That is, in fact, the proper way to deal with forked-tongued manipulators.
@SepCalla I saw this on X and thought it was an AI fake but it turns out Finland actually made a LOTR adaptation. I probably would have learned Finnish just to watch it if I knew about it in the 90’s. Konkari is now the first Finnish word I understand.
Hahah. I’ve never watched that. Not exactly a high level production.
Konkari is slightly different than Strider in meaning, and actually more suited for Aragorn than the original. It means someone who is really experienced (and maybe slightly worn out) in some endeavour, such as veteran ranger could be.
Both are simultaneously an issue. Civic nationalism itself is not because at its core it requires newcomers to conform to a set of inherent values and beliefs, theoretically traditionally American.
Unfortunately apathetic or misguided voters often either ignore or misinterpret this piece and allow an almost anything goes scenario, citing “freedom” but a form kf vacuously defined freedom that essentially boils down to relativism - which creates a playground of sorts for collective identities to take over. Example, Lewiston, Maine.
IMO some solutions could be:
I’m generally on board with all of that. With the news coming out of Minnesota regarding widespread fraud by Somalian immigrants, I’m hoping to see similar investigations here in Maine. Lewiston also has a disproportionately high number of special education students and much of our MaineCare billing practices seem to be on the honor system, especially for things like translation services.
The immigration and welfare systems were absolutely gamed in order to import a new voting bloc to solidify Democratic power in Maine. It really is that simple. They don’t even care about the immigrants, just their willingness to lie on their voter registration forms and follow the multi-language voting guides.
I think one party rule is effectively entrenched here now that voter ID was shot down in an off-year election with remarkably high turnout. Federal intervention is probably the state’s only hope at this point.
In more Trump news, let’s see if any charges come from this latest Democrat stunt where they pleaded with the military to refuse unspecified “unlawful orders”. I don’t think anything will because they were sufficiently vague with their words, which is basically how Democrats operate today. Just use mush words that can mean anything.
Ah yes. “Please follow what the UCMJ and DoD have already made clear.”
Sedition, I tell you!
It’s definitely at least borderline if you look up the legal definition of sedition. I don’t ever recall lawmakers making this kind of plea to the military.
Cynical Publius on X thinks it is. He’s a retired colonel and a JD.
He has written for a number of publications under that pseudonym who independently verify credentials.
It’s also pretty obvious from his writing that he isn’t full of shit.
The Lt. Colonel is also deliberately misconstruing what those lawmakers and what CP were saying. Trump is the duly-elected commander in chief issuing no unlawful orders. They are the ones pushing loyalty to party over the constitution.
Plus his stupid take only got 12 likes.
His take is still stupid but it isn’t even in relation to CP’s post about sedition. I read that post, too, and CP’s thesis seems to be validated by the behavior of the Democratic lawmakers who are urging officers and intelligence agents to refuse Trump’s orders without ever explaining their unlawful nature.
Plus Graham Platner in Maine is walking proof of that.
There are several court cases pending, that have yet to determine if certain orders were lawful or not.
Yes, and that is entirely expected in 2025. There’s also a judge who says he can’t power wash a federal building. I don’t expect any of that to hold up. Well, the power washing one might if they can successfully argue that the exterior grime is a historically-significant patina.
This article about Somalian fraud schemes in Minnesota is very much worth a read. We have many signs of the same thing happening here, but there is no way our Attorney General would ever go after it without tons of pressure. Maine’s welfare programs are very easily abused, and Maine Democrats are all mortified of being accused of racism.
Our incoming Ward 5 city councilor runs his fake nonprofit from a condemned “apartment” above a chicken shack where 23 pounds of methamphetamine, other drugs, and weapons were seized in Lewiston’s largest ever bust. He was walked out in handcuffs and has not been charged with any crimes.
He also received $65,552 for his fake nonprofit that was collected by the Maine Community Foundation under the pretense that it would help mass shooting victims.
He’s also been accused of membership in Al Shabab by an anonymous community member who wrote a letter to the city after the mayor appointed him to an open school committee seat AFTER the meth bust.
From the article:
Much like with the HSS program, autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years—from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023. Meantime, the number of autism providers in the state spiked from 41 to 328 over the same period, with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers, citing the need for “culturally appropriate programming.” By the time the fraud scheme was exposed, one in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism—a rate more than triple the state average.
10/10
perfect form and execution
Soo trump calling for the complete release of the Epstein files…
Yall think he’s gonna say why they waited so long?
Do we trust that the released files will be complete and unredacted?
Definitely not.
They are already setting it up so that certain things will be withheld due to “national security” and “active investigations”.
There will definitely be lots of redactions, and there will definitely be lots of speculation about what was redacted. It will definitely make a lot of rage bait posters a lot of money.
