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  12. It's a "boutique halo product" marketing strategy. Honestly, the designs are not that impressive to me. It's for wealthy hippies that buy things like Alembic guitars once used by the Grateful Dead or whatever. It's not that these speakers are crap but they spend way too much money on things that don't affect performance and then even make some design compromises. The ideal speakers can be used for any kind of sound reproduction controlled by the electronics. These speakers are designed to have "character" and "panache" that people get excited over, and yet they 're introducing dispersion flaws that limit the ultimate performance of the speaker systems. I'm guessing there are some peaks and valleys in the frequency response any time you move the test mic from their idealized position. They also treat the speakers like instruments (with their own organic character), as if all of these design elements help it reproduce the sound of natural instruments and that just is not how it works. Putting a speaker in a mahogany and ebony cabinet is totally different than stretching strings across the same lumber. I mean totally different. But even if their ideas did work in reality that would mean you need special speaker cabinets every time you change the programming from whatever signal you're feeding the speaker. The speakers must be neutral and transparent as a platform for the signal to reproduce the programming faithfully. Almost everything from the narrators of this video is bullshit.
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  107. I really like Rand Paul but sometimes he simply doesn't understand reality versus ideology. His principles are correct but he's applying the wrong ones to the debate. He actually doesn't understands certain national security issues. For example his rant against Saudi Arabia was pathetic. Saudi Arabi has been a strong ally. Now you look at their "royal family" ant it's involvement in terrorism this is to fail to understand how big the royal family is because I guess nobody ever thought about how many wives, sons, grandsons and so forth Ibn Saud had. And if a Saudi "journalist" with a US Green Card gets killed in Turkey is it really a national security issue for the USA? We're going to cut them out of the F35 program over that? Rand Paul gets most things right but I would not want him to be President for that reason. He gets it mostly right but then falls in love with all of his own principles. He gets too certain about things that he doesn't grasp well enough. His attacks of Fauci were golden. We need more like that. But Rand Paul's foreign policy is naive. Here he says it's about censorship with the entire "special pleading" against TikTok is that not only is it doing all the things we don't like tech companies to do in China but it is also owned by China and its entire operation is mirrored (the data) in China. If China wants to ask Google for data on "national security grounds" but it's stored in the USA then China must hack it or pressure them. If the data is stored in China they don't even have to ask, obviously. Because every eye and hand on the infrastructure knows they must comply with CCP orders. Period. I don't know how any one in DC can fail to understand this. There are no enforceable rights or duties the CCP promises to anyone or anything. Everyone knows they do what they want whereover they have the power to do so. If they have sovereign control over mainland China so you think there is any difference between TikTok data stores and the CCP equivalent of our NSA? No. There is none.
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  274.  @rkeith4442  There's the quiet Constitutionalist struggle to promote just the right kind of lawsuit while waiting for a SCOTUS ruling that prunes back their illicit powers and there's the "get Congress to fix it" approach led primarily by Ted Cruz. A Constitutional Amendment can fix it without triggering the Leftists (because they don't get it) and all three basic channels should be supported. You have to understand the root of this evil and that is FDR's New Deal legislation coupled with his "War on SCOTUS" that academics claim FDR lost but the goal was not "court backing" but scaring the holdouts in to allowing all of that dodgy New Deal legislation. All of those bad rulings coupled with the Administrative Procedures Act came together just as FDR died and Truman realized that Stalin set us up for a Soviet-dominated Europe. And then the Korean War. People didn't take the time to look back at all of that bullshit to figure out how to "right size the government" because they were terrified about fighting nuclear age Communists in Russia, China, Korea and then other satellites. Even Reagan did not feel he could do anything big while still trying to outmaneuver the Soviet Union. By the time Bill Clinton came along he just wanted to ride the wave of power and use it to set up a rival command economy and trade with the "former Communists" (that still act like Communists). So that's basically where we are. It became the status quo and by the time we could even start discussing what to do next Bush launched this Manichean "War on Terror" so downsizing the bureaucracies was out of the question. Instead we get the Homeland Security Act and it all became exponentially more dangerous. Then we got Biden and Obama. And here we are again. Now you can begin to understand why they hate Ted Cruz as much as they hate Trump.
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  377. Politically Correct means what it says but you have to look at context. These morons posit that all morality, all social behaviors and policies, are innately political. Liberty under the classic defition is a delusion at best or at worst a delusion that leads to 'oppressors' enslaving everyone else. Hence, liberty is redefined as 'lack of disparity' or solving the visible and invisible class struggles. They have determined that they must use clever language to signal the right ideas without empowering their enemies. They developed this doubletalk as they realized that their stupid "international workers' revolution" was not going to get them anything. In the end, Politically Correct means this is the new morality in the context suggested and if you don't follow, you are stupid and helping the oppressors. If you criticize PC talking points you are helping oppressors for selfish or deluded reasons and you are now identified with the enemy. However, the important point is that these are moral claims, not "political" per se. (The original definition of "political" means "pertaining to the polity" and they believe that all of life pertains to the polity because they're parasites that are helpless on their own.) It's a culture war and "political" means anything that affects them according to their worldview and they have determined that they must lie because "the status quo order" came forth as a result of "the book of lies." IOW, they blame it all on the Hebrew Christian bible and the "Patriarchy" created from that culture. They have no problem with "patriarchy" when it can be used against Christians and Jews or anyone that is apparently defending "capitalism" or "received wisdom" morality. They feel that they are intellectually and morally superior to everyone else even when they can't articulate why. Noam Chomsky helps reinforce this contradiction with his insane linguistics theories (nobody really understands what they think or why, ultimately this is summarized by Richard Dawkins, among others). They're idiotic liars protected by academic cults. They don't even know how deluded they are.
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  439. Brian Haskings Do you understand why? Apparently not. Sometimes Congress passes laws that are not obviously unconstitutional but in the end the conflicts between legitimate foreign policy decisions from the President end up ensnaring people that are faithfully defending the Constitution and lawful orders. If government actors are caught in between Congress and the Executive Branch you can't necessarily criminalize that. That conflict should be resolved with impeachment proceedings, not punishing underlings that followed lawful orders. This is the implication of what is known as "political question" doctrine or conflicts with Congress that are "nonjusticiable." Put another way, they could have been lawfully pardoned or otherwise protected at any time by the President. The President can "break" the law because the President has prerogatives that allow him to interpret it. Sometimes Congress is just dead wrong or they are only setting up parameters as "law" that can then be used in impeachment proceedings against EB actions. The same language can also lawfully restrict everyone else just as the plain language would lead you to believe. The President's prerogatives come directly from the Constitution and can't be impeded by Congress or the courts. Those prerogatives have the most legitimacy in areas of foreign policy and national defense. There is no conflict with those powers and the doctrines of divided government and checks and balances. That is explicitly how we organize "government" powers under those doctrines.
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  461.  @twm4259  No, it's not the opposite. You're partially correct but there is risk to any action to defend yourself from legitimate criminal racketeering charges. The deal is that Hunter was promising his family to write another book. Joe got the hint. Joe gave Hunter every reason to continue to lawyer up thus saving the family and the family fortune. Hunter can still lose everything if the money laundering and "foreign agent" income is adjudicated. Hunter still has zero motive to cooperate and pressures can be put on him in Congress. The same Congress that refused to Impeach any Democrat. The Clinton Impeachment was an own goal because his US AG started a process in order to clear up controversial "White Water" accusations and then Bill Clinton was caught perjuring himself in Federal court pertaining to a civil claim filed by one of the "bimbos" as Hillary calls them collectively. And by the way, if you look back in history, think about Al Capone and how he was finally prosecuted. Prosecuting crime racketeers is never a straightforward affair because the criminality itself is so massive that you can't realistically go through all of it in front of a jury. And if you only show limited segments then the criminal's "alternate theory" usually prevails. Hunter was just a lawyer and he forget to pay his income tax and some of it was loans and loan repayments and it's hard for crackheads to remember how to use their accounting software. I don't really remember where all the money went. The CCP funding was "seed money" that disappeared because, you know, fertilizer for transnational energy deals just disappears. Nobody can say where that CCP money went. And a few million from Ukraine? Cost of doing business. But anyway, normally RICO cases are handled by capturing the "low hanging fruit" and turning them against the next wave up until you get the "Godfather" or whatever. The Bidens, by accident, turned their bag man in to a laughingstock. The other family members covered their corrupt enterprises with the superficial skin of "charity" and "high rick economic development". The only one caught red handed with serious things like human trafficking was Hunter. But again, it's all OK because he was on crack. The only chance there is to prosecute the Bidens is if the House finishes their Impeachment case and turns it over to the DOJ. The DOJ would then subpoena the rest of the missing bank records and then you have a money laundering case that might fly because they don't even really need the perps to turn on each other in this case. The House already has enough evidence for a racketeering case based only on forensic accounting and a few witnesses to the key meetings. I think Trump should order the investigation and hold it until the end of his new term or hand it to the new MAGA President in the following term. Compare how they did the exact opposite to Trump. It can't be about "political" payback. But they are serious criminals and should be prosecuted legitimately. We don't need to take shortcuts.
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  469. I like Turley but he should get to root causes when they're so obvious. The whole "speech rights on campus" has never, ever been properly parsed in public. First of all, teachers have "speech rights" but not on campus. If colleges defend erroneous teachers on their campuses they should not be censored. They should be decertified. End of story for employees. Now the students have even less "speech rights" while on a credentialed campus. They don't like it? They can lobby to change whatever aggrieves them to legislatures and so forth and if they don't like the way the school is operating they can find another one. And if that doesn't work out best to decertify them, just as above. People in private clubs can say whatever they want. These schools with taxpayer support and Federal credentials (LOL) want to have it both ways. They want to show they are the avant garde or Vanguard Party elites while also reserving the right to throw hissy fits at any moment. This only makes sense under some kind of Fabian Communism where nobody actually has any rights. And you can see from this disaster election cycle we had in 2020 that the public doesn't even understand what "certify" means other than some kind of magical sacrament. Certification puts the burden of proof on the one submitting the thing that has been certified. It's not a fiat decree. But it is now. And actually this is what they did with Obama's Birth Certificate. I'm not even saying he's not a "natural born citizen". I'm saying the way that they handled the debates established that they can just "certify" something from the bowels of some Democratic Party stronghold and challenged Obama was already racist in 2009 (per Jimmy Carter) and by the time Obama published that "certified facsimile" on the White House web site critical thinking in public had itself because "white supremacy" according to these kooks.
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  483.  @PrincessPebbles0_0  Specific citations would be more helpful than that. If she's a journalist she has to allow people to unpack their arguments. And WRT DeSantis, I disagree with his decision to run against Trump but a lot of people thought it was delusional for Trump and his supporters to think he would defeat each Jack Smith indictment. I knew he could because I knew that each one was bogus. But I also didn't think that the DOJ and the cult in power would go all the way to SCOTUS to argue that the DOJ is the final arbiter on accusations against a President who is protected by Constitutional prerogative power. US Presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution and tort claims pertaining to official acts. Obama could not have been arrested for droning that US Citizen. Nor could be be sued. But the family could definitely sue the US government. But according to US DOJ oral arguments to SCOTUS it is "DOJ experts" that must approve of this garbage and or decide when, how and who to prosecute. This is insane. IOW, a pragmatic person could have been forgiven if they thought that Trump's third campaign would just indirectly elect Kamala Harris. As far as "J6" there are almost no legitimate cases against them. The unlawful acts recorded on video all have clear defense strategies. IMO, none of them should have gotten sentenced to prison for even a day and the way they allowed Congress to release prejudicial video snippets should have also led to every felony case getting thrown out. But hearing other arguments is what journalists are supposed to do. It's possible she crossed the line but I'd like to see specifically where you think that happened. If call someone with an otherwise good reputation a sellout you have to bring more than leftwing agitprop tropes with you. She's no Jen Psaki.
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  525. @The13thRonin Dude, no. This entered the "corporate" realm under FDR. They are basically coerced by legal duties pertaining to DC regulations and fiduciary duty arguments that are presented to their Boards that are "inclusive" of "stake holders" and so forth and what happens is that even if all the Board Members realize they're getting pressured illegally it is legal and rational to cave in because as a practical matter the US government can "regulate" and sue them out of business completely and therefore fighting a losing battle goes against their fiduciary duties to the shareholders. Why do you think Elon Musk drives them insane? First he defied the pressures to unionize US auto manufacturing at Tesla. Even in California. Second, he bought Twitter and used his unfiltered opinions to sort of lash out at what he is slowly discovering. IOW, his Critical Thinking in social matters and politics was stunted by too much exposure to Hollywood and Silly Con Valley. Trump is an exception to the rule as well and you can decide on your own why his life experiences prepared him to stand up to this Marxist cult. Most cave. BTW, even that real estate crisis taht magically bloomed for Obama was set up by DOJ "organic" lawsuits and consent decrees pertaining to "red lines" and statistical disparities for "disenfranchised" people that don't own their own residences. Do you actually think that the banks want to be regulated? LOL. This all happened under FDR's New Deal where he was going to save society from the "chaos" of economic liberty under the rule of law. The embedded Fabian Marxists have had the upper hand since then. What's new since Clinton is that the Marxists expected more Communism from Bill, not less. They were pissed at Bill by the time his second term had ended. They actually pinned their hopes on Hillary radicalizing the White House. She tried. But anyway, it's normal to have 2 terms of a Republican after two term of a Democrat. So they had that phase ready. The WTC attacks were something every Communist dreams about. Every global war is the next likely "international workers' revolution". They worked Bush over with "nation building" programs on the one hand and "war criminal" accusations on the other. Obama appeared as a Magic Nee Grow (it's a literary trope) at just the right time and he also had a radical, angry Marxist spouse. Even though Hillary's campaign of 2008 was planned since Clinton's first win, the cult pivoted to Obama for obvious reasons and decided to put Hillary in as the third consecutive Marxist Presidential term. You have no idea how and why Trump triggered them. People still don't get it. Trump was proof that their entire "arc of history" Fabian Marxist scheme was delusional. Trump is Hitler not because he's anything like Hitler other than the fact that Hitler loudly opposed Soviet Vanguard Party Communism in Germany. Even Reagan, fighting the Soviets, did not crush the CCP. Trump threatened to extinguish the true Vanguard Party and the DNC Marxist cabals all in one term. Hence, COVID.
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  542. I've never trusted any particular person or party. Trust is an earned thing. But I have never, ever voted for a Democratic Party politician. Having said that, I also accept a version of the "pendulum theory" in that you can't have one party rule even if you consistently identify that party as clearly superior. You have to give each new generation and chance to learn from their mistakes and also to show each new generation why the other party should rule for at least half the time. The US Constitution itself leads to a government that should not rely on having the very best in power. The strength of the USA is it's vast power developed through the cooperation of free market commerce and charitable works. But the longer term trends make me less tolerant of the evil US Democratic Party. I didn't favor Obama over McCain but neither did I favor McCain. I didn't bother to vote. And I'm glad that I didn't. But what I noticed about the Obama era was that almost right away they had people murmuring about "Tea Party racist". And then in 2009, less than a year in, I heard from Jimmy Carter's own mouth the idea that the Tea Party doesn't mind Obama's policies (like socialized medicine scams!) so much as that fact that they're latent southern racists. So I started paying more attention and I realized that these people are not well-intentioned fools. They're evil parasitic liars. Obama himself is just going along with it because that's how he was groomed to think. I don't even think Obama is the worst among them. Hillary is the most evil of the past 30 years. Although Biden might be worse, we just don't have all of the evidence to make comparisons of the various Mafia crime families to see which one really is the worst of the worst. But the point is that although I've always been highly skeptical of people that make specious claims, even while I was still in grade school, over time I have noticed that these people are, just as I have said, harboring parasitic Marxist depravity in a cult like fashion in order to seek power and be in a position to parse out "social justice" in exactly the same fashion as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and so forth. They are in the most prosperous nation on earth and they never found a way to simply be successful by their own standards and joined with the cult of blame shifters that tell stories to explain away "the rigged system of Capitalism" and how they have the magic solutions. They know that they're lying but this is OK because they are telling the truth about how much hatred is in their hearts for the people taht they envy and want to destroy. The example of "Get Trump" is just a crescendo in the same mode of operation they have used for each generation. I did not want to come to the conclusion. Everyone in my family defends Democratic Party politicians and only my elder brother is willing to denounce the crooked policies and actions. But even then he just admits to me here and there that I have been right all along. The "Twitter Files" was the very first time he actually brought it up to me and basically said you've been right all along.
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  583. Here is the actual answer, and it's not a good one. Critical Theory Marxism invaded our academies decades ago. The original academics were primarily German Communists fleeing from the emerging Nazi movement but they weren't ready to stroll over to Stalin's Russia. Lots of people of that time (and today) still think Marx was a freaking genius. What they want to figure out is what "phase of history" we are in and how to overcome the problems faced by earlier movements. But they fail to understand uncertainty theory. Or put another way, they accept dogmatic beliefs on imaginary "scientific" conclusions. Mostly these are built on dogmatic views of Darwin's theories. If I finish a primer on what you need to know it would be too long to post here. But basically you need to know where "science denier" and Marxist "othering" and so forth come from. They truly believe that anyone that disagrees with them is suffering from Cognitive Dissonance in part because they're told they have Woke Science and everyone else as deleterious mind mutations or Oppressor mutations in their gene/meme history. Any opinion is a bias unless cleansed by Sociology or Political Sciences. So you then have to fully understand Marxist Trigger/Dog Whistle theory. It means no humans can understand reality unless fully vetted by Settled Science. Think about all of the stupid nonsense you've heard about Climate Change and Fauci's take on The Science and you understand that it all comes from the same place in the minds of corrupted atheist demagogues.
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  715. Chomsky thinks that Constitutional rule of law is "ultra nationalist" because he's a lunatic that thinks the rule of law = "Social Darwinism" and that we need "Brain Trusts" (like him) to explain Social Justice to use untermensch that are not "woke" like he supposedly is. Chomsky believes with all his heart and mind in Richard Dawkins's pseudo-scientific screeds. That's why he can talk in endless circles without actually showing the "science" support for his beliefs. If you don't fully understand Dawkins and Chomsky, it's because you're incapable. You have some variation of "God Delusion" or whatever. You're don't have the "woke (gene) mutation." Chomsky is not a classic libertarian that acknowledges human autonomy and the potential of all humans to live together under egalitarian rule of law (equal application of the law). He's a collectivist Libertarian that believes he has "woke libertarian" mutation. He believes in Brain Trust democracy. IOW, special "democratic elites" must govern the demos. The demos can't possibly understand what they actually need in the modern age. The Brain Trusts must organize it and explain it with their baby talk and the convoluted intellectual framework that puts you to sleep thinking that the Brain Trusts have everything under control. Notice Chomsky doesn't bother defining might"nationalist" or "ultranationalist" might even mean. You're supposed to conflate all "nationalism" as lying on some spectrum of "Hitlerian" rule. It's unbelievable how this boring puppet is constantly put on camera and mic to try to manipulate the demos. Organizing "nationalism" around an assembly of Jacobins is different than organizing it around a murderous political messiah, yet something else when organized around a Constitution that guarantees divided government and so forth.
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  779.  @marijnnn4992  I think they still call it the British Commonwealth. I see they now call it the Commonwealth of Nations. Commonwealth is kind of an archaic term. A commonwealth is similar to a republic but it's OK to have a monarch as long as you have an elected legislature. That's what I see they all have in common. I think this dates back to the Orange Revolution where the English Parliament went to war with Charles I and killed him with the intention of abolishing the monarchy in the UK. When Parliament reestablished the monarchy they also established a new balance of power with basically unlimited powers to legislate and in fact to recall and get rid of any future monarch by majority vote. Commonwealth originally meant something like public good. The monarchy did not give up its lands and wealth so it retained its own but at the same time Parliament could also run its budget for "the public good". In reality the difference between a true republic and a commonwealth is private property rights and particularly mineral rights associated with private land ownership. From a PR point of view, republic harkens back to the Roman Republic and "commonwealth" harkens back to the Orange Revolution I already mentioned. And some US States fashion themselves as republics and others as commonwealths. The Commonwealth of Nation implies that the overarching group has some collective sovereignty on its own and this is because many of them have on paper the British Monarch has having some kind of role in the nation's existence.
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  805. jean-louis pech: "staline and mao were Right Wing Authoritarianist , folllowing politic psychologists. Their regimes were about power of one strong leader, a socail hierarchy with an elite and the workers under, etc... then they fit the definition of right wing." You can't even resolve your own cognitive dissonance. According to your logic every left winger that takes power becomes a right winger. -->Because they claim to be fighting to end class war and stuff. Just like all Communists do. How about just incompetent left wing liars holding illegitimate power? Does that blow your mind? "Authoritarianism is strongly linked to conservatism, nationalists, reactionnaries, etc... LOL. Left wing idiots "strongly link" conservatism and so forth to other ugly sounding ideas. " it is why psychologist label it Right Wing Authoritariansm." No, authoritarianism is not a label from "psychology" it is philosophical paradigm. And it basically means the rulers wield unchecked power. The UK is more "authoritarian" than the USA simply because the US Constitution restricts all branches of government in clear ways and the people can use the courts to check bad "authorities" if legislators fail to check the executive actions. If you understand what the term means you understand that the USA is the least authoritarian sovereign to ever exist. 'And the psychology linked to stalinism, maoism, etc.. are very different from the psychology driving the historics socialism we can see in the video.' Nonsense. Utter nonsense. When socialists take power and defame your own delusions you simply assign them to "right wing." That's a false binary. Leftists with power are still leftists unless they repent from their radical "socialist" doctrines. And collectivism is inherently authoritarian and elitist. Collectivism is putting the public on a "social justice bus" or "train" rather than letting them organize their own transport. So who pays for it and who drives it? Robots? No. Elites. Rulers. People you then call "right wing." So to you left wingers are the cry babies and right wingers are people that left wingers put in power. As if those are the only choices.
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  810.  @AppliedLogic.  Your story flawed because the USA became very rich on its own internal industry AND gave money to nations around the world. But this was in the context of WWII and the Cold War. Our biggest mistake was overregulating our own industry and cultivating students to think that the USA is now "Post Industrial" (a Marxist concept) and that people here would get rich either through legal and financial services or they would not have to work at all. A select few would "get rich" programming AI and developing magical Green Energy solutions like Solar power and "Superconductor" transportation not to mention AI robots to even replace white collar work. Even today the biggest threat to Trump's policies is finding who went to our schools who can tolerate the idea of working in an actual silicon wafer production site. No matter the pay. The root problem is that culturally, all of the "liberal democracies" effed up. Because "liberalism" was reinvented under "liberation from Capitalism" rubrics. Tariffs are only a tiny part of that story. The first error was destroying critical thinking in our academies while simultaneously overregulating our own industrial base and gleefully sending the critical "dirty work" first to Taiwan (when actually they were a legitimate Cold War partner from the start) but then deciding that Democracy won over Communism so now it's ok to trade with Russia...scratch that. Now that Russia is a republic it's OK to trade with and boost Communist China by letting them steal all IP and put own own factories out of business. Really?
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  957.  @lorettathomas3994  The term was coined by Stalin. He believed that America was exceptional but disagreed that it was not ripe for Communist revolution. What is exceptional about America is the vast resources and no land grants held by monarchs and given to allies and their descendants. This changed how "unfair property rights" are perceived in the USA because the extreme examples of European monarchs and feudalism never occurred in America. Constitutionalists believe America is exceptional basically for those reasons and that it's the only nation on the planet to ever have a Constitution ratified in that way. And therefore the Bill of Rights is very difficult for Marxists to overcome without revolution. The USA is the only nation to ever have existed that has explicit enforceable "rights" in the document that is supposed to frame and limit any changes that any legislature wants to make with a simple majority vote. But I just gave you facts, not an "ism". Stalin called it an ideological fallacy because he believed that all nations must fall by revolution even if certain parties help legislate their way on the socialist road to Communism. And in a court of law there's no such thing as collective rights. Collective rights exist only in theory. International relations, the law of treaties, might use the language of "rights" but these rights claims are more like gentlemen's agreements (like the Peace of Westphalia) than actual enforceable legal rights. Europeans can't get over this "class war" thing. That's why they don't understand the US Constitution. If they do they usually decide to apply for US Citizenship. No serious lover of the US Constitution would ever support a Democratic Party politician.
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  1029.  @Libertad59  A trope is very similar to the concept of Dawkins's "meme" theory. Except that the word predates the Materialists' need to explain their worldview. So, a trope would be something that authors might discuss when writing or critiquing a film, article or play. Tropes are considered useful for telling stories as long as the audience doesn't interpret it as a stereotype. A stereotype is a trope that overtly communicates that "communities" alluded to are all very similar with little variation. Similar to how the sound received in your left versus right ears is almost identical yet there are tiny, irrelevant differences only to let you know about position, not differences between one "hippy" and another. So, having a typical "hippy" in your story might or might not be stereotyping but it would definitely be a "hippy" trope. You're not really trying to discuss the details of your character as a specific, individual thing. Agitprop tropes appeal to all sort of fallacious presumptions. Marxists are dogmatic atheists and think they are Masters of Science because all of their beliefs are based on this presumed mastery as evidenced by their "knowledge" pertaining to zero gods. Science Denier is a very common and idiotic agitation propaganda trope. It's not a question, challenge or debate. It's an IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) label. Notice there's no room to argue with them. You have to come completely to their side just to prove you have a 3 digit IQ, according to their dogmatic worldview. Your disagreement with them in their feeble minds signals to "Science" that they won the debate and that you are incorrigible or a lying Capitalist. Possibly both. By the way, it originally meant something communicated that is figurative rather than precise and realistic.
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  1030.  @edwhite7475  Treason is already a capital crime. Everything on the list is either protected by the Bill of Rights or already outlawed but not enforced. It's not "corporations" or "lobbyists" that destroy the rule of law. The gold standard is not "anything that I feel is against Communism". It's the rule of law. Communism destroys all property rights and all legal rights that are used to protect your private property and freedom. Recognizing more precisely how our Constitution was created and why and then defending those principles that seek to protect and continuously improve liberty under the rule of law automatically keeps Communists out. Communism is the utter destruction of all individual legal rights. Everything is politicized. Anything can be ruled "against the law" if it conflicts with their "from each, to each" policies and verdicts. You see that this is already how they act. It's just that our legal rights are still defensible. They're not going to be persuaded by emotional appeals. Ed White's list is already part of the Communist agenda. What replaces all of this is known as the Administrate state. The Administrative state is the legal side of what is known colloquially as the Deep State. Under FDR it is State Department doctrines that began to creep in to the massive projects for domestic economic recovery. Which is to say that all legal rights were put on the back burner for the sake of this or that or the other thing. Creating new "emergencies" like Climate Change and Covid shutdown panics is what keeps that ball rolling. The end game is having total control over elections so that those too are mere puppet shows. Patriots need to take control of elections from school boards to the White House under the rule of law. Purge all lawless actors. It's a daily thing. But first learn how it works and how it is supposed to work. Review what it was like between the Civil War and WWII. That's the only way to clearly understand what the Communists have done so far and how to beat them.
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  1068.  @ceterisparibus51  Psycho, it means literally that you have no idea what you're talking about and it is now proven that you don't know what immunity means. It's a simple doctrine that means, in the case under focus, that officials have powers and protections above what a citizen has. Or put another way, if some politician does some harm as a part of his job it means the state is culpable, not the individual. In Trump's case you don't even have a legitimate criminal or tort theory. And on top of it whatever harm is being alleged is just part of life. Hence he is immune under the law for these kinds of accusations. And especially for the 'Espionage' and RICO accusations. To put it in a very simple way there are special laws and powers for the President alone. Congressional protections pertain to expanded speech immunities. The Presidential powers are immense since it's totally lawful for them to make war on their own whim. In spite of 'War Powers Act' which gives special kinds of arguments for people that don't want to go along with it and yet it is unlawful for them to impede lawful Presidential orders. Without these immunities, the most controversial modern President would be Barack Obama for ordering a drone strike assassination of a US Citizen. Without these immunities that no sane person questions, he can't be charged for anything at all. Although possibly the family could sue under Deprivation of Rights and then get a settlement paid for by the US government. The President himself is not liable.
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  1087. "We learned that there has to be intent to pass information for the negligent email handling to be criminal. It was in the news ages ago and all manner of pundits backed the claim. I also don't know Clinton lied. It's not that big of a deal." This is a lie. "I think there is a world of low-information right wingers who are hyper-partisan and don't see the perspective of things very well. We saw this with Gowdy's Benghazi BS. It was designed for you, not a discerning crowd." You rely on talking points. I rely on facts. You are a hypocrite and an ignoramus. Did you know that originally ignoramus was someone admitting they did not know something? You're worse. You don't even know what your own blind spots are. "You might also note H Clinton's email server showed no signs of hacking, unlike the State Department emails, Podesta's emails, and DNC emails. Intelligence officers have reported thousands of US government employee emails have been hacked by the Russians and can be used to blackmail. Ted Cruz was hacked a month or so ago." Idiot, that's because the Clinton server's audit trail was destroyed/hidden and unavailable to the investigators. "We are in a lot of trouble. The Russians pulled the most successful covert operation of their entire spying history, and you are still hyping Clinton email infractions. Nice" You're a gullible moron. You don't know how to read the evidence. You employ mere talking points with a dose of inappropriate arrogance. And even if "the Russians" did orchestrate all of the embarrassing hacks that you refer to it would not be their most successful, you lunatic. You must be joking. You did not seriously study history. More like pontificating about "history" probably from stupid dope-smoking revisionists. You should be embarrassed. You're not familiar enough with reality to feel shame over your inane assertions.
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  1112.  @Dr.Gainzzz  That's true only because the US middle class is unlike any other for the simple reason that the US Constitution protects everyone's property and due process rights. The rich/poor dichotomy is true everywhere only to the extent that there are people with power everywhere and underneath them people without any political power at all. The middle class is a third choice between king and peasant. Under the British system there was an actual "landed" class that basically came from inheritance of lands granted originally by the monarchy. So the "Landed Gentry" could be regarded as "Middle Class" because they don't have the king's wealth but their not poor. But generally people assigned "Landed Gentry" to the same class as the monarchy except taht they were not of the royal family itself. But the middle class as a term evolved from people who were not landed gentry but neither were they peasants. This in theory represents the entire US population because nobody has land grants from any monarch. And we don't have any peasants that have no property rights. For the US system the Marxists decided to have a "scientific" way to create these categories as "proof" that the US is not a classless society. They use economic data and arbitrarily decided that the lowest percentage of citizens in terms of income were "poor" and then they constantly make up garbage about who is rich and who is not poor but not rich. Nor to US "Political Scientists" distinguish between rich SJW's like Pelosi (she's just SJW class) and "Fat Cats" like Trump that are "Capitalists" and "not woke". India is much, much more complicated. You have a lot of clans and traditions about who can do what and who can even associate with one another. That's not conducive to the creation of a national "middle class". In the French Jacobin political paradigm they are mostly "Third Estate" (same idea as Third World) and these factions are often fighting each other. The connected rich people consider them Untermensch but unlike the German Nazis they don't consider their underclass to be dangerous. But if the USA had the same total population we would always produce many times more engineers and professionals because most Indians are not of the "class" that can even go to engineering and law schools and so forth. India is also "exceptional" in that sense. IOW, you can't just toss about these "social science" tropes and make informed comments about what it's like there. I hear that the disenfranchised classes are managing to get some to the schools but how would I know to what extent that is true? What I do know is that the last nation we should help to "develop" is any nation that refuses to even consider holding elections because the workers are regarded as chattel. Communists hold more slaves now than the US Democratic Party ever did. Why would we help the regime get richer so they can afford to enslave even more people? How is this different than "Industrialists" that help Germany rebuild after WWI and now have their names smeared because of WWII? I think helping the CCP is far worse than helping the German Nazis. Of course it all changed when the Germans sunk some of our ships, a clear act of war. But people are so stupid emotionally about all of these things. The traitors are the ones that sit around fighting over trivia while the CCP has US corporations building "hi tech" factories over there. Worse are the ones that put programs in to place to ensure that our energy prices go up and China has even lower energy prices as a result. And programs to force Americans to buy Chinese electric cars and so forth. It's so freaking obvious. Why would anyone give any thought to what's happening with India when China stole most of the jobs their fighting over. Deal with the CCP first. And completely. Then stop worrying about India or any other "democracy" that is struggling to develop economically.
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  1157. The Strategic Oil Reserves problem is superficial relative to the actual agenda. The Communists in the USA and China have been trying to destroy US manufacturing since long before Trump pointed out that Romney was wrong about Russia as the "...number one geopolitical foe." They slowly used "Deep State" agencies, including the EPA, to ramp up "regulatory arbitrage" (costs differences in various nations) and then played directly with energy arbitrage first by scaring Western leftists about using "fossil fuels" at all and then by getting involved in Venezuela and Iranian politics in order to get Western nations to "embargo" so that the international markets would funnel cheap energy towards Chinese manufacturers that are all owned according to Lenin and Mussolini's socialist "Corporatist" economic model. With no "bill of rights" the CCP doesn't have to follow any "due process" to seize whatever profits or control that it wants at any given time. They do allow "profiteering" to the extent that it keeps the charade going. But the CCP's motive is not "profit" but building an unchallenged dominance, a virtual monopoly, on all important manufacturing for the entire world. And of course this also requires an unchallenged military dominance for the time when some "liberal democracy" like the USA realizes what it let Clinton, Obama and Biden do in the name of "post Communist" era where all foreign policy is evaluated based on a nation's position vis-à-vis the "Global War on Terror" and "with us or against us". China is "against terrorism". Bush let them do what they wanted to do. And China started positioning itself to became the main beneficiary of all the Middle Eastern political chaos. And then Obama came along and slowly got "woke" with respect to who "the real terrorists" are. Bitter clingers and so forth. IOW, by the time Trump came along all leftist "thought leaders" understood that Trump was leading a new kind of Reactionary Capitalist White Supremacist Terror Movement" of the radical left's imagination. There's no such thing as "global capitalism". Marxism is all about rants against property rights in light of the "woke" view that all religions are nothing more than mendacious political systems that use fake morals arguments to shame people in to complying with the property rights regimes of "power". The problem is that property rights have never been the same from one nation to the other. Especially once fossil fuels became such a major factor. No monarch ever exploited control over mineral wealth in the USA to keep for himself and pass on to cronies. The same goes with productive farmlands. And yet we're supposed to be the worst "capitalists" based only on stupid Marxist "disparity" stories. Marxism has zero legitimacy in the USA and yet the USA is basically, according to all leftwing storytellers for at least 100 years, is the chief "root cause of multigenerational poverty". The most effective stories rhetorically all center around slavery. But that only works because it's supposed to symbolize "...how capitalism really works" by making workers "wage slaves". Marxists call contrary evidence "false consciousness". The whole thing is so easy to debunk that it's scary how few politicians are sounding the alarm. They must not care enough and think it's OK to follow the Social Justice Arc of History because they expect to be on all of those new Social Justice Councils that control everything.
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  1170. The judge can only do so much to throw the verdict. The number one priority in a case like this is to force evidence and the defendant's responses in to the public record. Now the public can read and decide for themselves what to think of these claims when they've obviously each put forth their best legal arguments for each phase of this ground up RICO prosecution (although nobody has explicitly invoked RICO yet, that I know of). This is also playing out in the context of a RICO style investigation and prosecution. They catch the small fish first to start to bring out the threats to the rest of the criminal conspirators. The idea is that some of the middle players will feel threatened enough to cooperate before they're charged. The other thing is that the public itself starts to change how it feels about the players and these organizations. They have to adapt to survive. And if they're taken out of power (losing seats, getting fired from the Federal agencies, and losing majorities and so forth) that makes it easier to start changing the nature of Congressional hearings and paves the way for reform of the DOJ and so forth. This happens in "baby steps" as Durham's project moves up the org chart. You have to be very, very patient and make sure you're also supporting the right elected officials to keep this kind of steady and calculated "rule of law" pressure on. I can think of ten scoundrels or more, by name, between Sussman and Hillary Clinton that thought they dodged a bullet but now see that they are in significant legal jeopardy.
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  1199. spaceLem "Of course the Nazis were socialists, it's in the name. And the Democratic Republic of North Korea are true democrats." They're both democratic socialists. They get to define what those terms mean. They're collectivists. Collectivist democracy is about creating a magical Social Justice Council to defend the "demos." This is exactly what FDR did with his "Brain Trusts" paradigm. The only difference is that in relative terms the USA is so fantastically wealthy that FDR's mistakes didn't lead directly to immense suffering that could clearly be blamed on him. You apparently think socialists rejected Darwin. What nonsense. Socialists are zero-sum Social Justice Warriors. They posit that there is no alternative to rival classes, tribes, nations, competing to be at the top. Rather, the only alternative to the status quo is to assemble "Brain Trusts" or "Soviets" or whatever. Socialists all posit that for the "good" group to win they must displace the power of the "oppressor" group. They are NOT inclusive, although they love to lie. Where do you think Newspeak comes from? Socialists are only "inclusive" when they try to line up their cannon fodder (otherwise incorrigible deviates) to aim at the "oppressor class" (or classes). Failure to understand this is a failure to understand which actors in history that do ugly things are in fact doing it based on socialist "class war" theory. They are "resisting oppression" and "fighting for freedom" of phantom oppressors. That is hat the Nazis did. Their economy was destroyed and maniacal Nazism was in fact typical war time socialism dealing with real economic problems that they blamed on real and invented "oppressor" factions. The difference to you is simply whether you accept their incoherent Social Justice narratives. You reject Nazi Social Justice propaganda only because you swallow Soviet/Chinese Social Justice propaganda whole. You don't even bother to chew.
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  1205.  @AndeH7  It's hard for me to imagine but what I see is that lots of people spend time in law school and practice law in long careers and never build any interest in Federal law and what has happened to the country since FDR's war on the Bill of Rights in favor of The New Deal. The Byzantine bureaucracy created during the New Deal and expanded under WWII and the Cold War is now just "Our Democracy" where the people in power don't ever face any elections and control who can run for office. The status quo is unfathomable if you just study the Constitution itself and then just accept "modern life is complicated" as an explanation for why things are the way that they now are. It's actually not that complicated if you research SCOTUS rulings decade by decade since Dred Scott v. Sandford through Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. and Citizens United v. FEC. And here is the plain English summary. Dred Scott ruling put together a bunch of demagogic rhetoric to explain that the slaves were not actual Citizens because they as a group were not part of the US Revolution. LOL. Crazy, eh? After the Civil War, as we all know, the so called Jim Crow laws were all about de facto apartheid or official two track justice system. And whenever you have a "two track" justice system there is always a hidden third track: The permanent ruling class that guard and protects the innate injustice. So, basically, alongside the KKK and Jim Crow, enforcing "apartheid", you also had Progressives putting together a permanent ruling class. The new institutions didn't really gel until The New Deal. There were several decades where The New Deal legislation and stupid Progressive court rulings lived right alongside KKK and Progressivism. Progressivism is required for the entire New Deal to even be suggested. And Progressivism relies on dogmatic Marxism and dogmatic Darwinism. But the dogmas are presumed to be "settled science" and arguing against Progressives is proof to them that you have cognitive dissonance described by Richard Dawkins as "God Delusion". And like Calvinists, they decree (and propagate the doctrine) that if you disagree it means you were made that way so they have no burden to improve their arguments. LOL. You see these tensions not only in pop culture but in the Federal judges sort of making dual commentary and finding versus dissenting arguments on judicial panels, including SCOTUS. But if you understand my analytical paradigm and step through the relevant history even a properly educated high school student can understand not just the US Constitution and how it should be applied but how Progressives have destroyed the rule of law in DC as a desperate gambit after losing the Civil War where the Secessionists never had any vision of living out equal application of the law. They enjoyed running a permanent ruling class and the cult, even over many generations, never really overcame this problem. The Democrats were always afraid of Patrician Republicans. The buzzword now is The Patriarchy because that fits better with the global "two class" war between Capitalists and Oppressed classes. And after you finish cruising through those histories take another look at Robespierre. He was the same kind of deluded "freedom fighter" that simply envied the monarch's power and wanted it for himself. That's what these people are. They feel oppressed, truly, because they know they have no skills, must blame society for their laziness and paranoia, and set out to resolve it by "flipping the script" and jumping not to the "Oppressor class" but to the new unspoken ruling class that was created by Soviet Communism. Every Marxist revolution since Lenin follows this third class as ruling class model to solve the alleged two class war. The New Deal was a Fabian Marxist revolution. Once you remove all of these blatantly corrupt ideas from your mind you no longer are mystified by moronic judges and their insane behaviors and rhetoric. The Constitution really is that simple to follow. Deciphering the BS takes time. But it's not unfathomable. The corruption is equally easy to understand if you look in the right places.
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  1217.  @Cavallaro2376  Brian Haskins : @Indonesia America Indonesia America "From 2009 until 2017, Democrats attempted to pass multiple anti-outsourcing bills and Republicans blocked each one. " So? Everything that you think you know about the world and your "political enemies" you learned from leftwing morons. All of your dialectics are inherently mendacious because you don't know what your thought leaders are actually trying to accomplish and you have no idea what the range of dissenting points might be. Republicans are generally against interventionism other than policies that clearly support the rule of law, including legitimate national defense needs. Being pro or against "outsourcing" as controlled by DC must follow that framework. But because of the New Deal interventionist state everyone like you thinks that DC politicians must choose from this menu of fake choices that are designed to point to the supposed "wisdom" of FDR's "Brain Trusts" governing paradigms. I'm not "for" or "against" outsourcing. The rule of law protects freedom to enter in to relationships with anyone in the world. I'm for those freedoms until they erode the rule of law and national security. And then I'm about taking a minimalist approach (with respect to the protected liberties of free people) that actually solves the problem. Therefore I am against, for example, all importation of manufactured products from nations that don't have legitimate elections. And I am also against importing manufactured or high value products from nations that don't control their criminal gangs such that it negatively affects our national security and or the rule of law. Given that elections are a key component of the rule of law, I am basically suggesting that we do not trade with nations that do not also have their own legitimate rule of law government paradigms unless they are our allies and that trade supports their efforts to establish peaceful rule of law governing paradigms. When it comes right down to it that makes for some hard questions to ask. But there are clearly mistakes being made since WWII ended. Thinking is so hard for you lunatics.
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  1237.  @jman4083  These are complicated problems and we're still suffering under illegitimate changes that originated in FDR's threat to pack SCOTUS. That led up to WWII where FDR died as Stalin's best friend. Truman found out the hard way what was really going on in Russia and China. The only two President's that tried to regain Constitutional rule of law were Reagan and Trump. The Democratic Party in the USA was founded to defend slavery against the clear "equality" doctrines in the US Constitution. Once they lost the war they went looking for more "loopholes" that they had invented along the way (by changing how they interpret plain English). The slaver cult is still alive. But they gradually turned in to Soviet Communists. Leninists, to be precise. Look up Commanding Heights and Democratic centralism. In any case, what this has done to our schools, the electorate and therefore jury pools and even the entire spectrum of sitting judges is no small thing. If you want to be an effective warrior you have to learn more about the enemy and the ground that he holds. You have to come up with realistic, effective countermeasures. Otherwise the "reeducation" and or "quarantine" camps won't be too far off in the distance. Just wait until they outlaw all private sector fossil fuel possession. Otherwise move to a still-free State like Texas or Florida and try to keep up with what these scumbags have done. Figure out how to educate some of the ignoramuses that you communicate with regularly. Throwing out fatalistic rhetoric does nothing but demoralize those around you. There is no "two party system". There are lying Communists that totally control the Democratic Party. And they also control many Republicans in DC. The opportunities for expedited solutions are in the free States and by sending better Republicans to DC. Try to support those things. Or you just become another leftwing sky screamer.
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  1280. To the extent that Maher has ever had a truly legitimate doctrine to teach it is that dogmatic thinking and dogmatic propaganda is bad for society. Christians agree with this. If you "identify as" some kind of Christian and you're attached to your dogmas as "faith" (faith allows for uncertainty) then you are doing it wrong. But Maher is also doing "liberalism" wrong. He's often just as dogmatic as his critics. The only ones that more religiously peddle dogmatic thinking than Maher are his leftwing cohorts that he now wishes to denounce. He's all about Critical Theory until it starts to threaten his actual worldview. And the only difference between Maher and the lunatics he's now criticizing "on the left" is that Maher is afraid that he can't pass their purity tests. And he's right about that. But philosophically they're all triggered hypocrites. They have bogey men targets that they attack. Maher isn't quite as bad because he has a large platform and his critics don't swarm him. He can imagine that he's "winning" but closing his "liberal" mind. But now he sees the truly dangerous dogmatic gaslighters to his left. He still does not get it. He's like Robespierre wondering why lunatics that once followed him now want to chop off his head. Maher did his part to create this mess by propagating dogmatic leftism in to his "comedy routines" and "defying political correctness" that he didn't really ever stray very far from. He still doesn't know what Politically Correct actually means. I guarantee it.
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  1333.  @SG-hf8pj  You're not even capable of engaging in an information-seeking conversation. "Name calling" has nothing to do with any of it. I criticized "socialized education" doctrines and results. You came along to pretend that your views, that you can't even articulate clearly, are superior, and you sort of attempted to use your cult's pedantic memes to scare off anyone from actually considering my criticisms. You did nothing to attempt to flesh them out or even try to figure out what validity you might find in them. In the process, you exemplified everything that I am pointing out in terms of results. You don't even know how to use a fucking dictionary and instead try to diminish my critiques by using the "buzzwords" term (as a buzz word!) to signal to your groupthink cult to ignore my critiques. You are a perfect exemplar to support my argument. You're totally unaware that in a debate I could fully defend the "Progressive" worldview, relying on Darwinism and related pseudosciences to show (without proper testing) that "disparity" is innate to natural humans and that the closest thing to "social justice" that humanity can achieve is when Enlightened Elites (AKA "democratic Brain Trusts" in the time of FDR) are ruling every polity. WTF would I care about your inane FUD memes when you're clearly a victim of everything that I've mentioned? You know it. All of the readers know it. They simply fear that there are no better choices because they fear that disparity in cognitive abilities is innate. To admit that their theories have not been properly tested is to throw away their entire worldview and submit to doctrines that they hate. IOW, emotional responses with "community truth" justifications. A secular cult that claims "science" without demonstrating any scientific nous. You and your entire cult demonstrates a rejection of progressive scientific knowledge while claiming to be masters. Just as Bruce Jenner "identifies as" female when everyone knows that this is simply an agreed upon lie.
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  1474. The actual family history of Gavin Newsom closely matches what they claim about Trump. Newsom's father made all of the money. But he didn't build anything. He was a lawyer that got hired by JP Getty to negotiate the "hostage" release and eventually became the top lawyer for the estate and trustee for after Getty's death. Newsom talks like a Red Diaper Baby but actually comes from a bent lawyer who gained control over the Getty estate and got involved in politics by funding certain leftist politicians before and after JP Getty's death. IIRC, Newsom's father was placed on the CA judicial bench by Gerry Brown, the only 4 term CA Governor I've heard of and that guy is definitely a "Democratic" Communist. And until this day this whole gang still hangs out at the Getty estate because of the money and the fact that the heirs became drug-addicted parasites that never had any interest in doing any kind of work. That's where Gavin gets quite a bit of his money. But the Getty money itself is managed by a "Soros" like institution and really the effect is the same as with Soros. Now look at USAID. The Clintons are not the ones that invented this NGO grift. The made virtually all of their wealth from it. Whereas the Getty estate and Soros made money in the private sector and realized that they could control governments enough to predict how to continue to take fees and profit margins from knowing what comes next in terms of investment strategies and profit taking (when to buy, hold and sell) and eventually gaining more and more control over USAID graft and straight up criminal fraud. And again, the Bidens are unique because they're blatant idiots and Hunter did a whole "Laptop" thing to give lots of material for making a movie or TV series for entertainment purposes, or whatever. But the Biden crime family is pretty small time on a year to year basis compared to these other Demon Rats.
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  1548. I just want to remind people of something I have said before about these networks and cable operations that are owned by massive conglomerates. They usually have cellular phone operations, internet access operations, now they're buying production studios for film and TV and the whole world is carved up by just a few of these international media corporations. These are the kinds of corporations subject to regulation and or antitrust actions. What has happened in the modern era (since FDR) is that big corporations have to "virtue signal" if they want protected spaces. The entire idea of the New Deal was to organize key industries so that they could deliver more value and keep prices down so even poor people could eat well. That was in FDR's initial campaign for POTUS. But anywaym, it's a known side effect that small farms would fail and get bought buy bigger operations that could join the segmented land and plan crop rotations and so forth. IOW, these are planned "social justice" monopolies, but not quite monopolies as in only one for the whole country but usually they faced no local or regional competition for things like eggs, chicken, certain crops like corn and so forth. So what happened over time is that the DOJ is supposed to investigate antitrust violations. Since network television was even conceived they were "licensed" aka regulated monopolies but 3 major networks would compete, in theory, but at the same time they must also deliver value according to what measure? Social justice. Put another way, if you piss off the post WWII Deep State you will get investigated. OTOH, if decades of history prove that it's ok to keep consolidating in "Television" and then in "media" and "data access" and whatnot and certain kinds of appeasement, like donating to the SJWs in Congress and flattering "government" in the "news division" will keep the antitrust lawsuits away, taht becomes part of the calculus. From what I understand, take CNN for this example, CNN sold rights to cable providers and the profit motive for CNN itself was those licensing fees and even though they also sold commercial spots that alone would not keep CNN afloat. So the question of salaries for moronic SJWs is really about getting enough eyeballs and convinced the DC fascists that it's a good idea not to split up these conglomerates. They are literal PR flacks for the Deep State and the elected officials that must protect the Deep State or face a culling from the DNC. It seems like government propaganda for that reason. It actually is government propaganda as a strategy of the umbrella corporations that own them. MSNBC was launched by Microsoft not long after they reached a settlement with Clinton's DOJ. So, yeah. They act like agents of this Deep State aka Military Industrial Complex and in effect they are.
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  1590. Obama could be charged under Deprivation of Rights Under the Color of Law. Hillary could easily be convicted on Espionage Act violations and her "criminal intent" definitely has to do with her Global Grift foundation that makes the Biden family look like small town mafiosi. Which is basically what those crackheads are. Biden should also be charged with violating the Espionage Act not merely because of the documents floating around but we also know crackhead "smartest guy, ever" used them to keep Burisma cronies up to speed on CIA analysis from Biden's VPOTUS (illegal) VPOTUS cache. The only one that has a clear Constitutional right to do as he pleases with "national security information" from their own tenure is Trump. And if it makes you feel better, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can't be charged for all of the BS they hauled off. Actually, Bill Clinton got caught sending Sandy Berger in to remove documents from the national archive and they only charged Berger but not Bill. He got a slap on the risk for literally stealing a document already given to the national archives and supposedly it had something to do with warnings about OBL and the WTC attacks. But anyway, the accusers are obviously traitors afraid Trump himself will hold them accountable for their numerous crimes. Now, this "Bush lied" BS is just that. Nobody lied. It's possible somewhere along the line that somebody intentionally "cooked" the intelligence gathered. The "lie" is, allegedly, that (I think Italian) intel agents found "yellow cake" yada yada then that turned out to be inaccurate or exaggerated. Even that is not really regarded as a lie. Bush lied, people died" in childish political rhetoric. Lastly, nobody thinks that Hussein was going to leave everything in place when he knew for years that Bush threated to get UN to permit US and allies to go in. Come on, man. You think Hussein didn't follow the UN hearings? LOL. And Israel had already attacked Iraq nuclear weapons sites in the past. We're supposed to forget about that? Or we're supposed to just "know" taht Israel destroyed it all and then they decided to forget about it? Come on, man. Don't give false equivalence BS. You make it sound like Trump isn't innocent but that he needs to have every other living President join him in prison. Stop this childishness.
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  1697. These people glorify and sort of get on the terrorist train virtually and it affects the body politic. The US government should not be involved in censorship. But victims should be allowed to sue in accordance with defamation and racketeering statutes. And then most of them won't be affected but rioting and looting will not go viral so quickly in the USA. Facebook censors constantly. I don't even care about some dude that claims to be a freedom fighter that got censored for flirting with people purportedly fighting for freedom under the HAMAS banner. HAMAS claims to be "resistance" but their first big "resistance" fight was against FATAH and it's pretty well known that most and perhaps all of their funding and weapons comes from Iran. Iran is in alignment with China and Russia to sort of take over all of the "middle easter" nation-states. This was the idea promoted by lunatics that approached Obama while he was running. This was supposed to stabilize Iraq and allow Obama to focus on "Winning the War on Terror" in Afghanistan. That's how old this talking point is. Even the British and the Germans statists are OK with having Iran dominate the whole region so that energy markets become more stable. The bonus for the US Marxists is they can brag about "Global Equity" by harming their own middle class and statistically pumping up GDP for "oppressed people" that they propose to manage like Orwell's Pigs managed the Animal Farm. Obama had good intentions but he's always been a naive ideologue that feels oppressed not by "banks" or "whiteness" but by "Patriarchy".
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  1735.  @woosungkim7853  So, you're saying material conditions should be factored in rather than just "economics". To answer your question, IMO, economic factors should NOT affect qualification for entrance. Economic arguments can be used for scholarship programs to offset economic deficits. The whole premise of "equality" in Western societies (before Marx) was about equal application of the law, not coming up with government programs that "by law" make people equal, in "socioeconomic" terms. The grand bargain made with Marxists in good faith with the others (AKA "rule of law libertarians") is that equal application of the law can be out of reach if equality of opportunity becomes out of reach. People can't get "justice" if they can't afford legal representation when falsely accused. Things like that. The thing is that first we had to deal with the history of slavery and the now freed people that suffered under that. And that is when "Brain Trust" socialism (AKA Progressivism) came to the USA where the "deprived" slave masters attempted to carve out a place for themselves as agents of Equity. Public schools and public school funding and so forth came from this idea of ensuring "equality of opportunity" that it seemed would inarguably lead to better outcomes for deprived individuals and the nation as a whole. A lot of these supposedly "do good" interventions corrupt the rule of law and really only install a shadow ruling class. And this cult has metastasized across many institutions that corrupt the rule of law first by corrupting separations of powers laterally and vertically (the 3 branches paradigm and local, State and Federal checks and balances) and since FDR this cult has additionally created and hyped "emergencies" that continually scare the voting public in to solving problems created by the people that propose to solve them. I'm not saying all of these programs are innately corrupt. However, not one program, even those that started out as a "good idea" has failed to turn toxic. I'm ok with economic assistance that doesn't corrupt the rule of law. It's difficult to see how that can happen on a Federal level. Especially after all of these decades since FDR.
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  1768.  @BillyWickert  You can compare and contrast but not rate one against the other. Reagan developed his political philosophy over many decades. He was very clear about what he thought of Communism from the start of the Cold War until he entered in to retirement after serving two terms as President of the United States. Trump had a slightly different road and learned from direct experience just how unhinged our "Post Cold War" government had become. If Reagan had lived long enough to meet politically active Trump he would have said "I tried to tell you." Because Trump didn't evolve politically during Reagan's terms as Governor in California. Whether or not he supported Reagan (and he probably did) he seemed to think that Communism ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He entertained the idea of doing business with China (and therefore the CCP) during the Clinton and Bush years. So that's really a different kind of evolution. Reagan fully understood Communism when fighting with Screen Actors Guild as its President starting in 1947 when a lot of idiots still thought Stalin was our friend "against Fascism". And Reagan did not want to "cut deals" with Russia or China other than SALT or similar arms treaties. I'm not saying Trump is wrong to work for economic reset with China (and therefore the CCP) but Reagan recognized the danger immediately when he first encountered Marxists in the "labor" unions and Trump bonded with the workers and accepted the status quo because, actually, Trump is a lot more practical and inherently fatalistic, or he was during his "business executive" epoch. He went along with laughing at Communist China "competing" with us and I guess he wasn't fully aware of what was happening the entire time. I am Donald Trump's age and I never understood why Clinton opened up trade restrictions with China to celebrate the collapse of Russian Communism with actual elections and privatizing assets and properties seized by the Soviet Communists. China celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union by mowing down student protestors with tanks. Who could have missed that? OTOH, Trump was perhaps more open minded in thinking that Libertarian "seduction theory" (trade with totalitarian regimes makes them moderate as they gain prosperity) might work out. For the first time in world history. The thing is that "seduction theory" is a modern theory that presumes the prosperity will moderate the electorate. With no real elections seduction theory applied to totalitarian regimes is, well, it's insane.
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  1782.  @emmapeel8163  This doesn't make sense the way that you think it does. First of all, how is it that they were able to "buy politicians" when political power is officially rooted in elections? The answer to that question begins with a serious investigation of FDR after reading a bit of Karl Marx. You blame the wrong people because you have this simplistic need to frame your fears in the terms of delusional "class war" storytellers. In any case, once you've done a little background research you might then understand why "Capitalists", the ones that actually abide by the rule of law (another term you must look up in its historical context before reading Marxist class war stories about it) to create wealth and hire people who can also build their own businesses in the future are the kind that work synergistically to build great civilizations. If you start off with a deluded view of "equality" then everything you read will be interpreted incorrectly and you will blame "society" for the fear you feel for these other "classes" that you think are robbing you of something. Amazon itself should be broken up. But not because of stock valuations. But because, like Standard Oil, they are too well integrated vertically and dominate global market sectors as well. In insidious ways. But they're not stealing anyone's wealth. And it's not "wrong" that they were allowed to replace the brick and mortar stores that stupid Communist "Democrat" Governors shut down. Blame the stupid Communists that promise everything and deliver nothing but destruction and "spoils of war" booty goes to the party elites.
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  1788.  @ryant2568  We're not dependent on European imports. In theory, the middle class can rise up more and more with more opportunities to trade. But we have trade deficits with everyone. And often the things we sell to Europe are tariffed and sometimes even subsidized by US taxpayers. The whole New Deal era has been all about nutshell accounting games and riding intentionally created market bubbles. You can ride those waves for a long time, even 50 years or more. It was worth it to get the Soviet Union to give up their dream of ruling the entire world. Now what? European nations want more and more just because and their also helping the CCP grow. So this whole New Deal thing is really all about killing what Marxists consider the Golden Goose of Capitalism. They think they don't need the golden goose laying eggs because they think all of the wealth they extract will be carried off like gold. Or silver, and so forth. They have stupid views of wealth and economics. Adam Smith called it "Mercantilism". Anything done dogmatically leads to ruin. All of their economics theories are tainted by socialist and Marxist dogmas. If not for these dogmas they would abandon their stupidity entirely. With respect to Russia "gaining control" over Europe, what's the difference between Russia authoritarianism and Germany's? The only thing "great" about "liberal" Germany was West Germany. Do you know what happened to it? And both France and the United Kingdom have nuclear weapons and submarines for the "nuclear triad" and "MAD" deterrents. I'd like to save every puppy dog and every suffering person on the planet. But if I'm going to save anyone I have to first make sure scammers don't steal all of my materials.
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  1802. Academic Critical Theory feeds cultural enforcement of Critical Theory, now in lockstep with Marxist Political Correctness. In other words. The world's leftists are either Fabian Communists or revolutionary Communists. They have all of the same beliefs of Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Anyone who talks about "Rise of China" rather than Rise of Communism is a Communist. Full stop. And this is why all of the demonization is placed on Putin. Not because he's "the opposite" but because he's a CCP target. The CCP wants to run Russia as they now run North Korea. They also want Taiwan and South Korea but you dopes are worried about Ukraine because you have no idea who the players are and what they're up to. All Marxist parties around the word try to put themselves in line with the "Global Vanguard Party". And what almost everyone does it talk about binary stories of good and evil as if we must trickly follow due process so as not to taint the jury during the trial. That is not how political problems are discussed by sensible people. In international relations or the politics between sovereign nations you don't first parse your argument by lining up alleged good versus alleged irredeemable. We have students who are taught to think like this in college and then never quite figure out that your leftist parties are not geniuses nor are they even capable of intellectual honesty. They win elections through deception. Full stop. And to the extent that the have influence over what is taught in our academies, well, you can see that if my analysis is correct that a lot of you need to grow up and stop this infantile Star Wars style of analysis of domestic and international disputes.
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  1804.  @SamtheBravesFan  Correct. The root problem is how much we've allowed the Federal government to intervene in "free market" economic activities. They should not have that power. The only legitimate power they have pertains to national security and weapons/security contracts. So we can't completely eliminate it all but these effing people should have zero power over any other economic sectors. They should pass laws that are enforced by the Executive Branches in DC and each State. And of course with civil penalties the victims can sue these Internet companies (and medical insurance companies, etc.). The rule of law as it was before FDR. And Congress is also supposed to police itself. But for decades everyone has only ever voted for scoundrels taht they believe will bring a slice of the corrupt pie to them and their district/State. Or worse. Marxists that want to "defend the interests of the people" by destroying "Capitalism". If what I say is correct, the root of all of these problems is allowing DC to have any influence whatsoever on K-12. And even passing funds for this and that to universities leads to this kind of corruption unless it's done strictly for military contracts and that kind of research. If it's narrowed to that then it's easier to find the corrupt people. Especially when foreign adversaries send people here on student visas to work on those "university research" military contracts. BTW, look at Biden's relationships with "universities". His Chinamoney buys a lot of stolen military IP for "foreign students" and "guest professors".
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  1838. For some historical perspective, the closest thing to fascism in the USA is FDR's New Deal and the cancerous "Military Industrial Complex" AKA "Deep State" AKA Administrative (law) state. General Kelly is responding to "norms" where Presidents no longer call the shots. Kelly calls Trump a "fascist" and by that he means that he's "authoritarian" in that he thinks that as elected President that he can actually tell "Experts" (also lower in the chain of command) what to do. Now this "expert" cult says correctly that they swear on oath to the US Constitution and not to the President. But the Constitution still has the elected POTUS as the highest Executive Officer in the Federal government and Commander in Chief. So, ironically, the fascist is Kelly who is trying to use "Expert Consensus" arguments to overrule the elected President. The elected President in the US can't be "authoritarian" for the entire government because he must submit to Congress on any matter (after the fact) and he must in some cases respect SCOTUS if he tries something unconstitutional with respect to domestic policy. What's effing HILARIOUS is that US Democrats loved Mussolini, the original "Fascist" and only hated Hitler because he was openly racist, like their KKK wing. But the only reason we turned on Hitler is because Stalin felt threatened by the Nazis. That's why we went to Europe. It wasn't to save "colonial" France or the British Empire. FDR expected the Communists to dominate Europe and Asia after the war. The "republican" fascists at least are not the same kind of traitors as the Democratic Party Marxists that use "Equilibrium Theory" and "Managed Decline" theory to sell out the entire freaking middle class and try to get everyone to abort their offspring. The true fascists are the leftists. Leftists invented "socialism" (in France and then Germany) and they also invented "Communism" and Fascism. Communism is nominally about "International Workers' Solidarity" and Fascists scoff at this fiction and admit that they put their own national interests first but they still treat act like genocidal Malthusian maniacs because they all worry about being on the losing end of that game. And related to this is James Comey and his "Higher Loyalty". You're supposed to assume that he was properly defending the US Constitution but he's rather vague on what his point is. They're a bunch of idiots and Sam Harris is terrified of Trump for recognizing just how FUBAR the US Federal government has become.
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  1921. It's very obvious that the Bible is not instructing people for all time how to keep slaves. They were not regarded as "owned" either. It was a complex set of rules for the conditions of that time. Most of Leviticus is about that and not only that it was conditioned on the fidelity of the Israelites or followers of Moses if you prefer to use that term. It was a "martial law" for those conditions. And if you want to debate that just ask yourself what would be merciful about cutting loose or emancipating a captive under those conditions versus cutting someone loose in a land with lots of free, airable land to squat on. You people think that you're "intelligent" but this is only by your own cult's agreement. At least in a "religion" you can agree on dogmas and agree on uncertainty. With your cult...LOL. BTW, there was an explicit framework for emancipation of the slaves of that time as well. It's not even close to comparable to sailing across a continent to purchase people already enslaved for reasons everyone at the markets can only guess about and then brining them north for a life with very little chance to earn emancipation of any kind. And yet believing Jews and Christians would have been instructed to treat them as adoptees and they would have been offered emancipation. The Bible also warns everyone about people and persons that not only lack fidelity but actually follow "the father of lies". You're all warned about these things but you pretend that the Bible is 'contradictory'. No, that's you. And it's intentional.
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  1937. Highlighted reply Vantahawk "Indonesia America How exactly have all of Marx' critiques or at least parts thereof been disproven? " Very easy. Private capital is not ipso facto abuse of power. All of his theories hinge on capital as a driving force rather than a tool or mere paradigm. You can see the failures every time someone starts with nothing and accumulates the fruits of his own labor, as wages, and then becomes a "capitalist." In fact the entire "capital versus labor" paradigm is proven patently absurd. The fact that some people don't want to find ways to become successful or that others inherit money does not prove his theories at all that private capital leads to insurmountable political dominance and/or cultural hegemony. All of his critiques can be refuted and resolved with only slightly more informed critiques where underneath the "justice" claims, when they are legitimate, you have abuse of power and economic disparity can become a byproduct. If people are free to earn and grow economically without being "born" in to it then this alone disproves his theories. Looking at "disparity" in view of questions pertaining to the rule of law versus de facto oligarchies and asks what people have done to earn their power, wealth and so forth. And in the age of universal education, you should also ask why people remain disenfranchised when they have so many choices to participate in modern markets. "The monopolisation and cartelisation of privat industries has been a growing problem." You must be joking. The British monarch had "competition law" and the US derived Antitrust law from that. If we do have de facto monopolies today it is only because they are protected by Social Justice elitists under FDR's New Deal paradigms, IOW, socialists asked for it, because that is what economic socialism is, or you have old regimes where the monarch or the state is allowed to have its own "sovereign investment fund" (or some functional equivalent). Rule of law capitalism plus free public education has actually answered all legitimate "socialist" complaints. We only need government food programs because the socialists have done everything possible to destroy churches and private charity, not to mention small farms that used to be able to find free markets to keep themselves and neighbors fed. "And wealth disparity has also been getting worse as capitalism has been deregulated in recent years. " That's an absurd bogey man and begging the question fallacy, not to mention the basis for endless straw man arguments. Nobody said "capitlaism solves disparity." Disparity is natural and good. Nobody has every offered a rational explanation for "the problem with (any discernible) disparity." It's better to explain your "disparity" whinges as envy and your desire to take things that others probably earned because Marx suggested that they didn't in fact earn it so it must be at least partly yours to take (or tax). "Wages have stayed stagnant in the US for a while now while corporations enrich themselves more rapidly than ever." This is more nonsense. Why should wages for X go up? Earnings go up when value/productivity goes up. So you cheat by comparing some fixed or normalized kind of skill, like ditch digging, as if static workers are supposed to be led up to Heaven by the government. If workers want to earn more they need to plan to increase the value of their work. Or accept the status quo. That's life. That is life as it should be. "My main beef is only with private property." You were taught that your envy plus continuous whining leads to Social Justice. You have been lied to.
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  1939. Vantahawk < More senseless BS > You can't even understand what you read or write. You cited Marx's labor theory as "Settled Science." It is the basis for all of your "justice" appeals. You're completely incorrigible. Capitalism is a construct that puts together observations of disparate real things in to a paradigmatic description and invented "explanatory framework" of an alleged "system" or "thing" that includes things like "theft of wages" and crap like that. It is a paradigm. It is a construct. It is not a real thing. There is no such thing as pure capitalism. You can't understand what is real if you don't know what the stupid inventions are and you peddle nothing but delusional Victicrat inventions. You completely ignored my synthesis where I explained that "socialists" that have legitimate "social justice" concerns can trace that all back to political power and systems and policies that allow abuse to go unchecked. Everyone agrees. Marxists posit that unequal distribution of "capital" (or material) will always lead to inequality of results and hence unequal political power. His theories, like yours, also include stories about alleged historical theft and it is implied that there is no "fair" way for free people to just enter in to (free market) agreements and grow synergistically without "oppressing workers" and so forth. The entire history of the world since Marx published his manifesto has proved that capitalism creates middle class, upwardly mobile populations. That means that the intelligent socialists also value a rule of law framework. OTOH, the idiots talk endlessly like you and try to conflate property rights and "disparity" as deterministic and without remedy other than property seizures until you are sated. Which will be never. Hence pure socialism doesn't exist either. "I am a market socialist, not a Marxist." Market socialists do not suggest that capitalists steal wages from workers simply by taking a profit. You are a braindead Marxist in denial. Most Marxists today deny being Marxists. Chalk it up to your own unresolved cognitive dissonance. The USA has been "market socialist" from the beginning. Every polity with any kind of "social program" is "market socialist." Why do you pester people with your own confusion as if you have something intelligent to say when all you actually do is try to blame your own incompetence and cognitive dissonance on people that patiently try to explain the flaws in your theories to you? While you're at it, why don't you read the Communist Manifesto and find any agenda items that you disagree with. You're just not a revolutionary because you're too much of a coward. The manifesto doesn't call directly for armed revolution. It calls for incrementalism while predicting armed revolutions. Communists don't have to be the revolutionaries to qualify as Communists according to Marx. You don't know anything that is true.
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  1981.  @brentjamesonparker  Let me explain something to you. People that go around like you making "labeling" arguments, that never come up with any kind of logical explanation to support the label "accusation" are just about as illogical as it gets. It almost doesn't even matter what you think "straw man" means. It's pretty obvious that you don't know what "straw man fallacy" means. A straw man, logically, is a trope or a model (analytical paradigm) or whatever. You seem to think that with your silly 5 word accusation that you've said something meaningful. What you've telegraphed is that you have no hope of following the conversations without first looking at your own "uncertainty theories" - or more bluntly - your own areas of ignorance. You don't even realize that by your own behavior you're providing an example of many of the problems I've complained about right here. You're triggered by your cult to defend perceived "community interests" (that's a rough translation from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks). That's the only thing anyone can conclude by your contribution here. Another way of putting it is that you're "virtue signaling" to likeminded people. If you want to cry out illogically "straw man something something" over and over again, carry on. That's what you and your cult like to do when you're not carrying bad "social justice" signage to the riots and throwing Molotov cocktails. Identifying you as affected by a cult is not a fallacious "straw man" argument. I'm pointing out the implications of your inane rhetoric. You're perfectly free to show contradictory evidence but choose not to. How about that.
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  1985.  Really Doe  Moron, I doubt that you can read or reason properly but for the sake of those that can, I already wrote that FDR fits more than any other US President based on historical facts. I'm not the one with a fetish of arguing by labeling. The New Deal and his treatment of Congress, SCOTUS, and his willingness to run for 4 terms, unlike any other US President in history, demonstrates that FDR saw himself as a kind of unique political messiah that was totally closed minded about any opposition to his "New Deal" socialism and approach to foreign policy. You morons have no idea what he was about. Apparently you don't even know what "autocrat" actually means. Did you study any history at all? Do you not ever consider the relevant facts pertaining to your kooky rants? Did it ever occur to you that FDR's relationship with Stalin was more valued than his relationship with the British because FDR was a crazed neo-Marxist Progressive that thought the Communists and their command economy ideas (as in New Deal) were the way of the future for all of the world? Serious scholars that are not afraid to look at history from an unbiased frame can see that FDR had the same beliefs as the Marxists other than his own Christian beliefs and that the USA was regarded as "exceptional" in that it would not need to go through a bloody revolution to achieve the Marxist prophecies for "progress" and so forth. When neo-Marxists denounce "Communism" they're only denouncing their rivals and/or the need for revolution. If you believe in Marx's historical materialism and "progress" you also believe in Communism. You just don't know what he labels mean. As far as Trump as "autocrat" this is literally propagated by neo-Marxist academic lunatics that "make the case" by using "signaling" and "stereo typing" profiling techniques. At best these critiques belong in a conversation about perceptions and leadership styles and how propagation by enemies can spin. But soon you see that they are the ones that regard themselves as "victims" and therefore "enemies" of an elected President. Not just that they're triggered by his speech but that they can't recognize their own childish reactions. As if they really think they can connect him with "autocrats." They obviously don't even understand the meaning behind his rhetoric. What it shows is that the academic class of paid pontificators can make careers out of teaching "criticism" to students and nobody will really see just what a crazed cult they've created over time. John Bolton's fear of Trump is based on his view of "democracy." He's a very good attorney. He's done a good job playing his assigned roles in the past. Kooks don't understand how that works. With Trump, Bolton didn't actually disagree with Trump's policies. He was triggered by his manners that Bolton instinctively profiled like a Progressive kook. Because although he's not a doctrinaire Progressive, he spends so much time with them that some of the Progressive cultural "community sense" has affected his thinking. He fears Trump because he's afraid that, generally speaking, Progressives are right about "the demos" that they regard as idiots. That they are "triggered" and that "capitalists" like Trump only care about profit. It doesn't mean Bolton is afraid of these policy changes. Bolton knows that Communists are far more dangerous. What's amazing to me is that Bolton thinks Trump is in another class from, say, the Bush family. And he is but only in a very superficial sense. The Bush family has raised their children as "conservative Progressives" in that they believe in the Progressive worldview but play a kind of Randian Libertarian role as "conservers of patriotism and stuff" in the US. Progressives think that you're an idiot. Unlike me, they don't blame their own academic doctrines and "public education" establishment. They blame Darwinism. They don't expect students to be able to catch up once they fall behind (or worse, when they show up as "low IQ" from the start). They expect a wide diversity in results from K-12 and try to create "egalitarian learning" so that the students don't notice this wide disparity (that they are partially responsible for). Apparently you've never read and contemplated Orwell's Animal Farm.
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  1987.  Really Doe  "You're calling people idiots just because they recognize just how deep and far your head is inserted up your rectum." LOL. That's called "question begging fallacy." Look it up. If I offer sound insight that can be used to improve the conversation and even improve the thinking of "adversaries" then that is synergistic discourse. You don't recognize it because he totally lack any confidence in learning anything at all. You have no confidence in your own declarations. If you had any confidence at all in your rants the only effect "name calling" would have on you would be you'd slow down to explain yourself better. You don't think that you can improve at all so you panic and follow all of the other indoctrinated kooks and their hiveminds. You were led to believe that certain types of people can always sort of outperform and that you can't learn from them. You must cling to "social justice" tactics and throw out inane smears in "solidarity" with the other Victicrat kooks. My rhetorical "abuse" actually shows my confidence in your ability to do better. In virtually everyone's ability to learn from conversations of all kinds. Academic trigger theory is abject bullshit. That's what's making you feel this way. None of you put any serious thought in to questioning your own biases. Because you're afraid to. Your minds were closed by your experiences at school. Read the Dunning Kruger studies. These are "psychologists" doing "studies" to show "disparity" in a non-offensive way but based on 2 assumptions: The biggest factor in human disparity is caused by material disparity, including inheritance (DNA and so forth) and that the public school academic doctrines that they went through can't be at fault either.
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  1988.  Really Doe  "With your Fox News talking points, their signature terminology and repetitive insane rambling of a cult member. " Are you capable at all of running "quality assurance" on your own rants and the actually implications? Fox News signature terminology? LOL. Insane ramblings from me. In theory, sure. The problem that you have is that you can't actually support your claims with any kind of evidence at all. You actually allude only to the Jacobin-Marxist-Progressive cult's form of idiotic theories. Including the theory that you're not able to put together a coherent rebuttal because you're "oppressed" by "capitalism" and "trigger speech" that is part of the "evolution" of the "oppressor" class. You're triggered to throw out these inane and totally ineffective accusations in part because they represent fears about yourself and your own thinking. Your own inadequacies and your fear that you can't grow beyond. That's also why you're to triggered by "Fox News" and Trump. You're triggered by "intersectionalism" or as I call it, Always Blame Capitalism even if you don't know theories. You're afraid that you can't compete and you're afraid that you need a certain political party to defend everything that you depend on materially and psychologically. It's sad. I, on the other hand, am not an "oppressor." My "harsh" (compared to what you're used to in our schools) rhetoric could have a positive effect on you if you'd overcome your fears and cultivated "Resistance" responses. But that's on you and it doesn't matter if you start now or at any time in the future. These are your choices that all individuals must make as the opportunities arise. You have not done much to leverage opportunities granted to you. Maybe give that some thought.
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  1999.  @DemocracyOfficer2485  Those two issues are your best examples and you can't even cite specifically what your problem is? Red flag laws still can't overcome the Bill of Rights. I mean, a lot of people think that you can't force crazy people to seek help. Yet we get around that with laws that allow police to arrest certain people to put them under observation for a few days and they can be committed. Red flag laws would only build on that and due process guarantees apply to both. You also have SCOTUS just OK'ed laws that deny gun rights to "domestic violence" something something. So these laws already exist under another nomenclature. What Trump said about NATO is dead on and long overdue. For me he did not go far enough. These are all one way treaties. And therefore not really legitimate. The USA already has a clear path to join any fight that any President chooses. Why should we make stupid, open ended promises to corrupt regimes that date back to Stalin's Communist imperialism that was actually funded originally by FDR? All defense treaties should be bilateral or not exist at all. Multilateral agreements are supposedly the cause of WWI, in case you didn't know. And the cause of WWII is very clearly the Treaty of Versailles, also a multilateral treaty. The best you can hope for in "multilateralism" is the UN with some purges of groups that do not belong because even the UN deceives the public about its legitimate role and mission in international relations. The only US politician that never comes across as an idiot is Ted Cruz and any time someone like Cruz (or me) talks realistically with people most eyes just glaze over. The American (including Canada and Mexico) public doesn't care to learn about anything important in politics. They just want their stuff. European citizens as a bunch are even more nihilistic. NATO was critical during a certain phase of history simply because of how we fought WWII and how FDR set up Stalin to take over all of Eastern Europe. Intentionally. The British rule over India was regarded as worse than Stalin's rule, according to FDR. FDR envisioned British as it is today and the Soviet Union becoming the dominant political entity in Europe as the USA dominates North America. The point being that all of these programs, if they have any legitimacy at all, were about solving very specific problems. If they are not solved by now it's time to reboot and solve today's problems rather than nursing sacred cows of our neo0-Marxist past.
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  2006.  @christopherforsyth5284  I was not taught that Communism is dangerous. What I was taught, slowly, was how things work today, how they worked in the past and what "Progressives" want to improve "democracy". I saw instantly that the "Progressives" were like children themselves trying to paint silly Utopian pictures. I thought maybe they were just dumbing it down for the students. After some years of that I finally realized that these are parasites looking for reasons to avoid serious work of any kind. The big change happened when "The Internet" was opened up and then nobody in or around Silicon Valley wanted to do any serious work at all. They thought Utopian Democracy was just a matter of finding the right "Artificial Intelligence" machines and "the next killer app" to invest in. These people were lunatics. It only got worse when Facebook moved there and Google turned in to a hidden tech empire because they were protected by the Federal government to keep its role under the public radar. Ask NSA dissidents about that. Pretty much all DOJ Antitrust actions were taken off the table for big teach once The Homeland Security Act was passed. They wanted tightly controlled tech monopolies and here we are. Communism itself is obviously based on the childish delusion of a terrified little parasite that lived and died in the 19th century. It makes me wonder how anyone could believe in that BS unless they still lived under a monarch that kept all of the mineral rights for itself and or "the state" if they had some kind of "democratic" political system at that stage. How any American could look around at American prosperity and think Communism had any answers whatsoever for problems already solved by US founders. And Communism itself is just pseudoscientific Jacobinism. Our founders knew about the French Jacobins. It's beyond belief that Cultural Marxism was allowed to ever flourish in the USA. Beyond belief. What were those parasitic idiots thinking? Leninism, the basic framework for fascism (his post-revolution New Economic Policy), was useful for some countries. But if they don't have elections and reliable courts by now I'd say that's a failure. Why anyone would think that Marxist dogmas are worth defending in this day and age is a mystery. I guess a lot of people want to be deceived.
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  2027.  @Mike1Lawless  What nonsense. Something can be personal and social at the same time. And if it's also based on testimonies of dead people then that too can be about both personal choice and public debate. It just means that it affects each person according to their own judgement. OTOH if you believe that murder is wrong that can be both personal and political. And also "religious" to the extent that it affects your beliefs and your "religious" behaviors. The problem here is that Harris commits endless fallacies when he argues that faith is harmful to society and or to persons that believe in an unseen creator that directly or indirectly affects any person's "sense of" morals. And speaking directly to your fallacious claim about "belief does not arise from reasoning' this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Your intuition and psychological reactions can come from many sources both seen and unseen. If you have a reasoned belief in something then that is itself an intellectual exercise. Discussing it is allowing others to debate. Therefore it becomes more "objective" and so forth. You don't actually know what reasoning is. You just got suckered by people like Sam Harris in to making you think arrogant Dunning Kruger "unskilled and unaware" atheists have special cognitive skills to "explain" (but only to fellow travelers) nutritively how everyone else is deluded. Anything that you say about reasoning can be turned back on you. And the only thing that you can do to defend Sam Harris is perhaps correct a misquote or something. LOL.
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  2037.  @Mike1Lawless  I notice that you take it for granted, seemingly, that you have some special insight or technique or something for laying out the spectrum of "nutcases" and "extremists" in some kind of objective fashion. From my point of view, it seems to me that you are clearly, way, way more "extreme" than just about everyone I've met. Of course we're not talking about "dangerous extremism" because you're just a nameless Internet troll. But as a...I don't know...a "virtual voice of reason" you're clearly as nutty as they get. You must know this. In any case, even if you don't, you at least must realize that you've offered nothing in the way of "enlightenment" of any kind. And the simple reason is that you're here to defend kooky nihilists that have no comments at all that would help the readers and listeners come up with "Reasonable Ethics" arguments or whatever. The hilarious thing about Sam Harris is that if he is taken down the road to mention anything at all about "ethics" he pretty much agrees with standard morality as taught by Christians and Jews for thousands of years but at the same time bloviates like you do about how "faith" is contrary to "reason" and therefore against "Reasonable Ethics" arguments. About the only thing I can see that would be different is that as an atheist he has to characterize gays and all sexual deviants as victims of "Theistic" ethics. He doesn't understand why a society would "rationally" want to disparage "proud" homosexuals and people that sleep around and promote abortions. And just categorically disparaging "extremism" without any kind of rational, usable definition is much worse than what religious zealots do. At least religious zealot reference a canon of some kind and then you can engage in debates from that point of view. It's much more complicated than you seem to think it is. You've never had any sense that you had anything at stake by just playing around with these nihilistic, brain dead philosophies. The only one worse than Sam Harris is Noam Chomsky. Both have created personality cults. And neither leads anyone in any kind of useful direction. I won't call them "extremists" because that's a stupid label. I think you're talking about "radicals" that expect to ignite "social" (and or political) change with their theories that they imply should be forced on others. I know lots of secular politicians that preach much worse. And those "secular" politicians that preach worse garbage are usually from the Political Identity cult where they basically demonstrate that they only join a given religious organization because it's socially and politically expedient. And the most dangerous thing about atheist radicals is that they try to do everything that they can to prove there is no God above them to judge. The only thing they have to do to avoid accountability for anything is make sure no living person can testify against whatever radical thing they want to do to reach their Utopian political goals.
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  2058. These are all exaggerations, to say the least. But my problem basically comes from this: US politicians destroyed our schools and destroyed economic liberty at all levels from getting an entry level job to opening up your own business, whatever business that might be. The economic liberty is greater in China than it is here, but China is Communist and so you can't really count on keeping it. With respect to India, it is very large and as far as I know all of the engineering schools teach in English. So adding that pool of workers is obviously favorable to employers. Especially since the cost of living for the students is much lower and it's not just "culture" but Indian workers rarely carry debts with them to the USA. According to Libertarian economics this is all OK because both the US and India are experiencing "progress" in "knowledge" and material development. But hiring Chinese and hiring Indian workers in the USA is full of risks. China is obviously the very worst because there are no benefits to us other than a willingness to work for almost nothing if the regime orders it. And because China is "Communist" and does not hold elections, its leaders can exploit its own workers and do anthi9ng that they want so if China governs badly (not unlike North Korea) all of this "development" of their people will not go to the benefit of the masses but will only make the regime stronger and more likely to turn to zero-sum expansion (like China's expansion in to the "South China Sea". So there is no way we should ever hire people associated with the CCP. Even if they are acting in good faith the CCP tracks its subjects globally and never overlooks an opportunity for espionage and sabotage of "Capitalism". We don't have those risks with India. India's development creates more prosperity for itself and for global trade which has the potential to benefit other nations and its citizens. The key to all of this is how does it affect the rule of law? And the problem with any immigrants these days is that the DC regime is using everyone to manage their own "GDP" goals and then "Disparity" (that actually is planned, expected and hoped for) is handled through government programs that turn everyone in to subservient subjects that care less about their Constitutional rights and more about their "civil rights" as they perceive them. IOW, to cut to the chase, the people that act as gatekeepers for visas and programs and so forth use it politically with a Marxist materialist worldview. And they don't GAF if their own people are harmed because they think everyone is spoiled and that the world is far too overpopulated. That's the problem. There is nobody to run these visa (and any "Equity") programs in good faith. They are all scams against the US Citizens. Even if the corporations, like Tesla, ask for more workers' visas, the whole program is so rotten that you can be sure that they will screw everyone involved. The US Federal government has way too much power and compromising with something that should be a good thing in theory is stupid because we already know what they have done. We must "drain the swamp" by taking all discretion away from these unelected bureaucrats. Maybe Trump can come up with a reasonable compromise for his administration and just hope that collectively, Elon, Vivek and The Donald can slash deep state power, taxes, burdensome regulations and so forth so that in 1 year or 2 nobody will even think about workers' visas and whatever compromise Trump comes up with. But Vivek and Elon are acting like Dunning Kruger ignoramuses. They are unaware of their own cognitive deficits. They are very proud of themselves for the successes they experienced in Silly Con Valley. It's a well known disease. Trust me on that. But to summarize my response to your comment on India, it's a bigger (English speaking) pool. They have no "national" superiority of any kind relative to the USA. Except they have a bigger population and they actually have some pretty good engineering programs. I assume they want to start building their own native jets planes and so forth so actually, the best engineers really don't want to leave India. Elon Musk, you know, I don't want to gratuitously insult the guy, but he's sitting here with a Tesla factory in Communist China and he thought he would get away with building Teslas in California and never have to worry about the labor unions. He's not a realist at all. Vivek also seems to be getting a fat head, but I think Trump is experienced enough to know what I'm talking about here. Trump ran his own airline for a while and I think Trump is the kind of guy that learns from his mistakes. He has dealt with a lot of arrogant architects and engineers in his time and you can be sure of this because it's impossible that he hasn't.
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  2091.  @donnav3270  By your standard. Just say that. And then you have the logic problem of distinguishing between "middle class" and "affluent" as if your version of affluence proves she's not from the middle class. Middle class simply means you can pay your bills and you're not a Capitalist (business owner). You're another victim of Critical Theory race and class envy-baiting. Affluence itself is a ridiculous label that Marxists love to throw around. Her problem isn't the "class" or condition she grew up in. Her problem is the ideology and sense of morals she adopted. She's an amoral parasite trying to burrow her way in to the DC "ruling class". She probably got most of that from high school and college but it doesn't help that your parents are nihilistic Marxists. Please stop feeding these pseudoscientific class stratification narratives. And if you want to understand how the USA became more stratified it started with FDR's New Deal and the academic cult known as Frankfurt School were brought to the USA by the same guy as (Communist) refugees from the Nazis. The more you people treat this stuff as fact-based or relevant in any way the more you feed the Marxist narratives that they need the power to "solve the class problems". Heck, the center of her campaign is that she's going to bring "Equity" and you help her make it sound like that's even a legitimate objective even if you're skeptical about her personal competence. Every Marxist knows that in "Democratic Socialism" it is the Brain Trust bureaucrats that do all of the Equity magic. This is 100% of the reason they scream about "Conservative" judges and the need to reform SCOTUS. They hate Clarence Thomas because he helped to abrogate Agency rulings as law and even this year we got an important victory from SCOTUS. You're feeding the beast.
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  2108.  @cooldaddyaj4262  Another TDS lie from another TDS liar. Barr did not "cover" for Trump. He didn't support him properly as soon as "COVID" and BLANTIFA revolutionaries started their Mostly Peaceful (and sporadically fiery) riots. It turned out that he was a coward. He didn't even support Trump's order to shut down non-citizen travel from Wuhan. He must have panicked because his fitness profile made him think he would instantly croak if infected. Such was the propaganda coming out of China and many (Democratic Party run) polities. What exactly do you think Bill Barr "covered" for? The most concrete (yet still deranged) is the "obstruction" accusation. POTUS can't obstruct Federal investigations. He can direct them. Plus he didn't "obstruct" the Special Prosecutor for the simple reason that although the President can lawfully fire any Federal Executive Branch employee he can also be Impeach for anything that "scandalizes" enough moronic Congress critters. And the one that propagated this idea was Andrew Weissmann, a wannabe prosecutor that was responsible for erroneously convicted Arthur Anderson of "obstruction" and caused them to lose their license to operate before SCOTUS could reverse it 9-0. And till this day Weissmann claims SCOTUS got it wrong. LMOA at you effing deranged Marxists... The other thing that cracks me up is that he lawfully fired James Comey. This story about "loyalty to Trump" means loyalty to the sitting President. Trump knew that Comey got his marching orders for the bogus "Pee pee tape" conspiracy BS from Obama (and certain moronic Cabinet members, plus Joe). Trump did indeed question Comey's loyalty - to the sitting President - after he seemed to suggest that the FBI Director is "independent" meaning he doesn't have to obey the sitting President if the outgoing President voices enough suspicions. You people make me puke. How many years later and you're still telling stupid stories when you have no clue about the relevant facts or the law. You're so easy to trigger. They'll have you burning cop cars again within days, I'm sure.
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  2196. Stewart is a "comedian" who gets salaried work for political activism. Where did he do his research to figure out what he should "actively" promote in the political spere? Comedy Central University? He has NO IDEA what US Progressivism is about. Zero. He is a liberal-minded ignoramus. He joined the hivemind cult for giggles and pay and didn't realize what voting for the US Democrats has always meant. US Progressivism was a created by KKK Democrats who promoted "Social Darwinism" and "Labor Organizing" to "defend the disenfranchised" slavers who lost their labor pool. How stupid can anyone get? FDR was not "Progressive" except in the sense that he wanted "Democratic" Stalinism in the USA. Truman was shocked when he inherited the Oval Office in the wake of FDR's death and had his hands full understanding what we would later call the "Cold War" (and "The Iron Curtain") in Europe and Asia (since he and his party funded Stalin, who helped fund Mao and the Communist Party in Korea. This trickled down and all became slowly undeniable shortly after FDR died. Kennedy was not a Communist but was not really trusted by the DC establishment. He didn't campaign or rule like an FDR Demon Rat. His KKK running mate who inherited the Oval Office opposed the Civil Rights Act on the basis of being a true believer in "White Supremacy" and the "States' Rights" that allowed the legal separation of the "races". Joe Biden was LBJ's protege. After LBJ the next Demon Rat was Jimmy Carter, a Politically Correct bigot and an idiot. Bill Clinton is the best post war President that these people ever came up with? What about Obama and Joe? LOL. So where did this idiotic comedian get the idea that "Progressive" libertarians could rely on the Democratic Party? Because the Democrats hypocritically voted for the Global War on Terror and the Homeland Security Act that Jon hates but they also used it against Bush when contradictory "antiwar" tropes emerged to attack Bush in order to take the White House again for Obama and or Hillary? What a total idiot. And Obama effed up every program that had any chance of delivering on its promises. This was obvious by the time he started promoting his bullet point tropes like "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." How would that work all while saving "The average family (will save) $2500 per year on health insurance". These are blatantly irreconcilable promises. So, yeah. Jon Stewart is an idiot.
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  2238. Leftism came from Jacobin France and also birthed Napoleon and the first "socialists" all in the same movement. I'm leaving out the BLM, I mean, "anarchists" taht were their first ANTIFA style shock troops. Anarchists that want to live without government usually go and find a place to live free. They don't go in to the capital city and destroy everything. But anyway, these leftists are now also pseudoscientific Marxists. The Jacobins and Marxists had some legitimate grievances in Europe in accordance with how many "disenfranchised" people there were without any hope of land or acquiring their own income to buy their own food. They generally lived in the style we call "Feudalism" as peasants. In Germany, when Marx wrote his BS, the situation was the same but Marx thought that the industrial revolution would make the "Capitalists" their permanent rulers and that once the workers were replaced by steam engines and other fantastic machines that the workers would be left to die. Just like Marxists actually did later. But anyway, their grievances never had any legitimacy in lands where people could live peacefully and harvest their own food. If they're allowed to work their own land and keep most of it after paying a "tribute" (portion of the production) even this destroys Marxist philosophy, not to mention the raving lunatics known as Jacobins (named after their first meeting spot) and "leftists" as they also called themselves a bit later in the French Revolution. So, Rob Schneider is absolutely correct. They philosophically left the country a long time ago. They deliberately reinterpret the Bill of Rights and redefine what "rights" and "justice" and "equity" mean.
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  2250.  @justice4USA  Hillary should not have been prosecuted had her only crime been the server fiasco. And you must understand what Comey alluded to under "No Reasonable Prosecutor" as discussed with his "leadership team". She should have been charged and given a suspended sentence. But she should have been required to turn over more documents from her CGI grift machine. People don't really understand the nature of her criminality. But another element is that what she did is illegal if done without Presidential approval. The sitting President is the "god" of all national security law. All of those statutes state what can happen without Presidential intervention or prior approval. The bigger picture is that the RINO's did not want to prosecute Hillary and did not want to Impeach Obama. They just wanted to bury the entire scandal. However, Trump should have ordered an investigation of CGI and all of the other ongoing racketeering scams and I think he will do that at least in part. Because the Biden and Clinton crime families approved all of this lawfare in order to protect themselves from prosecution. And look at all that they did just to protect their electoral power and to protect their ongoing criminal operations. That is the scandal right there. Putting Hillary in prison for the email scandal would have been legally righteous but that itself would have helped cover up the actual criminal racketeering much like charging Hunter Biden only reluctantly for lying on his Federal gun license application. It would put all of the other stuff out of reach because coming around to it later would then look like political persecution and it would be difficult to build the case. Things are different now but I don't know what Trump's aspirations are. Maybe firing everyone is enough for him. I think the Clintons and Bidens need to be charged criminally along with all of the legions of crooked lawyers that ran it all. It's the worse criminal conspiracy since the Confederacy gambit that ended with the assassination of Lincoln. They never pay for their crimes.
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  2312. Progressive Liberal atheists are Marxists. Marxism is a dogmatic atheist religion that wants to eliminate all other beliefs. The illegality of their behavior doesn't come from my opinions or labels but through specific violations of the First Amendment and in fact the entire Bill of Rights in the name of "liberation" from Capitalism. Most of my teachers were lame but got dumber and more arrogant as I got older. In college most of them were palpably afraid of me because I sort of unintentionally corrected them constantly and they could do nothing about it but show stress in their face and body language. And I didn't even have an agenda. I just thought they were idiots. I can remember 2 or 3 professors that loved when I did. But I didn't like that either. I really didn't understand what a bunch of dogmatic idiots they were. I thought they were just talking down to the students constantly. Both things were true. Looking back in the historical records, the origin of these Ubermensch attitudes comes from the earliest days of "socializing education" and understanding their coded language. What we have today reflects "Social Darwinism". What exactly does that mean? Darwin implied "progress" comes from selective pressures and death. OK, we can see that that sometimes happens. But what if your the root theory is that all of Christianity is a fraud and whites as a "class" use religiosity to control society and economic planning from the top (monarch) down? OK, but those things don't exist in the USA today. Yeah, but these "institutions" already existed under slavery in the US so the US is worse because of "innate hypocrisy" and "cognitive dissonance" that today's "fragile whites" won't "wake up" aka "go woke". They are cultivated idiots. And the cultivation began sometime before the US Civil War nominally won by Abraham Lincoln (who was then shot by a KKK "lone wolf" assassin). I wrote that to say that while we're all free to choose our own favorite ice cream we're not free to advocate the overthrow of the US Constitution and every "institution" seen as preventing Progressive Marxist Utopian rule. The Russians called it "Soviet Communism". And even though they favor the Chinese neo-fascist strain they won't openly admit that they want the same kind of "Confucian characteristics" but replace that with "Woke White Liberals" as the US Ubermensch. Just like the slave days but now we have Green Energy Robots and AI. No need for chattel slaves. That kind of slave labor is now outsourced to China. How many "liberals" that call us all "racist" have every denounced the CCP's Nazi-style work/death camps? They're even constantly excusing US corporations that make huge profit margins by outsourcing labor (including mineral extraction) where the contractors can exploit workers. Including actual slaves.
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  2322. This video is truly a waste of time if you don't understand what happened in under the tenures of past Presidents, especially FDR. By the time FDR died he had built a "brain trust" regime that only in theory answered to Truman. The US Presidency has not been the same since then. Each new US President has a de facto shadow government state within the explicitly authorized Federal government that has powers beyond what is framed by the US Constitution. You need to learn a lot about many subjects to understand the rest but to study Constitutional law with a skeptical mind about all of these endless agencies that have transformed "rules" as laws and notions of "due process" is to understand a lot more about all of the Presidential administrations that theoretically change with each new officeholder. This has become a fiction. The last US President that had total control over the Federal Executive Branch was FDR. He destroyed the rule of law and created this "Our Democracy" that leftist politicians allude to. The law is whatever those in power say it is. This is why leftists go absolutely insane with Judges that forcefully defend the US Constitution as written. There is an Amendment process. If the People want to Amend the Constitution they should take that route rather than scheming with mendacious lawsuits to appeal to cultural Marxists. They've also destroyed the "jury of peers" tradition because it's easy to discover and exploit political biases in anyone that is properly interviewed for jury selection. And Judges can easily throw cases according to "Political Correctness" rather than rigidly sticking to the rules as written. IOW, the rule of law is something leftists hate. You must start the story with FDR's campaign or you won't have any clue what is really happening today and since that time.
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  2347. It's not about "loyalty". First, the US government has changed dramatically. Look at the New Deal fascism that has ramped up exponentially ever since Hillary became unhinged about losing. They keep doubling down. Nobody cares that Biden is an invalid and a bought off Communist. They just want "their guys" running the US government rather than an elected President that is loyal to the nation rather than its de facto ruling class. Now think about Rupert Murdoch that is even older that Old Joe Biden. His kids are the ones that got Paul Ryan hired on the board of directors. Fox also sold off Fox Entertainment right around the same time. The conditions are changing dramatically around the world and Rupert Murdoch is ready to pass the torch to his neo-Marxist heirs. And yes, there are "Republican" neo-Marxists that think they are not Marxists simply because they don't believe in the "international workers' revolution" but they believe in the Marxist "Arc of History" about how inevitable it is (allegedly) to have fully planned economies and national sovereignty to disappear. They think that the last two "sovereign nations" will be China and the USA and that "cooperation" is the only thing that keeps China from simply taking over the USA. Because these people don't know how ANYTHING works outside of getting elected in this now well-corrupted US elections "system" that's all about Progressive Victicrat legal doctrines. Basically, this was all inevitable because elected officials never restored Constitutional jurisprudence after FDR's War on Scotus. Do you think that the US State Department was "anticommunist" during WWII? LOL. American Exceptionalism is a term coined by Stalin to disparage those that thought the USA was "exceptional" in that it didn't need revolution to become Communist. Because of US property rights that always included mineral rights there was no way to "socialize" all mineral right and therefore "Capitalism" would last a lot longer. They expected Communism to take over all of Eurasia. Most of the generals strongly disagreed, thank God. If George Marshall had been in place of Douglas MacArthur things would have been dramatically different. The Russians want to occupy Japan after WWII and MacArthur kicked out the Russian military (the few that were there).
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  2412. The tradition that comes from the British is the Parliament with the de facto CEO being selected by the Parliament, not direct elections like we have. The Electoral College sort of emulates that but because the EC doesn't have a bunch of diverse parties to take to the Joint Session (because States taht did this under the status quo would fear losing influence) they don't have debates and negotiations. And this idea is that the Joint Session must open and close the same day. Progs even claim that it's merely ceremonial and that if you allow debate your Destroying Our Democracy. But what happened with RFK Jr. could and should lead to more diverse parties that campaign like RFK and then decide if they want to join one side or the other all while running campaigns for Congressional seats at the same time. The "two party system" seems to have no head to change the status quo. This is because the slavery issue was so serious that all of the antislavers consolidated behind the Republican Party and the Democratic Party had already turned in to a cult of delusional "actually" morons. As in "actually, the slaves aren't really (jus soli) Citizens...because they are not part of the political group that fought the war and didn't sign on to the Constitution and stuff like that. Like the Indians, bro." (The native Americans that refused to integrate or acknowledge the Constitution wanted to remain a separate civilization without any ability to enter in to enforceable treaties and in today's political theories simply did not even establish their own "political group". (The slaves born on the plantations should have all had the same Constitutional rights that the children of the slavers had). But anyway, RFK should continue to work with Trump in the same way that "coalitions" in parliamentary republics do. The trick is whether Trump at this stage can openly endorse one of RFK's candidates for Congress over his own party's candidates. The coalition agreements happen after the elections when Prime Ministers have Executive Branch powers. That's why no third party can gain traction because they don't see how they can win the Oval Office nor Congressional seats and yet "Independents" do win sometimes but only because they pledge to "caucus" with one of the parties. Usually the Demon Rats. I think if the threat of the Communist coalitions were to go away (and how can this happen since FDR?) then anti-Marxists can split in to smaller parties and "caucus with the Republicans and maybe some day the "two party system" can go away completely. It's really the slavery issue that created this system and since it's still this way it's easy to then understand that the "Confederate" threat never diminished. The Republican Party is the only party to have true fidelity to the Constitution even if Progressive jurisprudence and Marxist law professors confuse their students so much that some can actually imagine guys like Mitt Romney as a "Republican" while he swears up and down his fealty to the rule of law while denouncing Trump day and night for every Marxist grievance and even lies brazenly about the "January 6" stories.
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  2480.  @jenns1483  The BC he published on the White House web site was is referred to in legal terms as a facsimile. It's not valid as a standalone document. What I mean is that there used to be an early type of proprietary Optical Character Recognition that was used to save space over paper records. But digital compression technologies were so simple at that time that what it did was scan the document and only save parts needed to reproduce it again with algorithms rather than reproducing a file the way an ordinary digital file would. That means there was no pixel to pixel data. It scanned and interpreted fonts and then recorded the text in place of the image. The only time it saved some part of the file as an image is when it failed to "recognize" the typeface and could not record the fonts. Obama's had fragments of images and then standard fonts to fill in the rest of the data as recorded in the database. This is easy to fake because, well, that is exactly how people have always faked documents. IOW, it's very similar to "photoshop" when there were no digital tools, just film, paper and darkrooms. And glue. So, the document he posted can't be submitted in court alone but as part of a "certificate" where some official signs his "certainty" that this facsimile "certainly" matches the official records in terms of data records even though it's not a true reproduction of the original document. In that sense, it was "fake" in no uncertain terms. That was another point in history when a Democrat can "certify" anything that they want ad you can no longer ask any questions about it. Certify is now a magic word in their circles and the whole world has become stupider than ever. Facsimile, they will now tell you, means exact copy. But a facsimile is supposed to contain the exact content in a similar format to the original. A photocopy is not a facsimile. You used to her phrases like "reasonable facsimile" meaning that the opinion was offered taht it truly represents the facts even if not an exact copy in terms of style or whatever. But as I explained, these OCR facsimiles are stored and printed in the exact same way that anyone can copy to make a fake. So a court won't accept these OCR reproductions without it being certified and the judge can reject that as well. These things are all so easy to fake. And BTW, I have all of my original documents from my Birth Certificate, my original Social Security Card and expired Passports and IDs because it just doesn't take that much effort to keep them together and secure when you might need them. Barack didn't have his original Birth Certificate and that says something about his background. I'm not saying it's disqualifying but vetting people is about seeing how they account for things. When someone is always making excuses and then his team calls critics "racist" instead of trying to explain what he learned in his life about running things...these people rarely make good executives and rarely are people that can be trusted with important assets. Like any job that requires security clearances of insurance of losses when you effe up something...Obama seems like an OK guy and should have taken his shot as a lawyer in the private sector or stayed in the Senate. Not too many people are really cut out for running an executive office. And US President? They should all be strenuously vetted but Democratic Party candidates are never properly vetted.
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  2488.  @brocklindseth7278  2 days ago "Then how do you square the fact that Trump, by his own words, believes that the Constitution can be suspended?" Is this you? @brocklindseth7278 7 hours ago @indonesiaamerica7050 Maybe one day you will grow up and ACTUALLY look at evidence instead of claims. It's important to do so. You don't even understand your own rhetoric. You made a dogmatic claim with zero evidence to support it. I'm pretty sure what you're alluding to is something Trump said about the Electoral College and how the 2021 Joint Session went off the rails at least in part because the DOJ and Capital Police wanted to created a big riot in order to take focus away from their actual grievances presented from the time of the 2020 election until that day. And "suspend the Constitution" means building consensus to put the breaks on a certain process that is called for in the US Constitution to try to rectify problems based on careful examination of the evidence and actual meaning of the Constitution itself. Suspend does not mean tear up and throw out, like your cult wants to do. And this is exactly why they're all screaming about losing Affirmative Action quotas in colleges and being able to force disfavored groups to bow to their constituent's cult rituals. Your cult has never believed in the Constitution at all. Not since it was formed to defend chattel slavery and de facto apartheid. Their spin on "Affirmative Action" uses a lot of fluffy rhetoric to basically argue that "Our Democracy" means Leninist Democratic centralism and nobody but the Democratic Party can interpret the US Constitution. Because they rely on the same kind of Special Logic that the George Orwell novels were supposed to warn everyone about. Your cult's leaders behave like Orwell's pigs. And you act like a brainless sycophant. And by the way, this is the same form of rhetoric the same party used before, during and after the Civil War. The only change is that, thanks to Lincoln "suspending the Constitution", your Progressive cult lost the war and its slaves and then took control of the White House through assassination, always as the "victims" of "Patriarchy" who allegedly took away the slaves in order to dominate the the southern plantations with their "Capital" and steam-driven automation that the poor "demos" of the south had no way to afford.
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  2492. In theory this is a legitimate criminal RICO racketeering conspiracy. What you have to do is string together a bunch of actual crimes and show that they were planned by Democrats in power and around the country on coalition with foreign "agents" (of foreign states) and "actors" (what they call oligarchs if they want to demonize someone like that) and you're off to the races. What Trump can have Pam Bondi do is start getting convictions on some of the low hanging fruit and document the coordination. At some point you put it up on a "nexus" chart (like with Mafia investigations) and start prosecuting it like a RICO action. And that won't be hard because you also have Trump and Jan Sixers that have legitimate "Conspiracy Against Rights" claims that feed the "Corrupt Origination" element of RICO. TO answer your question by referring to the past, it's not possible. But when looking more broadly at RICO cases this one is ripe to get started. I think Giuliani was brought in to the inner Trump circle do advise on that sometime during his first term. See, once they gave up on the "Mueller" Special Counsel and pivoted towards an insane Impeachment trial that was solid prove of a party wide conspiracy to support and cover up what Obama started during Trump's first campaign. And then Comey carried it forth after Trump was sworn in. And the FBI agents tried to keep going and got on the "Special Counsel" train. These are clear proofs of illegal conspiracies against Trump's Constitutional rights (not to mention others). They're relying on various theories of immunity. LOL. But they later went to SCOTUS and claimed that even Trump has no special immunities. They've gone for broke and now this is so ripe for a solid RICO action. THAT is why they are sniveling in their corners in abject fear. Worst of all is that Jack Smith actually accused Trump of the same kind of conspiracy that Jack Smith was brought in to quarterback. IOW, they turned this in to a cross between lawfare and Thunderdome (Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves). In legal terms, Jack Smith (and others) are sitting on the floor and waiting to see if or when the executioner will show up. False advertising will not be one of the charges. These are in some cases capital crimes because some people did lose their lives as a consequences of this lawfare. That part is the most difficult to prove. But the death penalty is on the table for a case like this.
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  2498. As soon as I figured out what Obama and his Iranian Communist staffer were doing in Iran with respect to nuclear energy and weapons development between that and watching China push everyone else in the so called South China sea out of their own territorial waters that the US needed to go to India and make the kind of trade agreements that had already been developed in China. Communist China. That would bring immediate balance to the region and reduce if not eliminate the threat from the CCP in the region and around the world. Only then could we service the occasional "democratic" US President without getting more "Bidenomics" and proxy wars that all favor CCP hegemony in the name of "democracy". Vivek's campaign is very, very good for the world simply because he has a very large platform to defend policies I've promoted since mid 2012. I started doing heavy research in the spring and summer of 2012 and then the Benghazi attack happened. I saw how Obama and Clinton were equivocating like cornered criminals and suddenly that is when the lying statists starting attacking critics as racist and unpatriotic and so forth. We just wanted to know more clearly why Benghazi had been a target and they all watched it happen from drone cameras. What all were they trying to hide? They were trying to hide everything. They had turn the "War on Terror" back on their political rivals. They had already started blaming "Patriarchy" and "White Supremacy". Every Marxist politician around the world started to crave the prophesied Dictatorship of the Proletariat which basically means one party rule or as Stalin called it; Socialism in One Country. Complete with Stalinist judges and show trials. The entire "LGTB Community" whinge fests for "Equal Rights" is purely about destroying the rule of law in all nations. This is the last step before Xi's vision of destroying Westphalian sovereignty entirely because each "democratic" Marxist party, once it achieves single party rule, is then a vassal party to the CCP as "Vanguard Party". Many European socialists yearn to be free of "Capitalism" in favor of networked fascism that they call The Great Reset or whatever phraseology they pivot to. France, Germany and The United Kingdom are all full of likeminded Critical Theory Marxists that yearn for this. The whole "Get Trump" movement is about people triggered by "Reactionary Capitalism" which is basically the concept of any movements that take action items from the Communist Manifesto and reverse course, slow down, or even launch successful critiques of the "Arc of History" claims of these lunatics. I actually believe that the war in Ukraine is not about reflexive irredentism but Russian fear that Communism will return to Russia but the next time it does Russia will be a vassal state of China. Russians know all about Lenin and Stalin and what their political theories were.
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  2505.  @arbarnet24  The entire point is that nobody on the planet has coherent datasets to make universal or even national level "authoritative" reports. You have to know how to read the reports to even begin to understand the problems with this reportage. It started to dissipate in Asia and then started to grow again when the panic got started by CCP and Demon Rat (and EU) accomplices. They panicked people in to making bad choices even though in lots of cases they asked people to also do "smart" things (like wash your hands and don't sneeze on people). They still panicked people in to doing worse things like "shelter in place" and so forth so that the virus clusters then had better choices for new hosts. Especially if the choices are A) Do what you always do or B) Wear a mask like a magic thing and then leave the mask lying around to infect other family members and friends. It's OK as long as you wear a mask and wash your hands. Just don't go to work. Sit around your home and panic. And then wander around in the street and spread it to more locals that are also kept from their ordinary daily routines. B is worse than A because of panic media. It doesn't mean that those talking points could have been used to improve outcomes. It means panic media destroyed just about everything. You ask for "verifiable scientific data" without even knowing what that would look like. The only real possibility is reportage-studies that draw from comprehensive case studies for "verifiable scientific (medical) data". No public entity has that for "the world." No scientist does either. Science is about organizing what is verifiable and clearly organizing the remaining unknowns. If you offer a "scientific" verdict you must include a frame for what you suggest you're reporting and to distinguish the limits of what you're suggesting. If you're suggesting what to do next you have to clearly organize the next areas of investigation according to "rationally organized areas of ignorance."
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  2514.  @arbarnet24  The patients with SARS symptoms started showing up in ER and ICU units right around the time the rumors started pertaining to Wuhan. The patients were treated according to best known practices. The waves of patients began to dissipate and soon after that the Trump Impeachment trial fizzled and US media and leftwing politicians started blowing the "Covid" panic horns. This panic shot around the entire world in the closest possible thing to real-time. BTW, virtually all of those patients came in because they had SARS symptoms that they associated with their own bad health and they were all over 50 (I remember one patient, a heavy smoker, he might have lymphoma, and he was about 45 and he went home shortly after arriving, I saw him a few weeks ago and he still doesn't want to get any more tests and says he can breathe just fine now) and usually smokers, often diabetic (too much white rice over time can cause that). Conditions in Wuhan are worse for individuals exposed and transmitting to others. It could be the worst place in the world both for spreading disease and surviving SARS symptoms once infected. Never mind the lab that is under suspicion. The USA by contrast has no polities or lands at all that come anywhere close to that unless you're a subway worker stuck underground with all of that pollution day after day. The reason it's harder to spread in the USA is because the air and sanitary-hygienic conditions are among the best in the world (other than isolated pockets of, whatever you want to call lawless areas where people reject all motion norms that go against their instincts). Based on patients and conditions that I saw in Asia (better than Wuhan, not as good as, say, the clean parts of LA or San Francisco) before the panic and the seasonal trend (everyone just assumed that it was a return of some SARS variant and that is exactly what it is) I would have expected it to die out in most of the USA even more rapidly. Even in the homeless populations you weren't getting a lot of SARS patients. After the official panic buttons were pushed the entire way of reporting both risks and alleged "cases" just went insane. And still is insane. It makes me so angry. It looks like this virus might spread more effectively than the earlier SARS outbreak of 2002-2003 but we'll never know because the only data we have will be comparing this one to the 2002 outbreak to samples for SARS2 taken after all of the crazy panicked politicians made the virus easier to spread. It's more like doing an economic study than "medical science" even though we have "microscopes" and patient cases to study. It's the "economics" that are controversial and by that I don't mean "commerce" but the masses of individual humans and their distinct behaviors before and after exposure to the virus and the panic. Most of the important variables will never be known. All we can do it make better and better prediction and treatment models. The demagogic liars exploit all of this confusion and deliberately contribute to it.
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  2531.  @otisspunkmeyer9339  "Legacy". She knows the truth will take their marginally "bright" legacy and turn their family in to something worse than what Benedict Arnold's family would have felt at that time. Turning traitor with the British monarch usually meant running up to Canada. The main "injustice" was Parliament imposing taxes on the American colonies without inviting representatives in that same Parliament to weigh in on relevant policy decisions. That was the age of sail. This is the age of nuclear-powered "boomer" submarines that deploy nuclear tipped "city destroying" missiles. How are you going to think it's OK in any way to turn traitor with a "non democratic" Communist regime that has the stated intent (and the nuclear tipped weapons) to first chase us back to North America and then take complete control of all the continental United Status in order to completely bleed the lands of its wealth? They don't have to fight house to house to do that. The Second Amendment won't save even one person from the CCP. And Communists all regard the USA as the "Arsenal of Capitalism". In a sense they are correct. Even the French and British have already caved (don't bother mentioning Germany). If not for our Constitution the US would have gone at the same rate the British did. There are too many morons that were raised on "Social Justice" delusions that have replaced a solid understanding of what "justice" and "the rule of law" means. The don't even know what freedom means. They don't care. They think they're "On the right side of history." Idiots.
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  2540. The argument is that you can't have democracy without capitalism. Capitalism is a "system" that requires a clear property/liberty rights regime. Equal application of the law and inclusive elections = democracy. If you have "socialism" or some other Utopian scheme you must have a de facto oligarchy to mete out "social justice" interventions, and that clearly can not be rule of the demos and hence can not be democratic. Leftwingers have twisted concepts and lexicons since they dubbed themselves owners of "reality." They see "reality" as Darwinism that must be managed. Managed social Darwinism can not be democratic, but it is implied that Darwin "proved" that democracy is impossible and therefore "guided" democracy is the best Utopian solution. They see capitalism as law of the jungle because they see humanity as a bunch of warring "tribes" or subspecies, races or whatever, that must be managed by "enlightened elites." IOW, it's all a will to power presented as altruism. Those "political spectrums" are paradigms, not scientific tests. Paradigms in philosophy help people to organize and test logic and arguments. It's always up to the individuals to decide "FWIW". Rule of law capitalism is the only truly democratic paradigm. It's how we actually define all of those ideas and understanding dependencies is crucial to understanding what any of those ideas are. Period. As soon as you put some class of ruler above "workers" or "capitalists" or whatever, you have a de facto oligarchy. Oligarchies are not ipso facto despotic according to early Christian thinkers because they can be chosen and led by God. Is that what you're selling? Socialists posit the same thing but instead their theory involves a self-serving view of Darwinism to make them the magical "altruistic" leaders (despots that smile a lot, like the Chinese Communists do).
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  2547. Captain Kirk "OHM, "authoritarianism" aka autocratic top down gov't control can manifest itself in either left or right authoritarian gov't and has done so throughout history. Russia and Nazi Germany during the beginning of the 20th century are a good example." You're wrong. The Russian and German movements overthrew the established order. That makes them left wing. Learn the relevant history. You can't just stigmatize and "otherize" regimes that do the same things that you want to do by calling them right wing. Right wing authoritarianism in history is represented by monarchy plus mercantilism (and modern iterations of parasitic economic interventionism). Leftwing authoritarianism is "Progressive Social Justice" under modern paranoid "oppressor/oppressed" paradigms. The only right wing authoritarian regimes today are Shariah kingdoms. Unless you count the British and their commonwealth nations. Right wing = stable and using established institutions to retain power. Leftwing = aspirational (and delusional) views of Social Justice, democracy and so forth even if they hearken back to memes of the past, like "nationalism" or "the greatness of the Romans" or whatever. If a stable monarch styles himself after Caesar, that's right wing. If a revolutionary Marxist pretends to be protecting tradition "just like Caesar" then that is left wing, though somewhat more stealthy than self-described Communists, hence regarded as "right wing" according to Gramscian "Communist common sense." In theory, right wing authoritarianism can emerge very slowly from leftwing revolutions by gradually coopting the power taken by the dumb leftists. In theory the USA could turn to "right wing totalitarian regime" if it completely destroys separations of power, slowly, all while claiming to be preserving "norms" or something like that. FDR's New Deal was about stealth socialism and gradual authoritarianism. If the so-called right wing coopted that, that could be regarded as right wing authoritarianism at this point in history because the New Deal has been institutionalized and is seen by the majority as "normal" and "democratic." However, the right in the USA in fact strives to preserve the US Constitution, which is inherently liberal/libertarian and it is still the left that poses as "centrist" while destroying Constitutional protections of the demos (ordinary citizens) as individuals. Progressives want to be empowered to parse all legal rights and entitlements hence their rights regimes are not about individual rights at all but "right" to have "altruistic totalitarian" protectors in the capitals, meting out Social Justice.
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  2548. Willy Won 2 hours ago "I am so impressed by the fact I never know critical thinking is a bad thing for my sense and logic." You obviously can not read properly. I clearly wrote that you need to learn what critical thinking is so that you stop using Critical Theory dogmas instead. "How can I be so stupid to believe in objective analysis of facts. " You have no idea what an objective fact is. "Capitalism and free market must be the ultimate solution for all problem in the all human race. It must be so." Nobody said ultimate. I said that it's simply part and parcel of individual freedom. You're a kook that can't even read. "And we must abolish all thing including medicare and medicaid, food stamps, Social security system. " You need to read Frederic Bastiat. I never said you had to abolish any social programs. I basically implied that doctrinaire socialism is based on idiocy, envy and incompetence. The thing is that you can't even comprehend what competent critics explain to you. "I think we must not have government at all. Because free market will regulated everything, and once everyone only thought for its onw benefit and take care of himself, we will be living in ever harmony that will last till the end of the world." Idiot, I have consistently stressed that capitalism thrives under the rule of law. That isn't anarchy. You don't understand any history. Of anything. "Also now I really believe we must also cancel the minimun wage, because that is using public power to disrupt and influence the running of free market and private business." You should abandon delusional views of wage controls. But you won't. "American should also abolish all taxs, because taxes including income tax and property tax are using public authority to steal money from hardworking people and give that money to the lazy ones. It is just not fair." America, all nations, should abolish all gratuitous taxes, for sure. And you should learn to read properly before given any academic credentials that mislead you in to thinking that you're prepared to criticize economic and political systems and the parasitic ideologues that do nothing but complain.
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  2557. sunnohh 19 minutes ago "So one of the many nuances of Stalinist style communist regimes was the belief or the political lie that the country itself is great. The idea that a country is better than others is a fundamentally right wing political thought." My goodness. You people will never learn. Stalin suggested that "Communism" under his magical leadership was "the greatest" in a zero sum race to bring "capitalists" to heal. He considered himself the vanguard leader. Marx was a racist as well, by the way. So according to you anyone with power that has a zero-sum agenda is right wing. According to you power is inherently "right wing" or something. I think you need a little island to retire to. US Constitutionalist believe that America is "the greatest" at delivering the greatest individual liberty, which is a portable, synergistic concept. Japan and Germany, our bitter enemies during WWII, are now considered "great" to the extent that they compete honestly against us. Because we do not view life or economic competition in zero-sum terms like all of the incompetent Marxists do. Constitutionalists want to be great competitors in a synergistic game. They want to win tennis, golf, or whatever, based on the rule of law and a good faith "rules based world order." They don't want to kill their competition and take their things. They often enjoy coaching as much as direct competition. It's an adult thing you can't comprehend. Left-wingers invented the very concept of "cosmological justice" through property seizures. Zero sum morons like you and Stalin are inherently leftist. To move to the right is to move towards liberty, small government, and teaching prosperity with a charitable heart. It's the exact opposite of you and Stalin. The difference between you and Stalin is that he had enormous power to abuse whereas you have none. The only way that a "right winger" can take on "socialist" or zero sum policies as you suggest is, for example, the old monarchies in Europe that cling to power by increasing social programs. Those are the only "right wing" socialists. The truth is that the only "right wing" in America were the Royalists that moved to Canada.
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  2558. "The idea that a country is better than others is a fundamentally right wing political thought." You can't even conceive of any non-Marxist thoughts. Conservatism is about preserving what is good and carefully vetting "change" proposals. See Frederic Bastiat. US conservatives worship foreign thought leaders and posit that it is only our legal system that makes us great. The entire idea that nation A can be great only by "winning" over everyone else suggests a zero sum worldview that overturns Westphalian sovereignty. Period. US conservatives and most conservatives around the world value Westphalian sovereignty almost above any other governing concept. The idea of the global zero sum war was articulated as a single worldview by Marx. He built on the emerging paranoid consensus of socialists that posited a zero sum worldview to explain the ruling class's relationship with "disenfranchised" or what the French called the Third Estate. The problem that you have is that by the time Marx even came on the scene plenty of evidence was already available taht capitalism itself, with emerging technologies, would create a middle class that would eventually make "democracy" possible without basing it on wealth redistribution. Those ideas took root in the USA first because of opportunities presented by history. American greatness is not about lording over others. It's about calling to others. It's about education. For you to be consistent you have to "hate" the "arrogance" of teachers that suggest they can lead the way in classrooms just because of their academic accomplishments. But no, you have to take everything and filter it through the lens of historical materialism and your paranoid zero sum worldview that you think is "settled science" and the rest of us call doctrinaire Marxism.
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  2559. "Socialism is a national policy suggestion, it is. Free healthcare and education are socialist policies," You don't even know the difference between an idea and a policy suggestion. Who would (legally) create these programs? How would they be funded? Which courts would rule over emerging conflicts? "I suppose in your mind those are free market capitalist ideas. " They are neither. First of all, you can't stop conflating idea with policy. Second, "free" education policy proposals can emerge from anywhere. The rational argument for putting together rational free education is that it leads to maximum self-reliance and a greater collective. Unless Communists take over. I have no problem at all with free education for life. I would like to see that. But the programs must be sane and effective. You can teach Marxism where the competent people are always free to debunk it. Marxists should not be allowed to promote their worldview outside of political theory classes. Marxists are Gaslighters and you are one of the incompetent Gaslit victims. "I assume you live in America where you certainly don't have free healthcare." Wrong. You just don't know what you're talking about and you don't know what "rational" means. Utopia doesn't exist. The USA does not have European-style socialized "healthcare." Thank God. It's already massively intrusive dealing with the FDA but at least the products and services are vetted extremely well with minimal conflict of interest problems. You can call that "reasonable socialism" if you like because it doesn't rely on plebs to vet their own choices. Add wealth redistribution to it as the ACA is trying to do and forget about modern civilization because you'll all be living in caves in 20 years.
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  2560. "Yes, any school of thought can suggest and implement free healthcare, " You still don't get it: Great ideas don't emerge from "schools" unless you're looking for a reason to credit the "school" for illogical reasons. Consensus on great ideas emerges from critical thinking and good faith consensus building. Socialism has its own dogmas. All "isms" are known by dogmas. The only dogma of critical thinking is that relying on unchallenged dogmas is illogical. "...however, it is an inherently socialist idea, that is to say, it falls under the definition of socialist policy." No, it's not inherently socialist. Socialism in history was always about people disenfranchised from the ruling class, number one, and then number two was "machines" will replace unskilled labor and therefore these power disparities need to be resolved. We have solved ALL of the original grievance of the pre-Marxist socialists here in the USA without even once alluding to socialist "school of thought." Medicine wasn't even a respected field of science when Marx published his manifesto. You simply do NOT know what you're talking about. Socialism is inherently about "solving power disparities." You only have two choices from there: Equal application of the law (AKA "the rule of law") or equality of outcome where the altruistic ruling class appeases its constituents with wealth redistribution and related programs. The USA created the first rule of law republic. Therefore all of the socialist's grievances were solved as soon as labor law became hegemonic and citizens were all granted equal voting rights. Public schools try to bridge the gap with "equality of opportunity" programs that parasitic Marxists try to leverage and transform in to parasitic "equality of outcome" guarantees. IOW, it's a cult of "common sense" parasitism. Free medicine demands emerged (mostly in Europe after the USA already started sending massive aid) after WWI and WWII when we already had built massive "mobilization" efforts for various "wartime" justifications. "The US does not have free healthcare, keep denying it if you want, it does not make it any less true." Yes it does. You can not be denied care for urgent medical needs and you can not be forced to pay if you are unable. Period. That is the law of the land and has been for decades. Your Utopian expectations will never be met. Ever. If you say that the Europeans have it right then move there and shut up. Because European socialism is still highly dependent on free market capitalism.
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  2583. US Communists first posited that the USA was "exceptional" with respect to the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and "international workers' revolution". Stalin coined the term "American Exceptionalism" to warn US Communists about doctrinaire thinking that contradicted his own. Discussions then spread where, just like "Capitalism" it is discussed to either defend or explain according to philosophical views of "objective reality" in the political and economic conditions of the USA in contrast with wealthy European nations. Which is to say that none of these people today even know how to condemn or defend this extremely nebulous "American Exceptionalism" thing. The first thing to know is that the Communist Manifesto justifies its agenda because of "Capitalism" meaning "status quo property rights." The USA is a massive territory where private individuals possesses mineral rights for most of their privately held land. IOW, "Capitalists" of America had vast resources AND "workers" often became "capitalists" at some stage (hence the vast middle class). The entire "wage slave" class war with "Capitalists" (owners) made no actual sense to most Americans. Contrast that with Europe and most other places and you will see that there really isn't the same kind of middle class where vast numbers of people can get good starter wages and work their way up in skills (to get even higher wages) and also invest in land and the kinds of enterprises that they gradually build expertise in. This contradicts the story of European monarchies that have ossified social classes in the cities where people can see and imagine these dumb problems imagined by Marx and Jacobin leftovers. And it is the socialists in Europe and America that attack upward social mobility and have created yet another "class" that they don't bother describing. In Russia they were known as the Soviets. IOW, the "social justice" elitist rulers.
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  2586. You guys have to get over these "war" risk tropes where you're trying to see if Henry V would dare to march against Charles I d'Albret. The goal of every Marxist regime is to both trigger chaos and confusion and at the same time look for revolutionaries to topple all regimes or governments taht fail to submit to what Lenin called the (Communist) Vanguard Party. WRT CCP goals in "war" (some overt use of their military) is to "defend its rights" as if to carry on with these fictional stories of colonial oppression and deprivation (including Taiwan's existence) and the entire "South China Sea" as well. These all represent "deprivation" casus belli stories. They don't have to win any war or battle in order to win increased hegemony and recognition over their bogus claims. They want control over the entire South Chine Sea and submission from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and so forth. You think the US made up "Domino Theory"? LOL. The part that they've already achieved is that they have loyal factions in nearly every Western democracy on the planet that don't even try to hide the fact that they think China can do anything that it wants to until it achieves "equity" with respect to Gross Domestic Production per capita with the USA. This means that in theory their macroeconomy can grow 4 times what the US reports before anyone can ask them to knock off the slavery and the predatory espionage and so forth. They can't not afford to change their tactics unless they decide to abandon Leninism (single party rule by Communist "councils" and a supreme leader). The most precarious thing about the CCP is the numbers. They're "successful" only for a small elite group and the masses must be kept tightly in check. One false move and the people of China itself will throw out the Communist regime.
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  2603.  @hVaeh  Wrong, moron. Wrong. Look up "ism" for starters. Anyone can mistakenly accept specious dogmas as fact. Marxists, that is to say, those that follow the distinct doctrines of Marx, like his completely debunked theory of "labor," are idiots. And furthermore, if they don't recognize that he was simply a parasitic charlatan and that his propagated views represent anything other than pseudo-scientific calls to live like aggrieved parasites, they are followers of a cultural movement that is highly politicized. In fact what Marx suggested is that everything directly or indirectly related to "the economy" is "political." Therefore, anyone that follows the doctrines of Marx is following a worldview that suggests that all "property relations" issues are inherently political because of how completely the "status quo culture" convinced people to agree to the status quo property rights regimes (he didn't distinguish between "industrialized monarchies" and "exceptional" capitalist nations like the USA). What you wrote about Marxism "not being political" is about as dumb as it gets. All of Marx's doctrines pertain to politics and unique "revisionist" views of history, also developing his own "prophecy." It's called "the political economy" by all who suggest that a nation's economic activities are unified in to one "national system." Anyone that suggests that "capitalism" represents "a system" is deceived by Marxist theories and how they view "the political economy" hence all of politics are affected by everything that is "social" including how families are organized. It's right in the Communist Manifesto, if you'd bother to read it. He even had his own term for anyone that disagreed with him. He called it "false consciousness" or "defending class interests" but both can apply. All of those doctrines are required in order to support "Class Justice" or "Social Justice" and whining about "disparity" as if, of course rich people made you "poor" (envious, ignorant and lazy). Of course income taxes. Of course progressive income taxes. Look at these "disparity" statistics! All of that relies directly on doctrinaire Marxism.
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  2646. This has been obvious since Obama's last year in office. Trump upset the Communists and made them even more fearful of the US. This is why the Communists immediately joined leftists around the world to attack Trump's Presidency with all of the political corruption they could muster. They've been donating to the Clintons since the 1990s and there were helpful in Hillary's Presidential campaign including all of the agitprop against Trump before and after Trump won. Until today, actually. But in terms of "geopolitics" all Marxist regimes rely on total control of their populations and "means of production". When "central plans" start to fall short they must have fallback plans to boost economic output and, just as importantly, reduce hegemony of rivals. The end goal is one consolidated "means of productions" under "Communist Vanguard Party" control. This is what Lenin described as "New Economic Policy" shortly after he found he needed to explain to all of the Russian revolutionaries why Communist Utopian would not immediately follow their total political control over Russia. But anyway, every overtly and covertly "Marxist" regime since then (this includes any regime that sees "evolutionary theory" as requiring regimes to get bigger and bigger through consolidation with eventually only one global regime left as ruler) has used military expansionism to control land and energy resources to fill in dips in GDP growth. But again, the critical thing is not to "get rich" or "compete". They have to maintain the facade of "progress" while at the same time making sure that they only ever rise in hegemony and putting rivals out of business. China wants Taiwan for this reason but this is only because they are a juicy target nearby and the near-term goal is to establish sovereignty over international waters as "exclusive economic zones" for China. They want to defend the "South China Sea" as if this is just a fact through international law that it belongs to China. This is far more important than taking direct political control over Taiwan. If they make war on Taiwan and everything goes well, they will take as much as they can. But the real plan is to create a casus belli that is repeated throughout the global institutions start a big war, and then withdraw in the name of peace, but they will not give up control over these international waters that they have already claimed.
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  2660.  @Kewlstorybro101  I really don't understand people like you who ask questions with such obvious answers. The UN is an NGO. It has no "governing" or "sovereign" role. The UN was established to bring nations together for negotiation and propagation of values and so forth. Even building "consensus" for NATO or whatever is somewhat mendacious politically. It creates the impression that the UN represents some kind of 'democracy' when at its best is replicates the Peace of Westphalia, but worldwide and without regional bigotries. There's no such thing as "international human rights" other than aspirational declarations. To expect more than this is to fall in to the trap of Utopian promises and give power to Stalinists and Maoists. Which is their goal since the beginning of the UN itself. I just don't understand how anyone with access to well stocked libraries can be confused about this. And the people of Palestine that want to build an independent sovereign State are only going to get endlessly stabbed if they think that the UN itself can help them achieve this sovereignty. Never mind whether you trust Israel. If Egypt and Jordan feel they can't help what do you expect from the UN? Someone needs to purge the people inside that are coopting the movement towards sovereignty for their own aims. I know why China wants to play "peacemaker" while poking all sides in to war. Communist regimes are super easy to understand if you just crack open a few history books guided by critical thinking rather than Critical Theory. And no matter how much you might hate Putin or Russia they no longer have the same "global" ambitions that the CCP now has. Russia is far more inclined to support the Westphalian paradigm than the CCP. The Soviet Union of course saw the Westphalian paradigm as a bulwark for "Reactionary Capitalism". Good intentions are not enough. You have to actually understand all of the various forces and what tools are available to competent people that want to promote Westphalian sovereignty.
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  2668. These people think that only they can tell you what is best for "Democracy". They're Elite Democracy Scientists. People like this used to call themselves Magicians as they tried to build power and climb socially among the emperors of the past. New grifts need an updated lexicon. The mendacious "Our Democracy" lexicon. And none of these people ever, ever mention the fact that the reason the US is expected to hand out things to them constantly is because we saved their arses in WWII. Not because we caused it. We saved their countries from Hitler and Stalin. And the ingrates were there not just after the war ended but even during the war. They can take their "Climate Change" grift (which truly is only about extending the Marshall Plan paradigm basically forever. And the Marshall Plan got rolling right about the time Stalin was hauling everything they could from the newly captured "Iron Curtain" victims back to Moscow and we're helping these people rebuild after the destruction of WWII. This might also explain the apparent need to make Russia a villain again so that the whole NATO thing can be presented as essential to "Defending Liberal Democracy". And I swear to God, ever since the Soviet Union fell just about everything published in the "Liberal Democratic Nations" in the proverbial Halls of Academia has been really absurd BS not just in terms of Critical Theory but in terms of redefining "Democracy" and "Democratic Peace Theory" and all kinds of abject horse pucky. This video is pretty much SNAFUBAR. I think since the 1930s that every Western academy has gone full retard, so to speak, on macroeconomics and what they call Political Science. So pathetic. The entire world is so lucky that the Generals of WWII were NOT Marxists while fighting. They were truly for freedom as defined in our Constitution. But even as the Marshall Plan started building up all of the "nation building" Generals were what today we call Neocons. In reality, they were Neo Marxists. And still are.
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  2692.  @TheStoic84  This alludes to a false binary and it exactly the kind of mendacious logic that Progressive slavers use. Progressivism has very specific doctrines. Defining progress is what matters. Progressives define "progress" as putting teh right leaders in charge. They believe in Darwinism and "technology" as forces that must be managed "fairly." IOW< the key to "progress" is fairness, and requires "altruistic elites" that understand the mystical truth of Darwinian "science" and what Dawkins now calls "the selfish gene." You might also call it scientific demagoguery but they usuall just call it "social justice' now. The republic view of "progress" is driven by liberty under the rule of law. They absolutely have always focused on threats to liberty under the rule of law. Equal application of the law must be absolute and transparent to maintain those stated values and standards. Slavery was always a threat to the rule of law. Anything that threatens any human's due process rights is a threat to the entire republic. Hence "republican progress" is defined by defending the Consitution's values, not by raising taxes and paying for controversial "welfare" programs. However, paying for "safety net" social programs, and vetting them seriously, is supportive of liberty under the rule of law because it is absolutely possible for factions to become disenfranchised permanently by institutions other than slavery. The legitimate questions always pertain to how to solve those problems without causing worse.
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  2698.  @Cavallaro2376  Brian Haskins 7 minutes ago @Indonesia America "The president of the United States is NOT above the law." You're hopeless. Who said anything about "above the law"? The police are not "above the law" eitehr but have special prerogatives need for law enforcement. Idiot. "Nixon thought he was above the law until he was forced to release tapes proving that he was aware of the Watergate cover-up. Then reality hit home and he was forced to resign from office." Nixon understood the US Constitution far better than you. Nixon in fact did not have to turn over anything. He chose to go along with an advisory ruling. The only way to force POTUS to do anything is to remove him and swear in the new POTUS that then orders whatever it is deemed as the lawful resolution/action. You don't even know how to cite historical precedents to make your points because you don't even understand your own...doctrines...or thoughts I guess we should call them. Richard Dawkins would call them "leftwing agitprop memes." "Above the law" is a meaningless term when I clearly already discussed prerogative that pertain to executive actions and any agent or office's specific legal prerogatives. PREROGATIVE, civil law. The privilege, preeminence, or advantage which one person has over another; thus a person vested with an office, is entitled to all the rights, privileges, prerogatives, &c. which belong to it. PREROGATIVE, English law. The royal prerogative is an arbitrary power vested in the executive to do good and not evil. Rutherf. Inst. 279; Co. Litt. 90; Chit. on Prerog.; Bac. Ab. h.t.
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  2741. TRUTH AND PRIVILEGE DEFENSES TO DEFAMATION Truth and Privilege Defenses to Defamation Defamation lawsuits are not easy to win because the plaintiff must both prove the difficult elements of his or her case and avoid the many defenses to defamation. This article discusses some of the standard defenses to defamation, including truth and privilege. Truth is a Defense Truth, or substantial truth, is a complete defense to a claim of defamation. The only real issue is who has the burden of proving what is true. Although the falsity of an alleged defamatory statement must be proven by the plaintiff as a part of the defamatory statement element of the plaintiff’s case, in most states, a defendant’s contention that the statement was true is deemed to be an affirmative defense. (An affirmative defense is a defense that must be pleaded and proved by the person responding to a claim.) In Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps, however, the United States Supreme Court ruled that, while truth is a defense, it is not always an affirmative defense. The court said that, where a statement by a media defendant involved a matter of “public concern,” the plaintiff had to bear the burden of proving that the statement was false. Therefore, a media defendant cannot be required to prove the truth of a statement involving a matter of public concern. Privilege Another complete defense to a claim of defamation is privilege. The two types of privilege are absolute privilege and qualified privilege. An absolute privilege is a privilege that always applies. A qualified privilege is a privilege that applies only if the defendant has not acted with actual malice. There is an absolute privilege for statements made in or having some relation to judicial or judicial-like proceedings. There is an absolute privilege for statements made in legislative proceedings. There is an absolute privilege for certain government officials acting in the course of their employment, including federal officials and high-ranking state officials. There is an absolute privilege for any compelled publication or broadcast. There is a qualified privilege for statements published in a reasonable manner for which there is a public interest (e.g., the news) or for which there is a private interest of such importance to the public that it is protected by public policy (e.g., a job reference). In essence, the news media can inaccurately report newsworthy events, especially live events and breaking news, as long as it does so without actual malice.
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  2782. @MAhole617 Vivek, unlike any other candidate I'm aware of, stated openly what his foreign policy framework would look like. He is the only one who criticized everything Biden is did with perfect analysis. This is all being orchestrated by China for the benefit of China. Even "Russian sanctions" benefit China. Every DNC-Prog/Biden policy benefits China and bleeds everyone else. Trump probably is of the same mind. But he tries to explain it under FAB in accordance with what he thinks his electoral base will understand and support. Plus Vivek's campaign came after Trump endured all of this and each day makes it clearly who is running DC. Trump will say "Putin is a killer, but I can work with him." And "We gotta do something about China." So he's leaving space to negotiation and worried too much about Communist "democratic" propaganda and Vivek is not. Vivek is fully convinced that he can defend all of this at any given stump speech. Like I said, Trump probably could but he already has a relationship with his base. I think on policy they would be very similar if not identical. Rand Paul is not cognizant of how the Communists are shrinking free commerce around the world. He thinks it's more important to virtue signal and attack Saudi Arabia for an alleged assassination of a Saudi national in Turkey just because he held a US Permanent Resident Visa or was a "Journalist" or some BS like that. This all occurred in the midst of working out the final plans for how the F35 fighter program would be set up at all of our "security partners" and he might also think that the Saudis are the bad guy in the region for defending themselves against the various terrorists.
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  2791.  @healthfreak79  Gaetz is probably defaulting back to "gridlock" or no ability to muster Congressional consensus is preferable to the status quo. I can't read his mind but let me explain something to you that I heard when I was in college. Basically, most free people in the USA, anyone that doesn't look to DC for daily sustenance, wants something they used to call gridlock. That means that no single party can dominate and get legislation passed easily if at all. It used to be that Republicans only ever gathered around the idea of making government leaner and the tax burdens smaller. Today's Republicans for the most part are instead Fabian Marxists trying to help the radicals come up with legislation that will pass without fomenting a counterrevolution. Take Mitt Romney has probably the most extreme example of a doctrinaire "managed decline" Marxist. The electorate just accepts what is fed to it because the schools were destroyed before WWII even started and it only ever got worse once FDR destroyed SCOTUS. And then FDR also made Stalin his number one partner in global social justice, favoring Stalin over Churchill for WWII and therefore for the policy choices made that let to the planning for "post war" Europe. That is exactly what set up what was later called the Iron Curtain. Churchill and Truman were called all sorts of names when Churchill was invited to the USA to make a speech and he unveiled the warning and that term. But in any case, being "anticommunist" during the Cold War and through today simply meant being anti-Russian. The Republican Party stopped criticizing the New Deal economic paradigm and what Ike called "The Military Industrial Complex" because even Ike was too stupid to understand the implications of his little speech. It never got better until Reagan and even Reagan was given the Reagan Derangement Syndrome treatment by the media. It was a lot harder to get Reagan than it was to get Trump because Trump never tried to be diplomatic to US traitors. Reagan was actually more savvy about what was happening in the USA from the schools on upward. But anyway, once Reagan left office his VP won the next Presidential election and sort of paved the way for "democratic" Communism because all he ever argued for was Russia becoming "more democratic" and there was nary a peep about China that was turning even worse at that time. Clinton totally sold us out to China over "the economy" and then when Bush came in he had his Global War on Terror where you're either "with us or against us" and China said, sure, we're against "terrorists". China and the Democratic Party began "rethinking terrorism" as soon as they saw the public was for fighting it. They gradually starting gaslighting the public about "root causes" and who "the real terrorists are". By the time Obama came along he just carried the academic Marxist "common sense" to Presidential politics and started using tropes like 'bitter clingers' and so forth. The hilarious thing is how we got from saying "the Cold War is over" to "Trump is Putin's puppet" in just a few years. These people are gaslit morons that pay more attention to Marvel Universe than what is actually happening in their own country and around the world.
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  2794.  @zarroth  The key pivot points happened before boomers were born. Before WWII ended. And then shortly after Truman started to realize what the Communist regimes were up to as they "helped free the world" suddenly all of FDR's stealth Marxists panicked and the "democratic" Marxist academics put together new forms of propaganda to impose on students. The baby boomers were the first "clean slate" generation for this phase of the Fabian Marxist revolution. The most cult-like generation perhaps of all human history. More recently, some could have wondered why when the Soviet Union crumbled and went "democratic" that we welcomes not Russia but the CCP to the table of "Liberal Democracies" and all associated perks. China became (under Clinton) a "Developing Economy" right alongside all of the republics still trying to organize after the US-Soviet Cold War trauma. That is beginning of this new phase of Marxist insanity in "liberal democracy". The Global War on Terror was great for the Communists because it gave them more than 2 decades to create all of these Always Blame Capitalism stories. Going back to Bush, when Obama ran his first campaign, he, like Clinton, promised "Peace Dividend" economic theory. This would end the wars and fund their pet social programs. No Democrat since JFK has done a GD thing to help make the world more peaceful or prosperous. They all create scams that enrich their cronies and then blame the "ossified disparity" on "Capitalism". Trump is unique in many ways but one of them is that he is a poster child for the kind of "Fat Cat Capitalism" that these liars and thieves like to demonize. Trump's emerge definitely brought about a new phase in this Marxist insanity. During Obama they could all say "elections matter" and give the leftists a chance. OK, so then they CLEARLY would not accept Trump's election or policies and immediately attacked him as "Hitler" because in the world of Communist ideology Hitler is a "Reactionary Capitalist". Capitalism is often described as strong individual property rights and the judicial rights to protect your property and freedom. But Marxists are pathetic and only care about their supposed right to control all property and human behavior. Anything against their agenda is "Right Wing". Hitler and Trump really are the same to these brain dead Communists. The Communists don't care about genocide or any atrocity. What they care about is their complete control over all social and economic activity. When looking at the 21st century and the kinds of things done in Europe and America through the lens of what I just laid out here it can be much easier to understand WTF is happening and why leftists parties on all of the "Advanced Economies" have lunatics that just want to destroy everything. Even if it means making sure LA and Lahaina can't fight any "natural" fires that spread. Without political support none of these people can recover their property to use as it had been before the fire. Both cities will be "socialized". That's just one example (two cities but one policy template) of what the Fabian Marxists do when they have the power to do so.
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  2805.  @olliemck60  If you want to reduce it to a simple binary, the only real question is whether sovereign "rulers" value human development over material exploitation. Marx was seen as a defender of "laborer" when he really just hypothesized the laborers would revolt and seize all of the wealth of the world and then create a "just" society based on "From each according to ability, to each according to need". There's also his "false (class) consciousness" theory that suggests anyone going against the Marxist "equity" prophecies has cognitive dissonance. He's also quoted as saying "Man is nothing, time is everything." Using his form of analysis to conflate all issues to "good or evil" Manichean analysis or simply that all of human history is reduced to "Will to Power" actually overlooks all of the things that exist in reality that you binary-thinking critics envy but fail to understand. And protections for humans either comes from "rule of law" nationalism or does not exist at all. Those are the only choices from history proved to work. Nationalism itself as a paradigm comes from "The Peace of Westphalia". Can there ever be an "international rule of law" that protects all humans in accordance with "the rule of law" paradigm? In theory, yes. But that means you need a globally enforceable and single interpretation of a "bill of rights" so that every human has the same standing in whatever courts are used to protect the rights of the accused and the petitioners. It's frustrating to me that anyone can attend US schools and not understand this. Perhaps just as bad is going to European schools where the USA came to fight for the freedoms of the allied nations during WWII and nobody teaches about the true history of "democracy" and protected freedoms AKA "the rule of law". When you use terms like "colonialists" as a clear "thing" that is understood by "experts" what it show is that you've never, ever thought about what the choices and and the possibility that some "colonialism" is part of "good" history and that whatever controversies exist as a nation strived to become an independent sovereign might or might not be the fault of the "colonialists" and the same goes for the "born there" natives. Our schools and now our so called "intellectuals" talk about these topics as if reviewing a primate study where behavioral labels are viewed as 'rules' that explain all "experts" need to know.
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  2806.  @olliemck60  LOL. What? "EV's are progress" is an ignorant, dogmatic slogan. "You can have EVs without exploitation, EVs are not the problem greed is! It would be the same thing with bananas." Your sloganeering comes directly from dogmatic Marxist Critical Theory ignorance. All of Marx's dogmas are easily debunked but you're not even aware of what is alluded to under "science denier" versus "settled science". BTW, if 'EVs' are so "progressive" then hybrid vehicles would be even more so. Why didn't your heroes put in a smooth transition plan going back to when the first successful hybrid vehicles were produced? As battery tech evolved and cars became lighter we would have already been ahead today of the supposed "progressive" goals. The "progressive" goals are to take away a free middle class. Even in Europe they simply tax TF out of cars and have been for decades so that only the "rich" can afford cars. And "Progressives" have been nagging about having "social justice" trains and whatnot for decades. If they have actual replacements that make economic sense why don't they build them? the most sensible transition vehicle would involve hybrids and would have started decades ago. Suddenly, to overcome "populism" they all decided that they should outlaw gasoline and diesel engines because it's harder to control use of those vehicles moment to moment the next time they want to call out some kind of "emergency" and lock you in your home. If not something worse. And don't get my started with your "greed" comment. Study a little more about Freudian projection and envy. The root problem is, around the world, people that take power and lie in order to destroy individual freedoms in favor of "fascist" totalitarian control under supposedly "liberal" aka "Progressive" policies.
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  2911. Here's one of the blatant lies still playing in this video. The "loyalty" claim according to Comey is easily reconciled by the following facts: Officers swear loyalty to the Constitution. Comey acted against Trump based on "national security intelligence gathering" paradigms approved by Obama. To the extent that Trump understood this, and he did, Trump also knew that these EOs automatically expired when a new President is sworn in for the simple reason that the sworn President is the head of the Federal Executive Branch and Comey's only choice was to shift his "Constitutional loyalty" to Trump's orders replacing whatever spoken or unspoken permission he got from Obama. And actually, Comey DID carry on investigating Trump after Trump was sworn in. Comey violated his oath to the US Constitution. He chose loyalty over his own ends, justified supposedly by...what? He had no right to run an investigation on President Trump. Period. And even if he had "ironclad" evidence he could at most follow "whistleblower" law and or resign. He kept his job, kept operating in the chain of command while running an illegal "operation" (intelligence gathering?) on the Chief Executive Officer. Had there been any CCP involved in this scheme Comey could have been charged with Treason. And we don't know if the CCP was dovetailing its own intelligence gathering on Comey's illegal Keystone Kops routine. It's unbelievable that PBS is this partisan and spreading such ignorance. Even in its "premier investigative yada yada yada..."
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  2915.  @mykofreder1682  Explain your reasoning. What do they gain from having their own nuclear deterrent? They're going to force their way in to new trade deals? Show that they don't rely on China for security? Force us and others to end trade sanctions? How exactly does anyone gain from from NK having its own nuclear deterrent? Even China favors NK as a "rogue threat" rather than as a de facto nuclear state. You people all talk endless bullshit but never demonstrate that you know anything. "If Trump can withdraw most Korean troops and get full denuclearization verified by at minimum China, he would have accomplished something only at that point. More likely Trump will withdraw troops, since a peace deal and Kim will promise to never their nuclear weapons." That's insane. The only real threat from NK is that they act as a de facto vanguard actor for China, in various overt and covert ways. China is in no way the good guy (state) here. We have to show diplomatic restraint in allowing China to pretend to be the good guys but we don't trust China any more than we trust NK. Are you joking? "All things remaining unchanged on the North Korean side, they and Kim will be the only ones that can be called a winner in everything Trump has done." The only party that wants to claim victory (and allow others to claim victory) while keeping conditions the same is China. If NK can't begin to trade directly with developed nations they will continue to reply on China to keep their elites alive and that also means keeping the military fed. Everything else will continue to suffer. The NK elite know that the status quo leads only to history recording them as selfish losers and puppets of China. Staying alive is good, yes, but they dream about keeping their power and actually bringing more prosperity to their nation. They can't do that under the status quo and they now realize that relying on China in this way is a dead end and nothing more. The main impediment to this new paradigm is China. And NK knows it. How stupid do you think those people are? You think they sit around and do nothing all day but watch CNN while eating bon bons and Doritos?
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  2929. What he did verbally was reframe his plan as originally offered to the Palestinian Authority under the Abraham Accords, that the PA and obviously HAMAS rejected. Offered initially during his first term. He basically stated that he would now make it happen under "US ownership" but the plan from the past was for us to do it all exactly as described by Trump. And then the legitimate "democratic" PA authority could gradually take over sovereignty in similar fashion to what was done in Iraq but the whole "insurgency" thing will be skipped. We must also keep in mind what he said this term in turn to Canada, Denmark, Panama and now "Gaza". Also remember that since long ago Egypt and Jordan flat out rejected any kind of relationship with the movement and the people acting out there. Since WWI ended and especially since WWII, the Soviet Russians tried to "advise" and arm these groups for endless war until End of History Communism would come. Iran started getting involved after the Khomeini revolution. And after the Soviet Union crumbled, the CCP slowly got its claws in to Russia as "NATO" lunatics could not overcome their own binary thinking. CCP is now the master of all "terrorism" and dogmatic "liberation" movements that liberate "people" through war and genocide. Speaking of the Biden epoch, Fauci is of the same mind. His version of "since" is helping Darwin's theory of the ascent of humanity. Through "scientific" selective pressures and survival of the fittest. All based on specious theories.
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  2979. Doing well or not doing well isn't saying anything. You have to understand policy analysis. And ever since FDR's New Deal, you will always find winners and losers in commerce that you can isolate as victims of this or "proof of success" of whatever guy you favor. Our 3 branch governing paradigm is deliberately designed to favor the interests of the People of the United States, not the politicians that managed to get installed. The People have lost all sight of how to even think about rational arguments for or against any particular policy and therefore for or against any competent politician that makes campaign promises. But the shorter version of this is that Trump's policy promises were expected to do certain things and when he wasn't blocked it did the expected things that increased liberty is expected to do. And some US operations were slightly harmed by tariffs but the effect was exaggerated by liars who don't even try to understand something called supply chain elasticity. That means, basically, a tax on imported steel is not a direct tax in the US buyers. Tariffs create pricing pressures and the US operations don't always lose anything. But you can always find one company or a few that will complain about it. That doesn't mean the policy is bad. Any change in the National Economic Plan is going to create winners and losers. Stock prices are affected day to day based on expectations first. Sometimes the equities markets get it right very quickly and sometimes they expect too much from delusional DC "spending" schemes and it takes a while for reality to set it. On the other hand you can have people that believed in Trumps policies before they had a chance to fully leverage that believe in to viable economic expansion. The growth under Trump is exactly what I predicted. And the truth is that I started to worry in the first few months because of how insane the Democratic Party reactions were. They still could not manage to kill the economic growth until Operation Covid. I predicted Trump's 4 year GDP would be between plus 4% and plus 5%. Just based on his campaign promises. The simple reason for this is that since I was in high school my brother and I debated my father over economic policies because my father blamed Reagan for his deregulation regime. My brother and I just got used to making counter arguments as to the effects of excessive taxation and useless regulations for "climate change" or whatever. And both my brother and I believed that thinks like solar energy and so forth have a place but that DC is the last place on earth that can lead the way in technology and market planning. Every benefit we get from "nuclear energy" is just a happy accident because we panicked to create the first nuclear weapon. There isn't anything unique today that isn't "fallout" from that initial investment. DC has been trying to shut down not only successful nuclear power but even hydroelectric. That's how intentionally retrograde the Democratic Party and it's soviet careerists have become. They are the party of Communism. Full stop.
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  2986.  @CarltonSmith45  I promise you that this is nothing more than "computer" systems and algorithms that have permission to write their own rules but within a known framework. It's like bragging that a customer service database "learns" as you add more customer info and then give it "permission" to modify it's own routines based on the growing data and the rules preprogrammed. Many software projects were started by massive teams and then taken over by people that can never meet the original authors. These secondary programmers start to believe the hype a bit or use the language that they think makes them look like "gurus" (it's hard to tell what they really think) and promote a "mystical" view about what is really behind these paradigmatic claims. The goal of "AI" in machine logic is to deceive. Where the deception starts and ends really depends on who explains it and how they understand it. It's still human programmed, non-sentient machinery. If "national defense" lingo, "signals intelligence" represents communications that are intercepted and if a replacement message is put in place with the aid of a computer program, that is "synthesizing" artificially the intelligence that you intercepted. It's not "artificial sentience." It's fraudulent intelligence that can "imitate" human communications from the same source that sent the original but with hopefully different outcomes. Having machines play chess is just gaming. Nothing more. It shows off the power of the machine, not sentience.
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  2994.  @markcroydon3195  Part of the problem is that the British and French had agreements during WWI and when the Turkish empire crumbled there were lots of "freed" peoples and territories that didn't really ever had "nationalism" as a thing that was understood. Nationalism itself is an outcrop of the Christian reformation and the various "princes" that tried to settle wars that sprang from the conflicts of that time. The idea is that rather than being viewed and princes and principalities they should be more "diplomatic" and "statesmanlike" and the idea of a state rater than a monarch's realm emerged from that. The Turks had an empire until it receded to modern Turkey as a modern nation state. The other territories were supposed to be protected by the British and the French and all of the international treaties from the end of WWI really focused on the idea that nations should be led by their own people and so forth. There have been lots of growing pains but the last "partition" project has failed so far. The partition of the Indian subcontinent was very bloody and painful but they got it done. So you're right that there is no "Pakistan" of the region. Jordan should have been able to rule over these "Arab" territories after some treaties but the ones still stuck on no mans land are caught in a delusional movement created not by Islamists but by Russian Communists trying to groom revolutionaries (terrorists) since the Paris Peace Conference. Prior to WWI Marxists posited that "the spark of war" would lead to a globalized "everyman" movement. When WWI ended with a peace conference they pivoted to plan B. This was the dawn of the "terror cell" movement and "liberation fronts" with various victicrat stories. The latest is Transtifa. So, you're right that these holdouts refuse to create a state of their own. But the region of Palestine (named by the Romans) has been well carved up already and most people are free. For me, Gaza is like the US Mexican border. It's run by militarized tunnels and black market trade. There's probably more violence in America's version but we're not using jets to attack narcoterrorists in America these days.
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  3002.  @gaby5546  People that identify as liberal are not liberal. It's one of those things. People that go around talking about how righteous they are are usually known as "self righteous" and that's not good. It's better to earn praise than just claim it. If I tell people I'm "Kindist" because I'm so concerned about being kind, would you believe it just based on this "identify as" BS? And not only that but this strategy to "identify as liberal" is an clear gaslighting AKA psyops campaign originally followed by "liberals" that were sympathetic to the Russian (Soviet) Communists and now are sort of delusional fools that believe in Communism but not using the Marxist lexicon. They first deceive themselves. Collectivist "liberals" are fully of hate and are anything but liberal in thought. They have in mind that they support "liberation" of "the oppressed" as the French Jacobins used to claims. But Marx turned it in to a universal philosophy based on "social sciences" (he said). So you're "social science" classes were all created by dogmatic Marxists who simply ignored the calls for global revolution, since that failed almost a century ago. Actually, the creation of the first "fascist" nations was a response to Lenin's "New Economic Policy". Lenin created fascism and Mussolini created Italian "Romanesque" rituals. Germans created Aryanism and so forth. Fascists come up with novel origin stories. That's the only difference between fascists and Communist. Liberals are wannabes that yearn for the delusional promises of Communism but focus rhetorically on their supposed "liberal" altruism. Malcom X figured this all out the hard way.
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  3041.  @verdi2310  LOL. You're an "economist" are you? Academic and punter economists operate purely on dogmatic theory exposition/propagation. Not knowing the details of how things actually work leave you mouthing off like a typical Dunning Kruger "unskilled and unaware" victim. In the auto sector alone it's not just "wages" differentials at play. Marxists all just assume that the very best efficiency is global consolidation of all "means of production" and elimination of competition. And to add more details to their theory, we're in a "phase of history" where some "disenfranchised states" (nations) must continue "developing" and "Advanced Economies" must "deindustrialize" in order to help the CCP exploit "developing" nations for energy and labor arbitrage and get "Advanced Economies" to help them bankrupt all rivals to the CCP. And the 1950s was not the golden age of manufacturing in the USA. It's just that everyone else was rebuilding after WWII. The New Deal ended the golden age of industry in the USA. The Manhattan Project seems like it was "great for the economy" and it was but it was also highly destructive to what "futurists" expected for US "industrialization". We've been riding economic bubbles since the end of WWII and during WWII we forced Marxist labor unions on all of the factories that were ordered to create war materials. The beginning of the end of the golden age was FDR's New Deal. The 1950s and the Cold War set up by FDR's relationship with Stalin meant that few people with analytical minds were able to warn anyone where this was all leading. And even so, they were stuck with a status quo that had to be maintained in order to compete with Soviet Union military buildup and trying to export revolutions around the world. Just pulling out little factoids from history stripped of all context is what idiots do. And by the way, the Biden regime took all of these problems and double down with the explicit goal of recognizing all of these weaknesses with respect to US autonomy and invested in global Communist vision of "Global Social Justice" future. They hit every single problem from the past and deliberately amplified it because for Communists these are not problems but signs of their prophecies coming to fruition in accordance with the Communist Manifesto and other related stupid gibberish published under Karl Marx's name.
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  3065. The root problem is the idea of "labor versus capital" and the gradual destruction of academies all over the world. The worst are "Western" academies where the pseudoscientific atheists preach "Social Darwinism" and the "inevitability" of a certain "Social Justice Arc of History". Even before WWI some European leaders were highly affected by the Democratic Party and its approach to "labor rights" where the secessionists sought revenge, reprisal and one party dominance by "speaking truth to power" with Jim Crow and "labor rights" that excluded non-whites and tried to claw "populist" power back from the Republican Party in that way. On a seemingly separate track the cultural impact of Darwinism (dogmatic belief in Evolutionary Theory) led to all kind of paranoid narratives about humans acting like animals. Additionally, Darwinism sprang forth this idea of a binary "class war" that was deniable only by people suffering from cognitive dissonance or what Richard Dawkins would later call "God Delusion". Both the British and the American academies more and more started to attack anything that defended rational uncertainty theory in the sciences. What we call Critical Theory today sprang from German immigrants in the 1930s and 1940s that were identified as "Frankfurt School" Communists that were "realistic" about the problem with the Communist Manifesto only in the sense that the "International Workers' Revolution" was not going to happen. It was just regarded as "Realistic" to "look critically" at the facts pertaining to the Communist Manifesto in the context of the Russian revolutions and Lenin's pivot once he established the first "Communist" regime in Russia. In any case, all of the criticism and so forth did nothing to debunk the insane inferences people took from Marx's nonsense at how it evolved historically. The root dogmas were defended as "facts". By the time I went to school I studied law, engineering and I had enough biology to understand Darwin's theory perfectly. When I heard about Marx I just laughed. I knew all of history since Marx debunked everything. But I noticed that weak minded people that didn't really want to work would say "Yeah, Marx is a joke." But if they needed an excuse for something or an explanation they'd use Marxist tropes in the "whataboutist" form of rhetoric. Like, yeah, but whatabout Capitalism". I thought these were unserious people. What I slowly realized is that they were serious about their confusion and inability to explore all of their faulty beliefs. By the time Obama was President I tried to explain why so many people were "triggered" by his Critical Theory tropes. That's when I realized it had infected so many people. And it's worse in Europe because of "historical" monarchy and land rights in Europe. The Europeans are the ones that needed "land reform" and so forth. But they made compromises with "historical power" and now under "Social Darwinism" they have sort of created this two tier political system of socialist Victicrats to replace the peasants and woke governing "scientific" elites that take for granted that progress always involves "selective pressures---survival of the fittest". Or as Nietzsche would say, maybe war is good for progress? It's interesting to debate the whacky theories until you realize how gaslit our students were becoming. Once the statists started promoting the promises of "AI" and "green energy" against their Henny Penny doom and gloom threats these terrified gaslit idiots started lining up with leftist regimes as the "scientists" taht were going to solve the world's political problems. They know it involves centrally planned "selective pressures" and death. Think about "Our Democratic Pandemic Response" before you attempt to debunk anything that I have written. When Fauci talks about "science" and "Progress" you have to understand why he can't cite the "science" he's referring to. Because he wants to include "selective pressures" for "progress" in all things, not just medicine. He's nihilistic about body counts and he's OK if the vaccines kill some people that would have otherwise survived because in theory mankind benefits by having (theoretically, under dogmatic "progressive" doctrines) more effective vaccines and the population getting "right sized" in the struggle to control deadly viruses can possibly help as much as free abortion clinics worldwide. All of the people that destroyed informed consent pertaining to the array of vaccines available are also the same people that rage against SCOTUS for abrogating Roe v. Wade. It's a one to one mapping.
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  3068.  @rickberglund2134  Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the bourgeoisie in chorus. The bourgeois sees his wife as a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women. He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production. For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives. Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private. The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.
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  3087.  @blahblahblahblah6919  You're heard of the No True Scotsman (supposed fallacy)? Well, a true Scotsman would be a a Citizen of Scotland. There is No True Democracy. It's a Utopian ideal. Western academics like to point to Greece as "The Cradle of Western Civilization". The argument can go like this: Greece is to the west of the levant. And the Greeks had "civilization" prior to the Romans. But what they're really trying to do is tell stories about how we Super Elites of today got our "critical thinking" from the Greeks. Even the ancient Greeks admit that it was a delusional attempt at an alternative to the status quo. And they were just as "inclusive" as Andrew Jackson (and Andrew Johnson's) "Democratic" Party. They plant the seeds of these lies in K-12 and then the really coercive gaslighting used to start in college. Of course, now, we have kindergarteners being told that they're Victims of Patriarchy and had their gender identities (and therefore sexual preferences) forced on them. In short, there is no such thing as "democracy". You can use adjectives like "democratic" to point to real things that exist like elections. But even their elections have never, ever been "democratic" except in the Greek sense where the elites allowed the commoners to participate but those were the 2 top classes, the only official classes in Greek politics. When Pelosi and other Marxists say "Our Democracy" this has no actually meaning. It means the status quo unless they lose. It means these aholes are wholly dependent on unelected bureaucrats to protect their Marxist cult. You have to understand "post modern" nomenclature. There's no such thing as objectivity to post modernists.
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  3092. American Exceptionalism originally meant that America (mostly the USA but the North American continent itself) would not follow the "inevitable" Arc of History still alluded to by Obama and other (fallacious, Gaslighting) "common sense" (stealth) Marxists. Specifically, some European Marxists supposed that America would not necessarily tip over towards Socialism and End of History Communism along the same way that the European "imperialist regimes" were predicted to. As the talking points evolved, it came to stand for anything and everything that makes America unique but it gives lying Progs a chance to equivocate and so forth. On the "right" it is said that the Constitution makes us exceptional. That's true but there's more to it than that and the actual arguments presented as caveats by the Marxists is the closest thing to honesty that they ever approached. The thing is that Marx's assumptions were all predicated on a very simplistic view of European monarchy and "capital" as a determinant of "disparity." These views simply did not translate well outside of a few cases in historical Europe. It didn't apply at all in America except for the obvious problem of chattel slavery. We solved "imperialism" with the American Revolutionary War and we solved chattel slavery with the (American) Civil War. Democrats, of course, oppose all solutions that lead to equal application of the law because they simply wanted to replaced British imperialism with their own elitist oligarchy. They're still doing it under (what they call) "Our Democracy" where their "Woke" oligarchy rules all. Van Drew might be waking up. But he needs to be watched, of course. All politicians needs to be watched carefully by the free demos. The free demos support republicanism and equal application of the law. On a local level of course they support wise charity with no coercion. Parasitic "demos" support Democrat elitists. The Democrats are the party of "common sense" parasitism on the premise that "capitalists" already "stole" the wealth and they are now "hoarding." Solving capitalism is what they imply will bring on End of History Utopian living, as described loosely by, guess who? (Hint: It's why they're called Communists in spite of their vehement denial.)
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  3106. The Marxists have been squeezing every industry in the USA since FDR. FDR also got us involved in global war and that sure did hear up the US macroeconomy. That, in a nutshell, is why Marxists in DC have been constantly stirring up war since FDR's New Deal. Reagan did quite a bit to pressure the Soviet Union and denounced Communism everywhere. The economic liberties only started to return when the Soviet Union collapsed. But by the time Bill Clinton threw a lifeline to the CCP and all of the economics gains after that flowed (in spite of every greater regulations and ever more restricted liberties) through silicon chip exports and this fantasy of a Magical Internet where everyone can work from anywhere and get rich by hyping some BS web site or "killer app". New investment bubbles did help some "Industry Titans" make money and pay good salaries but the investment bubbles made things very unstable. Trump is actually the first President since FDR forced labor unions on all heavy industry to actually help these industries enjoy greater economic liberties overall. Just trying to relieve these manufacturers from China's mercantilism was helpful to them. Helping Communists choke everyone else economically through (unilateral) libertarian economics is just Fabian Communism. So, yeah. Trump was the first President to take on Communists where they are actually defrauding the world. Through mercantilism, slave labor, and attracting foreign investment that is not backed by the rule of law. Every corporation associated with China, no matter where it operates, must submit to Chinese "corporate" or national security law. All Chinese law is about "national security". Full stop. IOW, it's the kind of dictatorship we supposedly fought WWII to vanquish and now we're propping it up. Trump is the only President that ever fully understood it or if Reagan did he did not have enough time to get to the phase that Trump took up. Climate Change Equity? Climate Justice? This is nothing but Communist gaslighting. The CCP is trying and succeeding at twisting every critical mineral resource to favor CCP "means of production" location in China until the end. They want to "deindustrialize" the entire world outside of direct CCP control. It's not just the theory of Marxism. This is what they have tried to do since Mao's Great Leap Forward. The DNC cult is OK with all of this.
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  3137.  @jbkibs  Lots of straw arguments there, bro. You actually have no idea what you're talking about. Any evidence direct and indirect can be used against them. If they're still employed and showing up to work at the scene of the many crimes (the planning of the various conspiracies) that is a golden opportunity to begin the investigations were the perps can see it gathering and nobody that watches it can be sure who is going to offer key testimony that leads to the others already gathered in the proverbial fish pond. What you're arguing is that this additional opportunity provides nothing significant for the investigators going after the criminal racketeering kingpins and capos where their criminal schemes are planned in government offices by government officials. You're entitled to your own opinion and others are entitled to scoff just as you scoff at my explanations. All of the first and second tier criminals involved in the planning and execution of Crossfire Hurricane quit long ago. The Biden regime schemes are still more or less ongoing and I don't know if any of them have quit. But the third tier idiots are still there to interview. And if they start quitting that will be something to note but it will get slightly more complicated and delay any possibility to prosecute these criminals quickly, like before the demons get a chance to steal control of the House and Senate again. That's what they do. It's all about the election cycles. And even many Senators are suspect when they talk about delaying Trump's appointments.
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  3147. There is only one argument against Capitalism and it goes like this: Property is theft. Every other "anticapitalism" argument is equivocation or absurdly mendacious exposition. And there is no sane argument in favor of "socialism" because this term can mean anything. Not only that we have "socialists" who pretend that the dogma of socialism is "property is theft" that pretend that their preferred socialism involves compromise. Fine. Then don't use that mendacious term because socialism has only ever been a doctrine of revolution and property seizure. No compromise is actually possible. If you're compromising it's not an ism. If you want to suggest certain policies under your expanded "socialist" rubric just discuss each policy suggestion on its own. Like so-called Social Security and its various components. Or k-12, etc. The fact is that there is no such thing as a rational socialist. You would not use that term for discussing rational policy suggestions. It's a trigger word to make people feel they have a new champion for The Third Estate that in the modern day is a total fiction. The Jacobins already killed their monarch. I would say that the Jacobins already accomplished their mission. Why is there a leftwing cult today that borrows from those same doctrines and talking points? The simple answer is because of Karl Marx's pseudoscientific dogmas that he layered on to the Jacobin cults. And even "Capitalism" is a trope used to confuse any arguments. It's stupid. Socialists are against private property that makes them envious. Period. Socialists use constructs like "Capitalism" and confused people take them seriously because they don't fully understand what anyone is saying and if they do they fail by establishing agreement with that mendacious and dogmatic terminology. Politicians that claim to be "socialists" and then campaign on certain specific policy proposals use those kinds of tropes. But as soon as they start to excuse any failures by referencing "Capitalism" as a bogey man they are off in la la land of doctrinaire blame shifting. And by the way, Marx could have made rational arguments in favor of solving specific problems of his time. But he had to go with the pseudoscientific cult BS. Looking back at "Feudalism" isn't really that useful in terms of setting up a cosmic class war. You have to do nonstop lying. Feudalism fit the conditions of the world at that time. Monarchy was a kind of inherited "best idea" that became less ideal as conditions changed. Having more opportunities to distribute books and so forth led to opportunities for upward mobility of the peasant class. There really were "classes" back then because it was all about your relationship with the monarch and the land grants. Then a new thing came in the age of sail with commercial expeditions and royal charters. Those things only became inherently unfair when the conditions changed and opportunities arose for more "inclusive" participation in wealth creation. Ever since the French Jacobins the parasites who simply wanted to use their rhetoric to climb the social, political and economic ladders have we had these mendacious tools to describe conditions with such mendacity and Manichean stupidity. There has never been an international capitalist system. All economics systems are framed by the sovereigns. The British and American systems seem very similar but they're not at all. US Citizens that buy land enjoy de facto mineral rights. There's no other place in the world where that happens. OTOH, the British during this supposed phase of development had control over vast colonies where the "capitalist class" was able to "manage" all of those resources, human and other, for great gain. In all of these "class war" arguments these are only exceptional things that prove "the rule" is just a bogey man construct. The people that prefer freedom and "Capitalism" are simply looking for liberty under the rule of law. Just like the US founders. No human should be deprived of due process of the law. We call that "the rule of law" in short. It leads to "disparity" but so what? Disparity in and of itself is neither bad nor good. This whole "morals based Capitalism" thing is rather vague and demagogic. Once you understand arguments for "the rule of law" you also understand arguments for "morals based capitalism". It's the same exact thing. The universal thing about Capitalism is simply enforceable property rights that can't be stripped by mobs or totalitarian dictators. Capitalism is a mendacious trope used to turn envy and unfounded fear in to something that seems to be erudite.
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  3154.  @kimobrien.  "In any conflict with big business your property rights are secondary as it is now." This abject nonsense from start to finish. The key areas of "concentrated prosperity" come from access to ports and mineral rights. The examples of "big business" coming in and buying up private land in ways that harms individual property rights would all entail building something like railroads, sea and air ports and so forth. All because of Federal (and States in some cases) demands. This has nothing to do with "profit motive" and everything to do with the innate corruption of you parasitic liars that conflate "national security" ("Federal emergency!") with free abortions and other completely deranged talking points grievances. The US Federal government is becoming innately corrupt not because it lacks "socialism" but because of FDR's New Deal socialism that got us in to a Great Depression (they "socialized" the suffering and made it all worse), WWII (where "fascists" were supposedly the opposite of "Communism" and "True Socialism" when everyone knew that FDR was doing exactly what Mussolini had already done in Italy but with vastly more resources to grab than the Italians or Germans had),, and the Cold War up until Reagan got the Russians to implode. And then Bush didn't know what to do next so Clinton came along and (for bags full of currency) aligned New Deal socialism with "Confucian" Communism. And that is where we are today. And lots of people like you whining about not being born rich like "Those Capitalists have."
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  3169.  @macktaylor7838  You're obviously a total moron with no substantial point to make. It's empty rhetoric because he's trying to appeal to both Constitutionalists and Progressives and ends up saying nothing meaningful. You have no idea what the controversies are. Probably Comey doesn't either. If you can explain the controversies with any kind of acumen at all then I will demonstrate how he's doing nothing but equivocating and using demagogic appeals to shore up his image as some kind of Social Justice messiah. Perhaps I need to look up the definition of empty for you. And then I'll look up fact for you. He's not a "private citizen that knows the justice system" except as a confused idiot that implies that he has a special "moral compass" and therefore his feelings and reports are supposed to be "authoritative" and stuff. Lap it up, moron. Lap it up. He doesn't even understand that the first principle of the rule of law in divided government is that everyone must be regarded as partisan until all legitimate arguments have been vetted and synthesized according to the Constitution's enforceable framework. That's what our legal system is supposed to do. Everything that he says in public demonstrates that Comey is a deluded moron. I understand why you "relate" to him. Also, he's a terminated FBI Director. The issue isn't whether he's a "private citizen" or not because all of the accusations against him pertain to his flawed (and possibly criminal) execution of his duties as FBI Director. IOW, "private citizen" just means that he's been fired and he's being investigated as a disgraced ex-employee.
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  3174.  @macktaylor7838  Moron, Morons have low functional IQs. Incorrigible means that you're unteachable. It's not the same thing except that in adults both can be changed by resolving your idiotic attitude when you start to purge the things that are not true that you think you know to be true. Get it? An example would be a child that tests normal in IQ and then learns dogmas from his school that he thinks are "settled science" doctrines and then this same child responds to the carrot and stick PC tools to get you idiots to go along with your pseudo-scientific cult. The functional IQ of the "unskilled and unaware of it" will drop. Combining IQ testing and "unskilled and unaware" (Dunning Kruger style) studies tells us that PC academic doctrines make you functionally retarded and yet overconfident in your cognition skills. That's you. And many others. The solution is to confront idiots to change the "market incentives" for people that continuously double down on stupidity, as you do. PC compliance isn't smart. Going along with popular fads in politics and employing dogmatic answers when you don't even understand the questions is just investing in idiocy. That's what you do. Case in point: What did you learn from your conversation with me that you started by suggesting that I'm ignorant about what rhetoric means, what legal duties are, and how Comey is in legal jeopardy for violating his duties (more than just "bad judgment") as Director of the FBI? You have learned nothing so far. You're not even smart enough to know when to thank someone that is helping you. And you probably think that IQ is a stable thing that is tied to the human genome when it's not. The root problem is your attitude and you have it bad.
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  3195.  @damageincorporated8558  I don't care how you use it but it does not have a very specific meaning outside of any context. ace (n.) c. 1300, "one at dice," from Old French as "one at dice" (12c.), from Latin as "a unit, one, a whole, unity;" also the name of a small Roman coin (originally a rectangular bronze plaque weighing one pound, it eventually was reduced by depreciation to half an ounce; in imperial times it became a round coin). The Latin word also is the source of Spanish as, Italian asso, German ass, Dutch aas, Danish es. It is perhaps originally Etruscan and related to Greek heis "one" (from PIE root *sem- (1) "one, as one"), or it might have been taken directly into Latin from the Greek word. In English, it meant the side of the die with only one mark before it meant the playing card with one pip (1530s). Because this was the lowest roll at dice, ace was used metaphorically in Middle English for "bad luck" or "something of no value;" but as the ace often is the highest playing card, the extended senses based on "excellence, good quality" arose 18c. as card-playing became popular. Ace in the hole in the figurative sense of "concealed advantage" is attested from 1904, from crooked stud-poker deals. The meaning "outstanding pilot" dates from 1917 (technically, in World War I aviators' jargon, one who has brought down 10 enemy planes, though originally in reference to 5 shot down), from French l'ace (1915), which, according to Bruce Robertson (ed.) "Air Aces of the 1914-1918 War" was used in prewar French sporting publications for "top of the deck" boxers, cyclists, etc. The sports meaning "point scored" (1819) led to sense of "unreturnable serve" (by 1889).
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  3239. His argument was incoherent and illogical. It was unpacked to sound like typical naive leftism. Which is all that it was. It could have been written by Saul Alinsky. It's boilerplate bad faith Marxism. They hate "nationalism" of all kinds. They don't care if the Palestinians get their own sovereign state. Marxists want to showcase "the struggle" and have victims to show. Marxists love ongoing wars. Marxists in the CCP for example love Russia and Ukraine battling it out and wasting resources while showing the futility of going against the CCP "Vanguard Party" status as the top Marxist political party in the globe. It's the same reason China appears to both support and condemn every side of every war. While making sure none run out of weapons. And yes, Marxists have run agencies of the US government. Their oath was to the USA so they thought it was OK to fight "Russian Communism" while expanding their own unconstitutional powers through fearmongering and so forth. Cenk's view is not difficult to understand. It's difficult to support because it's childishly explained and actually quite delusional. Cent probably does not know that his form of rhetoric is boilerplate agitation propaganda as taught by Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals. Well yeah, of course if "special forces" can magically do all of this that would be great. Notice when ISIS had civilian captives as hostages it was only a few in number. And they did not capture them en masse while slaughtering even more. ISIS must now be regarded as relatively humane in comparison to the new uber-terrorists calling themselves HAMAS. But let's look at how ISIS was handled. They were tracked for months and years. The hostages were rescued one by one in most cases and the special operators had to wait for just the right time to accomplish their mission. ISIS did not hide amongst innocent civilians and the hostages were so few in number they could be focused on one at a time. This situation is unlike any other. This would be like Nazi Germany in the middle of WWII sending out film of the concentration/death camps in order to taunt everyone. And we still had to carpet bomb Germany to win WWII without having any verified intelligence on the camps. We only new about the "lawful" POW camps. Imagine if the Nazis kept the POW next to the Jews they slaughtered and sent out newsreel films. That's what HAMAS has done. And the Nazis had real world objectives. Killing Jews was not the literal centerpiece of their operations. Nothing like this has ever happened before. There is no playbook for this. The closest one would be war with Nazi Germany where everyone in the "liberal democracies" wanted them to be bombed in to the next world. They didn't like that civilians would be killed but there were no other options. No magic "special forces" or "AI drones" with Social Justice lasers like we have.
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  3285.  @pwillis1589  He's right about that but wrong about Obama. And you're ignorance is far worse because of the large dose of unmerited arrogance mixed in. Presidential prerogatives come from the US Constitution. Congress can't limit Presidential prerogatives without Amending the US Constitution. This is key to separations of powers. Each branch has its own lane. Congress can pass law that allow the President to punish people that violate national security but it's ultimately up to the President alone whether to prosecute such crimes. This is also need in the power to Pardon. Usually people that start off with "You clearly have absolutely no understanding" are projecting. Because if you want to show you do have "a clue" you would provide it. The process required to declassify involves, basically, following Presidential orders and this is often delegated to Cabinet members but only within a framework. IOW, Hillary and Biden are off the hook if they can show that Obama permitted it. Even with an informal email. In fact, the reason Hillary wasn't prosecuted is because Obama sent emails to Hillary where both were using wholly unsecured email accounts. You simply can't accuse a President of violating the Espionage Act. You first must Impeach and then refer the matter to the DOJ. And even in that case it's not clear what you can get charged with unless they have a strong case for something like bribery or treason. Like what they have on Joe. LOL. You clowns crack me up. Except in the end Communism only leads to death and despair. You chose poorly. And since you mentioned the effed up "education system" why not mention who gave you the idea to write such BS? What "education" led to your silly rant?
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  3384.  @SG-hf8pj  What nihilistic idiocy are you spouting? Today's schools are "anti progressive" in that they teach nihilistic bullshit like you're spouting all framed on the assumption that "community truth" is the only "truth" that can exist. IOW, there's no such thing as objective "truth" other than what we all agree that we can observe, and what we infer from that observation is also subject to "community truth." That is utter bullshit. We don't teach critical thinking. We teach "critical theories" all premised on the assumption that "critical thinking" is "racist" in the sense that critical thinking leads to "unmanageable disparity" or "Social Darwinism." In order to have Progressive "managed Social Darwinism" the plebs must be taught all of the "critical theories" with "racist" ideas that lead to "unmanaged disparity." It's doctrinaire Progressivism minus critical thinking. IOW, it's inherently regressive and anti-scientific. I don't need to appeal to my history or training to support what I wrote. Since you seem to think that it does I'll mention that I have a background in US Constitutional law, history (studying the history of English common law and British monarchy), computer sciences, electronics, material and biological sciences and the nexuses such that I can advise "medical" enterprises in order to obtain credentials to sell products in the USA and around the world) and manage risks. I must liaise between all of the various "experts" across "world cultures" AND "expert" cultures. It doesn't take a genius to do that. It takes a proper fundamental education and careful progressive, relevant experience. Teaching about culture and critical thinking are not the same thing. Anyone can be taught critical thinking. Critical thinking should be the seed of all teaching doctrines in any "democratized" academy. It's not. European philosophers (with the help of crazed, idiotic lawyers and elected officials as allies) killed it in Western academies when they "socialized" the schools.
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  3410.  @PhenixJoe  I can disagree with Trump's impulsiveness while not trying to play fake "sociologist" games. The amazing thing is that you seem to think that you know above and beyond Trump what is in "the best interests of the (US) citizens" when you don't even know what Trump's legitimate concerns are. What Trump should do is work on getting a very competent VPOTUS. Ideally, someone like Ted Cruz to cut his way through the legal and bureaucratic traps that bogged him down while in office the first time. DeSantis doesn't fit that bill perfectly. OTOH, DeSantis is a better communicator than Trump is but still only experienced TDS from the outside rather than in. Too many people will think simply substituting DeSantis for Trump will solve all of the problems Trump exposed. This is dangerously wrong. Trump and DeSantis need to work together. If they go head to head in a primary fight they need to behave more like Ted Cruz than Trump did the first time. And yet how can anyone judge Trump's behavior at this stage? Nobody has ever experienced the things that he has experienced and there is still a runaway self-righteous Marxist cult running the DOJ and targeting Trump as Arch Reactionary Capitalist to Save Our Democracy. The truth is that nobody is better positioned to fully understand what happened. And Rudy Giuliani is the best advisor I know of. And he needs more allies in elected office, that's for sure. Don't play the Marxist "divide and conquer" game for them. Try to be much more thoughtful and "constructive" with your critiques. And by the way, can you give me an example of any time Trump ever chose his "ego" over "the best interests of the citizens" with a clear explanation of what the choices were that you allege Trump faced?
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  3413.  @AlexLee360  I think it's foolish to use terms like "pettiness" when reviewing what you think happened to a "real estate mogul" that got attacked by Obama's DOJ and the Clinton gang even before winning the Presidency. Trump, speaking as an objective critic, is a flawed human. Guess what? It might seem petty and just looking simply at whatever the supposed scandal is, of course it is. But the fight is over nothing less than the rule of law versus "Administrative law" that got it's start in the USA under FDR's New Deal and then was "codified" (not really) in to Congressional law as a complex legal framework that blatantly subverts the US Constitution. But it was signed in the very early stages of the Cold War when DC and the Democrat Party (racketeering cult) were seen as saviors because that is how Big Media of that time painted them. I never let my emotional reactions affect what I think about politicians that I've never met (and never plan to). I always disliked the image of Trump and his entire enterprise. But not because he's "Capitalist". I just don't enjoy spending time listening to anyone from New York or even Chicago "business communities". But I'm not a child about it. Anyway, what seems petty just might be. But a lot of the "petty reactions" have a purpose when fighting this insane cult of Marxists. Their destructive, unrelenting depravity might at times seem petty as well and yet it's not. Look at how unhinged they immediately became as soon as Hillary Clinton sent out the proverbial "bat signal". In my judgement DeSantis handles it better but can't get it done in DC without Trump paving the way. If they get in to a primary fight there would be nothing good about it. And DeSantis has young kids. Trump has young grandkids. They're not even close to being in the same generation. Trump has more experience in understanding what exactly has happened in DC since Clinton beat Bush. DeSantis doesn't have the wisdom of working in "business" during that age and neither does he have the experience of being targeted by the DOJ since 2015. Trump and DeSantis should both coordinate their activities with minimal conflict between each other. That is what patriots expect. They both have a lot to learn still and they each have different toolsets to help restore Constitutional governance.
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  3420.  @williespeirs6134  LOL. How you'd determine that is anyone's guess. "BS - it's clear the president himself hardly understood the consequences of what he was doing - the consequence was China retaliated by imposing tariffs on pork and soya beans, resulting in him having to compensate agriculture - who picks that up - the US consumer..." Also, consistent with your logic is the premise that the entire New Deal paradigm is supported by the US taxpayer. No kidding. That's an excuse for defending the status quo? Really? "...the only beneficiary was the US steel and alumina manufacturers..." You have no idea how to organize coherent economic arguments. One minute you're for demagogic "dynamic scoring" and the next minute you offer proof by trope. It's actually all "proof by trope." "The US prefers to be seen as non-interventionist in trade - that's intervention." Wow. I have already explained it to you. The only way to understand the controversies is to map the claims to worldviews and then organize verifiable evidence. The US is "against interventionism" the same way Keynes was. "Good" interventionism is anti-interventionism, according to "altruistic" elitist interventionists. Just like "antifa" fascists are against fascism. They say. So the first order of business for serious investigators and analysts is to correctly organize the relevant data and to challenge claims not just with simply contrary data claims but to challenge the the fallacious logic of their critiques in the first place, including their language war that practically eliminates good faith exposition of their idiotic root doctrines. Basically, the zero-sum elites think: 1) One-way, lopsided deals to help "developing economies" is "anti-interventionist" because they see material as the driving factor of "progress" 2) Since according to the same idiotic elitists, "material distribution" drives wealth and "balance", the only critical issue is putting "altruistic" elites (demagogic elitists) in charge of "distribution balancing" points of power. Therefore, interventionism that helps them take power, like deals with other elitists, is "anti-interventionist" and "good." Bad interventionism is anything that makes the brain dead morons look incompetent or that pisses off their zero-sum allies. Like denouncing and punishing Chinese slave labor is "bad" interventionism. You don't know how to align the rhetorical claims with verifiable facts and selfish interests.
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  3433.  @l.w.paradis2108  Ah. OK. So, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel is "partisan" or not? When does she not have an excuse in your mind? If you think there's any tangible evidence that she's just another cultivated useful idiot (from the "democratic" socialist POV) why not just cite it directly? What did she have published in the Law Review in her name that you think flies in the face of her "exposition" in virtually every recorded video that I've ever seen from her? I can't be sure but I think I've even seen video lectures from her as given to her student. But really, the more interesting question why you're interested in trying to make so many excuses for all of the legitimate criticism of her. I think the answer to that question has already been given by your "technical" versus "partisan/political" binary. I think she was originally mentioned in this conversation (pertaining to the above video) because she apparently exploited the informal "diversity" quota system. But you tried to make that right by saying she's "qualified" and the spouse of a Harvard professor. As far as the quota question goes I think it's never a good idea. If you read the original "Affirmative Action" memo it has nothing to do with quotas. Diversity was not the end game. Affirmative Action meant take affirmative action to make sure "disenfranchised communities" (in today's libspeak) are not excluded from applying for and winning Federal contractor jobs from the entire known pool of qualified applicants. (Executive Order 10925) The Administrative state grew it in to something else. Just like "banking law" is magically transformed by unelected bureaucrats empowered by low IQ demagogues in Congress. Warren seems to be one of the lowest of the "law professors" to be elected Senator. And I don't think it matters where anyone attends law school unless they want to also earn a science/engineering degree as well. Or maybe they just want to join some of those special clubs. BTW, I agree with you that Hillary is much worse. They're not even in the same league. But I don't think Hillary was ever held up as a "law professor". The thing is, just calling them "expert" at something just because they have some kind of political power is weak minded and antidemocratic. The educated demos should be used to holding their elected leaders up to high standards. But they don't seem to know how. Thank our schools. Thank our Elite Expert Professors, I guess.
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  3437.  @captainsalty5688  The Marxist Central Planning regime was first imposed by FDR and then by the time he croaked, Truman (the switcheroo VP that was imposed on him to get rid of his blatantly pro-Communist VP because the public was getting a bit concerned about the FDR tyrannical regime) inherited the "Cold War" where Russia had fully expected to bring Social Justice colonialism to all of Europe. The best any President since then could do to slow down and reverse this trend was Reagan as he caused the Soviet Union to collapse (through its elections gambit) while the CCP doubled down on authoritarianism. This isn't about stupid binary party choices. Marxism is taught as "Realism" in every Western academy, including military. And if you think that people like Thomas Sowell and Milton Freidman had big voices in their heyday you'd be wrong. Not only that you can't talk about libertarian economics anywhere in the West now without being immediately labeled fascist, racist, etc. And some moron has "gotcha" comments about past "Republican" Presidents tried to thread the needle because they could not immediately reboot the USA under the status quo from before FDR came along and effed the whole country, including SCOTUS? These people are freaking binary-thinking idiots. They are "Common Sense" Communists who are inculcated to think that their tropes are "Realism". They mimic Saul Alinsky but Alinsky knew he was an antitheist, criminal-minded anarchist. These people today are just flat out hive-minded morons.
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  3491. You're probably right. The crooks in DC all rallied around Hillary because they all knew that the US DOJ had been cultivated by Bill to receive her. And once Bush left office they all started acting like Obama was a harbinger for their dreams of single party rule. Once Hillary lost they all went openly gangster and started running blatantly criminal operations on Trump and key allies. They were terrified of prosecutions because of Hillary's CGI grift and then it came to light what Old Joe Biden had been doing under Obama. Nobody should assume we've heard the extent of that corruption. But in the backdrop you have Epstein and now Diddy, and let's not forget how much they gaslight us on border security. So having the drug cartels donating to those people is not difficult to imagine. But what about the human trafficking and the nexuses with these sex parties? Now you have pretty much everyone in that social orbit complicit in criminal racketeering of the kind that put many Mafiosi away for life. This is no joke. Even if she's not really a kingpin but just a witness, she is still terrified. These people know Trump did nothing to hurt their standing in any way during his first term in office. But they also know that the Marxists in DC did everything imaginable to try to stop him and that they did slow him down and distract him. That won't work again. They all know it. But why the fear? They know they're on the naughty list. Their last stand from a legal perspective is to stop cooperating with the Federal government in order to "protect migrants" in their (legal) "sanctuaries". They can protect "migrants" and under the same program refuse to cooperate with ANY Federal investigations. It's the last hope these criminals have. The ones that are guilty are counting on New York, California, or fleeing the country. Those who have already been "erased" by the left like Ellen Degenerate feel they have no choice but to rely on SJWs in the UK.
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  3501. First of all, nobody in Russia ever had property rights under equal application of the law. This is true with most or perhaps all of Europe as well. The US Constitution is unique because of the Bill of Rights and Constitutionally framed separations of branches laterally and States versus the Federal government vertically. When you say so and so steals, it's POV. Calling Putin a kleptocrat is OK from the Western POV because of Western traditions for holding property in the age of "democracy" or "democratic rights" when the public is told that they have "rights" to hold their property under contract law and whatever. If property is theft, as earlier socialists claim, then Putin is Russia Robin Hood. This is the nature of humans that have no fear of the Ten Commandments. Worse is the European socialists, especially dogmatic Marxists, that actually hold to "Social Darwinism" that implies an Ubermensch class is needed to "liberate" the people. It is strongly implied all over the West that these tyrants, including in the USA, are following all of the socialist doctrines, including Freudian psychology, that posits an inability for all persons to reconcile "truth' without "science". According to Critical Theory Marxism, Putin is a "Liberator" but also a fascist because he turned away from Stalinist imperialism in the name of liberating the Third Estate throughout the world or "International Workers" as Marx originally described the Untermensch cannon fodder. Putin is no different than Hillary Clinton in philosophy and behavior. Hillary has never been a head of any state. So she has no military sworn to follow her. That's the essential difference between the two. Let's not play these Special Pleading games where Hitler and Putin are like special mutations and so forth. Their so called liberals under Marxist Liberation Theory. Hillary is jealous of Putin. And angry that he openly criticized her. Hillary is actually a much bigger hypocrite because Putin never said he is running a rule of law republic.
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  3509.  @thegrimspeaker8987  All things considered, Hillary is worse for this reason: All of these Marxist bureaucrats in DC have been groomed to receive the author of HillaryCare since Bill started firing and rebuilding the DOJ and every other freaking agency. They all think this is the age of "Woke" Communism since Gorbachev won the argument for elections in the Soviet Union and Bill Clinton normalized the CCP as a "developing economy" that will naturally "normalize" as we ensure that they achieve GDP per capita parity with "developed economies". Sounds insane but that was Clintonomics. And then Bush for derailed by his pet project and "nation building" (that also fit with Critical Theory Marxist politics) became the order of the day. Did Obama do anything to bring any corrections? Uh, no. And Hillary has always been pissed off that she was forced to compromise with Obama in 2008. She's been like Bloody Mary ever since that time and she still expect to rule like a Marxist queen of Our Democracy. Kamala is just a stupid puppet, exactly like Biden was. Even Obama was a puppet that got away with things because he really doesn't care as much as people think. He's turned in to an egomaniac that leans towards Critical Theory explanations for everything but he's not a dogmatic Marxist like Hillary and Kamala. The thing that Kamal is missing is a dedicated personality cult built by Bill Clinton that would die for Hillary. Any Democratic Party regime is ever more dangerous because of how much they are controlled by the CCP without even understanding who the tail of that dog is. Kamala is so freaking stupid that she is less dangerous than Hillary as long as we can keep her out of office. Once in office, even Biden was used successfully to bring out all of these insane "Post Industrial" Marxist policies. All designed to make the USA a vassal state to China while creating an untouchable class that live like monarchs in a vassal state. Like North Korea. They want to be woke politicians and the best that can happen is they live like NK power elites. I said all of this when Hillary was running in 2015. What they did to Trump exceeded my predictions but at the same time made it that much more obvious what the stakes are and who the traitors are.
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  3545. They never tell the truth about anything. Just start off with that problem. This US Democratic Party is a cult of sociopathic criminal liars. If you have ever read any case studies of "Mafia" crime families it's basically the same kind of cult but add the delusion of leftist political beliefs and getting recruited to run as elected puppets. That's who these people are. The Biden family is probably the most extreme example but there are others that come very close. If you review history decade by decade you understand what happened in the period that we occupied Japan and Germany and the public slowly woke up to Winston Churchill's warnings about "The Iron Curtain". Marxist professors, politicians, Hollywood activists and "labor organizers" all had certain expectations. They were fully organized in the schools by the time the baby boomer generation showed up. Joe Biden was born a few years before WWII ended. But he still went through the same schools with these freaking Marxists and their culture war (as described by an Italian Communist named Antonio Gramsci) fed a lot of BS to the students. They didn't have a clear master plan because what they all agreed on is that the predicted "International Workers' Revolution" was not going to happen as thought, if at all. What they set out to do is relentlessly attack every "institution" whether real or imagined (both the judiciary and its defense of property rights, as an example of a "real" institution and imagined institutions like The Patriarchy) in order to collapse support for any doctrine or reflexive expectation from life in America and around the world under what they call "Capitalism". What they ended up with is several generations at this stage of abject morons who learn how to climb up the ladders as "Critical" social justice parasites. If you think Joe Biden is a useless criminal because he turned that way with age, you're wrong. Joe Biden has been this way since college if not before. Having a son like Hunter is no surprise whatsoever. Everything that we're seeing could have been predicted. And if not for "the laptop from hell" the Bidens would have the same veneer of respectability that the equally corrupt Clintons still enjoy. The Obamas are another story. The got to the Obamas in another way that's unusual and I don't want to invent fact claims that don't exist. But I don't think the Obamas are the same in the sense of looking around for graft and corruption all their lives. The Obamas are true believers in White Supremacy (Michelle AKA Michael or whatever) and Barack is a true believer in The Patriarchy that shames people for being "born that way" over this or that. I don't think Barack Obama ever struggled because of his skin color. But he has a corrupt mind and is easy for Marxists to control because of his hidden lifestyle choices. The point is that every Democratic Party President from all of history with the possible exceptions of Truman and Kennedy were corrupt to the core. And they've been fully indoctrinated Critical Theory Marxists since Clinton. Even Carter was pretty stupid about it but I think he already had a corrupt mind by the time he got involved in electoral politics. Jimmy Carter is a hateful bigot that operates in the world of white Progressive bigots in the way described in Orwell's Animal Farm. Jimmy Carter would be a "Pig" trying to run the farm like a Soviet Premiere.
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  3546. @alphagerudo6242 Go figure what? It's so easy to understand unless you're a "Political Scientist" ignoramus. Blinken and others have nonstop cultural Marxist fallacies. Basically, Critical Theory Marxism starts off with unquestionable dogmas as "common sense" aka "reality" and then has endless arrays of false binary tropes to distract anyone from understanding how empty they are. They believe in materialistic determinism and therefore they're just doing a song and dance to keep the Ignorant Capitalists at bay while the Arc of Social Justice History plays itself out. Cruz is not a Critical Theory ignoramus because the most powerful component of Critical Theory in the legal system was once known as Critical Legal Studies and classes of that nature are requirements for JDs. Intersectional Studies just expanded that framework to all "political identity" groups. These are all paradigmatic theories that lead only in circles but the true believers haven't figured that out (aside from "Post Modernists"). But anyway, in college, Critical Theory can be used to take a contrary position on anything. Which is important for lawyers to understand. But when coupled with PC thought and speech policing you know have a full blown Marxist culture and lawfare campaign that they think is already destined to win. And Ted Cruz isn't just one of today's most talented lawyers in the USA he is also the ancestor of people persecuted by Fidel Castro. That's not a good thing unless you're a doctrinaire Marxist.
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  3597. Some day these idiots will realize that they're not just trying to destroy "Capitalists" but all legally protected freedoms. Everything must be viewed through the lens of Marxist political control. They still don't know what "middle class" means. Middle class is a contrary theory to Marx's two-class war. If there is a third class in the middle and these classes are merely paradigmatic, if people can move up and down between the classes then there is no class war. But there is a class war, just not as Marxists describe it. A bunch of Malthusian socialists are trying to enslave and kill anyone that they feel threatens their power and legacy. If you study history in France, German, Britain and the USA year by year since the Declaration of Independence was signed it all becomes very clear. The multigenerational drive to enslave everyone has only morphed in tactics, but not strategy. This is also the same period when "industry" and technology bloomed. This only makes them more paranoid because these Marxist philosophies only appeal to indoctrinated losers that start life out feeling "disenfranchised" or "privileged" and the privilege is under threat if they don't get on the "right side of history". If you happen to experience relative success by getting hyper-rich from the Internet, all of those people know that programming and marketing are not very difficult skills. There's a large measure of luck. And under this Marxist culture war this makes them important targets to capture to the Social Justice cause. They got so many of them. Even Bill Gates knows that his power comes from cutthroat marketing nous. Paul Allen was the "engineering guru". Ellon Musk voted for Joe Biden and after that did he realize taht he was being scammed and the fact that he opposed labor unions at his US factories made him persona non grata. But how did this guy fail to realize the score? The dude spent over two decades in the heart of Silly Con Valley and he was a True Believer.
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  3601. It's much worse than this. The problem isn't that Joe, Hunter and the rest of the crime family conspired to do all of this. The problem is that this corruption existed before any Biden ever arrived. The problem is that technically these guys can claim they're not lying because Hunter the bag man had additional cutouts for direct planning of these corrupt schemes. Now, of course they're lying and of course they spoke directly about all of their schemes while also getting their "legal defense" talking points worked out just like Mafiosi that use extensive "code" when ordering illegal operations. Mafiosi also make sure they have plenty of lawyers in the family. The issue with the Bidens that make them unique in all of history is never have such blatant morons risen so high in the US political system. But what about the rest of this network? Think how many from "The Intelligence Community" (and that can mean anyone in DC) defended all of this anti-Trump hysteria. Some were just hysterical Communists worried about Reactionary Capitalist Trump. But actually, they were all party hacks dogmatically defending anything the cult leaders (like Hillary) said but many DC insiders have always been taking their cut from this kind of (theoretically) "legally cleansed" corruption and racketeering that is legally defensible under Our Democracy doctrines (that nobody dares try to defend as consistent with Constitutional rule of law). Even Vindman and his whole sub-scheme was rooted in obstruction of justice out of fear taht Biden would get caught. This is for sure. By the time Vindman was introduced to the public nothing he said was legally defensible. In a rule of law republic Vindman should have been charged as a criminal spy. He even bragged about how Ukraine wanted him to become Defense Minister. For Ukraine! The malfeasance comes so fast you can't process it. But if you look back at where we are now and look at how all of these maniacal, hysterical claims panned out, you can see that they never, ever should have been taken seriously. We all could see that these people are lying traitors. But we're hit so fast that we "rule of law" Constitutionalists can't even have conversations about what to make of it before the next insane controversy gets layered on top.
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  3646.  @garycarpenter2932  You're on to something there. But there is in fact no "right" as in opposition to "the left" except metaphorically as in good versus evil. And in humans there's a broad spectrum of awareness and intent. Leftists invented "the right" thanks to Marxist neo Manichean ideology. The US "two party system" was created more or less by the same impulse that evil humans have to create bogey men to justify their own evil. If I said that to Trump during his first term all the way up to January 6, 2021 he would have guffawed. And truthfully even I took years to become so convinced of their evil. Once Pelosi launched the first Impeachment and then "paused" the official handover to the Senate that was proof to me that Pelosi and the entire party was coordinating their evil with the CCP. That was the time that the first "Chinese something something" was happening with unverified YouTube videos and at the same time Asian hospitals were having SARS patients show up again in the biggest numbers in about 2 decades. When Pelosi did that and started creating more agitprop tropes against Trump for talking about shutting down flights from China or at least Wuhan and Pelosi went to SF Chinatown to hold a press conference while dining with "Chinese people"...I knew for certain that these were not just evil morons but they were knowingly coordinating their evil schemes against Trump to get him out of office. The COVID project started early in the first Impeachment if not before. And Pelosi's "Impeachment Pause" was all about getting the timing just right with the COVID scandalization (and genocide experiments) project. The US and CCP now have at least some "doctors" in government that are the same kind that Hitler promoted.
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  3697.  @luissantoyo27  You're psychotic. They collectively did, what, exactly? You have no freaking idea. The only violence recorded on those videos was all initiated by the police except MAYBE for a broken glass door. You see a bunch of people defending themselves from "crowd control" and if you're told they were being attacked was because of, whatever, you just repeat this stupid story. And the only people that died at that Joint Session of Congress were two lawful protestors. Perhaps you don't know that all officials swear on oath to the (written) US Constitution. We often say that the First Amendment pertains to "Speech Rights" but then everyone forgets to read the freaking text. What they were doing is explicitly protected by the First Amendment AKA "Bill of Rights" in the US Constitution. It doesn't matter if Congress passes a law that says their trespassing because they have a Constitutional right to petition their government for regress. People show up to Congressional sessions all the time. They're never prevented from having protests or gatherings outside and actually as long as they are orderly they can witness the hearings and even carry signs and "petition". You can't literally disrupt the hearings and procedures but that did NOT happen. The "trigger event" was someone from the police ran screaming that he had to lead them to some safe space because of an alleged threat. The closest thing to a "threat" was that someone broke a glass door at the entrance and some officer "personal security" dude shot a protestor in the face and killed her. So even if taht is a legitimate cause for holding up the Congressional session why was there never any effort to explain this trigger event to you rubes and the specific trigger event is rarely discussed. I believe this video didn't mention a GD thing about any of the verifiable facts at all. Just more people like you how bleat out critical dogmas like "They were violent, duh". IT's not a "conspiracy theory" to suggest that the crowd didn't start the rioting or any illegal activity because, as I said, the only "violent" event that was not clearly initated by the police was the broken glass door. These are facts no liars care about. Keep repeating your stories. People who know how to investigate real events know that you're all full of BS and for some reason reached adulthood with zero critical thinking skills.
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  3727.  @NoahOD_22  Which specific ideologies does it supposedly represent? Because MAGA has always meant what it says. There's no zero sum ideology about making anyone worse to climb up again. Every country should want to strive towards greatness on its own terms. Not the backs of other nations. And the problem is that so many politicians around the world think of the UN and NATO as a national wealth redistribution scheme where the "allies" are the ones that conspire against taxpayers. Dealing with Communist regimes as if they really are just trying to help their own poor (yet no elections?) and sitting around the UN and NATO figuring out what the US is going to do next to "defend freedom and democracy" through covert military action, weapons supplies, inviting all comers to crash our borders and breaking every promise to US taxpayers is a good summary of the status quo that makes us a "nation in decline" (be design). They've been talking about his in academia for decades. I always scoffed at the Marxists in school. Now I realize that some of my peers were not just unconcerned about their school work but unconcerned about paying attention to anything that matters around them. These Marxists sold a lot of BS to a lot of people. It is that ideological framework that is referenced overtly or subliminally to attack "Trump" AKA or "Capitalism" or "Patriarchy" and so forth and it all comes directly from the Communist Manifesto. The answer is that Communists hate MAGA. It's just that simple. Communists hate Westphalian sovereignty. That's why they hate when someone is sent to the UN to threaten to reduce the international soup for the poor (and weapons for the so called freedom fighters) programs.
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  3729.  @darlenes1222  The entire point is that you can't have Trump policies because the bureaucrats won't allow it. Trump is not responsible for all of the TDS drama. Anyone that comes anywhere close to attempting what Trump attempted will face all of that and more. You don't seem to understand how it works. The entire DC unelected establishment has been waiting for President Hillary since Bill's first term. Once Obama got slotted in this actually got everyone even more excited because they still expected to have Hillary follow him. They began to believe in the "arc of history" where every President would be gradually more and more "Progressive". Even Obama had a clearly phased tenure with a phony moderate first term and a radical second. They expected Hillary to carry on this "Progress". To have Trump, to Marxists, is defying the Social Justice Arc of history. It's their worst nightmare, since Trump is from the same generation and has always represented "Reactionary Capitalism". Only Ted Cruz has the knowledge about how to cut through this BS and they hate Cruz as much as they hate Trump. They will hate DeSantis to whatever extent they see him trying to fill "Reactionary Capitalist President" role and they'll always be extra frightened since none of them thought anyone like Trump would ever, ever have a chance. Referring to Trump supporters are advocates as "worshipers" must come from Freudian projection because I only hear that kind of chatter from leftwingers. And you think Manchin got played because he's naive. LOL. He's playing all of you. I just saw a photo of Biden and Byrd and you know who was only two steps behind with the same kind of smile? Joe Manchin. He's a smooth scammer. And you say you want Trump's policies but you're not "MAGA". This makes no sense. The mistake Trump made was losing trust in Jeff Sessions and not ordering more DOJ/FBI traitors to be fired. Let them go to court. They're still gone from office and can only fight about severance pay.
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  3733. ​ @londonhughes7382  She's possibly crazier than Romney. She too thinks she has a shot at a No Labels "Unity Ticket" with an avowed DemonRat and she would be the "Republican" that "unifies" the nation by making everyone follow DNC Marxism under the (reformed) Two Party (uniparty) System that Trump is accidentally exposing and destroying. Even through COVID Trump did not quite get it. By the time the FBI started arresting innocent Trump supporters I think he finally started to understand just how completely these people have corrupted the Federal government. I said this in 2015 and predicted something like what he endured. I was wrong because I thought they would make him a one term President and take over Congress. He stood up to them, patiently. He didn't cave but he didn't go for the jugular. So I was wrong about how evil and stupid they are in DC where they really are all corrupt and stupid almost to the last person. I was wrong about how long Trump would last rather than compromise with them as Bush had. Things are far worse than I thought they would get. And yet if we make it then Trump will be by far the most important US President of all time. If he can end his second term with good results and both chambers are run by actual republican Republicans, his Presidency will be more consequential than George Washington's and even though Lincoln emancipated the slaves, Trump is, whether he realizes it or not, protecting us from the slavery of global Communism where they threat has never, ever been greater. He could potentially destroy global Communism for at least another generation. We in the USA must in fact destroy FDR's New Deal Fabian Communism. Planted by FDR and Stalin. More and more even the idiot news anchors are starting to clearly explain the "threat" of "Right Wing SCOTUS" is to "Overturn the New Deal" (Marxist jurisprudence for "agencies" and their "Social Justice" nonsense for "corporations" have no property or speech rights). Neither do "plutocrats" like Trump. It's never been easier to understand than it is today, even for a high school student surrounded by delusional Critical Theory (unionized) teaches.
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  3750. McCarthy is the most honest double dealer of all time. He just thinks there's no other way to keep power in DC. He thinks you MUST "share power" with the "minority democratic party". This is a kind of trope that falls away quickly for any honest person that spends enough time outside of the DC bubble. And the thing about "California Republicans" is that California is almost more Utopian and corrupt than DC. So going back and forth can psychologically damage the minds of well-intentioned Constitutionalists (and that includes even Anthony Kennedy). Look at someone like Ayn Rand just for one example of a "conservative icon". She's actually a Utopian Marxist that writes AGAINST the proposition of "Collectivist" politics but she propagates her own brand of "Libertarian" collectivist tropes. She doesn't have enough actual experience with "Capitalism" or "The Patriarchy" to debunk Critical Theory nonsense like "Post Industrial Economies" and "Climate Change" and so forth. (Plus, she's dead.) But anyway, I can both hate McCarthy's actions while also explaining that he probably thought he was making the best possible decisions. It's out of bounds for him to think that he as a Republican House Speaker can categorically dismiss all Demon Rat projects simply because we already know that it's all about Marxist theories. If the Republicans come up with a great project with "social" benefits the US Demon Rats MUST take over policy, because actual results never matter. Their entire operating theory centers around "redistribution" as the one and only factor in "democratic socialism". Even if they kill people as long as they can take measurable control over something that their moronic constituents value under doctrinaire socialism this is OK. Look at COVID. They hated Trump's vaccines. The same under Biden were "Biden's Vaccines" and mandatory. And they know that by destroying personal autonomy and the ageless doctrine of informed consent that they made an "emergency" out of forcing experimental private sector (supposed) virus remedies that were not even approved under "safe and effective" FDA doctrines. The Chinese vaccine was clearly better for broad prophylactic use. That's a medical fact. But I only mean to say that this party has been on the "wrong side of history" since Bill Clinton if you don't want to count Jimmy Carter and LBJ. They have sided with either Communists or the KKK since FDR. And what am I talking about? They've sided with proto-KKK groups since long before that. Arguably, the fascists "coopted" as much from the US Demon Rat party as they did from Lenin. And the FDR pivoted on them by doubling down and declaring them as "enemies of democracy" while partnering mainly with Stalin (and Churchill was allowed to come along for the ride as a junior partner).
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  3763. https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/wha/rlnks/11936.htm Article IV Protection and Defense 1. The United States of America and the Republic of Panama commit themselves to protect and defend the Panama Canal. Each Party shall act, in accordance with its constitutional processes, to meet the danger resulting from an armed attack or other actions which threaten the security of the Panama Canal or of ships transiting it. 2. For the duration of this Treaty, the United States of America shall have primary responsibility to protect and defend the Canal. The rights of the United States of America to station, train, and move military forces within the Republic of Panama are described in the Agreement in Implementation of this Article, signed this date. The use of areas and installations and the legal status of the armed forces of the United States of America in the Republic of Panama shall be governed by the aforesaid Agreement. 3. In order to facilitate the participation and cooperation of the armed forces of both Parties in the protection and defense of the Canal, the United States of America and the Republic of Panama shall establish a Combined Board comprised of an equal number of senior military representatives of each Party. These representatives shall be charged by their respective governments with consulting and cooperating on all matters pertaining to the protection and defense of the Canal, and with planning for actions to be taken in concert for that purpose. Such combined protection and defense arrangements shall not inhibit the identity or lines of authority of the armed forces of the United States of America or the Republic of Panama. The Combined Board shall provide for coordination and cooperation concerning such matters as: (a) The preparation of contingency plans for the protection and defense of the Canal based upon the cooperative efforts of the armed forces of both Parties; (b) The planning and conduct of combined military exercises; and (c) The conduct of United States and Panamanian military operations with respect to the protection and defense of the Canal. 4. The Combined Board shall, at five-year intervals throughout the duration of this Treaty, review the resources being made available by the two Parties for the protection and defense of the Canal. Also, the Combined Board shall make appropriate recommendations to the two Governments respecting projected requirements, the efficient utilization of available resources of the two Parties, and other matters of mutual interest with respect to the protection and defense of the Canal. 5. To the extent possible consistent with its primary responsibility for the protection and defense of the Panama Canal, the United States of America will endeavor to maintain its armed forces in the Republic of Panama in normal times at a level not in excess of that of the armed forces of the United States of America in the territory of the former Canal Zone immediately prior to the entry into force of this Treaty.
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  3786.  @rujiel4620  What an insane comment. You think Trump was not scrutinized? Are you insane? No President has faced such an onslaught that started when he was campaigning in 2015 and remains unabated. Trump has never been accused of sending drug addicted bag men around the world in order to bend US policy to suit a nuclear armed enemy. I just don't understand how you lunatics can remain so incorrigible. It's one thing to simply ignore the facts and life a life like Hunter does. But you come and try to "debate MAGA" or whatever as if you have some Special Insight. Not one "Republican" that I know of has pulled any punches on Trump. Some of the triggered traitors posed as "Republican". Like Mitt Romney, his failed running mate, and the list continues. You're just triggered by Trump and you have no idea how anything is supposed to work according to the US Constitution. The best "rule of law" Constitutionalist alive is Ted Cruz. But you categorically condemn "Republicans" in favor of wannabes. "The Justice Party is a political party in the United States. It was organized in November 2011 by a group of political activists including former mayor of Salt Lake City Rocky Anderson as an alternative to what they saw as a duopoly of the two major political parties. One of the major goals of the Justice Party is removing corporate domination and other concentrated wealth from politics. In 2012, the Justice Party nominated Rocky Anderson for president and Luis J. Rodriguez for vice president. The Justice Party endorsed Bernie Sanders during the primary election in 2016." So, you went from "Republican" straight to Communist. LOL. Liar.
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  3840. The lawfare against Trump and allies was and is specifically criminal racketeering. It is actionable under Federal RICO criminal and civil statutory law. When people say X was guilty of the things they accused Trump of is actually understating the criminality. It's not "political corruption" which is subjective AKA "eye of the beholder". Political corruption is generally only actionable as Impeachable offenses. These are organized criminals engaged in racketeering with is basically crime that is ongoing operationally, not just a single criminal event. Organized by "crime bosses". This is textbook criminal racketeering but more serious because they abused the highest offices in the nation. They are criminal traitors on the same scale as the failed Confederacy gambit and they simply expanded their operations when they shot Lincoln. Look it up. They were racist Jacobins (posing as disenfranchised while abusing all of their power, ignoring the law as written unless they could accuse their enemies) and then between Wilson and FDR they were seen as what we now call Social Justice Warriors because they came up with the New Deal central planning schemes that in theory could "lift all boats" but of course what really happened is that DC "Deep State" operators picked winners and losers as they picked large operations to swallow up small operations and buy land and so forth. And that was before they did the same thing with "Industry" and forced unions on automakers who all went through the same process to destroy small operations. So FDR was "antiracist" because he also let "Black" pilots fly missions to defend "white" crewed bombers and so forth. This proved FDR believes in maximum liberty under equal application of the law as he destroyed SCOTUS so that the Federal government could take away economic liberties at will, not to mention setting the precedent for internment under "emergencies" and so forth. Since FDR, the Demon Rat Presidents might be personally worse or not but the actual point is that it is the bureaucrats taht have attempted to control every President since Truman. And since FDR, every Republican President is "literally Hitler" aside from Ike who was a war hero and not exactly a critic of the Deep State until they end of his tenure when he mentioned "The Military Industrial Complex" which could be understood as a criticism of "Capitalism", depending on how that trope is spun. The US Democratic Party has NEVER been legitimate. Never defended the rule of law and always treated the US Constitution as as document to exploit, not follow with humility and understanding that we must respect it when it limits our own power.
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  3846.  @twm4259  OP: @xxxlonewolf49 2 hours ago Hunter was pardoned to protect Joe, it's that simple. You: @twm4259 2 hours ago As noted elsewhere, it is exactly the opposite. Me: @indonesiaamerica7050 17 minutes ago @twm4259 No, it's not the opposite. You're partially correct but there is risk to any action to defend yourself from legitimate criminal racketeering charges. What confuses you? We all get it about the Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. -- So, there are "double jeopardy" protections and nobody can be forced to testify against themselves in a criminal case. This is also interpreted as NOT protecting witnesses who face no risk of "testifying against himself". That's fine. But it's not a magic bullet. Threatening a Pardoned criminal like Hunter with obstruction of justice for refusing to cooperate really only carries so much weight. It's no magic bullet. I'm pretty sure it's never been done. And "prosecuting" Hunter would be presented as "persecution" for the Marxist party. They'd love it. There are no magic bullets in weaponry nor in the law. The better strategy is as I explained above. You can't just seethe over something and then come up with shortcuts to slam people with in Federal courts. The crime families have created lots of loopholes for themselves. This reminds me of the Medici Popes but that's another story entirely.
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  3865. First of all, conspiracies exist. It is the whacky theories that we should object to. Look at all of the corrupt, treasonous conspiracies that go unchecked and we're told that our theories are the problem. And usually this is when the "straw man" propagation is set loose. It's a constant thing from Critical Theory Marxists. But they're "Social Scientists" so they have all agreed that they're permitted to be the overlords of "news" and, well, everything involving "Commanding Heights" of society. Which means, well, everything. The basis of leftwing idiocy is the theory that Property is Theft and that wages are "stolen" by "Capital class". The Capitalists "naturally conspire" against "wage slaves" and now anyone that envies someone else's property. That is why Trump is the ultimate leftwing bogey man. He was enemy number one once protected but then running for President and winning made him worse than Hitler to Marxists. Hitler himself was a socialist that went against The Vanguard Communist Party (in Russia). Worse than that is "Reactionary Capitalism" which is basically shutting down gratuitous government regulations and keeping gratuitous taxation down. That is the worldview battle that generates all of this nonsense because it's fed to kids from K-12 and forever after that plus all of the captured "media" from "news" to pretty much anything else seen as having influence. Never forget taht Marxists DO NOT have the facts on their side. It's all from old theories. That is why they must lie and they start with childish grievances and make insane accusations, getting everyone to fight and defend "feelings" without ever getting to facts or case evidence. That is what they got from Freudian psychology and "personal truth" combined with "community truth". If it's not actionable evidence in a court of law you can't call it objective. Also notice how many pathological liars are also lawyers. This is because Critical Theory (Marxists) first captured Critical Legal Studies a very long time ago.
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  3887. The fact that Snowden found sanctuary from Obama and the DC careerists already helps Putin and every nation that wants to paint the USA as inherently corrupt when they promote "human rights" that are not even human rights. And when they lecture on "true democracy" that they have destroyed in America. The Democratic Party is inherently elitist, naming itself when they needed to coalesce around defending chattel slavery. Obviously "democracy" is not about the equal application of the law as mentioned in the US Constitution. Unless your theory is that the "white" planation owners were "the demos" (Greek for villager or ordinary person). They must have been something subhuman. The thing is in all of their years since the Civil War there is not one doctrine they have supported that is based on equal application of the law. Not one. They imply that they are the Ubermensch that must bring "democracy" to their subhuman constituents. Orwell's Animal Farm was probably inspired more by FDR than by Stalin, so twisted are Democratic Party talking points. But if you take Kammy Harris's new "Equity" BS it's obvious that in order to create cosmic "Equity" (supposedly making Victicrat classes "equal" by class in compensation for alleged historical wrongs like when the Christians conspired to force women to carry babies in their uteri ). Russian justice is way, way beyond what is written in the US Constitution. But so is the US Democratic Party version. Russia has better excuses than FDR ever did.
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  3906.  @richardstrand2130  If I'm not mistaken, Thune voted for Trump's removal for "Insurrection" or something and then won reelection in 2022. OTOH, it would be a mistake to think that Senate RINO's don't benefit from the same electoral scams that Democratic Party House Reps and Presidential candidates benefit from. Generally, unless they are strongly critical of DC (like Cruz) you can't just assume that "conservative" Senators are not culturally and politically captured in DC by the same cult that Romney defends until this day. There is a cult in DC itself that has this "Our Democracy" construct and by that they mean the FDR cult that created the New Deal, the War on Democracy and the Cold War that followed and this is seen as the key to US hegemony in the world since that is the epoch where the British empire dissolved and the US "Democracy" took over the entire free world with respect to military hegemony. And they like this because they also have been bred on "Critical Theory" rubrics that they don't understand come from the same form of thinking as "Queer Theory" and "Trans Theory" and so forth. Others call it "Historical Materialism" and I just call it Marxism or Neo-Marxism (Neo Marxism is evolved Marxism that no longer looks for the "international worker" to "seize means of production" but otherwise has no problem with the entire Communist Manifesto but doesn't know that each thing they believe in has been listed in that stupid diatribe since before the US Civil War to free the slaves. The New Deal created a cult of abject morons. Because FDR was an insane demagogue that suffered from polio and this apparently made him believe strongly in "democratic social programs" and the sort of imaginative judges that would ram that garbage through the courts when challenged. Hillary is typical of the boomers that worship FDR and what he did to our republic. This also created the "Common Sense" Progressive warmongers because it's inevitable and better that we win. All comes from Marxist prophecy and economic theories.
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  3907.  @Maniacman2030  Man, you people are so dumb. There is nobody that actually thinks support for Israel is detrimental to US hegemony. Hence, even the warmongers are not placing Israeli interests above US interests. The actual controversy is so freaking simple. The people in the US that decry "MAGA" and "America First" think that MAGA is Nazism, which has connotations of "Social Darwinism" AKA the removal of their Affirmative Action and "Equity" programs that actually to put American Citizens last because "Equity" creates a de facto soviet-style ruling class far above teh de facto pleb class. The "upwardly mobile" class is eliminated. Whatever upward mobility there is must be in accordance with US Soviet planning. The only ones that benefit are the US Soviet ruling class. But they think this is what made America "first" in the world and their evidence would be the history of FDR's New Deal and the wars that came from it that turned us in the unchallenged superpower in the entire world, only theoretically challenged by Soviet Russia and now the CCP. This FDR cult in DC is NOT loyal to anyone or anything and regard Israel is a tiny, expendable pawn and sometimes it's useful to fortify your pawns against your top rivals. Israel was supported by Truman for entry in to the UN but the entire US State Department told him not to and that they planned to vote against. Only Truman's personal relationship with a lifelong Jewish business partner compelled him to hear the story of Israel from that man and he reconsidered. The US State Department, and especially George Marshall (US SECSTATE at that time) came unglued in Truman's Oval Office ranting at Truman about this decision. The US State Department has never followed any US President since FDR died. They are their own thing. And considering their role and their relationships with sitting Senators especially (also remember that Truman signed the Amendment to limit US Presidents to two terms) you clueless morons should have all you need to know to understand how this DC cult works. Everything I told you can be verified in the US history books and there are even video interviews of WWII and early Cold War witnesses to some of these otherwise unknown details. No America believes the are putting anyone else first. Progressives believe that America is already the premiere superpower and that the history since FDR (when we surpassed the British empire) taught them that, whatever you call this cult, this "Our Democracy" construct. that that is the only thing that keeps America at the top. For them, their critics are low IQ idiots and traitors. This is like Bill Maher lecturing MAGA like as if it's "common sense" that Trump supporters are all idiots. It's the only explanation he can accept. And I just told you why. And Maher is one of the dumbest of all because no comedian is ever forced to challenge their beliefs. Especially pot-smoking comedians that spend decades doing the same old thing with the same old stupid jokes. It's a cult operating in a space that was carved out during WWII and by the time the Cold War cooled down (Reagan) the people who had lived through that period were ready to retire if not already dead. Not enough people were around to explain how delusional Bill and Hillary Clinton were. You could say that they created US Neo-Communism. Making this about Israel or calling them "America hating" is stupid. Some of their stupidest constituents hate America because they hate everything and are very stupid anarchists that think "the phoenix rises from the ashes" and so forth. The new ruling class loves "America" in its Progressive form where it's so easy for them to manipulate the rest of the world, including their own Citizens. You are just a pawn and so is everyone else. Including Israel. And New York City still has a greater population than all of Israel. We have tech sharing deals but they don't siphon from us and we don't siphon from them. If Australia needed refills on their arms because China kept sending missiles at them we would not hesitate to send it.
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  3975.  @TuhljinTampergauge  No, it's much worse than that. Historically, Christians debated intent and potential to repent when applying "justice" under common law. What these despicable atheists are doing is parsing some of the rhetoric and reimagining "reality" behind all of the doctrines because they will appeal to all of these doctrines but not based on ability to repent but instead on their ability to indict "The Patriarchy" and our legal system is allegedly the root problem. This is taken directly from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Actually, Marx said that "all" institutions but dissolve. Marxists originally interpreted this as an ever expanding "international workers' revolution" but then between the end of WWI and the end of WWII (they yearn for worldwide wars and mourn when they end) they actually started "gaming out" what we now call Critical Theory. This was a way to fight a "total war" in accordance with developing conditions. IOW, they don't have much power worldwide. So they start to work on "soft power" and "the culture war". This is part of the culture war where they take traditional "defense lawyer" arguments and they become unhinged with the actual belief that the root problem is institutions based on the Ten Commandments. Including "though shalt not steal" and "though shalt not lie". If you don't believe me just read about the French Revolution and then Marx's related commentary. The French Revolution was driven mainly by Jacobinism. Marx took his reaction to Darwinism and applied it to, well, anything that he wanted to denounce. But he never mentioned Darwin himself, as far as I know. But anyway, that's a broad survey of how we got here. These people have made themselves crazy with "fact" dogmas that are sometimes unknowable and at other times blatantly false and insane. Marx also had his own version of "cognitive dissonance" where the "sanity test" was agreement with Marx. Seriously. These people are massively ignorant and get all of their ideas from insane ignoramuses imagining themselves in possession of "special enlightenment" or as they like to say since Michelle Obama (and Oprah), "woke".
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  3995.  @annakaye1629  I understand your feelings about "name calling" and it feels right but the problem is that if you sit and try to "rise above" lying leftist idiots the media turns them in to geniuses because nobody will publicly denounce these metaphorical naked emperors. And if you cleanse your criticism in political correct language it just sounds like...politically correct BS. George Bush had great policies but the left took over the Global War on Terror even before Iraq was attacked. They had this massive Social Justice Occupation or "Nation Building" scheme already planned. Partly because of Cheney but because all of the DC careerists think that they can 'transform global democracy' any time they can justify occupying some new place. They're idiots and only search history for weak examples to support what they already want to do. German and Japan after WWII were both occupied but the conditions there were not really comparable from one to another. Now talk about Iraq being like post WWII Germany or Japan? These people are so effing stupid. And they have supposed "conservative" academics like Francis Fukuyama and other "Realists" (neo-Marxist frauds) making RINO's feel like Special Social Justice Warriors Chosen by God. Romney is even worse. Basically, we are not reliving history. We're living through another wave of lying Jacobin-Marxist Fabianist wave but this time the "democratic hero" is Communist China and every critic of the left is called "racist" at the drop of a hat. And the only PC response is to shut your mouth and take it. Like George Bush did. Bush 41 had a similar problem even though his Gulf War was viewed as entirely successful by most of the world. The Progs nailed both Bushes. Go back to Reagan and his success was different because he'd been giving political speeches since the 1960s and had two controversial but successful terms as governor of California. The last great Republican prior to Reagan was Lincoln, and he got shot so that his VP traitor (Democrat) took over the Oval Office and undid Reconstruction. There's no SOP for what we face now, if we want to ensure victory.
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  4009. Let me fill in the gaps in the confusion. These people know that they pad the margins because of "red mirage" theory. IOW, they always have a surge over the line after the polls close because that is the chief "guardrail" of Nancy's "Our Democracy" construct. They're all proud of these schemes but it works exactly like a Mafia crime family and you never know how many of the street thugs are going to pull it off in time. But they are planning on "marginal" voter fraud because that's all they have ever been able to count on to win. Clinton and Obama's first terms were probably each legitimate but they still had the cheating going on. I know this because in California they did this "guard rail" thing in response to Reagan's landslide victory. They turned CA in to a one party State and probably New York also started doing the same things. This then moved up the coast to Washington and Oregon in a big way and eventually the cancer spread strongly to Colorado. The traditional "swing States" along with the Confederate strongholds are where the basic idea of cheating originated. But they had to work a lot harder to corrupt the entire State in those cases. The "labor unions" have been on their side since the end of the Civil War because that and the KKK was the first strategy of the intransigent slaver/elitist cult. All of this accelerated as the CCP supplanted the Russian Soviets as "global vanguard" but the CCP only really managed to make a difference in the one-party States. Until Trump. And for 2016 that is why the "shy Trump" voter ended up showing up. The "shy voter" has always been a factor. But what changed with Trump is that their ballot theft schemes proved insufficient. They had to up their game for 2020 since then. It's been a Cold War for control of this country since that moment in 2016 when Hillary's schemes proved insufficient and Xi realized they had to dramatically up their game. You can speculate from here how much "COVID" was planned or just good luck for them. The response was planed for sure and how about the timing? We're told of "COVID" as an offical "thing" by the Demon Rats just as they saw that they could not use the first bogus Impeachment to actually remove Trump. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Because the COVID panic first leaked early in the House Impeachment and at that time Pelosi herself propagated the idea that Trump shutting down travel from China was "racist". And then as the Impeachment gambit failed it was overnight now the thing to shut down manufacturing and movement in the USA as well as shutting down "misinformation" at Facebook and Twitter and doing the usual web crawler algorithm interventions imposed by the Federal Government almost since the Homeland Security Act was signed in to law.
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  4022. Virtually all leftists think that the best Presidents will "Follow the Experts" like all of the corrupt Marxist economists and Marxist prosecutors in power in DC that go around creating agitprop and bogus "antiterrorism" investigations against people like you and me. Not to mention the ever expanding "Administrative Law" regime that allows Presidents to shut down entire industries, illegally, for the sake of legacy-creating money laundering schemes so that all elected officials that play ball end up being multimillionaires within a few years of signing up for the "donations" and "service fees" bribery schemes. IOW, they KNOW Kamala is a controllable moron and it's a feature, not a bug. The same with Biden. Obama was slightly different in that they thought he was a young version of MLK but that he still would "Follow the Experts" when it came to running the country. And that is what virtually all of them do. Even Bill Clinton came in following Hillary's socialist policy preferences but had to pivot to working with Newt Gingrich to experience any success (and a second term). Even Reagan, who had very clear leadership doctrines, had to rely to some degree on "experts" but he didn't tolerate BS like Nixon and Ike. All of DC has been a fustercluck since the first week of FDR's first term. Not that we never had idiots in power before but FDR created the age of the evil social justice demagogue destroying checks and balances and setting up what the leftists lovingly called "FDR's Brain Trusts" to run "The New Deal". They DO believe in all of the New Deal/Yellow Brick Road to the Ruby (red, Soviet Communist) City of Washington DC. Everyone knew FDR's best buddy was FDR. Everyone pretended to be shocked when Stalin "liberated" those eastern European nations and set up puppet Communist governments that only finally got a say in their own lives when Gorbachev promoted elections. And without Reagan, Gorbachev would have never been selected for Soviet Russian premiere. But all leftists believe in this the way they believe in all Utopian stories like AI and Superconductor theory which used to be the engineering talking point that would deliver "Green Energy". It reminds me of the "perpetual motion machine" scams I used to laugh about when I was in school. Snake oil from pseudo-engineers. They believe it. And they believe "the rich" block these magic solutions so that they can maintain "disparity". Because "true" (Utopian Marxist) equality would bruise the egos of the Rich/Oppressor class. They believe it all. That's why we must all debunk their policy promises and forget about "lack of character" because they don't expect character. What is effective is when you point out that "Experts" in DC ARE the "oppressor class" that want to rise up by literally eliminating "disparity" of (liberal, libertarian) upward mobility. DEI will decide everyone's place. So a lot of these spoiled brats with moderately successful parents must understand that the DC establishment and therefore their puppets have nothing in store for them but misery and self-induced genocide. And some are even OK with the self-induced genocide because that is how much hate of self and "the rich" they use to indoctrinate these poor lost souls.
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  4057. roberts.3712 "All Biden has to do is tell what did the twenty shell companies do or their purpose. " It's actually too late for that. Here's why: This is de facto money laundering and tax evasion. They let the tax evasion charge expire for previous years. But they must still account for what all that money is doing. Do you suppose that all of those accounts and all of the 20 million USD can be accounted for as "legitimate business" when we already know that Hunter's salary for Burisma was predicated on getting favors from Joe Biden and that Joe Biden bragged about what he did? That's just on the Burisma extortion charge. LOL. Jonathan Turley is counting on the fact that the Republicans have not yet PROVED every element, like maybe Obama ordered it (but then we'd have to see what Obama got out of it because it just makes the conspiracy bigger). They told the public that they wanted Ukraine to "investigate corporate/oligarch corruption" and Biden/Burisma was one of the targets for investigation! But if this was an ordinary DOJ investigation they'd already have enough evidence to open negotiations for a plea bargain. No sane person that understand the evidence in the public domain would assert that no crime has been committed. It's just that the controversy is so bad that it's worth doing a full investigation and informing the public before taking the next step. Just accepting Biden's resignation and then the next President pardoning him would be an unacceptable coverup. Pretending Biden did nothing wrong is what only a corrupt Communist could try.
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  4067. The definition of sovereign is "not subject to outside influence". Sovereign nations go to the UN to negotiate. OK. Now when you talk about "human rights" the sovereigns are the ones that control "the rights" of their citizens and subjects. If Israel is providing utilities to Gaza but Gaza (or its de facto rulers) are at war, how can Israel fight the hostile actors while extending "human rights" to the same polity? This in and of itself is highly problematic and should have been contemplated long before roque terror organizations got rooted in. But anyway, you can only talk about "rights" and "justice" within a single judicial system, one by one. For Israel to extend "human rights" to Gaza means they must submit to the same judicial system. Or the sovereign of Gaza must enter in to a treaty that allows interaction with the courts. Like Canada and the US have. Talking about the morality of this or that is a totally different conversation and couching it in "human rights" terms is inherently fallacious and itself unjust because it implies that "power" has "obligations" in accordance with some universal system that none of you can even define or contemplate realistically. In my relatively short life time all academic institutions in the West have gotten increasingly more delusional and arrogant. Stupid, closed minded and utterly self-righteous in their chaotic arrogance. And by the way, if the Palestinian Authority was established as the sovereign of the territory being fought over they would have a security treaty and would join together to purge the terrorists as a "law enforcement" operation. Asking to "Free Palestine" without understanding how that can really happen while talking about "Freedom Fighting" Hamas terrorists is just arsonists posing as fire fighters. Actually, only cheerleaders. And all of the Westerners promising "Human Rights" for Palestinian national liberation don't distinguish between the Palestinian vision and their own. The whole "trans rights" insanity is about Marxists getting nations to destroy themselves from within and while you're all doing that you're pretending to support "Palestinian national liberation" but you're not serious at all when you pretend to have some opinion on "human rights". Hamas and the PA must make peace with each other and with Jordan and Egypt. Or the PA must eliminate Hamas, with or without outside help. And all of these insane Western diplomats and talking heads need to get a grip about, well, everything. Start with the fundamentals and a knowledge about how "rights" developed in the West. I think very few of you have any clue whatsoever because almost everyone I talk to can't separate fact from fantasy about the status quo nor their Utopian delusions about what is realistic to expect. You have to study the Peace of Westphalia as the model for international relations and "human rights" on a completely different track under the development of "due process" in the Western tradition. If you have no clear vision of universal standards for due process you have no idea what "rights" even means. You're all just confusing yourselves and your audience.
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  4081.  @vifcole  BTW, the "political right" is a construct of the Marxists. French Jacobins created the "left wing" self identity (the Jacobin label was initially imposed on them because many of the radicals met at a club that went by that name) and they opposed the Ancien Regime or First and Second Estates. They called everyone else The Third Estate. Right and Right Wing emerged after decades of false binary arguments from Marxist morons and by the time we get to explaining why Hitler is worse or even the opposite of Stalin you have "Right Wing Nazism". And then "nationalism" (anyone supporting Westphalian nationalism) stands in opposition to global solidarity and consolidation of "means of production" so anyone that argues against the Marxist agenda is "right wing reactionary" or "Reactionary Capitalist". My point is that the left IS a secular political collect. It conflates religious devotion with the various pseudo=sciences that Marx and his academic followers rely on. Opposition to that cult is not "right wing" or anything on any "left right" political spectrum. You just have to apply critical thinking to their ideas and you're "reactionary capitalist" according to Marxism. Don't buy in to it at all. Opposition to Marxism is NOT a cult. It is critical thinking and, basically, an acknowledgement that humans don't do well by joining hivemind political cults. And why would opposition to a cult require anyone to follow this cult's rules on "political identity" and so forth? Don't do it. Explain your opposition by simply pointing out that you resisted the Marxist indoctrination by applying natural critical thinking. There is no right wing hivemind. The hiveminded politics is 100% a product of Marxism.
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  4124. I've always hated US Democrats and I've always known how stupid these corporate media liars are. I didn't care for Trump and regarded him as a Democrat that wanted lower taxes. During his campaign I read his web site and recognized the influence of Thomas Sowell and and Milton Freidman. His campaign rhetoric was more like an honest FDR (FDR was a delusional Marxist sociopath). But all of this was in the backdrop of the knowledge of just how evil Hillary Clinton is and how she manipulated Obama since their primary battle in 2008. I never went around comparing anyone to Hitler but the fact is that Hillary and Joe Biden are the closest thing to Hitler we've had in this century. I therefore of course never wavered in my "Never Democrat" position but once Trump took the oath and I saw what Comey continued to do and that whole "Crossfire Hurricane" and fake Impeachment scandals...then Covid...I realized that Trump is here in a time and place where we need someone to stand up for the rule of law, truly (not like a lying Marxist), and in all of the major problems we have plus the ones they threw at him personally, I can't imagine anyone else that would have been up to the task. What that means is that I try not to be biased or prejudicial about anyone or anything. Trump delivered. Period. And he exposed just how evil these people are. It's no longer a vague concern. We have Marxists running this country and they must be purged from power. And these big media idiots aren't just ignorant. They're sociopaths. Trump is this century's Lincoln just as Reagan was last century's. Notice that all 3 have been shot at by leftist psychopaths. But they all 3 were consistently calling out the evil the nation was facing at that time.
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  4132. What is amazing is that until Jack Smith claimed that Trump has no immunities from criminal prosecution while performing official Presidential duties, without that it would have been completely obvious that only Biden can order the prosecution of Garland unless Garland decides to prosecute himself. LOL. But wait...the DOJ argued in Supreme Court (oral arguments so far) that Obama (as one example) can't be prosecuted for murdering the US Citizen on the "terror watch list" because of "DOJ consensus". What? So when whatserface called on "The DOJ to prosecute Garland" this was completely in accord with the idea that there are no immunities if the "DOJ consensus" is that you broke the law. Well, what about the Trump allies getting put in jail for disobeying Pelosi's subpoenas? LMFAO. Truthfully, they should have just impeached Garland and Biden already along with that other ahole. And the Senate will pull its BS, fine, but the Articles of Impeachment allow for a future DOJ to follow that framework since there was no Senate trial. But I think we're done. We are no longer a republic. The Marxist coup has been completed. Without a revolution. The only thing holding them back from full blown Stalinism is that they fear a counterrevolution. And they should. In theory Trump could win but if he doesn't get a solid Republican Congress without counting liars like Romney, we're done. It's sad. Even SCOTUS has been slowed down enough such that they can't save us from this. They can only make it worse if they falter even a little.
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  4138.  Mary Martin  By the way, "right wing" is an invention of "left wing" kooks. Left wing is also their invention. It goes back to the French Revolution and was further "explained" with newly minted dogmas by Karl Marx as a "class war" between "capital" and "wage slaves" and then there are stories to line up all of humanity within that imaginary class war. The French divided this originally in to 3 "estates" that boiled down to the first two being "establishment oppressor" classes and the Third Estate are "the oppressed". This corresponds to today's Third World/Three World paradigm. There was never any "right wing" that organized as a class against "the oppressed" AKA "disenfranchised". A right wing plot would have to be one that involves restoration of a monarchy and rolls back actual rights of the citizens and denizens under this polity. But under Marxist pseudoscience anyone that opposes this BS is a "reactionary" and therefore "right wing activist" as determined by your feelings and this dumb set of religious beliefs that I just outlined for you. The "class war" analysis is a paradigm. It does not reflect something that can be tested scientifically as universally "true." It's like saying there's a Clash of Civilizations and then you argue for and against whether you agree or even what such a thing would look like. The "class war" between "capitalists and the oppressed wage slaves" is validated every time you find a wage slave in a polity that has property rights that allow business to profit when hiring people. Got any "certified wage slaves" to show me? I don't know how anyone can get through college and not understand what I just explained. And yet we have millions of nutjobs spreading this crap as "the truth".
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  4235.  @gracecollins8415  I never liked Trump before he ran for office not because he's a bad guy but because I tend to dislike New Yorkers in general. IOW, I don't like spending my time with people like Trump. But I respect the way that he runs his business. And I have always seen that the lies about him are pathetic. And he fought the Impeachments and the bogus elections and kept coming. The guy is a hero. And what you say about his comfort with blue collar workers is dead on. I know this because it truly is an important communication skill to adjust your rhetoric to the understanding of the audience. Leftists use rhetoric that does nothing but spin pseudoscientific tropes from academic Marxists. They hear Trump and think the guy can't follow because he didn't go to college. LOL. Leftist are the biggest ignoramuses on the planet. Truly. They go to college for 4 years or longer and learn nothing but abject BS. They learn convoluted theories and it's taken as "Realism". Even our Woke Generals suffer from this. I could not believe General Milley. I would expect a man like that to say, of course I read the Critical Theory discourses, so that I can understand the Critical Theory Marxist worldview. He said he enjoyed or yearned to understand White Rage as if it's something that exists outside of academia. Pretty much every leftist I ever encounter online or off is an abject idiot. You can't be a leftist in the USA without being a moron that somehow became convinced of your "special" woke status. And I am pretty sure Trump understood his college studies because when he says something offhanded and people think he's bluffing I just wait to see if he follows through as if he really understands. And he does. He's really the guy that ran the Trump organization since his father died. And please don't tell me about "bankruptcies" because leftists don't know a think about that either. They don't properly understand the law in any shape or form. Nor "economics" nor how to run a for-profit enterprise. But the most important thing about Trump is that his employees love him. How many people did these leftist liars find to testify against him other than DC parasites waiting to join a Republican administration to jam it up? How many Trump organization employees came out to condemn him? I think zero.
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  4246.  @scienceofthemagi9750  The entire "free world" benefits from the defeat of treasonous leftists in the USA that are sort of ringleaders for "democratic" leftist collaboration with Communist regimes. Reagan's Presidency should have sparked the same kind of liberation but the public did not generally understand that Communism as a political movement was backed by Marxist ideology (and the cultural effects), which was never defeated. What's awesome about this whole episode is that most people understand that the British leftist regime collaborated with Hillary to attack and then seek revenge against Trump starting way back in 2015. These people thought they had the upper hand until Kammy Harris went down in flames. With Trump's victory and clear snub of the British leftist regime, it is more obvious than ever that true rule-of-law republicanism can easily defeat these leftist traitors everywhere. They have nothing once it is obvious that they're cultural control over the electorate has always been weak, at best. If the USA can root out and destroy leftism, any other republic can as well. Leftism is a form of treason. It follows the ideology of the Jacobins of the French Revolution and Marx. Not just historically but until this day they believe they must destroy their enemies from "The Ancient Regime" or "Capitalist Oppression" according to the idiotic "political spectrum" that they try to promote as reality-based. Liberty for the left is wealth redistribution, taxing the middle class in to poverty and genocide as needed. Liberty for ordinary non-leftist in the USA has always been clearly defined in the US Constitution. The actual controversies between leftists and the rest of us has always been very clear, once you filter out their blatant lies. So this creates a "sociopolitical" framework for free people everywhere. Once you understand it the choices are clear.
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  4257.  @inthelandofmorethansmall7582  To be honest, no. I remember news media as being something where they put out newsworthy items in accordance with what their viewers expected to hear. The blatant gaslighting started to rev up as US and European Communists had their hopes crushed by all of the captured Soviet satellite vassal states were permitted to hold open elections and or simply chase their Communist tyrant puppet leaders from power without Soviet intervention (as happened in the 1950s). Academic Marxists and Marxists in DC drove themselves completely insane. And that includes Hillary Clinton. She's the one that yearned for power in the Oval Office, not Bill. Hillary's crusade started with the 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' trope to explain Bill's "bimbo" something something. It was hard at the time to imagine WTF she was talking about. I now understand she was already started to gaslight us with Critical Theory dogmas that are explained under "Intersectional Studies". But even today you have George Stephanopoulos that was a totally weenie for Hillary and now he's a freaking "news anchor" or something. You have generation after generation since then through Psaki taking the same path. DNC Marxists taking power and then spreading their corrupt allies through the bureaucracies and "corporate media". Clinton's victory started this "phase of history" with Communists striking back in DC (in revenge for what Reagan accomplished). Bill is known for "normalizing" Chinese Communist tyranny in the wake of Russian "Glasnost". He rewarded the CCP for what Russia did for "democracy".
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  4267.  @gooble69  First, the Western socialists do not believe in "democracy" of any kind. They believe in Orwellian "democracy" and the reason is crystal clear if you do enough research. Second, because of this, the "ruling class" has to posture and pontificate about "signals" and explicitly in place of clear, fact-based communication that "triggers the demos". They're self-deluded social engineering wannabes (since social engineering is itself inherently delusional). And what you get is the various nations' nominal leaders end up colluding with each other as "experts" on how to "rule the demos". From the streets it's easy to see where this delusion comes from. Basically, they're all cultural and or philosophical Marxists stuck in fact-free circular logic mode. And the national "globalist" leaders scheme about "best practices" somewhat in good faith in the sense that they all share the same delusions about "Realism". If you understand all of the "elite" doctrines that go completely unchallenged you understand exactly what they're doing. It's like game theory but they don't understand the limits of "game theory" thinking when applying to real life situations of any kind. When it comes to "cultural schisms" you also have the internal collectivists versus "unwoke" and the for at least 60 years these people have had this unchecked doctrine that they can solve every electoral and "working class" economic problem by, basically, population transfers that are "good" because they're not nominally coerced. Mass arrests and transfers would be coercive. Carpet bombing nations that you want to reengineer and then throwing open everyone's national borders is Social Justice Realism. They are ultimately protected by Social Darwinism which basically means there are no mistakes because they all self-correct by "selective pressures and survival of the fittest". You can even apply my critique to the "Pandemic" doctrines and policies we saw where China led the way in all things Covid. They're even trying it again exactly 4 years later. They're not even really hiding what they're doing. If they can force their lies and their critics can be censored from "social media" this is the final factor that makes Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm stories prophetic.
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  4269. Michael Brown, you rant like a baby. "The founder of the fraudulent Trump university..." You don't even know what "fraudulent" means. '...and the man who boasted about using his notoriety in order to sexually assault women..." You're an idiotic liar. "...would not care about the U..." I don't need Trump to care about me. He's fighting for restoration of the rule of law in the USA and good faith transparency in trade relationships so that all free people around the world have better conditions than before to earn their way to greater prosperity. " Also Ivanka trash fashion and other Trump manufactured goods are mostly made in China. " The issue isn't getting patriotic people to go against the status quo. The status quo is problematic because of China's contradictory status at the UN and other international organizations. They basically can act like freed slaves and everything that they do is justified by this unspoken "common sense" assumption that of course they are not bound by the same rules because they're overcoming "vestiges of colonialism." It's bullshit. No free person is attacked just for doing business with China. In most cases they have fiduciary (legal) duties to (to shareholders) seek the optimal business partners with respect to profit seeking.   Therefore the problem is that our laws and trade policies are incoherent. Therefore the solution to the problems involves straightening out those incoherent laws and treaties. Also the number one issue is Intellectual Property theft and number two is dumping critical materials to drive our private enterprise industrial sectors out of business, creating what Gramsci called "dominant hegemony" or enabling what we call in US law "monopolistic practices" to achieve global dominance under classic Marxist doctrines and "prophecy." "Trump trade war will wreak havoc." The havoc is created by morons that treat the Chinese Communist Party like a good faith trade partner. You're part of the problem. You're an intuitive blame-shifter, taken in by the Gramscian culture war that inspired Mao, Stalin and Clinton, and every other leftwing moron that incites you parasites to always blame "the rich" and so forth for all of your own problems.
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  4270.  @kraigamendt9525  You're a total idiot. You don't even know how to explain your reasoning behind your claims. Also, you don't know what "racist" means. Obama published a book where he claimed that he got a scholarship under a foreign student program. He claimed to be Kenyan. His father was Kenyan. People questioned his birth because he didn't properly account for these apparent contradictions. He also went to school in Indonesia where he registered as an Indonesian by adoption. Now, with respect to US law that doesn't mean he wasn't a US citizen or even natural born (born in Hawaii to at least one citizen parent) but he acted like a troll by trying to bait people on this when they wanted to know why he had so may adversarial allies. And the real problem turned out to be his affinity for Iran and its desire to acuire nuclear warheads, ICBMs, and tons of cash to pay for even more terrorism. But this was all well hidden from the likes of you. Now, as far as your repetitive claims about my alleged lies and your alleged knowledge about something you verified as not existing your logic is even worse. It's not like Hillary's emails that we know where not secured properly because there are specific legal duties to do so and the entire audit trail was illegally destroyed. So it existed but she broke the Espionage Act by breach of specific sworn duties as Secretary of State. Contrast that with your claims about "WMDs" that everyone agrees existed. The debate was over what was the risk of leaving it unchecked. Similar to Hillary's emails. By the time we got to check the material was not located in the first place we looked. That doesn't mean it never existed. On the contrary there was material reported. It just didn't meet this BS standard of fitting Colin Powell's precise description as read in to the record at the UN. That's where these agitprop memes came from. With your claims you show that you not only don't even know how to construct a logical sentence to make your reasoning understood but you don't even know that you're supposed to explain the theory behind your claim at some point in the debate. You just say "they lied because I was there so I know about it!" LOL. You don't know anything of the topics that you ranted about. Not one thing.
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  4305.  @MalleusSemperVictor  "Besides that, there's no way they'll let Trump run period. " What I would say to any candidate that doesn't want a permanent Marxist bureaucracy running the entire country is that anyone who even passively helps these people take drop out will be forever compromised because these same people will know how much power they have over the next President and every President after that. Trump is a threat because he might "win the election" but at the same time proving that he overcame and fully exposed this Marxist cult. If DeSantis simply went all in on supporting Trump he would have more power coming in after winning a future election. It's so freaking obvious. I feel like I'm talking to ignorant children about this obvious thing. Why have a party at all if they're all going to worry about positioning first and the supposed agenda later? DeSantis, for whatever reason, is suggesting that he is better than Trump. Why would he do that? Even Trump should be careful what he says about DeSantis but he's right that to try to campaign against Trump for whatever reason is a gift to the Marxists that can also be used against DeSantis and any other candidate that the DC Marxist cult disfavors. I said the exact same thing about Trump and his treatment of Ted Cruz. DeSantis is more subtle but that makes his 'negs' even more dangerous because it feeds the leftist worldview. Everyone knows very clearly what Trump stands for and his stupid digs on Ted Cruz just made it more difficult for Cruz to help Trump win the election. But anyway...why should we, the voting public, feed such stupid, self defeating behavior?
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  4310. Published: May 22, 2014 Testimony: In 2010, Justice Department Sought Lois Lerner’s Help to Prosecute Tax Exempt Groups Engaging in Politics House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, today requested that the Department of Justice make DOJ Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith available for a transcribed interview. The request comes after Smith’s subordinate, Director of DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch, Richard Pilger, told Committee investigators in a transcribed interview that the Justice Department met with Lois Lerner in October 2010, two and a half years earlier than previously known, to discuss potential criminal enforcement relating to political speech of nonprofit groups in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. “The Committee’s transcribed interview of Richard Pilger presents further troubling information about the Department’s contemplated prosecution of nonprofit groups for false statements,” Chairman Issa and Chairman Jordan state in the letter. “It is apparent that the Department’s leadership, including Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith, was closely involved in engaging with the IRS in wake of Citizens United and political pressure from prominent Democrats to address perceived problems with the decision.” “According to Mr. Pilger,” the letter continues, “the Justice Department convened a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner in October 2010 to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits. This meeting was arranged at the direction of Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith.”
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  4313.  @Peace.Please144  There's nothing wrong with it. The problem is when "NATO" or one of the protected nations makes trouble knowing that if they provoke an attack that the US is supposed to defend them. A lot of Euroloon politicians and NGOs and so forth are really what is destroying things today, in collusion with the US Democratic Party. The US (under Trump or any other savvy US President, and Trump is only the second in the past 100 years or more) should not expand NATO and NATO members should be encouraged to open up bilateral treaties with Russia and each other. Instead they have the EU to make a socialist economic cartel and they have "NATO" to threaten Russia with so that they don't individually have to do much to ensure the security of their own nations. That's not really what it means to have a sovereign nation. The whole thing is an embarrassment to what used to be called "Western Civilization". And BTW, at least 90% of all wars since WWII are proxy wars for Communist expansionism. Iran is a special case because they are playing the same game but they're trying to be the master regime by outplaying the Communists. First Russia and now China. But these are all proxy wars. Even Ukraine is about Russia being pissed off at US interference in Ukrainian electoral politics (not to mention elsewhere) but the reason this is dangerous to Russia is because China is offering to come in and help Ukrainian leftists align that country with China's economic imperialism. It's a joke that NATO members are allowed to join Belt and Road. So you guys don't even begin to understand what is really happening here and what the risks are to "world peace".
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  4396. The Federal government has no legitimate property taxes. And as the host mentioned, in principle, the States tax (real estate) property in exchange for specific services and of course they all cheat that too. Why add more flawed taxing paradigms just because they get away with some already? Tariffs are legitimate because the Federal government has to pay to keep ports (and port security) going 24 7. Why should taxpayers at large pay for foreigners to send stuff to our "free markets" when domestic operations and other US citizens must fund these "free" markets? Almost every example of "fine tuning" the tax burden is about socialism and international solidarity of leftwingers against groups that they target. The notion that any Democratic Party politician in the USA can keep his oath of office is absurd. And even fake Republicans follow this "Political Science" ideology to destroy our "Post Industrial" middle class. The meaning of that gibberish is basically that US Citizens can no longer expect upward mobility through free enterprise but only through Centrally Planned projects and regulated Corporations. And that means at best you can earn good money as a Critical Theory lawyer or PR hack (and they are usually CT lawyers). No more "industry" unless the CCP organizes it. But anyway, this Marxist moron talking head and all others think that all taxation schemes are legitimate because the first dogma of "socialism" is that (private) property is theft. They're just taking back what already belongs to them through "democracy". Their democracy - scams.
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  4416.  @sammartinez4244  The reason is that Barr is not a fascist and they don't need to raid the place. They know where the evidence lies. The thing about the Bidens is that they're just mid-level corrupt politicians that nobody really cares about. What's important now is that we're seeing how the CCP operates (in the same mode as the Soviets did for decades) by corrupting and grooming untold legions of morons in the hope that they can be blackmailed and bought. Barr has much bigger fish to fry at this time and moving on Biden too soon would allow the worse criminals to get away. Without that "RICO" element Biden would suffer a worse fate than Manafort. If you study the Manafort case you'll see that the accusations and evidence against Manafort only involved an witness that they turned after the witness had entered in to a plea deal on unrelated corruption charges. Here we have documentary evidence of what the Bidens did in at least two nations and it's clearly about political influence. Joe Biden even bragged in public about delivering on one of the promises to intervene on behalf of Hunter (the crack addict) Biden's employer. Nobody thinks that this is OK. Leftwingers like corrupt politicians as long as they think the party's interests are served. They just want to extract wealth from "the rich" so why should they care if the Bidens do a little preliminary exploration and extract money from "capitalists" along the way? They keep their eye on the big prize because they think "capitalists" are "hoarding" so much wealth that all they can think about is one-party rule and the idea that AOC (the idiot) will deliver on her Utopian promises. Anyone that claims the Bidens are innocent or being "politically targeted" are lying. And they know they're lying. And we know they're lying. Don't consider any other possibility without looking at the evidence for yourself.
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  4480.  @Kelnx  This is a lot to digest at one time but we need to review some major problems with this "born fascist" party. WRT your premise, basically, as a Citizen, Trump must file Civilian RICO petitions. And then these crimes and tort claims must be taken up by the DOJ. That's only phase I and should have happened already. And that is precisely why Rudy Giuliani was targeted just as hard as Trump himself. Even before the bogus election tampering and FISMA violations pertaining to elections for Federal offices were discussed. As President, he can order Federal RICO investigations as well but not under the same doctrines where Trump is both President and complainant. Because the crimes committed by these agencies fall under Deprivation of Rights Under The Color of Law. The most controversial but technically legal thing he can do is order DOJ investigations of all of this malfeasance already documented in Investigator General reports and in some Special Counsel reports. Those are all actionable. That would get the ball rolling in prosecuting individual criminals and then once conspiracies are proven you expand it in to RICO. What you really don't want to do is claim that "Government" or even "Agencies" are "Corrupt Organization". And it's not even necessary. The corrupt "parent" organization is the DNC. That's a fact and it's easy for the public to understand. You want to get all of the criminals and you want the power to get all of the evidence. Shutting down agencies is still, in the end, up to Congress. But Presidents hold all of the Constitutional power. So he can, in theory, rectify all of these problems while sitting in office and then long term funding and "powers" must go through legislation. But you allude to another problem and that is the creeping authority these agencies have taken for themselves that has been validated by poorly constructed lawsuits against certain rulings rather than having a big picture lawsuit before SCOTUS that asks for a sweeping ruling of the same scope as reversing Roe v. Wade. Some of these Progs understand the threat of this abrogation and it is only tangentially related to abortion for them. These legal doctrine problems with Federal "agencies" date back to FDR's "brain trust" cult. The slavers relied heavily on States' rights arguments but then created their own "Confederacy". OK. What happened immediately after the war is that Lincoln tapped Andrew Johnson as a "good Democrat" for his VP. Fine. But then Lincoln was shot and these scumbags fought everything Lincoln fought for that they could possibly reverse. They championed "labor rights" as a way to control unions that would control "the kneegraws" and they held the White House almost right away. So their arguments for States' rights (or any other "rights") were always conditional pertaining to what was good for this evil cult that runs this political party since Andrew Jackson.
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  4511.  @dontabaltimore1974  His party divided the country when it was formed by Andrew Jackson. Obama started a new chapter not from his own actions but for what he was set up to symbolize. Especially when he picked Joe Biden for his "Progressive" Presidential ticket. Obama wanted to unite the country but, for starters, he's a sucker for Critical Theory. If he could convince everyone that as a "half race" good guy that all of this Critical Theory stuff was real and needed to be solved, then you can see how he might believe in his "transformation" agenda. But Obama, like all other Critical Theory adherents, turned out to be just as delusional as every other Marxist. Basically, he was used by his party. And his party's first choice was Hillary but Obama had a broader appeal and Hillary gave up during the party primary contest (in exchange for what, you might ask). So it's not really Obama's fault, in the beginning. I think Obama's critical mistake was going with all of his party's dogmatic policies for "health care" and then doubled down in his reelection campaign and just turned in to a pathological liar that his party is required stick with in the face of failure. It's either double down or go home. And all of their policies are based purely on theory with a long history of proven failures. He was negotiating with all of our intransigent enemies before he won and all during his first term, but they too understood his stupid party. Once he started to double down by helping Hillary hide from her CGI and "email" scandals (first of all by talking nothing but nonsense from the minute the Benghazi scandal happened) what he did was reignite the intractable divide between the party of slavery and the party that they hate for freeing their slaves. And if you think they're over it they are not. It turned in to a binary fight and his party immediately cast itself as "disenfranchised" from the time they shot Lincoln until today. It's always been a lie. So, he had his chance late in his first term and decided to throw down with Hillary the fascist. And he's been defending that faction from that time until today. So that is his role in the status quo of today. And by the way, the first high profile race baiter in the Obama epoch was Jimmy Carter who called the TEA party "racist" for opposing Obama's (socialized medicine) programs. That happened in Obama's first year in office. So I do not blame Obama personally during his Presidency except as noted. But then when the Crossfire Hurricane started getting whipped up he permitted it to happen and Comey somehow got the idea that Obama had "blessed" it. Obama made a lot of critical mistakes but he's not innately evil. He's confused and now he's just defending his "legacy" like he decided to go fully "post modern" or something. The US Democratic Party is innately evil and they divided the country long ago.
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  4514. He's a typical Soviet Jacobin. And he'd fit right in serving Xi's "Presidency". The Social Darwinist cult always believes it knows who is winning the "Progress Through Evolution" game. And this guy brags about X number books and 5 decades and counting as a "professor" and this he thinks creates and supports his "authority" to spew pseudoscientific lunacy. What really, really cracks me up is that, and I really did think this the first time he showed up in this cycle, that his "keys" is "scientific". Because, as I have said a long time ago, it's pretty easy to predict who will win the Oval Office, most of the time. There are not that many single term Presidents and usually the "opposition" party in the US wins after a two term President must leave. Check the history for as long as you like. But anyway, you occasionally get a case like Jimmy Carter that choked badly, in very obvious ways. OK. Now move on to his claim that Bush 43 stole the election. LMFAO. Al Gore never had a chance! A third consecutive DNC Presidential term after Clinton? Reagan won in two consecutive landslides and only because of that and what he achieved did his VP manage to win a single term, otherwise the Demons would have won in 1988. Al Gore was never going to win because of that and that Hillary did not want him to win another term. She knows as much as I do that it's normal to predict 2 terms to the left and then 2 terms to the Constitutionalists. She planned on having the Republican Party win so that she could spend a stint in the Senate and then win in 2008. That plan itself was hatched before Bill Clinton even ran for President. And Al Gore also benefited from voter fraud that got serious starting in the 1988 Presidential elections but really the plans started evolving after Reagan's second consecutive landslide. Demon Rats don't actually win the national popular vote. California alone has had many millions of fraudulent ballots since they freaked out over Reagan. There are too many rabbit trails to follow here but the point is that even Hillary and just about everyone knows that these "keys" are just "wind socks" of a sort. So my real point is that Biden should not have won. I am sure he received at least 5 million fraudulent ballots in California alone. And Trump's outrage and legal maneuvers did not deter the scumbags that organize this. But he did scare the minions that would get send to prison of caught. So now they rely on ballot dumps and forcing counts but it's rare to have the people with their hands on the election tally systems willing to run the same ballot through the process over and over again. That is the only reason Kammy came up short versus Biden. Everyone knows that they're both idiots. So Lichtman and his keys falls for all of the hype and backfills his analysis based on feelings alone that "the incumbent usually wins if A, B, C, etc. but this election was so far from normal that the only thing that mattered was how successful the ballot fraud schemes would be. And this also explains why certain polls are never correct. The leftwing polls put out "aspirational" data to send out signals as to how much cheating is needed. Only a few polls get it right. And even they compensate for the "silent Trump vote" but what they really means is that the fraudsters try to predict their cheating and the honest pollsters look at statistics and predict how far short they will fall. Yeah, leftists love to participate in polls and most others don't. But pollsters can accommodate that. The biggest factor is that nobody can predict how each "blue" county will deliver for the DNC fraudsters. This moronic professor is dumber than Nate Silver. He's like one of those boomers that took too much dope as a student and he thinks his "academic credentials" are "proof" that all of those drugs had no deleterious effect on his brain.
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  4553. ​ @PrincessPebbles0_0  You're definitely a product of our public education system. So, you complain about "a novel" that you can't understand but level the accusation that "you guess" that I don't understand. LOL. Do you have any idea what this says about you? And sure, I'll listen and review anything that you cite specifically. But you suggest I just "go back". That's like saying "Ask Google" as if we're arguing over a freaking map or something clear and without controversy. I understand some of the criticism without agreeing with it and some I understand and consider it worthy of debate whereas most of it is outright pathetic. But as I said before, because these psychopaths are hoping for "progress" through the "living Constitution" that "lives" through court precedents rather than through Amendments. And this has happened for many decades so we can't say absolutely that there's zero legitimacy. The reality is that they have changed the law through bogus SCOTUS victories. Not that many people are equipped to debunk all of the BS in real-time. Ted Cruz and Mark Levin can, but those are the only people you might find on YouTube capable of handling pseudo-rational Progressive arguments. And actually, I am confident that you can't either. You don't want to show your disagreement with this Fox News chick because you can't explain your reasoning either. In that way, you're a hypocrite because you expect dogmatic hivemind reactions from people "on the right". I'm not even sure DeSantis can debunk it all in real-time for a live interview. I know you can't. And they did the same thing to George Bush during his "War on Terror" but because Bush didn't fight back he just let these stupid accusations fester and now half the country thinks he's a literal war criminal. And without a strong fight back these actions against Trump will act like a deterrent for all future Presidents and the DOJ/State Department cult will forever run the country and you still won't have any idea how it happened.
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  4557.  @carolcharters4878  There was no Insurrection. Just using this kind of language is highly prejudicial and only Congress members can get away with this kind of language without being sued. These judges should be sued under Deprivation of Rights Under the Color of Law simply be repeating it as dogmatic fact and also be allowing such prejudicial language in the courts to be taken as fact. IT's basically popular treason or what some might call "democratic" treason. It's actual treason that is "blessed" by "popular" or "democratic will of the people". In theory. IOW, these people do NOT believe in Connotationally framed governance. They only cite the Constitution in bad faith when useful to their cause and ignore it completely if they want their stupid supporters to forget all about it. Why do you think they call it "born in racism" all the time so that their "dog whistle" lets them know it's only to be used against The Patriarchy, but The Patriarchy deserves no protections whatsoever as the "dominant class" or sometimes they just call it "dominant culture" which is also a dog whistle for something they alternate between calling "Fascism" or "Christian Nationalism" and so forth. These labels are meaningless because they simply encompass anything and everything that Karl Marx assigned to the "dustbin of history" must go. Including the nuclear family (as the building block of Capitalism). Same cult that wants abortion protected and paid for by taxpayers, etc. etc. etc. It's all taken from the Communist Manifesto.
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  4569.  @KathrynAnnWilliams  You're confused. The colonies became States. They're sovereign States with a Federal Constitution that unites those States. The Federal government itself is not intended to have any involvement in daily life. It's for "national security" and to have a top level supreme court that is the intended to be the ultimate arbiter on interpreting the law (framed by the words of the US Constitution). The People can collectively change the words of the US Constitution by following the careful process outlined in it. Today, the President is like a cult leader responsible for daily national security issues (that change is driven mainly be modern technology and the reach of today's enemies) but domestic affairs are governed by Governors. So why is the President such a critical figure for "governing" or "presiding over" the national macroeconomy? Because of the New Deal. Plain and simple. The New Deal was forced in the public by economic terrorists, anarchists and ideological Marxists (the anarchists had the same vision but simply did not care about "solidarity" because they thought that the "revolution" would be fully organic as people "woke up"). This all happened before TV, before jets, when barely anyone could think about trying to fly around the world in an airplane. This happened mainly because public schools were slowly terrorizing students with fearmongering about Malthusian economics initially. These were and are doctrinaire, pseudoscientific atheists that posit the first step in "woke" is to understand that Christian morality caused all of this by asking people to pray to God before stealing, attacking people who establish peacekeeping barriers like walls and fences and so forth. But anyway, the Senate represents soveriegn States' interests in a similar way that the UN is intended to represent nation states. It's not supposed to be "democratic" at all. The House of Representatives is "our (federal) democracy" and that's it. The system is FUBAR because of the New Deal and how the entire Democratic Party and "fourth estate" coordinated the fearmongering and "common sense" consolidation of power. The whole thing required the creation of what we now call "the deep state" and the "two party" uniparty system. Where "the deep state" culls candidates and narrows the field to acceptable, controllable candidates. The Deep State was an accidental creation of FDR and the Deep State controlled President Truman before and after he was sworn in. The problem with "Our Democracy" can be traced back historically to those events I just explained. In school you probably learned about "the roaring 20s" and "Robber Barons" so that by the time you reach the stories about The Great Depression and WWII FDR is supposed to be Our Great Hero. Like Stalin is to Russian Communists. And Stalin was to US Marxists as well. Just like FDR. Try "google images" and - FDR Stalin - search string.
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  4595. I'm not going to comment on any "deep dive" on woke in this moment because we're all in agreement. But you guys don't understand that the US DOJ went "woke" on Antitrust law decades ago. Before the Soviet Union basically agreed to let their satellites hold real elections. The reason for this is that The New Deal needed virtual monopolies because The New Deal created the Federal government as the number one corporate hegemon in all of the world (unless you count the British Parliament before it broke up the empire). But actually, the US Federal government became the number one economic hegemon as soon as the British turned to the US for war material (also offered to Communist Russia). So, these "democratized" monopolies were needed for the same reason they did all of this in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Those countries had no Constitution to worry about so the gaslighting was much more straightforward. But anyway, Blockbuster might have been waved off under threat of Antitrust action. Meanwhile, woke corporations (think corporate media empires and the "rights" they give to enemy regimes under "equal application of the law" when the lobby and even take over corporate boards). Microsoft was sued under Clinton's DOJ. The settlement was silly but people bought it. Bill Gates slowly turned "woke" and some blame his wife. I blame his wife AND the Woke US DOJ. Andrew Weissman was a key prosecutor under Clinton. That's why he was so happy to play these games for Hillary in the "Get Trump" epoch. HE's an early Post Communist Woke Marxist prosecutor. Yes, I know it doesn't make sense. These Communists that they have "evolved" past Communism. LOL. Read Franscis Fukuyama. Basically, if you have MacDonald's and elections of some kind you're totally democratic and eventually China will have some kind of elections because of the Science of the Socialist Arc of (Social) Justice History.
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  4599.  @aa1bb2cc3dd4  People like you who make blatantly ignorant false equivalence claims with dogmatic confidence are typical of the hivemind. Do you even know what it means to be "on the left"? And by the way, I have no idea what happens if you corner a Trump voter and ask about policy. But I have heard many correctly identify the keys as (setting aside border security) tax reduction in light of "Laffer curve" theory, punitive/corrective tariffs, especially in trade with China (but also certain EU socialist regimes), third is paring back destructive regulations, and related to that, correcting all of the special Biden regime anti-energy regulations. And that I guess would include this same suite of regulations that makes it practically impossible to keep internal combustion engine manufacturing in the USA for much longer. And and all hired/promoted personnel, including judges, must be good faith Constitutionalists that are aware of the evil Progressive Marxists and their lawfare goals. That's just on the top of my head. If I had to defend Biden and Harris I would say, well, maybe the Communists are right and they're trying to shut down Capitalism in the USA so that all nations can live in peace together. Because every policy decision from them is in perfect alignment with shutting down "means of production" in the USA and Europe and ensuring China (the CCP) has the lowest production costs of any nation. And the bonus is that they can keep paying out fat bribes to just the right people. Leftists are so freaking stupid I don't even know why you bother to defend your alignment in any way, shape or form. If you want to call Trump fat or rude or whatever, nobody cares. If you want to imply that he's the one destroying our country then that makes you a certified moron. There's no equivalence in any way, shape or form with leftism in the USA and anyone that correctly identifies their evil stupidity.
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  4701.  @varab6287  You don't even know what the rule of law means. It's just a gibberish term. Your cult does not follow the law because of endless Special Pleading arguments. The slavers turned every legitimate "post slavery" legal doctrine on its ear to consolidate power as all Jacobin Marxists yearn to do. Every Victicrat is a member of a "protected class" of some kind or another and they never actually explain how being a transvestite is also the fault of the Republican Party and it's "slavery regime". You have to study Marxist Critical Theory to understand that equal application of the law (AKA "the rule of law") is also "racist" because "whites" come out on top, according their stupid statistical arguments. The rule of law is actually an approximate English translation from the text "Lex, Rex (The Law and the Prince)" meaning text or monarch (as ruler over the realm). Meaning that monarchs that say they will consult the taxed according to tradition can't just decide to bypass that while standing on "divine right of kings" when even that doctrine isn't supported by any agreed upon authoritative text. In the USA the only authoritative "rule of law" text is the US Constitution. Your cult not only has a "spectrum of genders" theory but also a "spectrum of victims" theory that corresponds to "spectrum of oppressors" theory. And that counts before they apply basic Constitutional rights like due process and related Constitutional "Rights" protections. Everything that they say about the Consitution and the law itself is tainted by these bad faith "woke" doctrines. Woke because you must be enlightened to the cult's dogmas and if you're not "woke" it means you have "God Delusion" (or Science Denial) or some other alleged genetic defect. You're so far from understanding your own claims. You don't really know how anything works and where your talking points gibberish came from. Your claims are childish.
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  4733.  @Sage521  No, it just means don't turn to Utopian goals worldwide until you have met the standards expected by those that are paying for it. You have to think about our government as "agents". If they swear oaths to represent voter interests you can compare that morally to fiduciary duties. Imagine a banker or lawyer that enters in to agreements with their clients and can lie and say and do anything that they want once they have the authority and access to control your money and your fate. This is what you have here. The people running these programs in the US are frauds and have all of the behaviors of racketeering mobs. Straight up. Therefore the OP's suggestion is rather optimistic but not inappropriate at all. They are not technically criminals but their crimes are protected only by legal loopholes created since FDR. They do all of these things under "foreign policy" rubrics. The whole thing is a cancerous fuster cluck. The so called Military Industrial Complex was created by the New Deal. And was corrupt before we declared war on Japan. And more more thing is that if you think that these boomers are emulating what FDR's "brain trusts" did you could not be more wrong. FDR was a dangerous demagogue and these boomers are straight up evil Malthusian Marxists. With, collectively, more power over the republic than Truman ever had. Truman did not even know about the Manhattan Project until after he was sworn in as President upon the death of FDR. With respect to those doctrinaire parasites that don't want to live anywhere that they can't access drugs and liquor 24-7, we can create national parks as Social Darwin zones. Let them move there and they can do what they want and Citizens can also do what they want within the law if there are any conflicts. How is it that these "blue" cities have already done this with the private property of their denizens where these people have "rights" to squat on your lawn and or driveway and harass you for food and money as if they are children born in our own home? I give money to hungry people every single day. But not if they set up camp in the driveway.
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  4760.  @shinigamimiroku3723  And BTW, as a native of California I've been a "never Democratic Party" partisan since my early high school days. It doesn't matter how "evil" any Republican is supposed to be because it's just a fact that the Democratic Party cult is the de facto ruling party since FDR. Under Democratic Centralism. Even when they lose a battle they never lose their power over the term of any given President whether Republican or Democrat. Even under Reagan when they arguably lost the most all they did was pivot to fealty to the CCP to replace the (Russian) Soviet Communists. If you study US history (and hopefully enough British history to better understand what the early American colonists were discussing at any given time) it's so easy to see how evil the Democratic Party is. It's not an "ethnic" argument to suggest that certain Americans used European legal doctrines when convenient. Why does this matter? The USA is the only country that I know of that has a judiciary created from the same founding documents as the Executive and Legislative branches. They use "European" legal doctrines because every parliament in Europe can overrule every court. Especially over political "policy" questions. Greek democracy is a constant threat all throughout Europe. Our founders new precisely what this threat meant. These liars are still here. They never went away. Also, it was easy for me to see that every criticism propagated by Marx only really applied to Feudalism and to royal charters, especially when these charters were regulated monopolies. We have zero of that in the USA. Zero. Every rant taken from the Communist Manifesto is invalid. The only plausibly sensible policy (when stripped of all others) is progressive rate taxation to bring "equality of opportunity" back in line mostly to compensate for the failed socialist doctrines put in place in the USA since Marx. The other policy that could make sense is to "democratize" mineral rights over Federal lands. But we've already done that! So why do they demand ever more "extraction" from "Capitalists" while pretending that the planet will melt if we pass a law that requires using mineral wealth from Federal lands to fund all of our social programs? It would be so easy to pass a balanced Federal budget. They don't want that. They want to keep trashing the economy and then "build back better" with a constant erosion of "freedoms" and "political control" over all wealth. These people act out a fervent belief in the French mantra "Property is theft" when this could really only be rationally pointed as an accusation against an abusive "absolute" monarch. We have a Bill of Rights and massive material resources. They're being managed to abuse the electorate and steal all political control in the hands of the Elite Social Justice Councils. The Administrative State since FDR has steadily been transformed in to an exact replica of the Russian Soviet Communist model. Except taht they didn't kill the monarch and simply declare control. We still have a Supreme Court. And this still isn't enough to "check" the US DOJ's power anymore. Think about it. Election irregularities are one thing. The trend is towards taking these "controversies" and then banking on these margins as controlled by DC Soviets. The precedents established in California and later in the 2020 "Special Covid Election" are all "pocketed" or "banked" and these margins will be cultivated for even more control and less transparency. Soon it will be explicitly illegal to spread "Felonious Antidemocratic Disinformation" about elections or anything else. Even if this wasn't planned this is what happens with unchecked power. The errors of the previous just get exploited by the next series of Machiavellian power seekers. What Jack Smith has been allowed to get away with in this indictment can go one of two ways. It will be used as a slippery slope argument in future tyranny or it will get reversed to exonerate Trump and then turned in Jack Smith because everything he falsely accused Trump of is actually being committed by Jack Smith and coconspirators. The thing is that the DOJ's conspiracies must be committed to writing. Jack Smith and Merrick Garland presume more unchecked power than even a President can presume to hold under "war powers" or whatever. It's a totally fabricated fact pattern (they are lying about the evidence) and is in fact an illegal conspiracy. It's not protected speech to abuse the US DOJ like this. This is closer to insurrection than anything any President or military officer has every done in the the USA that I have ever heard of. This should end with an indictment of Jack Smith and Merrick Garland. Obvious Biden should be prosecuted for bribery or worse, but that's another story. For this Jack Smith BS he can defend himself by saying he was advised badly and besides, he's innocent by reason of mental defect. Think about a sitting President using a mental defect defense and how legitimate that particular claim is. This is what "Democratic Party" governance in the USA has delivered to the nation.
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  4766.  @unvergebeneid  You have no idea what you're talking about. What do you think "conservative" or "right wing" means? He's a cautious doctrinaire Progressive. He never deviates from the Progressive worldview. What you kooks think "right wing" is beyond any kind of objective reality. Just because birds tend to have opposing wings doesn't mean political movements must. Leftism is about Jacobinism. The French Jacobins deliberately made a stink of themselves in the French Assembly by sitting far away from the center, in the left rear section. And they did this to continually show how they represent the "Third Estate" AKA "disenfranchised" of France and the world (in spite of their growing political power witnessed by their presence in the chamber). Was there a "right wing" sitting opposite of them? No! They opposed the establishment. The thing is, they also became the establishment. Left wing politics is that. There's no "right wing" mirror image of that except as a left wing construct. And even that came late when the "international workers' revolution vanguard party" became "the established power" in the Communist movement and they wanted to denounce anyone that resisted. The ones that resisted most strenuously also feared "capitalism" and so forth and were paranoid about who would fullfill Marxist prophecy and rule the world and how. The Fascists were nationalists Marxists. Therefore, they created the "right wing" opposition to Soviets and other "internationalist" Communists. The "right versus left" construct is an invention of the Communists. There are no right wing Marxists in the USA. All Marxists around the world are afraid to defend "nationalism." They don't even know what it means or how it developed. They talk about 'democracy' as almost the opposite of 'nationalism.' What we call democracy today is premised on Westphalian nationalism. Nations treat each other as equal before examining conflicts and treaties and so forth. Leftists are delusional kooks that pretend that "the world" has all of the same views of "human rights" when they don't. Therefore nations must allow other nations to develop their own value systems and then rely on healthy relationships to hopefully inspire each other to "progress" together with minimal coercion. That's how "the world" can live "in peace." Left wingers live in a world of delusion. The only thing that they got right was that they had a shitty monarch. It never could have made for a transnational or "unitarian" movement. Once they deposed the monarch they had nothing else productive to do. They started killing each other and Napoleon worked his way up in the military and then we had that chapter of history. That's where leftism leads. Yes, Napoleon was a leftist. Your history teachers are only allowed to tell you PC history, if you even when to class.
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  4788.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Your comment is as illogical as it gets. The reason being that you don't actually know what you're talking about. You know leftist talking points and jargon but have no idea what the difference is between theory and reality. Every opinion that you offered is based on infantile Marxist binary thinking. You mentioned absolutely nothing about reality. Even "Capitalism" is a childish construct that attempts to cite and define "universal laws" of some kind to define a supposedly international system. Capitalism, to the extent that it exists as a coherent system, can only exist as a coherent system if there is one ruler or court rendering final verdicts on disputes. Therefore, US "Capitalism" (also known as property rights and economic freedoms) is quite different even from British Capitalism that it was at one point historically born from. But the USA never had sovereign investment funds nor Royal Charters. Your take on "reality" is as delusional as it gets. The fact that you think you have "special understanding" of your own cult's grievances marks you as a typical neo-Marxist ignoramus. Under the Dunning Kruger psych studies you'd be classified as "unskilled and unaware". Actually, identifying as "leftist" really says all that needs to be said. You are indeed a "leftist" ignoramus that can't possibly even understand the "reality" of French Jacobin politics. The thing we're discussing broadly is Marxist corporatism and the long term goal is to get CCP permission to open up media operations in China and the greater regions where they have "hegemony". And right now there is no place on the planet where they don't have some kind of dangerous "soft power" that is also backed by some kind of military or biological warfare threat.
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  4809.  @yoloswaggins6561  Again, you don't know what rights means. Our Constitution places citizens in charge of the Federal (not to mention States') legislature(s) and the President is in charge of the Federal Executive Branch, which means POTUS makes policy decision framed by the law and additionally limited by enforceable rights. You have no idea how any of that works, obviously. Your school teachers and parents have failed you, no matter what sweet words they offered to you. Unlawful aliens have limited due process rights, which amounts only to the fact that the government must follow certain protocols before removing them. They have no right to remain here. DACA aliens are "special" (if) because they were (supposedly) minors when they arrived. Since the legislative branch did not forsee such a massive problem caused by traitors in government power around the nation there are quire a few conundrums that affect what protocols are due exactly before we remove them. None of this indicates any natural rights possessed by the DACA beneficiaries. It just gives them a temporary permit and special status to use when they petition the courts. Any judge can remove them now and forever unless the law changes or they get a favorable ruling from another judge in the interim phase. Only a judge can issue a ruling to create natural rights for them individually, on a case by case basis, that would allow them to become lawful residents of some kind. It's been that way since the beginning of nation states. That is how civilization has always worked as long as human civilization has existed. And the USA is the first (and arguably the only) nation in the world to ever to create truly enforceable natural rights paradigm. It's not that anyone else doesn't have natural rights but that they don't have any right at all to ignore our laws, including laws governing how aliens may pass our borders and stay here lawfully. This has nothing to do with Trump. This has to do with nihilistic, lying Progressives that deliberately defrauded the nation back in the 1980s, creating an expectation that "the last amnesty ever" could be invoked whenever DemonRat politicians wanted to attack capitalism and their political opposition. And pander to people that want workers with no enforceable rights. Thus pounding wages down. Your'e too stupid to figure anything out.
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  4840. Rosie finally did it. She very clearly rhetorically conflated "Capitalism" with "Fascism". Failing to understand both. I know this is what they have been inculcated to think and that is what explains TDS. But they're no longer able to deftly play word games because they now have to say "we told you do" as if the sky is actually falling at this minute just because Trump is President Elect again. Capitalists are Evil Rich People and Fascists are Capitalists that run for elected office. Socialists are Good "well endowed with respect to wealth" persons like George Soros who make money of arbitrage of various kinds that is all facilitated by the influence they have over government policies. Around the world. Evil Capitalists steal their wealth from workers, you see. It's Settled Science. And therefore all of these socialists are the good guys by liberating us from people like Trump and Musk. You see the logic, right? It's like having an ethics discussion by analyzing X-Men or something. That is what our students endure for years. Basically, for their entire lives in places like Commiefornia. And it is Mussolini that invented the term "Fascism" to describe his brand of corporatist socialism that FDR later called the New Deal and that rebrand is now "Our Democracy". It's not hard to understand if you understand what exactly happened around the world since the start of the first Russian (Marxist) Revolution. Prior to that the Marxist attempts at coups were regarded as "anarchists". And that is how an "anarchist" shot an archduke to kick off WWI.
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  4847. I've been trying to convince people for many years now that the Democratic Party is inherently corrupt. Someone like Tulsi Gabbard can run as a Democrat from Hawaii and take years before she realizes that she only got suckered in to joining that party because she was soaked in "anti" agitation propaganda about anyone that opposes "liberalism" or whatever. It took her years to realize this. And she finally did the right thing. She's almost as determined as I am that the US Democratic Party must be abolished. It's entire history has been about posing as victims of "Patricians" and now "Patriarchy". They claim to champion victims of "White Supremacy" when all they ever did was defend slavery, apartheid and now a more sophisticated version of the same exact thing. Always take envy and turn it in to a supposedly legitimate motive to attack and destroy. These people are all mentally ill, made so by the cult's ever-present propaganda. This cult moved seamlessly from slavers to assassins and KKK by night and "labor organizing" Progressives by day. They don't use sheets anymore. They use Black Blok and and they have people walking around as "victims of White Supremacy" who've never worked a day in their life and never actually experienced any racism from the people they're trying to blame. Every national level movement from these people is directed by Communists. The CCP took over from the Soviet Union during the Clinton Presidency. And George Bush was too keen to cultivate "solidarity" against "Terrorism" and the CCP went to town, figuratively, and built more slave labor camps while talking a big game as a "key partner". Obama openly turned "The Right" in to "root causes" and now they just call everyone that wants to defend individual rights under the rule of law "the real terrorists" or "Patriarchy" or "Science Deniers" and whatnot. This isn't about Trump. It's about Karl Marx's paranoid and evil delusions. Trump is just a ripe target to turn in a a bogey man.
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  4855.  @useodyseeorbitchute9450  Originally, white supremacy was the doctrine of the US Democrats where they explicitly argued that their slaves could not participate as citizens because of "born that way" status. IOW, not the same "class" of humans. Even after the Civil War they fought Reconstruction and created a kind of "apartheid" regime by claiming that "white supremacy" (or a two class system) was natural and fine and not problematic because they were technically freed from slavery, which is what happened during the Civil War. This talking point was transformed by Marxists (many being US Democrat "Progressives" after LBJ launched his War on Poverty thing) by claiming that if you support lower taxes that this is a kind of "white supremacist" position because you simply want to make sure "poor blacks" cant be "lifted out of poverty". This was in no way sincere concern about the poor, obviously. What they really wanted to do is strip the middle class of its power and create more hegemonic control over the entire republic, mirroring very closely what they wanted for their Confederacy but in the late industrial age when cotton plantations were no longer interesting for them. So, actually, you here two different kinds of "white supremacy" arguments today. The first is the original kind that quotes stupid statistics about IQ or says "look at Africa" or something like that. The second kind is the Marxists who claim that "Capitalism" itself is "white supremacy" that it should be denounced in favor of Soviet style "social justice". Most of the talking heads simply regurgitate talking points. But the ones that parse "White Supremacy" from "Equity" are Marxists. Often the ones that quote specious, pseudoscientific "IQ data" are fascists, that are basically Marxists that DO NOT believe in "International Worker (class) Solidarity" derived from the Communist Manifesto.
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  4862. This 25K housing promise is so demagogic. The home loan banking crisis under Bush's last year in office was caused by investors buying "bundles" of loans under certain theories and the critical thing is that all of the investors understood that the "social justice" interventions in home loans put the government on the hook for making good on these loans. And that in the end is what "too big to fail" means. It means that all of the rules, relations and subsidies created a homogenized market place that stood or fell as a whole. If one bank fails it calls all others in to question because they're forced to be run in with the exact same policies. Standard Oil was the first Antitrust action to break up hegemonic syndicates. Under FDR the Federal government created "regulated" syndicates. Also remember that FDR was very close with Stalin during WWII and it seems to me that they were close before we declared war on Germany. Which is to say that FDR had a strong belief in "Soviet Social Justice" and hatred towards "Empire" of the British even though they had elections in the homeland and had been growing institutions of self rule in their colonies for decades by that time. FDR's Deal Deal was just as "socialist" as Mussolini's. Except the Italians also had colonies that were abused. The US didn't need them so our Central Plans took a while to turn tyrannical. Plus under WWII and the Cold War people grew to expect a kind of dictatorial regime in DC. And then for many it turned in to "Our Democracy" and "norms" even though these "norms" all evolved under crisis and war. Back to Kammy's housing thing. It's all about doubling down on leftwing vote pandering. We know already what these programs do. They actually, over the long run, lead to decreased ownership. Every time you have a crisis the weakest lose all of their property and must start over. And if you're just used to waiting for the government to save you then are you are less likely to learn anything useful from economic downturns about self discipline and planning. Just vote Democrat. The government is the only savior for the leftist hiveminders.
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  4876. US energy policy is without question, from top to bottom, all about empowering hostile regimes and allowing China to run a global mercantilist, centrally planned pricing arbitrage scheme. I'm not saying all US politicians knowingly cooperate and agree with the end game. But one thing about Bush that surprised me was before he even ordered the attack on Iraq and budgets went up for GWoT he allowed US oil prices to go up and didn't do much of anything to help keep retail costs down. This led to a lot of struggles that ended with the banking collapses and "junk loans" that turned to dust. It's just a fact that US Congressional spending and "economic planning" since Clinton relied on the US being "Post Industrial" and everyone just thought that The Internet transformed the US Economy in to something that (Marxist) materialists had always yearned for. The magic AI robots would run everything for free with green energy distributed through superconductor yada yadas meant that the key to future prosperity would be more abortion, keep the displaced workers from rioting and so forth. It's pretty insane but since everyone always had "war" and "terrorism" to talk about they had to couch it in terms of "winning the Global War on Terrorism" on the road to peace and prosperity. But all of the "visionaries" and "thought leaders" for "nation building" were neo-Marxist kooks. IOW, this pattern mentioned in the video (shutting down US oil to spike retail pricing) is more obvious today than before but this is actually what we started doing even before the "nation building" phase. I remember this conversations very clearly because Congress at taht time passed the Homeland Security Act and started spending like crazy with stupid budget deficits taht it seemed like they regarded as a feature rather than a problem that needed to be solved. This fit with everything I had been taught about Marxists vision of "redistribution" through social programs AND intentionally spiking inflation that "the rich" don't suffer from because their land values also rise (in theory). Until you can no longer pay the loans off. And I think even at that time in the Clinton and Bush epoch that most if not all in DC just thought it was "inevitable" that China would "rise" and that meant what? It depends on your worldview. For Marxist materialists wealth complies with the laws of thermodynamics. It's like market share where markets don't really contract or expand. China can only rise if we fall down and meet them half way or something like that. And that is precisely why this war on the middle class is something that they deny in public but also believe is inevitable. They don't believe taht "the one percent" took from the poor. They believe that high GDP per capita middle class workers steal constantly from the poor. Never mind that it is China that has the most forced labor camps. It seems like a lot of Marxists, including those in the US are not only OK with it but expect it in "late capitalism" as the only way to "solve disparity". You all have to come to grips with the fact that Joe Biden is not really the cause of this. It's his treasonous party. The Bidens are not even the biggest traitors. Just the most famous/notorious. And everyone on the left LOVES when the CCP controls US politics. I have been for years looking for contrary evidence and I have none.
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  4891.  @raymondcbaker30  That doesn't quite make sense. What happened to the USA is that the Democrats lost the Civil War and responded by assassinating Lincoln to take the Oval Office with the Democrat "unity ticket" VP becoming President. The KKK ramped up by night and "Progressives" ramped up their demagoguery by day doing "labor organizing" initially to make sure no "blacks" took "white jobs" and they slowly started taking on the form of nationalist Marxists (like Nazis and Italian fascists). During FDR's day, he was best pals with Stalin (favoring Stalin over Churchill) and the US funded Russia's was and Russia passed a lot of that material and funding on to Mao and the NK Communists as well. They also took in Marxist academics from Germany, Communists persecuted by the Nazis, and the Progressives starting using more and more "globalist" doctrines. That's how we got here. And the "European liberalism" thing is true only in the sense that European nations have been dealing with "ancient institutions" all through the Industrial Revolution and the age of World Wars and so forth. The US had no "ancient institutions" to gripe about and all citizens had rights to own property and that includes mineral rights. All of the European "third estate" grievances are silly in the USA. So, Marxism in the USA is similar to Marxism in Europe because it's based on nothing more than silly dogmas that can't be negotiated with. If you could negotiate with them you'd just have a bunch of "social programs" and everyone would be trying to make sure they're managed properly. Dogmatic Marxists actually believe that everyone must be destroyed before the new Communist Utopia can fully deliver on its promises. What you have is a bunch of dogmatic Marxists all over the so called "Liberal Democracies" and these people are largely manipulated by the CCP these days after the Soviet Union collapsed.
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  4899. All careerists in DC believe in some version of "Post Industrial" phase of history derived from dogmatic Marxism. What that means is that even these traitors tell themselves taht they are "pro American" given the "inevitability" of the "rise of China". The key to understanding these terms is to fully understand the dogmatic Marxist worldview. One: Property rights (enforceable under the rule of law) lead to disparity. Disparity is the "root cause" of racism and racism is the root cause of disparity. If you don't understand and agree with any of the dogmas, you have cognitive dissonance. Woke is the casual term used to demonstrate agreement with the cult and its dogmas. Property rights are illegitimate because of now monarchs historically awarded land grants to their allies. Those allies could hand down that land to their "nonworking" ancestors. Hence, "ossified disparity". Then, the Industrial Revolution exacerbated and accelerated "Disparity" because only Capitalists (property owners) could launch commercial enterprises to profit. Workers were de facto "wage slaves" that could not accumulate capitalism to move up. The few that did became the exception that proves the rule and therefore the binary class war is still "Settled Science". At some stage there was "American Exceptionalism" which to Marxists meant only that the USA (and possibly all of North America) did not need to suffer from bloody revolution as the Russians and Chinese did in order to smoothly transition to End of History Communism. Post Industrial is a term that supposedly marks the "phase of history" where the US has so much wealth and industrial capacity that it's actually better for mankind to "de industrialize" and have workers move in to "green" fields of work or simply stop working and enjoy the fruits of looming Communism. Where you own nothing and are happy. The last thing to mention is "Social Darwinism". All of this "Progress" is also predicated in "selective pressures---survival of the fittest". That means genocide just might have to be a major part of Social Justice and the glorious future of mankind under End of History Communism. Most of the people that fought for these ideas are already dead. And today's leftist morons know this. They also hate the idea of work and envy of rich people that the idea of genocide is nothing to them. They have been told that Capitalism itself is a sort of cleansing genocide and they want to be on the side of the "winners". This might all sound crazy but if you just name any TDS afflicted moron not in big media (that's too easy) but any of the famous morons that got caught doing something insane (like Comey, General Milley, etc.) I can then go over any quote from them to explain how it comports with the Critical Theory worldview (all based on dogmatic Marxism). All while scoffing at the idea that they "believe in" Critical Theory. Even Bill Barr can be caught supporting the dogmatic Critical Theory worldview because even as he laments "leftism" he accepts all of their legal dogmas without understanding how dogmatic Marxism is explicitly against the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is the literal legal framework for what Marxists call "Capitalism" or "the system of Capitalism". There is nothing in the Bill of Rights that the DC Confederacy doesn't want to strip away. They themselves don't need rights because their plan to to install doctrinaire party loyalists in SCOTUS. That way they can keep stealing elections with the full knowledge that they NEVER have to face accountability in the case of some future "random accident" like Trump sneaking his way in.
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  4903. There's a lot of good fortune here that looks very much like providence from above. I'm usually hoping and planning for the best with backup plans based on expecting the worst. Beating Hillary was beyond what I expected. What Trump experienced during his first term was only slightly worse than I expected simply because I thought the evil ones would cloak their machinations much better. The "woke' thing infected their minds and the woke Marxist "virtue signaling" could not be controlled. So even many of the embedded government psychopaths failed to keep their schemes hidden well enough. The leftist boomers and their offspring have lost it. But with respect to this video and Trump's anti-woke enlightenment, he too is courageously calling out an agenda that used to only be the dreams of rule-of-law Constitutionalists like me since I was in high school. I never thought this kind of reform was even possible for a politician to discuss. The providence from above thing comes from the fact that he almost lost it all many times and nobody would have blamed Trump for another loss or if he had ended up falsely imprisoned or even assassinating. But they did their worst against him and then he won the popular vote as a Republican (that does not have a corrupt political machine developed before the Civil War and raging ahead until this day) and Bush only won the popular vote in 2004 because at that time the Demon Rats were struggling to appear patriotic during the early War on Terror days while pivoting against Bush with a moron like Mr. Climate Change AKA Al Gore's stupider cousin. Or to put another way, these idiots brought diverse groups together to realize very clearly that something in DC is systemically corrupt and it's not "Patricians" doing it. Trump can now openly state what many patriots have dreamed about for reform since the fall of the Soviet Union and the Clinton Bush administrations' "reimagining" of the CCP as "Evolving Democrats". Or to put it another way, DC thought that the US Soviet (Communist councils) Vanguard Party era began the moment the Russian Soviets voted to dissolve its Communist empire. Trump is now calling out every element of corruption in DC. And it is glorious. And beyond Trump the man it is now proven that this is no personality cult. I suppose that is another topic but just remember that the VPOTUS-elect doesn't even deny that he said that Trump used to remind him of Hitler. Vance is no sycophant. What he said was stupid but he was not afraid to impulsively say it. Every politician now knows that unapologetic "MAGA" (Constitutional rule of law and correcting this idea of the USA as the great Robin Hood of nations) is here to stay for any politician to take up for the sake of the future of our republic.
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  4917.  @Vagabond_Etranger  It actually started with FDR's "Fireside Chats" propaganda and never abated. All of the "journalists" were excited with FDR's "New Deal" which is basically his spin on Fabian Marxism or what some call "democratic socialism". By the time FDR died his last-choice VP (that was kept in the dark until FDR died) the Soviet Russians had placed proxy Communists governments among the supposedly "liberated" nations that they mowed through to try to capture Berlin and I assume all of Germany. A lot of people, especially journalists, called Winston Churchill a bigoted nationalist warmonger when he first propagated the term "Iron Curtain" and journalists have never, ever been, as an institution, against big state socialism. The so called Fourth Estate came from France and they are the ones that invented the whole idea of big state socialism by decrying private property rights and then turning to the party that killed the last monarch of France to solve the problem of land and property rights. And why are so many people ignorant of this? Because of teachers' unions and "socialized" public education. You don't need "Freemasons" to explain anything about this. It's a cult of antitheist humanists. Anyone that tries to build institutions with humans as the highest form of life and power in the universe (with a clear theory that Darwin's Tree of Life theory is settled science) is going to try to build a totalitarian ruling institution and treat everyone else just as the Pigs of Orwell's Animal Farm tried to do.
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  4922. Actually its not that they're "declassified" but classified as Presidential papers and for his own possession. If he classified it in the first place that means there is already a record of it as well. Declassifying it would then make it available to release to the public. So he can have "top secret" personal papers because they're his personal property. The question arises only if, for example, Biden review "intel records" and then requests Trump's copy. Why would he need it? Oh, wait, let's say Trump kept top secret documents and we'll not only pretend that he's not allowed to do that but just in case people catch of to these scammers we must also say that he's sharing it illegally. The President can "declassify" and share any national security information at will. The only question is can a President take his own "top secret" documents that are still classified in the Federal records and then share it at will? The statutes are unclear and furthermore, even if there is apparent "guidance" or some language somewhere in some law that was passed by Congress that such a thing could be criminalized without violating the Constitution. The case against Trump is weak even if he did the worst thing he's accused of (sharing top secret information with someone not cleared by the Federal government). You'd almost have to catch him plotting an actual crime like giving documents to Iran at Iran's request in exchange for money. Something like the Bidens do for Ukraine. And speaking of treason with Iran why does nobody care about John Kerry? The real traitors are the US Democratic Party politicians and the careerists that run the crime family machinery under "color of law". They are trying to scandalize Trump, everyone that defend him, and every judge that doesn't bend the knee. Some are afraid their own crimes will be pushed and others yearn for "Democratic centralism" AKA Leninist socialism plus Stalin's show trials.
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  4936.  @rachdarastrix5251 Let me be clearer. Humans are not gods in that they are not omniscient nor omnipotent. That is the God of the Bible. You can accept Biblical theories or reject them but it's important that you are clear on the theories and implications. So, what happens with people that are not clear on this is they tend to want to convince themselves of their place philosophically and so forth. God can also mean "highest" authority and only monotheists are explicit about omniscience and omnipotence. When it's not clear what the theories are it's natural to man to want to compare himself to others but not look at the standards outlined in the same book that described the omniscient and omnipotent God of the universe. And then you get fuzzy about what it means to be good and kind and so forth. Internally, you sort of view yourself as a special case by reason of the fact that it's only you talking about you (to yourself). Nobody to help you with small errors that pile up. Freudian psychology attempts to help with this by suggesting a process for "objectivity" but the built in assumption is that all theistic philosophies are based on blatant lies and the reason why so many people can't cope with theists and their institutions. And according to atheists all "life" is driven by selfish interests. Altruism is supposedly fraudulent because it's allegedly based on the idea that God himself will reward all of the "good" sacrifices that you make. Altruism is yet another delusion, they believe. OK, so you're supposed to be selfish. If you are in charge of making your own case for you that means you can't really judge others as you would have them judge you. Because that is their job. What you're supposed to do is avoid being "sociopathic" or deleterious to society. But who makes that standard? LOL And that in a nutshell is why "Transactivists" are going insane and shooting Christians and so forth. Plus a lot of related genocidal movements. Special Pleading fallacy is when you present an argument, theory or premise that X is a special case when it really isn't. Atheists do this all the time on the idea that theists are morons and they are both enlightened and persecuted by faith of others. See Freud again if I lost you. Even "Special Snowflake Syndrome" has two distinctly different meanings depending on whether or not you believe dogmatically in Darwinism.
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  4942.  @EndertheWeek  Learn to read properly. And yeah, lots of people are very wrong. And Congress has tried to take more power than the Constitution allows since FDR's New Deal. Congress does indeed pass lots of un-Constitutional legislation. And SCOTUS has in plenty of cases ruled in favor of "Democratic" tyranny. Learn to read in English and then learn a little about the history of the country. Focus on the Democratic Party's "elitism" and completely corrupt reading of the Constitution, favoring domination by whatever branch or institution that it controls. The party has always done this since Andrew Jackson. Roe v. Wade was not about abortion per se but about increasing the power of Progressive judges to rewrite "rights" and "due process" meanings in favor of legislating from any branch where they hold power and getting angry and crying racism or whatever when they are opposed by an ordinary reading of the Constitution. Why do you think they want to pass an Equal Rights Amendment. Equal rights have always been guaranteed by the Constitution. They are the party that pretended their slaves had no standing to sue. They are the ones that reimagined equality, due process and even unenumerated rights. Look what they're doing with "trans rights". It's not about individual rights. They want to have all of these factions in conflict and blame their enemies. That's people like me that defend the actual freaking rule of law. They can't Amend the Constitution because their ideas are delusional and always about accomplishing the opposite of what they pretend to be accomplishing.
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  4992. He's a moron that thinks Trump voters were predestined and then "shockingly" all of the "independents" turned out to be racist misogynists. You just can't make this stuff up. But notice it takes just a few sentences to expose how stupid he is and he writes endless diatribes about his "keys" and tries to talk everyone in to agreeing with him. Until 2016 and 2020, I correctly predicted each Presidential victory but I just used very simply "statistical" data. Just look at each Presidential winner since Truman. And I know how much California cheats. I am never sure about any other "blue" States. I thought they would beat Trump in 2016 but I also had in mind that it's rare for either party to hold the White House for 3 consecutive terms. Obama didn't win like Reagan did. Obama was a controversial person and nobody was going to ride his coat tails just on that. But Trump was particularly easy to demonize and I admitted that I just could not predict it. In 2020 it got even crazier and I knew the minute I heard about CCP "COVID" bs and the timing coupled with Trump's first Impeachment that they were going to go insane. But they got Biden to run and I really had no idea if that would work. But notice I admit to the unknowns. It's not "13 keys". Because even if you had proved "13 keys" notice that they are not weighted and there's no allowance for inserting new keys that become relevant, never mind any chance to weight the value of these base level indicators. The "indicators" are mere considerations. Each election means rethinking the whole question. Professor moron doesn't know how serious people use statistics to make predictions. He's probably just the kind of guy running the CIA these days.
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  5030. All official political power in the USA must be explicitly rooted in clear Constitutional prerogatives. You must all learn this. Any time a Demon Rat opens his mouth and says something that bothers you, you must research the legitimate legal doctrines that they are violating. They never rely on legitimate legal doctrines because all of the other parties have always been for good faith rule of law. The US Democratic Party is the only party born and bred on illegitimate "punching up" doctrines. They have the POV of penniless peasants in pre-revolutionary France. They are allowed to break the law and ignore the Constitution because the parts they don't like were imposed by 'Yankee Patricians". Sounds like members of what they now call "The Patriarchy". Doesn't it? Exactly. They've always done this. And Orwellian literature published during FDR's reign. Do you think Orwell pointed out the positive aspects of FDR's defense of "Democracy" and freedom? LOL. Because he didn't. Read "Three New Deals" (looking at Hitler, Mussolini and FDR and their centrally planned state macroeconomies). FDR got better results not because his ideas were better but because of the vast resources available and the fact that most of the "emergency" was invented. Plus "checks and balances" was really in play between the Civil War and FDR. FDR ended the only truly "liberal" epoch of the USA. You might say he invented Marxist (fraudulent) Liberalism. Our written Constitution keeps giving us more opportunities to correct these problems. But DC doubled down on Marxism in celebration of the collapse of the Soviet Union. And even though George Bush is no Marxist he's certainly not any kind of antimarxist. He's an idiot that read Francis Fukuyama and took it all seriously. Because Russian was holding elections and China, well, they had a MacDonalds (known as McDonald's Peace Theory), so the CCP is totally our Partner in the Global War On Terrorism. Then Obama starts with the 'actually' BS (also known as "whataboutism") when he started talking about "bitter clingers" and "Christian high horses" and whatnot and started taking us slowly through the dogmatic Critical Theory (Marxist) talking points for the ABCs of Marxist politics (Always Blame Capitalism). That is why these morons around the world had sort of self-induced psychotic reactions to Trump (Arch Capitalist) winning the White House. All of these psychotic reactions are caused by Marxist Critical Theory and the panic throughout the world at having a "Reactionary Capitalist" POTUS.
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  5039.  @timw8649  There is a process but not only does POTUS not have to follow it but anyone following his instructions is exempt from prosecution. This is consistent with Presidential pardon powers, btw. The only way anyone can prosecute a President for exercising lawful prerogatives is through Impeachment by "scandalizing" something. Notice they've already tried twice and now they're trying to whip up a third (yet related) "scandal" to get the DOJ to harass him even further. None of this has any hope of going past a jury trial (at most) that would be overturned on appeal. Classification rules come from Administrative law. These are rules to be followed and there are penalties for certain criminal acts. Notice that even Hillary Clinton is regarded as "sloppy" for violating the Espionage Act and her "criminal intent" is obvious because she clearly violated the entire FISMA framework that she voted on as a Senator. She knew she was hiding from the entire "cybersecurity" framework established many decades ago and then enhanced for the purpose of the Homeland Security Act. President Obama could have authorized it. Boom. Not criminal. Another point is that Obama as a candidate did far more "treasonous" things with Iran than Trump was even falsely accused of during with Putin's Russia. These are not serious people. These are morons and ignoramuses. Ignoramuses convinced everyone else is even dumber than they know themselves to be. Trust me. In theory, if you Impeach Clinton and then refer her to the DOJ for prosecution she would only need either a pardon from the sitting President or some evidence that Obama approved of the server. Something like Obama sending an email to her on that server with an unsecured email account. It seems like that is what she had. That is how you can explain the moronic Comey's gibberish. Comey's problem is that he should have kept his mouth shut rather than broadcasting that the entire regime was a criminal racketeering cult full of incompetent traitors that won some elections. Elections have consequences, Obama likes to say...
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  5063. White supremacy was coined by the slavers and used after they lost the Civil War to argue that disparities are natural and should be maintained through cultural separation. White savior lunatics are exactly the same. But they don't say they're maintaining white supremacy. They claim to be solving it by having them rule over all of us. Just like the Confederates that rallied around Andrew Johnson when he inherited the Presidency following the assassination of Lincoln. The game changed when they took "hegemonic" political power in DC and immediately sought to destroy "Reconstruction". They're doing the exact thing thing today and they never stopped. The thing is that since FDR they've been strongly flirting with Communism as well so the rhetoric gets twisted by the Marxist culture war. Marxists solve slavery by theft and genocide. The Marxists are worse than the plantation slavers. And the lies grow exponentially. One more thing is that Lenin took power promising "Communism" and then created the doctrines of the regime (once in power but not really a Utopian Communism regime) he created something he called his New Economic Policy and Soviet "Democratic" Centralism. Mussolini took this and added Roman imperial imagery and called that Fascism. Hitler took that and created myths about "Aryanism" and this strong need to dial up the genocide very quickly since the Nazis were at that point third in line for vying for "Vanguard Party" status in ruling the first political system that assumed all of the same things Marx did except for who specifically would be the "demos" of the "workers' revolution".
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  5075. @quasarleon4645 The lie here is that we have a free press. Since everyone wants to feed at the Internet trough there are no longer any free presses and not only that the corporate media syndicate is illegal (Sherman Antitrust Act) but made legal by the Administrative state. IOW, the syndicate is allowed to do all of this as long as profits are good and the Administrative state will protect its profits as long as it plays ball with their political demands. The New Deal (under FDR) is that Social Justice syndicates are not just legal but required. The Big 3 Auto manufacturers got that way because unions were forced on them and then wages became "politicized". Those that ran afoul of the Big 3 were decimated and fell by the wayside. And now they're all part of international syndicates. They issue stocks, yes. But you have no idea who holds sway at the Board of Directors meetings. That's just one example. In "Internet" and "high tech" electronics manufacturing it's even worse but they didn't even have to force unions on them. The bought them off first by funding them under "national security" and then forcing them to play ball under the same specious national security rubric. And these people are not worried about fomenting violence and genocide. They're worried about losing the protection of the Administrative state and the "national security" project funds. The so-called Military Industrial Complex (Ike's term) is actually the "Arsenal of Democracy" started up by FDR but by the time Ike was President all of FDR's "Brain Trusts" had created these protected syndicates. Of course, it's worse now that the Internet has destroyed broadcast TV and radio as well as basically every independent printing press in the once free world.
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  5099. This is silly. The only thing these two "classes" have in common is trends towards looking at command economies. Every nation today has some relationship with "developing" under a command/centrally planned national macro-economy of some kind. When you start looking at differences that matter you have to look at what the schools are allowed to teach. This pundit is a Marxist materialist (or he probably regards himself as a "Realist") that doesn't understand the full spectrum of choices. Nor does he understand culture and ideology and how those things pertain to how individuals develop skills and work together in teams to create and trade things of commercial value (while also competing against symmetric and asymmetric rivals). As far as Marxist expansionism, it's all about keeping the central plan balanced and fed with resource advantages. What Marxists assume is that they have to own means of production. The long term plan is measured by increasing hegemony in measurable ways over resources and global markets. IOW, they must get their rivals to stop wanting to produce things. The whole "post industrial economy" bullshit is Marxist propaganda intended to get "advanced economies" to view themselves as beyond the need to continue "development" and simply pivot to "agents" of helping other "developing economies" take their place at the table of "global equity". Pretty much everyone knows that this is delusional. What's different from place to place is how this paradigm is expected to benefit their own local and regional groups. The entire paradigm is delusional. Planned (national macro) economies always fail. They either go away or start wars of expansion before, I assume, failing at some point by losing a way or imploding. The Cold War itself was driven by Stalin's "defensive" expansionism and ended with the internal Soviet realization that they had gained strong political control over massive resources and yet the entire system didn't work as advertised. They could not compete with the freer economies that ironically were also relying more and more on central plans. China itself was given a new life because the USA is deceived about what the New Deal did to every aspect of life in the USA. Many stupid Americans now see China as "post Communist" and putting together their own "New Deal" just like FDR! LOL! That's how stupid Marxist materialists are. The only reason the USA is still in this relatively strong (per capita GDP) is a happy accident of divided government Federalism. Without that the USA would be more France or Germany. Because all of the 'thought leaders' of the "post industrial" world think the same in Europe and the Americas. They're delusional idiots.
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  5117. You people are always wrong. I wrote about this years ago. If you properly apply Fourteenth Amendment "incorporation" doctrine the Federal courts must protect people from any government action that goes against the rights of citizens. The Constitutional rights take priority over what people classify as "civil" rights like the right to have State or local commissions mediating in these little whinge fests. But the problem that you totalitarians have is that the CRA basically says that "public accommodations" can not "discriminate" gratuitously. Refusing to sell "ready stock" or provide "standard services" to anyone in a "public accommodation" (there are two classes of public accommodation, one from the CRA and the other from the Americans with Disabilities Act) and if you synthesize the CRA, the ADA, and 14th Amendment incorporation doctrine, nobody can force custom services. Pepole can "discriminate" most of the time and there is nothing that you can or should do about it. Only in a narrow area of "public" life is it if rational to try to "eradicate bigotry" and the law has already clearly defined that. The reason we're arguing these issues all over again is because of the SCOTUS "gay marriage" ruling so now normal, allowable "discrimination" is being examined again under the rubric of "now it's protected" or "new understanding" doctrine. You can not lawfully force bakers and photographers or any other custom goods and services to enter in to contracts that they wish to not enter in to. You have to first show X is a "public accommodation." Custom cakes (or any custom goods) are not "public accommodation." The bakers that offer the custom products usually have "ready stock" and "standard services" that are consistently offered to all in accordance with the Civil Rights Act. Are you going to sue a designer for refusing your work? How about a custom shoe maker? You have to prove first that they are offering standardized commercial contracts/transactions to everyone else already and then you can get around "religious" or other objections. I am sure nobody here has a problem with bakers refusing to make cakes honoring German Nazis or whatever. It is the EXACT same principle. Grow up.
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  5126. The lawless cult is actually very predictable. It's the same small pool of activists and their lawyers. Once the RICO investigations spool up the DNC and their hired hands (and cult insiders) can all be sued in to oblivion. Legitimately. And then criminal prosecutions can be built on top of the evidence produced for the tort courts. If the USA is still standing as a republic, the backlash should be unprecedented and it should continue for years. Just like the Mafia crime family prosecutions, but even bigger. Far bigger. The organized evil by the US Democratic Party has far exceeded the Mafia crime families many times over. For many decades. Even if you give them "reboot" since JFK and RFK were assassinated. They restarted up the OC racketeering before JFK's body was cold. They had no problem targeting RFK after easily getting away with removing JFK. That is how they roll. FDR was bad. But "The Deep State" took over DC with the assassination of JFK and that is the state of DC politics. Since then they have tried to continue to bring this same control to each State and ensure that no "Republican" can come in and spoil what Marxists call "hegemony" in DC, throughout the country, and every key font of economic and political power in the entire world. These people are criminally insane. I can give you a list of the certifiably insane by name. The others go along out of fear and the idea that this is "Realism". Like certain Pentagon feminists and so forth. They speak gibberish because they too are afraid that this is the best choice that they have to "Save Our Democracy". Idiots, all of them. BTW, Chuck Schumer knows every bit of this. "Seven ways 'til Sunday" basically means crime families never sleep. This is always been true. Wake up to the fact that DC is run by an OC cult. Many of the probably think that this is "Our Democracy" meaning the best or only way to govern in this age. They're criminals and idiots. Power corrupts. Nobody denies it. Imagine destroying checks and balances in a republic that brought European fascist and the Japanese warlord culture to their knees in the same year and ended the war with more arms read to employ, week after week. The longer the war went on, the stronger our military became. War of attrition? LOL. Some of these people believed that they inherited the world. And it is those kinds that want to cling to it no matter what happens. They are the careerists looking for more careerists even though there is really no need to have an endless state of "We're always at war!" footing. This isn't about the culture of the USA (though that too has been destroyed) but the culture of the DC careerists. Time to clean house.
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  5133. This is nonsense. Collectivists are the ones that conflate evil nations with evil occupants. That's the actual definition of fallacious collectivist thinking. Most Republicans are liberal minded even if they personally choose to vote for "socially conservative" policies from someone's biased point of view. Reason media has too many "Libertarian" collectivists. I know you're against "Collectivist" governance, you say. I get it. But "Individualism" isn't a special mutation. Lots of Libertarian identitarians are inherently collectivist in thought. Liberals and libertarians don't need to identify themselves with labels. First demonstrate ordinary critical thinking. Then demonstrate that you understand where "leftism" comes from and what the founding doctrines are. You can't explain "Reasoning" if you don't know where these societal schisms come from. I know what you think and a lot of times you're wrong. WRT Soviet Communism versus whatever Russia is doing, certainly the people have more "democratic" control over Putin than any other leader from Soviet Russia or Russian monarchy. It's externally imposed Manichean thinking to suggest that anyone has "flipped" on Russia. FDR was closer to Stalin than to Churchill all duing WWII until FDR's death. The Democratic Party has always been cheering for Communism since that time if not before. Period. Russia is no longer Communist like any other regime. They are the first post-Communist fascist regime. And because of all the baby talk that has taken place in all of our academies and big media 'news' and entertainment we can't say something like 'Russia is now more like Nazi Germany than Soviet Russia' without that be taken as "calling out 21st century Hitlerian fascism". Because aside from Hitler's Final Solution the Soviet Communist regime was always far worse than the German Nazi regime. Putin is like Hitler without the "Final Solution" and even Hitler reborn would not need to take all of those measures because the material conditions in Russia have never been anything like Hitler faced. Period. And because Putin the individual, even if he shares most of his thinking with Hitler, is never going to be trapped in to acting in that way unless he really believes that "NATO" wants to "genocide" the Russian people. Putin knows that "liberal democracies" don't support anything like genocide. Russia expansion in to Ukraine is meant to defend itself from creeping CCP hegemony. He wants to trade with the liberal democracies while showing fealty to China's CCP. China is the one expanding in to Asia in every direction and in every route of commercial and trying to corner the world's most valuable natural resources. Do you think Putin doesn't understand what threatens Russia? People rarely say the most obvious things out loud. The Democratic Party pivot against Russia/Putin is all about DNC fascists getting in to a tiff with Putin while Putin became more like the US Democrats than any Soviet Communist ever did. That means either Putin submits to the US Democrats as the new "Vanguard Party" (under Leninism) or at the very least starts to "cooperate" more with European and American leftism. They didn't make this an obvious fight until Hillary needed a distraction from her own CGI and related "email" scandals. She tried to use a political "neg" trope on Trump. And it just grew from there. The only people that took that accusation theory are morons like James Comey, who is also a liberal fascist that doesn't know where any of his own thoughts come from. The jingoistic Republicans are stupid careerist politicians are have become more ignorant with each week, month and year that they spend in DC.
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  5144. The last POTUS to exercise absolute rule was FDR. The "Deep State" did not defer to Truman. The rift has grown since then. Reagan was a hard pill to swallow and yet there were still enough people in the Deep State that actually wanted to win the Cold War. But they still did treat him as an imbecile. With Trump the fear was far greater because none of them wanted to solve any of the blatant problems that Trump called out and legitimately brought to his campaign and Presidential platform. What I'm trying to say is that Biden is the worst but this is just an escalation from the same problem that we've had ever since Clinton "normalized" the CCP as "a form of democracy". The Deep State started to regard itself as the virtual "vanguard party" under Lenin's "Democratic centralism". Perhaps that makes it easier to understand why the elected sheep constantly bleat references to Our Democracy. Biden and Harris are worse than Obama and Biden. But does it matter? Biden is better for us because of how blatantly lost he is. It's so, so obvious what is going on. Biden has no idea what he's signing. And he was an abject idiot for his entire tenure in the Senate. He was known to be an idiot that threw up a lot of bullshit to taint Constitutionalist judges. The US Democrat Party was created to mold its own view of the Constitution and one party rule that it craved. I'm guessing that the Nazis, Italian Fascists and Russian Communists all looked to the Confederacy for a guide on how to pull of "Democratic" single party rule. And Orwell's Animal Farm was clearly inspired by both Stalin and FDR. The US Democrat Party is the "Pigs" party of Animal Farm.
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  5164. I agree that not all Democrats are evil. But once elected it's hard to understand why anyone would stay with the party once they see how it actually operates. Maybe in some States (certainly not in California) I can understand. All Democrats in DC are evil. Some are evil equivocators and the others are straight up, blatantly "liberal" evildoers who "liberate the demos" from phantasms of the party's creation. They still blame Republicans for losing their slaves and "labor struggles". And so called "Oligarchy" which means any powerful organization that goes against their zero-sum economics schemes (otherwise read "Critical Theory Marxism" for those that know the issues). Republicans are "monsters" and "Nazis" because these pathetic ignoramuses think that Capitalism is wage slavery and the "root cause" of all "Disparity" aka "Inequity". They dance around the specifics because Marx's labor value theory is a joke, disproven by all of history, and his "land reform" expectations only made sense in monarchies that did not allow equal access to own land. "Inheritance" was "wrong" because the material wealth had originally been granted by the monarch, in all of his examples. How does any of that apply to the USA? It doesn't. Even Stalin admitted that the US would never revolt as Marx had expected of "International Workers". But they still play with this BS in every academy from K-12 and every college they can coerce and take over. Critical Theory is not critical thinking. Changing labels and playing word game doesn't mean you're not relying on Marxist dogmas for the implied "value system" that underlies it all.
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  5188.  @pookz3067  "The core of traditional Marxist thought is dialectics and Marxist theory, and Chomsky almost never uses the former and rarely the later. " Nonsense. He has his own distinct lexicon but his dialectics involve the same Marxist- materialist analytical paradigms. He uses Critical Theory jargon and framework for the most part so that it sounds like he's applying his own distinct critical thinking but he's not. "Neo Marxists are steeped in the postmodernist tradition, which Chomsky actively critiques." LOL. Infighting. They're "tribalist" Neo-Marxists thanks to the likes of Dawkins. "It’s why he doesn’t get along with famous Marxists like Zizek." It's inherent to Critical Theory to strive chaotically to come up with the best "survival of the fittest" answers while never quite expecting to be able to fully explain why their ideas are "fittest" or "the best." Political power is the only "proof" that matters. That's where "Selfish Gene" starts and finishes. "Even the most “moderate” Marxists at least use Marx’s critiques of capitalism as a starting point." Those that choose to approach "disparity" from that angle do. Those that choose more oblique attacks, as in Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, all choose different starting points with all of the same assumptions. Marxists try to explain disparity and the cognitive dissonance of how incompetent people can be poor or "disenfranchised" without being personally responsible. Their victim status is taken for granted. They're victims of "the system" or "status quo institutions" and so forth. If you specifically offer evidence based criticism against something that can lead to ordinary critical thinking and constructive problem solving. If you reference paradigmatic institutions like "capitalism" or "patriarchy" or "neo colonialism" or any of that collectivist garbage you are highly affected by Critical Theory, which is basically Marxist excuses for why the international workers' revolution didn't bring about "Communism" or at least a clearly organized "dictatorship of the proletariat." An "Anarchist" by identity that relies on all of the institutions that he critiques...wtf is that? An actual anarchist works to become independent of any form of coercive social structures. Does he do that? Are you kidding me? He also identifies as "Libertarian" while attempting to explain human sentience as a hard materialist along the lines of Richard Dawkins. The man is very confused. Putting him on a pedestal doesn't do anyone any good at all. His entire lexicon is mendacious, at best. Also, anarchists would be supportive of natural property/liberty rights, not condemning "corporations" that form under the doctrines of free will and don't break the law. Anarchists are not against other people forming their own cooperative organizations. Everything Chomsky says is all about his POV as some wannabe messiah that is attempting to explain "disparity" and "injustice" of the "demos" that don't fall in line with his incoherent doctrines.
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  5220. The thing is that inspiring US Citizens should not disparage others. It doesn't. It's stupid. Marxist think that poor people exist because the rich stole from them. This is insanity. The rich got a bad rap for a short period of time when monarchs tapped their landed elites for commercial development in what is called the age of sail. And those countries affected (host and their colonies) might have unresolved land/property issues as we all transition to modern economies with mostly open markets everywhere. But the trend is also towards regulating everything as well. Because of the US position since WWII we are see as "The Font of Capitalism". This is absurd. And even if true they're doing nothing about true reform. What they're doing is following "Social Darwinist" theories that are basically all about French Jacobinism plus pseudoscientific Marxism. Think if Niccolo Machiavelli ran the world of today with total power simply by issuing fiat decrees. This is what Xi dreams about. Every Marxist regime dreams about this theory and possibility. The entire reason for Putin turning towards evil in the past 20 years is how China has repositioned itself as "good guys" in the "war on terror". Putin fully understands how Obama and his party turned that on "Capitalism" as the "root cause" of all "terrorism". And Obama is not even personally what people would call a radical. He just floated up in that party as they cultivated his image. And his wife is really an angry Critical Theory Marxist. She's one of the worst. I think she became the main tool to control Obama as a mild-mannered radical politician.
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  5291.  @kellyupdyke8141  What I noticed this time is that the digital crimes were small scale or nonexistent. The traditional ballot scams, however, were in full effect. 2020 was a watershed moment in theft but also an awakening. They played defense the entire time since then but they knew they could not repeat the most blatant frauds. And most people didn't even realize it was legal in the US to use computers (Windows machines that can't even pass basic security tests for "corporate" use, for sure none can pass minimal Federal standards). Federal cybersecurity law is always in effect if there is any nexus with any Federal institution. States run the elections to send winners to DC. Hence Federal law must be followed in everything but clear Constitutional prerogatives (like control of State Electors). BTW, this is also why our schools deliberately cultivate ignoramuses even if they expect to cultivate "science and tech" geniuses. Almost all student because cultivated ignoramuses in philosophies, critical thinking and especially how "words" and rhetoric shape court cases and how judges are supposed to defend the proper reading of the US Constitution itself. Even some of the brightest people that I know get lost in parsing legitimate Constitutional interpretation from the frauds. "It's complicated". Only because of this problem with our schools. Respect for precedents only has limited application in a Constitutional republic. Generally, in the British system, higher courts can't overturn their own precedents unless they have a new argument. In the US the Supreme Court is not supposed to create any precents that have the effect of new legislation. If SCOTUS had freed the slaves this would have been by protecting legitimate due process guarantees for the petitioners. When SCOTUS abrogated Roe v. Wade that was precisely what they're supposed to do for bad legislation and the actual SCOTUS holding was insane. It was legal brick-building for the destruction of the entire Bill of Rights by creating so many "rights" arguments that only SCOTUS or some future supermajority of Marxists could decide on anything. That's now what it means to have rights protections in court. SCOTUS "Marriage" was from a legal perspective even worse. All marriage rights fall under "Civil Rights" and making male and female fungible is not something any US court can ever legally do.
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  5292.  @LaCommentaire  You have to understand taht this is a cult, not really a cult with a single leader that can send marching orders down the line like Hitler, Stalin or any other totalitarian Marxist regime. And even at the very top you have consensus, not total agreement on contingency plans and so forth. Even the details on the local level are kept isolated from the top people who give strategic planning and guidance. What that means is that they have general ideas on how to shut down Trump, how to steal elections, how to employ lawfare and so forth. Even the January 6 lawfare that was planned from the top had State level idiots wanted to catch some action and while they did coordinate with the Biden regime, it's like the blind leading the blind. They are united only by their malevolent intentions and guiding ethos. And the risks kept increasing at Trump and his supporters refused to cave. Kamala as President requires more gaslighting and cheating than Biden did and they didn't have "COVID" to do. Even if they did plan another "natural outbreak" the public has grown wiser and more properly cynical. So, basically, they're really run out of options that could have been planned in advance. The thing that will start all over again are the 'Hitler' tropes and the histrionics in Congress and they'll see how far they can get with that. Even Kammy knows by instinct that that is now all that they have. Listen to her angry Marxist concession 'Keep fighting Patriarchy (Capitalism)' speech. So really, they are in much worse position than they were when Obama was getting ready to receive Trump and had already activated that moron James Comey and his FBI minions. Plus Andrew Weissmann (and the likes of Jack Smith) were already on alert once Trump won in 2016. They're almost entirely played out. They have to start over but the one thing they want give up on is faith in the Communist Manifesto and Marxist "global solidarity". Something will occur to them but the good guys have them well covered. They declared war on us and it took almost year years for some to realize it. Now we all know the score. Their agenda only ever had the potential to destroy. We'll see what they come up with next.
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  5418.  @LSBESQ  Ellis was overcome by the Marxist gaslighting and made to believe that she had no right to take those positions. What they do to lawyers is talk only about bogus SCOTUS precedents to make you feel that you're an anarchist that is not recognizing "Progress" and that is supposedly like returning the nation to the days of slavery because supposedly the Constitution as written supported chattel slavery when the truth is that this cult has always bent any text at any time to get their way. These are slavers using a different scheme. As if Stalin was for "Equity" and was totally not racist because...Marxism something something? And as I used to say all the time, the first thing that is drilled in to students is "punching up" doctrine. She was "punching down". And then have all of these tropes that they drill in to you when they want to destroy your independent thinking. Ellis was "punching down" and must repent. She had her conscience crushed. She will probably recover after a few years of Trump and be able to talk about it only after Trump is vindicated not just under the law but lives a few months or years as POTUS again. But basically they accused Ellis of technical violations that are not violations for the same exact reason all of the accusations against Trump were bogus. And that is that Trump as President must follow "the Constitutional law of Presidents". Which he did. Not the Progressive gaslighting version where they say who is legitimate and who isn't. The Marxist cult has gone full blown Stalinist and they simply didn't quite make it. They almost got their revolution.
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  5431. What is astounding is that these liars must know that "disinformation" is not a legally actionable term under US law. In any way at all. And yet these Communists in the USA are now using it to allude to "national security" and "emergency" doctrines that have no legitimacy whatsoever as they are employing these terms. If you're at CIA or NSA and you judge as a matter of educated speculative analysis that, say, Russia is spreading "disinformation" and so forth you're basically accusing them of "propagandizing" something or the other like the illegitimacy of property rights, cultural superiority of Communism or Russians or whatever, something of that nature. That's just advice (from the "intel community") for the sake of international relations. That's not even serious national security fodder per se. For these tyrants to allude to "disinformation" spread through "social media" is tacit admission that these platforms of been politicized. OK. But now they're using the standards of a foreign rival to judge X is "disinformation." Hmm. So, Facebook (and Google...ahem) are using the Communist POV and Chinese Communist interests to judge "disinformation" when people point in their direction for culpability about the virus or labor camps or organ harvesting and whatnot. Not that any of those things are even untrue. They're just inconvenient to the Chinese Communist Party. And now you have the same standards for the Communist Party in Cuba. What this really means is that all of these "social media" corporations are taking investment and policy advice from Communists. Not yet illegal. What's illegal is rather than just helping China police speech in its sovereign domain they are helping Communists police "world" speech according to Chinese Communist Party interests and they are not disclosing it in accordance with US law. That's a problem and that is why they need to be fined and split up under Antitrust law. That does not yet address Biden and DNC culpability. Biden and many others need to be sued personally for violations of the civil rights of the specific persons and institutions that have been harmed by their illegal collusion with these "media" technology companies. And all need to be investigated under the big net of a RICO investigation. This big net would include pretty much all of the big stories of major malfeasance starting in the spring and summer of 2012 (and possibly much earlier) and up until this day. The Trump lawsuit that has already been filed can and should grow in many ways. It should branch out more or less as I've outlined.
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  5470. Misinformation is a concept that comes from State Intelligence doctrines. IOW, we're facing an existential threat and either Communists will win or "liberal democracy" (good faith republicanism) will win. Verifiable "scientific" proof is not what we're talking about. We're talking about managing perceptions and so forth. For a country like the USA to use such psyops on its own population should let you know just how much the Marxists have gained illegitimate power in US institutions. All US institutions. In academia this concept would be questioning what is objectively true, what is mere opinion, and what is objectively false. The liars in power apparently are afraid to stop lying. Btw, the concept of "Artificial Intelligence" goes back to the Nazi decipher project. Alan Turing ran a project to use a machine to speed up decryption. The information gathered is often called "intelligence" in State Security operations. Apparently there was a phase of the operation where they became very excited to be able to "crack the code" with this new machine and then pass along warnings to the allies. But they then realized that it would defeat the purpose to suddenly help allied ships runaway from sub attacks after being warned. They wanted to figure out how to crack the code and then change the message and misdirect the subs so that the sub commanders and the Nazi controllers all believed that the system was still intact and at the same time the allies would be able to change results in their favor in the most significant way. The process of make "fake" messages with this system would have been "artificial intelligence" or "pseudo" or "fake" intelligence passed along as real. This was conflated with "machine algorithms" because that is what the Turing machines were all about. It was also conflated with what Alan Turing called "The Imitation Game" where humans tried to impersonate and deceive "experts" with fallacious information. For these scumbags to go around using terms like "misinformation" to discredit citizens asking questions and expressing rational uncertainty in these blatant Marxist claims (like it's racist to implement voter ID) is the height of Maoist and Stalinist gaslighting. And that is what they are trying to do.
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  5480.  @samman3688  Because for many decades they first scare the public with "existential threats" like The Great Depression and "Fascism" (as they run the US like a fascist party). And as they pass legal challenges through the courts they constantly gaslight the public to represent "the reality" of "Disparity" and so forth. First it's an "existential threat" only solved by "reorganizing the economy" and Stalin emerges as FDR's BFF. The gaslighting has not abated since that time. But as "woke" tropes percolate through the media, the courts and so forth the Progressive judges sort of go along with supposed "liberal" interpretations where "liberal" means liberating the "wage slaves" or "Proletariat" as Marxists called this phantom class of victims. At the same time the Marxist academics fill out "communities" of victims to create a broad story board and make the 'struggle of the proletariat' seem like a real thing that is simply misunderstood by the non-woke. Non-woke only see people free under the US Constitution and the rule of law but that is itself the map for Oppression of Capitalist Wage Slavery. And so forth. It's been going on for so long that it's likely that very few of these morons even understand what kind of delusions they've been fed full time since FDR and then gradually more centrally planned state control from the New Deal onward. Moving from one fake emergency to the next. And here we are. You thought Climate Change was over the top? You're right. Now look at Covid and Trans Rights hysteria to simply add to the "fear" that is supposed to make everyone understand why Stalin was really the good guy. But one thing I forgot to emphasize is that you can follow the slippery slope gaslighting and the SCOTUS rulings that mark their progress (progressive Marxism and destruction of the US Constitution as an authoritative document) decade by decade and you can see that the Demon Rats have been doing this since Andrew Jackson and never really stopped, ever. Before the Civil War it was all about "State Rights" (under one party rule) and then The Confederacy (also one party rule). After that they lost the Civil War and struggled to regain power by first assassinating Lincoln and inheriting the White House as a direct result of that assassination. They also played "bad cop, good cop" by conjuring up "Progressivism" to try to use against "Northern Patricians" (Republicans) and at night many of these same people put on (white) masks and robes to terrorize the newly freed slaves/Republican politicians. They try to cloak these wars but they have never abated. They attract new kinds of morons that have no idea but still promote all of this tyranny as "Progressivism". Thanks to Marxist control over all public school institutions and many colleges. Certainly all teachers unions are corrupted by the Marxist mind virus.
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  5496. She grew up on the idea that Marxism is Science of Social Justice and basically by the time Obama got elected to the Oval Office they thought he was a materialist harbinger of Progressive Social Justice. Obama's "elections have consequences" meant to these cultists that the some for dissent or liberty for Capitalists had ended. But basically, everyone has know since forever that fiat currency circulation can be used by central planners to balances budgets without the demos having to approve of new legislation for wealth transfers. It's a way to "socialize" wealth and "the macroeconomy". She probably can't explain where this errant sense of "common sense" (IOW, they know "facts" that "uneducated" people don't understand) but she's just certain because everyone around her on the "elite class" keeps repeating the dogmas of Progressive Democracy (Fabian Communism). For Communists, inflation is a VERY good thing to impose on Post Industrial Developed Nations. And it is intentional, I promise you. The whole "COVID Climate Change" package AKA "The Great Reset" was planned by the CCP and Communist allies in Europe and the USA, perhaps in South America as well. The real harbinger for the CCP was Bill Clinton selling them anything that they wanted to support "Post Industrial America" and Bush 43 was too caught up on his Global War on Terror to think about having to negotiate with Communist China. He thought he would finish his Progressive Crusade before the end of his second term. All of the Communist and "socialist" regimes want forever wars because those are also favorable to centrally planned wealth transfers and ultimately the complete elimination of the middle class or what Marxists call petit bourgeoisie.
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  5511. Mussolini liked to march and dress like a modern version of a Roman military leader or maybe a modern Roman Dictator. So Hillary wears pantsuits. Soft fascism. And the softies in the USA can't always abrogate the written Constitution at will, so...soft. Hillary is actually like Evita Peron if Evita lived long enough to turn in to an insane hag. She's a Peronist for sure. A Peronist in the USA. Think about how insane that is because virtually all modern republics had to establish "democracy" in light of established land rights and ownership where the "ruling classes" didn't just have official political power but also personal land holdings that dwarfed what anyone else could control. The USA was founded on territory that was wide open and the Citizens had plenty of opportunity to expand and develop land and so forth. And not only that but when we figured out how to mine energy the Constitution did not allow for "public ownership" of these extractions. All of the other republics had to deal with "socializing wealth" on lands that had already been largely developed. IOW, taking public ownership of lands and mineral rights was the only way to fund "social programs" because they also did not have a massive middle class to tax. This is why I am less critical of socialists in Europe and similar republics that go through these transitions. It's pure insanity when US politicians act like we need "land reform" and every increasing "Progressive" taxes because it's very, very obvious that they're not even using it for social programs for our own Citizens. It's a warmongers slush fund and then send money around to aid their party (not national) allies. Even Ukraine is like two different countries where half of them are fascists trying to break away from neo-Fascist Russia. But returning to Hillary, she's been this insane since Nixon was Impeached. She wants to "socialize" the USA because the power appeals to her. She's a Maoist. A Maoist in the USA wants to overcome, what oppression exactly? They are the oppressors. The slavers looking for a new angle.
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  5529.  @edwardwalsh5477  That's too simple. Study the US founders and you'll understand exactly why this didn't happen sooner. But the truth is that Marxism in America was nurtured by Jacobin socialists (who had a roughly parallel revolution in France) and then this Napoleonic style tyranny was modeled by the Confederacy to preserve "States' rights" with no actual obedience to the US Constitution except when convenient. This cult lives on until this day. You can trace their yearning for tyranny not just from the Civil War but with each election cycle from the assassination of Lincoln until Biden. Looking back to the time before the founders, they were concerned about obedience to any dogmatic belief system. For example believing in "a higher power" with a pope as its early representative had all of those elements you mentioned. Many popes were tyrants and had their own armies and often mustered armies from around "Christendom" in order to achieve political aims "In the name of Christ". The governing doctrines of the founders, at least the ones captured in the US Constitution, came from the doctrines of Jesus including Jesus's caveats about Mosaic law. IOW, Mosaic law is great and was the standard for the Israelites up until the Messiah ended that period of history. It's not that Mosaic law failed but that it was somewhat tyrannically in order to protect the nation needed to bring for the Messiah. The caveats of Jesus like "Judge others as you would have others judge you" meant that going forward nobody could pretend to be "sent by God" to judge any other humans except by standards that they themselves are also willing to face. The best example of that is English common law traditions carried forward with the American colonies and then preserved in text by the US Constitution. But the evil Jacobin cult never gave up and after losing the Civil War they came up with "Progressive" (Marxist) doctrines to create a spectrum of authority not allowed by the text of the Constitution. They turned the courts in to "Brain Trusts" when they got their way and "Capitalist Oppressors" when they didn't. And they have created Soviet style governance in the USA decade by decade and it can be argued that Lenin himself, once he took power, had to invent what Mussolini called Fascism and many of their doctrines were inspired at least in part by the US Democratic Party of decades prior to all of that. If take Woodrow Wilson and the terms where he ruled, he took power between the major Russian revolutions. Lenin came up with his "New Economic Policy" during that time and published it in 1921. He sort of fused US Progressivism with Marxism under "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" and the basic framework for Fascism and Nazim was born. While Hoover was President, FDR came up with his "New Deal" paradigm that obviously borrowed heavily from European Fascism. The Constitution still enables a lot of resistance an defense was easy until the culture war got sprung. Suddenly everyone thought it was OK to have an "Arsenal of Democracy" to fund Stalin's "defense of Russia" because we're to presume that Nazism was the exact opposite of glorious Russian Communism that FDR expected to "democratically" take over all of Europe. And if you think WWII or Reagan ended Marxism in the USA...please. The first thing Clinton did was prop up China as "nascent capitalists" for the kind of "Post Communist" world as described by the highly delusional Francis Fukuyama, who inspired George Bush to combine the Global War on Terrorism with "(Democratic) Nation Building" as the insane Marxist Progressive cult pretends to successfully lead since Woodrow Wilson beat Taft. And even Teddy Roosevelt was acceptable to the Marxists because they thought "trust busting" would spark the (Marx-predicted) war on property rights itself.
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  5530. Critical Theory explicitly replaces critical thinking. Sorry. Critical Race Theory is a dogmatic set of critiques that don't just criticize but bundle "critiques" with conclusions. Critical Theory dogmas include Freudian and Marxist (not to mention Darwinist) drawn conclusions as unassailable facts. And the real problem is that Freud and Marx had explicit theories to explain why "nonbelievers" were "wrong" with "false consciousness" AKA "cognitive dissonance". That's why these Critical Theory defenders are spouting this nonsense as "just criticism" because they think that "Reactionaries" can't accept their "(enlightened/woke) Community Truth". These doctrines are also repeated by philosophers through today, especially since the Russians started to go around the world "evangelizing" Communism in any way that they could. Those entire phase of "neo/cultural Marxism" started in the Paris Peace Conference and spread simultaneously to the Marxist academics all around the world. This is why these lunatics repeat Critical Theory banalities as if they are "woke" or "enlightened" and speaking to children. Because they are inculcated to believe, as I said above, that "Reactionaries" and "Science Deniers" can't accept these theories that "prove" the "social need" for Marxist socialism. AKA Communism. As doctrinaire atheists, the also take "social sciences" as beyond comprehension of people that disagree with them because you don't understand the human hive mind, especially if you have "God delusion" gene or "adjacent" selfish interests. IOW, if you think it's OK to keep your own things and grow your own prosperity and decide on your own whether you want to give individuals and organizations charitable contributions you are a science denier. This is conflated with "racist" and "fascist". Depending on what smear they feel will resonate and "land" at any given moment.
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  5531. This dude (that looks like a lady) went to law school, supposedly. Ford Pardoning Nixon is so far from relevant. So far. Nixon could also have used an immunity defense. He was never charged and never Impeached, actually. None of the court rulings made any freaking differences other than in "Impeachment rules" to subpoena Executive Branch documents related to the Impeachment investigation. Tapes, in Nixon's case. The Ford Pardon was itself stupid but at least is shut the effing Communists up for a little while. Sort of. Trump did not get Impeached for these alleged crimes. But even if he did that doesn't mean he's subject to criminal prosecution because "High Crimes" are not ipso facto actionable in a freaking court of law. Where do they come up with this insane BS? It's not like she's forced to offer her opinion on this matter that she clearly has no idea about. I guess what she understood "absolute" to mean is that Trump claims to be absolutely UNIVERSALLY immune. By "absolute" he means there is no question. And he's right. It's like arresting a licensed pilot for stealing a plane that he was scheduled and authorized to fly. All the accusations against Trump are rooted in the unspoken "community sense" that Trump was not ever authorized to act as sworn President. The trope started with "Putin's puppet" and Comey's nonsense "higher calling" treason that is still expanding like crazy. It is called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" but that's only a cultural artifact. This is a Communist project to destroy the USA.
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  5533.  @pwrofmusic  "first you need understand what the UN is for. " I already told you what it is for. If you have a better explanation then spit it out. "Why does the UN give aid to places if it doesn't has nothing to do with internal conflicts." The UN has no collective motive or emotions. Get real. If you want to discuss the motives of those that pay out versus those that collect that might be an interesting conversation that I doubt you could even follow. "Why does it have humanitarian assistance?" What was the first assistance that "it" handed out? Whatever the answer it has nothing to do with what I laid out. The UN is a diplomatic institution. It is a place where sovereigns are invited to meet according to a sort of pecking order and it has "subcommittees" that are also not understood at all by casual commenters like yourself. At the end of the day it is where nations come together to avoid war and under certain theories this involves preaching to each other and handing out money when the sovereign feels they can afford to do that with such a fat tax base to manipulate for its own ends. And the truth is that the UN itself was formed in the aftermath of WWII and the birth of Communist imperialism. So that complicates matters if we're to discuss whether it adheres to its original mission. In a lot of cases the nations that come in good faith as believers of the General Assembly have lots of good conversations and it has turned in to a way to get together and suggest emergency responses and so forth. That still falls under good faith diplomacy. The UN is not itself a bank or wealth store that people vote in concerning a UN fund unless nations voluntarily contributes to those dedicated funds. This has nothing to do with perceptions of "democracy" or "international justice" or whatever except that each nation can add commentary along with their donations and so forth. There is nothing wrong with this use of the UN. The UN and other institutions are premised on good faith dialog and good faith dialog requires a shared worldview where the participants understand the conflicts of interests and interests in common. That's never really existed at the UN because Marxism is a cult that turns all good faith discourses upside down and wants to endlessly confuse everyone else. Even their own allies. Again, if you have something that you think has value you should just state your theory and or explanation rather than ask "smart" questions.
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  5559.  @CJ-ik8qf  Are you effing insane? Do you even know how to read? A source for my "wild claim"? Do you even understand the US Constitution in what it says and how it was created? Congress can not pass any law to restrict Constitutional prerogatives. They can't pass a "law" that requires SCOTUS Justices to disclose this, that and the other. The Senate helps vet judge and then the only valid way for to remove the is through Impeachment. WRT "National Security" in the Federal lane, POTUS is the elected god. You need to Amend the Constitution if you want to legally restrict his Constitutional prerogatives. And BTW, POTUS has exclusive power to fire anyone in the Federal Executive Branch at will. You're a brainwashed socialist kook that thinks you have a decent education when you've been lapping up lies for your entire life. You never learned to perform your own "due diligence" investigation before posing as erudite "common sense" critic. And finally, the legislation that has been enacted pertaining to National Security Intelligence is perfectly consistent with what I wrote. Only by "cherry picking" or stripping out Presidential powers and pretending that some "crimes" can be aimed at POTUS can you then say "Oh, we have the law on our side". No, you don't. You're an arrogant ignoramus. You're totally unaware of your own cognitive and educational deficits. If you want to study the "wild idea" of how the freaking US Constitution works I suggest a short course on Oliver Cromwell and how Parliament came to rule over the British monarchy through war and regicide. That's the political context that the colonists understood. They wanted to improve on that. If you don't understand that even a little bit you want really understand the importance of the "3 branches" and "checks and balances" paradigms. If you want to take out a President you have to Impeach, Remove and then prosecute according to the evidence. And you have to have an actual crime to get a conviction. Or, it used to be that way. There are so, so many of you nutjobs now that we don't even really have a republic. We have a one party dictatorship.
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  5607. This is failed analysis derived from unrealistic and improper expectations. The problem is that the rule of law in Washington was corrupted years ago. You can't just "reboot" a government and suddenly show everyone, like in some computer game, that you're tackling all of the nation's enemies and criminals. He's doing exactly what I had expected him to do. Trump has been publicly pressuring, which helps calm ignorant people, but at the same time, Trump's lack of nuanced understanding of Conastitutional rule of law has led to Sessions being jammed up by the criminal cabals and he has had to turn over the reins to a far less competent Rosenstein, for the time being. That does NOT mean that justice will not prevail under Session's leadership. The only real "points" being scored that matter is that the criminals are getting away with leaks. Only a few arrests but that it getting better too. The problem is that you don't know what to expect and you don't know how long criminal investigations take if you actually plan on prosecuting people. If you politicize it and drag it all out in the public before you get your prosecution agenda organized you might become more popular politically but you make it very easy for the accused to ultimately avoid prosecution. That is why in Washington the big cases usually end up as "scandals" where some small fish is the only one ever prosecuted. Sessions is maybe the first US AG in history that is attempting to bring them all to justice without demagogic compromises. The bottom line is that Mueller's damage has been done. Mueller helped fuel "the resistance" for Trump's first year. If that was his goal then he really didn't accomplish much. The tide is turning already. The actual controversies, the true "risks" for long term success or failure, will be quantified when we see how all of this bullshit affects the midterm elections. That is what matters. If the Republicans get more serious rule of law candidates and get rid of the traitors without bringing more Democrats, that will be huge. And that will determine the success of Trump's agenda. But actually, the most important thing Trump must do is restore SCOTUS and so far he's one for one on that. Things only seem bad because corporate media and the criminal Democrats are screaming louder than ever. But they're losing. They only "win" if they fool enough voters again.
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  5677. The adults whining about loss of racial quotas dogmatically believe that they, as individuals, still need these protections. Think about it. They know they gained a measure of "racial equity" in the past but that's not enough. They're afraid that they will now get culled based on actual merit. The truth is that most "white collar" workers in "Post Industrial" America have cushy jobs spending most of their time wasting lot of time playing and virtue signaling. This has nothing to do with race. But leftists think that Post Industrial society is supposed to be that way and that centrally planned "fairness" is the only kind. They think inherited wealth is everything. And that whatever wealth the current generation holds was due only to "connected" ancestors. Period. Therefore, Communism is the only "just" solution. Racial quotas were only a marginal step in the "march forward" towards Total Equality as defined by Marxists. These are Fabian Marxists. They deny being Communists when convenient solely for the purpose of deflecting from the fact that every Communist leader since Lenin talked about incrementalism and indicated that the expected, global "international workers' revolution" (seizure of all private capital) was obviously not going to pan out since WWI ended in the Paris Peace Conference and all of the "nationalist" reassembled as before the Great War, even though there's been a steady overturning of monarchy and colonialism (where a foreign nation rules over a smaller, sort of "occupied" nation by overlord political representative from the liege aka "Imperialist" state).
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  5680.  @bombkangaroo  You're too obviously correct. The problem is that these people don't understand anything at all. Marx created a Manichean two-class atheist religion. This religion includes the belief that critics are either deluded or in on the "Oppression". Fascism was really created in the USA by the US Democratic Party as it evolved from "reactionary" defense of chattel slavery to "liberal" terrorism with the KKK and "Democratic" Marxism as "Progressives" using whatever Marxist "labor rights" tropes that helped them consolidate power under single party rule. The first openly Marxist "fascist" regime was actually under Lenin and his NEP. Mussolini came after that and used all of the superficial trappings to harken back to a rebooted "Roman Empire" origin story and stupid people think that that is the relevant feature of "fascism". Now, every paranoid zero-sum-economics regime is called "fascist" by the other fascists that want to smear them. Zero-sum ecomics means the people believe in Marxist dogmas like "property is theft" and the dogma that "wage slavery" is the "proven result" of allowing "Capitalists" to hire people and keep some of the earnings to grow their own wealth. The idea that people get rich by building an enterprise that also enables workers to get rich is "delusion" in their book. You're either with them or against them. That's why Google, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. all have these stupid "Social Justice" programs. It's pure corporate virtue signaling that is useful to the "democratic" Marxist regimes. It's not quasi fascism. Black Rock are non-state fascist syndicate. Trying to do more or less the same thing that every other Marxist regime is trying to do. It's arguably illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act but nobody ever mentions actual offenders any longer since FDR and the binary "good vs. evil" Critical Theory analytical paradigm that has turned so many people in to abject morons.
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  5681.  @steveweast475  Capitalism doesn't have a clear definition except to Marxists, who call it a "phase of history" before Communism. Socialism is incremental Communism. Socialism is the incremental destruction of private property rights that allow "the rich" to use "the law" to defend the property that the socialists and Communists envy. Also, note the "ism" is a system or ideology. The thing Marx calls "Capitalism" is simply anything that allows people to keep property that Marxists envy and want to take away. Hence, it's all about "the property question". Capitalism is a leftwing construct to explain away their own personal deficits and recast them as virtues. Just as the Jacobins did before Marx's pseudoscientific dogmas came along to "prove" that property is in fact theft. According to this religion. Also note that according to Marxists the worst "Capitalist regime" is the USA and during Marx's time the whole idea was that "Capitalism" was illegitimate because the rich were all made that way simply through alliances with the monarchs of Europe and the land grants that made them rich and that they were allowed to pass on to their heirs. You don't have that here in the USA and never did. Furthermore, those land grants in Europe did not include mineral rights. In the USA the only one that ever claimed total land sovereignty was the British monarch. The colonies created a "3 branch government" Constitution that meant any power taken by any government must first be justified by the US Constitution. The people were otherwise free. The government could not just sit around looking for things to seize. This is exactly what happened in Europe as coal and oil was discovered as engines of wealth creation. So even if we say "Capitalism is the right to keep wealth" then that is not the same in every country. Not even close. And there is no "international rule of law" other than the law of treaties, which has no "due process" and boils down to good faith agreements and rare examples of actual enforcement. Using terms like "Capitalism" in such a simple way is all about deception but it is also a tool of the likewise deceived.
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  5684.  @harleydeclue2456  Capitalism is an agitprop term. If you want to defend liberty under the rule of law and address Marxist tropes then at least refer to it as "rule of law Capitalism". Because in the end, if you read the Communist Manifesto, they agree that the rule of law is a problem but don't actually explain it except with "Capitalism" tropes where "property is theft" and "wage slavery" only makes it worse. Rule of law Capitalism is where people can exploit their own reasons to get rich even of a majority of people surround your house and scream about how unfair it all is. They have to make a "rule of law" case against you before asking the government to intervene. That coupled with "castle doctrine" solves most problems. And it's a fact of history taht the first thing "socialists" asked for (after killing monarchs) was land reform. When that didn't help they started asking for wealth redistributions. When that didn't help they needed stories to explain why it's still the fault of the rich that poor people can't "get rich" or "become equal" by constantly complaining about storis invented by demagogic socialists that never learned how to solve any of the problems they complained about. Sometimes land reform is legitimate. But you have to make a rational case to define who is at fault and then put together a rational "rule of law" judgement. Same with taxation for the purposes of "lifting up the poor". These people are NEVER even taught how to use case studies to defend any of their demands or propositions. They're inculcated to believe that their demands are "playing a positive role" by applying "selective pressures" to the Oppressive Rich People aka Capitalism.
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  5686.  @logans3365  "8 days ago @bombkangaroo " the government is corporations, corporations use lobbying (bribes) to fund politicians campaigns on the promise that those politicians will write favorable legislation for them. " The government is corporations. If you're talking about the US government this is erroneous conflations. Corporation just means "body" or group that acts as a unified body. We use the term "corporations" because private sector corporations are supposed to be ruled by State law. Other governments have similar doctrines but different nomenclature. So in the USA "corporate law" is the law private corporations have to follow. They generally must register with the name of the corporate officers and so forth like small governments for the purpose of running that entity but they have no governing power at all. They can't enforce any laws on their own. They have to follow all laws of "corporations" and citizens. The US government itself is divided in to 3 branches and its power only comes from explicit language in the US Constitution. The fundamental thing that you're complaining about is, first of all, described like a simplistic Marxist so that there's no actual solution according to them. The thing you're complaining about is how somehow "corporations" are able to operate beyond the rule of law. You mention "lobbying" and conflate that with bribes. Bribes are illegal. Lobbying, as you call it, is protected under the First Amendment. Even for you. That is why the January 6 prosecutions are almost entirely unconstitutional. If they actually caught someone breaking a real law and prosecuted that person or persons that would be different. But that wasn't even their purpose. In any case, the root cause can clearly be traced back by anyone with a serious interest to do so. This is all about FDR's reign and what he did to get his "New Deal" scheme rammed through Congress and the courts. The whole mess was then blessed even further with something call the Administrative Procedures Act and that coupled with the cult that grew up around FDR and took hold first in the US State Department and then ever related agency after that (especially the Pentagon and finally the DOJ). The "lobbying" that is problematic is when they lobbyists petition agencies that have no legitimate "governing" power in the US Constitution. The voting public can't walk up to them and "lobby" or petition them either. You're supposed to petition Congress or the courts but by that time the schemes are already in play. By the way, the so called "Military Industrial Complex" in real life is the New Deal and its Arsenal of Democracy carried forth with WWII and Cold War missions that all took on a life of their own because nobody got away with criticizing FDR or what had been done. Even today you are called all kind of names and smeared as "fascist" for criticizing FDR, the most successful US fascist in all of history. Fascist regimes sometimes fight each other. Fascism is about having a shared worldview with Marxists but reject international solidarity. They make alliances but also reserve the right to attack dangerous rival regimes with all of the same fear Marxism is rooted in. The USA has a Constitution that could be said to be the original "rule of law Capitalist nation". The US Democratic Party never believe in the rule of law. The pivoted from defense of chattel slavery to "labor rights" under Marxist doctrines almost as soon as they took over the Oval Office as a result of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
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  5687.  @JacksonPaulsen  The thing that Marx called "Capitalism" is the most "democratic" thing that ever existed. He used examples from the early age of sail coming out of feudalism to pretend that that was the inevitable end result of Capitalism because "disparity" and "oppression" would supposedly accelerate. Not one prediction of his came true and his analysis was all about exceptions and claiming that these were rules. Every example he cited was due to concentrations of power that existed before wealth was created and concentrated. The age of Marx's calls for Communism were all about his prophecies totally failing where workers become "middle class" (not oppressive Capitalists and not wage slaves). People today who dream of "socialism" are the most delusional dreamers of all. They simply think its a "rule" that people will fail to make a good living by working for it. They're afraid to try. Made afraid by fearmongering demagogues that turned themselves into parasites as the only solution to this imagined "Capitalism". What you see when you look for proof is what you want to see to justify your fear. The problems of today are all about shrinking opportunities because of "socialist" doctrines. Climate Change above all should convince you that you've been scammed. Who is going to pay for your "Post Industrial Socialist Economy" once the socialists have destroyed all decent jobs? And once all of the decent jobs are destroyed who will pay the lawyers to sue the nonexistent "rich corporations" that all fled the "Post Industrial Economies"? The only people that believe Marx today are those that are terrified to find the truth. And the same goes for "Climate Change" history designed to strip all "capital" from everywhere but China where it is "democratized" in accordance with classic Marxism. And End of History Communism is even more delusional because once you politicize these things or "democratize" as Marxists like to say what you're really done is taken away all incentives to compete in good faith and instead defend something like the CCP calls "social scoring". What a joke. How can anyone not see the blatant lies? If you want to acquire things you need to get a job or start your own business and find clients that pay for something you can offer to them without lying.
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  5688.  @logans3365  You have trouble defining words like Capitalism. I read more of your comments and I see that you believe in textbook Marxism. To say you are guided "purely by logic" and deal only in dogmatic Marxist statements is silly. The "logic" that guides you is doctrinaire Marxism. That's just silly. Economic systems exist on a national level. Each nation will have significant differences. The thing Marx was ranting about was reducing all of history to stories that fit his "Oppressor versus Oppressed" Manichean atheist religion to replace Judaism and Christianity. The things that he was complaining about were natural in accordance with how political systems had been slowly developing to include more and more of the denizens. His grievances would have been logically limited to ossified class systems that were never possibly to overcome until "middle class" jobs became available thanks to the Industrial Revolution that he said would reduce all workers to slaves. He got everyone wrong. Why didn't you notice that? In any case, the monarchies still hold a lot of the national wealth in Europe so in that sense people there can still ask to "socialize" that property if they do so "democratically". But all of his rants are basically insane fear mongering because why would you expect peasants to vote on national policy for monarchs? And unless Marx was talking about plantation slaves in the US, what did he have to complain about in terms of "social justice"? Absolutely nothing. Rants against "Capitalism" are wholly insane. Especially for an American. There are still places today that can "socialize" mineral wealth if they choose but that's not doctrinaire socialism and has nothing to do with Marx, only mineral rights. Marx ranted against all private property rights. According to him it all had to go. The reason we have "lifted up the impoverished" is because we have promoted the rule of law for "liberal democracies" which means we have not "democratized" means of production but we have instead democratized political rights and that includes, must include, private property rights. Don't get me started on "greed" tropes. Marx wasn't simply wrong. He was very stupid and the solution in the real world was the thing that he demonized as inherently oppressive.
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  5732.  @Jack_Frozt  That's a hivemind comment. Look, what has happened is that Marxists and Critical Theory or "democratic" Marxists around the world are collaborating on a lot of projects that posit the demise of Westphalian sovereignty, a working class that can vote on rules of their "democracy", flattening of disparity be showing the ruling class as benevolent, altruistic (and not at all about eugenics and genocide) scientists, and all of the programs that lead in theory to the consolidation of "means of production" under control of this global ruling class. Working your way up on merit is racist in the sense that it must be eliminated in order to create Utopian Communism. And check your history books about what Marxists do when they take power through violence. The genocide starts during the power struggle and never abates. What Americans want can't be answered with simplistic tropes. It's delusional to make a comment like yours, especially when you completely gloss over who is pulling the strings and why. A lot of Americans are groomed to worship hedonism. Some desperate hedonists imagine getting a "Dot Com" job that grants them shares and lets them retire two years later as a billionaire just from the luck of "life's lottery". They're freaking cultivated idiots. And also, the Americans that do yearn to make money on YouTube and Twitter love the idea of collecting a salary from Google or from Elon Musk on the way to becoming billionaire "influencers". And yet the reality is that if we don't restore rule of law meritocracy within, I would say 12 months, these aholes will just start voting for the lying Marxists again for the next midterms and until the world blows itself up. We didn't just dodge a bullet. Harris is a tool of the genocidal Marxists. And yes, she is so stupid that she has no idea what she's actually arguing for.
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  5733.  @P4nikStudios  That's stupid. US made products cost more because of higher wages paid and the costs of the "regulatory regime" meaning everything from "Climate Change" to "Social Justice" BS. Hiring foreigners to keep them from competing with US corporations? Yeah, no. That doesn't happen. If there are foreigners with the potential to start their own manufacturing business they too can get visas and look for venture capital before they even arrive. That already happens and it doesn't result in cheaper products. Actually, lots of guys like Vivek came to the US in the same sector to start their own companies. And those guys are job creators. So it's not a problem. And new products in medical sectors don't ever put anyone out of business. It takes a long time for doctors to abandon the old even when trying the new products. Nobody from anywhere else is going to put any US company out of business. That's the job of the US government. It's called Social Justice, The Rise of China and Managed Decline for Post Industrial Economies. That's long way of saying that all leftists expect to send all manufacturing to one place in the world and the "First World" is "already developed" so it's time to "tighten the belt" (by concentrating wealth among the ruling oligarchs/plutocrats) in accordance with "international democratic solidarity". This is why the so called middle class must be destroyed. Middle class voters have expectations and skills that allow the to affect governance. Marxists can't tolerate nonbelievers. They're also Malthusian nutjobs on top of all of that. Hence the gaslighting and expected genocides.
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  5741.  @pamcooper5837  I agree with Mark Levin 100% on issues that I agree are essential to have consensus on. That idea is actually the very basis of liberty under the rule of law. And there's nothing I've ever heard first from him. It's just as easy for me to say that he agrees 100% with me. The doctrines that are being fought over existed long before the Civil War. He's right about the Democratic Party being formed as an anti-constitutionalist party. They're really like the French Jacobins in terms of how they decide what "true democracy" and so forth is. They (this cult that threatens peace all around the world) simply joined with the Constitutionalists to get rid of the British monarch's power over the American colonies. People forget, if they ever learn in the first place, that Napoleon was a Corsican infantryman that fought on the side of the "Third Estate" Jacobins. The cult of the "disenfranchised" that hold the power of the mobs. The US Democratic Party has always behaved like Jacobins trying to stir up mobs that they use to threaten those holding power or those threatening to displace them. Anyway, the point is that even Napoleon fashioned himself as a "republican Freedom fighter" when republicanism simply meant getting rid of the monarch. And then he made himself a monarch. LOL. But yeah, Mark is dead on and it's understood even better if you know the detailed history of politics in France and the UK in the centuries leading up to the US Revolution. You're more clear on exactly what the founders were referring to and how wisely they outmaneuvered evil demagogues.
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  5742. TBH even this video doesn't quite explain how absurd this situation is. Every informed person knew from before the 2020 elections that any reduction in US oil production, anything that affects any energy pricing (like forcing a premature shift to pure-electric-powered vehicles, would have a direct negative impact on costs at every level of "economic" activity. Just about every activity is negatively affected by costs. It's like a hidden "VAT" (value added tax) because costs go up at every layer that "value" is added. For them to double down on claiming that spending (wealth redistribution) reduces inflation is the biggest lie of human history. Sometimes they try to say "lower costs" (selectively, through cost shifting) so that people think they have a serious plan. They don't. And you know how inherently mendacious they all are because they doubled down with a bill called the Inflation Reduction Act that everyone knew (based on all of history and every sane economic model) would only make everything worse. They want to make it worse. And TBH, the "end game" only hits "pay day" (their goals) after many generations. Generations told to worship abortion and so forth. These schemes only make sense after population culls. This is a fact. That doesn't mean they actually go out and try to kill masses of people (not in America, not yet) but what it does mean is that, no, they don't want to solve the problem with people crossing the border carrying fentanyl and diseases. They're not, technically, mass murderers. Not yet. Their allies are, technically, mass murderers. They're not on the side of good and the best legal defense they can come up with is innocent by reason of mental defect. All of these "caveats" (and special Communist projects) were discussed back when I was in school. The only "new" thing since then is the WWW and all of the "Artificial Intelligence" lies propagated. All of these other factors have been known since long before I was even born. FDR was warned about these problems when the massive Administrative "Brain Trust" state (what some people call the Military Industrial Complex is really a creation of FDR, his "Brain Trusts" and their corporate allies in "Industry") was created. The people that occupy those unelected offices in DC simply get crazier with each new administration.
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  5768.  @AuroraColoradoUSA  No President has ever been removed by Impeachment. And just as we have hearings from special committees, nobody goes to jail directly from the scandals and illegality discussed. It's an interim step. And in cases where you have a political party that is basically an organized crime outfit what you do is expose more of it to the public and build on previous hearings that are relevant. All of the Obama scandals are still relevant because this is actually the Obama Clinton crime syndicate. Biden is an inept moron. You should read Harry Truman's biography if you want to know what kind of graft was already normal in the early New Deal era. The Bidens are particularly egregious because they're so freaking incompetent that it's obvious that they are blatant dupes of the Communists. They go along with "Communist Common Sense" like Climate Change and so forth and therefore when they do Xi's bidding they swear they it wasn't affected by the millions of dollars in fees that Hunter got as "lawyer" and Hunter just buys stuff for dad (like cars and houses) out of familial love! These clowns are simply more blatant about status quo corruption in post New Deal DC. And it's about time one of these emmefers got Impeached over this insane corruption known as "Our Democracy". And this is precisely what Impeachment is for. It's not for prosecuting drug addicts and frauds that get elected. It's for holding hearings and possibly removing and then prosecuting corrupt public officials. It's part of Congressional oversight. And Impeachment Hearings give the most power to Congress to subpoena the EB. There's just no question that it's the most valuable tool. The Senate really isn't even necessary to hold given the value of the House Impeachment process itself. The most important stage is getting the votes on the Articles of Impeachment. I can't believe how few people understand this. If you're Impeaching a judge you are better off waiting until you know the Senate will go along with the House. It's no good Impeaching a judge and then having the Senate blow you off in the case of corrupt judges. People don't understand the debates when it comes to corrupt judges. Either remove them or wait. For checking the EB, Impeachment is an underused tool.
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  5770.  @AuroraColoradoUSA  " Ousting those judges requires a super majority. Extremely rare, and that's the reason our SC legislates from the bench." Is that a "fact" or another one of your random, illogical opinions? "Legislating from the bench" is called "Judicial Activism" by the Progs. They claim it's also done "by the political Right" under Judicial Review. SCOTUS may legitimately abrogate bad laws but not create their own. What they do instead is spin stories about "racism" or "bigotry" in the "old" interpretations and say it's a Fourteenth Amendment "found right". This really all started to happen during FDR's New Deal fascism when he started yelling about Justices that found some aspects of New Deal legislation unconstitutional. He threatened to pack the courts and got his way eventually when the legitimate Justice started to waffle and then retire one by one. And then the public went through WWII before FDR finally croaked and the public at large (and the corporate media) were not about to look back and slippery slope Progressivism as a problem that needed to be solved. The Republican Party returned to the Oval Office with Eisenhower. An ignoramus at best who did not have any clear problems with Progressivism per se. He seems like he just wanted to pivot faster against foreign rivals while everyone reorganized their new "command economy" post WWII economic paradigms. SCOTUS has been damaged since WWII. Reagan and Bush were the first to even try to groom and promote sound Constitutionalist judges. Look what happened to Bork and Thomas. That's where we are today. Before you carry on with more snark you should find yourself some good, old-fashioned reference dictionaries. And Impeaching judges does nothing about disagreeing with (or rectifying) their bad rulings. I suppose the "Realists" would say that it's a warning shot to the others. You're just fixated on the fallacious idea that you can't do anything useful with Impeachments without having a clear shot at removal.
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  5771.  @AuroraColoradoUSA  EARLY HISTORY OF THE TERM "JUDICIAL ACTIVISM" Keenan D. Kmiec A. In Search of the Earliest Use The idea of judicial activism has been around far longer than the term. 3 Before the twentieth century, legal scholars squared off over the concept of judicial legislation, that is, judges making positive law. "Where Blackstone favored judicial legislation as the strongest characteristic of the common law, Bentham regarded this as an usurpation of the legislative function and a charade or 'miserable sophistry." Bentham, in turn, taught John Austin, who rejected Bentham's view and defended a form of judicial legislation in his famous lectures on jurisprudence.' In the first half of the twentieth century, a flood of scholarship discussed the merits of judicial legislation, and prominent scholars took positions on either side of the debate. Criticism of constitutional judicial legislation was particularly vehement during the Lochner era. Critics assailed the Court's preference for business interests as it repeatedly struck down social legislation in the name of substantive Due Process. While some modem scholars consider Lochner and its progeny virtually synonymous with "judicial activism," the term is conspicuously absent from contemporaneous criticism. The New Deal and the "revolution" of 1937 ushered in another spate of critical commentary, but again, contemporaneous literature does not mention "judicial activism" by name. Years later, after the justices agreed that the New Deal was on firm constitutional ground, the term finally surfaced in legal discourse.
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  5773. I chuckled the first time I heard the "TDS" trope. The thing is that it truly is a syndrome. It's caused by the Critical Theory and PC psyops cult. I laughed because it truly has nothing to do with Trump personally other than the fact that, in a nutshell, the Clintons planned their 4 years in office before they won Bill's first term. That's just a fact. And even if you don't accept it you should accept the fact that Hillary as "FLOTUS" was given a bigger portfolio than any of other FLOTUS since Eleanor Roosevelt. And she didn't hide the fact that she wanted to be the first female POTUS. But Bill Clinton is not quite as stupid as he seems to be. He's stupid alright but he understands the basics of electoral politics. Looking back, the last time a single party kept the White House for 4 straight terms was FDR and Truman finished FDR's fourth and then took another before Ike ran as a Republican to replace Truman after Truman signed the Amendment outlawing more than 2 terms. Reagan won two terms in a landslide and then his VP won a single term before Bill replaced him. Therefore Bill himself went in knowing that if Hillary were to win the White House she would have to have a long term strategy. That is why Bill did not want Gore to win. That would have put off Hillary's scheme even further. They wanted the Republican Party to win 1 or 2 terms and then when the time was right they would run Hillary after she spent a stint in the Senate. All went OK, as expected, until Obama showed up. And as we all know, Obama won. But this DNC cult is really not about any single person as elected leader. It can't survive longer than 2 terms if taht is what the cult is all about. So Obama was seen as a "Magic Negro" (look it up) Social Justice harbinger. And that pushed Hillary's plans back. But Hillary is stupid and impatient. She stopped worrying about the general trend of having the Oval Office swap parties pretty steadily after each President terms out. She negotiated the US SECSTATE gig and kept up her fascist/corporatism CGI grift. Going back to Obama, he alluded to a lot of Critical Theory tropes while in office and the "broken eggs" (see Stalin's omelet trope) didn't bother him. But as a harbinger he deluded his entire cult in to thinking that they had reached certain prophesied milestones. For Hillary to lose destroyed their "Arc of Social Justice History" and because a caricatured "Fat Cat Capitalist" beat her, he completely destroyed this cult's confidence in pretty much everything that they try to determine and predicted using "Social Sciences". And this drove them insane because, well, they had already driven themselves insane since the Cold War and Clinton's pivot to building up the CCP as a "developing nation" like any other. TDS is not about Trump per se. It's about a cult of abject idiots taht simply can't believe that Fat Cat Oligarchs can come in and steal what they think is rightfully theirs. They think the age of single party "socialism" or "democratic" Communism had already arrived with Obama. Instead of understanding the euphoria over Obama as simple proof that the electorate was not really innately racist they spun it every which way possible to regard themselves as geniuses with the right to rule forever under Our Single Party Socialist Democracy. And Trump very clearly and loudly not just beat them but his rhetoric is even more brutal than mine is. But also, look back at some of the Critical Theory rubrics that have been around for decades. Maslow's Hierarchy is where insane nutjobs get their virtue signaling doctrines from. If you show how triggered you are, you show how needy you are. That's how this cult protects criminals and also shows activists how to show they are on the "right side of history". So when people went insane over Trump's first victory and the riots started I already had all of this in mind and for me it was SOP for the left. Occupy Wall Street was the sign for me that Obama was seen by many as a Social Justice harbinger and they thought he age of universal basic income and free medical insurance for all had arrived. Think of how Trump trashed Obama's programs. Because everyone woke really does turn to shit. Everything dogmatic socialists touch turns to shit. In short, TDS is totally real even according to Critical Theory. The woke psychologists just have to come up with a different name.
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  5867.  @thorild69  That is what makes them deluded. And as I have said for more than ten years, this is cultivated insanity. I watched the talking points evolve since the WTC attacks when everyone pretended to be patriotic and all about "justice" for about a year. The talking points from the academic Marxists started to evolve and even some PBS documentaries on the subject that were decent at first got revised and then taken down. This stuff we paid for isn't even available to view anymore. They started talking about "whatabout the crusades" and so forth. The Demon Rats pivoted just in time to run Kerry against Bush. All of the "Bush lied, people died!" garbage was ready to go for the 2004 election cycle. They never really stop lying. By the time Obama came along this subtle evolution in academia and even mainstream media became obvious where all of the talking heads were euphoric about Magic Knee Grow (it's a Hollywood trope of you want to look it up) President. It became clear in my mind that this was all coordinated and all about leftist power when I heard Jimmy Carter in his own voice state that the Tea Party movement was only nominally about taxation but actually latent racism. (In fact they were angry about his "healthcare" lies.) So this stupid Critical Theory talking point was ready to go at the first sign of resistance to their insane agenda and even relics like Jimmy Carter were out there bleating out stupidity like that. So, like I said, when I traced all of this back it became clear that the left is all about cultivated insanity and you can research the changes by researching what books are required in high school through the years and what colleges are promoting under "US History" written by overt and covert Communists. And then it shows up in DC talking points as SOP. Marxist talking points, Green New Deal, etc. All cultivated insanity, which is taking a delusional worldview and its theories and turning it in to a dogmatic ideology and pumping it in to our students. Not just in college but now since COVID remote learning we also found out that the destruction of the nuclear family had already been started in kindergarten by that time. And that has always been what the rainbow flag and pride parades have been about. It's cultivated delusion that creates an alternate reality based on dogmatic theories alone.
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  5927. Yeah, he's a trope. The thing is that he knows he's lying but at the same time he's far more triggered by Trump than by 9/11. Trump is the only thing that threatens his lifelong grifting career. And if you think about it there are millions just like that ahole that think exposing their grift is worse than blowing up the WTC, as long as they were not in the building at the time. The WTC attacks justified a whole lot of ongoing grift and it was starting to wane a bit as the Communists tried to pivot to Climate Change pandemonium. One factor that people don't understand is that the entire country wanted to have this kind of honeymoon period with The First Black President while the socialists called everyone "racist" for rejecting their schemes. Yet they also thought they sealed the deal because the plan all along was to go from First Black to First Female and so forth. It would have been bad enough for them to lose out to Jeb Bush. They would have handled that worse than Al Gore. But Trump? Trump is calling out proverbial naked emperors and he effing won the Presidency while promising to deconstruct the Cold War/New Deal Soviet State (aka "Deep State"). The panic that these morons feel is real. They need the game or they become nothing. It's all so, so obvious to anyone paying attention. Instead people talk Communist Media seriously. And the reason I called "Communist Media" is not just a random "red baiting" dig. What has happened since the WTC attacks is that "consensus with China" is supposedly a key to "The Global War On Terror". These are freaking Communists. The reason Obama started to pivot towards "the real terrorists" tropes is that Critical Theory already had the formula written in advance. Even Bush's rhetoric pretty much said you have a White Hat as long as you follow our GWOT doctrines. So China stopped hiding their work/death camps and turned it in to a feature. Suddenly it's a really great idea to have silicon chips and bulk medical manufacturing going over there. Because OBL and his schemes proved that Communists are totally righteous as long as they also make a show of rounding up and persecuting anyone that triggers the Communists. Like OBL and Trump. Think about what I wrote and then tell me who has been worse for their nihilistic lives: OBL or Trump? The irony of ironies is that the first doctrinaire Critical Theory President is the main cause of this "Arc of History" thinking. Obama thinks he "transformed the nation" by "awakening" the mobs to True Social Justice. For me, I saw that all of my criticisms of our absurdly failing schools were far too tame. This is basically how leftists reacted to the loss of the Soviet Union. They put all their hope not in freedom but in the CCP. It's just that simple. And these grifters in DC "identify as" what in FDR's day were called "Brain Trusts". The whole thing is so easy to understand with a simple but careful review of the relevant history.
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  5953.  @littlekahli2781  Not just city wide. All electric vehicles become nodes in networks Your Internet cloud relies on a client and a network for you to access it. Now cars will follow this same paradigm. This is not paranoia, this if fact. Don't forget that all of these "green electric" vehicles have data links to control not just your maps and entertainment but they can shut down the car as your driving. In some cases, when equipped with "autonomous" features they can override the passengers controls. Some ICE vehicles have these "features" already but they need more of these systems installed. What they actually want to do is remove all vehicles that they can't simply take control over as they would control a military surveillance drone. That's not called smart. It's called evil and paranoid people that spend all of their lives in fear, striving climb the ladders of political power so that they are last man or last tribe standing. It's amazing what Marxist propaganda can do to the mind and "social" contagions are part of that. Read Xi's biography and you understand why he really believes it's a dog eat dog world. He knows all about Stalin and Mao. And he thinks the only option is to get to the top. There is no overcoming the Marxist "arc of history" that we've known (since Lenin) must include genocide because, simply, the idea that "international workers" were going to revolt together and magically replace all need for dictatorial government is a fantasy everyone has given up on. Dictatorial government is the only chance to survive in under "global industrialization" because either Communists will win (while liquidating problematic populations) or Capitalism will win (and Capitalism is already seen as to blame for basically every social ill). I grew up immersed in these operations and trials. And I know what even the benevolent ones envision. They truly beleive that their systems will "liberate" people by connecting the to networks under control of...what? The stupid idea that developed in parallel with "green energy" was (benevolent) AI. AI does only what it is programmed to do. The story about "evil" AI is also stupid. This is a bogey man to get people to believe in "benevelent" AI because they believe stories like Orwell's 1984 are inevitable and feel the must be the first to control is so that these Special Elect cultists (by whatever name of the day they choose) get optimize the inevitable connected world. In their vision of the world they don't believe that "the demos" are capable of thinking for themselves under "democracy" and freedom. The Cloud of Freedom will save you from Dystopian Big Brother. And yet in reality it will be far more evil.
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  5984.  @RS-oq4wu  You don't even know what IQ rankings consist of. IQ ratings are not "fact based" rankings. They're subjective ratings organized such that numbers can be used to come up with a numerical scale rating. It's a "thumb nail sketch" tool to help properly place students in homogenized AKA "socialized" schools. It's also used in the courts sometimes to help criminals argue for diminished capacity hence (weak arguments for) "mitigation" of accountability. It's also funny that you use metaphors like "reams of evidence". LOL. This metaphorically stands for vetted stacks of documents ready to submit to court. In the courts, evidence must be presented in "reams" along with any presentation to the judge and jury. In "science" the gold standard is witnessing the live tests. IQ testing involves something closer to priests gathering around the Oracle of Delphi and then taking weeks to comment "objectively" on what the intoxicated oracle has allegedly prophesied. The practicality of IQ testing is it helps place young students in the grade level most likely to lead to successful adaptation based on ability to read and socialize with the other students and follow the instructions from the teacher. What's the average IQ of grade school teachers? What's the average IQ of the psychologists and "experts" administering IQ tests? You have no idea about any of these things because you don't know how to apply any kind of critical thinking to any of the paradigms you want to cling to and propagate.
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  5989. Reality: Essence of socialism: "Hey, these machines are screwing us because we're poor and the "rich" can just buy machines instead of hiring us. We need to rethink property rights regimes." Socialism works to the extent that we honestly examine these issues and develop good faith solutions. Socialism fails when people figure out that they can use these historical victim narratives to create mendacious "rights" violations and turn to "altruistic" parasitism, like people that grow wealthy doing nothing all of their lives but "helping the disenfranchised." Their only specialty is selling victim class stories to the public and to the pandering politicians. The simple fact is that the US founders already anticipated legitimate "socialism" grievances while preserving the private property rights regimes by ensuring that courts and legislative bodies were available to deal with legitimate grievances. Only slavery in the USA distorts our perfect "labor" record. And that was caused by elitist Darwinist arguments, not a flaw in the Constitutional or "socialist" framework. All of the other grievances (among US citizens) can easily be knocked down one by one when looking at actual case evidence. Furthermore, promoting our "rights" paradigms around the world, accepting and embracing organic disparity as part of "diversity" that we value, helps all of the people in the world except for mendacious parasites and fascist regimes that cling to the inherently "socialist" monikers. Disparity does not equal disenfranchisement. Work does not equal oppression.
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  6004. Garland is a morally corrupt worm but he is not the instigator. Like Biden, he is swept up by the legions of DC 'career professional' radicals cultivated by Hillary during the Billary regime and while waiting for her anointing. The DOJ Deputies are almost all corrupt to the core. They're doctrinaire Critical Theory Marxists. Eric Holder was the most corrupt US AG. By far. And Eric Holder today is still the most powerful player in the DOJ swamp. He has more influence than Garland does. He's still making the rounds issuing talking points taken as directives by this insane cult of CT Marxists. Also, Crossfire Hurricane was about protecting Hillary from prosecution not just for "emails" but for what her emails contained. If you think the Biden's are corrupt the only thing the Clintons are missing is the crackhead bag man. The thing is that they hedged their bets with Biden and bought him off as an "ace in the hole" and dirtied him up even more than he was when only Delaware banks were bribing him. The point is that the Clinton corruption is exponentially bigger and more treasonous than the chemically-dependent (and blatantly treasonous) Biden clown show. Crossfire Hurricane was about protecting all of it. All of the players that Communist China has purchased. Xi was a little worried about tariffs and whatnot. But what he really cared about was moving forward with "Greater China" sovereignty and completely covering up the fact that they own every Democratic Party politician in American and as much as half of the Republican party (though the RINOs are running for cover and a lot of them left Congress already).
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  6022. If TikTok is a threat to national security then every app that has the same access to Citizen's data is also a threat to national security. And I do believe TikTok is a threat to every nation at the hands of Communists and their absurd cultural Marxist "fellow travelers". The problem is that already under Bill Clinton DC was "rethinking" how to "govern the Internet" and, basically, the entire Bill of Rights (we can talk about Hillary's BS UN activism, not to mention CGI). By the time the Global War on Terror took shape everyone in DC went along with all of this hidden data aggregation so that "Intelligence Community" could keep track of "Terror Threats". But even before Obama ran for President I heard academics and their "actually" narratives where they began to spin these "root cause" stories that to first to "Intersectionalism" and then to "Capitalism". You're not a "Terrorist" if you insult Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, or the Administrative State in general. Now you understand "Insurrection" theater to advance this neo-Manichean, neo-Gnostic (or Woke Manicheism) atheistic religion and it's binary "two class" Marxist worldview. With respect to TikTok itself, the reason they are so highly protected is because the DC "intelligence community" is not anticommunist. They're antifreedom, like all Communists are. They're essentially a Communist regime in the USA. TikTok is a special case, but not the only one to be dealt with. Google itself is equally dangerous and actually they're trying to displace TikTok with short videos and I'm sure that at some point they want to launch a special Android app for short videos just as they have with other niche AV players. And to operate in China you must comply with Chinese National Security Law. So, every corporation with a "web play" (or "apps") can have their collected data tapped by the CCP. Hawley is right but I assume he doesn't have the time to speak in the Senate to go deep in what I have laid out here.
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  6028.  @vonnano3561  Banning TikTok for its egregious violations sets a precedent for a safer world. Period. It does not make government bigger. It actually makes it smaller because the alternative to cutting off unlawful fraud is "democratizing" is the way that the banks and corporate media in general have been coopted by US and foreign "big government" Communists. This trend itself can be dated all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt, and his landmark Antitrust action, and then his insane Marxist cousin that "democratized" everything and created what people now refer to ignorantly as "the Deep State" whereas before it was "The Military Industrial Complex" all created by The New Deal and ancillary programs like Arsenal of Democracy and The Marshall Plan. Instead of outlawing espionage the "Intelligence Community" only cares about getting in on the action. That's big government for you. And installing the app itself is not at all a problem. It must be banned because those installing it don't even know what risks they're talking. And instead of having unintelligible gibberish like Google does, TikTok flat out lies about what is done with the data. So, informed consent is destroyed by allowing this. It's straight up fraud and every "certified app" from Apple and Google should be banned when they publish apps that violate our Citizen's rights. That's not big government. That's effective government and with respect to the status quo it is actually a shrinking of the Administrative or "regulatory" state that is basically 90% of what people call The Deep State. I'm so far out in front of Rand Paul I've been talking about this since before he even ran for his Senate seat. This really started happening when DC beuracrats interpreted Bush's "You're either with us or with the terrorists" and China claimed they were in on the Global War on Terror. And they were but they have always been on the wrong side. DC cultists cut them in, informally, as "national security partners". Did it not shock you when Generally Milley was proud to tell the story about how he went behind Trump's back to warn the CCP military that he would monitor and report any action against China ordered by Trump? This is what I'm talking about. Trump was probably the only one caught off guard by this. They think this is Social Justice. It's Big State to claim that Communists have "First Amendment Rights" to defraud US users to build massive databases on the movement of everyone, including State and Federal employees, their family members, router passwords cached in their "private" apps, and therefore everything they need to stealthily steal access to everything as each onion layer is peeled. These are the same people that have no problem with Hillary's illegal server but Trump is the problem because he kept his own Presidential documents in accordance with "the law of Presidents".
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  6052. What I also want to say is that these "Election Lies" are just getting so unhinged. For those that don't know, the angles worked by the Demon Rats for decades have all been about carrying on with their Jim Crow status quo by shifting their focus to control of public benefits like housing and so forth. And they get the local "POC Communities" involved in the cheating and then turn the tables on Republicans by saying if you try to audit certain counties or candidates that that is is "illegal" voter suppression. And US DOJ defines all of this. So then the accusation itself transforms from "racism" to "fraud". Trump is the "fraud" for demanding audits. And the Electoral College is inherently political and not technically required to enter votes based on fiat "certified" claims. Each State Legislature has exclusive Constitutional power to control their own Electors. Full stop. And when a Presidential candidate faces conditions like Trump faced I would say he has a moral obligation to do exactly what he did. Exactly what Ted Cruz proposed at the Joint Session of Congress on January 6. If you review what Ted Cruz proposed and compare it to all of the accusations before and after that Joint Session you will see just how evil all of these people are to keep lying and lying about Trump's Constitutional duties and the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and petition the government to seek redress of grievances. To hear Pelosi and other liars tell it you can't assemble around Congress because that is like a "safe zone". If you want to "petition" SCOTUS all is fair in love and war but Congress is a temple of Our Democracy when Pelosi says so. At Senate confirmations and budget fights they actually organize the illegal protests to come in and disrupt Congress precisely when Congressional demon-rats ask them to. It's almost October of 2024 and these toxic psychopaths are heading for a coup no matter which way the election goes. I don't think anything will stop them but a long battle to restore the rule of law and reform our schools from top to bottom. One last reminder: POTUS is NOT a democratically elected position. President of the United States is President of the States. Not of the People. State Presidents are called Governors and they are "democratically elected." Destroying Our Democracy in DC would involve outlawing Congress or something? US Presidents are supposed to have total control over foreign policy, not domestic policy. FDR's New Deal suddenly turned POTUS and DC in to Soviet-style socialist institutions and are constantly ignoring limits placed on their power by the written Constitution. The coup happened decades ago.
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  6107.  @Iamnobodynow  OK, so 3 words and 3 clear definitions. I told you that terrorism is in the legal system a "special condition" that means that certain kind of crimes are treated differently if it's categorized as terrorism versus, say, just ordinary drug running. And by the way, lots of overtly "terrorist" or "nonstate combatant" organizations also raise cash in the transnational drug trade. Terrorist originally referred to the French Jacobin (left wing) regime when they told the public that they would enforce the new regime's power with a "reign of terror" to quell resistance. Now people are labeled as terrorists to separate the from nation-states that go to war and have diplomats ready to resolve the war in accordance with so-called "international law" and so forth which most of the time refers to UN treaties or any other previous document that they want to use to sort of protect the legitimacy of their violence and cast it as "resistance" rather than illegal violence that is also regarded as "warfare" as opposed to civil violence or crime handled with "police" rather than the military. Antisemitism is the conflation of Jewish identity (self identified or as identified by a given antisemite) with some kind of Darwinist genetic/racialist trope. Whataboutism is, from the non Marxist point of view, when Marxists respond to complaints about Communist behaviors and they flip the story by saying "whatabout..." Like, take Trump. People will say, gee, Biden is taking millions for his family and shutting down fossil fuels. Every single policy benefits Communist China and they are the main paymasters. (And therefore) he is a corrupt traitor. The Communists will say, yeah but "whatabout" Trump? He's totally corrupt. And allude to the Marxist view of "Capitalists". So by making this false equivalence they're actually suggesting that a President who takes bribes from a Communist regime is OK and not corrupt but a President that has expensive condominiums and other properties and goes against the Communist Arc of History is "the real criminal" all based on the original socialist dogma of "property is theft". Your whataboutist tropes mentioned false dilemmas as though helping "demand side" addicts to stop looking for Chinese narcotics that also fund terror operations can only happen if taht is the only thing we do. We can do that OR fight the cartels and destroy them along with sealing the border. So, we're "hypocrites" by suggesting that we "get tough" on the border while anyone in the USA is still willing to buy this fraudulent poison that is dressed up like ordinary pain pills. And the whataboutists also call us "the real terrorists" because look how "terrible" this Capitalism and "plutocracy" is and we have no right to preach about "democracy". And it is true that we have too many hypocrites in power in the USA. And they are all Critical Theory Marxists. Some (or even most) Critical Theory Marxists don't recognize that all of their policy preferences come verbatim from the Communist Manifesto.
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  6176.  @NxDoyle  You offer no clues, actually. Perhaps you should work on self-improvement a bit before randomly abusing people that you might be able to learn from. What do you think "mainstream" means? Mainstream media, first of all, means widely distributed and widely accessible. PBS competes somewhat in those terms. But the commercial interests behind "MSM" are completely different. PBS propaganda is at least easier to to vet and while it has many of the same flaws as the other alphabet channels it does seem to be aware that it will lose support if it starts hiring idiots like Chris Matthews and that kind of fool. OTOH, they are slowly emulating the worst of what we hate about MSMS in many ways but the Gaslighting has to move at a much slower pace because of those differences that I mentioned. What PBS has in common with other "big media" is that it is an important target for control that has been identified by the "Commanding Heights" cults. Orwell's Animal Farm represented them as Pigs. Wherever you find Critical Race Theory and "Intersectionalism" taken seriously as legitimate filters to frame the Overton window you will find Orwell's Pigs behind it all, putting idiotic "grass roots" protesters and whatever talking heads they can control in Commanding Heights media loci. The actual footage on PBS is generally better, but the narration and framing is more dangerous because it's perceived as more credible. If our "socialized" schools had not destroyed the world's critical thinking traditions PBS would be fine. But PBS layered on top of the kind of graduates that are churned out by the legions is exactly how we arrived at where we are today. "Progressives" (and revolutionary Marxists) created all of these conflicts so that they could be the agents of change. IOW, their version of Broken Window theory is more in line with criminal racketeers. But it's "democratic" because they also corrupt the elections.
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  6195. Every defense of Marxism is based 100% on logical fallacies. First of all, socialism is framed by the mantra "property is theft". At least they made their arguments without blatant attempts at gaslighting. Marxism is pseudoscientific socialism. Dogmatic socialism. Nothing but easily refused dogmatic circular reasoning. There's also a difference between "hands off" capitalism and "authoritarianism" and so forth. Hands of capitalism is exactly the same as Constitutional rule of law. Take back all of the Federal agencies and you have hands off Capitalism in the USA again. The people that lost the Civil War created the KKK and Progressive (Marxism) in the same moment. Antitrust law that evolved at the same time is not doctrinaire anything. It was "progress" in the rule of law and protecting the public from truly dangerous concentrations of power. But notice that Antitrust law doesn't require the deprivation of due process of the law. Everything "Progressive" since then is about erosion of the rule of law in favor of rule by council/party decree. IOW, Soviet Communism. The other thing that Marxists ALWAYS leave out is what the actual conditions were when some group revolts and puts together some form of "socialism". Monarchs always held all mineral rights, no matter what "property" rights they allowed. And without an independent judiciary that can save owners from tyranny, you can't actually have "hands off" (rule of law) capitalism. If the US actually believes in sensible "socialism" they would have studies of how much mineral wealth is already held on Federal lands and then come up with rational ways to raise funds and manage those programs. And public schools would not teach fearmongering nonsense but would instead by funded through a voucher system paid for by "socialized' mineral rights taken from Federally owned lands. Think carefully before launching a "but Capitalism" trope because the key problem in all Marxist exposition is the failure to understand the difference between an explanatory trope and a verifiable fact. And lastly, there's a difference between "central planning" aka "social justice" versus "rule of law" economic interventions. Not one claim in this video stands up to the scrutiny of anyone that knows what is being discussed as mere theory versus verifiable facts of reality. Even this alleged "hegemonic imperialism" is a feature of Marxism, not rule of law capitalists that understand the truth about how wealth is created and shared "fairly" under "democratic" rule of law - that requires an enforceable "due process" and "property rights" regime that the Communist Manifesto itself claims is the very root of the problem. Only Marxists in the US and Europe think that Ukraine must be defended from "Russian tyranny" because every sentient human knows that the fight for political and economic hegemony over Ukraine is between Russia and China. The CCP and many in Ukraine want "belt and road" alignment and Russia can't openly argue against China in Ukraine. LOL. What is wrong with you brainiacs? It's not that complicated. China is a competitor for hegemony unregulated by a voting public. You can't appeal to the CCP for "fairness" because it was long decided that Communist "fairness" means the wholesale destruction of all private property rights. Only Marxists want a "big" Social Justice" regulatory state.
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  6256.  @johnsmithers8913  I never took any party or politician seriously until after their promises are delivered and proven successful. Usually long after they are dead. What had me starting to identify evil actors while they're still around is when Jimmy Carter started calling people "racist" for objecting to Obama's socialized medicine magic economics. I knew that came straight from the stupidest economists to ever pick up a pen. It basically comes from the "magic" of central planning. Any central plan (and destruction of individual autonomy) will allow Brain Trusts to deliver "better value" to the People. That's the theory. It's a delusional reading of Marxist dogmas. Marx himself was also totally delusional so none of this should surprise anyone. Each scandal after that had me ramping up my "objective suspicions" and then Mitt Romney came along to give "another choice". What I said at the time is that they're both total morons but at least the Republican Party isn't half as corrupt as the Democratic Party Marxists and their permanent "Brain Trust" ruling bureaucrats. The thing is that if you're truly "leftist" in the sense of (the claim of) representing the disenfranchised you can't possibly support the US Democratic Party. They have never, ever done that. A few programs did help some of their constituents that could then be used as fallacious arguments for their intentions and overall results. Ask Thomas Sowell what he thinks of all of that. The Democratic Party has promoted fallacious and deadly harmful collectivism for its entire existence.
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  6284. Sanctuary cities (and States) automatically register illegals to vote. Those registered are then "harvested" through mail in balloting schemes and they're used for the election fraud as a matter of covert policy. (Another example of DNC criminal racketeering.) The illegal aliens don't come to the USA with the intention of helping commit voter fraud. They're millions upon millions of patsies. It's been this way for decades in California. I tried to explain this to people in 2016 when the Hillary lunatics started crying about winning the popular vote, allegedly, and losing the Electoral College. The differential between Trump and Hillary in the "national popular vote" would be wiped away just by taking out illegal alien ballots in Ca. TO further provide circumstantial evidence for these schemes, notice how the Biden regime (directed by Xi and through CCP handlers assigned to US politicians) has all of these illegal immigrants shipped on hidden flights and secret bus trips (until Republican Governors started to respond with their own bus trip plans) were more highly organized than the actual border security regime itself. The security outside the DNC is a perfect example of how they triage their own security while completely believing in open borders. They want to run the entire world that way. They think they already do. This is also why they have delusional policy proclamations on Ukraine and just about every other foreign policy issue ever mentioned. They don't think "borders are racist". They're Orwellian Animal Farm politicians and they really do believe that the Pigs are Born to Rule Ubermensch. Selective pressures and survival (and domination) of the fittest. That itself explains their entire "moral" justification. They don't believe in morality, in case you hadn't noticed. They believe in power and "our democracy" political rhetoric to seek power. And let me emphasize something just one more time: Illegal votes are not illegitimate merely because the ballot has been proffered by an unqualified person. Few of them actually even have the intention of voting in the first place. It's "legal" because there is no known way to prosecute the criminals until someone with standing can get subpoenas and arrest warrants. What Trump went through in 2020, and that includes the frustration with petitioning the courts, actually helped to clarify the issue for more people than ever. If Trump wins there is a strong possibility that a RICO action can be taken against the DNC because of all the other blatant criminality. The ballot scams would then be taken up as part of the investigations of the "Corrupt (criminal racketeering) Organization". I guess I'm chiming in again because what I'm seeing is that this wave of delusional Demon Rats is so far gone that they think "norms" makes it all legal. They don't think about it. US Progressives are cultivated morons. Truly. One more side note. How it took Elon Musk this long to figure it out is beyond my understanding. He grew up in the midst of it and for some reason just trusted this "good intentions" Marxist cult. But anyway...he's finally awakened to reality as are many others. This is the most important fight since the US Civil War to free the slaves from the Confederacy. The Confederacy lost the war and won the peace when Andrew Johnson set up the same regime in the Oval Office. They lost their slaves but instead of repenting of their evil they continued to blame Patricians/Republicans and so forth up until this day. Obama and Kammy are mere tokens of their supposed repentance from Orwellian Animal Farm politics.
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  6293. @jackvogel9777 The judiciary had to be fully corrupted before this 'phase of history' with corrupt prosecutors. Before, the most a prosecutor could do without a corrupt judge is let criminals off too easy. Corrupt prosecutors need corrupt judges to persecute "right wing terrorists" as they are today. The entire idea that you can treat people in accordance with leftwing smear as "fact" is totally insane. And yet there are Federal judges that smear this kind of abject insanity from the bench. It's surreal. The prosecutors are just getting launched after the destruction of the judicial branch was ready for it. That's why they have been screaming for years about SCOTUS. Decades, actually. The original Marxist revolution in the USA took place under FDR. And it was completed by corrupting SCOTUS. And yet the Constitution had not been literally abrogated. So that revolution kept up the fight in foreign policy realms. The Cold War epoch is nominally between US and Russia aligned nations. The actual Cold War was actually straight down the middle of what they call "liberal democracy". That war rages on until this day. And what you see now is leftists cashing in on earlier SCOTUS precedents that don't have the force of law as described by them. In the decades since FDR the USA has been divided in to two distinct cults. The first one is basically people that take "the letter of the law" seriously and that includes the text of the US Constitution. The second cult is the one that says you must strain everything through the Marxist Critical Theory "woke" lens because the founders were racist, and they allowed slaves and so on and so forth. Disparity of any kind, anything short of Utopian Communism, is characterized as "Reactionary Capitalism" which is, basically, Hitlerism. That is how insane and ignorant these people are. They don't even know where their doctrines come from. The learn from Marxists in our schools that call it "Realism" or "Social Science" or "Political Science". They've even changed the meaning of "science" as a magical thing only understand and exposited properly by "The Scientific Community". What does that mean? It means all "power" must be under political control of Marxists. That's basically Leninism that is modernized as new technologies and conditions emerged.
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  6304.  @keithziegler8881  Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement. The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement. The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer. They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism. All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property. The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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  6305.  @keithziegler8881  Second excerpt: Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production. These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable. 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c. When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class. In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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  6343. You're missing a lot of this campaign. It was part of the 2012 Presidential campaign to reelect Obama and launch more draconian socialism in his second term. Even before Obama took office the first time the big "transformation" was supposed to start with "health care" and banking reform. The real estate bubble was also intentionally induced. This goes back to Cloward-Piven strategy. Marxists believe that humans are very predictable. They are the only "woke" ones that don't suffer from hivemind thinking. They say. So these kinds of "phases" can be traced all the way back to the reaction to the Russian revolutions and the end of WWI where the Communists all thought that "The Great War" as the "prairie fire" that would lead to the "International Worker's Revolution". The Obama phase was driven by the CCP but we have our own Communist self starters that think they are the true "Vanguard Party". And they are easily triggered. The Soviets and now the CCP have always been heavily involved in culture wars. The Soviets since I would say the 1920s at the latest if we ignore their influence on "anarchists" in America before that time. The Soviet Dissident is giving you a slice of it but this pattern was established as part of Communist politics before the Russian Revolution. They had all expected Germany to be the first "Capitalist regime" to topple. But getting back to the DNC and the schemes under Obama, these too can be traced back to their ambivalence with the Global War on Terror. They LOVED the Patriot Act but tried like crazy the entire time to paint Bush as a warmonger/war criminal even before the Iraq war was suggested. Don't forget that Iran also expected to gain from us chasing the Taliban out of Afghanistan and would have no problem if we did our little "Global War on Terror" according to their agenda. Iranian Marxists had been operating against the US under the Soviets and by the time Bush won the Presidency they simply worked on coopting the US Democratic Party. The Iranian, Chinese and Russian regimes all wanted to control the US Democratic Party for obvious reasons and many open Communists joined the ranks of the bureaucrats starting many decades ago. Don't forget Stalin's relationships with FDR. This is no mere conspiracy theories. There's a lot we still don't know about these endless streams of conspiracies and the end results by the time you have cultural curve balls thrown in. But 2012 was a critical year because it was an election year. And outsiders planned the Obama pivot, for the most part. I saw Obama in early 2012 as someone more resigned to lose than Carter was. Romney was also a loser but Romney was a fresh candidate and people were looking for "change" with similar programs (promised by Romney and Obama) but Romney seemed more competent. They had to smear the dude and pulled out all of the stops. BUT they also had these psyops campaigns as discussed in the above video pertaining to gay rights and anything that gets people fighting. Romney was painted as a cruel Capitalist Oppressor. And so forth. They also started to paint Iran as an "Oppressed group". I kid you not. What I noticed in 2012 in the mid summer was an article in Foreign Policy magazine some professor ahole started using "Game Theory" framed by Critical Theory dogmas about how Iran needed "national dignity" restored by us blessing their development of nuclear weapons and ICBMs. This is a fact of history. You can check your local library for the magazine archives. 2012 was a major psyop campaign or phase and we're not even discussing the Hollywood films pertaining to Climate Change (induced) panic. In 2012 I realized that all of the things they wrote about Obama was both false and true at the same time. He is a cultivated puppet of the Critical Theory Marxists. Most of the things he supports are just something he does out of the inertia of saving his image and legacy. He didn't believe dogmatically in any of these things when he took the US Presidential oath of office. Like Bill Clinton, it is the spouse that pounds the dogmatic thinking in to these clowns at every moment and then they are like putty with "advisors" and all of the embedded Marxists.
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  6355. A tort lawsuit CAN NOT find guilt. It can only find liability. Even if they wanted to order Trump to compensate her for a "rape finding" it would be "liable" for "damage". Not "guilt". And the specific difference in terms of proof is the difference between "preponderance of evidence" where juries can just feel sorry for crying victims and ask "bullies" to "pay up" even without anything most people regard as evidence. The lady is damaged and they felt sorry for her. So under "something happened" and "deep pocket theory" (look these terms up with you want to understand even more clearly) They just "voted" to make Trump pay. This is unfortunately how it works under tort law. Especially in the age of Critical Theory Social Justice Marxism. It's "cosmic justice" to have Trump pay even if the lady is a delusional liar for the same reason you Must Believe All Women unless they accuse a Marxist in good standing, and then you are a crazy person that needs to be locked up. See Hollywood rape and "casting couch" stories. What I heard is that George Conway approached this lady to politically weaponize her depraved "Believe All Women" stories with a lawsuit against Trump. Because Conway knows everything that I just explained. All law school students know about these doctrines whether or not they believe it's ethical to get involved like Conway did. It still pays. With all of these Critical Theory doctrines, they could even find Trump "liable" for defending himself truthfully yet in a way that hurt the bit ch's feelings AKA "psychological trauma" as "damage". The lawyers would have to come up with smoother, politically correct rhetoric, but some jurors no doubt knowingly went along with "Punching Up Social Justice" BS. Also, "partisan" jurors matter in EVERY trial these days, not just blatantly politician trials. Doctrinaire Marxists and Democrats (the same thing now) will effe up any jury. I'm sorry, that's the way it is now. Why would anyone vote for an elected prosecutor that runs on refusing to prosecute "petty" criminals (getting Social Justice against Capitalism)? I already explained it to you.
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  6358. The corruption at US DOJ started under Bill Clinton. His wife is the lunatic of the two. She's the one that has always developed close relationships with sociopaths like Eric Holder. Now think about all of the psychos they groomed for DOJ justice-bending. They're mostly still there. And Andrew Weissmann was by Hillary's side before and after Trump thumped her. He only left the US DOJ for CNN when Bill Barr replaced Jeff Sessions (that they hamstrung going in because the "Putin's Puppet" thing was planned during Hillary's campaign). I could write several books on this but the point is that she's one of the Critical Theory cult's gurus. And the party itself knows that Bill was their party's most successful Presidents since JFK. She has LOTS of cult followers in US (and State) government. Does that mean we care as in follow her views? No. She's just a lot more dangerous than anyone has ever really understood. Even Obama was afraid of her. Probably still is. And if you're thinking that George Bush "cleaned house" at US DOJ you'd be wrong. They jammed him up from the outset at well and then he needed to be "centrist" for his Progressive "War on Terror" job. That's why we spend trillions on "nation building" every time we went in to blow up theoretical and actual terrorists. Notice Trump didn't roll in to "Startup Nation Democracy" after blowing up ISIS. That was a change in US policy that basically started with the end of WWII. Hillary herself was just another idiot groomed by Marxists but she's the one that has the most influence on these lunatics just by going on some talk show and spreading more BS.
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  6360.  @Youtubesucks777  Putin is boxed in. The truth is that if you believe the Marxists that Russia is now a Marxist Nationalist that want to roll through NATO and restore lost treasures of Soviet Russia. This is BS. And Putin is not "Pro China" either. Russia is caught in the center of two "superpowers" as the third superpower that is second tier and vying for first based on military power. Putin shares a long border with Xi and Xi has some claims against Taiwan, Japan, Philippines AND Russia itself. And I probably forgot some but actually it has in mind to keep expanding indefinitely. How many of you people think that Putin forgot all about Communist regimes once he became a leader of the Russian republic? So right now he would prefer a stupid Demonrat for what he can get away with but he would prefer Trump for pressuring the CCP. OTOH if Trump is too effective at pressuring China economically that might lead to them trying to take territories from Russia, Japan and others during Trump's tenure. So he likes that Trump keeps NATO behaving rationally and peacefully but by pressuring the CCP it might trigger them to go after Russia territories. And then the "peace agreement" between China and Russia would include even more discounted energy to help bring their 'prosperity' story back. The entire "Trump Russia" thing is insane because it relies on this idea that Hitler was a "Reactionary Capitalist" (by going against Stalin) and that Putin and Trump are both "Reactionary Capitalist" because in the Marxist worldview there are only two discrete camps. You're either with their "Arc of History" NWO paradigm or you're Hitler.
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  6362. '...was that comment directed towards me? If so, that didn't make any logical sense.' Did you refer to anyone as a traitor just for defending enforceable speech/expression rights? The OP did. However, you did come pretty close. I didn't call you a traitor because you didn't use that language. However, your analysis is almost as flawed as the OP's. Did you write this? "@Six Yeah the British flag is part of history tooooo, wonder why no one fly's that flag? Own IT! the flag is racially motivated it's not about preserving history. History is preserved in BOOKS and MUSEUMS, not hanging off the front porch crying about birth rates. These same people have the nerve to get mad at someone taking a knee when the National Anthem is played. Hello the rebels were against America as a whole, they were against what our great country is today. They were fucking traitors, and you want to stand behind that shit? It is the "UNITED STATES" that's what makes us great. If you want to glorify a time when we were divided, why don't you divide your ass from "MY" country. Yeah the one I actually fought for, you fake ass patriot! There is a big difference between remembering history and glorifying it. General Lee didn't want statues of members of the confederate army. He also said put the rebel flag up and never take it back out because it would be a sign of treason! You talk about preserving history, but it takes a "BLACK" man to tell you about "YOUR" history you and many people conveniently ignore! Go back and study your history, it's 2018 this information is out there." Yeah, a lot of people in America fly the British flag(s). WTF are you talking about? The only problem is replacing the US flag with another, disparaging it openly, or flying an enemy flag during a time of war.
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  6363. "It is a traitors flag on top of supporting slavery. " Moron, I did not say that I support any historical movement or symbols. I pointed out that when milestones are reached and wars end these histories become past and people have evolving and complicated views. If those views of history are a problem for me I don't use childish shaming. I offer appeals to the intellect in order to change minds, not shame 'forbidden behavior' so that the morons go away and organize behind my back as Victicrats. You do not even know how to effectively defend your own interests. Your behavior does not lead to changing of minds or personal growth. It is divisive and regressive. "The choice is still there so the crap about free expression is just some more BS. " The legal doctrine of free expression is rooted in the moral doctrine of offering honest arguments to defeat flawed ideas. I did not reference the legal doctrine. "Attacking what that flag represents, is not a straw man." If you cite history and cite your own feelings as your own feelings that is not inherently fallacious. When you cite your own feelings to project what some symbol means in a universal sense (claim) that is inherently fallacious. That is related to "straw man fallacy" when you project your own feelings to condemn others without sufficient evidence other than your own claims. "#Swastika how many people still see that as a religious symbol?" I don't know. But it was a religious symbol long before the Nazis worked it in to their stupid iconography. The point is that icons and images only have the power that you give them. Again, if I see someone IMO using symbols stupidly I call them out intellectually. "That's what it started as," Right. "...until Hitler got a hold to it and changed it's meaning forever." No, he did not change its meaning. He used it for his own ends. But it doesn't actually mean anything until humans define it. It's just a symbol. It's really just a simple framework for a symbol. The symbol itself has absolutely no power until you and other triggered fools give it power. During the postwar tribunals did they charge people for flashing that symbol? No. Because in the end it's irrelevant. The symbol itself has no power not handed over willingly. You choose to allow it to trigger you. "Ideologies are tied to symbols if you embrace the symbol you embrace the ideology." That's incoherent logic. Tolerating free expression is NOT embracing symbols or ideology. More often than not it's the exact opposite. You simply do not see past your false binaries of "for or against Nazism" or slavery or whatever by following your strict rituals for showing allegiance to your Victicrat cult. "If I'm on Mars you must be from across the galaxy, because you clearly don't understand human behavior." I'm explaining it more clearly than you are. I understand why you're triggered. You don't even understand your own emotional reactions to symbols.
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  6407. Right. But people don't seem to understand what the Russian Communists began to do between the first Russian revolution and second and how they responded to the end of WWI. Do you realize how many "Islamic terrorists" went to college in Soviet Russia? So, many Islamists believe more or less that the critiques of "Westernism" are valid and at the same time they think that the Communists are "useful idiots" of the Islamists while Communists believe the reverse theory. That is why OBL was our good friend when he fought the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan while at the same time, when suitable, he targeted enemies of the Communists as well. And used Marxist Critical Theory dogmas to justify his actions. All in the language of what we call "Liberation Theology" when it springs up in the Western world. OBL also rejected his own Saudi government once it shunned him to defend the Saudi Kingdom from Kuwait. He saw this as a "lack of faith" and an insult to OBL's own bona fides. If you need arms to liberate yourself from any nation that holds real elections you might want to question your own beliefs before you start useless wars. Especially if you never even once try to negotiate with lawmakers and voters over whatever your dispute is. But your bottom line point is critically important. All of these "liberation" and "terror" movements favor the CCP now. They used to be skillfully cultivated and directed by Russian Communists. The CCP while pretending to embrace "free trade" stealthily took over all of it. On every continent although the CCP and Mao were always masters of Communism in Asia not counting the eastern side of Russia.
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  6423. Mussolini called his movement Fascism. Fine. And if you look at his symbols and doctrines you can build a profile of that socialist regime. He also identified as socialist, let's not forget. So, when these morons start talking about "Fascism" and "Hitler" they only go in endless circles based on felt characteristics. Like psychotherapy. Another term might be mass psychosis. And if that is all they can come up with is endless circular logic...well, after a few years you can pretty much "certify" that these people have politicized insanity for "Will to Power". See, they truly believe in all of this garbage that they spew. Most of the "thought leaders" for these idiots are the same ones that inspired Mussolini and Hitler. For them, it's not circular logic but woke reasoning. So, yeah. It's a dogmatic cult. They still imply that Stalin and Hitler were opposites. Nobody ever condemns FDR for his close alliance with Stalin. Because Hitler! That's their reasoning. And if they ever throw in the Holocaust to justify siding with Stalin this is even stupider because Stalin did worse and we only found out about the Holocaust when our Generals rolled in with the tanks and photojournalists. They found out because the Nazis were a bit slow in covering up the evidence. FDR chose Stalin because he thought that Communism was the answer not just for Russia but for Europe. How many times have we rolled in to any Communist regime's capitals to see what they'd been doing to their political prisoners? How about never. It gets repetitive but these people are morons that live in a cultural and intellectual bubble where critical thinking and careful research isn't cultivated any longer. That would be White Supremacy or Fascistic or something. So, we already see where this leads. The circles don't end easily. This moron worked for Bush? Western academia has been completely destroyed and all of our "critical thinking" traditions have been eradicated from the campuses. Our schools are where minds go to be pressured and molded towards "woke" stupidity. All based on Marxist dogmas. BTW, both Stalin and Hitler relied on "woke" Marxism. Woke is different once they have enough power. Wokeness is anger and "survival of the fittest". If they had more intelligence they'd justify it under "Art of War" style rubrics but that is not "democratic" to allow their own doctrines to be subjected to critical thinking.
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  6471. Kyle Kulinski is a complete psychotic. If someone nods in agreement on understanding of an argument that is agreement on alignment with their cult. This is what they think. And it's like an ironclad contract. So Joe Rogan also "nodding in agreement" with Ben Shapiro makes Joe Rogan "low info" and "vibes voter" something something. Now, I'm not saying Joe Rogan is a genius because he's not. He's an average guy that doesn't like to jump to conclusions and he's not really very good at political analysis and doesn't really understand why the President's since FDR have all been seen as so critical to "the economy". But they don't teach this stuff in schools. But what Joe Rogan isn't is a hiveminder that closes his mind as soon as he gets "vibes". Kulinski is a psychotic lunatic. Joe Rogan is interested in a wide range of topics and actually doesn't get overly emotional and attached to any particular thing. He gets his adrenaline fix from mixed martial arts and so forth. So he doesn't get all emotionally validated when stupid Marxists try to make him feel like he's special by joining their dogmatic cult. He can hold a positive view on Bernie Sanders without really understanding it but then when new information comes in he can process it without any emotional attachment to his previous position. Even Elon Musk "genius" was stupid enough to vote Demon Rat, up to and including Joe Freaking Biden, and only after insane things like what happened at Twitter and THEN getting disinvited from the Demon Rat US Electric Car special perks (because he rejects labor unions and simply creates a loyal workforce) so then Elon Musk suddenly realizes taht these Marxists in the US (and China he now realizes) are all scamming him. Joe Rogan and Elon Musk both had a strong dose of reality hit them in the face. That is why they changed. Not because of "vibes". They were low info voters that got mugged. People that join the leftist cult and then can only ever earn a living from it can't change unless they learn new wealth production skills. That's not easy.
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  6501.  @elik.webber7630  I don't think any of you know what "politicized" means in the context of the US Constitution and what is called separations of powers. The short version of the story is that under English common law and every legal system that carries those traditions there is something called "case precedent". this goes back as far as Henry II and we assume before that since he is merely the first known king to acknowledge and support it for ordinary locals to use. These case precedents are supposed to be a guide for the other judges and records are kept to make sure things are consistent. The British monarch was never subjected to this kind of system. The British have never had a written Constitution that is used to justify it's "political" power. Never. In any case, in the US we still use "case precedents" but these can always be appealed in various ways. Further, judges are sworn to defend the Constitution which means that they can't explicitly or implicitly violate it. If they simply follow "case precedent" traditions and imagine that they're merely "interpreting" the Constitution to "find" new implicit rights they are also violating the US Constitution by going beyond the judicial powers granted by it. They are to interpret the law as written, not find workarounds for favor ideas promoted by any political party or any other faction. That's what legislatures are for. There is only one major party that has made it its agenda to "reimagine" how this all works. They first appealed to "Social Darwinism" and "new understanding" as code to convey that ordinary "demos" aka ordinary petitioners can't possibly understand the law the way that the Social Darwinist cult can understand humanity. They now try to cite case precedents inappropriately (through language wars and other mendacity) to get what they want. They describe their constituents in a manner that should be familiar to those that have read Orwell's Animal Farm. But so many Social Justice warriors don't even realize how much they worship and depend on Orwell's Pigs. In US legal parlance, a judge will deem something a "political controversy" under "political question doctrine" (nobody seems to know what that means anymore) meaning that it's supposed to be answered by legislatures (and sometimes the Executive Branches), rather than the courts. And in many cases it's additionally deemed unconstitutional for the Federal government to interfere at all. A "political" judge is one that follows English common law traditions while ignoring established US jurisprudence that has been radically tainted since FDR's "struggle" for Social Justice or whatever you want to call it.
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  6502. "Leftist" politics is all about destroying Separations of Powers. It was invented by the Jacobins before and during the French Revolution. And turned in to pseudosciences once Darwin, Marx and Freud's philosophies were integrated. Today it's usually propagated culturally through "media" and through Critical Theory academics. These "critiques" have their time and place. Defense attorneys must be familiar with these theories to defend their clients. Over the decades Critical Theory Marxists (under "explaining/solving disparity") have been trying to silence all disagreement so that only their constituents may shout their whinges to "the court of public opinion" in order to have their way in every hall of power. Exactly like the Jacobins did. There should be no leftist judges. Anyone that supports leftist politicians is an ignorant fool. "The right" is also a construct of the Jacobins. The original "opposition" was the Ancien Regime. We have no Ancien Regime in the USA. Political Identity Politics is all about filling out a cast of collectivist tropes to align with traditional Jacobin and Marxist "class war" tropes. Patriarchy yada yada, systemic racism here, banksters on Wall Street over there, it's a massive cast of Hollywood tropes all aligned with doctrinaire Marxism and Critical Theory "democratic" Marxism. Leftists get more and more obstinate and ignorant thanks to new thought leaders that make them even more confident that only they are "woke" enough to understand why things are the way that they are and yet they can't explain any of it properly. They can't even explain why they have to much faith in BS like the Green New Deal and endless wealth transfer schemes. For me what this all means is that the promises of "socialized education" have more than merely failed. It's become part of the "revolution" or "resistance" to "disparity" AKA "Capitalism". Nobody can admit today that they simply failed and doubled down year after year, generation after generation.
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  6512.  @johnsmithers8913  It makes perfect sense. Anyone could have explained it to you at any time. The number one problem with the US economy is energy arbitrate deliberately set up to "de-industrialize" the "advanced economies" are "Post Industrial Economies". The number one trick ensuring taht the CCP pays significantly less for energy than any of their competition (with respect to manufacturing high value products). Alongside that, the "regulatory state" that pretends to "care about humanity" while secretly yearning for genocide of populations that they hate does everyone possible to ensure that all important manufacturing is sent out of the USA and preferably to China. All exceptions to that rule must be approved by the CCP. But the other factor is that the "status quo" was established by FDR for his New Deal and his New Deal war AKA WWII. The entire global was SNAFUBAR and most Americans went along with the idea of the USA sponsoring the rebuilding of 'democracies' and so forth. And just like with The Great Society they created a bunch of economic vassal states. And these vessels wanted more control without giving up the wealth transfers so they formed the EU and created all kinds of programs where "coalitions" of parasites would band together and all sing from the same mendacious song sheets about he dangers of nuclear power, "climate change" and on and on and on. You're either a lying idiot or an abject ignoramus that is projecting his ignorance on to some nonexistent trope you call "MAGA".
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  6521. FISA abuse would fall under abuse of powers and dereliction of duties. The term dereliction of duties usually is employed in military law in the USA is a substitute for petty treason. There are interesting reasons for that parsing of language that we don't need to get in to here. But the important thing is to understand that military law is different because it deals with operators that have sworn duties and great power. They are held to very high standards. Ordinary people only have ordinary duties until they take certain kinds of work (professional duties) and/or swear to oaths (sworn duties). Judges, LEOs and prosecutors all have sworn duties and professional duties that correspond with their credentials (lawyers, for example). Most politicians do as well. But those in power would like you to think of these people in powerful positions as just "ordinary folk" trying to do their best to "preserve our democracy" and since they have "no criminal intent" you can't charge them with a crime! This is the BS propagated by lunatics like James Comey. It's totally false. And that is exactly why they freaked out when it came to the use of "gross negligence" because gross negligence also corresponds roughly to petty treason under English common law and "dereliction of duties" under US law. Politicians would like you to believe that we don't hold politicians accountable for abuse of powers and violating their oaths - as long as they claim that they're operating with "good intentions." The only thing stopping us is the liars in power.
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  6555. Why did you conflate religion with self righteousness? Religion does not make people self righteous. People that don't want to accept their own true human condition become self righteous because they don't accept any other entity's standards. They only want to follow their own standards and reject any standard that diminishes their own delusional of grandeur aka "righteousness". Do you not understand how common this is in all societies? Social Justice is a buzz term used to redo "justice" as if the rule of law is racist because Social Justice must be run like Orwell's Animal Farm. Even Erica Arthur Blair was a socialist but he understood that what they were all doing politically was perhaps even worse than the status quo at the time. Status quo in Britain meant institutions like "charter companies" (corporations favored by the monarchy) in the time where the sun never set on the British Empire. That's totally different than a US socialist that didn't have any reason to believe that any of the "socialist" grievances could be solved with doctrinaire socialism. Social Justice is a term of deception, especially in the USA unless you explain your specific theory. Freeing the slaves could be considered "social justice" but more than likely you would have simply invoked the "justice" term. A rule of law republic does not allow the doctrine of "othering" an entire class of humans and deny due process to them. Denial of due process rights is a denial of all legal rights. I don't even need the world "social" for anything at all.
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  6577. Progressives are, basically, alien enemies in spite of their citizenship. All of their doctrines that they use to lie to use are rectified by crazed Euroloon philosophers (mostly dead ones). And they believe that they're not lying. Russian and "ULTRAMAGA" have the same meaning in the Progressive US DOJ lexicon. The US Democratic Party was born in evil. The war only stopped the secession. Not the evil. They shot Lincoln after the war had theoretically ended. Since Lincoln foolishly tapped Andrew Johnson as his running mate the assassination handed the Oval Office to VPOTUS. This was the beginning of both the KKK and the so-called Progressive movement in the USA. They took a while to come up with cover narratives about "Social Darwinism" and so forth. The enemy of the Democrat Party is the "Patrician" Republicans. Because they use "technical" (rule of law doctrines taken from the US Constitution) to lord over the oppressed plantation owners that had their labor advantage taken away. Republicans like Lincoln fought over Capital Supremacy aka "White Supremacy". You thought they meant slaves from Africa ruled over by evil plantation owners? You must be a White Patriarch/White Supremacist Republican! They're duplicity is easy to decode once you learn enough relevant history. Question: What year did the US Democratic Party begin to turn away from evil? Yes, it's a trick question. Go ahead and try to answer without implying that LBJ's Great Society and Nixon's "lower taxes" supposedly "flipped" the parties. LOL. Please. The Communists started taking over the Progressive movement some time after Woodrow Wilson and before FDR. Look up "Arsenal of Democracy" if you want to do there. I could do this all day...
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  6644.  @BigPlay84Gaming  Dude, you have everything in reverse order. If you first put term limits on Congress you have no way to control the bureaucrats. The newbs always struggle to find their way and teh careerists draft everything for them. And some careerist elected officials just follow the unelected cult because they never have to call a new session. They're always ready to gaslight new arrivals. With respect to "corporate" lobbying what you want is transparency. You want to make sure no party with foreign interests has the same access to DC that Citizens do. And the burden of proof should be on both the lobbyists and the ones that receive them. IOW, they have this massive security state but none of this is used to keep track of "power" on behalf of the Citizens that "own" the republic. And related to that is that the scale and scope (actual powers) of the bureaucracy is the most unhinged political institution in the history of man. First Amend the Constitution pertaining to limits on "agency" powers. They have usurped each branch. And there's no one group that even understands how this Leviathan cult operates through back channels. So, that Amendment should formally empower Congressional oversite committees its own access to "security information" pertaining to lawless subversives operating under "Color of Law". And then put in mandatory budget cuts that ensure each agency loses 10% of its budget each year. And 10% of its head count. To add back you must have a freestanding bill and a supermajority vote and it still expires no later than 12 months. So these agencies will then rely on supermajority votes each year. And then you can put in a provision for term limits where the incumbent serves two terms and can run again but must win 60% of the vote to return to office. In those cases parties can run the incumbent and a backup and voters can choose first and second choice. Meaning those that want the incumbent as a first choice can specify where their vote goes if the threshold is not met for the incumbent to win. Trusted officials will stay longer and it will be easier for newbs to that party to challenge lame incumbents. Of course that's just a quickly written proposal that can be fine tuned. But I've already told you clearly what needs to be solved and how to solve it without handing more power to the bureaucracies and the crooks that run the place.
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  6655. RFK won't drive any change at all. The ones waiting for the next President to control already know his uncle and father were assassinated with "Intelligence Community" sanction. And RFK has already been defamed for talking like a "conspiracy theorist". Allowing him to win would be spun as "proof" that he's wrong. LOL. So, the show might be more pleasant but at the end of the day the CCP written omnibus bills will get passed in to law and you won't be able to drive any personal transportation that isn't made in China and not only that your electricity will be controlled from a central point that can be disrupted at any point. Nobody can disable gasoline with the flip of a switch. They can cut off distribution points but the local and regional stores will allow patriots to respond in time. Converting to all electric transport is part of the Central Plan. If they cared about the things they allege they'd simply start creating bigger and bigger tax incentives for hybrid-fuel vehicles. That's just one example. JFK is almost as easy to control as Biden. Maybe easier because nobody thinks for one second that Biden is not fully-controlled puppet. RFK will be fed "ideas" that seem to line up with his campaign and then slowly other "actually" talking points will explained the "nuance" of what yada yada is really going to happen with the US Federal government. If it's not going to be a true Constitutionalist it's better to have Biden. Because it's becomes ever more obvious to people of all walks of life that the root problem is the US Democratic Party and we all know about 'Deep State' power but it's just a fact that without DNC/RICO subterfuge we could slash the population of government employees in half and immediate get nothing but increased freedom and economic benefits (lower taxes, more prosperous free markets) from it.
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  6673. True liberals must understand the the left-right spectrum is a Marxist construct. There's no such thing as "political right" unless we cede to the idea that opposition to Marxism is "extreme right". There is no "right wing authoritarianism" unless you qualify it by calling it right wing Marxism. Like Mussolini and Hitler. Marxists consider those two socialists that agreed with Marx on everything but "international solidarity" across the "working class". IOW, the pure Marxists insist that the "Proletariat" must all stick together globally. Hitler did not like the idea that his "German Folk" would submit to Lenin's "Vanguard Party" claim and obviously Stalin was even worse. If you talk about "right wing authoritarianism" you are falling in to the trap of validating their worldview and their dogmatic ability to paint all critics of Communism as inherently authoritarian. Notice there is no such thing as a Moderate Marxist. There are Fabians, but not moderates. There are only two choices in the left right spectrum and the supposed nuance is about how "political" you are. The ideology itself is binary. So the Democrats, now that they've purged all of their KKK members in favor of racist Progressives, refer to low energy members of their party as "moderate" and the extremists are painted as "activists". Get it? They require ideological purity but use explanations that seem to be nuanced but really are not. Kammy, a dogmatic Communist, is painted as a moderate because she's (rhetorically) a flip-floppy hypocrite that doesn't rant every day like AOC and her little Congressional clique.
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  6694.  @jameseubanks1817  She's not angling for a key position to then go and betray her country by joining any leftist agenda. I think she still doesn't quite understand the link between economic liberty and all other liberties. And because of that she might hate "The Deep State" for all of the obvious reasons but doesn't understand original FDR justification for creating this monster was organizing farming and "industry" under The New Deal so that nobody would go hungry and so forth. Typical socialists. She doesn't understand that all "socialism" erodes the rule of law unless you are "socializing" something once held by the monarch or the colonial power or whatever. Lots of countries socialize mineral rights and leave it at that. But individuals never relied on it in most places. It's not that I GAF if Getty and Rockefeller scion lose their wealth. I don't. I just don't want to give any government power to do anything like fiat wealth confiscation under "socialism". Or "woke". There's no difference just by renaming it and coming up with endless Critical Theory talking points that all start and end in the same place (Marxism). I don't think Tulsi can do any harm right now because she's kind of shocked just to find out that her own party is wholly corrupt and has been for its entire existence. She'll be more careful any time she promotes some leftwing cause, for sure. Even "climate change" because she knows we're the ones that don't have a history of lying without end. RFK is a different matter but I don't think he's so crazy that he'll start with helping Trump on areas of agreement and end by becoming the new champion of AOC's Green New Deal. But if he lives long enough he could run in 2032 as a crypto-socialist like all of the other leftists do.
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  6705. If you count the FDR revolution this is Their Democracy. And the so called Deep State represents "Norms of Our Democracy" where they can do what the effe they want. So, they are indeed evil and delusional liars, but I fully understand what they're talking about. The first notorious thing that CIA did was interfere in elections in the early Cold War. While it's 100% true that Stalin had sent agents all over Europe so many of these early elections in the ashes of war were already part of the bilateral Cold War. As things evolved the CIA and US State Department sort of started paying less and less attention to each new President. They fought Russian Soviet Communism by becoming US Soviets in behavior and doctrine. And the only time we really opposed Chinese Communist Party expansion was by sending arms and troops in Korea, Vietnam and some other nations as we worried about this kind of doctrinaire scorched earth "revolution" by terror and destruction. But because this new thing held all of the power even Reagan struggled to get them under control. By the time the Soviet Union collapsed under George HW Bush he celebrated the US as the only superpower left standing and sort of invented Democratic multilateral Communism when we kicked Hussein out of Kuwait and then started telling everyone at NATO and the UN what we expected from then on out. It wasn't "democracy" by that time. It as already Neo Marxism and all of the "analysts" started declaring that Communism had been vanquished by Democracy and you started hearing stupid things under "Democratic Peace Theory" where, basically, as long as MacDonalds and other signs of Western consumerism could be reported that "democracy" had replaced tyrannical Communism. LOL. This all took place between Bush's swearing in, Tiananmen Square slaughter, and Clinton's victory not because Clinton called out Bush on his cozy relationship with China but because Clinton wanted to double down on trade with China because "It's the economy, stupid". Nobody under #43 had a problem with China because the Progressives in the West promoted the 'Global War on Terror' as The Social Justice Issue and then the Critical Theory Marxist talking points started up by 2002 to eventually let Obama recalibrate "the real terrorists" as anyone that goes against single party Marxist rule in any country.
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  6723. Trump absolutely was ruining the Marxist "Arc of Social Justice History" vision of "the (new) world order". This is the most convincing statement Milley has ever made to show he's a Marxist in all but "identity". He thinks WWII was about helping Stalin and Mao take over the world, excluding North America itself, where "American" Marxists would run that continent. Milley is a freaking Communist! LOL. There's no denying it. As far as anyone could tell this was the NWO vision of FDR. Thank God FDR croaked in time because Truman the mushroom VPOTUS was not down for that at all. And never forget that the so-called "Red Scare" was cultural Marxist backlash to investigating why the US funded Communist imperialism in Russia and China during and shortly after WWII. US State Department has had "common sense" Marxists running the place ever since FDR's days. In the military and US State Department the Marxists often fashion themselves as "Realists". They'll criticize Marx as a character but when it comes to Marxist dogmas they defend those as "Realism". Any time someone belittles Marx or Communism but then defends criticism of "Capitalism" that is derived only from Marx, you have a subverted hive-minded Marxist on your hands. You need Marx's dogmas to make "Capitalism" a worldwide class war. Or even a "class war" that spans nations. Marxist dogmas are all about how workers have wages "stolen" any time the owners (or even white collar employees) make a profit (or "unearned" wage). This calculation goes back to some of the monarch's allies that won lands from the monarch, opened them up to agriculture and kept a lot of the profit from the sales. OK, that seems like it sucks, but that was a thing in the monarchies. The Industrial Revolution is REALLY what triggered the socialists because they just assumed (based on Marx's dogmatic analysis) taht everything thing would get worse. The simple fact that lots of people are getting rich is de facto oppression of everyone else. The only class war taht ever existed were the two supported by the US Democratic Party: Slave owners that refused to free their slaves and "Progressive" Marxists that want to control economic activity and any related control to "socialize" the nation incrementally. As they have since FDR.
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  6760. Kammy was an obvious-drunk moron since her first diatribe against Kavanaugh. You guys all expected her and Pelosi to stop day drinking just because they failed to take out any important Trump nominees? Yeah, no. And these union dudes are not the brightest bulbs. Since FDR, the unions have performed a blatantly parasitic function under the theory that any time "Capitalists" keep their profit that they are stealing wages from the workers. Did anyone notice when it started negatively affecting product quality? How is it that Germany within 10 to 20 years after WWII started producing cars that eclipsed every US based manufacturer by insane margins? That's just one example. Union reps that gave up on global Communism should be more pragmatic in their approach and try to negotiate "win win" contract terms, but they never do. Not US unions. Because FDR set up legal paradigms that actually predate minority persons as always "punching up". The first lawfare success was painting "workers" and "oppressed" and meriting "Punching Up" protections. LBJ is the one that created the War on Poverty (or rather his Marxist advisors) in order to get minorities to self segregate and get them addicted to government dependence. If you're not working in any related fields and don't read any history you might think, who cares? But union reps who spend their life representing any of the big regulated "industries" and you don't notice this problem? Remember when Japan starting "Oppressing Workers" with AI machines? These simpletons regard that as "Fascism" because they were aligned with Hitler and Mussolini during WWII. When the CCP does it? It's OK. Just keep blaming Capitalism.
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