Was Trump the Right Person?

Precisely whom said the system was worth saving? Not I – go back and reread. If it isn’t obvious that “the system” as it currently exist DOES NOT WORK, I can’t help people see it.

If you think information is worth sharing, that’s great. But what is it that are you sharing? I don’t have a rosy happy-go-lucky view that going Galt is going to turn out A-OK for me, my family, or frankly anyone else. Realism and not wishful thinking is necessary. That includes doing what is realistically possible within the constructs as the presently exist in reality, not how we hope they might be. If you can’t face that reality, as uncomfortable as it might be, another blog might be more to your liking. So if you have legitimate information to share, that represents a genuine strategy that can be used regardless of the shifting battle terrain that confront us, are you willing to share it? What do you advise as the OPORD?

Do you really think you are the only one growing victory gardens and raising chickens and goats, and that makes you wiser than others? Making oneself resilient is important, but not much of a battle plan.

However, if you have anything to contribute, anything worth saying, anything that advances our mutual insight and understanding, and provides us with concrete and meaningful action – please, by all means let us all know, because I’ll still be around. I’m all ears.

Thanks! I’m glad I’ve got more of a plan than hoping that other people leave me alone or come for me last.

You are correct, because I only discussed one minor facet of what could be done, but didn’t get a constructive response to my question:

“Do you have a Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, or Law Enforcement background you can put to good use serving the public interest?”

Great, I’m glad to hear that!

See, there is more of a plan that just doing nothing. I’m fully in favor of virtuous, creational, engaged citizens.

Fighting local politicians is part of the point of engaging in the local election process.

Is the election system irredeemable, or is it contested territory of key strategic value held by the enemy? Let me put it this way: The corruptocrats want the key terrain badly. Well, if they really want it, they should have to earn it. Simple things like enforcing, as one example, chain of custody, would make them have to work a lot harder for it. Enforcing Information Assurance safeguards is hardly a waste of time.

You are probably right that I should write more articles and post them. I have several that I posted elsewhere – one a couple years back when so many people were depressed over the 2018 midterms, which developed in response to one blogger’s “Solutions?” post. I had a very popular article last year on Victory Gardens in the wake of the ‘rona – where to find seeds when they were being driven by local governments into fake scarcity, the advantages of Dominiques, etc. More recently I’ve talked people back down from “freak out” mode by posting detailed information – I have several that probably would be good to polish up and post. There is nothing to be accomplished by giving into fatalism and futility, but the psyops right now telling ordinary people to “give up” and “do nothing” are powerful even if absurd.

In this thread the life experience that AoC shared is essentially nothing, even when I have politely asked repeatedly for constructive insight. You speak of “passive-aggressive insults” when AoC has been engaging in enormous amount of passive-aggressive insults toward me, not constructive feedback, but that doesn’t seem to be a concern.

As far as being, ahem, “hurt”, who is the one hurt? Not me. I’m asking for constructive feedback.

Do you know one of the most important processes for “listen and learn”? Asking questions. N.B. I didn’t engage AoC initially – AoC engaged me, AoC started the conversation, which as far as I am concerned opened up the opportunity for AoC to answer questions that would prove educational for myself and other readers. Sadly the responses from AoC have not proven helpful.

Do you have insights that you would like to contribute?

Why would I ban AoC? Why would I not read his articles? That seems counterproductive to gaining insight. At this point he could simply choose to stop replying whenever I post a comment…

But if you are here to fling, by all means, fling away! Don’t let me stop your fun.

Consider the body of written words as opposed to just calling out something you consider lacking. Some of these points have been thoroughly hashed over and I’ve not been here that long.

Questions are fine. Constructive criticism is, imo, great but being the adult means offering a better solution without degenerating to verbal warfare. Text doesn’t allow for facial signals that we use to give intent and most often take things wrong, we generally assume the worse. Add to that there are people like myself who are NOT wordsmiths so often times the true meanings drop thu the cracks.

Bottom line, is to many just criticize everything first.

“Do you (plural) have a Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, or Law Enforcement background you can put to good use serving the public interest?”

AoC answered that I believe. I don’t believe you put out your position on this either nor your plan or your qualifications. Not that ‘qualifications’ really means that much as I’ve seen some pretty stupid people with ‘qualifications’.

This election is a done deal and nothing you can do will overturn it, period. Again, this has been hashed to the point of coma inducing, imo, rinse and repeat arguments that few want to dive back into again. AoC has made known in past posts his position.

If you take a look at my question, you will note that I used the word “background,” which is different than “qualifications.” It’s the difference between having a piece of paper and having real-world experience.

It did take a while, but AoC did finally answer the question.

As far as the election being a “done deal” I don’t see the relevance to the matter at hand of pursuing election integrity. Elections have not stopped in the U.S. whether they are for dog catcher or any other office, and despite the hysterics “they’re going to end elections,” having regular elections is too important for optics and political mechanics to eliminate. There will continue to be elections at every level of government, so it would be appropriate to ensure their integrity. I can assure you that there are plenty of people who would rather we wouldn’t.

Hamlin,

You’re going about it all wrong.

Michael, if you’re still here, you only have to put Articles of Confederation in the search bar to see recent proposals by him.

I’m not sure what you are trying to say. I’m not on the “chase” of anyone.

I don’t believe sharing information is useless, but I question the value of useless comments from people who saying doing anything is useless. What is the utility of posting comments on a blog mocking any course of action as futile? How is futility threatening it “Those That Matter”? Why would they both to ban-hammer it?

You have some good points in terms of marketing research. It is worth noting that the people who pushed the “Green New Deal” don’t have the life experience of Crystal Pepsi much less New Coke 😉

I don’t think we are that distant from each other. But comments that are crude like the prior comment (Changing the goal posts from Election integrity to “Voting is an effort in *** with nothing to show for it except a raw ***”) don’t advance a conversation or provide insight.

That’s interesting, because I didn’t come to here to share my opinion. Nobody cares about my opinion. Sorry, but it’s true. That’s why I’m not wasting my time sharing my opinion here. I read here to get other people’s thoughts and insights.

PSYOP? I’m using my real name, and I have done big things in my life. I invented and patented the first condom, fashioned from goat intestine. I tested them for almost 20 years before applying for the patent. Someone in England had the terrific idea some years later to remove the intestine from the goat first. But the credit still goes to me, I did all the field testing by myself.

I don’t recall saying “better plan.” IIRC I said I have “more of a plan,” assessing quantity rather than quality.

I’m trying to understand how it is that I intentionally used a quantitative comparison rather than qualitative, but that is still a problem for you. Are you looking for things to be offended about?

However that aside, we’re finally getting somewhere: Allegedly, Pompeo “threw this country to Communists at the last minute.” This is more substantial than the name-calling, which I filter out as extraneous noise.

There was a significant contingent of people that really believed that on January 20th at 12:00 noon EST at the inauguration, several people would be immediately arrested, including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Steny Hoyer, which would clear the Presidential line of succession so that Mike Pompeo would become the Acting President of the United States.

Now that might seem patently ridiculous, but when Mike Pompeo instead stepped aside as SoS on January 20th, the same people were quick to throw him under the bus.

This begs the question to me: Really, what did they expect was going to happen? And why it is Pompeo’s fault for not living up to their unrealistic expectations?

I certainly understand people’s frustration, but I don’t see any legitimacy to the “Pompeo sold America out” narrative.

There’s a common theme I’m seeing, that lots of people are out of ideas and in a state of total demoralization. Though there are people looking for the second coming of Trump…

Election integrity is critical. But not the whole picture. Running people for office is key too.

Your complaint is about “more power” will fix things. In reality I think there are too many faux cons and Whig Republicans – the Professional Conservative class. We need independent minded principled small-“c” conservatives that aren’t bought off by the Heritage Foundation or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or the GOP donor classes. That aren’t part of their own bribery-lobbying engine or special interest Big Club. That’s going to require accountability and patriots to engage. There is a saying that “people are policy.” That doesn’t change just because AEI are a bunch of greedy money grubbing Wall Street suck ups.

Consider how a paratrooper looks at his battlefield. He jumps into areas that are already hostile, figures out a way to secure his objective, and executes on it. He is by definition an offensive actor in the field. Contrast that with the common view that “our country” was “invaded” and that we were on “the defensive” and we “failed.” No battlespace has ever been captured on the defensive. The mindset of “losing ground” has to be replaced by “contested territory,” and we are the ones that are going to contest it.

There’s a lot to be said for “old school” 1980’s networking techniques that cannot be shut down by big tech. Today people are too lazy, if they can’t slacktivism organize people on social media they don’t want to do it. But in the 1970s Phyllis Schlafly organized a state-by-state campaign of housewives to prevent the passage of the ERA. We have less of an excuse than they did back then – we all have a phone in our pocket, not just attached to a wall. Mailers via USPS still work. There’s no excuse for not organizing and building our ground networks. In fact, it’s more important – because you know the people in your network well and how to hold them to account. You don’t know that CEI lobbyist that works on Capitol Hill that’ll sell you out in a New York second to make a deal, and he’s not accountable to anyone but his donors.

It’s part of the challenge of freedom, is that it can only be maintained by a vigilant, virtuous, and engaged citizenry. But those who already believe that there is nothing can be done, well, that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nothing great in history was ever accomplished by the do-nothings.

Ahh, but even people that post only to share their nihilism are actually sharing information.
If you had a goal of demoralizing a public, or a certain section thereof, such a post would be a data point in the matrix of tracking how well some initiative had worked.

“Crystal Pepsi”? Why do I not remember that? Maybe they didn’t “splash” it’s intro as heavy as they did New Coke back in the Age of Reagan?