Shoresy

Regime-enforced internet blackouts DO have some silver linings!

Why would you want Jesus for your president? He would take all your stuff and throw it into the ocean. Oh, wait, that's your daily Democrat.

Carry on.

Some people trust the Pope with prayers to keep Iran from nuking Israel and Vatican City.

Equally deluded people. We should let TDS win this one and give Iran the bomb. At least that way, half of the deluded people will be eliminated.

s there a realistic solution to this? Probably not. Congress could clean up its act but in practice there's too much bad blood between the two parties to expect this. Nor is it realistic to expect that they'll vote to substantially curb the President's powers when both parties labor under the perennial delusion that they're one "great" presidency away from realizing every item on their longstanding ideological bucket list by four or five dozen acts of executive fiat.

Congress was still the Ultimate Authority in Lincoln/s time, so much so that the Civil War was fought over basically what culture was going to rule Congress. Everything Lincoln did was okayed through Congress, even the suspension of Habeas with a 1963 act. Two things conspired to weaken Congress. The first was the expansion of the voter rolls. What followed was the introduction of generations of lightweights in Congress, which then made Congressional rules to make life comfortable for themselves by abdicating their responsibilities to the unaccountable 4th branch of government. It started as far back as Teddy Roosevelt, when lightweights in Congress feared corporate America providing more welfare than Congress did. Who needs to vote for a Senator when you could just buy cheap kerosene and stay home? The lightweights then invented the manufactured outrage machine. Ostensibly, the President would hold the 4th branch accountable, but it's a Sisyphean task. This is why Congressional policies trend in the direction of more voters and fewer election safeguards. Because it's simple job security at this point.

What... Raising taxes on the top 1%?

Trump learned early and fast that the real kings are not on Wall Street. They are in DC and the Mayoral Mansions.

This nation was founded on property rights, gun rights, freedom of association, with a Christian culture.

This is surprisingly (to me) not very common knowledge today. I taught my class of 15-year-olds last month the major difference between North and South America, culture-wise and prosperity-wise, despite both being colonized by white Europeans. Few are aware that South America has historically had few property rights, and the governments of South America were heavily influenced by the pompous Spanish nobility adjacent to Spanish royalty, who heavily focused on central planning, vs. the Founding Fathers' deep philosophy of the decentralization of State control. Different colonial systems → different institutions → different incentives → different outcomes. The rejection of King George wasn't just about a petty dispute raging over a villified cult-of-personality; it was a fundamentally philosophical difference of governing styles. South America never had that clean break from centralized planning governance, and the contrast is absolutely evident. It's not a stretch to think illegal migrants from South America are likely bringing these cultural ideas with them. Perhaps, America's Democratic Party has been, over the many years, heavily influenced by the infiltration of South American governing culture without a change of the brand label.

As of today, there's nearly nothing liberal about the Democratic Party, because its current number one overall focus as a political party is to shore up centralized authority, which is the complete opposite of liberalism. While the party has gone through so many morphings of the definition of "liberal," that "ship of Theseus" today looks far more like a helicopter than anything seaworthy. Metaphorically speaking, the original idea of liberalism was more like a grounded ship, slow, stable, and constrained. What I am seeing now looks more like a helicopter-style government, hovering overhead, ready to drop into anything, anywhere. The only thing "free" is the unconstrained top-heavy government free to impose whatever it wants with arbitrary rules and selective enforcement. And while the GOP today is basically Democrat-lite in the style of a 90's Democratic Party, with a mix of South American top-down and the Founding Fathers' decentralized policies, the left is full mask-off South American/European style. That's why I have to chuckle so hard at the Democratic Party's "No Kings" rallies, knowing full well that it's clearly a self-tell, and the plethora of Mexican and Communist flags at those rallies tells you all you need to know about the real intent of the party. To have a full 100% royalty-adjacent style of governance that looks mostly like the governance of Europe and South America. And New York City...holy crap that's gonna be wild in a few years...

This is probably why Iran is toast atm. They were probably behind the golf course assassination attempt.

I hope Iran assassinates your envoys.

If Obama can send a pallet for existential reasons, Iran can too. Or not.

Popcorn time.

I just think it's funny Iran's getting leveled again cause they refused to deal with neighbors.

It is a catchy song though.

Stolen People

Stolen Land

Stolen People

Stolen Land

I doubt him getting a Nobel Prize would have saved Iran. It certainly didn't stop your Obama.

Symbolic recognition and virtue signalling really don’t control outcomes or incentives. Maybe in a Fellini movie.

Genghis Khan sent negotiators to Iran (Khwarazm Empire) to settle a trade dispute.

They killed them.

Not “ignored,” not “sent them back.”

Killed. One beheaded, others humiliated.

That’s basically the one universal rule you don’t break, in medieval and modern times.

So Genghis Khan did what Genghis Khan does.

He didn’t argue.

He didn’t send another letter.

He erased them.

Entire cities wiped out. Empire gone. Millions dead.

Lesson is simple:

If you can’t control your actions, the consequences will control you.

They chose disrespect and chaos.

They got annihilation.

Thanks!

Yeah, I think it's boilerplate dogma for Blue Maga that the USA is a colonial exploiter built on the backs of African slaves and was never great. Only by purging all white males who let it happen in the first place can America be built back up from the ashes. In the minds of Blue Maga, brown people have never enslaved others, nor colonized any lands.

Stolen People

Stolen Land

In terms of global dominance Britain was in fact once the greatest ever, closely followed by Rome.

I seriously doubt the UK will ever be back strong since it's firmly under the control of BLUE MUKGA

Stolen People

Stolen Land

Can I be the villain?

A lot of them do leave, only to come back after reality cures the TDS.

I aced your little voting quiz 1st try, and I barely studied for it.

As I said before, I think it would be hella progressive globally to have Iran nuke Vatican City.

Maybe the Pope secretly wants Iran to erase Israel. That thins the competition.

The collection baskets are growing!

I got catcalled by 2 girls while riding my bike in front of the local JCC (Jewish Community Center) at about that same age. I had no clue how to respond, and I think I pedalled faster.

They did call for his removal. Sometime around 2024.

But I don't recall exactly who exactly whispered in Biden's ear to resign. So it might not be hypocrisy.

Like I said, the USA can just hand over the 90% uranium since a Shiite missile can already reach Downing Street. That's a faster bullet to speed up evolution.

Or a lower velocity bullet?

It will devolve into superchats and, of course, onlyCraft.

I just set the bar so low for myself that a haphazard glance appears to be approval. EZ dopamine hits.

You can Venmo me later for this ultimate life-hack.

Yes, we all know the bullet is the ultimate destroyer of democracy. Historically speaking, of course.

The Aztecs are back!