I ask seriously, how have your beliefs changed the way you live your life or plan for the future, besides condescending to anonymous strangers on message boards? If a beloved twelve year old in your family came up to you and asked what he should do when he grows up, what do you tell him/her?
How is Trump going to continue to claim that Obama illegally spied on him in the context of his new argument that a president can do whatever he wants with investigations?
People who participated in the color and peaceful revolutions across Europe weren’t “preppers”; they were people who simply decided they’d had enough and weren’t going to be told what to do anymore. It’s ironic that your average East German in 1989, living under strict, communist authoritarian rule, had a better understanding of how to stand up to tyranny and gain freedom than the average American, living in one of the oldest living democracies on the planet.
Arms are not required. Insurrection is not required. People just need to get smart, exercise their civic duty, and vote rather than sitting out midterms like they always do. That would be a good place to start. That is all that is required. But I doubt that’s going to happen. We seem content with corruption and tyranny. Democracy and liberty are more than just rights; they are values, which is why all of the gun nuts who talk about how the 2nd amendment is going to save them from a big government autocrat are foolish.
You keep saying stuff like, “the people need to vote and end this,” which is exactly what is being preached by every politically aware left-leaning individual, and quite a few rational right-leaning individuals as well, in the face of your incessant cries of how it’s all useless. So, Happy L is right, we’ve heard you. We know what you believe the solution is. A great many of us agree with you. So why the hell do you have to mitigate the whole thing by then saying, “eh never mind, we’re screwed either way.”
In conclusion: do you think you can you take the Debbie Downer act and fuck off with it? I don’t know if you think you’re helping, but you’re not.
To which Mueller replied in an official press conference, “Oh please, Br’er Rudy, don’t throw me into that briar patch!”.
As to the general public’s understanding of the Clinton e-mails thing, I heard a guy on a bus ranting about it, how she had enough money that she should have been able to use her own computer, and how could she feel so entitled that she’d use one of the government’s computers instead, and steal from the government.
No, but it can weaken them. After the first strike I looked at how far down the plane hole was from the top of the tower and told DesertRoomie, “Unless they got something protecting the framing from heat, that building is coming down.”