I think the most important development here is that this could be the beginning of the end of Mitch McConnell’s stranglehold of Republican legislative power. McConnell and Thune and Lankford and the RINO wing of the Senate had thrown their full weight behind this bill and were basically treating its final passage as a fait accompli. There was a revolution over the weekend with Rand Paul (McConnell’s fellow senator from KY) and JD Vance sounding the alarm over this terrible border security/aid bill followed by Trump making phone calls all weekend to throttle this disastrous give-away. this mobilization seems to have paid off! MAGA Mike may have just defeated Cocaine Mitch, the Capitol Hill RINOs, and the Uniparty Ukraine Gravy Train! 🫡🇺🇸
I love movies too. I mainly watch classic Hollywood movies and only the occasional new release. Modern Hollywood is a total wasteland, and that is especially evident if you are immersed in the degree of artistry and sophistication that used to be de rigeur within the old studio system. Gosh, even those frivolous 60s sex comedies that still give feminists such conniptions look like Shakespearean masterpieces of rich, nuanced storytelling compared to the trash coming out of Hollywood today. All that is left of American cinema now is degenerates, in-your-face woke grandstanding, and a cavalcade of untalented DEI pity-hires. But I think it’s important to immerse yourself in the classics, if only to recognize the utter poverty of the current offerings…
Something really bizarre is happening with Fetterman. Strings are being cut here, seems like. His harpy handler, who was so happy to be in the spotlight before and micromanaging his appearances, retreating into the shadows exactly as he takes these bold populist stances against the woke mob is further evidence that something weird is going on here.
If she can’t win a primary in her own state, she’s done! There’s no way she’ll be able to convince donors to keep throwing good money after bad once she loses SC. It’s already over even if she can’t see the writing on the wall, but that will be the final nail in the coffin of her abysmal campaign.
His recent VERY STRONG anti-woke, anti-progressive, firmly populist stances have been refreshing. Since his reprogramming, for whatever reason, I think he’s already done more for MAGA than squishy Mitt Romney 2.0 Dr. Oz would’ve done… Hopefully he keeps it up. The Left is pissed, and I’m loving it!
https://news.yahoo.com/john-fettermans-shameful-betrayal-left-104501383.html
I agree. This sort of reactionary, anti-art cultural philistinism is typical of the woke left. The old “lock this piece of cultural history away in a museum where we can put it in proper ‘context’” canard is such a PC reflex I can’t believe I’m hearing it repeated unironically on this board. This sculpture is actually quite based, and is a caricature of exactly the sort of globalist pedovores the Great Awakening is all about exposing. It dates back to a time when European communities were strong and recognized the real enemy. It’s actually amazing it still stands in plain view!
My favorite intellectual. Camille Paglia is the greatest American culture critic of the 20th century. She was calling out the degeneration of higher education and the nihilism of our elite managerial class with absolute precision 30 years ago. Also, the bankruptcy of contemporary feminism and political correctness. Independently reading ‘Sexual Personae’ my final semester as an undergrad was the beginning of my deprogramming as a leftist apparatchik. Her essay “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf” is essential reading if you’re looking for an autopsy of American education… Naturally, she is HATED by the contemporary left. She has recently been trashing the anti-scientific nonsense of modern transgender ideology…
Is it ‘The Camp of the Saints’? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
You only apply critical methodologies to your current enemies, of course: Leftists would never deconstruct their own sacred cows, unless it becomes politically expedient to do so… Lacking any core principles, the only thing that keeps them from being total nihilists is their commitment to their own advantage and advancing a narrow set of ad hoc political positions like unrestricted plunder, abortion on demand and “demystifying” sodomy, as well as an instinctive in-group herd mentality and corresponding aggressive resentment toward outsiders and skeptics of their narrow political objective du jour. Their hypocrisy is total, so don’t expect them to consistently apply their own moral principles. In fact, to a leftist, the only people who should have moral standards applied against them are those who hold moral standards at all. See the fourth rule in Alinky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’. It’s why they are so reflexively contemptuous of anyone advocating law and order. They are lawless reprobates!
I’ve been trying to make sense of this situation, and I like this theory because it answers, much more clearly than the simple “false flag” narrative, the many questions raised by this profound (and admittedly suspicious) intelligence failure. I am unsatisfied with the false flag theory that is currently dominant on this website because: 1.) it aligns with the radical left and their “anti-colonialist” pro-Palestine BDS agenda and 2.) it is inconsistent with Trump’s own loud support of Israel on this issue. I am suspicious of the false flag narrative which tacitly endorses Obama and Biden’s pro-Iran/pro-Hamas agenda and handwaves away the unbelievable barbarism Hamas displayed during this attack, attacking soft civilian targets and seizing innocent hostages. Either we support Trump on this issue and his post-Obama realignment of Middle East policy with strong support of Israel, or we agree with the left and their collective hatred of Israel… I think this explanation is more consistent with what we know about the Deep State and its contempt for Netanyahu and his “far-right” agenda.
The salt! “For any other politician, a mug shot would be the end. For Trump, it's a springboard.” They are helpless to take him down. He refuses to play by the beltway rules and they cannot stand it! Just a butthurt, needlessly verbose way of saying NCSWIC 😂
This has been an open secret of wealthy progressives for years. All those California liberals and Hollywood elites taking in illegal housekeepers and babysitters whom they exploit. And it’s the perfect set-up, the illegals can’t report their employers without risking deportation 🙄