Ah yes, but guess what they didn't have all those decades? Me.

Not me in the literal sense, but "me" in the sense of someone who has spent the majority of his life just living his life. I did not care for politics. I did not give it much thought. I just worked, watched tv, dated and tried to live in such a way to help those around me.

But now they've over stepped on MY watch. I'm an idiot. I am not easily talked into a fight. I am most of America. And now that I'm ready to give my life for our country and cause? Well, America is waking up and it's going to strike hard.

We just haven't done it yet, but it will happen. In minecraft.

My enemy is not flesh and blood around me. Despite these idiots burning the downtown, they are not my enemy. Not until they back me into a corner.

Our enemy is the rulers and people in power that want our way of life destroyed. But for now it's hearts and minds. I would only sacrifice myself if it meant waking a significant portion of the population.

If I could go with the faith of knowing I was saving lives by waking the masses, then that's a fight worth fighting. But offing some nobody only further descends us into hell.

Can I start every meeting with a prayer when it's my allocated chance to speak? No?

Then I'm not taking a second out if my day to worry about their religion and it's bullshit. Why do we act like their religion doesn't constantly blow themselves up just a few thousand miles away?

Look, all I wanted was to keep dating my lady, work, earn a living, travel a bit and own a home.

Then they locked me in my apartment.

Then they shut down my lady's business.

Then they burned my city and said it was my fault for "not fixing the system".

Then they called me a white supremacist for liking Trump.

Then they screamed at me that silence is violence.

Then they created great doubt in our elections.

Then they called us insurrectionists (Soon to be terrorists)

Then somewhere in here they started changing our kids genders literally and figuratively.

Then they installed their puppet dictator.

Then they issued EO's like edicts across my country.

Then the dictator says that the highest law of the land (rights from God) are "debatable".

Then they want to hold my sanity to their insane standards to remove me as a threat before "I'm able to hurt anyone".

And after all of this, what have I done? Skipped wearing my mask a bit and stayed out of the way of protests and riots. Yep, aside from trying to live best I can and going to one actually peaceful "right" meeting. Yet I'm the devil in white.

If anything, this last year has shown just how patient us conservatives are. I'm stuck asking myself the question. Which serves the cause of this nation, continuing my peaceful existence until I'm martyred for what my ideals represent or if minecraft is getting better graphics.

What helps the most people? What protects the nation? What is God trying to tell me to do that I'm too stubborn or emotional to hear?

But I have hope, we'll win, but how far must we fall (as a nation) to get to the win?

In fact, they are basically the only item that is a promise to appreciate in real hard times. In good times, well times are good and they're cheap. So why would you complain!?

You're right. It's always God's, I'm just caretaking it.

Yep, I hear that. I know God will provide for me and mine during a crash, but that doesn't prevent me from trying to be smart about it.

It's not my goal to "play the market to be rich" if there's a down turn. Like another great depression. If I can play the game just right and make maximal gains, maybe I'll be the someone who is there to provide for those who were trying to make bank.

I despise the way the rich oligarchs today who eek the soul and every last dollar for profit from those beholden to them. I would love the chance to be different, for better. I don't make a ton today, but even still, I do try to live in such a way that I wouldn't become the same as those oligarchs.

I never strain my animal fat, granted I buy clean beef and cuts so as to not have crap stored in the fat.

I basically only use avacado oil for pan greasing or coconut oil for bread.

Considering how fast things have accelerated in just 5 years. It is possible that that acceleration continues. I think that would be best. Let's get this downturn in history as over as quickly as possible.

Then again, more abrupt the crash, the more people get hurt. So I don't know which is worse.

Shit the fuck up? You don't know what he would or wouldn't do if his livelyhood was on the line.

We've all seen rooftop Koreans. Maybe this guy was one if them and is reliving his youth. You don't know shit.

So you're saying she listened to the advice, "You shoulda kept your mouth shut" before it was too late?

heh

Oh I know the cycle, it's simple!

Hard men make good times

Good times make weak men

Weak men give in to hard women

Hard women make men hard

Is that when we started to go wrong? When we invented AC?

My dad made 80k in the 2000's and supported a family of 5 in a decently sized house. Some times were tight (sickness), but otherwise it was mostly ok. I now make 90k and (also could support a family of 5 of course) would not be able to make it work nearly as easily in a similarly sized house.

Inflation is going to fuck the middle class into poverty. My parents paid 230k for their house. Same price here would be about 400k. But hey, the interest rates are low!!!

Edit: I make 90k / year. Yes I realize I have it damn good. Yes I am very grateful. Still, I have 12 years of experience in IT - one of the highest paying career fields. I can only image what it's like for the guys who are sales managers making 65k / year with zero chance of growth. Shits going to hurt coming up here.

Look man, I'm going to be straight with you. She did not get enough respect during her time in the WH. She's beautiful and an immigrant (right?). Why didn't they glow for her like Big Mike?

Oh right, because their only standards are, double.

I did a nonscientific writeup that I'm sure someone who knows their shit can rip apart just below you.

Here is my un-educated, but well experienced take on diet for folks like us in our 30's:

https://patriots.win/p/12i4I53F04/x/c/4Dzeor5ELwG

Seems to be working so far. Granted, I just look "slender" now. But that's a long throw from the twig I was 2 years ago as a competitive cyclist. Dudes in the gym say I am small, which I am, but my old cyclist friends say I'm "too big to be fast" (aka muscle). I like to call my body, "white collar, gym attainable".

Local small farm honey from your local area is about the best form of "sugar' you can get outside of a slice of fruit.

I too struggle with eating it. But after cleaning up my diet, I don't think a spoonful of honey is an enemy. In fact, it's probably a good thing (antiseptic properties and local pollen are PROBABLY good for your immune system). Just practice moderation.

I posted a novel here: https://patriots.win/p/12i4I53F04/x/c/4Dzeor5ELwG

Let me write up a little something for you here. This is in no real order, just thoughts. I was a competitive cyclist for about 10 years and, to be totally honest, I got nutrition wrong more than I got it right over that time. I'm talking, cliff bars, skippy peanut butter, fried fish every other day. However, I believe knowledge can come from failure there. I read a quite a few books on sports nutrition during that time (I couldn't ditch the last layer of fat on my abs and it bothered me).

I'm still in the gym 5-6 hours a week and on the bike 4-5 hours. So I can get away with 'a little over eating" on occasion.

The most guiding rule is, "If I can't tell what it came from, then I stay away" and "if my great grandma wouldn't have cooked with it, neither will I". Beef should look like meat. Veggies should look like veggies and so on. Fried foods are in the 'desert' category of "healthy eating". Of course, there's limits there, ground beef in a blended stew is going to look like slop but you know it's only real stuff in there if you cooked it.

I don't count macro's anymore. I used to be religious about it, but I now realize that, if I'm hungry there's a reason. (now that I'm detoxed from sugar and craving shit food) Reason being, my body wants healthy nutrients. It's ok to go hungry at times too. Think of it as a balance. Some lunches I'll push back an hour just to force myself to cope with hunger. Other days I'll eat a bit more because I'm extra tired.

So now I eat lots of whole cuts of high quality meat where possible (steaks or ground beef that I prep at home). Whole eggs, butter, whole milk, ground bison, etc.

For veggies I eat what's in season and just try to eat a larger portion of them than the meat I'm eating. So if I'm having a 15oz steak cut, I'll eat veggies equal to that size, usually cooked in butter or avacado oil. Good luck having much room in your stomach to want to eat much other garbage.

I only drink water and milk. I stay away from even flavored waters. If I'm a bit hungry, I'll drink first. If my pee comes out clear, and I'm still hungry, eating is good.

For me, this is 90% of the diet and it gets me 90% of the results. At any given time, I have about 5-10lbs extra fat (I'm 183lbs at 6') that I could loose if I started counting macro's. But I lived that life and at 30 I just enjoy having pizza, a burger or a beer with friends once or twice a week. Helps that my fiance likes me with a bit of meat/strength vs me at 165lbs and rail thin for cycling.

I drink about 1.5 beers a week at most and that's all my alcohol. At any given time, if needed, I'm sure I'm only a month away from being 'beach ready' if I wanted to really clamp down on my diet.

That doesn't explain what I do exactly because none of us can live by a perfect script the rest of our lives. YOU need to experiment with what jives between 'health' and 'flexibility'. If you're training for a goal or you just like data, ok, live by spreadsheets. But I'd rather carry a bit of extra fat (again, what's a 17% BF percentage vs a 12% when you can't have any fun and you go to the beach twice a year?) and never feel light headed waiting for my next allocated 25 grams of apple and peanut butter before my workout.

Oh and to kick my system into full gear I did 1 week of 100% carnivore diet. That was not remotely sustainable, but it taught my body to give up sugar. Not sure if I recommend it, but it worked for me (as it was awful). I also did a 3 day bone broth fast, that in and of itself was a game changer.

I've not been "good" to my diet the last 3-4 weeks, but I'm getting married soon and she's a far healthier cook than I am, she's got such a rocking body, oh man. Anyway, that's for me to enjoy and not for you to picture, so keep your thoughts Christian about my future wife there...

Random list of thoughts:

• Screw "oils" (sunflower, safflour, canola). Throw down any food with those in it. Stick to avacado oil (cooking) and extra virgin (salads)

• Screw anything prepackaged. Good luck finding something that literally only uses whole foods, no preservatives, no sugar, no long names of scientific things. Did people 200 years ago know what "multadoxatrosin (bonding agent)" was? No, and neither do I as I just made it up.

• Forget about sugar and sweeteners. You don't need them. And in fact, when you stop having them, you realize the world actually tastes better. If you want "sugar", have 1 serving of fruit as it falls from the tree. 1 apple, 1 banana,1 orange. A handful of berries. And only do it once a day. It's a treat.

• Fat from good sources is your friend. Unsalted irish butter. Fat on the side of the steak. Coconut oil if you must. All of these fill you up and make the day go buy so much easier

• I over eat salt according to everyone, but screw them, I get light headed working out if I don't have plenty.

• White flour is the enemy. Whole wheat flower is a dangerous mistress, but fun to fool around with. I make my own whole wheat sprouted flour bread sweetened with half the called for honey.

• Nuts are fine and all, but easy to over eat. I don't keep them around because I can slam a half can of peanuts like popcorn. I don't count calories, but 1000cal of nuts is about as easy for me to eat as an apple and both result in the same thing.

• Not nutrition related, but, if you are unable to sleep at night. Ask yourself in full honesty, is your body fully tired? I hear a lot about people who "can't fall asleep at night" or can stay up till 2am watching TV. Good fucking luck jack if you're stressing yourself properly at the gym or running. Your body will PUT you to sleep (excluding issues a doctor may need to look at) if you're eating right and working it right.

• I am not a doctor nor a nutritionist, so don't write a book about what I said here, but neither were any of my ancestors and supposedly they all were quite healthy people up until my grand parents who found cig's and sugar.

I cannot answer that because I do not know.

I've eaten healthy for years, but I made the change to zero sugar (and zero sugar replacements) about 6 months ago and the changes were drastic. No energy crashes, no cravings bringing me to my knees, lost a few extra lbs and gain muscle faster.

I don't explicitly avoid carbs, but when I do consume them it's intentionally as good as possible (oats, whole grain bread I make myself, roots, etc).

Night and day, anything with sugar makes me 'excited' and 'anxious' about 15-30 minutes after consuming. Even stuff that claims "keto" or "low sugar" (1-3 grams) makes me light up - in a bad way. Feels awful.

I love the Commie BLM/Antifa who fight against Fascism like the majority of the country isn't just nationalist for the constitution (aka, God given rights).

So the majority of the country is being attacked by the minority because they think they can wake us up to fight their minority enemy. Accept their so stupid they don't realize that if there is a true uprising, that their cause will be smashed so fast they'll wonder where they went wrong.

I stand by it's 20% vs 80%. 80% of us just want our nation and values safe. We went to war in the middle east so easily because we truly believed it was to defend our nation. We were lied to and wrong. But now, we're called racist and evil for not prioritizing some social issues at home.

If there is a civil war 2.0, it'll be over in days. I just hope our need peer enemies don't see it as their chance to push in our cucked military

Saved that reply, thank you for sharing.

There is always an evil afoot that is working to secure the awful end for as many as possible by promising the lavish for the few. This is the lines we should easily be able to read between in every history book. Only the few stand against this plan and they are the notables of history. America has had a disproportionate amount in my ignorant opinion, men like GW who gave up power when people begged him to stay, our founding fathers who could have been the new oligarchs but instead gave their lives, Lincoln and so on.

It is pure foolishness to ever assume the narrative is attempting to provide safety and security for us nobodies. Sometimes it does, absolutely, but never assume. Too many of us have assumed that the spirit of the nation founded by the men who penned their names to papers, often solidifying their deaths, is still alive in today's elites.

When was the last time a president rode to meet the enemy or actually landed on the hot battlefield? Lincoln? I don't honestly know.

A leader leads by putting himself between the enemy (not necessarily literally all the time) and those who choose to follow him. Who wouldn't die for a man who would so freely give his life for them?

All that you posted shows this even more clearly to me. The powers today want us to follow them, but they're plenty satisfied when we die for their causes. Causes they would not sacrifice for.

That's why I loved Trump. He was the first in a very long time to say so succinctly, "They don't hate me, they hate you. I'm just standing between."

That's why they call us White nationalists. That's why "we" (Trump supporters, aka people with the free American spirit) are so awful. We are the last threat to their total control. But what they don't realize is that they can't control us. They may kill us, but they can't control us.

We DIDN'T care what they were up to for years man. Look where that got us. They couldn't leave well enough alone and now they're pushing for more, more more.

It's such a mental illness that they want attention because they aren't secure in who they are. So they start rubbing our faces in it.

It's high time we change the narrative back to, "If you mutilate yourself (drugs, genitals) them you're fucking insane, no doubt". Not this 'you are beautiful too!" No you're grotesque and sick. I want you to get help, not a spot in a TV show.

Oh look, the same nonsense they tried to impeach trump over. If a man says the bottom of a pool smells like cheese and someone scratch and sniffs themselves drowned, then maybe it's not the guys fault if their too stupid to decide.

On the flip side, the main stream media says you should be scared of covid and get a vaxxx and I'd like to see them burn for it, so hey, maybe I'm wrong

I don't have a crystal ball, but my gut says that this is a necessary step, but not then ending of this war by any chance.

Battle lines are being drawn and sides are still being chosen. This action will draw a lot of attention, but how the media attacks us for our nonviolent sit ins will shake awake many more.

I pray for the safety of all Patriots who partake. I certainly will assuming this isn't a stupid flop. Well, I suppose even then.