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Back before the Bush Clan took over, apparently the Muslim population voted Republican "at dictator levels."

There were never enough for me to really pay attention to back then, so I don't know personally.
Appealing to Conservative Muslims could work in some more local elections in areas where the government dropped them off at but on a national level they are just about as relevant as the Native American vote.
 
I feel like you're on the right path, but I don't actually think its Oligarchs vs Normies as a wide swath - A huge number of the oligarchs just want their businesses to keep running and their yachts to keep floating. They don't really care about politics past profit generation and a few favors to get out of criminal activity fueled by in the moment stupidity, like DUI's.

What I see instead is a handful of powerful and rich people have taken on a manifestation of the white mans burden, which I'm just gonna dub the Rich Mans Burden at this point. They see it as their duty and obligation to collect power and wealth and use it to shape the world into a better place for the mere plebs who live under them. You will own nothing and you will be happy, because I will accumulate the power and use it to make sure you're all living under my idealized vision for reality. Those who disagree are generally ignored because they're just the poor plebs, they don't know any better. They need to be convinced, cajoled, and compliance systems brought in via that wealth and power for those who don't. At the end of the day, they want to be the great heroes who saved the earth and its people through a driven revolution to throw off the shackles of the masses. The fact they live like kings from it is just the reward they've earned for their loyal work. They're the good guys, after all, who'll bring around the great change.

I'd bet their guiding principles sound familiar, because any effort to control the quality of someone elses life will generally degrade towards communism. Freedom of life is antithetical to standardized lives.

The general dividing line I draw is that an Oligarch craves wealth and power to ensure a particular standard of living for themselves. The carriers of the Rich Mans Burden crave wealth and power to ensure a standard of living for all peoples, regardless of those peoples actual wants.
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I think you're partially right, but most are just out for self enrichment
 
I feel like you're on the right path, but I don't actually think its Oligarchs vs Normies as a wide swath - A huge number of the oligarchs just want their businesses to keep running and their yachts to keep floating. They don't really care about politics past profit generation and a few favors to get out of criminal activity fueled by in the moment stupidity, like DUI's.

What I see instead is a handful of powerful and rich people have taken on a manifestation of the white mans burden, which I'm just gonna dub the Rich Mans Burden at this point. They see it as their duty and obligation to collect power and wealth and use it to shape the world into a better place for the mere plebs who live under them. You will own nothing and you will be happy, because I will accumulate the power and use it to make sure you're all living under my idealized vision for reality. Those who disagree are generally ignored because they're just the poor plebs, they don't know any better. They need to be convinced, cajoled, and compliance systems brought in via that wealth and power for those who don't. At the end of the day, they want to be the great heroes who saved the earth and its people through a driven revolution to throw off the shackles of the masses. The fact they live like kings from it is just the reward they've earned for their loyal work. They're the good guys, after all, who'll bring around the great change.

I'd bet their guiding principles sound familiar, because any effort to control the quality of someone elses life will generally degrade towards communism. Freedom of life is antithetical to standardized lives.

The general dividing line I draw is that an Oligarch craves wealth and power to ensure a particular standard of living for themselves. The carriers of the Rich Mans Burden crave wealth and power to ensure a standard of living for all peoples, regardless of those peoples actual wants.
What you say has merit. People like Bill Gates definitely seem to have a God complex.

However, even if the most wealthy or visible or these people are true believers, I still think greed is a more straightforward explanation. "Owning nothing" - not homes, not cars, not anything that defines modern society - effectively means that the masses are eternally renters and using "subscription services." Which means who ever they rent their everything from or whoever provides those subscirptions will get billions upon billions of dollars a year, every year, forever. The talk of needing to save the planet is just a fig leaf given to justify government action that pushes us into this cyberpunk dystopian nightmare.

This also doesn't consider the people currently pursuing the hardest against Trump and other populists aren't the utopians, but people trying to preserve the status quo in terms of trade, immigration, manufacturing, and countless other policies. Trump was the first president in ages under which the lower and middle classes started to actually gain in their wages. Produce conglomerates were complaining about his immigration policies, because they couldn't find workers that would work for pennies on the dollar.

This is where I think the Roman comparison in modern America is apt - of "Optimates" wanting to continue to secure their wealth through outsourcing, wage arbitage, and feeding at the public trough vs. reformist "Populares" that have rallied around figures like Trump.
 
"Owning nothing" - not homes, not cars, not anything that defines modern society - effectively means that the masses are eternally renters and using "subscription services." Which means who ever they rent their everything from or whoever provides those subscirptions will get billions upon billions of dollars a year, every year, forever.
It's also about power. If you control and own what someone needs for their daily life you control them. If you own someone's ability to move about, place to live, the clothing on their back, everything, they are at your mercy.
 
It's also about power. If you control and own what someone needs for their daily life you control them. If you own someone's ability to move about, place to live, the clothing on their back, everything, they are at your mercy.
Yeah, the subscription shit doesn't mean more things being made and thus more wealth for the companies. It means more security and slower fluctuation over time in sales. That and they can kick you off for wrongthink.
Edit: also a bigger wealth gap due to plebs not accruing property. I wonder what benefit that has to the upper class though.
 
Doesn't fucking matter if he gets reelected. He can't get a third term anyway.
Biden is Obama's third term.
I really doubt this is how it would go down. The most likely path to totalitarianism would be to keep the appearance of a republic, but control the candidates and outcomes of elections behind the scenes.
No, it just wouldn't work because half the country is resisting fortification. More fake elections like 2020 and Red states will refuse to certify. They did in 2020 because "Once is happenstance..." and the RINOs were in on it. Now the RINOs can get fucked by fishing expeditions too (deservedly IMO) and it quickly becomes enemy action. So it'll be some Dem "president" egging on a Red state to commit Fort Sumpter and then... *sigh* Second Civil War. As a side effect, globohomo dies at that moment; a discredited America can't impose SJW values on the world. Instead, we'll get a multipolar world where Russia and China are the top players. People keep saying India too, but too many Shudra street-shitters polarized their genepool.
 
Biden is Obama's third term.
*Obama's staffers' third term

Barry O. is keeping all this bullshit at arm's length because he sees what a dumpster fire it is. He's been leaning back ever since his chosen buddy made it approximately nowhere in the 2020 primary.
 
Which means if Trump gets in in 2024 -- and outside of 2020 style fuckery I think this has guaranteed he gets in if he runs -- Garland has just made Obama, Clinton, and Biden FAIR GAME.
Lol it'll never be fair game.
The media will incessantly defend the cabal and cite this as an unprecedented political persecution, and the normies will all agree Orange Hitler went too far.
The neo-cons at Fox will also say an attack on King Nigger is the death of our democracy; that regardless of Trump being lolraided, we as republicans must never retaliate, for we "lose with dignity and grace", like true patriots.
 
No, it just wouldn't work because half the country is resisting fortification. More fake elections like 2020 and Red states will refuse to certify.
It also helps that people are actually taking part this time and watching the elections closely, before they can be blindsided.
Now the RINOs can get fucked by fishing expeditions too (deservedly IMO) and it quickly becomes enemy action.
Haven't many RINOs been getting removed at the local level, the place where the fortification can take place?
 
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Hey @Gehenna, with the warrant being literally "for anything and everything" does that uh, complicate matters for Garland? I mean, they blatantly had one of their assets leak that it was supposedly about nuclear secrets, and that narrative's dead.
Laughably unconstitutional and any evidence found is... well, with SCOTUS being close to hostile to the admin I think Trump has a good case to have any evidence found excluded on fourth amendment grounds. There is a lot of precedent on what is considered to be a proper, lawful warrant and this violated... a lot of that.

The way the Dems are gambling on this you could say... the die has been cast.

What workload? He probably just dove even deeper into the bottle and told his boss he'll have something for him when things quit changing every ten minutes because there's no fucking point doing any work like this.
You are honestly not that far off. We are focusing entirely on state level politics and have decided to not even look at what's going on nationally until it clears up.
 
Lol it'll never be fair game.
The media will incessantly defend the cabal and cite this as an unprecedented political persecution, and the normies will all agree Orange Hitler went too far.
The neo-cons at Fox will also say an attack on King Nigger is the death of our democracy; that regardless of Trump being lolraided, we as republicans must never retaliate, for we "lose with dignity and grace", like true patriots.
As we established, normie opinions don't really mean anything. Listening to followers is why Democracy doesn't work. Make MSM ree and laugh at them for it.
It also helps that people are actually taking part this time and watching the elections closely, before they can be blindsided.

Haven't many RINOs been getting removed at the local level, the place where the fortification can take place?
By Trump party candidates where Dems have no reason to fortify as they consider RINOS disposable assets.
 
GOPe's asinine attempt to win in Omar's ocean blue district.
Honestly expecting them (or any other “conservative” minorities) to side with us if shit hit the fan is just foolish. This whole worship of “BASTE MINORITIES” is just as cringe inducing as the Left and their whole PEE OH CEE bridage. So called “baste and trad” Hispanics in a hypothetical Civil War 2.0 would gladly plunge a knife in your back while screaming “Fuck You Gringo! Viva La Raza!” alongside blacks, Asians, Muslims, Injuns, and Antifa.
 
Honestly expecting them (or any other “conservative” minorities) to side with us if shit hit the fan is just foolish. This whole worship of “BASTE MINORITIES” is just as cringe inducing as the Left and their whole PEE OH CEE bridage. So called “baste and trad” Hispanics in a hypothetical Civil War 2.0 would gladly plunge a knife in your back while screaming “Fuck You Gringo! Viva La Raza!” alongside blacks, Asians, Muslims, Injuns, and Antifa.
There's nothing wrong with disposable feints, which is what appealing to minorities does. It's when it becomes the whole platform does it turn into Go Woke Go Broke.
 
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