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    wildrider666

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    You don't show your poker hand while the betting is still going on. Why give the suspects intelligence and time to counter it before your day in Court? Keep in mind that all these are civil suits and information cant be Subpoenaed at this time. Only FOA responses and individual statements/vids and general public information are available at this time. The Judge/Judges will decide on merit of initial information if Subpoenas/records disclosure "discovery" will be forced by a Court Order. The biased asshat judge in the Michael Flynn Case (DOJ said drop it in May) is very representative of what this effort has to deal with.
     

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    WHERE WERE ALL THE REPUBLICANS WHEN ALL THIS CHEATING,LIEING,AND INTENTIONAL DECEPTION WAS GOING ON ?????
    Most likely same as in the past when President Trump called it so damn accurately - - -> "Ohhhhh that could never happen". RIGHT,YOU BUNCH OF DUMB ASSES !!!
    Our loss was as much the fault of the Republican establishment as the known cheating assed Dems. We knew how they play the game. We just were not prepared or concerned enough to counter it.
    The Dems make me angry. The Repubs make me sad AND ashamed. ---- SAWMAN
    The Modern World's Never-Ending War on Faith
    By E.M. Cadwaladr

    Over the past couple of generations, belief in God has lost stature among the people who have governed this country. It has gone from being a foundational norm to being something of a historical embarrassment. Most politicians, particularly on the left, now only check the box for "Christian" for the sake of a few votes among believers in their districts. They are "Christians" with a nod and a wink.

    It wasn't always so.

    Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, actually believed in God. Not some watered-down, fatuous little fairy tale of God, but a robust and fearsome God that underpinned his universe. I remember the time when Carter regretted, in a Playboy interview of all places, that he had "lusted in his heart." He felt that he had fallen short of the Almighty's expectations. How quaint. Fast-forward to Joe Biden, who nuzzles and gropes women and young girls in public but is held up as a committed Catholic. A committed Catholic who does not let his personal views on abortion get in the way of popular social trends. A Catholic in name only. Oh, good old Joe has a religion, all right — but it has nothing to do with stodgy old ideas like faith or Christ crucified. It's a religion of political power. Power in the here and now. There is nothing of humility about Joe's beliefs. He wouldn't know a broken and contrite heart if he stepped on one.

    There isn't a Christian on Earth who is truly free from sin. One can be far from perfect and still be a Christian. What one cannot be is a relativist — believing that there is no such thing as absolute morality and that therefore there is neither any real sin nor any real need of redemption. In today's more popular liberal churches, everybody wins the lottery just by being born. Or, at most, by being born and not becoming an actual serial killer. The narrow gate and the broad highway seem to have gotten reversed. Heaven is the default participation prize you are entitled to when the long arm of government oversight is finally done with your earthly services. This pathetic freebie of a religion is not in any way a suitable faith for Christians. Frankly, it isn't even a suitable faith for grown-ups.

    The Christian believes in a God who is more than a supernatural game show host. The Christian believes in a morality that stands outside human wishes. He believes in a God that, as life shows us at every turn, isn't here to make things easy for us — a God who wants us to struggle in dignity and grow up.

    The particular class of people who have ruled this nation in recent decades worship no one but themselves. They despise us because we fail to worship them. Christianity, straight-up and unadulterated, is an affront to their authority. A sign of inferior breeding. A vulgar deficit of what is needed to be cool.

    The lesser ranks of liberals, the people who teach in our schools and populate our legal system, want to be just as cool and hip as their political idols on the coasts. The Atlantic and The New Yorker are their scriptures. The faithless faith of the ruling elite has trickled down and lives among us in our towns. One cannot swing a quiet prayer these days without striking a nearby progressive in a self-righteously sensitive spot. God was first un-modern to them, then un-postmodern, and has now bizarrely morphed into an oppressive weapon of the dreaded white patriarchy. Odd how this new godless religion appears quite noble at first, especially to the young — with its talk of fairness, justice, and trans-sisterly love — but it gets around in no time to the bloody retribution stage. It begins quite comfortably, promising absolution and handouts enough to let its acolytes avoid the unpleasantness of responsibility and self-sufficiency — but after the appetizer, there comes a heavy main course of unapologetic wrath. Where Jehovah was slow to anger, the amorphous god of the age seems quick. Fire-bombing police cars is only the beginning. History has shown us how this juvenile tantrum always ends.

    What are we to expect from a religion based on nothing better than the ambitions and the desires of self-indulgent human beings? If there is no greater behavioral standard than our own raw wants, what can we expect as a result? Sooner or later, that attractive veneer of secular idealism gets rubbed off by the inescapably brutal logic of the underlying creed: "Why does any life matter — especially when that life is in my way? Why should I love my neighbor as myself? Who is there that I cannot replace?" The answers to these questions can't be found inside ourselves. You will not get them from a clean Darwinian calculus. If we are nothing more than a collection of desires, then all of life is war. All is a quest for power. That is the endgame of a strict materialism.

    Not all secularists are evil. Most are at least partially restrained by a vestigial thread of decency they cannot, themselves, really account for. Something they don't believe in still remains to bind them to their God-given moral core — but the voices of the culture shout against it. "Morality," the voices will tell them, "is just the ghost of an ignorant and superstitious past. God is nothing but an unenlightened social construct. Society" (that parody of humanity that is merely the bloated proxy for an aristocratic political class) "is more important than any number of ordinary people's lives." The individual, for the leftist, is an empty shell — a blank slate to be written on. A manufactured representative of the group. The truth is what human authority says it is.

    Man can reject God, but he cannot reject his need for Him. In his resulting loneliness, man sets up a false god in His place. He worships money or sex or power or his own idea of virtue — and he imagines he is enlightened because he doesn't think of his new dependence as a form of worship. He calls it "personal choice" or "self-empowerment" or "creative expression." He calls his passions freedom while he makes himself their slave. The leftist cry for social justice is the siren call that gathers up the lost, the misguided, the unsatisfied. The mirage that lures the dying farther into the desert but offers them nothing when they get there.

    There is no worse religion in the world than the one the godless have constructed for themselves. Many religions miss the mark but get, at least, the fundamental notion right. They know, at least, that it is better to worship even a stone idol than fickle man or his desires. If they do not see the truth quite clearly, or even at all, they at least look for a god outside themselves. The hard materialist, on the other hand, casts about in moral darkness, instinctively seeking light while simultaneously denying that it exists. As material objects, mere pounds of flesh, we count for little. At best, the follower of the secular religion pursues one shiny virtue-signaling opportunity after another, assured by consensus that it is meaningful — today. Yesterday, it was recognizing the plight of the exploited worker. Today, it is decrying the oppression of anyone who is either non-white or gender-dysphoric. Tomorrow, it might be anything at all. Anything that serves the purposes of the collective social cult. There is nothing very enlightened or progressive to be found here. The tyranny of one group of people over another, the very thing leftism rails against, is precisely the end that leftism achieves.

    Heaven, we are told, is attained by a profound surrender to the divine — by being more through faith than one can be by one's own nature. Hell is attained by a slow surrender to the material — by making your own nature the little god of your existence. These two roads are as old as humanity. Only the superficial details make them seem like something new.
     

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    And don't forget your local Publix ( Fortune 500 company ):

    Big Business Is Not Our Friend
    Josh Hammer | Nov 16, 2020 | Politics
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    My friend Ryan Williams, Claremont Institute president, had an important tweet thread shortly before the election. With conversations already escalating about where we on the Right—especially the “new Right“—now go from here, Ryan’s thread takes on a special importance. I am reproducing his tweets here, and will then add a bit of my own commentary.











    The broader notion that conservatives must disentangle their general support of markets from any specific support of business qua business is not necessarily a new idea—it gained steam in an anti-“crony capitalism” form, for instance, in the initial years of last decade’s Tea Party movement. But it is an idea that has morphed from being merely beneficial to one that is nearly existential, if a newer Right is to cohere and retain political viability.
    The confluence of woke capital and a woke Fortune 500 is fraught with danger for Americans of a more traditionalist bent. Financial institutions increasingly de-platform disfavored customers—gun stores, nationalist political parties, Zionist advocacy groups, and so forth—with impunity. Massive online retailers ban access to conservative books that challenge prevailing leftist orthodoxies. Human resources departments across the land police their own right-leaning, religious employees for purported thoughtcrimes, mollycoddling left-leaning employees and protecting favored “intersectional” hierarchical groups at all costs. Major professional sports leagues boycott states that have the temerity to stipulate that citizens must urinate in bathrooms corresponding to human beings’ dichotomous chromosomal structures. Huge film studios willfully ignore crimes against humanity in the totalitarian nations in which they freely operate—countries, that is, that the neoliberal policies the studios invariably lobbied for have elevated at the expense of our own nation.
    The pan-societal American ruling class is increasingly unabashed in its de facto state of war against half the country’s citizenry. That ruling class is not merely cabined, as it perhaps was during the height of the Cold War and the development of “fusionism,” to the mainstream press, the academy, and various bicoastal enclaves. Rather, today’s ruling class, thoroughly indoctrinated in woke-ism and utterly contemptuous of dissenting views that go against the official capital-N Narrative, now dominates Big Business and the Fortune 500. These businesses donate to woke causes, kowtow to woke absolutists in routine business decisions, and publicly side with the woke mob on every hot-button cultural issue of the day. They care not an iota what we traditionalist Americans think: long, long gone are those halcyon days of Michael Jordan quipping that “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”
    Big Tech, which privately controls the 21st-century equivalent of the old public town square, properly remains in conservatives’ crosshairs due to the unique threat its censorious gatekeeper status poses to the American regime and the American way of life. But as Ryan says, the problem is far more systemic. Gone are the days when Art Laffer-quoting economic supply-siders might promote Business Roundtable-inspired corporatist economic policy without readily foreseeable repercussions—consequentialist harms brought about and inflicted upon the citizenry by an emboldened Fortune 500 C-suite all too eager to imbibe at the woke trough. As we further develop this new Right, inspired as it is by a working-class conservative populism, an unapologetic cultural traditionalism, and a greater willingness to wield the levers of political power to promote good political order to reward our friends and punish our enemies within the confines of the rule of law, we would do well to remember that Big Business is simply not out friend.
    Jon Schweppe laid it out well in an August post at Claremont’s American Mind site, defining the tripartite enemy as “the Hydra”:
    [T]he Left didn’t miss a beat [after 2016]. Sensing the danger Donald Trump posed to their revolutionary march through the nation’s institutions, progressives went for the jugular. They unleashed a three-headed monster—an institutional Hydra—to seek our unconditional surrender of the American way of life.
    The three heads work in concert to degrade the culture, dismantle law and order, stigmatize religion, enforce relativism over truth, and sow anti-American propaganda. One head, Corporate America, provides the political and financial support to various left-wing movements. A second head, Higher Education, indoctrinates and deploys the shock troops. And the third head, Big Tech, manipulates public opinion and silences those who might dare to fight back.
    It is no small irony that conservatives might benefit from a glance back to Gilded Age-era progressive opposition to Big Business for inspiration on a policy agenda, moving forward—one that certainly includes, but is hardly limited to, greater use of targeted antitrust enforcement. American politics, alas, is a funny sport

     
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    Come on People, Have FAITH.

    Rudy Giuliani just said on the news, There IS a Path for Trump to be re-elected.

    Said there's Fraud all over in the ballots.
     

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    That F'ing MITT ROMNEY is a F'ing Fruit. He says whatever he thinks the majority wants to hear. Swaps party lines depending on what the syndicated news agencies say is the mood of the people, Mitt is right with them. He denounced Trump 4 years ago when he "thought" he wouldn't get elected and followed with the haters. Now he's again standing with the Democraps denouncing Trump "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting president".
    And He calls himself a Republican? Hell, he said he did not even vote for Trump this time. He's nothing more than a POS.
     

    OldMan

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    That F'ing MITT ROMNEY is a F'ing Fruit. He says whatever he thinks the majority wants to hear. Swaps party lines depending on what the syndicated news agencies say is the mood of the people, Mitt is right with them. He denounced Trump 4 years ago when he "thought" he wouldn't get elected and followed with the haters. Now he's again standing with the Democraps denouncing Trump "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting president".
    And He calls himself a Republican? Hell, he said he did not even vote for Trump this time. He's nothing more than a POS.
    mitt is a TRAITOR. I look forward to seeing him Hang for Treason.
     

    Ricochet

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    I wonder how much of his re-election campaign money comes from the DNC ?
    He is a complete puppet for sure!
    I love the expression you used for hi, by the way:
    "A F'ckng fruit" . LOL

    Nobody uses the insult "fruit" anymore. It is so phonetically and visually good!
     

    M60Gunner

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    Yeah, a corporate raider getting rich of the broken companies and pensions of the ruined workers. Hard to imagine a more vile person. My wife hates him with a passion.
     

    MauserLarry

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    That F'ing MITT ROMNEY is a F'ing Fruit. He says whatever he thinks the majority wants to hear. Swaps party lines depending on what the syndicated news agencies say is the mood of the people, Mitt is right with them. He denounced Trump 4 years ago when he "thought" he wouldn't get elected and followed with the haters. Now he's again standing with the Democraps denouncing Trump "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting president".
    And He calls himself a Republican? Hell, he said he did not even vote for Trump this time. He's nothing more than a POS.

    ZI, I always like your posts. Despite my best efforts I can never find a "gray area".
     

    wildrider666

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    Romney was never a steadfast Republican. Trump made thumped him at the debate and beat him with ease in the 2016 Primaries. Every other candidate licked their wounds and came around to support Trump. Butt hurt Romney's mental baggage must eat at him every waking moment!
     
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