Keeping the citadel functional … and the power of “No!”

Connected to that is not ignoring your gut instinct. If it says act now, then yes … attack.  If it says no … then time for the shutters to go up.

Across the way at our place is a post item with James Martinez (the host has been at punditry a long time) and he’s saying there are things very very wrong just now … not just globopolitically but within individuals … there’s a video plus some screenshots … one of those screenshots, referring to him, not me, is:

Not only reaction to certain demographics appearing via globopsycho but also in how we ourselves react to things in general. Here is how Britain is reacting just now:

Sometimes it’s easy to say no … to the murderous Zelclown, to Starmer, to Obama … but sometimes it’s not easy … not through threat but through honeypot:

Rubio is susceptible too:

All right … I’m susceptible to Julia, just as many readers are … in fact to many classy women … this is a fellow Xer of long standing … she’d been referring to Donny and Giorgia:

Keeps the world turning, doesn’t it … if it works for the good of people … why not?

Coming back to the heading about citadels … yes, there is trouble on the way … you’d really have to be obtuse or stubborn not to see this, esp. with Fink taking over the WEF, meaning the EU and Demrats, meaning Starmer in turn, Carney etc. etc.

I visualise each of us having an inner circle of our citadel … family, closest friends … then a second ring of vital people … then by degrees further rings.  At the citadel walls, heavily fortified, are mounted the armaments, turned outwards … and the baddies out there are given hell by us.  Any attack from outside the citadel … well, we deal with it dispassionately, even if seething overall.

But to do that, we must have an orderly, calm citadel … we can’t fight outwards and inwards at the same time.  Yesterday, I had three unfortunate stress producers within the citadel … one still not sorted, one involved saying no to some electronic gadgetry being pressed onto me … I can easily say no to someone outside the citadel but to someone inside, it can mess you around a bit, having to say no … not through weakness but through gratitude and affection … but this particular thing I’m just not going to do. End of.

The one who got through the defences though ignored my constant request at X, in the profile, not to DM me on either money you want or sex … that’s a constant rule.

She chose to ignore that, came in, DM’ing, red flags went up quickly, asking me personal details straight away, she ignored what I wrote back, then asked if I’d ever considered crypto.

Goodbye.

Yet in her profile, she’d said proTrump, pro MAGA, happily married. It sure got past my defences, we mutually followed, she then DM’ed.  I’m not sure it could have been avoided. I ran it past my mama-mate … yep, the DM’er had been out of order. I then learnt much about that state in the union where she lived, a blue state.

Any “still within the citadel” unresolved biz?  Well yes … the moniker within comments issue … that’s still ongoing but shall think on’t, dot dot dot.

There is one more … Gab have re-opened for UK users, our profiles are still there. Shall I bother?  Thinking on’t … meanwhile, post this, get back to our blog across the way, plus see what Julia is up to on X … I like to know what she has planned for bin day, lunch and dinner, plus London Transport.