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GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER! GOD BLESS HIS VALUES, WHICH ARE TRUE AMERICAN VALUES! GOD BLESS OUR SPECIAL PUP, WHO IS GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE! STOP THE FAKE AMERICANS WHO HATE OUR NATION!

"A negative is as good as a positive." My favorite organizing line is, "The action is in the reaction." I learned that from a hateful Minnesota Jew who was, even worse, a liberal college professor! And we are seeing that in Minnesota today. But "a negative is as good as a positive" is a close second. People often mean, or are, the opposite of what they say. So, coming from you, that's a huge compliment. Thanks. Now go bite a Canadian. Or some Muslim or Mexican or Minnesotan. Or whoever the fuck from some shit hole.

THE FAKE JEWS HATE AMERICA THE FAKE AMERICANS HATE AMERICA THEY SPREAD THEIR SICK HATEFUL VALUES OF HATE I HATE THE FAKE ONES AND THEIR WEAKNESS PUT A FUCKING FENCE AROUND MINNESOTA AT LEAST THAT IS A SOLUTION IF WE CAN NOT JUST KILL THEM ALL THIS HATE HAS BEEN SPREADING ACROSS MINNESOTA FOR FAR TOO LONG FAKE JEW! FAKE AMERICAN! AMERICA HATER! AT LEAST THEY ARE SHUTTING SOME OF THEM THE FUCK UP!

Q.E. D. The dog can't be trained, I guess. No harm in trying. But let's all just go with the flow. Minneapolis police chief confirms federal agents shot and killed resident Saturday FAKE JEW! FAKE AMERICAN! FAKE VALUES! I am so fucking sick of these homo loving fake Jews and fake Americans like Frey and his predecessor Wellstone who whine like bitches. Oh my ancestors fled oppression in Russia! Whining bitches! Fake values! Our loyal and true and good pup stands for TRUE STRENGTH and TRUTH and REAL AMERICAN VALUES. Kill the fuckers if they show no RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY AND OUR GREAT PRESIDENT! GOOD BOY, MY LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! BARK! BITE! KILL!

Q.E. D. The dog can't be trained, I guess. No harm in trying. But let's all just go with the flow. Minneapolis police chief confirms federal agents shot and killed resident Saturday FAKE JEW! FAKE AMERICAN! FAKE VALUES! I am so fucking sick of these homo loving fake Jews and fake Americans like Frey and his predecessor Wellstone who whine like bitches. Oh my ancestors fled oppression in Russia! Whining bitches! Fake values! Our loyal and true and good pup stands for TRUE STRENGTH and TRUTH and REAL AMERICAN VALUES. Kill the fuckers if they show no RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY AND OUR GREAT PRESIDENT! GOOD BOY, MY LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! BARK! BITE! KILL!

SUCK, PUP, SUCK! BE A GOOD DOG AND SUCK! SUCK HARD, PUP! YOU ARE A GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! SUCK!

SUCK, PUP, SUCK! BE A GOOD DOG AND SUCK! SUCK HARD, PUP! YOU ARE A GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! SUCK!

SUCK, PUP, SUCK! BE A GOOD DOG AND SUCK! SUCK HARD, PUP! YOU ARE A GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! SUCK!

SUCK, PUP, SUCK! BE A GOOD DOG AND SUCK! SUCK HARD, PUP! YOU ARE A GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! SUCK!

Are there any dog owners out there? This is just so boring and repetitive. I know that our dog is good and loyal and true. And I am not prejudiced against dogs so I know he is just stupid. But is just gets so fucking boring. Nobody watches the stupid Tik Tok videos. Why actually try to become more stupid? I am wondering if we could possibly try to do some retraining? I mean, even Pavlov's dog could learn. @Barknaway obviously gets a big dopamine hit with "bark" and "bite" The idea of biting some snowflake like Carney from some shit hole like Canada obviously gets him off. Do you think our stupid pup could be trained to replace "bark" and "bite" with "suck" and "lick"? I mean, is that asking too much of a stupid dog? Like let's try this: SUCK, PUP, SUCK! BE A GOOD DOG AND SUCK! SUCK HARD, PUP! YOU ARE A GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! SUCK! I mean, I think some narrative helps. Maybe we convince him he is Canadian or something. Some shit hole country. And like his Master is Russian or something. Like a young Vlad. Hung and shit. Superior. We need to butch it up, I think. Like let's make them hockey players. Maybe add just a little bit of toxic masculinity? And he obviously needs a treat. That is key. I don't think we can offer Greenland. And we don't want a shit hole like Canada, anyway. Maybe a big moutful of cum? He is a Gay dog, after all. Except when it comes to killing lesbian bitches and stuff like that. Bottom line is, it would just be so much less boring than stupid Tik Tok videos nobody watches anyway. At least we would get some good Gay images for having to click through this stupid nonsense. Quote

Are there any dog owners out there? This is just so boring and repetitive. I know that our dog is good and loyal and true. And I am not prejudiced against dogs so I know he is just stupid. But is just gets so fucking boring. Nobody watches the stupid videos. Why actually try to become more stupid? I am wondering if we could possibly try to do some retraining? I mean, even Pavlov's dog could learn. @Barknaway obviously gets a big dopamine hit with "bark" and "bite" The idea of biting some snowflake like Carney from some shit hole like Canada obviously gets him off. Do you think our stupid pup could be trained to replace "bark" and "bite" with "suck" and "lick"? I mean, is that asking too much of a stupid dog? Like let's try this: SUCK, PUP, SUCK! BE A GOOD DOG AND SUCK! SUCK HARD, PUP! YOU ARE A GOOD AND LOYAL AND TRUE PUP! SUCK! I mean, I think some narrative helps. Maybe we convince him he is Canadian or something. Some shit hole country. And like his Master is Russian or something. Like a young Vlad. Hung and shit. Superior. We need to butch it up, I think. Like let's make them hockey players. Maybe add just a little bit of toxic masculinity? Bottom line is, it would just be so much less boring than stupid Tik Tok videos nobody watches anyway. At least we would get some good Gay images for having to click through this stupid nonsense.

Good puppy! Good puppy! How good and loyal and true our stupid dog is! Listen to your Daddy Scott. Bite, puppy! Bite! Bite some stupid fucking Canadian or Asian! And bite Gavin Newsom, too! Or put a bullet in his head like that lesbian bitch. Ugh! His brain is the size of a walnut even smaller than yours. If they fuck with us we nuke them.

Good puppy! Good puppy! How good and loyal and true our stupid dog is! Bite, puppy! Bite! Bite some stupid fucking Canadian or Asian!

Good puppy! Good puppy! How good and loyal and true our stupid dog is! Bite, puppy! Bite! Bite some stupid fucking Canadian or Asian!

This is what I love about you, Sis. As always, you are being way too kind. Trump actually got us one step closer to nuclear war. That is part of the strategy here. When asked what would happen if we bomb Iran and they retaliate against US bases, or even Trump himself, he basically said we will nuke them. I go back to that discussion I had with my very smart conservative nephew last year. When I asked him what happens when we destroy all these alliances we spent more than half a century building, he immediately went to America's nuclear deterrent. Who needs allies? We got nukes! Only a stupid barking ignorant dog like @Barknaway would somehow think Trump is superior to Dwight Eisenhower, or John F. Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan, or Bill Clinton. This is what our stupid ignorant dog is. It is what he does. Our pup may be stupid. But he is good and loyal and true. He will bark on command. He will bite on command. He is exactly what Trump wants and needs. And in his ignorant little dog brain he really has no idea of the dangers unfolding. He just wants to be good and loyal and true. And stupid. So he will post one million stupid videos and feel proud of his ignorance. Good puppy! Good puppy! How good and loyal and true our stupid dog is! Bite, puppy! Bite! Bite some stupid fucking Canadian or Asian! Bite, loyal dog! Bite! Ha ha ha dumb ass worthless Canadians. Weak! Who needs that shit hole Canada anyway! Bite! Bite @Barknaway. Bite his fucking leg off. And if that doesn't work we always have nukes those shit hole fuckers will learn to RESPECT OUR AUTHORITY!

Hate to be a bitch. But is there a way we could make Lemmiwicks our mascot, rather than @Barknaway? I mean. I love our loyal and true dog and all. But the barking does get tiring sometimes. And Lemmiwinks is obviously a hell of a lot smarter.

This is what is both interesting and painful to me. Painful in the sense that I love and deeply respect the nephew I mentioned. And very smart people can deeply disagree about strategy. But he emailed me last night on a business trip just about fun stuff. And now I have the idea in my mind: Really? He's okay with this shit? We have nukes so we don't need allies? Sorry. But it doesn't make me respect him more. I can tell you this. For at least many MAGA folk, or maybe I should say MAGA adjacent conservatives, it is NOT racism or homophobia. Recently I was in this nephew's house in a red state with about a dozen family members, all of whom are avid Trump supporters. They know I am Gay and welcomed it. Several Black neighbors were coming in and out of the house. My nephew's Black nephew, his sister's son, was staying over. My funny joke was, "I'm Gay, I'm a liberal, and I'm a Democrat. And I'm even from California. I am truly fucked!" Everybody laughed. They are kind, loving people with strong families. Every poll I see shows Gen X as the heart of the Trump/MAGA coalition. The political theory I referred to is that Gen X (born 1965 to 1980) grew up under sunny and prosperous Reagan conservatism. So that is what they think works. My Dad was a proud Reagan conservative. He would be the first to say this is not Ronald Reagan's Republican Party. Reagan did immigration reform. Reagan loved NATO and made it stronger. Reagan famously allied with the UK, Germany, and other nations against the Soviet Union. He would not have been Vlad's pal and crony. Gen X has never had a President in their age cohort. Clinton, W, Obama, and Trump are all Boomers. Biden was Silent Generation. I decided a while ago that Trump is the Gen X President. Even if he is a Boomer. You can make a good case that W was a Gen X President. He won two pretty close races. At the time, young Gen X'ers were on his side. The real question now is where do the Zoomers go. The "demography is destiny" crowd would have said that by 2024 the 2020 Biden win, by 7 million votes, would maybe turn into almost a landslide, with more Zoomers on his side. They in fact went the other way. Inflation, home prices, rent, immigration, "toxic masculinity." Those are the issues I think we lost tons of Male Zoomers over. But Trump has now lost them, too. They trust no political party. And they will decide who the next President is. Maybe Trump will say, "Sorry, Zoomers. You voted for me. But now I am your King. You never get to vote again." If Trump wants Zoomers to hate him, that's a great way to do it. On that note, even many conservatives agree. This whole thing about taking over Iraq, or Afghanistan, or VietNam, or Libya, or [name many other countries on the planet] just never ends well. So what the fuck do the so-called "America First" people think they are doing? They will just inspire more people to eventually hate us. Including Venezuela, if all we do is cozy up to a different dictator to extract oil.

My dearest precious Sister. How could you even say such a thing? One of my favorite nephews is a very smart and rich right-of-center conservative. He calls himself an Independent but I know he voted for Trump. Here's two things we have talked about recently, face to face. 1. I said to him, "Do people not even want democracy anymore?" He said, "I think people want democracy. And they want change." 2. He said: "We had Obama for eight years. Did that fix these problems?" I agree with him 100 % so far. Democrats skipped a 2024 primary. Whereas Trump was the primary underdog at first who fought and won. That was a fuck up. And now here is the part that floored me, face to face. I referenced my Dad, aka his Grandfather, who fought in WWII. I referenced NATO. I asked the Fareed Zakaria question: "Why are we throwing away this wildly strong and successful alliance we built? That we lead? And that helped stabilize the world for the better part of a century?" He started talking about America's nuclear deterrence. Essentially his point was, "Who needs allies? We got nukes. You think they'll fuck with us?" In a way, that makes him his Grandfather's grandson. My Dad was on a boat in the Pacific during WW II and was more than happy to avoid a bloodbath land war in Japan. Moses likes to point to that as America's original sin. (Actually, to be fair, slavery came first.) My Dad would argue nuking Japan was an act of defense. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. My Dad would also say Trump is insane for destroying the alliance the US built coming out of World War II to prevent World War III. At the very least, this message is clear. If you do not want to be the next Ukraine, or Greenland, run to The Nuke Store and stock up now. And be prepared to use them. And be a bully if you can. Of course, nothing about this is destabilizing. Nothing at all. PEACE through STRENGTH. What could possibly go wrong? Fareed and John Stewart talked about how these days a lot of Americans just take certain things for granted. And this may be one of them. I reference my nephew because he is the oldest of a bunch of nieces and nephews. The Gen X ones, like him, are the most conservative ones. They were kids when Reagan was President. They fit the stereotype that they saw conservative ideas work, and thus became conservatives. They did grow up in a world where America was a superpower. And even the sole superpower. Many of them probably do think this is how you be strong. We have nukes. Who needs allies? They seem to have missed the part about how Reagan was very good at building an anti-USSR alliance, from the Pope on down. Trump is doing the opposite. It's a huge fucking mistake. And this one probably can't be undone. I told this to my Canadian sister-in-law, who despises Trump as much as me. She is more optimistic. She thinks the wounds can eventually be healed. Coming from a Canadian at heart, who despised the 51st state bullshit, maybe she is right. I hope so. But this is dangerous. And shameful.

Ha ha fucking liberals fucking globalists I hate them. Nothing but weak. Take them to Davos and leave them there. President Trump is the real deal. True American power. He is running circles around Putin and Russia. They are weak and have no idea what to do. Moscow’s approach to the showdown over the Arctic island: Troll and hope the West falls apart. In real time President Donald Trump, America's smartest and greatest President, is proving what a master negotiator and peace maker he is. PEACE through STRENGTH. Sure, the idiots in Norway don't get it. Who the fuck cares? They are Europeans. And can someone shut that asshole Carney from Canada the fuck up? Notwithstanding a few girly men like Carney and Macron from shit holes like Canada and France, President Trump is unifying the world and making America STRONGER and MORE RESPECTED than ever. Maybe if they play their cards right and dump Carney Canada can still become our 52nd state. Take that, you fucking losers.

This interview is so good it deserves a thread of its own. Stewart and Zakaria spend an hour picking apart the nuances of what is so massively fucked up about this. To me, it also proves the "neo-royalist" theory, by omission. By that I mean that Trump is simply a King wannabe in a democracy. Not a great look, or fit. By omission I mean that Zakaria keeps saying again and again this doesn't make sense. America was the author of the global world order, to oversimplify. Why throw away what WE built? Why throw away a peaceful world with the strongest coalition and the strongest allies the world has ever seen so that we can ................. what? Arrest Maduro? Rename Greenland to Trumpland? It makes no fucking sense. Why go back to a more dangerous and potentially disastrous 19th century world, which is what we tried to get away from after World War 2? As brilliant as he is - or perhaps because of his brilliance and sincerity - Fareed can't see it for what you think it is. Trump just wants to be King. Period. It's more important to him that he can do whatever the fuck he wants in Venezuela and make his own fucking rules as he goes along. Who cares about global rules? Like with who? Canada? Europe? The shit holes like Mexico? Give me a fucking break! Stewart makes another key point. The victims of this world order - to oversimpllfy, White Factory Town America - are happy to go along for the ride. Even if it does not get them the change they want, at least it gets them the retribution and vengeance. To quote Trump directly. Fareed states the case for optimism at 1:08:00 in the interview. I will quote him directly. "I tend to think .......... maybe it's just that I'm an optimist immigrant ......... this is not going to last. This is not going to last. You know, Americans don't like this, I don't think. (Ya, think, Sis? 😉 ) I think the idea that America stands for nothing .... no higher ideals .... the idea that the United States is just a bully ........ that it is going to literally consciously emulate the ways of old-fashioned imperialists? That it's essentially going to become a version of Putin's Russia? I don't think this is popular. I don't think people like it." Let's let Fareed correct Fareed, or add nuance. He also states that there is a small majority that does not like it. A new WSJ poll backs Fareed up. On these questions, like ICE and deporting immigrants, something like 51 to 55 % of Americans say Trump has gone too far. 41 to 45 % say he is doing this right, or he hasn't gone far enough. There is a very big part of America, including people I love in my family, that love this stuff. It is the change they want. They see this as America winning. Trump is like a gang leader. And he is smart enough to know how he can be taken out. Voters disapprove of how is handling inflation, health care, and even the Ukraine War by large margins. If Biden had not botched immigration and allowed there to be a Democratic primary, Democrats probably would have been able to stop Trump. But the real killer was inflation. It killed Biden, and other incumbents across the world. And now it may kill Trump. Good riddance. If Democrats can learn from all this and unite, this can all change. I'm not holding my breath. But I do think Fareed is right. This is not the America that America wants to be. At least a slim, and now growing, majority of Americans.

I'm an optimist. Maybe if us Sisters unite and pray, we can come up with a solution. … When I'm him with he's confused Out of focus and bemused And he tramples any standard that he can Unpredictable as weather He's as flighty as a feather He's a despot, he's a demon, he's a scam He's an autocratic pest He will stir up every nest He will have ICE put a bullet in your head He is fascist, he is wild He's a sex crime, he's a child He's a headache He's no angel He's a turd … How do you solve a problem like Trump's ego? How do you stop his lies and pin him down? How do you stop him from destroying freedom? He's just a pig head A King wannabe A clown Many a thing you know you'd like to tell him Many a law you wish he'd understand But how do you stop his hate? He thrives making us irate How do you end this bullshit like Greenland? Oh how do you solve a problem like Trump's ego? How do you make a child be a man?

I AM SO PROUD OF OUR BARKING DOG!!!!!! HERE BOY!!!! HERE BOY!!!! HERE IS A BIG TREAT!!!!! YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD DOG!!!! LOYAL AND TRUE TO TRUMP 100 % !!!! NOW GO BITE SOME CHINESE HACKER. AND TELL THEM NOT TO COPYCAT US AND INVADE TAIWAN OR KIDNAP THEIR LEADER. There is double good news here. Turns out our dumb dog is learning to make kindergarten distinctions. He figured out that ABC and handsome David Muir report real news. Like about Chinese phone hacking. When the pup wants real news, he is learning to watch ABC. Could MSNBC be next? But hopefully not the socialist outlets like the BBC or NPR! Second piece of good news is that Venezuelans are happier, and hopeful. Assuming this poll is correct. Who knows in Venezuela? Exclusive polling reveals surging optimism inside Venezuela But it is consistent with the idea that Maduro stole the last election, which the opposition won overwhelmingly. And, so far, the US has no boots on the ground. That said, people who want democracy in Venezuela may end up just as disappointed as US voters who wanted lower prices. The verdict is out. But at least we have not unleashed a blood bath in Venezuela, like we did in Iraq. Yet. Then again, maybe Trump is just saving the boots and the ammo for a bloodbath in Greenland. With the stupid America-destroying and alliance-destroying piece of shit leading the US, you never really know.

But that's the whole point of being a King in your own mind. Isn't it? All of this lends credence to the theory that this is "neo-royalism". As opposed to something like a 19th century "balance of powers" world. Trump does see himself as King, as you keep saying. He alone determines right and wrong. Venezuela is the same undemocratic country with the same corrupt and oppressive regime. But now the leader will maybe cooperate with Trump and extract oil for the US. As long as his cronies are happy and the peasants don't complain - or worse, demand accountability from ICE - Trump is the best King ever in his own mind. And it ends when we, the American people, end it. I've been a liberal Democrat my whole life. Which is to say that, in addition to being Gay, I have always been a minority in politics too. I think all my life there have been more conservatives than liberals in the US. So I know very well that compromise and "meet in the middle" is a necessary virtue. I'd say Clinton was the best President at doing that overall in my life so far. And especially in retrospect his Presidency worked pretty well. Budget surplus, anyone? All while poverty was driven to historic lows at the time. My point is it is now on Democrats to figure out: if we don't like this horror, what do we like? The verdict is out. This interview of Andy Beshear was great. I agree with him that it would probably help if Democrats nominated a Guv in 2028. There is a great case for both Newsom and Beshear, to name two. Newsom has seized the resistance lane. Beshear is the kind of guy who maybe could seize the "reform" lane, Or what might be called the "meet in the middle" lane. If I had to bet which of the two might be nominated, Newsom would be the winner of that bet in most people's minds. But my point is that both are effective Governors. And both would govern so much better than Trump. Beshear, if he could get nominated, arguably could spend eight years ending this "red state/blue state" divide. Or maybe we will nominate AOC. My heart is with her. Or your pretty boy Mamdani. Your mouth is with him. 😍 I voted for Bernie in the primaries in 2020. But arguably I was the fucking problem. If we don't like Trump, now is a very good time to figure out how Democrats need to moderate so we can win the votes, let alone trust, of all these people in the middle. So hold on, Sis. Some good could come out of this. Beshear argues, correctly, the people in the center are just sick of this. Instead of "neo-royalism", the other analogy that works is that Trump and Putin and Xi are like rival gang leaders. They'll tolerate each other and divide up turf. Even Republicans are sick of it. It is embarrassing to have our thuggish gang leader demanding that Europe hand over Greenland.

i know, Sis. I had you at "gold tacky chair." Perhaps it is a cover for the fact that his DJT stock is hardly golden. But that doesn't matter. It's all about his ego at this point. And his family is fleecing so much money, mostly from authoritarian governments, that DJT is just golden crumbs.

Yes. Absolutely, Sis. With all due respect, that is not the question. The question is: what did it teach us? 1 in 3 Americans are clearly authoritarian followers. They love this shit. They love their authoritarian nationalism. Here is a really scary post on X from one of them: There is only one good thing I can say about this. He did not say, "That lesbian bitch deserved to die." The tone reminded me of a post I read in the early days of Iraq that sounded just as extreme. The guy argued that all residents of Baghdad would have to strip naked and leave the city, including Muslim women, to make sure they were not carrying WMD. Instead of stopping WMD, The Land Of The Free started a fucking bloodbath. Americans at their worst. There's a lot of that going around right now. That said, Ruy Teixeira, on cue, is being a scold about the extremists in the Democratic Party that he reviles. Teixeira (and John Judis) have weight. Because as much as anyone they were the intellectual architects of The Emerging Democratic Majority. Trump was elected in part because people didn't like what they saw as open borders. The Bankruptcy of the Democrats’ Elvis Presley Approach to Immigration “Don’t Be Cruel” makes for a great song but terrible policy. So the appropriate question is, what does this teach us? I think it is far too early to answer that question. But I agree with Teixeira that "don't be cruel" is a virtue. But not an immigration policy. Obama was Deporter In Chief, remember. He was also a two term President. There is zero question in my mind that this "open borders" stuff hurt Biden and Harris. Jim Clyburn, the most powerful Black Democrat in America in 2020, argued that "Defund The Police" hurt the Democratic Party. We might have had a bigger win in 2020 but for that, he argued at the time. If Democrats want to be able to win in states like Missouri and Iowa and Ohio and North Dakota and Indiana again (all states where there were Democratic Senators under Obama) we better learn something.