@marshalldukat@L0m3z@AnonPresby No, I don't think we do. The chief enemy is the demented communist network masquerading as an 18th century constitutional republic. Anyone who aids and abets this thing is also an enemy. Friends are those who feel any right to rule, or at least deny the enemy's right.
@marshalldukat@L0m3z@AnonPresby Well the first step is to stop collaborating in gay government theater. After that, there needs to be someone, anyone, willing and able to accept FedGov's surrender. I will only vote for that person/faction.
@marshalldukat@L0m3z@AnonPresby We're not governed by Walmart. We're governed by the Congress, which passes huge omnibus bills nobody reads which are filled with terrible public policy crafted by unaccountable non-state actors. Some deportations and GWOT 2.0 don't solve that.
@marshalldukat@L0m3z@AnonPresby As opposed to the more realistic prospect of forcing FedGov to reverse 80+ years of mendacious policy by... what? Electing Republicans who say based things on X? Making NPR hire rw anons?
@marshalldukat@L0m3z@AnonPresby On our present trajectory, what will the difference be between Detroit and a failed state in a generation or two? What's the difference now? At what point can we say the government in Washington is beyond reform and needs to replaced?
"Effective institutionalist" will only ever mean a professional compromiser, a man of the system, a patsy, a PR rep, yet another slick actor headed to Washington to "shake things up." Basically, it means more of the same.
@AnonPresby@marshalldukat Yes but the question is what posture do you now take to achieve those things: insurgent outsider or as an effective institutionalist
@L0m3z@AnonPresby@marshalldukat Nihilist Prince of Destruction. Virtually none of FedGov is worth preserving - why collaborate? Wreck it and build something else. It hardly matters what.
@L0m3z@AnonPresby@marshalldukat Nihilist Prince of Destruction. Virtually none of FedGov is worth preserving - why collaborate? Wreck it and build something else. It hardly matters what.
Ross is an exceptionally good interviewer so this makes a lot of sense. Does TV matter anymore? Probably not in the long term, but there is still plenty of juice to squeeze out of the boomers.
Also, this is a very very good development for Vance '28.
@KaiserLoengramm It costs them virtually nothing to say this stuff while FedGov weathers the storm and largely carries out business as usual. What is the optimum goal of this administration by '28?