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Didn't Pence literally like four days ago say he supports the prosecution of Trump because "muh decorum" and "muh sacred democracy" or some shit like that?

Wonder why he changed his tune.
Its probably just some empty platitude Pence is spewing to get MAGA folks to support him. Even if he somehow wins, he's not gonna clean house.
 
And it begins:
IRS and ATF team up to prove neither should exist
In an unprecedented move, twenty armed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents carried out a raid on a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, seizing all Form 4473s – documents that record buyer’s information during firearms transactions.

If the IRS is involved someone innocent is going to get absolutely massacred in the coming months and following that massacre to rebuild PR they'll massacre more people.
 
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I think one of the things that we see that’s contributing to a decline in trust in the military is a concern on both sides of the aisle about politicization of our military leaders," Wormuth said. "I think the more our military leaders are sort of dragged into spaces that have been politicized like that, I think the more it contributes to this perception that they’re political when they really aren’t," Wormuth added. "So, I hope that we don’t see more of the kind of talk that’s been out in the past few days."
Translation: "Stop telling the truth that our military is weak and ineffectual due to politicalization, we can't get white males to sign up for the meat-grinder now!"
 

There Are Some Serious Problems With These Polls Right Now​




There's no doubt that former President Donald Trump is leading in GOP primary polling. He's been running for months, one felony indictment after another keeps drawing attention and making him a martyr, and he's running against about 98 other candidates, none of whom are former presidents with a penchant for sucking all the air out of every room they enter.

In a steady second sits Trump's primary challenger, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. However, recent polling trumpeted by the Trump camp shows the former president's lead over his main competition growing, as well as a competitive general election race between Trump and Biden. The trumpeting seems aimed to present an air of inevitability like this is some sort of coronation instead of a contest. The goal, presumably, seems to be to get everyone to 'rally around Trump' and ignore everyone else based on the belief that he will beat DeSantis and that he can beat Biden.

Consider Harvard Harris, run by former Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn. Recent results from this polling outfit show Trump with seemingly insurmountable leads in the GOP primary. They also show the former president competitive in a general election race.

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But how much of that is real? Might there be core issues with polls that, say, claim that Biden is only at 53% with black voters and Trump is winning women and GenZ?
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Look under the hood, and other polls, especially ones attempting to predict the general election, display similar weirdness:

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When it comes to polling, especially this early in a presidential election, always look at the crosstabs and demographic sampling and compare those with complex data from actual past elections. For example, if no Republican has won the women's vote in decades, do you really think Donald Trump is going to be the one to break the cycle?

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Is Trump's lead over DeSantis in GOP primary polling insurmountable? Is the former president actually competitive against Biden in a general election race? Considering the past history and basic common sense, the answer to both questions is a likely 'no.' All of us should take all of this polling with a massive, massive grain of salt.
 
That reads a lot like a threat to me. Basically saying fall into line or we'll directly side with the left. The more the they tigten their grip the more it slips from their hand. I am hopeful at one point we'll disband the standing army, it's a direct threat to the republic. The Military should only be mobilized at a time of war.
how is that a threat? all it does is saves red-blooded Americans for dying needlessly
 
For example, if no Republican has won the women's vote in decades, do you really think Donald Trump is going to be the one to break the cycle?
For decades women-only spaces weren't being invaded by men in dresses with the woman being unable to do anything about it. For decades mothers didn't have to worry about state-supported pedophiles coming in and tellign their kids to chop off their dingle bits.

I acknowledge the poll but reserve my own judgement.
 
"You aren't supposed to have any thoughts about it! Just line up to die for us! You worthless serfs are supposed to keep doing it!"


The article makes a good point. While I trust the supposed results that Trump is really ahead the fact these polls don't have any real sort of open data to show to back their claims up is kinda sus. Trust but verify as the ruskies say.
 
All of us should take all of this polling with a massive, massive grain of salt.
On one hand, no shit. On the other, you guys weren't saying that when Hillary was leading over Trump by razor-thin margins in 2016:
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On a broader, somewhat related point: you can oppose Trump, call him burusque, feckless, and even inffectual, but no one has made more Uniparty pissants reveal themselves in unison simply by virtue of how much he makes the contents of their bladders fill their pants. In other words: if Hillary had been the one elected, as planned, and not Trump, we wouldn't have heard nary a word about any of the omnipresent corruption going on within. Remove him from the equation entirely if you have to. In the past seven years, we caught:
And though many of us suspected - https://web.archive.org/web/20210205051056/https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ - not even the most paranoid of us could've fully envisioned how far the Old Guard would go to hold onto power in direct defiance of electoral will. Understand this: you can despise Trump with every fiber of your body, and still recognize that what they're doing to him, will be 20 times easier to do to YOU.
 
What I have been trying to tell people since the first time Trump was impeached was that, yes, Trump is a problem, but also yes, so are other politicians.

The fact remains is that the press and the Government are solely focused on this one person and for an extended period of time. If someone who used to be the President can be publicly hounded endlessly by the Government, imagine what will happen when the Government decides that it can do this to its own citizens.
 
What I have been trying to tell people since the first time Trump was impeached was that, yes, Trump is a problem, but also yes, so are other politicians.

The fact remains is that the press and the Government are solely focused on this one person and for an extended period of time. If someone who used to be the President can be publicly hounded endlessly by the Government, imagine what will happen when the Government decides that it can do this to its own citizens.
 
What I have been trying to tell people since the first time Trump was impeached was that, yes, Trump is a problem, but also yes, so are other politicians.
More accurately, Trump isn't the problem - simply a symptom of the problem (an ever-declining trust in our government).
 
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Translation: "Stop telling the truth that our military is weak and ineffectual due to politicalization, we can't get white males to sign up for the meat-grinder now!"
One of the more interesting aspects of the shitshow we call "The USA", is the future of the US military.

I have no idea how they hope to get buy-in from their largest recruiting pool, anytime soon.

- Another 9-11 won't cause an upswing in patriotism.

- half of the hwite men think the US is bad by default, the other half sees how the US government treats white men

- God can only imagine how much more you can lower the mental and physical requirements without recruiting people with down syndrome

- 90% of people with reasonable potential jump out after one contract for a variety of reasons, which means that leadership is comprised of people who are simply not capable

You can think along the lines of "Well, thankfully they got the biggest, baddest guns", but complex equipment requires maintenance. The support orgs (whose primary responsibility are maintenance and logistics) are compromised of nog-tier IQ individuals who function exactly how you imagine. The random Joe who operates the equipment doesn't care because said equipment is already fucked beyond imagination, so it's all about making things look functional instead of being functional
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---Unrelated, but it's always fun to see 80 IQ cooks have 4x more awards for simply existing, but God forbid you're a God damn IT help desk soldier and not want to spend time working on a fucking malfunctioning microwave at the office because you also happen to work on computers. ---

Ultimately, I'm not sure where the US military can find an honest, optimistic outlook IF we are ever in a legitimate war with another global power. Best case scenario is the other side is just as much of a shitshow.
 
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Ultimately, I'm not sure where the US military can find an honest, optimistic outlook IF we are ever in a legitimate war with another global power. Best case scenario is the other side is just as much of a shitshow.
or they just say fuck it, let the nukes fly.
 
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