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RomaVicta

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  1. Something I never thought I'd say: We need a military junta to defend the Constitution. If the Army is willing to act, they should do so prior to orders being issued by the Commander-In-Chief. The soldiers need to already be following orders from their officers. Disobeying orders is not how they're trained. Be the first to give the order. Put the other side into the position of arguing that you should disobey. I don't expect the generals to act. The majority, I would assume, take their oaths very seriously. It's complicated to figure out, in the abstract, under whose initiative you must act: your feeling about the Constitution vs a willingness to overturn it by deposing an elected government. Maybe they could refer to the Constitutional Convention which, as I read in a bio of Washington, was actually illegal under the Articles of Confederation. Washington's presence alone gave the gathering some sort of legitimacy. If it's too difficult for the generals. It must be riots. I don't think that happens either. The level of pain for the masses must be extreme, and many of us live pretty comfortable lives. Maybe some good ol' starvation will start things up. Of course, the mobs would attack the Democrats here in Idiot World. I'll write another chapter later.
  2. Dumb people can have a sense of right and wrong. They can also have empathy and be generous. Basic virtues, the ones our president can't even comprehend, do not require great or even average intelligence. A child can sense that something is wrong. You can trick the unintelligent in many ways, but their moral compass, where present, will keep a person on the decency path. The moral certainty of persons proud of their loyalty to Jesus Christ is maybe the last irony the idiots will produce. Cruelty mandated from Heaven is their brand. I hate them. Decency and tolerance are pretty low bars to clear to make a republic work. Or, at least, I thought those bars were low. Hard to tell when so many people won't even attempt the leap.
  3. It's the speed with no friction that astonishes even me. The blitzkrieg strategy is rather brilliant. The slow footed defenders stand on the Maginot Line of Law and Tradition watching the nazi tanks zoom around the flank and deep into the heart of what they thought they defended. This is likely the killing stroke delivered by the most powerful of the elites. Only a lawless and murderous mob will slow this down. Sadly, the side with a mindless emotional mob belongs to Caudillo Trump and, indirectly, to puppet master Musk.
  4. Maybe the blank penny factory could use a government grant to get into clean energy by manufacturing solar panels or solar cells or windmill parts. Planning ahead when you're selling money for over market price would seem to a no brainer. That kind of gravy train is the very definition of government waste and won't run forever. Well, at least you have food stamps to help your through the hard times. In your idle time, you can fuck yourself to death.
  5. This assumes a consequence for Trump as though bad policy will hurt him. His first term was full of bad policies and he gets called back to office. He'll say things the idiots want to hear and place blame elsewhere. This is a good cartoonist, but this is non-Trumpist conventional wisdom that's horribly outdated. Maybe have him trying to shoot himself in the foot but Uncle Sam's foot instead. Where's my pen and ink?
  6. Now it's for years that I wonder from time to time where the Army stands. Never thought such a time would come.
  7. That seems true of his TV stuff. It's awful. He has put together some fantastic movies. I agree completely with @aggie08
  8. In Texas, failure to report observed child or adult abuse is a crime: I'm slow. Browsing the NYT site, there is headline after headline of terrible decisions. Terrible policies. Likely terrible results. How can anyone think this is good government or even decent? It's kind of like a love it or hate it TV Show. Only, it's not like TV. It is TV. This is The King Trump Fiat Show! Tune in at noon, King Trump will sign an Executive Order getting rid of those weather scientists at NOAH who keep lying about climate change and the paths of hurricanes. We'll get live reaction from the socialist libs as they cry! Then, at three o'clock, talks about his beautiful plans for Gaza once we get the filthy Palestinians out. Have you seen their country these days? It's a shit hole. King Trump is going to make a better deal and tuurn somebody else's land into paradise. At five, we play Which Ally Are We Going to Screw Today? King Trump may threaten Denmark with an invasion of Greenland. King Trump may sign an order making Canada a state. Or maybe, he'll pull out of that scam called NATO altogether! Watch at five if you want to find out!
  9. Something like what is going on has been the Mitch GOP agenda for decades. They persuaded the fools that unions, lawyers, their Congressperson, and the press were evil and working against them. Those are the only things that give the little guy a chance. The People disarmed. The Powerful unchecked. You can't look at their political "leadership" and propaganda arms and think otherwise. Trump, IMO, just pulled them off script. He made the power play naked and voters (increasingly sadly) rallied round the hate he spews. Trump shouldered aside Mitch and the other establishment villains like that foreign leader in Europe. Trump, as I've tiresomely written often, seized the reins of the hate engine which he can now turn on any GOP not lock-stepping along with him. Perhaps we can at least be amused about what Mitch and boys in charge thought about suddenly being toadies. And over in the House, they have to take Margerie, Matt, and Lauren seriuosly. What do you think about that, Mitch?
  10. In my experience, the less distant cousins are more desirable and compliant. Another note: Just about everyone I know has had some small percentage of Ashkenazi jew. I tip my hat to whomever that Ashkenazi was.
  11. I kind of wonder about the whole submitting your blood for testing to find out one's origins. It's a mild interest to know you national origins as a family oral history. The get that defined right down to the blood seems like a risky path long term. Next will be a club for those who can show their blood is 90% Northern European. Maybe Elon gets into the 22 & you databank to weed out the weakling mud people and the Irish.
  12. Your 2A needs and a big constitution on the wall? Saul Goodman opens a gun shop. I don't know that he is sleezy enough have a murdered as a front man, though. Exterior shot of the place.
  13. Same with the white community here.
  14. Twenty years ago, you could go to the Westgate and there would 7 or 8 movies playing all along the spectrum. They and other multi-screen venues kept a couple of small rooms for well regarded movies of limited interest. As for the Alamo note, they list movies for many different days. On any given day, I believe, the choices will not be many and all the houses are showing the same things. They do maintain spots for niche films. The studio have just about got completely out of making movies of a smaller scale that may push the narrative envelope. They don't promote those films if they don't make them. If a studio made over a hundred million net on a movie, they might takes 10-20 of that to fund smaller productions just because they liked them. The executives were actually movie people. I lecture. I just miss the days when I could go see four maybe five movies in a week all the way from big action to quirky. There is a huge stream of good material coming to our TVs which I love. As is common knowledge, that where quallity drama can be developed over a limited series.
  15. I'm guessing there maybe a hundred screens for movies in Austin. They're all showing the same five or six movies and they're usually shit comic book movies or cartoons. Fine if you love those, but I miss the variety that was once available to moviegoers.
  16. I was being flippant. When anything bad is alluded to, why not blame OU? Stock market down? Fuckin' Sooners.
  17. What a miserable mascot. It's about as close as you can get to Persian cat.
  18. I re-read it and see how it could be parody of blaming the Dems. If so, it's very adept to the point of excellence including the anecdotal stuff about Black lesbians. Was that your intent? If so, I think maybe I was influenced by political correctness which, I like to think, doesn't often happen with me.
  19. Man, I wish we had a sad +1 icon for the one directly above. Also, that silly donkey should be Ransom Stoddard facing LIberty Valance. It's tragic that the rule of law or even decency is doomed. That silly donkey could be holding one of my posts or a political cartoon. I don't love the Dems, but they're not to blame. Citizens should be rising up, and we're mostly not. Sorry to interrupt the cartoons. Thanks as always, Brakeman.
  20. Bingo for you on the foundations. I left this out of the quotes from the article: This is maddening and irreversible. To quote you above: According to these people, I cannot be taken seriously because I am fully deluded and controlled by the demon of sexual perversion. My identity is not real but a demonic spell that keeps me from Jesus and keeps me from fulfilling my god ordained potential. what demon controls you? Whatever demon that would give me the power to destroy any of these fanatics who moves against a fellow citizen. I'm an aging white man non-believer. I'm low on their list of targets. You're at the top of that list and spoken of as a danger merely by being openly present. I hate that. I also hate that it feels like there is not much I can do about it short of determined violence. I hope I have the courage to act, but I see a pretty soft suburban white boy in the mirror. I'm so ashamed of this place.
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