Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺

Trump Akbar! ex Army stick leader. Snow skiing, Rugby Union. Be not Afraid. IFB.

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

The thing with stupid people is they never realise how stupid they are.

Stupidity is independent of any other characteristic of that person

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Whether you are a Tom Cruise fan or not, he demonstrates pure gentlemanly instinct as he casually escorts Kate Middleton down the steps.

Take note gentlemen!

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@IMPERATORAUS And those that were left were wiped in WW2

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@grok @RositaDaz48 Agreed, but i trust elon a lot more than ofers

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@uncleri61605134 @Ryandally08 Use @grok not google

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@CroweDM Maybe ask why @elonmusk was suing Scam?

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@daisymay4263 $60,000,000

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@TRHLofficial Would republicans seriously not vote in midterms handing house etc to democrats? Are they that mad at trump or dumb?

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@SenatorWong You shut down our oil industry.

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@tanpukunokami An armed society is a polite society.

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@Lisa9Sophia Scam Altman

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@DrMarkImisides @JayJay91341991 They cant stand dark people who wander out of the lefty hive mind reservation

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

Solzhenitsyn said "live not by lies."

And here we are.

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@vonderleyen @eucopresident @AlboMP remember when the old white guy made you eat smoke?

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@SincDavidson

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@SincDavidson

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@ThePosieParker I blame @elonmusk

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Barack Obama – The Most Complete Product of the Long March – The Community Organizer Who Became President.

He is not the villain of this story either. He is its most gifted protagonist.

The son of a Kenyan economist and a Kansas anthropologist, raised partly in Indonesia and partly in Hawaii; community organizer in Chicago; president of the Harvard Law Review; Illinois state senator; U.S. senator; President of the United States at 47.

The American story working exactly as advertised – and simultaneously the most complete illustration of the Gramscian pipeline ever produced.
Not a contradiction.
The same thing.

1. He studied and taught the Alinsky method. Not metaphorically – literally.
In Chicago in the 1980s, Obama worked as a community organizer in an environment deeply shaped by Saul Alinsky’s organizing tradition. He taught workshops on the Alinsky method and learned the mechanics of organizing: identify interests, build relationships, develop leaders, acquire power, and use organization to turn local grievances into political force. He knew the manual. He taught the manual. He then applied it at national scale – which is either the most remarkable career progression in American political history or the most complete proof of concept the Long March ever produced. Probably both.

2. The rhetorical genius was real.
"Yes We Can." "Hope and Change." "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
The ability to speak the language of unity while practicing the politics of organization – Alinsky’s politics of conflict and organization wrapped in the aesthetics of reconciliation. The form was post-partisan. The content was the most disciplined ideological project since Reagan – except Reagan was trying to dismantle the administrative state and Obama was building it. The speeches made you feel the argument was over. The argument was just beginning.

3. The Nobel Prize, awarded eight months into his first term – for nothing yet done – is the most complete illustration of cultural hegemony in modern political history. The performance of the correct identity, the correct values, and the correct aesthetic was sufficient, before any policy, to generate the highest international recognition available. The prize was not for what he had done. It was for what he represented. Which is precisely the point – and precisely what Gramsci had theorized seventy years earlier.

4. The institutional transformation was the substance beneath the aesthetics. Eight years produced the expansion of the administrative state into every corner of American life, the installation of a generation of ideologically aligned officials throughout the federal bureaucracy, the transformation of the regulatory apparatus, the use of executive action to achieve what legislation could not. The ratchet, applied at presidential scale. A subsequent administration could change the direction but not undo the installation – because the people installed remained, in the civil service, the judiciary, the regulatory agencies, doing what they had been placed there to do.

5. He understood, better than any politician since Reagan, that politics is culture before it is policy. The campaign was a cultural event – the logo, the fonts, the rallies, the language, the sense that something larger than politics was happening. He didn’t win because of policy positions. He won because he had changed what felt possible – and what felt possible changed what people were willing to vote for. This is Gramsci applied to electoral politics: shift the cultural assumptions first, and the political victories follow as confirmation rather than cause.

6. The luxury beliefs were structural. Harvard Law. University of Chicago. Net worth approximately seventy million dollars after leaving office. Homes in Washington, Martha’s Vineyard, and Hawaii. The man of the people who became the establishment – whose policies on immigration, criminal justice, and education were most costly for the working-class communities he had organized in Chicago. And then there is the habit of describing yourself as the challenger long after you have become the establishment. The outsider rhetoric maintained from the most powerful office in the world. It is not hypocrisy exactly – it is the organizer’s grammar surviving the organizer’s promotion. The language was learned in Chicago in the 1980s and never updated, because it still worked, and because the audience it worked on never noticed the distance between the speech and the address.

7. The honest assessment: he was extraordinarily good at what he did. The question is what he did. He took the Alinsky manual, the Gramscian strategy, the Frankfurt School’s cultural framework, and synthesized them into the most electorally successful progressive project in American history. He didn’t design the long march. He was its most gifted product – and its most effective accelerant. The institutions he found captured, he left more captured. The Overton Window he found shifted, he left shifted further.

What he built – or rather, what he accelerated and consolidated – did not depend on him personally. The officials installed remain. The regulatory architecture expanded. The cultural assumptions shifted. The pipeline filled with people who wanted to be him and learned, from watching him, exactly how it was done.

The most complete product of the long march became its most effective teacher.

[Warlord Emeritus 🇦🇺 @woolfe]

@SZamparutti OK, not mentioned on X profile. She blocked me ages ago which confirms abc mindset!