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[FullMoon]

He is, however, a master showman. He showed very early on that he knows how to get his name in the media and keep it there. He knows how to work a crowd. And he knows how to tell people things they want to hear. So he’s a very good politician.

Maybe he can just see what's obvious and say it out loud like we can. He is foul mouthed and mean, arrogant, boastful and selfish. His appeal is to call a spade a spade in a time when deceit and hypocrisy reins over the body politic.

[FullMoon]

For the last several months, I've been watching videos by Whatifaltist, and while I'm not sure whether he's right, he's at least interesting to listen to. He's been predicting both a third world war and civil war. I'm truly hoping he's wrong about the latter, but there are interesting parallels between the modern U.S. and the Roman Republic.

I watched some videos and what's interesting for me is the conditions of the younger generations now. It's just such a changed and strange world coming into existence for them. Comparison to Rome and the Empires of history, including the social conditions of the time.
https://archive.org/details/fate-of-emp ... 2/mode/1up
250 years is about par for the course and whatever happens during/after this crisis, it's hard to imagine we'll be anything like we were before it.

Dates of rise and fall Duration in years
Assyria 859-612 B.C. 247
Persia 538-330 B.C. 208 (Cyrus and his descendants)
Greece 331-100 B.C. 231 (Alexander and his successors)
Roman Republic 260-27 B.C. 233
Roman Empire 27 B.C.-A.D. 180. 207
Arab Empire A.D. 634-880. 246
Mameluke Empire 1250-1517 267
Ottoman Empire 1320-1570 250
Spain 1500-1750 250
Russia 1682-1916 234
Britain 1700-1950 250

[FullMoon]

Elon Musk in his pronounced war against the demonic powers

https://youtu.be/dE2LAdbV-1o?si=Bx6rS58Stj8TuYn4

Destroy the Woke Mind Virus.

[Bob Butler]

250 years is about par for the course and whatever happens during/after this crisis, it's hard to imagine we'll be anything like we were before it.

The 250 year superpower duration is interesting. It would be more interesting if the powers fell to a common cause. If there was one mechanism of failure, you could predict it. Spain’s dominant period was when it took Central American gold. The Russian end date corresponded to the Industrial Revolution. The British Empire dissolved when the United States decided to forgive lend lease loans if a nation opened its colonial ports. Different mechanisms.

And yet Spain, Russia and Britain still exist. The Commonwealth of Nations still exists. While Russia is into expansionism and is bucking sanctions currently, the people of Spain and Britain are getting along reasonably well. Arguably, you could choose periods of history of many regions to support many a supposed duration. What you need to do is argue why the United States will no longer focus the resources of a good chunk of North America, and argue that the same reason the US will fail caused the other superpower failures.

I can see where in the future wealth from space could become more important than the amount of territory and resources a government controls. I could see where if Russia and China could get their acts together they could control as much territory as the US. (Russia is expansionist. China made poor economic decisions.) Potentially they could be equals. But what you are looking for is a mechanism that causes superpowers to fail after 250 years. I don’t see it.

I see this crisis as removing a few flaws of the US. Traditional US culture supported European beliefs. An attempt to force this culture on a more diverse population is failing. The culture is more secular. Women want to control their families. There are more minorities resisting the old oppression. Guns are growing more potent while the government ability to protect the people is replacing the older need for the people to protect themselves. We will adjust and change, sure, but I see a single government still controlling a large part of the continent.

[FullMoon]

A mistake so critical it could cost them the November election.

https://youtu.be/A1MzcWxAn1Q?si=W55nxKF40De-T6_a

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton is joining those criticizing vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s past statement about “childless cat ladies.”

Bolton thinks the comment could resonate politically as much as 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s remarks describing some Trump supporters as “deplorables.”

“I think these comments by Vance are really the 2024 counterpart of [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton’s famous statement in the 2016 election where she called Trump supporters ‘deplorables,’” Bolton said on CNN’s “The Source” Friday.

“ mean, if politicians can’t learn — it’s one thing to attack your opponent, it’s another thing to attack your opponent’s supporters,” Bolton said.

“And that’s just not a way to win friends and influence people,” Bolton continued. “I don’t think Vance learned the lesson that Hillary Clinton, unfortunately for herself, learned in 2016. That’s gonna hurt Trump as you get closer to the election.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... -comments/

The election is a contest to win the small middle and the small amount of disaffected on each side. American values and Trump are hated by Left and the good qualities espoused by the Conservatives needs to be adhered to ever more stringently. Because Trump is hardly a good example of the good people he's supposed to be representing.

[FullMoon]

I see this crisis as removing a few flaws of the US. Traditional US culture supported European beliefs. An attempt to force this culture on a more diverse population is failing. The culture is more secular. Women want to control their families. There are more minorities resisting the old oppression. Guns are growing more potent while the government ability to protect the people is replacing the older need for the people to protect themselves. We will adjust and change, sure, but I see a single government still controlling a large part of the continent.

Flaws are constantly being removed. It's called evolution. And we've evolved so rapidly in such a short period of time that a reversion to the mean is inevitable. It means going backwards to traditional values and consolidation of gains. Because humans can only evolve as fast as biology allows and it's already well beyond our ability to cope. Talking about space and aliens is just a coping mechanism for those who think we'll have constant progress without necessary retracement and consolidation of gains. Before ever greater progress it's absolutely necessary and is the lessons learned from history and science.

[Guest]

It will be very telling when Trump debates Kamala on Fox news, this time with unbiased mediators.
She may come off worse than Biden did.

[Navigator]

Right now, Kamala is getting a significant rise in the polls, as she is not suffering from dementia like the previous candidate.

Trump, of course, carries significant baggage, and seems to be getting caught with making race baiting remarks, which is the worst possible thing to do.

Until people figure out what Kamala's actual policies are, and until they hear her word salad explanations, it seems that it is a dead heat. If her PA gov running mate can turn PA back to Dem, it will be very very close in the electoral college.

[FullMoon]

Until people figure out what Kamala's actual policies are,

Call jaded but the election doesn't seem to be about anything substantial. They'll keep her under wraps like they did with Biden and try to get Trump to skewer himself. At this point it seems to have been a good move by the thoroughly undemocratic "democratic" party.

Let's see how Kamala announced her bid for the Presidency while she helped depose of the unwilling Biden:
https://youtube.com/shorts/l_PveSHEyus? ... pph0nA5A9H

[NoMansLand]

Trump, of course, carries significant baggage, and seems to be getting caught with making race baiting remarks, which is the worst possible thing to do.

You have stated your dislike for Trump previously and that is fine. However, given that position, I would like to know if you think he can say anything without the media twisting or even omitting parts of statements to make it seem like the "worst possible thing" ?

I mostly agree with FullMoon that they will put Kamala in the basement, but I don't think they are going to rely on Trump skewering himself. Trump is Trump and they have been screeching the same things for 8 years now. If they need something new, they will make it up out of whole cloth, do what they can to send it viral, campaign on it for the next 5 news cycles, and after the election they will put the correction in the hard print version of the Tuesday edition among the classifieds and legal declarations.

The media used to use "lawyerly" speech,insinuating and leading toward preferred conclusions but never actually lying. That is no longer the case I am afraid.