“A deep state (translation of Turkish “derin devlet”) is a type of governance made up of potentially secret and unauthorized networks of power operating independently of a state’s political leadership in pursuit of their own agenda and goals.” –Wikipedia, Deep state

“Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it.” Source: Findlaw, January 8, 2021 (boldface mine).

Sedition does not mean doing (insurrection or treason); it does not mean planning (which is always treason, aka an act of war, since one does not plan insurrections which might not succeed in overthrow, whether the planned overthrow will be violent or not); it means inciting insurrection (“revolt,” which is intentionally ambiguous to possibly mean “peaceful overthrow” or a “nonviolent correction”) or treason (“violence;” “betrayal;” “hot war;” or, even, “cold war”). Sedition is what Trump did on January 6. His careful and parsed words, even if they did not constitute technical calls for violence, were general enough, and certainly suggestive enough, for reasonable people to interpret them as a call for revolt using any means possible and necessary, to include violence. But, him simply inciting revolt, violent or not, against Biden’s Electoral College certification ceremony with the goal of overthrowing it, was enough to constitute sedition.

Sedition is not as illegal as we might think it is, under the (usually reasonable) argument that anyone can try to use their speech to incite revolt or violence, but that it’s rarely successful, and that they shouldn’t be responsible if others actually do follow their instructions (essentially, what Charles Manson argued. What got Manson convicted was that the jury realized he was a cult leader, who had turned his followers into a reliable and trustworthy weapon). With Donald Trump, however, that argument flies less than it does for Manson, because he was Commander-in-Chief at the time. Outgoing President A doesn’t get to call on a not-too-small, and not-too-unarmed, loyal army standing right in front of him– hailing from all over the U.S., the several thousand rioters were presumably some of his most hard-core followers of all– to stop incoming President B‘s certification happening right across the street, and have it be free speech. That’s not just a declaration of war, it’s a command to attack, plain and simple. In other words, he knew there was no possibility the crowd wasn’t going to do it, if he told them to, and then pretended to lead the way. Zero. In fact, he knew, by their logic, they could be prosecuted by him later for them not doing so, at that point.

“The Sedition Act of 1918, enacted during World War I, made it a crime to “willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States” or to “willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of the production” of the things “necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war.” The act, along with other similar federal laws, was used to convict at least 877 people in 1919 and 1920, according to a report by the attorney general. In 1919, the Court heard several important free speech cases — including Debs v. United States and Abrams v. United States — involving the constitutionality of the law. In both cases, the Court upheld the convictions as well as the law.” Source: thirteen dot org.

“The Sedition Act of 1918 was repealed in 1920, although many parts of the original Espionage Act remained in force.” Source: Middle Tennessee State University

“Although unused since at least 1961, the “Smith Act” remains a Federal law. There was, however, a brief attempt to use the sedition laws, as defined by the Sedition Act of 1918 amendments to the Espionage Act of 1917, against protesters of the Vietnam War.” –Wikipedia, Sedition

Note also that, even though Trump and Giuliani may not have said, specifically, “be violent,” they also never said to not be. This, in my opinion, is the strongest single piece of circumstantial evidence America has, on top of all of the other rare and unique conditions I just listed above, that they wanted the insurrection to become violent. It is impossible to speak the way they did, and still want it done peacefully, without following the remarks with frequent and repeat calls to remain peaceful. They wanted war, and they were hoping it would be successful (decapitation of government). They knew no one was going to be persuaded to not certify the vote, simply by the mob going in there and chanting, and squatting. They wanted deaths. They wanted the United States to begin to descend into chaos, all over the country. Then, they wanted to declare martial law.

I think the mistake we’re making is not appreciating the true breadth, and diversity, of the motives each rioter who stormed the Capitol had to choose from. Unlike, for example, the Boston Massacre, it was not an organic act. It was planned, and organized, at least in part and I assert certainly at the top, by hidden people who had hidden agendas, to almost certainly include government officials, and powerful influencers of government officials, themselves (the real U.S. deep state). As well as, some of the January 6 on-the-ground insurrectionists themselves, who knew they were going in there to make arrests with twist-ties and cause violence even as their President was playing footsie with the language towards the other 98% of them, or whatever. To me, those are the real insurrectionists, regardless of how thoroughly they believed in the righteousness (moral alignment) of their cause. I don’t, and never did, want them running the show. Really. I’d have FAR preferred Trump simply serve out his remaining days in office. Give me the real Secret Service protecting my head of state than the Oath Keepers, any day.

It is the same reason why, when it became apparent to me that Trump was going to stonewall Biden’s transition as hard as possible, I first suggested– really, out of concern for life– that Biden declare himself the President the moment the Electoral College confirmed he won, and then backtracked upon my realizing that’s not how it works– Trump, to have not been ousted in a coup, would need to serve out his FULL term of office, which would mean him not leaving until noon on January 20.

And, so, we were obliged to put up with it, and let more Americans die than necessary, to uphold the rule of law, or at least whatever semblance worth preserving was still left of it by that point in his tenure. Although an argument might have been made, in my opinion, that the military arresting him in the Oval Office, citing his ongoing threat to, and callous disregard for, American life as the reason, might have been justifiable. But, we don’t live in a sane politics. We live in Wonderland, which I define as any politics (society) where formal reality is not mostly objectively perceived, such as where Trump’s crowd size was the largest in history, and where letting Americans needlessly die might be better than setting a hard precedent that Presidents shouldn’t be reasonably free to let it happen in order to advance their own political agenda (“off with their heads”). I mean, to me, by the end of it, Trump was just murdering people. For revenge against his own followers who’d failed to reelect him, I believe, and to rub it in the rest of our faces that he could.

In other words, the rule of law was exactly what the rioters– to include those who support them today, regardless of individual motive– wanted to overthrow because, identically to their accusations against us for mostly just complaining (and– gasp– organizing!) for four years, they didn’t like the outcome— of an election they partook in! But, unlike us, were willing to kill police and the Vice President, to reverse it. This is an advantage of liberals having a press they believe in: when liberals are oppressed, they take a seat on the ground, and wait for the press to arrive. Trumpists think they have nowhere to go. They don’t trust the ‘fourth branch’ of government, the free press, to bring attention to their outrage in a constructive way, or to contextualize it properly. So, they grab pitchforks. Even if they are largely ignored by the press because they’re so caught up in the fake news they think is real, and usually can’t even begin to give a good answer about why they’re angry with government, because they don’t understand it that well. Many Trumpists ignored government and news, even elections, until Trump came along with his magic flute. Others are this brave new political age’s young to middle-aged adults, many of whom are failed products, twenty years or so later since graduating high school, of poor or nonexistent Civics and government classes, and contextualized history. But, they sure do believe climate change isn’t real, or caused by their air conditioners and PlayStations.

If every single one of these rioters had simply sat on the Mall like so many people did in Vietnam, or at Zucotti Park, and simply refused to leave, and kept getting peacefully arrested, we’d actually be having the national conversation they’d wanted, still, right now. Instead, they’re facing serious charges usually only seen in wartime, and half of us are shouting “Patriot!” and the other half, “Traitor!” Who wins, even if he’s not involved? Putin, among others.

What I am not trying to do is excuse people from wrong acts, but to figure out who in that crowd is really dangerous, and who isn’t, particularly lest the accusation of an unreasonably heavy hand be reasonably placed on us.

For example, the man shouting “Hang Mike Pence,” I would hope, is being investigated for possibly having made a credible threat against a sitting official. It’s also probably sedition, because he’s inciting anyone to try to kill Mike Pence, if they find him. Now, I don’t like Mike Pence. Pretty much, at all. But, I find it the height of irony that I, a liberal, would be defending him against one of his former supporters.

That’s just weird. But, it’s because I respect the rule of law (I also don’t think killing anyone is almost ever a good thing). We need law, so that society does not collapse when one side doesn’t get its way, which will be… drum roll… every time. I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll (usually) defend your right to say it, because, in part, doing so is the only way I can reasonably expect my own speech to remain free.

Most people in that crowd were obeying what their President told them to do, in a universe where they’d truly bought the line that their freedom; futures; and democracy were threatened. Those were the words Trump and Giuliani used. Never mind, of course, that they should have probably been celebrating that they had gotten a real conservative in the Oval Office, finally. It is probably safe to say that we will be seeing the current Administration, to the smug satisfaction of the GOP, who will not lift a finger at all, pushing quite a bit against its own progressive flank; though, I hope we can at least be confident it will be competent, and not screw up in the most dire and moral challenges facing America right now.

Most of the people there that day responded to the rallying cry to meet at the Capitol so as to make a show of force, and “stop the steal,” presumably through mass persuasion. Most, I would gather, simply wanted to be there to witness history, but also to be a part of it– to “stop the steal,” and as peacefully as possible. Otherwise, they’d have all been carrying firearms, and not wearing buffalo hats. But, it was just their patriotic heartstrings being pulled. Seriously. Note the (intentionally, in my opinion) ambiguous titles, “Stop the Steal” and “Save America.” The vast majority of them didn’t agree to meet at the Capitol to assassinate Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence. But, I assert, that’s why they were really called on to be there. We now know that most of them had no idea that something larger was forming beneath the surface; and, barring any stranger (possibly looking a little more like antifa than normal– would be called a false flag) coming up to them and saying which window they should help them break, and when, considered themselves ‘just along for the ride.’ So, if we call them insurrectionists, I think it’s more important to focus on the ringleaders; the assassins; and whoever got so caught up in all of it that they started picking up fire extinguishers and boards with nails in them, and started swinging.

What I don’t think is going to help much, is calling all of them “traitors.” I don’t think that’s nearly accurate, because most of their acts don’t fit the definition of war. Some were a lot more dangerous than others. Many, in fact, were pretty clueless, even unarmed.

Effectively, what they really were was a battering ram. A human battering ram designed intentionally by some deep state genius or geniuses to, effectively, catapult a handful of pre-briefed assassins in past security, and then decapitate the government. That’s what I think it was about, and I think Donald Trump wanted Pence killed, because he knew that, due to Pence’s disloyalty in certifying Biden’s win, he couldn’t keep him into a second term, but also couldn’t legally fire him, either (as Trump had done to so many others who’d been disloyal). And, I think, we should be focusing strongly on the Republican lawmakers who gave the tours of the Capitol to some of the insurrectionists in the days leading up to it. Those insurrectionists, I’d wager, are a treasure trove of information.

Metaphorically, a “Trojan horse” has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.

Factual explanations

There has been speculation that the Trojan Horse may have been a battering ram or other sort of siege engine resembling, to some extent, a horse, and that the description of the use of this device was then transformed into a myth by later oral historians who were not present at the battle and were unaware of that meaning of the name. Assyrians then used siege machines with animal names that were often covered with dampened horse hides to protect against flaming arrows; it is possible that the Trojan Horse was such.[14] Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book, Description of Greece, “That the work of Epeius was a contrivance to make a breach in the Trojan wall is known to everybody who does not attribute utter silliness to the Phrygians”;[15] by the Phrygians, he meant the Trojans.” –Wikipedia, Trojan Horse

Psychologically, the rioters got assistance, to some extent, from some of the police guarding the Capitol. Very, very few gunshots were fired comparative to, as many others have since observed, what we might have expected had the rioters consisted mostly of Blacks and Latinos. About as many police died as did rioters. It did not have to ‘go down’ like that, by any means. And, there is little to no reason to believe that anywhere near a majority, much less most of the, rioters had any intent of actually killing anyone, much less actual heads of state.

From Quora:

Question: Can the President of the United States fire the Vice President?

Answer: No!

The VP is elected, just as the POTUS is, by the very same Electoral College that elected the president, at the same time (voters vote for Electoral College “electors”, not the candidates directly). The only way to remove a VP from office is by the same process as removing a POTUS:
(1) Impeachment articles passed by a majority vote in the House of Representatives, followed by
(2) Trial in the Senate presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, followed by
(3) Conviction by a 2/3 super-majority vote of the US Senate.

Answer provided by John Lind, Political Scientist, Arizona State University
Answered 2 years ago
Author has 1.2K answers and 2.7M answer views

Someone who rushed the steps and trespassed, creating a security problem for police whereby the proposed assassins, etc. could enter the building were insurrectionists, but they’re not terrorists, or even traitors. And, I think, most of them could be brought to understand that they were tricked into engaging in insurrection, where they most likely expected it to be peacefully resolved by them squatting on the floor of Congress; impeding procedure; and creating a media spectacle, and had no idea it would, much less was intended to, escalate to deadly violence, or the decapitation of, effectively, both parties’ heads of state (Pelosi and Pence).

Guys carrying twist-ties don’t count. That’s an important observation, because those insurrectionists were prepared for violence– at a minimum, carried out by them (twist-tying Democrats up).

The twist-ties are real, physical evidence of intent. Twist-ties can only be used offensively, or to tie up a combatant after you’ve won some conflict you’re expecting to win. They are, in fact, cumbersome to wear, and get caught on things; there is no reason those insurrectionists were carrying twist-ties except that they seriously expected to need them, or at a minimum would use them at the drop of a hat, were an opportunity to present itself. By contrast, we can reasonably conclude that Jacob Chansley was not particularly confident there would be serious violence, because he wasn’t dressed for it. He was not carrying twist-ties. Also, to my knowledge, he doesn’t really preach violence. He might flirt with it a bit, but more philosophically, and not in a particularly inciting way. Unlike Hank Kunneman, who I consider a stochastic Christian terrorist, among way too many others making millions, or maybe even just a few hundred thousand, dollars a year preaching old-school hate, and fairy tale utopias laced with Christ that will never come true, and never should. Except, of course, with the exception of the kind the real U.S. deep state wants. That version of Christian government might be coming, but it will be no utopia.

What worries me about stochastic Christian terrorists (the preachers in love with married women pussy-grabbers) is that they’re not only the most nutcase of the nutcases, but that they’re also so politically and financially powerful. They’re doing something right, and that’s not good. Namely, what they are doing is taking the desperate people they’ve created, and selling them more of the Kool-Aid (hate) that made them oppressed and poor in the first place. It’s an effective racket; legal, at least for now; and, makes some of them millions. Kunneman’s ‘preaching’ is not just in-your-face sedition, but potentially far more deadly, I worry, than David Koreshs’, considering his 21st-century platform and reach. He sounds similar to Koresh, but Robin Bullock has Koresh’s style of “shock preaching” down cold (see video of Bullock, below). There are quite a few of these jokers going around, like Paula White White, and Kenneth “Long Tube” Copeland. They’re seriously dangerous people who already have a lot of blood on their hands, not to mention Christians’. But because, unlike Charles Manson, they ride that thin line where they don’t tell their followers exactly where to go and when, and what to attack them with; so, they get society’s pass.

Her comment at timestamp 0:39 violates 1 Corinthians 2:11.

It’s also insane, and thus hopefully just a lie.

Hi, I’m looking for the Ten Commandments, I heard I could find them on Paula White’s yard, propping up her garden gnome.

Really, she should ditch Christianity probably, and just take up kickboxing.

Do not give this nut access to a firearm, lest she hear God telling her to kill some Democrat with it.

Wait… I’m downloading a message from God right now… it says there are exactly two things this person should not own: Five million dollars, and a firearm.

“Let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the purpose, against the calling of Donald Trump… let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus” qualifies as sedition, as well as stochastic Christian terrorism.

Sedition for Christian Dummies. Terrorism for Christian Dummies.

The coy, thinly-veiled messaging White is delivering to her flock is not too difficult to translate. Hold on, I have to really prepare, to make sure I get it right.

I think what Paula White White is saying is that Democrats, in fact anyone who opposes Donald Jay Trump, is aligned with demonic forces. Now, I don’t recall learning too much about official demons while I was studying for Communion, in fact I’ve blocked the entire memory for the most part, but I’ve been hearing about demons since I was a little kid, and I’m pretty sure they’re the worst. Minus, Satan himself. Tossed out of Heaven and all, fallen former angels and stuff.

Being demonic, therefore, it’s probably better no one listen to what they have to say, because they’re evil, and against God. They’re also supernatural. White didn’t call me just evil, she called me “demonic.” I’m aligned with demonic forces, because I support Joe Biden remaining president. Killing me, therefore, and other liberals and Democrats like me, might not be as bad as you might think, and it might even be necessary to restore Donald Trump to power.

Hank Kunneman is doing the same bullshit, in fact a lot of them are. If they start a hot war, I’ll recommend they be hunted down first. We’ll see how much God protects them from “aligned demonic forces,” then.

Terrorists are bad. Terrorists who claim to be prophets and own five million dollars, are worse.

The pockets they pick every day, with their violent and seditious stage act. The main problem is, aside from undermining national security and American elections simply by going around selling snake oil, they could make someone with an AR-15 they made sure could get one go nuts, kind of like what happened yesterday in Lauren Boebert’s Colorado, and they are perfectly fine with that if it happens. Or, not. They firmly believe they’re not going to jail even if something does happen, and even if they’re directly quoted by the terrorist as having been the inspiration for the attack; they know they have enough followers chewing their cuds all over America who will run to their religious free speech defense. The free speech that mixes God, politics, racism, fear, Scripture, an utterly false and noxious moral superiority, and veiled references to assassination, insurrection, treason and sedition using code. The kind of free speech that lights a fuse in a crowded theater we’re all in and can see, and then says, “Well, you can’t prove it was my fire that set it off.”

I’m not going to care.

They also firmly believe they’re going to be able to keep all of the money.

Just so you know, that wouldn’t happen in the America I envision. In the America I envision, these people would be among the first the Secret Service, the Justice Department, and the IRS would be investigating. But, not today. Today, they are deep state darlings.

I find it interesting we’re willing to subject ourselves, as a society, to that kind of threat, just so some millionaire junkie says he or she should be free to go around preaching his or her insane version of Christ. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, though. We’re the country that did nothing after Newtown, Virginia Tech, and Las Vegas. No, I don’t consider banning bump stocks doing anything.

stochastic
sto·chas·tic
/stəˈkastik/
adjective
randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.

A stochastic terrorist is a terrorist who preaches terror; hot war, or hot civil war; doomsday over which he or she claims to have control; or who otherwise suggests terrorist acts, either knowingly with malice to harness, or recklessly in disregard or ignorance of, that preaching’s stochastic effect, which is to increase the chances some party other than him or her will ‘heed the call.’ This party will be a frustrated, or simply inspired, unstable person or group of people who will eventually be the first to set the predictions in motion, where the stochastic terrorist actually knowing who that person or group of people will be, or when they will act, might be unknowable. But, to the stochastic terrorist, it is also irrelevant. What matters is that someone eventually does it, and someone other than him. The unique disconnect between the stochastic terrorist and the actual terrorist might also make the relationship between the preaching, or messaging, itself and the terrorist difficult to firmly establish, allowing the stochastic terrorist some plausible deniability, which he (for now) is most likely usually legally able to consider advantageous.

What makes these preachers so different from classical doomsday preachers, and probably far more dangerous to national security and just plain overall societal health, however, is social media, and the digital age, and the Big Data Age. Radio, where Christian doomsday preachers have been lurking for ages, is old-school tech; you can’t “share” it, and capturing it is difficult. Koresh and Jim Jones and Manson would have been far more deadly in their ‘preaching’ with access to a sophisticated high-speed Internet, and chat rooms where they could seed their ideas for anyone to find and make go viral. Then, because their ‘ideas’ were really just recycled, creative bullshit based around the old themes of racism and patriarchy, they’d have naturally fit right in, and been augmented and swept up by, the digital infrastructure that was built for all of the other similar-themed, hateful bullshit that’s already there. It’s why we see swastikas, the Confederate battle flag, and the Christian cross, all mashed in together with the American flag, old versions of it, Don’t Tread on Me flags, pro-life flags, obscure ‘militia’ flags. They’re all just drawing on different flavors and emphases of the same racist and patriarchal hate, and in some cases religious superiority, basically. It’s also why we have QAnon, another choose-your-own-reality game.

Was Jim Jones a stochastic terrorist? Yes, because he preached political revolution and, later on, violent uprising, even as neither he, nor anyone outside of his following ever that I am aware of, nor any of his followers, actually did it… until they did, and all at once. When he realized he was busted for rape, pedophilia and physical and psychological abuse, plus financial crimes such as fraudulently getting people to sign over their wills and property, etc. (which Koresh did as well), plus who knows what else, and going to jail for life, he told all 900 of his followers to kill the small Congressional entourage who’d flown to their South America commune to investigate him as they were leaving; then, kill themselves and anyone who resisted, which almost all 900 of them did; and then shot himself. He told his wife and daughter to murder his two younger children before killing themselves, which they did. With kitchen knives.

Koresh’s endgame was virtually identical. He didn’t care that his eighty-some followers– and their twenty children– could have easily lived. He knew he was going away for life for raping children and planning violent insurrection and sedition while stockpiling hundreds of weapons, to include grenades, and so told them all to blow themselves and the enemy away, before killing himself. The End. That’s what happened. It had nothing to do with his prophecies, which were stalling tactics for him having to kill himself; he couldn’t let agents in because they’d find evidence, not to mention dozens of children, and parents who’d let Koresh rape them, who’d all be cross-examined. Which is also probably why he burned it. That anyone is sympathetic to him today I find astonishing. I’m not an expert on the chain of events that took place during the siege, but I do suspect claims that ‘they could have arrested him at any time’ aren’t accurate. I suspect an ultimatum was involved where law enforcement knew simply arresting him in town was not going to work; they needed access to his compound, where all of the secrets, and underage victims, were. He knew that children admitting he’d been having sex with him was game over, which might be why he only released a small few, and possibly ones who couldn’t incriminate him in death. I think he did want to remain thought of as a prophet, and a misunderstood martyr.

Charles Manson’s ‘teachings’ managed, five years into his sentence, to scramble one of his follower’s heads up so much, she tried to kill Gerald Ford (September 5, 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme). Manson was a stochastic terrorist not because no one followed him who was outside of the official cult itself, but simply because it’s what he preached: terror (the real, political kind). He also qualifies as a doomsday terrorist, even though his best-known crime, the back-to-back murders in Hollywood Hills, was a strategy which was stochastic in certain ways, in that he wished the murders to spark an all-engulfing, coast-to-coast race war by “lighting a fuse.” The murders he commanded his cult members make happen were explicitly political, and directed at civilians; he wished to start a race war via a false flag operation (his White followers would kill wealthy, race-traitor Whites, and then frame the crime scenes to make it look like people of color did it), and overthrow the U.S. government, and the ruling Hollywood elites he believed influenced them. He was a flaming White supremacist, although, like both Koresh and Jim Jones, would usually state it in a coy, backhanded way. Unlike Koresh and Jones, however, there were no people of color, to my knowledge, in his cult, at least none of prominence, or who probably were invited to hang around for very long, even though he would have probably had to manage them from time to time, since he drew followers pseudo-randomly from the nomadic hippie culture. Needless to say, the followers he sent on the “missions” were all White, and knew they were starting a race war in which both Whites and Blacks would die en masse. The Black population, in Manson’s crazy imagination, would lose the war. Once he became King of the World afterwards, the remaining populations, who would all be his followers, were implicitly expected to be White. Did he really believe he was Jesus? Maybe. Did he really believe in the underground city they’d all hide in when the war started? I don’t think so. I think the shrewd career jailbird chose the remote location in the California desert for that purpose, or later crafted himself finding himself there, around that purpose. He was smart enough to know that his followers were smart enough to not believe that hiding out in the desert would be sufficient to protect them from a cross-nation, and possibly international, race war. Does it sound crazy that they’d believe, instead, that a giant hole in the desert would open up, and lead them to an underground city to ‘wait out the storm’ (“Helter Skelter”)? Yeah, tell me about Q sometime, and his flock of fifth-dimensional bird-like aliens.

Without a vehicle, any followers who tried to escape would face thirty miles of desert before they came to the next ranch. The owner was aging, and not expected to live long. Spahn Ranch was the secret underground city at the bottom of the ‘hole.’ I think Manson believed he might really start the race war, however. That I think he was honest about. His motive? To see the world burn, and then make himself into someone powerful in the ensuing aftermath. I think he saw himself expanding his cult following in the social unrest afterwards, not to mention his doting harem. And, I think these modern-day doomsday preachers are counting on the exact same thing. They know that increased social unrest and uncertainty will only make them stronger, not weaker.

Excerpt from above video from seditionist and stochastic Christian terrorist Robin Bullock:

“And, the Lord is going to give you words to warn people, and speak to people, in high-ranking positions. Whether you think they’re listening or not, they’re listening. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. What you need to do now, the stage is set. Everything is set. But, you’re gonna have to pray for the rightful President, whether he wants to walk back into this or not. You must pray that he wants to do it. Because God won’t make him do anything. Is it his will? Yes. Is he the President? Yes. That’s why he could just walk right back in, and God will supernaturally move things out of the way. But you need to pray for encouragement. Nobody was beat on like our President for four years, nobody. Nobody’s ever been beat like that, and still stand with such optimism, and speak with authority. Even now, the rightful President, Donald Jay Trump will hold a rally, and you can tell he’s still the President; all you have to do is listen to him. He’s the President. Hallelujah. And because he is the President, so no matter what happens, he’s supposed to walk back into that office. So, call him back. Call him back! Call him back; once he knows the prophets are calling, he’ll come. Hallelujah. We’re going to have to start publicly talking about, that he’s the President. Yeah, [chuckling] I know. People will say, really? Why would you say that, in public? BECAUSE HE IS! THAT’S WHY I SAY IT! BECAUSE HE IS! IN THE TIME OF THE TWO, THE BIDE-ON! THEN THERE IS THE ENEMY RELEASED THE DOUBLE, SO THE LORD RELEASED THE ELIJAH ANNOINTING! FOR, THE DOUBLE! DON’T MESS WITH US, SATAN! DON’T MESS WITH US, CORRUPT POLITICAL REGIMES! DON’T MESS WITH GOD’S PEOPLE LIKE THAT, BECAUSE I’M GONNA TELL YOU SOMETHING, IF YOU MESS WITH US, WE’LL CALL HIM BACK FOR THREE TERMS! DON’T MESS WITH US! YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE POWER OF GOD IN ACTION BEFORE!“

Jacob Chansley is a good example. He picked up a lectern and walked out with it. He’s an insurrectionist (revolted against the timely, otherwise dignified, otherwise certain ceremonial electoral certification of a new, soon-to-be incoming head of state); a seditionist (prominently and outspokenly encouraged others to do the same); and engaged in petty theft/mischief. But, I don’t think he’s a traitor, because he didn’t wage war. I don’t consider someone walking, or even forcing, themselves into a capitol building in a democracy and being a jerk, but ultimately peacefully trying to force a delay or a second set of eyes on a confirmation ceremony, to be waging war; Trump, after all, was still going to be President for two weeks. Recall that many of the insurrectionists truly believed they would be vindicated, and hailed as heroes for saving democracy. Many of them, believably, seemed unashamed to tell us they were surprised they hadn’t been! This is evidence they were being honest. Had Chansley brandished a firearm in a threatening manner, however, that would have been war. Had he used the lectern to attack someone, that would have been war, bringing his actions to the level of treason. Officially, by my lay understanding.

The person who used a battering ram to bash through the door to the Capitol was engaged in insurrection, not treason. Though the act was physical and intimidating, it was not directed at any person. Only a door got hurt. The technical crime itself might be destruction of government property during insurrection, and unauthorized entry using force, etc. But it was not, I suspect, treason.

Anyone who knowingly kept the other officer pinned in the doorway, and did nothing to relieve him of his situation, was engaged in war, because they had turned their collective selves, augmented by the doors the officer was trapped in, into a potentially lethal weapon. Anyone not attempting to push back, call for calm, and render aid to the officer in distress, was a traitor engaged in war.

Again, don’t necessarily allow that word, ‘traitor,’ to fall too heavily. Our Founders were traitors. Traitors are not always morally-misaligned; and, fairly rare is the traitor who knows he’s a morally-misaligned traitor (such as some double agents, or someone who is committing treason for money, or other reward). In the case of the January 6 rioters, however, I have no doubt in either my mind or soul that they were morally-misaligned. I also have little doubt that few, if any, of them had any idea that they were.

This is also not to suggest that we can determine character by actions alone. We do not, for example perhaps, know if the man smashing the door with the battering ram would have also helped to crush the officer, had he found himself in that position later, etc. All that really matters is what they actually did. Also, twist-ties prove motive, even if they were never used.

The man who threw the fire extinguisher at Officer Sicknick committed treason, and is a traitor. His act, throwing the fire extinguisher with blatant disregard for limb and life if not intent to kill, was an act of war:

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.“

It doesn’t matter that he didn’t know he was wrong (morally-misaligned). In a kind of inverse example, no one in King George’s court believed the Americans fighting the Revolutionary War were patriots, either, even though they were. To George’s court, by definition, they were traitors. An important corollary to this observation is that not all traitors are morally misaligned. The Founding Fathers were traitors. They took up arms against their formal government. The End. Nathan Hale was a traitor to England. But, they were patriots, too, because their Constitution was morally-aligned, or at least far more aligned with humanist principles than King George’s was. It’s why we use the term to describe soldiers and citizens loyal to democracies, but not to dictatorships; no one calls a Nazi in World War II a patriot, even though he or she was most likely very loyal.

The man responsible for Officer Sicknick’s death was not a terrorist, though, regardless of whether you care to use that word. I don’t, because terror and treason are not the same. Treason is domestically-sourced political warfare (sometimes hot, but not necessarily so) directed against one’s own perceived hostile government, or the agents in the employ of that government at the time of attack. Terrorism is political warfare (more usually hot than treason is, but, again, not necessarily so, although it always threatens to be hot), domestically-sourced or foreign (foreign governments or agents cannot commit treason), directed against civilians, so as to influence those civilians’ perceived hostile government.

The unidentified person who left the pipe bombs is a terrorist. That the target is civilian is what makes the difference, which is also why I call the preachers above stochastic Christian terrorists. They’d be just as happy me being killed in the crossfire of someone killing a Democrat head of state, as they would the head of state alone. They don’t care. Also, I have little doubt that the man who threw the extinguisher at Officer Sicknick would have thrown it at anyone he might have thought was against Donald Trump, too. Again, though, he didn’t. What matters is what did happen. That makes him throwing the fire extinguisher at an officer defending the Capitol an act of war, but technically not one of terrorism, because he didn’t throw it at a civilian. He does not get to claim sides. America is not officially at war between Democrats and Republicans, or between conservatives and liberals. If he throws a weapon at a civilian while attempting to undermine a head of state, he’s a terrorist, not a very loyal Republican. If he throws the weapon at a Capitol police officer, he’s a traitor.

As to why I spend time on stochastic Christian terrorists– we have very few of the nonstochastic kind around right now, and they are mostly ‘lone-wolf’ abortion doctor shooters, or seditionist cult leaders either in jail or dead, like Warren Jeffs and David Koresh– is not just because some of them are serious millionaires; but because, unlike all terrorists, stochastic or non-, they claim to be prophets speaking for God. It only has to be political, to qualify as treason, or terror. Once you mix religion with the treason or terror, and claim to be speaking for God, that makes it a worse crime, in my opinion. I think terrorists who not just claim to be doing it for political reasons, but who also claim to have the authority of God behind them, should be tried even more harshly. Why? Because, for better or for worse, many people really, really believe God, whether it’s real or not, and when people claim to speak for (prostitute) that power for political purposes, usually because they’re not politically-educated enough to defend their political position on its own merits, or inspire violent passion thereby, they are hijacking an even higher level of real, actual power. In a way, I consider it a form of hate crime against religion itself, where the right to follow religion is enshrined in the Constitution, but where people who promote or perform violence, particularly political violence, in the name of religion make it difficult for others to be a good person in this country (or any country for that matter) and practice their religion– the one shared by the terrorist, or so he or she loudly shouts– openly. For decades, for example, I was ashamed and afraid to because of them, and so didn’t. Then they started stealing elections and killing people, and I ‘came out.’ But, in print. I still don’t want to associate with most Christians, and don’t. I already know that, if I’m ever attacked, imprisoned or killed for my political speech, it’ll be by someone who calls him- or herself a Christian. I already know that, if I find myself in some bullshit hot civil war next year or next month, it’ll be people who call themselves Christians who’ll be shooting at me, and who will have started it.

This is hardly to suggest I think all Christians are bad. I’d have a really bad superiority complex, if I did. Many, like Sojourners and Reverend William Barber and Chris Hedges and so many others, are fighting this political fight, this moral revival, well. Does anyone think the death threats being called in to our (mostly Democratic) legislators aren’t coming from the mouths of people who call themselves Christians? I’m sure Republican lawmakers are getting such calls from liberals who call themselves Christians, as well; the difference is, though both are wrong to do so, Democrats aren’t the ones still putting gunshot sounds in political ads critical of their opponents… AND their leaders. That’s… you guessed it… stochastic terrorism.

The barbed wire, Rep. Boebert, is there because Trump supporters killed a police officer, and a masked civilian woman wearing a Trump flag and with a backpack carrying unknown contents, and probably a holstered firearm, was shot dead while jumping through a broken window. I say “probably a holstered firearm,” because she doesn’t seem the kind of person who wouldn’t have had one, and Internet searches as to whether or not she had one are coming up dry. Conclusion? She had one, and the deep state (probably, in part, the investigators into the riot) doesn’t want it discussed, and so most mainstream media is cooperating with the request. It’s one of the first questions everyone should be asking: Did she have a loaded gun? Again, the answer is, most likely, yes. Of course she did.

Can we say, “fuck,” in a campaign ad? Because it’s stupid we might have laws against profanity, but not against Boebert’s ad. They may say, “You’re overreacting, that’s just her signature, and she loves guns.” Yeah, well, where were all of the guns in the Reagan campaign ads? Bush campaign ads? Et cetera? The NRA has been accusing Democrats of trying to steal their guns since 1977, and for some reason we’re not seeing Republicans declaring their love of guns in campaign ads excoriating their opponents until AFTER doing nothing after Sandy Hook, Orlando, Parkland, Las Vegas? We’re not supposed to interpret that as a rallying cry for war, thinly-veiled? This veteran, for one, is not fooled.

Point 15. True and False Christians.

The liberal claims to maintain this impossible attitude of faith and opinion, of intimate certitude and objective incertitude, without any relativism or scepticism! For this purpose he distinguishes two independent spheres: the intimate domain of religious convictions where absolute certitude reigns, and the social domain of pluralism and strict equality of opinion, where everything is plausible and nothing is certain. As a Christian, the liberal knows himself to be in the truth and shows himself to be faithful to it, but as a public person, be he head of state or even bishop or pope, he conceives that others regard themselves as belonging to another truth and that, considering him to be in error, they will forbid him to profess his truth publicly lest it appear to offend against their freedom. The liberal will therefore not allow his true religion to oppress others, yet he is resigned to seeing it oppressed by them.

Source: The Catholic Counter-Reformation’s website.

Difficult to understand? Yeah, it’s called hate. Political hate weaponized with Christianity, which is also known as stochastic Christian terror. Of a very rare faux high-brow, sophisticated kind. It’s also stupid, and wrong. There’s more like it, both direct and non-, to be found in places like Church Militant, which claims to serve Catholics. Last I was there, someone they keep around for some reason said he thought gays should be shot and turned into lunch meat. I was banned within hours for nonviolent, respectful speech. I was just correct about everything. Oh but, lunchmeat guy got to stay, after he said he’d “slap my face off of my head,” if he “ever found himself nearby me.”

Terrorists, by the way, usually cover their faces, because they know that they are so far outside of the norm of what is considered acceptable political action that it’s better they’re never identified. All terrorism is an act of war because, even when it’s just a threat, or even a bluff, it’s PSYOP being employed for political ends. Most of those in the crowd that day, didn’t cover their faces. Maybe the ones who were hoping to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi– for real— did. Maybe, even, people in the crowd wearing masks and seeming to hide their identity are the first people we should suspect of being the pre-briefed assassins, assuming there were any. Who, also, may have looked a little like antifa. I would assert any successful decapitation would have had to have looked at least plausibly like antifa. Because, depending on which way the political wind was blowing after the decapitation, the deep state would have wanted the option of claiming that Trumpists; antifa; or even both (“we’re not sure/still looking into it”), did it.

But, most of the others weren’t wearing masks not because they were foolish or unintelligent, necessarily, but because they really believed they were patriotic, regular Americans who had nothing to fear because they were going into “their house,” forcefully and unashamedly, because they thought something illegal was going on in it, and they truly believed they would be vindicated as correct. Once they hit the police barricade the President might very well have been able to part for them with a wave of his hand like Moses parting the Red Sea had he actually walked in front of them like he promised them he would, they didn’t accept the argument that law enforcement preventing them from entering at that moment was legitimate, whereupon they correctly concluded that there was no other practical way to challenge the barricade’s legitimacy than to simply defy it, and push through it.

The problem is, whereas all of that would have been an organic realization for them, it would have been a predictable one to a deep state. A deep state would have trivially known, in advance, that all of them would have “figured that out” in realtime. In other words, it was a setup. For some, it would be a deathtrap. Given the weirdness surrounding what I think was an assassination plot, my curiosity regarding the reported later suicides of at least two Capitol police officers is kindled. Not to generate conspiracy theory– I am only asking the question– should the public be confident both or all of them were, in fact, suicides? I haven’t looked into it much. I didn’t look into the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein too much, either.

Remember “Go wild?” All deep state, mind control bullshit. So was “And after this, we’re going to walk down — and I’ll be there with you — we’re going to walk down … to the Capitol.” Trump didn’t go with them because he knew he had no argument; even if he’d peacefully marched the rioters into the Senate chamber with no resistance, there’d have been nothing for him to say except, maybe, “give me back my ice cream cone.” Also bullshit was Where We Go One, We Go All, which is why I wasn’t surprised when I learned it had been originally spearheaded by a then-sitting U.S. Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. A U.S. Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency who, by the way, had a lot of shady relations to Russia.

You couldn’t make this shit up, but the facts speak for themselves. So did seventeen intelligence agencies, four years ago. That couldn’t have been a deep state conspiracy, because a) all seventeen agencies would never unanimously agree on anything, if the forensic evidence was, to them, not plain; and b) they’d know there’d be no way they could cover it up, if they’d all put their names behind it and it was proven to be bullshit. Which it never has been. If people recall (Trump’s wasn’t anyone’s first election, was it? Because I was only concerned about being recalled to active duty at the time), the falsification of evidence of Iraqi WMD to fuel the narrative already being fed them by Bush 2 was hotly contested within the intelligence community– a fact swirling in the press, threatening the very invasion itself, despite all of the costs Bush incurred by proactively moving troops into the area, putting that much more pressure on the community to not make him out to be the fool. It was a good bluff, because they probably could have said no, and devastated his presidency, which had already been won by truly questionable means, just as I’m not at all convinced Jill Stein’s election lawsuits didn’t have merit in 2016. I never trusted Trump’s claim to the 2016 election. Nor am I hardly alone in that suspicion, to include President Carter. At the very least, barring Russian assistance putting him over the edge in those states, it is conservative to say he would not have won without powerful voter suppression. Trump did not win the popular vote; he never polled above 50% in all four years of his presidency; there was no widespread voter fraud either in 2016 or 2020; and his defeat in 2020 was decisive. His claims to both greatness and martyrdom are fraudulent. He is a loser, and a shameless poser, and a killer, yes– of the elderly. He is the worst president in American history. With any luck, he will remain the worst of all time.

At any rate, the evidence presented of Iraqi WMD seemed flimsy, and it took various infamous edits, heated phone calls and manual overrides to compel Powell to testify, using the specific words he did, at the U.N. Security Council. That spectacle was not merely dissimilar; it was nothing like the seventeen intelligence agencies’ testimony in 2016, who all just came out and said that, yes, Russia interfered in our election, and had in fact been pretty good at it.

The man with the fire extinguisher turned the fire extinguisher into a weapon, and one capable of being deadly. Chansley probably had lots of opportunities to become violent towards officers. He didn’t use a weapon, though, and that matters in an insurrection.

Ironically– and, this is not to give him credit– Chansley’s outrageous costume and celebratory demeanor may have helped ease the tension, as well as keep people distracted, and focused on him, and not the terror of what it could have become. It could have become a bloodbath. I think that anyone who carried a firearm in with them should face stiffer charges. Again, twist-ties are proof of willingness to commit treason, if not proof of intent to. Carrying firearms during an insurrection is also proof of willingness to commit treason.

Really, if we want to make this easier– if we want 80% of them (or whatever) pointing fingers at the most dangerous 20%– then we would be wise, in my opinion, to start making hard distinctions between the clueless in the January 6 insurrection, and the truly treasonous.

A throng of cult members brainwashed through fear and desperation are ultimately responsible for their actions, but I think focus should be more on the people, and the President, who gathered them; aimed them; and then fired them at the Capitol.

Oxford Reference defines insurrection as:

N. a violent uprising against an authority or government: the insurrection was savagely put down.

insurrectionary adj. insurrectionist n. & adj.

Note that Oxford’s sentence usage example suggests that an insurrection is an action that is possibly becoming war, but might not be, or not be yet: It is “savagely” “put down,” (by the, presumably, far more powerful target government) where the descriptor, that it is an uprising which is violent, does not seem to distinguish between violence against people and violence against property. I think there’s a big difference, and the Founders probably did too, which is why Oxford Reference, I think, intentionally does not specify that the violence, for it to qualify as insurrection, has to be against living, government officials. It might just be against government property, as it was confined to, in many cases, in the January 6 uprising.

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. — 18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or insurrection

Note an important missing word in the definition of insurrection: War.

Treason, on the other hand, is defined as an act of war.

Treason … shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. Source: U.S. Constitution

I’m pretty sure I’m correct, although one thing you’ll almost never see me do is assert my correctness if I’m not reasonably sure of it. I’m not reasonably sure my understandings of the nuances between treason, sedition, insurrection, terrorism and war are correct; but, at least it’s the start of a discussion.

I would imagine I’m not telling law enforcement and prosecutors anything new, either. I am not law enforcement, nor am I a lawyer. I have full faith they’ll mostly get it right, when it comes to looking at who did what, and who’s guilty of what. That’s not why I’m writing this. I’m writing this because I would like to see an elevation in the national discussion about what really happened that day. I do not believe in monsters, or that everyone who was there was evil. Let’s try to figure out what January 6 really was, without using such broad, un-technical strokes. These are serious words. When they become a mish-mash to everyone, and a language everyone’s speaking but no one really understands, the words, which are serious, lose meaning all-around, which is awful for society. Insisting on using the terms meaningfully, and then aligning them with the backdrop of facts which really happened that day, is the only way we’ll accept any results of the January 6 investigations we’ll get, and it may even result in everyone getting results we want, but wouldn’t have gotten, otherwise.

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Notes:

“‘Insurrection,’ ‘coup’ and ‘sedition.’ Here’s what each term means”
By Dakin Andone, CNN
Updated 7:21 PM ET, Tue January 12, 2021″
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/insurrection-coup-sedition-meaning-trnd/index.html

“In 1798 Congress passed, and President John Adams signed, the Alien and Sedition Acts, which, among other things, made it a crime to utter ‘false statements’ critical of the federal government.” Source: North Jersey. Note: I could take a lot of issue with many of the assertions made in this article, but it’s a good starting point for a glossary of the terms being used today, and the referenced fact about the Alien and Sedition Acts is true. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/11/dems-gop-socialism-sedition-insurrection-what-does-all-mean/6618566002/

Translated, it would seem Congress and John Adams created a form of “libel/slander” insurance against the federal government, which was that, if you’re going to oppose it, then you have to do it with honest arguments, and truthfully. An early form, in my opinion, of laws restricting fake news, as well as use of PSYOP, against Americans, I can definitely see it resurrected against civilian elected government officials. It would presumably get more difficult to charge, the more private the offender, and the smaller the offender’s platform. Trump and Giuliani ordering their armed army to attack the Capitol right across the street where his successor was being ceremonially certified, doesn’t count.

Yes, I think I see Adams’ and Congress’ 1798 reasoning, and could probably see myself supporting a law that spreading known lies against the federal government could, in some cases and environments, be interpreted as an effective form of treason, or warfare.

“A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates.” Source: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_war_(general_term)

Of course Putin is a killer. All U.S. Presidents are, as well. Most world leaders are killers. I’m a nobody my government trained to be a killer, but who never had to be one. That’s more than can be said for most people. Most people don’t ever kill anyone, or even train to. Now that the obvious is out of the way, I’ll say this: These were Trump’s words. Killer. The nuclear cold war bombs were never dropped. We’ve not seen killing. This is a serious country, Russia. I don’t want us to provoke either a war or poor relations with it by being rude and acting superior, either in strength or in weakness. Even if it’s all deep state bullshit, and they’re agreeing to the spat, similarly to how Trump called up Iran before he bombed them. It can still go wrong. It’s also imprecise bullshit, snark. A waste of my time, and intended to be so. Plus, a distraction. Plus, ignorant fight-starting. Putin likes that, because he likes American citizens uninformed and angry, and at each other’s throats.

He asserts genetic differences between Russians and Americans? Now that’s interesting. Sure, everyone’s genes are different, and maybe even certain genes are more present in different cultures than others, but I can’t see how he wouldn’t, effectively, be asserting a genetic superiority over Americans, here. Effectively, an intellectual superiority. The Big Lie, basically, that has gotten one group of people to dehumanize another group, as a prelude to killing them en masse, throughout so much of history.

Is he bullshitting? Confused? Knows something we don’t?

What about the different moral code he cites? Well, I think he means he doesn’t like democracy, and doesn’t think good Russians should, either. Because democracy is a moral code, which is that all people are free, and own their government collectively and individually.

I’m not sure if the term, “cultural code” has any real meaning, although I certainly can’t vouch for the full integrity of the translation. If it’s accurate, then I would suspect he’s trying to conflate Russians’ asserted moral and genetic differences with their culture itself. Basically, it’s an assertion of blood and soil. Now, there would be no doubt in my mind, assuming the translation is true, that Putin knows he’s doing that. But, it particularly annoys me that Americans do it, too, unknowingly, when they fail to also assert, when they say that Americans are special, that the actual, special thing about being American is, preeminently (in addition to the technicality that American citizenship necessarily be on paper), that it is a worldview we share, and NOT something ultimately defined by where we were born, or to whom, or by how long our ancestors have been here. And whereas those factors might suggest how good we are at being American, they’re certainly not causative, and any correlation there might have been anyway is probably gone by now. If anything, ‘older ancestral’ Americans are getting worse at being Americans, and it’s the recent naturalized immigrants to America who know what being American really means, overall and generally.

From May 2019. I suppose I had missed that detail:

“Is Putin’s Fascination With Genetics Just Eugenics in Disguise?”
BEYOND RACISM
‘Biodefense’ is the buzzword around the Kremlin. But is that about defending the Russian bio-tech industry, or the genetic ‘purity’ of the Russian people? Or both?
Anna Nemtsova for The Daily Beast
Published May. 30, 2019 5:15AM ET

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-putins-fascination-with-genetics-just-eugenics-in-disguise

Wah wah wah they disagree with everyone who has a different opinion wah wah wah

Wah wah wah

Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

Our side just shoots them. Drives cars into them. Shoots up Wal-Marts, churches, schools. No biggie. Never looks up “infantilization” in Wikipedia. Hides pipe bombs. Kills police officers. Seeks to decapitate the government.

Wah wah wah

Wah wah wah

Tucker, I’m not paid by my subscribers to write. Fuck, I pay WORDPRESS to host my stupid shit for you to read, ad-free. No one is paying me. Not even George Soros.

I am the real deal, a real patriot you utterly disagree with. Happens.

Lots of money out there for writers, I guess, but I like being my own boss. Mostly.

We’ll see who’s reading who in 400 years. You might be going for the money, but I’m going for the prize.

Such language should not be used by law enforcement to describe motive; it’s not professional, but also not necessarily particularly relevant. I would not fall too much for that distraction/baiting/possible honest gaffe by a police officer (Captain Baker) in time of stress.

Good choice of words by the Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, the deep state is proud. We don’t believe his tough talk anyway. His comments about ropes and oak trees are definitely not relevant, but also definitely worth falling for. Run him out of office, he’s a Republican.

See, Baker might even be covering for the deep state, he might even be deep state aligned, but I don’t care, because he’s not as powerful as Texan lawmakers who use his comments as a distraction from the distraction, etc.

You’re all deep state coddlers, in Texas.

Bought and sold.

Worthless.

Just like your heating grid.

There will be no deep dive, they didn’t give a damn about Sandy Hook and Las Vegas, and they don’t give a damn about your communities, either.

That’s just the cold truth, fire all of them.

Your making the appearance of being willing to work with them only makes them stronger.

They have no substance of their own, and thus require your respect and cooperation in order to make themselves appear legitimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy

By the way, I believe that the Sutherland Springs Church Shooting heroes (Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff) should have instantly received Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards. Go figure, this LIBERAL thinks that they should receive one, for having an AR-15, and knowing how to use it, at the right place and right time, but Texas Republicans apparently don’t.

Why won’t the Texas deep state do it? Too ‘cool,’ or something? Shouldn’t this have been their textbook case of how AR-15s stop a bad guy with a gun? 26 people were killed in that shooting. Doesn’t the deep state want us all buying AR-15s, for the domestic civil war they want to start?

Well, yes, but not that way. Because then, it knows, to avoid allegations of racism, it would need to award one to James Shaw Jr.

Better to just ignore all American heroes who use firearms in self-defense, like Ashlee Anne Rose Martinson did.

Awarding regular citizens in an age of mass shootings Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards would be far too much acknowledgement of regular, everyday Americans dodging bullets and running into gunfire caused by Republicans. Let’s give it to self-righteous sluts like Rush Limbaugh instead.

The Texas deep state doesn’t need real American heroes, it’s quite comfortable with you just buying AR-15s at the recommendation of the Christian radio host no one who’s normal listens to. And, if you haven’t done so already, then in response to the next mass shooting that happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_Springs_church_shooting

Inside, he yelled, “Everybody dies, motherfuckers,” as he proceeded up and down the center aisle and shot at people in the pews.[7][8] Police found 15 empty magazines capable of holding 30 rounds each. Authorities stated Kelley fired approximately 700 rounds during the estimated 11 minute long shooting.[1][9][10][11] According to investigators, the shooting was captured on a camera set up at the back of the church to record regular services for uploading online. The footage shows Kelley methodically shooting the victims, pausing only to reload his rifle.[12]

Kelley was then confronted by and traded fire with Stephen Willeford, a local resident and former NRA firearms instructor[13] who was armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Willeford had taken cover behind a truck across the street from the church and shot Kelley twice, once in the leg and once in the upper left torso under his tactical gear.[14][15][16] Kelley, who had dropped his rifle upon the initial fire with Willeford, fired back with a handgun before fleeing in his Ford Explorer. Willeford fired one more round as Kelley sped north on FM 539.[17][18] Willeford then noticed a pickup truck parked at the intersection of 4th St. and FM 539, driven by Johnnie Langendorff.

Willeford approached and entered Langendorff’s truck on the passenger side. They then pursued Kelley at high speed for about five to seven minutes. According to Langendorff, they drove at speeds up to 95 miles per hour (155 km/h).[19] While chasing Kelley, Langendorff called 9-1-1 and reported their location to the operator as they assumed that the police were on their way to the church.

During the chase, Kelley called his wife and spoke to her and his parents, informing them “I just shot up the Sutherland Springs church,”[20] and telling his father that he was injured and thought that he would not survive.[16] Kelley repeatedly emphasized how sorry he was.[20] Bleeding from his injuries, Kelley soon lost control of his vehicle, hitting a road sign before crossing a bar ditch at the Hartfield/Sandy Elm Road intersection and finally stopping about 30 feet into the field on the opposite side.

Willeford and Langendorff observed that he was motionless, and police took over the scene when they arrived.[21] Police found Kelley dead in his car[22] with three gunshot wounds, including a self-inflicted head wound.[23] Two handguns were found in the vehicle: a Glock 19 9mm and a Ruger SR22 .22-caliber, both of which Kelley had purchased.[24]

The Sutherland Springs Shooter, by the way, was another fucked-up Christian. His interest in teaching Bible school reminds me of the former Young Life Captain Richard Russel, who hijacked a 33-million-dollar SEATAC plane after his prosperity gospel didn’t pan out, and took a joyride before slamming himself into a remote wooded area. I’ve analyzed the audio of his (made-public) interactions with ground control, and that’s what I think it boiled down to. Funny that I might have understood what was bugging him more than he did, in his final moments. Whatever.

“Kelley attended the First Baptist Church in Kingsville, Texas, from May to June 2014 and volunteered as a helper for one day of Vacation Bible School.[51] Later on, he stopped volunteering at the summer Bible class and began posting about atheism online.[52] According to some of his former high school classmates, he was constantly “trying to preach his atheism” and describing people who believe in God as “stupid”, causing them to delete him as a friend on Facebook for his posts.[53][52][54]

Who cares what the shooter’s motive was? What matters in society, the reason we call it a hate crime, is because of what it communicates to society. In other words, it encourages ethnic hatred and engenders terror, simply if it’s perceived as ethnically motivated.

Said another way, I don’t care what his motive was; I care about how society regards it.

Really, this is a guy who got massages and was conflicted with his religion, and so shot up three Asian spas. In other words, he was nuts. Why parse it all, much less to his advantage? Eight Americans were deprived of their Constitutional right to life, and in the most brutal and unexpected way. They had no time to prepare. They went to work one morning, and that was that.

A random shooting is a shooting. It’s awful, but that doesn’t make it an ethnically-motivated hate crime. It’s still hate, though. So, it’s not like we’re being unfair to the shooter if we prosecute it as a hate crime. This is what I can’t get my head around. Oh, we’re not going to prosecute you as much as we would have, because, although it looks like a hate crime, we just can’t prove it?

Let’s feel sorry for mass shooters, I guess, now.

Yes, a hate crime is worse, because it suggests that the concentration of the shooting, or hate crime, is intentional. Terrifying an ethnic group. As opposed to all society, which reasonably assumes a far greater distribution of risk.

But, if a shooting looks like a hate crime, who cares if it wasn’t meant as a hate crime? Call it a hate crime, because it achieves the same damage, societally.

Racists won’t believe it was a hate crime anyway. It’s not like racists are sitting around saying, “oh yeah, that prosecution for a hate crime was fair, but that one wasn’t.”

What, you say? That might send a message to would-be shooters that if you shoot people and it looks like it might have been racial, we don’t have to actually prove it, we can just find you guilty of it, even if it turns out it wasn’t? Like, without hoping that you actually come out and admit it, if it turns out that it was, to you?

Yup!

Why is this even in debate? Is his punishment possibly going to be harsher if it was a hate crime? If not, then prosecute it as a hate crime, particularly. I don’t think this guy is going anywhere for the rest of his life, other than a jail cell, anyway.

First they locked me out of it, now they’ve deleted it. My old deejay account (DJSkyede). I think I’d had it since 2005. Poof, gone. Now that’s intense, to just delete people’s 15+ year-old content like that. They must have known it was a serious account. One of my videos had over a quarter of a million views; a segment, ironically, from the movie The Patriot (2000).

Looks like they aged it and, with no login, used it as an excuse to purge it. Convenient. And, I wasn’t aware. And, they’re the assholes who lost my password recovery email and then offered no technical support. Really, the moment I realized I was locked out, I spent three hours trying to recover it, or figure out how to send in a support ticket. I suspect I got locked out during one of their, “Create a recovery email to make sure your account is secure” bullshit. This was maybe a year ago. But, I just noticed my account was deleted, today. It was live a week or so ago.

Well, looks like when I set up a recovery account with the same email address I used for another account, it didn’t warn me it was the recovery address for an older account, it just wiped out access to the old account. It’s happened to me about three times now. If I were to guess, it’s how YouTube wipes content off their servers they don’t want there, but which technically doesn’t violate their terms of service.

Literally, I am an IT consultant with 30+ years experience, and I’m not imagining it: their support system consisted of a loop of four or five web pages that didn’t get you anywhere. There is no phone number you can call for YouTube support unless you’re in the YouTube Partner Program. Getting into the YPP and remaining there is about as simple as becoming a SEAL.

See this shit, below? It’s all bullshit. Not even an email address, all it will do is send you off into a maddening hyperlink goose chase. I would have to write a letter to corporate at the snail-mail address they provide at the bottom, to recover my account. But, I’m not going to bother, because I know I’ll get no response.

There is nothing that says on Google that if you use a free account, you’re simply fucked if something goes wrong. What they DO say is “If you’re in the YouTube Partner Program, you can get access to our Creator Support team.”

Clear as fucking mud.

Also gone are all of my political writings.

Oh well, my fault for trusting my intellectual content to a private monopoly, and a bunch of whores. I only helped to build its infrastructure, that’s all.

Take a survey at Google and ask how many of their geniuses fixed a thousand modems in three days for some Fortune 500 computer manufacturer back in 1995. I’d bet not many.

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The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) gives creators greater access to YouTube resources and features like direct access to our Creator Support team. It also enables revenue sharing from ads being served on your content. This article provides an overview of the available features, criteria for joining, an application checklist, and some FAQs.

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Who the fuck knows. I have all of the content, and will upload it again.

Their entire business model is based on copyright infringement, by the way. They shroud it up all nice with complicated shit like “Google Drive” “Google This” and “Google That,” but, they’re really just pirates. They’re not being forced by the government to share profits derived from content the American public education system/college loan system helped to create. Should be illegal, and probably is. Wait, I have a better idea: let’s do nothing

They all do it. Verizon. Paid no taxes. Uses our fucking roads, to make billions. For free.

Google Total Asset Value: 319,616,000,000 United States dollar (2020)

Do you see MTG whining about how she’s a normal person? I mean, politicians will remind us they’re normal Americans from time to time, but begging? Pleading?

MTG is not normal. She’s a millionaire. Millionaires make up about 3% of the United States population. So, whereas MTG being a millionaire might be fine, it’s not normal.

Then, she apparently took $450,000– a perfectly normal sum of money for most Americans– out of her business to fund her campaign, then filled it back in with a $150,000 – $350,000 PPP small business loan. All normal. That’s right, the same type of normal she says she doesn’t think Americans should get involved in; let’s simply forget, and forgive, that the loan was used not for small business stimulation, where other needful Americans in a PANDEMIC might have used it for that purpose, but for politics. She also refuses to see the difference between Fox News and CNN. Perfectly normal. This is America. We’re so Under God these days, we live consequence-free in a choose your own reality adventure where one news outlet says that the sky is made of oxygen and other gases, and the other says it’s made of cheese and croutons. And, that’s great.

She does not believe seventeen intelligence agencies when they said in front of eight billion people under oath that her President was installed via Russian collusion, when foreign influence was exactly what so many of our Founders warned us about, literally, as the Holy Grail of nation subversion, less preferable only to, perhaps, military occupation itself (but not always). One might think that, with all of these mass shootings and reality-deniers with power and high-power firearms going around these days, that it’s obvious we’re all Under God, and past being vulnerable to threats like that.

AOC is normal. She’s a bartender who believes Russian collusion happened, and who never fell for Q. She does not feel the need to tell us that she believes 9/11 happened. She does not feel the need to tell us that school shootings are definitely real. She does not think that men who brag that they grab pussies of married women, and who then have to have their two front teeth pulled out by 100 million outraged Americans to finally squeak out the words, with a resentful and shitty tone, “I said it, I was wrong and I apologize,” is normal. No; like Boebert and Greene, she doesn’t own her own business, but neither do a lot of people. Would Republicans care about MTG and Boebert if they didn’t have that small business owner credential? No. Because making money is all Republicans care about.

Self-funding QAnon candidate gave own campaign $450,000 after getting PPP loan
Watchdog group, along with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former GOP opponent, call on her to give the money back
By IGOR DERYSH
OCTOBER 9, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist and Republican candidate who is expected to win her House race in Georgia next month, donated $450,000 to her own campaign after receiving a six-figure Paycheck Protection Program loan from the government for her construction company.”

LOL, her former GOP opponent wants her to give it back. Well, that’s sweet. Maybe he should join the Democrats, because clearly he’s not up to the Republicans’ New Game.

Wow, I’m such a stupid and out-of-touch Democrat, let me go out on a limb here, and making a fucking prediction:

She will not give the money back. She will not be kicked out of Congress any more than Trump was ever going to be found guilty. I’m tired of saying he was impeached. He wasn’t fucking impeached. He served out his time in office. More deep state semantics at this point, as far as I’m concerned.

As for Rand Paul, he gets on the floor and wastes our time telling us we’re fucking the lockdown up. NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. You kept a President around who wouldn’t wear a mask, and who, while we were begging his Administration for PPE and to promote social distancing, was busy telling the other half of the country to drink bleach and go lick hand rails at the mall.

Okay, so this is how I think it should go in chess:

The KING (K) should be changed to the FLAG (F). Christian cross out the door, although it should stay the largest piece.

The BISHOP should be changed to the BOWMAN, or ARCHER (*the former designation being a small concession to patriarchy, while keeping the primary letter, ‘B’). Christian miter out the door. Alternately, it could be assumed one of the archers was male, and the other female. This way, we might be able to stop saying “light-squared Bishop,” and “dark-squared Bishop,” finally.

Promotion to Bishop is the rarest of all so-called ‘under-promotions’ in Chess. Almost 98% of the time, you’ll want to promote your Pawn into a Queen. Maybe 1% of the time, you’ll need a Rook. Maybe .89% of the time, you’ll need a Knight. But, a Bishop?

I played tens and tens of thousands of games in my “chess playing prime.” Never saw it once. Do an Internet search for examples. It’s far, far rarer than ‘catching perfect’ in poker– needing exactly two cards left in the deck on the turn and river to make your hand, and then hitting them.

There is (almost) always an exception to every rule.

The PAWN can stay the same.

The ROOK is fine.

The KNIGHT is fine.

The QUEEN could be called the PRESIDENT. That’s a gender-neutral designation. It’s also the most powerful piece on the board, which makes sense; it’s always been a deep state myth that the KING is too dignified to not be able to race around the board, like the Queen can. As if Kings were actually weak and needed defending, or something.

Sacrificing Presidents for their Flags sounds better than sacrificing Queens for their Kings, anyway. Also, Pawns can promote to more Queens, but not to Kings. Which means the King, in theory, can have as many as nine wives, which of course he can sacrifice.

There’s a lot of talk about how Chess attracts men more than it tends to attract women. Well, no shit.

Other concepts: King = President; Queen = Dragon. Flag concept is discarded. Flags without Presidents mean little, but Presidents without Dragons are kind of faking it. Kings had better have at least one Dragon up their sleeve, right?

“I enjoyed his plain talk… not the offensive things.”

An example? Because offensive things coming out of his plain mouth are about all I fucking remember. That, and smiling photo ops with babies of murdered parents, like he’d just won a visit from some million-dollar sweepstakes announcer, or scored the highest number of kills in a livestreamed video game. Note that she doesn’t give a SINGLE endearing example of his “plain talk that she enjoyed,” but, for some reason, follows the unsupported nostalgia up with, “But, all of that plain old misogynist and racist stuff that immediately comes to your mind– that’s not what I mean.”

Did she enjoy his “plain talk” of injecting bleach?

Genesis 4:8-10
English Standard Version

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.”


Ezekiel 3:17-19
English Standard Version

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

Proverbs 24:11-12
New International Version

Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?

Full “normal English” translation (de-code) of a speech given on the floor of Congress by Rep. Marjorie Taylor “Magic: The Gathering” Greene, February 4, 2021 CE, Earth.

In this translation, I will reveal the true messaging behind Greene’s talking points, along with as many real U.S. deep state examples of thought control contained within it that I can identify. This is a dense CMB and FFG speech. (CMB = coy mocking bullshit [soft lies]; FFG = fascistic fucking goo [hard lies]).

Note: YouTube won’t allow this post. Why? It’s too fucking real. Although all activity from free accounts make Google money, imagine me being punished for that, in a pandemic that’s killed 535,846 of my citizens dead, and headlines like this, in the richest country in the world:

Backlog of migrant children in Border Patrol custody soars to 4,200, with 3,000 held past legal limit
BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ
UPDATED ON: MARCH 14, 2021 / 9:58 PM / CBS NEWS

That headline you just read above? That’s real. As in, left to fester with no end in sight, like slavery, or the Nazino tragedy, could result in social unrest; civil war; etc. Unlike abortion, premarital sex, adultery and pornography, which, to the knowledge of all of human history of which I’m aware, have never contributed to the fall of any civilization. But, no, let’s talk about QAnon; the Big Lie of Russian collusion; how Donald Jay Trump really won reelection; and, Mr. Potato-head. One might almost begin to wonder if Google wants the MTGs and Boeberts of this country handled with free speech kid gloves. By the way, I’m sure there are men in their party who think just as vilely as they do, but where Boebert and Magic: The Gathering Greene, to their rare credit, are braver than they are. Let’s not forget that Boebert and Greene are women. They’re allowed to be detached from reality; hysterical.

A revelatory observation, you say? When you realized it’s not a coincidence that liberals, all of a sudden, in the party of AOC and The Squad, now find themselves relentlessly bashing, and bashing, and bashing, and bashing, on two outspoken; relatively regular; relatively young and outspokenly patriotically-aspiring, women from rural America? To include, most likely, using every kind of misogynist slur ever invented by mankind? Yeah, well, it’s all orchestrated by the coy mocking deep state, which knows what matters, and what’s bullshit. They’re very intelligent, that way. They even do a kind of democracy, but it’s a tiny kind that happens in small closed rooms, and is designed to take over the world. How do I know this? Because there always comes a point during the telling of a Big Lie when simply winging it isn’t going to work, and when people have to get together in private, to coordinate their lies and talking points, in order to get away with it.

I want one of these recordings to take place. I want some patriot to go into one of those SCIF rooms or saunas with an “illegal” microphone and/or camera, kind of like Republicans did that day they stormed the SCIF room (a small putsch, and absolutely a demonstrative prelude to the January 6 insurrection, I knew the physical, invasive demonstration of contempt for law and national security was only going to result in VERY bad outcomes), and catch these GOPers talking about how much they’re aware the GOP agenda is bullshit, maybe even how they know pro-life is a baby-killing, motherhood-destroying fraud. I’m telling everyone right now, and mark my words: There are two dossiers. There is the “nothing to see here, blame it all on Democrats” narrative they tell us, and there is the wink-wink, nod-nod TRUTH they tell each other. As they continue to get richer, and as we continue to get poorer, and more desperate, and increasingly angry and irrational, and at each others’ throats, waiting ten hours in line to vote. Oh and, dying, which is often simply the best solution to the deep state’s problems.

US COVID datestamp: 535,572.

I’m an IT consultant with over thirty years’ experience. I know what I’m seeing, and it’ s not organic censorship from page owners. YouTube’s Malaysian censors named James and Mary, making $1.74 an hour, and perhaps to avert a civil war in America that their employer helped in part to foment, are the ones making the individual decisions, I have little doubt. But, the Milk & Cookies American recipe (real psychological term: infantilization) they’re following comes from AMERICAN GOOGLE EXECUTIVES. In other words, only stupid dumb shit, and weird six-page rants and snarky one-liners, are what’s allowed in the comments sections of YouTube, anymore. You simply will not see serious conversations. Do it; go there. Read them. Try to post something academic and maybe throw the word, ‘fuck,’ in it, and particularly directed towards a real person or party, and * poof * these days, it’s gone. My peaceful but hard-core, potentially effective political speech is being censored (shadow-banned) left and right now for things I said non-anonymously four years ago that passed their censors, and which probably helped get this Russian puppet deposed. But, because some random, non-veteran, bumbling bimbo has lots of racists; money; racist money; AND GUNS behind her, I get censored lest I hurt her poor White millionaire feelings, whereas GOP-tax-break-jacked, billionaire Google executives have no problem allowing national-security-threat, FAKE NEWS, fascistic filth like Greene’s, without age restrictions and disclaimers that it should only be viewed as entertainment, on my Internet in the first place.

“Russian collusion is a conspiracy theory, too; and, it’s been proven as such.”

No it fucking hasn’t been, ma’am, and you are spreading FAKE NEWS, weaponized now by the authority of the U.S. government you have behind you to the status of PSYOP, which is ILLEGAL. Stop fucking lying to us. Stop repeating and repeating and repeating your known fucking lies to us. And, especially when it comes to national security threats. Now, I know that no one has yet gone into the Senate Chamber on a busy day and shouted, on-camera and at the top of their lungs, and for all of time, “STOP FUCKING LYING TO US,” but it just might happen before we WILL try you for conspiracy and treason. In 2021. There’s a warm jail cell, waiting there for all of you replete with organic food according to Chansley’s Precedent, if you don’t start coming out and admitting what you did, and what you’re doing.

Republicans, and Sister Dr. Deirdre Byrne, say that they’d like “all of us to end up in Heaven together, someday.” Well, I honestly don’t know if this or that one among them might be being honest when they say that, but they certainly do have the right to speak for themselves.

In Sister Byrne’s case, I believe it, because she was (and is) a military surgeon (colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and a reservist). Which, to me, is just nuts. She called me a baby killer, basically. Pretty much, straight-up. A fellow veteran. How do I work with that? Because, her main job was to save soldiers, and babies. My job was to kill ’em all, and let God sort ’em.

In other words, I actually had to make a decision about whether I’d be good with killing babies. Which, of course, I’d have had no control over. Babies don’t threaten you, they’re used as human shields, and get caught in crossfire.

By the way, in World War II, we bombed babies all over Germany, as Germany was bombing babies all over lots of places.

In fact, taking an estimate of between 129,000 and 226,000 people killed in the two nuclear bombings of Japan,

average # of people killed = 177,500

rough average population of humans that are babies at any given time: 1/74 (based on a life expectancy of 74)

= 2,399 babies under 1 year of age killed

roughly 1/75 will be prenatal; therefore, also:

= 2,367 babies killed in utero

So, real soldiers have to suffer from PTSD for having killed babies (see: Seth Moulton interview with Jake Tapper. He didn’t kill a baby, but he did drive around a dying toddler); Catholic nuns are saying I want them killed for money and vanity (she used the phrase, “and even celebrate the snuffing out of life in the womb”); and Q says we’re drinking their brains. Meanwhile, every Democrat knows, that’s not true at all, we’re just not prohibitionists. We really believe Planned Parenthood, and other organizations like it, and expanded access to women’s healthcare, and family planning, works. This has already been proven exhaustively by an analysis of other countries’ approaches. Again, science denial. Why? Protect patriarchy. Womens’ reproductive systems are very inconvenient, and can be weaponized against them to make them (women) effective second-class citizens.

That’s right. First we got Miranda, then we got Chansley’s Precedent: The right to be served organic food in jail if you say it’s your religion. What coy mocking bullshit, silly shit. Stuff that sounds good to Republicans, and retards. Well, I think I’ll make my jailhouse religion all about banging supermodels. I will expect the deep state to produce several for me, when and if I ever get arrested. Fucking insane. If he has a peanut allergy, then don’t serve him peanuts. But, no one gets sick from not eating organic food, unless it’s all in their fucking head, like it would seem in Chansley’s case a lot of other crazy shit is. No; for all of their frequently many deficiencies, I was unaware American jails must cater to psychological eating disorders. Of course, it’s really all just deep state-coddled bullshit: First his mother was telling us it makes him sick, now he’s telling us it’s against his fucking religion. All while no one seems to pay attention to all of the tattoos he’s injected. He assures us he’s getting sick in jail. Yeah, well, maybe opiate withdrawal does that to a person; take a fucking drug test before we’ll send you to the doctor, maybe. Or, is that against his religion, too? Meanwhile, migrant children are being drugged in black sites we can’t find, or would be “allowed” to go into if we did. Cry this honorably-discharged airborne infantry veteran a river. Some of those black sites, I’ve speculated, should be attacked, and the children in them freed, and photographs of what they lied to us about, taken. By angry mobs. That’s an insurrection I might like to see.

That is, if the kids in them aren’t already dead, or having their body parts sewn onto each other, augmented, no doubt, by some military technology. Forced hysterectomies, anyone?

In fact, I would predict they have teams of privates scouring it for all kinds of reasons, all of the time. From making sure there aren’t rocks large enough to make a general’s ride in a Humvee uncomfortable, to cleaning up cigarette butts left by special forces, to locating and removing unexploded ordinance and classified materials that, oh, some ILLEGAL might find, and bring into an El Paso pawn shop on his or her way towards realizing the American Dream.

In fact, that might even be why they tell activists the patent lie (in a normal universe) that they’re confident there’s no bodies on it, where they know that it’s a false flag. In other words, they know it’s preferable for activists to believe they’re lying that the range is clean, and be unable to prove it, than for activists to discover they’re ACTUALLY telling the truth. Because they know that allowing activists to scrub the range would lead them to realize; “oh shit, this place is as clean as a whistle, which means they threw the bodies we found into a small area for us to find, or it’s the area they purposely leave alone for the purpose, where it’s safe to say it’s not anywhere near all of the bodies they must know about, or have… and have disposed of, without telling us how many; where; when; who; and, how.”

That, by the way, would be called a crime. And, a big one. I’m sure the airspace is protected to prevent private drones from flying over it day or night, confirming anything. Right? Is that where we’re killing them? Incinerating them?

Too far away from Area 51, perhaps, where the only illegal immigrant is a deer?

Don’t take me seriously, this is all modern political fiction. I’m a liberal with a horror writer’s imagination who’s not clued into Q, besides and anyway. Do not take the bullshit I say seriously. Do not take Ashlee Anne Rose Martinson being innocent, seriously. It’s all fun and games, bullshit. If I’m wrong, Jesus will forgive me. Can’t know what’s really real, anyway; Marjorie Taylor Greene told us that she put aside her Crossfit gym and got a $350,000 PPP loan to run for Congress because she was so angered by that very fact. Mass shootings probably won’t happen to me and, if they do, oh well, I have a better chance of dying in a car accident on American roads that have no mass transit, and that makes me feel better. The world (this devil’s world), despite all of its beauty, is a mean and scary place like Pompeo said, sometimes. It’ll have just meant that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tragic. But… happens. Can’t stop it. Ultimately, it would have been God’s will. Everything happens for a reason, and having moved to Iceland probably wouldn’t have made any difference. Besides, I’ll be dead, silly, and won’t know it. Or, I’ll be in Heaven, I’m fairly sure. So, what’s the problem? I’ve declared Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Everything’s fine.

John 3:16
New International Version

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

All of the political ads with gunshots directed at liberals and lawmakers are funny, and make me laugh. Forget all about Gabby Giffords. She’s a real person, but there must be some alternate explanation for what happened to her than political terrorism by Republicans. Even though the man who shot her was a Republican, and said the shooting was motivated by politics. We’ve had several of them now, right? Oh well, they’re crazy, don’t listen to anything they say.

Man, with all these ads with gunshots in them, and Christians like Hank Kunneman talking about “God’s mighty wrath sweeping away the advancing enemy from the left, and restoring Trump, who always has been rightful President, back into power,” one might almost think they want to shoot liberals. But, they keep telling us they’re regular moms who love America; and, MTG and Boebert are moms; so, I suppose I have nothing to worry about.

I promise I’ll keep laughing and laughing at them. Because, though they think I’m insane, I trust the version of reality they tell me I should believe in, and they believe that, for some reason. If it turns out they’re not kidding, well, I’ll just keep recommending we liberals do what we’ve always done, and wait around for them to prove it to us first, before we do anything about it.

As in, a serious violation of international law. Genocide.

Remember: Horror writer’s imagination. If I see good potential material, I’ll use it.

Would make us terrorists. Official. Really, that’s what all of this passive failure to get to the bottom of these migrant deaths amounts to, while saying we’re doing our best to improve the system, but that the system is still pretty fair, and they can wait their turn under that bridge there with their baby in 100+ degree weather, and that we’re just not responsible for Emma Lazarus’ poem, which is now officially fake news, and a deathtrap. Terrorism. Terrorism as policy. If you don’t believe me, I have a photo of forty-three dead migrants’ rosaries I could show you.

Come to America! Simply navigate the thirty-mile bombing range no one gets to see and which we’re not going to do anything about, and you’ll be fine!

At the end of the day, it’s a fucking bombing range, not Area 51. I shot on bombing ranges. I jumped on bombing ranges. I WALKED RECREATIONALLY on bombing ranges looking for Indigenous Peoples’ artifacts with my Sergeant, on a “day off” from BOMBING. I was unharmed!

For all we know, migrants are being put in mass graves before being blown to incinerated bits. And, for all we know, alive. It could be for testing weapons systems, for all we know. It’s a bombing range.

We did it before.

There’s going to come a point, I predict, when we’re going to realize, as a society, that it doesn’t matter whether we know if it’s happening or not, but that the suspicion alone is a moral mandate for us to force a verifiable negative answer, even if it means accusing, and even charging, people of crimes without a shred of direct evidence. Refusing to respond to a search warrant for that bombing range would be sufficient to jail. Why doesn’t Congress do it? Oh, that’s right, I almost forgot, fucking Republicans.

Remember, the Nazis almost never put the phrase, “Final Solution,” in print. It’s time for us to realize that this kind of shit might be happening to us right now, and that it probably is.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

These last thirty-five words, being carved into the original Statue of Liberty (official name: Liberty Enlightening the World), the excerpt from Emma Lazarus’s 1883 sonnet, The New Colossus, shall not be infringed.

Then again, you want to drive us unstable, don’t you? That’s the gambit you’ve made: That your immortal PSYOP (constant and constant lying, false flags blaming Democrats and antifa, absurd claims that you’re Christian, etc.), which you never get adequately called out on or punished for, drives us nuts before we manage to organize; figure everything out; and then put those of you who deserve it most, in jail. Not to mention, place you next to Benedict Arnold in the history books. I’m not waiting to die to get out of here, to experience in Heaven something like what a more perfect union might have been. I want it now.

We’re not going to be able to keep walking side-by-side in the real world believing two different realities and moral systems, and not eventually diverge from that reality, where one side is hiding behind Mr. Potato-head, allegations of widespread voter fraud and Collusion Delusion to make BILLIONS oppressing and murdering innocent people, and where the other side is trying to stop it. There is no America 2. If you think shooting wars have never started to assure abstract concepts such as ballot access, well, then, that would be because you’re fucking ignorant. Your leaders, do. But, they also know that they don’t do mundane, proletariat things like run elections; they do things like call out the National Guard. In other words, they know they probably won’t be around when the shooting starts. Then they’ll assure you they’ll be able to stop it for you.

Republicans don’t have to start the shooting war they want. They know they merely have to make our existences more and more intolerable, until we light the fuse for them. Then, they’ll say we started it. And, their duped base will believe it.

I’m not inventing anything new. This has been the history of the human race from the beginning. There are good people, and there are wolves in sheep’s clothing and those who follow them for the goodies and special favors they promise, and that’s that.

For example, Republicans seem very comfortable expecting us to wait ten hours in line to cast our votes for our four-year-term leaders. Games. Now, I understand, instead of trying to make lines shorter, they’re trying to make it illegal for Citizen A to hand Citizen B a bottle of fucking water while standing in said ten-hour fucking line they created. Whores actually have their cud-chewing base bought into how that might be normal, and correct. In the ten-hour line that still happens on a workday, where voting is still not considered a constitutional right. They’d better be careful. If they steal another election, I might say to kill all of them. And, our Founders, were they here today, might agree. What, do you think the oath I swore to protect the Constitution from domestic enemies was a formality, or something? Do you think domestic enemies don’t really exist? Do you think they go around with signs on their heads that say, “domestic enemy, please restrain me with a twist-tie?” Do domestic enemies and patriots get together in a room one day and say, “okay, you’ll be shooting at me, and I’ll be shooting at you, now let’s go out there and do it?” Fuck, the whole Republican party, more or less, has been calling Democrats domestic enemies for four years, and for even longer. Cucks. Snowflakes. Libtards. Demonrats.

This is what you took seriously. You’ll be taking the bullet we shoot between your eyes in the hot war you say you can’t avoid seriously, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Donald_Trump

Our presidents won not one, but two fucking wars for them, and they dare speak that way to us? Talk about making a veteran not just want to fucking hate them, but to perfect his hatred for them, turn it into an art form.

They should be proud of themselves. Though they seem to whine and moan about “not being able to avoid” civil war all of the time, getting this particular Christian to say he might want to kill them first, is quite an achievement. But, maybe it will be necessary, like in times past. Not for me, but for a decent, dignified remainder of their lives for the children and the mentally disabled, who are the only two classes of human beings still innocent in all of this.

Not that it would be surprising to them. These are the same people who did nothing after the baseball game shooting. They are hard-core, true believers.

If we never fight back, then they win. If we fight back, they’re confident we’ll lose; also, the longer we wait, the weaker we’ll be. That’s their ‘math.’

Racist mass shooting in Georgia last night. Six women and two men killed. Another disgruntled White incel all fucked up in his Christianity, having a bad day. The mostly White and male and Christian deep state is already running to protect him, so that it will happen again. These shooters are personally crazy; it’s not our society that’s creating them. We’re not in any way responsible for it, and there’s nothing we can do about it, either. Ignore that they’re usually White and men and Christian, that has nothing to do with it. It’s a coincidence. Oh and, had he been a foreign Muslim, we’d be outraged that he attacked an Asian community.

All of the men and women in the spas he shot up should have had guns. In a way, it’s their fault they’re dead. Oh and, Demonrats’.

I don’t have to have been in their locked fucking rooms to figure out what these racist hate-spreaders say to each other. All I have to do is look around, and apply logic.

Really, there does not have to be any guarantee we won’t have another hot civil war. We’ve been doing them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

One might even say the odds of avoiding one are not in our favor, even without all of these blood and soil assholes telling us that Russia is our friend.

Tell that to fucking Saul.

Caught off guard as in, didn’t have enough time to coordinate the lies you’d tell her? Because a person who wears the Armor of God should NEVER be caught off guard, because there’s NOTHING he’s ashamed of, and has GOOD REASONS for everything he does.

You’re checkmated, here; you know it; and, there’s nothing you can do about it but blather bullshit about saving souls, and tell the professionally-trained bitch from the fake mainstream media to go away, and then get in your armored car and leave. With all of your little White men whore bodyguards in tow.

Being killed by these people would be an honor. Don’t laugh; they’re already beta-testing the guys who throw bags over peoples’ heads and toss them into unmarked vans at protests. You won’t hear whores like Copeland bitching about how that’s immoral, and wrong. Partly because he knows he’s the kind of Christian who has nothing to fear from them.

Those guys, by the way, will be Stage Two crowd control to these people in seven years, if they’re still in charge. Mark my words.

LOL. Republicans bitch about the deep state, then turn their cheek to the guys who throw bags over citizens’ heads and toss them into unmarked vans.

LOL.

Note also that– ignoring content, and focusing on emphasis– Hill’s biography is very different from Greene’s.

Hill’s biography directly ties the instrumentality of her family’s experiences and actions over the last century to her commitment to, and understanding of, democracy; military service; and public government service. By comparison, Greene’s biography is substanceless. All that Greene did was tell us that she was a hard worker; a tough and caring mom; and that she loved her God. All great; but, no doubt, many of these women do, as well:

But, at this point in the discussion, Greene’s bio is not worthless to me; it’s PSYOP. Because she knows it’s worthless, but has turned it into a weapon. Greene knows she’s appealing to patriarchy, theocracy, and nativism (blood and soil) with her bio… and, little else. The only thing she says in it that’s particularly relevant towards her credentials to be a lawmaker, in my opinion, is that she’s a successful business owner. And whereas it’s great that she’s one of the first in her family to get a degree, let’s remember, too, that she’s White. She’s presumably had opportunities for higher education that a lot of women of color in this country don’t. And whereas I admire anyone who’s morally climbed out of poverty, her story would suggest to me that the political conversations she had at the dinner table growing up weren’t too high-brow. And, unfortunately, that matters to me, particularly right now. Because unless someone can compensate for the deficiency with demonstrations of astonishing native intelligence, integrity and morality, etc.– and, especially when they hail from sparsely populated jurisdictions and won their seats with $350,000 PPP loans they say they didn’t want– I want strongly-educated people running the show, right now. Particularly if they’re going to scold me for believing seventeen intelligence agencies, and Dr. Hill.

So, MTG is far from being credible enough for me to take her word over seventeen intelligence agencies, and Dr. Hill. And, only one of them can be right, because they’re both saying exact opposite things.

“U.S. PSYOP forces [<– includes Congresspeople who send them into combat] are generally forbidden to attempt to change the opinions of “U.S. persons” (meaning citizens and residents), in any location globally. However, commanders may use PSYOP forces to provide public information to U.S. audiences during times of disaster or crisis.

In other words, the U.S. government, to include its PSYOP forces, is allowed to use its PSYOP infrastructure and resources to deliver information rapidly to Americans in times of dire need. And, they’re even allowed to brainwash us, in order to save our lives… not for the sake of our lives, though, but to protect the democracy from collapsing. By contrast and by definition, they can legally brainwash us into killing ourselves, as well. They send all-volunteer soldiers knowingly to their deaths routinely. They’ll legally kill you if you happen to be barricaded in a rabbithole they don’t want around anymore, regardless of whether you had plenty of opportunities to avoid the rabbithole, but put yourself in it anyway. To mean that they can even kill you simply for being in the wrong rabbithole at the wrong time. Remember, they’re allowed to shoot down civilian aircraft to protect a national security asset. Churchill famously did something like it at Dunkirk.

Not bullshit:

Also not bullshit:

“U.S. Air Force Warns Those Planning to Storm Area 51: The Military ‘Stands Ready’”
Anna Kaplan
Breaking News Reporter
Published Jul. 13, 2019 6:21PM ET

In my opinion, Area 51 warning Americans through the news that it will shoot and kill Americans is similar to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asking that her seat be held open until after the election. Just, where only one of them got their way.

The moral, though, is that military-grade PSYOP is life and death stuff, and should never be wheeled out to help a politician, or a party, win an election. Almost certainly, any party that’s doing that more than the other one, is the more evil one.

It is illegal to use PSYOP against Americans for a reason. It breaks down social order. Bifurcates society into two groups: Those who believe reality, and those who believe bullshit.

Now we have a third of the country stuck in the Q paradigm, having to un-cult themselves. It’s not an easy process.

“Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOps), have been known by many other names or terms, including MISO, Psy Ops, political warfare, “Hearts and Minds”, and propaganda.[1] The term is used “to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people”.[2]

“Various techniques are used [italics mine], and are aimed at influencing (improving, or degrading) a target audience’s value system, belief system, emotions, motives, national cohesion/unity, critical reasoning ability, energy levels and enthusiasm, optimism for the future, narratives, and behaviors. It is used to induce confessions [to include putting oneself on record, thus making later backtracking legally or politically costly] or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator’s objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. It is also used to destroy the morale of enemies [author’s note: liberals, Democrats] using tactics that aim to depress troops’ psychological states.[3][4]

“Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals, and is not just limited to soldiers. Civilians of foreign territories can also be targeted by technology and media so as to cause an effect in the government of their country.[5] [italics mine] –Wikipedia, Psychological warfare

Okay, so: her main point she says in the very small clip at the end is boilerplate antifascism, and is technically correct, except for the over-the-top hyperbole; not ALL of them were war criminals. Also, I have little interest in investigating very low-level war crimes when far more serious, larger war crimes are ignored. There is ZERO point in prosecuting lower-level war crimes when higher-level ones haven’t been; in fact, doing so is itself an ongoing act of war, as it is effectively a mock trial, and a destruction of evidence. It’s a false resolution in a war that hasn’t really ended, because the original hostile power is mostly still in charge, it’s just conceded defeat in the overt war everyone gets to see and has instead gone underground, sacrificing some of its own soldiers to do so. But, sacrificing its own soldiers is what all governments do in war, whether morally-aligned or not; so, it’s easy to dismiss when, in fact, it’s actually a war crime to punish subordinates in a conspiracy to create a façade of justice so that higher-up crimes can be swept under the rug.

Also over-the-top was “They should be tried.” No, they should have been reasonably investigated at taxpayer expense and then, if the evidence had supported it, charged. After that, the ball’s in their court; but, asserting a trial has to happen assumes they won’t simply plead guilty to everything and accept their punishment, which is empowering to them, and giving their will and ability to fight the charges too much credit. No one should want to try war criminals. We should make it very appealing to them to simply admit everything and cough up all of their evidence, so that we can fine them and put them in jail swiftly, and get on to solving other, serious problems that actually theoretically REQUIRE time.

Certainly over-the-top was her remark that they should be executed, which is old stuff. But, when you’ve been told day in and day out since you were a little kid that traitors, deserters and war criminals are hanged, what else was she really going to say? That she thought they should be convicted of war crimes, but then given special treatment? We are all caught, to some extent, in the deep state’s thought matrix. Remember that this President wouldn’t even tell us to wear a mask.

Again, I assert: civilian Americans going to Hanoi to “protest” the war was already a guaranteed disaster. It is ignorant that any civilian think they can outsmart armies tasked with saving the lives of their troops, and with killing ours. All they need is a failure to make an expected hand gesture in that culture, or a poorly-timed smile.

Remember this? Some scholars and analysts argue it cost him reelection.

But, GOTCHA… that watch glance you see in the above clip, when the woman asks him her question, is NOT the one that got him into trouble.

It is the glance at his watch he made when BILL CLINTON was responding to that woman’s question, after Bush had already given his. Inexcusable. I suspect, in that moment, he forgot he might possibly be not reelected. He was a war president; he’d ridden the coattails of Ronald Reagan for eight “Shining City on a Hill” years; and was, by my understanding, a very powerful Director of the CIA, which is where he’d made most of his career after he’d done overseas combat in World War II. George H.W. Bush was hard-core deep state. I wouldn’t be surprised if he knew, even more than Reagan and possibly any other President in American history, most, if not all, of its inner workings, both morally-aligned, and not. Probably on par with Eisenhower, I don’t think Kennedy ever came close to knowing what Bush, Sr. knew. Same goes for Nixon, Truman. But, I would imagine that that kind of power can really influence hubris, and make one out of touch with the day-to-day political and financial concerns of regular Americans.

Reagan’s war history is interesting, but he went on to act, while his eventual Vice President would go on to rule the Central Intelligence Agency. Big difference. All of these ex-veteran older Presidents, though, were more serious than the weirdos we’ve had since. Clinton. Okay, but a weirdo. Sex scandals, everything-gate, impeachments. Although Reagan was caught in that deep state mess with Oliver North, and I do think it’s good that Clinton defeated Bush Sr. I said they were more serious; that’s not the same as better, although they should go hand-in-hand.

The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا‎, Spanish: Caso Irán–Contra), popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair,[1] the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[2] The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

The official justification for the arms shipments was that they were part of an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The plan was for Israel to ship weapons to Iran, for the United States to resupply Israel, and for Israel to pay the United States. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the hostages.[3] The first arms sales authorized to Iran were in 1981, prior to the American hostages having been taken in Lebanon.[4] –Wikipedia, Iran-Contra affair

Bush’s son. Weird. Technically a veteran, but a mess:

1972
August 01
George W. Bush is suspended from flying with the Air National Guard
On August 1, 1972, future President George Walker Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, is suspended from flying with the Texas Air National Guard for missing an annual medical examination.

Bush’s military-service record became a source of controversy during the 2000 and 2004 elections, and underwent further scrutiny when he launched a controversial war in Iraq in 2003. Although Bush served in the National Guard, many opponents of the war, including veterans, criticized the president for a sketchy military record, which, it was alleged, contained extended and inexplicable absences of six months to a year at a time. Bush defended his military record by saying he satisfactorily completed all of his military obligations.

Bush was given an honorable discharge from the Air National Guard in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School. Still, some veterans and war opponents equated Bush’s stint in the National Guard and his subsequent Harvard attendance as tantamount to a Vietnam War draft deferment procured by his politically influential father. Bush’s harshest critics went even further, claiming that Bush’s military records may have been tampered with or forged to create a positive military-service record. According to analyses by historians and investigators, however, Bush’s military records do not substantiate this or some critics’ claims that Bush ever went AWOL (absent without leave).

Source: HISTORY. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bush-is-suspended-from-flying-with-the-air-national-guard

Obama. Weird, because he gave the impression he was awesome, but look at the shit we’re still in, and Guantanamo. Trump being weird is just self-evident.

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/military-service-ronald-reagan

Remember this? It wasn’t Reagan’s comment that was disastrous to Mondale, it was Mondale’s AWFUL response to it. Mondale tried to be too congenial and in a good mood, and go along with what what his opponent done, which had been brilliant; unfortunately, everything that your opponent does that is brilliant, is bad. Instead of laughing, he should have maybe smiled, rolled his eyes a little, and then immediately called out the (clearly-canned) remark as a distraction. I’d have reminded America that, despite the cute joke, potentially faculties-compromised people in charge of nuclear weapons matters. I’d have followed it up by saying that it didn’t have to get personal or complicated, but that I simply advocate all Presidents, regardless of age, get thoroughly tested in all kinds of ways by science, and that I’d do it, and that I think he (Reagan) should commit to it, too. Reagan, with the full cooperation of Mondale, wisely let the laughter breathe, and then kept using his time to do all BUT assure us, as far as I can tell from this exchange, that he would undergo a thorough and challenging mental fitness test.

Trump, former Commander-in-Chief, knew how to tell a lion from a bear. Coy mocking deep state bullshit, what it didn’t want us to find out is that he’s not really all that bright.

I think Commanders-in-Chief should be subjected to I.Q. tests. Absolutely, without question. They should also have to show their tax returns.

I want intelligent people who can’t be blackmailed in charge of six thousand nuclear weapons.

Remember this? Another successful PSYOP, because it focused on schoolyard humor to influence Americans into believing that Dukakis was a goofy guy with maybe big ears or a distorted head, and would thus be embarrassing on the world stage. Actually, he was just a presidential candidate in a shirt and tie, trying out one of the helmets the presumed soon-to-be soldiers under his command, already wore. Another missed opportunity for a Democrat to “stick it right back at ’em,” there were probably numerous ways a more creative campaign could have not just recovered from this, but turned it into an asset. Again, widely considered to have contributed significantly to Dukakis the election.

Anyway, back to Magic: The Gathering‘s speech. (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s).

Every time I get angry like this, I think of Bill Nye. Because he made that crazy video where he’s dropping F-bombs, and setting things on fire, and (probably unknowingly) preaching 1 Corinthians 13:11, which is basically an admonition by St. Paul the Apostle for adults to grow the fuck up. We’re going to need more of that type of passionate admonishment, to win. Being rational when the train you’re all in is about to fly off a cliff, isn’t. At any rate, leave it to a scientist to have figured it out.

Without further ado:

0:00 – 0:14 Sit back, make popcorn, and get ready for some historic crazy shit sequence
0:14 – 0:37: Poor little me sequence
0:37-0:50: You don’t know the real me sequence; media attack
0:45 – 1:25: Résumé. Democrats must either not pay attention, are stupid, or both, because they don’t know this about me. Reminder: Women’s highest calling is making babies. NASCAR fans: I like to speed.
1:28 I’m a very regular American, who occasionally takes seriously those who claim Democrats eat babies in basements
1:35 – 2:08 My White, married, business-owning, childrearing, non-veteran millionaire ass never gave a fuck about American politics until this raging demagogue came along… why shouldn’t you trust me?
2:10-2:47 GOP Agenda for Dummies; immigrant attack. Use of racial slur: “Illegal immigrants.”
2:47 Seventeen intelligence agencies lied to you under oath. Get on Google at night, and start believing in blue, fifth-dimensional bird-like extraterrestrials instead
3:38 Do not drool
3:50 – 4:00 Do not imagine a grey kitten spinning around on a carpet, chasing its tail. Forget that Kellyanne Conway, Lindsey Graham and Kayleigh McEnany were all sane prior to 2016 (well, maybe not Lindsey Graham).
4:00 Everything is sad
4:05 – If it weren’t for conspiracy theories, I wouldn’t be here today, and we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Whew, right? On the one hand, I’ll be sarcastic to the left, and say that I regret all of this, kind of like how Clarence Thomas did; I’ll coyly declare that taking this job isn’t worth it, because they’re so mean to me, but that I’ll do it anyway, because I’m such a selfless and determined patriot. On the other hand, we know it’s bullshit, and that what I regret is them being powerful enough to force me to say this speech; but, at least I’m still here, to lord it over Democrats, and to lie like hell to all of you.
4:40 Not being 100% honest is bad; both parties do it (false equivalency). I have no idea who’s the worse offender. The reality is I’m saying both are worthless because I can’t afford, politically, to say that one is, but not also the other. You see, my constituents who support me are fucking morons.
5:15 Eventually, I gave up trying to believe anything I read in the news, and so naturally ran for Congress.
5:30 School shootings are absolutely real. I was in one, and I still don’t get it. See, I just said these shootings aren’t staged false flags by Democrats. I’m being honest about trying to solve the problem.
6:00 Big government solutions; 30,000 National Guard for, and lots of guns in, every school
6:21 9-11 absolutely happened. I do not believe it was faked. No, I will not do the right thing and resign. Being paid and famous to do the real U.S. deep state’s dirty work is way too much vicarious fun, anyway.
6:41 Media attack. Subscribe for more at teeny tiny pieces of words dot com
6:56: Being ignored for believing that Democrats eat babies is very real, and very terrible
7:10 Porn is bad, but “when I say that I absolutely believe, with all my heart, that God’s creation is He created them male and female, and that should not be denied,’ when I am censored for saying those type of things, that is wrong.” Author’s note: Did Representative Magic: The Gathering just say it’s wrong for people to censor her for saying she wants to censor people? Author’s second note: Is censoring censorship actually bad? Head = spinning… wait, I have an even better idea: let’s keep going
7:33 – 7: 45 repeat of 5:10
7:45 I never once said the things Democrats accuse me of while I was campaigning. Though they were instrumental in getting me elected, and though everyone knows I wouldn’t be here had I not said them, these were words of the past.
8:10 I love free healthcare.
8:16 Reminding you of your Lord, Jesus Christ is why His Heavenly Father, and a $350,000 PPP loam, put me here.
8:33 Serial killers for President; Democrats expect us to be perfect because they think they are
9:05 I think abortion is the worst thing we ever committed. Forget IVF; forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Author’s note: We’re not supposed to say “In God We Trust.”
9:20 Discard your Christianity and your humanity; declare the flag your idol and follow us
9:31 Conspiracy theory generation: If this Congress wants to tolerate rioters all over America, then why reprimand poor little me? Author’s note: Is Congress tolerating them?
10:02 Racket; guilt-trip; deal-making: Agree with me, be nice to me, don’t watch the news, and we’ll all get along. Media attack, false equivalency

Real U.S. deep state (morally misaligned) filibustering (best part):

Ted Cruz’s Obamacare All-Nighter Ends After 21 Hours
Cruz read his daughters a bedtime story during his speech.
By ARLETTE SAENZ for ABCNEWS
September 25, 2013, 5:35 AM

This 21-hour filibuster against the Affordable Care Act, by the way, took place nine days after the Washington Navy Yard shooting that left thirteen people dead, and eight injured; and, nineteen days before the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, still in full-fledged denialism back in 2013 which this joker, I’m sure, refused to denounce strongly, if at all. Conservative, now, perhaps only in its ability to never yield an inch of ground or seize the tiniest of advantages, don’t believe, for one second, that his Party is ignorant to all of this, and that they’re not really all just killing us for the money.

All together, now: Who could shoot your pregnant wife or baby (he said “someone,” after all) on Fifth Avenue, and not lose any votes???????

TRUMP!!!! TRUMP could shoot your pregnant wife or baby on Fifth Avenue, and not lose any of your votes!!!!!! In fact, he basically did!!!!!!

US COVID datestamp: 534,572.

Make refrigerated trucks great again.

Jeb Bush said he’d go back in time and kill baby Hitler. After neglecting to mention that his father, more or less, actually did so, when pressed on his decision’s possible ramifications for the fabric of spacetime, the Floridian presidential candidate cheerily ignored the small amount of it he’d already torched not discussing the healthcare crisis for seniors and proudly exclaimed the equivalent of, “Ah well, fuck [the all of the rest of] it.”

My response? “Sorry, talk to a scientist, before asking me which babies I’d kill in a universe that probably couldn’t exist. I don’t talk about how I might find meaning in a universe made of orange cubes, and I don’t joke about Hitler.”

Then again, the idiot didn’t win election, did he?

Americans should understand that if they ever elect Jeb Bush and he tries to go back and kill baby Hitler, it will probably result in a bad outcome. Not because Hitler isn’t bad, but because quantum physics, and all. Gravity. The laws of the universe, fucked up by a Republican. Wait, it’s beginning to make more sense, now.

Morally-aligned, true American filibustering:

This is open government. This is a filibuster we can and should be proud of, as Americans. Things like this are what the filibuster was created for. From a conservative perspective, I’d say we shouldn’t be too quick to get rid of something we created in the past. But, ALSO from a conservative perspective, I’d say that it shouldn’t be easy to filibuster. As it was originally intended, a minority should go through some hoops to assure the majority they really mean what they’re trying to say. The filibuster is not, or should almost never be, used as a pure stalling tactic. In reality, all of these modifications of the filibuster are novel and creative interpretations, and the very type of reckless liberality in government that conservatives should be opposed to. Just like their sixty stupid fucking lawsuits, and just like their stupid fucking wall we all predicted wouldn’t get built and that Mexico wouldn’t pay for, and didn’t.

We are reminded that liberals are so open-minded, our brains fall out. Well, the GOP has made the filibuster so open-ended, they’ve turned it into a suicide pact.

I’ve said it before, there is a fairly strong, genuine conservative in the White House right now, and his name is Joe Biden. Trump was a fascist. Normally I refer to fascistic people as just that– fascistic, because there is theoretically no bottom, and I believe anyone can become sane again. But when I am referring to heads of a fascist or a fascistic state, I refer to them as the real thing: fascists.

The GOP wants emaciated government, not small and efficient government. That’s all bullshit they spout, now. And, it long has been.

All the GOP wants is a nanny state for corporations. Profits are to be privatized, while losses are to be socialized. Who loses every time? Americans. Who wins every time? The real U.S. deep state or, what Chris Hedges refers to as the corporate state.

The corporate state is the deep state. In fact, Hedges indirectly proves it himself by asserting that Ron Paul’s efforts as a libertarian (American-style libertarianism, which is very different from real-world libertarianism) to gut the federal government “wouldn’t do anything to reduce the power of the corporate state, in my opinion.” Well, lo and behold, it would seem that Chris Hedges just described TWO SEPARATE GOVERNMENTS. Thank you.

In fact, Hedges could have been even more aggressive, and asserted that emaciating the federal government would only STRENGTHEN the corporate state, according to Chomsky’s understanding and analysis.

America should not have a shadow government inside of the one the American people see, which is influenced by corporations, which lies to us and says it’s not really there, and which says that we can trust our lawmakers to make, if not always correct and fair decisions, then reasonable and open ones, and those we deserve.

Actually, that’s all bullshit, and it makes sense only to Niccolo Machiavelli. These Republicans get together in closed room “strategy sessions” and… barf… “prayer breakfasts” for a fucking reason.

There is nothing fucking reasonable about raising lead and mercury limits in drinking water.

I’m sorry to burst Chris Hedges or anyone else’s button, but that’s the deep state… by definition.

How a 15-hour Senate filibuster forced Republicans to agree to a gun control vote
By Jeff Stein for VOX
Jun 16, 2016, 8:41am EDT

All fifteen hours:

So, anyway, on the very rare occasions when I address these people, I’m actually being more rhetorical than I’m actually soliciting a discussion with them. In other words, they’re of course always free to respond, but I’m kind of asking it more for the sake of the reader than I am for myself, or (laugh) for the edification of the GOPer I’m addressing, although that is theoretically the Holy Grail of PSYOP, or of just a damn good argument: To make a convert of a former fanatic.

I’ve been doing this bullshit (online social media activism, mostly writing) for over four years. The truth is, I almost always already know the answer, and that’s a lot of fun when it turns out you’re almost always right, kind of like it’s fun to not be killed in war. Like a chess master discussing a complex position. No, it was not a bad move. No, the apparently-hanging Knight or Queen can’t be safely captured, etc.

I once abruptly ended a YouTube conversation with a guy who proudly disclosed, after he; I and another fairly normal person had been trying to have a rational conversation, that he was a National Socialist. Was really heartfelt about it, followed it up with this very detailed, well-written, sourced-off-of-the-top-of-his-head, five-page monologue about why black people should be made to only be able to count to one hundred, etc.

In other words, you could tell he wasn’t a young’un, and that he’d, more or less, wasted his life learning the particulars of his imaginary rabbit-hole of choice. Like a lot of people in cults (morally-misaligned/morally-empty religions), political or otherwise, do.

Matthew 7:13
New International Version

For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

I let my previous comments stand, because I do my very best to be willing to stand by what I’ve previously said, and because I didn’t want it to appear as though I was a coward. But, um, this guy was a serious Nazi, and I’d have preferred to delete them. I felt somehow bad about ending the conversation, though, because it was so rich in rare, esoteric Wonderland baubles, and because I could tell he’d opened up because we’d been so reasonable with him (the other guy was a Trump supporter like him, but a far saner one). Unlike me, that guy immediately deleted his conversation and all of his tracks. I guess he didn’t want to be associated directly with a Nazi online. Reasonable, I suppose, although I have to wonder if it would have been better for society, and for his soul, if he’d felt he’d had a “reasonable” conversation with a Nazi who never admitted that he was one.

All I can say is, I hope he didn’t vote to reelect the guy the Nazi liked. But, do you want to know something? I’d be more comfortable talking with the honest fascistic person (the Nazi) over a beer than I would the dishonest one (MTG).

In one of the few examples I can cite off-hand where my common sense trumps my courage, Christian compassion and curiosity, I don’t want a conversation with these people. Maybe that man in the above video has the “special sauce” to get Klansmen to hang up their robes, but you won’t be seeing me doing it outside of a keyboard, and outside of addressing a hypothetical racist audience I’m not sure exists. I’m far, far too respectful of the horrific depths of their worldview, to want a conversation. As I’ve said before, on a human level, I hope they figure out how to morally-align, particularly with their Christianity, and become the cool and interesting people God probably always wanted them to be. In the political battlesphere, however, which is the only one that really matters right now, unless they can magically begin to really improve, then I want them sidelined, mocked, fired, and out of office. America can do better, and I have high standards. Being in the military will do that to you, particularly in matters of life and death, which this is. I’m not afraid to fire people for being bad or unqualified at their jobs. The way I look at it, I’d be doing them a favor.

These wolves in sheep’s clothing will kill you. They did it to Michael Forest Reinoehl and Jeffrey Epstein, and they’ve already killed over half a million of us with their obstinate politics that they cannot afford to renounce, because they know that doing so would be the instant end of their careers, and possibly even force the hand of law enforcement (real investigations into the conspiracy they refuse to admit, not the least of which is the Big Lie). It’s not academic. It’s not alarmist. It’s real.

I mean, MTG goes on and on about how she’s a proud mother, and a hard worker, et cetera. That’s great. But, so what? I tipped my hat to Sarah Huckabee for the same thing. But, what does it particularly have to do with being good at lawmaking in a democracy? Note that MTG does not say, even once, that she experienced financial hardship or loss during the pandemic. That’s because she’s pretty rich.

“Self-funding QAnon candidate gave own campaign $450,000 after getting PPP loan”
Watchdog group, along with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former GOP opponent, call on her to give the money back
By IGOR DERYSH for SALON
OCTOBER 9, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist and Republican candidate who is expected to win her House race in Georgia next month, donated $450,000 to her own campaign after receiving a six-figure Paycheck Protection Program loan from the government for her construction company.

“Despite her opposition to the stimulus funding and the PPP, her family’s company, Taylor Commercial, received a six-figure PPP loan worth between $150,000 and $350,000 earlier this year. New York Magazine reported that her name had stopped appearing on the company’s registration forms in 2012 but was added back in 2019.”

Scumbag.

I couldn’t find what she’s worth from a cursory, five-minute search. One article asks the question in its title, and then goes on to… not specifically answer the question. But, she has been described by local news as “wealthy,” and it is safe to assume she’s worth a million or two bucks, at least. Plus, she owns a Crossfit gym, and is married to a pretty rich guy. So, she’s like a Betsy DeVos version of a House Representative: “Sure I’m a gazillionaire, which I don’t talk about too much because I don’t want to recognize its relevance, but I just look around me and see all this American carnage, and just have to get involved in it.” It’s just awful, awful stuff, when a politician tries to advance their credentials to govern by asserting that we on the other side “don’t know” how they’re proudly married, with kids, and believe in Jesus.

I assure them, we do. And, they’ve been doing such a shitty job these last forty years, we’re pretty meh about it, at this point.

Single gay atheists for Congress! Make America great again!

And, it’s moral self-preening. All based on loosely-correlated prejudicial thinking, their reasoning goes like this: I got married. I raised kids. I work hard. I believe in God. That means I’m normal, maybe even attractive to the opposite sex. That means, if you pursue those things, and succeed, like I did, you’ll be normal, too.

They never turned around/
To see the frown/
On the face of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg/
When they kept reminding her that bearing children was the highest calling a woman could pursue

Well, yes and no. Those things can build character, but only if one’s prepared and/or cut out for them, such as women who plan their pregnancies. The Turpins, no doubt, got married; raised kids (maybe a foot or so under what they should be today, due to dwarfism brought on by chronic malnutrition, but still raised); and, man oh man, did they claim to love Jesus!

Senior investigators with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office testified that doctors and medical records all of the children, bar the youngest, were severely malnourished.

Most had muscle wasting, with some adult children up to 14.5kg underweight. Two daughters will never be able to have children and several suffer from psychosocial dwarfism — growth disorder caused by severe stress.

In other words, retarded.

In other words, whereas there are certainly great families all across America which are married; have children; and believe in God, there’s also a fair number of them where the home environment is dysfunctional and abusive.

But– and, this is the most important part— they’ll never let that fact get in the way of using the argument to not just reinforce a narrow set of life choices that the deep state wants us all to pursue, but to assert a moral superiority over us. In other words, it’s a three-fer. What I call ‘layered value,’ though I generally only apply the pejorative to serial killers.

Value #1: Agenda-delivery: Live the standard American dream. Buy a white picket house, 1.4 dogs, 2.3 children, diamond ring, tax breaks, etc. Get yourself all saddled up, because it’s the best way to build character; stay secure in your old age; and obtain respect. That’s your highest calling in life. Forget all about examples like Mozart, Jesus and Van Gogh. They maybe even aren’t as cool as you think they were, or even real. Definitely forget about Social Security, we’re gobbling that all up. No union? Bummer. No job security/pension? Bummer. No healthcare? Have you checked your local church?
Value #2: False assertion of moral superiority (cyclical reasoning): “I married/had kids/gave myself to Jesus, and so therefore, if you can’t understand why that makes me better than you because you didn’t, then it’s your fault.”
Value #3: Insult/sales pitch (hook). Democrats don’t know this about us because they’re lazy, arrogant and stupid, and are blinded to just how cool we really are. Join us.

I’m not saying that convention is bad. Novelty would not exist without convention. Conservatism would not exist without convention. In fact, convention is usually a pretty safe bet. That’s what makes it conservative. When convention is all that’s being constantly shoved down our throats by power, though, that’s when something else is going on under the surface, and when convention should be challenged.

By the way, I would remark that all of this fighting is corrosive. Very, very corrosive. Not just to nation cohesion, but to our very selves. My humanity is damaged, to a degree, when I admonish fellow citizens, and leaders, so harshly, regardless of whether they deserve it. This is NOT how I wanted to be spending my adulthood, particularly as a Christian. QAnon. Deep state. Neanderthals. March 4. Silly shit. Stupid shit.

Again, it’s a unique advantage that fascistic people have over democratic ones: Their lack of shame and remorse, as well as their unshakeable faith in their own judgment. Of all things. Whereas we humble, moral people living in the real world become saddened, nihilistic and tired, they just keep on pushin.’ For, among other things, proof from liberals that Q is not real, organic food in jail, coups d’état, and Lebensraum.

What we’re calling The Big Lie right now, isn’t. It’s a Big Lie, but it’s not the only Big Lie, and it’s not THE Big Lie.

Is climate denialism not a Big Lie? Of course it’s a Big Lie, and it’s bigger than Trump’s lie, which is causing strain and stress on our democracy, and some death. But, it hasn’t been killing the planet, and taking millions of people with it, for decades. U.S. COVID datestamp: 534,672. By the way.

And, though it threatens to be “The Big Lie” in the sense that, had it worked, or were to work, then we could basically kiss the planet goodbye, still, it wouldn’t really have been THE Big Lie.

The Big Lie? The real one?

It is virtually everything the Republican Party stands for now, and their half-century-old claim that it is good for us.

They’ve been lying to us about virtually everything.

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