Trump 2025 - Resuming The National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity (Part 1)

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You seem to believe you know an awful lot that isn’t publicly available.

What is publicly available is all of the information that indicates we’ve been financing our own coup through an ongoing color revolution for the last 10 years minimum.

Trump is currently systematically attacking the foundation of the soft power machine in observable ways from a variety of angles, and it’s entirely possible that releasing the files in their entirety would generate so much turmoil that it actually would be a national security issue.

I’d like the files to be released too, but I’m more concerned about the very real plans to destabilize society with mass migration, censor Americans by social media proxy, and entrench the vampire economy of Maine across the entire western world.

As it stands right now, Trump’s second term already ranks among the most impactful in history, and we aren’t even a year in.

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9690

Nice random reference lol.

@Brant_Drake answered by the inconsequential Mainer (don’t flag this, @twojarslave, I can’t take any more “strikes”!)

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I ain’t never gotten no strikes on t-nation, but I think I had a post blocked once.

There ain’t no dogs barking around here in Lewiston, just a lot of politicians who want us all to believe an awful lot of things that aren’t true at all.

I’m thinking I should maybe head out Californee-way.

9692

Epstein called Trump the dog who didn’t bark. That means he knows his “owner.” So who is Epstein claiming Trump isn’t barking for?

Your weird ramble about when Democrats were in power makes no sense as an answer.

9693

If the emails are to be believed, along with the more mainstream theories about Epstein’s possible motivations, the overall timeline seems to indicate that Epstein was a total scumbag who really had a bone to pick with Donald Trump at the time.

Democrats want us to believe that Epstein’s issues with Trump are grounded in a commonly-held sense of morality, i.e. right versus wrong, similar to how most people think of right vs. wrong.

The woman’s name wasn’t actually redacted by the government, but by the Democrats who did so to out of dishonesty to propel their latest false narrative forward. She has already testified under oath that Trump never laid a hand on her.

Your weird worldview that all of the Democratic Socialist policies I’ve experienced here in Maine are somehow the right path ahead for society have never made any sense at all. It’s all emotion with very few supporting facts, complete with built-in penalties for voicing an opinion that’s contrary to the woke orthodoxy.

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9694

The old “I’m rubber, you’re glue” approach, I see.

And to clarify this - I think you live in a weird little corner of the world, no doubt. But it’s just one town. Extrapolating Lewiston as a grand lense to view the world, and what “people want in society” dosen’t make sense on a large scale.

It dosen’t invalidate what’s happening there though. You’ve described some truly bizzare things.

But I live in Chicago, and things are great, and I don’t compare it to your neck of the woods because I don’t think Chicago and Lewiston share much DNA.

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9695

I live in Lewiston, and things are generally great for me, but it doesn’t change what’s happening to the city.

Your sentiment seems to be in line with the prevailing ideology around here. “My truth”, not the truth.

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@Andrewgen_Receptors Can we rebrand “TDS” to mean people who swing on Trumps nuts nonstop instead of anyone who has a legitimate point about a problem with what he’s doing?

9697

A good sign you are living in a narco state is when the son of your state’s largest newspaper’s editor is running for state representative while simultaneously offering legal representation to the incoming ward 5 city councilor who refuses to tell the city clerk where he lives and claims to live in a condemned building where 23 pounds of meth was seized a year ago.

Mexico gets it better than I do. Useful idiots follow The Party’s final, most essential command to not believe what their eyes and ears tell them.

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I’m curious - and maybe you’ve already said and I’ve forgotten - is this forum pretty much representative of what “regular Americans” think for you, or do you have other avenues to non-media (so clickbait) discussion?

Because I tend to agree with everything you say and also think most democrats I know, who would generally be moderate if I’m bothering to talk to them, and probably even the center-right I’m acquainted with, are looking for something like what you have in Finland.

Although I can’t speak for him, I suspect @Brant_Drake falls similarly. Not looking to funnel money to trans women’s Olympic dreams or criminals of any stripe, just looking for people who work and keep their houses tidy and endeavor to raise nice children to be able to live with some dignity and a great deal less anxiety over life issues like childcare, medicine, disabling illness, keeping cars running, paying for career prep for kids, and food and shelter in old age.

Where I live it’s very common for people with full time jobs to struggle with medical bills and keeping cars running. A broken furnace is a nightmare. Buying a house is a crazy dream. I know this because these are the things they anguish over in therapy with me. I also notice that vacation is something that doesn’t exist for these “working poor.” Never mind loading the kids into the car and driving to the mountains or beach for a few days, they don’t even get time to spend a week doing projects at home. It’s like when discussing politics, people on the right have completely lost touch with that these are people we see and interact with every day. The lady cheerfully checking you out at the grocery store or who gives you updates when you visit your elderly relative at the nursing home. The guy who mows the cemetery.

I sympathize with the right because when my husband says “name me one thing the government does well and efficiently,” I can’t. For fun, we count the workers when we pass road crews. Two coffee-drinkers, one shovel-leaner, looks like one sit-in-truck-cab-doing-nothing-er, one phone-looker, and oh! There’s a guy shuffling along, working! So 1/6 working, unless there’s the two guys holding the signs to stop traffic.

Doing my insurance credentialing was a relative breeze with the private insurers and a nightmare with Medicare and Medicaid, which I begged my biller to handle for me for money. He agreed because he has a hard time saying no - he didn’t want the $500 I offered for it. Not worth it to fuck with the government. And this is what he does!

So I see why the right doesn’t want any expansion of gov’t involvement. I think both sides of the political spectrum just want the corruption ended and disagree about who caused it. Which seems silly to me as I’ve watched all of them, both sides, rake in money hand over fist, which in my view has accelerated with this administration.

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Fiscal conservatism is dead. “Reaching across the aisle” and “bipartisan support” are political codespeak for “We all agreed to steal as much as possible.”.

The only real difference is how the money is routed back to them. Dems tend toward NGOs run by communist grifters and Reps still like funneling through businesses.

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9700

I just want it fixed! I’m tired of the drama!

I’m too sensitive for all of this nonsense.

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9701

I’m kinda numb to it all.

I like to joke that in the battle between time and money I lose both. Vacations just never happen.

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BTW, yes. God, it sucks so much.

9703

It is true that political corruption can be found in both parties, but the scope and scale of the two simply cannot be compared, not in 2025 at least. Maybe in 2005 when it was more of a uniparty in Washington, but not today.

The Democratic Party, with the aid of swamp creature republicans like the Cheneys (who both endorsed Harris) have created a wealth extraction blueprint that far surpasses even the National Socialists’ tricks and schemes.

Most is “perfectly legal” in the form of cushy nonprofit jobs, sinecures in the actual government bureaucracy, and favorable grants and contracts awarded to politically connected people. Just this week Lewiston posted another vaguely worded public health coordinator job that will almost certainly be going to someone connected, similar to our economic development coordinator who didn’t even graduate high school and is in her early 20s, but knows how to speak DEI and checks the right intersectional boxes.

In Maine at least, it also means turning a blind eye to all of fraud, waste, and abuse of social welfare programs, while also being gaslit by Democrats who seriously want people to believe that illegal aliens don’t get public benefits, drivers licenses, and rides to the polls from the mayor to vote illegally with a near zero chance of being prosecuted for it.

The homeless industrial complex is a very visible and relatively new way to make a lot of money and the blueprint we’ve used in Maine has only made the conditions worse, just like it has everywhere else.

The so-called “decarceration” policies also conveniently generate more opportunities for old-fashioned corruption that isn’t “perfectly legal”, which explains our set of policies in Maine much better than any evidence of social benefit. All of the “harm reduction” policies function as a de facto subsidy to drug dealers, which has to be worth something to someone.

I’ve come to believe that Trump is the most hated president since Lincoln for similar reasons. Easy taxpayer dollars are far more lucrative than slavery ever was, with far more beneficiaries than slavery ever had.

Like it or not, politics in the USA has never presented two more starkly different parties since the Democrats were formed as a pro-slavery organization and the Republicans an an anti-slavery organization.

Socialism is here and it will either be stopped, which Trump is being effective at doing so far, or it will prevail. There’s no such thing as a middle ground with the ideas of today’s woke left, and I don’t see any possible way that the James Carville type of Democrats can ever take that party back.

Heck, today my “local” Soros owned newspaper ran an op-ed from a self-described socialist history professor at U of S. Maine ruminating on Graham Platner’s Democratic Socialist campaign for senate as Maines masculine Mamdani.

Lenin was a snobby intellectual who never did any real work but believed he could govern a country down to its last parcel of land and bushel of grain. It’s the same group of losers pushing the same ideas today.

People can sit out the fight if they want, but sometimes you just have to pick a side.

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I also don’t think Lewiston is a one-off at all. They are running the same scam here as they try to everywhere, just with a bit more success than most places.

Most of what I write about isn’t covered by our major networks or newspapers. You have to watch the council and school board meetings and be able to discern true from false on local social media.

Video posted by locals is how we know for certain that Iman Osman was in handcuffs the night that 23 pounds of meth were seized from his home, not the newspaper. And now he’s a city councilor elect.

I think most people would find a similar level of gaslighting if they looked closely, but looking closely is a shitty hobby that most people don’t want to do. I wish we had journalists who weren’t ideologically captured, but in their absence we at least have a conservative outlet and more citizen journalists who share information the newspapers would rather the public not know about.

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It would be so amazing if the mexican people finally cleaned up that place. And I love the irony of the wall around the palace.

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They’ve got an uphill battle for sure, but that’s what happens when the whole government is corrupt and the cartels have their own politicians.

The only thing separating Maine from Mexico is that we haven’t progressed to assassination politics or other forms of political violence. They are still getting by with propaganda, gaslighting, and blatantly rigged elections, for now at least.

The Maine Community Foundation seems to have issued a “gag order” to all of the nonprofits that were awarded mass shooting funds since our former Governor LePage is continuing to highlight the in-your-face corruption that’s “perfectly legal”. I had conversations with a number of the nonprofit owners/leaders in the past and one aunt of a victim went to incredible lengths to find answers. There’s even some mainstream journalists who seemed interested but were apparently shut down by their bosses.

That’s how it works here, for now. The gaslighting keeps getting more and more brazen, and I worry what will happen if it stops working and people actually wise up to reality. As it stands, the woke left in Maine believes an unbelievable number of things that aren’t true at all, and they believe it with a lot of emotion behind it.

They want us to believe that our elections are secure when you can register to vote with a utility bill and it’s treated as proof of both US citizenship and residency, allowing a person to cast an unchallenged ballot no different than if they registered with a driver’s license (which also doesn’t prove citizenship in Maine, since we know they are being issued to noncitizens).

They want us to believe that our elections are secure when you can also register to vote with no documentation whatsoever, simply by signing a sworn statement that you’re both a US Citizen and an eligible resident, allowing any person to cast a challenged ballot that will, in most cases, be counted exactly the same as an unchallenged ballot.

Lewiston City Councilor Harriman wants us to believe that my preceding paragraph is false altogether, when it most definitely is true.

They want us to believe that an incoming city council member is eligible to represent Ward 5 when he refuses to tell our city clerk where he lives, while also claiming that he intends to return to his condemned home where 23 pounds of methamphetamine were seized by law enforcement over a year ago.

They want us to believe that the people who cast UOCAVA votes in Maine are now increasingly numerous and also in favor of consensus left-leaning positions at a 12:1 ratio on the latest Voter ID and Red Flag law referendums.

They want us to believe that handing out 100 needles at a time to deeply troubled drug addicts is backed by science as a sound public health measure that reduces harm.

They want us to believe that all of the closed businesses in the vicinity of where the “harm reduction” takes place have nothing to do with harm reduction policies.

They wanted us to believe that an organization who called themselves “The Church of Safe Injection” was staffed by experts in public health before the building was condemned and hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funding is still unaccounted for.

They want us to believe that noncitizens receive no public benefits in Maine, or at least the people at Graham Platner’s rally did when they shouted down a woman who asked Platner about it. Platner went on to magnanimously state that the crowd should have sympathy for the woman who asked him about it, suggesting she was a victim of brainwashing.

They want us to believe that Social and Emotional Learning is more important than academics in public education, while Maine becomes the new deep south of the far north in academic achievement after leading the nation in public education during the 20th century.

They want us to believe that we can somehow transcend our bodies in a way that the government should legally recognize any one of us as members of the opposite sex, including young children in public schools, as long as we identify as such.

They want us to believe that people who have been arrested dozens of times recently are “the most vulnerable in our community”, while normal people in Lewiston grow accustomed to gunfire and dangerous people roaming society.

They want us to believe that even talking about this stuff is a bigger problem than the stuff we talk about.

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LOL the lawyer representing incoming councilor Osman in his attempt to convince us he’s eligible to represent ward 5 from a condemned meth house just knocked on my door for his own campaign for state legislature. I’m unsure if he recognized me from my public writing, but he didn’t waste any time with me.

I will give Maine Democrats credit on their door-knocking campaigns. They get out there a lot more than Maine Republicans. I’ve even had Governor Mills on my doorstep.

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I think this post almost-perfectly illustrates the divide. You have the “Left”/feminine, who has to feel like it’s doing something…even when it knows the solutions are worthless; and you have the “Right”/masculine, who accept that sometimes things suck and there’s often not a solution that doesn’t make things worse for more people.

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