I've fostered the habit of doing my own navigation. I'll bring up the GPS on my phone, but only use it for information, not to pick a route.
It's actually worked out really great already. It encourages paying attention and learning. A lot of the time, the best path is something simple like like "go west on 17 then turn right onto the 90 and get off at Bouchard St." But instead the computer tells you to zig zag through some confusing side streets in a sketchy area because it thinks it'll save you 27 seconds on paper, but you actually lose five minutes because you get stuck behind a double parked garbage truck on a tiny road.
Plus I don't have to deal with a nagging voice constantly panicking whenever I pull over for gas or warning me in one-quarter mile, prepare to merge onto US 119 Parkway towards North Cienega Expressway - Jamesfield Airport. I KNOW. I'm trying to listen to an audiobook so shut the fuck up about how I have to merge onto the freeway I just got on the onramp for. I think I can figure that one out without your guidance.
I think I'm drafting a stand up comedy routine right now, but the point is: trend towards self reliance and low-tech.
I'm tense.
This is exciting, but if this "emergency audit" blunts what would otherwise be a very concentrated protest, then we might lose our only chance.
Perhaps the best outcome is for this to be mightily rejected by the establishment cronies in such a way that provokes the protest. Schumer gets Capitol police to arrest Ted Cruz for sedition, or something. Do that, and DC will be lucky to be still standing at the end of the day.
The establishment's honest smartest move here is to go along with the audit, put the election in limbo, then scumbag their way to victory as usual. But I truly don't think they'd do that. They're too desperate to cling to victory, legitimacy, and power, for them to tolerate any dissension at all. Cruz won't get his audit, and then... we'll see.
This is actually a spicy point to keep in the back pocket. Next time someone says "Red states are the ones sucking up all the welfare from the rich blue states. We be better off without them anyways." then you pop back with "And how much tax revenue do we get from Sudan?"
"Secession is illegal" always felt silly to me. It presupposes that both sides agree to the same laws. But secession is the ultimate denial of consent to be governed. It is the declaration that "I am not in your jurisdiction."
It makes no sense for someone to want secession but not if it is illegal. If the letter of the law was all that mattered, then secession would be a non-concept.
Consequently, it also doesn't make sense to me why anti-secessionists would even bother to make a legal argument. Either you forcefully subjugate or you don't. There's no chance of courts resolving it.
No, the worst thing to happen was whichever moment lefties stopped following that rule but conservatives kept on.
Commies started to inject degenerate politics into everything, but we thought it would be too rude to speak the truth. A generation later, young people have never even heard of the truth.
Not exactly. A secret of lawyerdom is that more often than not, an official letter from a lawyer is enough to intimidate whoever receives it into playing nice.
In other words, it's usually a calculated bluff. The bluff works so often because in most scenarios, even calling the bluff is more expensive than it's worth.
So this letter does in fact send a strong message to the other lawyers: "NOT GONNA HAPPEN."
Even though the conclusion is probably accurate, this kind of methodology isn't good evidence.
It relies on data modeling, which isn't science. Maybe the underlying assumptions are correct, maybe not. This kind of analysis can't answer that.
An interesting aspect of information wars is that you can't win without the loser's consent.
In physical conflicts, surrender isn't strictly necessary. Maybe they surrender, maybe not, but if you've truly won, their only alternative is death.
In an information war, there is no such outlet. Your opponent gives up or.... that's it. You can't win until that happens. The sole alternative is to turn it into a physical conflict so you can kill them.
"We have to shut down for two weeks so the healthcare system doesn't get overloaded."
"Okay. We did that. Can we come out now?"
"No! We're still seeing cases!"
"But is the healthcare system overloaded? If not, we can come out, right?"
"..."
"Look, there are plenty of ICU beds, no one has run out of ventilators, and the huge emergency hospitals we set up aren't even being used. So we're good on capacity, right?"
"Nuh-uh! The Hospitals! Looks at this nurse that says things are bad!"
"But hospitals complain about being busy during the flu every year. So that's pretty normal. And you still haven't said why we should be worried about capacity at this point."
"Shut up, though."
It’s almost like they can’t help but redpill themselves.
It's the natural result of confrontation from reality.
Acknowledge value of self defense.
Realize self defense is ultimately your responsibility.
Realize protecting oneself from external threats also necessitates self-sufficiency.
Work towards self-sufficiency.
Realize it is difficult.
Put great effort into improving yourself and your circumstances.
Observe that many well-meaning people provide obstacles to your success.
Succeed anyways, reap rewards.
Notice other people are envious of what you have.
Observe other people insisting they deserve some of what you have earned through blood, sweat, and tears.
Realize that they do not deserve what you honestly earned.
Notice that some other people have accrued what they have dishonestly.
Start to resent the corrupt.
Realize that the envious undeserving are only separated from the corrupt by success.
Decide that one's livelihood is worth defending with the same enthusiasm as defending one's life.
Wake up one day only to discover that you're a well-armed homesteader who hates mooching socialists and selfish tyrants.
"There's nothing suspicious about ballot adjudication, because the adjudicators are required to be unbiased and honest."
"There's no evidence that Russia hacked the DNC, but it seems like something they'd do so we know it's them."
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