Blue Horseshoe

Jennifer Dillon When no one in politics who actually wanted to win would hire her, she was forced onto Beto O'Rourke's campaign. They didn't actually want her, but they were functionally a clearinghouse for Obama loyalists that no one else would hire ( there are lots of them) If it sounds like someone is trying to write a tagline for a movie poster for a film that is going to bomb and already enrages the general viewing audience, then it's Dillon

David Klinger to Jimmy Clausen With an Obama cameo as Rich Kotite. And Gutterboy as Tony Washington

The "Western culture" is typically not one that favors open social confrontation. As a general rule. However the younger generations are seeing a massive shift in that long established thought process. What you have are many "traditional liberals" who are likely a little bit older, who just say nothing at all most of the time. They just don't want the argument and fight. And you have the "activist radical leftists" who are far more aggressive, don't hold to some basic social norms about decorum, and keep on the attack. In effect, it's a small number of people driving the hard edge on public policy. The average staffer for Team Blue, we are talking the rank and file, the nuts and bolts of any elected officials office, is usually young college educated and comes from an upper middle class background. Many have never worked in any other field before. The average age, IIRC, is about 27. Obviously there are some really old people who skew the averages a little, but campaigns want young people as foot soldiers. It's a hard life working in politics, and like war, it's just easier to recruit and use up young people. You can see how "student loan forgiveness" makes little to no sense to the American population across the whole ( 340+ million people) But if the pressure points are coming from young college educated liberals and leftists as the nuts and bolts of the Party, you can see how things like pushing for electric vehicles, and a cashless society, and just ignoring the average working class can happen really easily. Put it this way, James Daulton/RavensFan/Wade Garrett showed up and was a troll and jerk. I confronted him. I started a thread to confront him and archive his behavior. Long term, it got that Wade Garrett account banned. But what if no one said anything? He'd just keep it up. As it is, right now, thread and posts are disappearing, so WG and others are likely gaming the Report Button with their other aliases. So you only need a small handful of toxic people to turn any community, at any scale, into a toilet. For example, at the "other place", timschochet was just one person. But he had countless aliases and like 250K total posts from all his accounts, and he was in every single thread. He attacked everyone. He's not representative of all the traditional liberals out there who are silent. But it might look that way because a small subset are the most aggressive. The average voter is actually pretty moderate in most things. There might be some push/pull over some single voter type issues, but there is some general agreement on many things in the political spectrum. "Bomb throwers", that's the term, are functionally rewarded for their behavior. Otherwise they wouldn't do it. In generations past, they'd be socially punished and ostracized for being toxic. But now it's a badge of honor. There are just people with a gross level of entitlement. They virtue signal without facing the insidious reality that they want to do purity tests to determine which virtues should matter for everyone else. I don't see it as so much partisanship ( though that's a factor) as much as the accepted breakdown of basic social boundaries. Obviously many of the worst bad faith actors at the "other place" and here, even some of the transplants, have a huge problem with me. Because I don't have a problem with confrontation. But they expect everyone else to back down. And will keep attacking until others are silent. The "average person", the answer is not to be confrontational, because that's generally not within most people. The average person should just ignore and demonetize. For example, these major universities, many of them have high level faculty or staff who get into really ugly messes that ride hard against basic free speech. Or they are into the cancel culture. OK, who are the major donors for that university? Hit them all. Hit them in the wallet, until they pressure the university to change their tune. There is no "love and tolerance", there is only leverage. You'll find zealots are usually mentally weak. Hit them in their wallets or hit other people around them in their wallets and you'll see the tune change quickly. Everyone is a tough guy until they've lost their career, they have been financially destroyed and now they are homeless and have nowhere to go. When you see someone stripped bare and they still ride the line to their "principles", then IMHO they are worthy of regard ( Not respect per se, but regard) At least they are willing to bleed for it. Most zealots are like children. They'll push the line again and again and violate boundaries to see how far they can go before someone stops them. Confront them. Or demonetize them. Doing both is actually the best and fastest course to take, but ignore and demonetize is consistently effective.

Dozer FBG is a timschochet alias. He was attempting to gaslight you.

Former Hamas leader calls for 'Jihad' across Arab world this Friday .....The former leader of Hamas has issued calls for Muslims across the world to "take to the streets" in a global day of protest against Israel on Friday. Khaled Mashal, who was the leader of Hamas for three years from 2014-2017 and is now based in Qatar, issued a statement to Reuters early today saying that this was a "moment of truth" for the Arab world. He said: "[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday....“To all scholars who teach jihad … to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of jihad],”.......He also made a special plea to Muslims living in the countries surrounding Israel saying: “Tribes of Jordan, sons of Jordan, brothers and sisters of Jordan … This is a moment of truth and the borders are close to you, you all know your responsibility.....” Mashal has been living in exile in Qatar since 2012 when he was forced out of Syria by Bashar Al Assad. He was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh who has been the leader of Hamas since 2017. https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/former-hamas-leader-calls-for-jihad-across-arab-world-this-friday

At "the other place", Tim would get banned all the time for his endless personal attacks on literally everyone. So he'd drag out one of his aliases to have some way to post once he knew he was on the edge of his main account getting banned again. Then he'd argue with his own alias sometimes. To try to "prove" in public that they were different accounts. But sometimes he'd forget which one he was logging into or out of and it became an ugly public mess. My best guess is he was left alone because someone with a total of a quarter of a million posts through all his thinly veiled aliases was probably the kind of person who would show up to your front door with a chainsaw. Or maybe a screwdriver instead. I thought chainsaw at first, but Betas like Tim usually don't have the upper body strength to swing a chainsaw. Nothing was more unsettling than Tim coming after you at the "other place", then his main account would be banned, then he'd chase the exact same person with the exact same kind of message later with his alias.

From a marketing standpoint, MSNBC attempts to appeal to the hard activist left all the way to the fringe radical left and then again all the way to the Marxist types and then all the way to the embryo terrorist types. In the past, they desperately tried to secure the "Progressives who want politics with some mustard" strategy, but that failed pretty horribly. It's their "brand" It's why you get Joy Reid saying things that should normally be treated like defamation in any other instance. It's why Jen Psaki had to end up there ( she just lied too much and she needed to go to a hard left audience to try to wash that blood off her hands) It's also why Rachel Maddow essentially sank her platform and credibility with Russia-gate, with the promise of a golden parachute at the end. The media space for the left is massively crowded. Kayleigh McEnany was in a rare position where she could have gone either way, but she was advised to lean Conservative, because the opportunities there were better. Someone like Tomi Lahren would get absolutely zero space if she leaned left. (Look at Jemele Hill) McEnany was a tremendous spox and White House Press Secretary, but I won't deny she's also a pure grifter and opportunist. If the money and platform was better to lean hard left, she would have went that way. I am going to be fair about it. Tulsi Gabbard took a massive 180 on her stance on guns and gun control, but her circumstances forced her in a different direction. Do I buy that "change of heart"? No, not a chance. I think she would have been a great POTUS, given the chance and I won't deny she was intentionally shut down and cast out by Team Blue on purpose. But it was in her personal political interests to be seen on video in tight clothes with AR15s and acting like an experienced shooter. They are all grifters in the media space. Brett Cooper pretends she can't fish, can't play basic basketball, can't play video games and had never seen Star Wars before, to appeal to a specific demographic. But none of that is more than just packaged marketing and branding. The appeal to hard partisans exists because hard partisans buy books. They attend shows. They show up to talks and debates. They click, like and subscribe. They donate to the Patreon or with a GoFundMe or PayPal. Mitch McConnell refused to open the purse strings for Dr Oz and Herschel Walker. But he did for JD Vance. Because Vance has a good story and it's easy to fund raise behind that story. Same for Dan Crewshaw ( who is really exhausting at this point) Same for Mark Kelly in Arizona. They are all grifters. All bought and paid for and all pushing a specific "narrative" that fits their network brand.

....got what he wanted. Which is to derail the thread and incite people here for sport. He doesn't believe anything he says. He's taking the position of an activist radical leftist because our current society simply allows that side to openly attack more. If he could draw more blood and ruin more threads by being hard line MAGA and a Trump supporter and a Republican, he'd do that instead.

The methodology and toxicity you are describing is easier to see structurally once you accept that being an "activist radical leftist" is really a religion. It's a dogma built on being a parasite. Keep saying how you hate this country, then profit off of and monetize the platforms that allow you to spread that hate ( which could only exist in the first place based on the principles they say they want to destroy) but soak in the wealth and creature comforts of capitalism as a whole.

The idea that "suitcase nukes" are still out in the wild is basically Tom Clancy level fiction at this point. Some are in the hands of some really dangerous people outside the normal high level political spectrum. However one of the benefits of being in an "elite" position on your respective culture and society is that your children and the children of other powerful people around you can go live, study and work abroad. Often in "Western" nations. There is only a small bracket of practical targets in the US as such, for something like a suitcase nuke. To make the "juice worth the squeeze" for some terrorist group. To get one into the country is possible. To remain "invisible" with one for the long term or even medium term, especially near a high value target, is not. Technology has advanced too far forward at this point. If the US wanted to create chaos in Iran, then one of the worst kept secrets in the Military Industrial Complex is DARPA has received major funding for mobile labs that can exponentially scale and do a better job of staying mostly covert. What that means is instead of hitting Iran with chemical weapons or nukes or heavy missile strikes, you just pump it full of fentanyl instead. If all the young people are addicts and dying, that destabilizes the entire economy and basic infrastructure. Without those, you can't function. If you can't function, you are forced to amass your resources elsewhere besides developing nukes. Russia would never give Hamas any nukes. That's not a reasonable assessment. Could Hamas get their hands on chemical weapons? Yes. At scale? Probably not. The safety valve is the various established intelligence communities. They aren't going to let some suit and tie idiot politician go completely rogue and start nuking people. I'm not saying nuclear holocaust and conventional nuclear war are off the table completely. But using them within the US specifically doesn't add up. The geopolitical context is too complex for that to likely happen. ( America is the world's breadbasket and too severe an attack would destabilize the world economy, thus guaranteeing widespread famine and death to even said bad faith actors in play) Most terrorists are parents. Assessing that they will blindly incinerate their own children is not reality. And why use a nuke? Hamas could activate 10 terrorists in 10 major US cities. With simple bolt action rifles. Look at the kind of chaos and economic blowback happened with the Beltway Sniper. Hamas could cause more long lasting terror and damage with with less than a dozen operators at about 100K in cost. Terrorist organization look for an exponential multiplier effect in their strikes. Spend 20K and cause your targets to burn off 15 billion in reaction. That kind of strategy. Nothing about suitcase nukes dovetails into that.

Think about all the abuse inflicted on entire communities because one guy's wife is a lush and won't put down the bottle. He couldn't handle it in any other way except to punish everyone around him, within spitting distance, and try to use them like a personal toilet. If you want to silence someone abusive like that, offer his wife a drink, then you'll see how fast he'll just shut his trap.

Then remember that Gutterboy and timschochet are only here because it's clear they won't be permanently banned (yet) Because, based on their behavior, (not their "viewpoints", but they only choose the views that will incite people the most ), they'd be permanently banned at most other established internet communities. Same for for Pimplewhatever. They found a place that would tolerate them, barely, and you see them acting in bad faith accordingly. If you get angry, then they get what they want. They are miserable and they want you to be miserable with them. timschochet, with all his aliases, burned off over 250K posts at the "other place" to make sure everyone else would be miserable with him. How can just one person peel off a quarter of a million posts? It's incomprehensible that someone could hate themselves that much and everyone else too.

' Both you and Tim are being intentionally obtuse on purpose. There is nothing wrong, in principle, with "free speech" However to attempt to pretend away the likely reaction on the TIMING of that speech ( basically as innocents are being raped and indiscriminately murdered, including children, while others are being taken as hostages to be executed as political leverage) is just being done to troll others here. As I've said before, guys like you and Tim don't actually believe anything you say, the only point is to make sure you stay as the center of attention and get your rocks off on upsetting people and seeing if you can trigger them. You are a bad faith actor attempting to hide behind a blanket defense of "free speech" Free speech should, in principle, considering it as a detached issue from what you are doing right now, always be defended. But you've tried to lace it with malice. I feel sorry for your children. If you have them. Children learn by observation. All you've done is show everyone you want to teach your children to be trash.

Stuart Varney: DHS Secretary Mayorkas failed the country, but he didn't fail Biden .... Stuart Varney discusses the job Alejandro Mayorkas has done at the border, arguing that while Republicans want him impeached, he's doing what Biden hired him to do..... arguing that while Republicans say he is "failing miserably" and want him impeached, the DHS secretary is doing exactly what Biden hired him to do...... In Congress Tuesday, he was told, "You are failing miserably." In fact, he has speeded up the migration process. He's streamlined it with an app. He's made it more efficient, so even more migrants can come in. Here's how it works. A migrant gets the app before they get to the border. The app allows them to schedule an appointment at a U.S. port of entry, and from there, they're given a court date for their asylum request. They're in. In New York, court dates are booked up through 2033. Almost everywhere in the country, the wait times are measured in years, and while they wait, they are eligible for work permits. Does anyone seriously believe that asylum seekers who are rejected will be deported? Dream on. They never wanted to keep illegals out. They wanted to get them in quickly ..... and that's what they've done. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/stuart-varney-dhs-mayorkas-failed-country-didnt-fail-biden