Blue Horseshoe

"For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night." - 1 Thessalonians 5:2 "So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you." - Revelation 3:3

Hard to argue this point.

Have you noticed that Wade Garrett/James Daulton/Ravensfan, with his new alias here, can't use his signature anti-lgbt slurs, his bigotry, his "boyo" and his same brand of personal attacks. Because it would out him to the site owner here and get him banned again as soon as someone reported him. How much of a tough guy is "Wade Garrett" if he promoted himself as a "tell it like I want and how I see it" open troll, and now he can't tell it like he wants to anymore. He had to neuter himself otherwise he'd be banned again. Not much dignity left for a supposed tough guy.

"Alternative Media" has a real and pervasive foothold in todays national daily media cycle. It's unfortunate that it's consistently written off as lies, white supremacy, bigotry, cultism and whatever else. Alternative media was able to entrench because the mainstream media, the majority of it, failed to effectively do their jobs for the American people. The truth is there are a lot of low information voters in this country, on both sides of the aisle. But even folks with limited political background and savvy can see they are being insulted daily ( They are being told by activist left leaning bought and paid for MSM to ignore what they can see daily with their own two eyes) Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, JK Rowling, Jordan Peterson, Piers Morgan, Ana Kasparian, Andy Ngo, Matt Taibbi, Gregory Foreman, Saagar Enjeti and many others. It's a loose coalition of those who were subjected to attempts to "cancel" them. Many with huge platforms. What did Team Blue and the DNC think was going to happen here? Here's the litmus test - What is wrong with people using their free speech, presenting information and their viewpoints, and allow others within the audience/public to come to their own opinions about it? If you think they are all liars then fine. That's your viewpoint. But are we going to pretend that the "cancel culture" does that for everyone? No, they want CERTAIN PEOPLE completely silenced. What is so dangerous about letting the masses hear information and then come to their own conclusions? You are the worst kind of "virtue signaler", you try to promote the idea of "your truth" but you've already decided that you alone should decide which virtues should actually matter.

He's all yours. Good hunting. I have always enjoyed your work here, for what it's worth. Stay strong, brother.

Neera Tanden is running day to day operations in the White House. In effect, she's the proxy for the corporate establishment and the Military Industrial Complex. She's running the country. She's trying to salvage the 2024 general election just enough where the margin of error can be bridged by pure cheating. There is zero doubt in my mind at this point that the DNC and core of the establishment Democrats will do anything to stay in power. This is why Gavin Newsom can't break through at all, Tanden knows her only way to hold power is to have Biden remain for four more years. The perceived hope is that voters will forget all this madness a year from now. The problem is the activist MSM has lied so much and spit in the face of the working class so much, that alternative media is taking real hold in the national daily media cycle. More people would rather hear from Ana Kasparian than Jen Psaki. Elon Musk and Joe Rogan are huge problems for the DNC. Twitter still has the major foothold in daily news to the average American. Rogan has a massive platform that can't be cancelled. But the major tell is Brett Cooper of the Daily Wire. Her format is built for young voters and Gen Z and her engagement numbers has tripled in the past year. That's staggering. She has absolutely zero experience in professional politics or working in the MSM and she's crushing even legacy media now in some metrics. It's not just the bad publicity, it's that the "bad news" spigot can't be turned off. The corporate establishment and Alex Soros might be able to arrange the assassination of one major pundit, but not this entire slate.

Great post and thread topic, my friend. Keep it up. Keep raising the level of discussion as you have. Proud of you, buddy.

He backed down because he thinks he has a chance with her. You'll notice an unsettling kind of pandering Gutterboy immediately does when a poster clearly identified as a female shows up in a thread. ( No offense intended to New Girl here, just hope Gutterboy doesn't end up stalking you) ( The threads above that Gutterboy started apparently long ago and also more recently, now it makes more sense, when you see him groveling for any kind of attention from any woman present on a fantasy football message board....)

One of the tragedies of the normalization of the open attack on religion and against God in this country is that it also attempts to deny history. Or avoid it. Or ignore it. When Christians were persecuted in previous times, they were often killed. But also their families. Their children. That's the things that "activists" don't seem to understand or are too ignorant to grasp. That they've been born into abundance and believe they are entitled to always live in safety and material wealth. They don't see that their children are actually in danger. They cheer for a kind of world and a kind of authoritarianism that will chew up and grind down their children like cannon fodder. So many hate Christianity because, for better or worse, the path to God is about defending the principle. Not defending the "circumstance" And these attacks are the only way that any of this crap can sell to the public. To remove any pathway towards shared values. My friend, many activists won't see what they've brought to the door steps of their homes and children until they have to see them massacred first. Do these activists think that those in high level power are going to spare them and their families in the end?

What no one talks about is that lesbians have been totally disenfranchised from the active LGBT movement. They no longer fit the "narrative" How is that "inclusive"? You mentioned before that you have children. What happens if your children take a path one day that no longer fits the "narrative" How do you want the world to treat them? How would you react if they were "cancelled"? You promote a kind of society and world that will outright massacre every single person you love. But it's your free speech.

One of the core arguments against all this is that the current pathway essentially destroys all the gains made for women's rights and women's advocacy through Title IX. Since that discussion point is essentially indefensible from the position of the activist radical left, the majority of the MSM will refuse to cover it. A fair distinction is that biological males participating in women's/girl's sports is a form of cultural terrorism though state sanctioned open misogyny. That issue has far more nuance than you've ever shown here in these forums with your posts. You don't care, so don't care. The problem is that these are the kinds of issues that lose elections down the ticket, and when you keep losing elections, you will see public policy enacted later that could be even MORE punitive, from the perspective of some, against LGBT rights. 70 percent of all American adults, by projections, are parents. You can't go to war with parents and win. You can't go to war with the working class and win. Biden, not just Biden by the entire Team Blue apparatus, is taking savage hits from voting blocks that compromise working class minorities. People who are immigrants or kids in the 1st/2nd/3rd generation in this country, there is a specific main focus and driver for education for their children. They might tolerate a lot otherwise, but not anything that will harm their children and the ancillary opportunities that come from increased education. It's winning small battles to lose the war. The overall LGBT community, by the raw numbers, is still very small against the aggregate of the total US population. When you don't have the numbers, you can't afford to have engagement that loses you masses of elections for those that might support your causes. It's not just bad politics, it's also bad policy and a total abandonment of any kind of common sense. This is a better response than you deserve. You're just a purely trash poster.

A nation rocked by mass shootings goes on an extended gun-buying run CNN April 22, 2023 .....Jenn and Shelby, friends who did not want their last names used, settled into two indoor shooting lanes – donning noise-canceling headphones and protective goggles as they took aim with lever-action rifles and pistols at targets meant to represent the human body....“I’m not quite a novice. Just starting out. Looking to buy a gun,” said Jenn, who has a gun permit but is still undecided on what her first handgun will be.... Jenn and Shelby are part of a growing number of Americans, particularly women and people of color, on an extended national gun shopping splurge – many for the first time....The number of both state and national instant criminal background checks – required before one can purchase a gun and a rough indicator of how many people are either purchasing or possibly being issued a gun permit – surged during the pandemic .... to nearly 40 million, according to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.....“The fear of the unknown and the chaos of the pandemic was the motivating factor,” Shelby, a resident of Suffolk County on Long Island, said of her reason for buying a gun.....“I’m not sure I felt uncomfortable where I lived. It was more so like a what’s-going-to-happen-next type of thing because everything just kept getting crazier and crazier.....” .....One in five US households bought a gun from March 2020 to March 2022..... One in 20 Americans purchased a gun for the first time during that period.....“I’m not sure the chaos is over, and I feel that a lot of people have guns and that it would be good to have,” said Shelby, echoing many Americans anxious about the uncertain state of the country. “I’m a single female. I live on my own. Why not protect myself?” .....“Sometime between 2016 and 2019, the new gun owners were more likely to be female and Black than prior to that and, whether it’s in response to feeling as though things are going out of control, the country is really divided.....” ....The Northeastern and Harvard study found that nearly 3% of US adults, or 7.5 million people, bought guns for the first time from January 2019 to April 2021. About half of the new gun owners were female, 20% were Black, and 20% were Hispanic.....“The face of gun ownership is changing somewhat and the people who are becoming new gun owners today are less likely to be male and more likely to be non-White, more likely to be somewhat younger than existing and long-standing gun owners...A rather large slice of our current clientele is female. We sponsor a shooting group for women… Right now there is no clear (line) – Republican or Democrat or Independent – buying guns.....” https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/us/united-states-rising-gun-sales/index.html

It's a very good question you are asking, and it's an issue that should be discussed more often. In 2015, analyst Mark Penn worked for the Clinton campaign. He kept pointing out that Team Blue, Obama and particularly Clinton, could not just keep blindly countering EVERYTHING that Trump and the Republicans did and wanted for the raw sake of opposing it. That some of the issues in play, that SOME of the policies that the GOP wanted would actually help working class people, and to aggressively try to stop it would turn large sections of the working class against the Party at the voting booth. Not to mention remove actual help to every day rank and file people. Penn was fired. He was fired for saying that Clinton could not keep ignoring working class America. And that even women voters would turn to Trump or any Republican, if only because being working class and the struggles there would mean more than the ideals of some kind of feminist campaign narrative. So what happened? Clinton lost and one of the major factors was that both college educated and especially non college educated white adult women voted for Trump and Republicans down the ticket enough to turn the election. If the GOP wants something, Team Blue will dogmatically oppose it. If it punishes the working class to aggressively try to come after that issue, they clearly don't care. The majority of staffers that work for elected officials in the Democratic Party are, on the average, under the age of 28, have not worked in any other industry, are college educated and recruited out of college, and have close to no contact with the vaunted poor white rural Christian America that keeps being demonized. These are the people who do most of the legwork for the nuts and bolts of policy. It's the same problem with electric vehicles. A lot of Democrats in office and those that work for them are completely baffled why everyone in America is not driving an EV right now. Because they exist in a tiny little bubble and don't have to suffer for it.

NY ammo sales soar, shops close on eve of change in state gun law ....Stores across New York saw a run on bullet and gun purchases this week in advance of the state’s new background check laws on firearms and ammunition......The law, which took effect Wednesday, requires firearm shops to send background checks on guns through the New York State Police, instead of directly to the FBI, while also making background checks a requirement to buy bullets as well......The law also created new fees, $2.50 for ammo purchases and $9 for gun purchases, and The Firing Pin offered discounts on both “before the state starts hoarding all your information....” ..... Mud Creek Guns and Ammo in Kennedy, NY and the Valley Gun Shop in West Falls, NY, owned by Jack Herbst, who told The Post he doesn’t want to subject his customers to state data gathering he considers invasive.....“My customers don’t want anything to do with it,” Herbst said. “People are refusing to buy anything because they have to go through this nonsense.....New York State’s new compliancy laws for dealers will make it extremely difficult to stay in business, with background checks on firearms and ammunition going through the state with ‘processing fees,'” the shop posted online late last month, announcing their closure. They were in business for 33 years. https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/ny-ammo-sales-soar-shops-close-on-eve-of-change-in-state-gun-law/