These attempts to look more “manly” are so, so lame.
When I was watching some clips of those “lawmakers” telling military personnel to ignore unlawful orders (d-uh!!!), I couldn’t help but note the absurdity of the fact that this obvious psy-op video included…ex-CIA “intelligence” asshats! What a bunch of clowns.
They may be clowns to grown men like us, educated prior to the full incorporation of wokeness into the ivy leagues (your case) and rural Indiana public schools (my case), but they seem to have a good grip on manipulating vast swaths of people.
At least they do here in Maine.
True. About 50% of the population -facts!
In more optimistic news, the commie NYC mayor elect Mamdani shockingly (to me) kept the Jewish police commissioner Jessica Tisch (Tisch family have billions in net worth), appointed by previous mayor Eric Adams, in her position.
For me, everything begins with law & order.
Watched some clips of Trump/Mamdami fielding press questions after their meeting in the WH. A) I can see/hear why Mamdami won over Fossil Cuomo B) Trump is a master politician, can’t be emphasized enough at this point.
There is a long list of people who “hated” him, only to walk away from actually meeting him going “Yeah, he’s actually a really nice guy…”.
Trump’s about to get a lot less popular in my neck of the woods.
Robinson isn’t wrong in his take on this. I don’t know enough about how TPS works, but whether it gets extended to Maine or not, it will be hugely impactful here.
I agree with all of this. I’d like a return to earnest Americans teaching ESL classes at night to enthusiastic and motivated groups of immigrants, who then proudly display their citizenship papers. I’ve been arguing since I can remember about salad bowl vs melting pot - the melting pot worked. The salad bowl does not.
I’m talking about people with full time jobs, or who have been full time workers prior to retirement age or health issues, e.g. a woman I work with whose husband had a stroke and has heart issues at 60. She still works full time pulling orders in a warehouse. She grieves the dog who died 4 years ago, but can’t responsibly afford a new one. The husband has recently been approved for disability, so things will be better (no more food shelf) but $14K from him plus her $15/hour job won’t be enough to deal with roofs or major systems in the house along with keeping a car on the road in a place that requires snow tires and etc.
My post did say “buying a house is a crazy dream,” so I acknowledge that I wrote it in a way that was confusing. Thinking further about it to answer your question, I’d say that younger people earning what the above couple earned would not be able to purchase a home, because the income to housing costs ratios have changed so much. Older people are living in collapsing houses, and have to hope that they’re poor enough to qualify for help from our (super good and noble and decent) place that helps with heating oil and winterization and offers a food shelf and such. Younger people have trouble maintaining decent credit scores because of needed car repairs and so on, compounding their issues - things tumble out of control very quickly when there’s only enough money to manage food, shelter, and gas for the car.
But yes, landlords are expected to maintain properties.
A melting pot with a solidly American base. Defined by incumbent values, norms and mores, skipping over the DEI train wreck we just witnessed.
Agree. To me, melting pot has a solidly American base and can easily absorb newcomers. You come in as chunks, but over time melt down into the dominant values (on purpose - come here because you WANT your children to be a part of this) though the melting does subtly alter the broth, which is fine. The salad bowl has the tomatoes fighting the cucumbers for dominance, and challenging the values of the lettuce base.
If it was a one-time migration of the 800 or so Somalians in 2002-3ish, Lewiston would have been fine in the long run.
That’s not what happened though. Democrats figured out very quickly how politically advantageous importing state dependents can be, and funded the machine accordingly.
I don’t think it was a coincidence that Maine and Minnesota were targeted. A bunch of left leaning, low crime white people who project their own values onto everyone were sitting ducks, and still are.
Especially when accusations of racism can ruin a person’s social life and even career.
My feelings on Trump after voting for him twice:
I watched you kiss that wall, and something inside me snapped, clean, final, like a bone that’s been stressed too long. All those years I defended you, fought for you, believed every word you threw into those crowded arenas… and for what? To watch you bow your head to another nation like some starstruck pilgrim desperate for approval that should’ve meant nothing compared to the people back home? You weren’t sent there to worship symbols in someone else’s land. You were sent there because men like me, men who work, men who bleed, men who’ve been forgotten by every polished liar in Washington, thought you’d finally be different. It was a small thought and hope.
But there you stood, forehead pressed to foreign stone as if salvation lived anywhere but the broken towns you promised to rebuild. And when you bowed to their leader smiling, obedient, reverent; it felt like watching the last ounce of our faith drain out onto the floor. Do you have any idea what it’s like to realize the man you thought would fight for your country was busy currying favor with another? Do you know what it feels like to realize that America First was just a slogan, and not a spine?
We didn’t back you so you could audition for applause overseas. We didn’t lift you up for you to kneel for anyone. We believed you would finally put the American people where they deserved to be at the center of your loyalty, not on the sidelines while you chased approval from foreign powers who will never send a dollar to our factories, never bring jobs back to our dying towns, never bury our veterans.
And now I’m left with the taste of betrayal in my mouth—because it’s clear that the promises you made were easier to speak than to keep. You were supposed to stand tall for us. Instead, you bent. You bowed. You kissed the wall and forgot the people who built the foundation you stand on.
So hear this: if the America-First dream survives, it won’t be because of you. It will be in spite of you. Because we don’t bow. We don’t kiss anyone’s wall. And we damn sure don’t forget who we’re supposed to fight for.
We will be instrumental in bringing the entire diseased temple down and will rejoice when foreign influence is a thing of the past. We would rather see it all burn than continue to bow the knee to Israeli interests.
It’s about time we got a Groyper in the thread. Welcome, and thanks for creating your t-nation account to participate in PWI. Maybe I’ll finally learn what @Brant_Drake was talking about with transmaxxing.
How does it feel to latch on to a fringe movement fueled by foreign twitter accounts working overtime to sow discord within the MAGA ranks? I take it you’re a fan of Nick Fuentes.
Elon Musk’s new location feature on X sure exposed how inorganic that entire movement is. Don’t forget to put the money in the Fuentes hat, comrade.
I’m kind of enjoying his flair for the dramatic.
MAGA is dead and always was a scam.
I agree with a lot of what Nick Fuentes says and there is some I don’t.
If anything most of us are probably further than Nick. America First? No, America Only.
I would expect nothing less than someone who deepthroats the state and Trump so hard that you probably have boot prints inside your colon. Bondi would be proud of you.
Doubtful. A long time poster here is a very close friend and piqued my interest in this forum.
It has only just begun.
Great. Let’s start with the basics. Who are you comparing President Trump to?
Just curious if you have any kind of a weight training in your life. BTW, who is your “close friend” who is a long-time poster on T-Nation.
More than 99% of people here lol.
Bauber.
All other presidents that have bowed to Israel and Israeli interests since JFK.
Post a pic.
Okay, so you think he’s somehow worse than Obama and Carter?
