Thanks Para. As always, very well said.

It's very much the same for me. I haven't watched tv news for years; and now have put my daily newspaper on "vacation hold". I've never been on Facebook, but followed several people on Twitter (primarily James Woods). But, I canceled my Twitter account after they shut down Pres. Trump. A lot of people send me e-mails and texts about the election, but I either delete them or politely respond "Sorry, I'm not reading this".

To stay sane, I have told my family that I'm on "sabbatical" and am only reading good books. I just started Carl Sandburg's 6-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln - that should keep me occupied for a while.

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Respect

Another 10-4 and another thank you, Para.

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Originally posted by parabellum:. . . I have ceased getting my news from any place but this forum. Since November 3, I have not watched one single second of TV news. . . There's no longer any truth in any of it, and even when there was, any such truths were scant.

I suggest you do the same.

Journalism is dead, politics is completely corrupted and the truth, when discovered, is banished.

Ditto on all of that.

Thanks Boss!
While I have been guilty of responding in such forums, we have to move on and continue to focus on being responsible gun owners. We need to come together.

Not much more needs to be said than that. "The absurdity of it all." Yes indeed. I haven't the tolerance for it any longer, much like many on this forum. The country will become a three-ring circus the next few years, and I don't care to participate or even watch it if I can help it. I never much liked the circus.

Total agreement Para

The last 2 months have not been fun, I have found myself in very dark places and it's effecting my health ....even my wife asked when I would be normal again

I gave myself until today.....to get this shit out of my head and focus on my family and my health.

Have not watched network TV since Nov 3rd and stopped reading several blogs that I used to check several times a day yesterday.

I too am done with the uniparty and will try to avoid the political discussions as I find them a very guilty diversion that I do not need.

As always...SF is a great place to share thoughts and learn.

I am learning slowly to avoid any and all politics.

It was eating me alive with indigestion and heart burn, head aches, not sleeping, bad moods.

It is hard because I know my time is coming to an end serving in the US Army and I am worried about what the new administration will do to the military.

Over the last year or so i have slowly turned away from all news. This is hard for me because I am a news junkie especially small unit conflicts and the Middle East.

I am going back to the way I was when I was in North Dakota over the summer, just hike, read, run etc.. I was so much happier and relaxed.

I spent all those years and all that money on my education and it seems like I am forgetting a lot of it. I figure why not focus all the negative energy on learning and re-learning history.

A few months ago I went to a book swap at a local church and I got to talking with one of the clergy men and he recommended two books that he donated:

The Crater: Burnside's assault on the Confederate Trenches June 30 1864

and

Testament: A soldiers story of the Civil War.

I want to research various specialty units such as the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, also known as Mosby's Rangers, Union Sharp shooters along with infamous missions (lack of a better term) such as the Great Beefsteak Raid.



I love this statement:
Journalism is dead, politics is completely corrupted and the truth, when discovered, is banished.

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What a breath of fresh air. I am staying the f away from social media too unless it is Search and Rescue related. Thank you Para. Makes me love this forum even more.

Great post. I enjoyed it.

Thank you Para.
I agree whole heartedly.

People wonder why I pay little attention to public political debate and argument. It is because none of it illuminates anything. The partisans pick and choose their "facts" or create their facts. They are all perfectly capable of using whatever fact exists to support the position they want to advocate in favor of. It is meaningless.

My wife sits there, arguing with the TV. It doesn't help. The TV never responds, and she doesn't change the TV's mind. It all seems silly to me.

I have to agree 100%. No longer doing any conventional news outlet. Just Zero hedge though they were knee-capped by Amazon AWS, their host. The site still has the inside look though the comments page has been tightened up to meet the control freak needs of the Progressive Bezos.

I am just ignoring it all as I prep for the coming fruition of the WEF "Great Reset", the wet dream of Gates, Soros, Bezos, and a hundred other Masters of the Universe who pay the congress to do their bidding.

The Central Banks are the new tool of the Masters and the coming events are to be life-changing for everyone not already in the wealthy clique.

The magnitude which the deck is stacked against conservatives makes any comments or grass roots level actions pretty much useless. I too have tuned out, but take solace knowing these things are cyclical and what goes around eventually comes around. Whether or not this happens in my lifetime is however questionable. In the mean time, I'll be on the sidelines and appreciate the curtailing of political threads.

I’ve read every single post of every single one of the Trump threads. I’ve keep my finger on the pulse the last few months. But I do not speak to anyone about politics outside of one or two close friends or family. I do not watch any news, I do not participate in any social media. I live a simple life and I try to avoid any unnecessary stressors when I’m not at work. I am absolute in my political positions. But they are mine and they are private.

This forum is one of the most valuable things to my sanity. It is also where I get most of my news from.

Appreciate the atmosphere, Para.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:


This morning I informed my wife: "I will not see the 'news' on TV anymore.

I haven't cancelled my voter registration--yet. But I'm damn >< close. I, like you, believe the entire system to be so badly corrupted I've little to no faith legitimacy can be restored.

I have the same new policy at my house too.

FWIW, we need to be careful on any apolitical transition.
I hear everyone and am equally disgusted with politics.
However, it is a fine line from being reserved and cautious to being defeated.
The enemy wins not with their actions but in killing your will to fight and win (I may have plagiarized Patton but it is true).
I may not have the same enthusiasm and hope but I won't completely surrender either.

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Originally posted by smschulz:

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:


This morning I informed my wife: "I will not see the 'news' on TV anymore.

I haven't cancelled my voter registration--yet. But I'm damn >< close. I, like you, believe the entire system to be so badly corrupted I've little to no faith legitimacy can be restored.

I have the same new policy at my house too.

FWIW, we need to be careful on any apolitical transition.
I hear everyone and am equally disgusted with politics.
However, it is a fine line from being reserved and cautious to being defeated.
The enemy wins not with their actions but in killing your will to fight and win (I may have plagiarized Patton but it is true).
I may not have the same enthusiasm and hope but I won't completely surrender either.

Thank you for pointing this out. I was thinking basically the same.

Para, well said. At 67 I have the same sentiments.

Para, thank you for giving us your thoughts over these last years. You have been terrific. However, there are those, including me, who don’t find punching out to be the answer - though it is certainly an understandable path

I suspect that you and others may find a renewed interest if you see a way to be other than feckless. Right now, the time may seem impossible. Time will tell. Hegemony tends to overreach and that often leads to counter action that has effect.

That said, I told my friends after the election that I’d listen to the reports of destruction to come but would respond with “auto reply.” I gave a statement to them fitting for all GDC occurrences.

I hope you are wrong and that active resistance means something. To me, staying involved is the answer. I have not lost my entire life to the emotional roller coaster of politics. I have a lot of non-escapable life to deal with. It is just that being academic about the political issues of our times has lost it’s charm. I hope you find the renewal you seek.

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Originally posted by jhe888:. . . partisans pick and choose their "facts" or create their facts. They are all perfectly capable of using whatever fact exists to support the position they want to advocate in favor of. It is meaningless. . .

The term used in auditing (and I am sure other places) is "confirmation bias": select-process-distort-manufacture data to support what you already believe, or what you want others to believe.