Exactly, especially when you look at how we got here.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

This should be mandatory reading for all Democrats.

You’re competing with advertisement campaigns that were persuasive enough to convince most people to vote for things they didn’t even support.

Democrats picked up on the advertising part, but somehow haven’t realized that nobody is going to be persuaded by the moderate compromise bullshit. That is exactly what the Republicans were doing when Paul Weyrich got frustrated and started looking to civil rights organizations to strategize a movement to invigorate the right. It was quite successful.

How do you pursuade? You at least pretend you have fucking skin in the game. You worry about your donors and what they will think second to your principles. You at least pretend you care more about what is happening than holding on to a position for 40+ fucking years as the country burns around you.

Weyrich hailed as conservative pioneer

Joining his boss, Colorado Republican Sen. Gordon Allot, one day at a meeting with civil rights and other left-leaning groups, Weyrich watched the liberal activists strategize as a coalition and was inspired to create a parallel apparatus on the right.

“Here, before my eyes, was the whole panoply laid out,” Weyrich told reporter Ron Brownstein years later for a book on the rise of political partisanship in the capital. “I had seen the effectiveness, but I didn’t know the mechanics.”

In 1973, Weyrich co-founded the Heritage Foundation with Edward Feulner, creating what would eventually be the dominant think tank on the conservative landscape. Initially funded by the Coors family, Heritage helped provide ideas and issues to the many young conservatives who were running for office in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and who would eventually become the party’s leaders.

“In the early ‘70s, when most conservatives were reduced to wringing their hands and resigning themselves to life in the political wilderness, Paul just seemed to know what was needed to break the liberal stranglehold,” recalled Feulner.

This is exactly where the Democrats are over 50 years later. Reduced to hand wringing and afraid to step out of line.

There is a reason Weyrich partnered with people like Falwell and used fire and brimstone messaging. It gets attention. It refuses to compromise. It’s not worried about saying the wrong thing. It doesn’t really matter what you’re trying to get people to support. People are compelled to follow it based on the way it makes them feel. The feeling is what convinces.

Weyrich has been dead for almost 2 decades, but people in the White House are continuing to use this same strategy, and usually just recycle his old playbooks bc they’re not as smart or creative as this evil bastard was. Take back the fucking narrative!

Red-Letter Christians

Red-Letter Christians is a non-denominational movement within Evangelical Christianity. “Red-Letter” refers to New Testament verses and parts of verses printed in red ink, to indicate the words attributed to Jesus without the use of quotation marks.

The organization was founded by Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne in 2007 with the aim of bringing together evangelicals who believe in the importance of insisting on issues of social justice mentioned by Jesus (in red in some translations of the Bible). They believe Christians should be paying attention to Jesus’s words and example by promoting biblical values such as social justice issues. These issues include the fight against poverty, the defense of peace, building strong families, respecting human rights and welcoming foreigners.

Yep, “no reason,” and that giant database on all Americans Palantir and all these other tech companies “aren’t” helping build is nothing we should be concerned about.

And we’re “not going to war with Iran,” and Trump planned the military strikes against Iran, but also the U.S. wasn’t involved in any way.

Rest assured the only combat these men will see is via drone surveillance feeds from behind a desk.

I can’t help but worry though, that in addition to all the concerns about surveillance and privacy, Foundry/the megadatabase being created on all Americans could be used in some pretty horrific ways against individuals that speak out against our new leaders, or individuals that vaguely resemble somebody that spoke out against our elite technologists.

How Israel Uses AI in Gaza—And What It Might Mean for the Future of Warfare

A program known as “The Gospel” generates suggestions for buildings and structures militants may be operating in. “Lavender” is programmed to identify suspected members of Hamas and other armed groups for assassination, from commanders all the way down to foot soldiers. “Where’s Daddy?” reportedly follows their movements by tracking their phones in order to target them—often to their homes, where their presence is regarded as confirmation of their identity. The air strike that follows might kill everyone in the target’s family, if not everyone in the apartment building.

Abraham, whose report relies on conversations with six Israeli intelligence officers with first-hand experience in Gaza operations after Oct. 7, quoted targeting officers as saying they found themselves deferring to the Lavender program, despite knowing that it produces incorrect targeting suggestions in roughly 10% of cases.

Things can change very quickly if there’s an “attack” on U.S. soil they totally didn’t know about in advance or anything when they signed this.

Federal regulations and protections can get pushed aside real fast in the name of security, especially when you have states like Louisiana already working so closely with DHS.

Or be the public motivation somebody is looking for to join in a war he totally doesn’t want to join even though he just handed a bunch of tech bros military seniority roles…

You’re preaching to the choir

Who says they won’t use drones and blame it on another country?

I’m not worried about a threat from Iran. I’m worried about a false flag being blamed on Iran

Its the timing of all this with Iran that has me most concerned and the fact that Trump just got rid of the only agency that does a thorough investigation into industrial explosions.

And the fact that the Mossad snuck in drones to Iran recently for their attack

And the video of Landry signing this bill and mentioning our nuclear power plants and saying Trump will be signing his own EO soon

And the fact that Trump also just fired a Biden appointee who was head of the Nuclear safety board that oversees America’s nuclear reactors

Hopefully all just part of a really weird series of coincidences

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*Invading Poland via sneak attack while the U.S. acted to distract Poland by leading them to believe they were actually being heard in a discussion about ways to keep something exactly like this from happening.

Yeah you’re right, my bad.

Ok I’ll just come out and say this, I think it would be easy for a certain corrupt individual to create a false flag drone attack from a “foreign adversary” in order to boost patriotic morale and gain the support necessary to drag a certain country into a war he has repeatedly and very publicly announced he does not want to be involved in despite all evidence to the contrary.

Especially given that corrupt individual has dismantled several safety measures and regulations and eliminated positions of individuals who are trained to keep something like this from happening.

If you look at the amount of damage done by the Beeper attacks a few years ago, you really don’t need a gigantic war drone to cause a catastrophe in certain conditions.

I know it sounds paranoid AF, but I find it especially odd that same individual is trying to shut down the only agency that would thoroughly investigate an industrial chemical explosion if one were to occur. https://grist.org/energy/trump-quietly-shutters-the-only-federal-agency-that-investigates-industrial-chemical-explosions/

Yeah that’s why it would be like a Trojan horse, if it allegedly came in from a shipment from another country.

Exactly, it’s a modern day trojan horse. It seems to be fairly easy to then potentially pin the attack on just about anyone using shell companies for shipment. Especially with the deregulation and removal of so many safety and security positions over the last several months.

I was reading a little about the beeper attacks the and I think even now there is still some uncertainty about which company actually worked with the Mossad to manufacture the batteries that contained the explosive.

The only reason I even bring that up, is that there were so many steps involving so many different groups of legitimate manufacturing companies as well as shell companies to ship the beepers. Some of the beepers were even taken apart and inspected before being distributed as a security measure, but they had used such a small amount of explosive fuel within the batteries, that it was completely missed.

I mean, if only anyone could see the obvious bullshit we’re headed into.

There’s a lot of money to be made during times of war.

Unfortunately the people that are pushing us in that direction are some very short sighted individuals that genuinely believe that once their actions have driven humans to the brink of extinction, they’ll still be perfectly content in an underground bunker with shitty AI robots that break a month or so in, and all the stockpiled vacuum sealed resources they can hoard. Or alternatively, dying while attempting to colonize mars.

That’s who humanity will be relying to continue our legacy. The kind of person that thinks they are chosen elite, and there is nothing they cannot achieve. All bc they climbed mount Everest once while paying a team of Sherpas to risk their own lives and do everything for them.

You know the sheriff in Florida literally threatened to kill people?

So now I come to you, with open arms

Idk why I’m asking this, but I’m genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?