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Apr 22 36 tweets 9 min read
@PolitiBunny @JeffOnTheRight @ChristinaPushaw @JesseKellyDC @KurtSchlichter

This is going to be a long thread on the subject of the PRINCIPLES! Crowd and their insistence that DeSantis shouldn’t lead a charge against Disney, ‘Don’t call them groomers! That’s naughty!’ etc
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@PolitiBunny @JeffOnTheRight @ChristinaPushaw @JesseKellyDC @KurtSchlichter 2/
because PRINCIPLES!
And I’m going to use Dien Bien Phu as an example.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…
At Dien Bien Phu, the French Foreign Legion was slowly surrounded by the Viet Min. The Communists slowly took high ground position after high ground position.
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At first the French tried occasionally to push them out and occasionally succeeded.
But eventually the Viet had all the high ground with artillery sited on the base.
At first the shelling was a nuisance. Then it got heavier. More and more guns, more anti-aircraft.
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Eventually, the French were pounded into surrender.
The Left has been ‘boiling the frog’ for a long time and it has mostly been by weaponizing empathy around ‘cultural issues.’
And as Breitbart pointed out 'Politics is downstream from culture.'
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The Dems have always been win/lose against Republicans but the Left has taken over every major cultural high ground. Academia. Media. Entertainment. Now major corporations.
And the effect has been horrible for conservatives. (And for everyone else I might add.)
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‘Practically everyone with a PhD is a progressive! So that shows we’re smarter than you stupid conservatives!’
For decades it has been a major pain in the ass to be a conservative on a college campus. It was bad in the 1980s AT UGA.
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‘If you believe in God you’re too stupid to be a scientist.’
If you create a massively hostile environment for people, deliberately destroy their career, you don’t get to then say ‘We’re the smart ones cause we have all the advanced degrees.’
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You don’t get to say ‘We’re the only creators because no conservatives can write’ when you deliberately ensure that cons can’t get any awards.
Except that’s exactly what the Left does.
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And, remember, lack of a college degree on average cuts long term earnings substantially. Which means less money on the right all things being equal. If you look at the graph of right wing money vs left over time the right has been losing more and more ground.
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Which is one of the few reasons the Left has been able to advance. It’s sure as hell not their insane, failed, policies.
The Right are the French, being continually bombarded. By Marxists at the least if not communists. The Left has all the high ground.
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We’re damned near at the point we’re going to be forced to surrender. And we’re at Will To Power. The Left has gotten so powerful, it’s openly defiant of any ‘norms’ or ‘equality’ or even laws.
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When the Left burned cities, 99% got a slap on the wrist and rarely jail time. Cons go wandering around the capital and they get a vast panoply of human rights violations against them. Obama was the most corrupt administration in recent history except Biden.
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But they don’t get investigated. Cons get dragged out of their house in the middle of the night by SWAT teams and shown off to the media over obscure regulations. Trump was investigated repeatedly and illegally for things that were never even...
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CONSIDERED worthy of investigation in previous administrations.
Hillary’s pay to play scams are fine. A conservative gets a parking ticket and they’re destroyed.
Why? Why does the Left get away with all of this? Why does nobody stop them?
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James Carville said it recently in the reverse: ‘Nobody is afraid of the Democrats!’
Nobody has been afraid of the Republicans in my LIFETIME. Lois Lerner can laugh at a congressional committees the Republicans are running and gets away with it.
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Strosz can smirk and preen. Bureaucrats and businessmen flat out lie to Republican leadership and nothing happens.
But they don’t do that to Democrats. Why?
Because if you do, the Left will kill you. They will f’ing DESTROY YOU.
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See Joe the Plumber or any number of other examples of ‘nobodies’ that were destroyed for questioning the Left.
So why doesn’t the Right (metaphorically) kill people who disrespect their leadership?
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Why do the bureaucrats and businesses think they can screw over the Right but not the Left?
PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
The PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! crowd has been a Conservative Surrender Chorus for as long as I can remember.
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You can’t attack a bureaucracy that is treating Republicans like something under their shoe! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
You can’t cut funding to academia just because they’re tweeting #KillAllRepublicans. PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
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You can’t smack down a company that involves itself, overtly and partisanly, in politics! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
Why?
It goes back to Buckley and National Review.
Buckley set out to create a ‘new’ conservative movement after HUAC and McCarthy burned out.
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They would purge the icky John Birch, anti-communist, Goldwater wing of the party and campaign on PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
‘Take the high road.’ ‘If you get into the mud with a pig you get covered in mud and only the pig enjoys it.’
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If you take the high road, you’re silhouetting yourself and you’re just going to get shot.
If you don’t get in the mud with the pig, it takes you out at the knees and gores nine kinds of stuff out of you.
But PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
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Which got us to here. Teachers are openly grooming kids and convincing them they’re… something they are not. Children are being permanently chemically castrated for kicks and money. Two weeks to flatten the curve turned into two years of random medical tyranny.
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The sitting President that most represented the Right, far more than the eGOP, was investigated over a hoax THAT THE FBI KNEW WAS A HOAX.
The list goes on and on.
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We’re in the bunkers, being pounded by artillery. Every time some leader on the Right tries to break out, tries to rally the troops, they get bombarded by fire from every direction.
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Reagan was constantly bombarded. Newt to the point he was destroyed. Tea Party was taken out by investigations and the IRS refusing to process their paperwork. Then the leadership was audited to death.
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We could fight that. We could rally round a flag. But the worst part. The part that is absolutely INFURIATING, is the Surrender Chorus.
YOU CAN’T FIGHT BACK! THAT’S ICKY! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
Stay in the bunker. Learn to cope. The dinner parties are loverly.
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I’m sick to death of the principles crowd. David French, leader of the Conservative Surrender Chorus, once tweeted “If I supported Trump, I’d never be invited to another dinner party.”
If your politics is based on whether you get invites to dinner parties, you don’t have ‘Principles’. You have the opposite.
We’re in the bunkers being bombarded. We’re Dien Bin Phu. We’re Mariupol. We’re overrun and bleeding to death.
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But the worst part. The absolute worst. Is the TrueConservatives that every time we start to take a position quite frankly stab us in the back shouting PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
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If you’re more worried about PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! than @libsoftiktok being doxed, if you’re more worried about PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! than a mulit-billion dollar supposedly ‘family friendly’ corporation with loads of...
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largesse given to it by the taxpayers coming out, very publicly, in favor of chemical castration of children…
Then you can take those principles and shove them where the sun don’t shine.
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When the left learns to fear the Right, when the woke corporation boards gulp and go ‘Okay, we’ll stay out of it’, when the bureaucracy comes to heel…
Then you can be nice. Then you can take the high road.
Until then…
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DRIVE YOUR ENEMIES BEFORE YOU! TAKE THE TALLY OF THEIR SLAIN AND THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN!
And, yes, salt the earth.
When that is done, we can have a discussion about ‘principles.’
@monsterhunter45
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@TrentTelenko

Okay, a little thread about indirect fire rounds. Just the simple ones. I won't get into scatterable munitions or smart rounds.

Some definitions:

Trench: A narrow trench dug in the ground. Can be short or long.
MOUT: Military operations in urban terrain
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Bunker: a hole dug in the ground with overhead cover.
Open: Yer just out there in the open.
Fusing:
VT: Variable Time fuse. This can be either the 'cover' VT which is a proximity fuse or a fuse you set to go off after a certain time.
Proximity: A type of fuse that goes off in proximity to something. In this case we'll be talking about the ground.
Superquick: A fuse that goes off when it hits something.
Delay: A fuse that goes off shortly AFTER it hits something.
That's enough to start.
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Time for Some Kipling:

BEYOND the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled-
Farther than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust swirled-
Live such as fought and sailed and ruled and loved and made our world.
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They are purged of pride because they died; they know the worth of
their bays;
They sit at wine with the Maidens Nine and the Gods of the Elder Days-
It is their will to serve or be still as fitteth Our Father's praise.
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‘Tis theirs to sweep through the ringing deep where Azrael's outposts
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Or buffet a path through the Pit's red wrath when God goes out to war,
Or hang with the reckless Seraphim on the rein of a red-maned star.
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'The US was slow.'

The DOD has gotten taken to the woodshed for decades by the US military for the SLIGHTEST wrong thing said. Even if the statement was as accurate as they knew at the time.
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So the DOD is ALWAYS CAREFUL WHAT THEY SAY.

Which gets to the Moskva incident.

Most likely scenario, based on what we've been given:
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If pulled over for 'driving while black', politely hand the officer your driver's license, registration, insurance (if necessary in that state) and your white card. Explain to them that you've been stripped of your skin color and are now white.

That should take care of it. 2
Unless you were guilty of a moving violation.

Then you are truly and actually f**ked, because you can't pull out a 'racist' card anymore. Pay your fine like a man. Or woman. Or whatever. 3
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