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calimary

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31. What always helps me stay focused AND, more importantly, MOTIVATED.
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 01:03 PM
Aug 2020

is the awareness that they’re HOPING we’ll get tired and realize that it’s useless to keep fighting ... and so we just give up. (And maybe just go away).

That is what they want.

You hear it all over. Anyone notice the talking point that’s started to seep into the national consciousness? The “exhausted” thing? “I’m exhausted.” “This is exhausting.” “We’re becoming exhausted...”

THAT’S what they want. It makes conquest easier. It makes a takeover easier. You don’t have to work as hard or lose as much energy/blood/fighters/operatives/strategies when you’ve worn the opposition down because THEY do the finishing for you. THEY get tired or frustrated and THEY give up. Futility can be the offenders’ best friend. It closes the deal with less cost and/or effort.

And the mentality here seems pretty basic. They’re essentially lazy and self-entitled, so they really don’t want to have to work that hard. It should be easy, because, well, THEY are the masters, THEY are the Alpha, and they’re the entitled. THEY are the “chosen” because their “king” is the chosen one. He even said so during one of those impromptu White House outdoor press gaggles, half-joking about it. Uh-huh. Joking my ass.

So, better to just overwhelm and exhaust the opponent. They think, anyway. The opponent will get tired, frustrated, and most-preferably, dispirited, and give up. Or give up and go away. Or, most-preferably, give in.

Well, I WON’T!!!

I REFUSE!!!

I WILL NOT PLAY!!! Or, in this case, GET played.

They want us to get tired, overwhelmed, exhausted, worn down. And giving up. So they can just roll on over us and flatten us and rule.

And I. WON’T. DO. IT. No matter how tired or frustrated or despondent it may make me feel. That’s what they want.

So I AIN’T GIVIN’ IT TO ‘EM.

I. WON’T. PLAY.

Yeah but betting markets say the sky is falling... jcgoldie Aug 2020 #1
Looking just now at one of the betting markets it has dropped yes, but is inline with the ntl polls Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #6
I just wonder if one person or group of people Tribetime Aug 2020 #19
I'm done with polls. I'm going with my gut. This election will be decided weeks after Nov 3. idziak4ever1234 Aug 2020 #2
Oh pleeease.. can we not have anything positive? Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #4
I was positive four years ago and had my heart ripped out. idziak4ever1234 Aug 2020 #7
Post removed Post removed Aug 2020 #16
They aren't silent, and they're far from the majority. bearsfootball516 Aug 2020 #24
+1. Tremendous headwind. Like a punch in gut last night Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2020 #33
ahhh the old "gut method" jcgoldie Aug 2020 #9
? That is a very odd thing to say. idziak4ever1234 Aug 2020 #10
Unrec. nt Wednesdays Aug 2020 #12
I guess we should all give up, then. Codeine Aug 2020 #15
Thx for posting! Yes...let's stay focus on the positive Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #3
my gut says the same quaker bill Aug 2020 #5
we need to vote up and down the ticket and make the traitor trump lose by a landslide samsingh Aug 2020 #8
Stay vigilant, not vigilante... Wounded Bear Aug 2020 #11
+1 ancianita Aug 2020 #21
Keep Working Aepps22 Aug 2020 #13
Right...it has never been a belief that you will win that limits the vote, but just the opposite... Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #30
AGREED! MatthewG. Aug 2020 #14
The Democracy Institute and the Trafalgar polls he's been retweeting Roland99 Aug 2020 #17
538 says they "have reason to believe that they (DI) are a fake pollster...." TheRickles Aug 2020 #27
ha! wouldn't surprise me in the least! Roland99 Aug 2020 #32
404 File not found -- meaning a new poster was removed. hedda_foil Aug 2020 #34
That's strange TheRickles Aug 2020 #36
One word.....Senate ashredux Aug 2020 #18
The Senate can't change a thing if a hostile party's president won't sign. Two words, then. ancianita Aug 2020 #22
Democrats will certainly control the house..... ashredux Aug 2020 #23
And replaced by whom? Then what. Signings? ancianita Aug 2020 #26
That would take 67 senators. We will be lucky to get 51. Patterson Aug 2020 #28
McConnell avoided a public airing of evidence. Qutzupalotl Aug 2020 #35
No you can't. You need 2/3 of the Senate to impeach a president . And to impeach a newly Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #29
Don't take it for granted, give it another few days to reflect the convention. shotten99 Aug 2020 #20
Conservatives new defense is that all the polls are wrong because Seasider Aug 2020 #25
What always helps me stay focused AND, more importantly, MOTIVATED. calimary Aug 2020 #31
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