signs of a cult;
1. The leader is always right.
2. Criticism of the leader or questioning
the leader is considered persecution.
3. Anything the leader does is justified
no matter how harmful it may be.
4. The leader is the only source of the
truth, everybody else is lying.
5. Followers must be blindly devoted to
the leader and never question him.
6. The members won't recognize they
belong to a cult.
self examination is rarely achieved in a meaningful and comprehensive way. these people have only served to reinforce that bit of wisdom;
This past week the DNC released its autopsy of the 2024 election. DNC chair Ken Martin sat on it for months, assured us there was no smoking gun, promised he’d already been sharing the lessons, and then finally dropped the 48,000 words on a Thursday with a note on the front saying the findings don’t reflect the views of the DNC. He released the autopsy and disowned it simultaneously.
I get why he'd disown it. It's a big turd. But the whole time he buried it, Martin kept saying the lessons from this report were already being put to work. Lessons. We’re keeping the focus on the lessons, he’d say. We’ve been releasing the lessons. I read it, most of it. It’s not that there are no recommendations. There are plenty. Go heavier on digital and connected TV, lighter on broadcast. Organize earlier. Rebuild the state parties. Those are the lessons. If they’ve taken any of them, they’ve taken the wrong ones, and there’s a reason for that.
Every question in the report is a variation on the same question. How do we campaign better with what we’ve got? How do we market this thing more effectively to the people we’re trying to sell it to? Never once do they stop and ask whether the thing they’re selling is bullshit. Whether the product is any good. Whether a single promise in it would fix a single person’s life...........more........
there are supposed to be laws about this but in the land of the once free bravery is a rare item;
Georgia Power isn’t negotiating anymore. The Southern Company subsidiary is seizing dozens of homes and hundreds of easements across Coweta and Fayette counties to ram through a 35-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line that will feed at least four massive AI data centers. Project Wansley is just the latest flashpoint in a backlash that has been building for months...........more.........
"Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." -- Michael Rivero
It's really quite simple ...
The 2nd Amendment does not apply
to semi-auto rifles, nor does it apply
to bolt action rifles, pistols, or
revolvers. The 2nd Amendment
RESTRICTS GOVERNMENT. The
technology of the firearm is irrelevant.
The restrictions on government
remain the same, regardless of the
firearm. The Second Amendment was
not written to grant permission for
citizens to own and bear firearms. It
forbids government interference in the
right to keep and bear arms, period.
The right of the people to keep and
bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
