They'll throw him in prison for some BS before they allow him to do this.
Don't dig too deep, down there be black pills. You might find out, for instance, that the United States government basically goaded Iraq into invading Kuwait in 1990 through it's regional proxies Kuwait and the UAE, thus creating the pretext necessary for the 1st 'made for TV' war, The first Iraq War. All this after arming both sides in the Iran-Iraq war, which had at that point been going on for 8 years and cost over a million lives, leaving both nations destitute.
War Pigs is such a great song.
Nah, that's not how the war profiteers work. Iran is a state semi-capable of defending itself, with even more powerful allies. We saber rattle at states like Iran, we don't attack them.
Instead, we seek to damage them by proxy in neighboring countries through destabilization campaigns. Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan? Those are the kinds of helpless, near-failed states we like to tear apart with the latest and greatest toys from the MIC.
It doesn't matter if it's a Frog, a Dog, or a God; the left always seeks to destroy the cultural icons of the right.
Symbols matter. Memes matter.
Every movement of sufficient size has it's dullards. Anyone who believed in Q after Trump fired Sessions, is in that camp. Not trying to pick fights, it's just the truth.
There were points earlier than that, but Sessions getting fired was the 'Clayton Bigsby unmasked' moment for Q followers. For anyone paying attention, it became a pure farce after that day.
Spot on. The visits are designed to let you know you're on 'the list'. But guess what? You were already on the list, regardless of where you were on the 6th. Gun owner? On the list. Republican donor? On the list. Ever visited any right wing website, including former ones like Drudge and Fox News? You're on the list.
So you're there, you're on the list. Along with about 100 million other Americans.
You're in great company. And the list will just keep getting longer.
Just so we're clear, the FBI is the old Gestapo, too.
They've always been the American Gestapo. When the guy who founded the agency more or less immediately sets to using it's authority to harass, intimidate, and coerce his political enemies, it's origins and purpose couldn't be more clear.
They never cleaned up their act, they just improved their advertising. Notice how every broadcast TV show that isn't some vomit inducing chick tract drama festival, is engaged in some degree of federal law enforcement hero worship?
You're paying good money to be constantly indoctrinated that they're the good guys, so enjoy it.
That's an argument many people have made, but even when you control for time, Stalin still beats Hitler. We don't really know with Mao, because the Chinese government has done a fantastic job of obfuscating any detail around his atrocities.
I'll also point out, and want to be real clear here I'm not apologizing for Hitler's genocide program, which absolutely did exist...but it's also true that particularly in the last year of the war, eastern Europe in general was being flooded with refugees fleeing the Red Army. Stalin, charmer that he was, gave his troops carte blanche to murder basically anyone they encountered on the march to Germany, rationalizing in typical communist fashion that they must be traitors if they are still alive, because these peasants clearly didn't fight hard enough against the German mechanized infantry, otherwise they would have stopped it.
So these people are arriving in your territory, mostly Poland, by the tens of thousands every day. You're in the middle of a war, that you're losing. You can't just let them have the run of the place, some of them are probably Soviet spys. What do you do? Oh and by the way, many of them are on deaths doorstep when picked up by German forces.
Hundreds of thousands of such people died in German concentration camps. Is that Hitler's fault? I'd say yes it is, he started the war with Russia that caused it. But it's also Stalin's fault for driving those people out of their homes. Are those deaths equally on Hitler's shoulders as the German and Polish Jews he had massacred? That's where things get philosophical.
Doesn't matter, all those deaths get added to Hitler's totals, and not Stalin's, even though Stalin was arguably more directly responsible.
But I say all this to point something out. It's very difficult to find academic sources that don't lump all people who died in German concentration camps into the same bucket, while those same academics gladly make such distinctions for communist atrocities. So yea, I think communism was a bigger threat. It certainly is today.
Hitler's atrocities pale in comparison to those committed by Stalin and Mao, let alone some of the later luminaries of Communism like Pol Pot and Kim Jon Il. That's my point. Nazism was an internally focused effort, Communism has always been about spreading more Communism. I've never seen a shred of evidence to suggest that Germany had intentions to attack Britain or France, had they not declared war first.
Winston Churchill wanted to eradicate German society, a trait he shared with many leaders from the WWI era, after all, that was the purpose of the Treaty of Versailles. None of these things happened in a vacuum, there were no good guys in WWII. You really think the Germans should have gone easy after the Brits declared war on them, when a couple decades earlier the Brits were intentionally starving German civilians to death so they could get the treaty of Versailles signed?
History is written by the victors. That doesn't make them right, or noble, it just means they get to hide their own atrocities while focusing on those of the conquered.
Need to have a look at that 19th too, that was bad business. I'd say we should go for the trifecta, but the 18th already got thrown in the trash.
Want to know something that would really twist this douchebag's noodle?
The percentage of current and former military members who deliberately choose a combat arms billet is even more white and male than that. More like 95/5, instead of 80/20.
Turns out that most minorities and women who join the military, go into rear echelon support roles. No shame in that, they're needed too, but the warfighters are still a bunch of white dudes.
The politicians of 'The Greatest Generation' were far from the greatest, in fact they betrayed this nation more profoundly than any group of people before or since.
FDR got played like a violin by Churchill. We could have crushed communism forever, instead we made it's bed and fed it cookies until it was old enough to stab us in the back.
The truth is as bad as Hitler was, the threat he posed to the entire world was dwarfed by that of communism. In fact, if Churchill hadn't been so hell-bent on obliterating Nazi Germany at any cost, the entire western front of the European theatre might have never happened.
I'm not suggesting in the slightest that Hitler was a good guy, he was an insane mass murderer. But guess what? So was everyone else in that God forsaken conflict.
Everything being reported by the media is intended as cover for Republican Senators so they'll think they're in the clear to vote for a bunch of destructive and divisive laws shortly after the inauguration.
Media doesn't care if it's true, if they can make a handful of braindead Republicans support their nonsense, it makes them look like the ones trying to unite the country, all while they're doing the opposite.
Everyone who lives in a Republican state better be ready to melt down your Senators' comms after Jan 20th. It won't stop the dems if they're determined no matter what, but the threats about nuking the filibuster might just be empty threats. They would much rather get stuff passed the old fashion way: Bribery and coercion.
Because the establishment is China.
You didn't think they were pumping hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods and currency into our country for our good, did you?
A bribe of sufficient size is called geopolitics.
At least they got to find out AROCK was dead before everything faded to black.
Sorry, your statement made it sound like you did attend one, but not the other. If that's not the case, consider my post some general advice on how to avoid making yourself an easy target.
Sorry to hear that happened to you, but for your own safety you need to learn a lesson about opsec and persec, and apply it to any political activism going forward.
Everyone needs to, even the self-employed folks who think they're immune. You're not.
If you intend to attend an event like we had Wednesday, you need to carefully plan how you do it in such a way that your digital and social footprint is as small as humanly possible while you're there.
- No cell phone
- No smart watch
- No laptop/tablet
- No anything that can possibly leak data about the identity of it's owner. That means basically all modern consumer electronics, leave this shit at home.
About the only electronics that are OK to take with you to such events, are a non-GPS enabled 2 way radio, and a simple camera with no wifi capabilities. Preferably an actual film camera.
Be safe, and best of luck looking for a new job, doesn't sound like that company was a great place to work anyway.
"The soft bigotry of low expectations."
GWB was and is a douchenozzle, but that phrase really hit home with a younger me. Such a succinct way to describe the entire leftist belief system, but especially their views on race.
Nothing could be more racist than believing that a person is inherently disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin.
Ted Cruz never had any real shot at being president to begin with. He's a brilliant guy, maybe the best debator the Senate has seen in a generation, but he's about as personally inspiring as a snotty handshake.
People tend to like Trump more, the more they listen to him. Once you get past the hyperbole and bombast, much of what Trump says is very moderate.
Conversely, people tend to like Cruz less the more he talks. It's not the concepts he's communicating, it's his demeanor.
That's the key. Limbaugh has been saying it for decades, it's kinda distressing that so many conservatives still don't get it.
If the Democrats and media are in immediate synchronization on their talking points, know that whatever they're talking about is something they had a hand in planning, regardless of how horrible it was.
The Christian churches have been cucked for decades. They are a reflection of our society; gaggles of harpy soccer moms, their drug addled fat children, and the occasional tow-along husband or boyfriend who doesn't want to be there because they can sense they aren't really welcome.
I went to a funeral service at a rural, textual fundamentalist church a few years ago. Listening to that pastor talk made me realize just how far to the left the average suburban church in America has moved.
Yes, but that overplaying sometimes plays out over decades, it's fairly rare for it to not take at least years.
The best chance we had to fix this mess passed yesterday, in fairly uneventful fashion aside from some histrionic screeching from the usual suspects. Realistically, it'll probably be years, at least, before another opportunity like that presents, with hundreds of thousands of pissed off patriots gathered, willing and able to do something about it.
You can be sure they won't let it happen in DC again anytime soon. There'll be Apache helicopters in the air the second anyone on the right even thinks about holding a rally in DC.
That is the exact opposite of what they're going to do. Not trying to be rude, but have you read a history book? Powerful people might be frightened into inaction by an immediate threat, but the nanosecond that threat is passed, they get pissed off and vengeful. Because for even the briefest of seconds, some peasant made them afraid, and that's just not tolerable.
Over the next 90 days you're going to see such volumes and depths of anti-American legiislation coming out of Washington DC as we haven't seen since 9/11. It'll probably beat 9/11, because that wasn't personal. This was.
Given up? No, there's time enough for quitting when you're dead.
But I also believe we're a leaderless movement right now, and that's a very dangerous thing. Trump carried us as far as he could, but he wasn't willing to walk the road this was always headed down.
When thieves have busted down the door of your business and are robbing you blind, you don't beat them by trying to steal your stuff back from them faster than they can steal it from you. That's basically what our election system is at this point.
We need to get focused, we need to demand national election reform. No excuses, no distractions, enough fucking games. No more 3rd world elections. No more non-auditable processes or non verifiable voters. National voter ID (India can do it, so I think we can manage with our 25x higher per capita GDP), no ballot harvesting or any other chicanery. Everyone votes the same day, all votes are counted and published at the same time. No more bullshit.
Despite what happened yesterday, we're still in the middle of a powerful moment, but Trump isn't going to be the guy who leads us out of it. Not sure who can, really. Someone who understands civil disobedience far better than Trump apparently does.
If you aren't rich or poor, rest assured, the Democrat party is working tirelessly to fix it. By making you poor.