There is a reason they don’t do that shit in the south.
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I don’t buy, or see, this dualism as a explanation in international politics.
It is everywhere in international media coverage, but they never put it in the same terms that I do. They say “Our Democracy” and consistently characterize Trump as a fascist dictator-in-waiting, despite a decade of evidence to the contrary.
Democratic Socialism and the grift it enables is fundamentally internationalist in nature, which is one of the reasons why “nationalism” is considered a bad word. It’s the same reason why National Socialism is absurdly conflated with American Republicanism, when the only thing they have in common is a rejection of internationalism.
All for the sake of the grift for people who think they’re too important to get real jobs.
Here’s more American Red Guard activities from my local Soros-owned newspaper, edited by an out-of-state grifter whose son was Iman Osman’s attorney and is currently seeking a variety of political offices with Democratic Socialist identity politics.
Straight out of the cultural revolution.
Here’s a very concise explanation of what the Democrats are trying to do, with more evidence piling up by the day. It is quite difficult to believe this is all true, but it is.
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Not the media I’m reading.
I’m not following US media much though. It gets pretty tiresome fast, I agree.
Also, I’m not very active in social media. There you’ll find all kind of shit. I dislike whole woke and anti-woke phenomenom, and I see these culture wars largely manufactured with the help of social media.
Social media does have good sources too, but when majority is bullshit, it’s very laborous to find sensible (not simplistic or too one-sided) information. I mainly blame the algorithms though. Social media platforms make a load of cash when they get people all divided and angry in their own bubbles.
I believe there’s shit going on in Lewiston. And that corruption stuff sucks. But you can’t put the great boogeyman of democratic socialism in everywhere in the world. Trumps foreign policy can not be explained by culture wars or acts against socialism.
You might disagree, but that’s just my two cents.
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No, there are certainly more factors than that ideology in play, but the ideology is still at the center of everything.
Another way of looking at the totality of the situation is to borrow Mike Benz’s terms. When he talks about the very real deep state that’s mostly NGO’s and unelected bureaucrats, he puts it in terms of “democracy” vs “autocracy”, then uses anatomy as an analogy to explain it.
“Democracy” as in “Our Democracy” is an open butthole, ready to be ravaged by international monied interests with no particular concern for actual democratic governance. “Autocracy” is a closed butthole, not available for use by international monied interests. North Korea would be a good example of a closed butthole.
When you think of US foreign policy in the terms of butt raping, the last 80 years of our international meddling make a lot more sense. All the dictators we support or didn’t support, all the trade deals, and a lot of our military adventures all share that common element of opening up the asshole.
I tried finding the video but ran out of patience. Mike Benz is a really smart guy.
For most of what I write about Lewiston, my media source is me, my friends and neighbors, actual government proceedings, and coverage from The Maine Wire which has really been focusing on Lewiston lately, in no small part thanks to the locals who won’t shut up about it. Our legacy media is nearly worthless, literally owned by George Soros, and currently in the process of directly undermining ICE agents operating in Maine.
Wild times, for sure. Maybe the times have always been wild and we just didn’t understand enough of what was actually going on to notice.
Here’s the local sentiment on that article after being up for 45 minutes.
Tons of comments like this, too. Hundreds already.
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Not always… like in Chile, or in Middle East.
These days you have very close butthole allies, like Turkey (well not excactly, since it’s economically open, but politically closed), and then you threaten open butthole allies, like Denmark.
But I partly agree. US has done lot of good. And I would definitely want to see it in that path in the future. Time will tell, but Trump seriously has taken a new touch in your foreign policy, altering the 80+ year old path and tradition.
It’s a different game the USA is playing under the Trump Administration, no doubt. The last 80 years have led us to where we, as a population, are presently at. Gay race communists wielding power across the land, running their massive scams under favorable media coverage. Theater kids who grew up and didn’t want to actually learn how to do something useful, but instead believe they should govern those who do.
Who would have guessed a New York City Democrat would switch parties and be the catalyst for it? Not me.
The last 80 years have been a steady march towards Democratic Socialism, with Republicans only functioning to slightly impede its march until the next election cycle, and often with Republicans actively aiding it. There’s a lot of money in public wealth extraction, after all. Trump is quite different from other Republicans and isn’t shy about going on the offensive for a change.
The problem right now is the signal to noise ratio on the internet, and I’m not sure that’s even a solvable problem. Musk’s X is certainly doing their best to crack it while still allowing free expression, but right now that means you’re going to get large doses of bullshit and have to be able to discern true from false. For all of its flaws, it beats state propaganda being broadcast through nominally private media outlets that pretend to be unbiased.
True. Luckily I trust our media much more.
And it’s never a simple split between ”good” and ”bad” information. There’s definitely some pure propaganda and lies, but most information is always flawed. You should always compare different viewpoints.
Like, we have a state owned media. I do follow it, since it’s not bad. But I would never trust only to that source.
Sadly over 90% of population are not very good at this. People are generally pretty poor with handling and comparing information.
Our literal state-owned media was once quite good, too. Today NPR and PBS are just part of the blob of other nonprofits who bend reality to portray Trump as a fascist dictator-in-waiting.
It’s sort of like a UFO cult, really. People still believe in it after all these years of the Nazi UFO never actually arriving, but they still see signs of its imminent arrival in every action Trump takes.
Meanwhile, all the fraud and election rigging is being uncovered with empirical evidence. DOGE mapped out how the deep state actually functions and everyday people are seeing its tentacles right inside the towns they live in.
Here’s what that narrative collapse actually looks like, straight from a very well-connected person in Maine and Lewiston politics. She’s big mad that journalists exist.
Speaking of the which, the UAE has stopped granting University scholarships to the UK, due to the high probabilty of their youth becoming radicalized. Let that sink in.
Meanwhile they have no problem with granting scholarships to Israeli Colleges. The world is truly upside down at this point.
Even the Saudis have banned Al-Jazeera and cracked down on mosques who spew radical Islamic rhetoric, while the Uk an Germany basically allows them free reign to express their anti western sentiments (while imprisoning or fining their own citizens who stand against it for ‘‘hate incitment’’.
How did we get to this?
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Have you considered the chance of the pendulum swinging back hard the other way? Obviously it’s a bit early yet but the mid-terms will serve as an indicator.
Obviously the news migh be a bit slanted and your country is very diverse and each state is different, but I see a lot of people riled up in America regarding Trump’s governance.
Western wokeism. Suicidal empathy. Projection of our own values on to others who don’t share them. Low testosterone. Lots of lies.
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I doubt? Germany’s new law should consist these too.
the pendulum will absolutely swing back hard if they regain power. More open borders, more scams, less freedom, more indoctrination.
Voter ID is desperately needed, and the federal government is the only one who can make it happen in already rigged states like Maine.
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Are they cracking down on those now or is it just another case of throwing sand in people’s eyes? I remember reading they arrested some towel heads with links to Iran in a mosque in Hamburg sometime ago so I hope you’re right.
They likely will, as anti-Trump sentiment seems to be growing and and even some Republican officials are voicing their disagreements with this administration.
As far as voter ID, I think anyone with common sense will agree that not needing one to cast a vote is banana republic type shit. But it’s something that should have been dealt with before it became a partisan issue.
It’s 2026, ffs. If you can’t manage to get sn ID, how does society benefit from your vote?
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I’m not so convinced a midterm swing is a sure thing, but it may be. They can still rig a lot of jurisdictions and people are still vulnerable to all kinds of media narratives that discourage turnout and still somehow convince people to vote for Democrats.
Maine might even flip a senate seat from Republican to Democratic Socialist, but in a state-wide election that’s still a tall order, even with Democrats in control of the Secretary of State’s office.
In Maine and most US States what really happens is hundreds of parallel elections. The population centers are rigged to the gills with ineligible voters and mail-in ballots, but all of the districts still certify their own elections. Democrats can’t rig all of them, but they can pull off any dirty trick they can.
The Democratic leadership of Minnesota were all all issued subpoenas today for obstructing federal ICE agents amid growing fraud scandals that appear to be far too pervasive not to have help from corrupt government officials. Pam Bondi made a surprise trip to MN today as well.
It always has been a partisan issue here in the USA. Dems can’t win with clean elections, which is why they fight so hard against it and fight so hard to import new voters (and keep them here).
It may be time to nuke the filibuster and get voter ID passed nationwide. Otherwise the rigging will continue on a massive scale that’s impossible to even measure because states like Maine go to such great lengths to obscure the data from the public (including the federal government).
It isn’t a coincidence that Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz over Trump and Vance.
Meanwhile, ICE is in Lewiston and I expect our City Council meeting tonight to be packed with out-of-towners pleading with the council to do something to stop them. It’ll be a spicy meeting with that and the potential appointment of Iman Osman’s successor after his extremely short time on the city council.
