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6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Go stop the average person on the street and ask them what they think about the dismantling of our government, or what they think about Russia having ownership of our president. They'll look at you like you have five heads. 

Letting public education languish is paying massive dividends for the Republicans.

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54 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

Now, Alito cares about jurisdiction- that’s extremely rich from that asshole.

He cares about it very much when it suits him.

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On 3/3/2025 at 6:23 PM, Fastbreak said:


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All the Tech Bro Billionaires were very happy.

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And of course even the rich swamp rats.

This is a pretty decent read on how the tech bro takeover has unfolded.
 

 

On 3/3/2025 at 6:36 PM, bolverk said:

Don't know if Icono/Macklemore is into the tech part of this shit, but it sounds akin to the New Right monarchy he's obsessed with.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

 

On 3/3/2025 at 6:43 PM, Woland said:


Sounds like Communism.

Behind the Bastards had a good couple of shows about this

Posted
7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The French are going to call us cowards for generations.  

Fat Nixon will be known as the guy who made the French strong again.  

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Posted
1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

That nickname gives him way too much credit. 

It's hard to give him less.  You really have to work at it.  

I'll stick with "that fucking guy."  Even that seems too grand.  

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Losing hope as I drift into my fifties isnt so bad. I fully expect my retirement funds to be seized. Thats when I'll put my body on the line and take the bullets.

Can't imagine what people in their 20s and 30s are going through. Those with any awareness anyway.

This will be normal for children. Hope they find a leader because we don't have one now.

Who will be their John Connor?

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54 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Putin's Puppet is going to unite Europe against russia and the us ....

French Senator : "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" - Claude Malhuret. WOW ! 👊

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Posted
2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Duh.  Have you not been reading my newsletter?

You have a newsletter?  How come I only keep getting dick pics and cat facts?

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JoJo from Jersey video. No, not a porn video. She’s leaning into punditry. I think she is effective. (Buck, I have to recopy a link from text in order to embed a video 🤷🏻‍♂️)

 

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57 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Losing hope as I drift into my fifties isnt so bad. I fully expect my retirement funds to be seized. Thats when I'll put my body on the line and take the bullets.

Can't imagine what people in their 20s and 30s are going through. Those with any awareness anyway.

This will be normal for children. Hope they find a leader because we don't have one now.

Who will be their John Connor?

As one of those 30-something's, I'm thinking you goddamn boomers timed it just about perfectly. Some of you got to see the moon landing, missed out on participating in Vietnam, maybe had to hide under your desk a little bit during the Cold War, but got to witness some cool music and counter-culture, the environmental movement bringing things like wolves, grizzlies, whooping cranes, bald eagles and Peregrine falcons back from the brink and cleaning up air/water, generally improving racial, gender and sexual equity in the US and improvements toward health and poverty around the globe. You could actually afford to buy houses and shit and places like Austin weren't crowded as fuck.

And as you approach your end, you get to witness The End, without concerning yourself too much about crawling out from the rubble. Lucky sons of bitches...

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My 18 year old son a few days ago.  "But does any of the Trump stuff effect your life directly."

His whole peer group is completely ignorant to anything political.

 

My brother today.  "Biden had no impact on your life and neither will Trump. "

Talk about white male privilege. Holy fuck. And typical conservative dumbfuck both sides notion and spewing some folksy platitude  that you forever accept as truth despite all evidence to the contrary.

We are going to have to all suffer until the fuckers learn, if they ever learn, and I'm not sure they will. My son will, but my brother is a lost cause. He can support my mom when her SS is gone, and retirement is shit.  I hope he was dumb enough to not touch his 401k  because "it matters little to the markets which man is in office."

 

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Posted
43 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Does this not only apply to payments for contracts already fulfilled?

What would investors think about the "full faith and credit of the United States government" when faced with a regime that just decides not to pay what is owed?  

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Posted
17 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm no boomer, you fuck!

Gen X. And yes we are prepared to watch the world burn.

Same. I hope there are snacks.

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7 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Gen X's kids, tho.

 

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most of their entire lives have been 'unprecedented'. they're either angry, resilient, anxious...or all three (my niece lol) 

but i saw this license last week and chuckled, appreciating my choices 😄

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Posted
2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

I think it's a little late for that in our lifetimes.

DOGE is popular because the American people have been conditioned to hate government for generations. There is no pro-government Progressive Era or New Deal grassroots movement right now. As long as the average American isn't the one being let go (and most people don't work for the government) then they're completely fine with nameless bureaucrats getting the axe. Hell, not just fine, they're all for it.  "That's my money"

Ukraine vs Russia? "That's my money" and we're not conditioned to understand complex international conflicts or the way that military procurement works.

USAID? "That's my money" and we're not a nation that understands the long game (look at our collective retirement accounts)

Immigration? "That's my money" + "They're different than me" Nativism is nothing new and scary foreigners is one of the classic hits in the American album

 

Asking the most selfish people on earth to suddenly care about others with their wallet is just not going to happen, imo.

This is a pretty great post, even if I don't fully agree with all of it.  In 2024, about 60% of the electorate was 55 or younger.  That means, a large percentage of voters have never lived through/were old enough to have a memory of living through:

  • The first or second World War
  • A time where women didn't have the right to vote, seek an abortion or lead a Fortune 500 company
  • The Great Depression
  • The fight for civil rights and relative racial equality
  • The assassinations of US political leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK
  • The Vietnam War, a draft, its unpopularity and the discord here at home

The government we are dismantling today arose from the pain of people felt by people living (and dying) through those things.  But for the vast majority of voters in 2024, what it would be like to live through those things without a protective federal government is just an abstract idea.  I mean, that's true of me, too.  I have an idea that living that would suck, but I certainly don't know it from my own life experience.  People are just going to have to live through some shit before they can recognize the value of what they had and demand its return.

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Sen. Jeff Merkley, D, Oregon, doing work: "Is President Trump a Russian asset? .... What else could a Russian asset actually possibly do that Trump hasn't yet done?". + a lot more in the video.

I was in a call-in town hall the other night with Lloyd Doggett, who did the call from Capitol Hill. This is one of the things he mentioned that he thought we'd start seeing more of - Dems using their time that's designated for other purposes for things like what you see in this video.

 

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3 minutes ago, Goredho said:

This is a pretty great post, even if I don't fully agree with all of it.  In 2024, about 60% of the electorate was 55 or younger.  That means, a large percentage of voters have never lived through/were old enough to have a memory of living through:

  • The first or second World War
  • A time where women didn't have the right to vote, seek an abortion or lead a Fortune 500 company
  • The Great Depression
  • The fight for civil rights and relative racial equality
  • The assassinations of US political leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK
  • The Vietnam War, a draft, its unpopularity and the discord here at home

The government we are dismantling today arose from the pain of people felt by people living (and dying) through those things.  But for the vast majority of voters in 2024, what it would be like to live through those things without a protective federal government is just an abstract idea.  I mean, that's true of me, too.  I have an idea that living that would suck, but I certainly don't know it from my own life experience.  People are just going to have to live through some shit before they can recognize the value of what they had and demand its return.

 

It's kind of wild though, as I was born just as Vietnam ended, and it's always been the defining cultural touchstone of my lifetime. More than 9/11, Afghanistan, the Great Recession, any of that. it permeated everything. The only thing that was close was the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Posted
44 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm no boomer, you fuck!

Gen X. And yes we are prepared to watch the world burn.

Casually calling someone a boomer.  Them’s fighting words.  GenX all the way MF’s.  

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3 minutes ago, G650 said:

This place is like a Gen X paradise, it is well known.

We were the generation that got on message boards in the 1990s.

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Posted
52 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm no boomer, you fuck!

Gen X. And yes we are prepared to watch the world burn.

 

7 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Casually calling someone a boomer.  Them’s fighting words.  GenX all the way MF’s.  

 

6 minutes ago, G650 said:

This place is like a Gen X paradise, it is well known.

Yeah it is, which is going to make what I'm about to say even harder. Gen X is by far the worst generation. Saw the Boomer excess and greed and fought to one up them. I'm borderline Gen X, and I can't believe how hard that group turned heel. 

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14 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

 

 

Yeah it is, which is going to make what I'm about to say even harder. Gen X is by far the worst generation. Saw the Boomer excess and greed and fought to one up them. I'm borderline Gen X, and I can't believe how hard that group turned heel. 

oh well. whatever. nevermind. 

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