I have to imagine that some form of privately owned and operated AFV sitting in the town square, turret swiveling away, would have a significant chilling effect on would be rioters and ne'er do wells.
Trumps dreams of dictatorship
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In my watch I would rig up a loud speaker to periodically broadcast the following-
stokes
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Both sides had similar weaponry. Wars were a lot slower back in those times. It took months to cross the Atlantic, something the Colonial army didnt have to deal with. Look, not taking anything away from the Colonial army, it was a remarkable feat but there was more equal footing between the British and us. With todays military and tech, it'd be hard to field anything that could compete. I dont think any uprising would be feasible unless the military turns a blind eye or is actually active in the uprising.
Jmac00
.475 A&M Magnum
everyone keeps bitch'n about the past. we keep bitch'n about who said what?
My questions is, WHAT.THE.FUCK.ARE.WE.GOING.TO.DO.ABOUT.IT
First: mail in ballots must be made illegal
second: Voting in national elections must be on a Saturday, for 15 hours. 6am to 9pm.
Third: paper ballots, signed for by the person voting. And witnessed by a polster. Signatures must match whats on record No ballot is allowed to leave the polling place, no additional ballots allowed after 9pm, all ballots must be counted and certified by 8am Sunday morning.
Fourth: ABSENTEE ballots must be requested, with a signature, placed in sealed envelope and delivered no later than voting day. You have plenty of time to get your shit together. If you can mail your bills in on time, you can vote on time
Fifth: anyone---- ANYONE caught cheating, is mandatory 10 yrs in jail and a $500,000 fine.
Sixth: after the election, win or lose, whoever put up all the political signage, must remove them within 7 days after the election. Failure to do so will result in garbage pick up-fees sent to your campaign. You had the energy and drive to put them out there, you better have the energy to go get them
Seventh: after being elected, ( I don't care how you got your money before being elected) every politician, while in office, must post there income taxes for the public to see. Just like in the stock market. Transparency is paramount.
Eighth: term limits
Nine: The congress has no say on these rules: all **legal U.S. citizens** must VOTE, yes or no on these rules ( we'll have a national holiday, on a Saturday to get this done )
My questions is, WHAT.THE.FUCK.ARE.WE.GOING.TO.DO.ABOUT.IT
First: mail in ballots must be made illegal
second: Voting in national elections must be on a Saturday, for 15 hours. 6am to 9pm.
Third: paper ballots, signed for by the person voting. And witnessed by a polster. Signatures must match whats on record No ballot is allowed to leave the polling place, no additional ballots allowed after 9pm, all ballots must be counted and certified by 8am Sunday morning.
Fourth: ABSENTEE ballots must be requested, with a signature, placed in sealed envelope and delivered no later than voting day. You have plenty of time to get your shit together. If you can mail your bills in on time, you can vote on time
Fifth: anyone---- ANYONE caught cheating, is mandatory 10 yrs in jail and a $500,000 fine.
Sixth: after the election, win or lose, whoever put up all the political signage, must remove them within 7 days after the election. Failure to do so will result in garbage pick up-fees sent to your campaign. You had the energy and drive to put them out there, you better have the energy to go get them
Seventh: after being elected, ( I don't care how you got your money before being elected) every politician, while in office, must post there income taxes for the public to see. Just like in the stock market. Transparency is paramount.
Eighth: term limits
Nine: The congress has no say on these rules: all **legal U.S. citizens** must VOTE, yes or no on these rules ( we'll have a national holiday, on a Saturday to get this done )
I would heartily disagree with wit equal footing part. The British military's superiority over the colonial forces was equal in magnitude to the disparity between our military and the Afghans. Notice the pattern here. When a vastly superior power attacks in earnest an inferior one it loses legitimacy. The victory either way is a political one. Determination, courage and a willingness to sacrifice is what it takes.
Indeed. Mail in ballots are the bulk of the problem here. That has to be shit canned 8f we are to move forward.
Corporate censorship, at the behest of the government is another major issue.
Hmmnnn, what was the system called again? The one in which private corporations were in collusion with the central government............... oh that's right it's the textbook definition of Facism, how silly of us to forget that.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
I didnt mean to say they were equals, but there was far more equity in weaponry then compared to todays situation. Both had muskets, both had cannons.Yes, the British had more but today citizens have rifles and sidearms while the other side has missiles, tanks and doesnt have to set out 3 months before they plan to attack or defend. Look, I dont disagree with your sentiment, I just dont think you can compare the disparity in the 1700's to the disparity that exists between the military and any citizens group that could be assembled today. I'm afraid the only way to reverse what the Dems have done is for the DOJ, FBI and all the rest of them suddenly reverse course and do their jobs when all the evidence is exposed. And we all know thats a long shot.
Xae289
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People also tend to forget the contributions of the French, Spanish, and the Dutch.
The American patriots fought well, but the French entered into an alliance with the Americans and declared war on Britain in 1778. Their navy was a massive boon to the Americans, and the small army the French sent to fight with the Americans was nothing to sneeze at. The French came to the Americans' aid back when their army was a feared force with no reputation for "only dropping their rifle once". Hell, the French crown basically bankrupted itself supporting the American war effort.
The Spanish allied with the French and declared war on Britain in 1779. They were definitely in decline by then, but were still a formidable enough force that they managed to win back Florida and Menorca from the British. They weren't directly allied with the Americans, but provided financial and material support to the Americans. Even if they didn't stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them on the battlefield, the Spanish drew a lot of British resources in the Americas away from the patriots.
The Dutch Republic had been trading with the Americans for almost the whole war and provided substantial financing. They went to war with Britain in 1780. They got their asses handed to them, but it still took British resources that couldn't be directed to the Americas.
That's three major powers of the time that joined the war against the British and provided varying degrees of direct support to the Americans.
Even in our own guerrilla nightmares, Vietnam was supported by the USSR and China. Iraq and Afghanistan were supported by various Arab states, Iran, China, and probably Russia.
So...... we just give up? Leave it to fate?
I heard this phrase once, don't know where it's originally from. Sounds like part of a dramatic speech, part of said
"You have to put your body between the gears of the machine".
When standing up to legitimate tyranny you have to be willing to be obliterated. It's why despotic regimes are able to come to be and stay in power, most of us are unwilling to be deleted out of hand like that, but that kind of courage is what's necessary to prevail against evil. How do we find that kind of courage?
It strikes me as how back in the days of Napoleonic warfare men were able to summon up the bravery to march in a column against a defensive line of soldiers all shooting at you, knowing that the tactic involved the accepted sacrifice of those in the front ranks would absolutely die in hopes those in the rear ranks would survive long enough to contact and hopefully break the opposing line,
The men in those first ranks knew they would not survive but they marched anyway. How can a man do that? But men DID do it and that is the sort of grim determination to sacrifice that is required to prevail in the face of overwhelming odds. It can be done, it has been done.
Consider the Battle off Samar in the Pacific theater where three destroyers and four destroyer escorts stood between a handful of diminutive esocort carriers and one of the most powerful collections of warships the Japanese had consisting of a multitude of battleships (among their number the largest, most heavily armed and armored battleship in all history the Yamato whose displacement alone was greater than the total combined tonnage of the American force that was Taffy 3) heavy cruisers and numerous fleet destroyers.
Those 7 small warships went toe to toe with Japanese, closed to point blank range, got shot the pieces, blown up and sunk yet saw the Japanese fleet off, saving the landing ships from annihilation.
Taffy 3 was hopelessly outmatched but they won.
It doesn't matter how badly outmatched you are, if you want it bad enough and your cause is just you can prevail.
I belive that the best remedy for our current troubles yet lay in the political realm, with grass roots movements as our best recourse. However if that fails and a peaceful divorce is not forthcoming a revolution is necessary to set things to where they must be.
The Great Experiment our forefathers enacted those many years ago must not come to ruin.
Do you suggest that we would stand alone against the world?
Certainly foreign powers would lend aid to one side or another f9r there own benefit . China would likely lend whatever side, changing sides, simply to prolong the conflict, as would others. With savvy that could be used to an advantage. An American Civil War could become a global one.
This is all talk ultimately. What is fact is our election process has become subverted. Whether or not a particular individual believes that is irrelevant, enough people do to sow dissection. In addition it can be objectively proved that the government is inducing corporate media in all levels and segments to suppress information it finds unfavorable and promote information that supports their agenda.
Even worse the relationship between the two is largely symbiotic, the mainstream network news and legacy social med8a outlets are eager to collude with the government's designs and the establishment propers under this media aegis.
This is all readily apparent to anyone willing to objectively look.
The simple truth is the left is bringing conflict to us, whether we want it or not.
Look at what Hochul is doing with so-called hate speech in social media. The left gets to decide what is accepted speech and what is not. The implications are clear, the path ahead is clear. I5s already happening. Cancel culture is be8ng used to de-person anyone guilty of thought crime. It doesn't stop there, we already see the next step as is happening in Australia, those not towing the line are sent to literal concentration camps under the laughably thin guise of COVID quarantines. There is no reason to believe it won't happen here, we have already interred American citizens in concentration camps for nothing more than supposed concerns of national security during WW2.
This fight is coming to us like an on rushing freight train and we are standing dumbfounded in the tracks.
If we don't want this fight we need to start running for l9cal office, city councils, mayor's, schoolboardscand the like, or will are getting run over.
So as was asked before, what will we do?
We hope for best, for the best and fight the good, grassroots political fight.
Failing that we make like the 2,100 ton USS Johnston charging headlong at the 71,000 ton IJN Yamato.
Even worse the relationship between the two is largely symbiotic, the mainstream network news and legacy social med8a outlets are eager to collude with the government's designs and the establishment propers under this media aegis.
This is all readily apparent to anyone willing to objectively look.
The simple truth is the left is bringing conflict to us, whether we want it or not.
Look at what Hochul is doing with so-called hate speech in social media. The left gets to decide what is accepted speech and what is not. The implications are clear, the path ahead is clear. I5s already happening. Cancel culture is be8ng used to de-person anyone guilty of thought crime. It doesn't stop there, we already see the next step as is happening in Australia, those not towing the line are sent to literal concentration camps under the laughably thin guise of COVID quarantines. There is no reason to believe it won't happen here, we have already interred American citizens in concentration camps for nothing more than supposed concerns of national security during WW2.
This fight is coming to us like an on rushing freight train and we are standing dumbfounded in the tracks.
If we don't want this fight we need to start running for l9cal office, city councils, mayor's, schoolboardscand the like, or will are getting run over.
So as was asked before, what will we do?
We hope for best, for the best and fight the good, grassroots political fight.
Failing that we make like the 2,100 ton USS Johnston charging headlong at the 71,000 ton IJN Yamato.
meketrefe
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That is why I think all departments in the administrative branch should be apolitical including the presidents position that should be purely administrative, with very limited executive powers yet full right to veto. The president should be elected by both parties and have administrative experience with legislators not being eligible.
....or maybe outsource the administrative branch to a japanese or Norwegian team, .... you know, accountable & responsible people.
If we asked some of those countries to do a. audit on US elections and guarantee no prejudices, then we would find out how many irregularities and frauds were committed perhaps worse than some banana republics we often criticize.
For example, a Swiss organization could do a thorough and impartial audit but why do you think nobody has asked yet?
...so disturbing.
Acer-m14
.950 JDJ
nope .. put in a DIY rocket and shot off the planet
I'm not going to wade through this obvious TDS-inspired thread.
What spat said is what I see.
Trump is not calling to suspend the Constitution. The only people who see this are those with TDS or weak-willed mealy-mouths who believe everything CNN spews.
Trump is saying the Constitution was already suspended when fraud was accepted in place of a legit election.
I'll go so far as to say that instead of just installing Trump as President, we have an emergency election overseen by We The People, utilizing actual paper ballots (no electronic machines!). And, most importantly, any evidence of fraud or illegal behavior be investigated, publicly.
This hidden, "you're not allowed to ask about that" bullshit has GOT to stop. If we can't investigate it, it is automatically fraud.
DoOver
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JaguarJaguarGolf
6.5 Creedmoor
Just don’t let Alec Baldwin gets his hands on any weapons
I'd have him and every other Hollywood denizen hung alive by their toes and left to rot on the rope.
Jmac00
.475 A&M Magnum
you become the Honey Badger, and say "fuckit, I don't give a flying fuck how big or tough you think you are, Im going rip you a new one, you may win in the end, but it will cost you"
spat
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That's expensive.
The old school method of dropping them into an active volcano is much cheaper.
I can run an Abrams.
Can we be as clever as ISIS and Afganis when they fought us and Russia.
spat
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How do you envision that working ?
They going to carpet bomb Chicago ?
Roll tanks down main street in Rochester ?
If they do that, then we win.
90% of the people will agree with us that the government *has* become tyrannical and needs to go.
The tighter they squeeze, the worse their position gets.
The goal of the insurancy is not to effect a military defeat. The goal is to wake up more and more people to the tyranny.
The more militant the government gets the better.
The goal is to *force* them to be brutal.
I disagree. I look at this like any bully. If you don't punch the bully in the face they will continue to harass and undermine you.
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I am astonished anyone can have this attitude after our experience in Afghanistan. We lost to a determined band of goat fuckers. To spat's point, the day the m-1 tanks roll down US streets is the day the 200 million privately owned guns come into play.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
ISIS had the Russians arming them. The US armed the Afghani's. Under Obuma we didnt fight ISIS, he let them expand. Trump defeated ISIS. Look, I aint saying it shouldnt and wont come to the people taking things back. I just dont think it'll be successful. I think the only chance would be if the Military refused to confront American citizens.
We didnt lose to a band of goat fuckers, we beat them and then Brandon capitulated and gave it back to the Taliban. Didnt take long for China to quietly move in after we were gone. Another Biden/China deal?
The ironic part is the Leftist, "antifa" and socialists that so vehemently proclaimed opposition were the very ones accusing Trump while blasting it out on Twatter, fecesbook, and the other social media platforms.
That would be easy enough to deal with. Just funnel them down the one-way streets and ambush them. I mean, today's military has to obey the street signs, right?
spat
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The fight was over who would control Afghanistan.
Who is in control of Afghanistan today ?
We lost.
Just like Vietnam, we didn't lose militarily, but we lost.
Just like we could curb stomp China militarily, but they are beating us like a rented mule right now by infiltration and economic warfare.
Your argument is like taking a football game and saying "yes, but we rushed and passed for twice as many yards as they had". Sure, that's all well and good, but all that matters at the end is touchdowns.