So bold, yet almost hiding in plain view, George Orwell set forward 3 great inversions for his universal state in his book 1984:
1) War is peace. 2) Freedom is slavery. 3) Ignorance is strength.
2) The image you see above is my current banner photo here at Twitter. We will come back to #TrumpsPickSix shortly. We have to follow Orwell's strange logic by self-contraction a step or two further, first.
Orwell's implied 4th contradiction, I propose is:
Right is wrong.
3) You can see them right now scurrying and flurrying. The left is in all-out attack mode. We on the right won a great victory in Georgia, when the legislature passed, and even Kemp himself signed a new law enforcing voter integrity. The call this voter rights suppression.
4) They know their own logic. They know that by giving an illegal alien access to vote, they destroy the integrity of the vote itself. They not only know this, it is their very purpose. They wish to impose wrongs, as if they were rights, in destroying voter integrity.
5) I struggled with the communist method of democracy, and of their favored name for their nations, People's Republic of such and so, for a long time. I don't remember where I read it. But follow the logical face of their illogic.
6) Only a 1-party system can reflect the will of ALL the people. Therefore, only a communist party, representing all the people's will, can be truly democratic. Here's another Orwellian corollary:
Dictatorship is democracy.
7) What are they doing to us here? They know that people think in words. And they know that people accept the definitions of words that are popular. If cool people think a word means this, then that is what it means. Follow this further.
8) You can slap a person's mind into submission. You can enforce a definition, and the person will have to accept it. Then, with that definition in place, you can force a person to think the thoughts you want him to think. He'll never know what happened.
9) So here's this law in Georgia. The left defines it as voter suppression. What they mean is this. Every human being has a right to vote. There is no such thing as an illegal person. Thus, we must open our vote to all humans with no barriers or qualifications. None at all.
10) What this tells us, of course, is that they've realized that the MAGA Movement is so mighty that they cannot win elections done freely and fairly. When Donald Trump awakened the sleeping giant of America, he put paid to the Swamp's easy control.
11) There is now a vast majority, a landslide majority of America who want America to put America First. If we're allowed to vote freely and fairly, we'll wipe out the Democrat advantage in the Electoral College. Wipe it out as in forever.
12) That's actually what happened in 2016. The previous Electoral College advantage of the Democrats was obliterated. That advantage goes all the way back to Abe Lincoln. Every time Republicans won, they did it in spite of that advantage.
13) Trump didn't just win. He change the rules of the game. He destroyed the Democrat advantage in the Electoral College, and that is what we saw before our very eyes the night of 3 November 2020. It was an overwhelming landslide. So, they simply turned it off.
14) They couldn't have done that without FOX News being on their side. But FOX sold out and called early for Arizona. As @KateScopelliti has posted, that was the moment that our family stepped away from FOX. We don't watch them anymore.
15) They couldn't have done it without courts throughout the land, all the way up to the Supreme Court, being completely corrupt. So we saw case after case dismissed specifically for the very purpose of preventing the evidence from coming to light.
16) What they're not aware of is this. Trump has already solved the problem. #TrumpsPickSix is the answer. And I need you to work with me on the logic bomb aspect of his six requirements. We're going to step through them one by one, now. First the list...
1) ONLY 1 Election Day 2) No Mail-In Voting 3) Require 100% Voter Identification 4) Universal Signature Matching 5) Citizenship Verification 6) Chain of Custody Protections for Every Ballot
18) The logic of just one day is so simple and obvious. If you allow more days, you allow those in control all the time they need to alter the vote. An election is logically defined by the will of the people as expressed during the course of a single day. Refute that if you can.
19) The US Mail is NOT a secure medium. It is corruptible from top to bottom. How much money does a postal carrier make in a year? What if you offer 4 times that amount for them to corrupt the vote? Who could refuse such an offer? Only a saint. Sainthood is not on the job recs.
20) Voter Identification? This is the most stunningly illogical thing on the list. That is, how do you make the argument that a voter should not have to provide identification? How do you even let those words come out your mouth? Idiocy multiplied beyond number. Infinite idiocy.
21) Your signature is a legal thing, even more so than some government generated card. You sign contracts that are legally binding. Someone else falsifying your signature is a felon. A voter must be who he is, and his signature must be verified. Again, refute that, please.
22) It is perhaps one of the left's greatest "wrong is right" accomplishments that citizenship is scorned. No nation fails to identify its own CITIZENS. Only duly legal citizens may vote. You have to be kidding me to try to make the case that this is false. Give me a break.
23) We're going to linger here, on the point about chain of custody protections for every ballot. First, any parent that's ever been in a custody battle over children in a divorce knows precisely what the word "custody" means. "Chain of custody" is a little more difficult.
24) While we could walk through a chain of custody with children, it would be a bit forced. So, we shift our focus. Coffee! First it's grown, harvested, dried, and bagged. Second, it's shipped. Let me tell you, that is a long chain. Third, it's auctioned. Another chain.
25) Purchased, it is picked up by the buyer and transported to a roasting plant. Then it's roasted. Then shipped again. Received, it's ground - although many roasters also ground prior to shipping, which is a very BAD thing!
26) The ground coffee is now brewed by one means or another, and then, finally, last, the brewed cup of coffee is given to its drinker. How many stages was that? I didn't count, and I know I skipped over some. How is coffee loaded into a ship, how unloaded? Lots of steps!
27) That is a chain of custody. From grower to brewer, how many custodians of the coffee must do their jobs right in order for you to have a perfect cup? Indeed, we're talking logistics. And what are the logistics of a faithful, true, free, and fair vote?
28) That is the problem the left has with their evil agenda of cooking the books. The problem is that it is more than merely illogical or even evil, which it is, the problem is that it is so easily disproved by 5th grade logic. Americans are fair people. We want fairness.
29) That's #TrumpsPickSix. It is a logic bomb. Try as you may, you cannot logically refute a single element. What's more, you need 1 before 2, and 2 before 3, etc. Get down to 6 and you ramp right back up to 1. It is a mathematically, geometrically perfect proof.
30) This proof will flow throughout our land. Legislatures and even idiot governors like Kemp, will put it forward for lack of ability to oppose it. That's Trump's gift to America right now. He has plenty more to give. I'm telling you. He will.
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Before we discuss The Prince itself, and why you MUST read it, we have to talk about translations, translating, and the translators who do such things. We must make the translators visible.
2) The greatest translator I've ever read is a philosopher named Walter Kaufmann. I can't cover all his influence on me, but I can tell you that he built a theory of translation, and you should know a little bit about it.
3) Kaufmann's theory can be reduced as such. Reading, in the language the author wrote in, is an act of listening. The translator must hear. He must capture not just the words but the very intentions of the author. Why? In order to express those intentions in another language.
I tried and failed to put together a selection of quotes from Bastiat's great work. I figured out why. I'd end up quoting the entire book. I just can't choose.
2) So I what decided was just to talk about the book and its impact on me. I promise you this. If you open your mind - and we'll talk about that in just a moment - this small, fast reading little book will hit you like a sledgehammer the first time you read it.
3) You can have the book for free. It was published before copyright law protections, so it's just in the public market. Back in 2012 I bought a hard copy after Ron Paul mentioned it as his favorite book in an interview. Here's the PDF:
Something happened. It somehow dawned on me. Raising your fist is a statement. It is to draw a line, and to state, this far and no farther. I will not allow you to cross my line.
2) It's a painful thing to discuss. Many wonderful, kind, loving and principled people, filled with discipline and faith and living their lives with honor and goodness will reject my point. The problem is that they have accepted a lie and don't know it.
3) Let's talk about #TheSpiritOf1776. One way to express it is: I raise my fist to the red coats. Most famously, Patrick Henry stated: give me liberty or give me death. Those are fighting words. They are the words of a people who will not bow down and take it.
2) I don't actually know the effectiveness of multiple uses of a hashtag in a single Tweet. It's possible that it helps, but I'm not sure of that. So, why did I do it? In order to illustrate our most important principle:
Concentration Of Force
3) Picture the simple physics of it. Getting hit by a 12-inch softball can really sting, but it has a vastly lower level of risk of damage to you then getting hit by a hard ball. The hard ball is smaller and harder, both. The softball disburses the energy and compresses a bit.
Evert American Should Read Creating The Declaration Of Independence
If I were the king of schools, I’d make every child learn Euclid, and read @Shestokas’ book, #6 on our list. Okay, I'd have all 12 of my books mandatory, but you get the idea!
2) One of the most powerful aspects of Amazon is the reviews we're empowered to write. Back on 17 June 2018, almost 3 years ago, I wrote this review and posted it there. If you have the time, a voter of "helpful" would be great!
3) It's not just that our history is being erased by the left. It is THIS history that is MOST under attack. Jefferson and team put the MOST dangerous ideas in history into the Declaration. No tyrant can love these concepts. Tyranny rests on our ignorance.
Trewhella’s book, #5 on our Local Patriot's Required Reading List, is an absolute historical gem. Like truth itself, there's a strange power to freedom. Let's talk about that.
2) There is an ebb and flow to freedom's path. In 2020, freedom ebbed in America to its lowest tide in our history since 1776. Of all the countless factors causing this hellacious ebb, one rises highest, I believe. Education.
3) We have surrendered our children over to educations that are fundamentally opposed to freedom. I'll give you a quick example. My son Nico competed and won his spot in a science program for high school. He ended up in trouble for attitude. I attempted to defend him.