Posted on 08/17/2023 10:06:08 PM PDT by Bullish
This posted tonight on X (formerly twitter) by Charlie Johnston @JohnstonPilgram It sums alot of my feelings about all this.
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Public Service Message for my leftist sparring partners here on X. You folks really do not understand what you have done and why you can't fast-talk your way past it.
I am 67 years old. Spent my life mainly in politics, from the local to state levels and offering counsel at the national level. The other part of my life was in media, a managing editor of a group of suburban newspapers and political columnist and then a radio talk show host and commentator. I have been a Republican since I was 17.
I collaborated frequently with Democrats on policy initiatives and forging agreements for the common good. They were good times. In media, I defended my opponents when I thought they were unjustly targeted or accused. Needing a favor from a Democrat once that required harmlessly bypassing some red tape, she agreed at first, then warily asked me if I was running some sort of sting operation. I reminded her that I NEVER did ambushes and always gave honorable people fair notice. She nodded and granted me the favor. Again, good and honorable times.
Things began changing seriously a few months after 9-11, when your party went beyond the normal partisan rough and tumble with George W. Bush. For crying out loud, you pushed literary and cinematic assassination porn against him.
With Trump, you have become pathologically malicious. It is almost a demonic frenzy driving you. You make cutesy little arguments contrasting details of Trumps behavior with Biden's, Clinton's and Obama's to try to convince people that the fundamental argument goes against Trump. Everyone not caught up in your frenzied rage sees easily that it does not.
That is only where it starts. You have opened up sustained assaults against people of faith, parents, families, and basic civil liberties from the Bill of Rights. You make no secret of your contempt for the Constitution - and for everyone living in "flyover" country. You think you are economic titans because your states generally produce more expensive, high-tech stuff. You are utterly unaware that a sophisticated economy requires a sound basic economy to support it.
Now, you are swarming on Twitter with your cutesy arguments contrasting details of your party's derelicts with Trump's behavior. You are swarming because you sense you are playing with fire. You are not. You have already set off a mass conflagration that is just building up steam. I will not collaborate with you, I do not want to argue with you, because you have become a lost cause.
There are only four possible outcomes from the ugliness you have insisted on setting in motion; catastrophic collapse, nullification and secession, revolution, or civil war. I am actively working for nullification and secession, as that is the most peaceful path through what you have launched. But I will not criticize those who use other means unless they are indiscriminately violent. I am not interested in your arguments, for you have convinced me you are hopeless and the truth is not in you. This is from a guy who has spent much of his life gladly collaborating with Democrats. The madness will eventually pass. As a serious student of history I know that to be the case. I also know how much damage unhinged, violent ideologues can do to a culture while waiting for the passing of the madness.
We have reached a great and terrible moment. I am not interested in your arguments. This is one of those rare, visceral times where one side must prevail and the other must be utterly defeated. Again, you are not playing with fire; you have set off the conflagration. My only concerns now are how to get through it with the least amount of violence and to prevail over the madness. Though you currently have no capacity to see it, you will go down among history's great monsters.
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Mr. Johnson nailed it.
I ceased to have any interest in debating or even discussing politics with leftists some time ago.
“”I collaborated frequently with Democrats on policy initiatives and forging agreements for the common good”
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These people are without conscience. They can’t be reasoned with nor are they interested in any form of compromise. Their only interest is that you conform to their will or they will make you confirm and punish you first.
I spent most of my career and life thinking that common ground could be found with some people and persisted in trying to make that happen and to make friends with them. Failure. Complete failure and I wondered where I had gone wrong. I did’t go wrong except to fail to understand that people without conscience are capable of anything. They do not believe in judgement or that they have an eternal soul that will be accountable.
The only solution to deal with these people is to find a way and place that you can keep apart from them. That probably won’t work either because they will hunt you down to destroy you. You can’t coexist because you are a constant thorn to them that reminds them they are wrong.
The only real final solution is to destroy them. Good and evil can’t coexist peacefully. Destroy them before they destroy you. God told the Israelites this when they entered the Promised Land, destroy every man, woman and child living there or they will pollute you.
None of this will ever happen though. We haven’t the guts for it so we will be destroyed instead.
Very interesting, thanks for posting. I will read his link later.
None of this will ever happen though. We haven’t the guts for it so we will be destroyed instead.Of course, it won't happen. It would be foolish to round up your buddies and rush DC. A leader is needed, like a George Washington.
Sorry, Elon.
X will always be Twitter.
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He was talking about the way things were back in the Paleozoic Era.
You know: when politicians still wore powdered wigs.
Regards,
The Democrats started a civil war in 1861 , screwed up the nation royally, caused the deaths of some 600,000 Americans, 60,000 of them civilians and they lost. With God’s help they’ll lose again. The only thing Democrats ever learn is how to be more malicious, more cunning, more controlling and dangerous.
The author is right. They need to be destroyed, utterly.
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Please see my tagline friend.
And that is why we will lose. This guy will not do what really needs to be done. and when THEY do it, his words will be even more impotent than they are now.
He will be in a line, on his knees, up against a ditch. The sound of gunshots are getting closer, as he sees fellow conservatives falling into the dirt in front of them. The person next to Charlie says "OK, on the count of three, we grab the guy and we FIGHT". Charlie Boy says "Oh, no. We don't to be like them. We don't want them to call us violent.
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Yes, it’s been many years now for me too. They have their minds utterly shut down and most are completely uninformed.
Yep. Utterly pointless to engage with them. No benefit for either party.
Great tagline BTW! :)
I continue to believe that after a few months have passed, Elon will flip and change the name back to Twitter.
I don’t know what he was trying to accomplish by changing the name of a service known around the world. Why toss all that name recognition out of the window?
Maybe he just wanted people to know that as owner, Twitter (or X) is his plaything, his Chew-Toy to do with has he pleases.
I’m still all for legal means at this point. When that breaks down then we’ll all be in a different place. I just know there’s no point in debating with the marxist know nothings anymore because there never was anyway.
He didn’t say not to be violent. Just not arbitrary is how I took it. I agree. You need to plan, not go off half-cocked (unless you use it as a distraction). Tactical planning!
The sound of gunshots are getting closer, as he sees
fellow conservatives falling into the dirt in front of them.
Silly rabbit, those are RINO's.
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