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Mar 18, 2022·edited Mar 18, 2022

This is what President Trump told is in Jan 2017 when he took office:

"We are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.”

Whether one believes that happened during the Trump admin is neither here nor there. This is what our Charters of Freedom declare. We either act according to them & hold our leaders accountable to them or we hover in corners waiting for some leader brave enough to magically appear & do the job for us.

Everyday I see more brave leaders stepping forward. Parents taking charge of their childrens' schools & school boards. Local business people, working stiffs, farmers, etc, running for office on local, state & national levels. Lawfare, a tool used by evildoers to keep us hamstrung for decades is now an effective tool in OUR hands. As Bannon wd say, "Action, action, action!"

Meanwhile, the power elite continually make @sses of themselves in full public view. Evil doubles down & tries to bully us into saying they are anything but exactly what they are. Does good bend to evil?

No, we're not getting to a better place as fast as I'd like & #FJB is still the Resident. But we are moving, steadily foreward. Keep going!

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The Dec of a independence also lays out the purpose of government this way…..”to secure these rights”….. so, according to our founders, our individual liberties and freedoms are the entire purpose of government…..someone should remind Congress of that, and regularly.

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"We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor" ... so said the original signers to the Declaration of Independence. Men with a purpose and a conviction.

Will anyone rise to the occasion today? How bad do things need to get before our "John Connor" steps up the plate?

I agree with your assessment Hemsley, that it is now time for a popular revolt, whatever form that might take. What event/who can get us off the mark?

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Our Sacred Honor. That's an interesting concept. Doesn't seem to have much cachet in our current politics.

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Because there is no sacred anything when everyone is so very, very busy completely ignoring God.

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We are going to have to stand up to them and call them out as the murderers they are or they will not stop. Whatever judgments led them to these policies will not change until they are held to account or made to face the consequences of their actions. Mark, your rant on Bluto is the key here, there is no law enforcement of the elites, therefore they are and have been free to act with impunity. We keep waiting and hoping for the rule of law to intervene in the elite's predation but it never does. Not Russiagate, not impeachmentgates, not election gate, covidgate, jan6 gate, all of these are failures of the rule of law to address injustice, massive injustice in our society. Exemplified by Bluto's indifference. They hide behind racial identity politics and sexual identity politics while they continue their predation. It is, I am afraid now time for a popular revolt, if there is to be one. IMHO Trump can't lead it, as gifted as he is, he's not in a position to take up the mantle (again). I don't know who is. But we desperately need a galvanizing figure to lead the revolt.

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Mar 18, 2022·edited Mar 18, 2022

History is pretty clear about what happens when people are trained to abandon hope that justice will ever be done. Strangely enough, I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't take much to retrain the petty bureaucrats and low level pols to abandon their tyrannical ways. They have been emboldened by a sense of safety in numbers that is, in fact, unjustified. They are really the few. They are banking on the masses being complacent, cowed, peaceful.

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If not Trump, who then? He is the only one to address this matter, as he stated in his 'most important' December 6 speech. If the voters empower him in November by following his recommendations something might be done. If not, those of us disgusted with Washington will keep our opinions to ourselves and get on with our lives as best we can. Government will have neither our trust nor support as we grudgingly observe the laws we cannot avoid.

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Correction. December 2, 2020 was the date of that President Trump speech. Read it, its avail;able.

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I get your point and am firmly seated on the Trump train, but he had best already have started on developing extra-judicial and extra-political methods of fighting the elites, but I fear he hasn't, precisely because they control the police state. He is admirably in my view attempting to rally the populace using his extensive political gifts and powers of persuasion. He has unquestionably accomplished a lot, but we are running out of time for him to gather his political coalition. The petrodollar could collapse, another bioweapon could be released, or war on Russia and China could be declared , tomorrow.

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I expect things to get much worse by November. At that point it is crucial that we, the voters, empower Trump by voting on his recommendation. If we drop the ball I don't hold out much hope for our Country.

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Sorry can't invest ANY hope in Republicans. They're as much predators as the democrats, perhaps we would come to find even more so. It's a uniparty onslaught and a uniparty gauntlet we the people must face down.

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I almost vomited in my mouth when you said the republicans might transform things without him.

Sorry, but they could have 90% majorities and they would still capitulate to the Dems. Because it wouldn't really be a capitulation.

Regarding Trump, I suspect an Iranian cell might somehow 'slip through' our defenses if it looks like he will get re-elected. Mistakes will be made, and they'll fix the training to stop it from happening again.

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Don't have the answer but I don't think a la Clif High, a self-organizing collective is going to be able to get the job done. I suppose it comes down to exactly how monolithic and motivated that 20 million army is.

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