Its days like today when I think America is hanging by a thread. (Vanity)

Vanity

[thesearethetimes...]

Bump This.

The two party system no longer exists.

[SubMareener]

http://www.heavenlysign2017.com/

Thirty six days to go until the Big Show begins! Get on the right hand of Jesus for the best seats! ;-)

[LostInBayport]

Ignore the media. Shut them off. Go about your business. Support our president who is trying to make our nation great again. At election time, go to the polls and vote for the right people

This wise advice bears repeating!

I used to have the television on all day way back when. Then I discovered talk radio and as the interwebz grew I discovered a world of internet radio. I no longer have cable, and I get my news online through many sources. And I limit the time I spend on that. Life is much happier when you are busy being productive and don't have an hysterical, biased media in your ears and eyes 24/7. They are not the center of life.

[blueunicorn6]

Lots of money in those public treasuries.

Lots of money.

The politicians have their “Handlers Fees” when they hand out money from the public treasuries.

We might call that “graft” or “thievery”, but to them, it’s just campaign funds and handling fees.

It’s out of hand and it has to stop.

If Soros and the Democrat leaders want to keep dragging up old issues so they can get back to looting the public treasuries,

Well,

Screw them.

[bgill]

Guaranteed it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

[Major Matt Mason]

Start contacting both your GOP reps/senators and the RNC. Let them know in no uncertain terms that you support Trump and not the Democrat enablers in the GOPe, and that you are paying attention to what they say and do. If they are going to allow normal, law-abiding citizens to be painted as neo-nazis, then the GOP no longer deserves to exist. Complaining here won't accomplish anything, as much as I love FR.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't see an America "hanging on by a thread" at all.

I see an America where 99% of the people don't give a sh!t about most of what the media reports.

[SamAdams76]

More excellent points in your reply. The power of the Internet has given negative events far more scale then they warrant.

My mother is elderly and basically a shut-in. She has allowed herself to become a hostage to the 24/7 assault against Trump by the CNNs of the world. She literally thinks the world is coming apart at the seams due to the sensationalism of the establishment media in their quest to neutralize the presidency of Donald Trump at all costs.

She knows I work in New York City and imagines that I spend my day ducking hordes of anti-Trump protesters that are out for my scalp. I try to tell her that out in the world, life is going on much as before. I have to look really hard - even in New York City - to find any dissent at all. My biggest challenge is what to get for lunch - so many choices!

The power of the Internet and 24/7 media on many channels would make it seem that Donald Trump is making the world come apart at the seams. Absolute rubbish and nonsense. Those who feel that way need to shut their computers and TVs down and come out into the fresh air. If any of you are in NYC and are feeling down, Freepmail me and I'll buy you a cup of coffee at the Gregory's that just opened up in my building.

[DoodleBob]

HELL NO! And it ain't over now.

I understand the sentiment. And yea, it ain't pretty out there. There is no harm in making preparations (if nothing else, you'll be safe when bad weather takes out the electricity and gas pumps don't work).

But I disagree that it'll be THIS generation that sees the Collapse, and there is nothing we can do to stop Thelma and Louise from going over the cliff.

While Reagan said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction, he argued that it must be fought for, protected, and handed on to our children for them to do the same. He didn't throw in the towel. Neither did the people who fought back against CNN whey they tried to blackmail the gif poster.

By most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started. AND YET...I see a future. As did everyone along the journey in the US. You gotta have faith, and a serious assessment of the situation. And nerves of steel.

As noted elsewhere, Liberals have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy....for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa...Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.

In other words, the enemies of freedom may have some pointed sticks, but they're basically people like this...

THIS...is what'll bring down civilization?

It's also worth noting that safety in numbers is also at play. Moldylocks wrote of fear before heading out to Berkeley (where she got clocked) but she was comforted by the (alleged) numbers of equally-deranged secularists (who also got clocked).

I believe, in part, this is why Trump and his retinue keep using Twitter and rallies to remind we Deplorables that, indeed, there's more of us than them, and to not despair. Our steadfast and visible defense of all that is good and right is a partial antidote to this social virus. Everyone wants to win, and one can only hope that further winning will help turn these misguided souls to our side.

I say that today, we shall stand tall, especially after a press conference the likes of which I haven't seen since Reagan fired PATCO. As I said, it's tense out there, and I am fearful that we may let this watershed moment in US history be wasted. But I am confident we won't.

Let us celebrate, fellow Deplorables. Let not our faces be long with #NeverTrumpism or CNN. We are on the ascent. Our President - a billionaire from Queens - is more like us than any other guy we've had in a LONG time. The future of our Nation - nay, civilization - where we'll always have 20% of the citizenry being chronic whiners, is bright again.

Bluto was right then, and today.

[Maverick68]

Remember folks: This kind of bullzpit is designed to drive Patriots crazy. They CAN’T win elections that matter, so they have basically turned into monkeys flinging poo.
Yes, be prepared, be vigilant, be prepared to fight, but also take a look around and ENJOY the things worth fighting for.

[PGalt]

Domestic enemies will be hanging by a rope.

[robroys woman]

When Bush was elected in 2000, I was happy, but I told my friends that all it did was put off the inevitable for four years.

I feel the same way about trump, except we are in far worse shape. And yes, I’m talking about the economy, not the cultural mayhem we are seeing. The latter is just background noise probably designed to hide the former.

Fiat money is coming to an end on a GLOBAL scale. To me, the challenges the U.S. is facing is only a small part of it.

And yes, I think this generation will see the utter meltdown, and for a lot of reasons I have not even touched on here.

[Hoffer Rand]

I look at the USA today and think of Ezekiel 22:23-31.

23 Again the word of the Lord came to me:
24 “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.’
25 There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.
26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.
28 Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.
29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.
31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

It's one of the things that resonates with me so strongly about Trump saying "build the wall" and his insistence on protecting religious liberties. Maybe this time when the Lord looks at us and all we, as a nation are guilty of doing and allowing, He won't find "no one."

[FourtySeven]

Bump to one of the best posts in the last few weeks.

After Sept 1, I’m taking “a break”. And seeing how well the fish bite.

[DoodleBob]

I understand the sentiment. The past few weeks have not been easy ones...all the musical chairs in the White House, continued leaks, NK, the riots, rolling famine in other countries, and the loss of European identity and banks propped up by their holdings of sovereign debt.

To be sure, everyone is confident in their driving capabilities but we all carry insurance (yes, I know...it's a government mandate...please work with me!). Just because one looks to the future with hope doesn't mean there shouldn't be a Plan B.

Finally, without getting too Biblical, while we know He wins, we also know it'll get ugly before it gets perfect.

I am sure I've missed MANY things you see on the horizon. I want you to know that I'm not being pollyanna about things.

But lots of people have forecast The End in their Lifetime before. And lots of people have said "but this time it's different." And, while it usually IS different (9/11 wasn't the Cuban Missle Crisis, which wasn't Pearl Harbor), we usually find some way to pull it out in the 9th inning. That 'way' is the spirit of the American.

I don't deny the headwinds. I simply don't think the spirit of the individual American - as dampened as it has been, and facing things it may not have faced previously - is ready to be snuffed out yet.

Thank you for your post.

[Bonemaker]

“I predict that the extreme left is going to bring about a new civil war or revolution”

I have some very nice equipment that needs exercise.

[Bonemaker]

“Guaranteed it’s going to get worse before it gets better”

From roughly the 70’s to 2009 there was general peace and racial harmony. Then something happened.

[jazzlite]

Thank you for your post. I agree wholeheartedly. We await whatever is coming. If it is spiritual intervention, look for it to be a surprise. In the meantime, pray diligently for President Trump. I have never known of a leader who has been so consistently abused, misrepresented and lied about.

[robroys woman]

We pretty much agree. My take is that it is quite obvious that it is coming down and, truth be told, a lot of people have been really surprised at how long they’ve been able to kick the can ever further down the road. But the end of the road is coming, and when it arrives, it will happen really, REALLY fast. And the day it DOES happen, someone will be saying to someone else, “people have predicted this for centuries, but it never happened” - and then it does.

For some perspective:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2529196/posts

Go to the actual link within the link to see his epilogue. Quite interesting.

And for some perspective with a spoon full of sugar, go here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlN28DoL5qA

[Maverick68]

thanks and amen!