It would make me angry if it wasn't so completely dickless and tedious. It's the embodiment of the NPC meme -- mindless droning, completely predictable and impotent.
It's frightening to see them manufacture this narrative. It's even more frightening watching them take a sledgehammer to reality by pushing this transgender nonsense. Thousands of kids' lives are being destroyed by this evil.
Holy shit. I could not watch more than 10 seconds of such childishness. When a jab-/lock down-/medical tyranny-supporting ex-president offers more reasonable and reality-based conversation than 'news' people, well, dogs are cats and 2+2=5...what the actual fu@#
Poor peter pan. I bet if he had enough money in the bank he would have quit yesterday. Too bad he's living that hand-to-mouth existence in such an expensive city. No doubt he couldn't quit if he had to. "it IS happening AGAIN!!!' so funny ..........
Trump should come out in favor of gay marriage, child trannies, black lives matter, inclusion equity & diversity (IED), and the green new deal. While waving a progress pride flag.
Force them up denounce all of those things to make sure they're on the other side of Bad Bad.
😂 Now, that would be a spectacle of once-in-a-lifetime kind! The mommy and dad and whole lineage of all spectacles, hordes of tiny dimly-lit brains exploding in unison 🤣
Imagine a giant red hat wearing MAGA crowd waving rainbow flags, sarcastically shouting diversity slogans.
The Poles did this during communism. Anti-communist rallies would be shut down with extreme brutality, so the protestors would show up in commie red chanting "we love communism, yay." Put the state in a tough position. They knew it was sarcastic, but on the surface they were supporting communism, so they couldn't send in the riot cops....
I already had the Twitter link saved, and once you mentioned the scream OF COURSE I had to Duck, Duck, Go it. Once I've gone through all that, I might as well save others the trouble :)
I, too, have mixed feelings about Trump. Like many, I supported someone else until it became the race between DJT and Satan's daughter. He beat all the odds and won. And for a short time, it looked like we might actually be able to restore the Republic. Except he made MANY, MANY truly bad decisions from the beginning on "whom" to appoint and/or relieve from duty. Those decisions were fueled by his own narcissism, which as he always assures us, anything HE does is "greatest" or "most perfect" or the "only rational" solution. And he makes no bones about it: if you disagree with him, you're an idiot.
The entrenched, unelected bureaucrats simply had to hold their nose and leak all they could to undermine his efforts to "fix the Republic." They only had to bide some time, because THEY would ensure the fix for the left's coup in 2020. And they succeeded in that wildly. In hindsight, January 6th was their collective bow at curtain call--and the faked hearings were encores. Consequently, Satan's favorite nephew "won" by a 4-year revenge effort fueled by non-stop TDS coming from the Deep State, the left's unending supply of feigned outrage and championed by the propagandist media, to fix the 2020 race. And they broke the country apart in the process. We are more divided than anytime in our history--even leading up to the Civil War.
As other commenters have chimed in, Trump absolutely won in 2020. But with each bit of evidence that has come up to prove it, the courts have refused to even look at it and the Deep State has grown stronger because of it. That's by design. Our government and our courts are all compromised beyond redemption. Our rights have been diminished by bureaucratic Covid overreaction to almost non-existent, particularly through the one-sided censorship that allowed the TDS to fester untreated by calmer debate of "the issues." Conservative voices were not even given a CHANCE to show fraud evidence or to question the Covid response and mandates being forced throughout--until Substack. And just like WWII, when totalitarianism showed its face, the church looked away and did nothing. Most listened and closed their doors--and to this day, are still trying to coax people to come back.
I don't have the answers, but I share the frustration. A "bare win" is a losing proposition in a democracy, for it takes a mere 51% to make life miserable for the other 49% and the ones who know better but succumb to __________ (bribery, force, fear) to empower the majority. I've yet to see any candidate who will rally support from the other extreme or what's left of the middle.
See I think there is a middle, but the blanket hegemony of all our institutions plus the media has made everything appear as shades of grey (gender affirmation, don't kill grandma, myriad euphemisms.,etc.) when actually it's just camouflage to surreptitiously manufacture black/white issues.
The irony is that some issues (unfortunately the most important ones) are absolutely black/white, but most have more of a complexion of grey.
That's the greatest trick of all:
To have people fear saying the obvious outloud (boys are boys and girls are girls, obvious violations of our rights, etc.) because they just don't want to have to deal with the fallout - they "think" they are avoiding shades of grey - when in reality they are tacitly approving the the wrong side of a black/white issue. This allows the ideologues to keep dialing up the volume, by default of silence from rational people too worried to step up and speak out about black/white issues because they have been made to appear as grey.
I would categorize myself as libertarian leaning (although I hate labels). Unfortunately this is not a time to "live and let live". Trying to ignore isn't going to work anymore. In fact, it didn't work at all, and here's where we're at:
Silence---->Indifference---->apathy---->bondage
It is the path always taken. We are at the last fork.
As far as 2020. Yes there was a coup and massive fraud. However, the real reason Trump had no shot was due to fear itself of Republicans in general and their leaders. They laid down with covid as cowards, allowing election law changes because they were scared. They accepted it.
Yes. Exactly. And do you think those election laws will ever be changed back?
That's how you end up in a real life situation that mirrrors Bonhoeffer's pithy/profound quote. First in drips and drops....then in a mudslide.
I wonder what this country will look like 20 -30 years from now if this virtually complete hegemony still exists?
I doubt it's good. And if you and are alive then, I think we could pinpoint the day the grip of hegemony became unbreakable: the first day people were allowed to vote for the 20' election.
Pretty sure it has to be "broken" now, or the historians will not be the remembrancers of what people want to forget...they'll be the remembrancers of what their told.
Which means the end of America both in reality and in the books written to document our history.
I still have faith. It's just hard to believe we've gotten to this point. Future generations may not have that conundrum...because they will be reading a different history than what we learned.
IKR? It's almost like they'll be wondering why, after only a couple of years, we could no longer seem to afford the doctor--or the insurance coverage--we were told we could keep if only we allowed the almighty government to dictate our medical decisions! Or why we refused to believe the "official assessment" just a few years later that (by manipulating flawed PCR results) we were suffering a worldwide plandemic emergency! Both lies, BTW, courtesy of the extreme left socialists...have served to further empower themselves while ripping us even further apart. By design, it's to cull dissent and reward the sheeple (who have proven they'll fall for anything).
The Senate refused to confirm Trump's choices of appointees. Every other president gets to fill their cabinet with whomever they want, from neocons to Marxist to diversity hires, but Trump was stuck with people pre-approved by the establishment and swamp, so they could continue to screw and remove him. Just one gop senator could have broken that log jam.
It's hard to say now, because the past 4 years have clearly illustrated just how deep the cancer goes into the unelected bureaucracy--far too many so entrenched that there is no viable way that any "non-lifetime-politician" going in to that office could know. I remember there were several disagreements between his advisors (particularly between his son-in-law and the more right-leaning ones).
My main point is that the Deep State handicapped him by shutting out any dissent or commentary from his conservative base. What the Twitter Files proved beyond any doubt , is how entrenched the 3-letter agencies were in shutting down free speech across multiple social media platforms and using that authority to cram woke-ism into every aspect of our lives. It's a conversational shutdown: "you're a ____-ist or ____-phobe" is the constant retort to any objections. (And thanks to the alphabet mafia and our malignant university culture, there is NO shortage of things to fill those blanks in with!)
So we had G00gle manipulating searches and deplatforming any voices critical of that narrative who started garnering an audience on YouTube; in the process, "redefining" about a quarter of the words in the dictionary, along with cancelling/rewriting 400 years of history, to help push its own narrative of victimhood. The power that Amazon amassed--and its anti-free speech principles shown by taking down Parler without warning, because it dared give a platform to those voices shut out of traditional social media.
Conflicting messages abound--2000 Mules doc shows through GPS tracking that absentee ballot collection boxes were undoubtedly being stuffed, and all we saw through the media (and those in government/courts tasked to investigate) was "that technology is not reliable." EXCEPT, that very same technology was used to arrest and convict hundreds of J6 "protestors," many of whom were in Washington, but who never even entered the Capitol!
So, to answer your question, Rightful Freedom, IMO yes, better decisions might have made a difference, but when the powerful unelected bureaucrats have teamed up to shut down both objective and objectionable commentary (which can also be much-needed feedback from the people), they also cut off Trump's access to voices outside his echo chambers. He was trapped in 2 specific ones: his "team" and "whatever curated feedback was allowed to be seen/heard" over social media. For nearly 2 years, there were almost no conservative or critical voices in either. But then, Substack started to take off.
That said, had DJT actually been sworn in for the 2nd term he actually did win, I do not believe we'd be in the position we are today. He is too pro-business to allow lockdowns to continue for years, and that campaign energized him to want to clean out much of the Deep State. The disaster of the current Administration would hopefully show people just how corrupt the government is--but they've been trained to look away.
Yes, you're probably right about the alternative histories, If Trump and not been blocked from rightist ideas, and if he had had the second term in 2020.
"..the past 4 years have clearly illustrated just how deep the cancer goes into the unelected bureaucracy... The disaster of the current Administration would hopefully show people just how corrupt the government is--but they've been trained to look away."
Or is the time is past when shining a light on the Deep State, the media propagandists, and all the rest will make a difference? I don't know how many people are really looking away. It seems to me that everyone I know has taken sides. 2024 and what comes after is perhaps unimaginable. Something that this nation has not seen the likes of.
In recent times, Trump has been the only high level polician who is willing to suffer the consequences of a real fight with the deep state.
As much as I dislike his personality, I feel he is literally risking his life by bucking the system and fighting back as hard as he does. His enemies are numerous and powerful. I'm sure they've thought more than once about turning loose some poor, deranged sap, to be an Oswald-like-patsy. It's kinda hard to get away with it in this day an age of ultra-surveillance, but I wouldn't put it past them.
What we see is the oppositions only alternative to actual assassination: Virtual assassination, conducted by 24x7.
"I'm sure they've thought more than once about turning loose some poor, deranged sap, to be an Oswald-like-patsy."
Creating martyrs is dangerous. Kennedy became beloved and universally popular only after death. Even Dems acknowledged that he actually got less then 50% of the vote in the 1960 election against Nixon, if the all of the votes had really been counted (there was massive vote fraud in Chicago alone).
Yeah, folks were really sad about Kennedy. But you forgot reality: The wheels of power in DC kept turning, courtesy of DOD, CIA and others. We didn't leave Vietnam, as Kennedy indicated he wanted to. We spent about a trillion dollars (in today's money) fighting that war over the next 12 years. We lost more than 50,000 people. The Vietnamese lost a million people. It took us another decade to recover, militarily. The social fractures created, in some ways, never healed. That's when U.S. academia really started it's hard left turn, the legacy of which is now biting us in the arse.
Sorry, yes, Kennedy dead, very sad. The effects of martyrdym? Non-existent, when compared with the reality engineered by the then deep-state.
The difficulty is that Trump has a solid, ever galvanizing 40% of the electorate. This is enough to get on the ballot, and under the right circumstances, to win. However, it is not nearly enough to effect meaningful change. Furthermore, no one, especially the TDS afflicted, is going to change his mind about this freak show. Therefore, the smart play for the audience members is to invest nothing in any promise of "change."
You, like so many, are missing the elephant in the room standing on the 3rd rail. Trump won the election by a landslide, massive cheating Should he run again, he will run into (and hope he has better plans to address, rather than out vote the cheat) an even more entrenched, crossed the Rubicon, industrial cheat.
I am reading blogs from ex liberals who used to delight in sneering about him/ fox news.. they are quietly coming around to the fact they are wrong. No one will believe the 2024 election, especially all of those who quietly for the firs time vote for trump.
Dude, Trump knew they were going to cheat, and he had $2B for the campaign. Yet he failed to hire a single security guard to watch the ballot boxes or the ballots. Worse, the Red Team's legal efforts before the election went down in flames in every instance.
And this mismanagement is merely emblematic of Trump's many, many bad hires.
The B-side of this record: Assume that Trump could clean out the 4M people who work in the executive branch, and replace them with loyalists. Aren't the replacements going to come from the exact same hiring pool? Isn't treachery as big a problem as incompetence in the government?
You can fantasize about change in the abstract, but if you think it through, it is unlikely, just as it has been for 5,000 years.
Hire a security guard? Seriously, have you never voted before?
Each county in the United States has its own rules and regulations for voting, on top of the various voting laws in each state. How in the world could anyone overcome the obvious cheating of fake ballots in dropboxes, dead people registered to vote, elections officials blocking the windows so legal observers could not witness the cheat schemes, secretaries of state and judges changing voting laws without the required approval of state legislatures, the electronic shenanigans of voting machines hacked via wi-fi thermostats, suitcases full of faked ballots that were run through voting machines numerous times, and God knows what other ways the election was stolen?
Break open your piggy bank and buy yourself a clue.
There is one man the Left and the RINOs absolutely fear and fear absolutely: Donald J. Trump.
That's the candidate we should support. I know I will. 🇺🇸
Despite all of the corruption, America was strongest, and had the most democratic government, when union membership was at its highest. The right to work laws, free trade agreements, and preferential tax treatment of corporate profits are what lead to the situation which is now exposed by the tent cities filled with opium addicts. Hence, it seems to me that the road back is to reverse these public policies, and this starts with increasing union membership, despite all of the corruption.
In my view, and I ain't no commie, collective bargaining for labor rights is a market response to market circumstances, and can create some equality in the capitalist system which, for better or worse, is built upon the premise that human progress is greatest when it is fueled by competition, i.e., taking advantage of others, albeit in a good way, ideally.
In my husband’s job they MUST pull electricians from the union hall to work on specialized jobs that they most often have no clue how to do. This causes copious mistakes, cost overruns due to additional time to correct those mistakes, and no accountability for shoddy workmanship except from the person, my husband, who has zero control over who is working. Unions are often just as corrupt as corporations.
We are not training enough people in the trades. This is another major problem. It's right up there with the loss of manufacturing capacity and the declines in factory production.
This is the result of intentional public policies implemented by a captured government for the purpose of increasing the wealth of the richest few. And, it's working for them; but not for the people, who seem unable to appreciate that they're being lied to. Who seem blind to what's right in front of them.
Where I live, the unions were at the front of the mob DEMANDING vaccine mandates, and destroying the careers of union members who didn't get the mRNA injections.
But it does disgust me how many there are. Especially reasonably bright people who "dodo'd" :Gave up the ability to fly/think for the comfort of sloth.
and/or what I call "anus tingle" : the emotional response you are allowed to have as a reward for complying with the narrative. So long as you follow us uncritically, we will allow you to feel better than everyone else, the dumb people, the ones who don't believe in "science" Don't you feel smug after your 4th booster?
The constant overreacting of the wokescolds will be their downfall. Their schtick has become boring. People are tuning the out or turning against them as they begin to realize what’s behind it. It’s the worst thing that could have happened to them.
That said, the Oligarchs will never unrig their game. They’ll find some shiny new object to play with. Some other outrageous distraction for their serfs.
I cannot physically bring myself to watch these people. There’s not a single thing that they say in the course of a day that’s true. I get a rash if I listen to them for more than 10 seconds. Imagine lying all day for a living. 🤥
I am not black pilled. I am, however, a realist. And facts are stubborn things.
Fact: elections now are largely a charade at the federal level. So go ahead and amuse yourselves w horse race politics of Trump v Desantis v Sock Puppet v RFK etc...if that makes you happy. None of it matters. This country is run by a criminal Oligarchy Cartel and even if elections were squeaky clean the system for selecting candidates is still controlled by a corrupt Uniparty system so the choices are Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Great.
This doesn't mean giving up, so save your go down fighting memes. It means being a rational adult and embracing reality that *elections* are not going to solve our problems. No one ever voted out a gang of criminals. It doesn't work like that.
Like it or not we're in a stage of history that only resolves in great crisis similar to 1776, 1861, 1941 and now 2023. We're due.
We all need to stop pretending that this just works itself out like a good shit after a bad meal. It's beyond any elected turd to fix. The problems are so wide and deep it will require collapse and rebirth. That requires each of us to have the kind of courage and resolve our ancestors had in their day and not allow the Oligarchs to turn us into Orwellian slaves as they surely are planning when the collapse hits. When the SHTF, we'll all be tempted by fear to allow lockdowns, quarantines, police powers, digital currencies, travel restrictions, work restrictions, and tight speech controls. It's all pretty much in place now waiting for the switch. Will we give in because we're afraid of the chaos around us? The Scamdemic was their test run and Americans failed miserably to resist in any meaningful way so... better luck next time?
Stop wasting time on politics. There's no one out there now who's going to save us. Some one will arise. They always do but I don't see them yet.
Trump was responsible for Operation Warp Speed which was a disaster. Of course corners were cut, that’s why they needed liability protection for bringing these mRNA poisons to market. The D’s were all too angry about it while Trump still held power - remember all the ghouls who testified that they couldn’t trust a vaccine “made by Trump”?! The tune changed quickly when he was out of the picture and they successfully spun the vaccine rollout to look like a democrat operation. Then it went from being an untrustworthy “Trump vaccine” to a super duper safe and effective mandatory life saving injection.
Spin spin spin spin. That’s all those lying two-faced criminal bastards are good for.
Trump said he wanted to keep people from dying (in a war he said would never have started if his administration held power). And their interpretation of that was immediately: you don’t want Ukraine to “win”. I have many many harsh 4-letter words for these useless skin bags in the media.
I’m all in on Trump. If he is an enemy of the Administrative state then he is my friend. No candidate will be without warts and I was fine for the first 3 yrs under Trump. And don’t forget he wanted kids back in school and to open up sooner during the pandemic debacle. There is record of such a thing.
I too, and probably many have mixed feelings about Trump. I could do without his constantly having to be the center of attention, drama and especially the spending. But I must also admit I absolutely love the way his mere existence drives the leftist mad and puts their hypocrisy on full display. Imagine if the Trump family had 20 shell companies funneling money to their grand children. Instead “no ties to Pres Biden” it would be “Trump guilty of treason”.
I'd like President Trump better if he would admit the mRNA shots cause some Americans a great deal of harm as did the shut downs. I know it just about killed him to shut down the country but he is responsible for keeping Fauci employed and the other horrible players relative to Covid. He needs to get out in front on this subject because the Libs are just waiting to blame Trump for Covid, the shut downs and the vaccine injured Americans.
Try to watch this without laughing out loud:
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1656815913705046016
Wow. Anger, not laughter, is what that clip inspired in me.
Does Cooper believe any of what he said there?
After these last 3 years, i find myself wishing that Trump had been the tyrant that media types portrayed him as.
It would make me angry if it wasn't so completely dickless and tedious. It's the embodiment of the NPC meme -- mindless droning, completely predictable and impotent.
It's frightening to see them manufacture this narrative. It's even more frightening watching them take a sledgehammer to reality by pushing this transgender nonsense. Thousands of kids' lives are being destroyed by this evil.
The only one spewing lies is Cooper, do these people really think anyone with a half a brain takes them seriously. Cooper is a hack and he knows it.
Holy shit. I could not watch more than 10 seconds of such childishness. When a jab-/lock down-/medical tyranny-supporting ex-president offers more reasonable and reality-based conversation than 'news' people, well, dogs are cats and 2+2=5...what the actual fu@#
The last sentence. He's impervious to irony.
Poor peter pan. I bet if he had enough money in the bank he would have quit yesterday. Too bad he's living that hand-to-mouth existence in such an expensive city. No doubt he couldn't quit if he had to. "it IS happening AGAIN!!!' so funny ..........
Trump should come out in favor of gay marriage, child trannies, black lives matter, inclusion equity & diversity (IED), and the green new deal. While waving a progress pride flag.
Force them up denounce all of those things to make sure they're on the other side of Bad Bad.
"My transgender children are the best transgender children, believe me. They're amazing, everybody says so."
"They pass. They pass like no one else. No even knows they're transgendered! But they are, believe me."
That is an absolutely brilliant idea.
😂 Now, that would be a spectacle of once-in-a-lifetime kind! The mommy and dad and whole lineage of all spectacles, hordes of tiny dimly-lit brains exploding in unison 🤣
Imagine a giant red hat wearing MAGA crowd waving rainbow flags, sarcastically shouting diversity slogans.
The Poles did this during communism. Anti-communist rallies would be shut down with extreme brutality, so the protestors would show up in commie red chanting "we love communism, yay." Put the state in a tough position. They knew it was sarcastic, but on the surface they were supporting communism, so they couldn't send in the riot cops....
John would be in favor of watching hair explode into near spontaneous combustion. Might have to put that stuff on PPV....
PDJT is Emmanuel Goldstein for the left and the One Worlders.
Instead of two minutes of hate daily it's been over 7 years of hate daily.
Donald Emmanuel Trumpenstein.
The left would wither and die if they didn't have scapegoats to blame, hate, and look down their smug little noses on.
Now that prostitutes are called "sex workers," I say it's appropriate to use that vacated pejorative for our Fourth Estate.
Now the preferred term is "presstitutes", I believe.
Still #1, but coming in a strong second is "whorespondents".
Great one
CNN to Folk Devil No. 1: "Why do you keep talking about the 2020 election? Why don't you get over it?"
CNN focus group to CNN: "Why do YOU keep talking about the 2020 election? Why don't YOU get over it?"
CNN: [Donald Sutherland from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" noises]
(I hope that reference doesn't go over everyone's head. Google . . . er, DuckDuckGo it, people!)
If not: https://twitter.com/BJSymons/status/1656493828512030720
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo
You are the best.
I already had the Twitter link saved, and once you mentioned the scream OF COURSE I had to Duck, Duck, Go it. Once I've gone through all that, I might as well save others the trouble :)
That kind of vigilance gets you an "upgrade to paid"! Cheers!
LOL a weird twist but I appreciate the support!
Been meaning to do it. This just pushed me over the edge.
I, too, have mixed feelings about Trump. Like many, I supported someone else until it became the race between DJT and Satan's daughter. He beat all the odds and won. And for a short time, it looked like we might actually be able to restore the Republic. Except he made MANY, MANY truly bad decisions from the beginning on "whom" to appoint and/or relieve from duty. Those decisions were fueled by his own narcissism, which as he always assures us, anything HE does is "greatest" or "most perfect" or the "only rational" solution. And he makes no bones about it: if you disagree with him, you're an idiot.
The entrenched, unelected bureaucrats simply had to hold their nose and leak all they could to undermine his efforts to "fix the Republic." They only had to bide some time, because THEY would ensure the fix for the left's coup in 2020. And they succeeded in that wildly. In hindsight, January 6th was their collective bow at curtain call--and the faked hearings were encores. Consequently, Satan's favorite nephew "won" by a 4-year revenge effort fueled by non-stop TDS coming from the Deep State, the left's unending supply of feigned outrage and championed by the propagandist media, to fix the 2020 race. And they broke the country apart in the process. We are more divided than anytime in our history--even leading up to the Civil War.
As other commenters have chimed in, Trump absolutely won in 2020. But with each bit of evidence that has come up to prove it, the courts have refused to even look at it and the Deep State has grown stronger because of it. That's by design. Our government and our courts are all compromised beyond redemption. Our rights have been diminished by bureaucratic Covid overreaction to almost non-existent, particularly through the one-sided censorship that allowed the TDS to fester untreated by calmer debate of "the issues." Conservative voices were not even given a CHANCE to show fraud evidence or to question the Covid response and mandates being forced throughout--until Substack. And just like WWII, when totalitarianism showed its face, the church looked away and did nothing. Most listened and closed their doors--and to this day, are still trying to coax people to come back.
I don't have the answers, but I share the frustration. A "bare win" is a losing proposition in a democracy, for it takes a mere 51% to make life miserable for the other 49% and the ones who know better but succumb to __________ (bribery, force, fear) to empower the majority. I've yet to see any candidate who will rally support from the other extreme or what's left of the middle.
Damn. Well said. All of it.
See I think there is a middle, but the blanket hegemony of all our institutions plus the media has made everything appear as shades of grey (gender affirmation, don't kill grandma, myriad euphemisms.,etc.) when actually it's just camouflage to surreptitiously manufacture black/white issues.
The irony is that some issues (unfortunately the most important ones) are absolutely black/white, but most have more of a complexion of grey.
That's the greatest trick of all:
To have people fear saying the obvious outloud (boys are boys and girls are girls, obvious violations of our rights, etc.) because they just don't want to have to deal with the fallout - they "think" they are avoiding shades of grey - when in reality they are tacitly approving the the wrong side of a black/white issue. This allows the ideologues to keep dialing up the volume, by default of silence from rational people too worried to step up and speak out about black/white issues because they have been made to appear as grey.
I would categorize myself as libertarian leaning (although I hate labels). Unfortunately this is not a time to "live and let live". Trying to ignore isn't going to work anymore. In fact, it didn't work at all, and here's where we're at:
Silence---->Indifference---->apathy---->bondage
It is the path always taken. We are at the last fork.
As far as 2020. Yes there was a coup and massive fraud. However, the real reason Trump had no shot was due to fear itself of Republicans in general and their leaders. They laid down with covid as cowards, allowing election law changes because they were scared. They accepted it.
I don't think we should forget that.
"Silence---->Indifference---->apathy---->bondage
It is the path always taken. We are at the last fork."
Absolutely. And we should all be wishing for a wider renewed respect for Bonhoeffer's famous warning every day right now:
"When they came for me, there was no one left to speak up."
Yes. Exactly. And do you think those election laws will ever be changed back?
That's how you end up in a real life situation that mirrrors Bonhoeffer's pithy/profound quote. First in drips and drops....then in a mudslide.
I wonder what this country will look like 20 -30 years from now if this virtually complete hegemony still exists?
I doubt it's good. And if you and are alive then, I think we could pinpoint the day the grip of hegemony became unbreakable: the first day people were allowed to vote for the 20' election.
Pretty sure it has to be "broken" now, or the historians will not be the remembrancers of what people want to forget...they'll be the remembrancers of what their told.
Which means the end of America both in reality and in the books written to document our history.
I still have faith. It's just hard to believe we've gotten to this point. Future generations may not have that conundrum...because they will be reading a different history than what we learned.
IKR? It's almost like they'll be wondering why, after only a couple of years, we could no longer seem to afford the doctor--or the insurance coverage--we were told we could keep if only we allowed the almighty government to dictate our medical decisions! Or why we refused to believe the "official assessment" just a few years later that (by manipulating flawed PCR results) we were suffering a worldwide plandemic emergency! Both lies, BTW, courtesy of the extreme left socialists...have served to further empower themselves while ripping us even further apart. By design, it's to cull dissent and reward the sheeple (who have proven they'll fall for anything).
Spot-on summation of 2016 and subsequent events.
Do you think that if Trump had made better decisions on appointees things would have turned out any differently?
Oops, see below--I hit wrong reply button!
The Senate refused to confirm Trump's choices of appointees. Every other president gets to fill their cabinet with whomever they want, from neocons to Marxist to diversity hires, but Trump was stuck with people pre-approved by the establishment and swamp, so they could continue to screw and remove him. Just one gop senator could have broken that log jam.
It's hard to say now, because the past 4 years have clearly illustrated just how deep the cancer goes into the unelected bureaucracy--far too many so entrenched that there is no viable way that any "non-lifetime-politician" going in to that office could know. I remember there were several disagreements between his advisors (particularly between his son-in-law and the more right-leaning ones).
My main point is that the Deep State handicapped him by shutting out any dissent or commentary from his conservative base. What the Twitter Files proved beyond any doubt , is how entrenched the 3-letter agencies were in shutting down free speech across multiple social media platforms and using that authority to cram woke-ism into every aspect of our lives. It's a conversational shutdown: "you're a ____-ist or ____-phobe" is the constant retort to any objections. (And thanks to the alphabet mafia and our malignant university culture, there is NO shortage of things to fill those blanks in with!)
So we had G00gle manipulating searches and deplatforming any voices critical of that narrative who started garnering an audience on YouTube; in the process, "redefining" about a quarter of the words in the dictionary, along with cancelling/rewriting 400 years of history, to help push its own narrative of victimhood. The power that Amazon amassed--and its anti-free speech principles shown by taking down Parler without warning, because it dared give a platform to those voices shut out of traditional social media.
Conflicting messages abound--2000 Mules doc shows through GPS tracking that absentee ballot collection boxes were undoubtedly being stuffed, and all we saw through the media (and those in government/courts tasked to investigate) was "that technology is not reliable." EXCEPT, that very same technology was used to arrest and convict hundreds of J6 "protestors," many of whom were in Washington, but who never even entered the Capitol!
So, to answer your question, Rightful Freedom, IMO yes, better decisions might have made a difference, but when the powerful unelected bureaucrats have teamed up to shut down both objective and objectionable commentary (which can also be much-needed feedback from the people), they also cut off Trump's access to voices outside his echo chambers. He was trapped in 2 specific ones: his "team" and "whatever curated feedback was allowed to be seen/heard" over social media. For nearly 2 years, there were almost no conservative or critical voices in either. But then, Substack started to take off.
That said, had DJT actually been sworn in for the 2nd term he actually did win, I do not believe we'd be in the position we are today. He is too pro-business to allow lockdowns to continue for years, and that campaign energized him to want to clean out much of the Deep State. The disaster of the current Administration would hopefully show people just how corrupt the government is--but they've been trained to look away.
Yes, you're probably right about the alternative histories, If Trump and not been blocked from rightist ideas, and if he had had the second term in 2020.
"..the past 4 years have clearly illustrated just how deep the cancer goes into the unelected bureaucracy... The disaster of the current Administration would hopefully show people just how corrupt the government is--but they've been trained to look away."
Or is the time is past when shining a light on the Deep State, the media propagandists, and all the rest will make a difference? I don't know how many people are really looking away. It seems to me that everyone I know has taken sides. 2024 and what comes after is perhaps unimaginable. Something that this nation has not seen the likes of.
In recent times, Trump has been the only high level polician who is willing to suffer the consequences of a real fight with the deep state.
As much as I dislike his personality, I feel he is literally risking his life by bucking the system and fighting back as hard as he does. His enemies are numerous and powerful. I'm sure they've thought more than once about turning loose some poor, deranged sap, to be an Oswald-like-patsy. It's kinda hard to get away with it in this day an age of ultra-surveillance, but I wouldn't put it past them.
What we see is the oppositions only alternative to actual assassination: Virtual assassination, conducted by 24x7.
"I'm sure they've thought more than once about turning loose some poor, deranged sap, to be an Oswald-like-patsy."
Creating martyrs is dangerous. Kennedy became beloved and universally popular only after death. Even Dems acknowledged that he actually got less then 50% of the vote in the 1960 election against Nixon, if the all of the votes had really been counted (there was massive vote fraud in Chicago alone).
P.S. to my reply:
Same with Bobby Kennedy.
Follow the money.
Yeah, folks were really sad about Kennedy. But you forgot reality: The wheels of power in DC kept turning, courtesy of DOD, CIA and others. We didn't leave Vietnam, as Kennedy indicated he wanted to. We spent about a trillion dollars (in today's money) fighting that war over the next 12 years. We lost more than 50,000 people. The Vietnamese lost a million people. It took us another decade to recover, militarily. The social fractures created, in some ways, never healed. That's when U.S. academia really started it's hard left turn, the legacy of which is now biting us in the arse.
Sorry, yes, Kennedy dead, very sad. The effects of martyrdym? Non-existent, when compared with the reality engineered by the then deep-state.
I think you can sum up a lot of the post-Kennedy bad things in one word: LBJ.
Both as a human being and a president he may have been the worst in U.S. history.
The difficulty is that Trump has a solid, ever galvanizing 40% of the electorate. This is enough to get on the ballot, and under the right circumstances, to win. However, it is not nearly enough to effect meaningful change. Furthermore, no one, especially the TDS afflicted, is going to change his mind about this freak show. Therefore, the smart play for the audience members is to invest nothing in any promise of "change."
You, like so many, are missing the elephant in the room standing on the 3rd rail. Trump won the election by a landslide, massive cheating Should he run again, he will run into (and hope he has better plans to address, rather than out vote the cheat) an even more entrenched, crossed the Rubicon, industrial cheat.
I am reading blogs from ex liberals who used to delight in sneering about him/ fox news.. they are quietly coming around to the fact they are wrong. No one will believe the 2024 election, especially all of those who quietly for the firs time vote for trump.
Dude, Trump knew they were going to cheat, and he had $2B for the campaign. Yet he failed to hire a single security guard to watch the ballot boxes or the ballots. Worse, the Red Team's legal efforts before the election went down in flames in every instance.
And this mismanagement is merely emblematic of Trump's many, many bad hires.
The B-side of this record: Assume that Trump could clean out the 4M people who work in the executive branch, and replace them with loyalists. Aren't the replacements going to come from the exact same hiring pool? Isn't treachery as big a problem as incompetence in the government?
You can fantasize about change in the abstract, but if you think it through, it is unlikely, just as it has been for 5,000 years.
Hire a security guard? Seriously, have you never voted before?
Each county in the United States has its own rules and regulations for voting, on top of the various voting laws in each state. How in the world could anyone overcome the obvious cheating of fake ballots in dropboxes, dead people registered to vote, elections officials blocking the windows so legal observers could not witness the cheat schemes, secretaries of state and judges changing voting laws without the required approval of state legislatures, the electronic shenanigans of voting machines hacked via wi-fi thermostats, suitcases full of faked ballots that were run through voting machines numerous times, and God knows what other ways the election was stolen?
Break open your piggy bank and buy yourself a clue.
There is one man the Left and the RINOs absolutely fear and fear absolutely: Donald J. Trump.
That's the candidate we should support. I know I will. 🇺🇸
Exactly. 🎯
Trump did a poor job of election security. At first I was thinking.hoping that he was doing some type of rope a dope but I fear he forgot the rope.
His hires were poor. One can hope he has learned his lesson and would do a better job next time, but it is a shame one is left with just hope.
It is like sending up the bat signal and only trump show up. So what do you do?
"It's the economy, stupid."
Despite all of the corruption, America was strongest, and had the most democratic government, when union membership was at its highest. The right to work laws, free trade agreements, and preferential tax treatment of corporate profits are what lead to the situation which is now exposed by the tent cities filled with opium addicts. Hence, it seems to me that the road back is to reverse these public policies, and this starts with increasing union membership, despite all of the corruption.
In my view, and I ain't no commie, collective bargaining for labor rights is a market response to market circumstances, and can create some equality in the capitalist system which, for better or worse, is built upon the premise that human progress is greatest when it is fueled by competition, i.e., taking advantage of others, albeit in a good way, ideally.
In my husband’s job they MUST pull electricians from the union hall to work on specialized jobs that they most often have no clue how to do. This causes copious mistakes, cost overruns due to additional time to correct those mistakes, and no accountability for shoddy workmanship except from the person, my husband, who has zero control over who is working. Unions are often just as corrupt as corporations.
We are not training enough people in the trades. This is another major problem. It's right up there with the loss of manufacturing capacity and the declines in factory production.
This is the result of intentional public policies implemented by a captured government for the purpose of increasing the wealth of the richest few. And, it's working for them; but not for the people, who seem unable to appreciate that they're being lied to. Who seem blind to what's right in front of them.
I was always a bit cool on unions, my wife is (unwillingly) part of a teachers union (as was I).
But it was the only projection (for the few times they stood up for) against vaccine mandates.
Where I live, the unions were at the front of the mob DEMANDING vaccine mandates, and destroying the careers of union members who didn't get the mRNA injections.
Not in Canada......
Therefore, the smart play for the audience members is to invest nothing in any promise of "change."
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Giving up and going "eeyore" is not an option.
Damn straight. I'm going down swinging.
The posturing is only effective on those who cannot think for themselves. That is always been the Target Audience.
But it does disgust me how many there are. Especially reasonably bright people who "dodo'd" :Gave up the ability to fly/think for the comfort of sloth.
and/or what I call "anus tingle" : the emotional response you are allowed to have as a reward for complying with the narrative. So long as you follow us uncritically, we will allow you to feel better than everyone else, the dumb people, the ones who don't believe in "science" Don't you feel smug after your 4th booster?
The constant overreacting of the wokescolds will be their downfall. Their schtick has become boring. People are tuning the out or turning against them as they begin to realize what’s behind it. It’s the worst thing that could have happened to them.
That said, the Oligarchs will never unrig their game. They’ll find some shiny new object to play with. Some other outrageous distraction for their serfs.
I cannot physically bring myself to watch these people. There’s not a single thing that they say in the course of a day that’s true. I get a rash if I listen to them for more than 10 seconds. Imagine lying all day for a living. 🤥
I am not black pilled. I am, however, a realist. And facts are stubborn things.
Fact: elections now are largely a charade at the federal level. So go ahead and amuse yourselves w horse race politics of Trump v Desantis v Sock Puppet v RFK etc...if that makes you happy. None of it matters. This country is run by a criminal Oligarchy Cartel and even if elections were squeaky clean the system for selecting candidates is still controlled by a corrupt Uniparty system so the choices are Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Great.
This doesn't mean giving up, so save your go down fighting memes. It means being a rational adult and embracing reality that *elections* are not going to solve our problems. No one ever voted out a gang of criminals. It doesn't work like that.
Like it or not we're in a stage of history that only resolves in great crisis similar to 1776, 1861, 1941 and now 2023. We're due.
We all need to stop pretending that this just works itself out like a good shit after a bad meal. It's beyond any elected turd to fix. The problems are so wide and deep it will require collapse and rebirth. That requires each of us to have the kind of courage and resolve our ancestors had in their day and not allow the Oligarchs to turn us into Orwellian slaves as they surely are planning when the collapse hits. When the SHTF, we'll all be tempted by fear to allow lockdowns, quarantines, police powers, digital currencies, travel restrictions, work restrictions, and tight speech controls. It's all pretty much in place now waiting for the switch. Will we give in because we're afraid of the chaos around us? The Scamdemic was their test run and Americans failed miserably to resist in any meaningful way so... better luck next time?
Stop wasting time on politics. There's no one out there now who's going to save us. Some one will arise. They always do but I don't see them yet.
There's no "one" who will ever save us. It'll have to be broadly distributed resistance and rebirth.
Trump was responsible for Operation Warp Speed which was a disaster. Of course corners were cut, that’s why they needed liability protection for bringing these mRNA poisons to market. The D’s were all too angry about it while Trump still held power - remember all the ghouls who testified that they couldn’t trust a vaccine “made by Trump”?! The tune changed quickly when he was out of the picture and they successfully spun the vaccine rollout to look like a democrat operation. Then it went from being an untrustworthy “Trump vaccine” to a super duper safe and effective mandatory life saving injection.
Spin spin spin spin. That’s all those lying two-faced criminal bastards are good for.
Trump said he wanted to keep people from dying (in a war he said would never have started if his administration held power). And their interpretation of that was immediately: you don’t want Ukraine to “win”. I have many many harsh 4-letter words for these useless skin bags in the media.
I’m all in on Trump. If he is an enemy of the Administrative state then he is my friend. No candidate will be without warts and I was fine for the first 3 yrs under Trump. And don’t forget he wanted kids back in school and to open up sooner during the pandemic debacle. There is record of such a thing.
I too, and probably many have mixed feelings about Trump. I could do without his constantly having to be the center of attention, drama and especially the spending. But I must also admit I absolutely love the way his mere existence drives the leftist mad and puts their hypocrisy on full display. Imagine if the Trump family had 20 shell companies funneling money to their grand children. Instead “no ties to Pres Biden” it would be “Trump guilty of treason”.
I'd like President Trump better if he would admit the mRNA shots cause some Americans a great deal of harm as did the shut downs. I know it just about killed him to shut down the country but he is responsible for keeping Fauci employed and the other horrible players relative to Covid. He needs to get out in front on this subject because the Libs are just waiting to blame Trump for Covid, the shut downs and the vaccine injured Americans.