Posted without commentary. There is great truth here… Follow the link:
BRENT HAMACHEK – […] For those of us who still believe in and embrace the ideas of our founding, for those who believe that the individual and their liberty are of paramount importance and prime value, for those of us who believe that free market capitalism is the most moral and just system for organizing economic activity, we need to have an epiphany. We need to awaken to the reality that we are not a majority. We are not a vocal minority with the same rights as the majority. We are now dissidents. We do not have the same voice as our ever-strengthening oppressors, and we do not have the same rights that they enjoy.
For those who might argue that there more of us, or at least as many of us, who believe in individual liberty and free market capitalism than there are opponents to same, I would suggest that you should not confuse a simple head count with total political atomic mass. The positions within society that our opponents hold and the institutions and machinery they control gives them leverage beyond simple membership numbers.
As to our being cast in the role of dissidents, we have no choice. How we conduct ourselves in that role will be the difference between having a chance over the long term to ultimately prevail or having to spend a century or more under the totalitarian’s thumb. We need to understand the role we are in, the most effective course of action we can take, and above all, we must understand and accept our limitations. A failure to understand and accept the latter will only deepen and prolong our subjugation. (read more)
Ill tell ya what. Call me a dissident. Or whatever.
Im not down for Marxism. They wont get that far with it. I will not comply.
Similar sentiment here – written by someone who’s lived it (Brazil)
Why I Can’t Be ‘Live And Let Live’ About Socialism
Hi, sad but very true article.
I wish that I knew a way out of this.
But I’m totally stumped right now.
Totally and absolutely stumped.
The only way out is for the states to secede – break away the parts that are still under the control of those who value liberty over all else, and establish a new nation(s). Texas has already begun the process.
The Texas Nationalist Movement is growing rapidly, as an increasing number of Texans become aware of the fact that the republic has been lost, that it is irretrievably corrupt and compromised.
PLEASE join us and support us. It’s the only viable option to another bloody civil war, or subjugation by the Communists that have taken over the Federal Government of the USA.
PLEASE VISIT: texitnow.org
Ray, and for states to secede from chit hole cities. There must be ways for all the red counties to be heard. Instead one large blue city subjugates all the counties.
We need to get rid of the dirty, corrupt brass at the top of DOD for a start, they are using our military to get rich
Man will never truly be free until the last Endless Wars General is strangled with the entrails of the last FIB Agent.
One possibility: Lawmakers in Montana are in discussions regarding a bill that would classify the anarcho-communist group Antifa as a domestic terror organization.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/antifa-could-be-branded-as-domestic-terrorists-under-bill-being-discussed-in-montana_
Another: New California State: New California is a new state in development exercising its constitutional Right to form from the State of California as codified under Article IV Section 3 of the United States Constitution and in the United States Declaration of Independence.
WE ARE AT WAR! For the very Freedoms our Constitution Protects
YOU MUST NOT COMPLY WITH COMMUNISM
DO NOT GIVE YOUR FREEDOM AWAY
New California State – http://www.newcaliforniastate.com
Ray, 100% agree. The Republic is lost. All institutions are corrupt and have failed. Thanks for the link. Texitnow.org
….never give up.
The current situation in Texas gives pause to the idea of secession, it should. Hopefully it has been a wake up call to residents to maybe pay more attention to the people running their state.
I for one don’t want my state seceding. Slighty-better Carolina is corrupt to the core and we’d be much worse off out of the union.
There are a few left.
All ugly.
< I wish that I knew a way out of this.>
Said the joker to the thief.
To much confusion….can’t get no relief
Nice!
There must be someway outa here
Seems like some of you didn’t do as Sundance bid, and FOLLOW THE LINK, to the article.
A WELL written, detailed article which suggests a way forward, and has NOTHING to do with suceeding.
Its about firstly, RECOGNISING that you are a DISSIDENT, and once you embrace that, charting a path for moving forward that doesn’t waste your time and energy, but makes you a PRODUCTIVE dissident.
Check it out, before you comment?
Dutch- you nailed it.
As Dutchman usually does.
One (of tons) important point is that we can not think of our actions as saving a trump presidency. It is so much bigger than that.
And within that article, a link to another excellent article Why they cheat
There is something glaringly, obviously, missing from the entire article (yes, I read it).
God.
No one, NO ONE, can structure any future without accounting for the Presence of Our Lord.
Now re-evaluate.
Kinda a different outlook, huh?
And Christians have always been dissidents.
We are strangers in a strange land.
This is not our home.
We’ve no king to conquer, we have a King.
We already have the advantage.
God is missing from this conversation. We have turned away from Him, as a nation. We have killed tens of millions of His children by abortion. We are now being ruled by criminals and degenerates. We are no longer under God’s Blessing. We must repent, as a nation, before we can be in God’s favor again.
I agree with you Robert, abortion has helped destroy the morality of the country. We have MUCH to atone for and probably don’t even know the worst of what is done with our taxes.
I saw God in the article. What I didn’t see that should have been included was listing mainline churches as institutions that are increasingly supportive the principles of the suppressors.
Follow the link in his article to Why They Cheat.
Two days ago I came and asked my fellow Treepers to pray for justice to be served in an ongoing lawsuit against illegal processing of absentee ballots, and in particular asked for prayer that our side would win during the hearing held yesterday morning.
I cannot begin to tell you how utterly disappointed I was after getting a bunch of people to call into the meeting — to try and put pressure on the leftist judge — when all that transpired during the hearing was the two lawyers agree their evidence had been or would be shared with the other.
That was it.
Then they decided the next hearing would take place in two months, but because the judge’s main scheduling computer was down, no exact date was set.
We started on October 9 and so far things in this case have been slow-walked to at least mid-April.
All I could think of was God’s most excellent ways, and how we have long abandoned them.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 —
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, the heart of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
I did read it and I understand what the author was saying. Seems many who claim to have read didn’t understand it.
Succession IS dissension. In many ways it is the ultimate act of dissension. It conforms to everything that the article speaks of.
And to those who claim that succession is impossible, I refer them to Nigel Farage and his years of work prior to the BrExit vote. It took years and many predicted failure along the way. In the end the UK did succeed from the EU.
A collection of Red States – Florida west to Texas and north to the Dakotas should work on creating a Republic of American States and succeed. Patriotic MAGA households should relocate to these states and build the political base it takes for these states to succeed from the USA. Demographics are against us. We need to change that paradigm and concentrate on the MAGA Red States that in which we can still effect change.
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Secession?
I did read it…but Missouri Mule’s comment reminded me of a classic song lyric.
No sense of humor?
And…on the bright side, look at all the thoughtful discussion it ignited.
Husband and I, along with two seventy somethings and our young-one of 48, traveled to D.C. for the rally on the 6th.
We did not break into anything — heck, we were with the mass of people at the back of the building whose crime it was that we were on the grounds of the “people’s house.”
Yet within hours we were labeled insurrectionists.
I believe every person who attended that rally with the purest of intentions and love for our country and President, and then were labeled by scum as being insurrectionists, quickly realized they are/we are American dissidents.
Well, they can call me dissident but I am no more a dissident than a racist which they also call me and millions of us. Being realistic, yes I see that they’ve added a 3rd new horrid label to me / us. First I / us got labeled racist, add domestic terrorists to that and finally dissidents. I am NONE of those things, they can call me that all they want but THEY ARE that, not me. They know it and that’s why they cheat.
Exactly Dutch.
And, that’s what’s happening currently. People are learning they are dissidents. And all they are doing is living up to our American founding values.
I would suggest 2 Americas. We need to organize & support our own shops, doctors, etc, as much as possible, push back on mask wearing whenever possible, get involved locally in school boards etc, but most importantly, get involved in regaining control over vote counting process.
@Heidi
In short, Conservatives have to adopt the same self-reliance mindset as Black people under Jim Crow.
While the article makes several pertinent points, it’s unrealistically sanitary. There will be some elements to restore individual liberties and private enterprise, but it will not be void of bloodshed. History supports this.
As the article points out,…PLEASE tell me of ANY previous period in the History of Humanity, which closely parrallels what we have been and are experiencing?
Firstly, America truly IS an Exceptional nation, like none other in history.
Secondly, no other conmunist or globalist takeover has included an engineered virus, “intersectionality”, “critical race theory”, etc.
Therefore, I submit citing history as a guarantee of a violent outcome is,…weak.
Frankly, I see no way that violence can be effective in the current and ongoing struggle.
What ya gonna do, shoot “the enemy of the people” CNN, etc?
Violence will not end Big Tech, Mainstream media, multinational corporations, the Education system indoctrination of our youth, etc.
I am well experienced and schooled in violence, and if I thought it an effective strategy I would be there.
I simply see no target, nor ANY benefit to our side in its application.
I am a Dissident, as defined in the article, and the best weopon we have is the asking of questions, NOT the putting forth of answers.
IMHO
The French Revolution?
The French Revolution was hideous in the extreme. I shudder every time I think of it.
With apologies. We/I have been asking questions for at least 30 years now, hoping others will take notice and ask the same questions themselves. President Trump not only had the same questions, he took action. He inspired at least 80,000,000 to act at the ballot box and state-wide for patriotic political purposes.
It is time for wonderful, beautiful, resist-actions everywhere. Communicate. Act locally.
Examples: Texit.org + New California + Montana declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist group. Let’s pile on the examples. We will not go gentle into that good night. Why go to violence first?
“They” didn’t use violence in an obvious way (except all those wars to gather billions from the war-machine/weapons-industry/data-gathering along with destroying the bodies and minds of thousands of young Americans). Add on more billions from “global warming” fraud. Etc. Etc.
We are smarter and more committed. We have the American can-do spirit. Pile on the examples here in the spirit of Sundance and President Trump.
When Psychopaths rule the People become hysterical. We may not bring violence to this confrontation but these madmen surly don’t mind mixing it up with us. Remember what happened in Prague in the spring of 1989? Some student dissidents got together to protest Communism and proceeded to get their heads bashed in. To be sure we are all nonviolent peaceful dissidents but violence against us seems inevitable. How are we to deal with this very “effective” violence that is being directed at us?
Uh, Clay, not so much. We are NOT all nonviolent peaceful dissidents. While I agree with your point about the way forward, violence in self-defense is not only acceptable, it’s a requirement. It IS the reason for the 2d Amendment. And no one should forget it.
But to your point and the point he made in the article, there will be martyrs.
The approaches in the article are not mutually exclusive to confrontation. I’m just saying that there is no place in history, at least that I can recall, that a tyranny was ever deposed without bloodshed. Trust me, no one desires violence, but until people like this have “skin in the game”, they are slow to hear the oppressed.
In other words there are no real red coats to shoot. I agree, I too am ready and primed but who do I shoot? I do see an army of lone wolves fixing our mess by shooting the most egregious of our enemies domestic one at a time. If there is a push back on secession by the federals we may get our targets, but damn it will be hard to shoot them at first.
Not wearing the clear face shield I was using.
Not going for 11 yr overdue colonoscopy because I am not submitting to unnecessary medical procedures.
i.e. Wuhan virus test the day before the proceedure “to protect the medical personnel”.
I know cancer survivors who don’t think a colonoscopy is an “unnecessary medical procedure”. But as they say…it’s your funeral.
Callous response
As someone who has had issues I don’t think refusing a colonoscopy should become some sort of badge of political dissent.
The dissent is refusing to wear a mask and participating in the “testing charade”.
Be careful about mask-righteousness. The problem is the control with tryannical edicts — masks all the time, everywhere. I will wear a mask where and when I choose. If I have an illness – cold or flu – I will wear a mask to decrease the flow of virus to others. My choice.
I wear a mask when I’m on my tractor mowing. That’s it. And masks are not effective where a virus is concerned read the warning label. They are very effective in controlling pliable gullible serfs though.
I had the flu once, about 2005. I isolated myself in my room for over a week and washed my hands about 50x/day.
No one else in the household became ill, nor my father who I was with all morning m, before I fell ill in the afternoon two days before a planned week long vacation to Pigeon Forge, TN for a bible conference.
On the flipside, the worst cases of flu in my life were when I was mandated to take a flu shot in order to participate in certain activities (and these were the only times I took it). My favorite line about the masks is that A mask is as effective in controlling the spread of Coronavirus as a diaper is to spreading the smell of a baby’s runny defecation. Simply put, the masks are touchy, feely things designed to give false hope to those who dutifully wear them. In many of those nursing homes with no outside visitation and gowned and masked workers, how did the virus come in for the first time in June? It most assuredly wasn’t mailed in or transmitted by family outside a window. It was introduced by infected workers wearing masks and, most likely, gowns and gloves!
There is evidence mask wearing causes tooth decay. https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dentist-mask-mouth-causing-tooth-decay-bad-breath-clenching-and-grinding-teeth
Before the China flu did you ever wear a mask when sick ?
Badge of political dissent? What the hell does that mean?I believe Deplorable Infidel was just venting at the state of affairs of medicine today. Why take it personal? I’m fighting cancer as well and know EXACTLY how he feels. Masks don’t do squat and the medical community as a whole are well aware of that yet the charade continues.
Free will, personal choices, INDIVIDUAL’S medical needs.
This country has been sold a bill of BS about “prevention”. Huge insurance/pharma/institutional shift in dollars from providing sick care to “well care”. Just because it’s on the “tick list” doesn’t give it merit for all. Many factors should be considered when submitting to medical testing and diagnostics. One size does not fit all, not to mention, AMA recommendations today will change tomorrow and the reasons are usually influenced by lobbyists, not patient outcomes.
Not to minimize the replies of the other treepers here, but I think yours sums up the state of modern medicine most succinctly.
There are no co-pays for my “wellness care”, including an annual physical exam (now called “wellness exam”) and procedures such as colonoscopies.
I will incur the displeasure of my Rheumatologist as well for my decision. About my age, he has endured 2 surgeries for both colon cancer and prostate cancer.
BTW, sorry to everyone for veering this thread so far off topic.
The push back is to the medical profession / big business that says, “You have to do _____, it is for your own good.” Truth is all I have to do is die some day appointed by God Almighty. I do not have to do anything man tells me. I might be forced to do something but that is not “me having to do it.”
Our true nature is bent forever to freedom. Notice in the Garden there were no “you have to do” rules. Just one “don’t do” rule. Part of created in God’s likeness is freedom and freedom is not forced rules. Now that being said there are abuses on freedom and since the fall our baser sin corrupted instincts need curbing, but for sure a colonoscopy falls into the don’t have to do. Now if I refuse the test and get the crapper cancer it was my decision that I was free to make.
Of course it’s your choice. But as someone who has survived multiple cancers I think a colonoscopy is a simple way to protect yourself.
But true and honest
And real compassionate too huh? Sometimes honesty can be delivered with a little loving kindness. It don’t cost much but it goes a long way. Deplorable Infidel wouldn’t have mentioned it I suspect if it wasn’t a concern and a frustration to him. Why jump on him?
You are correct regarding my frustration.
The virus test is the “unnecessary medical procedure” .
My prostate biopsy in 2016 came back with cancer in 5 of 12 cores.
I know where I am going.
2Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Sorry – apparently I misunderstood what you were referring to as unnecessary.
Good luck to you.
No problem. Sometimes this blogging is like texting.
Too easy to misunderstand and/or be misunderstood.
Have a good weekend and stay warm!
Best wishes to you, Deplorable_Infidel as you take every measure possible to care for yourself as you find best. Our choice to be our own doctor first and then delegate some of the responsibility.
No harm no foul. Everyone if hurting these days. Sorry if I offended. I have cancer that is returning with a vengeance and am probably gonna lose an eye. Don’t care really this body of death is fading. The great physician has Deplorable Infidel in His loving hands and his faith will sustain him. God bless all here!
God bless you
I’m really sorry this is happening to you….and to everyone affected by this horrible disease.
My sisters and I are under the watch of a geneticist at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance because we recently found out we have an issue with a gene. I’ve had several cancers and so far I’m pretty lucky.
Very sorry to hear about what you are going through!
Friend, I know you know the Lord. So it won’t surprise you to learn that He has provided for us from the beginning in His creation…
Consider as just one example, the spice turmeric:
“Turmeric and curcumin extract have been extensively studied for their ability to kill various cancer cell lines. In fact, the literature is so abundant (see: 800 health benefits of turmeric) that it is both surprising and disheartening that so many patients who are in need of safe, effective and affordable treatments are not being given information about it.”
Big Med and Big Pharma of course won’t tell you this.
https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/turmeric-extract-strikes-root-cause-cancer-malignancy
Thank you.
Everything that man’s body required to live forever was found in the Garden of Eden. However, when sin entered, our bodies were changed so that they would deteriorate. For example, I think this is when humans lost the ability to synthesis Vitamin C (which most other mammals can), etc.
And yet, homo sapiens is the longest living land mammal.
I guess that’s cuz we learned how to make orange juice. ?
Redemption is freeing, isn’t it? May the good Lord continue to strengthen your inner man for this life and until you see Him face to face.
In the meantime though, have you tried regaining a measure of metabolic health through adjusting what and when you’re eating? Could be worth a look at the work of the happy tribe of doctors who weigh in at “Low Carb Down Under” conferences (find on youtube), if you haven’t yet.
A few dissident doctors began the low-carb/intermittent fasting-toward-metabolic-health movement (very proud of our Prof Noakes who was persecuted by South Africa’s medical mafia for years for insisting on following the data) and it has since helped millions. Like the Deplorables, they were laughed to scorn and vilified to begin with.
Thanks to a friend, I discovered the liberation of fasting and intermittent fasting as described by Dr. Jason Fung. I lost 50 pounds in 2019.
Slacked off + “virus”, etc. most of the weight came back in 2020. I got cracking again and have lost 30 since Thansgiving, so I am well on my way to being able to get into all my skinny pants again.
Every resolution needs a clear, measurable goal. Well done. God bless.
God bless you with His Healing Hands.
I am looking forward to what was promised to us, when we get our glorified bodies.
Philippians 3:20-21 KJV
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: [21] Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Romans 8:22-23 KJV
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Until that time, sometimes we have to hurt.
2 Corinthians 12:8-9 KJV
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. [9] And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Amen. Once again DI, you have brought His Word to me at a time I needed it most. You have been an earthly messenger and I hope our souls and “glorified bodies” meet in His Kingdom.
We are blessed. God’s Peace and Love be with you always.
God bless you
Actually, he already has.
Ephesians 1:3 KJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
The nation of Israel will get their physical blessings when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to the earth to set up his Kingdom.
oh please
Uh…you don’t wanna go via colon cancer. Get the scope. Don’t short circuit the time He’s appointed for you. There’s work to be done. And reward in the life to come. Revelation 22.
Thanks for the advice.
I think my children and grandchildren would agree with you.
Philippians 1:23-24 KJV
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: [24] Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
I have been doing the home sample/ send to lab test yearly.
I have had one colonoscopy and they found a couple non-cancerous polyps and removed them. I assessed my personal risk of getting the cancer and it is quite low. Going under anesthesia scares me more that the test itself to be honest. Anyway, it is a personal decision, but like all health issues, it should not be ignored.
I do think doctors sometimes get carried away with wanting to remove any little growth or abnormality they can find with their fancy equipment “just in case”. I have read a lot of research on autopsies of people who did not have colon cancer but had lots of polyps. Interesting.
Recently I overheard on a TV an advertisement for a law firm seeking clients with cancer, so they could file lawsuits “for not diagnosing the cancer in time”.
Polyps are internal skin tags. Given a fancy name and usually a “pre cancerous” label. The human body is pre cancerous given enough time, it will develop.
Colonoscopies, while valuable in many cases, also have a significantly high risk of colon perferation. My dermatologist died a few months after a perferated colon, significant blood loss, sepsis. In the past few years, it is no longer recommended as routine testing for anyone over 70.
I did cologuard the at home test. Sent it back got my results . Do it again in three years. Not 100 percent but better than doing nothing at all..
Absent any significant family history or symptoms, that makes sense to me.
Just had my third colonoscopy, this time without any sedative. I was luckily not required to take a CCP virus test first. It felt like bad menstrual cramps for about 5 minutes. I was very happy to be alert the entire time.
I know a lady in her seventies who had her colon removed and is now wearing a permanent bag because her “routine colonoscopy” ruptured her intestines.
I looked into the statistics for this kind of error. If you get a colonoscopy every ten years as recommended and get four or five of them, then about 1 in 500 will have their colons ruptured.
There have also been people treated for colon cancer — chemotherapy and all of that — who DID NOT HAVE cancer but who were among the unlucky who got two false positives in a row on their test.
Doctors provide conflicting advice on the necessity of a colonoscopy.
I opted not to have one after my friend was bleeding from his rectum for a week.
But . . . others will have different judgments as to what decision is RIGHT FOR THEM.
This is entirely in line with the new attitude of freedom I hope we can reclaim in this nation.
Some people will wear masks, some people won’t. People can themselves decide how cautious they wish to be.
Neighbor lady in her 50’s couldn’t get a colonoscopy she knew she needed for 6 months because of the covid bullshit. She has cancer but the outlook is fair.
They dam near killed my dad with his first colonoscopy. His second went better because the Doctor had his first reaming and he found out what it was like. No cancer for dad but he eventually died like all of us will.
Agree. In terms of diagnostics/prevention, colonoscopies are invasive and high risk. Do they catch a cancer early on an asymptomatic, routine 5 year diagnostic? Maybe, but I am willing to bet that the are more incidents of a perfed colon than cancer diagnosis on the routine 10 yr procedure.
Sorry, cant keep up with the changing/age related/risk factor recommendations. 5yrs for some, 10 for others. Mammos and pap smear similarly are ever changing.
DI, we want to continue to enjoy your fellowship.
Please consider that colonoscopies save lives, and do what it takes to get one, even if you have to take a stupid chinavirus test to get it. The political statement of refusing a virus test is not worth the real risk to your health of avoiding a colonoscopy.
Please do not use getting the test as a reason to not take care of yourself. I have had three tests for one each procedure I needed.
I didn’t like having to take them, but I prefer to stay among the living. We need you to stay among the living too.
It’s called the Plandemic for a reason…true evil.
Makes me think of a short, very specific Andrew Breitbart video clip.
I won’t post a YT clip here, or anywhere.
When questioning leftists, there are internal inconsistencies that may stump them and give them pause. If they support Muslims, do they oppose homosexuality? If they venerate Ruth Bader Ginsburg, do they know of her not-well-hidden eugenic impulses (abortion being good because it suppressed the populations of the less desirable)? Or that she only hired 1 black person out of 150 law clerks? If they support trans rights, do they suppose trans women dominating “cis” women in sports? Where do they stand on TERFs (trans exclusionary radical feminists)? Do they like them because they’re radical feminists or dislike them because they’re trans-exclusionary? And which of those camps do they want to succeed in deplatforming the other? Leftists don’t support free speech for “hate speech”, but most of them hold one belief or another that, if expressed, someone else on the Left would call hate speech. Which is why they should support the traditional liberal notion of free speech.
Yes, you can make a democrat friend blubber if you NICELY say — as I did recently — that “I’m personally going to benefit from the minimum wage increase because I prefer going to the robotic checkout lines.”
Then I added, “It was obviously supported by big robotic tech. As you know, poor people have no political power.”
Then I watched him squirm and frown and blubber.
This kind of POINTING OUT THE CONTRADICTIONS in their positions can be done very gently.
I like the way you think.
Me too!!!
No tips necessary for robots!
Islam is right about women.
Islam is right about homosexuals.
Islam is right about rape.
You could do this all day long. Not a question, but it causes a major fracture at the point of intersectionality with the believer and the followers.
Something from the link,which I think he is all wet on, Also what is Turning Point
“Let’s break Western Civilization into two segments, secular and religious, and ask this question: Who was the most important dissident in history? In each segment, I believe we can come up with a clear winner: Socrates and Jesus Christ, respectively.
Socrates planted a flag in the ground for reason and rational thought. He built his intellectual “church” upon the rock of Plato, the philosopher to whom other philosophers say all must answer. Every advancement in Western Civilization, whether in agreement or not with the Ancient Greeks, is somehow derivative of what Socrates started.
As for Jesus Christ, there is hardly a need to defend this choice. To the extent that Judaism preceded Him and launched Him, He transcended it. As for other religions of the world that already existed, He surpassed them. As for religions that came after, they were in answer to Him. He built His church upon the rock that was Peter, and the world has never been the same.
These two great dissidents had two things in common. First, they were both killed, dramatically and tragically, as thanks for their efforts. Second, and more lastingly, they both embraced a method of teaching that caused them to last eternally and grow in influence:
Brent’s words & ideas have been used in a successful presidential campaign.
Brent serves as the Director of Policy Research for entrepreneur, Jeff Webb’s, Middle-Class Warriors.
He helped to build Turning Point USA by developing its key foundational literature of ideas.
This includes:
– Social Justice Defense of Capitalism
– Solutions for High Cost Education
– Solutions for Healthcare Affordability & Access
– Power of Free Markets to Improve the Human Experience
Socrates searched for the Truth. Jesus brought it.
John 14:6
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.”
Socrates is a human being; Jesus Christ is 100% man but also 100% God.
Matthew 16:18
And I also say unto thee, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
Gill’s Ccommentary notes “By the rock on which Christ builds his church, is meant, not the person of Peter; for Christ does not say, upon thee Peter, but upon this rock, referring to something distinct from him…
Christ is the rock of ages…on which the church is built.
Of course there’s alway this time-tested retort: “You’re a vegetarian? That’s nice. Hitler was a vegetarian.”
Or, Trump never served in the military!
Answer:True. Hitler did though, won two iron crosses. Horribly wounded, and gassed.
Trump is out to hurt illegal aliens who are productive, law abiding people!
Answer: Well what about Hitler? He was an illegal alien. Renounced his Austrian citizenship and lived stateless in Germany. Too bad they did not deport him and avert a world war.
The stupid German people elected Hitler, just like stupid Americans elected Trump!
Answer: Um…no. Hitler was appointed chancellor by the president, who suffered from dementia. Have to be careful about presidents with dementia.
Mind explaining what this means,
“The stupid German people elected Hitler, just like stupid Americans elected Trump!”
He was listing Leftist arguments and how to refute them.
“The stupid German people elected Hitler,” is the Leftist lie. The counter to the lie is that Hitler was never elected, he was appointed by the German President of the time who was suffering dementia just as our China Joe is.
“The stupid German people elected Hitler, just like
stupidpatriotic Americans elected Trump!”Truth, can I copy your post and use it all over? Very poignant!
Of course. We are not in the “big club”, but we are in the big fight.
BAZINGA!!
To be an illegal alien one has to break the law so it would be an oxymoron to claim law abiding people would it not?
Excellent come back lines emet, forgot about those.
Will use them in the future.
One of my all time favorite come back lines Sentient.
Hitler, the creepy mass murdering dictator who managed to kill more people in a shorter time frame than any one else so far.
Both of Lech Walesa’s autobiographies are still on Amazon, one published in 1987 before the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe:
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Hope-English-French/dp/080500668
….and one published in 2016 that tells the full story
They lay out the blueprint for victory. It should be noted, however, that Walesa was not merely just an itellectual dissident, he was a man of action, a moral leader from simple beginnings who wanted to restore Poland to a pluralistic society- he described the Solidarity movement as both Restoration and Revolution.
The Polish machinists I worked with, all from Poland, with one from Gdansk, said Walesa’s administration was communism light, or socialism if you prefer. “Nothing like America”, my Polish co-worker told me, “until Obama came along. And now Biden”, he said, “and America is finished. We all from Poland can see it”
“The right to bear arms is the last form of defense against tyranny.”
– Ice-T
here’s something interesting about averages.
averages don’t exist. at all.
show me the family with 1.8 kids.
around the mean, are the extremes…
it IS ALWAYS AT THE EDGES…MARGINS that things either fail, or they win.
outliers create force. average never gets it done. ever!
so my challenge ..to anyone advocating some single root action that can repair this broken government…think about average…what that really means..to YOU!
to change our world’s will require a complete departure from the mean…actions that exist AT THE MARGINS..and far beyond even.
dissent is nice …dissent is alot like knowledge though..knowing something isn’t power.
action is power.
action IS power.
and average ain’t cutting it.
GOD DOES NOT MAKE AVERAGES.
GOD IS THE MARGIN.
GOD’S PLANS DO NOT INVOLVE THE MEAN..His Plan for your life is at the extreme…the margins…
safety…is a horrible place to be…safety is not taking risks.
SECURITY on the other hand requires ACTION…and this power is best when it comes from the edges and from the margins..
relentless….in your face…formidable…scary..risky ACTION.
and THAT is ALL that matters.
so while I would like to behave myself and pretend that I can help push changes to my world’s…
THOSE OPTIONS ARE NOT LONGER AVAILABLE.
My life has changed…My life has been changed because my enemies force me to take action.
I have accepted this challenge.
I am good with it.
THESE are NOT stray thoughts tonight.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
in fact, behaving is exactly what results in average…I am not that.
and I suspect that no one HERE or elsewhere is really about being average either.
Rush always warned us about being in the middle of the road, as it was an invitation to be run over.
Several posts beneath this one is about CPAC. Many MAGA folks don’t like CPAC. Could MAGA dissidents be the outermost ring and CPAC the ring just inside which may be asked questions?
I don’t believe I am in the minority in this country. I believe President Trump won the popular vote. I saw videos of Biden votes being run and rerun through vote counting machines numerous times. I saw ballots being shredded. I saw ballots being counted in the dark of night without supervision. The socialist communist democrats had support from Dominion, China, Iran, the media, Hollywood, the deep state, and big tech. As Biden stated, “we have put together I think the most extensive and comprehensive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” It was well orchestrated.
We are at polar opposites. We will either fight or submit. I do not believe submission is in our nature. I think truth and God are on our side. We need to see how the upcoming court cases play out.
I do not have any faith in the republican effort to restore integrity in our election process. I think they will try to whitewash the truth, that the election was stolen. That theft must be confronted. There are only two ways I can see this done: 1. complete audits of the equipment and individual ballots in each contested state, including Virginia, or 2. the contested states admitting to voter fraud and overturning and redoing their own elections with hand counting of ballots and signature verification of each ballot.
No matter what, vote counting machines that can be programmed must be eliminated moving forward. Hand counting of ballots, verifying all ballots and signatures, and mandatory cleaning up of election roles must be done.
You could support Sidney Powell’s efforts to expose the corruption and her court cases. She is an active dissident and needs are support and help. Don’t throw in the towel and if you can support her efforts with whatever donation you can make. You can also support those on the front lines like Sundance, Rasheem Kassam, Steve Bannon, Pete Navarro, Mike Lindell,etc. it ain’t over!
I do not believe that “it was well orchestrated.” Their first plans were, but President Trump and millions of patriotic Americans blew their plans out of the water. Then they went all-out-war, stupid, sloppy. They did not care how obvious they were. They knew they could lie with impunity. They held the levers of power at that time. (But why do they feel so frightened that they have to imprison Washington DC? Good question.)
We shall see if they are right. Resistance will tell; it will make the difference. I believe we have two years of immediate, hardest resistance-work we have ever done in our lives. Look at the vote numbers that that work turned out.
We got into this mess because we forgot God we kicked him out of the schools we kicked him out of churches and we kicked him out of our hearts. So in a vacuum Satan came in and tempted Mans soul. Anything else written it’s just someone else’s opinion no matter how good it sounds. It’s very simple good versus evil, you’re either on God side or you’re on Satan side.
Choose wisely because we live in spirit and it is eternal.
Leftists have been shitting on this country for too long. It is rotten to the core. Every institution of power is compromised. Even so called conservatives Bill Barr & Mike Pence would not stand up for our rights to fair, legal election. How ’bout we do a ‘million man (woman) march’ and take over Costa Rica?
“We need to awaken to the reality that we are not a majority.” What? Where does that come from? The corrupt leftist msm will confirm that but that’s not supported by the real legal votes President Trump got last November! I just don’t believe a majority of Americans want to become communists/socialists lead by ChiCom Joe!!! I refuse to “awaken” to that just not going to do it! God help us! Hosanna!
Well . . . it sure doesn’t look like we’re in the majority where I live.
I’m surrounded by people walking outside alone with their masks on.
Know how many people have died in my town since this started?
ZERO.
Don’t let “masks” be your only answer as to subservience. Lot’s of surreptitious resistance can be done under the cover of masks, while, at the same time, working to destroy the command/submit culture it represents.
Masks make it much easier for insurgents to be unrecognizable. Why do you think AntiFA has worn them even before the mandates or the virus?
That is the gospel truth a2n8.
When I was wearing a mask (don’t ask) and my sunglasses in a store I walked up to a friend of mine of several decades and said hello.
She did not recognize me until I dropped the mask and took off my sunglasses.
She is not a stupid woman.
Amazing how wearing a mask makes us human blob like creatures or something.
Unreconizeable to even our closest friends.
I think most of us are experiencing cognitive dissonance over the impression that “we are the majority” yet, in reality, completely powerless.
Tyrants have always ruled over numerical majorities. Tyrants are organized and know how to use power. The masses over whom they rule have generally been unorganized and lacking leadership who also understand how to wield power.
So true but this is the first time that tyrants have ruled over an armed majority that I can think of since our own revolution. So as this tyranny plays out it could get very dangerous as tyrants always want their serfs to be unarmed. I will not go along with anything ChiCom Joe and the Democrats want to do to disarm us! God help us! Hosanna!
READ the article again, SLOWLY.
By “WE” the author is talking about those in the OUTERMOST ring;
Those willing to ACTIVELY resist.
If your going by the 74-80 million who voted for PDJT, look at how MAYBE only 1 million showed up in D.C.
AS the author says, condemning the “passives” for being unwilling to put themselves at risk is counterproductive, however.
Each must decide what level of risk they are willing to accept.
Being in the outer ring, WE active dissidents are FARTHEST from power, whereas those actively supporting tyranny are closest. So, they have LEVERAGE, to increase their power, whereas WE have no leverage.
Trick is to “work on” those PASSIVELY supporting tyranny, in order to get them to see the incongruities of the policies they support.
We must first define our victory. What losses are we willing to accept to achieve it?
Then we must asses Risk vs.Threat, as you mentioned.
Another thought towards dissident resistance (I read the article and wondered how to participate in a statist state)…Conversation in northern IL is militant, and not happening.
…I head a blurb on the radio with regards to covid stimulus checks…the implication is that one reason there is a Congressional fight against it:
Citizens did not “spend the money” on stuff (cheap chinese junk). People either banked it, paid off some bills and or went out to dinner at local restaurants. I was only half listening so I don’t know the percentages, but apparently it was enough to get the attention of TPTB.
We have some leverage, financially. People did not spend covid funds in the manner which was desired/approved/expected. One form of dissident resistance. There may be more of us than we realize.
I occasionally peruse the prepper ideologies which always includes “paying off debt and avoid going into debt”. Maybe that is not so conspiratorial but rather common sense.
I hope there will be many who, when they lose jobs, cars, homes, and have taxes go way up, that there will be a huge change of heart.
Good comment Aggiegirl.
Also how can we turn what seems to be our weaknesses into strengths.
There are a lot of us but we are spread out.
Surely there is a way to make this work for us instead of against us and against “them”.
With the caravans coming on the promise of citizenship to all who illegally enter our country, if we aren’t in the minority now we will be in a few short months. Obama had a pen and a phone and he used it. Obama was a rookie compared to Foe XiDen. He has a trainload of pens and blue guhvemint folders. We really don’t know what he’s signing (whatever Ron tell him to sign and we don’t know who’s pulling Ron’s chain either) but he’s signing faster than Obama ever thought about signing and each stroke of his pen is a dagger into the US Constitution. Systematically they are removing the Bill of Rights. The only amendments they are keeping are the ones that they need to do their “duty”. The LSD generation is truly in control of Congress (Nancy, Chuck, Mitch) and what they are doing to the country is the result of another miserable trip.
I will add one point, for your consideration:
Truly evil people such as the Clintons, Bidens, McConnell, Pelosi, et al, are the objects of our hatred and disgust, and rightfully so. One might imagine that they have a hard time bearing up under all of the negative energy directed at them. But the opposite is true. They feed off of it.
Negative energy is still energy. And the opinions of those they consider to be serfs mean nothing to them.
The hatred directed against them gives them power over the hater, it reminds them that they are safe from people acting on their rage, it confirms that they are worthy to be in positions of power.
Don’t expend your energy cursing them, and cursing every outrage they commit. Instead, expose them to the unbelievers at every turn. Ridicule their stupid statements. Point out their hypocrisy. Calmly. Unemotionally.
Great point. Don’t give them loosh ~ live your best life
Just want to be clear about who Sundance considers to be a dissident.
This writer, Brent Hamachek? Is he the same Hamachek of Turning Point, USA? Specifically, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point, USA?
I gave all of this in the post avove and asked what is Turning Point.
(More things that confuse liberals)
You’re pro-choice? Are you a white supremacist? Most white supremacists like abortion.
That’s another one I like to politely mention.
“Ah . . . abortion . . . Justice Ginsberg said that she thought abortion was supported by republicans because it reduced the number of undesirables in a population. And it’s true . . . republican justices were early proponents of abortion.”
In fact, the Justice who authored Roe v Wade (Justice Blackmun) was a REPUBLICAN.
I think, as Hamacheck suggests, that we are all carrying a burden and anguish from not being able to understand how, for almost every societal issue, there can be such a discrepancy in viewpoints.
If you attend a rally, we will take your gun away. Is this a new rule ? Who gave the directive?
Consider a reply that I received from my fave senator barrASSo regarding a simple question I asked:
Senator, now that the bizarre event aimed at Mr. Trump is over, when do the razor wire fences come down around the peoples house in DC, and when will the National Guard members be sent back home to their families? The US should never be a police state.
To that his lackey replied:
Dear subversive (my word),
Thank you for taking the time to contact me. It is good to hear from you.
I noted your thoughts and concerns regarding members of the National Guard in Washington D.C. Our National Guard deserve our respect. Their personal sacrifices and bravery are inspiring, and I’m humbled by their willingness to serve our country.
I was fortunate to meet with the members of the Wyoming National Guard who were sent to Washington, DC for events related to the Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2021. It is always an honor for me to meet with the men and women who make up the Wyoming National Guard. They do exceptional work, regardless of the situation to which they are assigned, and their assignment to Washington, DC was no exception. Members of this deployment were in Washington for a brief period of time, completed their assignment, and returned to Wyoming in short order. The Wyoming National Guard will continue to have a presence, though smaller than the original deployment, through mid March.
I am grateful for all the National Guard units and volunteers who have been guarding our Capitol. It will be good when every unit has safely returned home.
Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. I value your input.
John Barrasso, M.D.
United States Senator
I am at a loss for words here, and think that any response to this would be a complete waste of my time. The disconnect between we the people and those who should be representing us is huge. So when do we, your bosses, deserve respect, and when will we, your bosses, be listened to? They all need to be fired!
In reading the responce, I doubt it was written by a “lackey”, at least not a HUMAN one.
It reads like an AI generated responce, based on key words in your missive.
Why use up valuable “staff time” responding to constituents, when they can have a computer do it?
He was a defender of Cheney too.
That non-response letter needs to be publicly posted and ridiculed mercilessly. Barrasso must be shown to be arrogant and dismissive of his constituents.
Keep that up and he will eventually reveal himself to increasing numbers of citizens. It won’t go well for him.
Email it to the Babylon Bee guys.
They could do a lot with it.
Or maybe not, like Biden it is so pitiful it satires itself.
I am impressed with the insights of this man- Mr. Hamachek. I believe he is on to the core problems we face as a Republic in the US. I do believe he has left out a huge piece of the story-the God of the Universe and his providential love for humanity . With G od all is possible. Prayer can work miracles and we can pray and God will hear us. Brent does not even mention prayer in his list of solutions to the ugly oppression we now face in US- and this is a huge deficit in his vision for the future.
I believe God can do the impossible . His ways way above ours. We should listen to this man but turn to God for ultimate guidance and strength as we march into future. God will take care of it one way or another.
G_D is the cause not the effect. He gave us free will,he knows the two ways we can decide,Garden of Eden ring a bell.
Have you always lived your life as a Doubting Thomas?
God has provided us the wind and gave us the tools to create the oars and boat but bottom line is we gotta row and row hard now – it’s a team effort! The big guy upstairs and us – can be done and must be done!
Incredible read. Thanks for posting, Sundance. That guy is brilliant. This type of red meat education is why I love TCTH. !!!
All 3 seminal events that the author mentions 1). Covid 2) George Floyd 3) January 6, are all events or “crisis” that Democommunists did not let go to waste. All 3 events involve narratives disconnected from facts or data. All 3 events could involve some fabrication or intentionality.
Can we turn the tables and get our three moments? Let’s work on turning the tide. All I know is that I believe in the sun even when it does not shine. I believe in love, even when it is not felt. And I believe in God even when he is silent. Let’s roll ???
Hate to admit it but it’s true..
Sundance has a partner on the top branch of another tree. Thank you for introducing Brett Hamachek.
Well some have all the answers like leaving our beloved country, storming the ramparts, etc.
I have always believed if you ask the right question, there will be a right answer in the end…
Example 😛
how did that dot get its place on the little ‘i’
We will be in shock and denial for quite some time. Soviet Russia happened, Soviet Union happened, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Venezuela happened. Freaks Dorsey, Suckerbucks, US Democommunists and CCP have combined for another happening. Without firing a shot.
The Electoral Coup happened, and now the plotters are in the Capitol surrounded by razor wire.
But the rest of the Nation is outside, and watching with interest. . .
Yes I don’t get it..
What I do get…
the election was stolen.. thru corruption.
That government, politicians, workers, judges looked the other way.
That socialist/martxist on Veritas tapes said 25 million would have to go to re-education camps or be liquidated.
We have a whatever as President that has dimentia and without morals..
Someone some thing is controlling government.. exactly what is unknown..
The dark winter is upon us.. the Rule of Law has been replaced by the Rule of Tyrany..
I read the article and I mostly agree with the analysis as our current state of affairs.. I don’t fully agree that his method of dissent will work.. I remember the gulags, the Kmehr Rouge, the Nazi ovens.. we have already witnessed BLM and AntiFa harrasing the old people..
I think that true hero’s will emerge.. too many guns, too many bullets.. to many soft targets.. it would be relatively easy to bring this all down.. Texas just proved how vulnerable the electric grid is.. every so often the lemmings commit mass suicide.. I’m afraid we are about to be come lemmings..
Combine the theory of survival of the fittest, with the Peter Principle, that individuals in a hierarchy rise to their level of incompetence, and there they stay.
If you think of HUMANS as an “individual” (species) in a hiearchy (of species) well, we pretty much HAVE elevated ourselves to our level of incompetence,…
But won’t stay here, cause of Darwin; survival of the FITTEST won’t allow an incompetent species to stay at the top.
One way of looking at it,…
Just about Every American strongly disliked Sadam Hussein…
As a minority leader he controlled the majority… Sadam used fear…
After he was deposed.. (hanged).. the real civil war started.. with each faction trying to controll Iraq. I’m afraid we are on the same road
Cancel the Cancel Culture. Treat them as a cancer to our society, because they are. Maybe calling them out on the carpet more often. Racism needs to be called out and confronted. I’m talking about against whites. It needs to be slammed right back at those who freely accuse anyone they want of being a racist simply
for the color of their skin or
I’d like to know this, can any American explain why we have well-known people with money and power running around free as could be, when we ALL know about, and maybe have even seen the photos of them r*p*ing MANY children? Are WE in jeopardy of God’s wrath for not speaking up and demanding justice be served?
And how is it ok that a child rapist gets a book deal, when others are turned away simply because they stand up for conservative values?
Voices need to be heard, we must demand justice or it will continue to multiply and continue to be silently ignored and acceptable.
Over a year of freedom, multiple horrific crimes against God’s most innocent remain completely unpunished. Were the unpunished rapists even CONFRONTED? And who is responsible for the lack of justice here, can they be held responsible by the unprotected children, their families and of the future victims as well?
Quit using the Hater companies that are canceling conservatives
From the article
“Hobbes, who wrote his seminal piece, Leviathan, in the early 17th century, warned of man’s true nature, that of a fearful moral relativist, who was incapable of living civilly without the oversight of a strong monarch”
It is from this point that I see Putin as a strong and necessary leader. He has stood strong while the Cuckold Republican classes here were willing to sell out their own country. I have 1000x more respect for him than mitch mcconnell.
Excellent read. Going to print this and study it. Thanks.
Here are some other things that we can do:
1) Pray.
2) Work to get clean elections in the future. To do that, first decide what specific actions and laws are needed for clean elections. Then publicly and repeatedly ask our local and state representatives to work for those actions and laws. (I hope Pres. Trump will form an organization that will give us some guidance in this area.)
3) Work to stop liberal indoctrination at our local schools. To do that, find out what the school history textbooks teach. If they state that the US was founded on slavery, and that whites and Christians are evil, then publicly speak out against the schools using those books.
4) Suppose you’re reading the reader comments in a news website, and one comment says something that’s wrong. Then write a comment to that website, that clearly corrects the first comment. If possible, include the URL to an article in a conservative website, to guide readers to an accurate news site.
5) Any other ideas? I’d love to read them. Thanks.
Absolutely brilliant article, a real gem.
Makes me look at our current situation regarding the stolen election and our President Trump in a whole new light.
It really is about the Movement more than the man.
Thanks and gratitude for two of history’s greatest dissidents, President Trump and Sundance.
Amen! Let’s get to work ?????
Trump was a spokesman. The growing MAGA movement is what they fear.
At the end of Sundance’s post it says “READ MORE”. This is a MUST. It is an exceptional article that tells us what we must do now and how to do it. It is the only and best path forward for us to take. If you did not read the entire article, go back and do so. It will be the best 15 minutes you will spend.
So glad it was the second thing I read. My first stop every AM is TCTH and Sundance’s post last evening was so worth every minute. I consider myself a “beginner” active dissident and will actively work on persuading and finding “ new” dinner and coffee friends. Thank you all for continuing to motivate and inspire my drive to save our Constitution and our God given rights. Awesome article and one that needs to be read fully and shared!
Also read the Why They Cheat article linked within Brett’s article. Another good read.
Interesting. I see many here now ready to accept their roles as “dissidents”. I. AM. NOT.
I will not be defined by the the thoughts and words of another. I will not go quietly into the night.
I refuse to be defined by others. IF I am devoid of human companions in that, so be it. But I will not be convinced to be confined nor limited by intellectual tapestry. IF I choose to live and move in shadows, it will be my own reasoned and considered opinion to do so. I WILL pray for guidance, and I will live and move as I do my best to move forward in GOD’s will. I bend my knee before NO man, but only to GOD.— As for Me and mine, — We will serve the Lord.
I think Hamachek covered your case. He said there will be many in the outer ring that do not go quietly. Many will become martyrs (fired from their jobs, reputations ruined, etc.) and must be honored and listed for the cause of restoration of the Republic.
I particularly liked the idea of remembering the martyrs. Creating a list or wall of honor.
Heroes must be remembered or their righteous causes will be forgotten.
Yes. Hamachek said of the martyrs to “…create lists, memorial “walls,” if you will, that keep track of those who lose jobs, who lose scholarships, who lose their freedom, who might lose their lives. Eventually the lists of names will have weight.”
I like Hamachek’s idea of memorializing the dissidents who become martyrs, with lists, maybe on websites, maybe even a Wall: “Here are The Cancelled. Honor them!”
Well said!!
Thank all of the gods that a conservative finally bought a vowel.
There is no such thing as a fair fight.
You are in a fight for your lives.
You are not winning that fight.
Your old strategies and tactics are not working.
Adopt new strategies and tactics and take the initiative.
Otherwise, you’re just going to die.
I also think we should let people who support Trump/MAGA know we do too. When you see someone with Trump/MAGA hats or whatever let them know you like it. I was in the grocery store yesterday and one of the check out clerks was filling the candy shelf and she has on big TRUMP 2020 mask. I told her I liked her mask. She said thanks then said someone told me I shouldn;t wear it cuz I might get beat up. But she didn;t care..she wore it anyways.
Worth reading and thinking about….. Hamacheck seems to understand that this is really a battle for (1) the mind and (2) the soul. This is a spiritual battle. The weakest ‘warriors’ are those who are only interested in good jobs, as important as that is. Materialism will not win – only more elevated principals will
I thought early on in the Mask Mandate that if we all got MAGA or Trump 2020 masks and wore them consistently that the mandate edict would die. Alas, not many people had them. I did. I wore mine. I was constantly stopped and asked where I had gotten it. I freely shared my info!
It might be beneficial to consider what helped establish and solidify the concentric circles Mr. Hamachek illustrates … simple ideas that have, over the years, become the foundation of social technocracy (a more accurate description of social democracy).
> We have put formal education and celebrity on pedestals of worship, as possessing the insight, wisdom, and virtue of superhuman deities … while summarily dismissing wisdom presented outside those channels as not worthy of consideration or trust.
> We also put “non-profit” status on a pedestal of worship and trust, while treating those honest enough to state their intent to profit with perpetual suspicion and the application of restraints in a manner reminiscent of Gulliver.
> We have come to believe that rules are the answer to every problem, assuming that compliance with them removes the need to think beyond them – and deal with their failures by creating more rules to cover the exception to the rule.
> The above has combined to establish the conventional wisdom that all of us, except the elite few on the above pedestals, are incapable and unworthy of competently managing your own lives … and therefore you should be given a pass on the responsibility to make your own decisions to get through life; instead being content to just go to work, or to school, and trust The Pedestaled to make your decisions, use your resources, and dictate what you can and can’t do from their lofty heights as though they are standing right beside you … all in the name of establishing their definition of the “greater good” as though it is one-size-fits-all.
Under these assumptions – benignly accepted by millions as simply the way an “advanced” civilization is to live, and is beyond question – the incentives to develop and exercise competence are highly diminished among the masses, who come to believe that they can’t really rise above their situation and should just (f__k up and) trust their “betters” in grand Flounderian fashion. Such as these dominate the circle of those who support oppression – though you will find this way of thinking is still held to some degree even among many of the outer circle, who have never lived outside this paradigm even though they realize that something is wrong here.
OTOH, The Pedestaled, who have taken over the inner circles by merely standing on those pedestals, come to expect such trust and OUR SUBMISSION, regardless of their actual competence, oblivious to their own human limitations and capability for perpetrating evil upon others like a bull in a china shop.
By this way of thinking, reinforced by The Pedestaled for decades, we have been led to sell OURSELVES short as though we’re shares of GameStop, and let them establish their rule over us.
This circular stratification also has the effect of effectively unplugging most of the distributed intellect in the world from the problem-solving processes. Intellect that might not meet the standards of MENSA or rocket scientists, but combined with its proximity-informed insight is far better equipped to solve the problems around the individuals possessing it. Instead, we have centralized decision-making by an elite few, who come to believe that faceless, industrial approaches and economies of scale can be applied to solve problems with up to 330 million living, breathing INDIVIDUAL variables in this nation alone. That’s akin to trying to text on your smartphone with a sledgehammer.
It is this way of thinking that can be leveraged by a crisis-not-to-waste to open the door to the Great Reset, and the intergenerational decline under the then-entrenched oligarchic rule that will follow.
If we want to reverse this lemming parade we are on now and make it stick … getting ordinary people to, as Mr. Hamachek describes, QUESTION they world around them, then build trust in their own insights and NOT delegate their decisions to others – even if that looks like more risk and effort for them – is essential to diminish the power of The Pedestaled and engage that distributed intellect.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
I appreciate this article and have taken most into consideration.
But he is wrong… very wrong; when he said “He (Jesus) built His church upon the rock that was Peter….”
From Matthew 16:13 and following;
13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock[a] I will build my church, and the gates of hell[b] shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed[c] in heaven.” from the ESV
Yes, it is true that the church is “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone” Eph 2:20, but the confession made by Peter in response to Jesus’ question “who do men say that I am?” was “you are the Christ (The long awaited for Messiah).”
As disciples of the risen Christ who alone can atone for our sins, we take this message to the nations, and it is the LORD Jesus Christ who brings the increase. We dare not misrepresent the Scriptures. May He alone be praised.
One can never debate, vote or pray your way out of tyranny
…”faith without works is dead.”
I think he starts strong but then just trails off into useless drivel. Sharing stories will help break the back of the totalitarian state? Ask history how that went. Not very well.
The United States of America ceased to be a Constitutional Republic on January 20th, 2021. It became a Democracy. Those in power took control, wiped out the Constitution, and instituted rule by law/decree. Their law, their decree.
That’s the situation. If they don’t like what you do, they will find some law or decree to make you pay. Either shut down a business or arrest someone. Law enforcement will go along with it because they’ve been indoctrinated with/taught 2 things: The Blue Wall and Laws. Doesn’t matter if a law is unconstitutional, that’s for the court.
The way forward, without resorting to violence, is the States. Local and State level elections of qualified, Constitutional-minded people is extremely important right now. Especially Sheriffs and Mayors. From there, State Legislatures and Governors.
Understand, the Federal Government is lost to us. The Departments, Bureaus, and Agencies are 100% in alignment with those in power. A group of people, even 75 million strong cannot change DC. But the States can.
Where you live is going to be a huge factor in your life. Does your Mayor and Sheriff support the Constitution? Are there enough Constitutionally like minded people around you to vote in people who support the Constitution? Or are you in a heavily controlled Democrat area? Call that for what it is, lost, and move. Get out. Research East and West Berlin if you need historical evidence of how lives were affected by 2 different controlling powers.
We are in a Democracy at the Federal level. Only the States can bring change to that playing field. All peaceful efforts must be completely attempted. Even State level succession is possible to do without violence. How probable is it? No one will know until one of the States accomplishes it.
The Republic is dead. Democracy reigns.
We lost the peaceful battles at the Federal level.
The peaceful fight to restore our Republic has moved from the federal level to the state and local level. Should we lose here … God help us all.
Assume you meant ‘secession’ not ‘succession’.
Take this country back one county at a time. We have grass roots power, they can’t control us at the county level. Look at the election maps. Well over 90% is Trump country. Make your move at the county level.
JOIN or DIE…
This was why “we will never let them get away with it” was so important. Yet, they got away with it and they know…it’s full speed ahead now. My grandkids are screwed and all I can do now is teach them the Resistance Philosophy. Damn hard pill to swallow.
I’m 73 and have had enough of trying to convert the brainwashed morons of the left. Remember this, liberalism is a mental disorder. I haven’t the time or energy to complete this hundred years of talking to a closed mind. In the words of Frank Costanza “Serenity Now”.
Great article. Only time to get halfway through this morning
One glaring / very significant omission from the red large supporting circle….organized mainstream religious denominations.
The diagram is quite helpful.
Starve them by not spending money on those companies who support any of it.