Quote: (01-22-2019 02:29 AM)Captainstabbin Wrote:
Quote: (01-21-2019 08:17 PM)Waqqle Wrote:
Fuck Joe Rogan. The dude has to vilify Trump and his supporters before, reluctantly, blaming the media for "making a mistake" - while simultaneously admitting he had the same negative reaction. And he does this with no self awareness.
The media didn't make a "mistake". It's a direct result of bias and an attempt to push a narrative - one that Joe would have LOVED to have been correct. He calls Trump supporters poorly educated assholes, of course he's ready to believe the worst. And next time fake news pops up, he'll believe it again.
You expect this from the major networks but this incident really showed the swamp in our own ranks. In less than 24 hours, National Review wrote a scathing piece comparing the students to the Roman soldiers crucifying Christ, then took it down, then issued a non-apology, then wrote an equally scathing piece about how bad the media is for assuming the kids were evil (and NOT INCLUDING themselves).
I posted the video not for what Joe Rogan said in it but for what his guest said. I thought it was a funny example of "first they came for..." playing out where leftists in the US are now beginning to grow concerned that they may be the targets of the slander, doxxing, mob violence, etc. soon but it is already too late to stop that from happening because they were complicit in everything leading up to this and most of them will no doubt continue being complicit and virtue signaling with the mob going forward so as not to lose points on their social credit scores.
I'm sad to say it but I don't think this is a turning point or that things are going to get better. I think it will only get worse from here on out until the US goes the way of every other historical empire that allowed women and amoral psychopaths to dominate public life. We thought Trump would change things but all of this idiocy has only gotten worse during his term (through no fault of his - it was already going to do that with or without him). Trump represents the last big gasp for air of a drowning lion that once ruled the savannah but wandered too far into the river, forgetting that it was not his domain and that the rules of the land did not apply there, where a crocodile got hold of its leg and started rolling.
I don't see the crocodile letting go of the US during our lifetimes and I don't see Trump, an Independent, or even a Republican winning another term in the White House (not that it would make much difference who occupies the White House or any other elected office of government). This country, as George Carlin once said, was bought and paid for long before most of us were born and all that we see now is just a show now to distract us so that we don't unplug and see who is really running things and who really owns the ground we walk on. I'm just trying to laugh about things as much as I can so I don't go mad from only ever knowing decline and stupidity in my own lifetime.
We live under the tyranny of the low-IQ. Even if 10-20% of the country wakes up (which would be incredibly impressive), that would still mean that 80% of the country is plugged in and likely too unintelligent to comprehend anything that is going on behind the curtain, much less seriously question it. And those people will continue, as they do now, to occupy virtually all low and mid-level government positions (while the high levels are occupied by intelligent psychopaths who feel no guilt or shame in being paid off and lying constantly) and comprise the vast majority of the voting populace. Further, most people, even if they are smart enough, don't have the time, after work and all of the other things they have to do, to sit down and study politics or anything else that is not immediately relevant to them. For most Americans, the government is a far away invisible force that resides in the Imperial See, an almost mythical Royal Palace of Oz for most that they will never visit much less understand. And that is just the government. The actual owners of the country are beyond the Emerald City and cannot even be imagined in mythical terms by most.
Eventually, the US will break up because it is simply too big to be manageable and because people can only extend their sense of belonging to a common group to so many millions of people that they only have paper in common with. This is not something that I want to happen, it is just something that I see as being unfortunately inevitable.