Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 7: 13 "Without knowing the lie of hills and woods, of cliffs and crags, of marshes and fens, you cannot march."

Hills, woods, cliffs, crags, marshes, fens. The lie of the land. The internet is so useful here. Consider: "Lay of the land is a phrase that figuratively or metaphorically means the current state of affairs, how something is organized."

"Literally, the lay of the land is the arrangement of features upon the land. One usually assesses the lay of the land in preparation for action. The idiom lay of the land is first recorded in 1819."

"A related idiom is the British phrase how the land lies, a usage that turns up in about 1700. According to Google Ngram Viewer, the use of the term lay of the land peaked in the early 1900s. Lay of the land is a North American phrase."

"Lie of the land is the British phrase that metaphorically means the current state of affairs, how something is organized. Literally, the lie of the land is the arrangement of features upon the land. In fact, lie of the land and lay of the land mean the same thing."

Let's go with Minford's Master Sun list again:

1) Hills
2) Woods
3) Cliffs
4) Crags
5) Marshes
6) Fens

We all know what a hill is. It is the rising slope in front of us that we must climb.

The greatest hill in America today us the set of concepts upon which our nation was formed. Why is that a hill? Our education has essentially wiped out our ability to master concepts.

Here's a simple test. Ask any liberal you know what a "right" is. They will walk you around the globe, yet still not answer. And you'll never hear the word "wrong" as a contrast. I'd love to speak about the destruction of concepts in general, but we don't have the time.

You have to walk up a hill. A hill is a challenge. It is a rise, an elevation in your thinking. It requires you to exert effort to rise higher in your thinking, your understanding. You must know where the hills lie. You must know where your thinking must rise.

What are woods? They're a patch where trees are, where the thick of the forest remains. Sure, they may have paths. But the paths may not be there either. Woods. Difficult terrain. You shoot your arrow, but it may hit a tree, not your enemy. Woods border fields.

Cliffs. You march up to a cliff below, and you're stuck. Medicare. The social protections that were sold to us in the 60s. We all have to pretend we believe in them. They're a cliff. Look up, higher. You cannot rise to their heights. We're screwed. Nowhere to go.

Cliffs. You march up to them from above, and you have to stop. You can't climb down them. Political correctness. You can't say any general statements about any race. You can't be crass, rude, or funny. Humor has been destroyed. Equality? Not if you're white.

A marsh is a swamp. We don't even have to discuss the swamp. We know what that is. Still, its definition is meaningful: "An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times."

Waterlogged. Contemplate: your money, as taxed, is flooding the mighty and the good. They control it. They use it. They enjoy it. You pay for their play. They love your money. They don't love you. Gratitude is not a word in their vocabulary. How good it must be to be them.

Oops, I skipped over crags. Stones. Here's its definition: "A steep rugged mass of rock projecting upward or outward, especially a cliff or vertical rock exposure in the north of England or in Scotland (Scottish Gaelic and Irish: creag, Welsh: craig)."

A crag in America is simply this. We love each other. We have lived up to Martin Luther King Junior's mandate. We don't judge each other by skin color anymore. We judge each other's character. It is a stone outcropping to claim we have succeeded. We must climb it and crow.

And what's a fen? "A low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land." How many rich people are there in America who accepted the graft of the evil swamp? Can you say, "pay to play"? Who are the banks who facilitated the Clinton Foundation? Fens.

If you don't know these things, you cannot march. Will we take that hill? Will we drain that swampy, marshy fen? How will we return to the rule of law, honestly? How will we reinstate the rule of law, actually, removing persons from their power?

I hate to say it, but I must. Obama is the man who must be punished. He declared war against his enemy, the succeeding @POTUS. He broke all laws in attacking @GenFlynn. He is the great cliff we must access. Obama's crime must be punished.

Obama's attack against @GenFlynn is the worst such attack in American history. Contemplate that. But the act was worse still. Obama sent $150 Billion to the worst state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and - absolutely illegally - $1.7 billion in unmarked cash.

Not Nixon. Not any other president in American history, has ever committed so egregious a crime. Not one act of any other president has so utterly compromised America. Marshes and fens? The Obama administration is their ultimate definition. Beware the swamp.

And no, if you don't know where these hills, crags, marshes and fens lie, you're most 100% definitely NOT ready to march.

167 verses completed, 255 to go.

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