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Should be a wild four years.

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Large fire erupts at one of Cuba’s largest oil refineries, Ñico López, Havana,
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Did we strike it or was it natural? Either way, they don't have oil anymore. It's bizarre, it feels like we just started playing a game of Risk with how clear the geopolitical board is. Snatch Maduro, then starve Cuba of oil and induce regime change, then pressure Colombia, then go into Mexico to take out the Cartels—win the war on drugs. At the same time, isolate Iran and support Iranian protesters to lead to regime change, bringing peace to the middle east. Also, isolates Russia further and pressures them to end the war in Ukraine and would also further reduce China's energy production. I know it's optimistic, but in a few years we could flip Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran from the Soviet sphere of influence firmly to the American.
 
That's a childish mindset and it's better to actually act like a professional rather than have emotional outbursts and attempt to insult people while talking about an international child sex trafficker. Just because the DNC glorifies immaturity and stunts in the government for publicity doesn't mean that the GOP should do the same thing. Are you also suggesting that the GOP should copy the DNC by supporting trannies and open borders?
I would like the GOP to copy some things from the DNC which is the desire to win, use power, and actually fight.
 
"Hasan has only stated what other people have stated correctly, that she's acting dense on purpose so her audience doesn't turn on her, cause she knows her viewers share the same views that asmongold does"

>"Bro Hasan has nothing to do with it bro, but also he's completely correct about it and is also the biggest person peddling this narrative that I've bought into"

Literally all of this is just them making shit up and projecting it onto her. There is absolutely zero indication that the only reason she's not talking about politics is because her gooner audience are all totally asmongold fans and would turn on her.

Asmongold himself has butted heads and been completely opposed to what his audience thinks a dozen different times and absolutely nothing happened, and half of Asmongold's entire brand is talking politics. People literally show up to his streams for the politics, and when they disagree with him they just call it a dumb take and move on like a week later, they don't suddenly turn on him.

Why the fuck would this tiddy streamer be afraid of her supposed asmongold fan infested audience "turning on her" for disagreeing with them? Given she doesn't talk politics to begin with that's obviously not why they're there in the first place so why the fuck would most of them care?

The "this completely apolitical normie streamer disagreed with me on one political opinion, I must now devour her" tactic is not an Asmongold chudcore right-winger thing. That's Hasan-sphere leftoid behavior, as is evidenced by comments on this very video outright saying that they want to know her politics so they can decide if they support her or not.

They're straight up admitting that they want to purity test her while simultaniously accusing her of hiding her politics out of fear because asmongold fans would do the same thing they're doing right now.

It's all projection.
 
Meanwhile, this is why Barnes is turning on anyone who will pay him, almost half a million in liens:
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The fact that one of Barnes's specialties is supposed to be tax law makes this very funny to me.

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This seems similar to what happened with Rittenhouse. At first Barnes was all gung ho about Rittenhouse's defense, and going on about how Rittenhouse was innocent and all the stuff he's going to do to prove it. If I remember right, Barnes wanted to do a bunch of stuff that the local lawyers knew would alienate a local jury and Barnes was kicked off the defense team. Immediately, he starts shitting all over Rittenhouse's lawyers, saying Rittenhouse is doomed without all the fancy expensive work he wanted to do.

And now we have the same pattern here. Trying to cozy up for his own benefit, and then shitting on the person when the efforts to cozy up fail.

When Barnes first showed up on Viva Frei's streams, I didn't like him. Something felt sleazy and wrong about him. It seems my intuition about the man was right.
 
That's a childish mindset and it's better to actually act like a professional rather than have emotional outbursts and attempt to insult people while talking about an international child sex trafficker. Just because the DNC glorifies immaturity and stunts in the government for publicity doesn't mean that the GOP should do the same thing. Are you also suggesting that the GOP should copy the DNC by supporting trannies and open borders?

I'm merely stating that this is our political landscape. You can frame it as the GOP needing to be the adults in the room, but I think we're past the GOP needing to play the "we're more dignified than them" game. When your opponent has been lying, cheating, and stealing for decades and getting away with it while making cultural and institutional inroads to the detriment of wider society on your watch, in what world is the winning gameplan to go back to that? Forgive my not wanting the GOP to go back to letting the left win simply because getting your hands dirty isn't the "nice" and "adult" thing to do. Either meet fire with fire or get burned. You have an optimistic mindset and that's fine, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle at this point.
 
In a nutshell: Bondi is someone who competently and regularly wins at SCOTUS, on top of doing an efficient job at prosecuting malcontents (e.g. drug traffickers) as any diligent Attorney General is expected to do. She is awkward at playing the Media / PR game with respect to the Epstein stuff, but that does not mean she is someone hired simply to suck Trump off as pretentious midwits sometimes imply. She also cannot prosecute leftists like Letitia James easily even with a lot of legitimate evidence of wrongdoing without having leftist/uniparty judges contest the prosecutions
That's a very balanced assessment. I would argue that you're almost completely correct, without literally being a fly on the wall in the DOJ/SC. But I want to add one thing to this and it goes for both her and double kashapp Patel.

Before 2025 neither Pam nor kash were names on the national level. They were independently successful but not star players. Both see the opportunity of a lifetime when Trump wins, a chance to make their names on the national stage and elevate themselves. They both get nominated and sworn in and both begin making grand plans to get giant slam dunk wins to finally make their names. One month in and both of them now realize what an actual shit heap the FBI and DOJ are, completely compromised and largely useless. At this point they should have adjusted their plans and expectations, and began wide spread reorganizing of their orgs, neither did. Pam went full steam ahead with the Epstein file disclosure/investigation despite a hostile FBI/DOJ. Kash did much the same while also continuing his plan of catching his white whale(the organizers/funders of ANTIFA). And now we're here. That's not to say neither has accomplished much from then to now, but I believe they are both still sacrificing smaller wins chasing their "big win" in the hopes of cementing their legacies and salvaging their reputations. Neither are incompetent, we know they have successful histories. But it seems like they are more concerned being remembered for being the BEST in their roles instead of just performing well.
 
When Bondi responds "imaginary line goes up" to why she hasn't gone after Epstien's clients, why dont believe her instead of thinking she's crazy? That's very obviously the truth. The current economic system would crumble if everyone who partook in Epstien activities was brought to justice. The world isn't ready to handle that level of evil. People in this thread aren't judging by the response to her answer.
 
As American politicians funded by AIPAC trot out their pro-Israel narratives, do remember that there is always another side, different information, and truths that are certainly being suppressed by the MSM.

You won’t hear this on MSNOW or CNN or Fox News or ABC, NBC, and CBS news programs. You won’t read about it in the NY Times, Wall St. Journal, or LA Times.

 
I'm merely stating that this is our political landscape. You can frame it as the GOP needing to be the adults in the room, but I think we're past the GOP needing to play the "we're more dignified than them" game. When your opponent has been lying, cheating, and stealing for decades and getting away with it while making cultural and institutional inroads to the detriment of wider society on your watch, in what world is the winning gameplan to go back to that? Forgive my not wanting the GOP to go back to letting the left win simply because getting your hands dirty isn't the "nice" and "adult" thing to do. Either meet fire with fire or get burned. You have an optimistic mindset and that's fine, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle at this point.
but we need to "Imagine the outrage if the roles were reversed!" instead of getting anything done
 
The "this completely apolitical normie streamer disagreed with me on one political opinion, I must now devour her" tactic is not an Asmongold chudcore right-winger thing. That's Hasan-sphere leftoid behavior, as is evidenced by comments on this very video outright saying that they want to know her politics so they can decide if they support her or not.

They're straight up admitting that they want to purity test her while simultaniously accusing her of hiding her politics out of fear because asmongold fans would do the same thing they're doing right now.
It's more cynical than that because this follows the twitchpol content creation cycle of have your audience bait nonpolitical creator into saying something about politics, criticize the creator no matter what they say (if they respond agreeing with whatever gay thing they want to force agreement with it was "too late", and if they disagree in any way they're a nazi), if the creator responds to this, repeat ad nauseam until they stop responding, keep trying to bait them even after they do, and eventually give up when it stops trending if no further response occurs. GOTO bait nonpolitical creator, etc...

The trick is realizing the miles long comments from people trying to "figure out if they should support her" were never a part of your audience, so it's better to ban these people on sight and remain tight lipped until it blows over no matter how tempting it may be to try to clear your name. They'll bring it up again later as a black mark no matter what you respond with so starving it of oxygen is always the better play.
 
Forgive my not wanting the GOP to go back to letting the left win simply because getting your hands dirty isn't the "nice" and "adult" thing to do. Either meet fire with fire or get burned. You have an optimistic mindset and that's fine, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle at this point.
Firstly, you can't beat the left at their own game because the right just isn't allowed to act like the left. Compare the response to the Summer of 'Love' vs the response to January 6th, for example. In this specific example, when the left act like fools, obfuscate, refuse to answer questions, insult the people asking the questions, if it makes them look like idiots, it gets memoryholed. If the right do the same, it gets put on blast on their 24 hour media propaganda networks.

Secondly, there's nothing wrong with knowing when to pick your battles. I'm not saying 'lose with dignity' but I'm also not saying 'Chimp out and talk about how "line goes up" instead of answering the fucking Epstein questions' either
 
You can frame it as the GOP needing to be the adults in the room, but I think we're past the GOP needing to play the "we're more dignified than them" game. When your opponent has been lying, cheating, and stealing for decades and getting away with it while making cultural and institutional inroads to the detriment of wider society on your watch, in what world is the winning gameplan to go back to that?
Directly pointing out the problems within the DNC's policies such as with transgenderism and the issues that come about from there being a defacto open border would be better than engaging in this childish bickering. When the average republican talks about trannies, they don't say anything insightful and it comes across and hypocritical since legally speaking here, transgenderism is an issue which determines how far cosmetic surgeries and treatments can go and yet most members of the GOP don't give a shit about the majority of cosmetic surgeries. When open borders are brought up, the GOP tends to talk about it on a much more surface level and doesn't go into the real problems with having an open border such as:
  • Human trafficking increases by orders of magnitude
  • Drug trafficking increases by orders of magnitude
  • Illegal immigrants are used as slave labor and thus remove millions of jobs for US citizens
  • Said slave labor stunts innovation in industries
  • Slave labor is bad and open borders promote it
If the GOP focused more on these 5 points then they would attract a lot of moderate democrats because it shows a level of care towards the working class and appeals to peoples morality far better than the basic and retarded DNC talking points:
  • Borders are just imaginary lines
  • No human is illegal
  • We're a nation of immigrants
 
b911 - "A woman attempted to ignite a fire at a warehouse in south Kansas City that had been rumored to serve as a possible ICE detention center."
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edit- I dled the video but it's being a bitch to up
it's really not that amazing but I've got it just in case
So what was her goal? To kill the people ice detained?
 
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