Us vs them too. It’s different, people hate change. So now there is a them and an us…

The animals that see their migration path disrupted by this won’t, that’s a shame.

I fear we will be seeing a lot more of this kind of news from around the world.

He can deliver some tomahawks and other deep deep strike capabilities. And then the Ukrainians sit on them until Trump takes over. Then they have a bargaining chip… turn open the tap or we will fucking drag you into our conflict kicking and screaming.

Now Ukraine can hire former USAF patriot operators and F16 maintainers and other former US servicemen with specific skill sets through blackwater or some other contractor.

Check elsalvador. And now other countries are ramping up their approach. Building massive remote prisons for gang members, waves of arrests, no contact policies for prisoners… it’s incredibly harsh… but in El Salvador it’s working.

It seems that the only countries that seem to be getting a handle on things in south America are the ones where they round up and imprison everyone remotely connected to the gangs… face tats… off to prison.

Everyone knows this is what is going on.

Yup, he said he will. I don’t know how this works in practice, but this is dangerous. Project 2025 is very clear about stacking the institutions.

I think you are right, but being better than the other guy was not enough apparently.

Edit: and I’ll informed voters might have a lot to do with who owns the channels used for information. The mainstream media is owned by billionaires, and the most popular podcasters/streamers seem to be right wing and in the pockets of billionaires.

Have you witnessed the corruption of Joe Rogan, it was very public and very obvious.

Polio on the rise outside the Bible Belt.

The voters proved your theory wrong. Working class voted Trump or stayed home. How you you explain that… Because whatever Biden did… 1) it was not enough and 2) Harris promised more of the same.

Harris said she could not think of anything she would do different from Biden in a period where Biden was remarkably unpopular and people are hurting, a lot. And she essentially promised them more of the same. “We won’t go back” is not a promise to move forward. And her promises to help people start a business and give child credits… does not help anyone not interested in starting a business, who already has kids or does not want kids. Everything was contingent on very narrow promises.

So the voters that needed change stayed home… They can say they did not vote for Trump and wash their hands of anything bad that happens.

Let’s see how it pans out.

Luckily the police and the military have a bit different standards. Army generals are mostly well educated and very well read men who deal with the whole world and not just their neck of the woods, and possibly more important is that in the world of the military they do not have the monopoly on violence. They have to deal with adversaries who are equals and thus changes the power dynamic A LOT. A police captain can in the end just escalate all the way to the national guard and stomp out anything… in the military they cannot as their escalations immediately leads to deaths and escalates all the way to nuclear Armageddon. So luckily they are of a different breed.

But now, trump might replace the top brass with his loyalists, (loyalty > competence) fast tracking some appointments of people that normally not have made it to that level.

The guard rails are off… the world is in for a wild ride.

The entire capital class rallied around trump. Bezos and Musk… media is owned by them, so the bias against Harris, asking things of her they did not ask from Trump… sanewashing Trumps ramblings.

Your elections where “stolen”… by the billionaires… through totally legit means.

Probably why they need populist messengers. Fighting speach with more speach does not work if you are trying to have a nuanced conversation with a guy using a bullhorn.

Power and prestige. In the US the billionaire class is revered as the shining beacon. Everyone wants to be them and history tells them they can be. You just have to get lucky. Like winning the lottery.

The Democrats also need better spokespersons. They might have better policy, but the infrastructure bill, chips act and lower drug prices will kick in during Trumps reighn.

The fact people can’t differentiate edge cases from the norm is a general education issue. But their pushback was anemic.

I doubt Gaza was the deciding factor for 20 million people, but I could be wrong. Especially since anyone that aware of the whole would see trump would worsen the situation not improve it. I’m curious why they did stay home.

I also guess Americans don’t want a woman president and they do want a hard crackdown on migrants. Especially Latinos, who apparently overwhelmingly came out for trump.

Yeah…