https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/11/26/overall-cost-of-thanksgiving-meal-5-lower-than-last-year/
Not all of it for sure.
Get back to us early next year when the printers spin back up again hard for quantitative easing.
I am also curious to see who Trump appoints in Powells place come middle of next year.
To say Stalin is an effective leader makes sense. But “I like Stalin” is a bit much. Most will interpret that as approving of his methods.
Stalin was certainly a leader, and certainly didn’t lose the war, but I think that has a lot more to do with the USA’s lend-lease and broader participation in the war than any of Stalin’s qualities. He was also very skilled at bank robbery.
In LOTR news, this guy keeps making these videos. I miss talking about chimps and jiu jitsu. Chimps are so fucking strong.
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We should have never allied with the soviets.
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I’m not sure we had much of a choice, given Nazi Germany’s declaration of war upon us shortly after Pearl Harbor. I suppose there’s an argument for us staying out of the war altogether, never providing lend-lease to the USSR or the UK, who Nazi Germany was already at war with, but I don’t see the USA’s actions during WWII as some kind of grave geopolitical mistake.
I also don’t know of any hard evidence that suggests Roosevelt knew about or allowed Pearl Harbor to happen.
If we’re talking about crazy governments with dysfunctional decision-making processes, Imperial Japan should be pretty high up on that list.
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We could have fought the Germans without also arming the soviets or playing their games. Having a common enemy is fine, but there was no need to help the soviets beyond that.
I think the US geopolitical mistake was allowing the soviets to keep half of Europe. I lean toward agreement with Patton on the issue.
Oh yeah. What an odd system they had. If not for the infighting, things may have been much different.
That’s a whole alternative history timeline to get into, and it might have resulted in my grandfather’s death, never making it back home to Indiana to conceive and raise his children, including my mother.
Fighting the Germans also meant supplying the Soviets, who did most of the killing of Germans and most of the dying to achieve victory.
I believe Marxist thought was going to infiltrate our institutions no matter what, because comparing reality to utopia always has an allure to it. We currently have entire academic pillars constructed from the enticing ideas of Marxism and critical theory, and I don’t think they would have been stamped out in any conceivable alternative timeline.
I disagree. But I definitely think FDR was in a precarious situation. I think he should have been harder on the soviets. Truman and Eisenhower too.
Well, there’s definitely a scenario where it wouldn’t but I don’t think anyone would like it. We’ve come full circle and back to Nick Fuentes! LOL
Thats cuz they never consider that the sci-fi of yesteryear was a warning.
You’re not supposed to imanitize the escheton. Ever. No matter how froot loopy, milk & honey in Shangri-La the promises of a better tomorrow may be. You just don’t freakin do that.
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We were also supplying the UK when Germany and the USSR were in an alliance to carve up Poland. There were a million reasons to be doing that, including the amount of money the UK owed us from WWI. Supplying the Soviets was in many ways an extension of the policy of supporting the UK, who was at war with Germany since they invaded Poland with the USSR’s help.
It already had before the war, with a growing American Communist Party split into two factions. Eugene Debs founded the Socialist Labor Party of America in 1901.
Even if we went all-in on McCarthyism, Marxist ideology would have continued to spread no matter what unless we also scrapped The First Amendment. There was no stopping its allure to academics especially. If religion is the opiate of the masses, Marxism is the opiate of the intellectuals. Nothing short of totalitarianism would have stopped it. Slowed? Perhaps, but it still would have exploded with the internet, especially if it was somehow outlawed.
It’s one of those things we’re going to have to live through to overcome, which I’m confident will still happen.
This whole push for a military coup is a sign of desperation, but it should still be taken very seriously. There are billboards outside of Fort Bragg right now openly encouraging soldiers to defy the commander-in-chief with established Antifa tactics.
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Your preaching to a history nerd man. You don’t have to type that much, I’m aware of all this stuff. We just disagree.
The reason I say we’re back to the Nick Fuentes stuff is the spread of communism is tied to Jewish intellectuals. Especially in the US. Not in a giant conspiratorial way, but many at the forefront were Jewish and people latch onto that.
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I’m well aware that Jewish people hold a great deal of influence in academia, the media, and modern politics.
Non-Jewish people also hold an awful lot of cards in this poker game, and the majority of the Marxist army in 2025 isn’t ethnically Jewish.
It’s hard to pin down exactly what Nick Fuentes believes about the government, because he can always claim to be joking while he’s busy riling up young men and making lots of money for himself.
My position is that people should be prosecuted and deported based on their wrongdoing, not their religion or ethnicity. It’s hard to tell what Nick Fuentes’s position actually is, but all signs seem to point to woke identity politics that would discriminate along ethnic or religious lines, specifically targeting Jews.
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Trump came out with a pair of pretty significant announcements over the Thanksgiving holiday. I like both because he’s clearly stating the truth about the illegal migrant population and the seriously retarded nature of Tim Waltz.
He’s also nullifying 92 percent of Biden’s Executive Orders signed via autopen, which we all know Joe Biden was clueless about. Biden was clueless about everything during his term because he was not compos mentis.
Meanwhile, Democrats seem to be actively encouraging a junta through the seditious six and a seditious NGO putting billboards up encouraging military members to become traitors.
Buckle up, guys.
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I seriously enjoyed this and have to give props to Trump when it’s due.
Now, I hope he actually follows through and goes 100% on this.
It seems to me we’ve been in a long term color revolution and now it’s ramping up to the violence stage.
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2012 Smith Mundt Modernization Act under Obama is what allowed the CIA and State Department to use the same propaganda tricks on the American people that we had been using to destabilize countries for decades.
In essence, it legalized fake news WAY beyond what the American public was subjected to prior to that. I mean, we all lived through it. One fake story backed by anonymous sources after another, all repeated as if they were fact in unison by nearly every major media outlet.
Facts supporting the idea of a domestic color revolution have been trickling out for years now and some folks like DataRepublican and Mike Benz on X are piecing it together for everyone.
I highly recommend both.
And LOL at whoever flagged my post for violating T-Nation’s community standards. Weakling.
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Lol that is lame.
I am not familiar with the “flagging” feature on T-Nation. Does the flagger need to specify the “community standards” that your post violated?
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I’m not sure. I’ve never flagged anyone and only blocked zecarlo, which just kind of hides the posts.
This is only the second or third post of mine that’s been blocked.
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Yep. Just straight up cowardice and intellectual laziness.
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