US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Sniperwoof]

No, I'm pretty sure plenty of people know. It's where the word "gibs" comes from after all.

Right but that's my point. They acknowledge it works and is highly effective but absolutely refuse to do anything more than put out another fundraising ad saying they need donations to fight "socialism"

It's possible to use "gibs" to promote conservative values. Look at Hungary giving tax breaks to married families with children and women that want children.

 

[Mewtwo_Rain]

I think there is a notion in the American right-wing some have that more or less says organizing, playing the "activist", building grassroots movements and protesting are liberal or Democrat tactics which is why they won't adopt those methods. The Romans are said to of held disdain for the bow and arrow as a weapon but that didn't stop them from eventually trying to use it. I don't know why people keep assuming political pundits, magically appearing "great men" or deus ex machina minorities will fix Republican voting issues.

Unless anything changes, sometime in a hypothetical future that resembles nothing like the present a person will ask another "whatever happened to the conservatives in this country?" the other individual will reply jokingly "they were too busy working to care about the country".

It comes down to a few issus, with "general republican" thought processes in those regards.

Their beliefs "Democrats are the true racist" makes it so they think that "we're all human" so other races/minorities/etc. will come to stand with them and prioritize their value as humans just as many republicans did for others. This presumption is based on what I call MLKism thinking and is a misguided belief many share within the conservative party. We all bleed red nonsense or "They'll see the error of their ways when we're gone." Not realizing some groups act like rabid dogs as human beings only caring about basic impulse not higher mind thinking.

In regards to a "next rising of Hitler/etc." or "great man" to save them is Republicans mistake "history repeats itself" to mean it's merely cyclical just like in the past. They don'e realize if such attempts were done in the past doesn't mean the outcome will be the same. Evil people learn from their mistakes as do their descendants. It also is part of that idiotic Sun Tzu spew many do. "If we just wait it's going to get them you'll see." Also happens to be a faith in their fellow man "The normies won't put up with this forever, they'll get tired of being poor and oppressed, mark my words."

Same applies to their grasp for political pundits that aren't power mad or psychopaths. Which is also partially based on their individual "worship." of sorts.

Democrats are further ahead even if they are idiotic in other ways because they have a grasp of how humans function to some degree and know how to game them, Republicans despite having great ethic have no grasp of their flawed beliefs and are beaten down by reality, and some such as the racial angle would rather die and have our world become a shit hole than admit they were wrong in that regard. "I don't care about the browning of America as long as they keep our culture." Hahahahano.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I think it's also because community organizing is fundamentally about dividing people into distinct micro-communities, finding out what each one wants, then promising the gibs or accusing your opponent of blocking the gibs. It's harder to community-organize around abstract ideas like freedom, self-determination, or border security (if you are far from the border). Conservatism was never about gibs--excuse me, delivery of government services--but about maintaining the structures of governance that we think are moral, time-tested, and work well. We can pull off the occasional national movement (TEA party, election integrity), but ongoing community organizing? I don't know.

Pissed moms seem to be making some good starts at community organizing

 

[Breadbassket]

Right but that's my point. They acknowledge it works and is highly effective but absolutely refuse to do anything more than put out another fundraising ad saying they need donations to fight "socialism"

It's possible to use "gibs" to promote conservative values. Look at Hungary giving tax breaks to married families with children and women that want children.

Realistically you'd probably need a whole new cadre of Republican politicians to get the party move away from it's obsession with tax cuts and laws that benefit corporations but does nothing to help the party's actual voters.

If that did happen the end result would be something like a welfare war in policy. Honestly reorienting the party as much of a big issue that would be is preferable to just resigning to being stepped on forever.

It's just so tiring to see people pretending things will magically improve when it's evident reality says otherwise.

 

[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

I get so confused about these protests. They were rioting in Boston because of the rioting in Atlanta. I assumed he was in Atlanta!

According to the Boston Police Department, at about 9:30 pm officers responded to a protest at the Parkman Bandstand Monument located in the Boston Common. "Upon arrival officers observed an individual defacing the monument with spray paint. The tagging read 'NO COP CITY' and 'ACAB,'" authorities stated. The phrases are commonly utilized by anti-police Antifa activists, including the ones rioting in the Atlanta "autonomous zone."

BREAKING: Son of Democrat House Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark arrested for assaulting cop during Boston Antifa event

Dowell was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti/tagging.

thepostmillennial.com

Anyway Jared appears to be the middle child who woke up screaming because of climate change

Incoming Democrat whip Katherine Clark recalls child ‘waking up with nightmares’ over climate change

Incoming House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts on Sunday recalled one of her children “waking up with nightmares” due to concerns about climate change.

nypost.com

 

[Standardized Profile]

Pissed moms seem to be making some good starts at community organizing

How many people have they elected? And moms are a fickle lot. When they're no longer pissed off at drag queens, and they become pissed off at something else, will we still want them around?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

How many people have they elected? And moms are a fickle lot. When they're no longer pissed off at drag queens, and they become pissed off at something else, will we still want them around?

iirc there's been more than a couple of local school boards flipped hard red over the last cycle or so, and they were also pissed about crt, lockdowns, general gender weirdness
one group in my area has been grassroots-ing hard for open school choice

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

How many people have they elected? And moms are a fickle lot. When they're no longer pissed off at drag queens, and they become pissed off at something else, will we still want them around?

Youngkin says hi.

EDIT: Keep in mind the left's reaction to people organizing to review their school boards was to brand them terrorists and try to sic the FBI on them.

 

[Back me up!]

How many people have they elected? And moms are a fickle lot. When they're no longer pissed off at drag queens, and they become pissed off at something else, will we still want them around?

2021 Virginia Gov, Lt Gov, and AG.

They are now passed off about a heavy blue school system (17 schools and counting) screwing over national merit scholarships kids.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

TUCKER CARLSON: Biden is the most destructive president in American history

Tucker Carlson explains why permanent Washington is tired of President Biden's leadership following his classified documents mishap on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

www.foxnews.com

If you're a normal person, it's a pretty weird experience watching Joe Biden's presidency get euthanized by his own party. On one hand, there's an undeniable thrill to it. You have to admit that. Biden is the most destructive president in American history. More things have broken under his watch than under any other president.

Joe Biden deserves to be driven from office and disgraced, but for this? Breaking federal classification rules, some of the stupidest and most dishonest laws Congress has ever passed? It's like arresting El Chapo for expired plates. It's missing the point, but it looks like that's what's going to happen.

It seems like every day, one of Joe Biden's lawyers shows up with more sheaves of classified documents like a dog who has found another dead chipmunk under the house. This bunch was in his office at Penn, the one paid for by the Communist Party of China. These were found next to his sad, little midlife crisis sports car in a garage in Delaware and so on. You keep waiting for the White House physician to announce another document trove has been discovered after a routine colonoscopy. It could happen because at this point, you know exactly where this story is heading.

Permanent Washington does not want Joe Biden to run for president again. This is how they're sending that message. Even CNN has decided to become interested in Joe Biden's misdeeds two years into his presidency. They're doing segments in how classification laws protect this country from its mortal enemies like Russia. So, you know for certain the order has gone out. Biden is done. What a missed opportunity this is. If you're looking for crimes that Joe Biden has committed, there is a very long list.

Our country is being invaded. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. American cities have become slums. Our economy is in shambles. Even our airplanes no longer take off on time. It's a disaster and Joe Biden and his staff have a hand in all of it. In a country with a functioning government, Joe Biden would have been impeached before the first million illegal aliens crossed over our southern border, but no one did anything to stop it. So now they're arriving at the rate of a quarter-million a month.

GRIFF JENKINS: Customs and Border Protection sources exclusively tell Fox News more than 250,000 migrants were encountered at the border in the month of December, about as many people living in Scottsdale, Arizona, making it the highest month ever on record. In Eagle Pass, Texas, the migrant surge continues. Local Kinney County rancher Pam had a harrowing experience with migrants on her property.

RANCHER: I looked out the back and I could see three illegals walking up to the house. I had gotten a gun, which is an AR-15. I asked them, I said, "Please stop, go away," and I had the gun in my hands and they just kind of looked at me and kind of smiled and I was like... "Just go away," and they refused to do so.

JENKINS: They're on the other side of the glass trying to get in and not backing down?

RANCHER: Not backing down. Even though I have a high-powerful rifle in my arms, they are not backing down. That was scary.

A rifle Joe Biden would like to take away from her. So that, writ large, is the biggest story of our lifetimes. It is the one thing Joe Biden has done that cannot be undone. Our great-grandchildren are going to live with the consequences of this, but you'd never know it from watching most of the news. There is an effective media blackout on Joe Biden's immigration policies and other downstream effects on America. There are too many strangers pouring in at once and as a result, the country is becoming chaotic. Here's a rare television news piece on what happened when officials in New York decided to house some of Joe Biden's illegal aliens in a local hotel.

LAUREN SIMONETTI: An employee there says that migrants have made an absolute mess of the place. You're standing in front of it. Is that true?

MADISON ALWORTH: Yeah, well, what we're hearing from that employee is that the hotel is completely overrun. He says, you know, of course, some people just looking for that better life, but as a result, the hotel is a mess and he fears for his safety.

ROW NYC HOTEL EMPLOYEE FELIPE RODRIGUEZ: We don't have any guests anymore. They sold the entire hotel from the fourth floor to the 28th floor. It's all migrants. So we got people who are getting drunk, using marijuana. They are punching and beating their wives or their girlfriends. We have teenagers running around wild around the hotel opening the fire exit doors and doing what teenagers do in the stairways and it's a mess.

"It's a mess," he said. Of course, it is. The whole country is a mess because Joe Biden has ignored immigration laws passed by the Congress. That is a crime and it has killed huge numbers of Americans, hundreds of thousands dead from narcotics.

TOM WOLF, FORMER FENTANYL ADDICT: Fentanyl has changed the entire game here in San Francisco. You can't buy heroin out here anymore. Nobody sells heroin and nobody uses heroin. Everybody has transitioned over to fentanyl. Fentanyl is the most dangerous drug to ever hit the streets in the United States in history.

SIMONETTI: Fentanyl has killed more than 70,000 Americans in 12 months. Here in San Francisco, it's the dominant drug. It's responsible for three-quarters of drug overdoses, brazen drug-dealing and rampant drug use in the shadow of city hall. The same city hall, residents say, actively enable the fentanyl crisis.

All of it. Every gram came over an open border. What's notable as a political matter is that every one of these disasters, the fentanyl epidemic, the chaos and crime in our cities, the invasion underway through Texas, Arizona and California, all of those deeply concerned Americans. We are not guessing at that. Polls show it very clearly.

By contrast, how many voters do you think are lying awake right now worrying that public officials might violate some obscure federal classification law? None, not a single person. No one outside Washington cares or even understands the issue and yet it is classified documents, not our open borders, that the Justice Department is punishing Joe Biden for. Why is that? What's going on here? Well, it's simple. Washington is protecting itself. Joe Biden alone is responsible for this crime.


He alone took home classified documents. He didn't have help in doing that, but allowing the country to be invaded, that's not something you can do by yourself. So, if Biden were to be taken down for opening the southern border, a lot of other people would go with them. He had a lot of accomplices. Permanent Washington doesn't want that and ultimately and here's the point: Permanent Washington is in charge. It's not the democracy you imagined. We're seeing that now.

So, if you want to understand, if you really want to understand how the American government actually works at the highest levels, and if you want to know why they don't teach history anymore, one thing you should know is that the most popular president in American history was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon. Yet somehow, without a single vote being cast by a single American voter, Richard Nixon was kicked out of office and replaced by the only unelected president in American history. So, we went for the most popular president to a president nobody voted for. Wait a minute, you may ask, why didn't I know that? Wasn't Richard Nixon a criminal?

Wasn't he despised by all decent people? No, he wasn't. In fact, if any president could claim to be the people's choice, it was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since. Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent. Less than two years later, he was gone. He was forced to resign and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House.

How did that happen? Well, it's a long story, but here are the highlights and they tell you a lot. Richard Nixon believes that elements in the federal bureaucracy were working to undermine the American system of government and had been doing that for a long time. He often said that. He was absolutely right. On June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then–CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House. During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew "who shot John," meaning President John F. Kennedy. Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy's assassination, which we now know it was. Helms's telling response? Total silence, but for Nixon, it didn't matter because it was already over. Four days before, on June 19, The Washington Post had published the first of many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building.

Unbeknownst to Nixon and unreported by The Washington Post, four of the five burglars worked for the CIA. The first of many dishonest Watergate stories was written by a 29-year-old metro reporter called Bob Woodward. Who exactly was Bob Woodward? Well, he wasn't a journalist. Bob Woodward had no background whatsoever in the news business. Instead, Bob Woodward came directly from the classified areas of the federal government. Shortly before Watergate, Woodward was a naval officer at the Pentagon.

He had a top-secret clearance. He worked regularly with the intel agencies. At times, Woodward was even detailed to the Nixon White House, where he interacted with Richard Nixon's top aides. Soon after leaving the Navy, for reasons that have never been clear, Woodward was hired by the most powerful news outlet in Washington and assigned the biggest story in the country. Just to make it crystal clear what was actually happening, Woodward's main source for his Watergate series was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt, and Mark Felt ran — and we're not making this up — the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which was designed to secretly discredit political actors, the federal agencies wanted to destroy — people like Richard Nixon. And at the same time, those same agencies were also working to take down Nixon's elected vice president, Spiro Agnew. In the fall of 1973, Agnew was indicted for tax evasion and forced to resign. His replacement was a colorless congressman from Grand Rapids called Gerald Ford.

What was Ford's qualification for the job? Well, he had served on the Warren Commission, which absolved the CIA of responsibility for President Kennedy's murder. Nixon was strong-armed into accepting Gerald Ford by Democrats in Congress. "We gave Nixon no choice but Ford," Speaker of the House Carl Albert later boasted. Eight months later, Gerald Ford of the Warren Commission was the president of the United States. See how that works? So those are the facts, not speculation. All of that actually happened. None of it's secret. Most of it actually is on Wikipedia, but no mainstream news organization has ever told that story. It's so obvious, yet it's intentionally ignored and as a result, permanent Washington remains in charge of our political system.

Unelected lifers in the federal agencies make the biggest decisions in American government and crush anyone who tries to rein them in and in the process, our democracy becomes a joke. Now, you may have noticed that the very first person in the Trump administration the agencies went after was Gen. Michael Flynn. Why Flynn? Because Mike Flynn was a career Army intel officer who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency. In other words, Mike Flynn knew exactly how the system worked, and as a result, he was capable of fighting back. Four days after Donald Trump's inauguration, the FBI lured Mike Flynn into a meeting without his lawyer, concocted a series of fake crimes and forced him to resign.

So, that's how things actually work in Washington. Let's stop lying about it. Joe Biden, meanwhile, whooped like a hyena when the Justice Department destroyed Mike Flynn. So, there is, we have to say, a certain perverse justice in watching something very similar happen to Joe Biden himself six years later. Joe Biden does not deserve our sympathy. He's being shafted, but don't weep for him, and yet, the rest of us do deserve a better system, an actual democracy. When people nobody voted for run everything, you are not living in a free country.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I think the cool idea of virtual reality is wearing thin on a lot of people. The novelty is no longer entirely a novelty and the execution of the concept in reality doesn't match the expectations. Maybe if the technology improved substantially along with some other things there would be more of a demand for it.

I won't be satisfied until VR gets on the level of "Roy"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=szzVlQ653as

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch of vr porn out there. I think the reality is that VR really is just a gimmick like motion controls. I tried it once and played some fps on it. the controls were clunky, the camera was jank and my head hurt. Another thing is being a clumsy person (even without a vr headset on) combined with not having any real space to work with.

Living in the pod makes VR hard to use.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I mean Al Capone was taken down over unpaid taxes instead of the dozens of gruesome murders he directly ordered.

Does it really matter if Biden goes down for something stupid as long as he goes down?

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I mean Al Capone was taken down over unpaid taxes instead of the dozens of gruesome murders he directly ordered.

Does it really matter if Biden goes down for something stupid as long as he goes down?

I won't care that much, but as Tucker said, it's just a symptom of much bigger problems. One where the only peaceful solution is for a Soviet-style collapse of the country.

 

[X Prime]

I mean Al Capone was taken down over unpaid taxes instead of the dozens of gruesome murders he directly ordered.

Does it really matter if Biden goes down for something stupid as long as he goes down?

Yes, actually. Because it means there's no real standard.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Mugshots of rioters from last night's downtown Atlanta's Antifa shitfit. Not a single minority and not one person native to Atlanta. They come to major cities to start shit and then leave. The media is still referring to it as a "protest turned violent" over an "activist" who was shot.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Atlanta_Police/status/1617297380449067011

https://archive.is/CQXtU

 

[Standardized Profile]

2021 Virginia Gov, Lt Gov, and AG.

Really? That was all pissed off moms? The state GOP could never crack any of those offices until the POMs?

I get the MILF thing, I really do, and I'm not a repeal-the-19th hardliner. But we have to be honest, these are low-info swing voters who will move on to pornography or vaping or whatever becomes fashionable next. Some of them are still working on guns from the last time that was a thing, maybe they'll pick that up. Or maybe there will be another picture of a dead kid and they'll start up on refugees again. Who knows, maybe they'll go back to their roots in the WCTU and MADD and go after booze again? Or the security mom could have a renaissance and help deliver us into another war in the Middle East?

This is not a political movement or bloc, there's no commitment or philosophy behind it. It's just people reacting to something in their immediate presence, and when the offending stimulus is removed they'll revert to a quiescent state or move on to something else. Varium et mutabile femina semper est.

 

[Sithis]

Can any of our military/government kiwis explain why this would be substantial? I get that OEF/OIF relates to the afghan/Iraq war so maybe Poso is making the case it'd be treason if Biden had those docs while only a senator?

 

[Michael Wade]

I'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch of vr porn out there. I think the reality is that VR really is just a gimmick like motion controls. I tried it once and played some fps on it. the controls were clunky, the camera was jank and my head hurt. Another thing is being a clumsy person (even without a vr headset on) combined with not having any real space to work with.

I know Playstation vr suffers from a lack of titles. Especially lengthy ones. If they made more of an effort to port and repurpose full length games like hitman resident evil and doom I think it would have more longevity. As it stands it's mostly just theme park ride experiences. Admittedly it is nice how they tend to be cheaper then most regular games. The main issue is that most of the good ones are divided up due to exclusivity deals and cross compatibility is a pain in the ass.


I do think it's worth trying out. Especially for stuff like vr chat and some of the more experimental mmos, it's just that you really need to test and see if you'll get sick and make sure your making a good investment. They already phased out psvr part 1 and part 2 doesn't have built in cross compatibility

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Mugshots of rioters from last night's downtown Atlanta's Antifa shitfit. Not a single minority and not one person native to Atlanta. They come to major cities to start shit and then leave. The media is still referring to it as a "protest turned violent" over an "activist" who was shot.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Atlanta_Police/status/1617297380449067011

https://archive.md/CQXtU

Top Left to Right:
Daddy Issues; Troon; Professional hobo

Bottom Left to Right
Professional College student; Middle Class Douche; Buffalo Fucker Troon

You could fire these "people" out of a cannon and make the world a better place.

Can any of our military/government kiwis explain why this would be substantial? I get that OEF/OIF relates to the afghan/Iraq war so maybe Poso is making the case it'd be treason if Biden had those docs while only a senator?

He'd definitely be moving material out to his house that he shouldn't have had.

And TROOP MOVEMENTS?

That's the kind of shit that the enemy loves to get.

Even as the VP or a Senator, he'd have no reason to have documents on troop movements, much less store them at his house.