Life often gives us signs and signals, and no matter how wrongly we may interpret them - and we truly do often misinterpret - we must still listen anyway.
2) By nature I am the most disobedient man you'll ever meet. When given a command my true nature is to do the opposite. When asked, politely, I behave very differently. My inclination is to say yes, wherever I possibly may. Commands, different story.
3) But this newly born day - it's just after midnight by not quite an hour yet - I received a crystal clear command from the Big Tech overlords and I have obeyed. One of the signals is that I am down about 1,400 followers over the past 6 hours or so. How about that?
4) Other signals were sent that, being the obedient person I'm being right now, I will not discuss. I'm not supposed to do so, so I'm not. Got that? Have I mentioned that I employ an ancient practice called lucid dreaming? I'll be brief.
5) Once I lay down to go to sleep, but before I actually nod off, I set hopes and desired, thorny problems to solve, resolutions and decision under consideration, etc. The practice is most powerful when I have a crystal clear vision of victory to ponder upon.
6) Think of a two-man relay race. One runner runs by day, the other by night. The practice of sending conscious thoughts down into one's subconscious works something like that. Let's call Conscious Pasquale P1, and Sub- or Unconscious Pasquale P2.
7) P1 lives by hard, rational, logical thinking and bumps up against real world limitations and necessities all day long. P2 plies his efforts and his play in the dream realm where no limits exist as limits. P2 can do anything. But P2 is also the place of monsters and nightmares.
8) The key to lucid dreaming is precisely in the relay hand off. It goes both ways. When P1 is just about to wake up, groggy still, and rubbing my eyes, P2 hasn't quite left yet, and it's P2's job to give P1 guidance from the realm of dreams. It's amazingly powerful stuff.
9) I share all that, right now, just before I'm about to head up to bed, because I have read the signs, and heard the command, and am currently obeying. Maybe you can tell, I really don't enjoy this kind of thing. So...
10) I'm thinking about leaving. Not as in shutting my account down, the overlords will likely take care of that soon enough anyway. No, I might just place all my investment elsewhere. All? That's such a big word. I don't mean it that way.
11) I love being fiesty and rebellious, playful and joyous. I love creating my own rules and living by them. And yes, I do flirt with the disapprobation of my betters, often skirting the line of what I know they don't like and...obedience such as right now.
12) My new banner image is a sunset shot I took from my back deck. My new profile image is me playing my travel guitar while my car is getting an oil and lube service. See how innocuous and observant of acceptable decorum my new images are?
13) I am very happy politically too. My leader has an Office of the Former President, and has announced his run for 2024. I'm okay with the fact that I got pulled in to a new Party's announcement which appears to have been disavowed by my leader. Alas.
14) Perhaps I'll now learn to obey the 24 hour rule and not let my twitchy heart and achy breaky typing fingers run so fast into action. I do have the benefit of laughing at myself, and I did get a text message from the purported, alleged public offender. Just one, but you know.
15) Here's my vision, my victory vision. My leader will work miracles from his new position outside DC. He is so well suited to this kind of work. I see him leading us to create robust confidence in our coming elections of 2022 and 2024. His lawful work will be incredible.
16) But in the short term, I have the problem of suppressing my disobedience if I am to continue investing here, as I have since 2018. It may be time for a change. I may not have an answer in the morning, either. When you enter into a dream space, you kind of don't control it.
17) I can't speak for others, but if there's a deadline in any of my dreams, it is automatically a nightmare. My unconscious mind DETESTS deadlines. You might have guessed by now that my conscious mind can be a terrible taskmaster, and obsesses about deadlines.
18) On that note, I'm sadly postponing my satellites work a bit more. It may even be that my next work will be done elsewhere, where, perhaps, I'll not have to bother either P1 or P2 with the heavy hand of my commanders and their artfully represented stipulations.
19) Please follow me at Gab, same name as here. I was, for a moment there, instantly more comfortable with Parler than I am with Gab. But, I am beggar right now, and must reduce my obsessive choosiness, right? I'll let you know about other platforms as I roll toward them.
20) That's all folks, for tonight. We'll dance the looney tunes dance again very soon, and figure out where we're heading, right. These overlords are a bit over lordly for my taste, you know? Alas, and...
So it goes.
So long for now...
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“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
Yeah. I watched the original Star Wars movie in the theaters when it came out, and I can't tell you how many times I went.
2) I had no idea back then that I'd ever become a swordsman. Watching that scene today, I'm both impressed with the quality of the fighting, as well as cynical about filmed swordsmanship vs the real thing. Still, it's an awesome scene to be sure!
3) It was my greatest criticism of the film that they let Darth Vader strike a kill shot when Obi Wan simply holds up his saber in seeming surrender. But that line, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” That blew my mind.
2) "Trump has a number of goals over the next couple of years … winning back the House and the Senate for Republicans in 2022 to make sure that we can stop the Democratic craziness,” said Miller."
3) "He also said that Trump will “emerge as the nation’s leader on ballot and voter integrity.”
"In the month leading up to the riot, Mr. Trump was devising his own plan: He and a Justice Department official plotted to oust the acting attorney general to try to advance baseless election claims, interviews showed...
2) "...and only backed down after top department officials threatened to resign."
Now you know, I don't believe for one second those claims were baseless. But, the information about the DOJ supporter is critical! So, where did this tidbit come from?
3) I get a daily email from the New York Times. The quote is from the email. Here is the article itself:
So, you're telling me 155,000,000 legal voters voted in 2020, are you? You really believe this, and it's the lawful truth? Uh huh. Tell you what, throw in a bridge to Manhattan and you've got a deal. I'm buying. Oh yeah.
I mean that hashtag very literally. I believe that the election was won by a landslide and then stolen. And I believe this speech was the beginning of his second term.
2) Under my new commitment to 30 tweets or less in a thread, I approach this speech in a new way. First, as there is so much to quote, I will not be commenting on the points as I roll, and as I have done consistently, previously.
3) Second, I am breaking his speech down into tweet-sized points and numbering them. I will select exactly 25 of them to tweet within my thread. I don't know how far down the same path you want to go, but I want you to know about it! Why?
I've made it from 4:50 to about 14:30. This part is Trump at his best, his most Trumpian. He lists a string of accomplishments that makes the liar of my own memory.
2) It sounds exactly like an acceptance speech which would have ended up with the best is yet to come. Emotional idiot that I am, I'm riddled with pride and heartbreak listening to this list. I'm proud of him, and of us, and mind is dazed and confused. Too much to handle.
3) Had I been asked I would have fought the courtesies at the beginning and had him dive into this section to begin. At this point, no introductions were required. And courtesy? This is not a courteous moment in my book. Oh well. I'll go finish up now and come back.