Ill be honest, thats a victory in itself. Creating a crack isnt a loss. Its progress. As small as it may be. A damn doesnt fail because of a meteor hitting it. Its a crack here, a fracture there. It adds up.

The resiliency of that mentality isnt impenetrable.

Rest in peace you poor bastards. Forced to fight a rich mans war… for nothing.

There is a part of the constitution that prohibits someone that has completed 2 terms as president from being vp afterwards.

I understand what you are saying. But i believe that it is not really representative of what is happening or needs to happen to the usa as a whole.

Brownback just wasnt strong enough of a virus to build immunity to this sickness.

He may have been an slight inoculation for some people, but the immune system as a whole went on and then forgot about the weak virus.

what is happening now is a bigger bug. Lets just hope the fever doesnt kill us.

Yeah i think we will soon be far along enough that my personal feelings about this, in comparison to a random unpopular kansas govenor, are irrelevant and not a fair comparison. Its hardly a fair comparison right now.

I had to look up brownback tbh.

The “sam brownback concept” isnt a thing. But there are real examples of the yoyo slinging back hard enough to hit someone in the face and make them reconsider letting out the string again.

Im worried that at this point, for all the destruction and permanent damage hes done, that we may just need him to stick around and break more things.

If he kicks off tomorrow, we could have this happen again. It all gets washed under the rug and hes replaced with more subtle powers. It only took 4 years for the majority of the usa to forget the first round of damage he caused, after all.

But then again, if he lasts too long, we risk never recovering.

There is a sick, nihilistic balance to all this now imo. I want a guarantee that we dont slip down this road again. And unfortunately more pain may be the only way to guarantee it for the next few generations.

I feel dirty even saying it. But in my gut, i believe it.

More flies with honey they say… but i still cant get this usb right the first try.

The fall guy wised up too quick and is going to make a clean getaway.

Disappointing to say the least.

You just said it. You already know why one side is getting bombed and the other isnt. In the most polite way possible, dont be dense. You know and so do i.

This is politics my friend. And not even good politics. No use worrying about things like casualties or logic or efficiency.

Hell, we threw out sensible foreign influence months ago. When we are tarrifing and threatening invasion of our closest allies, where is there real room for the lives of random muslims in some desert? They mean nothing.

We have a mandate now.

Once again. If this is what we know… what on earth is happening that we dont know about?

The thing about incompetence is that, if one fuck up was this bad because the right person found out. How many times has it been brushed aside by someone without the means?

Its always going to be worse than you could ever dream of. We are still so early into 4 years its terrifying.

As a side point. This is also proof that the moon landing is real and the earth is round. But functioning brains already knew that…

Ok. Shoot them all.

Ill be back here trying to talk to my neighbor first like the rational human being i am.

get to it. Times wasting to kill em all. Lets be honest. You’ve only got one attempt before they come to gun you down in response, so be efficient. I bet you can get a couple before they drop you like a dog. Label you a psychopath and a radical. Hell you can even be a terrorist.

Meanwhile i can plant little seeds and talk to hundreds of people. Change hearts and minds over time. Bring people to my cause.

I dont think that this is a refutation of the two party system at all. I think this is a rebalancing of the system in likes to the tea party surge of the kid 2000s.

It isnt a rebuttal. Its a response. as much as the democratic party hates it, it still is well within the status quo and thats why schumer will hang his arms on the cross so to speak. Hes the willing and able party pariah. It is manufactured.

And thats why im worried it isnt enough. Its why im angry still.

I know what newsmax is.

I also known that this is just enough cognitive dissonance to maybe turn someone…

Its a matter of “if they can turn on a dime, you can too”.

I get that they are doubling down. I also get that this is the first disconnect they have had with mainstream media in eight years. And maybe that is my in.

I understand that it is a small shift, but honestly, its the first shift ive seen in many of them in almost a decade. Ill take it.

Marching it the streets.

Mass protests.

Malicious compliance.

Organized disruptions of everyday life.

Sabotage.

All that first.

Guns are for when they refuse those.

You are a literal years ahead of the curve when it comes to lasting change. Be a martyr if you want. I dont care. But if we didnt follow behind luigi, we arent there yet. So shoot someone and get gunned down. Be my guest. You first.

Have you even done the bare minimum of protest before advocating for fucking violence? Are you lazy or just an armchair antagonizer?

To be perfectly clear, being prepaired and being in shape is good for you. Do that. But lets look at history. Look at the civil rights era for reference.

Being in shape and well armed doesnt do shit. It took one unarmed black lady not moving on a bus to be a nexus. after dozens had already done the same. It was on purpose. It had organization.

Look at how long it took after that before the black panthers marched on the capital with guns and congress got so scared to push firearm reforms, but somehow was not be the nexus of change.

They didnt care abour busses. and being armed doesnt do shit. Organizing does. Protest does.

The nexus wasnt firearms. It was people getting together and protesting every way they could. For literal years.

As a prolific gun owner myself, i dont hold any faith in them. My faith is in something coalescing into a movement. And that movement isnt firepower. You cant beat the united states military and the complex it built anyways.

But you can change hearts and minds. it takes organization. Protest will always be better. Love your neighbor and be a nuisance until you change their heart.

That being said, guns are also an option, but if it takes less than a decade of this bs to get you to shoot someone, you just wanted to shoot someone to begin with. And as much as i own and use guns and, somewhat ironically, abhore violence, im not going to be the person to change your mind if thats what you are set on.

Damn.

Trump doesnt need to manipulate much. I live in deep red country. They are upset that fox has “completely changed” and they want to go to newsmax instead.

They are soooo fucking close to getting it. But the propaganda seed has already been planted.

For fucks sake…

I hate my state sometimes…

Ok. Alot of times.

I mean im an adult that can contextualize the geopolitical reasononing behind why this is a bad deal without relying on heavy handed amerocentric hypotheticals.

To be clear, I never disagreed with your point. I just think that your comparison was dumb. And honestly, using alaska is even worse.

I dont know why you need a comparison in the first place. You already have the actual event to look at. Its in eastern europe. And they are in a war.

To that point, lets be real, even the united states doesnt really care about new mexico. Crimea in this argument has actual economic value.

Honestly any square foot of what russia has stolen from Ukraine has so much more economic value in comparison to new mexico, its hardly a realistic comparison.

I get what you are saying. But taos vs a warm water sea port is such an insane comparison. Its so much worse. Albuquerque? Let em have it. Santa fe? Please.