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Attacks in war torn Portland last night by vicious foreigners:

Eric Brakey is the executive director of the Free State Project. He is an uber MAGA; right before the election he tweeted "If Trump wins NH by a single vote today, you will be glad I moved and declared my primary residence in NH.” After the election he was ecstatic that now conservative small-government ideals would now hold sway in the US government. He was on a cruise recently and when he got back to Florida the INS detained him because of his radical extremist connections to the Free State Project. He explained to them over and over that his organization was a "a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movement that builds community, culture and political change." They did not heed his claims. They felt he was part of a violent extremist group seeking to raise a militia for insurrection against the government. They dug through all the files on his phone and computer. He asked them what rights he had, and was told "none." His account ends to the note "Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now." See, it's fine when they do it to brown people. But he was WHITE! How dare they!

1933 Germany, all the conservatives were saying "well, yeah, Hitler is pretty extreme, but I mean Hindenburg? Did you see how OLD that guy is? And his laugh!"

Progressives have a long history in the US. Progressivism in a political sense means a liberal movement that attempts to improve the human condition through social reforms. Some examples here were the abolition of slavery, granting women the vote, legalizing interracial marriage and more recently legalizing gay marriage. These changes are generally opposed by traditionalists, who conversely are strongly tied to conservatives. They feel that traditional social roles are better and tend to resist changes to them. Progressives generally support technological progress as well - specifically technological progress that improves the human condition. Vaccines, for example, which have saved millions of lives in the US alone. Condoms, birth control and health education to prevent the spread of STD's and unintended pregnancy. Public transit system that allow people to move around without the cost and resources of a car. Water systems that provide safe drinking water. Sanitary systems that process sewage and garbage to prevent epidemics. Things like emissions controls, that regulate technological advancements like cars to reduce the harm their exhaust does. Museums so people can easily learn about history, technology, art, ancient cultures etc. Trump, who is now a conservtive, has been dead set against such things, calling them socialism, communism, wastes of money etc. He is anti renewable energy, and has cancelled roughly 100 gigawatts of sorely needed new power projects in the US. He's opposed EV's (with one exception when an EV billionaire gave him huge amounts of money) and has opposed emissions controls. Instead he advocates for going backwards - coal power instead of renewables, fewer and later vaccines for kids, gas cars instead of EVs. As with many conservatives, he yearns for the days when (they believe) things were simpler. He wants tradition over progress. Which made me think about how he would have dealt with all the technological progress in the past - each of which was opposed by the conservatives and traditionalists of the past. Perhaps something like this - Trump, 1830: "This Carolina Railroad Company nonsense is . . . There's nothing wrong with horses. Everyone loves horses. They get the mail delivered, they take you where you want to go. Strong, reliable, beautiful horses. And they want to replace them with - what? - trains. Trains, they say. Railroads, as if you can put rails on a road. And they run on fire. They're on fire, all the time. Burning up the people. It's insane. And they say that women can't even ride them, that their uteruses will be destroyed by the speed. They're sick individuals, wanting to kill women like that. I'm writing an executive order now to ban trains and save our beautiful, beautiful horses." Trump, 1844: "Telefaffs are sick. I know, they really want to put wires all over our beautiful country and replace the Pony Express with useless wires. People are saying that those Morse degenerates are shooting Pony Express horses in the head, to you know, make the telefaffs more successful. Shooting a wonderful, fast horse in the head, shooting all the horses, all the horses everywhere. And those telefaffs use electricity. So when the Indians pull down those wires, and a beautiful little child touches them? No more child! We are going to ban those dangerous things whenever some sick liberal tries to ram them through our cities near our innocent children." Trump, 1903: "Now the liberals are pushing this airplane thing that the loony lib Orville Wright invented. I invented that a long time ago, you know, and it didn't work. You can prove it. That's what they say. My uncle was a professor at Harvard and he had Orville Wright as a student. Orville says "I can build this thing because I believe all those progressive lies." My uncle tried to set him straight but he was too stupid. So we'll let other people try to build those airplanes and lose all their money; the US will be wasting zero taxpayer dollars on military airplanes and airports." Trump, 1939: "I just received a letter from a Jew, a Jewish person - can I say that? - yes, a Jewish person. He said he had a way to build a bomb like no one's ever seen before, a big bomb that's atomic. Our military has all the best bombs right now. No one has ever seen the kind of bombs that we have. Just the best, and the power is just . . . power, that's what we have. We don't need some Jewish loon interfering with our brave military, the best in the world. He's an ungrateful immigrant who just wants to upset the applecart and try to make himself famous. Is he even legal? We'll check into that. Go back to Germany, I told him." Trump, 1965: "So there's a government agency - ARPA - that's spending all this money. They're wasting it, just throwing it out the window, giving it to illegal aliens. I heard of this thing they are working on called the ARPANet that is spending tens of thousands of dollars to connect a few universities with wires to send letters and numbers and things like that. I said, a stamp costs eleven cents! But no, these dumb progressives want to waste your taxpayer dollars on a disgusting, useless bunch of wires to send nonsense to each other. I have told my people to cancel all ARPA funding for anything like that."

The progressive project - they're the angels perhaps?

1) Trump likes shutdowns (this is his third or fourth depending on how you count) and thus he will milk it for a while. 2) Trump will eventually chicken out. He will agree to democratic demands, and then take credit for ending the shutdown. 3) The shutdown will last only until air traffic controllers start calling in sick (like they did last time.) This will inconvenience air travelers of course, which republican politicians don't care about; they can just blame Hunter Biden or something. But it will also inconvenience business aviation, and the GOP's Gulfstreams and Challengers will experience long delays at airports. And THAT they will not abide. NATCA is already sending out videos to their members saying "don't call in sick! We mean it this time!" (in corpspeak of course.) So they are seeing this coming as well.

Well, I guess the facepalm guy is definitely out then.

Apparently from the "facismism" movement.

Yes, I know. You'd rather ban that language. I would rather people be allowed to say whatever they like (outside of the yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater direct-harm examples) so they can be convinced they are wrong (or prove they are right.) I understand how you can't permit that sort of freedom, since it would undermine your position. I agree. Right wing terrorism is at an all time high. A record number of republicans think violence is the right way to solve the country's problems. Trump has LITERALLY BANNED WORDS from all government communications. I am sorry you don't understand this; I suspect it's your steady diet of Breitbart, OAN and FOX News that results in your ignorance on topics like this. List below: https://pen.org/banned-words-list/ Anyone can out them all they like. But your side knows it will lose that challenge, so you ban them instead, Nope. Specifically they are Trump's. Again, if you got outside your OAN/Breitbart/FOX bubble you'd see that.

So you support banning words. Well, I guess if you can't argue against certain concepts, just banning the words might work for you. It worked in 1984. Hey, why argue against them when you can just ban that speech, right? That's your approach. I prefer a more free-speech approach, but I understand why that would not work for you. That's the goal, yes. But, see, that's the thing. The government did not ban the term "all lives matter." It DID ban the term "climate change." Because, as you mention, their goal is control of our conversations. They do not want anyone talking about anything other than what they approve. Trump's latest National Security Memorandum instructs the FBI to investigate and target anyone who is anti-capitalism or anti-Christianity, for example - and they now have the power to do that via Palantir. Not people who plan violence. Not people who threaten to shoot someone. Just people who are anti-Christian. Muslims, for example. Indeed. Sad that you are on the side of suppressing not only the freedom to speak of what we want, but even the freedom to think what we want. But again, I can understand why you need to do that. Your side cannot survive in a free marketplace of ideas; it needs to be able to suppress independent thought, so that no one questions political maxims like "immigrants eat all our cats and dogs" "windmills cause cancer" "the democrats want to give free healthcare to illegals" "Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania." Once indepdendent thought is suppressed, everyone will accept the new lies without question.

And it really seems like it bothers him that he can't use either one of them.

So Trump just banned the words "emissions" and "climate change" from any government publication. Orwell, 1984: "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." Orwell, 1984: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. . . . Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?” Orwell would be proud of you. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

Fortunately they stopped Jay Dubya (Joshua Cole) before he could take out some libs at a Pride parade:

Why o why is right wing political terrorism increasing? Trump and the republicans have done nothing to incite their supporters to murder democrats! ========================================================================================== GOP lawmaker calls for Dem congresswoman to be executed for urging Trump protests Rep. John Gillette escalates rhetoric despite colleagues’ calls for civility after recent political violence By:Jerod MacDonald-Evoy-September 25, 20255:05 pm An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets. Kingman Republican Rep. John Gillette wrote on the social media site X that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, was calling for the the government to be overthrown and should be hanged. “Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried convicted and hanged.. it will continue,” Gillette said in response to a video of Jayapal. ==============================================================

Look, everyone. This has gone on far enough. Those "felonies?" They can be just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, who among us doesn't have a few felonies? And that rape? Well, women, amirite? They're always accusing alpha males of whatever. Plus she was ugly. Like coyote ugly. And that pedophilia thing? Look, they all probably said they were 18. How could he know? Again, women, amirite? Can't trust em, even if you pay em. And don't start with that "paying porn star to lie about his banging her." Every man in America wants to do that, and they'd all pay to cover it up! Right? And sure, his adminstration conspired with Russia against the United States. But Putin, like Hitler, isn't ALL bad. They did some good things. Yeah, yeah, he thinks that windmills cause cancer, that you can nuke hurricanes, that you can inject bleach to cure COVID, and that Tylenol and vaccines cause autism. But at least he speaks his mind. But Harris? BLACK! A WOMAN! And that LAUGH!