Came here to applaud this post as well. ????
I'm going to save this in my notebook, nice job!
I am right with you. Skeptical, yet gravitated here, because I am not a doomer. The glass, as it so often is, is half full.
Hang in there u/Falling_ferret.
I was listening to BardsFM's excellent podcast this morning, he shared a vivid reminder of the dark days of February 1778, where Washington had lost a good 1/6 of his 12,000 men to sickness. Insufficient food and supplies, living on hard-tack I did not know it was just water and flour dried into a disk. Here's the episode if interested.
And to view our battle today as in that winter. Having nothing. Overwhelming enemy. Nothing working. And then he (Scott Kesterson, host of BardsFM) shared a first-hand account of a person who saw Washington praying. Turning to God when there was no other resource.
We are now in the depths of that lonely information war indeed. I am also in a heavily Blue state, in the DC suburbs, and all around me it is 'business as usual' but I know in my heart-of-hearts it is not. I am admittedly no longer a super-devout, praying evangelical (although was one for many years), for a true Great Awakening to appear, there's got to be a lot of pain.
For everyone to feel.
I also just finished Lin Wood, speaking over on Rumble (that I hardly knew of at the beginning of November) on a channel I never heard of (the 'Patriotically Correct Radio Show'). Here's the link if interested. He is such an honest person, who truly has paid a high price for telling the truth, and keeps the faith (and encourages others to do so) as we count on a higher power, God, to come through.
It was two days ago that I posted about how over on Twitter I unfollowed the @POTUS account, now that it is controlled by a person who stole the election.
I could not believe the amount of incoming flak I received for being on Twitter in the first place. Did not dignify any of the negativity by engaging with any of it - just simply stopped going there.
I believe the negativity reflects the general mood of us Trump supporters: disappointed, confused, angry and frustrated.
Well at least he's DOING something about it.
I have no idea what you are doing (or have done), other than attacking him. If you have done a lot, great. But the ad hominem attack is unfair - plenty of keyboard warriors around. I'd like to see a lot of action and showing up in the weeks and years ahead.
Of course he knows the election, voter and ballot fraud needs to be fixed. He has shown true grit in dusting himself off, and getting back to the task at hand.
I'm going to withhold judgement until the path forward becomes clearer - although to me it's becoming clearer as the days go on.
My spouse reminds me (whenever the topic comes up) that I donated to McMuffin, voted for a CIA spook, and even received a Never Trump bumper sticker.
I read The Art of the Deal in the mid-1980's, and was a fan of The Apprentice, and remember clearly the day the Access Hollywood tape came out. Was surprised as anyone that he won, and was open to having my mind changed, knowing actions speak louder than words.
It was about four or five months into the new administration in the spring of 2017, and I read another MSM hit-piece that made an elliptical reference to TD over on Reddit. The criticisms of Trump were withering; it was a little (as Scott Adams says) "too on the nose", too consistent and too monotone, and I grew suspicious.
The new efforts Trump made in those early days signaled very clearly to me that he wasn't the deranged philanderer unstable narcissist I thought he was.
I remember being momentarily confused how hard it was to find T_D at first. And I remember the first time I mentioned how well Trump was doing to a coworker in the summer of 2017, after finding out they were Trump supporters as well. It was like I could actually find people IRL who could see the world as it is, not as the media says it is.
I can say with some authority we will never see another individual quite like him.
Truly he was exactly what America needed to initiate an America First movement.
My own eyes, now opened, can never go back to "business as usual". And who knows how this story will continue from here, let alone a week from now.
It is amazing to think what was accomplished in 2016, and again in 2020, in terms of sheer numbers of people getting energized and involved.
I thought I'd never be 'that guy holding a Trump 2020 flag at a rally' but here I am with both Trump signs and the flag. And proud of it.
I for one do not believe it is 'too late'.
Because 'too late' == nothing left to save.
I've been a long-time conservative (got hooked onto Rush Limbaugh in 1989 when he first started out) but not very active until 2016 - as a Never Trumper (!!)
Now is a great time to get involved - because we are seeing here a once-in-a-lifetime event, in terms of 'what is next for the Republic'. Either it corrects itself and gets rescued from this fraud, or it is lost forever.
While out today, I listened to Bannon's War Room (Episode 671 and 672 to be precise).
He pointed out what daily, long-term, and grinding work politics really is. No quick fixes, no miracles, no sudden interventions, just day-to-day effort at the local grassroots level.
So I believe there must be a political solution to the debacle we all witnessed which is election, ballot and voter fraud. And it is up to me as Joe Citizen to hold representatives feet to the fire to see that through.
Just an opinion of a realist who is facing the music and the hard reality of the installation of a Xiden regime.
Opting out at this juncture isn't an option for me until there's truly no solution to a Big Problem.
I made my first comments here after lurking a while, immediately replied both times by shills.
Ah the truth.
The best disinfectant.
Thanks for pointing me to the X-22 episode as well. Listening to it now.
Before when listening to BardsFM podcast I was not sure what he was referring to in terms of a Mar-A-Lago center of government. Reading up on 11.3 is interesting, connection to Flynn, Xiden taking a private jet to the inauguration.
Question for you - did you expect Xiden to take office yesterday, to kick off the 11.3 proceedings?
I saved this comment from yesterday over on TDW, it's going into my 'remember this' folder.
Trump wins regardless.
He has exposed everything. The republic. The deep state. The swamp. Those who we must never trust and those who have been working against us.
It is all a total facade.
Even in the end, he will still get a larger crowd today and viewership than what Biden will pick up.
Wherever Donald J. Trump goes, we will all follow.
MAGA never dies.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
I do not know where I will go from this point, certainly I knew it was a binary event yesterday - "business as usual" with a powerful exception: millions of people have had their eyes opened, and we cannot (and will not) go back to "business as usual".
I certainly understand the sentiment.
I felt that way yesterday. This morning not so much.
Just listened to a live periscope (yes at 530am ET, it was 230am PT) of JD Rucker who is a co-founder of NOQreport, who said something insightful: what did 5 years of spying, rioting, lying and 'resisting' get the Left? They still had to steal an election to get Xiden in office.
Bongino reminded me in his podcast yesterday of something else: third-party efforts are doomed. (See: Bull Moose Party of 1912, American Independent Party of 1968, Ross Perot's Independent Party / Reform Party of 1992.) And recent history: Trump did not form a third party, he ran as a Republican and exposed RINOs / remade the Republican Party (although you can justifiably argue he didn't remake it enough).
Rigged elections.
THERE IS NO POLITICAL SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM
I came here this morning to regroup after yesterday's official event finalizing the stealing of the election. To reassess (in the terms of what Praying Medic himself said a few days ago if things went the way they did).
And at 530am ET I'm listening to a periscope of jD Rucker, who I never saw or heard from before, but who happens to be one of the co-founders of the NOQ Report, which I've come across from time to time. He pointed out something obvious that I had not realized before: what good did all the violent protests, all the political drama, all the spying, all the coverup the Left did for the last 5 years?
They still lost by a landslide. The American public is too smart to fall for that.
Another voice, it was Dan Bongino's show yesterday (recorded before the official inauguration) laid out the cold facts of history that third-party runs (staring with Bull Moose and there were several others, Ross Perot I certainly remember) are simply doomed to failure.
This morning I come up with a few conclusions and of course first things first.
- Cleaning up the past election - with the revelation(s) of what went on - should be our first order of business
- Peaceful protests, phone calls, emails and letters, still mean A LOT in the political process
- Local activism, from school boards to state representatives, and local encouragement of leaders to STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT and kick out the RINOs to return the Republican Party to its roots is where the energy needs to stay
- GEOTUS did not form his own Patriot Party, he took over the existing swamp Republican Party and largely re-made it, enough to expose all the RINOs for what they are. It's clear they have to go, and Wyoming is showing us the way. Resoundingly. Of course he just began an America First populist movement that will NOT GO AWAY.
- I will not make plans to relocate to Texas or West Virginia. At least not yet.
Left columns very hard to read (white on light background).
I see what OP did there...
You bet.
Talking about this with brother-in-law this afternoon, he used to be an insurance auditor when he was working (now retired), and we both agreed the good-versus-evil, especially with Evil giving up Power, is going to take some miraculous, super-natural activity.
Every night since oh about September I've been reading to the boys (11 and 13) one chapter of the New Testament, we take turns reading, and it's fun as they get to read the Olde English KJV (what I am most accustomed to). In the book of Romans last week, how interesting the connections were with the suffering and persecuted flock in Rome, and where we are today.
And to think that Paul was in prison during almost all of the Epistles written, does make you think 'what have I suffered'?
IMHO God has blessed our country from its founding, and is currently at a clear crossroads. 'God shed His grace on thee' as the song goes.
As churches open up I'm going to start taking the boys again, and get active again.
Source: lost my religion about 20 years ago, after 15 years of being as devout an Evangelical as you will ever find. Ex-missionary, ex-lots-of-things. Am reconsidering big time now.