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Should be a wild four years.

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Elon Musk on his DOGE discussion on Twitter said Trump is shutting down USAID. Joni Ernst said they can't track the money sent to Ukraine because all the hands the money passed through to get to (or didn't get to) Ukraine. Senator Ernst went to try and get answers from the USAID but they just ended up threatening her and her aides. Musk said it is getting shutdown not because it is an apple with a few worms, but a whole bowl of worms with no apple. Musk also said the US Mint building in DC had all its windows smashed out and the place was being used to house homeless people. Also the LAPD Chief ordered mass arrests for protesters in LA, as they were getting ready to go in, they were pulled back as it is being reported LA Mayor Bass ordered a stand down to all the LAPD, the LAPD has now left the scene.
But how will the big guy get his 10%?
 
Trump derangement syndrome has escalated to outright treason. Why are happy Jon? Don't consider yourself an American anymore?
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Note that they're only targeting people who voted for Trump. This is going to bite them in the ass later, not just because this is retarded(as many people said, many businesses can just transport their goods to the blue state headquarters and sell them there, the money earned goes to the company all the same) but because Trump can use this as optics, to show how he and his people are targeted unfairly. When they are inevitably brought to heel, he can also make them accept an even worse deal, in order to stay in his good graces.
 
I checked the r/conservative and it looks like bots are down voting all votes saying the tariffs are good so only posts showing people angry about the trade war with Canada show up by default. Either way it seems the sub seems to hate the trade war which shows even conservatives on reddit are retarded as they also believe he wants to annex all of Canada
https://archive.md/WAp3P
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservati...mp_says_canada_mexico_and_china_tariffs_will/
Almost every single sub has been very obviously brigaded by bots for the last two weeks.
Niche VR subs where weekly top posts might get 200 upvotes: “ban links to X” “I’m selling my Oculus bc Zuck is a fascist” - thousands of updoots including in the comments. Any comments that are even vaguely neutral, all banished to negative karma land by huge margins.

Political Compass Memes is/was the sub that convinced me it’s some preexisting bot army being reactivated. That place is entirely image posts and you’d see bandwagon low effort shit about fascists or whatever hit middling karma levels - but checking inside for the comments there’d be a bunch of “hello fellow humans fuck the fash amirite” with many many times the upvotes as the OP. Not sure if it’s still that way, I’m done with Reddit for now, but it was compelling evidence to me that somebody activated a massive bot army running a low parameter LLM that couldn’t understand political compass mspaints.
 
One last point on the ammo price topic, but I also firmly believe that both executive orders from the Obama and Biden admins were not targeted at Russian imports not to punish Russia for its involvement in the dumpster fire we know as Ukraine, but primarily to punish American gun owners since the import-banned weapons and ammunition types were widely accessible and inexpensive, thereby gatekeeping gun ownership with a higher price point. Both admins ran on cracking down on gun control but failed to get any legislation passed, so they used the sword of the executive order to get this done. If they couldn't win in Congress or the courts, they could gain ground this way. Russian imports were also an easy target since it could be seen (and primarily was seen) as condemning Russia for its actions in Ukraine.

I don't think we've seen any major push on the Republican side to repeal these since the NRA most likely backs them, since these bans are good for our domestic industry but terrible for consumers (and we all know who the NRA goes to bat for at the end of the day). Remington and Winchester sure aren't losing any sleep over Wolf and Izhevsk not being able to put cheap rounds in the market.
 
Still waiting for one last person to send images but if I don't get it by tomorrow I'll just post my retrospective, but this was a big deal to a lot of people I talked with at the inauguration. Not Oct 7, but lot of people were either OG fans or voted for Biden in 2020 but got red-pilled by trannies trooning out kids and the rest of the scales fell from their eyes.
its really crazy how many people who didn't support trump in 2020 did by election day 2024, for fucks sake his own VP wasn't really a fan. Most of the podcasts he was on were pro-biden or at least anti-trump in 2020.

even people like JK Rowling were a lot more vocal about their reactionary views post-2020.
I still can’t decide how much of the leftist disorganization is because they’re demoralized and how much is because they’ve been abandoned by their puppeteers.
if you payed attention to Marc Anderson and a lot of the silicon valley stuff, Oct 7th was like Crown Heights on sterroids. much like Crown Heights, the response from people on college campus and especially from the protected classes completely shocked the jews and they didn't realize that the blacks and muslims and college kids weren't on their side. Jews genuinely believed that everyone sees them as darkies and that the palesteins as whites and therefore will support them in the conflict. the problem is outside of Bill Maher, most people view jews as whites and since everyone has learned whites are evil they attacked them. People instantly saw through jew's demand for special treatment and jews suddenly became a lot less open to supporting the leopards talking about eating their faces

This is why the democrats had way less money and institutional support this go around, and on the flip side the protestor class was a lot less invested. the DNC basically told the usual protestors to get fucked because they protested israel this entire time, meanwhile so many of the usual people who would have supported the DNC were pissed about the fact that their protected classes hate jews that they refused to give money even after the DNC damage control with many people especially the rich silicon valley types realizing "fuck they'll go after me next if they're still in power!" So they pocket veto'd supporting Harris.

beyond that stuff is the fact that social media such as tiktok and X where protestors would go to coordinate are just in the hands of the enemy now and can't be used now. Like in general the democrats stranglehold on culture has evaporated because of the internet and especially now, any youths that would have been on their side 4 years ago are so pissed at being thrown to the wolves the last 2 years they won't bother protesting now.

beyond that any attempt to course correct will fail because it will be led by the same whites that they've been trained to hate for the last quarter century, the foot soldiers are brown and won't allow themselves to be led by some annoying white anymore, at best a white gets to be like timmy and be a spineless cuck who shucks and jives. but if a brown person is in charge they'll end up talking shit about jews and beyond that blacks can't handle leadership roles in general.

Biden was truely their last shot. no doubt in my mind that if Biden died in 2018 that trump would have won in 2020 because the others like Warren or Pete or bloomberg wouldn't have the prestige and connections to convince the browns and fundraising class to prop them up during election time. there's a reason since the 1950s onwards the only time democrats win the presidential election is when they make sure to get a fuckload of support from non-whites and center their campaign around it, and any bad blood they have causes them to lose. the problem is in the modern age the democrats can't hide their anti-white agenda like they did in the 1970s so they lose every fucking time. beyond that like i said browns hate israel as much as they hated south africa and whites in general so the fundraising class is going to betray them too.

the reason this wasn't a problem until now was also the proportion of browns vs whites in the democratic party was a lot less, the demographics have caught up and jews don't have the type of power they did in the 90s to basically fist fuck the sista soldier types once their person gets elected. and the obama types who can trick blacks but also pander to jews are basically non-existent. its why the few blacks in high positions have pissed off the jews in some way and have so little power on a national scale, like Cory Booker who despite being the non-white with the most political experience in history has vanished for most people, and isn't even talked about as a possible head of the dnc or presidential pick.

basically the footsoldiers need a reason to fight but all the powerbrokers aren't the right color to convince them to fight and the "call out culture" democrats have cultivated means anyone who would have enough experience to lead the party and set the tone has pissed some protected group off and is disregarded, and any person that has been able to say the right things and have experience are like Timmy and are such freaky looking fuckers they don't inspire confidence in a way that will lead moderates to support them.

TL;DR both the footsoldiers and puppetteers are too fucking freaky and stubborn to set aside their differences anymore, the conflicts are too great and neither side will give in, so its going to be 4 years of wheel spinning at minimum.
since Bush Senior
the guy who was friends with the guy who shot reagan and invented h1-b visas and tripled the amount of legal immigrants and let jeb marry the spic?
 
He's actually based for this, not because tariffs are necessarily great, but because he's comparing them to income tax, which was what was used to supplement the lost revenue in 1913. The US should revert to the pre-1913 model. People will bring up the debt, but who cares? The debt is mathematically unpayable. You can cut spending while you're at it.
I have a solution for the debt that also fixes the homeless, druggy, and illegal problem. Saudi Arabia needs more labor. We have an excess populace. We exchange this populace for money. It’s like a sportsball trade basically but with more reeing.
 
Elon's not being very nice lol

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I have friends who are screeching at anyone who will listen that Elons "raid" on USAID is illegal. Others crying that no one voted for him, and to call their local representatives to whine about it.
Real doomer shit from local boomers about churches getting punished for trying to provide relief efforts or something.
I know nothing about USAID, what is even the big deal? As soon as I hear humanitarian aide to foreign countries I assume it's money being used for hookers and blow for some scam artist. How off the mark am I?
 
Wouldn't Canada becoming the 51st state just exacerbate the influx of the drug into the greater US? Presumably there'd be no border crossing at that point so smugglers would have no opposition to sneaking it into the country, right?
Most of the drugs and/or ingredients are coming from South America and Asia - very few are being produced locally. In either case, America would introduce tougher laws, tougher borders, and tougher enforcement, which Canada is either unwilling or unable to do.
 
I have friends who are screeching at anyone who will listen that Elons "raid" on USAID is illegal. Others crying that no one voted for him, and to call their local representatives to whine about it.
Real doomer shit from local boomers about churches getting punished for trying to provide relief efforts or something.
I know nothing about USAID, what is even the big deal? As soon as I hear humanitarian aide to foreign countries I assume it's money being used for hookers and blow for some scam artist. How off the mark am I?
It's just the (civilian) foreign aid arm of the U.S government, the biggest in the world I think? It has legitimately done a lot of good, but as you might guess, it is also terribly mismanaged, abused, and wasteful (and arguably entirely a waste, depending on your view regarding helping poor foreign brown people).

As you might imagine, cutting off the gibs (legitimate or otherwise) causes a lot of drama.

P.S. - It has also been involved in forced sterilization (based???) and terrorism (not so based).
 
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