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The poll’s findings indicate that a significant majority of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s job performance, with only 37% expressing approval.

I do not trust any polls - even ones that tell me things I want to hear.

Polls say what their sponsors want them to say. If they don't, they don't get published.

The factions of the "Deep State" are maneuvering for position after Biden expires. What people might say in a poll means nothing to them. But they do need a plausible justification for the decisions they foist upon the population.

"Poll results" are part of that justification

Are you required to comply if you’re not doing anything illegal and some random stranger who is clearly not a cop demands you put your hands in the air?

If they have a gun pointed at you, it might be prudent to comply.

I question the validity of their claims that it’s a “guidebook for total destruction”, and “dangerous” to release.

My working assessment is that somewhere in the mass of scribblings she names people and organizations which encouraged her or even helped her with planning and training for her project.

And one or more of those people is probably an FBI informant, or even an agent.

That is the primary reason why the "manifesto" is dangerous to release (from the perspective of the authorities).

To be fair, there are legitimate reasons to bury these writings. This mass shooting project was at its' core an elaborate suicide. It has been known for many decades that publicizing the details of a suicide inspires copycat suicides. At one time it was policy in all media outlets to refuse to publish such things

Audrey's plans and techniques have been critiqued in a number of other forums. We really do not want somebody else to make improvements to such a project.

Trump must seek merciless retribution once he is re-elected as President.

Thousands of people must go to jail. A few dozen should be executed for flagrant treason. The civil service must be purged, as well as the upper command levels of the military.

It's a big project with very little time to get it done. Trump certainly cannot do it all by himself. He will need help from us.

Sorry, but for so called “conservatives” the viewpoints about national defense are completely outrageous.

We are spending more and getting less. That is not going to work very well.

Moreover, the 69th Intersectional Dildo brigade is not going to win any wars, or even any battles. They might be able to run the concentration camps into which the Democrats want to put their political opponents, but against a peer enemy force, they will be wiped out.

As it stands now, a war with Russia or China is a war we will lose. War with both of them will be a catastrophe. We must have changes in our military forces to solve this problem, and our current political leaders are not going to be part of the solution because they are the cause of the problems.

Much of the money we do spend on "national defense" is being spent on the wrong activities. The spending is being controlled by the wrong people. The spending is not for its' declared purpose.

Best to be extremely cautious about increasing any of it until these other problems are resolved.

It needs to be understood that military technology is undergoing rapid change.

We need to be really careful with military spending, especially with increases anywhere. We will not get second chances to get it right.

Too much of our current spending is simply grift for the defense industry. We do not have competent leadership in either military or civilian organizations, and those people cannot be permitted to control new programs.

Drones and other automatic killing machines have rendered current doctrines of infantry and armor tactics obsolete. Our soldiers are dead meat in a peer level conflict. The people who can come up with newer successful tactics are not in positions to implement them. And we need drastically altered techniques for using artillery.

There will be another big war. Our current politicians have guaranteed it. We had best find ways to avoid, or at least not to lose it.

The latest employment numbers from the FBI shows approximately 36,000 people of whom 13,000 are field agents. The field agents are the ones who have guns. They are the only ones permitted to have guns as part of their job.

Homeland Security and 85 other "civilian" agencies have approximately 137,000 armed agents who are authorized to make arrests and use guns in their jobs. (And just why does the Department of Education have armed agents? A question for another day).

What can all these people do? A historical precedent is available from the Mongols.

A single armed Mongol could control about 100 unarmed civilians. Of course they had absolutely no restrictions on what they could do, including killing all of them if they were too inconvenient.

Supposing the same "rules of engagement" today, the entire population of the United States is about 360 million and would take about 36 million men-at arms to subjugate that population.

The Federales come up short. Even with the military forces (about 450,000 men-at-arms) they come up short.

And people have not been disarmed. They have weapons, in many cases just as good or better than the small arms used by police and military forces.

There are about 8 million invaders (illegal immigrants) who are men of military fighting age. Even if the government could recruit all of them for police and military forces, they would come up short. And the Mexican cartels can outbid the Federales. The government will never recruit sufficient numbers of foreigners to make this work.

This could be a much more difficult project than it sounds.

The Federales need to come up with better plans other than unrestricted use of force to subjugate the population as they steadily destroy their image of a legitimate government and wreck the economy.

I expect they will fail to do so, and the country will break up into regional hegemonies controlled by various criminal organizations. There might still be something calling itself the Federal Government, but it won't have any writ outside a narrow strip of the east coast.

It is not about conventional politics. It is about putting together a wrecked economy and culture with 40 million invaders who will never assimilate to any form of American culture. That sorting out will be - untidy, as poster "Subotai Bahadhur" likes to say.

I am sentimental though, and still fantasize about an honest election won by Donald Trump, and a restoration of what we imaged to be the American government. The Democrats would not be any part of that government. Neither would most of our current Republicans.

I would be very happy with that future pathway, and it would not require violence to follow it.

Hey, a guy can dream.

We just want to do what BLM and Antifa did. You know, “mostly peaceful protests”.

We cannot do what BLM and ANTIFA did.

That is not because "we are better than that". It is because we don't have tacit support from the government and direct support from the nomenklatura like they have.

We must come up with other effective methods.

Ummmm…

Our side has all of the guns.

Which means less that you might hope. Their side has organization, access to weapons, and the firm backing of the government. For now.

On the bright side, that will change. The Leftists cannot allow their minions to be too well supplied or too well trained, as that creates an obvious threat to the patrons. They will cripple their own forces, lest they turn against them. Which they eventually will.

This is a conflict in which less than 5% of the population will take forceful actions. The sides with the better organizations and most ruthless directions will prevail.

About 50% of the population will actively support the combatants on all sides. And they will see the hostilities as an opportunity to settle old scores if they get the chance. Keep that in mind when assessing your neighbors. A low profile is best. Read the stuff by "Selco" if you want an explanation of how this works. He actually lived through it.

Most of the rest of the people will quite sensibly try to stay out of the splatter. They will go with whoever wins. The losers will be mostly strangled economically, rather than perishing to kinetic actions.

If we were as unhinged as the left and decided to get violent, we’d have done it by now.

That is not a point in our favor.

The Leftists are counting on the fact that we haven't forcibly resisted them and never will.

They also have chosen to believe they can win every violent conflict up to and including a civil war. It is a bad bet - even so, we aren't going to talk them out of it.

However, that’s not who we are.

Which is why we keep losing.

The conflicts in which we find ourselves can only be resolved by force. That is because our enemies have denied us the lesser measures of civil society and they are willing to use unlimited force to keep us obedient to their orders.

We are really going to have to go through with all the stuff we keep blustering about. Or we can perish in slavery. The Leftists are not going to ever stop imposing new conditions which make our lives impossible. Not merely difficult. Impossible.

You. Will. Die. When you are disqualified for medical care because you violated some new regulation.

You. Will. Die. When an offhand comment at your workplace gets you a prosecution for "hate speech", the legal defense bankrupts you, and the civil action takes all of your remaining assets.

"White, Male, Christian"? The outcome was decided the instant the complaint was filed. But even "Black, Female, Voodooist" will not be safe if they antagonize a Muslim or other member of a higher-ranking protected class.

You. Will. Die. When your home is seized to provide housing for illegal immigrants, and you are fined six years income for "hoarding excess living space".

Solzhenitsyn's comments about "How We Burned in the Camps" is pertinent guidance here.

We work every day trying to scrape by. There are no organizations out there offering to pay us to go on rampages like the left has.

This is a key reason for the successes of the Left. And it is a key reason why we cannot duplicate their methods. We must find other methods.

One thing we can still do is refuse to support or cooperate with Leftist-dominated organizations. And as opportunities present, we can sabotage them. Remember that as "diversity" becomes the key staffing requirement, organizations become incompetent for any purpose and more vulnerable to even a small push. And they will make plenty of critical mistakes all on their own, which we must exploit.

Anything that happens will be a false flag op. No question.

This is particularly important.

The first violent incidents (or even plans for such) will positively reek of false flags and anybody foolish enough to be involved will be rounded up with great fanfare and carted off to jail, most likely along with many of their friends and family members. And they will die in jail. That will be publicized too.

That ought to show the peasants their places.

Don't be "that guy".

The people who will be successful with counterforce projects do not post here or in any other online forum. There will be pushback. It won't get any publicity. A sudden increase in visible security forces will be the indicator that "something happened, somewhere, to somebody". Watch for these kinds of things.

The wheels finally come off when various Leftist factions get shorted on the swag and decide on "voting" with an unapproved riot or other "direct action" against their patrons. That is when Law Enforcement and Military grind to a halt amid conflicting directions from the factions. They will still be dangerous if attacked, but they won't come out to patrol or enforce anything.

The power of the Leftists depends on their control of police and military forces. They are going to lose both to internecine conflicts.

The government will suppress the first rebellion, and the second and the third. Things will get very dicey after that. They will continue to suppress every rebellion - except the last one.

Wait for it.

I’m not arguing against citizens helping the police. Not at all.

You should be.

Remember the case of John Hurley. No good deed goes unpunished.

They elected them.

With a really BIG margin.

This is our problem. A really large percentage of the population really wants people like this in office. In some areas they are an absolute majority of the people. They are basically thieves, and they elect other thieves into office believing they can get a nice cut of the swag taken from others.

That works for a while. We are passing the limits where it stops working. "Slowly and then all at once" is what we are sliding towards.

Democracy does not have a solution for this kind of problem.

What good is it, if it results in him being taken off the ballot?

...Or if the judge orders Donald Trump immediately remanded to custody pending appeals, his security detail is dismissed, and Trump is assassinated while in prison. Democrats are openly voicing hope for such things.

We can all ignore "the law" after such an outcome. It will come down to who is better at organized violence to suppress their enemies. I would not bet on the government in that scenario. I would bet on the Mexican Cartels or the Russian Mafia.

Such an action has a high likelihood of blowing up in their faces. And if any of them are still sane, they have to know it.

I do not believe the Democrats care any longer about what it looks like. They feel they are so close to their goal of eliminating Donald Trump.

They will do absolutely anything. Laws and "optics" do not matter.

The only way for peace is for Hamas to be eliminated and Hezbollah be crippled badly.

That will require killing all of the HAMAS fighters and commanders as well as most of the people who furnish them logistical support.

That is a very large number of people. That is how war actually works and that is how peace actually works.

Harden your heart if you really want an end to any war.

Next comes forgiving Credit Card debt.

You have the gift of prophecy!

But that largess will be extended only to supporters of the régime. You and I will not be qualified for the program. Check the fine print and the appendices on the executive order.

Wait until all those who think this matters find out that none of them will earn enough to have to pay taxes on any of it.

That will be a long wait. Those ex-students will never pay their loans, or the taxes due from the forgiveness of their loans.

Oh, the government will keep them on the hook for taxes, but as long as they vote right, there will be executive directions to the IRS to delay collection efforts.

There might even be tax credits for persons attending approved riots, - err "mostly peaceful protests" against designated Enemies of the State.

You, on the other hand, as a middle-class taxpayer will see armed IRS agents in your home, come to take everything that you have, should you offend the rulers in some fashion.

We all know where this is going.

So, if I erase your debt, you become supporters of Islamic terrorism?

I believe you have described the situation very well.

Does that make any sense?

"He who pays the piper calls the tune."

Our rulers favor Islam because it is a ready-made system of totalitarian control over the peaseantry.

Trump is not going to win, so long as he makes no effort to court the single female vote...

Trump can never win the single female vote. That is simply wasted effort. He might win the Black and Hispanic male vote. He will win the White male vote and might break even on the White female (married) vote. He will win the election by a significant margin if the votes are honestly counted.

But the votes will not be honestly counted.

Best to have a Plan B, and a Plan C, and a whole lot of flexibility after that. Nothing is going to work out as expected. Not for us. Not for them.

They just might be mobilized to oppose deportation in the next administration.

That is a certainty. The invaders are going to insist on the "right to vote" as well. It is already happening. There will be dozens of "mostly peaceful protests" where they burn things down until they get what they want.

Violence works for gaining power. The Leftists know that. They are very good at organizing violent threats and activities. Pervasive violence also destroys civil order and economic prosperity. The Leftists do not care about that even if they know that. They are getting what they really want, which is power.

We are not really going to vote our way out of this problem. That activity won't hurt us, but it will be insufficient.

I do not see any of this as good news. It is a lot of wishful thinking in my view.

Violence works and the Leftists are much better at mob violence than we can ever be.

What stops violence is counterforce. That means arrests, prosecutions, and jail time for "mostly peaceful protestors" who indulge themselves in mob violence.

The government is standing down from such measures because the mob violence is fully supported by some factions in the government. That leaves us with very few lawful options in a civil society.

Leftists must be removed from their offices in political and bureaucratic and academic and corporate positions. If they cannot be removed, their host organizations must be disempowered, defunded, and abolished. These are the meaningful indicators of our success.

It is an enormously complex set of tasks with different methods needed for each domain.