Mr. White hasn’t seen Bama for awhile.
Maybe its my touch of the 'tizm acting up, but I gravitated to this legendary clip for your perusal, and felt that this was the place to put it. I’m not sure what the connection is, or if there even is one.
Enjoy.
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Similar to Orwell’s 80 year-old essay “What is Fascism?”, which is just as relevant today as it was then, “What is woke?” is another question that will get different answers depending on who you ask.
One thing is certain, voting AGAINST “woke” was a major driver in the last election. Democrats are still seemingly perplexed at how people would vote for the most-smeared politician in modern history and not their “woke” ideas. For me, at least, it was because the woke ideas are so easy to pinpoint in a place like Maine, as there has been virtually no opposition to them since at least 2018. And boy, they’ve gotten a lot done.
If I’m to concisely define “woke” in 2025, I would simply refer someone to the Democratic Socialists of America’s policy platform. It has been being aggressively implemented in as many ways as possible here in Maine during the last seven or eight years. Whenever I wonder why a Maine Democrat does or doesn’t do something, a trip to the DSA website always puts it into better perspective.
DSA Political Platform - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
For an example of what “woke” actually means in reality, I present the Maine Community Foundation. It is proudly guided by DSA concepts of “equity”, including many race-based ideas. It is right on their “about us” section of the website under “equity”.
What does buying into these concepts mean for people in Lewiston? It means that the Maine Community Foundation will hire an outside consultant to organize a fund raising effort in response to the horrific mass shooting we experienced in October of 2023.
Using the consultant’s help, they were able to come up with the slippery language necessary to convince people to donate money to help the victims and then siphon millions to unrelated non-profits.
There were no immigrants involved in the shooting, but many migrant resettlement non-profits were given money from this fund. So was the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition. So was another nonprofit run by the same guy, Maine Inside Out, which advocates on the juvenile side. They’re the ones who were able to get Marcel LaGrange to work with my local high school students on a rap collaboration a few weeks before he murdered two people in front of children in Portland, exactly as he told the state he was going to do.
MANY people in my town are extremely upset by this, including myself, but we’re being told that nothing illegal was done. The whole fund raising effort seems to be the morbid definition of “perfectly legal”.
If you wonder what woke concepts like “restorative justice” actually mean, it means collecting money for shooting victims, all of whom happened to be white, and then distributing it to people who they have somehow calculated as more deserving of that money. This calculation is arrived at through applying the lens of woke racial oppression politics. An explanation of this thinking can be found on either of my links in this post.
Those of us not in the woke cult look at it and see it for what it is, which is a bunch of lying grifters hiding behind rainbow banners, glitter and LOTS of extremely vague language about righting the wrongs of the past along racial lines.
I can guarantee you nobody who donated to that fund, based on how the Maine Community Foundation presented it, would have expected a penny to go to most of these non-profits. The local hospitals? Sure, they took a massive hit and did a lot, most would agree. The Democratic Socialist Activists working to abolish prisons as a concept? Migrant resettlement orgs? HELL NO.
What is woke? Asking for donations for mass shooting victims and distributing it to people who had nothing to do with it or the response in the name of “restorative justice” is woke.
(Broad Recovery Efforts & Organizations Fund – Maine Community Foundation)
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Your dissertation length posts don’t help your case. BTW, that part I quoted, is just about where I stopped reading.
I forgot to add, you have ZDS to the point that you don’t simply disagree with me, but you are stating lies. Yes, I broke you.
The passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
The 16th Amendment was established, establishing an income tax.
The 17th Amendment was established, establishing the direct election of U.S. Senators.
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@zecarlo
Have you ever actually agreed with anybody on this site? Or had something positive or pleasant to say? Or is this just how you enjoy passing the time, by continually sparring with everyone on here and pointing out how everyone is “wrong”? I enjoy a good back and forth, and when people don’t agree they back up their points, but most will end up just agreeing to disagree or moving in another direction. But you are like a Pitbull with its teeth dug in, refusing to let things go. I know I’m not the only one who has been enjoying a certain thread, with various ideas, positions, etc. and then only to see you enter the fray and immediately begin injecting pessimism and negativity. It has really gotten to be your SOP (and lately its increased in both frequency and negativity) and again, I highly doubt I’m the only one to think “oh man, here we go again, this thread’s gonna bog down with your usual hammering of someone and their viewpoint”.
Usually it’s immediately telling those you have deemed “wrong”, because they have a different viewpoint, all of the errors of their thinking and with this tone of intellectual and moral superiority. Why?
Why the need to keep doing it? We all get that you don’t like Trump, his administration, anything he says/does.
Like claiming you “broke” @twojarslave …I think I used to talk like that, back when I was 12 and on AOL chat.
I just had to ask. Maybe you should talk to somebody about what’s going on with you? But, a real life person, where you go sit down for an hour and just get it all out. It’s actually pretty helpful, I’ve done it, you might try it. I’m being serious, not saying that to be insulting or “take a dig”, but it might lighten your mood and put you in a better place mentally. Being negative and dour all the time is exhausting, I know firsthand. It’s much easier, and healthier as well, being cheerful and happy, getting up in the morning and being thankful you’re alive another day. You don’t want to always be the negative Nancy in the room. It’s a much better feeling when, after you enter a room/thread/chat, people are happy that you’ve joined and eager to engage with you.
Just a thought. Based on all of your past posts, I imagine this will go over like a lead balloon, but maybe just chew on it for a bit, think about it. Ha, if you wish, you can turn your anger towards me and spare someone else. But I’ll just tell you up front that I won’t be as fun as other people as I usually choose not to engage when insulted/taunted, especially by a person who I have and will never meet in real life. I’ve got more important things going on: work, family, aka real life.
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It’s true. Here I am, a shattered man after zecarlo has disagreed with me for the thousandth time in the last eight years or something like that. The first nine hundred and ninety nine all stung, but this vague disagreement about the policy relevance of Hugo Junkers business being nationalized in 1934 really got to me.
I’m even older than AOL. Back in my day I had to tie up the telephone line to dial into my local bulletin board service where I could play MUDs, download pirated software and even topless pictures of Pamela Anderson.
Kids today will never understand how a 9600 baud modem adds to the anticipation of what’s about to revealed. Pixel by pixel slowly fills in on your radiating CRT monitor, until you finally get a VGA-quality rendering of a pair of surgically enhanced boobs at age 13.
It was like winning the lottery compared to the Sears catalog or even USA Up All Night Bikini Carwash type of movies.
Sadly, we hadn’t yet developed the technology to endlessly talk shit online at that point in my childhood.
Yes. I just question how people arrive at opinions. I’m a natural skeptic so I don’t default to worshipping a politician just because of their rhetoric.
Disagreeing with someone is not being negative. If you change the perspective, the other person would also be negative as he disagrees with you.
Offering a different interpretation, perspective or opinion is not pointing out how everyone is wrong. Consider this, whenever someone comes here to post an unsolicited opinion, he is tacitly stating anyone who may disagree with him is wrong before anyone actually posts an opposing opinion.
You might want to look at twojar’s War and Peace length posts which all repeat the same things: ME, Lewiston, Somalis, DSA.
I think you are missing the point. Is this a forum where we start threads expecting them to be a safe space?
And there it is. You start out acting as though you are above it all then get snarky. That’s something else I do: point out hypocrisy.
Your post is evidence of that.
Thank Al Gore.
Here is an executive order tracker. There are a few floating around. Easy way to keep up.
Still hoping to see a push for law vs orders but at least the next four years will be a return to normalcy.
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I’ve never once blamed any of my town’s problems on anyone of Somalian heritage, many of whom have been here longer than me, most of whom moved here from Atlanta over 20 years ago. They weren’t escaping Mogadishu.
That wasn’t without problems, but we had safe streets and a public school that was already multi lingual (French) and was able to handle a third. My son graduated in 2018, right when the unbelievable influx of “New Mainers” really started to flow in. Problems were on the rise, but NOTHING like today.
Our situation in 2025 with 30 percent of students ELL in FORTY TWO different languages is largely due to lying progressive DSA activists, who have had great success in implementing their social transformation agenda on the backs of working Mainers. OBVIOUSLY.
Now we have gun battles in the streets every week, an abysmally failing public school with every problem you can imagine (including staffing), and a DSA leadership in state government who nearly all discuss politics in the same manner that @zecarlo does.
“That’s not really real. You just don’t understand. People who disagree with me are uneducated” and other vague nonsense that fit the same pattern of never taking accountability for the radical changes they brought about directly through their government policies.
If people are irritated that I keep bringing up the local impacts of radical Democrat policy, well, that’s too bad. What my town is experiencing is the direct result of policies at the local and national level and everything I describe is very real.
Even in your lame reply, you try to suggest that my concerns are borne out of racism against Somalians, just like local DSA activists do. It is a truly sad and pathetic worldview with major consequences for people who have to live under Democrat progressive government.
DSA activists are sort of like little demons who get really mad when you name them, whether online or in person. Their problem is that we’re no longer in the realm of the abstract and reality doesn’t approve of their insane contradictions the way Marxist thought encourages those same contradictions.
That’s why were at the predictable stage of being gaslit by leaders who tell us they are great leaders while continuing to implement their radical DSA agenda as social and economic conditions deteriorate rapidly.
Lewiston, Maine is highly, highly relevant to this thread about Donald Trump. An easy way of understanding a Trump voter in 2025 would be to ask “Why would someone vote for more of what I’ve described in Lewiston?”
DSA activist types will go to astonishing lengths both online and in person to explain away all of the situations I’ve described, always going back to the idea that anyone who opposes their agenda is some combination of fascist, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
It’s a very sad way of looking at the world and history is not going to look favorably on early 21st century progressive policies. The only way anyone can objectively look at a town like mine and conclude that the results are good is if they believe that regular people in Maine have an obligation to provide for the needs of other people due to the skin color they traditionally had.
That’s exactly where we’re at today, with no powerful conservatives left t to blame in Maine for their policies.
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Zecarlo only “wins” when he twists and performs logic leaps behind a veil of gaslighting, usually in subjective topics to begin with. I wouldn’t sweat it.
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Sparring with zecarlo for the last 8 years or however long I’ve been posting in PWI was actually great preparation for becoming active in local politics.
DSA activists are very predictable for me, thanks to his extensive efforts over the years. People on my school committee, city council and local representatives share many of the same rhetorical characteristics, and they most certainly share his disdain for people opposed to the radical DSA agenda.
I’m proud to have been called “vile” by my woke school committee chair. Budget talks are ramping up and we’ll see how big of a tax increase we’ll get this year. Last year they marched in hundreds of non-English speakers with translators on round 3 to make it pass. It was brazen and shameful.
I’m guessing that mobilization will occur on round 1 this time, but we’ll see in a few months. Last year’s local property tax increase was substantial, around $800 for the average homeowner, driving many seniors on fixed incomes to sell and move elsewhere.
What’s going to be interesting is how much #resistance we’re going to see at the local level to Trump’s various EO’s and new strings attached to federal dollars. How committed are these radicals to their ridiculous rhetoric over the years?
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The supposed criteria for cabinet position experience seems to be applied very inconsistently. Marco Rubio, for instance, is a lawyer whose resume consists of being a legislator at various levels and little else. He doesn’t have particular training in international relations or any hard experience leading large organizations. Yet he was approved 99-0 with no pushback. But others are criticized for not having particular training or experience leading large organizations, which is really just a pretense for policy disagreements.
I think Rubio will be a good SecState, but we need to be more consistent and transparent with what we are looking for in cabinet position qualifications.
No…cabinet positions should be assigned by the President and the senate should have no say so
The pattern I see emerging is more of political insider vs outsider when I look at this sort of thing over my lifetime. I’m not sure qualifications have ever been a factor the way they are at a normal job interview.
I think it has always been more about getting people who “play ball”, especially 20+ years ago when the parties were much more similar than they are today. Out of all of Trump’s sins, disrupting the old reliable apple cart has probably been the biggest reason for all coordinated vitriol and assassination attempts.
On that note, I’m a HUGE Kash Patel fan from what I witnessed on his confirmation hearings.
Unleash the bulls throughout our federal China shops.
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Rubio has a general aura of douchiness. Apart from that he seems competent. Smart, well informed. And maybe even a little tough?
I would guess that the Senate Democrats were driven mostly to confirm Rubio to get him out of the Senate.
Maybe, but do you think that they are going to like a Ron DeSantis appointee any better?
Probably not, but I bet they believe that they have a much better chance defeating DeSantes’ appointee than with Rubio.
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