Thanks to all for the offers, but I'm not interested in meeting singles in my area, or learning more about crypto, or getting pictures in my DMs. I'll never subscribe to anything or buy anything, and I'm happily married (and my wife is an excellent shot).
Here's a question every Republican should ask: If our principles are worth defending, why aren't they worth demanding from our own candidates?
My VP campaign is about making constitutional restraint, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty the standards for leadership again.
Every time a medical professional asks me “Have you had any thoughts about self-harm” I wonder if I should tell them how many hours I have spent volunteering for establishment politicians.
No.
What’s complicated is understanding that no side of the political class wants that.
They want people dependent, exhausted, anxious, and powerless.
Ignore what they say. Ignore what they *claim* legislation does. Look at results.
The results are intended.
It’s 113 years later and the Federal Reserve & income tax still exist.
It’s 92 years later and the National Firearms Act still exists.
It’s 25 years later and The Patriot Act still exists.
Quit telling me there a difference between democrats & republicans at a federal level when the bullsh*t lives on regardless of who is there.
The Republican Party doesn’t have a messaging problem. It has a credibility problem.
You cannot promise economic freedom while defending government intervention. You cannot promise constitutional restraint while excusing executive overreach.
The path forward begins with consistency.
The GOP doesn’t need another personality to rally around. It needs a purpose worth rallying around.
Free markets. Individual liberty. Constitutional government. Peace through strength.
The road back to Republican victories begins with the principles we left behind. 🇺🇸
@Badgers89_@OpenSCADGuns Here’s where the sincere “less guns” people have messed up.
Registries *have* been used to aid in later confiscation.
So none of us trust any measure that leaves a record.
That’s not paranoia - it is just looking at history.
Democrats in MN say gun owners are overreacting, as they say they intend to make modern firearms illegal.
Understand this - many of us aren't registering anything. We aren't turning in anything. Our guns aren't going away.
That's not a reaction - it is the absence of a reaction
Jung on human nature. Uncomfortably accurate.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
Psychology and Alchemy, §126
The measure of the tyranny of an administration is not only what rights were violated under it.
One must also judge how much the institutions that protect our rights have been weakened.
By that measure, we have had a long string of tyrants.
@Badgers89_ Who said anything about all?
I’m not allowing someone else to decide which firearms are acceptable for me to own and carry.
I have no intention of begging for crumbs of my God-given right to defend myself.
I’m not giving up any.
And there are many others like me.
@billgongi Because I want the world to be a better place, and the first step to that is for us all the understand each other.
And yes, I am worried about what will happen if the government actually tries to take away guns.
You should be too.
Nobody should want that.