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Why is everyone saying Trump bent the knee to the protestors? Isn't he saying that changes will be coming to the Farmers and Hotels because he's getting rid of the illegals and not that changes are coming to his deportation plans? He even said he wants to protect the Farmers but he has to get rid of the criminals.
Trump didn't bend any knees. He lifted the hammer, but never needed to use it. They just stopped on their own with WW3 imminent.
 
The response will be to shove the FBI even deeper up everyone’s ass and it will change nothing
Sticking it to them is its own reward and being scared of death is a powerful motivator.

I admittedly don't know a ton about it, but part of what pushed Japan from Taisho Democracy to the Showa Restoration was the military Rightists constantly assassinating their opponents until they just all gave up. It's the persistence of it that matters. Luigi killed one dude, but if it had spawned copycats (it hasn't), it'd be a different story. So how does an agent make that kind of thing become endemic, like other types of violence?
 
Their social power comes not from the accusation itself, but the squirming their opponent's do when accused of something that's not even wrong. When the crowd sees the accused person acting like they did something wrong, people assume they did. It's how leftists establish something normal as unacceptable, by starting out assertively to force you to agree to their frame of reference.

1: They accuse you of violating a moral norm that nobody agreed was even a moral norm. Intent doesn't matter, only perceived harm.
2: The moral frame is non-negotiable. You're not asked to explain but told you are guilty, any attempt to defend yourself is framed as further guilt.
3: You're required to confess, overexplain, and beg. Groveling is seen as a virtue and forgiveness is not guaranteed.

The answer when accused of something you actually did or believe is to say "yes, and?" like the serpent did. Not because the serpent was good, it wasn't good, but it did understand this concept of owning your intent as power as did many righteous people later in the bible. Including Jesus.
This is valuable teaching right here.
Own your actions, and don't bother explaining yourself.
If you simply must explain, do it with as few words possible.
Become the gray rock.
Those who thrive on hysteria will falter.
 
REPORTER: "How imminent is an Israeli strike on Iran?
"Trump: "I don't want to say imminent, but it looks like it's something that could very well happen. Look, it's very simple, not complicated. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon."

https://x.com/CrannofonixNews/status/1933202061685866725

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I bet you that if Israel and the US is going to do anything soon to Iran, they're going to do it on the weekend when the markets are closed to prevent shit hitting the fan. Bookmark this
 
Why is everyone saying Trump bent the knee to the protestors? Isn't he saying that changes will be coming to the Farmers and Hotels because he's getting rid of the illegals and not that changes are coming to his deportation plans? He even said he wants to protect the Farmers but he has to get rid of the criminals.
I think it can be read both ways. Initially I read it in the interpretation that he is backing down. But now I have read your reading, I think yours is most likely the correct one.

Perhaps it is people having PTSD from so many political betrayals that the tendency is when there is ambiguity, to assume the worst of the political class. cos that is what one usually gets.
 
I bet you that if Israel and the US is going to do anything soon to Iran, they're going to do it on the weekend when the markets are closed to prevent shit hitting the fan. Bookmark this
not this weekend. Trump would never willingly let the world's attention be redirected from his Parade.
 
I can't stand listening to these Democrat Governors talking about how they are dealing with a "Broken immigration system". If we enforced the laws it would not be broken. To them, a "Working" immigration system is full open borders and the replacement of the native population.
I cannot help but do a whataboutism here. I can't stand Republican's silence regarding the employers of illegals who would sooner self immolate than pay their fair share in payroll taxes. They're terrified of what state-level donors from the agriculture and construction industries might do if their workforces are slashed. The Statehouse Strategy could be undone in a matter of years without their money.
 
not this weekend. Trump would never willingly let the world's attention be redirected from his Parade.
I expect there to be a response before the start of July. Who knows though, nothing could happen and might end up like what happened with India and Pakistan.
If war between the US/Israel and Iran does become a reality expect things in Ukraine to really start ramping up out of hand. Russia knows that the US can't support multiple different fronts at the same time, especially when support for Ukraine is dwindling.
 
Iran Says It Will Open Secret New Enrichment Site After U.N. Atomic Agency Censure
The Wall Street Journal (archive.ph)
By Laurence Norman
12 Jun 2025 10:06:48 UTC
Iran said it would open a new uranium enrichment facility and increase its production of highly enriched fissile material after the U.N. atomic agency member states declared Tehran had failed to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, casting a fresh shadow over struggling U.S.-Iran nuclear talks.

Iran’s announcement comes ahead of a sixth round of nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran expected on Sunday. President Trump said on Monday he had grown less confident about striking a deal with Tehran.

The International Atomic Energy Agency board resolution, which passed by 19-3, is the first time Iran has been found in noncompliance with its nuclear duties in 20 years. The vote was called over Iran’s repeated refusal over the last six years to explain the presence of undeclared nuclear material in Iran.

Updates to follow as news develops.
 
Blacks, and by extension, Hispanics/Native Americans, have this growing distrust of a society and government they see as, if not entirely White occupied, definitely constructed by Whites. To them, this goes as deep as the food they eat. After all, whitey gives them food stamps to buy this poison that just so happens to make them obese and give them cancer. Reminiscent of the Black "CIA running victory laps" meme response when one of their own are acting niggerish, their own diet and health are systems of oppression the Huwite man uses to keep them down. The racial body temp thing is simply a visual example of differences between races that aren't just about the melanin content of our skin.
What are stuff that Blacks and NA are better able to process then Whites?
 
Are "our great Farmers" willing to adjust their business and operating models (adapting planting patterns, SOPs, adding additional automation, etc) in order to pay even minimum wage for the grueling manual labor they have become accustomed to paying near slave wages for?

If not, they can fuck off.
It's another example of how dirt-cheap labour messes up systems. If labor costs are higher for farmers, and there is not artificial supply of cheap labor, then they will start farm things that are less labor intensive. When there is dirt-cheap labor farmers can farm things that require dirt-cheap labor. So we are in an artificial system where farmers are growing things that wouldn't be farmed in a more natural system in a developed nation.

A shift to large livestock farming, for example, is much less labor intensive. The added advantage of large livestock, e.g., beef cattle is that it regreens the land. There were untold millions of bison here before. All the vast agricultural land could be turned into free-range beef farms with little labor requried. There are some arable products which are much more mechanized and hence don't need all the pickers. Labor intensive plant agriculture should occur in the third world.

If we hadn't imported all the cheap labor then farming would have naturally transitioned to less labor intensive products over the last 60 years as the economy developed. The issue isn't how much labor farming requires; it is that the mass immigration has created artificial conditions.

Gradually done, it is painless, and no one really would have noticed it happening. The pain that must happen now is that the change has to happen much quicker than it would have naturally. But for every one of the examples about why we need dirt cheap third-world labor that is only because the need has been created by having dirt cheap thrid-world labor. Without it, the economy would have adapted gradually and naturally
 
Cuomo: "180 languages spoken in our public schools. That's a strength, not weakness"
That would be impressive if all of our kids were polyglots who knew 180 languages. But a bunch of people speaking a bunch of different languages that not everyone understands is a sign of disorganization and likely explains the public education money hole.
 
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Posted up a Wiki link about them here. They're a lot more influential than people think in the Southwest, with guys like the former Lt. Governor of CA, Cruz Bustamante, being associated with them.
MEChA influence in the southwestern states cannot be understated. Massive presence in police/sheriff departments throughout that area just as much as college campuses. They're just digging in and waiting for a literal race war.
Why is everyone saying Trump bent the knee to the protestors? Isn't he saying that changes will be coming to the Farmers and Hotels because he's getting rid of the illegals and not that changes are coming to his deportation plans? He even said he wants to protect the Farmers but he has to get rid of the criminals.
Because when people say those jobs are hard to replace they're right, but it's a bigger issue to tackle because the wages the farmers and hotels are paying are such a pittance that US citizens, especially whites, would laugh at offers of 4 dollars and hour to handpick shit in the blazing heat all day every day. There's really no way at alleviating the damage to those sectors unless you let those people stay. Imo they've been profiting off of near-slave labor for decades now. If they can't support their business and pay a living wage to American citizens, they simply shouldn't exist.
 
It's another example of how dirt-cheap labour messes up systems. If labor costs are higher for farmers, and there is not artificial supply of cheap labor, then they will start farm things that are less labor intensive. When there is dirt-cheap labor farmers can farm things that require dirt-cheap labor. So we are in an artificial system where farmers are growing things that wouldn't be farmed in a more natural system in a developed nation.
They'd also use more automation; there's no reason for most farm labor at all with modern technology. Automation is cheaper and more productive in the long run, but has high startup costs, so why bother to invest in the future when you could use cheap labor today?

There's a lot more cotton grown today than there ever was with "free" labor.
 
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