These days everyone has an angle to sell. we are bombarded daily with hot button words to invoke predetermined responses. Even from those we trust. I am not a war monger, I loathe violence, but a person I trust uses words like “war”, “battles”, “fight”, and usually describes those things as “inevitable”. Others chime in that I am weak to expect others to fight FOR me…in my stead.
But I am fighting a different war. I am fighting a war on language, because that’s where it starts. It always begins there…one side calls the other fascists. The other retaliates with racists. They call us corrupt, we call them stupid. In the end both sides feel they are just and the other wrong. It escalates until we are left with satan versus God.
In the end we are dividing ourselves–and that’s by design–because divided we are conquerable. Is it just the left that wants to conquer us? Hardly. They are a subset–useful tools–but they are accomplishing the goal nonetheless.
What offends me most is when the right further divides itself–we can be so gullible. For example, the word hopium. Coined to describe actions that are unsubstantiated, but may produce desired results. Its opposite–doom faggery–describes a condition in which nothing good can be seen coming to alleviate current conditions. Both terms describe unknowns, but only one is constantly depicted derisively–hopium.
I take offense with hopium because of my personal history. I have had to overcome some things in my past, terrible awful things, and without hope, I wouldn’t be here today. My faith is in God, that there is a brighter tomorrow on the horizon somewhere. I just need to pay attention to the signs, to work towards the brighter tomorrow with my head and my heart and refuse to resign myself to the abyss. Look up! Feel the sun on your face and the SON in your heart!
Sew Colorful 
I read REALPOTUS’s response to the SCOTUS decisions and was puzzled and taken aback. He railed about allowing the witch hunt to continue…in letting a SDNY grand jury access his tax returns. (and rightfully so)
But not one word about the election case. not one. perhaps it will be forthcoming…perhaps something else is stopping him from commenting.
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more information has become available.
there are more outstanding cases on the SCOTUS docket that concern the election. (this can explain REALPOTUS’s reluctance to address the decision from the 2/19 conference.)
I’ve found the docket numbers (20-740 (a PA case) and 20-883 (a Wisconsin case)) but no info on those cases.
here’s the thing—these cases required briefs to be filed by 2/12 and in both cases opponents petitioned for extensions and they were granted. (iirc, it was the acting Sect of State in PA and the DNC in Wisconsin)
But I’m unsure of why. the court has shown its reluctance to address these issues and the new date March 15 is just the same conference to discuss the merits.
why bother at all?
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Interesting…a class action lawsuit has been filed against Dominion Voting Systems AND OTHERS–including Zuckerberg, Kemp, Wolf, Bookvar, and many more…
have to look into this further, but you do not need to be a resident of Colorado to join the suit…
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WE HAVE FILED SUIT against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, certain state officials and others for infringing upon our right to vote, assemble and speak freely. Plaintiffs from several states across the nation have joined to establish a class of registered voters to prosecute the defendants for unconstitutionally interfering in the 2020 presidential election–and suppressing the speech of those who object.
https://dominionclassaction.com/
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so the process begins??
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REDUCING ‘REAL RISKS’: Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war.
“…Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks,” states the letter spearheaded by Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California. “Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment.“
“While any president would presumably consult with advisors before ordering a nuclear attack, there is no requirement to do so,” the letter adds. “The military is obligated to carry out the order if they assess it is legal under the laws of war. Under the current posture of U.S. nuclear forces, that attack would happen in minutes.”
They offer a number of alternatives, including requiring other officials in the line of succession, such as the vice president and the speaker of the House — “neither of whom can be removed by the president if they disagree — to concur with a launch order.”
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/02/23/even-they-know-nobodys-home-dozens-of-house-dems-call-on-biden-to-relinquish-sole-authority-to-launch-nuclear-weapons/
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Your insights are so true Pat, thanks for saying it out loud.😉👍😁😻
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thanks Brenda.
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