“Likewise, so long as the Deplorables don’t give up in their opposition, they can’t really be defeated. By staying motivated, the Deplorables can become the Unconquerables”
It isn’t enough to not give up. There has to be deliberate action. Did the Russian general sit on his butt or continue fighting? Not knowing anything about him, I assume he carefully selected tactics that supported his strategy. I see a lot of “federalism of the individual” but not much from the GOP.
Instapundit linked to an article where a city council member admitted to voting to fire the city manager because they were afraid of getting physically attacked by the Democrat’s lynch mobs. Antifa/BLM are not separate from the DNC. They are made up of Democrat staffers, children of politicians, government employees, NGO staff, and even politicians. They murder people, mutilate the corpses of animals, beat people, use explosives and incindiaries, beat people, destroy property, and use the threat of these actions to bully companies.
Where is the FBI and DOJ? They are helping the Democrats pogrom of terror.
Not quitting isn’t enough.
The only firewall that the Republicans (an us) have is the filibuster; don’t think it will hold 2 years. With it gone they can:
1) Stack the federal courts including SCOTUS; or intimidate them into inaction with the threat of doing so i.e. what the House just did. This was intimidation pure and simple; the first time SCOTUS rules the wrong way on something controversial like abortion/gun rights Pelosi will submit it to the floor.
2) After #1 create one or two new states D of C and P with reliable 2-4 Dem Senators.
3) Federalize the election laws neutering State legislatures overriding Article 2. They will say that they are fixing “voter suppression” using the 14th Amendment as their justification. Mandatory automatic voter registration; mail-in ballots sent to everyone whether they asked for them or not; vote canvassing; letting up to 10 days (or longer) for votes to be “found”, “counted” etc.
4) Federalize the redistricting of Congressional districts after last years Census; to prevent “racist gerrymandering”; the lines will be “fairly” drawn by an “independent commission” created by the dems in Congress.
End result effectively one party rule by the dems in Washington for many decades to come with the states’ authority effectively neutered. And we all know how well one party rules works.
I left out:
5) Effectively eliminate the electoral college by passing legislation to requiring state electors to vote according to the national popular vote; no more Republican presidents.
Please forgive the pessimistic tone; I am usually a future optimist but the only way out I can see from this scenario is if the dems just lose their nerve. Maybe massive public protest etc. when they try the moves listed above just might make them back off. I would agree if even if they managed to ban guns actually enforcing said ban might prove very difficult. Disarming one hundred or so million Americans with north of 200-300 million firearms and lord only knows how much stockpiled ammo might prove too daunting; hope we never have to find out.
It should be apparent to everyone now, even themselves, that Democrats are authoritarians who want to control every single thing people do from what they eat, how they transport themselves, what toys their kids play with, what clothes they wear, and what words they can use.
Most people just want to be left alone to live their lives and they live like that by not paying attention to what is going on and focusing their lives. Will they start paying attention in time to stop Progressive Fascism or will they wake up one day in a camp wondering how they got there? Far too many support what the Democrats are doing.
Gavin Newsom, I have read, was pondering the virtues of nullification in regard to the recent overturning of the 9th Circuit’s decision hat upheld his law restricting home group worship.
Well, maybe what is good for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Of course, if that needs some time to become a less scary proposition, one place to start could be to just stop taking federal funding. That’s the usual hook for federal imposition, most of the time.
“It should be apparent to everyone now, even themselves, that Democrats are authoritarians who want to control every single thing people do from what they eat, how they transport themselves, what toys their kids play with, what clothes they wear, and what words they can use.”
If they don’t get rid of the filibuster than the Republicans will likely easily retake the House and probably the Senate as well. Look for massive investigations of the 2020 election as well as issue(s) like Hunter Biden’s laptop etc many corruptions. With the new bar for Impeachment where a prez doesn’t have to break the law to be impeached, payback time. That’s why I doubt the filibuster will hold; when the fall arrives and dems realize the coming electoral tsunami wave of voter backlash in ’22 the dems will panic. They will massively ratchet up pressure on red-state dems to go along with dumping the filibuster; appeal to party loyalty thinly veiled threats whatever it takes.
By then, even assuming that enough fraud has been eliminated to ensure a fair election, it will be too late to investigate anything about 2020. They only keep the ballots for 22 months.
It’s fun to imagine a 2023 in which it’s payback time, but my guess is, in the Fall of 2022, the entire Republican leadership will be arrested, imprisoned, and disappear. The response of the Republican rank and file will be to make jokes about them not committing suicide. After the election it will be discovered that Joe Biden was somehow mistaken for a Republican and also didn’t commit suicide.
“…create one or two new states D of C and P with reliable 2-4 Dem Senators.”
Unless the filibuster holds we can kiss our traditional Democratic Republic goodbye in favor of one-party-rule for likely decades.
“Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., is leading the statehood charge in the upper chamber and his legislation has garnered 44 members of the Democratic caucus as co-sponsors. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are not yet on board. ”
Bet they would maybe get “on board” if they could deepsix the filibuster.
“Likewise, so long as the Deplorables don’t give up in their opposition, they can’t really be defeated. By staying motivated, the Deplorables can become the Unconquerables”
It isn’t enough to not give up. There has to be deliberate action. Did the Russian general sit on his butt or continue fighting? Not knowing anything about him, I assume he carefully selected tactics that supported his strategy. I see a lot of “federalism of the individual” but not much from the GOP.
Instapundit linked to an article where a city council member admitted to voting to fire the city manager because they were afraid of getting physically attacked by the Democrat’s lynch mobs. Antifa/BLM are not separate from the DNC. They are made up of Democrat staffers, children of politicians, government employees, NGO staff, and even politicians. They murder people, mutilate the corpses of animals, beat people, use explosives and incindiaries, beat people, destroy property, and use the threat of these actions to bully companies.
Where is the FBI and DOJ? They are helping the Democrats pogrom of terror.
Not quitting isn’t enough.
The only firewall that the Republicans (an us) have is the filibuster; don’t think it will hold 2 years. With it gone they can:
1) Stack the federal courts including SCOTUS; or intimidate them into inaction with the threat of doing so i.e. what the House just did. This was intimidation pure and simple; the first time SCOTUS rules the wrong way on something controversial like abortion/gun rights Pelosi will submit it to the floor.
2) After #1 create one or two new states D of C and P with reliable 2-4 Dem Senators.
3) Federalize the election laws neutering State legislatures overriding Article 2. They will say that they are fixing “voter suppression” using the 14th Amendment as their justification. Mandatory automatic voter registration; mail-in ballots sent to everyone whether they asked for them or not; vote canvassing; letting up to 10 days (or longer) for votes to be “found”, “counted” etc.
4) Federalize the redistricting of Congressional districts after last years Census; to prevent “racist gerrymandering”; the lines will be “fairly” drawn by an “independent commission” created by the dems in Congress.
End result effectively one party rule by the dems in Washington for many decades to come with the states’ authority effectively neutered. And we all know how well one party rules works.
I left out:
5) Effectively eliminate the electoral college by passing legislation to requiring state electors to vote according to the national popular vote; no more Republican presidents.
Please forgive the pessimistic tone; I am usually a future optimist but the only way out I can see from this scenario is if the dems just lose their nerve. Maybe massive public protest etc. when they try the moves listed above just might make them back off. I would agree if even if they managed to ban guns actually enforcing said ban might prove very difficult. Disarming one hundred or so million Americans with north of 200-300 million firearms and lord only knows how much stockpiled ammo might prove too daunting; hope we never have to find out.
It should be apparent to everyone now, even themselves, that Democrats are authoritarians who want to control every single thing people do from what they eat, how they transport themselves, what toys their kids play with, what clothes they wear, and what words they can use.
Most people just want to be left alone to live their lives and they live like that by not paying attention to what is going on and focusing their lives. Will they start paying attention in time to stop Progressive Fascism or will they wake up one day in a camp wondering how they got there? Far too many support what the Democrats are doing.
Gavin Newsom, I have read, was pondering the virtues of nullification in regard to the recent overturning of the 9th Circuit’s decision hat upheld his law restricting home group worship.
Well, maybe what is good for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Of course, if that needs some time to become a less scary proposition, one place to start could be to just stop taking federal funding. That’s the usual hook for federal imposition, most of the time.
“It should be apparent to everyone now, even themselves, that Democrats are authoritarians who want to control every single thing people do from what they eat, how they transport themselves, what toys their kids play with, what clothes they wear, and what words they can use.”
If they don’t get rid of the filibuster than the Republicans will likely easily retake the House and probably the Senate as well. Look for massive investigations of the 2020 election as well as issue(s) like Hunter Biden’s laptop etc many corruptions. With the new bar for Impeachment where a prez doesn’t have to break the law to be impeached, payback time. That’s why I doubt the filibuster will hold; when the fall arrives and dems realize the coming electoral tsunami wave of voter backlash in ’22 the dems will panic. They will massively ratchet up pressure on red-state dems to go along with dumping the filibuster; appeal to party loyalty thinly veiled threats whatever it takes.
By then, even assuming that enough fraud has been eliminated to ensure a fair election, it will be too late to investigate anything about 2020. They only keep the ballots for 22 months.
It’s fun to imagine a 2023 in which it’s payback time, but my guess is, in the Fall of 2022, the entire Republican leadership will be arrested, imprisoned, and disappear. The response of the Republican rank and file will be to make jokes about them not committing suicide. After the election it will be discovered that Joe Biden was somehow mistaken for a Republican and also didn’t commit suicide.
“…create one or two new states D of C and P with reliable 2-4 Dem Senators.”
And thusly:
“House passes DC statehood bill to make district 51st state after heated floor debate”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-dc-statehood-bill-to-make-district-51st-state
Unless the filibuster holds we can kiss our traditional Democratic Republic goodbye in favor of one-party-rule for likely decades.
“Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., is leading the statehood charge in the upper chamber and his legislation has garnered 44 members of the Democratic caucus as co-sponsors. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are not yet on board. ”
Bet they would maybe get “on board” if they could deepsix the filibuster.