it’s the original name of the department originated under Washington…no big deal here
Miami
They went for Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden after being reliably democratic for decades, so I don’t think that’s a legitimate example of an economically productive red city.
It’s a nice place though. I need to visit again before it turns into Atlantis 2.0.
Have there been recent developments or are these the DOGE “cuts”? If so nothing has been cut off. They are in limbo and will be there until Trump is out at which point they will be back in business. In the mean time however Trump has given even more money for “defense”. So, they will actually have even more money to play with.
I wrote about that much earlier. All they really cut are things like forest rangers. The really important stuff.
Trump has a pretty reasonable pretense for this, as anyone living among regular gunfire, theft, rape, assault, drug dealing, etc. can explain.
Obama would have had a perfectly fine pretense for doing this too, as Chicago and D.C. weren’t doing great under his watch, but the comparison isn’t really the same due to the changing situations in the last 10-15 years with regards to fentanyl, defund the police idiocy, and open borders with accompanying sanctuary policies to preserve the new voting bloc.
Lewiston wouldn’t have needed federal support during Obama’s term, because our streets weren’t shooting galleries, our parks, library, and other public spaces weren’t overrun with homeless fentanyl addicts, and our schools were safe, decently-functioning public institutions. Federal agents or National Guard in Lewiston would be welcome with open arms by most of the actual US Citizens and legal residents in Maine today. Many of us would cheer at their presence if it meant kids downtown could walk to school safely.
I’m also fine with people drawing whatever conclusions they want about the name change of the War Department. We have been in a cold civil war for a long time. I first used the phrase six years ago in relation to the Covington Catholic kids, which is roughly when it became abundantly clear to me that this domestic conflict was, in fact, a war. Given the stark ideological differences of the sides in 2025, it might be the highest-stakes war ever fought.
I give Alex Jones credit when he’s right, even though I’ve never considered him particularly reliable, because he isn’t. We have been in an information war for a long time, which is why so many of us seem to exist in completely different political realities.
DOGE was the first part of it, but USAID as an organization is now dissolved and shut down. USAID was doing a lot of the CIA and State Department’s regime change activities in other countries, the same model that was applied to us domestically. Trump also declassified the JFK and MLK files, which weren’t about revealing if a grassy knoll gunman was in play, but demonstrating the CIA’s involvement in overseas regime change operations.
They are targeting the actual funding that went into the CIA domestic regime change operation. See Harvard for another example. The stipulations on the funding essentially amount to “no more radical socialist activism”.
Why do you think all of western society was subjected to an ideological campaign at the same time, with the same new, crazy ideas being repeated by media talking heads, celebrities, establishment academia, the teacher’s union, and all of these other groups whose interests align around ideological conformance to the ideas of mass migration, transgenderism in public education, DEI, etc? It was a CIA coup, done to ourselves.
I’m not sure what kneecapping the CIA would look like to you, but I like what I’m seeing so far.
Related to the cold civil war, one of the main reasons people exist in different realities is because a whole lot of people still somehow find known propagandists to be reliable sources of information.
Propaganda often works by reporting technically true information while omitting pertinent facts that contradict the narrative that’s being advanced. NPR is great at doing this. Sometimes it involves what normally would be considered a lie, but the lies are usually qualified by prefacing them with “sources familiar with Trump’s thinking believe he’s going to…”, plain old anonymous sources, or some other way that the news reporter can claim “I was just doing my job”.
The NC subway stabbing is a great example of how these narratives come about. It is a shocking crime, far more shocking than many other crimes that were broadcast nonstop because they aligned with the prevailing narrative of white supremacy, police brutality, you-name-it. Here in Lewiston we see the same thing, with the “local” newspaper rarely covering stories that contradict the narrative that things are great under Democratic governance. They even went so far as to stop printing the arrest log and police blotter, along with simply not covering stories like the institutional decline of the public schools.
Anyway, if you didn’t hear about this from your preferred outlet, ask yourself “Why?”.
Ever try turning that mirror on yourself?
Here’s the mayor of Charlotte’s response, which is exactly the kind of thing my Mayor does when shocking acts of violence and dysfunction raise questions about the Democrats’ policies on catch-and-releasing known violent people into society, aka “defund the police”, aka “decarceration”, aka “letting the crazies roam society.”
It is more or less what led me to where I am today. I used to buy into a lot of the same narratives in my 20’s.
What would you say is the biggest false or misleading media narrative I’ve repeated here? Stuff I learned from watching school board or city council meetings? Laws passed in Augusta or Washington, D.C.?
Or is it failing to believe the people who lied to us about almost everything for the last decade?
How would you say I’ve been fooled, in your own words?
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Is that real?!
Yes, that’s a real government communication.
I can understand why people might be uncomfortable with that post.
I hope it leads to withdrawing from other countries and requiring an actual declaration of war before involving the military elsewhere in the future. I’m sure it won’t, but that would be ideal.
So can I, but it might be the right word for what he’s doing to their entire ideological movement. Mass deportation will likely be the political death of Democrats, if it can actually be carried out. There’s an entire political apparatus that’s basically a grifting class living off of easy public money that is screaming bloody murder right now, along with people I believe are deeply corrupt. It sure explains everything we see in front of us a lot better than the idea that Donald Trump is a fascist dictator-in-waiting who wants total control for himself.
To those folks who are uncomfortable, I’d say it is time to buckle up. Everything I can see in front of me indicates that the ball is just beginning to roll and defunding the political activist public money grifter class, their beneficiaries in nonprofits of dubious public benefit, government bureaucracies, all of that stuff we’ve been seeing.
In my opinion, if he can deploy the military successfully and without infringing on any US Citizens’ rights while actually making the situation better, as many in DC seem to believe he did, it will be a tremendous political win and a win for society, too.
I saw a video of an anti-Trump Washington DC march that was nearly all white. Almost all of the anti-Trump protests in Maine are all-white, as are Shenna Bellows campaign events. Mostly a lot older than my middle-aged ass, too.
We’ll see, but hopefully there won’t be more decades-long conflicts that aren’t officially wars.
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My contribution to this topic is that almost nothing is black and white. There’s no great veil of propaganda what masks the reality.
Sure. There are outright lies going around, and not every opinion is weighted at the same. I’ve personally questioned many claims thrown around here.
But there’s also shades. There’s always different perspectives and different things to emphasize. If somebody takes big media houses uncritically as objective sources, it’s naive, but there’s difference to being clearly biased to repeating state given things as truth.
The problem is that people think they are very objective, but they tend always believe quite easily things that fit in their worldview. No matter the source. Big part of the population do also have pretty poor skills for source criticism or have unadequate media literacy skills.
I don’t even try to claim your notions about Maine aren’t correct. They probably are. I also think you guys are partly correct about US politics being corrupt and unfair.
But I don’t buy the notion about great global ”socialist” conspiracy. Or the thought that western leaders are generally as bad as some dictators. Example: Macron is not a great guy, I would not vote for him. But I doubt he’s comparable to Putin, Xi or Kim-Jong Un.
Just my 2 cents.
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You didn’t specify a time frame
Fair enough.
Is this guy patting himself on tbe back for reporting on the story 18 days after it happened?
This is why everyone should follow several medias, also ones that contradict their worldview.
The dead AfD members has not been on the pages of the biggest medias in Finland. Which is interesting.
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I mean, that’s what they call themselves, for the most part. Democratic Socialists. You can look up their policy platform really easily. Those are the ideas we’ve been implementing in Maine. It is public record, not some wild theory.
In my own words I think it is pretty historically accurate to describe it as I have upthread, a bizarre, grotesque, inbred offspring of Marxist-Leninism and National Socialism. They keep the racism of Nazism, shelve the idea of abolishing private property, ideologically coopt every institution possible with incompatible ideas (DEI, Transgenderism), while completely embracing the idea that’ we’re all just citizens of the world, and then toss in the idea that a women’s weightlifter in the Olympic Games can be a 43 year-old with a penis.
It truly is even more insane, expansive, and contradictory than either communism or National Socialism.
The funding isn’t a conspiracy anymore, either. It’s all in the public record in a massive web of nonprofit tax returns. It wasn’t really possible to visualize it in full until AI came along. It’s raining out today, so I’ll give a good local example of what I mean in a separate post.
I would generally agree that they aren’t generally as bad, but they’re still being shown to have done some fundamentally dishonest and civilizationally subversive tactics. Sham elections in Maine are just one example at the state level, hence they are howling bloody murder about basic voter ID ideas very similar to what you benefit from in Finland. Flooding the country with illegals to benefit one party is an act of war, more specifically a coup, assuming I’m correct about this well-documented “conspiracy” theory.
No, he’s sort of like a recent red-pill convert who is really into pointing incongruencies out. I listened to an interview with him and his wife and they sound shockingly normal, almost like I’d expect my sister-in-law to sound if she got red-pilled. Like a dude who is just realizing that he fell for a lot of BS. Maybe he’s a paid stooge of some kind, but if so, he does a good job being normal about it.
That would be great. But I think it will not happen. US has been generally quite aggressive. And even thought Trump seems to be quite anti-war, US is still involved in several conflicts. Also some members of his gov., like Hegseth, seem to be very war-minded.
Actually. I noted today, that comparing to US and to Russia, China seems to be quite peaceful. Which is funny, since generally I don’t see Xi’s China as ideal as a society.
But there are cultural and historical reasons for this. China has not ever waged a lot of invasive wars. It also has more tools to increase it’s sphere of influence, unlike Russia, which is a country stuck in history.