"PS: You may have noticed that our Fourth Musketeer has not been with us for a while. You are why.
"Illusions and self-delusion are luxuries we cannot afford. Pretending that you can vote to fix an utterly corrupted federal system is more disconnected from reality than the Trans movement."
What a stupid and insulting comment. No one here is pretending that the challenges are not real. It is why for example I give to Judicial Watch.
"The Four Horsemen are about to ride through this land. Trying to cope with where we are by pretending that the feral government cares about our votes instead of focusing on tangible things to try to survive what is coming is wasting very precious and limited time."
As I have previously related here, like a poker player, we can only think in bets. As you often do, you are placing all your chips on one possible outcome.
What do you do when the facts prove you wrong?
You did this (and others of us here too) quite incorrectly in the aftermath of 2008. Yet we were wrong and Scott Grannis was right. Are you able to admit this?
What do you do when the facts prove you wrong?
You do this now with your predictions of Russian victory in Ukraine. To say that the actual outcome may well be otherwise is not to say the Deep State was right to do as it has done, it is only to acknowledge that the outcome may still be up for grabs-- and to recognize the possibility that you might turn out to be wrong.
But this is not the deeper point. Despite my banging you over the head today so far you continue to miss the deeper point-- it is how you talk to us. You talk to us like we don't get the possibilities in our country's situation.
Your contributions here are huge, but you need to respect that ALL OF US make considerable effort for this forum to be what it is. A LOT of people lurk here-- look at the numbers!-- and it makes sense to me to think that they are well into the upper half of the population or they would not be here. This forum is well worth the effort, so please don't insult us your comrades. You have a true gift for snark, but not infrequently you overdo it and sometimes become an asshole who drives we your comrades away.
Your "You're not voting your way out of this" at some point has become a stutter and an ongoing fart at the dinner table of our conversation about the election and related matters. You are gladly given ample room to develop your hypothesis-- which you research well, but PLEASE let go of this compulsion to fart every time we discuss the election.
REALLY!!!
The three of us "think in bets" and just in case you/we are wrong yet again, we believe we should do what we can to win this election. We do not place all of our chips on TEOTWAWKI outcomes. Indeed, we place some of our chips on preventing such outcomes!
GET THIS-- IT DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE NOT PREPARING FOR FAR LESS HAPPY OUTCOMES-- THE THREATS TO OUR COUNTRY ARE QUITE REAL. IT JUST MEANS THAT THIS MAY NOT BE THE PLACE TO DISCUSS THESE THINGS.
