The number one question raised is how to unite the general population of normal Americans and find a common way to push back against the radicals who have taken control of government and the domestic power structures aligned with the public-private partnership.
There have been several discussions centered around the use of federalism; factually, there is a good argument to be made that tactical civics can have a strong impact on the overall dynamic of a detached, disinterested and yet weaponized system of government. However, the flaw within this process is thinking the power center operators care about what is happening at the boundaries of our defenses.
Factually, the state elected officials and those sent to DC are part of the same system. They are detached from us. Try to contact or use the process of “constituent services” and you will quickly discover how you are viewed as a simple annoyance to those who unilaterally decide how they will participate in ruling over you.
Not only does this UniParty assembly mean our applying electoral federalism (aka tactical civics) results in a slower march toward the same cliff, it also means we are comforted by a sense of something that ultimately provides little value.
We need actionable steps that can be taken.
Additionally, we already know if Donald Trump can take the MAGA fight back to Washington DC, the entire apparatus of government, and yes that includes your elected representatives, will fight to destroy him at every opportunity. So, how exactly do we: (a) support President Trump, (b) push back against the weaponized state, (c) confront our government abusers.
There are more of us than them, yet each of our efforts seems to face the full force of “them” against a divided sense of “us.” One of the ways we have discussed direct push back is a modern version of a workers solidarity movement. Essentially the creation of a system where targeted general work strikes can have an impact on the system that is targeting us.
It is one thing to discuss the Polish Solidarity Movement in esoteric terms of endearment. It is another thing entirely to think about the application of a labor strike process within the United States where 370 million people live. However, if you apply the concept of tactical civics simultaneously, you can make an argument the tactical civics are the shield (EU truckers), and the labor strike is the spear (EU farmers).
One of the advantages we have in the USA governmental structures is the “Republican Form of Government,” or the constitutional republic and the ability of states to determine their own interests.
Think about targeting now going in reverse, where WE THE PEOPLE now target the non-compliant system operators and/or politicians. A Senator or Congress person aligns against Trump’s interests, our interests, and instead of gnashing our teeth, we immediately begin a targeted work stoppage in/around the representative’s district. In this scenario we don’t need tens of millions to make an impact, only a few thousand can completely change the dynamic.
How does it work? How is it possible? How did the people of Poland pay their bills during the solidarity strikes? How do you organize that process so that everyone can participate, and yet no one individually needs to carry the risk of losing? These nuts-and-bolts questions are part of my research mission.
How effective would a Congressional District (CD-??) “sick-out” be? Perhaps timed for every Wednesday, beginning on the {fill_in_the_blank_day} and continuing until the representative understood that he/she alone was the cause of the economic trouble in their district. You see, the general labor strike doesn’t need to be scaled to the size of Poland circa 1980’s; instead with modern communication, it can target very specific places and create just as big an impact.
The dismantling of a weaponized government first begins with a set of political representatives who are willing to take apart the institutional tools that government uses to weaponize their power. As we saw with the hyped and yet failed Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, once the public appears to be satiated with false hope from yet another created assembly, the representative group does nothing.
The urgency of the committee silo might look entirely different if the trash was not getting picked up in the committee members’ districts. Or the lawns were not getting mowed, or the cooks stayed home, etc.
You never realize how strong you are until being strong is your only option.
I will have much more to share on this issue as we will likely have a lot of support from ordinary MAGA-minded people in a multitude of countries. The Dutch, German, Polish, Romanian, French, Spanish and Irish farmers/truck drivers are figuring out how effective it can be if they push back with strategic solidarity. We can learn a valuable lesson.
Whether Donald Trump wins the 2024 election or not, the same practical process will be needed. If Trump wins the election, it will be to provide support under the auspices of unavoidable pressure. We don’t wait for primary races; we trigger the financial consequences immediately.
More to follow, soon….
I’m in! Whatever we have to do to start to throw the yoke off, I support it!
“Whatever we have to do to start….”
You’re exactly right, m0g. May I suggest we start by starting to create a list. A very important list. That’s updated from time to time. So we know who’s who.
Perhaps we could run it through TCT in some manner, SAF.
No chance the Derps wouldn’t be eager to get their mitts on such a document.
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Praying for you tonight Sundance. God bless and keep you. I am one of the ones who has been asking “how,” and am grateful beyond words that you took the time and effort to find an answer.
Indeed, I too have asked myself so many questions probing a way forward, and this brief dissertation and overview addresses so much.
I would be utterly gobsmacked if I didn’t already have experienced a decade of Sundance’s stellar edification.
We are so blessed here, may those blessings spill forth and see our land and our civilization saved.
“You have done nothing for which you should be ashamed.”
“I have done nothing. And for that I am ashamed.”
“The Patriot?”
“Patriots!” Great book btw..
Yes. Time to pull out that movie to re-watch.
When it came out, my late husband and I saw it in the movie theater on July 4. As we were watching the final battle scene, we could hear the fireworks going outside. It was incredible.
And the quotations are from…
Mel Gibson movie, The Patriot.
Thanks for the Addeline. I was feeling a bit low. Renew the fight to save ourselves and our children.
I think we need a Populist Manifesto to try to unify the forces on our side. You have pretty much convinced me that the core needs to be economic rather than all the other issues out there. Break the oligarchs and many other things become possible.
Otherwise we wind up like 1848 when TPTB were able to take advantage of the disparate goals to reassert their power.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. So said Lincoln.
The truth of this we are witnessing now.
The America I love is a MAGA America. There is nothing more solid or unified than the people who comprise this movement.
Stick together brothers and sisters.
If God is with us, who can be against us?
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For those in Europe who are finally pushing back…
And for the good people in this nation who likewise have had enough.
Love this guy holding the giant boot at bay!! Awesome, and easily understood!!
Re “A house divided against itself cannot stand. So said Lincoln.
So he did. Then, as president, he caused a level of division between the North and South and between whites and blacks that only began to dissipate within the last few decades.
That is exactly right. He didn’t care if slaves were freed or not. He was for the Union winning at all costs. I read that is an old book.
Lincoln was for ending the expansion of slavery westward. So a Union victory was paramount.
Division between the North and the South which escalated into civil war occurred during James Buchanan’s single term, not Lincoln’s.
Lincoln was against the expansion of slavery to the West. He was beside himself knowing the inevitable loss of life, but knew slavery would be hugely curtailed if not ended with a Union victory.
To say he caused division between Whites & Blacks is just wrong.
Almost, but not quite correct.
Lincoln was against the State’s individual rights to decide whether to be slave states or free states.
Lincoln was the beginning of federal overreach, and the erosion of state’s rights.
Not that I think slavery was ok, it was a terrible thing. But slavery was not the main reason for the Civil War. That’s why it didn’t start with the Emancipation Proclamation. That happened in 1863.
It was about the flow of money.
Cheap labor serf-subjects vs. prosperous American Citizens
Aubergine: I share your understanding, or point of view, about the Civil War. Abolishing slavery was a politically useful motivator, but not the underlying reason, for the war. Reading Shara’s book, “Killer Angels,” brought me to my current understanding.
But “Killer Angels” is fiction. So it would be difficult to accept it as historical.
The writer on Burning Platform presented an explaination that I found interesting that (paraphrasing) opines that the driving force behind secession was Lincoln’s unwavering support of tariffs which hurt the Southern States but protected the manufacturing in the North. And Lincoln would not rule out using force to make sure the tariffs were collected. The author says that the use of “slavery” as the reason in the South’s proclamations was because secession was not justified for the tariffs (because the passage of the tariffs was done pursuant to Constituional authority).
JMO: One could say that calling the Civil War the “War of Northern Aggression” was accurate.
Here’s the link to that hypothesis.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/01/31/lincolns-tariff-war/#more-327687
Amen sister. It is still in us to be that America again.
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
I wonder if any others used that phrase at an inflection point in history.
Thank you, Mr. Carroll! I was reading through the comments thinking Lincoln was getting a bit too much credit… Jesus said it first!
Brilliant. Spot on. I can’t wait to hear more.
How do Dems organize, fund, and provide material support for something like Occupy Wall Street?
Their model as a whole wouldn’t work for us, as it depends upon funding by the billionaires (like Soros) and the use of the people who suck upon the teat of the republic (welfare, unemployed) and professional paid protesters.
In our case, we need to structure things to match our strengths and weaknesses.
For regular pressure – be it constant phone calls, emails, and letters – or constant Ghandi like peaceful protests surrounding government offices or living areas or select businesses- we would need to make heavy use of the retired and in MAGA areas, students to be the core of that cadre as most of us work.
For those who work – strikes would, IMO, best be targeted at the support and daily operational aspects of areas – repairmen and craftsmen (plumbers, electricians, heating/cooling companies, critical plant operators) for SELECT areas – beyond a particular Congressional member’s district. It might be – “no work for the elitists” and “no power/repair for the local government” or the Congressional member’s family members. The last thing we want to do is shut down services and areas that provide for our own.
The shutting down of Brussels and Paris are along the lines of what I had wished the truckers previously did – a general trucking strike on Washington DC. No food, no supplies, nothing. That would include NOT transporting goods into DC *and* jamming trafficking into and out of DC.
Anyone with 401Ks, investments,or savings in the bank could also apply financial pressure – something I’ve called for since Brandon was installed. Pull all money out of institutions and companies which are involved in not only woke policies, but also in supporting the elitists or run by elitists. (of course, the same kind of supply lines pressure could also be brought to bare on the companies which have logistical needs). Transfer money from banks to credit unions – or pull it entirely.
Supplemental funding could be accomplished either via Give, Send, Go – or possibly even on the local level. Those not in businesses or industries striking could provide help for those that do. If the strikes are short duration (on every other Monday for example), then financial impact on the strikers could be minimal – or even non-existent if they wre “I’m sick today” strikes.
Another kind of strike could be the proverbial “sand in the works” – only done at the transportation and supply line level. It could be as simple as people getting out into traffic and slowing the mess down by going the minimum speed limit.
Creativity and unity are the keys.
(also, my personal view is that we should NOT wait to start until after the election)
The slow traffic thing is interesting. Remember flash mobs?
Apparently our farmers have been slow-protesting with their tractors in and around Dover this last evening. It’s a first for this country in many years – the last was about 25 years ago to protest soaring fuel prices. Dover port is the primary route to and from France/EU.
Go, farmers!
(And, sorry officer, tractors go slow. Not much to be done about it…)
Recall some truckers protesting by driving 55 mph on a freeway, after a few hours they had a line behind them many miles long…
The left gets a LOT of funding via government grants to their pet projects and NGOs. Unfortunately we are funding a lot of it with our tax dollars. Soros also gets grant money from our government and passes it on to his chosen destructive groups.
Practical suggestions. Thank you.
I would add some things many Treepers are already doing.
Take control of your own health. Exercise, lose weight, eat healthy, research natural remedies, taper off Rx meds, if you’re generally healthy back off the annual physicals and screenings. As much as possible, quit feeding “the beast!” (The heathcare complex).
Minimize media in your life. Mainstream outlets control the narrative and feed off stress and panic. They are already feeling the effects of rejection by regular people and cutting staff and operations. Keep that pressure on, and expand it to TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, etc. Look for alternatives when feasible.
Pay attention to what President Trump has been doing. He realizes he cannot swallow the elephant whole. He attacks vulnerable opponents, but plays nicely with his enemies until he spots or senses a weakness. Example: he has nearly completed a hostile takeover of the Republican National Committee by giving them enough rope to hang themselves. They are struggling to stay financially afloat, and Ronna will be gone. It’s not MAGA yet, but some are beginning to realize where the power lies. President Trump plays the long game.
Dig in when you must, but remember we’re playing a game of inches. Take small victories and build on them. That’s how our enemies got us to this point. Now we need to take back the ground we unwittingly surrendered.
Yes, Harrison. Starting now!
Why not have 2 days a week where we spend no money – Buy nothing on Wednesday and Thursday and the bare minimum the rest of the time. Stop Spending will get noticed.
I don’t think shifting spending to certain days would really make anyone sit up and take notice. NOT spending – or not spending at certain businesses or types of businesses – on the other hand could.
One such general spending shift would be to stop feeding the mega-businesses. No more Amazon, Walmart, multi-state conglomerate stores and instead start spending that money at local businesses and stores and farmers’ markets.
I recently put up a link to a website that tracks which businesses do and don’t use facial recognition – another insidious action. The same applies there – don’t give them business and tell them why you will be taking your business to competitors (Lowes instead of Home Depot for example). They need to hear the reason(s) if we wish to modify their behavior.
they pay their brownshirts with our tax money
All that money laundering (except the cut to the politicians) goes back into their causes.
Theirs is the Secret Society model.
Communism and the Illuminati were founded on the same day.
They are committed to a level of criminality and endless obsessive conspiracy and embrace deviancy and destruction; destroying society is their worship; it is hardly a model that can be adapted to free men striving to create a free world.
Naomi Wolfe knows.
I’m sure there are a lot of NGOs — which end up being funded by the American people through our taxes. Mostly exist on the Left.
What you are saying rings true, Sundance.
I know, I’ve seen that Uniparty effect on a number of local issues in my home State of Maine.
Gun Control
Energy policy
To name a couple, it goes on.
I am thinking a bunch of those Maine lobstermen would be onboard.
Not like they don’t have a beef with overbearing Fed rules and regulations among other things.
Might be amusing if those beltway crooks are told to settle for flounder for a meal rather than some of that famous Maine lobster being flown in fresh for want of supply. 😉
R.F. as someone who traveled throughout Maine for about 15 years to the universities, most in inland mill towns, I cannot believe what has transpired in Maine watching here from the Merrimack Valley. It seems that ranked choice voting was the nose under the tent and the result has been full-on Commie state level coup.
As liberal as Portland and environs are, I can’t believe a majority of people in Portland/So Maine would be all in on grooming and carte blanche for the invaders?
Is repealing ranked choice on the table in any way?
I’ve not heard anything officially on that effort as of yet.
I have been preoccupied with making ends meet last year with all the financial disruptions going back to 2022. I’m still living on a shoestring budget. To much of a story to detail all of it here.
I will need to gauge that repeal interest with a bit of groundwork by communicating through friends and family.
R F am in a similar boat with a major disruption two years ago. Making less, pretty much getting by, though am a free man.
I can say Maine just has a comparatively high cost of living for the median wages in much of the State.
Been that way for a long time. Forestry largely being halted and the papermills closing have some to do with that. The biggest employers are probably the electric companies in aggregate, BIW, and likely Cianbro.
Ranked choice= Rancid choice, Yanked Vote.
By the way, I did venture onto Monhegan several times and met the Harbormaster and a lobsterman a time or two briefly. He has a sign:
“We don’t call 9/11”.
Very effective way to make the point. Questions would be do enough Americans care enough to make the point?? I think direct outing and organized daily protesting (harrassing) of the target will be needed also!
The other feature needed is big money conservatives funding leaders and activities like the Leftists so expertly do!
There have to be a great many fortunes in the hands of men that realize that if they don’t use them in this just cause they will lose it all.
How to make the appeal for such elites to stand with freedom is beyond me . . .
No. That is the Progressives’ tool. Parasites use wealth to buy people to accomplish tasks. This is a level of abstraction which breeds corruption.
I am making the assumption most people who are sick of the fustercluck are people with skills and tools who can accomplish tasks. Simple tasks, technical tasks, construction or trade tasks, etc.
But they are often weak in planning, communicating, and coordinated execution. So how do we implement broad deployment but local implementation of sand in the gears?
I and some of my peers used to run operations. But we are tapped out; and left with only energy for building our personal Galt gulches. We find a satisfaction we have not felt in many years. Which is part of the problem– finding fullfillment in an imposed conflict.
I don’t think work stoppage will work in America
I support not purchasing products from companies
who are funding our demise.
The Bud Light protest worked wonderfully.
It doesn’t matter that all of a sudden they are going
to be warm and cozy with the middle class, using
Peyton Manning in their superbowl commercial.
Also, the UFC (or whomever the fight club is)
along with kid Rock doing a 180 NOW supporting
Bud Light will make hardly any difference.
Bud Light is done.
I suggest we target a few more companies.
If politicians only care about money and power,
then let’s take it away from them.
Conservatives failed miserably when it came to the NFL. Too many people didn’t want to give up their football games even for a few months. We need to be tougher and more committed.
I think about people who sacrificed their LIVES to make this country better, or to protect it. And we can’t give up football games or some other pleasure? Even for a few months? How soft we’ve become.
giving up football won’t do it and why should we give up
our entertainment? that is like punishing ourselves
how about we boycott all the products from the commercials
played at the superbowl?
“that is like punishing ourselves”
We must be willing to suffer.
If you can’t suffer, you already failed.
Amjean, few people gave up football at a time when boycotting the NFL would have been helpful. That’s my point. People don’t want to give up their comforts. People are so soft they’re willing to give up some TV programs for a few months in order to force a business to stop engaging in anti-White nonsense.
As for boycotting products advertised during the Superbowl, why not just boycott the Superbowl? Are people so addicted to their TV programming that they can’t take a stand? If that’s the case then we’re never going to win. The sad thing is it only takes a few months.
they’re not willing, I meant to say in that first paragraph.
I disagree. That is part of the reason the pop queen is on deck, among the other variables. It is a way for the NFL to bring the new demographic to shore up the hemorrhaging. The NFL has a 4b slush fund.
Thunk about that from a cartel perspective.
Well then that’s the at least the second reason why people should be boycotting. The first was that knee crap. Now it’s Democrat-luvvin Taylor Swift hijacking the game. Conservatives should be boycotting but they’re not because too many of them don’t want to give up a pleasure. If conservatives comprise half of the audience, a boycott would inflict serious damage.
Wait until their pensions and mortgages are threatened! The truckers in Canada turned tail and ran as soon as they attacked their bank accounts. America serves Mammon even more. Mammon is the god preached from 99% of our pulpits.
I haven’t watched NFL football since players started knelling during our country’s anthem. If it happens to be on during my Sunday visit at my local A.L. Post it’s just annoying background noise.
I agree. I personally have banned Disney, Coca Cola and Chick-Fil-A, Target, Walmart and as much as possible Chinese products. But I feel like a needle in a haystack.
President Trump is supplying a list.
We follow his lead.
Reference please?
I heard Dana White’s explanation for making a deal with Bud Light, and maybe what he said is an accurate assessment. But what is interesting to me is that influencers in the movement would try to turn this around instead of encouraging Bud Light to stand on their own and show people they mean what they say. Is there money to be had in destroying a brand then rehabilitating it’s image? The brand loyalty they had may never come back.
For me, I didn’t drink that canned pee water, but it made me aware of InBevs portfolio, so I don’t drink any of those brands either (not that I’m regular consumer).
I fully disagree. If the correct companies are targeted it destroys them. Every single Walmart worker has the right to not turn up. No full time salary, poor salary, in fact its so low they have to claim food stamps that get spent right back in Walmart! WE OWN WALMART! Every single taxpayer funds Walmart! Walmart was one of the few allowed to stay open during COVID. SHUT THE DEMOCRAT SUPPORTING SCUMBAGS DOWN!
There are vastly more America First Patriots, than there are destructive corrupt deep staters. And the deep state by their actions, prove on a daily basis just how much they fear, unified Patriots.
I fear we are not far enough down the road of The Great Awakening.
Many of my friends who align with the general MAGA ideology are comfortable. They see the threat, perhaps even acknowledge that it’s coming up the street, but don’t realize that the threat has already knocked the front door off of its hinges.
Others are just so comfortable as to never budge from their routine, regardless of the obvious threat. The NFL is the perfect example.
The comfort is vanishing/vanished!
The alternatives aren’t pretty. Best idea I’ve heard yet that doesn’t depend on the next GOPe Roosterhead in waiting to save us while I vote as hard as I can in my all mail in state elections.
The bottom line is the system(s) and those that are part of the system have a huge incentive to keep things going just the way it’s going.
They are not going to quit until they are forced out legally, by voting them out.
It can happen, but only if enough people get completely fed up and say enough.
If mini-strikes at selected districts will work, then it needs to be done.
The people running the show at all levels (elected officials and all of the major institutions) are not going to go down without a fight because they have too much to lose.
They don’t care that their actions individually and collectively will completely ruin America. Most of them can’t even conceive that it’s a possibility.
I don’t believe there are a total of 20 honest elected officials in the House and Senate combined.
I don’t know that we can vote our way out of this. Prepare
I am here for you! How can I help!?
Step 1 going on right now: primary your RINOs, people. Unfortunately the worst ones in the Senate aren’t up for re-election this year, and a few are dropping out. But every single Representative is up for re-election and most primaries haven’t occurred yet. Review your ballots and vote in the primaries. Vote against the RINOs. It’s very very important. This is how Wyoming got rid of Liz Cheney.
Step 2: In November, vote for Trump and vote for your GOP candidates so that the GOP can have the majorities in the House and Senate. We absolutely must tamp down Democrat power and make sure they don’t continue on with the endless investigations and impeachments of Trump’s first term. Remember, Trump wasn’t the only person harmed, his family members and associates were harmed too.
Step 3: I agree with the idea of a harsh post-election pressure campaign to turn the screws on the RINOs we couldn’t primary. I’m in.
It’s WAY past time to stop doing the same thing and expecting different results!
What is YOUR plan for voting then? How should we be voting? It does no good to just complain about someone else’s suggestion without making one of your own.
Waiting for your response, Kudzu.
(As usual, the complainers NEVER have any suggestions of their own.)
Perhaps he’s not up for your current level of aggression.
His comment was hardly a call out and scarcely merits the response you chose.
Aggression? I asked for his suggestions and he fell silent, which is so typical of the people who fight the very workable plan of primarying RINOs and electing GOP majorities.
I’m tired of the whiner Karens who criticize suggestions but never offer any of their own. Kudzu says my suggestion hasn’t worked. But the fact is few people actually vote that way. Why did Mitch McConnell get 82% of the vote in his last primary? Why did Romney win his primary? Why did McCain keep getting re-elected? And Paul Ryan? And so many others? When people apply the voting rules I offer then they make progress. Example: Wyoming. Wyoming primaried Liz Cheney and then elected the GOP candidate to take that seat. Success. It works.
But go ahead and keep criticizing the people who offer the solutions to the problem, so you can keep complaining over and over and over again about “uniparty” and all of that other BS. I’m beginning to think some of you love wallowing in misery and you enjoy failure.
I will answer you. I will only vote for a person I feel is committed to MAGA principles. No more voting for anyone just because they have an “R” behind their name. I have voted for independents before and will again if I don’t think he or she is committed to the best interests of the country and us “Main Street” citizens.
If that’s how you vote then you are seriously lacking understanding of the importance of majorities in the House and Senate. The majority party chairs the committees and drives the activity. If Trump wins the election and we fail to give him the House and Senate majorities then we can expect non-stop persecution, and it won’t just be Trump who suffers, his family and all associates will as well. Just like what happened after idiot voters lost the GOP majority in the House in 2018. That’s when the Dems seized control and impeached him and held endless kangaroo court hearings which did a lot of damage.
Why would you set Trump up for that? Why not help him?
The time to get rid of the RINOs is during the primaries, not the general elections.
Just want to make it clear that I’m in for action only if it is POST-ELECTION. After Trump is elected.
I have tried to imagine a world in which President Trump is elected and things continue as normal with a peaceful transfer of power where Biden or whoever leaves and there is the normal Inauguration.
I do not see that as a possible future.
Things will go kinetic before they let President Trump up in the Capitol steps again.
We still have to proceed as though the election will occur and an Inauguration just like every other inauguration will occur.
At the same time, don’t be shocked when the DS, back against its wall, overturns that final, and most defining, American norm.
They predicted PDJT would not willingly leave office in 2020, and painted J6 as his “insurrectiin”, lol.
I agree its going to be unlike anything we have seen, but I am highly sceptical of ALL predictions.
We elected Trump in 2016 and can do it again. There is no scam-demic now allowing the Democrats to cheat on an unprecedented scale like they did in 2020. Another factor is that many people who wouldn’t even describe themselves as conservatives are sick of the Biden economy and want the Trump economy back.
Trump has a good chance of winning this year. Don’t screw it up.
I’m about tired of your cheerleading and preaching – you sound like a kid on too much coffee.
Election is 8 months away and you have no clue what the election landscape will be then but you can bet you’ll be wrong if you’re preparing to fight the last war.
Chill man chill – this ain’t home it’s just a stop in the road. Get right with God and be a happy warrior.
You want me to be a happy warrior but you don’t want me to cheerlead. That makes no sense.
And regarding preaching … I and many others have been greatly harmed by the voting choices of not just Democrats but also conservatives and I’m sick of it and I’m not going to remain silent. Obviously a lot of voters need to be educated. There are plenty who don’t even understand what powers are given to the majority party in the House or Senate and they are the ones who end up giving the majorities away. We can’t have nice things when people vote stupidly.
What is YOUR advice then? In this case I’m actually not expecting an answer because I’m re-replying (my original one was deleted, apparently) days later and you’ll probably never see this. But I wanted to make the statement anyway. I’m mad and I’m going to work to educate voters, whether you like it or not. If people voted like I suggest you would actually benefit from it.
Republican Primary District 11 House of Representatives ( Polk, Henderson, Part of Buncombe and Transylvania Counties) has an incumbent (Chuck Edwards) elected for his first term up for reelection in March Republican Primary. He has a MAGA appearing challenger Christian Reagan. Chuck is a RINO on every spending bill or budget extension. Chuck needs to be replaced.
I hope there’s some indication that other people in that district are also unhappy with Edwards and willing to vote against him. If that’s your district I hope you are in communication with other voters so you can urge them to vote for Reagan. Might as well take a chance on an unknown, it sounds like Reagan can’t be much worse than Edwards.
I have to tell you, I’m from SC.
Lindsey Graham has a machine down here that’s amazing. He’s got a gozillion in campaign funds. ANYBODY who primaries him has got to be as pure as Mary (Jesus mom) or he/she will be vilified in ALL media.
Why do you think there’s never a primary opponent for him? He has not been opposed for about a decade. It’s almost impossible.
I would think Kentucky (McConnell) is the same.
The money mafia is a real thing.
Graham’s last election was 2020. I’m looking at the South Carolina GOP primary results for that year. Graham had three opponents. Here were the results:
Graham 68%
LaPierre 17%
Reynolds 9%
Buckner 6%
Voters have free will, they don’t need to vote for the guy who spent the most money.
Atlas Shrugged.
Both D.C. and NYC are so vulnerable really. What if truckers stopped delivering food? I wish we could do something to get those poor January 6 political prisoners out of the DC gulag.
Those were federal convictions, right? Trump can pardon them. I know I would if I were him. At least the ones for whom there is no absolute evidence that they caused any major harm.
(if I were he) (that NEVER looks right to me!)
Which is most of them and others who were convicted of violence were fighting back after being shot by explosives and rubber bullets.
I support every one of them being freed. The whole thing was a setup by Pelosi and McConnell.
I think jazz bogie was expressing a desire to free the J6 prisoners, that didn’t involve a pardon.
Not time yet, but just file it away; prisons are established to keep people IN, not OUT.
I support every one of them being freed. The whole thing was a setup by Pelosi and McConnell.
I do too. But if they go the typical route, to try to have their convictions overturned, it will be very expensive and take a long time. Trump can simply pardon them and be done with it.
What if sanitation workers stopped picking up the trash? This is how effective it can be:
In the 1960’s in NYC the sanitation workers worked and worked for a deal to no avail. They finally went on strike. The mayor vowed to NEVER give in to their demands. It took only THREE DAYS of trash piling up in the streets and New Yorkers calling his office and hollering at him loudly. He folded and they got their damands met. Every one.
Le pouvoir de poubelle!
Marquis my Brother.
I unfortunately am only fluent in English and on this phone am not too good with translating .
Wish those of y’all would tell us rubes what you’re saying in English.
(Asking for another…)
As in a translation below your first comment.
It should be action that will turn the screws on the RINOs, cause pain for them and/or make them look bad and ultimately not be re-elected. But it shouldn’t be a self-serving action, like a strike to get increased pay.
Unfortunately, I think NYC has gotten kind of used to the trash piling up sometimes. Would take longer than 3 days. But summer would be a great time.
Can’t remember whether garbage trucks are all run by the city or if the mob has its hand in a bunch of private cartage companies. (FWIW, I am under the impression that a lot of mob guys are actually rather patriotic in their own way. Could be wrong.)
There has been an UNPRECEDENTED PILE UP of human garbage as well …..IMPORTED HUMAN GARBGE….NO LESS!!
The American Bastille.
I suspect their abuses there are in part in hopes that we will storm it and grant them a casus belli.
Nevertheless, that might be an appropriate target for a crowd to gather at.
I’ve been living in NYC for 44 years and I’m in the process of getting out; I should be out within 90 days. Please wait until I leave.
You procrastinator, you……🤣….I miraculously got out when our lease was up, end of August 2001……
2 weeks before 9/11…..
Like you….I LIVED through the Koch to Giuliani transition…. the RIGHT people in positions of power CAN move the needle …..BIGLY.
Trump and the Wollman rink is a conveniently forgotten example also…
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Yes, I have often thought about the difference between Europe and US. The countries of Europe are often the size of our states. Texas would cover much of Europe and the continental US is about the size of Europe. So, relatively small areas, the size of our states, have national leaders while we have governors. And often European country populations are the size of our state populations. I do like the idea of concentrated efforts focused on wayward representatives. A smallish congressional geography. At the Senate level (yes, a state size), a good trial would be McConAll. I guess a good current young one would be Oklahoma and Lankford. It’s a tough one to resolve.
Texas is roughly the size of France.
Colorado is the size of France.
The conservative mind in independent.
The bad guys take advantage of our nature. Everytime.
We disagree on minutae and agree on the substantial. Focus on the substantial.
When it comes to effectively defeating a personality that is used to having their misguided ways, it means teaching people how to deflect their behaviors. There will be folks who strike out in anger, which is a form of fear. I am from a family of double vaccinated Democrats, they live in fear of death and prefer to be bitter and lash out. They live lives of hopelessness. We are a nation of laws and we must follow them. We need God to guide us.
No, Mary, we are now a nation of lawfare. The nation of laws was buried long ago; and the tombstone has been defaced. The teaching will have to be somewhat brutal to be effective.
Probably the “easiest” and least individually problematic (lost job, etc) is just stop buying anything except basic essentials. We all have too much crap anyway. A boycott of everything. I really thought the protest in Europe against digital everything/cashless was people loaded up carts of stuff, food and such. Went to the checkout had it all rung up, pulled out cash, were told it’s card only, then said OK, and left everything. That was awesome. And no worse for wear.
Absolutely agree. I also utilize ‘bartering’ when possible, for certain goods and services within my community.
That’s a brilliant protest against cashless.
Imagine if 20 people did it at once in each store. We’re not cashless yet, but it’s something to file away.
Here’s a start to a list of stores that will not accept cash anymore:
Whole Foods There are 515 in the U.S., with 95 being in California.
I shop at Whole Foods twice a week and use my credit card each time
but are behind people using cash often. When is this starting?
We never stopped cash. I had to put card on phone temporarily and then took it right off. I don’t store information on my phone.
Great Idea.
I am in also…what we need is an organizing force, and it looks like Sundance may create that somehow..even if we form a group. Lmk how to help!
We have needed an organizing force for years. It can’t just be Trump rallies. It’s just not in the conservative nature to organize much. We just want government to perform basic functions with integrity and leave us alone to live our lives.
The J6 insurrectionist narrative has really put a chill in any inkling to organize and assemble. Whether J6 was a planned fedsurrection or a “never let a crisis go to waste” reaction, it has been extremely effective.
Sooner or later we have to demand our right to assemble.
You nailed it. The reason the first civil war was possible was because the CSA was organized and stood together against their opponent. I don’t see anything like that being possible today. I do like the strike idea, but how do we organize? How did the farmers in Europe get organized? We need some education.
In process, Sundance is working to get up to speed right now.
as trump gets closer to winning the election the critters of the state will attempt more bizarre things to derail it. after trump gets elected they will come for all of us. right away. before trump gets his cabinet in place. the actions were covert in 2016-17. it will be in your face jan . 2025. imho. americans will be forced to stand against them.
A valid point, is that our enemies may well give us exactly what we need, cause belli; a REASON, a MOTIVATION to Unite and cry havoc, and let slip the dogs….
EITHER by some outrageous act to block PDJTwinning, or an outrageous action after he wins such as you imply.
Gov Abbot and AG Ken Paxton of Texas have already produced the cause belli. And various states have rallied in support. Now to wait and see if the Corruptocrats successfully move a piece; or take a piece. The latest move was pulled back in the Senate Open Borders funding deal.
To me, the photo in the paper of the Gdansk shipyard workers on their knees, praying the rosary in the face of the Soviet Empire, was profoundly stirring . . . it illustrated men humbly praying to dear God, to the Blessed Mother. It made me want to pray the rosary, to find out more about it and to call upon it . . . if those burly shipyard workers could do that, could call upon that, it was something very inspiring and as time went by, it seemed to me to be part of what brought victory to Solidarity.
There was Lech Walesa and all those people who coalesced into that movement. Also remember Father Jerzy who I think was so much a part of it also and – of course – the former Archbishop of Krakow and then Cardinal who was now the Pope, Pope John Paul II.
Pope John Paul II shone the light on various figures of inspiration in Poland and moved to see to it that they were recognized – Sister Faustina and Father Maximilian Kolbe as well as Father Jerzy – Pope John Paul II also brought wider recognition to a Capuchin priest from Italy, who is known as Padre Pio of Pietrelcina who was already well known to the faithful when the Pope was a young man: Padre Pio wore the wounds of Christ, the Stigmata, for 50 years, from the time he turned 30 years old until he passed away at 80 in 1968. Padre Pio prayed the rosary constantly throughout the day and night and recommended it to everyone who asked for guidance in their lives.
So, I would just like to contribute the above thoughts to the conversation that if anyone is inclined to do so, pick up those rosary beads that you found once and give it a try as you ponder and ask dear God to guide you in your part . . . I think especially coming from a point in that part of the world where so much happened to “tear down that wall” that it is worth considering.
I wonder if it would be LESS welcome there than it probably would be if you were in Tiananmen Square and sat on a bench and pulled out your rosary beads. You could just sit there and pray the rosary mentally, going through it, mentally reciting the Hail Mary prayers for each decade and so forth.
Remember, one of the promises of the rosary is that Mary will crush the head of the serpent.
Beautiful, Good, and True!
“Act, and God will act.”
– St. Joan of Arc
Your post illustrates exactly why they installed Bergoglio, the anti-pope.
Bergoglio, the Bouncer
(giving a bad name to bouncers)
Methinks WE have Archbishop Vigano, this time.
Based on his public Statements, he is totally on board, spiritually centered, and ready to go.
Absolutely! I have COVID, can’t work this week! Etc
Finally, something good about Covid.
finally.
Try harder.
I left work for COVID and an allergic reaction to DIE over 3 years ago.
Try harder? What could be nicer than using their own BS against them! What are they going to do, say covid never existed and its only flu lol
My one feeling is very excited!
I see a comedy skit of the trash hauler person, instead of picking up the can into the truck, it gets emptied on the driveway or sidewalk of the non compliant politicos. But SD’s words here are very valid. Time to toughen up to these bullies
No, we don’t want to imperil the trash hauler who picks up our trash. You should not curb your personal political statements to accidentally overturning trash of politicians and swamp creatures. Get out early, get out often
“Try to contact or use the process of “constituent services” and you will quickly discover how you are viewed as a simple annoyance to those who unilaterally decide how they will participate in ruling over you.”
It is shocking to me how both Representatives and Senators have decided they no longer have to do anything for their unwashed constituents.
Going back 30 years, I have had various interactions with Senators and Representatives from both parties in several states, and even if it were a form letter response, or a letter making excuses, they at least bothered to respond. If you were in DC and dropped by their office, they would at least take a few minutes to say hi to someone from their district.
Now, it’s as if you are interrupting their staff during their busy day of updating their Tik-Tok videos, with no hope of even getting a form letter response from their office.
My first experience with this was with Boebert. Her local staff lied, then stopped responding to anything. Her DC staff never bothered to respond at all regardless of whether it was voice mail, a letter or email, and it did not matter what assistance was requested. Sending a letter directly addressed to her at her DC office was ignored.
She will likely lose her election just from having bad staff and her poor supervision of them.
Politicians hiding from constituents and only appearing at controlled events is not helping.
I have gotten so fed up with others, I can’t imagine even bothering to contact them, so I will make my opinion known at the ballot box. And tell as many others as I can along the way.
President Trump is such a breath of fresh air in comparison.
“She will likely lose her election just from having bad staff and her poor supervision of them.”
Sounds as though she deserves to lose.
It’s likely why she bailed out of the district and moved to the eastern slope.
She barely won re-election the last time against a raging leftist from Aspen caught on video getting a side piece in a storage unit from someone not his wife.
Sounds like the leftist from Aspen might like that blond from Virginia.
It could be worse than Boebert, believe me. One’s congress critter could be a ‘WEF Young Global Leader’
Believe me I know. I think she moved to the eastern slope to run after RINO Ken Buck decided he was a better fit at CNN.
She is not loved on the eastern slope. Her election had so many issues but she couldn’t bring herself to say anything about the fraud. I don’t know what support she gained by keeping quiet, but in refusing to stand for election integrity she lost her potentially most loyal supporters.
You can sit in front of that screen and push out all kinds of messaging, but if you move your feet to go out into the community and make sure your local area aligns with your beliefs or at the very least…give them a reason to make things better in their life by knowing why&who they are voting as leaders.
we could call the play a “go right, reverse lawfare slam on 1, hut hut”,….or we can honor the brave and say “lets roll”
……..just saying
imagine a line of cars and trucks filled with fed-up patriotts, bumper to bumper, slowly circling the big box stores parking lots making exit and entry to their parking facilities all but impossible
folks operating in shifts, for 30 days straight, beginning day after Thanksgiving
would cost the corps millions while independent mom/pop stores thrive
Thats a lot offuel expended.
Once you have em all in place, just turn em off?
might get ticketed, dutch
maybe a rash of flat tires or other ‘mechanical breakdowns’ covering the entrances
just a working theory for now, surely some refinement necessary
isn’t it easier to not just shop there?
and, its unAmerican to stop others from
shopping there
unamerican if we lived in a perfect nation, Amjean – which at the moment, we do not
you may not realize the enormous amount of small businesses forced to close (dreams shattered, homes foreclosed) forever by the shamdemic lockdowns – while the wallmarts and other box stores thrived
anyone thinking not being able to enter a wallmart for 30 days as an unbearable sacrifice may not be fully prepared for the extreme uncomfortableness we are soon to experience as a nation
a reevaluation of priorities may be in order
What an epoch we stand in!
May Heaven Bless our gracious host, our peoples, our nations, and our world.
Peace Is The Prize, Standing Is The Price.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
Ayn Rand
The Truckers strike in Canada, which pushed Trudeau into outright illegal activity, was funded by people OUTSIDE the convoy (and many here in America) sending them bitcoin and other forms of currency to supplement their income while protesting. If we did that here in an American city, it’d be far more successful, if enough join. Local city officials would be helpless to stop it. I think the demand (whatever it is) must be made clear, and be reasonable.
After Court Victory for Freedom Convoy, Canadians Ready to Sue | The Epoch Times
IT SEEMS ITS NOT OVER YET
Atlas Shrugged
“There are more of us than them, yet each of our efforts seems to face the full force of “them” against a divided sense of “us.””
In 1933 when the Nazi party took control of Germany it had 2 million members, comprising only three percent of Germany’s 65 million citizens. A minority of willing to us “lawfare” extremists can control a vast number of so-called “moderates”, making them irrelevant.
Far less prison guards, than prisoners.
Its a rare person who fully grasps that.Welcome to my world, and FK the guards!
If individuals will not think outside themselves, if individuals will not put aside their selfishly impatient wants, there will be no uniting to reverse the political manipulation and sycophancy. Very few people have an above average skill level for this, aside from the people that comment and read here.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
Okay, so are you in, or not?
Until we get rid of all modem accessible voting machines? We will never win again. More votes than voters? We are screwed until we go back to paper ballots and voter ID. One day voting. No more votes added after election day at midnight.
I totally agree that those relatively simple actions leveraged across many people in solidarity will have great effect. But we must also be convinced that Christ is the answer to every ill, the solution to every human problem, the only hope of a dying race. This does NOT mean we sit on our butts and wait for Him to take action. It means that we take each of of the actions described by Sundance and take it to prayer, all of us, so that our actions are guided in truth and strengthened by divine power. Simple actions x solidarity of souls + trust in Jesus = the beauty and peace of heaven on earth (. . . Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, ON EARTH as it is in Heaven . . .)
👍 Make it so us old, retired gals can strike too.
Young and old, tall and short, weak and strong – all have abilities they can bring to bear and all can help out.
This addresses some ways:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/09/solidarity-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10572410
Another specifically for those less mobile might be to put together supplies and food for those on the lines, in addition to some of the things in the linked post.
And of course – all can pray!
Fantastic ideas!
“The dismantling of a weaponized government first begins with a set of political representatives who are willing to take apart the institutional tools that government uses to weaponize their power.”
Just as “Guns don’t kill people, criminals kill people’, so to “Institutional tools don’t enslave the people, the corrupt institutions enslave the people’.
If you defang these institutions, they will just grow new fangs.
The institutions must be drastically reduced in size, if not completely eliminated as should be the FBI.
I’ve been hoping for exactly this (a broad swath of Europeans) in regard to antagonizing the WEF, but even fighting that devil’s nest indirectly would be an incredibly awesome thing. I wish I still had some of my old contacts (mostly online) from most of those countries. But wouldn’t it be great to make some new ones.
“You never realize how strong you are until being strong is your only option”
THIS!!!
Sundance,
I know you will find much of value to observe and bring back. That said, you are looking for the unity solutions in the wrong places.
What stood out to me about the Putin interview was how very Russian his soul is. When he spoke of Russians and Ukrainians sharing a soul, as well as a history and a faith, the forms of the weapons he is wielding on behalf of his nation’s unity are uniquely Russian.
The same with 95 percent Catholic, almost all ethnically Polish Poland.
Each nation must find its resistance within it’s own history, founding myths, faith, and identity.
That makes the US very, very different from any European ethnic nationalist nation.
The Irish will pull together to fight back because they have been fighting invaders, and especially the English, for centuries. It should be easy for them to pull together as The Fighting Irish.
In contrast, as one Scots Irish descendant told James Webb, “We Ain’t Too Cooperative Around Here.”
That’s America. “Who died and made you king?”
That’s America.
Best to use tools and especially stories that fit the national character, instead of trying to graft a foreign character onto a native tree.
We do not have an ethnic identity. Our national values do originate in the Protestant work ethic, and in Christianity and faith in this being a land blessed by God. That common culture, Biblically grounded, has unfortunately been badly degraded over the last two generations.
What unifies us then?
We refuse to be the slaves of any man, much less foreign tyrants.
That is our founding.
We can’t be Poland. We should not try to be Poland.
We The People. Break the Chains. Liberators, of
ourselves by the grace and protection of God Almighty.
We aren’t there yet in having identified the for, although we are making progress. We do need to unite, but it has to be against the big common threat of Tyranny.
Yes, you can get local action in the end – if people are clear that the octopus arm being swiped away is a way to drive off the octopus itself.
The foe.
Grrr. Autocorrect.
American attitudes that are deep in our culture and could be strengths in this situation:
be like the amish
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. This pretty much sums it up, this is our unity.
Trump’s branding genius is totally valid, and multitudes, certainly more than the small percentage needed to affect change have already joined that force.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Trump is the Maga commander in chief… Let him lead.
Apparently Wayne Allen Root got lots of people to vote for None Of The Above and thereby humiliating the backstabber Icky….so we can do it….we’ve already done it…we have to build on this!
I doubt that a day here and there is sufficient. A few days’ inconvenience can/will be ignored.
In addition to a labor stoppage maybe a week to ten days honking targeting that part of town where their office and/or home is. Drive them out of their minds.
honkening meltdown (language) youtube.com/watch?v=beyL5WuphJo
That’s a great idea.
This election season, honk at EVERY biden sign. Both going and coming.
Sundance, before you tell people what they should do post-election apparently you need to tell people how to vote to best support Trump.
Write in Trump on the ballot. Even if you pull lever/push button for Trump.
Write in all your choices on the ballot regardless of duplication. Force the issue
Enforce the machine choice with personal choice.
The other day on my way to the GOP meeting about being a poll worker or poll watcher in my county Aaron Lewis’s song comes on reminding I’m not the only one …..
We Are NOT The Only Ones
Am I the only one, here tonight
Shaking my head, and thinking something ain’t right
Is it just me? Am I losing my mind?
Am I standing on the edge of the end of time?
Am I the only one not brainwashed?
Making my way through the land of the lost
Who still gives a shit, and worries about his kids
As they try to undo all the things he did?
Am I the only one who can’t take no more?
Aaron Lewis – Am I The Only One
Getting about time to start putting some not so secret messages into these songs.
Wonder what songs Solidarity used?
Getting time to move past emoting and on to educating I suspect.
Methinks thats already starting to happen, or at least the songwriters/performers and infrastructure are there.
Check out Tom McDonald, and a group if entertainers he works with.
Its “Try that in a small town, North of Richmond, with the Voice of Freedom.”
EG. Do you hear the people sing?
Bravo!!