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But that's the left. They are violently intolerant.

Shouldn't we be better?

How about mass civil disobedience, Ghandi-style?

Those million people who showed up in DC have enough human mass to stop all kinds of things.

I was just thinking that maybe the pandemic was planned to move financial and government operations more online to make it harder for civil disobedience to stop them.

Patrick says

How about mass civil disobedience, Ghandi-style?

Those million people who showed up in DC have enough human mass to stop all kinds of things.

And the media went all out and called it an insurgency. Although that actually helps, since even normies are starting to realize the complete 180 in reaction between the 220 BLM/Anitfa riots and the Captiol Building.

Not that I'm unwilling to try. I think taking control of the GOP is priority number one, starting from the ground floor up and making it a real opposition. Imagine 32 State Legislatures censuring McConnell and McCarthy when they cuck out.

Hitting them in the purse is glorious though.

Here's another thought, Patrick: People should join the Knights of Columbus, VFW, American Legion, Loyal Orange Order, JFPO, whatever the case may be and go to at least a few meetings a year. We have to preserve these patriotic organizations instead of spanking it on the internet all the time.

NoCoupForYou says

People should join the Knights of Columbus, VFW, American Legion, Loyal Orange Order, JFPO, whatever the case may be and go to at least a few meetings a year. We have to preserve these patriotic organizations instead of spanking it on the internet all the time.

Are they even meeting during the COVID TERROR?

Jim Trageser8 hr ago
SPLC put me on their "Hate Watch List" in the early 1990s, or so they told me, when I wrote a series of editorials for the Oceanside Blade-Citizen newspaper in San Diego County arguing that people should be able to view files kept on them by any organization - and challenge what they feel is inaccurate information. We argued that your political and moral reputation was even more important than your credit score, and yet these various advocacy groups can keep and maintain huge secret files on individuals who have no access to those files, no recourse to challenge them.

For authoring that series of unsigned editorials, myself and my late managing editor were threatened by the SPLC in a phone call.

Cole6 hr ago
The SPLC is a cancer. The last time I checked their hate watch page for my home state of MN, the SPLC had several Catholic organizations. Yet in Minneapolis, home of little Mogadishu where FBI has busted many terrorist plots, there were no such jihadist groups on their watchlist. That says it all. SPLC is in itself a danger to our democracy and the lapdog corporations keep shoveling money their way to prove their liberal bona fides.

Daniel Pennell9 hr ago
The left is DOING what it accused TRUMP of WANTING to do but never did.

Becoming an autocratic, dictatorial, thought controlling, speech controlling bunch of violent, paranoid fruitcakes that are prepared to punish, harass, drive into unemployment, arrest and persecute anyone who deviates from their perspective in any frigging way.

They have become what it is they feared.

President of the Oathkeepers arrested.

The first government-toppling attempt/insurgency to consist solely of misdemeanors and possibly (gasp, clutch pearls) conspiracy to commit misdemeanors as vile as unlawful entry and disorderly conduct.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/fbi-affidavit-says-virginia-man-conspired-breach-capitol-discussed-plans-jan-1?amp&__twitter_impression=tr

Reminder, a laptop full of photos of a suspect smoking crack, weighing crack, possessing crack paraphrenalia, and a letter guaranteeing the quality of the crack presumably brought on the Dark Web, have resulted in no arrests or even a pickup of said suspect for questioning in over a year.

Also to refer to a commenter below who's upset about the threat of White Supremacists - please, grow up. Take a driving trip around this country as I have. You aren't going to find enough White Supremacists to overthrow a tractor, not even in Idaho. The threat of Woke Supremacists is much greater.

Woke supremacists, perfect description!

Polly8 hr ago
I now live back in my hometown, a lovely city in SoCal with too many wealthy white liberals. The people I know here who have been yakking for the last four years about the dangers of White Supremacists are all white liberals with an unseemly masochism about their race which they project onto anyone who is white and proud of their heritage and call them “White Supremacists.” We have a botanic garden here that's very sweet. The current director issued a bulletin last summer about the dangers of White Supremacism at the garden, and that there would be no tolerance of any racial threats. I asked him (he's white as is his board) to give me a specific White Supremacist incident and he said “it's systemic.” I told him if he really wanted to do good to become a paramedic on the South Side of Chicago, but he feels his real work fighting the Nazi/racists/slavery terrorism is here. Okay, the better weather is really what he's talking about. But there has been this War on White Terrorism in CA now for some time. And the wealthy liberals here just love it. Sometimes I suggest they think about the genocide of the Uyghurs and how their iPhone is made by slave Uyghurs but of course they just look blank.

Shea10 hr ago
I used to work for an intel Agency. I just had to retire early after 18 years for medical reasons. I can honestly say I am ashamed to have believed the BS that was fed to us. I feel like I was brainwashed almost to justify things that I find myself sickened by now. I went to work there after 9/11. I believed in what I did at first, but things changed. Employees who questioned things suffered in their careers. Literally before I started separating myself from there and reading things on my own, I would hear ‘Glenn Greenwald’ and think ‘Snowden’ who i was led to believe was the devil. Once away from the IC cult, I realize where the truth is, where the bravery is. It’s with journalists like Glenn. Thank you for your courage and bravery taking on the national security apparatus that has played us for too long.

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Lee10 hr ago
Thank you for your honesty. Please continue to advocate for liberty.

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Shea9 hr ago
Thank you. I have a lot of truth to share, but when you work there, they make you paranoid and put so much fear in you. To this day, I am terrified. All I can say is always question when you hear people cite an “intel source.” Or a “high-ranking official.” And you can safely assume that whatever Adam Schiff or someone like John Brennan claims is true, it is probably the exact opposite.

Dissenting Opinion6 hr ago
Fantastic piece. Have to say I am finding myself agreeing with you on more and more issues.

I tried to speak with a group of friends who are all left of center in their political views, well educated and upper, upper middle class. Every single one remains so blinded by their rage against the yellow-haired devil, that they are unwilling to see the drift into totalitarian dictatorship occurring right before their eyes. I even conceded that Facebook, Twitter and the like booting Trump off their platform is arguably well within those firms purview, no matter how damaging this move is to their platform. But, and this to me is absolutely a fundamentally different and more ominous set of actions, the clearly coordinated attack on Parler by Apple, Google and Amazon is a direct frontal assault on the 1st Amendment rights of every American citizen. Any academic, journalist, editor, publisher or public interest group (hey ACLU where have you been) who does not rise-up and openly denounce and fight this blatant assault is a complete and utter fraud.

NoCoupForYou says

Here's another thought, Patrick: People should join the Knights of Columbus, VFW, American Legion, Loyal Orange Order, JFPO, whatever the case may be and go to at least a few meetings a year. We have to preserve these patriotic organizations instead of spanking it on the internet all the time.

Tell me how to join.

Doesn't the Knights require substantial monetary investment? I've never known a member who wasn't quite well off.

Memories often highlight the good and exclude the bad: I was instabanned (no warning, no rule breaking) from a forum yesterday for mentioning the whole Hunter Laptop vs. "Insurgency". Forgot about mods/ops who get triggered over the way certain subjects are approached/brought up and wield the ban hammer.

Where is the hunt for the suspect(s) who planted bombs on the 6th before Trump spoke? That story has disappeared.

It happened in Cupertino....

Based on whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session, a third-grade teacher at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School began the lesson on “social identities” during a math class. The teacher asked all students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained that the students live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian, English speaker[s],” who, according to the lesson, “created and maintained” this culture in order “to hold power and stay in power.”
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Following this discussion, the teacher had the students deconstruct their own intersectional identities and “circle the identities that hold power and privilege” on their identity maps, ranking their traits according to the hierarchy. In a related assignment, the students were asked to write short essays describing which aspects of their identities “hold power and privilege” and which do not. The students were expected to produce “at least one full page of writing.” As an example, the presentation included a short paragraph about transgenderism and nonbinary sexuality.

The lesson caused an immediate uproar among Meyerholz Elementary parents. “We were shocked,” said one parent, who agreed to speak with me on condition of anonymity. “They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old.” This parent, who is Asian-American, rallied a group of a half dozen families to protest the school’s intersectionality curriculum. The group met with the school principal and demanded an end to the racially divisive instruction. After a tense meeting, the administration agreed to suspend the program.
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One parent told me that critical race theory was reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. “[It divides society between] the oppressor and the oppressed, and since these identities are inborn characteristics people cannot change, the only way to change it is via violent revolution,” the parent said. “Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here.”

Very Interesting. Soldiers turn backs to Biden's motorcade, esp. at 0:07 onwards. Notice also relaxed stance for some soldiers and not at attention.

https://twitter.com/InesdLC/status/1351915427589455872

Anybody who willingly gives up power is a fool. Those students should demand that teacher give up their power to the students.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:17

Karloff says

Those students should demand that teacher give up their power to the students.

I love this.

Patrick says

I was just thinking that maybe the pandemic was planned to move financial and government operations more online to make it harder for civil disobedience to stop them.

We also have an epidemic of ransomware attacking through remote connections. This really puts a hurt on small businesses that now have a increased amount of remote workers. I suspect this is not just opportunists taken advantage of this rise in remote work, but an effort to force businesses to put there software in the cloud. This benefits the usual suspects like Amazon, and gives them greater control. I find it hard to believe the government cannot find the source of the ransomware when the ransomware crooks supply an email to sent files to and a bitcoin wallet to pay the extortion.

Patrick says

But that's the left. They are violently intolerant.

Shouldn't we be better?

How about mass civil disobedience, Ghandi-style?

Those million people who showed up in DC have enough human mass to stop all kinds of things.

I was just thinking that maybe the pandemic was planned to move financial and government operations more online to make it harder for civil disobedience to stop them.

Patrick,

I truly believe you could be an agent of change through this website. You are very consistent and have a good moral code. That comes across very well. Conservatives will not be able to use any general population online forum to organize. We need you. What can we do, as a patrick.net community, to take action? We may not like politics but it doesn't matter because politics is coming for/after us. There is no hiding.