Oh, isn’t it grand? Will you allow me a gloat?
It’s the start of the Golden Age. You can feel it in air now. Woke is dead. All the “followers” who blindly followed the woke left have now flipped and are following Trump.
In his first few days in office he’s already started keeping all his promises, and in spades. All the picks and the executive orders are spot on, executed at such a speed it makes your head spin. I’m getting tired of all the winning!
DEI
Loving the utter destruction of the racist DEI policies. Affirmative action may have had a time when it was needed. Now it’s just reverse racism against white men and drives deeper divides. Any criterion beyond colorblind asexual merit is bound to lower the skill of any leadership and workforce, and it’s been destroying things for a while now. Good riddance.
J6
Loving the full-on blanket pardons for all the J6ers. The whole J6 narrative has utterly crumbled. Dems were relying on it to get rid of Trump and win the election. Nope.
J6 was 99.9% a legal protest by the people against what they perceived to be an improperly conducted election. A tiny percentage of those people went into the capital, many seemingly without anybody telling them not to or in any way trying to stop them, with the cops waving them in. Many of those people were jailed for months and even years for trespassing!!! (By ginning up the charges by applying some “interfering with an official function” that the Supreme Court knocked down with prejudice).
Some who were supposedly “violent” did nothing more than engage in pushing and shoving. A very, very, very few actually were what any of us would consider in any way violent against the police, and there were no deaths or serious injuries that resulted.
We still do not know how many agitators were in the crowd. We know there were at least 23 FBI alone plants. We do not know how they conducted themselves. We do know some disguised Antifa were in the crowd. We don’t know how many. We do know that the Democrats, and Nancy Pelosi in particular, rejected the offer by Trump of national guard troops to preserve the peace. The J6 committee was an over-produced sham trial with 0 real Republicans on it, and apparently almost all the evidence collected was illegally destroyed. Biden felt it necessary to give pardons in advance to every single J6 committee member. They probably needed them!
Even the handful who were actually violent have been basically tortured in abysmal solitary confinement conditions in prison for 4 years.
Blanket commutations and pardons were VERY appropriate.
Ross Ulbricht Pardon
Trump pardoned the founder of Silk Road, the website that used crypto for buying and selling various things. Ross, in his early twenties, was put in prison on 2 life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole just for running the website. Absurd. Pardoning him was a promise to the Liberatarians, and he followed through.
Abortions
Trump pardoned all the folks who protested peacefully through prayer at abortion clinics and were thrown in jail for it, which was an absurd overreach.
Trump also ended all federal funding for abortions domestically and internationally. You can still get one, if your state/country allows it, but the taxpayers who disapprove no longer have to foot the bill.
Cost Cutting and Efficiency
Trump issued executive orders that makes federal employees return to their offices 5 days a week. We all know they were goofing off at home. Hopefully a bunch will quit.
He imposed a hiring freeze and he made it easier to fire people.
He made a policy that says a new regulation can only be enacted if 10 others are cancelled.
He established DOGE to recommend which regulations to cut and employees to fire and programs to stop funding in an attempt to balance the budget.
Energy and Climate
He pulled the US out of the ridiculous Paris climate accord. He eliminated most restrictions on energy production, refinement, and distribution.
Drill, baby, drill!
Illegal Immigration
He’s declared a national emergency related to illegal immigration on the southern border. He’s deployed troops there and is continuing with the wall. He reinstated stay in Mexico and ended the “app” that acted as a loophole to let illegals in.
He’s designated Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.
He’s begun his deportations, averaging about 1000 a day so far. He’s successfully strong-armed countries such as Colombia who initially refused to take their citizens back.
He’s trying to end birthright citizenship. It’s being challenged in court, but there seems to be a slam dunk legal and constitutional argument that the 14th amendment was never intended for illegals.
Health
He pulled the US out of the China and EU/globalist controlled World Health Organization.
He’s still backing RFKJr for a key health-related cabinet role. Yay!
Military Industrial Complex
Pete Hegseth, an outsider war fighter, was confirmed as Sec Def. This spells big trouble for the military-industrial complex abuses.
Crypto and AI
He’s getting fully behind crypto and AI. Excellent!
Censorship
He’s decreed an end to the feds putting their thumb on the scale with censorship. Meta has shifted away from censorship in favour of free speech, X style.
Weaponization of Justice
He’s decreed an end to the weaponization of the federal government against political opponents.
JFK files
He’s finally declassifying everything involved with the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, as promised. Fantastic.
Renaming
He’s renamed Mt. McKinley in Alaska back to that. He’s renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Symbolic, but good.
Panama
He’s reasserting American control over the Panama Canal. Very needed.
Greenland
He’s making the case for the US to annex Greenland. I think this is just a negotiating tactic to get them to increase their arctic defense stance, but if not, it’s just dumb.
Canada
He keeps talking about making us the 51st state. I think he’s trolling? More likely a negotiating position to get us to step up and do our part on border security. If not, it’s just dumb.
And that’s just the ones off the top of my head!
I’m wet!
I hope you get everything you want. And I hope it turns to ash in your mouth.
ReplyDelete🤭
DeleteYou must be looking forward to becoming the 51st state.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, with Trump or Vance as president, I wouldn’t mind at all. We pretend we’re a country, but without the economy and military of the US, ten times our size, we’re nothing.
Deletewow, talk about class! I wouldn't expect anything else.
ReplyDeleteThe gloating you mean? I kept it light.
DeleteI think you are spot-on on all of it! Well done.
ReplyDelete🙏
DeleteWhen does AOC receive her paddling? Not soon enough, imo, silly girl needs straightened out.
ReplyDeleteYup. With a little Presidential dick-sucking thrown in. She’s such a phony.
DeleteNot Trump's type. She's not an immigrant.
DeletePerhaps you could try your ai story skills at crafting an AOC punishment?
DeleteYeah but she’s the only hot democrat. I’d fuck her.
DeleteI heard an interesting podcast by Konstantin Kisin about the emergence of the “right woke”. Any disagreement is still met with ostracism, cancelling and name calling but from the right as well as the left. Bad people on both sides.
DeleteMost in the Trump movement are for free speach, which precludes and cancelling. I don’t know who these people you’re referring to are.
DeleteUnsurprisingly, I see the record as a bit more mixed, one week into his presidency:
ReplyDelete- Today, one week after Trump and his tech bro buddies took over, the NASDAQ was slaughtered, dropping over 3% in one day. Especially whacked were AI stocks, with many dropping more than 15%. Especially hard hit were AI-connected energy stocks, with several prominent players in energy generation down almost 30%. That's not a typo. The businesses most tied to AI and to then energy markets that Trump is so supportive of dropped 1/3 of their value in a single day.
- After coming down in the summer and up to the eve of the election, mortgage rates are now back in the 7% range. Bond yields are up, as bond traders anticipate the likely inflationary effect of Trump's proposed tax cuts, deportations, and tariffs.
- Oil prices are up since the election. Gas prices are about the same.
- Trump and the Republicans are already arguing for killing the debt ceiling, which in my opinion is fine, since Republicans care about deficits only when Democrats hold the White House. In Trump's first term, they racked up $9 trillion in debt, only $2 trillion of which was covid-related. Although I consider myself a fiscal conservative, I also believe the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, so I'm OK with killing it as long as the killing applies to all future administration and not just when Republicans don't want their *own* profligate spending checked.
- Ramaswamy already got himself ushered out of government. Good for the feds, bad for Ohio, except he's such a smarmy, dislikable fucker he has no chance of winning a popular election. So, good riddance.
- Musk's Nazi salutes broke up the budding bromance between him and the Anti-Defamation League.
- Somehow, Trump didn't manage to end the Ukraine war on day one. Putin is demonstrating that the bromance is one-sided, and Trump is starting to talk tough in a way that is far more reflective of my position on Putin than yours. And, his foreign policy team has emphasized that they know who the "good guys" are in that war. Hint: It's not your buddy, Putin.
- I am actually somewhat happy with two successful nominations, i.e. Hegseth and Bessent. See, I'm a small "L" libertarian, and since Reagan's administration, I've hated the Republican party's flirtation with the Christian right. So, in Hegseth we now have an utter scumbag for Secretary of Defense; a guy who was married three times before he was out of his 30s, wrecked the finances of the only two business/non-profits he's been in charge of, and probably did so because he was holding team meetings at strip clubs. So, the Christian right can henceforth stop even pretending it gives a shit about personal morality and/or family values. Similarly, I've seen no shortage of Trumpers taking potshots at Pete Buttigieg for being gay and having a husband and kids. One would hope that with Bessent's appointment that would now end though, of course, most of the Trump supporters, and Florida book burners, who took the potshots at Pete and wanted to ban any book about any kind having too mommies or daddies (a) don't know the meaning of the word "hypocrisy" and/or (b) are too fucking stupid and/or uninformed to know that Bessent is gay and is raising children in a gay marriage. (All tongue-in-cheekery aside, Hegseth is a degenerate, and I'd be very concerned about his tenure except that he'll probably be in rehab or jail in a year or two.)
- With Hegseth out of the way, Gabbard is starting to get some serious attention. She probably won't make it out of committee. Though, it's a mixed bag. I would have liked to see the stunned faces of Trump rally attendees when they learned she's a Hindu and closely tied to a controversial guru.
You seem to be very angry about all this 😊.
DeleteSo well said, Dan!
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ReplyDelete- The J6 pardons and commutations of those convicted of assaulting cops and those convicted of seditious conspiracy guts any argument that the Republicans are the party of law and order or respect the criminal justice system. Again, I'm a small "L" libertarian, so I'm not big on long sentences anyway, though I do think that anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy should spend most of their life in jail, because I am an actual patriot and not a fake one who believes in democracy only when my side wins. I do figure that most of those who were in jail on substantial sentences were such scumbags (Rhodes, Nordeen, Tarrio, etc.), they'll be back in jail or dead soon anyway. Honestly, if I were governor I'd welcome them back to my state by declaring, "Punch a Proud Boy Day" and commit to pardoning anyone who did so.
- Abortion rates are way up since Trump's appointees got rid of Roe v. Wade. Combined with church attendance reaching its lowest point ever, the religious right has taken a total shellacking thanks to aligning itself with moral degenerate politicians and deciding that the Christ in the Bible is just too damn woke. I am a Christian, but since I've actually read the Bible I know it doesn't mention abortion even once but that Jesus says all sorts of things about helping the poor and downtrodden, paying your taxes even if you hate tax collectors, and being good to strangers in your land.
So, a mixed bag, but it's been only a week. He has plenty more of them to blow shit up.
I have my J6 arguments above. If you can’t recognize the miscarriages of justice at this point, it’s because you’re willfully doing so.
DeleteI don’t care about abortions. I see the argument that they are lives, more so at 9 months than 1 day, but whatever. Roe was bad law, it’s back in the States where it should always have been.
Like most of the apologists for these pardons, your argument focuses on only those charged with the least serious conduct, most of whom saw little or no jail time anyway, while completely ignoring (a) those who undeniably assaulted police officers, including dragging one through the crowd on his back and Tasing him, and (b) those convicted, on solid evidence, of actual conspiracies to overturn the election, like Rhodes and his Three Percenters and several of the Proud Boys defendants.
DeleteI did see overnight that one of my predictions already started coming true, with one of the recently pardoned J6-ers shot and killed by cops yesterday. What do you call one violent J6-er shot by police? A good start.
Nobody was plotting to “overthrow the govt”. You don’t do that by leaving your weapons at home and having 0 plan whatsoever. Sure, they may have talked some shit on social media, but they were railroaded like the others.
DeleteProud Boys was a joke men’s club started by Gavin McInnes that enjoyed kicking Antifa ass. They were a convenient target “white supremacist!” group to try to bolster that failing narrative of the left. A big percentage, including the leader himself, are non-white. Railroaded.
You seem to fall for all the leftist hoaxes, Dan.
You also seem very uncritical of the genuine convicted murderers pardoned by Biden.
I thought folks shot by police were always victims of police overreach? That’s what the left said relentlessly during BLM riots, no?
I think you have the cause and effect backwards on McInnes/Proud Boys and Antifa. Antifa arose as a *reaction* to the Proud Boys and other far-right thugs. Hence, the name: anti-fascist.
DeleteNo, I'm actually very critical of Biden's pardons. I wouldn't have pardoned Hunter or his other family members. I would have proactively pardoned the J6 committee and staffers, since they had been proactively threatened and targeted for prosecution. And, I do have a big problem with the actual murderer I assume you're talking about, and lots of Democratic senators and congressmen have been critical of that one, or mystified by it. In fact, many, many Democratic pols and media people have openly criticized Biden's pardons, unlike the Republicans, some of whom (JD Vance for one) were saying just days before the Trump pardons that "obviously" no one who committed actual violence and especially no one who assaulted police, should be pardoned.
You also might be referring to Leonard Peltier who, if he were a Republican or Libertarian cause célèbre, you would undoubtedly be claiming was railroaded by the FBI. He very well may have been, though I'm not into the details of his conviction enough to have a strong opinion one way or another.
Nope. Antifa was a going concern long before proud boys, who are not Nazis, of course.
DeleteJ6 committee, Fauci, Miley, all did illegal things, and likely would have faced justice, and they still may.
Trump does Trump. His pardons captured the zeitgeist perfectly. We don’t care, Margaret.
The zeitgeist on your blog, maybe. Public opinions polls here in the US before the pardons showed that well over 60% of the country were against pardoning *any* J6-ers, and there were overwhelming majorities against pardoning anyone who assaulted police. No idea what the "Margaret" is in reference to. Canadian thing?
DeleteDespite the polling, after he did it, most are, like, fine, put it behind us. Highest personal approval ratings ever.
DeleteNew JD Vance meme from Face The Nation.
https://youtube.com/shorts/VZ4cS8sAOzs?si=lToadeiNO9oGNTlq
Don't know what polls you're reading. 538 has him at the lowest starting approval rate in 50 years, with the exception of Bush in 2020. ABC and CBS polls both show his approval rating dropping since the inauguration. https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-starts-term-weak-approval-rating/story?id=118146633
DeleteThough, any polling in the first month of a presidency--strong or weak--is pretty meaningless.
Margaret Brennan is by far the best of the Sunday news program hosts, with Shannon Breen (Fox) second. On the substance of the program, good luck getting in-country people to accompany US troops as translators, guides, etc. now that we have a reputation for abandoning our helpers in Afghanistan, deserting our Kurdish allies in Syria, etc. And, again, the glaring hypocrisy of *speculating* that some number of Afghans who helped US troops in that war *might* commit crimes, while simultaneously releasing into the public dozens who were *convicted* by juries of crimes of violence on January 6th . . .
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-four percent (44%) disapprove.”
DeleteBiden supporters should sit down when it comes to Afghanistan and deserting allies there.
The question was about vetting, and the poor and crushed job the Biden admin did.
“Oh, Canada!” will no longer be sung as if an orgasmic exclamation but an utterance of embarrassment for the leadership of the past nine years. Still want to see an AI video of you spanking Justin. Hugs, Wemedge
ReplyDeleteHead, Canada is pretty sad right now. 😢
DeleteSpanking Justin? A good hard caning would be more like.
DeleteMake Canada Great Again under our Strict Julie!
DeleteClarence
I’ll take the job!
DeleteBy the way, your description of Ulbricht's crime is a work of art. The "various things" that Ulbricht's website sold were illegal drugs. Like, the really bad stuff. So, you've got an administration that's threatening Mexico and China for not stopping fentanyl and other illegal drugs from reaching the United States, but one of Trump's very first acts was pardoning the owner of a website whose entire purpose was facilitating the trafficking of huge quantities of those same drugs.
ReplyDeleteNow, as I said, I'm pretty libertarian on many issues, including recreational drug use. I think it's awful that the US hasn't fully legalized weed, and I'd be fine decriminalizing cocaine, MDMA, and most psychedelics. But, even I draw the line at trafficking fentanyl and some of the other serious drugs that were marketed on Silk Road, given the sheer number of people dropping dead from them each year.
You also neglected to mention that Ulbricht was convicted and sentenced for a murder-for-higher scheme. Now, there do seem to me to be some legit questions about whether he may have been entrapped. But, the objectivity of your analysis isn't served by omitting this fact and by describing Ulbricht as just running a website that sold "various things."
The murder was clearly bogus.
DeleteCell phones facilitate the purchase and sale of drugs and murders. Throw all telco ceos into jail for two life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole.
The US wants more from Canada than extra boots on the border. Cheap exclusive access to your oil, minerals and freshwater will be pitched as “essential to US strategic and economic security”. But the real prize is the Arctic - soon to be hot geopolitical property. Trump isn’t your friend.
ReplyDeleteI don’t see it as a competition. We can’t stand alone. It’s only by being strongly united with the US to we have any chance. I could care less if we’re governed from Washington or Ottawa.
DeleteEven in this disaster scenario, Canada won't be a state, it will be a colony with no political representation like Puerto Rico is or the Philippines was, you understand that, right?
DeleteBecause if Canada became a second California the Dems would never lose the presidency again, and Republican governors would never allow accession on such terms.
These are such abstract concepts. Does “democracy” exist in any meaningful way? Should it? The most important thing is an equal application of basic human rights, and the US constitution seems to be the best expression of that.
DeleteI'm American, but the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms seems superior to the US Bill of Rights (which is I think what you mean, the unamended constitution doesn't list specific) in every way. Most importantly, it isn't clear that everyone in the US agrees on which rights we have. For example, if we repeal the fourteenth amendment over the birthright citizenship issue, we could in principle repeal any of the amendments, including 1-10 (the BoR). Kind of an antique system compared to more modern constitutions like Canada or Germany's Basic Law, etc.
DeleteBill of rights amend the constitution, that’s why it’s filled with “amendments”, hence the word “constitution” (which includes its amendments) is a perfectly valid way to refer to these things.
DeleteCanadian one is pretty vague in many cases and without the long established case law, and any province can override any part of it at will.
14th amendment is not explicit either way on the status of children of visitors and illegals. There is a modifier clause to “anybody born on US soil” which is “and subject to US jurisdiction”. What does that modifier mean? Should it be ignored as if it were not there? If not, then when does it modify the first part?
The guy who wrote that amendment was explicit in saying that modifier meant visitors and illegals were excluded from birthright citizenship
Of course, ans you know, the amendment as originally written was for clarifying the citizenship of freed slaves.
I don’t think we disagree about whether illegal immigrants should have their children recognized as US citizens.
DeleteBut it’s telling that you’re Canadian and do not seem to know anything about the charter of rights and freedoms. The Bill of Rights is not part of the 1787 constitution and that is a big deal, even if there is a way to amend the original constitution. These rights are explicitly in the unamended Canadian charter and that is a big deal.
It’s also kind of weird that you love the US constitution so much when the most important point of making constitutional documents was to reject executive overreach, whether by George III or imperial presidents like Obama or trump.
Well, I’m no expert, but I did need to educate you about the 14th amendment to the constitution.
DeleteI know the history of the constitution and bill of rights, and I still say It’s pedantic to insist that the term “constitution” in regular parlance does not include its amendments.
I think it’s a bigger deal that charter rights can be overridden by provinces on a whim. See the “notwithstanding clause”. Plus, no 2A.
I still say It’s pedantic to insist that the term “constitution” in regular parlance does not include its amendments.
DeleteI'm a lawyer haha. The issues we have in America regarding the unsuitability of our constitution (and its amendments, and their interpretation, and case law based on interpretations, old and new) for the modern era is both a very expensive problem and one that keeps me gainfully employed.
I think that if Trump conjures up a constitutional crisis by appropriating congressional powers (e.g., by trying to regulate 'the powers of the purse') or by issuing overbroad executive orders (e.g., the one that may contradict the fourteenth amendment), he may in fact be doing us a favor by forcing us to modernize it.
You seem to be a different anon than the one in the rest of the thread?
DeleteWe agree it’s pedantic.
Constitution and its interpretation by the judiciary is part of a great system of checks and balances, warts and all. I’m glad you’ll have lots of business!
Both the issues you name seem controversial. Surely the executive has the power (and responsibility) to ensure the moneys go to their intended purpose and not anything else, including corruption, and should withhold until that can be assured. E.g. all the billions to Ukraine, a lot of which I’m sure is skimmed off the top by corrupt Ukrainians and corrupt weapons companies who shamelessly overcharge.
No, I am the same person as above--just more or less sleep deprived. Indeed Trump and crew making waves is a profitable business for constitutional law firms.
DeleteRegarding corruption, I think it is much more complicated than what you're describing. On some fundamental level, yes, every person working for the federal government has some responsibility not to directly disburse funds into the hands of fraudsters or corrupt officials. However, there are existing laws that specifically prevent the executive from conducting its own oversight of how the government spends money Congress has approved.
For instance the Impoundment Control Act and a later case involving Nixon delaying EPA funds from 1973 both specifically establish constitutional limits on the power of the president and his cabinet to delay or prevent spending of funds appropriated by Congress. In the original act, the executive was given a 45-day review window, allowing them to delay the disbursement of funds, but not to cancel the spending. This is the Act that Trump was accused of violating when he tried to withhold military aid to Ukraine in 2019.
Now of course these laws could be overturned by Trump's legislative majority in Congress, but the principle that Congress can tax and allocate funds and the executive can't and shouldn't interfere is one of those 'originalist' tenets that even people in the center and left agree with.
If Ukraine is corrupt (no doubt it is) Trump would be better off just cancelling the package in Congress, and showing everyone the evidence that Ukrainian officials are stealing funds from taxpayers.
Agreed. However… the budget voted by Congress is clearly nuts and if left unchecked will read to the ruin of western civilization, so there is that…
DeleteSure, but the point of the constitution is to divide power so one branch doesn't dominate the others. You would not be happy if Harris won and ignored everything a Republican Senate + House passed. Ideally Trump should accept that he can't issue executive orders covering spending, and let his party just issue new laws according to the constitutional division of powers.
DeleteThe fact that this doesn't happen and there is no real way to restrain Trump is a big problem. Even if you love Trump, whatever powers he puts in the presidency can be used by a future president that you hate.
As we’ve seen through multiple administrations, there’s gives and takes and the Supreme Court is the referee.
DeleteYou have the kind of faith in our legal system that only a non-lawyer can have. Bless your heart.
DeleteAfter watching the farce that is the US “justice system” over the past 4 years with the weaponization of various levels against Trump and his supporters, I agree any trust I may have is misplaced.
Deleteyou are so Christian
ReplyDeleteExcept I’m not. Just admire many of the values.
DeleteCareful what you wish for Ms J.
ReplyDeleteTrump sees the Americas as the USA’s natural sphere of interest. Its a dog eat dog world now and if Canada doesn’t kowtow you’re gonna get crushed economically.
See above. I agree. We should kowtow completely.
DeleteThen you’ll be a vassal state and vassals don’t eat well.
DeleteYou seem to misunderstand my point about equal rights from above.
DeleteWhat? Does this mean there’s only two sexes? This is doing my head in man.
ReplyDeleteYup, only two again, it’s 2025, baby!
Deleteonly 2 in the USA where the equal right ammendment can't seem to be ratified. In Canada women are supposed to be equal - but there is still a ways to go to achieve it in reality. and yes I am Canadian - and a lawyer.
DeleteAs a Canadian woman, I feel perfectly equal. In fact, MORE than equal as I benefited dramatically in promotion competitions against equally qualified men. What inequalities are you referring to?
DeleteHeya Julie.
ReplyDeleteYou know I don't engage with politics much, albeit I do have my moments. I just wanted to ask you who you think benefits most from historic DEI initiatives? I don't care for the rest, the US does as the US does. DEI though, I would really like to hear whom you believe benefits from them?
-Kasey
Honestly? Just the race grifters - the DEI Consultant class. It’s a thinly veiled Marxism based on “intersectionality”, as class doesn’t really exist in the US. And, for the most part, that’s a certain very annoying group of unmarried, left-leaning white women.
DeleteIt certainly has not benefitted people of color, as it feeds them an unhealthy victim narrative and sets them up for failure in jobs that individuals are not qualified for which promotes racism.
It's not race grifters, it's not unmarried women and it's not people of colour. The overwhelming benefactor of DEI historically has been women. Women into boardrooms, women into STEM, women into previously male dominated industries. If it weren't for the women before me who entered STEM based off of DEI initiatives I wouldn't have my PhD today.
DeleteBecause it was never about merit, historically. It was about keeping women out of prestigious male industries deemed too good for us, DEI got our foot in the door.
That isn't to say if you or I resided in the US that we'd lose our jobs instantly now that DEI initiatives have been done away with, but if we were newly entering higher education or the upper echelons of business, we'd find life a lot more difficult now in 2025 than we did in 2024.
People are fucking stupid, didn't do their research and let jealousy blind them to the historic truths behind DEI.
Oh well, thank god I'm in Australia. At least we're not being joked about for an invasion.
-Kasey
You’re talking about the past, where affirmative action in favour of women was arguable. Nowadays? No.
DeleteSo nice to have our president back. So nice to hear people talk about man and women. If you want to trans to another gender go ahead and do it but you pay for it. And keep us normal people and anyone under the age of 18 away from it.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear from you again Julie, surprised it took you so long. We need 4 years of Trump and another 8 with J.D. Vance to keep this mess straightened out. God had plans for Trump by protecting him and now he needs to return this country to common sense policies. Also get these Frikking illegal people out of here and let them come in the right way. We're not a dumping ground for rapists murderers and crazy people sent in from other countries. I don't care how many votes the democrats lose. Spot on Julie, I still think you are wise beyond your years. Ignore Dan he's just sore he doesn't get to listen to more word salads, and watch someone try to figure out which spot to stand on or which way is out. Trump for life. Firefighter Steve
‘murica!
DeleteI’m loving it! The petulant rage makes me laugh. The tears are delicious. These people thought they had forever power and they imagined it was a done deal to silence, imprison and kill us. Even now some are still threatening revenge on the Red Hat people who spend a lot of time arguing over which is the best gun to carry in your truck. But c’mon, Trump! Just go over to the price of eggs dial and turn it down! What are you waiting for? It’s become very easy to see why people who have no idea how anything works fucked up everything so badly.
ReplyDeleteAs we move into the Golden Age, I am left with one question: Is it now back to being universally embarrassing and humiliating for a man to wear bras, panties and other lingerie? - david
Oh yes! Very soon now we can go back to mocking you pansy sissy boys mercilessly.
DeleteTrump donne espoir aux français, ou toutes nos institutions, les (merdias) publics, subventionnés par nos impôts, sont gangrenés par leur idéologie d’extrême gauche...
ReplyDeleteNous les anciens citoyens français, nous respections nos anciens, nos morts, notre drapeau, nos traditions, nos professeurs, nos élus qui n’étaient pas encore devenus des infâmes fantoches, avec des idéologies antifrançais, qui nous importent le vokisme, cette bête immonde qui détruit nos civilisations …
Toutes nos institutions formatent et conditionnent nos jeunes dans cet état d’esprit....
grâce a leurs inéducation ils deviennent des 14 15 ans des tueurs a gages, des criminels pour un portable, des dealers et j'en passe...
Mais cela ne m’étonne pas du tout, ce n'est que la déchéance de la France, avec nos politicards qui souvent considèrent, les pauvres délinquants, les criminels en prison, comme des victimes de la société, en nous culpabilisant sur notre passé colonialiste, dont on dois vivre dans la repentance …
Et les français devenus pauvres moutons de Panurge, d'himmis, grâce à ces idéologues et formatés pendant des décennies n'ont même plus leur libre arbitre …..
On dis souvent nous allons droit dans le mur, mais je crains que l'on soient aux portes du cimetière de notre civilisation ….
IL NOUS FAUT UN TRUMP A LA FRANCAISE QUI NOUS SAUVE ….
Translation via ChatGPT:
DeleteTrump gives hope to the French, where all our institutions—our public (media), funded by our taxes—are corrupted by their far-left ideology…
We, the former French citizens, respected our elders, our dead, our flag, our traditions, our teachers, our elected officials who had not yet become infamous puppets with anti-French ideologies, importing wokism, that vile beast destroying our civilizations…
All our institutions mold and condition our youth into this mindset… thanks to their lack of education, 14- and 15-year-olds become hitmen, criminals for a cellphone, dealers, and more…
But this does not surprise me at all; it is merely the downfall of France, with our politicians who often consider the poor delinquents, the criminals in prison, as victims of society, guilt-tripping us about our colonial past, for which we must live in repentance…
And the French, who have become poor sheep following the crowd, submissive, thanks to these ideologues, conditioned for decades, no longer even have free will…
It is often said that we are heading straight for disaster, but I fear we are at the gates of the graveyard of our civilization…
WE NEED A FRENCH TRUMP TO SAVE US…
Yes, the French used to be admirable, like Canada, but as you say, the leftist globalists have destroyed your proud country.
DeleteHopefully Marine Le Pen can beat the trumped up charges against her and win next time.
Notre gros problème c'est que depuis des années les droites ne sont pas capables de s'allier ensembles alors qu'ils sont majoritaire, ils préfèrent même allez du coté des islamo gauchistes que d'être avec marine!
DeleteHopefully when it gets bad enough the French will finally unite.
DeleteTrump, Musk, and all the power brokers and billionaires are part of the "globalist" elite. Wake up. Guess where Steve Bannon and JD Vance went to university. If you think there's any real difference between Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and all the rest of the people who partied with Jeffrey Epstein you're not seeing the big picture. All that bullshit about "globalists" and the "deep state" comes from the same place. But these things never change anyone's mind. Keep on watch Tucker Carlson for your unbiased info.
DeleteI disagree. They didn’t party with Epstein beyond the usual, normal 80s social events. Trump, in fact, banned Epstein from all his properties because of an incident with a young girl.
DeleteIf you have any evidence, please present it.
I don't think there is any evidence that Trump is a pedo. I think that there is an obvious link between him and the rest of the greedy billionaires.
DeleteI don't care if they are red or blue, they don't give a fuck about us. They will loot our economy as they see fit and try to make us fight each other over woke/antiwoke nonsense that doesn't improve our lives either way.
Musk, Trump, Bezos, Bloomberg, Hoffman, Adelson, Buffett, Gates--they get what they want and we don't.
They all know one another, sure, but what nefarious links are you speaking of?
DeleteRich people will be rich. I don’t care.
David sure talks about tears a lot. That's usually a symptom of a keyboard warrior who has zero capability of imposing tears on any real man face-to-face. He reminds me a lot of the Crying Nazi.
ReplyDeleteWell, his cock is very tiny, but he has quite big muscles. I would not mess with him.
DeleteI worked my way through college as a bouncer, did Brazilian Jiujitsu before MMA became a thing with the incel crowd, and in my late 50s I still bench 250 and squat 400. In the unlikely event he mouthed off face-to-face, I'd be leading him around on a dog leash. I bet that made his tiny pee pee very hard just thinking about it.
DeleteI think you need a paddling from your wife.
DeleteUndoubtedly
DeleteYou know who isn’t tough? Guys who feel the need to post their tough guy bona fides. Please tell me more stories. Then cry more, Dan. - david
DeleteOkay, I’m calling the back and forth now. You’ve each got your licks in. Feel free to comment more, but not about each other!
DeleteJulie, I couldn't agree with you more! Like Trump (as I do) or hate him (which I don't), you have to concede the guy keeps his campaign promises. The DEI farce is over!!! There was never any real diversity, only diversity for certain favored groups. No diversity for conservative college professors, no diversity for Irish Americans or Polish Americans. It was a clear case of "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (George Orwell, Animal Farm). Junking DEI and bringing back merit is just what the doctor ordered.
ReplyDeleteWell said!
DeleteI don’t know, man. It’s really early as fuck to gloat. I remember his first term last time and it ended up being a shitshow. I’ll give him props if can keep his winning streak for the first six months. And I say that as someone who voted for Trump.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would argue against making his crypto policies a winning bullet point right now. Even conservative people in the space have a lot of criticism for his family’s meme coins. But at the end of the day, anyone who wastes their money in that shit deserves to lose it.
Already HUGE differences from first term. I’m hopeful.
DeleteTrump is weaponizing the justice system against *his* opponents!
ReplyDeleteIn what way? What bogus charges has he brought against who now?
DeleteI’m so pissed off. I learnt all those fucking pronouns and a heap of other woke shit to get past the DEI thought police at work and now it turns out it was all for nothing. Sad.
ReplyDeleteXe is sad. 🤭
DeleteDEI
ReplyDeleteThe veil of this just being a fight against overzealous PC culture and reverse racism has already fallen with portions of the federal government removing things like MLK day, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance. Only took days for it to become erasure.
J6
Tit was done with a blanket decree and no investigation into what people were sentenced for. When looking into the crimes trump reportedly just said “f’it, release them all”. This puts people like "DJ" Rodriguez who weapons like wooden poles and a stun gun on the MPD officers while vandalizing offices, breaking windows and stealing items. Confessed to it and pleaded guilty. This one wasn’t even a grey area but was also in the pardons.
People that have receive pardons or had their sentences commuted have already been arrested again for crimes involving weapons.
Even if you believe the Jan 6 was overblown there were legitimate crimes there as well and trump is simply too lazy to bother with telling the difference.
DOGE
Non-elected billionaire oligarchs dictating government policy directly.
Military Industrial Complex
Pete Hegseth, an outsider war fighter, was confirmed as Sec Def. This spells big trouble, everyone. Legitimately no reasonable experience for the position and shows a disposition that is nothing like what we would want from someone in that place of power.
Crypto and AI
President created his own meme coin for a pump and dump scam. Dual usage of being able to syphon money off of supporters and also make bribery and foreign monetary involvement into our affairs trivial.
Censorship
He’s decreed start to the feds putting fist down on the scale with censorship. Blackmailed Zuckerberg and others to censor what he wants them to or face criminal charges.
Renaming Gulf of Mexico
Makes us look like a joke to the world. At best it is taken the same way “freedom fries” was taken as a stupid joke that everyone moved past. At worst it is going to be the start of America’s own version of the East China Sea where we claim ownership of everything within it fully and start aggressively expanding what we see as our territory into neighbors.
Greenland
More aggressively expanding territory. Has already threatened military action in order to take it. Basically, a stone skip away from declaring war on what WAS and ally.
Canada
Expect the same as Greenland eventually. Give up territory or be invaded. No reason to believe he will become less aggressive with political wins happening. You have a power-hungry neighbor now and there is no reason to think you are going to be free from what they want to take.
I could rebut each of your points, but I simply ask, nothing good to say? On anything?
DeleteDeclassifying items involved with the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations is a good. thing. Should have happened long ago.
DeletePausing the TikTok ban also good but for the wrong reasons. The TikTok ban was dumb because it was a grain of sand in the desert of the problem. Data being collected, sold, and exploited is a gigantic issue and needs to be resolved on its source. Picking a single company and determining that they are the problem because they are owned by a Chinese company (and government in reality) don't solve the issue in any real way.
I think folks miss the key problem with Tok Tok. They can artificially boost, using their “heat button”, whatever trends they want. For kids in China they boost math and science. For kids in the west they boost trans, and hating America. Yes, any social media service can do it, but do you really want China doing it?
DeleteIt's a possible problem whoever is doing it Julie. And you are talking about two different things. One thing is the organized collection and sale of data that can be used in a myriad of ways to profile specific individuals, so as to (at best) tailor marketing/sales pitches to them, at worst manipulate them or cause any number of problems and potential harm.
DeleteThe other issue is the risk of a foreign power possibly affecting what kind of information is being put in front of people, and potentially using it as a form of long term "weapon" to weaken said society in a number of ways.
Both issues are problematic risks to any country possibly being affected by it. Regardless of who own the company/-ies behind it.
Absolutely it’s problematic, but you have to accept that we are being propagandized constantly, sometimes “for our own good”. For example, all those movies portraying the USA as the “good guys”. It’s to build community spirit and patriotism and make people proud of their country. The result is a more productive economy, a sense of exceptionalism, and net happier people (in the US!). If a foreign power has their hand on that switch and is determined to bring them down, that’s where the problem lies.
DeleteSure. Propagandizing isn't really a new thing. But again. It's two separate issues Julie.
DeleteWe don't disagree that having someone in charge of things like social media platforms etc., who doesn't have society's best interests at the core of their interests, is potentially problematic for a society in the long term. I'd argue that the way internet search engines function today, is effectively creating "echo chambers" online, which ultimately skews people's perception of reality, and reduces their exposure to other ways of looking at the world, which plays a part in fracturing societies into us/them categories, effectively undermine feelings of commonality and societal coherence.
Meanwhile I'd argue that the large scale collection of data, and the use of that date for profiling purposes, is also potentially highly problematic, as it has the potential for massive abuse by not just an amoral company trying to maximize its profits, but also a government wanting to use said information with "good intentions".
I think we are agreeing!
DeleteOther things you didn’t mentions
ReplyDeleteExpanding Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay has long been maintained as a “constitution free zone” to allow the government to do what they would like with people and not have to worry about the pesky law or constitution getting in the way. Guantanamo Bay is one of the biggest stains on America and the most obvious example of cruelty and rejection of all of the principles of freedom and justice the country was formed on. It should be closed, not expanded.
Expanding it greatly to deal with the immigration crisis! Take the migrants to a place where we don’t have to have trials and don’t have to maintain any sort of treatment. This is such a 1+1 = 2 scenario that make it obvious what is going to end up happening.
Pushing to denaturalize US citizens
Going after illegal aliens isn’t enough. Need to start diving into those that have come here legally and start pulling their citizenship. This was already done to an extent but is being greatly expanded. Now looking for any error or loophole that could be applied to invalidate them, previously aimed at anyone who has ties to “terrorist organizations”
Terrorist organization definitions
Defining Antifa, protestors for Palestine, and Mexican cartels as a terrorist organizations. There are some humongous scumbags and criminals in these groups to be sure, especially when looking at cartels. This is not a defense of them at all. However, the way it is getting defined allows it to be applied to the worst but also basically any other political target.
Someone speaking out against an action taken by Israel, well that is obviously supporting Palestine therefore Hamas and that makes them terrorists so throw them in Guantanamo Bay.
Protestors about a conservative initiative, well that is obviously antifa then so throw them in Guantanamo Bay.
Immigrant from central or south America, well that is obviously cartel then so throw them in Guantanamo Bay (because the cartels are so big there is no real way to not have some sort of tie if you want to find one).
Basically, setting up a process to take any undesirables and make them disappear.
Your analysis seems to rely on phony “facts” and silly speculation. I recommend you broaden your information sources.
DeleteI’m open to facts that conflict with my views, but you need to slow down, pick your top, most egregious facts, e.g. over removing citizenship, and give your sources. Devil is in the details. E.g. if the citizenship was obtained fraudulently, I applaud the action.
I get more news from conservative outlets than I do left leaning ones. Just that those conservative outlets like to paint things that are vile as positive.
DeleteI would absolutely agree that devil is in the details and that is a criticism of many of trump actions not a defense. Take the "Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government" EO where it defined genders "at conception" while there are no genders "at conception" and those reproductive organs develop in later stages. It is not the "everyone is female now" meme that was going around but not accurate either. At least I can see where that meme is coming from though since for a long time, we were taught that human start female and become male from the reaction with hormones for at least a generation but that was found to be inaccurate.
DeleteIt also uses the production of reproductive cells as the definitive test for sex though making anyone who is born infertile neither gender according to the EO.
It also recognizes in its text the difference between sex and gender identity. That sex is the biological classification but that gender is an internal and subjective sense of self... which is the entire point (most of) the left has been making the entire fucking time!
So the EO first fails at the details that it is trying to define and then also defines what a significant portion of the right refuse to acknowledge.
I find that hard to believe based on your beliefs.
DeleteBut, please, go ahead and present your most egregious “fact” for my dissecting pleasure…
Sorry, messages crossing in transit.
DeleteReplying to your latest. The EO defines men as having the smaller reproductive cell (sperm), and women as having the larger (egg). Sounds like a fine definition. I’d have gone with the XX and XY chromosomes myself, understanding that it only covers 99.99% of cases.
Most of this whole argument is semantic, until the rubber hits the road and you have cocks in women’s prisons and bathrooms and men beating the crap out of women in women’s sport. That’s what it’s really all about.
This is one of those situations where common f'ing sense should have been enough.
DeleteThe basic idea of letting people live their lives without persecution, regardless of their sex, gender, race, sexual preferences etc. was a good one. And then someone went and f***ed it up by taking things too far.
The big problem with using a subjective issue as a defining factor in things like which team to put an athlete on, is that if "gender" can be whatever the hell anyone feel like at any given time, then the entire concept of "gender" becomes completely useless, as it ends up carrying no meaning at all.
So going with biology as a determining factor, along with a bit of common sense and general courtesy is IMO the right way to go. But we should not be heading towards the other ditch, where minorities get persecuted, beaten up, or killed, simply for being born in a given way.
Agreed.
DeleteCan I ask a question? Have you ever lived for any length of time in America? Like, do you only know our country through the propaganda of the various kinds of media, or do you have some kind of connection here?
ReplyDeleteIf you are just an admirer and tourist, that's fine. But I'm genuinely curious how someone could have such strong beliefs despite never living here.
I’ve visited many times and have relatives in both NY and CA. In Canada we are inundated by US media and culture.
DeleteMy interest in the US is based on the fact that in Canada it’s like sleeping with an 800 lb gorilla next to you, and it looks like it’s about to roll over onto us with 25% tariffs. . In fact, the entire world has an interest in what the remaining superpower is up to.
Racism against white men when they are in most positions of power? Dei benefitted dumb ass white women like u the most and u just lost it. U will soon be julie from the hand maids tale and we are all gonna laugh at your dumb ass. U also just got tarrifs cause of what your dumb ass promotes. Good luck cause 4 years from now we dont want to see your karen tears cause u are a dumb ass.
ReplyDeleteI don’t want “white women” to have any unfair advantage. I don’t want any race/gender to have any advantage. Only merit. That’s the whole point.
DeleteWe got tariffs because Turdeau is a fool.
And no, u are a dumb ass.
chase, the reason I’m not publishing your follow-ups is because you need to keep a civil tongue in your head, young man.
Deletelol i will do that when trump learns the meaning of civility or when pete has merit
DeleteGood boy.
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