Posted on 01/18/2021 12:08:36 PM PST by rktman
I am growing tired of the self-flagellation among Republicans since the events on Capitol Hill on January 6. If Democrats, the establishment, and the media had accepted Mr. Trump's victory in 2016 instead of waging a 4-year campaign of obstruction and harassment, our country would not be nearly as divided.
Once Biden is sworn in, I hope Republicans are prepared to fight hard, lawfully, and peacefully to block what will be the most radically progressive agenda this country has ever seen. For example, as the Wall Street Journal reported,
[L]ast week House Democrats reintroduced as H.R.1 a voting and campaign-finance bill that would grease the Democratic voting machine nationwide and restrict political opposition. They also introduced a bill to provide statehood for the District of Columbia that would guarantee Democrats two new Senate seats.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Exactly, good post.
Yes they did but they are very very organized.
We need to centrally organize to plan and set goals.
There was a discussion about the zero ads on AT a day or two ago. I normally don’t see them because of my ad blocker. I turned it off and no ads!
Did all their advertisers drop them? Did the company that sells their ad space drop them? What’s going on? It doesn’t look good for AT.
I agree but it’s not going to happen until we get centrally organized.
Just a thought... Maybe using Zoom in each state to locally organize then having a central place to Zoom as a place representing all 50. All to organize, set goals and plan action.
A few years ago I was at a convention in a hotel. Also holding a convention at the same time was J.C. Penney (one of the first to fold for the gaystapo.)
Their theme was something like, “Time to Start Winning” or some such. Wasn’t long before they were closing another big batch of stores and they continued to circle the drain and declared bankruptcy in May.
The fact is, they wanted to just keep doing what they have always done.
So does the republican party. The democrats are openly stealing elections and the national republican party refuses to deal with its corrupt members who are perfectly happy to aid and abet the fraud to protect their graft. They are openly contemptuous of the American people (at least the democrats have the thinnest of veneers of caring for the people.)
McConnell, Graham, Crenshaw, Cornyn, Kemp and so many others are every bit as much the enemies of the republican party and the American people as the democrats. Keep them, you are going to keep the decline. I wish I knew what it would take for republican primary voters to wake up. Unfortunately, they have both massively discouraged or pissed off their own base and given the democrats a pass on election fraud the nation may never recover from.
Magnum Party
Trump Girl,
If you can, listen to the first part of this video on Rumble, Thrivetime channel. The guy had Ann Vandersteel on for a bit. But, (I think it was more at the beginning) this guy outlined in more detail what is going on and how it WILL turn out well. It has to do with FEMA, and who Trump put in charge, D.C., etc. We listened to it tonight and were much encouraged.
https://rumble.com/vczn0d-ann-vandersteel-45-non-delusional-reasons-for-hope-and-optimism.html
Blessings to you.
Mrs. K
First in 2022 elections, we start to burn down the GOP.
Sure.
I was at a pretty low tide today on this subject.
I have been told that is never wise to proffer an opinion when the mind is filled with anger, which is one of the reasons I have been posting more infrequently these days.
These days, when is my mind not filled with anger over this?
I understand and feel it very much at times, too, old friend. But then I remember the perfect frame of mind for a soldier in a fight: calm and still, like the surface of an undisturbed pond. It can be applied to many other kinds of situations.
No to the republican party.
Yes to the MAGA party.
Having never been in combat (thank God) I suspect there are unusual times in which even the most hardened combat veteran can be on the edge of losing their composure.
Granted, this is politics, not combat, but these are unprecedented times.
But I do appreciate your sentiment.
Professionally, I have always striven to keep my head level and provide what leadership I can in an acute crisis, because I recognize all to clearly that panic, anger, and other negative emotions are highly contagious and not conducive to good decision making. It is a compliment to walk into a fluid situation and hear someone exclaim “Well, thank God ____ is here...”
I should practice more of that in this forum. I am trying...this has always been one of my favorite and inspirational poems of life, as it has for generations of people before me, and I read it when I feel low:
If (Rudyard Kipling)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
The promises made in the 90’s was globalism, Free Trade and offshoring are going to make China “just like us”. Well now China is “just like us”. We are collectivist brothers...
And not long ago there was a dozen or two on this site who defended that sh*t. Not to mention not long ago, the corrupt GOP supported and ran an open border globalist like Boosh, and 90 percent of the people here supported that insanity.
That’s a beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing the wisdom with me, because I must have been too impatient to pay close attention while reading it long ago. Have you seen this one?
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
1922
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Nice. I have always loved that. Loved it.
It is so evocative...I can read it, and hear the muffled silence of the snow that sound is absorbed and you can very nearly imagine you actually hear the snow...coming down through the pines, looking out over the rump of the horse in the darkening woods.
I did not live in that time, but reading that poem sure makes me feel as if I did. My wife tells me I was born in the wrong era.
I saw the area where he wrote that up in Vermont.
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