JoeWeber

So then really, what we need are 250,000 brave American couch surfers to move to a few key states, take up residency, register to vote, vote a straight D ticket and be the hero's who saved American democracy. If your tax obligations are zero wherever you file you are golden. Just 31 day's of vacation and then come home to the hero's welcome you'll so richly deserve. In fact, you can probably pull it off weekends only and never miss a class at college. It'll be just like going door to door except you've got your sleeping bag. Maybe Tom Steyer will foot a $2000 per hero stipend to ease the pain, help out the hosts, pay for some gas and make it a fun trip. Half a Billion US Dollars later and our national nightmare will be over. Problem solved. Really, Florida is probably icing on the cake at this stage, so only 100,000 hero's should be enough to do the job. That's only $200 Million, quite likely less than the Russians paid. Florida No durational residency requirement. 29-day registration requirement before national election; 29-day registration requirement before first and second state primary. (Trump won by 144,445 votes. Electoral votes 29) Michigan 30-day residency requirement. (Trump won by 13,080 Votes. Electoral votes 16) Pennsylvania 30-day residency requirement. 30-day registration requirement. (Trump won by 68236 votes. Electoral votes 20) Wisconsin 10-day residency requirement. Individual may also register on election day at polling place. (Trump won by 22257 votes. Electoral votes 10)

What about your country do you love? It must be the real estate because you definitely don't love the people. I think you love the narrative of your Moses like march away from sin and oppression to the land of your people in the mountains of north Georgia. Hallelujah! Free at last, free at last you are finally free at last from the company of soup kitchen supporters and other Luciferians. But that's all BS, too. You have never disengaged from the outside world. You glean the Internet for the right news, engage in online forums, interact with socialist/communist/liberal evil doers, and communicate and stay involved with the greater world in the exact same way as those of us in purgatory do. So woop-de-doodle, you moved into a low security prison with unlimited work release opportunities, TV, Internet and concealed carry privileges. Seriously, are you here because your community and religion are really that boring to you now?

Why stop there? Now guess my age, weight and height. All you can lose is another cheap kewpie doll.

The larger idea is that barriers come in many forms; Trump walls are just one kind. Distance, language, nationality, culture, education, religion, sexuality, skin color and circumstance can also be formidable barriers. By interacting with others in the heterogeneous cyber world of ideas on SC you are actually working to break down those barriers. That's a good thing. You should want your correspondents to better understand you and, I hope, for you to better understand them. Win or lose, that's the beauty of the thing. The prize, of course, is context and the possibility to see into the thoughts of others. And then, if you are willing, into your own. But if you insist on seeing the world around you through a narrative you ascribe to and not through the eyes of your neighbors then how can you learn? You told me your story, your narrative, and asked for mine. Well, I don't have one that can be offered as an explanation of my truth. Mine changes as what I believe to be true changes. That's the way of life. You seem to believe that you need to explain yourself with a telling. Neighbor, that's not true for you or me. Every time we post we expose our narratives so the job is done. "These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Someday you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer burn to be Brothers in arms"

But I did. That's the irony of your question, really, because intentional or not it's unavoidable. For example, I told you why I participate here. From that you can deduce that I feel strongly bound by a sense of community that, owing to the age of connectivity, is unbounded by locality. From that you can understand why I believe my world view should be informed by what happens in the world not just nearby a certain few acres in Oregon. Unless you pull the plug on your router and toss your smart phone community, for better or worse, is no longer a place. These days you never need be without someone to validate you, tell you to wake the fuck up or point out in excruciating detail just how silly you can be. These days you don't need to be a Muslim, a Christian, a Liberal, a Conservative or any unchangeable flavor thereof just because. You have options, neighbor.

And yet here you are, not there. Remotely placed but not remotely satisfied with the limits of society in your enclave, you need to reach out to city folk and snowflake Oregonians for the intellectual stimulation you need. Except in your pretense, this forum is really no different than an assemblage of chairs on a porch where you go to hang. You're not here only to proselytize although I suspect thats how you rationalize being so involved for so long. You are here, like the rest of us, for something else you crave. So believe as you will but as long as you maintain an internet connection and membership in forums like SC you are still in the city and we are still your neighbors.

Christian as victim. Did you really need to there? Just be brave, Ron. You might get a vacation or one of those black things in your file but you can respond in kind.

So any German aware of Nazi atrocities who was ashamed of being a German during WWII was mentally ill? You might want to work on how you categorize things. Race and Gender don't really fit well with Nationality. No matter, you've stepped in it again. Apparently you would not feel blessed if you were other than a Caucasian American or else why make the distinction?

Normiss, we got to get you up to speed. It's because he first gave them free will so they could choose to be homosexuals and pedophiles so that Ron could use his free will to decide they were same category deviations from Gods norm so that he could freely decide that one was homoacceptable and the other was not. Capiche?

We have our standards, you know.

Did you just admit that you are a Christian White Supremacist? That is the "us", you know.

Divert, Ignore, Transfer blame, Scream Fake news or whatever it takes to not confront his held views.

Next up: indicator species like spotted owls and marbled murrelets. Sorry Charlie, weird birds cost less than trees. Let's run that road along that river and get 'er done! Salmon? Fuck 'em.

Then we must stop lest we offend delicate sensibilities.

Jesus Jerry, August 17 is the Topless Taco Festival at Watershed. What kind of Neanderthals are these people?

Crap! Why us again? We make beer and wine and go to strip clubs. How is that pissing off anyone?

Sure Counselor, that's the way it is. He's just an honest merchant hawking his wares with no suggestive purpose implied. Thanks for setting me straight.

Holy Shit! Same as Roger Nelson.

Missing: As a Christian I can not support the incitement of gun violence against anyone. To do so on a billboard against four young women of color, who are also the duly elected representatives of their congressional districts, is especially reprehensible. The God I worship and advocate loves us all equally. He gave us free will so that we might have our own thoughts and ideas and then come to him for salvation. I personally know the gun shop owner who purchased the billboard. This very day I intend to explain to him why such an ad is an offense not only against four innocent young women and the very fabric of our society but is also an offense against the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 37:10

Thanks. I should have wiki'd it instead of going with what I remembered. Maybe that's why they fired me.

OAN is reporting that Hillary Clinton was observed delivering a pizza to his cell just before he was found dead. An unnamed source, identified as Q, said that he apparently choked to death on a piece of Canadian bacon. Goddamn Canadians!

I think the problem now is knowing your 15 minutes of fame is just a few trigger pulls away. Something else not contemplated in Scalia's screed.

In that context I think it's the process not the tool. You use a long 2X4 or such and finish the surface by working it back and forth across the top of the forms.

I know. So frustrating.