Soft Civil War? No. Soft coup? Yes.

This has been ongoing for decades.  It has reached the point in which a successful coup may be within reach.

The difference between a coup and a civil war is the difference between battle and a massacre.  In order for there to be a war ( and a massacre ), there needs to be significant resistance.  That hasn't been happening.  Instead, this is a battle between factions for control of the government.

For there to be a war, there has to be a resistance.  For an example, look at the Texas Revolution.  Prior to the actual war, there were many protest conventions.  Therefore, you had significant resistance.  It meant that people were willing to organize in force to the threat posed by the government.  There is nothing comparable today.  Instead, people are organizing by faction for control over the government.  People believe that elections will solve this issue.  But one of these factions, the GOP, has no real interest in providing significant resistance over the slow creeping soft coup.  The Democrats, for their part, do not recognize the existing order, and wish to overthrow it.  Thus, the coup.

The Mueller "investigation" is part of the soft coup.  If these people can convince enough people to accept the overthrow of a legally elected president, then the coup will be successful.  Failing that, there will be an impeachment.  If that fails, then there will be massive civil disobedience.  You are already seeing that in California, which refuses to cooperate with the federal government.  The so called "resistance" is just the beginning of the massive civil disobedience in store for us if they don't get their way.  If the Democrats lose, this could turn into something pretty ugly.

Patriots should be preparing for war.  Instead, they will passively watch as the Democrats and their GOP enablers allow a soft coup to take place.  Without an organized resistance, these people will be emboldened to do whatever they want.  If they cannot get it the easy way, they may try the hard way.  Weakness only invites the attempt.  Until patriots get organized, there will be no war.

But there will be a coup.  It is already happening.


Update:

Just to be absolutely blazingly clear --- any talk of a war without the concomitant preparation for one is by definition nonserious.   The more you talk about it and the less you prepare, the less serious you appear to be.  Anyone who thinks he can "take you", will be emboldend by your weakness.

Odds and ends

It is now the end of the week.  Sunday begins the new week.  Or so it appears on the lists of posts on this here blog. 

This past week, I got a follow up MRI in Irving.  These things are a bit expensive, but I wanted the people who treated me to do them as opposed to doing it closer to home. 

I asked the doc how long will I have to follow this schedule.  He said for another two years.  Gulp.  That's eight more MRI's coming up.  They won't end after that.  It will only be two a year after that.

Yes, I will be doing MRI's for now on.  Not that these are a big deal, but it does cost me money to go up there and come back.

I've got that to think about.  At least things appear to be getting better.  So much for that topic...

Today, I did not work.  Normally I will work on a Saturday.  It seems my condition is aggravated if I travel a lot, so I decided to dial it down a bit.

Instead of working, I put this swamp cooler to work.  One thing that it isn't is an air conditioner.  It seems like I could use a bit more in terms of improvements in order to make this idea work as anticipated.

It uses a lot of water.  It uses less electricity than the a/c, but more than I would like, since I am using so many fans to help with ventilation.

One idea to help the swamp cooler is to scrounge some wood from last year's project, and use it to make an overhang for the west side.  The swamp cooler faces the sun, and no doubt that this makes its job a bit harder.  Still thinking it through...

It isn't all politics around here...  Trying to do some real stuff, but that take dough.  Since I spent so much and made nothing, that could be a problem...

That is all for now...  Onward through the fog or whatever...

The Fly in the Ointment

Robert Ringer is out there practically guaranteeing a GOP victory this fall.

He does seem to realize that there is a significant faction of GOP types who want to join with the Dems.

This is the fly in the ointment.  If as many as the polls seem to indicate join with the Dems, then the GOP's prospects for holding on to power is much imperiled.

The only thing nuttier than the Democrats are these RINOS.

Indeed.  The thing that drives the liberals even nuttier is these RINO enablers.  If the GOP got its act together, sanity would prevail, and the left would have to shape up or be shipped out.

This election is vitally important.  If the Dems win, there will be kangaroo court justice as the standard in the entire United States, instead of liberal bastions like DC and "Collyfornia".

We don't need RINO types enabling this madness.  George Will is no conservative.  No conservative can support a lawless faction like the Democrats.  Voting for them is voting for the dissolution of the United States, plain and simple.

A way forward on immigration

Australia seems to have a good approach to dealing with immigration.  It should be considered here.

Let’s stop managing this invasion and start blocking it https://t.co/ubCrm9se2w via @RMConservative

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) June 22, 2018

Wind energy is overrated

American Thinker

comment:

Two things here.  One is the claim here that wind energy is a net negative in terms of energy production.  I cannot evaluate that claim.

But it cannot be denied that the use of an intermittent source of energy to plug into the grid is a bad idea.  Wind energy should be used to make chemical energy, which would not be intermittent.  Consequently, it would make a positive contribution to the energy mix.

If this guy is right, plugging the wind energy into the grid is truly counterproductive.

Freedom of speech not absolute

The recent harassment of a Trump official has led to some saying that it is a Freedom of speech issue.

However, in the past, there have been some cases which may throw doubt upon that claim in this instance.

There is the Schenck case, in which the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment does not protect all speech in all cases.  For example, it was written in the opinion that...

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Recent cases may have amended that somewhat, but there are still limits as to what you can say as protected speech.  Indeed, the whole point is that your rights end where it may impede other's rights. 

For example, could this be an example of hate speech?  Does harassment of an administration official cross the line when the official is off duty and trying to peaceably enjoy dinner?  The individual identified as a DOJ paralegal claimed that she had a right to deny this person of her right to peace.  She clearly wants to incite others to do the same as what she did.  Doesn't such incitement cross the line somewhere?  Doesn't this administration officer have any rights that these people are bound to respect?

"Fighting words" are not protected speech.  Calling people names may be considered fighting words.  Certainly it would seem so, if you call someone a "fascist", it may be enough to cause a fist fight, or maybe a riot.  This situation was not just one person calling another a fascist, but an entire group doing so.  What happens if another group is nearby, and objects to this characterization?

Does an employer have a right to limit speech?  Here are some cases involving that.  A fair opinion is that a DOJ is not supposed to be getting involved in politics.  The reasoning behind that could be that nobody should want kangaroo court justice in this country.  This recent situation certainly appears that way, as Trump's official is getting harassed just for being someone that this group doesn't agree with politically.  Justice is supposed to be blind, therefore DOJ officials need to maintain a decorum of respect for opposition members.

Enough paper chase for now.  The media will cry first amendment, but don't be so cowed by that.  They aren't.

"Clockwork Orange" --- The Cure

Update:

6.22.18:

We are like the young Alex character in the video below.  We are a captive audience of the message that they are trying to imprint upon our minds.  We are to be controlled according to their will.

But is their control over our minds as iron clad as it is being presented in the video below?

I suspect the reason the mind control works in this society is that people are too lazy to think and act for themselves.

We cannot be bound down the way young Alex here.  We are free to choose.  We have not reached the extreme conditioning that this movie shows.  Don't be surprised if the pressure to conform gets greater and greater over time.  Their urge to control is all encompassing.


Originally posted yesterday, 6.21.18, the original post follows:

This movie's premise is that man doesn't have a free will.  You can be programmed to be whatever the controllers want you to be.  It can even be against your own will.

Now, I wouldn't go that far, but it is a point of view.

As I wrote before, it is not beyond these people to try to control others even to the extreme that this movie presents.  If it is not so, then why do they do it?