A few weeks ago: "regime change is bad" was updated to "regime change is good". This was a great success, so now new updates are being released.
Now, there is a new update: "must not be infringed" now means "if you're carrying a concealed gun at a protest, you are a domestic terrorist and will be summarily executed after being disarmed and restrained."
Please prepare for your next update, due to be released in a couple of months. In "We oppose Middle Eastern quagmires", strike the word 'oppose' and insert 'support'.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and remember to keep trusting the plan.
You're missing the point. Public perception matters. Political capital matters and is finite. That is the unfortunate reality that we live in.
It's not me whose missing anything here. "Public perception" is rank with fucking idiocy. Nothing in the world true or real can change that. At this moment in time, under these circumstances and conditions, with people doing what they're doing, and the press acting as it does, there is absolutely no point in softening to try to appease the fucking idiocy with soft treatment.
I don't think you fully realize what the "reality" we're living in really is. Those aren't good people on the street. The good people are huddled up in their houses and apartments while goddamn apes are allowed to instigate fights on the ground, because men in skyscrapers or in very sturdy public buildings surrounded by security will it so.
If you think that this is a problem of perception, I just don't even know what to tell you. Words aren't spells. Perception is not reality. Violence is real. You're looking at pawns and ignoring everything happening around them that makes things like this. You're crying "unfair!" at the people who are being aggressed against. Yes, we would all very much like for all the bad happenings to stop. If you successfully got the good guys here to stop, that would let the bad guys own the field.
That's the way to a further spiraling hellscape of more violence and despair. That's the point you're missing. Necessary corrective steps--ones you probably agreed with yesterday--are being employed. This is what that looks like. It's not clean or pretty, especially when those with the mops are beset by fucking brownshirts who've been given carte blanche, encouraged even, to hit the street and try and stop them.
You've assumed all sorts of things about what I supposedly think and believe but you're so off the mark it would be a much more productive discussion if you would just stick to things I've actually said. I'm not going to go one-by-one addressing things like "I didn't say this, I didn't say that, etc."
So what happens when dems own Congress after 2026 and a trifecta after 2028 when only like 10% (if we're lucky) the necessary deportations have even occurred? One step forward then 10 steps backwards when the border is flung open again for 4 more years.
You do realize we currently live in a country where public perception dictates who comes to power, right? No shit perception isn't reality. Especially the perception of normies; they're fucking retarded.
The only way your approach works is if orange man goes full dictator mode and seizes and holds on to power, harshly cracking down on rogue states like Minnesota and prosecuting their state officials. Is there any reason to believe that is actually going to happen?
I'd love to see Tim Walz in prison but the fact of the matter is, the aforementioned situation of the border being flung open again and us being in an even worse situation a few years from now is far more likely than Trump invoking the insurrection act and hauling away Walz in chains. Hell, it sounds like he already cucked and "lowered the temperature."
The super hard ass approach only works if you actually go all the way.
You've gotten all uptight and prickly, so I don't think it's of any use to continue to discuss this. I really didn't ever assume anything or say anything about what's rattling around in your head--only responded to what you say, which you've now decided to take personally in a kind of odd and uncomfortable way.
I'll leave it at this: "My" approach, also known as "the" approach, is working. There's ratcheting tension, but the job is getting done. What you've been calling "public perception," which is really just your opinion and reportedly that of your cowardly co-workers, is not nearly for softening as you seem to think. There's plenty of other prevalent opinions out there, including that insurrectionists on the street need to be made to back the fuck off, which can only be accomplished by MN brass actually doing their jobs.
That is the latest news, also--that Walz has promised Trump to be more accommodating as it applies to his Executive forces providing the support they're supposed to.
So whatever "my" way is, that's the way things are going. Not your kumbaya drum circle.
Trust the plan. Two more weeks! I'd love to be wrong here more than anything, but if the past is anything to go by....
You say I'm the one who got uptight and prickly. How about you reread your previous comment and re-evaluate whether your wording would reasonably cause people to get irritated. Which whatever, I can handle it, but it's been a two way street here.