Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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It's actually a precedent for the authoritarian Left.
I know we are short term thinkers and now our short term thinking is weaponized by 24/7 news cycles and then the death knell - phones and social media.
BUT.....
One day the Left will be in power.
And they will also use troops.
But not to save lives of "those people" in the inner cities they relegated to self genocide a half decade ago.
They'll use troops or aother authoritarian weapons. OR Big Tech. To enforce things in our daily lives be it how much heating oil or electricity we use. How much water we use. How often we use a BBQ grill or what kidn of oven the local pizza joint is using. What social indoctrinations we're resisting.
The Authoritarian Left has been itching for this but right now they sare too focused on TrumpHate.
Eventually Trump will go.
And eventually the Authoritarian Left will use anything from troops to Big Tech to enforce their authoritarian whims.
Enjoy this ride while it lasts.....
No. of Recommendations: 4
And eventually the Authoritarian Left will use anything from troops to Big Tech to enforce their authoritarian whims.
Because they’re sociopaths. There’s no bearing sound that bush any more.
The guy in Virginia running for AG? So far he hasn’t even lost any endorsements. They really and truly believe their insane rhetoric.
No. of Recommendations: 8
Because they’re sociopaths. There’s no bearing sound that bush any more...They really and truly believe their insane rhetoric. ~Dope
Ho hum, just more name calling. (ad hominem fallacy)
Insulting others is a weak response when one cannot defend their position with logic or facts.
"Insults are the last refuge of a fool" ~Reed Abbitt Moore
No. of Recommendations: 5
One day the Left will be in power.
And they will also use troops.
There've been times in the past where we wanted to use troops, and felt constrained by posse comitatus, but we didn't use troops. So one again Wilton you are fabricating stories to suit bad purpose. We can use troops, but it has to be a genuine emergency, not a farce of an emergency like y'all.
No. of Recommendations: 10
There’s no bearing sound that bush any more.
Anyone have a translator? I don't speak gibberish.
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There’s no bearing sound that bush any more. ~Dope
Anyone have a translator? I don't speak gibberish. ~Lapsody
LOL, I just attributed it to drug use.
No. of Recommendations: 8
There’s no bearing sound that bush any more.
It can only good happen.
No. of Recommendations: 3
There’s no bearing sound that bush any more.
Anyone have a translator? I don't speak gibberish.
“beating around”
No. of Recommendations: 4
There’s no bearing sound that bush any more.
Anyone have a translator? I don't speak gibberish.
“beating around”
An alternate translation might be;
There’s no bush bearing sound anymore.
Thank God someone did something about those screaming bushes.
The bushes in my yard screamed endlessly, especially when I pruned them. Now they are docile as lambs.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Eventually Trump will go.
Yes, and following Trump will be eight years of JD Vance as our President.
Following JD? Who knows?
Probably Pete Hegseth. ☺️
No. of Recommendations: 2
Yes, and following Trump will be eight years of JD Vance as our President.
My hunch is JD isn't extreme enough, and he's miscegenated. I don't think any of the Trump spawn have the personality attributes. None of them have an existing audience. My hunch is Sean Hannity.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 4
My hunch is JD isn't extreme enough, and he's miscegenated.
Agreed. Usha Vance will turn off millions of leftists who believe that minorities belong on the plantation.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Agreed. Usha Vance will turn off millions of leftists who believe that minorities belong on the plantation.
Which explains our votes for Obama and Harris.
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Which explains our votes for Obama and Harris.
Yup. Which is why his point was absurd in the first place (because she's the sitting Second Lady of the United States).
Lazy thinking at its finest.
No. of Recommendations: 2
BTW, to address your original point, yes: the day will come when a democrat is back in the White House. Under Biden the libs didn't bother to conceal their contempt for people who didn't vote for them and took steps to have them silenced in the public square.
We can expect more of that, plus a return to out and out weaponization of the government beyond what Obama and Biden did. They tried once for a social credit score and libs here would LOVE the power that British cops have: they can seize your phone for just LOOKING at a social media post. If they don't like what you say they can outright toss your arse in jail without you facing your accuser.
The sociopath left would be head over heels with the ability to formally shut down debate and drag people off to jail for it.
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It is not true that British police can seize your phone simply for looking at a social media post
. This idea stems from a heavily edited and misleading video that went viral in September 2025. Police have debunked this claim and clarified the circumstances of the incident.
No wonder you believe in conspiracy theories. Do you ever check up on anything?
Dope:BTW, to address your original point, yes: the day will come when a democrat is back in the White House. Under Biden the libs didn't bother to conceal their contempt for people who didn't vote for them and took steps to have them silenced in the public square.
We can expect more of that, plus a return to out and out weaponization of the government beyond what Obama and Biden did. They tried once for a social credit score and libs here would LOVE the power that British cops have: they can seize your phone for just LOOKING at a social media post. If they don't like what you say they can outright toss your arse in jail without you facing your accuser.
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Anyone have a translator? I don't speak gibberish.
Translation: It can only good happen.
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There’s no bearing sound that bush any more.
It can only good happen.
Well, you beat me to that one, I found out after I posted.
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Yes, and following Trump will be eight years of JD Vance as our President.
Following JD? Who knows?
Probably Pete Hegseth. ☺️ ——LM
YOU should run. You're every bit as smart and moral as those three.
No. of Recommendations: 22
Under Biden the libs didn't bother to conceal their contempt for people who didn't vote for them and took steps to have them silenced in the public square.
Do you really believe the complete, unmitigated horseshit that you write?
The issue was NEVER “people who didn’t vote for them. NEVER!
It was about an armed insurrection inspired by Trump at the Capitol in which over a hundred police were injured in which people died. The mob attempted a misguided effort to stop the transfer of presidential power to the guy who actually won the election (which Trump continues to deny to this day)
Since then, Republicans continue to blame everybody BUT Trump for what occurred that day… it was Antifa, then it was FBI provacateurs, then it wasn’t a mob at all but a bunch of sight seeing tourists.
It’s the lies, the corruption and the violence of the right- now on full display in places like Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.
If anything, we have been too timid, too afraid of Trump unleashing MORE violence on his path to fascist dictatorship… which comes into clearer focus every day.
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My hunch is JD isn't extreme enough, and he's miscegenated.
Probably the same reasons why Kamala Harris lost.
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Do you really believe the complete, unmitigated horseshit that you write?
You don't even bother to follow the news anymore, so there's very little reason to address anything you say.
Here, let me help you:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-admits-...I'm going to bold this:
Google Admits Censorship Pressure From Biden Admin, Pledges To Reinstate YouTube AccountsNow who's horsesh1t? In true shrewdlib fashion none of you people will acknowledge this stuff. It's much easier for you to try and gaslight.
This is the very thing you people keep braying on about and yet you cheered it on when Biden was doing it. How's that feel?
I'm done with entertaining left wing delusions. There's what you post, and there's reality. Re-engage with reality.
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YOU should run. You're every bit as smart and moral as those three.
I rule with an iron fist, I’d be perfect to pick up when President Trump leaves off.
No. of Recommendations: 8
Eventually Trump will go.
Yes, and following Trump will be eight years of JD Vance as our President.
Following JD? Who knows?
Probably Pete Hegseth. ☺️
Yup. Lenin established a brutal dictatorship in Russia, and died seven years later. Then came Stalin's 30 year reign of terror.
When Hugo Chavez died everyone thought the horror story in Venezuela was over. And here they are, 12 years later, still with a full blown dictatorship.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I rule with an iron fist,
That fits the personality profile of those who cannot rule by example or persuasion.
Great fit!
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head over heels with the ability to formally shut down debate and drag people off to jail for it.
Just as Spankee does now.
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HI LM.....
I have no idea what the political climate is in 2028 other than discontentedness - that part -100% sure.
2 IMperfect things I look at to read tea leaves:
1,)Uk Politics which i feel can mirror our own or fortell it.
Reagan-Thatcher. (similar)
Bush-Major (similar.)
Clinton-Blair- (my god - twins)
Dubya-Dave Cameron (compassionate conservative)
Obama-GordonBrown
BREXIT ----TRUMP
After Brexit, but for a few asterisks they've gone Starmer.... hardly a Brexit/MAGA endorsement.
2.)Here at home we tend to want new . Fresh.
Carter - demure, soft. Reagan - John Wayne
Bush - older, bumbling - Clinton - younger, charismatic.
Clinton - (Lewinsky) --- to Dubya - church and Laura
Dubya to Obama - charismatic and professorial both different than Bush.
Then we went Trump - the "eff you" candidate after which - - we went Biden, total opposite of eff-you but then - we AGAIN went opposite- to Trump, the eff-you candidiate.
But both of the above, it's not Vance.
Vance however is politically cunning and gofted and he's backed by Big Tech VC player and others. So for that reason i'll never count him out and also, never underestimate the Democrat's desire to lose----so they might do he/him they/them Sheeple stuff again and that might indeed deliver it for Vance.
Biggest WildCard: Are Dems united in 2028 and if so - is it a Clintonian Party, or an AOC party.
The *only* reason I don't call it 100% for Dems today is Vance is an excellent Rust Belt candidate.
No. of Recommendations: 10
Removing Covid misinformation during the pandemic was permissible in my view, and the founders.
Based on a September 2025 disclosure by Alphabet, Google's parent company, the Biden administration pressured Google and YouTube to remove user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate the platforms' policies. This pressure is one example of a government influencing content decisions on Google platforms.
In October 2025, Apple and Google removed an app, ICEBlock, from their stores after the Trump administration demanded it be taken down.
So is the removal of ICEblock OK Dope? And what is your reasoning?
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Removing Covid misinformation during the pandemic was permissible in my view, and the founders.
LOL. Any authoritarian would see it that way, wouldn't they? Too bad your compatriot ran away.
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Under Biden the libs didn't bother to conceal their contempt for people who didn't vote for them and took steps to have them silenced in the public square.
Your phony victimhood is getting very tiresome. But that is how the victimizers justify their cruelty.
Remember how badly the Jews treated the Nazis.
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It can only good happen.
"Fool me once,...shame on...shame on you....fool me...can't get fooled again"
Steve...honoring the line of illiterate Repub Presidents
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LOL. Any authoritarian would see it that way, wouldn't they
You think the founders were authoritarians? Interesting.
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Dope:Usha Vance will turn off millions of leftists who believe that minorities belong on the plantation.
A phrase used by a federal judge regarding Trump's description of Portland applies to Dope's current state of mind; "simply untethered from the facts".
No. of Recommendations: 11
Dope:Usha Vance will turn off millions of leftists who believe that minorities belong on the plantation.
A phrase used by a federal judge regarding Trump's description of Portland applies to Dope's current state of mind; "simply untethered from the facts".
Once an individual slips the tether of facts , it takes real strength of character and intellectual honesty to fight one’s way back to reality.
David Horowitz popularized the term “liberal plantation” over two decades ago, an entire generation of people steeped in conservative ideology, troubled by the racism within the Republican Party, latched onto the term “liberal plantation” as a way to shift the discussion away from their own broken party and onto the party that was actually championing civil rights.
In their minds, civil rights, including voter rights WAS the problem as these programs, according to Horowitz, did nothing but increase dependence on the state. Hence the term “liberal plantation”
Simplistic and mostly false, such beliefs led to the dismantling of government programs, the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of minority voters and the impoverishment of millions.
Whenever you hear the term “liberal plantation”, think of the old saying from the Vietnam era.
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Same dunderheadedness. Same racism disguised as benevolence.
No. of Recommendations: 6
A phrase used by a federal judge regarding Trump's description of Portland applies to Dope's current state of mind; "simply untethered from the facts". "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Facts
And danced the skies on MAGA-silvered wings;" —— Low Flight, with apologies to John Gillespie Magee Jr.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157986/high...
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Once an individual slips the tether of facts , it takes real strength of character and intellectual honesty to fight one’s way back to reality.
LOL. Let me know when they refill your prescriptions.
In the meantime, I'll reply with current events as Jedi does.
No. of Recommendations: 1
the problem as these programs, according to Horowitz, did nothing but increase dependence on the state. Hence the term “liberal plantation”
Stop transferring funds from the blue states to the red states in order to REDUCE THEIR DEPENDENCE ON THE STATE.
Then watch the red states fit hit the shan.
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And danced the skies on MAGA-silvered wings;
Remove "silvered" and replace with "shit".
So the line becomes: And danced the skies on MAGA-shit wings.
Both the color AND the attitude fit RWNJs perfectly.
