If I have to pick a group of people I want my politicians to lie to instead of their constituents, it is most certainly billionaire elites.

This is good news, thanks for sharing it. I miss Parler. It was the only place I could follow both a white supremacist and a black supremacist and glean a good laugh from both.

I can't think of a single group on the right that uses the raised fist iconography in any context -- because it's a symbol of communism. This pack of dipshits masquerading as MAGA are morons.

Ugh, that second picture brings back some unpleasant memories. The smell of burning shit with that nasty mix of JP-8 and gasoline didn't just stink to high heaven -- that stench got in your uniform, your hair, and didn't wash out for days. Shit-burning detail was a less preferable choice than going outside the wire any day.

Depends on how many members of Antifa they usher past the barricades.

There's a welcome surprise.

That's certainly a nightmare-scenario possibility, and one that seems far likelier now than it ever has before. We're hurtling toward totalitarianism at a pretty ridiculous pace, and the shield that was keeping us from succumbing may be about to break. Regardless of which way the pendulum swings, we're in for more turbulent times.

I suppose the benefit of pessimism is that one is either always correct or pleasantly surprised.

Indeed. The fraud is so obvious that one would have to be actively trying to remain willfully ignorant in order to not see it.

Ah, thank you. That's most helpful. You also explained the Pedes bit, which I hadn't even been able to ask yet!

The only reason they want to bar him from running again is because they know he'll fucking win again, and even though they think they can cheat and win anyway, cheating on a scale of that magnitude costs a shitload of money.

Having just joined and not really understanding all of the lingo y'all use -- what's a caterpillar in this context?

Nah, the Democrat playbook will be run as usual -- they'll say all of the economic failure is due to Trump's policies, and MSM will support that narrative while continuing to try to suppress alt media. While I agree that most people won't buy into that, there'll be enough of them that do for it to be at least partially effective. Just my 2c.

Damn, is it false flag o'clock already?

I've not heard of anything like that with eye color specifically, but I don't think I'd be very surprised if a study verified that hunch. I do know for certain that the size and shape of an individual's eyebrows and the resting shape of their mouth have a huge impact on whether or not a person is inclined to trust a person they've just met, though.

And no worries about the black eyes thing. I picked up on what you meant. FWIW, I have gray eyes, but technically they're just very pale blue.

I wouldn't go so far as to say any given group necessarily thinks their own group is superior to others, but in all other respects I think this logic is sound. This is why it's dangerous to not properly assimilate immigrants into native populations. When you allow large immigrant groups to form cultural enclaves, assimilation doesn't happen properly, and that's something we've allowed in the US since urbanization first got started.

Oliver Darcy, as always, saying shit like this unironically, without realizing the MASSIVE and obvious conflict of interest that renders his opinion dubious at best and obviously full of shit in the mind of anyone with a lick of sense.

I don't really agree with this assessment, but there is some scientific basis to it. The ability to read body language and facial expressions works best in groups where general phenotype variation is very low -- which is to say, it's easier to get a read on people who look like you. The sense of distrust that tends to be felt toward other people who look and dress wildly different from one's own culture is an evolutionary holdover. The individual that fears the unknown as a prey animal tends to live longer than the individual that does not.

Equating saving the world with suppression of speech. What a time to be alive.

I'll take, "Shit That Was Obvious To Everyone," for 800, Alex.

Good. Hit them in their wallets. It's the only thing oligarchs pay any attention to.

I genuinely have no idea. I've become so distrustful of information sources on both sides of the aisle that I no longer bother to try to predict, because it tends to take a week or two of hindsight in order to actually determine what happened for any given notable situation.

I can say that I hope this is some kind of massive sting and that every ounce of Democrat and RINO corruption and blackmail is revealed to the world on a grand stage, but whether or not that's actually the case I'm not really willing to predict. Mostly because if I'm wrong and I put too much faith in my prediction, the pressure that'd put on my mind might shake the resolve that would surely be needed in the time that follows.

Bezos is down there doing his best Lex Luthor impression.

It won't last as long as you might hope. Their cascading financial failure will just act as cause for leftists in government to strip further financial autonomy from the individual and make citizens dependent on the state. Unemployment will start to soar, along with crime rates, and in response the state will crack down on individual rights further. This is the path of all communist regimes.