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“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

― Harry S. Truman [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”

Somebody wrote this today

I find it hard to imagine an America with principles in this day and age.

We're not a serious people or a serious nation. We're spending an entire month parading around a bunch of degenerates while simultaneously provoking a nuclear holocaust with Russia.

Macabre times gentlemen. I arise every day a stranger in my own land, completely unsure as to what next horror will befall our once great nation. Beset on ALL fronts, completely overwhelmed and overrun by an onslaught of terror, both real and psychological. What the hell are average, just want to get along, be left the F alone people supposed to do?

Rise up? 27 thousand Ray Epps invade your "rebellion". Lay down? They win by default.

Rant concluded.

(Written under the influence of Grey Goose and SHEER EFFING RAGE)

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Testing…

Know Your Values

If you don’t know where you are going then any direction is as good as another one. This is a trueism that many have applied to goal setting. But it is equally important, if not more so, to have a compass to show you true north. I am speaking of values. Not societal values or religious values but YOUR values. There may be overlap but not always and people’s values can be as different as the individuals who hold them. I urge you to spend time in self reflection and discover just what you do in fact value. Having and knowing these allows you to shape your life to what is actually important to YOU.

What is the point of achieving much or living your life if it is not aligned with your personal values and you are just miserable all the time?

Just for reference I will give my own personal values just as a example and possible jumping off point for you.

Below you will find (more or less) in order my highest values.

1. Self Respect, a sense of personal pride and value in myself.

All my other values boil down to this one. The reason achievement or personal development or even health is important to is because without them it would hurt my sense of pride and respect I have and need in myself. The need for self respect is the driving force for almost all of my actions and desires.

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” - John Herschel

2. Achievement, a sense of accomplishment.

Achievement is the metric by which I gain a lot of my self value. It is important to achieve and do something that was hard just for it's own sake. Doing so makes me proud of who I am, what I have accomplished, and that I am strong enough to overcome the obstacles in my life.

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." -Frederick Douglass

3. Personal Development, striving to become better and greater and more than myself.

To gain self respect I must achieve. To achieve I must have something to achieve and strive toward. Personal development is the means to that end. The greatest obstacle man can ever overcome is himself. There is no higher achievement. I am the yard stick to myself for nothing else exists.

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

4. Freedom, personal liberty, independence and autonomy.

I must be free to plot my own course. To be tied down, fretted with weights, means I cannot act and do as I wish. To be in bondage would hurt my self respect, as well as stop me from achieving what I wish. To do anything I must be free to act. Liberty above all.

5. Inner Harmony, being at peace with myself.

I must be at peace at the end of the day with my life and my actions. What good is all the achievements and deeds, and struggles if I cannot live with myself or feel at ease and comfortable in my own skin?

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." -Mark Twain

6. Learning, discovering and understanding knowledge, developing wisdom.

Is there a more sublime joy than the joy of learning?

7. Responsibility, ensuring health and happiness for those in my care.

To not provide for those I feel responsibility for such as my children would wound my sense of self worth.

8. Health and Physical Fitness

Good health ensures the energy and the time I can devote to the life I want.

9. Economic Security

Man's economic welfare must be taken care of before any higher ideals can ever be realized.

10. Affection, loving and being loved.

Makes life worth living, smooths out the rough spots.

Beautiful

Obey My Dog!

Somebody said this today..

What strange times we live in. This cycle started 22 years ago with the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7, right when the Pentagon was about to be held to account for the missing trillions of dollars. Then we had the shit-storms in the Middle East (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria) as major distractions from the fact that there will still trillions of dollars missing, and the most draconian of laws were introduced, without debate, in the US and around the Western world, to save us from terrorists, who maybe killed some people but really were just cover stories for the missing trillions of dollars.

And after a retard of a President controlled by a most evil man, the world breathed relief at first, when we got hope, change (which in hindsight was just a very clever marketing campaign) and the now obviously very gay Obama. But he just turned out to be the smiling face of an eviler version of Dick Cheney. But he was black, so we were distracted, and after he persecuted more journalists and undertook more extra-judicial killing than anyone else in American history, we ended up with Trump.

It appears the reasons we got Trump was because TPTB knew the people needed a populist, quite possibly because the prospect of Hillary, and how deranged she was, wasn't going to work for their agenda and quite possibly pre-empt the planned destruction of our nation. But it appears that Trump went off-script because he didn't start any new wars and actually looked like he was ending them. So, they had to get rid of him and started the Russian narrative. We had to be distracted because someone might start asking about not only the missing trillions prior to 9/11 but where all the other trillions had gone post 9/11.

TPTB clearly got quite rattled with Trump's popularity and success, and not sticking to the script of more war, they dropped COVID on us, egregiously rigged the ballots even more than all the previous years, staged the Jan 6 protests, and put in an actor who is pretending to be Joe Biden. Those behind him got war going again with the Ukraine mess, so yah for the Pentagon and all those evil bastards that desire killing and destruction. Not so yah for the rest of us poor sops who have to pay for it all. However, their other policies have turned into such cluster-fucks (immigration, banning gas everything), and the Ukraine war is very unpopular now that people are starting to wake up to the fact we're funding Nazi's, that Trump, remaining as popular as he is, looks dangerously viable as the next president.

So here we are today with the delivery of the most "trumped up" charges for Mr. Trump. Because they can't have that bastard in the WH again as he might actually, next time, do something about the deep state. Or maybe he won't. But we still don't know where the missing trillions are either.