The Donald vs Big Tech

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

People like Robert Jeffress, the megachurch pastor who is an advisor to Trump and who the latter sent to publicly bless the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem (itself taken to be a step towards ushering in the Second Coming). Huckabee shares these beliefs (his belief that Israel has a rightful claim to the West Bank and should do so is also part and parcel of actively working towards the fulfillment of End Times prophecies) and has promoted the writings of people like Max Lucado, another delusional eschatologist.

Watch the documentary and see what you think.

[Caomhaoin]

I'll give it a look at the weekend, left the laptop at work.

Huckabee confirmed? You'd hope they don't swing the reactionary pendulum from ghastly wokeness in the army, education etc to delusional evangelism. I think Trump wants neither, he wants to Make America Cool Again like 1986, with wet t-shirt competitions, jet skis, big hair and wraparound sunglasses.

You're being a bit harsh on the defence lad I think. It's true he's part time on Fox but according to Tim Pool he has two degrees from Princeton, he was an on the ground officer, bronze stars etc.Probably knows what he's at. As for the tattoos, sure lookit, Deus Vult is fairly vanilla. Let's reserve judgement.

[astfgyl]

Well it seems to be impossible for most of the world to reach a consensus on Israel and the West Bank (likely for dollar based reasons, but maybe some ideology as well) so I'll take a wait and see on the results even if it doesn't look great on paper for now.

Regarding trump and evangelical Christians, well I suppose he has to get the voter base from somewhere and the Democrats seem to have the atheist crowd sewn up and the Science Is Your God crowd also sewn up, so he hadn't much of a choice but to pander to that crowd to get ahead.

So far he seems by what he says to be looking to bring a bit of common sense back to proceedings because, let's face it, it had gone so far the other direction as to be just too stupid for the majority. Then again, what a politician says and what they do are usually hard to marry so again the jury is out until he gets in and starts doing things rather than saying things.

Also the fact that we live in a world where many see Donald Trump as the saviour of common sense and good things should give many of us pause for thought (and it probably does for normal folk, but we aren't politicians) and I'm wondering why we had to go so far one way as to make centrism look extreme.

Here's a question:

Who has been running America for the last year if it wasn't Biden (and it obviously wasn't Biden)?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Huckabee confirmed? You'd hope they don't swing the reactionary pendulum from ghastly wokeness in the army, education etc to delusional evangelism.

If you weren't expecting delusional evangelism to take over, you haven't had your eye on the ball.

You're being a bit harsh on the defence lad I think.

I described him in purely factual terms: He's an (ex?) part time Fox host. He defended the treatment of inmates at Guantanamo. He has two Crusades-worship tattoos.

That you know what Tim Pool said about anything is a bad sign with respect to keeping your eye on the ball. Not so much chewing gum for the eyes as caustic soda for the mind.

[astfgyl]

Lol, Tim Pool.

Fuck,  the list of absolute Stook Ideologues on both sides of the political divide is astounding.

People deserve what they've got for not stopping the rot years ago

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Is there any way I could coordinate with your family to get a "both sides" jar going where you have to put a euro in it every time you say or type "both sides"? The proceeds could go towards the yokes for the MW meet-up.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The cringe is simply endless:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856530955709587762

[astfgyl]

Is there any way I could coordinate with your family to get a "both sides" jar going where you have to put a euro in it every time you say or type "both sides"? The proceeds could go towards the yokes for the MW meet-up.

Really? For every Tim Pool you can think of, there can be some other handicap pulled up with democratic ideas that's just as annoying.

So here, have another both sides are retarded along with whoever thinks either of them are cool.

Not only are both sides retarded but also both sides are retarded enough to think the other one is the problem.

I fucking laughed when trump was elected again because it was the logical conclusion to the spasticated far left who bow to all sciences except biology.

Both sides? Neither for me, thanks

[Thorn]

You two will definitely have your own wee corner at any prospective MW meet up !



And I'd probably be in a corner making lists

[astfgyl]

"The US presidential election campaign served to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."

That's what the guardian said about leaving twitter today, in an attempt to call out political bias.

Sweet Jesus

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Is there any way I could coordinate with your family to get a "both sides" jar going where you have to put a euro in it every time you say or type "both sides"? The proceeds could go towards the yokes for the MW meet-up.

Really? For every Tim Pool you can think of, there can be some other handicap pulled up with democratic ideas that's just as annoying.

So here, have another both sides are retarded along with whoever thinks either of them are cool.

Not only are both sides retarded but also both sides are retarded enough to think the other one is the problem.

I fucking laughed when trump was elected again because it was the logical conclusion to the spasticated far left who bow to all sciences except biology.

Both sides? Neither for me, thanks

That's the spirit! If we buy bulk, we might already have our first yoke covered with just that post.

(I haven't the foggiest how much they sell for these days though, so apologies to the kids on here if we gramps are embarrassingly out of date. 3' and 6 they were back in my day!)

[Caomhaoin]

Yeah but if you're going to talk about Pete Hagsgrith or whatever the cunts name is in purely factual terms, why not include the stuff like the bronze stars, his respect from subordinates etc, the inconvenient facts? Otherwise it's skewed and lying by omission/insufficient research/ biased and therefore pointless. He has dodgy tattoos though :/

Yeah, they hate Tim Pool and Russell Brand with a particular vitriol because they are Martin Luther and Zwingli, burn the heretics! Bullshitters!

Yokes...THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Lowrys in Tipp Town this summer, surely you know a lad who can make it happen Asty? Or maybe you are 'the lad' 😂

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You're asking me why I didn't include LinkedIn profile padding such as "respect from subordinates"? Because I didn't get into his CV details at all. Some commentators have described Hegseth as the least qualified candidate in US history for the role of Secretary of Defense (and that is pretty well underlined if you compare him to current Secretary Lloyd Austin, a four star general with a mile-long list of awards and decorations), but I also didn't include that. In terms of a confluence of elements that demonstrate a potential bias re future foreign policy, the fact that Hegseth defended mistreatment of Arabs at Guantanamo and proudly wears symbols that represent a form of Christian Islamophobia are more interesting to me. By all means fill your boots with the ins and outs of his qualifications with respect to doing the day-to-day job: I'm not saying it's not interesting, it's just of less interest to me in terms of getting an overall idea of what we can expect from MAGA over the next four years. In my opinion, delusional evangelism, as you put it. And, yes, Hegseth is also an Evangelical Christian.

[Bürggermeister]

Matt Gaetz, new attorney general. It's all good but, if you're in a hurry, skip to the child trafficking and teenage prostitution part. Maybe it's ok if it's not in a pizzeria?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

[The Heretic]

America will be a basket case in 4 years time, if not before.