Posted on 09/13/2021 3:30:14 PM PDT by Libloather
They will have to hire actors if no one plans to go.
What? I thousand walls and fences don’t work?
That rally glows like lava.
Cowboy Bill to Johnny Ringo: “Now ain’t the time”
You should probably stay as far away form this even as possible. Sounds like another set-up.
Always a good reason for Republicans to do nothing. Meanwhile, Dem are in your face 24/7 and look where they are now: in the White House and have control of Congress.
We should of marched on DC months ago when fence was still up.
I agree. Nothing ever wrong with a “mostly peaceful” protest.
They don’t call the GOP the Surrender Party for nothing. Many GOP voters are weak and prone to surrender at the first whiff of powder.
Our Reps have done nothing to help and THE PEOPLE are fed up.
Exactly. The GOP people we elected should have been bludgeoning the Dems for their support of the Puerto Rican terrorists and other terrorist who bombed the capitol. Instead, we get nothing. The GOP stands aside or worse is supportive while the Dems gaslight 24/7 on 1/6.
Reminds me of one “big” Vietnam War protest where the only “protestors” who came were FBI agents and various other intelligence agencies operatives. The media mercifully let them go on that one and didn’t report anything about it at all.
Agree. I don’t remember who it was, but I heard some pundit or another opine that conservatives don’t do “protesting” well, and that we should leave thar to the left. IIRC, she (I think) said we should instead engage in civil disobedience on a mass scale. More effective and less likely to be turned into false-flag events or to otherwise boil over.
Here’s the thing… If it is a “setup”… And January 6 was a “setup”… It means that somehow these are staged or the people were actually ANTIFA just acting like MAGA (I heard this for DAYS after on FR and Patriot news outlets… Which then begs the question:… hey! why are we even thinking about helping the people still in jail… Or memorializing for that matter people who got shot and killed storming the Capitol… If it was “staged” or a “set up” … Or they were merely leftist and Antifa !? ?
Good luck with people staying away. Multiple FReepers warned about January 6 being highly susceptible to infiltrators and disruptors weeks in advance, to no avail.
Haven’t seen Antifa chatter like last time? Wonder if they’re still hiding in plain sight?
I don’t disagree with your approach, but I am one of those people who feel that there is plenty of bandwidth for all of these things.
I agree with those who say this event is likely packed with FBI informers. If you’re going to go, don’t do anything stupid. Do not give the current administration reason to arrest more conservatives.
I have been a technology advocate for most of my adult life, specifically with respect to computers and information technology. I have always known that nearly everything in this life has a duality to it.
The same technology that allows to to use a GPS in your car or find the definition to a word on a smart phone in the palm or your hand, can, and has been turned to evil use.
There are a few things in my life that I view with regret, and my advocacy of these technologies is something I have come to view with greater regret as the dark shadow they cast across humanity becomes ever darker with each relentless surge of tyrants and statists who have reached the point where our every move can be tracked, every monetary transaction surveilled, and every bit of information we get access to is shaped and fed to 4 billion unsuspecting people every single day.
It really hit home with me some years back when my wife and I were staying at a hotel, and when we came down to the lobby to have the breakfast that was included in the cost of the room, we passed a family of four having breakfast.
None of them were talking or interacting with each other. They were all on their smart phones, gazing intently at them, silently prodding with their fingers, their expressionless faces completely unaware of any other person sitting at that table with them.
There was something about that vignette I found deeply disturbing and shocking. But I suspect, of every other of the dozens of persons in that hotel lobby that morning, my wife and I may have been the only ones who noted this.
I remember thinking: "Is this what I was a cheerleader for? People becoming nearly incapable of interacting with each other face to face?" and feeling deeply ashamed of it.
In the intervening years since then, I have thought of Winston Churchill's famous passage in his "Finest Hour" speech:
"...But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."
It is that "lights of perverted science" that has really been eating at me. When you have a country like China who, by 2022-2023 is expected to have one state operated video surveillance camera for every two citizens, partnering with Google, which shapes and forms the "facts" meted out to billions of people every single day as "facts" where the whole shaping of the data is completely opaque to those unknowing people...I wonder with some sense of fear if that is where we have led ourselves, and people like me, enthusiastically doing so.
Like Capitalists who provide the rope to their tyrannical enemies to hang them with.
And what concerns me is, I never thought I would hear people in the schools and media (never mind the government itself!) embracing the model being set forth by the Communists. Never. Ever. I never thought in my life I would see and hear that. But here we are.
Some people may read something like this and think it is overwrought and melodramatic. I don't think it is. I think it is even worse than I have stated here. So yes. I have definitely given thought to that. But my wife has not, and she isn't likely to. So, for the rest of my life, however long that may be, I am bound to where she is. Such is my willing choice.
Okay, now THAT made me laugh!
If you have not seen this, it’s short and depicts just how big that 1/6 Trump crowd was. This 3 minute video shows just how big. Watch to the end. This was historic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHIwiKvdY7E
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