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Should be a wild four years.

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I think I had one NoKings protest in the scheduled city where I live, and none where I worked. Back in June(?) there were a handful, but I never saw anyone myself. My boss said he had seen some on his way to work.

This year, almost nothing. The only thing even approaching a protest was a lanky white guy and a fat white girl on a street corner holding signs that said "No human is illegal". As I drove past there was a distinct lack of response from any other drivers (i.e. honking at them, waving, etc.).
 
Lol. I was really hoping that since he's such an outspoken, insufferable leftist, they were going to have Stephen King show up to one of the No King protests so they could do a lame and cringe joke where he gets on stage and they say, "The only king we accept in America is Stephen King."

I'm really glad some idiot at least made a poster saying it, because I knew they'd use that stupid joke.
 
They should be concerned about the day when nobody plays along with their word games because things will fall apart very quickly for them.
I think that's why they're going so "hard" right now with the not-quite-violent-enough-to-provoke-physical-rebuke threats and antics. The foot soldiers can't verbalize it of course, but there's at least a dim glimmer of understanding among the entirety of the radical left that if they don't somehow squeeze capitulation from Trump and his supporters soon with word wankery, lawfare and "obstruction," the last little bit of goodwill that's stopping literally everyone just saying "fuck it let's just smack these assholes around until they stop it" will be exhausted.

They exist solely at the mercy of the people who currently feel it's more trouble than it's worth to stomp them out. That mercy is nearly gone and they're working frantically to both 1) capitalize on what little is left and 2) quickly squander it and burn it away. It's like they've decided "accelerationism" is the only choice left and it's just a question of what choice their enemy will make to stop it -- cave in, or cave in some skulls.

Awww, that's adorable, they're trying to recapture and emulate Pepe again.

They're just so fucking bad at this, holy shit. How have they not gotten any better at this after almost 20 fucking years of practice?
 
One kind of sign at those "No Kings" protests reads "I'M ANTI-FASCIST ARE YOU?"... I'm against the actual fascism of the "woke" cult.

The censorship and "cancel culture" -- or worse -- fascism.
 
People have wargammed such a scenario. Without air power it would literally take months.

Lmao

“it will all be over by Christmas”

In civil conflict the people in the cities just don’t wait to starve, they form armed requisition forces to strip the surrounding areas bare. This is again where I shill “when the music stops”

Chicago alone has like an army division sized police force let alone the national guard, state police and various other paramilitary law enforcement agencies. The ethnic police unions when they militarized
the PD. The police union spokesman openly said it was to prevent the largely white other parts of Illinois from starving them out of the balloon goes up

I think jb pritzker should be buck broken by the federal government, but one shouldn’t fail to understand it wouldn’t be just a few days. Unless ofc your willing to use AirPower which is even more unlikely
Good luck on that. Even if they could do it, any 'armed requisition forces' would have their asses handed to them, if not annihilated entirely. Downstate hates Chicago.
 
Santos is unironically funny and I don't get how people can hate him. Him faking being jewish and then saying "I am Jew-ish" is top tier comedy
They hate him as much as they do for a similar reason they get so bent out of shape over flat earthers: everything George Santos does is an act of disrespect against the very fundamentals of everything they stand for. He's hilarious and I hope more people defile their sacred democracy in a similar manner.
 
How long ago did that start? Like was it already that way even before Current Year, in the '00s?
I think it accelerated in the tail end of the Obama years where Hillary Clinton and the Democrats basically killed every journalist that was investigating them. All that's left is the useless crap, investigative journalism was artificially selected to create a bread of cheerleaders
 
I imagine that such indoctrination started at a more mild level, then escalated to the crazy cult it's been by 2020ish.
You can trace leftism in the news media going all the way back to the early 20th century. The New York Times ran cover for the Soviet Union in the 1930's trying to portray it as a worker's paradise while suppressing coverage of Stalin's authoritarianism and the sweeping famine that killed millions. (Look up Walter Duranty. They also made a movie in 2019 called Mr Jones about an independent reporter who uncovered the truth about the Ukrainian famine under Soviet rule and about Duranty's lies.) Many journalists and intellectuals were in love with communism back then the same way so many of them are now.

But, yeah, it was especially after the cultural revolution of the late '60s that news agencies became even more up front and proud of their leftist ideology. Watergate and the takedown of Nixon, the Republican, in part via the news reports by Woodward and Bernstein, two reporters from the Washington Post, is what every journalist masterbated to for decades as the liberal press "speaking truth to power."
 
The problem with this is that it isn't an immediately identifiable frog, Pepe is immediately recognizable to the point anything can become a Pepe. They really cannot meme, they try to force everything and it's cringe. Pepe is also fun and good spirited, even when it's a literal nazi frog it's absurd and that's what makes it funny... This is just a hodge podge of OC frogs loosely based on a blow up suit a junky wore.

This inability to meme must be studied.
 
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