re: Fare the well, Friends - Parting thoughts

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I can PROMISE you this --

THAT is the hill that I die on.

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I'll be on that hill with you brother

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This is how I felt when Obama won re-election in 2012. Then 2016 came along and gave me hope agai

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I don't see how anybody could compare the two periods of time with a straight face. This is NOTHING like 2012. NOTHING. This is closer to France 1779 than it is to America 2013.

Take care, brother. Maybe will cross paths in another small corner of freedom in the future.

I actually hate to see you go -- you're a sane voice and we are going to need people like you.

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Folks seem to be concerned about living in Russia and France. As if either is an intolerable hell hole LOL. I've been to both....folks seemed to be living their lives and doing so without any outward appearance of undue stress. Strange that....

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Hey dipshit, go get in a time machine and transport yourself to 1792 France or 1922 Russia and tell me how much undue stress those poor bastards were feeling.

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The common thought is when they come for our guns. Well, without an organized, lead force fighting, nothing will happen...please look at the French and Russian revolutions as evidence.

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Well,

The rag tag militia at Concord and Lexington the night the British moved from Boston to seize weapons in the countryside didn't end well for them.

Kicked off the revolution which built this great nation. I have faith.

If - Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

This may seem like alot to deal with right now, but it's just another mountain in the path. Patience, perseverance, and endurance.

i dunno. if you would have told me 2 years ago that conservative speech would be banned on social media and elections would be rigged in america, I wouldnt have believed you.