@FreeNortherner@VDAREJamesK Closer to honest. More accurate is “Affirmative action is tolerable when it ruins the lives of Southerners who Not Me, but now it is ruining my life, and that is intolerable”
Me at 20: "we cannot have a death sentence because the government makes mistakes"
Me at 40: "we have to execute criminals immediately so the next left-wing government can't release them when they get into power"
The only reason you work against your own side is that you are pissed that you aren't in charge.
If the midterms is a Trump trifecta, then all other sides of the GOP are proven useless. There is no reason to change what works.
Brazil literally had this exact same thing play out.
A bunch of right-wingers are/were running against Bolsonaro, and were siphoning votes in the hopes Lula would win.
If Lula won, then the nation would get EVEN worse and then THEIR respective branch of the right wing would rise up.
Every single right wing faction who wanted Harris to win, thinks that THEIR branch would have swept in 2028.
Super Religious Abortion Single Issue Voters? That was their plan.
Groypers? That was their plan.
Libertarians? That was their plan.
Neocons? That was their plan.
Literally all of them are like this.
in case youre wondering how screen-free zero violent media “basically only reading old books” parenting is going today my 2.5 year old girl got mad and threatened to put her brother “in the road” where he would get hit “by a semitruck”, a concept she apparently originated herself
I often write about the difference between gut and head issues. Affordability isn’t a gut issue today, it’s a head issue. Fraud is a gut issue, and the GOP should be much, much more focused on it. People are furious.
I get asked why some people seem to be so bitter about the Texas primary result. It's ok to be upset your guy didn't win. We have all lost battles. But you don't surrender the war because of it. This election is binary. Choose to live to fight another day or empower communists.
@unseen1_unseen I am getting the feeling that the prosecutions of election fraud, though few and far between, are having a chilling effect on democrat fraud.
What American wants to chance going to jail so the democrats get a few more votes?
Ok, here’s a story about the Great Asian Grindset Debate.
A couple years ago we put our kid in a piano school run by a Korean woman living in France.
There’s a recital at the end of the year where all of the kids play; half Asian, which is very unusual for France, half White.
The Asian kids were all excellent. They were all an 8 or a 9.
The White kids were all over the place. There were 1s. There were 2s. There were 3s. There were also 10s.
The Asian kids all played, sorry but it’s true, somewhat robotically (which is no shame for a kid!).
The best White kids played with that extra dimension of soul and emotion that made them touch greatness.
The Asian kids were *all* 8 or 9. The White kids were all over the place from 1 to 10.
At the end the lady who runs the school gave a little speech, which was full of nice things, but had as a big throughline chiding the parents of the White kids for not making their kids practice more. At the end, she made a joke: "Remember, make your kids work, because no matter how hard they work, there’s an Asian kid next door who’s working twice as hard." We all laughed, myself included.
Do I think that the culture that produced those 8-9 kids is healthy, or one that I would like to see dominant in my country? Hell no.
Do I also wish that the White kids who were below an 8 had worked, say, at least 10% harder? Some 50% harder? Hell yes.
I think “more communication” is clearly a psychological net negative. It shouldn’t be possible to be contacted when you’re out for a walk in the woods. It shouldn’t be possible to apply for a job or an apartment 1000 miles away. It shouldn’t be possible to argue with somebody you’ve never met about the mayoral race in a town you’ve never been to.
It’s not like we’re going to put this technology back in the bag. I’m just saying that it’s bad for us. It’s deranging and demoralizing and it makes us unhappy, even if it helps you rationalize abandoning your family because you can still call your mom once a month.
To the forgotten young men of Texas and America, you are forgotten no longer. The winds are changing in the Republican Party and I’m fighting to restore your birthright. Vote and get involved in your local party. I will fight like hell to restore the vision of America taken from you by Communists and their establishment R enablers.
https://t.co/Iz2kRI04dT
French RW Twitter hates Marine because instead of talking like an edgelord she wants to win.
Under the French system, a Presidential candidate must get 51% of the direct vote of the electorate--a system under which Trump would be remembered as the guy who humiliatingly lost to Hillary and whose ideas the GOP should run away from, a system under which Farage could never hope to be Prime Minister of the YooKay, etc.
She took a party that had two members of parliament when she became president to the biggest parliamentary group in the National Assembly, in the face of omnidemonization by French cultural elites that makes the New York Times look fair and balanced (I am not exaggerating) and, as we've recently seen, banana republic judicial harassment. She runs her party with military efficiency, she's staffed it with super high human capital zoomers behind the scenes, she's highly intelligent and cultured. I believe she has balls of steel, and I believe she understands that if she doesn't deliver on immigration and law and order, not only will her legacy be destroyed, but probably the country will implode.
Predictions about the future are hard, these are only my personal views, but I have become a huge huge Marine respector over the past few years. I think she's going to be a French Bukele.
Amazing.
These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets: