i watched wild wild country on netflix & those people remind me of you lol “enlightened”
Because I’m not sure if he’s a pure troll rather than being mentally unstable enough that he’s bought into the thongs he says. If the latter’s the case then I’m genuinely curious how something like a trump indictment would play out in his mind.
Don’t listen to them CW, you’re the only one who gets it. Keep illuminating the darkness! Love, kindness, compassion and prayers.
military coup.
trump did not plan this movement. he was recruited into it by military intelligence (as I’ve stated many times) probably several decades ago. The plan will be carried out regardless of what happens to Trump. But really the chances of anything disrupting his presidency are basically zero, so it’s not something worth thinking about. A year ago? Maybe. Today? They’re in complete control.
Trump is a flawed person who happened to be an outsider whose heart is in the right place and smart enough to carry out the mission. I’m not even sure his ‘flaws’ were not part of the deception to get him where he is today. In any case, this is a military operation to restore the Republic (and the world).
One thing I think you guys rooting for trump’s demise should realize. We’re never going back to ‘business as usual’. The positive military and millions of Americans standing behind them are all in. The great reset is happening one way or another. The goal is to preserve life and prepare the collective psyche enough so people have a chance to heal after all of this. That is why things are moving at a very deliberate pace. But if you think trump will be taken out and be replaced by an establishment sock puppet and things will just die down, you’re mistaken.
Where does Stormy Daniels fit in with this decades long military intelligence coup?
i think part of the reason many on here have trouble understanding what’s going on is that you live in deep blue democrat urban areas, so even your “republican” friends/colleagues are actually pro establishment. Nobody you know wants to upset the apple cart because you all benefit highly from the current system. But outside of your narrow group, there are tens of millions of Americans who are done with the current system and will do whatever it takes to end it. So it’s going to happen one way or another.
so because a minority of americans (outside of our “small narrow groups” - that include the majority of voters in the us) want to trash a system we should go ahead and do it? i dont understand - how is that american & how is that democratic? because you “feel” right? what a bunch of snowflakes.
also notice the rhetoric re: urban/rural divide. clearly there is some complex or something. i also dont understand how the view of economic libertarianism vibes with people who feel entitled to stay in their small town despite the economy & jobs moving away.
Imagine thinking the Trump administration is anti-establishment.
I think there’s a reasonably well founded view that the 1% sold out the middle class through poor trade practices in exchange for short term gains from foreign market access that resulted in a great gains for a minority few. Evidence of US wealth dynamics (erosion of the middle class) over the past 30 years as well as the perpetual current account deficit support this. Understandably, there is the typical socioeconomic backlash. Layering on identity politics is not helpful. I’ve heard a high frequency of “everything below the mason-dixon line is trash” or similar thoughts about the middle of the country lately in the workplace in settings that surprised me. I can’t imagine that sort of generalization being tolerated in any other sense, but apparently we’ve exchanged one form of bigotry for another and called it progress.
The interesting thing is that socio-political history suggests this gap will lead to instability, economics nearly mathematically demonstrates the perpetual current account deficit is in the late inning and nearing its own moment of reckoning as is the US debt load, particularly as foreign investors have been backing away owing to FX technical. Debt to GDP went from 54% in 2001 to 104% today and we’re expanding the deficit, there is no political will within our generation baring an Act of God that will reverse that. Layer on the US infrastructure bomb and boomer dynamics. I also question how long the currently frothy tech environment will hold up, people are so quick to call a blip the new status quo. So long story short, I think a lot of people that think they’re on team 1% today will find themselves sooner than they might hope on team 99% and I’m genuinely interested to watch this play out. Society moves in cycles and this one seems long in the tooth.
While still true in some areas, this maxim has been disproven in modern times.
On the one hand we had Obama expanding the federal powers for 8 years and being too burdensome such that things like the dakota pipeline weren’t getting fast tracked as they should have. On the other hand now that conservatives have had the chance to shrink the federal govt, they’re doing it in precisely the wrong ways and putting grossly unqualified people in positions of power and just making the country less well lead. The fact that Trump didn’t have transition teams ready, or even coherent points of view on most of the departments, is one of the biggest pieces of evidence I see pointing to the fact that he didn’t even think he’d win.
Last week I saw Joy Ann Reid trying to dunk on the striking West Virginia teachers saying something to the effect of “maybe next time vote for someone who has your interests in mind.” Imagine having the audacity to call out people doing one of the most courageous things imaginable to spew your partisan garbage, and worse, implying that Clinton would have given one second of thought to the people of that state during her term. (Of course this backfired even more hilariously because the people of WV had already done exactly what she told them to… they overwhelmingly went for Bernie, but I digress.)
Hashtag Resistance folks are every bit as toxic as the people they claim to be resisting. They have absolutely no ideology or message to point to as can be seen by them willingly rehabbing the likes of W Bush or neo-cons like Bill Kristol, just attaching themselves to anything that’s anti-Trump. “This is not normal” implies that everything prior to 2016 was, and to their credit, they’re right. But that also means the plight of poor southern and midwesterners means absolutely zero to them and always has. What Trump did was give them a chance to be outwardly antagonistic towards a class of people they’ve worked for the past few decades to push down as far as possible.
So the elites are attacking down. Then the real tragedy of all this is that the polarization is so incorrectly aligned where the struggling class are attacking each other across the partisan aisle then sending their money and praise upwards without a second thought. Glowing praise of Bezos and Musk and Trump, but that lady who makes the same amount of money as me is pro-life and she must be virulently attacked for it.
What in God’s name has happened to my county 
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Things have changed since you were a kid. Adding on the more recent 37 colonies involved some growing pains.
Yeah I agree LTJ.
i dont really disagree with the bulk of what you are saying - its just the notion that everyone who lives in a city is one of (((them))) aka the 1% is ridiculous - it would be like considering anyone who lives in the south to be a slaver owning a plantation when only a small % of people did.
because anytime anyone says otherwise a certain segment of talking heads instantly decries “class warfare” despite the fact that the 1% have been waging war on the middle & lower classes via stagnant wages & taking the lions share of economic growth since the 70’s/80’s - they can then use god & guns to rile up the right, and social issues on the left to distract people from what the real problem is
not country, i said COUNTY. I live in San Joaquin Country, california. when i was younger i would have shed blood for this county but now i may immigrate to Stanislaus County.
you’re halfway there, but you still believe only half of the system is responsible for the working man’s problems and that’s the genius of the system you are in. you are goaded into focusing on the wrongs of the other side (as does the other) instead of focusing on the common rights, and that keeps you in perpetual conflict. you still think the issues can be fixed within the current system. Like…you voted for Hillary Clinton, thinking that would be a step in the right direction. The system is designed to extract wealth from everyone else into the 1% while simultaneously distracting everyone else with a fight over a false dichotomy and not pay attention to the reaming everyone is receiving. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Take away the fact that it is an evil system, and you have to appreciate how well it works.
the problem with people who pretend to care about the 99%, like many here, is that they are all talk. they continue to engage in the system. they aspire to be an executive in a company that feeds off the system. they get around the guilt by being a good democrat and voting for the candidate that really tugs at the heart strings with their speeches about fighting for the little guy. they cast their vote FOR THE SYSTEM every time. Deep down they know it, but they rationalize that if they brow beat everyone into wanting to pay more taxes then they’ve been a service to humanity and deserve their comfortable life – the life that was made possible by the system that created the 99% v 1%.