The Red Pill Has Some Side Effects

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I haven't gotten very political recently, not that I haven't had strong opinions and feelings, but I sometimes get weary at hearing myself.  As does my wife.  I follow many like-minded blogs or websites, media companies such as the American Thinker, The Daily Wire, Turning Point USA, Matt Taibbi, and Mil-blog sites such as Commander Salamander, Borepatch and others.  We are all screaming down a wind tunnel, all with the same thoughts and ideas about where our country has been and where it is going.  I've tried to watch others, but I detect / detest the leftist spin in every single story.  I often feel that I am unable to change any of it, so my periodic koobecaF or Insta posts and shares are a tiny relief valve for me.  Sarge is also gracious enough to allow me the space here to pontificate a bit more than a brief social media post will allow. 

The the thing about those posts, my likes and shares, is that it is a permanent record of my beliefs and strong opinions against our totalitarian-trending state.  It's not hard totalitarianism, they aren't coming and arresting me for what I'm saying, but the minders in in Mountain View California*, those little birds and ears of the government, are watching what I say.  And their algorithms put me into a special category of people who might be of concern¹, ones who are not supportive of events that are taking place.  Instead of a Gestapo-like secret police, they are the soft gatekeepers of access.  They can shut down what I say, blocking posts, maybe slowing my internet, shadow-banning me, and maybe someday blocking off my access to online banking, throttling down my ability to live in a digital world.  We can say that will never happen here, but it already is to some extent.  "You have violated community standards."  I wouldn't have thought Britain would jail people for saying things, but it's happening daily at the same time they are not arresting people for actual egregious crimes. 

Did you know that if you play video games and either shoot up a crowd of non-player characters, do anything violence near a school, or fly an airplane into a building, you are automatically put on a watch list of sorts?²  

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You may have heard what happened to former congresswoman and current Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard.  She was put on a special watch list for the airlines that forced her to receive extra special scrutiny when flying.  Probably because she went against the mainstream liberal narrative.  Probably?  Most definitely because of that.  And when questioned, the FAA and the Department of Homeland security have clammed up, eliminating any evidence of who did what, or clearing any name associated with the order.

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The assassination attempt?  There doesn't seem to be any interest from the media in finding out about who visited his house four times, and also visited the FBI headquarters in DC.  Or any journalistic curiosity about how his social media was slicked, or how he developed a remote detonator.  Was it a massive overreach when 20 agents in riot gear broke into a Catholic family man's house at daybreak to arrest him for pushing someone away from his son near a pro-life demonstration?  Absolutely, but the evil are in power and is no way to defeat the Department of Justice when they are backed by the media and judges.  Yes these kinds of things are illegal but no one seems powerful enough or strong enough to stop them, and not every case can make it to the supreme Court.  They are the Brown Shirts of today's generation.  Reagan foretold how we can lose our rights in a single generation.  And going to a mostly digital world makes it even easier for them to deny us our rights and our freedoms.

Am I ready to cut the cord and get completely off of social media? No, not yet. We will see how things go in November, which will be very telling about the way our country is headed. Even if the conservative pick gets into office, he may not be able to stem the tide in the single term he will have.  It would require a large swath of the justice department to be culled from the herd.  Deep staters run deep and it may not be easy to find them, and even harder to loosen their grip.  A strong AG not from DC proper, new directors of the CIA and FBI, again not from within, might be able to make a difference.  We will also need the entire legislative branch on our side.  The rest of the woke mind hive will have to be put on notice, and freedom loving Americans will have to call them on their sins, and be not afraid of their tactics, pushing back and maybe even protesting.  Watering the tree of Liberty you might say.

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If things don't go our way in November, it might be time to run and hide, and be grateful that I have exercised my second amendment rights.  Have you seen that meme regarding weapons and what they are for?  It was similar to this:  A pistol is for self-defense.  A rifle is for hunting.  An AR-15 is for tyranny, and our collective ownership of them of them is for lots of tyranny.  That's not exactly how it was laid out, but you probably get my point, and I didn't want to post it- no need to get Sarge in trouble!

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Is that far fetched? 10 or 15 years ago I might have said yes, but since then we have been lied to about a vaccine that is killing children and weakening our immune systems, observed massive 2:00 a.m. election fraud, and seen our media abandon its role as the fourth estate (an independent press) to begin electioneering for the preferred and formerly hated candidate that they are told to prefer, despite what the voters want.  Do you want more? How about that completely open border, after which these illegals are allowed to get a driver's license.  One month later due to motor voter laws, they are able to vote.³  So I don't trust the DC elite at all anymore.  

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Anything else?  Well there's the blatant buying off the youth vote by illegally promising to provide student debt relief. Did the supreme Court rule against it? Yes they did, but the administration is still doing it.  How about our President being in China's back pocket?  Can anyone say actual impeachable offense?  

I could go on, but I am again getting tired of hearing myself speak as it were.  What's a man to do?  I will continue to pray for a return to true servant leadership.  And if I lived anywhere else than California, I might volunteer as a poll watcher, but this state is too far gone to ever vote for its self interest.  I will also follow Juvat's voting rubric.⁴  How about you?  Any recommendations for me?  My sanity may depend on it.

Until next rant.

*Silicon Valley 

1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/06/new-government-spy-report-your-social-media-is-probably-being-watched-right-now/

2 https://theintercept.com/2024/03/09/fbi-dhs-gamers-extremism-violence/

3 https://nypost.com/2024/06/14/us-news/how-non-citizens-are-getting-voter-registration-forms-across-the-us-and-how-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-it/

4 "My voting rubric is No Democrat, no Incumbent, no unopposed."

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