Well well well. Isn't this interesting. Could this be a sign? The beginning of the end. Not of America, but of the bullshit unrepresentative self-serving corrupt political system and establishment we've been dealing with for some time? Maybe. Maybe not. Unfortunately Trump is probably a mongoloid, so it's a 50/50 chance if we're being optimistic.

Neo-conservatism is in crisis, and rightfully so. In the wake of Iraq, Afghanistan, 2008, etc, there is now widespread recognition of successive, significant, and persistent policy failure. The ability for people to communicate instantaneously has changed the game. No longer is it easy to remain subversive. No longer is history written by the victor. No longer should the masses remain ignorant. No longer can politicians peddle the same rhetoric with the same credibility of yesteryear.

The people (Americans especially) are far from being wise to the game, but they are starting to smell a faint whiff in the air. Let us hope they are stimulated to grasp the subtle notion of progressivism, so that Trumps successor isn't a regressive fascist that I presume Trump will be, or a sociopathic neo-conservative like every president was, since at least Kennedy.

I think what got Trump elected was the general anger at the status quo and the political elite. It was more a rebellion against all the crap that's been going on than people voting for Trump specifically. All the indoctrination for "this is a two party system" made him the only option. ugh. I know quite a few people that voted for Trump, and at least some of them are upper middle class white males.

I hate the status quo as much as anyone, but goddamn. BTW, he is already back-pedaling on a bunch of his campaign promises. This isn't unusual... every elected official does that in this place. Hopefully the Trump voters are realizing they got conned. On the flip side, the person Trump put in place to oversee the transition of the EPA (environmental protection agency) is an outspoken climate change denier. That does not bode well. Peter Thiel, who bankrolled bankrupting Gawker because he didn't like some of the stories they wrote, is part of his little committee for figuring out who gets appointed to government positions.

So.. part of me is afraid of what will happen, but part of me wants the shit to go as pear-shaped (fucked up) as possible. Worst case scenario, I've got enough guns and ammo to make it through.

hahaha, I should probably get a gun and some training too just in case society collapses.

Pretty sure it's easy as fuck to get a gun (well, a hunting rifle) in Malta.

If you were to fly to Texas, I could show you how to handle a gun properly. Just saying.

Hell, if I'm there I want to try assault rifles, not just any gun. We'd have to find out what the heaviest ordnance is that I can legally fire for a reasonable price.

So a few weeks into the Trump presidency and we don't really know almost anything new. I find that the type of people he's been talking to (and to some extent has been giving posts to in his cabinet) is pretty mind-boggling given his rhetoric on the campaign trail. If nothing else, it probably shows that he didn't really have any idea what he was doing and that he never really had an agenda to begin with. Not that it necessarily a bad thing, but still. I find it amusing that he's even quicker to back up on a lot of his promises than the political "swamp" establishment figures he was blaming for everything for much of his campaign.

In the rest of the world, a green candidate relatively narrowly beat a far right one in Austria for the presidency, and in Italy the sitting prime minister resigned over a failed referendum to reform the political system. And we got elections in France, Holland and Germany coming up with with racist (Le Pen/Wilders) and a Republican type party (AfD) with a realistic shot at governing.

Wonderful times. At least in Malta, the same two idiot parties just fight over power in an eternal status quo. For better or worse haha.

The soap never ends

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... 941f5395ab

The CIA butthurt or evoking Cold War nostalgism. Which is more pathetic.

Even if it's true, they've done us a favour and we should be grateful.

That's like saying that we should be happy we got a box of shit instead of a box of piss. It's probably just as bad for us, just better for some of the people pulling the strings behind any of this, beit corporations, Russia or reptilians.

Kanye 2020 man. He'll change the world with his rad sneakers and fashion. Maybe he'll put Facebook under a state monopoly. It will be amazing.

And a devil sitting in a willow tree?

Whatever you think about the man, Trump sure makes for a good comic book villain with his weird diatribes and tweets.

Mark Hammil reading Trump's new year's tweet in his Joke character (from the games)

https://audioboom.com/posts/5471405-the ... er-quote-1

Also, Darth Trump:



Best part is where he tells a room full of Imperial Fleet officers how militaristic he is, and that he is better than them. Also love how he just rants on and on about his products/projects or about his own awesomeness when asked a question, instead of answering it directly. Just like in real life.

Hilarious. I've shared.

The "militaristic" bit is awesome. And the way they just look at each other as if they've been given an order "admiral!"