am 57. I never planned to live beyond 65. (Both male grandparents were gone by those ages, one at 55). We tend to work ourselves to death (polish descent).

    My father made it to 81(surprisingly, but he avoided chemo for his lung cancer, and outlived his prognosis by a couple of years).

    Anyways. I am right there with you. I think I worked hard enough to take the path of least resistance.

    But my daughter (and her Gen-Z Generation) are going to be forced to stand up, and avoid that path. Funny, they grew up watching Dystopian Future movies. I think they are as prepared as any generation before them (the educated ones).

    I am Black Pilled for my future, but White Pilled for theirs. Because they are NOT TAKING the bs. They have ZERO retirement options, and recognize those of us who worked for 20yrs paying 50% of what we made in taxes. They know the Federal Reserve is a Con...

    As for you, term2... God bless you on whatever you decide is worth your time and energy! Thanks for being part of the forum.
    RESPECT! (My father was NOT using a computer at 79 much less 70. A retired electrician)!
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  • Posted by term2 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I am 79 years old and wont last to see the eventual collapse of the USA- just as well. At this point I would be better off just "going where they treat you best..." as the NOmad capitalist says.
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  • Posted by term2 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I concur that there may be a slowdown on leftist plans, but the left will just take to court any really significant changes. When I heard Ramaswammy talk about firing half the federal worders, I was encouraged, but realized it would land in court in milliseconds and never implemented. I think total collapse of the USA is the only way- in other words to start OVER.
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  • Posted by $ Commander 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Cite case, language and ruling.
    I can't evaluate without specifics, just as you cannot evaluate my specifics without me clearly stating the conditions of my case.

    Rhetoric is not appreciated.
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  • Posted by $ Commander 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    The sticking point of J-6 ..... These folks did not realize they were, literally, on foreign territory granted by the Organic Act of 1871. They stepped onto private property and got provoked and set up for the penalization.
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  • Posted by $ Commander 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    That depends on the definitions and limitations of protection.
    Under common law, pre-1871, one could have hired a lawyer who was not an attainder to the court. Today, lawyers, most, represent the court; BAR association (British Accreditation Registry) I think I'll stick to representing myself.
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  • Posted by mhubb 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    nope
    you do not have any standing

    just like the parents that did not want stuff force injected into their children

    no standing for you...

    (standing is only allowed for cases the court WANTS to hear and rule on)
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not giving up. Will Trump this time be able to beat the commie cheat?
    Hell, if I know~~but that will not stop me from doing what I believe is my duty toward salvaging a Constitutional Republic.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I do plan to vote, but not with $ in a federal election where there is no accountability of how it is used by the GOP or underlings.
    (If I could donate to Trump's protection detail, I would.)
    Heck, I can't even be sure that they'll count my vote the way I intend.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    What I just told nonconformist. Bet you two won't even lift a finger to vote against a deeper level of evil that is trying its best to destroy this once free country. Yeah, just give up and talk, talk, talk on a keyboard.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    More of the same? Were you on another planet when Trump was in office? You'll never reach a perfection level you prefer by letting things get worse while just complaining about it.
    Personally, I'm sick of women with little children and girls of all ages being raped and murdered by that flood of illegals in the news. All that shit wasn't "more of the same" happening before.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I wouldn't give Trump anything. The only thing that would persuade me is if he became more like Javier Milei and started shutting down government departments and cutting costs like crazy. Otherwise, it is more of the same crap, different tune.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, at some point we are all going to have to face some of this. And stand up against it.

    Good luck to you!

    May you not end up arrested in solitary for 1,000+ days like Some Jan 6-ers.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Why couldn't you instead hire a private company of your own choosing to provide protection, assuming no state prevents their lawful business existing and no state robs you blind by forcefully overcharging you for the same supposed service?
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