Posted on 06/09/2016 4:40:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
The internet is full of helpful hints for making everybody elses life simpler, but where are the lifehacks for conservatives? There are helpful hints for frazzled moms, dopey college students, and every other demographic, but as usual, we normals get overlooked. No more!
1. Reclaim your time by unsubscribing to junk emails. If youve ever given money to a conservative cause, or especially to a fake conservative cause, every single conservagrifter, republiscammer, and rip-off with Tea Party in its name is now clogging your inbox with junk. This kind of time banditry is super annoying yes, of course, I want the GOP to stand up to Obamas gun grab, so stop sending me your damn polls! But its also a timesuck. You spend at least 15 seconds a day deleting this junk. Thats two minutes a week, 104 minutes a year. Save nearly two hours a year by taking five minutes right now to go through your emails and unsubscribe to all those useless newsletters, fake alerts, and other unwanted dreck. Just make sure you dont accidentally unsubscribe to Townhalls daily newsletter or Jim Geraghtys Morning Jolt. They rule.
2. Make a real difference by picking a local race and helping out. As a practical matter, the presidential race is going to be what it is no matter what you do, so find a local race and intervene with time and money. There, your personal influence is going to be exponentially greater, and youll help the movement by building the farm team while enacting conservative policies at the state and local levels. I help out with this West Point dad here in the belly of the blue beast, and damn if we werent able to snatch a Democrat seat.
3. Use Twitter, but responsibly. Social media is great for connecting with like-minded patriots, and you need to be on it to really see whats happening. No one on Twitter was surprised to see Trumps success maybe they werent happy about Trumps success, but they werent surprised. Its always baffling to go to some speaking engagement and have about two-thirds of the audience respond with a blank stare when social medial gets mentioned. It, particularly Twitter, is the pulse of the movement and it will link you to the key columns and articles du jour. Of course, you will encounter mouth-breathing idiots, but you can generally block them and focus on key people whose insights you absolutely must have. You know, like me.
4. Boycott liberal crap. Are you tired of turning on the tube and being sideswiped by some left-wing meme that comes out of nowhere to ruin your show? Stop watching. Save yourself the aggravation. Theres plenty of other stuff to watch. Just take a minute to post your gripe on Facebook the studios pay for social media monitors to watch the social media chatter. You want to leverage those soulless suits into drafting notes to the producers that says something along the lines of Last nights show was great, super great, but lets dial back the politics stuff about 100%. Its killing us in the key employed and not living in moms basement demographic.
5. Unsubscribe to your liberal local paper. Yeah, its time to move from paying for newsprint to checking out only stuff you are actually interested in on-line. Actually, it was time 10 years ago. Unless your paper is running a superb columnist like Salena Zito or Michael Walsh or James Lileks, its time to pull the trigger and put your commie tabloid out of your misery.
6. Actually live the values conservatives talk about. Sure, were pretty good at articulating moral values, but heres the thing they arent just morally right. They actually make your like better. Have a job and dont sponge off others this will not only provide you with money but also the self-satisfaction that comes with not being a parasite. Oh, and dont cheat on your spouse. Divorce is expensive and unpleasant and no one has ever had a good one. Try not to have (or cause) babies out of wedlock you know, there are a wide variety of techniques and pharmaceuticals designed to prevent unintended reproduction. You should try those. But when you do intend to have kids and you should, because we need to outbreed these barren, frigid liberal losers teach them not to be little savages. And if you do all those things, not only will your life be infinitely better but our society will be infinitely better. After all, most of the truly awful liberal policies we hate are designed to shift the economic consequences of the bad decisions of Democrat voters in these areas to our pocketbooks.
7. Buy Ammo. Do you really have to ask why? Just look around. Dont be the guy standing there in the midst of the chaos muttering, Gee, if I had only noticed that the entire world was going to hell and stocked up on bullets while there were still stores. Be the guy saying, Sure, I can trade you some 5.56 rounds for some delicious canned food or gasoline or And I have ten more mags, and all my friends have ten more mags, so if you dont want to end up like your friends lying there you better run.
“On my street, I know exactly who I can count on, and who is my enemy.”
Yep. Sites like your state’s sex offender registry, as well as various mugshot and background check sites can come in handy, too.
A pushy neighbor seemed over eager for me to let him do handyman chores, raising red flags in my mind.
Turns out this guy is very litigious, with multiple claims of injury on people’s property.
Good advice as one day you may, with extreme prejudice, need to preserve assets and eliminate liabilities.
I run my own email server
Care to point me in right direction for that? My filter ain’t catching what they need to.
I’m using MailScanner. It’s free. It’s not too terrible to setup. I’m using Ubuntu 14 for the OS. The write up gets you going quick, but I recommend you take some time to configure PostFix properly. The MailScanner and SpamAssassin products are locked down out of the box.
And what’s your point? Homeschooling your kids is a great conservative hack was mine.
This guy despises Trump, so that’s why.
Decent advice maybe. But not “awesome”, and while I’m not 100% certain what a “lifehack” is, I would doubt these qualify.
bmfl
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