Walker88

Yo, Mr Dealmaker, let's make a deal! We'll trade you---Central America---a million obese, binge-watching, SSDI-collecting MAGAs for a million of your folks willing to work hard and better their lives. Heck, our new leader knew the value of undocumented workers, as he employed dozens at both his Florida wedding planning facility and his Bedminster Golf Club.

Come on, fella. MAGAs need work, too. Far too many of them are parasites, living off of SSDI. Red States lead in that. For a migrant, strawberry picking is a stepping stone to a better career, but for a MAGA, it’s the pinnacle of their working life. You can probably tell by now that MAGAs are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Heck, they got fooled by a conman clown who claims to be “self-made”, despite having been gifted more than half a billion dollars by his actually successful dad.

You don't understand MAGA "Family Values". Consider the former buyout artist Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap. He bought productive, ongoing concerns and sold them off in parts. That's the Homan Plan. Take whole families and sell them off in parts. You expect a higher morality to come under the auspices of a serial philanderer and convicted business and charity cheat?

Personally, after seeing another of his "Executive Orders" yesterday, I'm glad we finally know beating and bear spraying cops, plus threatening to hang the Vice President, is not a crime. Lots of defense lawyers will be using that to convince juries of the innocence of their defendants.

"There are only two genders." Okay, which one is that bulbous thing? With all that makeup, he makes the Kardashians jealous.

He read the teleprompter incorrectly. He meant to say: "The Golden Sneaker Age begins right now. See www.griftinglosers.com for how to order your pair."

What a miserable and useless life you must lead! You support violence and the pardoning of terrorists who beat and bear sprayed 140 cops, <deleted> on the floor of the Capitol and wiped it on the walls, set up a gallows to hang the Vice President, and tried to overthrow the elected government. Perhaps karma will pay you a visit.

I hope he deports that former softcore porn model who lied on her Einstein Visa application and then used chain migration to get her parents into the US.

Nonsense. Maybe there was a time when "they didn't talk about it", but those days are long gone. Now they talk, write books, appear on TV offering analysis, etc. They are trained, but not supermen. They aren't even as special as they think they are. Also, there haven't been many special missions in the last few decades. Plenty in movies and books, but few in reality. Lots of training, but little actual action. Yes, most of the clowns in Patts and BKK are lying. They likely never served, much less in any special ops group. That being said, we had a joke in the agency that went like this: "How do you know a guy is a SEAL?" Answer: "He tells you." SEALS and SAS do fancy ops with lots of support and commo and everything. The real tough guys are the agency SAC Ground Branch. Most of their ops are done alone, with no backup....just a guy, maybe with a weapon and definitely a wad of cash. The first guys into both Iraq and Afghanistan were not SEALS; they were agency Ground Branch, gathering intel, meeting assets, calling in air strikes. Even agency ops officers, when working in hostile environments, are operating as lone wolves...no backup and mostly just their wits and street skills, when going at terrorists or other bad guys. SEALS and SAS guys would make terrible spooks, and spooks would make terrible special ops guys. The mentality of one is the polar opposite of the other. Soldiers follow orders and are disciplined and team players; spooks are anti-authority loners whose talent is the ability to manipulate, to think on one's feet, and having the general view that life is just one grand game. In the current vernacular, SEALS/SAS are Alpha Males; spooks are Sigma Males. The original head of the OSS (Wild Bill Donovan), which became the agency, sought highly intelligent and educated elite folks, who had a cavalier attitude and an odd sense of invincibility, which gave them a false courage. Most of the originals were Ivy Leaguers. As for ex-agency spooks in Thailand, there are only two former ops officers, and I know the other one. Neither of us is going to mention it to anyone in person, though that is less for classification reasons and more for the fact there are some bad guys in Thailand. Plus, nobody cares. so no need to mention it. Nothing to gain. By the way, a certain Bangkok hotel used to be al Qaeda Central, and let's not forget Hambali was caught in Ayutthaya. Might as well remain anonymous so long as jihadis walk freely. I once had a guy, a kind of fat Norwegian, saddle up to me in a bar and tell me he was some special ops guy who had been "following me for a long time" and was now there to arrest me. Obviously he was BS-ing. I looked at him and said, "If you're telling the truth, then you know who I am and what my skills are, and you should be worried I will rip your throat out right here." He stood up and left. I have had one or two others over the years "open up" to me they were agency or something similar, having no clue that they had picked the wrong guy to BS.

Maybe you should ask 47's buddies like Mnuchin and other oligarchs who gobbled up houses and raised rents.

Americans are arithmatic and financial morons, so take any individual's claims of inflation with a grain of salt. They see one price rise and extrapolate that one price over the entire economy, oblivious as to what inflation actually means. They also think inflation starts in a second, rather than being a result of factors happening months or even years before. Inflation is based on a basket of goods and services it is assumed the average consumer buys. Price rises and falls are matched against the weight any one good or service has in the overall inde. These are then weighted and averaged out, and a number results. The government has a basket it uses, but private sector companies construct their own basket and come up with a number. These numbers tend to be close to each other. Inflation peaked in the last 4 years at about 9.5%, and is currently running about 2.5% +/- .2% It was never close to 20%. That is nonsense. As for its cause, numerous factors contributed. The tax cut and funds handed out during Covid were a good portion of it, as 45 ran up $8,400,000,000,000 of new debt in his first term. Since the nominal GDP change was $trillions less than his new debt, that means printed money was chasing goods and services, and even the meager growth was totally debt fueled. Boom! Inflation. His debt equates to $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the US, so it is hardly any wonder that would lead to inflation. Biden also doled out funds during Covid, so he shares some of the blame. Other contributors were the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as that resulted in sharp rises in first oil, and then fetiliizer, which impacted agricultural prices. Bacon was hurt by an outbreak in the EU of Swine Flu, which is hardly Biden's fault. Americans are stupid enough to blame Biden for inflation, but they will soon learn their chosen one has absolutely no clue how to bring any price down.

Okay, Mr Truck Driver, enlighten us with all of your legal knowledge and tell us what crimes Gen Milley, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, etc. committed. Should be fun to hear your explanation.

Some of the usual MAGA fanboys are as giggly as schoolgirls today, but to quote a line from the movie The Departed, “It doesn’t make your dick any bigger”. You’re all the same guys you were yesterday…..no more successful, no more handsome, no more likely to move up to elite level, no better in any way. You'll just have to salve your egos by pretending YOU are "owning the Libs". Embrace your delusions!

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The guy claimed during his first term he nixed the security clearances of some of those people, but in reality he never did, because nobody knew how to do it. I know some of those folks, and their clearances remain active. Also, many of those people were not read in to the laptop issue, so any comment they made was merely an opinion, not a claim of fact. The Snowflake is ipset at opinions, just as he is upset when people do their job. If he would be consistent, he would remove the clearances of anyone who questioned his 2016 Campaign's cooperation with Russia, as that was a reality (just Google Manafort and Kilimnik, for starters). People in positions of authority had to follow up on that intel; it would have been a dereliction of duty to ignore it. Even SC Durham gave those who did their job a clean bill of health. It is somewhat ironic that the man in charge of SSCI when it issued its final report on the Russia issue, which noted all of the evidence and concluded there was willing cooperation between 45's campaign and Russia, has been nominated for Secretary of State.

Better to look at the big picture, rather than focus on the façade. The names change, but the concept is always the same: the masses are left behind, they want more than their skills and talents can give them in open competition, they become aggrieved, and then someone steps in with an easy answer that pacifies the masses for a time. Then rinse and repeat. This move to the right has nothing to do with “woke” nor does it have anything to do with the discredited ideologies of Socialism and Marxism. Capitalism has been the recent driving force in every country from the US to China, but the problem is not everyone can win. A country like the US can (theoretically) make everyone equal under the law, but it cannot make everyone equal in terms of the ability to succeed and prosper. Skills and talents are not handed out evenly by the impish Universe. Never were, never will be. All societies have winners and losers. In the last 100 years or so, many societies have found ways to carry their less gifted citizens. This was achieved through a combination of social programs, wider access to debt, and government spending that improved basic conditions, so that even the poor could live a reasonably comfortable life. All such programs are a form of Socialism, but most countries limited it to things viewed as basic human necessities, while Capitalism and free enterprise drove the rest of the economy. The period where a rising tide lifts all boats is coming to an end. Labor is being obviated. Those with marketable skills and talents have seen more wealth fall into their hands, as well as the control of more of society’s assets, both physical and financial. Qini coefficients are rising everywhere; the rich are getting richer, while their control over assets is making it more difficult for low wage earners to live comfortably. There is no easy solution to this problem, especially since technology is exacerbating it. Those who “have” can get more pretty easily, while those who don’t have cannot catch up. Those being left behind at this juncture, where Darwinian Capitalism and competition hold sway, are tending now toward what they call ‘conservative’ ideologies. The term ‘conservative’ is a euphemism for racism and misogyny. Rather than face the reality of their own Darwinian weakness, they demand entitlement. They don’t want to have to compete with people who don’t look like them, because they need to feel themselves inherently superior. They want a world where they are automatically put at the front of the line, bypassing other ethnicities. Their masculinity is challenged because they see skilled and talented women outperforming them. One result of this emasculation is they demand to control women, such as telling women what women can do with their own bodies They want to restrict others’ freedom. They disparage women who are not susceptible to their ‘charms’, which is to say they can’t ‘get any’. The Incel movement is a visible result of this, as is the trend toward seeking what they think are compliant women in less developed countries. Those left behind, because neither their skills nor charms arm them for success in either careers or relationships, are absolutely susceptible to slogans like “Make America great again”. They cannot define what that greatness might be, other than a time when they would have been entitled by their ethnicity or gender. The concept of “freedom” to these folks means entitlement for them and restrictions on others. As for “greatness”, that means when women were kept ‘barefoot and pregnant’ and certain ethnicities became ‘strange fruit’ or at least sat at the back of the bus. Into this step opportunists and charlatans, people who promise the moon and tell society’s losers nothing is their fault. When necessary or useful, “outsiders” are identified as the source of the problem. This resonates, since most people are incapable of accepting personal responsibility, nor are most able to accept the fact they lost the Birth Lottery, and that there are people much smarter and more able to navigate the world and succeed. Heaven forbid those better performers are female or of another ethnicity. The charlatans need not be logical. Neither do they need to be truthful. Lies are cheap and can spread quickly. The aggrieved in society will grab anything that allows them a chance to express more outrage and anger, which is the outlet for their fears of failure and falling behind. Notice how so many get apoplectic about what they call “woke”, which is an attribute driven by a vocal, but ultimately quite small part of the populace. The masses don’t really care if somebody insists on a new pronoun; they are angry at frustrated about their own failures, but project that onto others and onto totally unrelated things. Each outrage draws the forlorn closer to the charlatans who are manipulating them, and then the opportunists and charlatans feed it even more (usually with lies and hyperbole, such as “They’re eating the pets!”). Since these charlatans are totally self-serving, they portray themselves as strongmen who can make everything “great” again, despite having no clue how to do that, even if they wanted to (which they don’t). They merely want power, and will tell the populace whatever people want or need to hear, just so the wannabe autocrat can gain power. People are easy to fool and manipulate, especially if they are fearful and aggrieved. Tell people what they want to hear, and one can become their champion. Of course, the joke is on those who see a hero in someone who is a self-serving fraud, because if the fraud is successful and takes power, he will do nothing to benefit the masses whom he has fooled. He couldn’t care less about those who supported him, as all he needed (in a democracy) was their vote. This trend will continue for a while, with more nations moving to the right. Soon, however, even the clueless will see all that has happened is that wealth and power have become even more concentrated in the hands of the elite, and none of the promises made by their hero come to pass, or at least result in any benefit to the masses. Eventually the pendulum swings too far, and sentiments do a flip flop. Those who still can’t make it eventually get attracted by the kind of mandated equality that goes by the name of Socialism or Communism (but is nothing of the sort). It’s really just another side of the same coin, this flip flop. The losers just choose a different path in the hopes of finding some sort of success. Communism became “attractive” when wealth and power became too concentrated in a limited number of hands. The former heroes get the Tsar treatment or Mussolini’d or Qaddafi’d or even Ceaucescu’d. Then a new ideology takes hold, which will also be abused by those in charge, and it will eventually fail. The bottom line is that Darwin is always in charge. An elite will always rule, whatever the supposed underlying ideology might be. The elite become king of the mountain until somebody can knock them off. The strong find a way both to rule and appeal to the masses, whether the structure is monarchism, tribalism, fascism, capitalism, socialism, communism or nihilism. Today, the trend is toward fascism. This, too, shall pass. The masses eventually will embrace another ideology, and the Darwinian elite will manipulate whatever that next ideology is for their own ends. Plus ca change.

Today? Why celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course. Apparently there's a gaggle of snowflakes who will avoid a little cold weather and go inside, where they will swear on a book they've never read and claim an oath to a document they hate, all while laughing at the goobers they fooled.

The so-called "woke progressives" are a small fringe element of the liberal side of ideology. The OP usually demonstrates his lack of knowledge by adding in "Marxist/Socialist", which just tells me those of his ilk lack what it takes to make it in the modern tech world, and have been left behind in the Biden-Harris economic boom. The guy clearly has no clue what those words mean, as Capitalism has been the hallmark of the Biden years, with the growth and prosperity to prove it. In contrast, the fascist right is ubiquitous on that side of the ideological spectrum. They are also snowflakes, whining incessantly about "witch hunts" and "UNFAIR!!!!" and "Fake News" and other words and phrases they get from their bloated childish messiah. They seem to miss the actual fake news, such as Fox and Dominion Voting Systems, or "stolen election" or "best economy ever" (when even before Covid 45's economy was in the bottom 30% of all economies in the US since the end of WWII). They're also deathly afraid of young Central American women who drag their kids and walk 800 miles in the hope of finding economic freedom and freedom from gang violence. If such women are "all rapists and murderers" (ironically stated by a guy convicted civilly of sexual assault and who the judge in that trial said was likely guilty of rape), the MAGAs should hope these women do give them a little nooky, as otherwise the MAGAs are Incels. By the way, proper immigration is a major plus for the US; the Lankford Bill would have solved many problems, but 45 needed an issue, so he told his lapdog Speaker to squelch that Republican Bill. The good news is after Monday, MAGAs will have a plethora of strawberry and lettuce picking jobs, plus janitorial work---even truck driver jobs if the deportation also includes illegal Sikhs---available to them, so they can finally get off SSDI, the major "employer" of Red States like KY, TN and WV. Here is an inconvenient truth of time under Biden-Harris: the best GDP growth since the late 1990s, highest # of jobs created ever under any POTUS, actual infrastructure repairs, instead of endless talk and false promises, three times the growth of the average G7 nation since 2020, longest period of sub 4% unemployment in 64 years, inflation brought down faster than any other nation (the world suffered high inflation since the end of Covid), lower prescription drug prices, with power taken from Big Pharma, lower violent crime rates than under 45....the list goes on. I understand that those who lack the skills and talents to succeed in the modern economy have been left behind. That is not Biden's fault, though MAGAs are incapable of accepting personal responsibility, weaklings that they are. And yes, ignorance also played a role in Harris' loss, since the oft-told lie resonates (47 is a true pro at lies, mendacity being one of his key qualities, along with being a crybaby.) Well, a plurality took the election, which is still democracy. Of course elections have consequences, and the MAGAs are going to learn that the hard way, because if they failed to grow their net worth during the Biden Boom, they are only going to suffer more when every policy will be geared toward existing billionaires. Sorry, but 47 got all he needed from his cult---their votes---and he doesn't need folks he calls "losers" anymore.

You mean like these guys, who---along with their messiah---refused to accept the "will of the people" in 2020?

I think like his SpaceX rocket breaking up and falling on the Turks and Caicos Islands is a fitting metaphor for what is likely to happen to President Musk. I don't know what ails him mentally, though obviously something does, as he is becoming more bizarre by the day. Immense wealth might do that, or it could be he knows he is getting credit for ideas that were merely ideas: the heavy lifting has been done by brilliant engineers he has hired. The guy is taking advantage of false perceptions (Elon did not invent the 'chopsticks' that catch rocket boosters nor even write the code that lets cars drives themselves with the beta version sometimes taking the car and its passengers through red lights). He has decided that since many people think Elon knows everything about everything, he has to offer his opinions on everything from Covid to slashing government waste, and everyone should believe what he says. I don't remember anybody ever asking Albert Einstein for his view on post-modern art or transgender people. Elon should stay in his lane, but he wanders more than a Tesla on the beta version of self-drive. What will contribute to Elon's tumble won't just be his apparent emotional decline, but the fact he is taking too much of the stage from someone more emotionally weak than even Elon....the incoming US President. So threatened is POTUS 47 that he has had to note on several occasions that Elon is NOT the President. Maybe the first target of 47's barking little chihuahua at FBI (Kash Patel) will not be Liz Cheney nor Adam Schiff nor Jimmy Kimmel, but instead Elon Musk.

A blizzard is coming to DC on Monday in the form of the World's Largest Snowflake, a Beta Man so weak he rage Tweets at 01:30am about a late night talk show host. This is what he Truth Social'd the other night against a host named Seth Meyers: “How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC, a ‘network’ run by a truly bad group of people. I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast. These are not shows or entertainment, they are simply political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Party. Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!” This guy is going to be in charge of ~8000 nuclear weapons and preside over a $35,000,000,000,000 economy, yet what occupies his addled and Adderall'd brain just days before he pretends to be assumes the role of Commander-in-Chief is a talk show host. And so delicate is the guy, despite his more than ample layer of insulating blubber, he has ordered his Inauguration indoors, as the forecast is for a temperature of 28 degrees F (-2C) with the wind chill 12 F (-11 C). Apparently he fears doing an impersonation of William Henry Harrison. It should be noted that a real man, a Hawaiian-born man named Barack Obama, held his 2009 Inauguration in biting cold that came in at 10 F (-12 C). I attended that Inauguration, and the record crowd stretched from the Capitol all the way across the National Mall to the Lincoln Memorial, a distance of more than 2 miles (3.4 km). Yes, it's going to be tough for the guy to claim "biggest crowd ever", as he lied in 2017, when he gets sworn in in the building where he sent his goobers to beat law enforcement officers and to defecate on the floor and rub their excrement on the walls, back on 6 January 2021. Also, I doubt this time there will be gallows erected on the Capitol lawn, nor will there be folks chanting to hang the VP. Of course he will make a worse stench than those terrorists did 4 years ago. The sycophantic cult members he actually thinks are "losers" (but he needed their votes, so he promised pie-in-the-sky and "owning the Libs"), will not be invited in to witness the proceedings. Those spots inside are reserved for the world's Right Wingers and for billionaires like Elon Muck, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Ken Griffin. The incoming Chief only plays a "man of the people" on TV, but it's good enough to fool the forlorn of society.

And Attila the Hun was a woke progressive.

I agree. I find intelligent women quite sexy, which means I would never be attracted to a MAGA-ette. There is zero intersection in the Venn diagrams of "Intelligent women" vs "MAGA-ettes". It's the empty set. Besides, they tend to be obese, like their messiah, and fat shows total lack of discipline and self control. Also, I instantly ignore anyone who uses the phrase "do your own research". Invariably that means conspiracy theorist and whackadoodle moonbat. As for Jeebus freaks, so long as they let me sing the praises of Zeus, I can tolerate them....sort of. If they can be atheist in terms of Zeus, I can be atheist in terms of their superstition. OP made a wise choice.

Let's see....US DoD....$840,000,000,000 yearly budget, 3,000,000 employees Qualified? Hegseth ran two non-profit organizations (Veterans for Freedom, Concerned Veterans for America) and was fired from both due to documented evidence of financial mismanagement, as well as sexual impropriety and misconduct. Staff at Concerned Veterans of America say Hegseth was regularly drunk, often had to be restrained, and even passed out in drunken stupors. He later set up a PAC---MN PAC---where he used a third of the donations for staff Christmas parties. Yup, in MAGAstan, he's absolutely qualified. If a couple of Repub Senators had a pair, rather than being in abject fear of a mean Tweet, he would not be confirmed. Senators such as Thune, McConnell, Lankford, even the "confirmed bachelor" Lindsey Graham, know full well Hegseth is unqualified, but all lack the balls to stand up to 47. There are no real men in the Republican Party, just pretend Alpha males, like the Snowflake-in-Chief.

A MAGA is never the smartest guy in the room, even when he's alone. They're the guys who bought threads from his booking jacket in Georgia, bought the NFTs where he pretended to be an astronaut and fighter pilot, probably "attended" his fake university, have an autographed Chinese-printed bible, and donated their kids' school lunch money to the supposed "billionaire's" defense fund so he could pay his lawyers. At least they can wear the sneakers, though they will look rather silly.