Brick-in-the-Wall
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Why? And do you mean people in general, or us in particular? Like you said, these things aren't news to us (in particular), they're receipts. We (in particular) are way ahead of the curve. Why shouldn't people who are way ahead of the curve be already inquiring about whether any heads will roll? If something is to really be done about this, we have to strike while the iron's hot. Unlike most people, we already know how hot this iron is. Why shouldn't we have an adult conversation about whether Trump's going to fix it, and if not, what we can use on him as a political cattle prod? Some people treat him as a god. Well, if you want him to be godlike, somebody has to challenge him to do something besides posture and bathe in their adulation. You have to set goals for him. You have to arrange it so him idolators lose faith if he doesn't measure up. If you really want Trump to be Great Again (or for the first time really, his first term wasn't so hot) help us hold his feet to the fire. Otherwise he'll make his second term as mediocre as his first.

He's a lap dog, yapping in frustration at cats because he's not big enough to chase us up a tree somewhere. He thinks joining the MAGA Cult gives him the Authority of the Crowd, and he's trying to exercise that authoritay. That's what makes him think he's entitled (like a Karen) to have his wild flights of illogic slide by without challenge (like a Karen). Remember when Obamamessiah Cultists did the exact same thing? They didn't impress us either.

Not unless we get more than a study, and not unless we get more than some Soros-funded professional whiner giving us the pleasure of seeing their head explode on air. I, for one, am not that cheap, sailor. I'm not that easy. I said I'm keeping that at my leisure. Now that Trump whacked the USAID head, what other heads are going to pop out of the CIA Whack-A-Mole machine? Will any of the bad apples in the CIA take the buyout, or is this just a way for them to purge their ranks of good apples? Which of these departments is actually going to close? Which of these criminals is going to get snatched out of their golden parachutes and indicted? How much money will really be saved, and how much of that will escape this fate?

That's your problem, not mine. I can be patient. I'm keeping score at my leisure. And I'm not moving anything into the win column unless and until we get something more than another six million dollar, three year government study about it.

Good case in point. He commissioned a study? We've already done our homework. There's not a one of us who wouldn't be out to demolish the ATF. A government study is not my idea of substance.

Al Qaeda is the CIA, and everyone else here is well informed enough to know it. Al Qaeda is the CIA's way to throw a tantrum when we won't use up enough missiles to necessitate us buying more. You're saying brats should be rewarded for throwing deadly tantrums, whether you know it or not. The DS, which regularly kills Muslims by the thousands, because they want to spend our money on missiles, because some of them have petroleum, because many of us don't much like Arabs anyway so it's an easier sell than (f'rinstance) massacring cute little Thais, is on the same side as the Muslims they seem to be trying to genocide? Now there's some twisted "logic". Are you a man or a pretzel, cultist?

Heads are exploding and some find that entirely satisfactory. This is what someone who cares only about style looks like. And here is someone who knows substance when he sees it, and won't settle for less. See the difference, kiddies?

I'm sure glad to see USAID go, because stuff is coming out that makes the Red Pill more potent. I'm not fooling myself into thinking this agency was made a scapegoat before three new replacements were created to carry on what it does. The CIA is a giant Whack-A-Mole machine. I love watching the heads of Biden loyalists roll. But are their seats being thrown out with them? Or are those seats being filled with Trump loyalists while they're still warm? One of these things is a cut, the other is just a changing of the guard. Which other agencies besides USAID are getting the axe? I, for one, am still waiting for an answer to that question.

Thanks for posting that. I forgot to follow up when I learned more about that individual. Definitely good to chalk up here.

Isn't this the gay khaki wearing douchebags whose half made up of Feds and the other half are douchey white dudes who probably got beat up in school? They probably shove their tiki torches up each other's asses for fun.

Today's trans people aren't real people. They are mentally ill freaks who are imposing their values, thoughts, and ways of life on everyone else with no quarter. They need to be put in mental institutions and rehabilitated. They need help but they won't get it because they think we're (normal people) the weird ones. No, I don't feel any remorse for my comments above.

I think the first 10 days of Trump's second administration have done more to advance common sense and liberty than we got in 4 years of Biden. If people can't see that and take small wins and understand that not everything is going to swing towards "liberty" or whatever the fuck that means today, then oh well. Some libertarians are real losers and will bitch and moan about anything no matter what. And some libertarians are so stuck under the leftist Trump Derangement Syndrome themselves, that they can't be helped. * The statements above aren't directed at any one poster or this thread/subject in particular, but rather a general response to the bitching and moaning that has gone on despite more "good" happening in the last two weeks than we've had in the last 4+ years.

From other people I get, "Guys like you are why us white men were discriminated against so hard the last four years," and from you I get this. Fine. I certainly didn't come up with anything that worked. I'll own all of that from both sides. But I won't cop to volunteering for slavery.

I've fought it tooth and nail since before I voted for Ron Paul in lieu of George HW and Dukakis. And I don't have the means to gtfo. Paddle that up your river.

Speak for your own self, Aggie.

"Mr Bower said her treatment had ended and she was on her way home..." Next time I see one of those commercials begging me to give the Schweiners 63¢ a day, I'm going to remember that they hire Lear jets to fly healthy children around ..

Toxibots who are triggered by individual freedom and autonomy find onerous taxes appealing, as they sure put a crimp on those things.

No? Seems to me that depends on whether or not you're a precious metals "custodian" which has been selling people paper saying they own gold and/or silver which doesn't exist. An entity such as that could well suffer a shortage even if the streets are paved with the stuff.

Oh, just a wee bit. It was a 43 year old jet which probably probably got most of its maintenance in Mexico, and clearly suffered an explosion and fire on board while still in the air. What motive do you see for either drug dealers or Shriners to put a bomb on it? All it seems to have accomplished is to draw attention away from the fact that an Army helo (which can be used as a drone) flew straight up the nose of a commercial flight carrying five dozen innocents, and nobody can find 2/3rds of its crew. Do the Shriners or the Mexicans owe the U.S. Army for something?

You're the one who appears either to have not noticed, or to think conservatism means conserving Democrat crap. It is existential, so it can't be eradicated? Your attitude is why we can't have nice things. You were on a real roll with the flagrant rules violations this morning, toxic bot. When you're not insulting jmdrake, unknown and others, you're trying to put your nonsense in my mouth. Trump made noises about ridding us of ED, but this is just one of the ways his actions have consolidated its power instead. I honestly don't care how much you wag your tail because this looks like a bone to you, dawg. It's still going to turn every school in the country into a propaganda factory, whether during Trump's term or the next one. Why do you hate shrinking government? You scream for it when Democrats are in charge, and anyone with three working brain cells knows it won't happen, but when some random guy who self-identifies with an R is in the White House, you worship every brick of every federal building. You, Toxibot, are a cultist. Republicans. Preserving, protecting and conserving Democrat crap since 1861.

You're a pair of idiots. This paves a highway for the E.D. straight into the heart of the business of every private school in this nation. Conservatism says get "Federal formula funds" back into the hands of the parents who paid those taxes and leave them alone. But you partisans will wag your tails over anything remotely resembling a bone, especially right after a major psyop. No wonder the right foot did at least as much as the left foot to frog-march us into tyranny. It's true. If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. Even this crap. I expect that of the shill, but one of you has been around here long enough to know better.

It's not even worth suggesting these people get mental therapy because that field is dominated by leftist women as well. It becomes an echo chamber of seething hate and nonsense.

Reviving this thread because it's still a relevant topic. It is beyond saying that these people are absolutely mentally unhinged and broken. More here: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/deranged-leftist-use-cute-winter-boots-code-bypass-tiktok-ago-organizing-project-mayhem As the hateful and crazy rhetoric continues, we'll see more people like this. People are going to get hurt.

Hey, how about just focusing on term limits for congressmen and senators first, please?

If people were actually educated on secession; if people were to have honest conversations about how secession in the modern ages is probably even easier than it used to be and with technology and so much economic trade taking place, access to other states/countries will be simple; if people were actually taught and explained what it is, why it's not a bad thing ONLY associated with the Confederacy; and if people were given the numerous examples throughout history of secession around the world, these numbers would be much higher. I am confident those numbers would be higher. I'm impressed at the number of states sitting around 1/4 already. California is enamored with itself and likes being the center of attention in the U.S. I believe they'd think they're "too integral" to the U.S. to even seriously consider it, sadly. The truth is, CA, much like TX, is kind of its own thing in many ways. I really, really hope this gains traction in CA. And, it must be said: here we are with another California secession conversation when certain other four years it's racist and "confederate-loser talk" to talk about secession.

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It certainly is, but at the same time, he's trying to counter China's "new century" with his own version of a new American Golden Age. And honestly, I don't find anything wrong with the theme and drive behind that. It is a bit cheesy, and there are other real things I wish he'd focus on but this is what he's about. Hate him or love him, while he isn't "one of us" he's the only one to entertain the common American and be bluntly honest to them, more or less. And his followers love him for it. I don't really care what the body of water to the south U.S. is called, and things change names all of the time. I don't think there's anything sacred about the Gulf of Mexico or a Gulf of America. But he's trying to get everything repainted with the red, white, and blue after years of self-hate in this country. Funny you say this, Mexicans and South Americans have griped before about not being considered "American" even though they are from a continental perspective. I'm going to guess that goes out the window the next four years...

I'd like to hear from a few folks what's left of the LP after 2024? Honestly, the Mises Caucus WAS the future of the LP but I think the LP was set back a decade after 2024. All that hard work over the last 10-15 years and one election year reels a lot of it back in.