Because their "humor" isn't based on being funny. It's based on them feeling like they "burned" their political opponents.
It's that, plus the fact that they're always all scrambling to be the ones to do that, so that they can then get their virtue points - "Look at me! Look at that sick burn I got on the right! I'm one of you guys, so please don't attack me."
Seriously - what a piece of shit. "Banning our political opponents from doing anything that could hurt The Party coNTenT MoDERaTioN is a messy business!"
Fuck you. These fucks know goddamn well what they were/are doing, and they know what effect it has had on the past two elections. It's exactly what they told everyone they were going to do after the Trump election.
Nothing is going to happen to them regardless. You really think the media is going to give any of this air time? LOL.
This is why they win. Their propagandists are in near total control of the narrative. That, and the fact that there is a huge segment of the populace that is only capable of being enraged about misdeeds if they are told to be enraged about them.
Hmmm.... It's almost like someone could have foreseen this whole thing.
The left is simply not going to allow anything to threaten their control of the narrative/dialogue on the internet. It makes sense, too. Their entire stupid fucking ideology absolutely cannot stand on its own. It requires large numbers of people being indoctrinated into it.
They do it here here on the internet. They do it in the media. They do it in school.
They will not concede control of any of those things without a serious fight.
To be fair, they were going to do that regardless. Look at states where the left is in total control - like here in California. Even in those places - where they should be bearing sole blame when shit goes south - they still manage to pass it off onto the right.
This is the power of having control of the media/internet companies. You own the narrative. You get to decide what the idiots on the left, and a lot of those in the middle, view as reality.
TLDR: It doesn't matter if they let the GOP have the house. The media/internet companies will see to it that the blame for whatever suffering comes from their policies is put on Trump/the GOP.
Unfortunately, much like MTG, D&D, and a lot of other "nerd" hobbies, board games are another hobby where its industry has become utterly infested with woke "soc justice" types.
The board games sub on reddit has gotten especially bad, as well.
Flu seems going strong over here in the part of California I'm in, as well. Son caught it at school, brought it home. We've all had it now for a couple of days.
When he went back, he told me that he had 4 classes with substitute teachers, and it seemed like more than a third of each class was out.
I know that most people who think they got the flu didn't, and it was just a normal cold. I'm like 80% sure this was the flu, though. Seemed to match up. Rapid onset. Fever. All body ache. Chills. Headache.
Worst part was that he had just brought us home a regular - pretty mild - cold a week and a half before this.
Incredible isn't it? Fucking guy is literally mentally disabled now, and people still can't look past voting for their "tribe". Just straight up, "Well, his brain doesn't work as well anymore, and it's one of the highest political offices in the land, but fuck it. He's got my vote".
The shitbag left is so entrenched at this point, I don't see anything short of a war as ever having any chance of forcing them out. They have too much control, and they used that control to indoctrinate way too effectively. You'll never beat them with mere words and debate. Look at the state I live in, California. Things are a disaster in every way. The biggest cities have been turned into total shitholes. One party has had sole control for decades. And... we just re-elected a governor from that same party basically 60% to 40%.
Words don't matter. Ideas don't matter. Results don't even seem to matter. All that matters is control of the information. Control of the narrative. Control over what is taught in the schools. You can craft the electorate you want, and it's exactly what they're been doing.
Anyone that hasn't watched the interview that the ex KGB agent gave (Yuri Bezmenov), talking about what subversion would look like here, really owes it to themself to watch it. The guy might have been off on the timing, but goddamn if things don't look exactly how he described.
A really solid, intellectual, and persuasive leftwing justice could easily make a habit of picking off Roberts, convincing Kavanaugh to go along with something, etc. We've seen this happen. Kagan DOES try this with Roberts.
You know, there is some merit to this. Thanks for the re-explanation.
On the other hand, I fear that it's not that the three "conservative" justices you mention often need "picking off", but that they often arrive at their activist/non-originalist opinions on their own.
Isn't it amazing how it never seems like anyone the left manages to get seated ends up having more originalist opinions, but that we are often in the situation that the opposite happens?
Affirmative action is actually helping conservatives here. 2/3 of the left bloc, and the two clear affirmative action hires, are just not up to par with the intellectual requirements of the court.
How exactly does that help us at all? Those 2 justices' votes on all the cases that are passing through our Supreme Court still count exactly the same as any of the more intellectual justices.
This doesn't help us at all. The left - as always, in conjunction with the media covering for them - has managed to ram through two hyper partisan, hyper political, hyper activist "dumbasses" (your words). For the next - probably 20 for one, and 30 for the other - years, we are going to be saddled with a guaranteed two votes always being totally inconsistent with the actual Constitution, and instead being 100% based on radical leftist activism.
I know, I've heard her opinions before, it is amazing how she got where she is.
No, it's not. She got there the same way all these sorts of people get where they are. The left does its politicking to boost them to positions of power, and (this is the important part) the media never shines a spotlight on the bullshit going on, and (in a lot of cases) actually covers for them. Look back at the last couple of Supreme Court Justice confirmations, and think about how those played out in the media. Nominees from the right face weeks of negative coverage, in which the left is allowed to grandstand, and basically viscously lie as much as they want. Nominees from the left get glowing reviews, and are allowed to give non-answer after non-answer to any questions senators on the right submit, without so much as a peep from the media.
People really need to start getting this. The media - the control of information, and the narrative - is the #1 fucking problem. Control of the narrative means control of the populace. When one side can pretty much hide (with few exceptions) whatever they want, and make people angry at their opponents whenever they want, our system of government totally breaks down. Do you think people from the left, or people in the middle are ever going to see anything regarding what this post is about? Do you really think any of those people are ever going to hear about how fucking pitiful it is that she put her ignorance of those basic legal terms on display, and how poorly that reflects on the process that allowed her to rise to the highest level of the judiciary?
This is the system in which we exist, and it's the exact system that allows someone like Sotomayor to rise to power, and stay there. For anyone not already firmly on the right, the left gets to decide exactly what people see/hear about Sotomayor. They get to craft exactly what sort of opinion people have about her.
You'll never see anyone outside of Fox run a bad segment about her. You'll never see any newspaper write a bad story about her. Go to Google right now. Just type in Sotomayor, and check the (curated) results you get about her. Look at the overall results, and then click the "news" tab.
That last one is the scariest to me. Google is a monster. Controlling Google, and getting to curate the results that nearly 100% of the populace uses to inform themselves on any given subject, is an unheard of level of control.
People more aligned with the right side, and people who are just unhappy with the current state of the world, really need to start understanding what the real issue is here. Politicians are always going to be slimy, and do things (ethical, and unethical) that align with their side's interests. That is to be expected. The system can survive that. What it can't survive is one side having carte blanche to do whatever it wants, because they control the populace's access to information.
We're just a bit different, then. I don't see being bitter/angry - so long as it's not consuming you entirely - as being a bad thing. Negative emotions can be very good, so long as they are being put to good use - so long as they are being used as the will to action.
What is the alternative here? Apathy? If people do that, it's just going to let those who were responsible for this keep doing what they are doing, and make no mistake - that is absolutely what they are planning on doing, if people let them get away with it.
If people let them get away with this, with just a minor amount of pain, they are just going to see it as a small speed bump. The second the next thing/crisis comes along, they are going to be right back at it, banging the drum, using that thing/crisis to insert their agenda.
They need to be driven out. It needs to be clear to them that, you don't get to do what you have done, and ever be allowed to do it again.
I can sort of get on board with this when we're talking about personal relationships, and stuff of that matter. If that's what we were dealing with, I could completely understand where you were coming from. This, however? Nah. These fucking people used COVID to destroy the economy - to sow unbelievable discord - with the express purpose of geting their side back into political power. The people who did this, and the people that enabled them should never be forgiven.
Seriously. Look at all of the absolutely disgusting tyranny/idiocy that they have enabled over the last 3 years. I challenge everyone to think back: Keeping kids from going to school. Keeping kids from youth sports/graduations - things that are now forever gone to them; they'll never get a chance to get it back. Old people dying alone in hospitals, because family were restricted from seeing them. Costing people their jobs/businesses/livelihoods. Telling people that they couldn't meet with friends and family, but then telling us that rioting for BLM was totally an acceptable/necessary exception. Hyper-tribalizing the entire country to where you had people literally at each other's throats on planes, in the grocery stores (Seriously - people physically attacking others not willing to further participate in their, "HuRrRR! You've got to mask uP!", political purity test). Using it (and their bullshit vaccine mandates) to purge their political enemies from the police/military. You've got states like California enacting laws where doctors can't speak up against the leftist narrative, or they have their license revoked. You got all the tech companies doing their absolute best to ban anyone from speaking up. They totally broke our society's faith in science, vaccines, and medicine, things that are probably going to result in tens of thousands of future deaths. They've caused inflation that has made it so that food is like 30-40% more expensive. Rent is through the roof. They used it to game our elections, and basically broke society's faith in that as well...
Fuck, it has been three long years of this. I can't even remember/make a full list here. This is just some of it.
In short, these motherfucking people used this thing to push all of our country to the very brink. They've nearly broken everything. There is NO fucking way you will ever convince me that they should be forgiven for that. They have dropped the mask. They have shown everyone exactly what they are / what they have always been. They just hid it before, because they thought they couldn't get away with it back then.
They have zero ethics/values/morals. The only thing they care about are their politics, and having the power to force those politics on everyone else.
They need to be removed from ever being in a position where they can hold power over others. Period. Never forget. Never forgive.
It's sort of true, though, right? Anyone that thinks 80 year old Biden that is the one that's been coming up with all the ultra woke radical leftist bs his administration has been pushing has got to be legitimately retarded.
Remember shortly after inauguration, when literally one of the first things done by this administration was that they installed that trans guy (Levine) as the assistant secretary of health? The one that now dresses up as a "Four Star Admiral", complete with a female uniform? Yeah. That's totally an 80 fucking year old guy's agenda... "Hello. Yeah, is this HR department? Well, this is Joe, and I was thinking, now that I'm finally in charge, first thing I want to get done is to make sure we have some d00d who dresses up as a woman in charge of health services. I've been wanting something like that for a long time, and now that I'm finally it charge, let's make it happen."
There is zero fucking way that 80 year old Biden is making half the crazy ass decisions that have come out of this administration. He was simply a vehicle (one that they combined with COVID & the media inciting panic / destroying the economy with it) that they rode into power. The guy simply reads the teleprompter (badly), and signs the shit that they tell him to.
It's this. Whenever I'm on reddit, and I see some random trans post on a totally unrelated sub, there are magically 20+ people in there, all complimenting them on making the post, and downvoting the people asking, "That's nice, but how is this relevant to... scale modeling?"
They absolutely band together, and brigade the places someone makes a post/tweet at.
Honestly, what I'd be most worried about - if I were Musk - would be the leftist apparatus doing the same thing to his "new and improved" Twitter that they have done to every other attempt that has been made to get around the leftist control of social media. If he says he's cutting 75% of the workspace, and all of a sudden there is way less moderation going on, what you are going to see is:
- "Twitter doesn't do enough moderation!"
- "Twitter is absolutely FULL of racism, misogyny, bigotry, etc."
- NYT, WaPost, all the other shitbag leftist propaganda outlets write stories about how Twitter (all of a sudden) is a hotbed of extremism (as if it isn't right now...)!
- Apple/Google suspend Twitter on their respective appstores.
- The hosting/infrastructure sites go after Twitter.
This has been their goto gameplan for every single person/company that has tried to get around their control of narrative via their control of social media. I could easily see them pulling the same shit with Twitter, and turning his 40 bajillion dollar investment into nothing. They would GLEEFULLY do this.
The woman and the child would have both died anyway if the king chose to do nothing. There was no way to kill the child and save the mother in this scenario.
What arest thou talking about? If neigh for the warlock Trumpthalzar, and the powerful golems he erected to enforce his will regarding abortion, and his hatred of women, thy king's wife would still be here, amongst the living. Curse thee, thy foulest Trumpthalzar! Curse thee, and thoust blackest magik!"
It doesn't matter what the law says. It only matters what sort of message, what sort of narrative, the left can set.
The left controls the media. The left controls the schools. The left controls the internet.
They decide what's a story, and how it's covered. They decide what your children hear in school, and how they are taught it. They decide what sorts of results you get when you search for stuff on the internet.
Again - what the law says, what reality is, doesn't fucking matter. What matters is how people are being indoctrinated.
"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than, you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles" - Frank Herbert
Maybe the single greatest quote that describes the shitbag left. These people don't deserve this country. All they ever do is enjoy/exploit our constitution/freedoms when it suits them; and then turn around and toss it all out the window once they've used it to gain power.
The radical left is either going to be dealt with, or it's going to be the end of us. They have no principles/morals. Everything is malleable in the goal of obtaining power, and then using it to force compliance with their politics.
Super Hornets are about ~50M USD a piece. Only aircraft I know that cost anywhere near even 1 billion, was the B-2 (it was something like 800M / unit).
40 billion would buy you a shitload of Super Hornets. Even we only have 600 of them, and that works out to like 30B USD worth. :D
They still will. The only difference will be that, since the guy wasn't white, the media is going to focus solely on the fact that he used an AR-15, and not on the fact that "RacISt whItE maLEs ARe oUr couNTry'S bIGGeSt DAnGeR!".
Well, it is the time of year that sees these viruses spreading (with the cold/moist weather), but yours is another "amazing coincidence".
It's just so fucking hard to believe that all this stuff just magically lined up perfectly to give the left exactly what it needed to grab power.
Straight up.
I'm still on the fence as to whether or not they purposely released this. Irrespective of that, however, even if they didn't, once they realized what they were going to be forced to deal with, they 100% purposely allowed it to spread to the rest of the world.
They knew the havoc this was going to wreak, and they knew the shitbag leftists in the media/various governments were going to use this to take out Trump - the one fucking guy who, despite all his flaws, was the first guy in a long time to be openly opposing them, and their aspirations.
It's just all too big a fucking coincidence to believe it was one. Until COVID came around (and was utilized by the left to absolutely obliterate the economy, make everyone miserable and craving "change!", and introduce unsolicited, universal mail in voting) the democrats didn't stand a chance in hell of winning this election. So, somehow we are supposed to believe that, the exact thing they needed, at the exact time they needed it to happen, happened?
Nah. Fuck that.
This.
I remember reading about something like this - a good while back - happening to a boy playing baseball with his friends, Basically, the ball struck him in the perfect place in the chest, at the perfect time, and his heart stopped. It was so weird, that I've never forgotten about it.
Here - I went and found an article that is probably what I remember.
So, anyhow, I believe there is a lot of weirdness with regards to the vaccine, and injuries being caused by it (I'm not all in on the, "It's a conspiracy to depopulate the world!" stuff, though...), and it could even be a contributing factor here, but the evidence just seems to line up with what this guy said - it just seems like this was one of those perfectly timed impacts to the heart.