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I didn't appreciate the WWE politics and I think the signal/noise
ratio wasn't very good.
The thing that a lot of people miss about Mr. Trump is that he is a master persuader. He can read a room and he knows the level of intensity he needs to use. This served him well in 2016 when he had to be *really* noisy to cut through the crap and rise to the top. In 2024 he was more restrained, more diplomatic, and again it served him well when all he needed was to not be as ridiculous as the other major candidate's team.
Someone accidentally gave the secret playbook away shortly after 2016 election.
I don't remember where but I only heard it onc: e: they vowed that they could not allow the Trump presidency to be "normalized." They could not allow the vibe to be "the other party is in power right now" but actually "we are in a hyperscale crisisO". The cries of "#resist" were meant to spin people into apoplexy. For the longest time I believed that this was because Mr. Trump was so different from other republicans that they needed extra effort to counter him -- and this might be partially true -- but I recently realized that this was also the first time a significant challenger on the right rose to prominence after the Obama/Alinsky radical style of thug government rose to the national level.
But as I often point out, nothing moves in the same direction forever. The Overton window has moved, and one result of the mainstream media having lost its monopoly on the narratve is that populist politics are back in the legitimate mainstream. We can thank Elon Musk and Seth Rogan for the biggest parts of that, but it's happening in general. And if the left loses the narrative they lose everything, because their policy positions cannot fly without a monopoly on propaganda.
This is why Mr. Trump won back the White House in a landslide in 2024. It's also why the far-left looks so ridiculous, petulant, and childish right now: they're still running the 1st-term-Trump playbook of yelling and screaming and challenging every last thing he says and does. It cost them the election when they opposed all the things people are actually looking for (like an end to inflation, an end to foreign wars, etc. etc). And now they're hemmorhaging support by continuing to shout "nazis" and "racists" and "traitors" at simple American wins like DJ Daniels.
The party really is collapsing, like the GOP did during the Hoover days.
There are a few independent journalists posting on Substack about ISIS-style massacres of minorities among civilians in Syria. Has anyone else here heard anything about anti-Christian genocide there?
Yay democracy. European Democracy at that. Vance was right when he said Europe had to re-evaluate its democratic procedures.
Syria. Has anyone else here heard anything about anti-Christian
genocide there?
I read a little bit about it this morning. They've murdered tens of thousands of Christians.
And not a peep about it from the western media. I thought they were anti-genocide.
I don't know if you are following romanian politics much, but after
Romanian electrions got voided, they have decided to repeat them by
excluding the candidate who won.
I heard about that too. Preserving democracy by destroying democracy. My understanding is that they had a populist candidate who won in an upset victory so they discarded the election results and installed who they wanted instead.
And when he tried to run again they disqualified him.
I have seen it mentioned. Just not the attention it deserves. No one really cares about Syria is the problem. Other than the local 'states' who will absorb it.
And not a peep about it from the western media. I thought they were anti-genocide.
I heard about that too. Preserving democracy by destroying democracy.
My understanding is that they had a populist candidate who won in an
upset victory so they discarded the election results and installed who
they wanted instead.
And when he tried to run again they disqualified him.
Prety much. It is outrageous to the point opponents of the people who got banned had raised formal complaints.
"Justice" Roberts is upset with the president for calling for the impeachment of a federal judge. Apparently he's offended by the idea that America is not a kritarchy.
"Justice" Roberts is upset with the president for calling for the impeachment of a federal judge. Apparently he's offended by the idea that America is not a kritarchy.
It's spelled r-o-b-e-r-t-s, but it's pronounced "Bush".
It's spelled SCOTUS, but pronounced "scrotum".
No, I'm sorry. A scrotum is useful.
Fri Mar 21 2025 02:21:14 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar"Justice" Roberts is upset with the president for calling for the impeachment of a federal judge. Apparently he's offended by the idea that America is not a kritarchy.
It's spelled r-o-b-e-r-t-s, but it's pronounced "Bush".
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I don't like banning public expression at all, even if utterly moronic. I think if somebody wants to throw a party because he likes bananas instead of clam, that is stupid but still permisible.
On the other hand, LGBTQ++++++ has done soooo much to conolize traditional culture, consume it or outright destroy it, that usinheavy weapons against them counts as self-defense at this point, because the LGBTQSADASD++ brigade is no longer just celebrating their LGBTSFness, but stomping regularness.
Oh, well.
I do agree, while the 'movement' is atrocious, and gives people that just want to be who they are a bad name, as long as its not a riot, they have just as much right to celebrate as i do for samhain ( if i wanted to ). I dont have to agree with their life decision any more than they have to agree with mine to support their freedom to express it.
Restrict all expression ( and go down the road of authoritarianism ) or leave it alone, for everyone ( and go down the road of equal freedom )
And anyone that does not feel others should have freedom of expression because it differs from theirs, should be muzzled themselves.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I don't like banning public expression at all, even if utterly moronic. I think if somebody wants to throw a party because he likes bananas instead of clam, that is stupid but still permisible.
And anyone that does not feel others should have freedom of expression because it differs from theirs, should be muzzled themselves.
"I support free speech but people who oppose it should be muzzled" is like saying "Extremists should be killed."
As for me, I support free speech but have mixed feelings on "free expression".
"lets sell off public land and pave it over" ( for now, out west ) One of things i am NOT fond of the president over. His statement about "beautiful buildings". No. we need beautiful forests and farm land and prairies.
Too bad i'm not in office, id force rezoning back to the 1980s and demand anything that was built be destroyed and the land restored.
TL;DR the voiding of the Romanian elections was so badly fumbled that every politician in the opposition and the streets themselves wanted the President's blood. Considering Romania has a recent case of mob lynching of a tyrant then I think beating it was a wise move from Klaus.
Might make it worse? Now hes 'just a citizen' and a far easier target for 'punishment'.
By the way, Klaus Iohannis resigned about a month ago due to the Romanian election fiasco and I don't see anybody talking about this. I find this a bit surprising since it is such a nice flamebait.
TL;DR the voiding of the Romanian elections was so badly fumbled that every politician in the opposition and the streets themselves wanted the President's blood. Considering Romania has a recent case of mob lynching of a tyrant then I think beating it was a wise move from Klaus.
"Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the courage to brawl for the working class" ( from some headline that floated across my screen ) Nope no biased news "reporting" there.
But that aside, its sort of frightening having those 2 hookup.
Magically, shes worth millions now.. i wonder if she ever paid off her student loan that she was fighting so hard to get dismissed. lol. ( and ya i know, its pennies to her now and would be trivial, but its all about the circus )
Well, i guess that is one way to handle opposition. Wont interject my opinion about it however, with how things are going lately.
"Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts.
2025-03-23 00:07 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
"lets sell off public land and pave it over" ( for now, out west
) One of things i am NOT fond of the president over. His statement
about "beautiful buildings". No. we need beautiful forests and
farm land and prairies.
You'd almost think he might have been a developer in a past life!