established202

I recognize patterns

[White Mountain Supremacist @FreeRangeWhites]

Democrats elected this freak for being transgender.

Republicans put him in prison for being a pedophile rapist.

[established202 @established202]

@EndWokeness Game plan: add no value, make everything worse, where you are

Signed,

The blacks

[established202 @established202]

Wow. Our government no longer serves us the people.

[established202 @established202]

@NBCNews @kylamb8 Fuck yeah

[established202 @established202]

Being a fan of Khalil Gibran, I had to know see below

**Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) uses “Khalil Gibran pop platitude” as a dismissive, pejorative description of Barack Obama’s style of moralizing lectures.**

### Context from the post

In the X post you linked, VDH criticizes Obama for lecturing audiences at the dedication of his $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Obama reportedly urged people to “resist the allure of money, attention, [and] fame.”

VDH calls this (and similar Obama sermons on “purported sins”) a classic example of Obama projecting his own behavior onto others while seeking a kind of moral absolution. He contrasts it with the plain-speaking, frugal post-presidency of Harry Truman. The full relevant line is:

> “As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins—with **Khalil Gibran pop platitudes**—he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.”

VDH highlights the hypocrisy: Obama owns multiple multimillion-dollar homes, made millions from book deals, Netflix, and high-paid speaking gigs (often $400k+), and jets around lecturing others.

### What “Khalil Gibran pop platitude” means

**Khalil Gibran** (more commonly spelled **Kahlil Gibran**, 1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American writer and artist best known for his 1923 book *The Prophet*.

- It’s a short work of poetic prose in which a prophet figure gives lyrical, aphoristic advice on big life topics: love, marriage, children, work, giving, joy, sorrow, death, etc.
- Famous examples include lines like “Your children are not your children…” or “Let there be spaces in your togetherness…”
- The book has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and remains hugely popular in self-help, New Age, wedding readings, and motivational circles. Its style is flowery, mystical, vaguely spiritual, and rhythmic—easy to quote and sound “deep.”

Critics (and VDH here) often view this style as producing **platitudes**: pretty-sounding, inspirational-sounding statements that feel profound on the surface but are actually vague, clichéd, or lacking real substance or specificity. They’re the kind of thing that sounds wise in a greeting card or Instagram post but doesn’t hold up under scrutiny or real-world application.

**“Pop platitude”** adds the layer of *popularized/commercialized* version—mass-market, feel-good, pseudo-profound wisdom that’s been stripped of any real rigor or context. Think self-help book quotes or TED Talk-style moralizing rather than serious philosophy, history, or plain talk.

### Why VDH uses the term this way

VDH is a historian and conservative commentator who values direct, substantive, often blunt language (he frequently praises “plain-speaking” figures like Truman). He sees Obama’s lectures as:

- **Hypocritical** — preaching restraint on wealth/fame while personally chasing them aggressively.
- **Performative and insincere** — using lofty, poetic-sounding moralizing to virtue-signal and deflect from his own record/actions.
- **Shallow** — more about sounding wise and inspirational than offering concrete, honest guidance.

In short, VDH is saying Obama’s advice isn’t serious moral philosophy or candid talk—it’s empty, flowery, clichéd inspirational fluff in the popular Gibran style. It lets Obama lecture others from a position of wealth and fame while pretending moral superiority.

This fits VDH’s broader rhetorical style: precise, historically grounded, and often cutting when targeting what he sees as elite hypocrisy or pretension.

[Sir Canem VI 🌲 @Moesawyrd]

When your police take a young girl who was raped by pakistani immigrants and return her not to her parents, but to the pakistani immigrants and tell them to 'have fun with her,' your entire system has to burn. Mass executions, pogroms.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

This man's daughter had been kidnapped and was being abused by a Pakistani rape gang

He tried to rescue her from the property she was being held at

British Police arrived and arrested HIM for trying to save his daughter

[established202 @established202]

wtf

[Blonde Bigot @BlondeBigot11]

Every single Muslim needs to be removed from every western country
Every. Single. One.
No exceptions.
Women and children included.

[established202 @established202]

@MarkAVargas Money for nothing

Chicks for free …

[Jennifer Van Laar @jenvanlaar]

Mortgage calculator for the new Marin home - without property tax payments. $42,159/month

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Some cultures are better than others

[established202 @established202]

The crime of all

Time

There must be prosecutions to the fullest or there is no justice

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

Parts of the US government commited mass bioterrorism and have spent the past 6 years trying to cover that up.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

[established202 @established202]

Here’s the thing with Tim Dillan and what he’s talking about

He is absolutely 100% correct

And if you don’t believe it

You’re just behind the times

Yes, this is what it has come to

Enjoy the new world!

I damn sure am!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Tim Dillon had a brutally funny take on Gen Z’s approach to work.

He says a lot of them have figured out the whole system feels like a scam, so they’re treating it like one. Fake mental health days, quiet quitting, weaponizing HR language, doing the bare minimum while demanding maximum accommodation.

And Tim’s reaction? “I’m for it.” They’re just using the playbook society handed them.

This is what happens when trust in institutions and old-school work ethic collapses. People stop playing the game seriously and start playing the system instead.

Do you think Gen Z is smart for gaming a broken system, or is this approach ultimately making things worse?

[established202 @established202]

Same.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

[established202 @established202]

@SmartassYinzer It’s always the blacks

[fOx @fOx1257067]

Released in 1975, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was an animated television special directed by legendary animator Chuck Jones and based on the classic story by Rudyard Kipling.

The story follows a brave mongoose who takes on two deadly cobras to protect the family that rescued him. For a generation of kids, it was one of those rare animated films that felt genuinely intense. The stakes were real, the villains were terrifying, and you couldn't help but root for Rikki-Tikki every step of the way.

More than 50 years later, it's still remembered as one of the finest animated adaptations ever put on television.

Did you watch Rikki-Tikki-Tavi growing up?

[established202 @established202]

@NatureUnedited Democrat, clearly

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

I'm starting to think that you NEED to be psycho to work for the CIA. Remember the story of the CIA officer who was arrested after federal agents found over 300 gold bars, $2 million in cash, and over 30 luxury watches hidden in his home? Well, somehow it just got crazier.

Apparently, this guy also set up HIS OWN Special Access Program within the government. How do you do that without all kinds of help from the inside?

Oh, and he reported to the NUMBER 2 Pentagon official. So I don't think it's a coincidence that he is one of the few CIA officers ever publicly charged with a crime. It sure looks like they want you to know this and they want him to take the entire fall. When people talk about the deep state, THIS should be a prime example.