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A different view—VERY different

All is not lost. Not yet, it ain’t.

I want you to look at every bit of adversity around you and say something to yourself. I want you to say that this is a time intended to make you stronger. This is a time intended to toughen you. This is a time intended to grow and learn and to hone your weapons and skills, to temper your blades, to train yourself as a truly formidable warrior. This is a time happening for you. Life is happening for you. This moment, “the present,” is a gift for you.

Listen to me. I do not care what all these know-it-alls say. This is not the last stand. This is not the last opportunity. But if we do not win at this juncture, things are sure to get so much worse.

We need to beat back these mandates. We need to set these tyrants in order. We need to be on our knees asking the Almighty for wisdom and understanding. We need to be fighting the most meaningful fights around us, every single day, likely fights that are very local to us and very small in number, fights that may be so local and personal that they seem to affect no one but us. Once you win a few of those fights, you often start to see how much impact the thing you called “little” or “selfish” really had as it rippled out, far beyond anything you might ever have imagined possible. Those most important ripples, though, are in your own life when you fight such battles.

Today we stand at a pivotal moment in history. You can bemoan the situation or embrace it. If you be a lion, I need you to embrace it, to engage with unceasing focus in the most freedom-generating, immediately effective behaviors you can be engaged in.

The real advantage is had by many, many small, disparate, relatively disconnected groups of people, and many, many more individuals, each doing their own thing, living life as freely as possible, fighting tyrants in their own lives, and spreading freedom in their own spheres of influence. I agree, it is disorganized and frustrating for those used to a corporate org chart, to those used to following top-down orders, there are poor economies of scale and accordingly a massive amount of resources “wasted,” but in exchange there is spontaneous order, there is entrepreneurial ingenuity, there is constant A/B testing, there is massive competition for those with the best approaches, and there is nearly unlimited redundancy.

Do you know what that means?

Thatmeans the enemy can’t chop the head off the “beast” of freedom. There is no head. There is no mass movement. There are thousands and maybe millions in each state increasingly living life that way. That is the change that matters — the change that happens in individual lives. I will trade that for a mass movement any day, in fact, it is what I have been working on for 18 months — avoiding the mass movement and rousing the individual lions. How fulfilling it is. And how well it works.

People bemoan why millions are not taking to the streets in America, like they are in France or Germany. Some even claim that to be a sign that there is “no resistance” in America. They fundamentally misunderstand America. When the average foot soldiers and loyalists of the political left become disenfranchised with the medical tyranny taking place, there will be mass demonstrations like that. That is a collectivist response. But that is not at the core of America.

At the core of America is small business, small church, family, small, direct, impactful charity, entrepreneurship, local community, boot straps, small farm, maybe even just a few plants in the backyard, niche methods of news distribution like the one you are reading now, cottage industry, local relationships. Every man is intended to be his own man. The Maker will one day look him in the eye and say “Why should I let you into my heaven?” and at that moment there won’t be an army of people around him to back him up. It will just be him and God. That idea is not lost in America. This is not collectivist; it is the very opposite, and it is the backbone of America.

Many things have come at you this past year. For some, it has been more adversity than they have ever known, such evil brought against their household unlike anything they’d ever imagined, a greater attack on their values than they have ever seen. You can handle this. And once you do, you can handle more. This is a very special time to be alive, and our daily lives are preparation for even more.

Those who have never worn a mask are unfazed by anything happening. They have been in training already 18 months and have grown into such formidable warriors. Every conversation they need to have about health mandates was perfected in their technique more than a year ago as they stumbled through face mask conversation after face mask conversation, finally developing the right rhythm and techniques that work best for them. In sharp contrast, those who wore a mask obediently, but drew a line at the Covid shot, are just putting on the training wheels and all at once they are really freaking out about the mandates that have been in the works publicly for at least 18 months. They were not ready, but the good news is that the lions among them will persevere and be ready for far worse.

If you can embrace these moments for the opportunities they are — opportunities to rise to the occasion — then you will find yourself doing exactly that. It is a game, and we are winning. It is a game, and I see all around me, the most amazing warriors prepping for battle, a mass of lions like I never knew existed on the earth.

And how could I? Nearly all of them were asleep until the Ides of March 2020. The enemy has no idea what he is up against.

About as uplifting and heartening a piece as I can ever remembering seeing, and there’s plenty I left out. He ain’t wrong, either, although it’s so easy to get trapped in the usual media cycle of doom, gloom, and despair that it’s damned near impossible sometimes to see through the fog generated by it. Team Liberty faces an extremely grim situation, no doubt about it, far worse a one than any I’ve ever seen. That said, there are nevertheless still reasons for optimism, for hope—GOOD reasons, valid ones.

Our enemies WANT us in despair, WANT us to succumb to the insidious defeatism they’ve spent all these years cultivating in us. Don’t give in to their evil manipulations; don’t give them the final victory they so desperately crave. Resolve to resist them, to defy them, to fight them—yes, even to kill as many of them as you can when the time comes. Which, we all know it’s going to, and that right soon too.

We must harden our hearts. We must admit the ugly truths; confront the harsh realities; face the unpleasant facts—fearlessly, and with eyes wide open. We must resolve that we will not stint, abstain, or shy from doing everything necessary to get their boots off our necks. We must never yield. We must show our Enemy—in a fashion that allows for neither misunderstanding nor mistake—that the flame of Liberty will forever burn in our hearts, and that he can never hope to extinguish no matter how he tries. That we will never concede defeat.

That he will regret, to the very deepest depths of whatever shriveled, blackened parody of a human soul he may possess, ever having thought it a good idea to fuck with us.

Do I even need to tell you to read the whole thing?

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23 thoughts on “A different view—VERY different

  1. Two thoughts first God is in control. Second Alinsky was right about one thing that was left out of this good message and that is ridicule. Our enemies are stupid and ridicule hurts them, so hurt them. e.g. Earl of Taint etc.

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    1. I wouldn’t recommend waiting around for God to save you, this is going to be up to just regular old people.

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          1. You help yourself by obeying God’s commandments. That’s one thing he rewards.

            Working hard and not stealing from others for your livelihood for instance.

            Now that I’ve praised God, please pass the ammunition…

      1. There is a difference between trusting God and waiting around, you can trust and act. “Regular people” accomplish nothing apart from God’s will

  2. For a year the unarmed Hong Kong students kept the horses at bay.

    We are more numerous, and armed and have other resources at our disposal.

    Resist. It comes in many flavors.

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    1. Good point. I’d like to trade a whole bunch of US citizens for Hong Kong kids.

      Imagine the effect of dropping a couple million weapons with ammo into Hong Kong….

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      1. People are getting out of they can. Especially young people.

        They government is talking about how it’s bad to be rich and the rich should give their fair share.

        HK could use weapons to kill a lot of people that need killing, but in the end they have little chance to defeat the PLA in the long term. There hope lay in post-1997 handover to convince the mainlanders that To Be Capitalist is Good. They failed.

        It’s easier for HK youth to leave than resist.

        I wish in 2019 we had dropped weapons in HK and places like Shenzhen and other pockets of easement inside the PRC. The failure of the 2019 protests and the Scamdemic Disaster that rid the PRC of Trump has flattened them.

        Another reason I believe the Scamdemic was a joint psy ops by the ChiComs and our Deep State and other global Deep State. The PRC and Xi have consolidated their power internally as well as took the pressure off externally.

        Plus look at places like Australia and their Lockdowns. Recall that it was Australian intelligence that first reported a supposedly drunken Carter Page (? Someone else) talking about what he had done.

        1. Yep, understood. and Australia was lost when they turned in their guns. They are not very smart down under.

  3. Three things: Today, in Australia – https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-police-and-governments

    Second, I tell people who ask for leaders or a movement to go look in the mirror. If people need others to tell them what they should do, they aren’t looking for leaders, they’re looking for parents. They’re still children, no matter how old they appear to be. Before they can do anything, they need to grow up and become adults.

    Third, keep it off the phone and off the internet. And phones are always on, even if you think you have them turned off. In fact, that applies to any “smart” appliance and any part of the “internet of things”. Communications are always two-way, whether you think so or not. If you have wifi in your car or truck, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of the wifi, get rid of the vehicle. There was a video five years ago of some poor guy whose wifi-equipped car got taken over by hackers, the doors locked, and then a wild joy ride – joy for the hackers, not the prisoner/driver – took place, which only ended when it crashed. And then there’s this big uproar about Pegasus. I’ve got news – the government has been doing this for at least ten years, most probably a lot longer.

        1. Ah. Thank you.

          I was right: That is a new one on me. I hadn’t heard of it before. Thanks.

          New wrinkle, anyway. You’re right – the Gov has been doing similar stuff for decades, going all the way back to Infinity transmitters and probably before that.

    1. hhl, here’s an adjunct to your “what-happens-when-police-and governments” link:

  4. I want you to look at every bit of adversity around you and say something to yourself. I want you to say that this is a time intended to make you stronger. This is a time intended to toughen you.

    That which does not kill me slowly grinds me down a little bit at a time.

    Those who have never worn a mask are unfazed by anything happening.

    I’m not sure about unfazed, but I’m definitely unsurprised by anything happening these days. I am still occasionally nonplussed, however.

      1. Every game was the same.

        Plus I saw clips from the Emmys last night. Not a mask to be seen. Even so called.”comic” Seth Rogan was tongue in cheek fake “concerned” about it on the broadcast.

  5. I never think all is lost because the people who explored the globe and landed on the moon are still around, even if we have forgotten a lot our history. But a lot is lost and not coming back, and it won’t come back without those hard hearts.

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