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rampartd

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Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:13 PM Wednesday

The Fantasy Planet of Maraloco [View all]

The Fantasy Planet of Maraloco
Our situation, the status of the resistance is fairly dire. For more than a plurality of cultists, this is a death cult. They have been taught, generations from birth, that Armageddon and the end of the world are desirable outcomes for their immortal souls, and ours, predicted, prophesied, predestined.

The goal of a conservative is to slow change, to establish stability. I have that tendency. I'm old and not real healthy and just want to be warm and comfortable for the days remaining.

The goal of a liberal is to change. Not everything everywhere all at once, but to imagine better ideas and maybe try it out small scale before going into full production. Liberals are, proudly, the capital E Establishment.

“Our revolution will be bloodless, if the left allows” Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation

Who does our project management? Is it center for American progress ?
I also think our game theory guys might not be playing in enough dimensions.
Do we need a shadow government? A corps of people and policies that can start the day after the election


to prepare the subpoenas, build the guillotines and send invitations to an old fashioned “Party at Versailles”

Was that Mel Brooks ‘ History of the World?” or was it the Halloween private equity orgy at Maraloco.

Is Bastille Day celebrated in your war torn city?

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