Never, you should just keep telling yourself that neocons and “Old Guard” is owned while they are getting everything they ever wanted and you don’t even get chump change. But hey, at least you can consider yourself politically relevant because you apparently voted for it
Trump seems to be a guy who creates enemies. Maybe because he's so charismatic that certain people are drawn to him, like groupies, but then Trump spurns them somehow and they react like scorned women. I mean, Bush made many bad decisions but you didn't see Michelle Malkin and Bill O'Reilly disavowing with the heat of a thousand suns. Trump somehow has this hold over people.
Or maybe it's the new social media environment. Like you said Scott, it's being run by middle-aged people who think they're 22. They act like they're 22 when they should know better. A lot of political discourse is being driven by actual 22-year-olds too. I don't think this is healthy. We probably were better off as a country when nobody cared about anyone under 40 and without a family. (Except for Scott.)
Or maybe it's because social media is so siloed that right-wingers on X have nothing better to do than burn other right-wingers. Maybe Elon buying Twitter wasn't so great in the long run. Perhaps we should've kept Twitter as a center-left platform where right-wingers had to use clever keywords so they didn't get banned, and engagement slop artists who barely hid their bigotry and idiocy did get banned.
The social media environment is definitely cranking up the crazy factor. Back before the internet, only old people and a few nerds cared about politics. I'm becoming convinced that was better than whatever is going on today.
The people held up as forerunners of Trump, such as Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, could not command majorities in the party, let alone the nation. They tried and failed.
Trump is not as ideologically consistent or principled as either of those two, yet he hijacked the party from the establishment and won the presidency, twice.
As Scott says, politics is a drab, boring business filled with compromises. Trump has the magic gift for it. Who else on the right does? And if the answer is no one, why are we so critical of the best thing that ever happened to us?
I'd be careful about characterizing the 25th amendment as a coup. It's a legal, legitimate mechanism, of relieving the president of his duties. Like it or not, Trump isn't a king and isn't entitled a full term of office if he loses the confidence of his own administration.
Fealty to MAGA shouldn't be any kind of determinant or loyalty test.
"Iran is not going well". Again with this. Within 10 to 14 days, Iran won’t be able to store oil and will have permanent long term damage to oil wells for extracting oil. Oil wells perform poorly after you stop the flowing process. Iran exports oil, but it also imports gasoline and diesel. Iran lacks the ability to refine enough of their own oil into gasoline and diesel. So very soon Iran will be running out of fuel everywhere. Will everyone quit acting like the desperate behavior of this inordinately aggressive regime somehow proves what a hothead Trump is? Or that they've shown themselves resourceful rather than out of options? How is it a loss for Trump in anything other than the very short term and only when viewed through the prism of relatively high gas prices?
"Real politics is often boring and despiriting". Okay, let me get this straight. Investment coming back on shore, manufacturing growth, job growth, more take home pay, homeownsership increasing, illegals deported, an obnoxious dangerous theocratic regime put in its place is a downer but shape shifting chameleon lizard pedophile murderers, and aggressive bible thumping with campaigns against hot sex videos is a blast? All zoomers should just be lobotomized.
By the way, a lot of people in the consipatard right have in fact said they want Iran to have a nuke, and they want Iran to win, so presumably that would include a lot of us dying and I know they aren't kidding because these people see discourse as a blunt instrument and they are completely incapable of anything like irony or good humor. I'm really sick and tired of people apologizing for these folks while taking every chance to dump on the president. Hopefully they sink like lead come '28 and go the way of the dodo bird.
Looking forward to a decade of Zombie Trumpism in the GOP. The Wall will be the Conservative version of universal healthcare. Trump really was a big disappointment...
Being MAGA is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole with your sources of information as the individual characters inevitably self-destruct in a maniacal rage of impotent narcissistic tantrums. Very tiring.
But don't forget, this is what people were saying about Trump. They were saying, "Politics is supposed to be boring, and this clown is something totally separate from mainstream politics." Hugh Hewitt was saying "The old political things still matter." Trump was the Insane Clown Party in 2016, including his original descent down the escalator. People were shaking their heads, rolling their eyes and dismissing him as "irrelevant." NOPE! Trump introduced Politics 2.0 in the US. So why wouldn't the Rumble Right introduce Politics 3.0, the next iteration?
“But it will never have the same level of influence it does as with Trump. The 47th president presented a unique opportunity for forces previously excluded from the mainstream.”
The non-existing influence? There was no “opportunity”, the lunatics and streamers were taken for a ride by oligarchs and got the opposite of what they thought Trump was going to do
Yeah, if anything it seems like Trump provided a unique opportunity for Zionist maximalists who were previously excluded from the mainstream for GOOD REASON. Some people's crazies got in the driver's seat, it just wasn't OUR crazies.
I think you're being overly pessimistic about the Iran War a.k.a. GWIII, we have Iran under siege by air and sea, they have no way to sell their oil and only two more weeks of land-based storage before they have to start shutting down wells which may permanently impair their capacity. Their regional enemies are going to start seeing if they can take bites out of them soon, and eventually protests will reappear which they will have a harder time handling. On our end, things will appear to calm down, gulf oil traffic will pick up (we let a Chinese tanker through this morning that we had previously turned around) and gas prices in the US will come down. In a week or two something else will take over the news cycle and this Iran business will go on the back burner for whatever the crisis of the week is. Sometime after that, Iran will quietly capitulate, possibly 'selling' us their 60% U-235 and promising to keep the Strait open in exchange for us GTFO and lifting sanctions. They'll claim victory, we'll also claim victory, it will be on the 3rd page of the newspapers so no one will care but the whole thing will disappear as a wedge issue. The summer boom and increased GOA oil traffic (some of which will end up becoming permanent) will lift the economy at least partly out of the doldrums. Probably around September-October the DOJ will start initial prosecutions for WF&A, 2020 election tampering, and possibly even Epstein related stuff and/or J6, which will begin to defang the Rumble Right's opposition to Trump. This will have a secondary (possibly primary) effect of sending the left into a frothing psychotic episode which will remind the RR why they voted for Trump in the first place. Rs keep the Senate in a tie, Ds swap totals in the House and take all the wrong lessons from this, impeaching Trump again and turning the crazy up to '12.' This scares the living poop out of everyday Americans, and Vance sweeps the board in '28.
This is why I've come around and I want Vivek to win in Ohio. If he wins, it'll be proof that you don't even need to engage online in order to win elections. Big blow to the Rumble Right.
At this point I prefer a Hindu who holds 80% of my views to a white guy like Swalwell. This is the mature position. I love white excellence and colonialism and a funny ethnic joke as much as the next based white guy, but Vivek (and Kash etc.) are assimilated enough for me, and I'm sure we can all trade racial barbs informally.
Vivek inadvertently revealed his true colors on Twitter when he attacked heartland Americans for not being more like Asian nerds. It was December 26, 2024 and I'll never forget it.
Is not starting a war in Iran and not declaring yourself Jesus so much to ask of Trump ? When are we allowed to criticize Trump.
I literally wrote an article criticizing Trump last week about it. You post the same shrill reply to every article.
Never, you should just keep telling yourself that neocons and “Old Guard” is owned while they are getting everything they ever wanted and you don’t even get chump change. But hey, at least you can consider yourself politically relevant because you apparently voted for it
Trump seems to be a guy who creates enemies. Maybe because he's so charismatic that certain people are drawn to him, like groupies, but then Trump spurns them somehow and they react like scorned women. I mean, Bush made many bad decisions but you didn't see Michelle Malkin and Bill O'Reilly disavowing with the heat of a thousand suns. Trump somehow has this hold over people.
Or maybe it's the new social media environment. Like you said Scott, it's being run by middle-aged people who think they're 22. They act like they're 22 when they should know better. A lot of political discourse is being driven by actual 22-year-olds too. I don't think this is healthy. We probably were better off as a country when nobody cared about anyone under 40 and without a family. (Except for Scott.)
Or maybe it's because social media is so siloed that right-wingers on X have nothing better to do than burn other right-wingers. Maybe Elon buying Twitter wasn't so great in the long run. Perhaps we should've kept Twitter as a center-left platform where right-wingers had to use clever keywords so they didn't get banned, and engagement slop artists who barely hid their bigotry and idiocy did get banned.
The social media environment is definitely cranking up the crazy factor. Back before the internet, only old people and a few nerds cared about politics. I'm becoming convinced that was better than whatever is going on today.
The people held up as forerunners of Trump, such as Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, could not command majorities in the party, let alone the nation. They tried and failed.
Trump is not as ideologically consistent or principled as either of those two, yet he hijacked the party from the establishment and won the presidency, twice.
As Scott says, politics is a drab, boring business filled with compromises. Trump has the magic gift for it. Who else on the right does? And if the answer is no one, why are we so critical of the best thing that ever happened to us?
I'd be careful about characterizing the 25th amendment as a coup. It's a legal, legitimate mechanism, of relieving the president of his duties. Like it or not, Trump isn't a king and isn't entitled a full term of office if he loses the confidence of his own administration.
Fealty to MAGA shouldn't be any kind of determinant or loyalty test.
"Iran is not going well". Again with this. Within 10 to 14 days, Iran won’t be able to store oil and will have permanent long term damage to oil wells for extracting oil. Oil wells perform poorly after you stop the flowing process. Iran exports oil, but it also imports gasoline and diesel. Iran lacks the ability to refine enough of their own oil into gasoline and diesel. So very soon Iran will be running out of fuel everywhere. Will everyone quit acting like the desperate behavior of this inordinately aggressive regime somehow proves what a hothead Trump is? Or that they've shown themselves resourceful rather than out of options? How is it a loss for Trump in anything other than the very short term and only when viewed through the prism of relatively high gas prices?
"Real politics is often boring and despiriting". Okay, let me get this straight. Investment coming back on shore, manufacturing growth, job growth, more take home pay, homeownsership increasing, illegals deported, an obnoxious dangerous theocratic regime put in its place is a downer but shape shifting chameleon lizard pedophile murderers, and aggressive bible thumping with campaigns against hot sex videos is a blast? All zoomers should just be lobotomized.
By the way, a lot of people in the consipatard right have in fact said they want Iran to have a nuke, and they want Iran to win, so presumably that would include a lot of us dying and I know they aren't kidding because these people see discourse as a blunt instrument and they are completely incapable of anything like irony or good humor. I'm really sick and tired of people apologizing for these folks while taking every chance to dump on the president. Hopefully they sink like lead come '28 and go the way of the dodo bird.
Looking forward to a decade of Zombie Trumpism in the GOP. The Wall will be the Conservative version of universal healthcare. Trump really was a big disappointment...
The Wall is being built. Immigration has been one of Trump 2.0’s strong suits.
Being MAGA is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole with your sources of information as the individual characters inevitably self-destruct in a maniacal rage of impotent narcissistic tantrums. Very tiring.
But don't forget, this is what people were saying about Trump. They were saying, "Politics is supposed to be boring, and this clown is something totally separate from mainstream politics." Hugh Hewitt was saying "The old political things still matter." Trump was the Insane Clown Party in 2016, including his original descent down the escalator. People were shaking their heads, rolling their eyes and dismissing him as "irrelevant." NOPE! Trump introduced Politics 2.0 in the US. So why wouldn't the Rumble Right introduce Politics 3.0, the next iteration?
“But it will never have the same level of influence it does as with Trump. The 47th president presented a unique opportunity for forces previously excluded from the mainstream.”
The non-existing influence? There was no “opportunity”, the lunatics and streamers were taken for a ride by oligarchs and got the opposite of what they thought Trump was going to do
Yeah, if anything it seems like Trump provided a unique opportunity for Zionist maximalists who were previously excluded from the mainstream for GOOD REASON. Some people's crazies got in the driver's seat, it just wasn't OUR crazies.
I think you're being overly pessimistic about the Iran War a.k.a. GWIII, we have Iran under siege by air and sea, they have no way to sell their oil and only two more weeks of land-based storage before they have to start shutting down wells which may permanently impair their capacity. Their regional enemies are going to start seeing if they can take bites out of them soon, and eventually protests will reappear which they will have a harder time handling. On our end, things will appear to calm down, gulf oil traffic will pick up (we let a Chinese tanker through this morning that we had previously turned around) and gas prices in the US will come down. In a week or two something else will take over the news cycle and this Iran business will go on the back burner for whatever the crisis of the week is. Sometime after that, Iran will quietly capitulate, possibly 'selling' us their 60% U-235 and promising to keep the Strait open in exchange for us GTFO and lifting sanctions. They'll claim victory, we'll also claim victory, it will be on the 3rd page of the newspapers so no one will care but the whole thing will disappear as a wedge issue. The summer boom and increased GOA oil traffic (some of which will end up becoming permanent) will lift the economy at least partly out of the doldrums. Probably around September-October the DOJ will start initial prosecutions for WF&A, 2020 election tampering, and possibly even Epstein related stuff and/or J6, which will begin to defang the Rumble Right's opposition to Trump. This will have a secondary (possibly primary) effect of sending the left into a frothing psychotic episode which will remind the RR why they voted for Trump in the first place. Rs keep the Senate in a tie, Ds swap totals in the House and take all the wrong lessons from this, impeaching Trump again and turning the crazy up to '12.' This scares the living poop out of everyday Americans, and Vance sweeps the board in '28.
Let's revisit this in a month.
This is why I've come around and I want Vivek to win in Ohio. If he wins, it'll be proof that you don't even need to engage online in order to win elections. Big blow to the Rumble Right.
At this point I prefer a Hindu who holds 80% of my views to a white guy like Swalwell. This is the mature position. I love white excellence and colonialism and a funny ethnic joke as much as the next based white guy, but Vivek (and Kash etc.) are assimilated enough for me, and I'm sure we can all trade racial barbs informally.
Vivek inadvertently revealed his true colors on Twitter when he attacked heartland Americans for not being more like Asian nerds. It was December 26, 2024 and I'll never forget it.
He's entitled to his opinion. I don't agree with it but I agree with more things he says that what Dick Durbin says
I wonder if Scott saw that Tucker was going to become pro-Muslim?
I was wondering about that. It's an interesting turn of events. Some have speculated that he's being paid by Qatar.